podcasting 2.0 for December 31 2021, episode 68 Mind the Gap
as right the very last meeting of the Board for 2021 for
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social I'm Adam curry here in the heart of Hill Country Texas
and Alabama ladies Look at that smile my friend on the other end
Mr. Dave Jones
so much for the Bitcoin to 100,000 by the end of the year
for ELA how terrible does that look?
Well it's funny you say that um wow, that was abrupt. Nice fade
out occurring Yeah, well just want to write blouse Fade to
black. Hey look, if you can't cover it up, turn it up right
with the guitar player for promise used to say said if you
ever mess up do it two or three more times, you know think you
meant to?
It's exactly right. I heard it from a good guitar player as
well. Yes. As you can if you can't cover it up, turn it up. I
wish it was the my buddy who's Chief Financial Officer of
Marvel Entertainment. Not the movie side. But you know the
interestingly the NFT side and the
nifty Oh yeah. Oh, they're they did NF T's.
But I can't he told me how much they're making a week. I can't
divulge that. It's crazy. We'll talk about we're gonna world has
gone into the I know we promised to talk about NF T's we'll get
there. Anyway, he's saying hey, man, cuz he's really good guys.
But he's, I think he's really he's obviously very smart. But
he comes across as kind of like, I don't know, you know, kinda
like a dumb guy, but he's not like, stealthy you know, he's
still hustler. He's a hustler, huh yeah, that's possible.
He's very I don't know but this game of pool
Exactly. And but he's he's very giving with his information his
knowledge his stories, but he's very quiet guys always listening
Oh, you can tell he's always sucking up the information. So
he's been following podcasting 2.0 and lightning and and what
we're doing obviously, and Bitcoin he says, you know, so
why is Bitcoin going down? And, you know, I thought about it for
a second. I said, well, first of all, there's no unlike Wall
Street, there's no circuit breakers. When it goes crazy one
way or the other. No one's there to intervene and stop
so Oh, there's just handlebars, you just hang on these straps.
Oh, Jesus. Oh, geez. Here we go. And to whenever I see as in the
past two weeks, pundit after pundit coming on CNBC and ever
all bitcoins gonna go to 100,000 before the end of the year, you
know, that's the setup is just always like, Oh, it's what was
the El Salvador El Salvador tomorrow? It's gonna be legal
currency. It's gonna go to the moon.
Yes, like the oil it's gonna get $100 a barrel. It's like oh,
well, here we go. Yes. Get ready to sell your oil because it's
about to tank. Yeah.
So that's now is there any reason for not to spike now of
course. I mean, you know, if you look at the chart, I am a
Technical Analyst when it comes to this kind of stuff. You're
classically trained in the jack Ponty day trading scheme. We
have had consistent three weeks of higher highs, higher lows. So
you know, the trend is there. And what are
looking at the Fibonacci. Oh, yeah, I'm
all about the, you know, all the shoulders you know, Fibonacci,
Fibonacci time timeframes, that kind of stuff. I love that shit
cup and handle. Those are patterns. I'm much more on the
podcast, I've forgotten all the names but all those individual
models that show you know trailing indicators as a couple
of leading Well, I used to do all that shit and I was really
good at it. Except I would I would choke does okay. I
wouldn't really handle the press you know? It's like I could do
it with like 500 bucks 1000 bucks maybe like okay, you know
what I was like dude, you want to make $100,000 today so yeah,
okay, do it with the $10,000 like
your hair your your fingers hover and I could not
and I couldn't do it and I couldn't see straight that and
to fund that that stuff and I did make money but you know not
not like a hell of a lot because I just didn't have the balls I
that's what I sold my 65 Bitcoin to learn how to do that is the
most expensive stupid lesson I've ever ever invested in.
Yeah, I'm gonna take a ticket options course. Bitcoin as
always, I always love those guys are like, Yeah, I went to option
you know, to learn how to do options. That's where you can
make all the money I'm like, dude, You're about to get so
fried.
Oh, yeah. So many of my friends are now you can see them slowly
starting to get more interest. Like even the former New York
banker, me sending me articles on lightning. How there's Well,
yeah, this so there's all and people just see that just more
interested now they're more interested and they want to know
what's going on they'd like, you know, no one really understands
why is Bitcoin better than Aetherium? You know, actually,
before we continue, I want to say, Okay, now what the heck
great job Gigi, did you read his article on? Value for value? Oh
my god. Yeah.
That was it when that guy when that guy breaks out the keyboard
and starts writing, it's always gonna be good. Yeah. Just know.
He just knows it.
What does he What does his background? I know you talked to
him, but I can't remember. I can't remember what it was a
software engineer
who's not anonymous? I think so. But he's an anonymous Bitcoin
guy. And he takes his eminent anonymity very seriously. So I
think like when he was on that show with Jordan Peterson, he,
you know, had his face covered and everything. I mean, I think
he's, I don't know, the FBI knows exactly who he is. But he
knows his stuff to great guy to have talked to him personally a
few times with helping when he helped out with the value for
value spec, and doing document review and that kind of thing.
And, by the way, if I sound like I'm new film sound sound like a
minute can I'm sick again, again. So that's, I woke up with
a fever this morning. Have this anyway, that's it that
I need. I need to get better partners. I mean, he's just
lately, I've got one who was too old, you know, I got one who's
just sick.
You got tinycam? On one? Yeah, okay. In a Joe Biden. On the
other side,
the the title of the article is, and I have a link in the show
notes, the freedom of value, how value for value fixes the
monetization of information. And I took two quotes from it. One
is actually this is this is the one I tweeted this free speech
platforms cannot exist, only free speech protocols can exist.
Yes. Hello,
I fully agree with that, of course, that's the thing. So
thinking about Alex gates, people misunderstand him a lot
on the forum. Because the what he's has been preaching the
whole time is protocols, not products. Because the protocol
is where the is where the the, the freedom and the design, sort
of meat. You can't take. You can anybody can make products, no
come and go. But the protocols we can see with local RSS, OPML,
all the web, all the open web protocols, activity, pub, they
all live forever. And that's where if you create if you
design a good protocol, and it doesn't mean that you're always
going to be right, I mean, people are gonna make are gonna
design protocols they think are great, they're gonna fail. But
if you just focus on that as your as your goal as designing
the protocol, then as being open, free, decentralized, all
these all these things. That's where the magic happens. Yeah.
Yeah, it's so he makes he makes that case. He makes that case
very well. And in this articles,
what Bitcoin is, yeah,
I mean, yeah. And I think that article will help, we'll help a
lot of people.
To you, I think it's a maximum it's amino to max Hillebrand
moment where you just need somebody that really knows how
to speak to really knows how to speak to, to the simple aspect
of the thing. Like I don't like saying simplify it because it
makes it sound like people are too stupid to understand it. But
it is actually a fairly simple thing. But you need somebody who
can get to the simple parts and pull those out and make those
the main focus that he's good at.
Yeah. And so well, there's two parts to add the value for
value, which I think Gigi really explains well. And then the tech
technical implementation we're looking at with podcasting 2.0
it last night teen and it is a very Texas thing. And it was of
course a Texas boy who forced us into it and man am I happy Sir
Mark Hall? Who's Who's I think he's from East Texas,
originally, Houston. 15 minutes from our house is the hilltop
cafe. which like I said, that's
a good that's a good name.
Have you ever heard of this of this joint? No. So the hilltop
Cafe is owned by us guys at Johnny's name and Johnny's like
the old blues music musician, you know, early 70s Probably.
It's been there. It's Roadhouse. It's, it's on i It's on 87. It's
totally eroded. House, they have a fantastic kitchen and a stage.
And last night we went there. They have seating for about 50
people, you know, just just a regular play very good food. I
mean they even see me serving eschar go, which is like eschar
goes that
snails was that plant class in Texas. Roadhouse food.
Yeah. And it was a classic. Yes. And it was all local people. And
Jimmy Vaughn played. And oh, 50 people, Dave, it and Jimmy
Vaughn just hit 70. But you know, there's a house band is
there and Johnny's plan, and they did probably do a two hour
set is just phenomenal. And here's Jimmy Vaughn and Johnny
and they bring out the tip jar. And I'm thinking and of course
everyone's you know, stacking this thing. Like, oh my god with
this, we are so so ready to do this when guys like that, to
understand that value. And the people in the audience
understand that value and don't think Oh, Jimmy Vaughn doesn't
need my money. You know, all these I just wanted to, you
know, spray SATs all over. I'm like, Come on, man. We can do
better than this. We could do better than that jar. This cash
thing is no good anymore. It's not working for us. It's just
the world is primed for this, then, you know with Abel Kirby
in the
house about a year do two words. Mmm, no. Four. Go for it. Go for
it. Abel in the wolf. If you haven't, yeah, look, look it up
on a podcast app, new pod on a new podcast app and listen to
that thing. I mean, that's just, that's going straight to the
straight to the direct to the listener. There's nothing in
between. And there's no there's no label, there's no publisher.
It's just straight night. Here's, here's the music. It's
done. And here you can have it. If you like it, give me some
value. Right. So pure. It's just like the Jimmy Vaughn. Yeah,
passing the bucket around. Just I mean, I'm gonna play for you.
You don't have to give me any, any, any money. But if you
don't, you know, why wouldn't you? What I
really appreciate about the Abel and Abel in the wolf calm about
the project is that they, you know, they explain value for
value. And they need to go into their own version of it, which
is perfect. And how you can get into it and why and what to do.
And they have splits. They have individual splits. Yeah, they
do. Right? They got sir Spencer, Abel Kirby, it's split up, which
is an LS interesting. I was just looking at the feed here. And in
the role, or the person tag. Group equals writing role equal
songwriter about that. Is that Yeah, I didn't know that was in
there.
That's part of this podcast taxonomy. I love this. Yeah,
yeah. Yeah, that's the that's that magic, the magic of
marrying the taxonomy project to the person tag. Beautifully
seamless. Beautiful. I mean, literally, they you can think
about it that way you could suck. That's this stuff right
into a man. I know. This is not a movie. If it was a
documentary, you could suck that stuff right into IMDB.
Yeah. So I was talking to Mark he, you know, he's graciously
given us his killing Ed documentary for podcasting. 2.0.
And we're gonna we're gonna get there. I mean, it's there. He's
ready to go and promote once apps can understand it. And you
know, we're a little bit further down the road. But he's saying
the same thing. Medium. Yeah, the medium tech. Exactly. He's
saying the same thing. So I really see this Adam, I see that
really working there is no, there is no outlet. He was a
key, of course, he's a film guy. And he says, Netflix is going to
spend 66 $0 billion on content this year, Amazon will spend $30
billion on content. And none of its going to go towards you
know, these types of projects. They have a substantial
documentary budget, but it's gonna be you know, Lady die,
Unabomber, that kind of stuff. You know, it's not necessarily a
little more esoteric, or much more niche, and they can't, but
they can't even get on the platform. Amazon won't even talk
to someone like that. Yeah, whatever. And they take 70% It's
the whole thing is a ripoff. So they're probably talking,
I was talking to a buddy of mine who does he invests in
documentaries, and they're doing a few and he was saying that for
every documentary, and they have to make this decision, whether
they're going to go shop it to Netflix, yeah. Or whether
they're gonna do it themselves. So like, if you shop it to
Netflix, you sort of like there's a bank of money there
that you can just get paid, but it's just a one time upfront
payment. You're essentially selling your product to them.
But the you know, versus a traditional, you know, more
keeping your ownership and having those perpetual vos
royalties or whatever come in on I'm not sure how that works,
but, like, that's the decision you have to make can't do I
trust. They're there. They're gonna give you it's sort of like
a guaranteed thing on the on the Netflix Amazon prompts versus
you taking a risk, and give you know, and doing it yourself and
make it potentially making more money but potentially not making
any money. It's like this Devil's bargain, that happens
now. And
I realized, as I'm talking to Mark, and as I'm seeing a bull
in the wolf, you know, we have a problem. That is a real
showstopper for this type of progression. But also, the
opportunity is obvious. And as long as we are podcast
index.org, as long as you come to anything we're doing and
you're seeing podcast, it will be it's very unlikely that
musicians will see the opportunity immediately or that
documentarians will say, Oh, okay, so I can do this for
video, too. I mean, it's, when you call something like the
index, podcast index, people just not thinking of this as a
place where music goes, necessarily so that it's a
marketing problem. It's, it's deeply embedded, we'll never get
out of it. However, I was listening to the the Buzzsprout
show their best guest, the buzz cast, thank you. And they were
talking about one person who was on the show had made his own
directory, a niche directory of podcasts, it was some certain
type of Christianity category. And, and as I'm listening to
that, I'm thinking, what an opportunity for the non app
developers who were part of podcast in 2.0, and sniffing
around and look and look on what's going on, to build a
different front end to the index, just for music, just from
music, make it kind of understandable show some things.
You know, that's a starting point, we have the Steven B is
now taking the RSS generator out of curio caster it standalone.
So that could easily be trans Morga modified into an album
uploader? You know, I'm saying so we need to just break if
someone's serious about it, if we break away, and by the way,
if you build that directory, you should get a cut. That's yeah,
that's the beauty of it. So this is not a futile philanthropic
mission, this, this could be an actual business. And then why
wouldn't you? If you own the directory? Why wouldn't you talk
to musicians about placement and highlights and promotions is all
kinds of stuff that can be done. But someone had and I presume
that can be done right? Can't take someone just build a
different front end onto the back end of the index?
Yeah, of course. Yeah. Somebody had posted that the other day
that they were wishing that was a G Potter, they were
complaining about the G Potter directory and how it's kind of
poor quality. I don't know anything about it, but I'm just
trusting what they said. And they posted that they would
really, really wish that G Potter would just suck in the
index. And and start using that instead. And just curate it down
to whatever they want. But But start with a clean you know,
quote unquote, clean you know, database and I think that
applies to lots of people and just take if we give enough
filter filterable criteria you know, we've already got things
we've got everything in there the light you know, language did
we ever write down to songwriter Hello, we got all kinds of stuff
in there
oh is so many filterable Things You Can you should just be able
to add the more we add to it once we get medium tag in there
and that kind of thing. And that that was something I had
discussed on podcast index social the other day it was I
was saying well maybe what I should do is when I put the
medium tag into the ingestion that it should should put in
there some sort of default rules that are like okay, if it comes
from Librivox go ahead and and medium tag it with audio book or
in you know, if it comes from I don't know, I'm I'd have to
think through these possibilities in the in the the,
the mastodon would have to help come up with some rules, but you
get the idea that you're just sort of pre tagging a lot of
stuff, same way we did with guid where you go and pre generate
some of these some of this tag content. And then you know, if
the feed adds itself, you know, it's the source of truth and you
just override it. But I mean, if we did that, because there's
clearly some some things that are going to be known. I mean,
Librivox only accepts audio books, right? So you can go
ahead and safely tag those. Yeah. And once you start doing
that, if you have a
you can you can eat even take submissions in a roundabout way,
but you could take submissions into the index through through
popping. Oh, yeah. I mean, just, we don't Yeah, you don't have
to. It's just it's, I can see it in front of me. You know, it's
like, it's very much like, twice a week. Hey, man, I love what
you're doing with podcasting. 2.0 via files. Well, I got about
why did you choose the lightning? Not bar car? Bah,
bah, bah, bah, bah. And, um, to my answer is good. Where the
East developers is there you can implement it today. We'll
support anything you need.
We chose the Lightning Network because we're two people that
believe in Bitcoin. There's got to be lots of other people that
believe in other stuff out there. Yeah, open protocols do
it yourself.
And even a lot of Og I know you're a maxi but a lot of Og
Bitcoiners are really into eath. That's a sure that's fine.
Whatever. That's, that's totally cool. Where are they? Where's
everyone with this with a big mouth? Oh, eath is better. Well,
then do it? Why aren't you doing it? Maybe it's not better. Maybe
you haven't figured it out? Maybe it's just not true. I
don't know. What maybe gas fees make it complicated. And by the
way, we have hive it works. You can implement I mean hive is I
was my initial inclination is to say that sounds like it might be
harder than Aetherium. To implement. Just a lot of talk
people a lot of talk. Less talk more action. Yes. cheap, cheap
bastards. I talk's cheap. If I were able in the wolf, which I'm
not, and they're tired, they're Yeah, they just did the album.
They just did the tour. You know, they're taking a little
break now watch the SATs roll in. I'd be thinking about my own
directory, I'd be thinking about creating one, they have all the
experience now. They went through all the pain, learned
all the ups and downs, wrote it all out built a website, you've
got a template, brother, brothers, I would
love to get an update from them on what their income is. Now
it's going
well, I see routing going on. So I know they're getting SATs
because I see it in the daily report of our node. So goes
through our node to there sometimes. So I do see that.
By the way, but what happened with LM pay? Did that just auto
close a channel?
Yeah, that was cool. So so I kind of manage our node. Which
means you just it's
kind of manage it you do. I do fully manage it. It's a
living breathing thing. And we've taken and we've proven
something without even having set out to prove something. We
were a little piece of shit. No, no, no, no, no, no, not
important type node, not enough money, everything but no big
channel bag, Mambo,
Mambo, Mambo channel word it my favorite word in Bitcoin
one bow. And so instead of having, you know, 10, big,
massive channels, we have several 100. Now, several 100
small, smaller channels. And as it turns out, it's working this,
you know, now that the the network itself is a little
better, we become part of routing, you know, there's also
multi path routing going on. And we're, we're a player, we're an
actual player for smaller amounts. And because of the the
nature of how the graph works, it's often just more efficient
to run it through, you know, people that we're connected to.
So Alice is a good thing. We got a big node. So
Ellen pay is very important important. A because so many
wallets are hosted there. V LN PE has a huge, a huge pipe to
breeze.
Yeah, that's a main
thoroughfare, right. In the beginning, it was we were
seeing, I was seeing Brees payments stack up. Because the
fee would just be too high for the app to send something and I
looked at the routes and like, holy crap, what's going on?
Because we were really still, you know, the little little boys
playing off in their own little spider web shit that no one was
really into, or didn't have enough liquidity. And so you
know, so now we have that beautiful hop from Ellen pay. So
that's all taken care of now actually, what if you look at
that? Is it to go podcasting.org I think go podcast. That's
the graph. Visualization go podcasting.org
Let me see if it still works. Yeah, there it is. Yeah, the the
cheese the cheese. Cheese or cheese robot. Yeah. I mean, the
the podcasting cloud is just unbelievable. Though it's huge.
It's beautiful to see.
This is a gorgeous graph and looked at this in a while.
You're looking at it
now I'm looking at it. Now. It's like where are we? You can do a
CTRL F and do podcasting can search. Yeah, where are we now?
Podcast?
Index. Here we are.
Man look. Yeah, that's so cool.
Isn't that beautiful? That's such a cool graph.
There's a there's alien pay and then
ACR breeze is connected to them.
Mm hmm. Yet they channel. So yeah, that's a critical that's
that that stuff in the middle there. That's that's critical
infrastructure right there for getting getting things routed
quickly. Yeah.
And so I see this tremendous opportunity. We talk about it
and God bless people like Mark Hall and Abel Kirby and Sir
Spencer for for doing this. Now we've got to move it to the next
level, we need to have different entry points it will never work
with with a podcasting front end, it just won't. And and it's
completely doable. tie into it, because we have so many web
developers, web developers, this lot more web developers and app
developers, I'd say in our community.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. I mean, they, yeah, web web
development is, is just a more I mean, there's more web
developers and app developers in the world. So that's, it's gonna
mirror that. Yeah, clearly. Yeah. But then that that's fine.
I mean, we've, there's some top notch app developer, really,
somebody has to just see the vision. Yeah, and say, This is
what this is what this thing should look like. And that
because you it's like you said, it's all marketing, the data is
there, the data is going to be there no matter what, we're
gonna have music feeds and documentary feeds and all this
kind of stuff in the index. Yeah, so that stuff's gonna
exist. But somebody has to come along and have the vision to
say, Okay, here's the way that it would look to, to a music
listener and music.
And, and the market is there because I receive emails
regularly, people saying, Hey, would this work for music, and I
point them to value for value.io There's a section there about
music as a section there about audio books, people who've done
it who have implemented it actually got to update it to
point to able, Kirby able Kirby project. So the demand is out
there people are seeing musicians are some of the most
entrepreneurial people in the world.
It has to be your food on the table,
you got to get your merch together, you got to have your
cheap places to stay, you know, you you're doing the marketing
you you your girlfriend's is dancing out flyers, you know,
that's, that's what it takes, but the everything's here. There
was now we're now seeing private networks popping up of doctors
who have left hospital systems and medical systems and they're
now doing their own telemedicine because the technology is out
there. They're building their own apps, they're putting their
own stuff together their own beliefs everything's there you
do not need Silicon Valley infrastructure anymore to do
these things.
And yes, you know, one one thing that I've been trying to okay so
we had this problem with hell pad Yes, the Hello packet was
used Yeah, hello
Pat. I love the Hello pad
and so in testing that are trying to test the fixes for
that my my Umbro just can't get a route anywhere I'm trying to
sin myself stuff. payments from it. Just like podcast apps
mountain breeze bought friend Yeah. And nothing comes through.
So what was really says it can't find a route. Well, what's
your routing from your Umbral? What do you what are you
connected to?
connected to my personal node, my bigger personal node and I've
got two channels open to podcast index.
Inbound to you you've got to you've got liquidity from the
index.
I've got an outbound I've got 188,000 Set outbound and a
200,000 set inbound from podcast index which is odd but actually
if we try it right now, let me send myself 1000 SATs and I'm
just gonna try to pay it from strike and see if that works
because maybe we should have a route three from strike
I think so. For sure. Yeah, I don't see I don't see why it
gets into Ellen pay. Yeah, okay. Yeah, then sure.
Let's see with it, huh? Nope. says oops, unable to find a
payment route. That's what I'm getting. And I don't understand
why. No, no, we can troubleshoot it later.
Yeah, no, I don't I have some thoughts. But I have to look at
I have to look at the I have to look at the are the eight the
8am one shit, and go see what's going on one. What's M one m one
ml dot o when it yeah, whatever it is that thing, that thing.
Oh, before we go back to a different interfaces, Roku, Roku
app that connects to the index would kick
ass. Oh, that is a good idea.
The no agenda Roku app has been on the Roku store and working
for me for I want to say eight years. And even longer, maybe
longer than that. It's a great platform. Now, I don't think it
will be. I mean, it's possible someone could set it up where
maybe the wallet is disconnected from the app, and maybe you can
make calls and maybe you can I don't know, maybe that'll work.
I don't know. Someone should try it. It's worth it. Go everybody
be the first we have video content.
Yeah, I mean, just a simple UI, play a podcast player UI on. And
then later when the medium stuff hits. You can you pull in video
and all that stuff.
You know, I got about 20 years of cognition left.
What? More than that, you know,
what language language should I learn? I just gotta I just gotta
develop the ship myself. I can't hang around for the developers.
What should I learn? What should I learn rust is rust my go to?
Is that what I need to learn?
I would not suggest that is your first. My first
Hey, hey, hey, I can do basic. I can do Python. And I can I can
understand other stuff. Python. Just in Python. I can I yeah, I
can just get my class on do it. The other day, I was so proud of
myself. Apple script did Apple. Fuck you. That's that was that's
how it's done that Apple script is not documented. There's just
no documentation. This is apple script is horrible. And that
just exists. And it was made for people like me. And that's
actually how I found Dave Winer. His his crazy user user land.
User script was better than Apple script. In fact, I think
app Apple probably ripped the idea from him.
There's just one programming language is supported by the
Roku platform. And it's called Bright script. No brother write
script, which is a Python like script. Oh, he was a go. There
you go Python.
Yeah. Yeah. That was so proud of myself. You know. So Tina, ever
the marketing. And by the way, shame on us. And you'll hear why
every year around October. She's like, Okay, I want you to get
the top 100 donors for this year, ask Eric the top 100
donors of all time, and you're going to email them. And it's,
of course, it's a great idea. And it should be personal. Okay,
I'm good with that. So I get the list from Eric. And this year. I
can do this. I can do a personal mail with a mail merge. And I
could do it all with Mutt and command line and Python. And I
did. And I saw I found it. I found a script, bare bones that
that interacted with mutt in batch mode.
And let me talk about mud. It cracks me the hell mine
is powerful Mojo Baby, what is the shizzle?
I know it is. But if you showed a normal human, any just random
normy off the internet might, their head would explode.
You know, I've actually toyed around with him doing the Emacs
email where it's in Emacs. Versus just so sexy. He's like,
check my message, boom, right in a document. But you have to
download it locally. So I don't want to do that. It doesn't work
well with IMAP. So anyway, so So mutt just is fantastic. And then
you know, I get the script all working. And, you know, it's
basically just a script with a little bit of documentation from
a GitHub. And then by immediately see, oh, my server
which Mark avoid zero maintains, it's like too many, too many TLS
connections go away bad man. Like, Oh, oops, okay. Yes, no,
good. So then I look at the script, like, Okay, I just need
to do a 10 second pause. And I look at the script, you know, I
try it now. That's not it, boom. Ah, there it is. I was just so
proud of myself. And then I did what everybody should do. I went
back to GitHub, posted a comment and issue I said, Hey, man,
thank you for the script. Do you have a Bitcoin or lightning or
shit even at PayPal, so I can buy a coffee or send you
something? And the guy comes back he says, Oh my God, this
thank you so much for posting this. It's really encouraged me
to post more. It's just knowing that someone found that useful.
That's great, please, I have a great job. Just give it to a
local animal shelter. And I thought no way the world is
fucking beautiful this way.
So this is okay. This is a thing that I had written down to talk
about months ago and we just never talked about it is it Why
does there not exist? A some kind of site or something that
will interface with all known open source, valuable open
source projects and allow you to donate directly to them through
lightning. So something like I mean, it would essentially be
like a podcast or wallet. But the open source project itself
could go and sign up and say, you know, okay, here's our
lightning node address. Here's our pub key. And if you want to
donate to the project, like it's just a basically a page of a
page of projects, and you click it and pops up a QR code, and
you didn't you scan and donate. I mean, there's like an index
like a donation index for open source projects that should
exist.
I don't know if that's the way to go. I mean, if the guy just
posted a QR code right there on his GitHub page, that would be
the same thing. No.
Well, yeah, I'm just, I'm just thinking that you would have
some, you'd have some other goodies in there, like into
being able to have donor booster grams and donations and all
kinds of stuff. This looks almost like a like a Satoshi
stream, but for podcast from,
okay. Well, right, of course, these, that's always how we get
there. Umbral has some kind of wonder if it's networkable.
There's some kind of Git Repository app that they have in
the Umbral, I'm really high on this Umbral thing. This is I've
always dreamed of this kind of box, and it's you know, I've,
I've connected my, I've set up the next cloud little next cloud
on it, which then also connects to my email. So in a pinch, I
can tore into my Umbral node and fire up my email is beautiful.
I'm so I'm so. And you know, like that layer in there? Well,
it's not that I don't like I love the concept. I'm so leery,
as well as cloud and own cloud and all those things. I'm
afraid. They're so big, and there's so many lines of code,
I'm just so afraid that they're gonna be like, some critical
vulnerability, and they're gonna steal all my stuff.
Yeah, that's possible. That's very possible. I've been I've
been living with next cloud for a couple years love it. Then I
just rent a server with cPanel. So I do have full control over
it. And it is mine. But my email is is not on there that's owned.
That's Mark does all that. So just IMAP has just some file
storage and recipes. You know, pictures. Nothing critical,
ever. But I hear what you're saying. But having it having it
here at home? I mean, yeah, I mean, just having it behind Tor
and all that is I feel pretty safe.
That's probably the the, you know, my job for 20 to 2025
years has been to be paranoid beyond belief. So that's
probably guessing. This is why
you're sick all the time. You worry, you worry too much, you
worry too much. Anyway, the update to heli pad. Beautiful,
works perfectly. I've got all the history in there. Love it.
So I
just need to do it, I just need to push. So the way they do this
on the Umbro side is they try to see the app. There's an app
registry file that has all of the apps listed, that you can
install. And then they reference the Docker compose in the app in
the app file, in the app folder,
micro services architecture, baby. And then
they, and then that Docker compose file for the app, points
to the image on Docker Hub, and they but they tie it to a
specific image hash. So I can't just
change it out. Yeah. Well, that's, that's security. It is.
Yeah. Yeah, that's the that is the right way to do it. And so
but that just means I'm going to have to do another cycle, bump
the version number, and then do a pull request to update the
app. And hopefully, I can get that in there before this next
for 11 cars. Yeah, nothing I think I can do they say you.
I'll go through what the problem was.
Yeah, please. What can I tell everyone what the what the what
the result was what what I saw is I would have the most recent
booster grams within the few hours. And then there were gaps.
I had a three week gap. But Alternatively, it would have a
different gap. There was just stuff missing and I was thanking
people On curry in the keeper and missing a whole shitload of
people. So there was just gaps in the data.
Well, there's, there were two actually two problems. The one
is the one you were talking about what the gap. So you would
have like a few recent ones, and then you'd hit this demarcation
point where it would jump back, like, a month, and you would
it'd be missing like three, four weeks, then, and it was always
random. It was different than that. There was another problem,
though, that would happen. And when James Crillon ran into this
a few times, and I think maybe you ran into this a few times as
well, or Braun of London, I can't remember. But I never
could replicate it on my side. And this, this thing that
happened was, you would fire up helipad. And it would come up
and say that it's building the database, and there's nothing to
show. Yeah,
well, that that was that way, always until, if you and then I
would send myself a booster gram or a boost, they would pew and
then the minute that happens, the show older boosts link would
show up.
Okay, so that both of these were essentially caused by the same,
the same issue, but in two different manifestations. What
goes on with helipad is that it? It builds, it maintains help had
the app maintains its own database of every invoice that's
in the note. So when you first install it, it sucks all of the
invoices, all the lightning invoices out of lnd into its own
database, and each one of those has an index number. And it's
just constantly keeping is polling lnd every few seconds to
say, is there a new invoice yet, right. And if there are it sucks
it and so it's always keeping sync between the two. In order
to show the booster grams, you it ends up having to go
backwards in the database and forwards depending on what's
being on what's happening. So sometimes you want to go back
and show historical information. So you need to have sort of a
descending search to say Okay, start from this index and go and
show me everything older. And then some but for new booster
grams that are coming in from New invoices. You want to say,
Okay, start with this index and show me everything newer. So you
can go in, you can go either backwards
or for right shoulder boosts is going backwards.
Yeah. And so with in a certain scenario, what was what was
happening is it was getting the direction wrong. And so it would
say he would get into a state and he would say, okay, here is
show me, show me this. Here's Okay, start from this index and
show me everything newer than this. But there's nothing new or
to show. And so it would just come up and say there's nothing
there. Right? And that it ended up it was just a couple of typos
really
have happened to me all the time in Python.
Yes. In bright script, yeah. Bright script. And so that's
really what it boiled down to was it was kind of like to two
changes. One, it was an extra piece of logic to see what was
was being asked for from the front end. And the other one was
just a pure, like typo. Once you fix those, now, it's, it's
seeing everything, it's using the proper direction, anytime
that it's asking for certain stuff. Because if you think
about it, like the reason it needs to go forward in the
database sometimes is let's just say that you're up that you're
up to date. And so every all the booster grams shown on the
screen are current. Well, now what you want is you want to say
you want to be polling the back the polling the hell pad back in
and saying is there here's my current index, let's just say
it's 125 you want to say alright, index 125 show me
things that are newer than that. And just want to keep saying
that over and over and it'll in some never shows up this newer
than that that's a home 126 or 127. Right? It'll give it back.
Otherwise, if you're having to do a descending you would have
to you'd have to just pick some random number and say okay, one
to 137 Let's just say okay, I'll go ahead 2020 ticks on the index
count is show me everything older than that and you're
constantly having to sort of like guess and it worked. I
mean, it would work it would catch up with itself, but I
don't know I like it seems cleaner the other way to me. And
so then with the with the boost with the booster grant what was
triggering the issue You What I found was triggering the issue
with it showing up and saying that it was the database wasn't
finished being built yet. It was the direction issue. But
specifically, what was happening is if you created an invoice and
it didn't get paid, yes suck that invoice into the hell pad
database with as a blank right it was it was an unsettled
invoice. Yeah, with zero data in it.
That invoice bogus.
And it happened to me back then, because I was trying to fund I
was trying to get my my Umbral to route payments. And so I'm
like, Okay, I'm just going to try to pay an invoice from
strike. I created an invoice, tried to pay it, and then the
next switch back over to hell pad and refreshed and it blew
up. It just said your data, you don't have a database, or
there's nothing to show you. Oh, oh, okay. So go over to the
SQLite database look, and it's sitting on the current index is
one of those blank, unsettled invoices. Oh, okay. Got it.
Then. Then I just add, I added another invoice manually as if a
new booster Graham had come in, boom, it was fixed. And so that
that was also an extra fix that had to go in. So anyway, it's
the I'll push a new version, hopefully and get it in under
the wire
guys. Kicking ass. It's beautiful. Yeah,
you know, I think I rushed this thing out the door. And a lot of
ways it went as fast as I could. And so I think at some point in
the future probably want to do the UI thing or before we pull
in the new UI that Khalil I think I'm going to do some
refactoring to make that, that because what I think what needs
to happen more than keeping, keeping everything perfectly in
sync is like by sucking in every invoice. What I think is better
is to just have a running counter of whatever the current
lnd invoice index is. Just keep that there as a single value in
the database. And then that way, I don't have to pull in every
single invoice. I can only pull in just the booster grams.
Okay, ready to have your mind blown? Yeah, blow it. Okay. This
can also work in reverse. So Oh, I hear that. Yeah, maybe? Yes.
Yeah. It was it. It was it was a boost for no agenda. No, okay.
Not a booster, just the boost. So it can also work in reverse
people have an unrolled they pick up what is this Halle pad
thing? Yeah, it can be an onboarding step.
Oh, huh.
Okay, it's your API calls in. It's a few. It's a beautiful
onboarding place. It is. You've just created an entry point, an
entry point for podcasters.
There needs to be a link on there to link out to, to some
way to create a feed. Maybe the genie.
Oh, my God. See how all the pieces are coming together?
Yes. Are you there? Yes. Now you leave link out and I don't know
this. That's the I like this onboarding thing, because then
you pull in the do it the DIY guys, huh?
Like they're out there. That's what podcasters are. Yeah.
podcasters are DIY guys.
And the next cloud guys, I mean, these guys are gonna want to own
every they want to own every link in the chain. Right? Now,
you got a you have the Umbral with the, you know, two
terabytes of disk space on it, turn it into a podcast, podcast,
magic box.
Well, that's been there for now, when I posted that I was talking
about IPFS, maybe IPFS. On the Umbral, I got a lot of pushback,
and pretty much everyone says now there's just better
protocols now the web, Tor and all this stuff is just so much
better.
My problem with ifs is is so crashy it crashes all the time.
And it's so like, at least once a week, if not more, I get an
email from our Oh, yes.
Yeah, broken broken DB download or see it
now. Yeah. And it's usually because the IPFS daemon crashed
and it's been resurrected halfway through a download. Yes,
it is bothersome. And this
is, and this is exactly what it's meant for is for huge data
files. That was how was developed. Topic, opportunity
amount is everywhere. Since IPFS. Powers many of the NFT
craze We promised on our last episode which by the way, thank
you for finishing was hilarious what happened on the last show?
No one noticed it. But I will tell people what happened.
I didn't even hear the last I didn't even hear the last part
at all. You
wouldn't you wouldn't know that it was disaster here in the hill
country. Yes. Because your skills are also first of all,
the show's running long. We're doing it with James and you
know, we're really appreciative because you got up early and
everything. And you know, so we're running on close to two
hours and I knew that Mark Hall was coming at now. It's dark now
and Tina can't turn on the lights because of the dimmer
buzzer. She's literally cooking dinner with a flashlight. I can
feel her Siri Yes, I can feel her angst and she's texting me
like, are you almost there? And and so I'm listening and we're
talking and you're like, oh, James, one more thing about a
life philosophy. I've always wanted to question you on some
I'm like, Oh my God, that's another 15 minutes. And then
Mark comes to the door. he rings the doorbell. Phoebe, the the 90
pound akbash just just flipping out. Tina's not ready. You know,
the dog feels this. He looks like a fucking bear, like a
Russian black bear in the dog. And I'm hitting, you know, I'm
trying to go back and forth. And I finally say to Dave and, and
James, I say, Hey, you guys just finished it up. Merry Christmas.
I got to deal with the situation. So I came back an
hour later, and the recorder was still running. And I was able to
piece it all together. So no one was the Wiser until I spoiled
it. There you go.
perfectly understandable. This is wife management. 1010.
Yeah. Let's just say spout partner management, shall
we? Okay.
I got to Oh, yeah. So anyway, and as a part of that, we cut
the show short, because you said Hey, should we joke about NF Ts?
Is it now? No, no, no, let's let's let's wind this up. So
your life is good as well. Have you ever bought an in if
I have received an NFT s months ago, someone created a no agenda
NFT and said, Here, install Netmask and do this Weeki Wachee
Wookiee and then I opened it, and I got $7 or something. And
honestly, I have not looked since.
Would you like to know how you how you go about buying an NFT?
It's Metamask? I'm sorry? Yeah. Metamask? Yeah.
Well, yeah, yeah. How the hell do I do that? How does this work
with the the guys over at mere mortals? One specifically, he
walked through the process of him buying some NF T's. I think
these are like, dinosaur? Yeah, I don't know. This is Part
honors. I guess these are images like you have these collector,
NF T's. They're like images of a dinosaur or a gorilla or sexy?
Oh, yeah. It's great. It's top notch. Yeah. So he will include
one he walks through how the buying of the NF T's work.
We talk a lot about NF T's and a lot of other things I won't go
too much into, into depth into what they are. But basically,
it's an NF T right of dinosaurs. But they were minting I got, I
was fortunate enough that I was able to get pre minting, which
basically meant I was able to purchase the particular NF T's
before they actually went on public sale. So that might be
like pre IPO or pre. That's the example. So pre IPO pre
everybody getting in. Cool. So I purchased four of them, have one
of them, which I gave to a good friend of mine. Cool, fantastic.
Now, there was no trouble saying but and I did mention this to
you the way that you actually had to do it. And it was a
little bit of a manual process was they would basically say,
how many did you want in a basically a message through this
channel? How many do you want? I would say I want four, they
would give you the address and you just sent money there. And
you will have to just hope, interest that they're gonna send
it back now they did. Right. And I was saying to you look, there
was obviously some trust built up in the fact that these people
had heard them talking, you know, asked me anything style
questionnaires. I've interacted with them message them. That
seemed cool. I wasn't too worried. I was like, I want to
share screen share with you and no, no, but I was like, let's
say maybe it was a point 2% Doubt, right.
So the evidently the way or one of the common one of the ways
that you buy an FTS is you just randomly send somebody money and
hope that they send you an NFT that's essentially what this was
boiled down.
Oh, that's what they call a smart contract. Yes, sir. I
actually was just able to open my meta mask wallet and sitting
there I have 0.0159 eath equals $58.86. So my, my, my winnings
went up since I got my, my, my EF the NFT money. Wait, I
do have an asset once this is appreciated in value. Yes, I
have. Okay. So that that sounds kind of weird so that I thought
you would because I know when I when I got mine, it was like a
click and then it was said you got it and fuck I don't remember
Dave, it probably wasn't there to
be some sort of encrypted Yeah. Field purchase process or
handoff. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Then interact with the blockchain.
This is all this is web. 3.0 baby. Yeah, this has got to be
like,
web three, not 3.0. It's 3.3 with 3.3.
But, I mean, okay, so that's dicey, but at least, like the
actual purchase purchasing of the NF T, I mean, the
transaction itself, that's got to be solid, right? I mean, you
would think that but let's listen to clip to
what added to this though. Like, I'm thankful I didn't partake in
this cuz I was gonna buy more unreleased, and I was like,
Dude, this sounds crazy. And then there were so many people
like that the channel disco channel went from, they said
seven and a half 1000 8000 people to 15,000 in about 20
minutes. And there was so many people messaging, it crashed a
whole discord channel, which at the same time, those bots and
this happens all the time and space. Those bots and other
people creating fake discord channels sending you missed as
being like, Oh, hey, guys, this is the actual disco channel,
send us the money. And people were sending money all over the
place. And shit. And so they finally got the thing back and
had to put like, all these downs being like, I hope nobody sent
all this money because like there was messages all over the
place. Like this was the worst release ever. Like I lost all my
money bought, etc, etc, etc. Yeah, I
think there's the the releasing of the NF Ts and I believe
Marvel works with a company that does this professionally. So it
does take some actual infrastructure to set it up and
and have it work in some orderly fashion. I think discord channel
was kind of, you know, kind of the DIY way, which you know, is
you get what you pay for type deal.
DIY and out and in. In the south, we call that half ass
is what it sounds like.
But I mean, like, okay, so fine. Everybody makes mistakes to get
all. Yeah, nothing, nothing is perfect. But at least they have,
you know, communication channels secure and everything. So, at
least the process of at least this this plan B sort of discord
process. I mean, at least that is dependable. I mean, you would
think yeah, maybe clip three.
What added to this story. Like I'm thankful I didn't partake in
this because I was gonna buy more unreleased, and I was like,
Dude, this sounds crazy. And then there was so many people
like that the channel, disco channel went from
it. This is the same as clip two.
It's not supposed to be exact. I played
did I play the wrong clip? Hold on a second.
Are they the same tonight?
Now, I don't know how they found this out.
I think I played clips three instead of clip two. Wait, let
me see what
this what added to the story. Like, I'm thankful I didn't
partake in this because I was gonna buy more on release. And I
was like, Dude, this sounds crazy. And then there was so
many people so that the channel does go channel went from, they
said seven and a half. Yeah,
we played that one. I guess I played him out of order. I'm
sorry. That's okay.
Now, I don't know how they found this out. But there's actually
like, not not what to say well known hackers, but people know
that people going to hack a particular release. So this one
COMM The actual public release was going to happen in two days.
And they found out hey, this group, which I think is called a
seven to one or something, but like, they were going to go and
hack their sale. And what that meant was, you know, there was
usually a limit of like, you can only buy 10 or 15, or five off
particular thing. But they could get around in the contract, just
like I'm only going into it just very technically, they could
mess around with the contract. So they could buy 1000 of them
for the money. But they're about 1000 Then all of a sudden, they
have like a monopoly or not a monopoly, but a really large
portion of them and they control a lot of the price. So people
don't want that because it's happened before. So what they
decided to do was they would basically like the last 1015
minutes before the public release. The sentiment is being
like no, we're about to get like hacked, we do not want to do
this to happen. So they delayed the release and what they did
was okay, you have to send us a message on the discord channel
with a particular way and tell us how many you want we're gonna
limit it to three I think they're saying there's limited
to three dinosaurs. You have to message us and it was just going
to be a first come first serve or you message us you send us
the money to a particular dress and like you might get you might
not you have no idea what on the list this
guy so I apologize. I played I played him out of order. That's
okay. but it's still I mean, like, and then the distorting of
did nothing is this thing is a complete disaster. Well, okay,
so from the Marvel standpoint, I'll tell you what I can tell
you in essence, what's going on and they do not have these
issues. So I know that they have a partner, I forget who it is. I
think it is the IPFS guys actually, who built the NFT type
business out of this vivo or veto or something like that.
Could probably look it up. So that's pretty orderly, whatever
they're doing, but they're they're taking it in exactly the
same direction as the baseball trading cards. So you're going
to see packages, and they're their assets are the
superheroes, the comic books, you know that the whole business
of this Marvel Entertainment is licensing? So the everything in
the comic, but all that imagery, all the words, they own all of
that? So
he's ZeeVee?
Yeah, I think that sounds right. Vive. Yeah, yeah. Okay. So
remind me to tell you about that. So they're going to
package that up. But you you pay like 100 bucks. And that could
be, you know, there could be $1,000 valuable rookie card in
there. But it's more likely you've got 80 bucks worth of
cards, right?
Ran that you have like the commons and uncommons and the
rares. And, yeah, yeah, he's a trading card.
Yeah, yeah. He says, there's really two audiences. You have
the audience that there's really into this and hopes to find
something valuable. Then you have the people who have a lot
of money, who when they were poor, and young, couldn't buy
the the cool card. And so they go out and they spend whatever
they need to just to do it. Right. It says ultimately, this
will wind up with a very small percentage being extremely
valuable than all the rest of shit is worth worthless. It's
completely worthless. What was interesting is my old buddy, my
old agent from Hollywood call me a couple weeks ago. Matthew last
year super agent Lasher. Matthew, how you doing? Oh,
yeah. He said, Matthew, how you doing?
Sounds like yes, the Penthouse magazine.
Oh, that was the hard part is whenever you call me Hey, man. I
can't help but do his voice. He says, I have a client. I guess I
have a client and he wants to do an NFT and and I just wanted the
right partner. I said well, my buddy he knows the right partner
who's your client? Say Brian is it Brian cross Brian cross from
succession? I'm Brian cross my second sucks show Cox. Brian
come by Brian Cox. I'm sorry. Yes. Okay. Brian Cox. So have
you ever seen succession? No. Okay, so
Brian never even heard of Brian Cox.
Is it Brian Cox? Is that right? Yeah. Brian Cox. So he's this
this he's an older actor and he plays the patriarch of this.
You're basically like a Murdoch type type guy of a media company
and his kids are all fuck ups you know and he wants to cut
them all out and they're all fight the whole thing everything
and it's having known a couple of wealthy families like this
it's pretty accurate I would say in the in the kind of shit that
goes on. But he's his kind of line in the in the series is
this fuck off. And then turning that into an NFT he apparently
he makes like five grand a pop on cameo. Are you familiar with
cameo? No, it's approached me several times. Now. Cameo was an
app and Snoop Dogg. A whole bunch of actors do it. I just
can't bring myself to do it. And you could set a price you say
you want a personal video message from Adam curry. It'll
be you know, $2,000 and through the app, they pay for it and
then you do it.
Essentially, those people that ask us to do exactly the same
thing for $1
If that so, so he gets $5,000 I think we're just doing a Dave
Jones fuck off. Five grand for that. Sounds like shit. We got
to do NF T's and they're doing it. This would be a Brian Cox
and ft.
I mean, I just don't you know. I understand that NF T's I
understand that they can be valuable in certain context as
I'm not Pooh poohing the whole idea of an NF t mean because
essentially an NF t is just a cryptographically
secure proof of ownership is honest. Yeah.
Yeah. And that in and of itself is, is a sales
receipt. Yeah. But without the goods, if it's digital, I
believe in NF T's for physical goods. I think that's a pretty
interesting idea.
So and I could see it as being sort of a token that you can
pass around to give people well, here's,
here's how I would do mission for things or here's Yeah,
here's how I would do it. If we were going to do an NFT. It
would be none. No, we're not going to I'm just saying if
there would be numbered T shirts. And you
can't even get real T shirts out
there. Hey, let's thank some people. The real the real
business, which is value for value, the whole podcast index
project is value for value this podcast is value for value. We
have been delivering value and we love receiving value back
every developer, every thinker, every podcaster, who was
contributed is a part of this system. Go read Gee gees
article, you see the you're part of a trend that that has been
around for 1000s of years. But yeah, we are resurrecting with
our new tools, which can be very proud proud of what we're doing.
Is section of that article on maximizing profits. Yeah. Top
notch. Yes.
So who do we thank today for supporting, supporting
everything, Dave?
out of the gate? We're thanking Benjamin and Ben and Roberto
from rss.com. Who gave us $1,800.57 Oh, my
goodness. Sakala 20 is Blaze only. Now does this come after I
post my posts on podcast index dot social that oh, by the way,
everybody? The hosting guys are supporting us more than anybody.
Yeah, they put up poor mouth this and, and made everybody
step up, which they did in a huge weigh. It
seems like everybody stepped up and that was really
heartwarming. You know, it's because it's easy to forget. And
I know, this is why you know, value for value has to
continuously you have to remind you have to ask people, you have
to tell people what you're doing. Sometimes you throw a sad
puppy. If you broke if you're broke, you say we're broke. Now
we're not broke. But you you laid it right out there. Yeah,
we're pretty much breakeven, we're not putting any money in
our pockets. No, is going right back into the operation.
Yeah. And it's that sort of transparency. Help helps people
to understand where we're at. And, you
know, and also people, you know, if you just listen and count,
you can find out exactly how much comes in every week. We're
giving the amounts on the show. Yeah, it's easy to track.
Our our expenses run roughly 1000 to 1200 a month. And you
can just listen to the shows and see what's coming. Are they
getting 1000 or 1200 a month? It's pretty obvious. Yeah,
that's
about it. Exactly.
So yeah, they sent us $1,800.57 He says, this has been he says
here's a one here's a 1k boost. 118 150 857 says what a great
year we've had listening to and watching the podcasting 2.0 and
podcast index journey. The whole team@rss.com wishes the whole
team behind the 2.0 namespace and equally successful 2020 to
go podcasting. What was that?
That's the keeper.
Oh, is that is that the keeper filtered through a
nurse? No, Sherman. Yeah, she threw she threw this out on the
show. And just before we started today, I just grabbed it and I
recorded it and I and I think over modulate it
inside of Theramin
that I saw I kind of liked it. I'm like we just got to keep
that one going.
Brian of London gave us a an interesting boost. He gave us a
$500 donation through Hive $500 In hive. Okay, Brian, what
is the hive equivalent of boost?
Boost boost, Okay, nice. And he asked me he said you know, hey,
I want to I want to donate $500 Do I want it in lightning or in
hive? And I was like, you know, I mean it's just your brand of
London. Yeah,
you gotta be has to be hive. Hello. Yeah. And that's good. We
need hive power.
We do. Yep. Because we still want to build that up so that we
can be self sufficient. self sufficient.
Hive independent. That is independent moron canes and Aki
independent is what we are
Marco Arment gave us $500 Marco every month
now is his search still is hit our index at all.
No, he's he's still married to Apple when it comes to search
because people are saying hey, I can't find Korean the keeper on
on overcast.
Yeah. And I don't I don't know how amenable he would be to
opening up a little bit.
Now he's he's got he's got his own theory on that. That's fine.
Yeah. You know, so.
I mean, he's not getting some top notch content. That's true.
But he Yeah, he's comes in every month without fail. $500 and is
greatly appreciated. and
way, way above and beyond. Yes.
Thank you, Martha. Alice gates, the podcasting. 2.0. Consultant.
Yes. $100. One off.
Thank you. Thank you very much, Alex.
Alex is working on some stuff. And Alex started a new job. And
so he's been he's been pressed for time, but he's, he's
definitely starting some. Some more work on the piping. Oh,
cool. Yeah, he's gonna be working on pod on integrating
the live notifications and stuff like that into pod paying me.
He's really already back working on it right now. Cool.
Well, yeah, he settled into the job. He's automated all the
tasks, you know, he's just drinking coffee. Like, what can
I do? Oh, yeah. Let me get back to piping. Yes. Was that I just
imagine him being that guy. Oh, I see what needs to be done per
it's all set. Okay, it's rolling.
He built the Rube Goldberg machine and then he can just go
do it. Yes. That madeiros from Cass DOS, send us $100 Thank you
says go podcasting.
Yeah.
Did you see his video on that on? Yes,
I did. I did. It was fantastic.
Top notch. I had this idea last night. That that I was gonna
chop that video up and throw in put in and put in some music and
stuff like that and like do some sort of like GX to mix up mash
up. Nice. Yeah. And I felt like boost boost. See, thank you,
Matt. Oscar Mary. He a fountain FM same. Gave us $100 And he
says for the server's Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas to you. And thank you and I love the latest.
latest marketing. Yes, fountain is showing us the top value for
value apps.
It's like the top
rock. Yeah. Oh, no. We got another one. Hold on a second.
Yeah,
it was that report report. Uh oh. Holy shit. What was the big
one? Yeah.
It was a dude. It was a Dred Scott came in live. Came in live
and he says it's 100,000 sat boost.
Oh, crap. Was that to us? Yeah. Oh, you're reading it live?
And he says yeah, he says go podcasting. Huh? Yeah, he
boosted episode 67. I know exactly what like Dred Scott. I
don't this guy is Bruce Wayne. Okay. So he is Bruce Lee. He's
the Bruce Wayne of podcasting. 2.0 He knows that we're doing
the show right now. He knows that the pew pew because it
happened while Tina and I were doing the show. He knows the pew
pew comes through. And he's doing this. I guarantee you.
He's like, I'm going to be the first person to do a booster
Graham live on the show. And he did it.
You need you need to somehow hook that thing up where it'll
where? Where you can hear it.
Yeah, yeah. I'm going to turn it on. What do you mean, I need to
quit? Do you know you're talking to?
Oh, yeah, no, I'm giving audio advice to the
let me send me let me send myself a booster gram. See if it
works. Who's so thank you drip, drip? Just come on. 1000 sets.
Okay, let me just see if this you have a message in there. Go
podcasting? Yeah, okay. Yeah. Did did the Go podcasting. But
wow, this is very exciting. When are we doing this live? Dave?
When are we going to throw up the stream and Steven B is
working on some stuff secretly.
Okay. Whenever we can get live. Let's see. I'm doing live
medical analysis. On the show here. I've got my fever is 99.8.
That's coming down.
Oh, man. Okay, so I just boosted myself from pod friend. Let's
see if that comes through and if it works,
okay. All right. Thank you, Jared. There. How long did that
take away? What was the times five
seconds maybe?
Dos Beautiful. Well, whoever made helipads
it's just an awesome dude is broadhead. So clearly, clearly
top notch.
Chris Christopher? laconic. What? All right this is a hard
name. He's Chris LW on podcast index dot social. His name is
Chris Christopher. laconic. Vital. Okay. All right, Chris,
tell me if that's right. He gives $100 And he says, Keep up
the great work and 2022 Chris from CT Larry. I guess that's
Connecticut.
Thank you, man. Thank you very much.
Yeah, thank you Chris. Appreciate it, man. $100 very
much appreciated by everybody. It was so nice. Edward Sullivan
gave us $100 And there's no note attached to Eversole this mo
We do appreciate how you doing.
Hey, Dan boaster. Kevin Bay. been around a long time. Kevin
Bay has been around forever. He sent us $100 And he says Merry
Christmas Dave and Adam podcasting. 2.0 is the gift that
keeps on giving go podcasting? Yes, they are. Oh, here we go.
James Krillin gave us a he did a $50 subscription for us.
Wow. Thank you very much. Yeah, that's cool. We we put them in
the value block by the way that that was cool.
Did he get anything from it? Yes, yes.
I said okay, James, I've published the feed I've got you
in the split I promised him 30% And and he came back right away
and posted a screenshot he said received so it was working.
Okay, so I want to pause here for a second and just realize
what has happened this may be a first of all time. We have
gotten successfully gotten a consultant to give us money.
Alice gates and also a journalist to give us money. Can
I just say that we were cooking with gas
Thank you, Jane. excellent observation. Watson.
Thank you. Very good. Lisa DeFore to gave us $25 And there
was no note from Lisa
women she Lisa. Where do we know Lisa from?
I don't know at least it afford so show that name. No.
We don't have many women in the in the in the gang. So the
the best thing though the alarms went off is with a woman donate.
Yeah. Well, welcome. You're welcome here. We're nerds. We're
harmless.
So at least if you get a note make Yeah. Let us
know. Yeah. Let us know what you're doing. If you're working
on something.
Clicked family scouts gave us $25 And no note on that. Thank
you Cliff family scouts,
by the way, just so people know in the curry household here in
the hill country in the shack. All you know I have four
podcasts. All of them have at least a monitoring split in the
value block from my Umbro that pew pew sound is a part of our
life. It is it is so cool. It'd be like mostly Graham. Graham
pew pew pew booster.
All day. It's like haptics, yes. Yes. Haptics
haptics.
Imran Ockman gave us $21. Thank you. Oh, here's his note says
from great pods with the thanks. Oh, thanks.
Thank you. Great pods.
Great pods. Yeah, I know those guys. Follow him on Twitter.
Thank you, Imran and great pods. Let's see here. Okay, I'm gonna
I'm gonna try to say this name. Tomas Co. Blum ship SJ o with
own lot. BLM.
Show Blum? Yeah. Sounds about right. Alright.
Tomas. Joe Blum gave us $20 No note that Thank you, Thomas.
Thank
you very much Thomas. From a from a Scandinavian region. Yep,
does have the Oh with it with the line through it.
It's Oh, with two dots above it. Oh, boom. Loud. And uhm, loud
online. Yeah.
What is what is the thing with the I'm sorry to interrupt what
is the thing with the line to it? What do you call that?
I call it a thing with a line for me
to just seem like it's the right thing to call it though.
I call it the short vowels.
Call it something that doesn't work in Unicode as well. Like it
doesn't show up could be an emoji could be some Swedish
and emotes yeah it yes messed up. OPML is Ko Cohen glotzbach
gave us $5 Thank you. No note and he's got Oh, that's a
subscription if I don't
eautiful server Thanks, man. Yep,
thank you JC Van Brunt sent us $5 I mean Did he just made he
may be from Texas and just say Van Brunt
Rambo was a fun brute.
Yeah move on board. I'm gonna give him the you know the formal
title benefit Yes $5 Thank you, Vaughn. Boom we get some the oh
wait, wait before I'm not doing monthlies yet I gotta do booster
green
boost grams I haven't heard here's your cue to boost you
know you want to boost boost boost
boost donation from circus media he says 808 through breeze and
he says boost yeah guys are awesome. Thank you for all the
value the the over modulation on that makes it worse. That's what
does it I know. Yeah. It's it's like Jimi Hendrix of booster
grams.
That's it. Yeah. Since then the guitar on fire with it with a
lot of fluid. Yeah. Stephen B. Oh, Steven B. Through Curia
Castro of course. Send a 61,241 sat
Thank you.
I'm so glad that you're feeling better Steven. Yeah had a rough
go of it. He did. Man anytime you have like a gut thing. Oh,
so it's just missed so
Dave went I know that April gets nuts for you again so we have
this window. Now do you think you'll be could you hook it up
to up to Texas or over to Texas before then so we can do like a
2.0 meetup so many people who are a part of this are in Texas.
It has to be after Yeah, it has to be after after the after
April. Okay, April 15. Okay, yeah, cuz we yeah, we have the
run up to like we're we're full bore right now with onboarding
new employees and all that stuff or someone
out there could just say this is such a great project I'm going
to donate $100,000 So that Dave can stop working for the man
Hmm Oh, that's also an option that was one heartedly endorse
it's a big boost. Quite a boost.
Stephen basic I don't have as much time talent nor treasure as
I'd like oh please you got all three of those Thank you indeed.
But this project is important so here's half of curio caster sets
from last month Now that's interesting that is your last
month he got 120,000 sets I mean polls but hold on a job money
but I mean
that's quite decent and I would say on the list of just you know
the data that I'm seeing I would say curio casters consistently
three number three on the list with the kind of depends like
period caster pod friend curio caster is a little higher I
think on the what we're seeing coming in and then breeze and
fountain I think is has been top for a while
so that's roughly 50 bucks at the current exchange rate
120,000 Sasa roughly 50 $85 a month of income so I mean if
you're talking about I mean boost if you were to get that
ups to
just need more people just need more people to use it. That's
Oh,
yes. Then you're talking to 250 bucks a month of income.
Yeah, you know, I'm an app that's like cocaine money I
don't know why I said that. No idea why I said that.
Cocaine money
I don't even like it
yeah, well thank you Steven Bay you didn't you didn't have to do
that. I appreciate
it and and and love the Jenny the the the broken out Jenny
he's also got the image tags working in there
yeah, yes. Oh, that yeah, that he that the genie has turned
into such a good testbed for all this stuff. This is what we
always wanted.
I'm even adding my my social links now to my other shows I've
gotten dangerous. Oh, yeah. Well from different Mastodon servers,
which I promptly fucked up but I'll get better.
Comic Strip blogger gives 3333 sets from pot friend let me
guess he has a note. He does have a nemesis. Merry Christmas
to you, AC and Merry Christmas to you AC and today. More
booster grams next week. Okay, he sent that on December 23.
That was just a Christmas No, no. Play for podcasting.ai
Well, let's play AI dot cooking is AI podcast. Get the boost
CSB.
I see a couple of 3330 threes in here. I bet he's gonna yes gotta
be it's gotta be he does three a three year show.
Yeah. Donations to see 50 sets from Chris through the fountain
app and he just says raw
okay
we read them all people this diagram 20,222 SATs a huge
second row of ducks yeah a long line of ducks from hardhat
through the curio caster and he says, upping the SATs and lining
up a road ducks
very nice thank you. Thank you see everyone heard it. Everyone
heard like you know what? These booster grams are great but we
didn't mean up the money a little bit and that's it. You're
doing it you're doing it thank you. Boost
able Kirby 20,000 SATs through curio caster and he says extra
boost for good measure. Thank you, Abel Kirby,
thank you very much. How long has it been since you clicked
boost? That's too long. That's right.
That's a bell curve. Is it was it I thought it
was I have the ring of fire down
the rate of fire podcast Ring of Fire
is there another one being set up another podcast Ring of Fire.
There was one that somebody was doing one because Spencer said
he was doing it the other night. I guess they already did it. Oh,
Abel Kirby again 45,000 said oh,
man, this is it.
This is the album drop here. Through Kira caster he says Dear
admin Dave Merry Christmas. Today Spencer and I are
releasing our podcasting 2.0 value for value album. Our band
is called Abel in the wolf and the album is called stay a while
there's been a lot of buzz about it so I hope we can live up to
the hype as Karen down put it in put it were quoted it as Karen
down put it in a quote the hottest Christmas album drops
It's Crazy Frog you can find it at freaks yes we're so this
everybody involved with this thing is super weird. You can
find it at ABL in the wolf calm, but it will show up in any PC
2.0 Music app should one ever be created. Just exactly what we
were talking about earlier. Ah huh. Please give it a listen.
Also, Adam I do still expect Album of the Year go podcasting?
Absolutely. Podcast right in under the wire ladies and
gentlemen released in the last week of the year, the album of
the year the MVP table in the wolf.
So maybe that means that we should have a
an award show award. Yes, award. Here's the award show. Here's
how it works. It is in fact who boost the most wins.
He's just it's just wrong.
We have multiple No no, no, we have multiple categories. We
have categories of booster gram jokes, booster gram tips, as in
tip, a tech tip booster gram tech tip and like and then the
the more you know, boost category.
I like it. And then the always popular king of the hill.
boosted the most of anybody else.
Yes, that award. That's right. That's the one exactly like
I like the album of the year though. That's pretty good.
Well, you Hello. Okay. So whoever builds this mythical
directory which I just sketched out, you need the you need to
have Vitaly, who's popular. And how do you measure puppet
popularity? I have I have an idea. You've got the stats. Yet,
so that's that's yes. This sat stats. Yep. A Chad Pharaoh
gave us 333 sets and he says Welcome to this weekend radio
Twitter. Okay.
Thanks, Chad. Chad. Chad has a he. He's doing more marketing
than I am. That's for sure.
Yeah, I think he's got an auto retweet machine we're just using
everywhere
now is everywhere. Another mysterious podcasting 2.0 figure
that makes it so colorful.
Cast Pilant gives 3300 sets and he's still fountain. He says
thanks for the work. Boy. You're welcome. Thank you. 20,000 sets
through from Brian mozzie. And he says, oh, that's your
fountain. He says pew pew Christmas boost. Boost. Thank
you, Brian. Up, sir Pete. So Pete gave us 20 Row ducks.
22,222 sat through pot friend, he says. Happy New Year. Thanks
for running this great initiative. You've been an
inspiration. Here's a big second ducks.
Nice quack quack. We did a duck sound don't we? We need to duck
boost. Yeah. Do I have a quack in my should I do not have a
crack sound effect?
Somebody can help us out. Yeah, put in the toolbox. Brian mozzie
again with 14,851 SATs. Oh, I like it because, okay, here's
this. Here's what he did the time stamp and this booster gram
is one hour, 48 minutes and 51 seconds. So he said this. Oh
1485 Nice.
Yeah, that's slick. Hey, there's another thing. Automatically the
boost number goes up by number of minutes. You're listening.
I like that that will encourage people to do like, like 40 hour
episodes.
Yes. Now I don't have a duck. But I do know how to solicit
duck donations. duck call, it'll always do it.
You hear that? A lot around the hilltop.
YES. Jimmy Vaughn and the duck calls.
Jimmy Vaughn was He who sees Stevie Ray Vaughn's brother.
Yeah. Older brother. Okay,
man. That's one of the biggest regrets that I have is I had a
chance to see. I had a chance to see Billy Stevie Ray Vaughan. He
was He came and played with Eric Clapton. Yes, that's right. In
Birmingham, and this was like literally ended up being like
two months before he died and did not go to the show. I ended
up I think I chose some I already had tickets and
everything and I thought I ditched it for something else.
And and then he died. Like, three weeks later. I was like,
Ah,
it's interesting. Jimmy is opening for Clapton right now.
Oh, really? Yeah. Interesting. Okay, yeah. And boy that what a
waste What a stupid waste. That was such a dumb helicopter. Now
that you know now I'm a pilot now. I know. It was just wires
man. Puking wires locally every time. Wires What do you mean?
Oh, the they lifted off from the from the concert ground and flew
right into high voltage wire.
Oh, man, and it's so hard
to see when you're flying. That's why whenever you're
flying a helicopter. Here's the more you know. When you're
flying helicopter. You will see the high power lines. You'll see
the towers. You always always always fly over the top of a
tower.
You're out of the out of the wires. Yep. Okay. Yeah,
always. Always this perfect comp and never in between them.
Always over.
So Brian, LASIK is 14,851 SAS and he says Hurrah for bug
fixes. I agree. Yeah, yeah, maybe made it through the whole
episode without freezing playback. Oh, this is running
commentary. So yes, yeah. 14,851 SATs for the 14851 episode
length tank. Thanks to Oscar in the fountain team. Yeah, you
Brian mozzie 500 Nate stats from anonymous. He says why was six
afraid of seven? Because 7890 Hey, hello
see on these on the leaderboard for the award. A joke boost joke
booster gram.
dad joke award. This the comic strip blogger 3333. Through pod
for Andy says, first of three this week. Greetings from comic
strip blogger to Dave Jones and ACX and anybody interested in
artificial intelligence is welcome to subscribe and listen
to the podcast called AI cooking can be found in all podcast apps
and in all podcast indexes by searching for AI cooking yo,
boost. Yo. 10,000 SATs from Nick. I'm wondering if this is
the Nick. This may be Oscar Mary's partner in crime. Okay,
that sounds nice Nick. See the fountain app 10,000 SAS and he
says really enjoyed this interview with James. Thank you
Adam and Dave for all your hard work this year. Well, thank you,
Nick. Thank you. Okay, 25,000 SATs from Kyle a bear. Wow,
buddy. Yes, he he of boost fame.
Here he is. It this is not him.
Theramin need to
be your wife or moose
to be the fountain app. Callay Bear says Happy Holidays from
the boost guy. Yeah, much love from the intergalactic boombox,
the SATs must flow.
Yeah, one more time.
Uh oh, this must flow. That's a dune reference this good Yeah,
yeah. Let's see 49,049 SATs. This is the RT e is the fountain
and he says just saw the at Jack fountain podcasting 2.0 tweet
bullish on the future we're gonna make it Oh, did you see
that? No. Yeah, Jack Jack Dorsey retweeted a fountain. What they
found posting
that's fantastic. Hold on a second.
I think it was the end of your stats thing.
Wow. Hey now that's cool. Did I did I did I see this? I need to
read. Oh, here it is fountain. Yeah, he he retweeted.
Yeah. One of his tweet. Yeah. Nice. That's nice. Yeah. Vila
gave us 1000 SATs. And he says the pod friend and he says Happy
New Year. Well, Happy New
Year. Happy New Year to you.
Oh 1000 SATs from Nomad Joe through pod friend and he says
Happy Holidays from the road. Yo manga Drive safe. Yeah. See?
Alex tree bus. Travis tree bus tree with his 20 is 20,000 sets
through curio caster and he says tip ask the programmers to add a
local currency in the boost button. Isn't the donators will
be more aware about the Mt? They are sending? Yes up the good
work? Are you are you on board with that?
Well, in general, I'm a fan of you. I'll give I'll tell you
what I'm a fan of. So here's a real world example. I'm reading
GGS article. And there's a natural break in this article
where he's talking about value for value and if you value
something, you're like it you got to get back and right there.
He has a support this articles button. Did you see that? Right.
Right give value back button. Yeah, so I hit the value back it
pops up a QR for Bitcoin not lightning, but for Bitcoin on
chain. And I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna send him 50 bucks. And
then I'm like, No, I'm gonna send them 100,000 Satoshis. It's
a little less than 5050 bucks. But for me to be able to see
hundreds I type in 100,000 and underneath and small connect zap
wallet does. It's it's a fiat currency. I think that is. I
think that's very handy. And you know, who requested this the
most who's always telling me it was always asking me why don't
these guys put that? Why don't they got my Mo. Mo was very
concerned about this. Okay, so, yeah, take that for what it's
worth.
I mean, I don't know go back and forth about it. It. I can't I
mean, if it helps, okay. The bottom line is if it helps
adoption, help people to feel more comfortable with it. I'm
good with it
will help adoption tremendously.
Because the only here's my reservation about it is that if
you denominated in local currencies, is more likely to to
arouse the ire of regulators. And people like that. I mean,
like, because when you think about it in and
hold on, we can't hide. We, if that's true, then we're just
delaying the inevitable.
Okay, well, let's say
I can say that, so. Okay. How about the web apps? Do it then?
Yeah, let's see the web the web app. Okay.
So you're not you're not worried about regulators. You're worried
about App Store and App Store payment systems and yeah, you've
been traumatized by this and you have now you now have a hang up
remember that you didn't have didn't have you have mental
health issues. I got a hang up it's just I'm working on it.
Back in the day, I've been triggered. I'm triggered. I just
gotta hang up the head and worry about um, so
I'm on a completely different tab on my browser. I've lost all
context of what we're doing. We're doing donations so yes.
Yeah, we were talking about the fee. I'm, I feel I love the ZAP
wallet has it? You tap it's you can tap between Fiat and
sometimes you can tap between Bitcoin of course, a lot of
zeros after after the decimal. So I do think in SATs I do think
that way. I think it's handy to know what it really is. And so
to have that underneath it for in the ZAP wallet, it's even
grayed out. It does. It has no it has. It's very subjective to
the to the Satoshi amount.
Well, I go back Back and forth. And I just look, as long as I
know roughly what Bitcoin in US dollars is, if it's the if it's
50,000 per $50,000 per Bitcoin at the moment. Yeah,
that, you know, it's been I know, I'm
Yeah, I know that I'm good with my standard boost amounts, I
mean, 2112, and things like that. And once it starts
creeping up, like, yeah, near 70,000, I have to read and
reassess. Yes, yes, yeah.
Well, but I think it's, but there's that angle. But also,
you know, when we said, hey, it's great that you're sending
us 1000s Of SATs, but we're, you know, we were having difficulty
keeping the lights on. That's just because people don't really
think about it, which is good. Because you want people to see
it as a game. I mean, as a mechanism, a loop, something you
can participate in. But when it comes to pure value, it's
important people understand what value they're sending. And I
think that kind of got lost. The other way to do it is to limit
booster grams to certain amounts, which I'm not a big fan
of, but you have to go with this project and this podcast, I
don't think we'll ever have to do that. Because we will never
get the audience. It's not intended for the for the for an
audience of massive proportion.
And by the way, we have no idea how many people listen, this
show no,
don't care,
don't know, don't
don't care, I really don't care, when all I see is Sat streaming
in every single minute of every single hour of the day. That's
listening.
That's what you're you are on the new media show. And that's
one of the things that Todd said he was like, you know, what's
the biggest most important thing that every podcaster cares about
every podcaster? And his answer was growth.
And enlight. And I said, No, what the hell is that? What is
growth?
Yeah, that's what you said, you're like, what does that even
mean? But as long as you have the income you need to pay to
pay your bills, and the things are good, and you're going in
the right direction. You're not tanking. Like, why does it
matter? How many, it only matters in the context of
advertising? Yep. And if that's what it means, that's where you
want to go, that's fine. But you're hitching yourself to that
horse and when you're staying up all night worried about your
growth?
That's a good point.
We're worried about booster grams.
Exactly. Or you just walk around the house and you're like, you
know, I wonder how the podcast is, oh, I'm sorry. It's doing
just fine. People are listening.
5000 sets from C dubs through the breeze app. And he says
thanks for the value. C dubs Thank you see. One more of the
one more chemistry blogger.
I was waiting for the for the the hat trick.
The trifecta says third of this week greetings from chemistry
blogger to Dave Jones and AC and anybody interested in artificial
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I love pod. I love comics for bloggers been in my life longer
than you've been in my life. But he always does this kind of
stuff. It's like to just send us 10,000 SATs and we'll make a big
deal out of your podcast and now he's now it's just gonna be
three times we read the same message. That's I understand
that from an engineering standpoint, that's how
advertising works. Repeat the message.
Long message to repeat that. I think that works better on like
jingles. One 804 You know, like cars for killing it works better
with a well the paragraph.
Right? So we appreciate it. I'm just suggesting it's just a
creative note. Is this all it is?
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that means hasn't heard that.
Yeah. And you know, I think I can figure out this tally coin
QR code and I can just hand it off to you. I know I know you're
strapped for time.
Next I've got plenty of time today as I'm as I'm you know
flopping on the couch.
I all I want you to do is, is get under the covers have some
chicken soup, a little bit of Scotch scotch.
Somebody else. Twitter said the other day, I thought the cure
for a cold was chicken soup in bed rest and not communism.
How have you seen the latest this? Okay, just as let's do
some political stuff. Dave, this will be funny. Have you seen the
latest trend on Twitter? CDC says? Yes. Larry, I this is this
is you know what's happened here is people are all of a sudden
the scales are falling from their eyes. Yeah, a biblical
reference, I believe. And
they are freaking it when that CDC dropped that thing from 10
days to five days. It did the Yeah, Twitter collectively lost
his MA.
CDC says Red Bull doesn't give you wings. So go ahead and jump
off that bridge and does give you wings and go ahead and jump
off that bridge. CDC says you can start at 69 bottles of beer
on the wall. That's funny. Let's see. He says my CDC says go
ahead and mess around with Jim
The CDC recommends neither milk nor lemon should be added to
Earl Grey tea. CDC says
Just rub some dirt on it. I mean, this is this is so funny.
This is this is where you this is what it's like to lose
control of the narrative.
Oh, yeah, it's
it's out of control. It's Oh, I heard it. I heard it. That was a
10 set boost. For no agenda. From Dean Neil. Oops.
Well, you know what you're gonna have to have you're gonna have
to filter. That's great. No, no, no. A panel a screen in in the
in the bunk in the bunker in the podcast, but Scuse me?
Do you want me to feel bad? Do you want me to send you a
picture? Because I know Yeah, sure. Remember, I'm not running
it on an anvil or pi. I'm running it on a Surface Pro six.
Oh, so
it's in there? Oh, yeah.
Oh, no, when the booster Graham was. So I have. I have it loaded
now on the machine here in front of me because I can just hit the
IP address. So I so so when it hits here, and then it hits the
sound board. I have one over by so I have a big monitor like a
huge, crazy thing. And I got the Bitcoin chart. I've got my times
and I actually have the fediverse open, which is
basically flashing porn. Enemy porn all day. And it's kind of
cool. I love that because it refreshes automatically when
something new comes in. And sometimes you catch a news item.
Oh, that's interesting. And then to the right of that is like my
scrolling news ticker. And then to the right of that is the
Surface Pro six and right front and center is the is heli pad.
Awesome. I'll make a picture.
Yeah, yeah, I want I want to see the commandcentral.
Yeah. CDC, CDC says you can put pizza pineapple on pizza. Haha.
Good. I'm glad. I'm glad that's finally settled.
Breaking news, CDC announces is now acceptable to talk about
fight club. I want to hear about the test scam thing. They're
gonna put a new firmware.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, so I had a great call with Did I talk about the
call I had with Tascam with Japan?
Yeah, you told me about that. But then you said they may be
doing like a firmware release, and then maybe hardware? And
yeah, so
um, so William got back to me. And he said, Adam, you know,
great news, we had a firmware release. And, you know, there's
a couple things in here, I know you like, which is now you can
put the effects on all microphones. Now, I had asked
not for all microphones, but for all channels. So I'm not sure if
it'll also be on the USB. And he says you can now also regulate
gain on the USB channels, which was a big problem. Of course, it
really needs to be processing. He said, But all of this is just
stuff that was kind of semi planned, he says for this coming
year, so I'm not quite sure what it'll be called. But it'll be
it'll either be mixed cast fi or mixed cast for Mark Two or
whatever. He says we intend to fully implement everything you
suggested.
So that they get it, they get it?
Well, it's all it's old engineering guys. You know, they
get it and what is so impressive about this company is that the
the head of product is, I would say millennial woman who's super
sharp. She trust these guys. Now she has an engineering
background. So she she knows what she's talking about, but
she trusts their experience. One of created, you know, old, a
couple of the old boss stompboxes you know, these guys
go back they go back in, in music and technology so and
she's very accepting of, of their input. And you know, no
chip on the shoulder. They're very impressive.
I like it. Yes, that's encouraging this occurred.
I'm pumped about it. Now. This is a long road. And it was kind
of interesting. Good. William said, Hey, and then you know, we
can talk about and I'm like, what I want is I want to have
the pod father signature addition with you know, with
platinum trim or some shit like that. And I Okay, and he's,
yeah, we can look at some cross marketing opportunities. That's
no money. All right. Well, so much for that. It doesn't
matter. We'll get the box. I just want the box. I really do.
But
so the bucks and then you have to buy it with with lightning.
You have to buy with us.
Yeah, yeah.
So that's now says that Whitney Houston does not want to dance
with I could do this.
Believe me, the curry household is doing it all morning. Oh,
look at this. And you have to be at the other side of the room
just laughing my what is it? What does the CDC say? Alright,
hey, this is the last show of the year. Dave. It's been a it's
been a phenomenal year. Thank you for your friendship. Thank
you for your partnership. Thank you for your courage. And, and
your your your time, talent and treasure because you're putting
it in just equally, if not more than most.
Yeah, but it's been it's been a joy. Man, it's been great doing
this with with you for going on two years now. And we're going
we're gonna pair a year and a half and we get I mean, 2022 I
feel like things are gonna get even more interesting. Like,
because we may my my plan is, you know, at least in January is
to start working on the podcast or wallet and wiring it up to to
our Elon pay node and trying to get trying to get some stuff go
and where people can just onboard.
Yes. And also thank you to Eric, Eric Mackey, who's more silent
than anything in the partnership but he's he's keeping us honest,
keeping us in on track and a lot of stuff that he's been thinking
about and working on will come to bear in the with the wallet
side. Yeah, particularly for reporting statistics,
extraction, etc, etc.
So usually I'll throw something into the signal and into the
signal chat and then I know if if Eric does not come back and
shoot it down immediately. They're good to go.
Exactly. Okay, we made it Yeah, perfect. All right, everybody.
Thank you all all members of the board as well. For a fantastic
year. 2022 Who knew who the heck knows but it's gonna be a fun
ride. It always is. And we'll see you next week the first one
of the new year podcasts into porno. Have a great weekend,
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