Rooster Teeth Podcast - Keeping a Human Skull - #625

Episode Date: December 1, 2020

Join Gus Sorola, Gavin Free, Chris Demarais, and Barbara Dunkelman as they discuss keeping a skull in your house, controlling facebook after you die, what is a Corona-versary, and more on this week's RT Podcast! This episode was recorded November 30, 2020 and is sponsored by ExpressVPN (http://expressvpn.com/rooster), Burrow (http://Burrow.com/rooster), and SquareSpace (http://squarespace.com/roosterteeth). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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everyone doing? Everyone hanging in there? It's cold here. Why are you asking because of my fashionable hoodie? Oh nice. That looks good on you, Gus. Thank you. I like it. I could look good on you too if you go to store.rucities.com. I look like it totally messed with the white balance of your camera too. Is it on auto white balance? I don't even know if it's on auto white balance. I like the, while we're talking about merch, well, one, you should give the black box down t-shirt.

But also in respect to that hoodie that you wear, there's a, there's a, um, a beanie that's a be nice work hard that I, I was wearing earlier, but I just don't think my head can wear beanies. Your head could wear beanies. It's to you look good at them. Yeah, yeah. These beanies don't fit on my head. My head is just my head. I just, I feel like every time I wear a beanie,

I look like I'm like, got a horrible, like I'm dying. I feel like we should let the chat decide. What you gotta do, Chris, is you gotta leave just a little bit of your hair showing if you can. That makes a big difference. I'll go get it. No, I'm really self-conscious because someone in chat said it looks like I need to pick

my nose. Is my nose okay? Boogie, I'm not self-conscious because someone in chat said it looks like I need to pick my nose. Is my nose okay? Buggie? I'm hungry. You look good. Okay, good. Maybe they just think that you have an itch. Maybe. They also said you were muted.

Yeah, how's about to point that out? Can you do it? I hear you. You're fine. Okay. Yeah. Where were you muted? Are you here on minutes?

What's wrong with that? I just, I feel like I would look, this is, I just look like I don't have any hair. And I don't, my hair's, I guess it's longer now because I haven't had a haircut in like two months, three months. I don't know. It looks good, man.

I think it actually looks really good. I'm rocking it, never mind. I think you look better than I look at a beanie. And I didn't think I looked that bad in a beanie. I don't take it. Should we, let's see it. Do you have a beanie. And I didn't think I looked that bad in a beanie. I don't take it. Should we, let's see it. Do you have a beanie, Gavin? Let's have a beanie fashion show.

Beanie fashion show at lunch. Nah, I don't have one. I don't have one to hand. I do not have one either. Oh, so once that I'm down talking to RT Merch, no, I'm not. It's actually very comfy. I'm just down to awking my head.

No, you're up talking your head, because you think your head's too good to be covered by a bean. Look, and that beanie could look good on Chris, it could look good on anyone, I think, is the moral of the story. So go get yourself a beanie. The beanie's not, I wanted to wear the beanie because it was so comfy.

Although apparently Eric, Eric thinks you look like an extra on breaking bad. Yeah. Oh, I gotta get into the cat. I think you look like the main character in breaking bad. Walter White? Junior or now?

Well, maybe not the main character. That's right, yeah. You look good enough to be a main character. I'll just keep drinking. You can. What are you drinking, Bob, Rob? I'm drinking a screw drive, a Gavin. I got a vodka, which is the same vodka.

I think I've brought to everyone's houses over the last two years in hopes of finishing it and orange juice. Are you almost done with the vodka? No, there's still, like, probably at least another 10 or 11 drinks worth in there. Wow. What kind of vodka is it? Titos. I should have known that really quickly because it's the only alcohol I have in my house.

What you got, Gavin? You got a little mule. Bimmy, it's not a proper one. I didn't have a lime. So it's just gingerpear and lemon flavored vodka. So it's almost limey. So that's good. So it's almost limey. That's similar enough.

Yeah. That sounds good. You think, like me, do you think that Moscow Mules became popular because of a conspiracy by the copper industry? Like Moscow Mules were something that nobody drank then like one day all of a sudden Moscow Mules were everywhere.

And it was not that long ago, like six years ago, maybe it was a ginger beer thing. I think ginger beer got more popular. It was only that recent? No. Like I don't remember when I was younger, anyone ever drinking Moscow meals. Yeah.

Is it a regional thing? Well, we have it here now. Yeah, but didn't you grow up like closer to the border? Yeah, but I've lived here for like 23 years now. I mean, Austin. Yeah, that's true. Oh, and you could have legally drink for a long time too. Yeah.

For months. I think I drink you them when I moved here, but the said, the same could be said for a lot of things. I can't really start drinking coffee when I moved here. Was brunch a big thing before? I feel like brunch also got popular recently. Like also like 15 years. I think brunch and Moscow meals went hand in hand, but I don't think the copper industries behind brunch. I think the copper industries behind trying to sell us the stupid cups that you can only use for Moscow meals, which by the way,

that's why we've used drink Moscow meals. I'm not going to keep an extra cup around just for that. Some bars will just give them in a glass, but I think is better for you because I don't think you're supposed to drink, or if you drink a ton of them out of copper, eventually the copper starts releasing its copper juice. The thing about the drinking muskum, you'll also at a bar is so wasteful because you need at least like three or four napkins

to hold the cold ass cup in your hands. Because even it has that tiny little dinky handle, but that's like, I don't know about you guys. Yeah, this handle is just painful. It's like, yeah. So you have to hold it by the chunk of it, which is fucking cold when it got ice in there. It's so strong. I really have it.

Can we talk about that things again? Before the push, we were talking about what what before the post show before we started. We were talking about the dead animals that you keeping your house. Chris, is that being too tight on your head? Without context, you sound like we were having the worst conversation ever Chris. We were talking about the dead animals you keep in your house. I don't keep any dead animals in my house.

Okay. Well, you said it up properly then, Gus. We were talking about what animals, what skills you would keep in your house and you would be comfortable keeping in your house. I'm sorry to be making that. I'm sorry to be making that. I'm sorry to be making that. Eric, Eric posted a question to all of us saying, would you keep a human skull in your

house? And then Gus, I believe, was the first person to say, well, it depends on how old the skull is. Like the older, the better, because it's less detached from when you were existing. Yeah. And then what did you say, Gavin? Like, you wouldn't want something

that exists in the same time period as you, right? Like, you could know. I would have someone's skull. I just don't want it to be as recent as like, we could have known each other. Sort of skull. It feels like a 50 year old skull that was from the dead before I was born. For some reason, that is...

Like? ...because there's less connection to me in the skull. I feel like it's better. I just want something that's old enough to where it's not disgusting. There's not like gross bacteria or it doesn't smell bad. Like, as long as it's cleaned up, it doesn't matter how old it is. If I died in my will, I gave you my skull Gus and asked you to keep it.

You're so obsessed, Chris, with what's gonna happen to you off to you? What do I get out of keeping your skull? Do I get anything or do I just get to keep your skull? It's my last will and I it's my will and testing it Chris, have you is it a secret what you've done with the regarding your death and me? Oh, no, I don't think I told anyone. I just texted you I would keep your skull Chris if you wanted to

Okay, thank you Chris. What did you do? I? You know like Facebook prompts you like hey, what do you do? I, you know, like Facebook prompts you like, hey, what do you do if you die? Like you have to set up your- What kind of Facebook do you have? They want you to, who controls your Facebook if you die? Do you want there to be like someone in charge of it? There's like a Facebook like will that you sign at some point?

And- Really? I gotta look this up. And I got like prompted to like will that you sign at some point? And really? I got it on the show. And I got like prompted to like fill it out or maybe I was updating my info or something. And then I was like, huh, who do I want to have my Facebook account? And I was like, I'm just going to give it to Gavin. And I was like, just a fuck with it.

So that if I die, you have to manage my Facebook account. You have to like keep it up. So that if I die yesterday, managed my Facebook account yesterday, like, is that it was so funny that he would inconvenience me with his death. That might be the last thing I texted you. I think it was. You know, when I think we should, I think we should all leave our Facebook accounts to Gavin actually that sounds like I don't want to. I can only handle Chris's. I don't even mind. I was just like, Hey, Gavin, you're in charge of my Facebook if I die.

Eric asked an interesting question. Gavin, would you, would you keep a skull from last century? Yeah, but I was in life. I didn't, like 1999. Dylan, Dylan, I would have a problem with it. I'd only have a problem with it if it was someone I knew. I would have a problem if it was someone I knew.

Dude, I would, I would totally keep, dude, Gus, you would have such a cool fucking skull. I would, a problem if it was someone I knew. Dude, I would... I would totally keep, dude, Gus, you would have such a cool fucking skull. I would love to. I think it's big, yeah. It would be massive. Gus has got dibs on my, but if you want to make, if you want to convince me otherwise,

I can do podcasts with your skull, I'll keep you around. See, I'm unlucky because the most pronounced piece of my appearance doesn't show up on my skull. It's true. Like the nose isn't really there on a skull. Oh yeah, same. Maybe it would maybe just like, where does it end? Where does it stop?

The tip would be all hollowed out basically. Yeah, maybe it would just be like the biggest hole that you've ever seen in the front of a skill. Can you breathe really well? Is it like tons of air going in and out? You know, it's interesting. You talked about like leaving your Facebook account to someone, you know, like having a legacy contact is what they call it because I've been watching this, this documentary on HBO called Murder on Middle Beach. Is anybody else watching that? Or am I the only one? How do you guys? I'm not. I haven't watched it. Okay. It's a story about watching this documentary on HBO called Murder on Middle Beach. Is anybody else watching that? Or am I the only one?

How do you guys? I'm not. I haven't watched it. OK. It's a story about this guy as a filmmaker and he's making a documentary because he's investigating his mother's murder. His mother was murdered in 2010, and they never found out who did it.

So he's going through an interviewing people and trying to dig up leads and figure out who killed his mom. And as part of the investigation, he interviewing people and like trying to dig up leads and figure out who killed his mom. And as part of the investigation, he is able to recover and log into her Facebook account. So he's able to like see messages that she had sent and even like messages that she had that she never got to read before she passed over where she was murdered. And like that's part of the whole thing. It's like seeing who she was talking to and who could possibly have been involved in

her murder. So it's it's weird. I guess who could possibly have been involved in her murder. So it's weird, I guess she didn't have that legacy context set up. So the the sun had to go through and I think like did you like a phone number recovery or email recovery and I was able to get in her account that way. I'm really hoping I get murdered in a mysterious way because then Gavin's got to solve it. Jesus Christ. I don't know think that's part of the Facebook ownership. Gavin, you got to not only do you have to deal with people you know missing me or I don't know. You also have to solve my murder. Single handedly. You have to go out and search for places.

The end of Chris's life is just the beginning of like an A.O.G. for me. It's like a ready player one. Except there's not billions of dollars. Wasn't there a Ready Player Two that just came out? What? Isn't there a Ready Player Two book? Oh, was that? I think it's yeah, I think either just got released or maybe it was a long time ago and I didn't know about it, but yeah, there's Ready Player 2 by Ernest Klein. Available now. Well damn. So not to completely veer away but you've got to Ready Player 1 but

did know if you guys were going to have the headline of this review I'm reading is Ready Player 2 is a copy of a copy. Cool. So no bothers what you're saying. For my legacy contact, if I leave that to someone do I also give them Chris as well? You just like keep adding on to everything and stacks. Like you and, yeah, yeah. You didn't, they didn't hear it. My Facebook. Gosh.

So ideally I should leave mine to someone who knew you. You gotta be careful. I know one comes after you, Gavin, in order to try to get to Chris' Facebook. But you don't, I mean, you don't have to do anything. You just have to like make a post to be like, that Chris is gone. So.

I'm gonna shut this down. No, no, maybe I'll. I might, what if I want him to respond to people? I don't think you have any control over that. You're dead. If I put it in my, yeah, but I've got a, I'm saying it right now. I'm putting it will and testament. I think you're overestimating what power a will has over

for people. I'm just saying right now it isn't. I want that to be the case. Gavin, if you choose to Ignore my last will and testament, you know, that's on you But I want I want my Facebook to respond to every message as if it was me As if it was you from from the grave except you have to say boo and woo From the grave public document says that it's me.

Yeah, you just have to alternate between caps, uh, capital letters and, and lowercase letters, just all throughout everything you say. And throughout a mystery every once in a while. Just only talking riddles on Chris's dead Facebook page. He's giving you a lot of work, Gavin. You know what I'm saying? Speaking of like legacy stuff, I found my old iPad, which is the the first one from 2010. And it's just completely frozen in time. Like it's non-functional.

It's updated to as far as it can go, which is like iOS 5. And none of the apps because they're so old are still connected to their original service. So I just opened like BBC news and it's just like stuck in time from the news from the last day I opened this. Oh wow. Like there's like a thing about Obama visiting the site of the Boston bombing for the marathon. Wow. And it just doesn't update anymore, but it's like what I completely use this brick. Do you have a flappy bird and doodle jump on there? Yeah, dude, I feel like- If you have flappy bird, it's worth a lot, right?

Like people were selling iPhones with that game on them. On event. Yeah, I've got like an instant message of program that I used with AIM that doesn't do anything anymore. Yeah, AIM doesn't even exist anymore. Yeah, it does. It's just so creepy.

And look at like, look at YouTube. Do you remember when the YouTube app was like built in to iOS? Oh yeah, it looked like an old TV. It was sort of like down there. Oh yeah. And if you go on that, it just doesn't, it doesn't do it. And you also can't download anything new from the app store because none of the apps are compatible with this.

And I'm just blown away at how like a lot of like retro stuff you can turn on and still kind of use from like way in the past. But this isn't function or in any way. It's all. So do anything. You could put videos on it, right? Like you could think it from your computer and copy videos to it that way. I don't even know if you could

because of Apple's proprietary. I choose. Oh, right. iTunes doesn't exist anymore. Can you take photos with it? I mean, it could be a camera. Just doesn't have a camera. Oh, shit.

Oh, it's that old. Holy shit. It doesn't have a camera. It doesn't have speakers. It's. You should do, you should smash it for some video or something like that. Ah, but what's what I'm trying to think what you could do with it.

What's happening? I mean, Excel. You could use the web browser and go to like Google sheets. This is a fire. What? Here. I want to go to our website on it. Just turn it off and use it as a mirror. Black mirror, probably the most, uh, the best. For a while, because it was my old iPad, I was using it to turn off an on a light that didn't have a switch.

I saw you had that app. Yeah, that doesn't work anymore. Oh, here we go loading up. You could keep I'm just doing this. No, we're watching. Oh, we get it. No, it's all black. Nothing. See what a great mirror though. Even even even an old because I found an old iPod Recently and it still had music on it. You could still listen to music In chat coffee breaks as you could use it as a calculator. Oh There you go Which I guess is just as useful as any calculator

Only it's probably even less useful because it's huge. I've got to calculate the app here. You can use it at night. Three plus two. Oh, it works. Damn. I love how ridiculously huge the bezel around the screen is. Hey, look at the massive. It's like a third of this iPad is fucking bezel around the screen.

It's so funny to ask you gradually sort of witness technology progress. You taking like a 10 year step back is like, oh God, I don't even remember it looking that bad. It's insane. That's nuts. I haven't, I have not owned an iPad in a long time. I think I owned the second iPad that ever came out. So I had one that was one year newer than that one,

but I think that one might still be on my desk at the office. I don't know where that lost track of that one. It was a similar thing where it's like, there's no way to do any, hey, you use that uses the old 40 pin connector too, right? You can't even, oh, sure.

I don't know if you can even buy that cable anymore. Yeah, my car so many. So many. Has that like 40 pin connector thing. It's completely useless. Oh gosh. Yeah. That's gotta be one of the most annoying parts

of the Apple products is I'm changing those peripherals so often. It's just like, it makes everything obsolete. They've only changed it once for like the phone, right? It was the 40 pin connector and now it's lightning. Yeah. I guess like also with the MacBooks and how it's like only USB-C now. Oh.

Just stuff like that, how it inconveniences you in so many different ways and you have to buy or completely any stuff for it. That is annoying. I went, speaking of Apple, you reminded me of Barbara. I went back to the Apple store and they replaced the battery on my laptop. Remember I talked about that last week.

And the guy we were talking about that James kept referring to his Justin tweeted at me. He said he's going to have to change his name to Justin. I want to find him on Twitter now. So he watches the podcast. Yeah, yeah. So I got my battery replaced, my laptops. Good as new all over again.

They can finally, I don't have to be tethered to the wall anymore. Nice. Yeah. Someone chat who's a Sonic horse ised to the wall anymore. Nice. Yeah. Someone chat who's a sonic or sister to pin not 40. Okay. Sorry nerd. I forgot. I'm here. It's also a directive. I've just remembered what I primarily use this for.

This is so old that I use this iPad with a VPN to allow me to watch Netflix in the UK, because it didn't exist there yet. Netflix didn't exist in the UK? Oh my God. Wait, what did you say it was from that you had that? 2010. Netflix didn't exist in 2010 in the UK. Wanted to get there? I don't know. I think right around us. I think I remember being annoyed because it was right around the time that I moved to America then the UK got Netflix. I was like Well, I mean, I guess Netflix didn't really start streaming

until what like 2010 or something? No, I was streaming before that over here in the US. Chris Eric just posted it. The Netflix started launching in the UK and Ireland in early 2012. Chris, what is that? And I moved at right at the beginning of that year. This episode of the receive podcast is brought to you by ExpressVPN. Earlier this year, more than 100 Twitter users got their accounts hacked into passwords, email addresses, phone numbers, and more. All taken from high profile people like Joe Biden, Elon Musk,

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What? What is that? What? You can't, Chris, you can't watermark, reach the same content with your own watermark. That's not how this works. That's Chris the Maris content. No, it's TV. It's a Maris content. For audio listeners, it's a what it's it's CD TV. But it's your face from what 2014? I don't know. I thought it was a double. Let me see let me see it again. No, no, you'd look like Nathan Fielder in that.

Holy shit. This is only going to be any content I'm in. Chris, you it's crazy to me. I've watched videos of you from like your entire career at Rucherti. You have not changed at all. You look the exact same. It's true. What's your secret? Ice cream lotion? Ice cream? I don't know.

Do you use lotion, Chris? I'll put some like, lotion that has like SPF on it. Every day in the morning at night, what's your deal? I guess in the after a shower. Okay. But that's it. I don't put it all over my body.

I don't know who has time for that. I don't. Just watch the marking. Under your whole shirt, you're just like a wrinkle to start. Oh, yeah. What's up? We keep you in your watermarking

rooster teeth content with other content. What are you? Yeah, we can talk. Yeah, but he's putting a proprietary watermark in the corner of content, like, rooster teeth content. He's smiling so fucking big while he's doing it. I think that's supposed to know you the most. I think you're right. Also, I looked up these early pictures of Chris and I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't. They're all the, he's all the same. Yeah, they're, he's bright eyed and bushy tailed for sure.

Eric, what do you think of my watermark? Is this an okay watermark? What's your watermark, Barbara? Baby Yoda. We keep it. No, no, it's it's a it's Grogu. Grogu. What? Oh, we probably from the from the hit show the Mandalorian. That's great. Yeah.

Sorry, I don't need to keep interrupting. Is did they name him? He, well, they didn't name him. He has a name, but they just... He has a name. Yeah, learned. What? Yeah, it's Grogu. It just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?

It's way better than Baby Yoda. Now you just say Grogu. Calling him Baby Yoda for the rest of time. Sounds like something that happens in my nose. Do you think it'll still be there when you're just a skull? Is there a particular body part that you'd like to have the least? What? Well, I need some context there.

What do you mean? If I'm going to give, if I, when I die and I'm like in my will, I want you to keep it. Is there one that you don't wanna have? I'm definitely not telling you what that part is now. Yeah. What are you, Barb? Like a body part that I don't want? Yeah.

Of Chris. Like that? Of Chris? Yeah. or anyone. Uh, skin. All of it? No. Can you do that?

Could you like, and I, and I, and I, you quit to Barbara, my skin. Yeah, I think because it's, because it was sort of resemble you, but it would be floppy and like a bag. I think it's disgusting. And it would rock. Chris is also a little'd be a floppy and like a bag. I think it's disgusting and it would rock. Chris is also a little bit more like sun kiss than I am, so I feel like that would be a some nice skin to have.

You also don't age, so I wanna know the secret. People are a few people in chatter complaining that that was a Mandalorian spoiler. It is. It was though. But he has a name. It's two-minute. Three days ago over a holiday weekend. Also, it's just a name. I did. I mean, three days ago over a holiday weekend.

Also, it's just a name. It's not like a plot point. Right. It's not like we talked about when Mando shoved him out the airlock and he died. Yeah. You would have heard about that if that actually happened. I also would have been not able to do the podcast because I would be sad. That's right. I guess I didn't consider it as something that would be a spoiler,

so I figured anyone who would have watched it would have probably... We could... We could, for the... thingy. We would never... we would have never talked about... I saw that I don't know if anybody else saw last night. I saw online that I guess Super Nintendo world in Japan is opening up in February. I think February 4th and they're gonna officially launch it. I don't know if anybody else is excited about that, but I am so excited. I really like to see that. Yeah, it's a theme park within Universal Studios, Japan. Oh my God. Sounds awesome.

They unveiled like, I guess a Mario Kart ride where everyone in the carts, where it's like, it looks like a Mario hat, but it's got a r visor over it. So it augmented reality, you can see it throw shells at other carts. I want to do that. No, it sounds so fun. In my dream recently, I got a trip to anywhere in the world, and I was going to go to Japan, and I would have done that.

Did you go to Japan in your dream? No, I just dreamed. I got a trip to anywhere in the world. That was the whole trip. You didn't go anywhere you didn't. I think he was like, that's like, I want a trip to anywhere in the world. It was like, hey, here's a trip to anywhere in the world. That's like instead of dreaming that you're an astronaut, you dream that you filled out

the form and like, you're the medical school. Well, I was so excited. Or like instead of a dream where you get to sleep with any celebrity you want, it's a dream where you could just Google image search any celebrity you want. No, no, there's something way more exciting about the idea that you can go anywhere in the future. Yeah, because in your dreams, you're like, you might dream, oh, I'm in Japan right now, or oh, I'm on Easter Island But if you if in your dream you get a ticket to anywhere in the world that's super exciting Yeah, but that's really you can that doesn't need to be a dream You can actually go anywhere in the world. Maybe not now

Yeah, but like definitely not now winning a ticket to like you can a ticket to anywhere in the world That's exciting like wow I This is a this is a golden ticket to for travel like I. That's exciting. Like, wow, this is a golden ticket for travel. Like, is this the $4,000 flight to Antarctica? $4,000, that's a good deal. This is just like how before the podcast, we were talking about cryptocurrency and Chris was like, oh, I meant to buy Bitcoin a week ago.

Like the same kind of thing. Well, but this was a dream, Gus. This happened. Yeah, but it actually happened. If I tell you this right now, like, okay, say in a year or so when maybe people can go places again. Uh-huh. And I just come up to you and say, where do you want to go

in the world? You would still identify somewhere you would want to go. And you could go there. It would just cost money. But you could actually go and then do the thing. Yeah, I guess, yeah, it's just the cost of going versus the idea of it. It's like, you're pretty well traveled.

You've been to like, you've like walked across New Zealand. Yeah, which is cool. It's super cool. And you went, I want to do more of that. I want that ticket. Yeah. Well, but I could still get excited about a trip to anywhere. Yeah, I mean, we can't just get excited about that.

I get excited about anything. I can make something up. I get excited about winning the lottery. I mean, who cares? You can just make anything up and get excited about it. I'm just saying the dream version of, because in your dream you're always going weird places. You go to space, you know, aren't excited about it.

You're in space because it's a dream. In a dream when you win something, it's like, oh my God, I can't believe I won this because I think I'm in real life right now. You, I don't understand what, I don't understand how you're real. I think I'm like, I'm like trailing behind you, but I'm following. Like if you fit in your dream,

if you think it's real and you win something, you're like, oh my God, I won a prize. Yeah, but you did it. Like, that's when you wake up and realize it didn't happen. So I'm just disappointed. So you're saying then that I should make like a fake congratulations letter and mail it to you, saying then that I should make like a fake Congratulations later and mail it to you telling you that you won a free trip to anywhere in the world That way you could be excited about it and then I'm a few minutes there

But like now just kidding. It was I just did that to make you feel happy Sure, yeah, I mean that would be cool If you if there's a way you could personalize it, I thought it was real Yeah, it's it's kind of like the opposite effect of if you have a really bad dream and you wake up and there's that like a few minutes you have where you're convinced that it's real and you have the sense of dread and then realize that it's a dream and you feel better. It's like the opposite effect, right Chris? That's it.

Yeah, yeah. Fuck, I really thought I had this going on and thought it was going on the trip. It's the excitement of something really cool happening and you wake up. And you're like, oh man, I can change the world. That it would have been way cooler. But yeah, you can go to the world. Where the world is.

It's not a fictional thing that you want. You didn't like become like a sorcerer of some kind in the dream. You got basically what is at maximum, I'm talking about on the most expensive business like first class ticket at maximum like 20 grand value there. Well, I wouldn't buy business class. Well. Okay.

I'm sorry. Did you win a business class trip in your dream though? It is specified so probably probably. It's just a broken deal at this. People are telling you that we're sitting on your dreams. It's not so much that we're sitting on your dream. We don't understand why you get so excited about it. It's anything go. He didn't actually go on your dream. It's just, we don't understand why you get so excited about it. Like it's anything go.

He didn't actually go on the dream. He just, but I was, I was so excited about the possibilities versus like when you're in it, I don't know. I don't want to explain the difference. I think Barbara gets it. She scratched your lip. Whatever. No, yeah, I'm with you, Chris.

I just like, I, I agree with both of you. I just like, I agree with both of you. I think it's an interesting dream to have, and I could see why you were excited by it, but it's not like a dream where you, yeah, when the lottery or like all of a sudden are living in this beautiful castle, which you know, you could make possible at some point. Like you do have the ability to go wherever you want.

Obviously, it's not. It's winning the lottery, but not cash in the check. It's like, oh my god, I don't know. Okay, you lost me now. Yeah, this is $20,000 maximum. The winning the lottery is like millions. But it felt like the lottery at the time. They felt like, oh my god.

I don't know, it just seemed like a really cool dream. Sorry. You missed it. Oh, I got a big pill. I don't know, it just seemed like a really cool dream. Sorry. Chris, I like the dream. I thought it was the coolest dream ever. I want to hear a thousand more of your dreams. I had a dream the other day that I was in a store and I was buying something and I walked up to the register to pay for it and you know the cashier was behind like a plastic screen because I guess like coronavirus and stuff. And as I was going to pay for it, I realized I didn't have a mask on and I got really embarrassed. I was like, oh shit, I was in here the whole time without a mask. So I just left without paying, like I left my stuff there and I didn't buy it and I ran out of the store because I was so embarrassed

and that was the entire dream. Yeah, I've had dreams that I've been in public places without a mask and it like, it terrifies me. In the dream, I'm like, oh fuck, oh fuck, I'm going to get COVID, oh shit, shit, shit. Oh, I happened to meet the other day where I ordered some fast food and I was walking there and had my dog. And then I ordered it in the drive-through, but I'd ordered it for pickup or something. And then I realized I didn't have my mask, so then I had to like, I did this thing with, or I pulled my shirt up over my nose

to get the food, because I like, I couldn't go back because I was in line. It just felt, yeah. Have you all of it on that that doesn't the shirt thing just as like a no? I keep it extra mask in my car so I never really run into that problem. I'd walk there, that was a thing.

I'd walk, yeah. Yeah, I mean, that's obviously better than nothing. So, you know, do what you gotta do. That has not happened to me yet. Thankfully, only in my nightmares, in my nightmare streams. Sorry, I have a fucking, I'm gonna complain first. I'm gonna pull it guys here.

So I bought this ring light from Elgato, which is really cool because it actually connects to your computer and your Wi-Fi, so you could control it via stream deck and also a control panel on your computer, so you don't have to reach around and turn it on and off every time. But because it's connected through Wi-Fi,

I don't know why it happens every now and then, it just shuts off and shuts back on, or it won't get discovered on my computer. It's just like the biggest pain in the ass, a light has ever been. But it's such a good quality light that I don't want to stop using it. Can you turn the Wi-Fi off on it with that help?

I don't think there's a way to do that. There's just a button that says reset, offer on. That's it. Those are the only buttons on this light. So if anybody is an expert in El Gato lights, let me know. But it's cool because then you could like control it all from your thing. Like I could change the, oh, now it's gone. Oh, now I just see Trevor's and mine's gone. I was like, fucking Christ. Sounds like it kind of sucks. It does. Sounds like it's broken. It's like a broken light.

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I don't know. I feel like a couple of us were having technical difficulties in the same thing. Yeah, this was a fucking, I'm gonna have to take my entire set up apart and rebuild it all. I'm just so fed up with it. So I feel like everything gets to a point where it's working,

but then you keep adding more stuff and changing little by little, and then you just need to undo everything and redo it all. Gus, I feel like you've been rebuilding your setup for like two months now. Yeah, that's what keeps happening. I keep changing stuff and it keeps going. Well, you'll feel the view is different now.

It doesn't look like you'll press stuff against that wall anymore. Well, I moved the camera. It was about five feet further. I said about five feet closer to me now than it was before. I did it was like across the room. You're a further across the room. You're further from the wall though. I'm the exact same distance from the wall. Yeah, but on a longer, on a longer lens. Yeah, it looks good. It looks good. I feel like in an effort to make your setup better though, you've just fucked yourself over so many times. So it's like short term fucking for long term pleasure.

Yeah. Wait. That's all nice. I'm trying to think of like what's the, what's the relationship equivalent to that? Oh god. Short term, like, long term. Like, shagging sting on someone. Nice.

Also, I just, I need to figure out too because what's great about this light is there's a camera mount on it. So my camera's actually mounted to the light, which is great, because it's just like one pole that goes up, it's not a tripod that my camera used to be on, taking up so much desk space. But the shortest it could be is here. So it's at an angle that I have to point down at myself.

It can't be straight on to me. So it's always going to be like this weird low angle. So I feel like I'm always looking down in my camera instead of like, where my eyes probably should be. Like your desk glow. But it's attached to my desk. It's mounted to my desk. Yeah, can you make your desk lower?

But then it will just, the desk will go into my legs. So unless I like. And I miss the desk lower and raise your hair. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Here we go.

It got caught on the armrest. Okay, this is the lowest my desk goes. Yeah, and now tilt up again. Like undo what you did with the thing. But now my armrests are like over the desk. Okay. So now we're gonna tilt. Close up.

Hey, see, that's good, right? Yeah, looks good. Got a bit similar. I'm like towering over my desk. Weird way. I saw you, you talked about your ring light that was connected to Wi-Fi. I don't know if you saw there was an outage. I think it was over the weekend a few days ago where an Amazon web cluster went down. So as a result, people's rune buzz and people's ring products didn't work anymore.

So some people were complaining that they couldn't vacuum because the internet wasn't working. That's kind of like what is iPad? That's an Amazon thing. I guess like they use Amazon Cloud to power their app. So like people couldn't get into the Rumba app because the servers that power it were down. Is there not a hard start button? Like you could go and physically start it, but you couldn't use any of the functionality from the app or you couldn't start it remotely from the app.

That's dumb. And the other people, it's one of the issues of getting smart stuff is that it gets, it gets dumber than a dumb product when their service go down. Like I had a pet feeder for a while that, to feed cats when I was gone, it was just dispense food, and I could set the amount on the phone and stuff. And then the company went out business, the dispensed food, and I could set the amount on the phone and stuff. And then the company would have a business, the service went down, and there's just no controlling that thing now, once they did.

What if they had a useless box? What if? I'm really worried because I have some vents in my house, like for the air conditioner vents that are connected to the internet, so they can be closed and open, like they'd be scheduled to close and open at times, and they can be controlled via an app.

I'm so scared that companies that go out of business it's like then they're just totally worthless. This is like it's a company I've never heard of. I've never heard of them until I look for this product and the only company I've seen that makes it. So it's like, oh shit, they better stay around. What would happen if you're like traveling on say you got a ticket to anywhere in the world and

You were traveling for multiple months But you only fed your cats through like an auto-trip system. What would you do? You have to go home You have to go home or would you would you like yeah? What would you would you leave your key with someone for emergencies or something? I don't know. No, you just leave it under the door, Matt. That's totally safe. Well, I think I would do the app thing.

And if the app died while I was on travels, I would see if I could make it back home before they all stopped the death. That would be terrifying. That would be terrifying. Yeah, be erased against time. I don't think anybody has a key to my house. Is that a problem? Is that something people do?

Do people give other people keys? Well, what happens if you die? You can give me a key. Chris will give you a key. What do you mean what happens if you die? I don't think getting, oh, I guess you have dog, so we should probably give you a key. Yeah, who you at?

Like, you need to bequeath it. So Chris, I'll give you a key once you give me the skull. Well, it's not going to be any good then. I would. How can I do your dogs if I know is if I give Chris the maris a key to my house when COVID's over and I really don't do shit, I'm going to walk into my house one day and Chris can be sitting in his underwear on my couch drinking my beer, playing my video games games and I do not want that. And he's going to act like you're crazy for thinking something wrong with that. What do I do?

He's like, you gave me a key. What do you think I'm going to do? Would you put up with because you thought it was funny. You could appreciate the humor of it. Zero. I'm putting that on the record right now, putting that in my last willing testament, zero. It's the most guest response ever.

You should just get smart locks so that you don't have to give people a key, but you can give them a code. What if the internet dies? That's the whole thing. The internet dies. What do you logs don't work? Yeah, like the internet dies,

and you're now locked out of the house, and the cats can't eat. So now you're double fucked. You get into the country. You can't get in your house. I don't understand why Devices that usually are local to you. You're on the same network as them. Why do they need online functionality? Why can't you just direct connect to a Robot vacuum cleaner and send it on its way That's a good question. I don't know I don't make robot vacuum cleaner, so I can't I can't answer that. Not yet. Not yet. My name is good to hear from one.

This has been I think people wouldn't argue it's been a pretty shit year, right? Like lots of things go wrong. No, yeah, like what? Over the holiday weekend the other day, like the day after Thanksgiving, Yeah, like, well, over the holiday, all the holiday week and the other day, like the day after Thanksgiving, astronaut, we're gonna set up our Christmas tree. We're like, you know, let's get in the holiday spirit, let's bust out the Christmas tree, get it decorated. Very American move to do it in November.

Yeah. And it was like, it's exactly in November. Don't fucking American shame me. And so I keep it in a bag in the garage. It's like, all right, let's go, let's go pull all the stuff in. So like, pull it in the bag with the tree, all the ornaments, all the lights, all that shit. And open up the bag, the tree was in,

and we have a white tree. I opened up the bag, the tree was in, and it was brown. Why, what? No idea what happened. The tree was totally white. When I packed it up, I opened up the bag a couple days ago and it was brown. What's it made out of? Like what's the material that the tree's like? I don't know. I was on plastic or something. I don't know. It's same as the fucking iPad. It expires. It has its uses loses functionality. It like goes out of date.

Let me see if I have a photo of it. I think I just didn't turn brown there. Well, the YouTube app did the YouTube app did You see that That's our focus white. That was white to me It's so you can see the white color in the middle. I'll take this to you guys You could you just spray paint it spray paint it Yeah, like get a white canvas spray paint and just go to town on it. Be like brand new.

That's a great idea. My tree was ruined. I give up. 20 sucks. But the point, yeah, I'm with you guys because the point of a plastic tree is that it doesn't die. Right. If you're a plastic tree, turn around.

That's a real tree. Yeah, that's brown. Can I show it? I mean, it's like off-line. If you can, yeah. Oh, here's what I'll do. Yeah, you can see the whites in the core, like in the middle at the bottom and then the rest of the tree turned brown around it.

Yeah, that's brown as knobs. Gus, can you email it to me? You email it to you. Do you not see it on our cameras? Chris? No, I just want you to email to me. No, I'm not emailing it to you. So we had questions. Please. No, no. You're being extra weird about it. No, it's someone in chat asked if I just did. It's not dust. It like the plastic changed color. It turned brown. I Excited about Christmas. Why? Well, you don't really need to go anywhere for it. And it's just a It's a nice little time of year, isn't it? Well, I like this. I feel like Christmas can potentially not be I feel like Christmas can potentially not be

affected that badly by 2020. I mean, aside from not having any family around right, the main point of Christmas. But I don't know. There's still a lot you can do. You can put a tree up on that. You get to celebrate consumerism. All you want from the comfort of your own home without your family ruining the true meaning of Christmas, which is presents. Thank you. I can still send presents. You could, they're not. I guess I'm honest. You could still send them and at 30% off if you buy right now. Oh god. We released that, uh, the holiday short. It came out last week, right? We did, yeah. That's, uh, the, that going into film that was the first time I'd been in the studio since the last podcast episode we did was at March 23rd. Yeah. So it had been like

seven months since since I'd been in there. That's going to be my I'm going to call that my Coronaversary. That's like the date that I work from home started March 23rd or 24. I got to look it up. Yeah. But yeah, that was it was it was weird because I think I'd seen you the day before Barbara and that's the first time I'd seen you since March when we both had to get our COVID tests. Yeah, I saw you an Esther pull up in your car right next to me. Like across the parking lot. Yeah. I was like, oh my God.

But we both had like our math fun. So it was just like a lot of I and I movements. I, I don't know if I mentioned it. Well, I, last time with the office was about a month ago, there's an RT life about it where I was just like roaming around by myself with my dog, but the, the, the, I think the time before the time before that was, I went to the office to get some equipment,

like some cables or something. And I was like digging through, like, I was trying to find like a HDMI or something. I was like looking for or an extension cable or something. And then I hear, Hey, Chris, I look up its Bernie. It was right, but it was like, before he had, it was like, he'd come up to grab some stuff as well, but like coincidentally happened to be the exact same time that I was there. And it's really scary. It scared the shit out. Oh, this is a long time ago.

This is a long, this is before we had a whole protocol. This is a long time ago. But it scared the shit out of me. I've never been more. Bernie disappeared two years ago. Yeah, he's been dead, dude, for years. I have his skull in my kitchen. I'd bequeathed it to you, huh?

Yeah, extra life. The one just gone was the first time I've been there since that day in March. And I'm actually glad you were there for that. Oh, dude, the bruises are finally gone. There's still like one lump that I guess was where the bruise was that hasn't fully gone away. But look at it on my legs, you would never know

that about nine people's at the same spot. It was so nice to see everyone's little faces. Yeah, it looked like fun, despite you guys getting just absolutely destroyed by Paynples Someone in chat says I should try spraying my tree with hydrogen peroxide to turn it white again It's a lot of work for it something that shouldn't be any work Yeah, but I'll have my tree again.

I can have Christmas. I can't have Christmas till I get my tree. I can believe the service still up. Oh God. Does this thing must exist, right? Someone has a part. I've seen them in the home depot that you can have app controlled light show thingies.

Of that could be cool. I think that could be pretty cool because you can tell the server goes down. Yeah, we just cover this. It's stuck on just why only. If you're lucky. So I've been kind of a star for stuff to watch. We talked about how to like last week. I think yeah, it was last week. We talked about it in an environment and watch a little bit of of it They had the season finale this past Friday, which was excellent So I think everyone should go watch how to Eric is too much of a baby. He can't watch it He tried watching episode one and give up

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But I've been kind of starved looking for stuff to watch. And I remember a few months back on last week's tonight with John Oliver. He talked about how they were sponsoring that marble racing league. And so I was like, oh, I'm going to check out that YouTube channel. I'm going to, I want to look at some marble racing. I am so into it now. Like I watched so many marble racing videos over the weekend. I'm obsessed with, with Marbula one.

I'll try to guess, should we all try to guess what marble racing constitutes? Uh, it's mobiles traveling down pots. I first thought it was just like you start on the ground and you just like throw your marble forward. I think I'll be trapped involved. Some type of obstacle course. It's like what? You just throw it to your guess. It's, do you build your own marble and you, or what?

You pull it. Or is it like you have to, you gotta build your own track and it has to do some. Maybe it's you how far it can go. Oh, oh, oh, you put your marble down a track and then you run alongside it to see you could eat the marble. There's a so it's this is these two people I believe they're in the Netherlands and they have a whole bunch of different kinds of races, but one of them they have is called Marbilla One, which they treat it like a four- Formula 1 race, where they build big tracks and they make marbles race each other to see who can

go around the fastest. There's another version where they do like in the sand, they make a course out of sand and have the marbles race and there's another kind of like the Olympics where they make the marbles go through all different kinds of events to see who wins the gold silver in the bronze. all different kinds of events to see who wins the gold silver in the bronze. Is it not always the same marble and they're like one mark because it's not like the marbles change or like are conscious in doing anything differently. But that's the thing that's the genius there's an announcer who treats it like the marbles have an intelligence and a sentience and gives them like personalities. Okay, is there a pit lane? and gives them like personalities. Okay. Is there a pit lane?

There is no pit lane. No. But sometimes there are like yellow lights and red lights. Sorry. It's really, really interesting. Highly recommend you check it out. It's a Yells marble runs. High smoke. J-E-L-L-L-E. and you check it out. It's a Yale's marble runs.

I just, okay. J-E-L-L-L-E. J-E-L-L-E, yeah. There's, I see people in chat are also watching. They're referencing some of the teams. Got some, O-Ranger fans, some Greenducks. It still blows my mind that Tiger King was this year too. Well, not this year rather, it was when quarantine started. Like that seems like it was forever ago.

But it wasn't. What are you gonna miss the most about this year? it was when quarantine started. Like that seems like it was forever ago, but it wasn't. What are you gonna miss the most about this year? And let's be optimistic, let's not be negative about how much this year's such. What are you going to miss? What am I going to miss the most? I'll tell you, well, how about something I'm happy about for this year.

Does that count, Chris? Yeah. I'm happy about for this year, does that count Chris? Yeah. I'm happy that ordering stuff to your home and not wanting to see the delivery driver has been normalized. I talked about this years ago on the podcast about how I didn't want to see anyone and I just wanted them to leave the shit at my door

and go away, I'm glad that's a normal thing now. I'm glad that- We all called you out for being so anti-social too. We're just like, come on, Gus, it's a little too far. It's a feature that's promoted in apps. Also, the curbside pickup for like restaurants where you can just like pull up, use an app and pop your trunk and they put the food right in your trunk. You don't have to talk to anybody. You don't have to hand any money or anything. Just not having to interact with people as much. I like that. This has been normalized and that I'm not as much of a weirdo now because I like that stuff.

Yeah, I would agree with that. I have appreciated the fact that I like if I have a meeting at 10 o'clock, I could wake up at 9.55. Like I don't have to really do much to participate at work. to pay at work. Other than, of course, if I'm gonna be on camera, I still have to get up and make myself presentable, but it is nice to just spend some time at home and just, you could take your lunch break like in your own kitchen and watch some shows and stuff. I don't know, it's nice.

I like, oh, sorry Gavin, you go, Chris. I got a doggy. Oh. I wouldn't have gotten a dog. I don't think I had this not come about because the reason I had prior was because I'm like, well, I like to travel and I schedule and out of the office and home too much.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's crazy to me. I still have not physically met Booger. Yeah. Right, because you've only had him in quarantine this whole time. It's a dog I've seen a lot when we work on stuff, but I've never actually pet him ever.

Will he be an office dog? Oh, yeah. He's a good boy. That play. I don't think we've ever complained about puppies at the office unless they bark all the time incessantly forever. Gavin, what are you happy about? I mean, I was happy to travel less, which was what I wanted at the end of last year. It's

what I wish for. Got it. So it's your fault. end of last year. It's what I wish for. Got it. Well, I was, I, people close to me know that I was just miserable from arriving home and just tipping my bag upside down and then just repacking it and going somewhere literally the next day and being gone for like another six days. It was just like, and being gone for like another six days. It was just like, I just had no time to be at home and like live in my own house. And I just really was sick of hotel rooms and being on planes.

And I was very glad to actually spend some time at home, even though there was a point in time where I, I obviously lately here when you've been traveling, I don't travel nearly as much as you, but there was a time early on in Rostrat, who I felt like I probably rivaled the amount of travel you had been doing here lately, where I was at the time I was traveling so much that I had multiple suitcases that were packed in my house because I was home so little that it's like I would bring back a dirty suitcase, sleep the night, and then the next morning

take the next clean suit casing, go back out to the airport and keep going. Cause like, there was no time to like unpack and do laundry and repack, like, I just had to pack all my suitcases at the start of the year and go through them. I was, I was, I would, yeah, I would look at stuff like I would come in my office and for this is a, a real example, but I'd put up a shelf and I'd left some of like the drill dust on the scurting board below it. And I was like, I should sweep that up, but because I was traveling so much, it became

pretty low down on my list. So I would just come home, dump all my players, quickly do some emails, and I'd be like, ah, shit, that little pile of wall dust is still there. And honestly, I'm not kidding, probably nine months went by before I swept it up. And I was like, I just don't have time to take care of tiny, little like five second problem, because I'm just so tired. You didn't feel like doing anything like that. It took us the global pandemic for you to sweep up from the past.

And that's what it took. The world was like, Gavah, we need you to clean up this dust pandemic. Now do it. Because in the short time that I had at home, that didn't register anywhere near the top of the things that I had to do while I was there. Yeah. Because I wasn't going to be there for a while. So I was like, I'll get to that at some point.

And I'd just be like doing the in what in my mind was the real work before I had to leave again. Yeah, we were traveling. It's swept up now. We were traveling a whole lot for doing conventions for Ruby It got to the point where we had a convention like almost every single weekend where I would leave Either Thursday night or Friday morning do the convention all week flybacks Sunday night Go to work on Monday work all week fly out again Thursday night or Friday morning and it was like I

Didn't realize I wasn't actually having any time off from working because I would just go straight from work to a convention to work to a convention. And so I feel like I'm really grateful that this year I'm getting to actually spend more time with people and not traveling. Like I was talking to Trevor about that. I'm like, I'm really grateful that like, I'm probably getting to spend a lot more time with you versus a normal, I guess, existence where I'd be traveling every second weekend or something like that.

So. Yeah, there's definitely a happy medium. There is a lot of travel related stuff that I missed. Like the H-Life. Yeah. I love doing those. Those are so fun. And we love conventions and stuff like that too.

And yeah, visiting family, of course. Super Nintendo World. Nintendo World. I know. Japan. I know a lot of people were supposed to go to Japan this year. So I think that was part of it also, Gus, in my dream, I could travel anywhere.

Like that, there wasn't a pandemic. There wasn't a limitation in my limitation. I like how Chris is still trying to sell you on this dream. Okay. It was amazing. It's a hell. Okay. Yeah. It helps. It helps. Sure. Oh man. I did. We were talking briefly about, uh, cryptocurrency earlier and how Chris said he wanted to buy Bitcoin a week ago. Um, I don't know if anybody else saw this. There was a story game. I like two weeks ago.

I think that, uh, I think it was the, the US federal government seized a Bitcoin wallet that had a billion dollars worth of Bitcoin in it. Holy shit. I guess that's, yeah, it's. Holy shit. I guess that's okay. I was like, if someone could return that to me. You do not want it to be yours because they seized it from people who were operating the Silk Road and were selling things illegally on the dark web. Wait.

I thought the Silk Road got shut down. Yeah, the Silk Road had gotten shut down, but this was a Bitcoin wallet that was still out there because nobody knew how to access it. Why is the so crude? It was like a place you could trade illegal activities on the dark web. Like skulls in that? Yeah. I think it was drugs.

The guy who created it was in Austin. Yep. Damn. So apparently they did a lot of business because I think this particular wallet was, I forget the exact history of the top of my head, I think it was stolen back in like 2012 or 2013 and the, I guess finally the US government was able to crack into it and now they got a billion dollars out of that wallet. Well, but how much of the worth at the time? Because Bitcoin's gone up a lot in the last.

It also went down a bit for a while too. Okay. But to like tell, it's billion, a billion dollars is nothing. Right, like it should give it to me. On a government level, but you're spending like trillions. How much does like the B2 bomber cost like two billion, right?

The fact that the whole wallet could buy like half of one object. Yeah, the B2 bomber cost two billion dollars per aircraft. There's so much money. That it's imagine how far that could go spread amongst just regular citizens on one object is crazy. No, but a real object. It's an imaginary object. It's a theoretical, there's no wallet. Oh, I think it's like a B2 was an item.

We're not at the B2, Bob. The wall, it's like, I'm imagining this wallet stuffed with like internet coins. Like, it's, it's not a, there's no thing. There's no physical thing. There was some, is that, isn't that the same for a bank? Yeah, it is. It is.

It is. It is. It is. Physically represented. No, it is. That's, that's why like when, when the Federal Reserve increases the lending capacity of banks, more money is generated. It's like fake money.

It's not real currency. It's only worth what people are willing to say. It's worth. Well, no, there's actual currency that's generated whenever they increase the spending capacity of banks. Actually, there's more currency in the world. But I'm saying that people only agree on the worth arbitrage.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's only based off like what they think the dollars is worth. There's no like gold standard. We got that way like 73. Now look at the B2 bomber. Like it better look really cool. It's a cool. It better have a house inside that I could buy at the same time.

Uh, but why? Okay, but why is that billion dollars? Two billion dollars. Two billion dollars. Why is. Yeah, like what's a special about it? Is it the, the, the, the, the. The bit that keeps in the air's a special bit? Is it the the the the bit that keeps in the

ads and the bit that keeps it hidden? Or is every single piece just like is the on switch like $800 made out of pure gold. Yeah, is it the raw material? We did an episode of black box down

a couple months ago where a plane crashed because the little light that comes on that tells the pilot that the landing gear is down didn't come on. So they were troubleshooting why that light didn't come on. They were trying to figure out if the landing gear was actually down or not. There you go, Black Box Down. Spoiler for that episode, but it turns out that that light bulb had just burned out and the plane ended up crashing because they were so fixated on a burned out light bulb. And it was like a $5 light bulb causes them to lose, you know, a multi million dollar plane. They lost, they didn't think the nose was down. They weren't sure if the nose landing gear was down or not. We saw the shirt. That's part of one of the things they want. they were trying to do while they were troubleshooting.

Because there's like a hole for that right? In that plane, yes, there was. Where they could. And so like the navigator went down, but at the same time they were still messing with it, but they were already low to begin with and they were just slowly descending and they didn't realize it because it was dark outside. God. $5 light.

Yeah, $5 light. You know, playing crashes and people die. I read so much. It's weird too. The other day that with Jeff Bezos, the money he's made since quarantine started, he could afford to give every Amazon employee something like $106,000 each and he'd be just as rich as he was before quarantine started. Wow.

He could buy 93 B2s. Jesus. That makes, that didn't seem like that much. I bet it's more than the US government has. How many, how many does America have? But still, the richest, like by far, the richest person world, it's 92 of them. In, as of 2018.

Cause they're $2 billion. Yeah. As of 2018, the US government's 92 of them. In as of 2018. That's their $2 billion. Yeah. As of 2018, the US government had 20 of them. And the government has, how many Jeff Bezos have? Okay. We're getting zero right now. We don't know. He might have.

He might. He could have 93 of them, apparently. He doesn't. That's how he's going to spend his fortune, just buying a bunch of B2 bombers before. Are there any privately owned B2 bombers? I really doubt that. I doubt that too, but I mean, do you imagine the surely wouldn't be sold to civilians? Well, it's it's Gavin a couple months ago. Well, maybe like a year ago at this point asked me like, what it would cost to like if you wanted to resurrect a concord, if you wanted to buy a concord and fly it yourself,

how much would that cost? Yeah, to me, it was like, it wasn't practical for like, British Airways or Air France, because it was killing that profit, I assume, across the whole business, but why couldn't just a single rich, obscene, leeworthy man, right, women run their own concord? Yeah, but then what right woman, run their own concord. Yeah, but then what I said is like the same thing with the B2 bombers. Like you're not just buying the plane, you also have to be able to maintain it and get parts and you know, mechanics who can fix it and, uh, pilots to fly it. So it's like you're not, yeah, you can just buy the object, but you also have to pay for

all of the support beneath it, uh, to keep it running. How bad is cheaper than a B2? I bet it is. There was a story on real sports. This past, most recent episode, I don't know if anybody else watches real sports, but there was a story about a guy who was very wealthy and he just wanted to do a lot of things. So he climbed to the top of the tallest mountain on all seven continents. And he also, after he did that, he decided he wanted to go to the lowest point on the ocean. So he did.

So he contacted a submarine company and he financed and paid for them to build him a personal submarine. So he could go to the deepest part of the ocean. He built it, you can see two people, but he intentionally went by himself the first time So he's the only person who's been to the bottom of the ocean and on the top amount Everest But he talks about that. I think he said that Building the sub cost 30 million dollars But then he had to also buy a ship for the sub and pay all the people to maintain the ship and that was another 20 million dollars on top of that

So it's like yeah, it's like you can't just get the submarine and go out there It's like now you have to also have a boat to put the submarine on and you have to pay all of these people to go out there and you know Make sure you're able to ride in your submarine at the fucking bottom of the ocean This a lot that goes into it. It's not just one thing. That's the moral of the story. It's a lot more than you think. It's a weird thing because someone being like, I want to go to the bottom of the ocean. It feels, well, in that context, it feels narcissistic versus like going to the moon, which feels adventurous and pro-humanity versus like someone who's moon, which feels adventurous and pro humanity versus like someone who's like,

I wanna do it for myself, my own personal victories versus the humanity. Yeah, but I mean, if one dude personally goes to the moon out of his own pocket, that's not doing anything for humanity. Let's start saying, like, well, if he's it, if he's the first person to do it, but we've already had people on the move. Would you be mad at Jeff Bezos funded a trip to Mars by himself?

By himself? Like he just went by himself, like didn't take anyone with him? He was like, I'm gonna go to, he funded a trip to the Mars and went to Mars. A trip to Mars. Because he wanted to be the first guy to go to the Mars. And but it was still an incredible achievement for humanity, but he did it for personal like, I don't, I feel like a lot of people would not like that.

Just because it's Jeff Bezos. But, I mean, it's unclaimed, though, right? The Moss. We don't know. Oh my God, we don't want Amazon. He puts a fucking Amazon logo on it. Oh, God. We even delivered to the Mars.

Well, that will be, that will be company-owned planets, at some point. That's like that game, Outer Worlds, or which one was it? The Outer Worlds? Yeah. I was gonna confuse with Outer Rim. There was like another game that was getting me out of miles. Outer Worlds, yeah.

Outer Worlds. Which is like a very big game. Outer Worlds with an accent. I'm so similar to me. Outer Worlds. The world's. The world's. Space X is a private company that's like government, It's so similar to me. Out of wilds. So. Space X is a private company that's like government.

They're feeling government contracts. Yeah. But if it was eventually the us versus them though, I assume. Actually civilization enough times, I know how this goes. Still. I mean, once a company has made it to Vaz, they didn't need to, there's no government there. They didn't need to.

They made it to Mars and they've taken their 93 B2 bombers there. No, 90, 93, 92, how many did you say? 93. No, 92 because he needs the other two billion to go to Mars. So, that's just nothing governing the billion to go to Mars. So, just trusting, governing the people who go to Mars, there's nothing holding them to anything, really. They could just do whatever they want when they're on Mars. Well, yeah, there's less gravity there.

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