Random Talk! Finding Motivation – Gaming Chairs – Fast Food Lawsuits

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To myself whether or not I even want to talk about anything tonight or if I want to go straight into the emails and quite frankly I can’t really make up my mind you know sometimes can you talk about something sure should you or do you want to that’s a totally different thing alt

Together yeah I don’t know there’s a lot that I could talk about but do I even really want to I’ll give you my answer the answer is no I don’t I really don’t want to you know there there’s a lot that I could but

Uh no I just don’t want to so I’m not going to talk about anything today let’s just go right into the uh fan mail segment then if you have any questions comments pieces of feedback topic suggestions this is an open Forum at this point so you could ask me or share

Whatever you’d like and I’ll try my best to get to it on air in the next show you could always reach out to me with any questions comments topic suggestions pieces of feedback I should mention right off the bat before getting into the emails Sorry by the way in regards to

The show and perhaps as some have messaged me the punctuality or lack thereof I wish I could just make up some sort of excuse and uh make it sound perhaps a bit better than it is but the simple fact of the matter and I guess I’ll just I’ll tell it like it is

Whether or not it costs me the motivation to do this just hasn’t hasn’t really been there uh which is why this one took a while I don’t know there’s just it’s not to say I don’t like doing this it’s just there hasn’t been any drive to Do it For

Better or For Worse make a that what you will but that’s just the the truth but nonetheless I looked at the calendar and I said I guess I should just get myself to the microphone and uh go ahead with it and uh that precisely is what I’m

Doing now but there’s no good excuse there’s no reason just the there’s no motivation I I don’t know why but that’s the that’s where it stands but nonetheless I guess there still is a little bit of motivation because here I am nonetheless all right this first

Email I’m not going to read the entire thing U mostly because some of the information the sender thereof I’ll I’ll omit but uh I’ll offer a few thoughts on it nonetheless because it’s something that I do remember and uh do uh find interesting but uh I’ll just offer a couple generic

Comments mostly I know you just wanted to send me something so I I get it but uh I’ll partially get to this so it comes in from Jason and uh the gist of the email paraphrasing essentially reads do you remember Orca man I remember in the early days of your VW broadcasts he

Would write to you all the time then over time he gradually fell away have you heard anything from him recently so thank you Jason it’s good to hear from you I know you’ve been a regular listener yourself and I know you’ve been with the channel the while

So thanks for uh sticking with it all these years as both a viewer and a listener yes I remember Orca man he is probably at least for some listeners uh one of the most memorable correspondents this show ever had mostly because of his extremely unique uh writing style and extremely

Unique uh extremely unique content of his messages I can’t say that uh despite obviously being the program that he wrote to and correspond haed with I can’t say that I really know all that much about him really the extent of it is what he sent me I read and that’s all

That there is to it uh but for those of you who don’t know I’ve been doing this show uh not quite for a decade but for nine years at this point and uh the maale bag segment has always been a regular feature uh from the very start I’ve welcomed listener correspondence

And I would read and respond to whatever would come in and uh over the years of course many many people have wrote in there was a time obviously this feature doesn’t exist anymore but YouTube had a message system and uh for a while that’s just

What I used I said just send me a message on YouTube and I’ll read it eventually I switch switched to email and I would operate the two in conjunction I would say all right you could send in a message on YouTube or an email then eventually I switched to

Email only and obviously because YouTube got rid of the message system so there really wasn’t a choice eventually so originally he started uh messaging on YouTube that was the primary means upon which he would I just started getting these mess me from a guy who would sign off as Orca

Man and there’s nothing Sinister about this there was you know so it’s not like this is some sort of creepy thing it was highly amusing actually but uh he would just write in these uh in a very again unique distinct style these almost nonsensical messages with an equally

Nonsensical sort of storyline there too uh just no context totally out of the blue but I would just roll with it and I would just read it because I mean what the heck uh it livened things up a little bit and I’d often uh sarcastically retor but uh as far as I

See it it was mere banter and uh nothing more and uh an enjoyable time had by all so it was like I got a kick out of it so did uh many listeners again obviously those who uh were listeners at the time remember him and he was indeed a regular

Listener again primarily uh sending the correspondence on YouTube I think was most active in 2014 but then again that’s when I was most active I had way more energy then and I was able to do more programs and uh it was a very regular thing but I

Never knew who he was you know just a worker man eventually as the show continued there was sole correspondence from him through 2015 and even 2016 eventually uh moving to email as that eventually at the time became the sole means to correspond with the program I

Know there was a time time in like 2016 there was someone else who went by the name Dragon man uh who I believe had similar messages but I don’t know if that was actually orcam man operating under an alias or if that was a different uh person like a copycat of

Sorts because it wasn’t very long lived I did some searching and the last I ever heard from Oram man was in early 2020 uh same style as ever but that was that that was the last time again I ever heard from Oram man so early 2020 but certainly that’s a listener

Right there that I’ll never forget and again a lot of the longtime listeners never will either but uh no it never um never bothered me and I was always under the impression that orand was a very eccentric character and uh not a troll or anything

But heck it was so original what do I even care it’s like like I said it livened everything up and no one really had any objection so and you know there were like one or two listeners in 2014 I remember that said oh you know don’t um you shouldn’t

Respond to him you shouldn’t cater to this Etc but I thought you know what the heck there’s really no harm being done from this so I’ll you know keep it up obviously within reason it’s not like he was dominating the show or anything it’s

Not like it was the Orca man hour it was just very uh unique feedback that periodically came in so hope that uh provided a little Clarity again I really don’t know much about it myself so that’s really the extent of what I even know Josh is checking in longtime fan of

The YouTube channel as well as the podcast I found great joy in using your long format podcasts and the radio shows to relax and unwind after long days of making a living in this crazy world please continue to produce these gems you certainly are a natural born

Broadcaster and do a fantastic job well thank you Josh continuing my question comes after recently rewatching the CNN Money video that featured you in the piece it is mentioned at the time you were a college student and I would like to know what you chose to study in

College and if you graduated and did you enjoy your college experience any comments and Reflections you had on your Collegiate days would certainly have be of interest to me personally I graduated this spring with a BS in finance and I had a great experience at a major

University here in Kentucky it took me a couple of extra years to graduate as I changed my major a few times and struggled some during the pandemic however I believe through the power of prayer I was able to overcome these difficulties I highly recommend the college experience as I thoroughly

Enjoyed learning new ideas meeting new friends and moving away from home so it was certainly worth it for me hope you and everyone listening has a fantastic day well thank you Josh again for your your question and your kind words of support so that’s a correct observation

Yes during the uh CNN Money interview that I did back in 201 uh 16 I did mention College and I was a student at the time I will say I did not graduate so people can say what they want about me and uh all of that but

Again I never claim to be a genius either I say what I say as I say it my opinions are my own but again I never pretend to know everything and uh really it had to do with the fact that the YouTube channel uh both started to

Gain traction uh the fact that I was going through some life problems at the time as well that really took away from being able to focus on any studies and at the same time a general sense of direction less uh that I had as well and I made the choice taking everything into

Account uh to take a bit of a Gamble but to uh at first take a break focus on the YouTube see what happens and then take it from there but being that uh the Youtube channel was able to essentially Thrive uh then I’ve you know I’ve been able to go from there

Obviously college is one of those things that it’s uh you know it’s right for a lot of people again there’s a lot of instances where you have to have that piece of paper to uh even be considered employable in many circumstances but uh you know I really

Don’t believe that anyone is the scum of the earth if they’ve taken a break if they dropped out or if they decided it’s just not for them and they prefer to pursue a different lifestyle that’s you know there’s some people that again I believe conditioned

Perhaps to think that you are a trash if you don’t but I don’t see it that way you know if you want to look harshly speaking I know at something that might be worthless trash uh you could say that about a lot of degrees except for the

Fact that you’re going to find yourself in a lot of debt as well perhaps but U again you know I understand that there has to be a degree of Competency for certain undertakings I get that so it’s a way I get it I understand why but I just don’t think it’s

Something that everyone should be forced into and there’s plenty of people who I think can have a a fruitful successful and uh fulfilling life without going now that’s not to say again that oh I just I never went or this or that uh I was there I had many classes under my belt

And I was also able to get a feel for things and it was helpful in that way so I was going to go into broadcasting but it was through actually the uh college experience that I was able to determine that at least formal broadcasting to the extent that it was

Taught there wasn’t for me now I should add uh radio broadcasting was not an emphasis it was a bit of a part but a lot of it involved production and screen time as well but I took uh a number of classes I took uh various public speaking classes I took various

Communications classes I took classes in production both audio but especially again visual I took television production classes and broadcast journalism classes a number of those as well as some of the other you know basic stuff um writing and literature mathematics uh I did take some criminal justice classes as well because i’ had

Always been an interest as well as history but again it was through especially those television classes the production aspect wasn’t too bad it was it could be nerve-wracking at times it was very fastpaced and there was a whole lot that you had to take into account at the time very

Quickly but it wasn’t bad the problem though was number one the amount of energy needed to keep up with all of this was beyond my uh capability and secondly and I realized this really quick you need to be an extrovert to thrive in this and I am not so I was able to

Realize that at least but it just I realized it’s not for me so I do this you know on my own I do it the way I I want to do it and a way that I’m able to do it but you know it provided some insight in that

Regard each class of course was different each Professor had a different style As We Know uh there are some professors that might be a bit old school and will just they’re there to teach the lesson and uh actually stick to the subject matter uh but there are other individuals I remember this

Distinctly that yeah what they say about college is true sometimes that you’ll get some professors that seem more interested in uh imparting their beliefs on you and trying to make you feel certain ways about certain things then they are trying to uh enrich you with any sort of

Curriculum and that’s a shame I really you know I think there’s other places where that sort of stuff belongs but I always felt anyway that there needs to be a reasonable line drawn between you know education and uh any sort of pontificating at least excessive it’s like I thought this was supposed to

Be a class about literature and writing not a class to try to tell you uh how you should Vote or how you should feel about this politician or that or whatever but it’s you know it is what it is I just You’ think a higher education institution would be better than

That but you know it’s how it is everywhere but you know you just try to exercise common sense I try to stay out of a lot of that stuff read the room because you know otherwise it’ll just come around and and bite you you it just

Won’t help you any I remember once in the public speaking class there was this one student as uh and I don’t know if he was doing this if he was just Brazen or if he just couldn’t read the room well I remember he uh his final speech was in regards to

Immigration and his whole argument was essentially diametrically opposed to the obvious views of the professor and he did not have a friendly room I’ll tell you that and the professor was directly combative with him even though he spoke eloquently and fluently you know it was more of a a

Political fight if you will than anything else now then again you could you you could spin it a couple ways some people wouldn’t have a problem with that they’d say yeah it is part of the learning experience and uh they’re providing insightful uh perspective on social issues there are other people that might

Say shouldn’t be for the Professor to share their opinions like this that have nothing to do with the subject matter of the class and then other people still could say well this guy knew what he was getting into and he knew that he might not have a friendly audience so he got

What was coming but again every class was different and uh you know some folks were more nuanced than others don’t really have a problem with that everyone could have their opinions but it was just the in-your-face stuff you know and and I mostly I stayed on the sidelines

For that as far as my peers were concerned uh I was mostly just a loner kept to myself I didn’t have any friends I sure didn’t do the Greek life as they call it so I wasn’t I didn’t even live there I would commute there every day or whenever I had

Classes and uh yeah it’s not like I was a frat boy or something can you even imagine that me as a a frat boy so it’s not like you would be finding me uh totally blacked out drunk laying in the bathtub at uh 4 a.m. or or

Something so I didn’t do any of that I I mostly was just there to take the classes and then go home immediately thereafter I really didn’t Linger on any uh they had radio station that I at first was curious about but then I realized it was just online only and uh

My interest kind of went away after that I was hoping it would have been terrestrial broadcast but it wasn’t and again at the time no one gave me any problems no one talked to me you know so it was very um you know matter of fact again I was there for the class

And then go home after that I wore the suits I did I would usually go there in a always a full suit sometimes a three-piece suit you know i’ have a briefcase I would carry around and uh if it was cold I’d wear a long black

Overcoat if it was rainy I’d wear a tan trench coat but um I always wore what essentially you’d expect me to wear and again no one gave me any problems I figure people must have thought oh must have a job or something and uh you know has to do that afterward or

Whatever uh later on about a year or two ago and it’s like it wouldn’t surprise me if this were true and it wouldn’t surprise me if this is just one of those kinds of people cuz you know there are some people out there who are jerks and they’ll do these sorts

Of things things even as a way of either a subtle attack or a form of psychological uh manipulation or abuse or whatever who knows where it’s like they’ll say it’ll be a backhanded compliment and uh I’ll give the example and it’ll kind of speak for itself there was someone who

Uh said about a year or two ago oh yeah I remember I went to college with review bra and I didn’t know that he did the YouTube I didn’t even uh know what he did in life but I remember in uh my text groups we would all talk about what a

Loser and a creep and a weirdo he is but I never thought he was that it’s like so you see what I mean it’s like yeah we were all saying how much of a worthless loser and creep you are but I didn’t think you were that it’s like

So maybe he’s just speaking the truth it wouldn’t surprise me knowing how people are I believe it I’m sure many many things have been said about me behind my back and I accept it but it could also be one of those times where the person

Is just kind of saying that to be a jerk and then you know after all that eventually said oh but you know I’m glad the YouTube took off and that’s great to see so I thought to myself oh gee thanks and that was that who knows maybe the person didn’t have the best

Communication I don’t know there were two emails that actually came in and I don’t often do this but when they’re so similar I suppose it’s just something that I I’ll think of essentially how to uh handle it because two messages came through of course both of them different

I.E they were from different people and obviously had the differences so it’s not as though they were the first um so this sort of situation it happens from time to time and I always try to think to myself how to I suppose deal with with it because occasionally I will get multiple

Emails that are so similar in nature even though they’re obviously from different people and I think right what should I do should I just respond to them individually or collectively in this case I will do so collectively and I I just preface this by saying it’s not because oh I just

Don’t want to deal with this or oh uh your email Isn’t important Etc it’s just I would be giving the same answer to both of them and uh it would just be redundant if that makes any sense so paraphrasing because they both have their you know specificities but they would

Uh again yield the answer and I will say this this goes out to Lucas who uh checked in and also to an anonymous listener disappointingly after all of this sort of preface my response is not going to be I don’t think what uh you were hoping for

And that’s not I I know that’s not of fun feeling right if you’re going through something and you’re looking for advice or insight and then you’re told I can’t help you or I don’t know it’s like well you know it’s disappointing I understand I’ve had those situations myself but

Uh the reason why I say that is because because I’m in the same situation that’s why I can’t offer any assistance because I I have the same problem and uh I don’t know how to get out of it so I I really just don’t uh I

Don’t know what to say you both wrote in and again paraphrasing I’m feeling lost in life right I don’t really know what to do with my life I don’t know what sort of path there is ahead of me in life time obviously keeps ticking away but things just aren’t nothing’s really coming together

Things aren’t making sense it doesn’t feel like oh I should do this or that you know it’s like there’s no established path right there might be certain things that all right guess I have to do this or that but it’s like is that what I really want to do in

Life is that what I want to do with my time and then you think well what do what do I want to do with my life what do I want to be in life and there’s no answer and it’s like you’ll look at other people you’ll think to yourself

How could they have things so figured out how could they be so sure of themselves and their life situation and they make it seem so easy yet here I am and I’m just utterly lost so I got two emails like that again both with uh you know differing certain

Differing aspects but the key question is the same two folks just asked well I’m feeling lost in life and uh have you any advice I don’t I I wish I did and I wish I didn’t have to say it in those harsh terms I don’t I have no

Advice because that’s how I feel too now some people might think boy that’s real Rich coming from the person who uh sits there and does the YouTube for a living that’s true that’s true if it weren’t for this YouTube channel and this podcast and radio show

I I do not know I literally do not know what I would be doing with my life I have no answer I I still don’t know I’ve pondered this years and years and years and it hasn’t gotten any clearer hasn’t gotten any easier and uh I am none the wiser none

Whatsoever you have people that say oh it’ll emerge in time well it hasn’t for me thanks to Pure Luck I’ve been able to find something that I can say okay this is what I do with my life but aside from that if it weren’t for that pure luck I I haven’t an answer

I would be just as lost something I’ve wondered through middle school high school the time I spent in college after that I and I haven’t gotten any more definitive response the only thing I ever learned uh through through some college is the one thing that I thought maybe I could

Do I realized no I don’t want to do that I wish there were something I could say to help you out but how can I say something when I’m in the same situation I just don’t know all I can say is that I hope that either just through dumb luck

Coincidence divine intervention whatever you want to call it that something just clicks one day and uh it all starts making sense I just sincerely hope that because that lost feeling it’s no fun of course it’s frustrating it could be almost helpless and hopeless and uh and I I don’t know how to

Uh I just don’t know I don’t know because the only reason that I’m not in that situation again is by pure luck if it weren’t for everything that happened precisely as it did I’d be in the same spot there’s nothing I can say that oh yeah just do

This and this and think about this and do this thought exercise Etc I don’t know the only thing that I could perhaps think is just I don’t know think about expectations and uh obligations perhaps you know think in terms of your situation do I feel confined because of a sense of

Obligation because of by that I mean well my family wants me to pursue this um this pathway so if I don’t become a doctor or a lawyer or an accountant or over a banker or something uh then they’re going to be disappointed in me so I have to do

This is that something that might be uh stifling things perhaps if you removed that sort of sense of obligation would things get easier it’s like let’s say I’m just using this as an example let’s say being a truck driver legitim appeals to you and it’s like yeah that seems like it could be

Pretty pretty cool I enjoy driving I can I can go through all that and get the certification and uh might not be the richest person in the world but I think I’d actually enjoy this and it would give me a sense of uh fulfillment in

Life but my parents want me to be a six to seven figure earning white collar worker and not a trucker it’s like is that something that you’re dealing with you know I don’t know I don’t know I wish I had a better answer it’s like maybe it would have been better if

I just uh skipped those two emails and then at least you could think well maybe he just didn’t get to them cuz he’s too busy might be a better feeling than to have them addressed and pretty much say I can’t help you I don’t know but you know I would feel bad otherwise

I wish I could be of more help and I’m afraid I can’t be this might sound stupid but you know I would advise I’m sure you have but just keep trying you know Google things like what to do if I’m feeling directionless in life and uh see if

Anything comes up that maybe could be of any help I don’t know I just hope things get better for you Ethan is is just checking in with a short comment said enjoyed the recent podcast and I’m eagerly awaiting the next shortwave broadcast so thanks Ethan for your kind words

There this listener writes I was hurt hello review bra you hurt me when I was listening to you and you said something like 80% of us listeners are asleep right now how are you hurt by that exactly when I’m just tell telling it like it is that’s the

Truth you could you could you could even just look online and you’ll see thing after thing where uh people say yeah I was I listen to this to fall asleep etc etc so and I get email after email about that too and I I see comment after

Comment so how is there anything false about that if anything you should be proud you should say well I’m in the the 20% uh that was up to actually hear that you were the only person that even caught that remark so I I think you should be giving yourself a pat on the

Back and you should be saying I’m one of the few that was even awakened coherent to be uh be listening to to hear that so there’s no reason to feel hurt if anything you know think about it this way how would you feel if you did a show

Only to have most of your audience be so bored by it that they literally sleep through the whole thing it’s like how would that make you feel now me I don’t care but I will state the fact and the facts are what they are but there’s no reason to feel

Hurt again you are I’d say be and I say this genuinely not even sarcastically be proud you you were one of the few that even picked up on that so I say that sincerely uh think about it this way you’re part of the 20% that actually heard that or less

Perhaps so there’s no offense meant by that and I stand completely by what I said this is a unique question I don’t know if it’s ever been asked but before but I’ll answer it marold in Springfield Illinois right I recently purchased an expensive gaming chair from the company fantasy

Lab despite the pain of assembling it I found it to be incredibly comfortable easily one of the best purchases I’ve made in recent years I wish I had not spent so much on it but I ultimately feel it was a smart choice for me my question is how do you feel about expensive

Office chairs SL gaming chairs do you think they are worth price or are they overrated thanks so much for the content you make you make my long commutes so much more enjoyable so thank you for your question there it’s an interesting one I think that it’s an individual thing I think if you

Decide okay this is a priority of mine and everything will be substantially better if I get this chair then it may be a worthwhile purchase but it depends on your priorities I don’t do the gaming chair sort of thing and uh personally I can only speak for

Myself I would save my money I wouldn’t buy one how much do they go for I found it fantasy lab chair what do they they have a lot to choose from it looks like big and tall gaming chair oh let’s see let’s go with this one what do what do they go for

Okay about 240 it’s actually not as bad as I thought actually the price for these chairs isn’t um not necessarily as steep as I as I figured which is a good thing most Furniture you know it comes out a price that’s the thing what on Earth is this this thing looks like that

I’ll say it anyway looked like that uh what even is this looked like that submersible so I looked up a gaming chair right I was going through these things that were being sold and it seems like the general price for the gaming chair granted you know it’s hierarchal it’s between like1 and U

$300 so I’m going down and then all of a sudden there’s this thing that comes up that’s $12,600 I’m looking and the thing at first it looks like a tent but then it’s like you know it’s rounded and it just has this little tiny port hole looking tiny little like window on

One end and it has these little tracks almost on the bottom and I’m thinking this looks like that’s submersible you know I can’t I don’t know what to call it otherwise looks like the same size and shape but the thing is 12 to $155,000 this is this is not a gaming chair why did it even come up then Hyperbaric vertical chamber why did that even come up as a gaming chair I don’t know guess that kind of makes sense why it has a similar design to sort of that submersible so it’s a hyperbaric

Chamber like I guess it’s good to know that I could buy that and uh I guess I could crawl inside that thing and do the the VW shows inside of that if I had if I won the lottery well that was odd guess that’s what happens with search results

Sometimes anyway I got off topic so uh you know gaming chairs and office chairs and all of that it really comes down to one’s uh one’s priorities there’s nothing wrong with one I think it’s important uh to be comfortable you just have to find uh the right one right

Preferably really look at the reviews and if you have an opportunity to actually test something that would be that or uh you know Word of Mouth recommendations but again it’s important to be comfortable as for me maybe I shouldn’t have done this but there were times

Where uh my chair was uh a folding chair like a metal folding chair and uh that’s all that I’d use and uh I’m not even talking that long ago and you know I would sit on that for hours and hours uh would it be uncomfortable yeah but I would do it and

Uh I don’t know I was just of the it was like yeah well it works you know it’s like it’s good enough for me but I’ve since upgraded but I don’t use even a swivel chair I just have a regular chair but it’s comfortable it’s nice so that’s all I

Need I’m really not a fan of like office chairs I like the ones that just have four legs and uh you know I don’t really I’m not one to roll around and stuff it’s like I’ll just get up and you know walk about Etc so again it depends on one’s preference and

Priorities and uh I’ve have no objection I understand it’s important to be comfortable it’s an individual thing but it sounds like I think you made a good purchase and uh I just hope that it lasts you know for a sufficient period of time and it remains to your liking so

Thanks for your question there this video I’ve gotten sent you don’t know how many times so many the Big Iron one I’ve gotten that sent hundreds of times at this point so Garrett in Lynchberg Tennessee sent the uh Big Iron the AI cover that they did and uh you’ve been

Seeing these more and more where uh you know various programs will take a voice sample from an individual and uh we plug it into an AI and it you know it doesn’t get everything right but the more it has to go off of then the more likely that it’ll be at least somewhat

Accurate and they’ll get you know various uh you know figures to uh sing or say things that they wouldn’t otherwise for instance they’ve had like you see this stuff so for instance this one was review brings Big Iron by Marty Robins then you’ve got other ones Hank Hill

Big Iron AI cover Careless Whisper Frank Sinatra AI cover Joe Biden sings Johnny Cash Hurt Homer Simpson sings Big Iron by Marty Robins Frank Sinatra sings Gangsters Paradise SpongeBob characters sing Highway Man by the highway man and you know it goes on and on Johnny Cash sings Barbie

Girl I was waiting for this I thought when do they is there going to be one where they TR where they try to get Hitler to sing it and uh yeah Adolf Hitler sings Billy Jean by Michael Jackson I knew that was coming and uh so on and so forth so

That’s been a thing lately you know a bit of a trend and uh I’m sure it makes for some amusing entertaining videos so that established you ask the question this makes me question just how advanced AIS are becoming and how fast they are able to adapt to these

Situations do you think there will come a day where AIS can perform Advanced roles like college professors military Consultants or CEOs of companies if an AI can become so Advanced as to perfectly recreate a song using someone else’s voice and take into consideration whether the pitch is

Higher or lower I believe it is on the way to performing at a high level enough for these said positions so thank you Garett in Lynchberg Tennessee uh it all depends you know my view of AI at this point still is that it has yet to gain sentience right so by

That I mean it’s simply an algorithm of sorts where it is uh being provided certain variables and certain uh information and it then is uh reacting there from if it’s provided with enough variables and enough input right then the output could get more sophisticated but I don’t believe it is

Capable yet of making original decisions uh free from said input you know it’s just essentially still just making basic decisions from the information provided so could it uh per se perform some of these tasks I believe it could but I don’t believe it’s necessarily making original

Decisions it’s just going off of and in cyclopedic knowledge and in a sense is making calculations off of that so the output would reflect the input in many cases may that be good enough perhaps but I still believe it could only do so much and I just don’t think

AI is at the point yet uh where it is something that it is totally sentient in nature it’s just reacting off of the stimuli provided perhaps quite intricately uh in a way that people may think that it is you know self-aware and uh is uh capable of thought Etc but I

Don’t believe it is that doesn’t mean that it isn’t a troubling thing as I feel that it is and I feel that uh a lot of people are getting utterly screwed over by it and that’s only going to increase and uh a lot of people are going to get crushed

By it and there’s nothing that can be done that’s the future we did this to ourselves and now we have to reap what we have sewn and uh you know so when a lot of people if it continues to expand and uh I could see it getting to

A point or even if it winds up being subpar it’ll be determined okay it’s cheaper to have this so you’re out of a job now and the AI is going to take your job uh we can’t say that we didn’t see this coming and uh a lot of people will be

Utterly screwed over by it but we’ve done this to ourselves we caused this problem and if it eats Us Alive look we W this upon us we didn’t have to do this we did we did it we did it and uh uh we will suffer the consequences as I’ve said in previous

Programs this is a technology we aren’t deserving of We aren’t even deserving of the internet in my opinion but we have it there’s nothing we can do about that this is you know life and the nature of uh of things right where they stand but

Uh now our own creation May uh very well destroy us and uh that’s the uncomfortable reality that we just have to accept and we have to deal with it it’s unfortunate but that’s just my view so enjoy the entertainment I’d say make the most of it but

Uh I think I think we’ve really we’ve really done it this time that’s just my opinion I don’t think that it’s Advanced to the point where it’s going to be like the Terminator and it’s all going to uh rebel against us in that way it’s just

We’re going to be the ones doing it ourselves it’s like it’s like if we have a room full of Clueless people who have never even understood this concept before and they conceive a firearm and they create it and they load it with bullets and they are aware okay this

Will shoot a projectile at a high speed uh which will either if hit be fatal or uh extremely damaging to us but they think oh look at that though it makes such a loud noise and uh it’s cool to blow things up with it and uh then you know they’re just messing around

With it and they all wind up killing each other with it it’s like well they understood what it could do but those are just my thoughts thank you for your question Eric in Silver Spring Maryland longtime listener first time writer I hope you are well recently I

Came across a YouTube video that shows people who are able to do unique things with their hands and or feet in terms of dexterity uh particularly if they’re trying to compensate for the decrease in their ability uh to use some of their extremities my question is have you any

Particular talents involving your hands or feet uh that you consider in terms of dexterity to be unique thank you for your time and appreciate your consideration so thank you Eric in Silver Spring Maryland interesting question I wouldn’t call it unique um because many other people can do this

Too but I I can say that as far as my hands are concerned I do know that as far as the uh let’s say maneuverability you know as far as bending my fingers uh can be somewhat higher in terms of the range upon which

It can be done than some as far as my feet are concerned uh I do have the ability with my toes uh to be able to pick things up but you know as far as being able to let’s say pick up a pen and then write my name with it I can’t

Do that I could just perhaps pick up the pen but that’s about it um I couldn’t say with practice could the outcome be different I I really don’t know I’ve never practiced enough to say one way or another but as far as my feet are concerned again with my toes I can pick

Things up with them but I wouldn’t necessarily call that ability unique it’s just something that I know I I can do so thank you there for your question all right this listener has two questions one on a scale of 1 to 10 how annoying is it to have to come up with

Algorithm friendly video titles I’d imagine it’s a grit my teeth and just type it out sort of thing uh so first let’s see I’m not the biggest fan of it I mean it’s not it’s annoying but I’ve gotten used to it I have essentially a bit of a

Process that uh makes it all easy you know and just doable on my end so it’s you know it could be worse I’ll tell you that so as far as coming up with the video titles out of 10 as far as annoying wise goes I’d say it’s

A you know does it bother me yeah but it’s certainly not the worst thing in the world I’d say it’s like a with 10 out of 10 being the most annoying I would say it’s like a four out of 10 used to bother me more but once I’ve

Gotten so used to it it’s like okay I could deal with it the most annoying thing to be honest are uh dealing with some of the folks that just that don’t understand that it’s the it’s the nature of things that it has to be done because

It’s like I mean I understand it I mean I know where they’re coming from I used to be that way myself where it was like you know sure the algorithm stuff the uh exaggerative titles Etc yeah it gets tiresome and I get it I don’t like the

Clickbait stuff either but when this is the reason why you’ve got a roof over your head you’d be a fool not to play the game at least to an extent you know you you you just have to sometimes and uh I try not to go overboard but if for

Instance I have people in the comments that’ll occasionally say why can’t you just go back to the types of titles that you used to do back in 2011 for instance where it was just every video I did was titled energy crisis energy drink review

And that was it and I get that but no one would watch the videos if every single review that I did was just titled Running on Empty Food review and there is nothing else this would be a dead Channel and you get these people that

Try to tell me that as if this is some sort of brilliant idea and then try to Guilt Trip me for not doing that but uh it’s like I try to explain it to them and then they just get very vulgar and hostile that’s the most annoying thing they just don’t get

It but uh it’s like yeah if I if if I didn’t have to do the algorithm friendly stuff I wouldn’t but it is what it is you know I have have to like I said you’d be stupid not to so I still try to you know balance

Things out it’s like I’ll give a couple examples and I’m recording this in mid August 2023 so of the four most recent videos that I did all four of them uh have performed nicely with each of them getting over 200,000 views uh which is which is good

I’m very happy with that the Channel’s been doing very nice almost all of them are even getting close to 300,000 views a piece which again is great to see so if an item is popular Enough by itself that it does not need a fancy algorithm friendly

Title I am not going to give it a fancy algorithm friendly title so for instance Taco Bell’s grilled cheese dipping taco and McDonald’s as featured in meal I knew that these two items would easily be able to hold their own so I knew there’s no reason to have to give it some silly

Title it’ll be fine as it is so that’s what I did Taco Bell’s new grilled cheese dipping Taco review McDonald’s new as featured in meal review and sure enough the recogniz ability combined with decent thumbnails allowed the videos to do just fine without any of that but then there are two other

Things those wings from Buffalo Wild Wings I will tell you this people don’t care about Buffalo Wild Wings they really don’t so how can you take something that no one gives a damn about and make it so that people care about it well it’s simple you generalize

The title if I said in the review for those wings anything about Buffalo Wild Wings in the title no one would care and that video would not have gotten the 200 something thousand views that it did so again you generalize that you don’t appeal to the minuscule percentage of

People that care about Buffalo Wild Wings instead you appeal to anyone who’s interested in wings so I said forget Buffalo Wild Wings yeah that’s what I’m reviewing but make no reference to it in the title or thumbnail and just say are these the hottest Wings I’ve had that’s a good

Question and they were the second hottest Wings I’ve had but there’s truth to it they were very very spicy wings that’s able to generalize again the subject matter and make it appeal to a larger number of individuals which then in turn allowed the video to perform better in the

Algorithm that was necessary it had to be done otherwise the video would not perform as it did mark my words and uh then the Burger King item so that’s another thing it’s hard to make people excited for some piece of garbage that looks like it came either out of a middle

School cafeteria a hospital or uh maybe a minimum security prison and just as institutionalized garbage food and suddenly make people care about that but when I tried the item out and it was an item with a reputation for being bad and then during the review I realized

Realized God this is this is awful still after all these years the thing is still terrible then I thought okay now I’m getting somewhere with this and I can make my bad experience a bit worthwhile and uh when I make these sorts of claims in the title again there’s there’s

Legitimacy behind it the worst Burger King item I’ve ever had yeah you’re you’re you’re absolutely right that it is the thing is this total slop vile garbage Time After Time year after year it it it changes and it doesn’t get any better it just is equally worse in a different way yes

That is the worst Burger King item I’ve ever had easily so when I throw in those titles there’s always truth to them I’m not going to sit there and just just make some garbage up and uh you know go that route I I try to be above that so you

Know I’ll just try to play around with the words and uh I guess just doing this for as many years as I have I just kind of become familiar with the system a little bit and what works and what I’m able to do and uh I just try to use that

To uh help the channel as much as I can so that’s the first question second question how do you feel about the Big Iron cover using AI of your voice personally I think it’s one of the best I’ve ever heard so thanks for your question uh you

Know I listened to it and uh I was surprised that it was able to uh mirror my voice you know to the extent that it was able to but uh that’s really all that there is to it it’s like some people I think of we’re probably

Hoping for more as far as my reaction goes but I don’t know that stuff just doesn’t really appeal to me it’s like yeah it’s cool all right on to the next and uh and that’s that it’s like I know some people have wanted me to play

This AI stuff on the radio show and I’m just not going to do that um because to me I don’t know it just feels wrong and um well number one I think you all know that I’m not the biggest proponent of AI and number two uh it feels it would feel

Extremely narcissistic to sit there and play a fake song with a program made to sound like my voice on my own radio show that’s not it doesn’t feel right to me and it’s not something I’m comfortable with and uh it’s not something I want to do that’s not the

Say that oh don’t ever make an AI cover with my look play around I don’t care what what people do they’re going to do it anyway whether I like it or not and uh you know it’s an interesting technology but it’s like you know listen it’s like oh that’s cool and again then

I’ll go listen to something else I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that I don’t like hearing my own voice so why why would I want to listen to something that sounds like me singing a song when I don’t like listening to myself anyway

You know so that’s another reason why I’m just not the biggest fan of it just cuz I’m not I don’t like hearing myself it’s simple as that thanks for your questions Benjamin three questions one are you going to continue the Scary Stories episode this October that was always my favorite

Show uh I don’t know I haven’t really thought about it I I wasn’t planning to but uh we will see maybe maybe I’m not going to write it off I’d actually have forgotten about it admittedly so never say never never know I don’t get a lot

Of requests for it but again who knows question two I understand you don’t pay attention to sports but would you say you have a state college that you cheer for no this is not something that I uh I follow very much I know college sports

And all that can be very popular but I don’t really pay attention to that or really any sports a good question though question three uh where could I tune into your radio show if it wasn’t through shortwave I’ll send you some links you could listen in on TuneIn all you have

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Of the week again supports the show and it’s just a little something back in return for it this one was nice Michael in Ohio quick note to tell you how much I enjoyed your review of the Buffalo Wild Wings blazing Knockout Wings I found your reaction to the high heat extremely

Entertaining it was nice to watch a more adventurous review as a change of pace so thanks Michael in Ohio and uh I appreciate your kind words I’m glad you liked the review and I appreciate you taking the time to write that to me thank you John in Boise

Idaho one how do you keep track of new fast food releases for your running on empty food reviews do periodically check the establishment’s websites for new items or you notified uh in some way of new releases it seems like it would be a bit of a hassle to continually monitor the menus

Of all the fast food joints so I’m curious how you stay on top top of it it’s a good question so the way I usually do it is uh and it might seem odd at first but then when you realize how many people eat you know fast food and how

Big these companies are then it makes sense there are sites out there that actually compile all the new releases and uh they’re like news sites but just for the fast food places and the two that I usually frequent are chew boom.com that’s c h e w

Bom chew boom.com you go to the homepage and it’s just on a daily basis it’s updated free Doritos Loos tacos at Taco Bell Starbucks releases new summmer remix menu KFC offers 10 pieces of KFC nuggets for $5 alongside the block blah box blah blah blah Wendy’s blah blah blah IHOP you know etc

Etc and uh I’ll peruse through that and I’ll see if something catches my interest and uh you know looks like it would make for a good review and then I also check a site called brandeating.com that’s b r a n d e a t n g.com and I’ll just peruse through it

And I’ll see what’s uh what’s being pitched these days and see if it again would make for a good a good uh review sometimes I’ll see these items and it’ll be quite entertaining and I’ll think to myself you know what on Earth is this garbage essentially I’ll think to

Myself and then other times I’ll think yeah this I think this will be good it’s like so right here Burger King set to debut new honey mustard BK Royal crispy chicken sandwich so I’m going to be reviewing that at some point you know and that’s this is how I found out about

It I’ll be trying out this chicken sandwich from Burger King in due time and what else do we have a lot of the time they they’ll Focus also on International stuff so it’s like they tested this in uh Canada it’s like all right that’s fine and dandy but I can’t try that question

Two do you wear a suit daily even when you’re not filming a video or leaving the house do you ever hang out in jeans shorts or sweatpants or you most comfortable in formal attire I’m always impressed by your dedication in presenting yourself in such a sve and fashionable manner

Thank you John in Boise Idaho this is how I always dress this is uh this is what I wear even when the camera is off I have a lot of suits and a lot of ties and dress shirts and uh all of that but yes I I dress this way

Even when the camera is off even if I don’t leave the house and I’m not doing a review this is still what I wear this is all my clothing as a matter of fact I don’t have aside from sleepwear I don’t have casual clothing you know so

That’s I mean even then it’s like when I go to sleep I’m still wearing a white T-shirt and a black pants and socks always you know I don’t even wear shorts or anything even go to sleep I’m still wearing pants even just when I go to sleep because that’s

That’s what I’m comfortable with and yeah they they are wide leg pans still and uh you know that’s that’s as casual as it gets that’s when I’m going to sleep but otherwise yeah I wear the suit and the white shirts ties you name it uh you might say well what if you’re going

To do yard work or something you know some sort of strenuous activity uh in that case I have a couple dress shirts that you know are getting a little worse for the wear so those are ones that I’m not afraid to really get dirty or anything so I’ll put one of those

On I have khaki pants and by those I’m not talking about like the slim fit you know casual khaky stuff I’m saying like something that you would wear to uh the office or something like that and I’ll put those on I think most of them are just like you know vintage

Brooks Brothers and stuff and uh a couple of them I got from Kohl’s and stuff like that years ago and I have a couple pairs of you know dress pants as well that uh could easily take a bit of a beating so to speak and you know tuck

The shirt in and sometimes put on a tie maybe tuck the tie in and get to work work but that’s my most C that’s what I’ll wear when I’m let’s say after herane Ian and I was picking up debris and all of that that’s what I was

Wearing to do that you know I was wearing dress pants and a dress shirt Steven is checking in to share some thoughts about the decline of fast food I think it got much worse during Co when all of the restaurants were running a drive-thru only when you are selling through a

Window there’s a lot less accountability for the quality of the product or the accuracy of the order people may not even realize something is wrong until they get home and then they may not feel up to driving back this goes doubly for Uber Eats and other delivery apps when

They aren’t even handling it or handing it directly to the consumer this structure incentivizes employees to cut Corners since there are few consequences for mistakes or poor food handling you also mentioned and I don’t think you’re going to like this answer have you ever watched the gentleman’s Gazette YouTube channel you say I’ve

Been watching it for years and I’ve often thought about how their content overlaps with your interest in suits they do a good job of discussing the history of men’s wear and giving advice on how to incorporate classic style into a contemporary wardrobe so thank you Steven

So I’ll preface this by saying they do their thing gentleman’s Gazette and uh they certainly uh you know they’re very well versed in all the fashion rules and this that and the other thing and they certainly know their stuff I do not like them I really don’t uh but admittedly it’s for two

Reasons number one the first reason is not personal it just goes for any sort of this might sound strange and this is something that’s changed with me in time but even though I dress how I dress and I don’t know if this will make any sense and it might sound very uh perhaps

Perplexingly counterintuitive that despite my interest in suits and the fact that I wear one every day I don’t focus on men’s wear Now by that I mean I am not a fan at all of the whole very rigid attitude that comes with a lot of uh folks that wear suits you know

Often and uh oh the jacket has to be this many inches down and this many inches for a lapel for this and you can’t wear this color past that you could only wear this with that and wear this coat with that and blah blah blah you could only wear this hat with this

Color suit after this date and your jacket length mustn’t exceed uh so and so inches below the belt line etc etc I couldn’t care less about any of that stuff and uh I think that a lot of the people that are just all in about those rules that

Come off to me as very snu uh very stuck up I’m trying to say and I have this holier than thou attitude and it’s like you know I don’t care if if you want to abide by all that that’s fine but then they uh often times the attitude comes along with it which

Is what I don’t like that oh if you don’t then you’re lesser than me and they’re just some of the most nitpicking folks I’ve ever seen in my life me yes I wear the suits but it’s just clothing that’s it I like the way it looks it’s my clothing I’m not here

To adhere to some some rule about the vest buttons because some guy you know 150 years ago wore it this way so now everyone else has to I wear the clothing that I like to wear the way that I like to wear it and that’s all that there is to it and

To me this is the other thing and this is what a lot of people miss and that’s fine cuz it’s it’s a it’s an anomaly that’s what I am I’m trying to say I do not wear the suits to look good quote unquote for any c circumstance I wear it because it’s what

I like to wear it’s what I’m comfortable wearing and it’s what I prefer wearing that’s it I do not put these suits on to go strut around uh like some peacock and show off most of the time I never even leave the house I just like

The way it looks I like the way it fits and that’s all that there is to it now many other folks who still wear suits their priorities are totally different which is understandable and that doesn’t bother me any so of course they’re going to have a very different

Approach to it you know they’re going to be concerned a lot about the FED trying to make sure it’s up to whatever current trends and standards that there are they’ll be interested in all the rules Arcane or otherwise and uh try to follow

Them to a tea etc etc and uh I get that you know cuz their priorities are different than mine but when I just wear it just as clothing you know I put on a suit just like how someone else would put on jeans in a t-shirt exactly that it’s like cuz

I know when most people who don’t often wear suits you know are going to put on a suit it’s sort of like it’s like an occasion almost even just getting dressed you know it’s like a whole extra process you might feel a little different you know you really

Want to make sure it looks good Etc but think about how you feel when you’re just putting on your most casual attire uh each day and you put no thought into it whatsoever right you’re just slipping on a t-shirt some jeans some shorts whatever it might might be and uh that’s

It when you think about it like that that’s how it is for me when I’m putting on a suit um when I walk into the closet I I haven’t even any idea what I’m going to go with today I just go in grab a white

Shirt and uh then I look at the suits and I just make a split-second decision all right I’m going to go with uh how about this blue suit today now you know whatever suit I go with I grab the suit I grab a black vest because I always

Wear a a three-piece suit these days because uh I just again like the way it looks and uh I like being extra covered up in my torso and I grab a vest then I’ll grab a tie that is uh of a color or pattern

That I like put it on and uh go about my day so you know that’s the first thing that just doesn’t appeal to me because it’s like I’ve just no interest when all the subjects are uh things that you know I I I just don’t have any interest

In and I’m just not one to really follow these sorts of guides you know I just do my own thing and uh that’s it now that’s the first reason and that goes for any sort of men’s wear Channel there isn’t a single men’s Channel that I watch nor at this

Point is there a single of men’s wear Formal Wear Forum or any of that that I work or participate and I just do my own thing the way I do it and that’s it so the second reason is more personal um it has to do with the fact that they

Specifically used me as an example as how not to dress so when they’re specifically doing that and you know they’re taking shots at me and it’s you know cuz I’m not wearing their uh very particular bespoke suits then they feel that’s a reason you know why to say oh

See this guy doesn’t know what he’s what he’s doing and he doesn’t know what he’s talking about and you don’t want to look like this it’s like all right if from their attitude I mean I could obviously see why they might say that but at the same time I’m not looking uh

To try to be any sort of uh style icon or anything it’s like I wear what I wear and uh and that’s it I’m not telling other people to dress this way so of course when they go out and start taking uh shots at me yes I’m not going to hold

Them in very high regard uh at all so that’s just a personal little grudge against them it’s like yeah you know it is what it is but I just suddenly can’t be gung-ho about them made me lose actually a bit of respect for them before I knew that but uh you know so

That’s personal why I don’t like them and secondly it just there’s no appeal at all but uh you know hey if you like them you like them they’ve got 1 and a half million subscribers and uh these are folks I mean they look they obviously know what they’re

Doing and I think it’s a good channel for certain folks and uh for those who are really interested in these sorts of guides and you know very by the book as far as this stuff is concerned and all of that yeah I think this is a good channel for those types

Of individuals but me personally I’ve explained why I just uh don’t like them uh much at all so I got two emails about this one was from Dan the other one was from Nick and and Janette who collectively sent the second one and uh I’ll essentially just combine

The two because they deal with the exact same issue and uh they sent me an article I’ll read this one it’s from Reuters news agency so I’ll read the article verbatim and then offer few thoughts Frank Siragusa probably got the name wrong was not happy that the

Mexican pizza he paid 549 for at a Taco Bell in New York City last September appeared to contain only half as much beef and bean filling as the photos in the chains advertising portrayed so he sued in a proposed class action filed on Monday in Brooklyn Federal Court cusa accused Taco Bell of

Deceiving customers by falsely advertising its Mexican pizza veggie Mexican pizza Crunch Wrap Supreme Grande Crunch Wrap and vegan Crunch Wrap as containing at least double their actual content Siragusa of Ridgewood New York included photos showing food bursting with beef cheese and bright red and green vegetables ju supposed with actual

PH phot of smaller less vibrant food that other customers posted online Taco Bell ads are unfair and financially damaging to customers and especially concerning now that inflation food and meat prices are very high and many consumers especially lower income consumers are struggling financially the complaint said the lawsuit seeks at least 5

Million for Taco Bell customers who bought the five items in New York state in the last 3 years Taco Bell did not immediately respond to requests for comments so that was very early August lawsuit there pretty much I think putting into court what I think a lot of people are all

Thinking when it comes down you know to these fast food places what do they say the the wheels of Justice grind slowly so I doubt there will be much but let’s see Taco Bell lawsuit let’s see if it if there’s any update I doubt it but no just from two weeks

Ago so you know what the funny thing is about the LA lawsuit if you look up Taco Bell lawsuit and uh you’ll see obviously featured in the media right the before well not really the before and after but like the expectations versus reality pictures I was looking through them you know

It’s so obviously I think it’s the real deal I mean you you see it you know if you ever go to Taco Bell I mean you you get what you get you obviously see this stuff but I was looking through it you know cuz this stuff obviously got sent my way

And uh obviously it’s something that I’ve brought up in my reviews before I was looking through the pictures that were included in the lawsuit as exhibits I thought to myself wait a minute this looks awfully familiar you know I looked at the saw one of the crunch wraps being

Held up and I thought God those those curtains in the background look awfully familiar thought to myself is that is that what I think it is so sure enough one of the exhibits used in the lawsuit it’s a screenshot from one of my reviews

And uh I looked just to be sure and uh yeah one of one of the exhibits in that lawsuit is is a still from one of my one of my reviews which is quite funny actually as a matter of fact you uh if you actually open up the

Lawsuit 15 pages long class action and on page two exhibit to in the lawsuit is uh a store from my review right there on the second page and uh they actually linked it in the in the lawsuit which is funny says uh the advertisement for the Grande crunch WAP

Supreme can be located and they gave the Taco Bell website and the screenshot of the actual Crunch Wrap Supreme received by a customer can be located at and they included a link and timestamp to my review and sure enough I click the link which is in the lawsuit and uh it goes

Right to uh my June 26th 2021 review what did Taco Bell do now so I couldn’t help but kind of laugh seeing an actual still image from my review on uh all these news agencies I think it was on Fox News and uh ABC

And CBS and CNN and all of that and I I just find that I can’t help but find that personally funny that’s all we’ll see how the uh the lawsuit goes you know it’s like obviously there’s a lot of dishonesty uh these days as far as you know businesses everything it’s there’s

So much dece in this world it’s filled to the brim with it and greed and selfishness are rampant the quality of everything is getting worse very quickly frighteningly quickly but yeah I don’t know I I wish I wish them well I think the complaints are legitimate but yeah I just I don’t

Know I don’t know whose side you know we’ll see how it plays out they say justice is blind but I’m not expecting this lawsuit to really go anywhere or uh you know be the one that suddenly results in massive change that makes everything better of

Course I’d love to see that but I I just don’t I would be I think I was in an alternate reality or something if that actually happened but yeah that that was funny to see so thank you to everyone that sent that my way Ethan writes I absolutely love the

Sense of Style presented in your videos I was curious how much of your clothing is off the rack versus tailoring thank you for your time so thank you Ethan for your question all of it pretty much all of it is off the rack uh generally I’ll try on

The clothing and uh see how it fits but uh I I will make a chest Min occasionally but uh for the most part I’ll get something off the rack that fits and uh I’m perfectly fine with that Daniel in Manchester England writes and uh I’ll just say this right off the bat

I still need to check this out so I don’t really have a response for this but I do want to read your thoughts nonetheless but I I have no comment uh because it’s something that I haven’t checked out but you mentioned some Tri Tik Tock trend of Americans finding out the type of

Chinese food us British people consume while American definition of Chinese food is more authentically Chinese noodles rice Etc English Chinese food is a unique Fusion of Chinese and British Cuisine commonly combining the Oriental Chinese food with British chip shop some of the best dishes I would recommend

Would be salt and pepper chicken salt and pepper chips crispy shredded beef all topped with curry sauce and the sauce is what usually baffles Americans keep up the good work so thank you Daniel in Manchester England I could see the sauce definitely throwing off some folks and uh thank you for mentioning

That an anonymous listener writes I was wondering if you have heard about the street food Trend known as walking tacos when looking them up in your favorite search engine you will often find pictures of Taco ingredients beef beans cheese tomato lettuce and Fritos or nachos tossed up in a bag but still

Somehow looking presentable however a relative of mine recently had an experience with walking tacos at a street vendor and said it was one of the most disgusting Foods he had ever been sold on the street he aply described it as a bag o barf the ground meat cheese lettuce and tomatoes were

All shaken up in a clear plastic bag and it wasn’t even remotely presentable yet people were eating it and loving it he was so appalled that people would will would willingly eat what looked so revolting it reminded me a lot of your papa balls reviews uh I’ve heard of those never had

One I haven’t any intention to quite frankly the appearance I mean I guess some people would uh be fine with it but to me I certainly am not a fan of the appearance either and uh it’s of no I have no desire to try it out I recall distinctly a video from a

Number of years ago it might have been might have been during that weird time in early 2020 when uh everything was just bizarre that strange Co era transitory period anyway the video in question featured celebrity chef Gordon Ramy who was at this racetrack but the racetrack was actually uh closed because

Of the the co stuff so he was outside he had these tables set up on the racetrack and uh was filming this video I don’t know what exactly he called them but it would be what you described as being uh the walking tacos where he had you know the ingredients

And it was in the Doritos bag and everything and uh you know he’s he’s trying to uh prepare this with such you know finesse and he’s got all of his executive chef ingredients and he’s using his typical flare and everything and he’s sprinkling a little of this and he cuts

The bag open with a with a fancy knife and everything he’s going all out only for the finished product to look like literal excrement in a durito bag and he’s trying so hard to uh pretend like this is actually good good when it’s obvious that it’s disgusting it looks disgusting and

Uh it certainly didn’t taste any better and I can’t help but think how much he uh had to have been paid to try to sit there and and do this video and needless to say the reactions to it were uh pretty much exactly that people were saying this looks horrible

Uh Gordon Ramsey is making prison food this that and the other thing but uh as soon as I saw that I thought yeah there’s no way I would eat that it just doesn’t look good and it’s clear that he’s not enjoying it either you know there might be instances

I’m sure where if done correctly I guess it could be good but I just I would rather just have a regular Taco with a tortilla I I don’t want to eat it out of the bag I I I just don’t want to heck if someone wants that that’s fine but uh

It’s just not for me Michael in Ohio hope you’re doing well I came across an article claiming that young that yum brands the pent company of Taco Bell Pizza Hut and KFC want to do an all digital transaction format customers would be forced to use their apps

Website sites and kiosks to order food from their establishments call me old school but I hate using fast food chain apps guess I’ll have to get over that a thought came to mind in 20 years do you think everything will be digital will paper cash be obsolete could happen

If you ask me love your work all the best Michael in Ohio yeah so the Wall Street Journal that the article reads y Brands CFO has a plan for 100% digital transactions and uh yeah that’s you know you see that in the in the news and then of course uh when you when

You look it up you have the fact Checkers right the the the Glorious blessed 100% truthful fact Checkers that most certainly aren’t agenda driven in the least that said oh that’s that’s a lie that’s a conspiracy theory it’s false they said but then when you actually

Look and this is how this is what I hate about this stuff and uh I didn’t see it this way at first but eventually you do and then you really see it they play around with words and then they could change things up a little bit

In order to give the false rating even when it’s not necessarily the case so you know they said fact check uh y Brands to go digital only and then the fact check says false but then when you actually read it and mind you they’re hoping people don’t and

Most people won’t so that that’s all that matters is what’s in the Bold big letters but when you actually read it it says the restaurants aren’t cashless yet but they have expressed aspirations to be 100 100% digital in the future so you see how they play around with that they make you think

That that’s just BS when really it’s not they’re just manipulating the words in order to give it a certain uh rate you know a certain rating as to true or false or whatever now that’s not to say that all the fact Checkers are uh are this way there’s there’s so much BS out

There that goes in all directions but to act as if some someone who just calls them himself a fact cheer is all of a sudden some impartial unbiased Sentinel for the truth I just find that incredibly naive and uh that’s why as far as media is concerned you just have

To have your guard up U for anything but anyway so the reason why you might say why did they even fact check this you know it seems like a pretty uh innocent claim well it’s because you know there’s been talk about uh various agendas going forward as far

As having a forced digital currency and uh you know you will have no say in that you’ll have no control over any of that you’re going to be forced to adopt it and uh as a result you know some allege that by moving on to a digital currency

With no Alternatives that will just be another way to control you more and you’ll have no you’ll have no say over your uh over your life it’ll make you easy even e even easier to Monitor and uh an easier way to just control and you know control your finances and thus

Control you that’s what some allege you know that’s just what gets thrown out there that’s the way it is I personally do not like uh the whole concept of just digital only this that or the other thing and I do not support uh the idea of adopting uh digital currencies

Primarily and uh these sorts of cashless things I can’t help but you know regardless of intent I don’t like it either way uh if they want to have that as an option like it is right now if you want to use your cash you could use your

Cash if you want to use your credit card you can do that and if you want to just pay with those sorts of things in person uh then you should be able to do that if you want to deal with their app and download their spyware and this that and the other

Thing and go through all of that that ability is there for you too that’s the way I see it that’s how I would like it to be so then if someone is all in on that and wants to do the apps and the the 100 you know all the digital stuff

They can uh but if someone wants to be a little bit more old school if they don’t want to have to deal with all of this stuff and then they could just still use a traditional means of payment you know that makes sense to me that’s how I would like

It selfishly do I say that because uh that’s what works for me of course but it would work for you too because even if you hate paying the old way then you wouldn’t have to then you could still do the digital stuff that would be there for you and it

Would also for folks like me who like to do things differently uh then that ability exists as well I see no reason why that can’t continue but evidently a lot of these entities do believe me when I say it though and mark my words there are workarounds there always are I have

Employed those already at this point just throwing that out there the final letter of the program comes in from Ian my name is Ian I am currently 20 years old and I have been an on and off listener of your podcast for the past few years

Now I mostly listen on Soundcloud and I wanted to thank you for what you do I’m sure you’re aware of the concept called the hedonistic treadmill as you spoke of your views about social media and its addictive properties unfortunately for most of my life I have found myself seeking constant pleasure between the

Crevices of YouTube and video games the instant gratification that it provided numbed my senses and shoved down my emotions that needed to be found felt down the deepest depths of my mind and if I were to stop consuming the full force of my troubled psyche would try to

Claw its way up out of the depths wailing as it tried to reclaim its set at the Forefront of Consciousness where it rightfully should be but alas its screeching cries were unbearable to hear and my only shelter from it was to force it back down with an endless amount of convenient mind

Numbing content until all I heard from it were muffled screams my life felt extremely meaningless during those times because any time that I was faced with adversity I would simply avoid it through social media at some point I have decided I wanted meaning in my life and stopped

Mindlessly consuming so I could face my emotions the process was hell on Earth I had to go to therapy and do a lot of self-work but in the end it was all worth it now I can fully live life not just with the good but also with the bad aspects I’m at

Peace life feels a lot slower when I am constantly life feels a lot slower now that I am not constantly consuming social media in a good way I tuned into your podcast again after quitting and realized that you also live your life slowly at least from what I notice

Everyone seems to live life on the fast lane nowadays and I feel relieved to know that there is still people such as yourself that promote this idea of living slowly you find joy in what the average person would consider mundane and I admire that you are aware of

Danger of social media and stay away from it I notice that most of my description of you are merely assumptions of mine so that brings me to the question despite the ups and downs of Life are you at peace sincerely Ian so Ian thank you for writing and uh if I

May say what a letter to end the show on I say that in a good way I first I I really sincerely want to give you my congratul ations and that’s not something to take lightly in my opinion because I know I see it all around me in the world just how

Potent social media is at this point in time and just the uh really it is the addiction that so many people unfortunately face when it comes down to social media today and the fact that you were able to break free from that well done and I mean that I can’t

Imagine how difficult it probably was because the social media as you know and the sorts of dopamine rushes that it it creates it’s it’s a hard thing to break free from and part of me thinks that that’s on purpose that’s by Design you know they want it that way so that

People don’t break free from it and that’s just that’s just what makes sense to me you know make it like a uh an addictive drug of sorts and you’re going to start going through those withdrawals essentially and it’s going to be hell on Earth to the point uh where 90% of

People or more are not going to be able to do it they got to go back to it especially folks who I sadly see are practically conditioned from birth you know you see I saw this back in 2014 and I hated it and I see it now and I hate it even

More uh people giving smartphones to literal infants and there was such a uh it was such a sural and not in a good way either it was a hellish video of a compilation of all of these little toddlers and uh some of them even newborn babies laying there

Dreaming and you know how sometimes anyone could do this but like you’ll sometimes see also like little kids and stuff uh when they’re having particularly imaginative dreams you know they’ll be moving their their hands around and whatnot while they’re sleeping and uh you’re seeing more and more these little infants that they have

The one hand up like they’re holding a smartphone and the other hand like they’re scrolling or or tapping on it and uh that’s what they’re dreaming about and I see that and I think for God’s sake How can any self-respecting parent see that and be all right with that my

God you know and video after video too of uh then you know good on them for at least trying but seems in vain you know kids out with uh the grandparents trying to you know take them to a little diner or restaurant and have a family meal

Together or something and um these young kids you know again I’m talking 5 years old or younger mind you totally checked out uh rapid fire rapid fire on their smartphones couldn’t care less about uh anyone or anything around them just what’s on the phone obviously the kids don’t realize

This you know they they don’t understand could can’t even explain it to them but uh you know if you took it away they’d be pissed at you they’d think you’re awful for doing this to them but the poor grandparents I can’t help but imagine that it must hurt quite a bit

Inside you know you’re trying to trying to have a nice moment with your grandkids or whatever and uh and this is how it is and uh it shouldn’t be this way I wish it weren’t this way and I truly believe the effects of this are going to be

Farfel and uh in a horrible way that’s my view but just because it’s difficult you you know and again especially the more that I think you’ve had to deal with this the more difficult it is doesn’t mean that it’s impossible though and some people will disagree you

Know they want to do the social media thing look it’s it’s up to you if this is what you want to do with your life I’m not going to tell you not to do it uh but I will voice My Views personally that it’s just not for me and

Uh I have respect for anyone who uh successfully makes that change am I at peace that’s a question I haven’t asked myself really but uh when asked directly as you are I would say I am yes I would say I indeed am and I say that

Because just of how I I feel deep down inside you know I have my pessimistic Tendencies of course I do they could be quite strong at times and as far as life is concerned I can’t say CU it’s an impossible feat to do this 100% of the

Time and I think it’s important to accept that but I always try to appreciate the the smaller things you know little things for instance like today I took a took some time just to look outside take in the day you know something a lot of people don’t even bother to do anymore

But I look out the window I’ll sometimes see some really cool clouds or I’ll Marvel at some of the wild life I will see which is surprisingly varied even here or I’ll just take it all in get some fresh air me personally quite ironically perhaps despite what it is that I do for

Living I cannot say that I do much of anything with social media you know with YouTube I mostly listen to music on it and I occasionally watch uh various videos but I don’t really watch the the the social media sort of stuff there aren’t really any sorts of um personalities I suppose on

YouTube that I watch and uh any other social media sites you know Twitter and Instagram I use solely just to promote my videos and broadcasts and that’s it I log in make the post and log out and uh Tik Tok I I don’t even go

On so uh you know I’m just not even to this day I’m not big into social media despite what it is that I do I’ll listen to music I’ll listen to the radio I’ll I’ll do some light reading I’ll try to research various things and go down

Various rabbit holes and uh all of that but you know that’s the way I want to uh live my life and I’m I’m very happy that I am able to so to answer your question I would say yes indeed I am pessimism or not I believe most definitely that I

Am and Ian once again I congratulate you and I wish you the best it’s not uh not necessarily an easy thing you know it’s not not necessarily going to be especially in the future but hang in there keep your head up and most importantly stay true to yourself

That’s the most important thing so thank you for your email and that’s it for tonight’s show thank you for listening in and until next time be safe be healthy and I wish you all the very best take care this is VW

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