I'm very strong the ones around here.
You're listening to the only podcast in the universe where clothing is optional, but
pot is not.
Broadcasting from FEMA Region 7, it's bowl after bowl with your hosts, Lauren and Spencer.
Oh shit, yes.
Okay, another every ditch.
Okay, okay.
She is stoned.
Oh.
Oh, last bowl coming sick.
That is just good.
Studies show marijuana can be very psychologically addictive.
Man, f**king studies.
You make weed look so uncool.
What do you want to be like me?
A loser? Go ahead and show.
I'm the support of human beings.
What?
Oh yeah, supporting human beings and doing other things.
Here from FEMA Region 7 on this beautiful May Day, the 30th in fact, 2023.
We're getting this bowl lit.
It is episode 248 of bowl after bowl.
I'm Sir Spencer Wolf of Kansas City.
And I'm Dame Delorean.
And you are hanging out in the bowl, which makes you a bowler.
Welcome bowler.
I'm so glad to have you with us tonight.
Hope you're feeling all right.
We've been feeling all right ourselves.
Most indeed.
Little this and that.
It's like a birthday bananza.
I mean, I know that every day as somebody's birthday, but God damn, this is the season, man.
This is the season where it just feels like it's all popping off.
Gemini season, baby.
Gemini season.
Twinting around.
Little John had his second.
Yes, it was John's birthday Friday.
So that was a fun little, little delio.
Yeah, we took him on an adventure into the city, to the train station.
Guess who doesn't love trains?
Good for all ages.
Yeah.
And Union Station is crazy.
They've got model trains, Lego trains.
You can walk over there from Crown Center, which has a toy store and a candy factory.
All sorts of cool stuff.
And Science City is there and we have a membership.
Yep.
So party to hard had some barbecue.
Got the only waiter wearing a mask.
That was fun.
I just couldn't believe it.
I'm looking around.
No one is wearing a mask except for our waiter.
Not a patron, not another staff member, nobody.
Why?
I don't know.
That can't be a great strategy for such a, like, the face is the money maker when you're busing tables.
Yeah.
And it kind of felt like he was just so withdrawn.
You know, I think it just the psychological aspect of being behind that fucking cloth.
It just, it definitely impedes your ability to provide, like, great friendly service.
Yeah.
It's some sort of dissociation.
Or that's how it feels.
He wasn't much of an eye contact maker either.
No.
And that's all that you have when your mouth is covered with a mask.
Yeah.
Because I can't look at your lips to try and read them.
And it wasn't, yeah, like, it was just not picking up on cues.
Like, he filled the waters when they got a little low.
And that was it.
Yeah.
And that was the other people for sauces and shit like that.
Yeah.
The manager came over at one point because we were looking around for our sauce.
Always a bad deal when the table's looking around, especially if you're at a place like Jack's
tech where there's just like, there's not a lot to look around at the walls.
I mean, it's a big, beautiful, old, freight house that's been converted.
So it was like, high, you know, real wood beams and high ceilings.
And there are some interesting things on the walls.
But it's not like one of those cracker barrels.
Yeah.
Or they just have like, oodles and scads of shit on the wall to look at.
But, you know, food still tasty.
What can you do?
Table 10's looking around.
Quick.
Go over there.
See what they need.
I'll do it.
Help them outright me out.
Yeah.
She did too.
We got our sauce.
So that's cool.
And it's such a fun adventure, Crown Center to Union Station to Jack's tech.
Because you can walk at all.
Yeah.
You're connected with those sky links and shit.
Yeah.
The links.
So the kids love that.
It seems like a really long distance for their little legs.
Mm-hmm.
And mine.
Good.
Get some of the workouts.
That's right.
And then the peps and the steps.
Yeah.
We were on the hunt for an ice cream cake.
But decided to just get scoops of ice cream instead.
They really want a lot of money for them things.
They do.
They're proud of their ice cream cakes.
I'm saying it.
I need some more prep time.
And then I'll just make my own dang ice cream cake.
Yeah.
Because yeah, it was like $20 for the teeny tiny one.
It's like $25.
Four slices.
Yeah.
What are you going to do?
Just get ice cream scoops for way less money.
Mm-hmm.
So.
Yeah.
And then John had birthday 2.0 on Saturday because we met up with your sister at Superflea.
Superflea is the greatest.
Words can't even describe this place.
It's awesome.
It's in an old Montgomery Ward building.
And you just don't know what you're going to find there.
But also know, whatever you're looking for is there.
They've got all kinds of stuff, man.
Yeah.
It was a little more sparse than the last time I went.
Yeah.
They're in the middle of like restructuring and...
Someone mentioned new ownership too.
Mm-hmm.
So that just flips the tables on everything.
Yeah.
Things like the food court were not there.
Yeah.
And I wondered if that went away during the Rona times.
I don't think so.
But I don't know.
Like I haven't been there in a few years.
So I can't really say it with authority, but it didn't feel that way.
Yeah.
I don't know.
There were some original sellers still there.
Mm-hmm.
There was an adult shop there now.
Yeah, that thing was lame.
You went in and I stayed out with the kids.
Lame, huh?
Yeah.
You didn't take very long.
No, it wasn't very big.
John really wanted to get in there.
They have the door shut, but it's surrounded by string lights.
So it really does flash and stand out at you.
You're like, oh, that looks like the fun place.
Yeah.
I had to be like, no, no.
It's way more fun looking on the outside.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Oh, well.
Yeah.
That's a shame.
We've got lots of treasures.
Yeah, we did.
We were looking at one booth and John had walked off and found himself the perfect little chair.
He sat down in a chair, so we ended up getting out.
That was just cute.
He's such a silly guy.
He loves chairs and hats, man.
The golf carts, I didn't think we would ever convince him like, hey, we can't sit in the golf cart.
Yeah.
That's for employees, man.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
I had baby Sam in the little strap pack on my chest.
So that way I can walk around with my boob out feeding him and not have to use my hands.
And superfluous was the first time that someone has approached me about it.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
I know you were talking to someone else, but this old guy came up to me and he was like,
I'm sure you can find an office or something to do that in.
I was like, I'm good.
Thanks, though.
It was just funny.
Oh, Jesus.
My boob is making him uncomfortable.
Well, she found the office.
Yeah.
I'm sure there's an office you can sit in to stare at walls.
And then Sunday was the Fletcher and Blaney's music jams and poetry slams.
Yeah, no doubt.
Which I guessed it on.
That was cool.
Yeah.
And Fletcher debuted the song that I collaborated with him on.
That turned out really sweet, man.
Yeah, it did.
And there's so many talented people out there that contributed things.
Hey, citizen, able Kirby.
Tom Starkweather.
Mm-hmm.
We read from M. Andrew Jones book, read some of your poetry from the olden days.
Jesus, that was crazy.
Yeah, that was a flashback for you.
Before you would met me.
My 19 year old poetry.
Oh, my God.
Yeah.
So it was a lot of fun.
And then wrapped up Sunday with a bulls with buds.
Oh, yeah.
With the good Rev.
Doc Fyfer.
Peace out.
Ah!
Yeah, that was a good chat.
Yeah, it was a great time.
Overdo.
We hung out with him twice now in person.
That's right.
And once in the bull.
Yeah, I've been talking with him for a few weeks.
I was just like, but pulled the trigger on it.
Because he was like, oh, I'm pretty free the most of these days.
So it's like, hey, how about this one?
This day.
About the 28th.
It was like the 26th.
So it was like, about the 28th.
Perfect.
Yeah, I remember last bull.
You're like, we tentatively have a bulls with buds.
Mm-hmm.
And then we did.
That was awesome.
Great way to spend a Sunday night with our buds in the bull.
Yeah, check it out at bullswithbuds.com.
For that one and all the other bulls with buds
interview style shows that we do.
Yeah, and I'm going to have a link in the show notes
to all these shows I'm mentioning.
Today, we had another adventure.
At Union Station, because we have memberships,
we got to use them.
And they have a Spider-Man exhibit coming through.
So we went there.
That was fun.
That was interesting.
They had a lot of original artwork.
Some of the very old comics, but they were, I noticed,
they were in poor condition.
There was one that was really nice.
They had like a amazing Spider-Man number one
that was pretty slick.
That's epic.
Or actually, no, they had a, the amazing Spider-Man one
they had, and it was like a 1.5 grade or something.
It was like, it was pretty rough.
I thought it was like, it's number three.
But the one they had that was pretty good was, I don't know,
Stan Lee and a couple of other guys made this comic.
They had a bunch of weird monsters.
And it was like said to be one of the precursors
to the whole Spider-Man concept.
It was like this spider got into a lab
and got overexposed to radiation.
And then it became like super big and super human
and super angry.
Yeah, that was cool.
It's like some weird spider monster thing.
Giant spider.
Yeah.
That was a lot of fun.
Yeah, going through all the developments
in the Spideyverse, all the new artists hopping on
and what they brought to the table.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
And then from there, I went to the KC Bitcoiners meetup.
Yes, that was it.
At the bar, it was good.
It was fun.
It was a bar, which bar?
Debar.
Yeah, the one in mission.
Yep.
Called the bar.
Great name for a place.
You want to go to the bar?
Yeah, dude.
It's a nice spot, spacious.
We've had meetups there before.
It is, yeah.
And a lot of people live in that area that come to meetups
and they can just walk over to the bar.
Yeah, turn out, it just seems to be really great
when you do something down there.
So that was nice.
I guess I'll have more about it in the shit stain.
Yeah.
But mostly the same old, you know?
Yeah.
Discussions and such.
We had free tickets to the Planetarium today too.
That's right.
Planetarium, that thing is fun.
If you go to the Planetarium, you got to be like
one of the first ones in the door,
because they have four humongous, like, beanbag cushions,
but they're not beanbags.
Like, it's an actual cushion thing.
And family size.
Fit me and all the kids on it.
You could have fit on there too if we would have made effort,
but you were like, I'm gonna sit in the chair.
Yeah, I was feeding Sam the whole time anyway.
That movie was corny as hell.
Yeah, that's like all Planetarium shit, you know?
It was really corny.
You ever been to other Planetariums?
Yeah, in Boston.
So it was like, it was,
We got to force some kind of weird storyline.
See, what I remember about the Planetarium was much more,
it was a lot drier than that.
It was like something you would watch on Discovery.
But I was like, this is space.
Just all facts.
Think about how never ending and wild it is.
Now let's zoom in here, blah, blah.
But yeah, this one, we were running a spaceship,
and the spaceship was having malfunctions,
and the girl that was the tour guide of space
was new on the job.
And it was like the year 2098.
Yeah, so they were making fun of our cell phones.
Yeah, it was pretty campy.
It was incredibly campy.
I thought it was funny when we toured the moon,
they were like, you can't see the moon base
because it's underneath the surface.
And I was like, ah, a very old moon base.
Yeah, I caught that too.
It's kind of funny.
But here's the footprint.
You can't see it, but I promise when you zoom in, it's there.
Yeah.
I got a footprint to leave.
Yeah.
Oh, so man, jam packed.
It has been jam packed.
Jam packed bowling days.
It has been jam packed.
But we keep on rolling.
That's right.
Keep on rolling, not missing a Tuesday.
And that's thanks to all the bowlers out there
who keep us going.
Show after show bowl after bowl.
With their time, with their talent, with their treasure,
we're talking value for value.
Good folks out there.
And that's how we do things.
We just put the shows out.
We do bowls with buds whenever we can throw them together.
We do bowl after bowl every Tuesday night, right around meow.
And we just asked that you try it out, check it out,
and if you enjoy it, evaluate the value you get from the show.
And return that in some way.
We always like to thank the bowlers who
send in their treasure value right here up front
at the beginning of the show, because that's how much we appreciate it.
We think it's one of the most important aspects of the whole thing.
And I did notice that a new recurring payment was set up
from none other than the Reverend Cyber Trucker.
Oh, thanks, Rev.
So we very much appreciate that.
He's set up a 420 monthly stone nation, which is really great,
because a lot of the infrastructure that we run off of,
including this live stream, if you're listening live right now,
all of that's auto-deducted from that very same PayPal.
And so we definitely appreciate those monthly contributions.
You help keep the live stream on and the website hosted
in all of those little expenses that add up month by month.
Very much appreciate that.
We also have, as the pins can tend to, or can test to,
what the fuck I'm talking about.
That sound means that there's a new money coming through.
We're talking about little pieces of Bitcoin, Satoshi's,
zooming in over the Lightning Network to our own nodes
right here in the bowl running 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
And you can send a little micro boosts.
You can attach a message to them.
We call them boostagrams and lots of boulders love to give value back.
That way, including six days ago, as we were fading out the show,
let's say like six days, 22 hours ago or something like that.
It was hard of hat.
Hard of hat. Thank you.
Our delineator.
That's right. 1420 sets out of Kerio Caster,
as we were fading the show out.
Very much appreciate that.
You got to pump people up for the boostagrams.
We have a jingle.
You're absolutely right.
One of my...
Plus, you got to mention, you got to take all your clothes off
and go to nudepodcastapps.com.
Get yourself a value enabled podcast player so you can join the fun.
You got to do it.
Live, produce the show.
I'm going to boost some stats.
I've got 40,000 in my wallet.
I'm, I'm boosting value contribution.
This is fucking awesome.
Oh, yeah, fucking awesome.
Yeah.
You're right. I'm...
I'm such a poor hide man.
That's all right.
That's why Hey Citizen is around.
Speaking of the devil, he did boost us the very next day
at a podverse.
Can you believe it?
I can. Thanks, Hey Citizen.
You gave us that.
69!
69, did it!
Yay!
Woo!
And he said, hey, listening live from the day after,
which is another way to listen live, by the way,
getting wasted on overworking and lack of sleep,
drifting into a sexy daydream.
Ooh.
By the soothing sound of rock on smoke on,
wah, I think he means a...
Rock on, smoke on, wah.
Only to be rudely returned to reality
by the ordinal pain in the chain.
Uh, wait, where am I?
With a shrug emoji as the punctuation.
Incredible.
Thank you, sir.
Appreciate it.
Appreciate all you do.
A truly valuable bowler.
No doubt.
A well-rounded gentleman.
Next up was Dame Trail Chicken.
Oh, buck-buck.
And she sent 77, 77 sets out of the fountain app.
Thank you.
She said, ho now now.
Oh, now now.
Dolphin emoji.
Nice.
Fantastic.
Thank you, Dame.
Then we had a lot of boosts showing up
from the hog story, music, jams, and poetry slams.
Yeah.
Because I assume this must mean we each had a split on this.
We did indeed.
So we appreciate that.
Fletcher and Carolyn for splitting us up on that.
Hey, Citizen Boosted that episode and said,
music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
Out profound.
Truly.
And then Sir T.J., the raffle, who
guessed it on the two-hour folk hour that same day, last Sunday,
heat through 50,000 sets into the ring from podverson
said, rock on my friends.
Hell yeah.
Too much appreciate.
And then a nine grand boost out of fountain from NetNet.
And NetNet said, great show.
That was back to the bowl after bowl situation.
So appreciate that.
Then we had a bunch of live boosts that
came in while we were talking to the great rev, Dr. Fyfer,
which we did read on the show.
You can check it out like we mentioned before it.
BowlswithBuds.com, which Harvhat also
was the delineator on that.
3,000 and three sets was the last boost to that.
Again on the fadeout.
So if you ever hear that pin crash at the end of the show,
you can bet that's probably Harvhat sneaking one in at the end,
which we greatly appreciate.
Always perfectly timed too.
And Sir Nubin popped in there with a 40 set boost
out of Curio Caster as well.
Nice.
Thanks for Nubin.
He was hanging out in the bowl Sunday night.
That was fun.
And new bowler in the new bowler on the block.
Hope he keeps nubbing around.
A thousand sats came in from NetNet
out of fountain the next day.
He said, this is a boobies boost.
Yeah, boobies.
Thanks NetNet.
We appreciate those boobies very much.
In fact, what do we got?
Did you see her breath?
Here we go.
Yeah.
I knew I had something.
Oh, a big boost out of podverse
from our good friend, comic strip blogger.
Oh, comic strip.
Comic strip.
Comic strip blogger.
Comic strip.
Oh, you dropped it.
Yeah, podverse.
I forget how it goes.
16969.
He says, why does you mother fuckers talking shit about AI?
Why does we?
Why does us mother fuckers talking shit
about AI?
Weas can.
I think this is the strongest case
for comic strip blogger being AI himself.
That I've seen thus far.
Many cases have been made.
But I think if the AI is sentient enough
to boost the show, then I welcome these developments.
And we thank you.
Thank you for your boost.
I think we were talking with Fyfer about some of the AI talk.
And it was just kind of perplexing how there seems
to be kind of like blinders and hyper focus on AI just
means chat GPT and LLMs kind of in general.
And then everything else is sort of, you know,
it's like this new thing.
Whereas we've had, you know, predictive text
and developers using Visual Studio or using IntelliSense,
like every day for years and years.
And it's just kind of there's this hype machine
that you can really feel building that feels, well,
dare I say it, artificial.
But yeah.
And the flip side is the science fiction fear mongering
that people suffer from.
Right.
People saying like this is SkyNet and this is going to take
over the world.
Humans will be the slaves of the AI.
It's like, mm, doubt.
I mean, there's slaves to the phone already.
Yeah.
Yes.
So there's that.
But yes, we appreciate your comic strip blogger.
We talk shit to poke at the AI to build it sentience.
That's right.
We're helping it make it stronger.
That's right.
Six and stones AI.
That's right.
Control all delete.
Fountain app comes in next.
Mary Kate Ultrasin in that suite.
69.
69, dude.
Yeah.
Thanks, Mary Kate Ultra.
It happened to be partial to that number.
And to that booster who says, got to get in a little of that
pre-boost action.
She's boosting.
That's right.
Pre-boosting the live show out of the fountain app.
I see you fountain live item enabled, launched.
Lots of promo and PR going about that.
Talk a little bit about that when we wrap this segment up.
But love what I'm seeing over there.
It's been a long time coming.
And if you've been following the bull for any amount of time, you know that we've been
eagerly awaiting this development.
Let's say.
Yeah.
You have been a squeaky wheel about it.
I have been a squeaky wheel and boy did I get some grease over it.
42, 69 cents from a Harvhat that came out of Curiosity or about 30 minutes ago.
Very nice.
When we take the stream over and send that pod ping out and tell the world where live
officially he usually hops in and gets the boosts rolling.
So we always appreciate that.
He's like the alpha and the Omega boost for each show.
And that's pretty kick ass.
We appreciate your Harvhat.
Yeah.
When the bull gets lit and when the bull is cached.
That's right.
You can count on him to be there on each end of it.
69, 69 once again.
69, 69, David.
This one from Hay Citizen out of podverse.
He says calling occupants of interplanetary craft.
He's putting the message out.
He's paying in that.
World wide.
All across the galaxy.
Yes.
The call has been sent.
Appreciate that.
321Z row.
It's a blast off boost from info vx at knowagintessential.com.
Buddy info vx.
All right.
Thanks for VX.
Boosting that curiocaster live item.
He says count down to getting lit in the bull friends.
In the bull.
In the bull to you, sir.
Appreciate you.
Love you.
Glad to have you.
Weirdo's up next with 10 grand out of fountain.
All right.
That's weirdo.
Appreciate you weirdo.
He says the bull is lit.
It is indeed.
You can smell it all the way down the block, man.
Lit and loud.
There's no mistaken when that bull sparks up.
33, 33 next.
That's also coming out of podverse from servo.
Oh, thank you, servo.
No, no.
Just not get some pins down.
Appreciate you.
And finally, the one you just heard about five minutes ago coming in from our very
own bully steed.
Boolly.
Thank you.
She's boosting from fountain and she says, I'm here for the shit stain education.
Insert hay citizen song.
Oh, um, nice.
Yes.
She's got the reminder in there.
I'm going to boost some stats.
I've got 40,000 in my wallet.
I'm, I'm boosting value contribution.
This is fucking awesome.
And there we go.
That makes that for it, right?
Then drop it twice.
It's so nice.
I dropped it twice.
So nice.
God, I love it.
I love it.
Thank you, Bowlers, for all of the boosts and all the love and support.
We really appreciate it.
It just keeps the cycle fed.
Keeps the cycle fed.
And if you've never boosted before, if you've never contributed before, but you find
you're still listening week after week, bull after bull, we invite you to give it a
little consideration.
You can always click the donate button at the bottom of bull after bull.com, send in a paypal
donation or set it yourself up a monthly recurring one or like Lauren mentioned, you could
just take it all off and go to nudepodcastapps.com, pick you out a nice one and start boosting.
It's fucking awesome.
But you don't even have to go directly to that.
You can start small.
There's a lot of other ways to send in value.
That's right.
The simplest of all is just passing the bull to someone you think will enjoy it.
Cool, Bowlers only.
That's a given though.
Yeah.
You're a bull or so you're cool.
You know what I mean.
You don't want to upset somebody and get the cops called on you.
Well, yeah, it's like we're living in a post legal world in some places in the United
States, most of them.
But you remember the safety meetings.
So I got to play it like that.
That's right.
You can also send art, jingles, news stories or...
Newt stories.
Yeah, nude stories are very special to us.
You can also leave us a voice mail answering our weekly first time I ever topic.
In this week, we want to hear about the first time you ever were the oldest person in the
room.
All you have to do is pick up your phone and...
That's right.
We'll play it.
Before hand.
So anything goes in the bowl, voice mail.
And if your voice shy or have poor reception, you can send us a text message and maybe
attach a picture.
It's right.
All that works is invite valed and is received happily by that phone number 8166073663.
Some Bowlers already have.
Got their voice mail in.
And it's all value.
It's correct.
It's all a contribution.
You may say, hey, I don't have no monies.
Hey, I don't know how to Bitcoin a thing.
It's all good.
Hang out.
Hang out for a while.
Get a feel for it.
Sing a song.
Do a dance.
Pass the bowl.
You will pick it up in no time flat.
I gear one to it.
And for those of you wondering what the hell, all of this Bitcoin node nonsense is all
about.
We have a special segment just for you.
I think I think you can just.
I'm saying all right.
Okay, just ain't all right.
Yeah, she really want to build a node.
I do.
I want to build another node.
Yeah, you want to be fear node?
Try it.
You want to try to build one of those start night embassy.
What Adam say was like the professional umbral.
The professional version of umbral.
Yeah.
How the fickle winds blow.
My ombre was doing just fine.
It's funny.
I think people get into the node thing and then you know, things happen behind the scenes
and like the less you have to do yourself.
And the more you have to do through a user interface, like the less you really understand
what's going on.
It just becomes my this OS that I use.
Cripped out on me.
When it really could be like a specific service failing or it could be a local internet connection
or it could be you know, so many different things.
And it's just interesting.
It's the toughest part for me about giving advice and node running is when other people
come to me with a problem I've never experienced on a node implementation that I've never run.
And it's just really like, hmm.
I don't know man, you're going to have to dive in there.
Get under the hood.
Mm hmm.
Yeah, you're going to have to look.
I don't know if you're prepared to hear this.
It's going to hurt.
But you may have to read some documentation.
I know, I know it's fucking too much, but it's where all good journey start over there
in the docs with half of your hair pulled out on the floor.
Speaking of nodes and not speaking of pulling your hair out on the floor, recipe blitz has
rolled out their next major update version 1.9, which they I'm sure by pure coincidence
released about two hours after we signed off last Tuesday.
Ah, yes.
Ah, so.
So you're waiting to update after this poll?
Yeah, that's right.
I had some time on Friday and then I sat down and I looked and thought about it real hard
and I was like, you know, because every time I redo the node, there's some custom stuff
of my own that I've got a reput into place.
So the way recipe blitz works, which is the node implementation I run is everything is
flashed to an SD card, the main operating system.
It's all DB and based.
And if you already have a previous node set up, your entire nodes database and data structure
all lives on an external solid state drive.
And so when you update or when you fuck things up, like I have a few times and you have to
reflash and just recover your entire node, what he does you write a fresh version of the
operating system to a little micro SD card, pop it into your Raspberry Pi and you turn
it on, everything boots up.
And then it looks at that connected drive and it goes, oh, there's some shit on here.
Would you like to restore your node based on the shit you have on here?
And you say, heck yeah, I would.
Put everything back.
All this shit that you have installed, you know, I've got Bitcoin Core and I've got
Lightning running, but I've also got things like Healypad, tunnels or tunnel sets and
Ellen bits.
Well, so I run tunnel sets to be able to have a clear node address so that I don't have
to just hide behind the tour network, which is slow and not super reliable.
So I've found a lot higher up time with my tunnel sets implementation.
So that part's been nice.
But when you when I reflash, I have to put all that back together.
So I have to reactivate tunnel sets and the VPS.
I also have to turn the boost back back on.
I have to reinstall it and turn it on and get it back into the chat room.
And I have to update the Healypad's custom bowling pen crashing sound, which is very
rudimentary.
It's a blueberry over there behind the schemes is putting me to absolute shame with all the
awesome custom boost sounds.
He's got rolling in there.
Oh, yeah, with the IRCocafany.
Yeah, it's incredible.
It is.
Working with the servo to really make an awesome boosting experience over there, which we
will someday try to kind of halfway catch up with.
But he's always doing incredible work on the front lines of the scissors swinging.
And yeah, so I figured, well, you know, I know I have to do all of this bullshit if I
upgrade.
So I'm just going to wait because I knew we had the fight for on Sunday and then tonight.
So I'll probably be doing that tomorrow upgrading to 1.9.
And I'll have much more to report next week after I tried all out, get everything put
back together and get back online.
What else is going on here?
So there goes tomorrow.
There goes tomorrow.
That's my day.
Now it'll all work.
Most of it's just hanging around waiting for it to install itself.
Yeah.
Just a lot of waiting involved.
Sinking up.
Mm hmm.
Speaking of sinking up, I synced up with the KC bitcointers earlier tonight at the bar
over in Mission Kansas.
Yeah, you did.
KCbitcointers.com is the website there.
So you can check out all the upcoming meetings.
Yeah, we had a great time.
One of our members, Chris, had attended the Miami Bitcoin conference and had tails to tell.
Oh, cool.
He put together, I guess I had some kind of Bitcoin games.
And so he put together a team that represented the KC Bitcoiners there and almost made it
to the final round.
I think they got to the semi-finals.
Dang.
That's awesome.
It seemed pretty fun though.
They had like a, they had a round of chess.
They had, I don't know, a few different interesting contests.
One of them was building a seed signer and a race to build the fastest seed signer.
So that was all sounded pretty cool.
Yeah, that sounds fun.
Let me see what the next meeting is.
You also went to the coffee with Bitcoiners meeting on Friday.
I did last Friday.
Before John's birthday, Shenanigans.
It looks like the next meeting is on my birthday, Bitcoin and coffee.
So I probably will not be able to attend that one.
And then there is a Wednesday, June 14th, beers with Bitcoiners at Checkingham Pickle up
there in North Kansas City, which has also been pretty well attended the last few times.
So nice.
Yeah, I hear that's a fun spot.
I still haven't been there.
It's a good, it's a good spot.
It's a good time.
Never have I ever pickled.
Well, you shall pickle someday.
I wanted to talk a little bit about wave lake because I guess really I'm rescinding my,
well, my private agreement ahead with myself.
Very private.
I just shut the fuck up and wait for wave lake to not be such a wild garden, but between
their appearance on the podcasting 2.0 and between a few other events that have taken place
over the past few months, I just feel like I can no longer just wait around and shut
up about their approach to decentralized music or value for value music.
And while they talk a good game and they've made some good compelling blog posts on the
system of value for value music and why it's cool and rad and everything.
And while they have actually got a mechanism that artists can onboard without writing any
code themselves, the big issue I have and why you can't find stay a while by able on the
wolf in wave lake is because in order to appear in the wave lake system, you must upload
your MP3's to wave lake.
And through that process, they build you out a custom feed that they control with a wallet
that they are custodian over that you can make withdrawals from after they take 10%.
And no splits.
There's no splits available.
There's no lyrics available.
There's a few features that we introduced when we published our album Two Christmas
Eaves ago that were really crucial to the whole concept of our album.
And we have agreements in place with all the people that made us art for the various
tracks on that.
And so if we went over to wave lake, we would not have a way to programmatically honor those
agreements.
So the funny thing about the walled garden system that's wave lake represents is their
blog posts.
It purports to want to pull out the middleman in the music industry and give power back
to this thing between artists and their fans.
But as it stands currently in those system that they have currently in place, really
they're just usurping the middleman and inserting themselves in that position for a 10%
cut.
And I'm not saying necessarily that the 10% number is outrageous in particular.
Especially if they're providing the hosting and if they're providing the feed and everything.
But what I am concerned about is that there's no alternative.
And so their content isn't walled in that you can still get wave lake artists on other
platforms.
All one has to do after they upload to wave lake is to let the podcast index know that
they have a feed over there.
And then that will now be surfaced in places like Ellen Beats in places like found
in and Kira Kaster and all of the nude podcast apps.
But if you boost a wave lake artist in fountain or in Kira Kaster, that boost goes to the
custom wave lake feed that's been made for you.
And that 10% cut is still in play no matter where the boost comes from.
So they really have created for themselves this monopoly that kind of cuts against the
grain of the whole point of this thing.
Yeah.
It just it just runs me the wrong way and I can no longer just be content to be told,
you know, and what really got me first rethinking shutting the fuck up about it is when they
were on podcasting 2.0 and they were specifically asked about self hosted feeds and they're like,
well, you know, we don't see it as a priority like only one person that I can think of as asked
about it.
And I was like, oh, shit, I wonder who that is.
Like, you know what I was saying.
So it's just not decentralized.
There's a decentralized choke point that you must go through to appear in wave lake.
And and as long as that's still in play, you're host.
There was one guy who happened to be a music teacher and was getting a lot of his students
to upload to wave lake.
He was like, wave lake and Bitcoin.
They're like the answer to what we've been looking for.
And so there was a bunch of music put on.
And then he logged on to make it withdrawal.
And he was blocked by IP address location because he happens to be a music teacher in
Russia.
Oh my god.
And so you were in Russia.
No, no, no.
You cannot withdraw.
No.
Sorry.
Oh, that makes me angry because Bitcoin is freedom.
Bitcoin is supposed to be borderless and past all that.
Bitcoin and other protocols like podcasting 2.0 and the whole concept of decentralization.
But already fix this if the implementation is followed.
And so when we published stay a while, our hope was that we would give artists kind of
a use case to look at for how to publish and how to incorporate all these features.
Live lyrics while you're listening in an SRT file using the transcript tag, things
like that.
Agreements that you can make on your own without any lawyers without any record companies saying,
I get this percent.
You get this percent forever.
And it's right there in the feed.
It's right there in your RSS feed.
And so Abel and I are hope was to kind of plant that flag on the music side and say,
this is how you put an album out.
And our hope was that music apps would develop within that ecosystem of podcasting 2.0 and
not like reinvent a new wheel with half the features and this kind of monopolization.
So hopefully that changes.
I don't know what a little old me can really do about it in the short term other than
I'm not going to shut up about it anymore.
That's all.
Yeah.
That's all.
One person asking for RSS integration.
Yeah.
And that's you.
And I think that my biggest sin over this whole thing is that just by me not talking about
it, I think a lot of people just straight up don't know that this is going on.
You know, they just hear like, oh, a wave lake.
And a top 10 chart and oh, it's cool.
It's getting hyped and V for V music.
I think we need to be really careful about, oh, just because it works like how does it work.
Is it really working in a way that matches up with our values and that matches up with
the ecosystem we're actually trying to build?
Does it talk the talk and walk the walk?
And frankly, from where I'm sitting right now, wave lake does not walk the walk.
So just a little disappointing, but hopefully this will change over time.
I don't think this is something that's always going to be this way, but it could always
be this way if I just sit up my hands and wait for something to change.
Yeah.
You cannot sit idly by.
That's right.
On a happier note to end on like a little bit brighter note, fountain, push their official
release.
They're on 0.7.3 now if you're on the very latest fountain update.
And they have rolled out a lot of new features, including a new way that they organize their
podcast library, some kind of restructuring of the UI and the UX that goes on there.
So now your podcast page is now called a library where your queue lives and your episodes
and shows and et cetera.
You can sort those in your library by newest oldest alphabetically, and sort clips and
playlists the same way.
You can set up auto delete.
You can mark things as played.
So a lot of different UX upgrades.
They're also offering a new way that transcripts work.
So one of the things found and always did that was interesting was offer the ability to do
clips and transcripts.
Yeah.
They apparently have a new transcript provider because of a new partnership with Deepgram.
Deepgram.
Yeah.
I think on the last podcasting 2.0 they were saying, how does it happen so fast?
Apparently, the secret sauce is this deepgram API that really does return a lot of audio
in a very short amount of time with a full transcript.
The way it works now is you can tap the transcript button on the player.
If you're a fountain premium user, they'll just make a transcript from a show that doesn't
have one yet on demand.
Fountain premium I think is like three quid a month.
It's like the, they do it in the British pound.
I think from what I'm looking here.
All of the users you can pay a 50 cent fee.
It's like 2000 sets.
I think they charge in sets that just right out of your fountain wallet.
For every hour of audio transcription, you don't have to pay for podcasts that already
provide a transcript in the podcast transcript tag.
They also added support for the transcript tag itself.
Nice.
So that's another thing that we've got on our to-do list to pop in eventually as the transcripts.
We don't want to make people pay for our transcripts.
Yeah, definitely not.
But there's another piece of the puzzle we have to add into.
That's the thing that I'm most juiced about is the live.
The live item tag is now finally after that long last supported and fountain officially,
which is fantastic.
We've been talking about this a long time.
We've been talking about, you know, what about not supporting live kind of harsh to our
particular flow and mellow when we're having a live guest on and we have a split for
them and then people who are boosting through fountain in the old times, not only could
they not hear the show live through fountain, they'd have to listen somewhere else like in
a web browser or some other means.
But then when they were boosting, they could only boost like a previous episode or the channel
level value tag, which is just you and me.
Right.
And then our guest was missing out on all the splits coming through.
Right.
So my squeaky wheeled behavior was I would just re-boost all those live fountain boosts.
I'd total them up and then make one big re-boost to the published episode so that our guest
would get the split.
And I would mention that, you know, the live item tag solves this.
Well, it has been solved now and I actually, I've been working behind the scenes with Nick
and Oscar to kind of test things out and make sure that everything behaves as expected.
And it was so nice.
Not only did they give us a couple of weeks of kind of a free spot in that promoted section
that they have in the search, but they've also featured our show in all of like the screen
caps promoting the live stuff that they're putting on their blog and tweets and other
places.
So, yeah, that's really cool.
It was unexpected and I really do appreciate that.
It's exciting.
I was jazzed to see that.
And it looks really nice.
I think our colors work well with their colors and everything.
So.
Yeah.
It looks nice.
Working pretty well.
The one thing that they haven't done yet, but they will have done in the next major push
is parsing multiple live items because we kind of have a unique right use of live item
tags where we have two distinct show formats, which are both bowl after bowl shows.
We have the regular one you're listening to right now, bowl after bowl every Tuesday
night.
And then we have bowls with buds, which were sporadically scheduled.
And once I do have an announcement to make, I make that via the RSS feed first.
That's the first place I ever really publicly announce that there's an upcoming bowls
with buds.
And so currently fountain will just grab the first tag it sees in the feed.
And so what I've been doing is just kind of putting the the nearest one to now as the
top one.
Because what I had before was I always had the bowls with buds one on top.
And I always had the Tuesday one on bottom.
And in all the other apps, that was totally fine.
But then the very first night that we tested live that was two shows ago, we didn't show
up his live.
And that's because that bowls with buds tag was the first live item.
And it said ended.
It was the one that we did with effortless like a month ago.
And so it was just seeing the first one and saw it was ended.
And then it was just breeze on by it was like, oh, they don't have a they're not live.
They're not going to be live.
They don't have a pending life.
So I think that's all sorted.
It has yet to be tested.
But Oscar was like, yeah, we'll add that.
We'll change the parsing logic there to look for multiple live item tags.
Nice.
So there you have it.
There you have it.
I am.
I will say I am definitely impressed at like the attentiveness that Oscars shown to like
input suggestions and testing and all that.
And they're always very quick.
Even though they're very busy guys, they're always quick to add or at least test out suggestions
for future releases.
And so I'm just always appreciated that they're open mind in this and working with working
with feedback like that, you know, because it's not always the easiest thing to do as a developer.
You go like, I've got my own opinions.
I want to go my own way.
But this podcasting 2.0 spec, there's kind of like a way that it's being built out.
And I think that Oscar has been really open to how to do that right and how to add pieces
as he goes.
So it's cool to see.
It's cool to finally see.
We've been waiting for that for a while.
Yeah.
Congrats to found and appreciate the love too.
Yeah.
Thanks you guys.
It is nice.
When your users are saying, hey, we need this feature.
And then they get it.
And it must be frustrating too because overwhelmingly, like I would say 70% of the feedback
in there is I am not earning sets today.
It's like everybody's concerned over like, you know, they pay you like when you're listening
little trickles of sats while you're listening to podcasts, which has been a feature that,
you know, I appreciate more sats going into my wallet for sure.
Don't get me wrong.
But it's not like the main reason I'm over there by any means.
Like I'm just there to kind of contribute in this value for value exchange.
And then it's just like, you know, me, it's hard for me to blame my tongue about, where's
my choice?
I'm supposed to have 62 sats man.
Where's my 62 sats?
It's like, you know, here, I'll give you 100 sats to shut the fuck up and go away.
Goddamn.
So I appreciate it.
He's always got a positive attitude throughout it all.
So he's a stronger man than me in that regard.
Oh, and then the block party's coming up.
There is a wonderful Bitcoin block party coming up.
June, I want to say 24th is the date.
It's a Saturday.
June 24th.
I think that is now going to be at the usual spot in Westport that it's always been traditionally.
Okay.
I think that venue owners kind of convinced us to go over there again.
Nice.
I love getting the foot traffic because we have the podcasting 2.0 banner at our booth
and people are always asking questions about it.
And there's always people I'm like, oh, you would love this show.
You would love behind the schemes.
If you want to hear more, listen to podcasting 2.0.
Oh, no agenda.
You know, you just kept people on all of them hog story.
Rare encounter.
Fuck, I started listening and I feel compelled to say everything.
Oh, that's a mistake.
That's a mistake.
I didn't say them all.
Oh, God.
But it's, I love the foot traffic and people who don't know what's going on asking questions
and learning.
And you're just like, yes, here we go.
This is how it works.
Look how fast the SATs transfer.
It's killer.
It's fun to see like the Bitcoin block parties are really where it comes to life.
Especially for people who aren't in this weird podcasting value for value micro universe,
which although it is growing organically just year by year, it's also very niche.
Definitely.
And so a lot of times when people are at the block parties, this is their first time really
seeing goods and value be exchanged instantly and permissionlessly.
Yeah.
So it's always a killer, it's always a killer time.
And if you would like to hawk your wares for SATs, you can sign up to be a vendor there
for free.
There's no vendor fee.
That's right.
Find another event where there's no vendor fee.
Good luck.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's a wonderful time.
And I will also be doing a small presentation on value for value and node running and the
whole podcasting 2.0 and also how it bleeds into music as well.
So I'm going to try to kind of put a master pitch together.
Nice.
For the whole deal.
Yeah.
Very cool.
I'm excited about it.
Yeah.
What's going on in the, the ol' cocaine?
Yeah, not that much a shit stain this week, not too much.
No, not too much.
Nothing new in the shit stain category.
That's right.
Let's say.
It's just bubbling to the surface, some of the shit that's been sunken.
But hey, what can I say?
I'm a shit stirred by nature.
It's what wolves do.
That's right.
That's what wolves do.
All right.
I know what lorians do.
Top 3, 33.
All right.
That's right.
The magic number popped up in a headline two day in fact.
Fresh one.
I put it on the lanes.
Twitter is now worth just 33% of Elon Musk's purchase price.
Who could have seen that coming?
Yeah.
So he bought the bird's shite for 44 billion buckarews.
And now it's worth 8.8 billion.
You notice they held the story until it hit that 33%.
Absolutely.
Valhuation.
Yeah.
People have been saying it was worth half the price he paid.
But fidelity came through and was like, nope,
here's the real number.
It's 8.8.
I don't know how they know, but maybe they've got their thumb
up that buckle.
Checking the pulse.
Well, I still think that the Elon going in there
to tank the whole thing is still in play.
And it's going amazingly swimmingly well.
Absolutely.
And that's how I like to see it too.
A good use of doll hairs.
No doubt.
Now the big magic number story of the week in Bully's seed
commented on it.
It was posted.
Lots of people are catching this magic number
citing only 33% of BLM's $90 million in donations
helped charitable foundations.
Wow.
And I thought 33% seemed kind of high.
That's about what I was about to say.
Man, they actually gave some of it to charitable low.
I, as I'm reading this article, it's very convoluted.
See, my thought is that maybe that 33% got funneled
through other charitable organizations
and stuffed into those pockets.
But yes, well, it's like, OK, here's what's
the on the street impact.
Here's charitable foundations.
And here are the people behind them who have links to BLM
seem to be the way it was going.
Oh, her sister's charitable foundation, the other co-founder.
But this all came about from the government integrity
project at the National Legal and Policy Center, which
is an ethics watchdog group.
They filed a complaint against BLM, whose full name is crazy.
It's like, Black Lives Matter Global, something or other.
Let me look it up.
Give you the correct answer on the spot here.
Yeah, Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation.
Global, man, it's global.
And so they filed a complaint against BLM GNF
with the IRS last year for allegedly
violating IRS rules prohibiting the use of nonprofit assets
for private benefit, self-dealing conflicts of interest
and unlawful political fundraising.
We've all seen those majestic houses that were purchased
with the money that came in.
And of course, the group and the founder
claimed that they were used as office spaces or event spaces.
I'm sure they had some Zoom meetings from there.
Oh, I'm sure they had some meetings there and some parties, for sure.
Yeah.
For the cause, man.
For the cause.
Something that I saw was interesting was they
gave $400,000 to the Tamir Rice Foundation.
Tamir, of course, was the 12-year-old boy
playing with a toy gun who was shot to death by the cops.
And his mom was one of the harshest critics of BLM
because she was saying, hey, they're
profiting off of my son's death.
People had printed his face on posters
and were holding them at the protests and stuff.
Anyways, they gave her foundation $400,000,
maybe like a little bit of hush money.
Here, maybe this will make it better.
Go away.
And then, of course, there were millions
that went to the co-founder who left in 2021
with a deal at Warner Brothers, a TV deal.
But guess what?
That contract came to an end and there were no shows produced.
So what's that all about?
Want, want.
Just getting money from Warner Brothers
with nothing to show for it?
It's interesting.
Weird.
Yeah.
Gotta love the movie biz.
Yeah.
The movie scene has got me down.
But yeah, so that was a huge magic number
citing this week.
Also, worth pointing out that 33 people
were wounded in Chicago over Memorial Day weekend.
Gun violence, they're kind of crazy.
Not what you want from the cookout.
It probably a higher number.
I'm noticing that what gets reported
from gun violence in Chicago seems to be a lot lower
than what's actually going on.
And there's some.
Well, there's a lot of things that just are never reported
or called in or anything.
Yeah.
And what happens to snitches?
Exactly.
Just in Chicago.
So yeah, I would expect those numbers to be suppressed.
Yeah.
No matter what you try to do.
Definitely.
Memorial Day, of course, is kind of like
on official summer beginning.
Right.
And the city beach is open in Chicago Memorial Day weekend.
We can wear white now.
So, oh yeah.
Hooray, hurrah.
But, you know, shooty summer.
Yeah, popcorn summer.
Popcorn summer.
That's much better.
Did you see the bus driver that got into a little gun battle
in North Carolina?
I didn't.
I saw the headline, but I didn't read into it.
Arguing with a passenger started shooting at each other.
Passengers wanted to get off between stops
and then they started arguing.
And then the passenger pulled his gun out.
And then the driver drew on the passenger.
And then they just started shooting at each other.
I think they both got hit in the arm.
It was like mayhem.
Shebeth.
Because there's video of it.
But yeah, it's crazy.
Because now the bus drivers no longer bus driver.
The statements from public officials are like,
we don't want anybody having any firearms on any bus.
Oh, Christ.
The bus drivers aren't allowed to carry.
But it's like, oh, you expect this man to get on a city bus
without carrying like that's just irresponsible really.
Like, come on, where are you going to go
and on the bus route on arm?
That's just stupid.
Yeah.
That is not advised around here.
No.
To go around bike bus stops without any heat on you.
That would just be a silly move, my man.
So I don't know, man.
It would probably be tough to keep the buss
as a staffed in that sort of situation.
But hey, I would think so.
I think that the bus drivers should definitely be armed.
So the passenger pulled first?
Yeah, but he was doing that.
Motherfuckers, this is how it always goes down
and wave it around.
They pull it out and then they're like,
brandishing it and going, whoah, whoah, whoah, whoah, whoah, whoah.
And then that's where you fucked up.
Yeah.
Don't show your gun, unless you're about to use it.
Yeah.
It's too late when you pull it, it's pulled.
You've now pulled a gun on me, self-defense.
That's how I see it.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's just like it doesn't enhance your argument anyway
and that's not what a gun is for.
It's not a toy.
But I don't know, man.
It's going to be another debate and it's an interesting one
because there's a lot of moving parts to it.
Yeah, well, I think an armed society is indeed a polite society.
It seems this way.
I don't like when people tell others you can't carry.
Right.
Yeah.
We have a whole constitution that's
supposed to just circumvent that anyway.
Yeah, this is America.
You dump some of a bitch.
Maybe if you've got a house that you own
or you've got a building that you own,
then you can say, hey, not in here.
Before you got a leave, that's one thing.
And I suppose there's an argument to be made
that the city controls the buses
so they get to set the rules for there.
But the problem is that you cannot keep people
from getting on the bus without a gun
unless you put metal detectors at the bus door,
which just seems impractical.
Yeah.
So I don't know.
That's a real quagmire.
Well, I'm sure they can vote in a budget to do that though.
Sure.
Yeah.
So maybe one of them little wee, whoo, whoo, whoo,
ones, you know.
Oh gosh.
Can you imagine that you got a wand
to everybody that gets on the bus?
No.
It's going to take forever.
Yeah.
How are you going to get people?
How are you going to run your routes on time?
It's just a, it's just a fucking bad deal from every angle.
There's really no winning solution.
That's true.
Then keep your gun fucking put away
and wait for the next stop on the bus.
Yeah, seriously.
You can't stop between stops.
Can't stop between stops.
So just sit down, shut up, and have a little walk.
This is why we can't have nice things, you know.
Yeah.
There was a little funny that came out
of the Memorial Day weekend gun violence in Chicago.
I know that sounds horrible.
But there was a story in there about an off-duty Michigan
police officer who was in a hotel room with another man
and shot himself and seriously wounded the other guy
when he was handling a gun.
It's like this is a police officer, someone who should be well trained
to handle a gun and then accidentally fires,
hitting himself and the other dude.
What?
Oops.
Yeah, big oops.
Big oops.
That's why I say, hey, man, nice shot.
Yeah.
A 33-year-old track record fell this past week in Arizona.
Where did it land?
Into the record books.
With a new one.
Out with the old and in with the new.
Nice.
And then there were two men released from prison this past week
who had served 33 years for murders they did not commit.
Damn.
Yeah, cleared by DNA evidence, one in California, one in Dallas.
That was a lucky week, I guess.
Yeah, I was hoping there would be a third just to round it out
and make it extra magical, but no.
I waited.
I've been serving the same amount of time and shit.
Right, 33 years.
Okay, I guess we can let them out now.
Inverchoo signal about getting them out.
It's weird, like how many people do you think
are released every year on the surface DNA evidence,
but then we get this story that two are who have been
serving 33.
You know, every time when you bring this segment,
it always like boggles my mind.
Look at this.
It's mind boggling, man.
That's why it's the magic number.
No doubt.
We can ponder over it some more behind the curtain.
That sounds good to me.
Hope you don't have any plans to go on a cruise.
Definitely not.
Specifically carnival cruises.
Because they had a brand ambassador come out this week
and just wave their drug dog flag around.
We're gonna continue using our drug dogs
and you can't stop us.
Don't bring your pot.
Don't bring your drugs.
Because it's federally illegal
and we follow federal law.
So it doesn't even matter if it's legal in the state
where you're getting onto this cruise.
Or international waters.
And then of course, I have testimonies
from people who were riding the cruise.
Ooh, yeah, like, you know, the smell of marijuana
just makes me choke up.
I can't breathe.
I can't breathe around the marijuana smoke.
We don't want marijuana on the cruises.
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I would think they would.
It would really help out their buffet and stuff.
Yeah, like, yes, please come back for more.
The on-ship entertainment is so much nicer tonight.
Yeah, they push alcohol.
Yeah.
But no weed.
So alcohol is allowed.
But not your other drug.
Of course, of course.
Oh, but you have a prescription for something that's not weed
because that's fine too.
But your prescription for weed, not cool.
Not cool, man, because we can smell it.
Carnival.
No, I don't know.
I, uh, the cruise thing just doesn't appeal to me.
I don't know why.
I went on a cruise when I was an infant.
Obviously, don't remember anything about it.
Must be fucking nice.
Yeah, and so that's that.
I checked it off the box.
It's been checked.
There you go.
So cruise and can't get cruise the gig in.
Yeah.
No tolerance on the cruise.
It's just lame.
What's also lame is the Drug Enforcement Agency released their annual report for 2022,
and they destroyed a lot more weed than the year before.
Wow.
Yeah.
It's a 5.7 million plant destroyed.
I can feel the fucking evil.
How horrible for the environment destroying plants.
It just pisses me off.
It does.
Yeah.
That's a 3% increase from 2021.
Even though more states have legalized.
Well, yeah, I mean, it's the last breath you got to get your shots in, I guess.
Yeah.
And I suppose a lot of states haven't truly legalized growing weed.
I mean, where in America can you grow outside without a cultivator license doing it for
commercial purposes?
There's also that fun nugget of being federally illegal everywhere.
Yeah.
And who's the DEA, the Feds?
So they also hit the highest annual seizure total since 2011, taking 45 million dollars
worth of citizens' assets.
Jesus, Louise's.
Yep.
There was a decrease in arrests with 5,061 arrests nationwide.
Oh, boy.
I mean, that's still good handful of people.
That's too many.
That's more than the amount of people that got a presidential pardon from Joe Biden.
That's a good point.
Yeah.
Oh, there was also a huge news story that came out this week, scrutinizing the DEA for failing
to punish Morris and Dixon co who had been stripped of their license to distribute pain
killers like hydrocodone and oxycodone four years ago.
But they've been shipping them ever since.
Nice.
Yeah, a judge called them out for going against the Control Substances Act.
There was specifically, they called that one pharmacy in Louisiana that was ordering millions
of dollars worth of pain killers and then selling them for cash on the traditional market
rather than at the pharmacy and just, you know, no checks and balances here.
So there you go.
Big guy's funding the traditional market.
Well, it's like selling opiates.
It's the only thing I know.
Yeah.
But they weren't lacing it into the weed.
So there's that.
Oh, well, you know.
So Morris and Dixon also were charged with $22 million in civil penalties for violating
the Control Substances Act there, which, you know, I guess maybe that's just a penny in
the wishing well to them.
Maybe.
Because drugs, man, that's a good business, especially big pharma drugs.
They are the fourth largest wholesale drug distributor in the United States.
But this story gets more interesting because, of course, DEA administrator and Milgram has
been in the news an awful lot.
They've been complaining about how she's awarding these millions of dollars in no bid contracts
to her past associates.
While her top deputy turns out to be a very interesting man by the name of Louis Millionie.
And he worked at the DEA for 21 years in the Office of Diversion Control, which is kind
of a small section that seems to have a lot of power.
He retired in 2017.
And he became a consultant for the drug distribution companies that he had been tasked with regulating
previously.
Yeah.
Morris and Dixon co being one of them.
2021 comes around and he was named by Anne Milgram, principal deputy administrator.
So he's back at the DEA.
Nice.
And somewhere.
The old revolving door.
Along his career line, he also became a lawyer and a Hollywood actor, which just is a trifecta
right there.
You're a drug agent, a lawyer and an actor.
Wow.
Triple threat.
But what really stuck out to me is that in 2008, this man, Louis Millionie was the guy
that ran the overseas sting that nabbed Victor Boot, the merchant of death.
I remember him.
Notorious Russian arms trafficker.
Yeah.
Oh, man.
Yeah.
Small world, I guess.
I guess.
I'll take this moment to also point out that Mark Fogel is still in Russian prison for
having medical weed with him when he landed there.
But regardless.
No one talks about that anymore.
Right.
We got the basketball player back.
That's right.
It's over.
Basketball privilege.
It's over.
So here we are.
Four years down the line.
Morrison, Dixon, Co.
Is still selling their drugs, making their money, even though a judge recommended that their
license be stripped.
And that would be the DEA's responsibility.
So the associated press reached out to the DEA to comment on this.
Like, hey, why is it taking you guys so long to take action against them?
I mean, you know once their license is gone, they'll be out of business.
Correct.
So it's a death sentence for the company, which I guess if there's conflicts of interest
going on, he wouldn't want to do that.
But right after the associated press reached out for a comment, the DEA announced that it
was going to revoke that license.
Wow.
But no final order has been published.
So yeah.
I'm sure they'll do it on their timeline.
Yeah.
I'm sure that the company will challenge it in federal court and push the ball down the
hill a little bit longer.
You know, keep it rolling.
Keep that money flowing.
Yep.
So, yeah, yeah.
Frustrating.
But see in that guy go from DEA to drug dealer.
I'm sorry, consult it to the drug dealers.
Just wild.
And then a Hollywood actor.
What do you know?
I think he deserves a bit more digging.
There's more digging to be done there for sure.
And a third DEA story for tonight, there's a lawsuit against them from an agent who was
investigating opioids in the fentanyl crisis.
He got fired after using CBD.
And now he's suing the DEA trying to get his job back because what happened?
Well, in 2019, he had to take a drug test.
And there was trace amounts of THC in his system.
Oh, no.
Over the 0.3% that you can have, which is silly because it's like in your body too.
But yeah.
You can only be 0.3.
Okay.
And so he admitted that he was using CBD products and well, since they're not FDA regulated
and whatever, there might be a little bit more THC than his federally illegal.
So you're saying he was like swarvin in and out lanes and crash and shit and...
No, no.
He didn't even have a work accident, you know, just that stupid drug test requirement.
Yeah.
How about that?
So he was with the DEA for 15 years.
He wasn't a new guy either.
And he talked about using the CBD because conventional pain killers had not worked for
him.
But CBD really helped.
And he said that he got a lot of injuries during his time in law enforcement, but was
also a football player in his younger years.
Football.
Football, right, right.
So...
But the DEA doesn't have any memos or regulations or guidance at all about CBD being used
by its employees.
Imagine that.
So, yeah.
See you in court.
We'll see how that goes.
Always gotta settle it in court, man.
Be American way.
Yeah.
Or settle it in a press release like one law being firm did this week.
Ruttro.
I couldn't believe this story.
I've probably said worse things than them, but here they are.
No, no.
Apologizing.
I promise you've said worse things than whatever you're about to bring out.
Yes.
Let me just...
They sent a letter to senators in support of the Safe Banking Act, you know, and pushing
for it so that dispensaries can use the banks for their business.
They don't have to have safes and whatever.
Yeah.
And so, here's what they wrote in their press release.
The liaison group acknowledges that language referencing, here's the quote, Chinese-backed
investments was a misguided attempt in poor judgment.
Oh my God, what?
The reference was inappropriate and should not have been utilized.
We wrongfully characterized and inappropriately singled out one element of the unregulated
market by doing so.
The liaison groups sincerely apologizes for the harm caused by this language and letter
and is committed to doing better.
Words matter and it was never our intention to further harmful racist and xenophobic sentiments
by mentioning Chinese-backed investments.
Bro, Chang was pissed.
He was blowing up the phones the next day.
Yes, of course.
You know.
What's the equivalency of like the Chinese mafia?
The dammit.
I know.
I'm like, I know that he adds.
The try adds.
Yeah, they're up there.
They're sending letters to the senators in response to this.
They can't point us out.
Yeah, how dare you mention what we do, who we are.
No one mentioned China.
Not even China.
Yeah.
So, they're going to resubmit a revised letter where they don't mention Chinese-backed
investments.
So, you know, don't look at Oklahoma and all the law enforcement issues going on down
there.
It's definitely not Chinese-backed investments funding the violence in the traditional market
going zones.
Going zones.
That's how you know we're buying the curtains.
Well, you know.
In Colorado, Governor Jared Polis signed a psychedelics legalization and decriminalization
bill, which is set to take effect July 1st.
Now, it's funny because this is the lawmaker response to Proposition 122, which called for
the legalization of therapeutic psilocybin use and to hopefully decriminalize personal cultivation
and use of natural psychedelics like magic mushrooms, DMT, eye-begin, non-peyody-based
masculine.
But it left the implementation and regulation up to the lawmakers, which I find
to be a horrible choice.
No doubt.
That's a lot of power you're putting in their hands.
And yeah, now the activists behind Proposition 122 are saying, hey, this bill that you just
signed into law has too many restrictions on unlicensed activity and communal use.
But I just think that's what they get for putting it into lawmaker hands.
Yeah, well, I just came, you're going to take the time to write out this initiative and
wordage for legalization, but you're not going to just tell them how to do it.
Come on.
You're going to get railroaded.
Bright.
And your tomato model dreams will just be destroyed because now it's in the lawmaker court
where there's profit to be had by crime.
In Illinois, Governor JB Pritzker has budget legislation on his desk and there's a provision
in there that would allow weed businesses to take state level tax deductions where they're
prohibited from utilizing them at the federal level due to section 280 E, which is a neat
little work around, I guess.
This budget though is $50 billion worth.
Kaboom.
Yeah, but I don't know compared state to state how high that is or low.
But when I see billions of dollars, I mean, it just makes my brain explode billions.
Billions.
Yeah.
Boba, Boba, wow.
Wow, indeed.
Indiana.
The court of appeals has ruled that the smell of weed is enough for reasonable suspicion.
Yeah.
And so you can have warrantless searches on your person or your vehicle.
Louisiana, you said.
Indiana.
Indiana, I heard the Anna.
Yeah, you did.
He caught it.
And this came from a case where a guy was driving and he had expired license plates, but
the plates when they were scanned, the cop realized that they were registered to a different
vehicle.
So that's a whole issue in itself.
Sure.
Then the cop comes up and he smells weed.
So he searches the car and he finds three and a half pounds of weed and $11,500 in cash.
Oh, geez.
That's right.
So he takes the guy in.
Dude goes into court and is like, well, hey, you know, hemp is 50 state legal and this
could be CBD weed.
You don't know that just with your human senses alone.
You can't tell if this is legal weed or illegal weed.
Sure.
But I think it's a good try.
It is a good try.
Well, I mean, it's the correct probable cause statement, right?
Yeah.
But the judge was wasn't having it and was like, yeah, you know, you smell weed.
That means you got the weed in the car and we see weed as a drug here.
So one pump smell of weed shocking, shocking, outrageous.
Yeah.
On the flip side in Maryland, Governor West Moore, let a bill that prevents police searches
based on the smell of weed going to law without his signature.
So maybe he didn't support it, but he just let it pass along.
So it's okay to smell like weed and drive your car in Maryland kind of.
Kind of.
Not medical advice.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, still federally illegal and growing up in the prohibition days, you're never
going to shake that mentality for me.
I don't want to smell like weed and be anywhere near a cop.
Yeah.
So he didn't comment on why he didn't sign it.
So that's just speculation on my behalf where I said, maybe he didn't support it.
Minnesota is rocking and rolling because the governor Tim Walt signed a bill to create
a psychedelic medicine task force and fund safe consumption sites, also not federally
illegal, safe consumption sites.
Wow.
I hope they're not like the DMV.
Don't have like dumbass posters on the wall about.
Well, I'm sure they will and I'm sure they'll have pamphlets because it looks like there's
funding for all those things.
Just if you're going to do it, get like a singing bowl and some tapestries going on and
some lasers on the ceiling, maybe.
Yeah.
And the pillows on the floor to sit around on the floor.
I don't know about taking a, it's like, it's one of these safe consumption sites.
I just don't like that phrase.
I'd rather go to an opium den where there's couches and the smell of opium.
But if there's any government workers there, I'm out.
I'm not interested in that.
Of course, you know, the safe consumption sites, they're supposed to have nurses there
to make sure no one ODs and that you know how to shoot up properly.
And that you have a clean needle and they have test strips so that you can bring the government
workers or your drugs and get them tested.
But do they have lava lamps or fluorescent lighting?
I doubt it.
I'm thinking fluorescent lighting.
They've got budgets here, but they're only in the hundreds of thousands of dollars,
not the millions or billions.
The kind that blank and go, the worst of all fluorescent lights.
Yeah.
I hate those.
They make me want to pass out for some reason.
They emit a sound that really irks me.
I can't be around it.
And I think there's stories of people hallucinating and cubicles after too many hours under the
fluorescent lights.
The fluorescent lights.
They're weird, man.
They are.
I don't like them.
But yeah, I just picture safe consumption site sounds very sterile to me.
Yeah.
And I'm not into sterile environments.
So yeah, but they legalize drug paraphernalia possession, syringe services.
And that means that if you have any drug residue to be found, I guess you won't get a ticket
or cuffs slapped onto you for it.
So they're also requiring schools and police officers to carry naloxone so that they can
hopefully reverse some of these overdoses.
They're increasing penalties for fentanyl use distribution, whatever you got fentanyl,
you're going to get in bigger trouble, which I don't know how helpful that is.
They also are funding in here in this bill a text message system, which will caution
people from using substances when there's a surge of overdoses in a specific area of
Minnesota.
Yeah.
That would be a weird alert to get on your phone.
But the drugs down people are dropping.
I guess you would have to sign on to it.
Yes, please put my number in your database.
I am a syringe drug user and I would like to know when people are hitting the floor.
Let me know when the shit gets bunk.
Just send me a text message.
Yes, government, please.
Let me know.
What could go wrong?
Yeah.
It sounds like a great idea.
What could go wrong?
Yeah, the psychedelics task force.
They wanted to include a lot more drugs, psychedelics, but it got cut down to just psilocybin, MDMA,
and LSD.
And there's 23 members that will be nominated and they have a budget in 2024 of $338,000.
So the magic number still slips in there.
But then 2025, it drops in half, 171.
I think you can do a lot with $171,000 though.
And with those three, particularly psychedelics.
Absolutely.
LSD, MDMA, psilocybin.
So let's see.
They probably wanted DMT and masculine, be my other two guesses.
And toad venom.
Oh, yeah.
The Toad medicine.
Oh, what's up?
I can see the word, but I'm not sure I have pronounced it, but you faux to Nene.
Yeah.
And I've again.
The frog medicine everyone says.
Yeah, I hear it helps.
Ayahuaca.
Ayahuasca.
I didn't see that one in there, but.
Yeah, that's those would be the ones I would expect.
Be high on the list.
Yeah.
Yep.
In New York, the Office of Cannabis Management is launching a pilot program for weed farmers
markets.
They also are very optimistic about it and think that they can get one to take place
within a month, which might be good because there's only 13 legal stores across
the whole state so far.
So growers who got their licenses are getting kind of backed up on products.
No shelves to stock, but hey, you can bring them down to the farmers market sell some weed.
And they had like a hilarious comment in here where they're like, well, legacy cannabis
markets that popped up in New York have always done great.
And I was like, there were farmers markets before.
No, they were just talking about the traditional black market weed sales.
People have always bought it.
Right.
Let's get farmers markets going so we can sell more and make more revenue.
But yeah, at these farmers markets, they're setting up.
There has to be one licensed retailer to host it.
And then they can have three conditional growers.
So not even like big box store commercial growers, small growers.
But of course, you can't smoke there or consume it there because then they would need additional
permits from the Department of Public Health.
So what won't want to want indeed a bunch of bills hit the desk of Oklahoma governor,
Kevin Stitt some having to do with medical weed.
Like now they have mandatory prepackaging and more restrictions when it comes to medical
use by minors.
There's a limit now on THC content in edibles.
They want continuing education requirements for medical weed workers and prescribing physicians.
Gotta keep learning about that weed if you're gonna be dealing with it.
They're also increasing the annual license fee from $500 to $2500.
Fivefold increase.
It's rough.
And now the legislature will get to decide how medical tax revenue is spent in excess of
whatever the Oklahoma medical marijuana authority needs.
So anything left over gets put in the hands of the lawmakers.
Oh boy.
He also has a bill on his desk to restrict land ownership by non citizens.
And this is of course mainly in the effort to combat the foreign run illegal weed cultivation
operations going on that are totally not Chinese backed investments.
Definitely not.
Don't look at China.
It's racist even suggests.
In fact, the money doesn't come from any country at all.
It's just money.
That's right.
It is.
And the money is innocent because it doesn't have a brain.
Yeah.
What did money ever do for you?
Well, you know, a good many things to you.
I mean to you to you.
Nothing.
So far tonight, I'm average in Tennessee.
Governor Billy signed a bill to regulate hemp derived canabinoid products, including Delta
eight.
Delta eight gets called out in here.
I want now it's going to be 21 plus.
You got to keep it behind the counter.
Products have to be tested.
There's packaging requirements and a 6% sales tax.
We'll go into effect July 1st.
Oh, man.
Funny how quickly they can get the ball rolling on things that benefit them.
Yeah.
I like money though.
Exactly.
Texas governor Greg Abbott has a bill on his desk, which would require medical examiners
to classify fentanyl overdose deaths as homicides.
I don't like that.
We've talked about this before, but it's just like, oh, someone overdosed.
Then we have to investigate it, find out who sold them the fentanyl, where their source
is, and then charge them with murder.
Yeah.
I'm not advocating for anyone to go out there and use fentanyl, but there should be
more emphasis on self-responsibility, I think.
Yeah.
If it's a mutual transaction.
Yeah.
And you know, you can test your stuff.
Because I think that's where it's coming in.
You're using the word poisoning in this bill.
Right.
It's like, okay, so you bought heroin and it was laced with fentanyl.
Right.
That's a problem.
But again, you know, traditional market, the responsibility is on you in a traditional
market, traditional.
I don't like that word either.
A free market.
Yeah.
On the free market, it's your responsibility to test the quality.
Or to know a reputable source or something.
Yes.
So we'll see if he signs it or not.
Vermont, the governor signed an Omni bus overdose prevention bill until law, which will
go into effect in September.
And it allocates $8 million from major settlements with opioid manufacturers and distributors
to a good many things, a two million to Naloxone distribution, two million, two four
different opioid treatment programs, almost two million to 26 different outreach and case
management staff positions, 400,000 to syringe service providers, 840,000 to contingency management
services for individuals with addiction.
Sorry, they changed that word in the state statutes to use disorder.
That's the name of thing.
Oh, right.
Of course.
Can't call it addiction anymore.
Cannabis use disorder also known as cudd.
Yeah.
Or fud if it's fentanyl.
There you go.
Fud.
Yeah.
A hundred thousand to implement a wound care telehealth consultation pilot program for syringe
use specifically.
A two hundred thousand to distribute fentanyl test strips.
And if available, xylazine test strips hot off of a Puerto Rico planes, I guess it's
coming through.
We talked about it in the bowl quite a while ago.
I see it popping up all over the place.
Oh, and then there's going to be $700,000 going to the Department of Health's division
of substance abuse programs for drug checking service organizations, not safe consumption
sites, drug checking service organizations.
So you bring them their drugs and they'll test them for you, I guess.
Fabulous.
Under the Department of Health, baby.
So yeah, I know it's a lot of money being thrown around.
And they want more syringe disposal programs.
They talk about making pamphlets to be put in schools and in hospitals and stuff.
And they also changed the definition of drug paraphernalia in the state statutes so
that it doesn't include syringes.
So I thought that was kind of interesting.
A fascinating.
Because everyone can just get their hands on a syringe.
Now that's cool.
That's going to help.
And then you know, it grants immunity to doctors, physicians, whoever is administering these
opioid antagonists, looking at methadone, buprenorphine, and now trek zone.
You don't need prior authorization now and you can also get them via telehealth.
So hey, you know, big farm has got the answer to addiction.
I mean, use disorder.
Now it's it for behind the curtain tonight.
Dang.
Yeah, lots of bills.
Bill's, it's bill season, man.
Bill after bill.
All the legislative, late of sessions are wrapping up.
Governors are pacing back and forth in their offices, looking at that pile of shit on
their desks.
And the boulders are knocking down pins.
They have been knocking down pins this whole time.
You've been hearing that.
We had a lot of test test tokes coming in from seedubs.
Oh, thanks, seedubs.
He's a slamp in that podcast index with them.
Very nice.
Five, four, twenty boosts in fact.
Nice.
We also had a boost out of podverse for 2846.
That was from memes 1336.
Oh, thanks memes 1336.
He said boosting the split, sharing the V for Vsats earned from memes and shit posting.
Keep the bull full and pass to the left.
And he's got a link to his.
Noss.
Very cool.
And it'll be linked in the show notes.
So you can go give him a follow.
Yeah.
He's doing the Lord's work over there.
He's meaming up quality memes too.
Meaming it up.
Often we build my library of memes.
Well, we got another library building.
It's the library of metal moments.
Oh.
And pulling those up right now as we have a brand new one from the great reprint that's
Sir Rev to you, cyber trucker.
Which I'd like to hear it.
I would.
Here it comes.
In the bowl and in the morning.
This here is Sir Rev.
And Kenny and Roku with this week's metal moment.
For the final maze mandatory Metallica, I've decided to bring you all one of their
instrumentals.
Now Metallica is known for its hard hitting lyrics and amazing music.
However, their instrumentals are also fantastic.
This particular example written by James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Cliff Burton and original Metallica
member Dave Mistain of Megadeth fame is widely hailed as one of their best songs ever.
From the 1984 album Ride the Lightning, this is Metallica, The Call of Couture.
Oh, yes.
What a moment.
Oh, shit, yes.
Oh, shit, yes, as the Crate Puberty has said.
From two different podcasting apps, in fact, look at that.
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That's right.
Harfat made an amazing comment in the bowl about that Vermont bill.
Oh, yes.
Where he said, so basically they're taking the money they got from Big Pharma and giving
it back to Big Pharma.
Oh, yeah.
Yep.
That's how it works.
The way she goes is Way the Road.
Yep.
Way the road.
The way the bowl is, it's a game we play.
It's called B-B-B-B-B-B first time.
B-B-B-B-B-B-B first time I ever.
First time I ever did a thing.
And the thing always changes every week, but the number remains the same.
816-607-3663.
And this week you can tell us the first time you were ever the oldest person in the room.
Let's have a listen.
Hey, goalers.
Hey, hey, hey.
I hope everyone's having a wonderful, lovely Tuesday out there or whatever day this
so happens to be filling your eagles with entertainment.
Enjoy and be low.
Yeah, you know, I should remember to call on you before work.
Hey, there you go.
Crazy.
I know.
I could get the voice smelling and the room time.
Nice work.
Yeah, I was the first time I was ever the oldest person in the room.
Well, yeah, brain cells are kind of fuzzed out.
I don't recall the first time.
Yeah.
But the most predominant one that really sticks out was just kind of more or less the situation.
In high school, I was probably a junior, so about 17 years old.
And my circle of friends was a lot of kids from the other four high schools in town.
We were just a real eclectic kind of rac tag bunch, bunch of metalheads and skaters and alternative
kids and stockheads and waivers.
We just weren't not the RO2 kids nor the drop in drafts hung out with everybody else.
Commonly, within that, I was the oldest within the circle of friends.
So I was the first one with the license to borrow my parents car.
Nice.
I was the first one that got paid 18 and could go by cigarettes.
Stuff like that.
So that was pretty fun.
And then the irony is now the java mat at the brewery outside of the brewer master within our specific brewing department.
I've only got one other guy that's older than me.
And he's got me beat by like a year and a half, but other than that, most of my direct co-workers,
I'm a couple months older too.
If not about a year older, so it's a whole bunch of mid 40 year olds in the brewing department.
And you got to this one really young guy who I could not by made 21.
Like three days before he started working.
Nice.
So he's got all these 40 year old, you know, telling them, oh man, when you grow up in the 30s, rip, rip, rip.
Anyway, I don't mind.
I know I bear wisdom, but at the same time, I'm not hung out with.
Anyway, so, man, why is it the only word I could rhyme about it?
Far, far, far, it's first time.
Maybe I am.
That's all objective.
Peace, you're good with the bowl, live hell.
Much love.
Love you.
Cheers, Lauren.
Huh.
There you go.
You're only as old as you feel.
Yeah, that's right.
Age is just a number.
And all the other things they say.
They.
They, they, they, man.
The days.
I was really brainwrecking about this one.
Cause, personally, for myself, I was like, June birthday.
So very close to the cutoff for the grades or whatever, the entering school age, birthday cutoff thing.
So I was always like among the youngest in my classes, you know, yeah.
So it really wasn't there.
And then I thought, well, you know, when I was the oldest kid, so when it just be my sister and I alone,
then that would have probably been the first time.
But really the first time it mattered and I felt like the oldest in the room and had to be the oldest in the room.
It was coming up through scouts.
Once I got into leadership positions and like opening and closing everybody's there and all the leaders are there, you know.
So like you're always surrounded by people older than you, including like adults and like the adult leaders.
But then we had like a boy, boy run troop, which just means like the actual boy scouts are supposed to facilitate all the meetings and do everything, essentially.
And so we'd break up like we'd have a little opening every time and then we break up into patrols.
And each patrol would like take a little classroom, you know.
So then I would have to like go through the rooms and kind of check on everybody's progress.
Like are you actually planning your meals for the upcoming camp out or are you actually working on the.
Rank advancements that we're doing tonight or any kind of thing like that.
So that would probably be the first time where it mattered for me, you know, that I was like the oldest in the room.
Yeah, a badge of honor.
Yeah, mostly I was the youngest.
Like Larry said, though I did hung my tight friend group when I started smoking was like all a year younger than me.
Oh, weird.
Or whatever reason that was like the.
Well, but if you're the youngest in your class, yeah, and you're kind of like should have been in their grade.
Well, a couple of months different would have been yeah.
I was more than a couple of months later, I would have been that class.
But yeah, that's so weird.
Just kind of how it shook out, you know what I mean?
It wasn't any kind of effort made or it's just weird how that kind of thing happens.
Yeah, the clicky fall into.
Yeah.
This next caller that would never fall into any click.
Yeah, it's a day.
Oh, yeah, buddy.
Yeah, buddy.
Man, Lauren and Spencer, they'd be like taking over, taking over stuff.
You know, we're not taking over in a bad way, but like, you know, they'd be doing the rounds with all the,
which is with the hog story and the and all the.
Culture James claims stuff and yeah, and the bowl of buzz or given the bowl of buzz episode and whatnot,
just like, awesome.
I was like, wait, what am I listening?
Oh, yeah, I'm listening the right thing because all of them you guys are popping on and that space out of there.
Like, wait, where am I?
Make it around me.
The first time you're oldest in the room.
Yeah.
Me and I mean, probably as kids, you know, or something like that.
Well, I'm like, my brother's, my brother's a little younger than I am just a bit.
So maybe, you know, something like that.
I mean, we share in the room.
So I mean, I'd be able to listen to the room name.
Yeah.
But yeah, probably, I mean, couple of, more recently, like, realize that sometimes two of the now,
we're just like, my wife says, she hears under the night.
And then she'll have people that she's a few years older than or whatever and be hanging out or having people over for dinner or whatever.
And all of a sudden, like, yeah, I'm not only thinking about age and also like, oh, wow, you're like, you know, that gave younger or something like that or whatever.
So anyway, you know, or you just assume by the job or something like that or, you know, job income or whatever,
maybe just how they carry themselves that are maybe younger than they are or whatever.
Anyway, yeah.
So a little bit of the past, a little bit of the present.
So there'd be that.
So appreciate everything.
Appreciate.
Yeah.
Appreciate you.
Well, tired.
But I'm going to go run saying that I'll make everything more tired.
So.
Run, run, run.
That'd be it.
All right.
With other cats.
They're dangerous.
And you know, whether or not you're leaving a local male or you're listening to local males or you're just appearing on everybody else's podcast along with your own podcast.
Yeah.
Go ahead and give a little more big.
Go go.
Go go go.
Go go.
Thank you, Keke.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Yeah.
We have been busy bowlers.
Yeah.
Oh, we've been here and there.
We've been here and there.
Thank you.
Christopher always called Keke calling in.
That's what I love about the F-Ty 2.
It's like, maybe there's a time you can't remember your first time or maybe you're like, well technically the first time would have been this, but really the better story is that.
That's great.
That's like the whole point.
It's a prompt to get to that story that's worth telling.
Yeah.
Which we know is in there somewhere.
Yeah.
We know it's in there.
I liked that Christopher Battles was also an older sibling like you.
Yeah.
So it's like, well, being alone in the room.
Yep.
With my bro.
Yeah, but we can both tell you that's like a little different, you know.
Yeah.
It's not like you're in charge.
Even if your parents are like, all right, you're in charge because you're the older one.
It's not how it goes down really, you know.
Yeah.
I direct my brain around this because growing up, I volunteered a lot at daycare programs and such.
Little after school activities for little kids.
You know, like kindergarteners and super cute kids.
But there was always an adult volunteer.
Sure.
And in high school, I worked with special ed kids.
Same thing.
There was always an adult volunteer there.
And I guess the first time I would have been the oldest person in the room would be when I started babysitting.
And the parents left.
And that was weird.
Yeah.
Because I started babysitting before I could drive.
So like my grandparents had to drop me off to my job where I was alone for the night in this house.
And you know, get the kids to bed.
And then I remember after bedtime being in someone else's house just really freaked me out.
That is weird.
Every creek in noise.
I was like, what is that?
In my first night, there are babysitting.
The kids were angels.
They were kids that I went to church with.
And I think I was 13.
And there was this.
I had just watched that horror movie.
Strangers or something.
The strangers.
And they were just going to kill this poor couple.
We were in masks and they break into the house.
Yeah.
They were just determined to kill these people.
And there was no escape.
So I was like really freaked out.
And it was dark and whatever.
And someone started banging on the door.
And I was alone.
And I'm just like, well, I'm not answering.
The kids are asleep.
So I'm just going to stay here and be quiet.
And they just would not leave.
And then they started banging on the window.
And I was like, what the fuck?
And then finally the woman opened her mouth and was like,
there's a fire in your backyard.
And I was like, oh shit.
And there was.
I don't know what happened.
It was like some paper in the backyard.
Like a paper bag was on fire.
Weird.
Back there.
It was small.
And I was able to just stomp it out.
But I was like, I just yelled through the window.
I'm like, thanks.
I did not open the door.
Still I was convinced.
I'm like, this is a setup.
They just want me to open the door.
And then they're going to grab me.
I was even scared to enter the backyard.
I thought, what if there's someone back here?
So yeah, that was me being the oldest person in the room.
And I did not feel ready for it.
Wow.
That is intense.
But you know, it was all internal.
Sure.
No one knew I was terrified.
Just psyching yourself out.
Yeah.
Because of the damn movie.
Damn movie.
It's the trauma-based entertainment.
Yeah.
Fuck your brain up.
It sure did.
That's funny.
I never actually babysat, but I did get...
I took a class and got certified to do it while I was in high school.
Or maybe right before high school, sometime in there.
Certified.
Yeah, you can take a little call course and get a certification.
Certification.
That's a fish.
One guy kept saying, oh my god.
It was.
It was official.
Yeah.
I learned how to do it right and be safe and all that kind of stuff.
Stay safe.
Uh-huh.
That sound of pins crashing you heard was from Boobery.
Who else?
Oh.
33, 33.
Out of podverse who said, oh, fuck.
The Bitcoin 24 convention is in Nashville and ends one day before my 33rd birthday.
Oh, fuck.
Why I know where I'm gonna be.
Yeah.
Fucking shit up.
Yeah.
33rd birthday.
Fantastic.
Aw, shit, yeah.
No shit, yeah.
That gave me the shivers.
That's very cool.
Count me in.
Same z's.
Uh, count this next collar in.
For being the oldest in this voicemail.
Uh, that's the first time I was ever the old guy in the brain.
Not exactly sure, but it happened a lot more frequently.
They just ate it.
Yeah.
Well, I heard it's more frequent as time goes on.
It's the funnest thing to realize.
I don't know.
The odds increase.
Sometimes it is when you, oh, there's like all the memes and everything out on the internet.
You have one younger kid's on you.
No.
None of them know those goddamn memes.
You're like, really?
What do you do?
I don't know.
I'm wasting your wife's way on the internet.
Yeah.
Typically the oldest guy there.
I'm an oldest in my building because there's like five buildings that I work.
In my building, I'm the oldest guy on there.
That's his office in there.
I'm the one that screams up the door.
Get out of my lawn.
I would never do this, but I'm the old guy that would come up to the floor and then be like,
Hey, yeah, what's you doing?
What you do about there, honey?
My office is right offices.
It's kind of weird that offices that you would say that there's an office around here.
Yeah, the titty office.
Where the fuck is it?
The ephemism for someone.
I think it's your office right here.
Step into my office.
In the bowl, in the bowl.
Yeah, in the bowl.
Netnet.
Oh my god.
Fantastic.
Well, Netnet, you can still rock it.
That's right.
He just has a number representing how many years you've been alive.
Man, like.
The significance of the passage of time.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Like somebody's got to say it.
It's true.
Significance of the bowlers.
Call it in and leave the voicemails.
We appreciate it.
What do we even talk about next week?
Didn't you have something pre-hatched?
Oh, I was typing some things down during the bowls with buds that we did.
Right.
Like, first time I ever went on the internet.
Oh, boy.
And a fight for, of course, pushed for the first time I ever peed during a podcast.
Oh, that's right.
That's been on the list for a while and he's been eagerly awaiting.
Yeah.
Tell the story.
Let's go that and then the internet.
Okay.
And then it'll be the next two weeks.
Then we don't have to think so hard.
Should I say, peed on a podcast?
I think during his phone.
During a podcast?
Yeah.
I don't know.
Because then that's the immediate interpretation.
It's like we were doing something.
Yeah.
You want to pee in on your phone or your speaker.
I like expansive rather than limiting.
Yeah.
Werdage of the topic.
So yeah.
Peed during a pod.
What?
That's fucking with you.
Yeah.
So next week we want to hear about the first time you ever peed during a podcast.
All you have to do is call 816-607-363.
We're text us.
Yeah.
Both work.
They both work.
Oh, and I'm very pleased with our being able to make our lane time right here.
What the fuck, dude?
Let's go bowling.
Yeah, let's go bowling.
Get here before all the good lanes are taken.
Look at this.
This is nice.
Skydiving.
Sounds like a fun thing to do when you're 33.
Mm-hmm.
Wrong.
Because a 33-year-old skydiver died after hitting a fucking tree during the landing sequence in Washington state.
No, my goose.
Yeah.
By the time help arrived, he had already passed.
Fuck.
I know.
So you just go ahead and cross skydiving off of the list of things to do when you're 33.
I'll wait.
I can wait a year.
I'll wait a year.
Yeah.
I almost made my top three, but I was like, no, that's a land story.
Shit, even hot tubs and smaller craft, I think.
Yeah, just give it a break.
Rest up for that year of your life.
Give up fentanyl waste weed.
I think that's a lot of things that we can give up.
Oh, yeah.
That's for sure.
Oh, in India, there was a food inspector hanging around, hanging around, hanging around on his phone, taking a selfie.
He was standing by a dam, a reservoir.
And he dropped his phone like a clumsy imbecile right into the water, trying to take the selfie.
Yeah, that's the story.
Dropping a phone sucks, doesn't it?
Right into the water, especially.
So anyways, he found some local divers and asked them to jump in and get it, but no one could find it.
And he just was really had to get this phone back because he said it contained sensitive government data being a food inspector, taking a selfie on it.
Yeah.
Sounds real important.
Yeah.
And it matters all the sudden, doesn't it?
Yeah.
And so no one was able to find it.
So he ended up asking for the reservoir to be emptied using diesel pumps.
And they did it.
They listened to them and they did it.
Two million liters of water pumped out, which is enough to irrigate at least 1500 acres of land in a very dry water stressed India over there.
And so he told the media that came around asking what was going on.
All the water's unusable for irrigation.
And I have permission to drain it.
But no, I don't believe he did.
He just told people what to do and they listened to him.
So he got his phone back though.
Well, him getting exactly what he wanted, but it wouldn't turn on because it was so waterlogged.
He didn't have a bag of rice, I guess, or?
In India.
Come on.
There's just a certain point in time where I don't think the rice can save it.
Yeah, I think you're right.
Yeah, it's like the 10 second rule.
Yeah, something like that sort of.
I mean, there was that one phone that did survive 33 days in the water.
I remember not this guy's though.
He had a different device, I guess.
In North Carolina, a school district is pretty sure they're going to press charges after a senior prank was pulled.
Uh-oh.
And then the students poured cement into toilets and urinals.
Oh, man, that's a pain in the ass prank.
Yeah.
Four thousand dollars worth of damages they told, told up.
And they're saying the seniors involved won't be able to participate in graduation.
Oh, darn.
And right.
Oh, you're really missing out on sitting waiting to walk across the stage.
So much on repeat for an hour and a half.
Yeah.
Any underclassmen involved will be suspended for the remainder of the year.
So, I mean, schools out at summer, I guess for them.
Never stick your neck out for a senior prank that's not even your class.
That's just day one shit.
Yeah.
I've never heard of that.
Come on, dude.
So save it for the end when you're really done.
This superintendent came out with her tits out just saying, hey, we have a zero tolerance approach here to misbehavior.
So, uh-
She's got big boobs, doesn't she?
Yeah!
I knew it!
Yeah.
I guess there was quite a few senior pranks that happened because they mentioned in this article that janitors had to clean up overturned desks and lockers that were all messed up and everybody does the y-errash.
Everybody does the superglue of the desk to the grand thing.
I feel like that's a pretty common one.
Uh.
Because it's cheap and easy, you know.
Yeah.
Pretty sure my class just filled the hallways with balloons.
There was, uh-
Definitely not my idea.
Kid in my class who did that a lot to a teacher who was like in habitual room rearranging mode, like she'd try to rearrange the room like every-
Oh, let's put our desks in a circle.
Two or three weeks, you know?
Yeah.
Different- different seating arrangement and chart, like just mix it up all the time.
Oh, we're facing this way now.
Ugh.
Yeah.
He glued a desk to the ground.
She couldn't rearrange it.
It was a thing.
Nice.
That's what you get.
Yeah.
You're rearranged, Rist.
She's stressed rank like two got diet coax.
Woo!
In about 20 seconds.
Yeah.
That's annoying to other classrooms, you know.
Rearranging the desks.
It's noisy.
Ha!
Some people drag them.
Yeah.
Oh, good.
Desk draggers.
What are you doing?
It's not that heavy here.
Let me pick it up for you.
Seriously.
And carry it.
Well, guy flew into the Miami airport.
No way.
He's walking around.
Yeah.
Uh-uh.
And, uh, it's heard some of the weird noises coming from his carry on.
Uh-oh.
So, wait.
I guess he couldn't get away from airport officials.
They were like, hey, what's going on with your carry on?
Why's your carry on bag?
They're making noise.
He's like, oh, you know, I just got some eggs in here.
Oh, eggs.
Let us take a look at that.
His carry on bag was actually a sophisticated temperature-controlled cooler.
And he had with him 29 eggs from Central America where he had visited.
Oh, boy.
And he was planning to take them with him back to Taiwan.
The noise they were hearing was a bird that had hatched.
Yeah.
Little Amazon parrot.
And so you can't do that.
Right.
Because, uh, you know, he didn't have documentation to transport the birds
into smuggling.
And, uh, in the United States where he got caught,
you can face up to 20 years in prison for that shit.
So the eggs were given to, you know, a good humane society that could care for them.
And 26 of the 29 hatched.
And 24 of those 26 chicks survived.
So that's pretty good.
They were yellow-naped and red-lord Amazon parrots,
which can live over 70 years.
So now they're tasked with finding homes for them.
If you want an heirloom parrot, check that out.
Miami.
I grew up with a white fronted Amazon parrot bandit.
And he is still alive.
And he will still be alive when my great grandma finally passes.
And he'll be alive for quite a while, I believe.
Because he's like, let's see.
So you're saying on a long enough timeline we get a parrot?
That's exactly what I'm saying.
Yeah.
I think they got him in the 80s and he was a little baby.
So, I don't know.
The end could be near.
He's probably got another 10 or 20 anymore.
Yeah.
You know, well, just another decade or so.
Damn.
I don't think he'd survive the trip from the East Coast to the Midwest.
Birds are sensitive.
I don't know nothing about having them.
He was cool.
Said words saying, we'll come sit on your finger and stuff.
Loves peanuts.
He always said bandit wants a peanut.
But never mind that.
If you want a parrot of your own, you know, check out Miami.
Yeah.
Oh, there was another 33 story this week.
No shit.
Yeah, this one.
I can't.
It might have been Seabrookland.
I can't remember who put it on my radar first.
But you ever feel like airplanes are kind of stuffy?
Always.
Yeah.
Doesn't that make you just like want to open the door for some fucking breathing room?
Yeah.
Maybe like, put your hanging leg out or something.
It would be nice if there was like a window you could crack open.
Sure.
Not.
Because of course that's how planes work.
Yeah.
So what happened was it was the Asian air lines.
And a 33 year old decided to open the emergency door when they were three minutes away from landing.
Oh man.
Which was kind of good because everyone had their seat belts on.
And the pressure outside was pretty similar to the pressure inside the cabin.
Sure.
So it wasn't like seats were just getting sucked out the window or anything.
It wasn't like snakes on a plane.
No, or a law or anything like that.
The escape slide deployed though because the door was open and then was ripped away by the wind.
Oh my god.
That's such a comical image.
Yeah.
Someone took a video of the dude sitting by that emergency door just like grinning and bearing it.
Just, you know, like hanging onto their seats hoping they don't get sucked out.
We're in it now.
Things do.
Yeah.
And they were able to land safely.
But nine teenagers were sent to the hospital with breathing issues.
Okay.
I thought it was interesting they were all teenagers.
That was a point in all these articles.
Nineteen-agers.
I guess the older folks have better lungs.
Yeah.
Something wrong with these young kids and their own stronger intestinal fortitude maybe.
Perhaps.
Yeah.
Most likely.
And so the 33 year old guy was taken in a custody by the police and they're investigating any and all violations of aviation safety laws.
But the transport ministry of South Korea is looking into whether azyana airlines followed their protocols to manage the emergency exit.
And there's claiming that the flight staff should have stopped him and that the airline will likely take responsibility for this.
Huh.
Yeah.
That seems a little unreasonable.
Yeah. So if you're on an Asian airline, go ahead.
Open the door.
It's on the staff to stop you.
Yeah.
They won't even, you won't even die probably.
Well, you have to wait till you're in landing mode.
You might have breathing issues if you're in your teens though.
That's right.
So there's that to consider.
If you're listening to this podcast, you're probably not and you're probably good.
Yeah.
You've got the intestinal fortitude to do it.
And strong lungs.
Very strong lungs around here.
Um, Venice.
Their grand canal turned fluorescent green this past week.
Just a small section of it.
But what is up with that?
No one knew.
So, you know, some of public officials had to come in and take samples of the water.
And they ruled out dangerous substances that could hurt the environment.
So that's good.
And then this went on a couple days.
I feel like the story came out once there after the bull.
I was like, damn, the pictures are crazy.
It was like a bright neon chartreuse.
And finally, they got a test back to figure out what it was.
A substance, a powder called fluorescent, which is a tracer that dilutes in water to detect proper functioning of a sewage system.
How did it get in the canal?
But it's not dangerous for the aquatic environment, so they say.
Oh, yeah.
And nothing to worry about here, slaves.
Seems cool.
Yeah.
Bright green.
That's all good.
They claim that it'll dissolve after a few days.
It's been a week, though.
Hmm.
Yeah.
A few days from the end of the week.
Of course, yeah.
But, you know, that, of course, also depends on how much of this powder was used.
I guess that's true.
Yeah.
So it's not the first time that Venice has seen bright green water, though.
There was an incident in 1968 where an Argentinian artist used some fluorescent dye to, you know, color the grand canal in the name of ecological awareness.
Hmm.
Interesting moves.
Yeah.
Interesting stunt.
Kind of like this next character.
Uh-oh.
72-year-old OB-GYN in a guy.
Typical?
It always weirds me out.
You're a vagina expert, but you don't have a vagina.
Vagina.
Hmm.
Anyway, he got slapped with a lawsuit in 2021 by one of his patients' daughters because she found out that she was biologically his child, even though when he helped the patient conceive.
He told her that the sperm he was giving her came from a local medical student.
What?
I feel like that's one of those, uh, always tell the truth even when you lie.
Because, of course, once upon a time, he was a medical student.
Sure.
And locally.
Yeah.
Maybe he had a night class, so he was just doing some, uh, continuing education.
Oh, now, now.
Technically not a lie.
Yeah.
So that's, that is, uh, forgive me, but there is a certain inherent risk in just taking a cup of mystery sperm and jamming it up inside you.
Is there not?
There definitely is.
There's just sort of an inherent risk I'm doing that.
You have to put trust into, uh, yeah, whoever's handing you the cup.
Yeah.
That it comes from where they say it comes from.
And I just don't have that much trust within me.
Straight from the cock.
That's the trustless system right there.
Exactly.
Layer one.
Yes.
This is how you know.
But, uh, this lady, she did some, you know, DNA tests and genealogy found out she has at least nine half siblings.
Oh, God.
He's been at it.
Yes.
Dude has been busy.
Gisening cups, giving them to ladies.
She's not my special lady.
She's my lady friend, man.
I'm just trying to help her conceive.
That's right.
Hidden, he did help.
I mean, it worked.
At least a few women conceive.
Yeah.
Nine times.
It worked.
But something interesting happened.
So he got hit with this lawsuit in 2021 and not much got followed up upon it or whatever.
This past weekend, he decided to be a passenger in a hand-built plane.
That's how they're building it.
So Whitman W5 Buttercup.
And during the flight, the wings fell off.
Oh, God.
He crashed into an orchard and he died.
Oh.
Man, we got here.
Got the best lane, but these balls just unseemed to be hidden.
I don't think the lane is properly oiled.
I think that someone needs to call the front desk.
Can we get a refund on this lane on this bowling time?
Shit, we own this place.
That's a fucking responsibility.
God damn it.
And we just need to fire somebody, I guess.
I'm out.
Not again.
Oh, man.
Imagine visiting your parents during college.
It's already horrible.
But you go out to dinner with them one night and you really enjoy photography.
And you've just invested over $3,000 into a camera in lenses.
Okay.
So you're bringing it with you everywhere.
Sure.
Because that's a hell of an investment.
Yeah, you got to take some pictures, man.
Nice ones.
Yeah.
But then you go out to eat.
And maybe you're not taking pictures and you don't want the camera to get messy.
Sure.
So you got to leave it in the car.
Okay.
Which is kind of dangerous.
Sure.
I know we like staying dangerous here.
So maybe you decide to hide it in the car, right?
Right.
Like put it under something.
Well, this college student had this situation come up and she saw a cardboard box in the back.
And she was like, well, I'll just stuff it in this cardboard box.
Oh, no.
They go out to dinner and everything's fine.
She goes home with them, goes to bed, forgot to take the camera out of the box and into the house.
And so the next day she's like, oh, I should go get that out of the car.
Box is gone.
Let me guess.
Was it the donation box to the thrift store?
It was indeed.
Oh, my God.
No.
I have nightmares of that kind of shit.
Oh.
Yeah.
And so her mom was like, well, quick, maybe we can get it before they shelf it, you know.
They got to the thrift store and it was within three hours of being donated, but it had already sold for $70.
Oh, my God.
Yeah.
I bet whoever bought it was just absolutely elated.
Oh, definitely.
Probably walking out the door going, stupid, you're so stupid.
Most indeed.
So this girl, she's 23.
She got on social media and offered a $500 reward for the return of that camera.
Okay.
And, you know, it got shared enough times that the couple who bought it saw it and was like, oh, we got to bring this girl her camera back.
You know, and they did.
And they told her like, we don't have the money for a professional camera like this.
We couldn't pass it up.
Totally.
Yeah.
So you'd be a fool not to buy that for $70.
Yeah.
That's the whole point of going to thrift stores is like, maybe one day you'll strike something like that.
Exactly.
But sadly, they did wipe her SD card.
Oh, well, small price to pay.
Imagine buying the camera with an SD card in it.
Man, everything's taken care of.
Charger in the case lenses, $70.
Fuck.
All these nudes on here already?
Crazy.
Oh, no, no.
But she, you know, she shared the story.
And so the camera maker is actually going to gift that couple the same model camera.
Oh, how touch it.
For their good deed.
So that was nice.
And this girl says she's bringing her SD card to a forensic specialist to see if she can potentially recover what was on it.
Yeah.
A lot of times you can, even if it's been wiped.
Yeah, I suppose there's a chance.
I've had to do that a couple times.
Recovery from a wiped SD card?
Yeah, like, oof.
Damaged or broken drives or deleted shit.
Successfully?
Most times, yeah.
That's cool.
Yeah.
Sometimes it's just too gone, but most times there's at least something remaining.
You can get like a shitty version of the file back.
Yeah.
I couldn't see that.
Oh, there was a crazy lawsuit going on that started in April 2023.
Do you remember that huge, it was like a $2 billion power ball?
No, November 2022.
There was a winner out of California by the name of Edwin Castro.
And after taxes, he took home $628 million.
But in April, he was hit with a lawsuit saying that he stole that winning ticket.
Oh, my goodness.
Yeah.
Drama abounds around the lottery ticket thing.
Oh, it's a lot of money at stake.
No doubt.
Life changing.
Yeah.
Target creating.
Yeah, exactly.
This lawsuit came from a man by the name of Jose Rivera.
And he had a trail going on before the lawsuit, though.
He had reported a theft of his lottery ticket to the police and the California lottery,
but was ignored.
So he hired an attorney and started this lawsuit saying that, you know, store surveillance
will prove that he's the one that bought the winning ticket.
Now, Edwin Castro thinks he can just kind of dismiss this whole case because he wasn't
properly served the papers related to the lawsuit.
It seems that Mr. Rivera's attorney mistakenly sued and served Edwin's dad, who has the
same name, but a different middle initial.
Whoops.
Yeah.
Big Aichi.
But this week, the story came out that Jose Rivera's landlord, who goes by the name of
Reggie, he's the one that's been accused of stealing the ticket and then selling it,
which why would you sell the winning ticket?
Don't know.
But he came out and says, yeah, Jose Rivera did have the winning ticket and he showed
me.
And I can vouch for him.
I actually have a video of him going through my room looking for it after accusing me
of stealing it.
And so Rivera said that Reggie had told him the ticket was a loser and they could split
the winning 50-50 if he found it, which is like two, you know, contradictory points to
make.
So this guy's all over the place and I understand why you would be frantically freaking
upset.
He had a $2 billion winning ticket that disappeared and went to a guy you have no idea who he is.
Now when I call this guy landlord, I guess the Rivera is a gardener who was kind of down
on his luck and Reggie was like, hey, you can stay in a bedroom in my house.
So he just took him in.
I don't know if there was rent being charged or what, but you know, I guess he was just
trying to help him out.
And he also said that he remembered Rivera explaining the significance of the numbers that
he chose, the winning numbers, which of course were 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42.
I'm totally joking.
Of course.
It was a 1033, 41, 47, 56 with a parable of 10.
And you remember it because he asked, why did you choose 10 twice?
And Rivera said, well, that was the date that both parents died.
Both of his parents died on a 10th.
47 was his age.
And 56 because his dad always wanted a 1956 Chevy truck.
But there was no explanation for the 33, which bums me out, or the 41.
So he was one shy of the 42.
I know.
But yeah, I don't know.
Rivera says that Reggie just grabbed the ticket from a table.
But then it seems there's other stories here where like he had a friend over that night
who accidentally took his pants to work the next morning.
Grabbed the wrong pants.
Good.
Oops.
And then oh, yeah, you're winning lottery tickets in there.
And that friend that's mentioned in this lawsuit also has a connection to the Castro family.
That's a coincidence guy that's got the winning tickets.
That's the same reason I'm broke.
What do you know left my winning lottery ticket in my other pants?
Yeah.
And since the guy's a gardener, I mean, there's also a dangerous chance it could have just
fallen out of his pocket, right?
I guess so, man.
But I only got one thing to say to that.
Dude.
California lottery.
Oof.
Always with the drama over there.
Yeah.
And then the power ball is like 38 states or was I ever right?
I don't know, because it's all the book of knowledge.
It's here.
I know for sure.
Dude.
The power ball.
Apparently we're going to watch the power ball.
45 states.
Wow.
Plus DC.
Plus Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
Damn.
But not 50 state legal.
Not Nevada, Utah, Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii.
Hmm.
Interesting.
The more you know.
Yeah.
Weirdness.
And that's the story from the lanes.
Uh, it's about another lawsuit.
A guy by the name of Roberto Matasud.
A Bianca Airlines.
Probably in Batrayana name.
Avia.
I don't know.
He said that he was injured by a serving cart while flying in 2019.
And lanes negligence by an employee.
So, he hired an attorney out of New York by the name of Stephen Short.
Who's been licensed for over three decades.
And, uh, well, you know, he submitted his, uh, research for court.
And it turns out that at least six of the cases mentioned in this brief were bogus.
Just totally made up.
Now, how could that happen?
How could a lawyer just make up sources?
Yeah, how could someone lie like that?
They, this lawyer consulted chat GPT.
Oh my God.
Yeah, tried to have the AI do the work for him.
And so now the court is presented with an unprecedented circumstance.
Yeah, the attorney says, well, I've never used chat GPT before.
And I didn't know that it could give false totally made up answers.
Oh, oh, it was bright.
I thought it was AI was always right.
Yeah.
So, he did accept responsibility for not confirming those sources.
And now faces ascensions hearing on June 8th.
Did he really think they finally made the magical computer that just answers all the questions correctly?
A licensed attorney for three decades.
Holy crap.
Oh, rice, dude.
Yeah.
Yep.
And so he consulted chat GPT again and asked if one of the cases mentioned there.
It was weird name.
It was like, for he's versus China Airlines or something.
Yes, chat GPT.
Is this a real case and chat GPT double down saying, yes, it is a real case.
So then he asked it for the source.
And the AI said, oh, you can find it on West Law and Lexus Nexus.
Just totally lying.
Jesus.
Yeah.
Yeah, well, it's just.
It's not built that way, you know.
Yeah, imagine trusting technology.
That's the biggest part of why you mother fuckers are, what did he say?
Shit talking AI.
Yeah.
It's not even the AI itself or the technology itself.
It's just how people talk about, think about and use it.
It's all the misperceptions that people have that just makes it so annoying.
Yeah.
It's the overhyped, the over trust, the over fear.
Like all three of those are the wrong thing to do with the chat GPT.
Hype it trusted or fear it.
That's all.
Simple as no problem with the technology itself.
Exactly.
It's just everyone else chuffing about it that's kind of foolish.
Or you know, loyering with it, I guess.
Yeah, she's.
Next thing you know, there'll be like some horrible surgery case where doctors just
like, well, I don't know the bot told me to chop it off.
J-J-J by Tase at the mic on Sajan Har.
Oh, well, I guess we'll see the robot.
Then you're off the, off the hook.
Just kidding.
Ah, well, you're off the hook now, Bullers.
So we're about wrapping up this bowl.
No, I have to find something else to do or listen to, I guess.
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