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This is the launch for August 12th, 2025. Streaming from the beautiful Pacific Northwest and the mighty American West Coast, we greet you all a good morning, a good evening, or whenever your timeline may fall. Time-appropriate greetings indeed to one and all. This is The Launch. My name is Chris. And I'm Angela. Hello, Andrews. Coming up, we got a big show, so just a few things you need to know. We'd love it if you called us during the show or after the fact. That phone number, 774-462-5667. That's 774-462-5667. Call us in, leave us a voicemail, whatever you like. Of course, you can always give it that live vibe on a Tuesday, 11 30 a.m pacific 2 30 p.m eastern 7 30 p.m utc at jblive.tv or in your podcasting 2.0 app of choice and then we release wednesday mornings with links at weeklylaunch.rocks and this is episode 31 well it's a big day for you andrews it is it's maybe uh maybe your second third favorite maybe number one favorite holiday of the year you.
Know i've never ranked it but. It's got to be up Yeah. Many believe that birth order plays a pivotal role in personalities of children. I can see it. For example, the middle child syndrome describes the firstborn as the leader and the role player. Meanwhile, the youngest one earns the title of the baby of the family. Therefore, the middle child's role remains undefined. Uh-oh. That sounds like it could be bad. Yep. That sounds like it could be bad. I'm in danger. Each year on August 12th, National Middle Child Day honors that in-between child and the family. That is what I am.
Middle child. I am a middle child, and I have a middle child, and we are going to celebrate National Middle Child's Day today. I've been doing it for about five or six years. No, maybe longer. My mom went into the hospital with pneumonia, and her roommate in the hospital was a middle child, And she's the one that told me about Middle Child's Day. Yeah, I hadn't really heard about it before. Yeah. And so ever since then, I have done something with Abby every year for Middle Child's Day. And I haven't decided. I wanted to take her out for steak this morning. Oh.
But she was not awake. What's your favorite thing you've done for Mid's Child Day? Oh, okay. Well, so I think the second middle child's day, Abby and I went to Olive Garden with Dia. Like we invited Dia because Dia is also a middle child. Chris is a firstborn. Technically. But then after my dad got married, his wife had two older daughters. Oh, you know, that's not. Yeah, it was a little bit because I go over there and I had two older sisters and I go home and I see the older brother. Yeah. But that was I was more the older brother than anything. Yeah. I have read a lot about this birth order, just, you know, in raising kids and understanding, you know, why they do the things they do, why they don't follow in their footsteps of their older siblings or younger or whatever.
And it's just always intriguing to me how your mom. Your mom. No, your mom. My mom was the baby. Chris's mom was the firstborn, but was given up for adoption and became the baby. Yeah. In the adopted family. And I've always just been so curious about how that birth order has really impacted her because she's both. So anyway, yeah, it's middle child's day. Are you a middle child? You should boost in. Yeah, tell us. And also, do you celebrate what might be considered a non-standard holiday? It's not non-standard. We need recognition. All right.
And then, just a quick follow-up. Yeah. I did not take the antibiotics. Oh, are you doing okay? Yeah, yeah. No necrotizing. Faraday Fedora called in. He was a concern. I know. Yeah. But I did start using my thumb too much, and whatever reconnection the nerve was doing, it has reversed, and I am full numb again on my thumb. You can use your thumb too much? Well, because the nerve is trying to reconnect. What, are you phone tapping? No, no. I've just been trying to do normal things. It feels like the thumb gets used a lot on the phone. like for scrolling. Yeah. Well, I also, like, I intentionally bent it a lot to see if there was extra pain. Oh, my goodness. You know? Yeah.
You're overusing that thing. I did. Yes. I need to not use it so that the nerve can grow back. I used to work with a guy who had some nerve damage. I know. Oh, yeah. Okay. No. Tell the audience. And his hands were numb. Yeah. And so he would hurt himself all the time and not realize it. Was this Chuck or Stick? Chuck. Okay. And, oh, yeah, Stick had some nerve damage. Too. Yeah, he did. Yeah. i worked with two guys that had nerve damage yeah and but it was great for unboxing stuff because they could just rip through the boxes yeah and they wouldn't hurt them at all they would just the.
Rubber band fights too. Yeah that too yeah bastards coming at me and i've got i've got no nerve damage i'm i'm i'm nerve nominal it was totally disadvantaged in those situations but it was useful for unboxing i was trying to think if there was any like, holiday that i follow and they would all be like linux milestones like when the linux kernel was released or when the bitcoin white paper was released oh yeah that was a big day but i don't have any like you know no official holidays my i think my favorite holiday it's probably thanksgiving sometimes new year's can be really nice but it's rare no thanksgiving is a top.
One I enjoy the feel of Christmas. Yeah. Like for the whole month of December. Yeah. Yeah. The actual Christmas itself is a little stressful. Yes. And goes by real quick. Yeah. And it's just worse this year or like over the last couple of years because I can't buy too much in advance for the kids because they change their preferences. Oh, geez. Yeah. So much. And they're older. It's like, what do you get these old kids? Yeah. They don't want just toys. They don't want toys. Yeah. Which was nice. Or books. Dylan doesn't want books. I told him I wouldn't get him books, but then I got him, like, a driving book. And, yeah, he was mad.
Oh. I know they want cash, but that's sort of uninspiring. I hate that, but I did it, too. Yeah, they want cash. So I try to do things, or, you know, like, lights for the rooms, which I need to give you. Oh. I have some for Bella. Man, they're sharing. Bella and Abby are sharing a circuit. I don't know if they can take much more. They're LED. They're pretty light. Okay. All right. They could run off a battery. But, yeah. So Christmas is, it's not that I, I wonder if maybe when I'm older, and the kids are grown up and like, I'm hoping they'll come visit.
And they visit, yeah. Yeah, maybe then I'll like enjoy it again in a way that I used to enjoy. It's not that I don't enjoy it, but it's just not my favorite holiday. Yeah. Thanksgiving, it's a little more low key. There's not as much travel and you get to eat and then you generally have good food for a couple of days too. That's just hard to beat. Yeah, I've been really enjoying New Year's Eve. I've been spending it with Robin Schall, a comedian. She does an East Coast live show. So it's at 9 p.m. Okay. Oh, so you can... Yeah, yeah, yeah. You saw where that was going. You're so old.
Yeah. Yeah. So, or I'm sorry, it starts at eight and ends at nine, right? You know, for the... Yeah. And the kids watched it too with me the last two years. And... How'd you get them to watch anything longer than 15 seconds? Well, it was fun. I don't know. But we... Because it was a special holiday. We called in and we won. Oh, no way. Yeah. Would you win? And Abby, like, they asked a question and Abby Googled it really quick on her phone. Atta girl. And showed me the answer and that's the only reason why we went. Yeah great. So I want I.
Want to customize journal. That's really nice from my stuff like that more often. Gosh darn. Yeah, I have a hard time Getting them to watch movies these days. They just don't want to watch movies because they're so long You know. And it's a long time to I mean that sounds like me and fortunately. But then just randomly last weekend. I'd be like, let's watch spider-man and, Okay, let's watch Spider-Man Yeah Great, sort of random, it's a little late, but we'll do it Yeah. I think she just watched a movie called, like, Taken Oh yeah, yeah Or something, or it's like the girls on the antenna tower thing Oh yeah Fall?
Yeah, maybe, I just saw it's like an online video or something I. Don't think it's Taken. Yeah, it's not, but I know what you're talking about Anyways, let us know about your non-standard holidays We'd love to have some fun with you Boost in, support the show, and tell us about it, So you might remember I was chronicling my attempt to run away from the rats. And we had a home base that was pretty great. But our neighbor got a rat invasion and it was really close proximity and they're not doing anything about it. So it sort of spooked us. We want to get out of there because... Oh, they didn't drown the rats in the basement?
They aborted after day one. It was a three-day plan. Oh. And they paused it because they were going to go to a protest. And then they never came. When they came back from the protest. They just never finished. They never finished it. And then we talked to them about it. They're like, no, we're not going to do that. And I got the sense that. So when they told me, it was so profoundly stupid. I generally have a pretty good poker face. But I looked shocked. Like I looked alarmed and shocked. Because for those that don't know, my neighbor who's like, 25 feet from where I was at. They had anywhere from a dozen to 500 rats in their house.
And they decided the solution was to flood their crawl space for three days. Just put a hose down the door for the crawl space and let it run for three days. And of course, then I was worried about the rats looking for dry ground and running to me. So we packed up the old RV and hit the road for a month and just sort of hopped around while we try to let this figure out the situation and we we ultimately ended up on an old family milk farm but it just it was not sustainable there was no services there's nowhere really to park, there was really it was just not ready for us and so we couldn't stay there for very long and we were running off of solar and all that kind of stuff didn't have water didn't have a way to dump our tanks etc so kind of went back to our main home base thought okay it looks like it's safe put out lots of rat traps sprayed you know all that kind of stuff did all the things we could I also, I find cameras to be really effective.
It's something people don't talk about, but, you know, ring cameras and wise cameras and these types of things can be very effective at finding critters like this and their Wi-Fi and they have long lasting battery life and you can put them in little nooks and crannies and catch them. So cameras, I also deployed several cameras, which can be very effective. And it was sort of a temporary thing. We knew probably before the end of summer we'd try to find somewhere else. And what we decided the best route was let's go build out that spot at the farm. And so we built out a spot there with some gravel and we put in plumbing for water and power and all that kind of stuff.
And then we went off on our summer road trip with Brent, with the kiddos, where we baked. And then on our way back, instead of going to our old home base, we went to the farm and started building it out some more. It was it was not ideal at first. The situation was not ideal. And I think you'd understand this one. So this is a picture, Ange. It's an old milk farm. Have you been there yet? No. Okay. So it's an old milk farm. I don't even know. I should find out how many acres it is. But I can walk around, and it's over two miles, and I haven't walked the whole farm. So it's really big.
Wow. Which is great because you can walk around. You can go for a walk and take the dog off leash and all that stuff. But it has a well that's about 150 feet deep or something. It's like a super deep water well. And it has tons of water, which is fantastic. and we're able to run some plumbing and get it over to the RV and it took so much work. And then we turned on the water and it was, oh, we got running water and Hadiyah's father tells us, oh, you're going to love the taste of this water. This is true well water. And I grew up on well water and I genuinely loved it. I thought it tasted great.
Well, a few days go by and we notice something's wrong. And we think maybe like the vent to the black tank is broken because it kind of smells like poop. Oh, my God. The water does? Well, that's what we discovered. It's the water that smells like rotten eggs, actually. The water, but we didn't know at first. Yeah. Because, like, you'd run the toilet and it would stink. And you'd think, oh, that must be the black tank. Right. But it's actually the water in the, yeah, something like that, or venting wrong or whatever. But it was actually the water in the toilet bowl. Gross.
I know. Her dad likes a taste of that? Yeah. Well, so it just turns out, too. I think, like, the sulfur smell, because that's what causes it, the rotten egg smell. I guess it can be worse in the summer. Oh. And better in the winter. Do you have to treat the well? Is that the problem? Yeah, I guess maybe you could. I don't think, I think it's stuff that's in the ground. Oh. Yeah. So you got to treat it like at the tap. But it's a retired farm, so it's not like it's actively being sprayed with. No. It's weird. Maybe it could just be the ground. Oh, my God, though. It's so bad. Well, so what are you going to do?
So I've been looking into different filter solutions, and they range from like $35, of course, to $2,000, depending on what you want to have done. So you can put filters in line. And so I have a cheap one in line right now, like a $25 one, and it helped. So it like knocked it down 50%. So I'm going to put another one. So this isn't drinking water? No, not yet. No. No, I mean, we don't generally drink out of the tap in the RV. We sort of bring in water in, And we but we do use it for like dishwashing or running the toilets or teeth brushing or taking a shower. Right.
So we have to get it. Yeah. Right. Yeah. So I think ultimately the long term solution is I'm going to get a sophisticated filter system that'll make it like premium water. But right now I just got to get the damn stink out like you would not. Yeah. No, I wouldn't. You can just end it there. I wouldn't. And like took like a few days to figure it out. Yeah. You don't think of the water. Of course. And then I think the way we figured it out is we poured a cup of water for something. We don't normally drink a cup of water from the faucet, but we poured a cup of water for something and held.
It was like, oh, my God. Yeah. And then went outside and poured it from the faucet. Oh, my God. Yeah. It's in the water. It's in the water. So, like, oh, man, totally nerd out, deep diving into the filtration system, all of that. And I think I'll have a solution pretty much in place. the thing though it's so i go through this it's these ups and downs because when you when you build out a new home base nothing's there there's you don't you don't have anywhere to like cook outdoors you don't have anywhere to sit outdoors you don't really have anywhere to park you don't have any power and like you have to build it all out it it takes so long and we'd stay at these places for like two to five years so you're constantly doing like is it worth this effort, but this time it's like no i'm just gonna fix the water i'm just gonna it's gonna be worth it i'm going to fix the water.
So where do you dump your black tank? They put in a septic system for us, although it's not... It's not great because they want $400 a month to service it. It has to be serviced monthly? Yeah. Oh, like emptied? Yeah. Oh, because it's just a tank. I see. A dump tank. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh-huh. So what we can do for $130 a month is they'll come out and weekly they'll dump a port-a-potty. So I might dump into that. You're going to get a port-a-potty? Well, they bring it out. Like you rent it. Yeah. And they drop it off. and then I'm going to run a pipe from my tank, a hose, into that port-a-potty.
Oh, my gosh, that's funny. Yeah. Oh, so you won't actually use the port-a-potty. Well, you could. Yeah, sure. You could. Maybe the kids might when they're outside or something. Huh. But, yeah. And then they're just going to come out and dump that. That's what I'm thinking. That's creative. Because $400 a month is crazy to dump poop. Yeah. And I'm trying to do the math here and I'm like, you know, this is an old dairy farm. They've got a whole sewage system here. Like, is there any? No, no, we can't. But, you know, they dealt with a lot of poop at this dairy farm. There's these slots all over the place where they would wash all of the waste into.
And then it had all this whole drainage system underground and everything. Well, just dump into the slots. I know. I thought about it. But, you know, ugh. And then your water will taste. Yeah. It gets to the well. Like, the smell's back. Yeah. What happened? My filters aren't working. But we were kind of lucky because there's an old milk shed where they would line all the cows up and they would do their thing. Wow. And they've got a lot of power. I guess all this equipment took a considerable amount of power. And so we were able to tap into that and run that over to our spot. And then it overlooks this man-made pond that they used for irrigation and stuff.
It's a pretty big pond. And then off to the left of the sort of hill that we're up is this wildlife preserve. I think it's owned by the city. And it's also a lake, which turns out it's so handy to find your property on a map when you're next to a lake. because you just find the lake on the map. Oh, that's me. What a hack that's been. Even on the bat, there's like... But I don't think the kids are thrilled. I don't think the kids love it, you know, because before our home base was essentially in town. Yeah. And they love that. They're at that age where they just they love. And it's a.
Is there a bus stop nearby, though? Right by. Oh, yeah. I know. And the buses are free for kids. Right. So I know. But, you know, it's not the same. It's not the same when you just walk out the door and you go a few feet and you're kind of down. Well, yeah, you know, more than a few feet, but you're basically downtown. It's all a flat walk the whole way. But, you know, Dylan and his buddies camped over because the one thing that is neat is we have all this land now. And so there's spots all over the farm where the kids could camp and they don't see us. And it's like they're off in the woods, right?
And so Dylan and his buddies this last week came over and camped. And they were able to walk to town and walk back. So it's doable. It's, you know, it's like it's a two-mile walk, which is no big deal for them. They walk that all the time. Well, one of them doesn't. Well, yeah. That's for sure. Well, did you hear what happened? No. Oh, yeah. Okay, so this is, so Dad's trying to make, you know, everybody happy. We got the new farm, and I love the idea they're going to come out and tent camp on the new farm. But also, they want to walk around downtown during the sunset, right? They want to walk around during the sunset.
So we get to the farm, and I say to the kids, I'm like, before you take off, because I know you're going to be gone for hours, go find your camp spot and set up your tents. Oh, goodness. You know where this is going already, right? They tried to set up the tent in the dark? Yeah. Idiots. They don't do it. They don't do it. Of course not. They go downtown. They spend hours downtown walking around. I send them some cash so they can all go get burgers. It's really kind of cute. I'm really glad they had a great time. But 8 o'clock and I look at my phone, oh, sunset's at 8.30.
So I send Dylan a text message at 8 o'clock. Hey, you got a half hour before sunset. Why don't you come home and set up the tent before it's dark? No, we really want to be here when the sun sets. It's the whole thing. And he had mentioned like two weeks ago when he was planning this whole thing, I want them to be downtown during the sunset. So I knew that was a goal. And I'm like, right. But you understand you're going to have to walk this farm in the dark and set up two tents you have no idea how to set up in the dark oh it'll be fine it'll be fine did you. Have to help.
I know i refused oh yeah so. They figured it out then. So i so i'm like all right so because i'm old 9 30 or 10 o'clock i text them and i'm checking i'm always checking them on find my right and they're walking back but they're taking their time they're stopping at parks and stuff like that because there's a couple parks along the way hooligans yeah and i like hey i'm about to go to bed last offer i can come pick you guys up if you don't want to walk the rest of the way because you got like another half mile to go right no no we're having a we're moggin he says we're having a great time oh my gosh of course yes yeah all right so i go to bed and i manage to fall asleep which is incredible because usually like you know i'm like a little worried or yeah it's like i managed to fall asleep even with my cpap on right so this is like this is incredible 10 for 10 going to bed a decent hour cpaps on i'm asleep and i tell him if anything goes wrong give me a call and he doesn't usually call he texts right well my phone starts ringing right as I fall asleep and I was just falling asleep so and I'm worried I grab my phone oh how's going on he's like dad I think I need you to come pick us up okay what's going on well there's some guy and I think he's yelling at his girlfriend but he seems real angry and it's freaked us out I'm like okay of course he couldn't have just accepted the invite for me to come pick I'll pick you up. All right.
So of course I get in the car and I go pick them up. And it was all fine, but they were a little freaked out from the yelling and you know, I said fine, I'll come pick you up if you're weirded out. So I drive like the half mile. They were almost home. I go, I get them loaded up. And I'm on the way back and I realize they don't have a campsite. They don't have their tents. They have tons of stuff. Like it would take multiple trips. Like how about, when we get back, we'll load up the car and I'll take you out and I'll help you find a camp spot with the headlights.
So we loaded up and it was loaded to the ceiling. The car was loaded to the ceiling with all their stuff. And so we're driving around. We're driving around the farm looking for a place. And I kind of I had one in mind. So I pull up in there and it's a decent spot. But, you know, now that it's dark, you don't know if you're setting up on top of spiders or a beehive. Like, you just have no idea. Right. Thankfully, it was a harvest moon. So it was almost like a distant light was on. And like, did you guys even bring a flashlight? And they're like, no, but we got our phone. So all four of them have their phones out with the flashlights on.
They're like forming a circle around the tent. I'm just unloading stuff. I'm like, all right, I'm out of here. Good luck with the tent boys. And I guess it took them like an hour and a half. Yeah. Wow. But they got it done. Yeah. But I don't think they got much sleep because it was a warm night. Yeah. Well, the report that I got was one got nine hours. Whoa. Two got six hours and Dill didn't go to sleep. That's what he told me too. Yeah. He told me it was too warm and he couldn't sleep. but like he could have just walked back to the rv it was like less than a half a mile he could have and they did at one point walk back to the rv which was another time they woke me up oh man at like 1 a.m i.
Didn't even know you slept. I know right that was that was sort of like the thing was like this was like i was sleeping yeah i'm like oh this is and it was saturday night so it's i guess. You got to appreciate it. It's like the night before yeah it was the night before lup too so i'm like please just get some good sleep right uh but they came back at one point grab snacks and and more pillows and blankets and left again. And I'm like, well, you could've just set up a bed there and crashed there, that would've been fine. Silly kids. But it has been quite the adventure, so it's sort of the summer adventure, but there's so much to do before winter to winterize stuff and the water's all gonna freeze.
And whatever filtration system I come up with for this rotten egg smell, is going to have to be shelved during the winter because the filters can't freeze. So I have to come up with a totally different solution. Because the filters are outside? Yeah. And they're filled with water and they crack, they expand, and they bust. You might ask me how I know. I've gone through a couple of them. It's just the worst. So, yeah, that's my goal is to figure that out. That's my goal. So if you have any suggestions on getting rid of rotten egg smell or anything you've done that didn't break the budget, Boost in. Let me know as I build out the new home base.
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And we did have a nice batch of voicemails this week. Thank you. I know. You see that nice list there? I do. Wow. Isn't that great? A guy named Ryan's back with his dozenth. Yeah, dozenth. Is that how you say it? Twelfth. Well, I don't like twelfth. I just don't like the way it sounds. But he's back with more calls. Hey, JB Launch Crew. This is a guy named Ryan. Long time, 12 times. I made it to a dozen, baby. And you mentioned Psybite in response to my last voicemail. and I just keep waiting for the day Chris comes to his senses and relaunches it. I miss that podcast so much.
Anyway, I'm calling about the age verification rules that are starting to roll out on the internet because that was the topic. And I don't know where I stand as a parent, but I'm someone who is in recovery and I'm a moderator on a subreddit called slash r slash stop drinking. And we've noticed there's a recent decline in visitors and subscriptions. And we're starting to wonder if it's a result of the age verification requirements because that forum has been ruled as containing adult content. I mean, it's a forum where people with addiction help other people with addiction, and certainly that topic is going to include some adult topics.
But if you have young people struggling with addiction, I imagine they're actively living out those adult topics already in their lives, and now they have one less place they can go to try and get help and support. Okay. That, to me, just seems more harmful than helpful. And on another note, Chris, man, I cannot believe the tirade you threw at the end of LUP, threatening to cancel the launch if you didn't get our voicemails. Oh, man. I'm just hoping that these last dozen or so contributions I've made to this great podcast can in some small way help convince you to keep it alive.
Anyway, I hope to hear you guys later this week and in weeks to come, and keep up the great work, everyone. Thank you. A guy named Ryan is hanging on by a thread. I think maybe your voicemail is alone. Saving it. We shall see. We did have some good calls. Yeah. So congratulations on your recovery. I actually started going to Al-Anon. I don't remember. I think I'm six or seven years in, and I was the treasurer for five years of my local Al-Anon. And for those of you that don't know, Al-Anon is for friends and families of alcoholics. So anyway, those groups are very, very supportive and congrats.
Yeah. All right. You ready for our next one? It's from listener Hank. Hank, are you there? Hank, are you there? Well, I was down at my local propane stop and this nice gentleman told me, well, if I don't call that launch, well, they might end the show. Now I thought that boy ain't right. With all the great colors and stories being shared, how the hell could they? But Chris, if a feller wants to train a bird or a wild animal, you've got to earn their trust. Typically through their stomach. But if you feed one, well, you might get more than you bargained for. And them corvids, they've got a great memory, so you better not slight them in any way.
Well, that's it. Call the launch, fellas. Take care. Is that Jeff? Ha ha ha ha ha! Huh. You know, I got to say, the birds at the farm are the biggest birds I've ever seen. So there's golden eagles, which I didn't know were a thing in the Pacific Northwest, and they're big. Cool. And then bald eagles don't go white until they're older. Where are your sound effects right now? Oh, you're right. I should bust out an eagle sound effect. Did you know this? They don't get a white head until they're older. Yeah, I do know that. I did not know that.
There's an eagle's nest that I watch by my house all the time. Yeah, well, so I'm eagle nest watching, and I'm discovering this. It's really fascinating. Yeah, teenagers. Yeah, teenagers. It's crazy. And then the ravens are like the size of a small dog. They're huge. And so last night, we were walking around to lock up the gates to finish the night. And I'm not even kidding. I think at one moment, it was kind of creepy, about 70 ravens just lifted up all from the farm at once, just all over the farm. Up into the air. And then they all together flew over to the neighbor's tree, and then they were circling around the neighbor's tree, and then the other ravens around that tree went in the air, and then they all just took off.
Did it sound like the movie Birds? That's exactly what Hidia said. It's like, that sounds like birds. It was crazy. All right. Next voicemail comes from Magnolia. I think, you know, he's trying to save the show. Hey, it's Magnolia. um like I know you've already made the decision um but I'm you know it's really depressing that there's only really one JB show left and and I just I don't know man like I've been listening for years a decade now and it's just like it it sucks that the the networks dying like this and you're talking about even even Linux unplugged I don't even know like I, You can't kill the lunch, man. You just can't do it.
Well, you got to get calls. We don't have calls. I mean, you know what I mean? Like, it's just a simple, it's a simple dynamic of it. Hey, lunchers, it's Magnolia Mayhem. Again, sorry for calling twice in one episode, but I guess, you know, this may be my last opportunity. Oh, my goodness. Go ahead and get as much use out of it as possible. But I remember on the LUP episode yesterday, from my perspective, here on Monday, but there was this talk of the tool Crush, and it reminded me a lot. I forget exactly what it was. I remember Chris talking about having some issues.
I don't even actually remember what it was because I was listening live, and I try not to go back and listen to it. Anyway, but there's also a tool called the Warp Terminal, and it sounds very similar, but it's actually really slick. And I figured, you know what, it might be worth looking into, or else I just completely misunderstood the problem one way or another. I don't know. Has it been two minutes yet? I bet I could keep talking. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, so kind of partly cloudy. Very sunny. It's weirdly hot here, even though it's partly cloudy.
And, you know, I'm just sitting across from a gas station on my lunch break. talking to the lunch is kind of funny, huh? Two minutes? Not two minutes. That's a cat. It's a cat. What is that cat doing? Oh my goodness. Magnolia is going to single-handedly kill the show with these voicemails. Two minutes. I'm going to have to turn my air conditioner back on. It's warming up in here quick. Yep. Oh look, that's a very low-flying plane. Mimosa trees. They're pretty cool. And some alcohol after them, didn't they? Yeah. Anyways, two minutes.
There it is. Two minutes. Oh, you got it. Yeah. The heck? You got it. And Magnolia came back with one last call in an effort to save the show. Oh, yeah, that's what I was going to do. Okay, cat, mimosa, alcohol. That was the memory I was trying to get back around to. Last episode, two cats having issues. I am not an animal behaviorist by any stretch of the imagination. But I was just thinking, like, I know that, like, I've seen this happen with some people that hate each other before. It was like one person hates the other person or whatever that is. But, like, sometimes you need a little chemical accelerant.
Accelerant? Lubricant? Something like that. You know, like, get the people that hate each other. pliable before and then introduce them to each other. So what I'm saying is catnip. You get some catnip, right? But the cage is next to each other with some kind of non-transparent thing between the two cages. Get them feeling good. Pull the non-transparent thing up. What's behind this door? And if it goes wrong, you can just slap it back down and draw something else. I don't know. It works with humans, right? That's what I was trying to remember. Anyway.
Thanks, Mayhem. So you could, just a little door that slides. Oh, nothing there. I mean, okay, so here is, we still have the new kitten named Toes, right? And he is staying in Abby's room unless the other cats are outside. And then he has free roam of the house. But here's, he likes sitting in this small, like short cat tree. It's like two feet off the ground. He likes laying in that. And Gypsy will be outside the sliding glass door looking at him, trying to attack him. but that wasn't enough so she went and caught a blue stellar jay and brought it to the door and killed it in front of us like and this kitten toes is not that much bigger than this blue stellar jay and blue stellar jays like gypsy can hunt because they you blink and the blue Killer J is like, not going over there.
Cat's a killer. And she caught one. And that bird was looking at me. The bird tried to escape. Oh, man. It was horrible. Oh. Oh, yeah. No, I have video of it. Oh, no. That's good. Yeah. So I think she will kill him. I think he needs to be a little bigger. Aw. I'll have a vet bill and I'll have a burial. No kidding. Oh, my gosh. Wow. That cat. That's some skills, really. To be honest with you. That's some skills. Thank you, Magnolia. I think you're single-handedly helping save the show you and Ryan all right now open-source accountant wants to kill the show because he calls in to take me to account It's totally fair, but he's going after me Chris.
It's Derek the open-source accountant here uh, Long time since I called, but I gotta admit, I'm watching all these different options and I'm wondering what's going on with like the Jupiter Party subscription. Will that be moving over to the Feltman platform as you start migrating? As someone who is already paying for, I think I pay for the Jupiter Party and I also pay for the, what used to be the Coderly. Code early. I think now that pays for the launch. I'm starting to get confused on the different payment rails and starting to get overwhelming. I would love a primer and a little bit of an explanation of how it's getting paid, like what all these are for now and kind of what the plan is going forward.
As someone who loves supporting what you do, I just want to know if I'm going to be jumping rails a bunch of times in the near future or what I should be expecting, because that's a lot of work on my side. I'd love some clarity. Thanks. Well, you just got to get over and help straight me out. You got to straighten me out, right? Come over for a few days. We'll go through things. We'll straighten it out. This is exacerbated this problem by two factors. Number one is I recently launched a test membership through Fountain FM for This Week in Bitcoin because they have a brand new platform that puts the membership deets in the RSS feed and would be cross platform between any podcast app that wants to implement it.
So that's a particular appealing and you can pay in fiat or lightning. So these are particularly appealing to me. But it does not integrate with Memberful because Memberful is its own unique proprietary platform, which is kind of honestly the rub. Then the second issue is I haven't really committed to integrating fully this week in Bitcoin into Jupyter Broadcasting. Yeah. It's just so different. You know, and it's not in the Linux and open source. Well, it's so silly because it is, right? It is open source free software and the entire Bitcoin node infrastructure is all on Linux. But yeah, it's tangential, not necessarily complimentary.
Yeah. If that's the thing is it's it's it doesn't necessarily complement the traditional lineup. And so if if I put it in the Jupiter party feed, it actually could cause some people to unsubscribe. Right. It's a delicate balance. It is. And it's my it's my bad. It's my bad. It really is. And so I am both testing a new platform and I am hesitant to integrate it into the Jupiter party. And I recently asked, I put a member, I put a message out to the party members and asked, you know, would you like to see this week in Bitcoin's bonus content that I'll be creating soon show up in your signal feed?
And about half of them said yes. And half of them said no. So it's like a 50 50 split. Yeah. Half of those that responded. Yeah. Yeah. So there it sits for now. But there does need to kind of be like a clarifying of it all. And then the other thing is we need to make sure that the Jupyter Party members always are getting all of the features they want. So if there was a way for me to grant access to them, like I could put it up on another file share or something like that, but I wasn't spamming the RSS feed or however people would look at it, then I would take that compromise. It's tricky. It's really tricky. especially why we're also trying to test stuff so i get it and i you know uh i tend to move pretty quick when i and so we can we can have a couple of threads going at once and that can be kind of confusing but i appreciate the support you know and i guess i've always viewed it as pick the avenues that make sense to you but it is tricky with the party membership and now creating bonus content for twib i would like to publish it there without turning people away and they don't give me a mechanism to like create a second rss feed for you that you could subscribe to it's you get it or you don't get.
Right where you can uncheck yeah. But uh all right should we switch to live calls we got a couple live calls coming oh my goodness we have let's take our we have we've somebody that's been on hold for a bit there looks like they're calling from minneapolis let's see if we can pull them in i have no idea uh minneapolis you're on the line with chris and Ange, are you there? Hey, Chris and Ange, this is Ross to Calavera. Well, hello, Mr. Calavera. Long time to talk. Yeah, I was into the boosting when you first got into all that. Been listening since like 2008, 2009.
Oh my goodness. Something like that. Long timer. Yeah. So I just, you know, I got a little notification in my podcast 2.0 app that y'all were live and I don't normally listen. And the first thing that comes on is you're desperate for callers. So here I am. Gotta save the show. You gotta save the show. So, Ange has been telling me behind the scenes that if we don't get more calls, she's canceled. Oh, my. No. Stop it. That's what you've been saying. That I'm going to what? You're going to cancel the show if we don't get more calls. Oh, my gosh.
Oh, now she won't admit it. I said no such thing. Well, now, is this your first launch ever? No, you were subscribed. So, you got in the 2.0 app. That's great. So, you're listening on the Lidstream. How's it working? I am. You know what? It's great. I started out as a fountain user and then Podverse, and now I'm Cast-O-Matic on iOS. Oh, Cast-O-Matic's great. And yeah, it's awesome with that live notification. And to be honest, I don't get many live notifications. It's you, Podcasting 2.0, and that's it. So you know what's funny, dude, is this is bonkers to me. It's the number one sleeper thing that a podcaster could do to put their podcast in front of the noise of all of the other podcasts in the world.
Podcasters are so lazy and so stupid. they could be leaning into this and they could be getting ahead of everybody else and taking advantage of this stuff and they just don't even see it you just said it, out of all the podcasts you listen to it's us and one other podcast that's sending you push notifications to listen, these dummies are missing it they're missing it. They're crazy well, and I'll tell you what, I listen to a few different 3D printing podcasts and one of them, they always talk about how they're just there for the fans they're not wanting to make any money it's strictly informational and you know the engaging with the community is what keeps them going and it's like well next time they throw out their email i'm going to send them something be like you should really look into podcasting 2.0 because you just need the the lit tag and a live stream and you don't have to do the the boosts i mean you can do the funding tag and stuff now to send people to patreon or whatever else but like you said the bar is pretty low now Things are pretty well documented, and I think it's a lot easier than people think it might be.
Yeah. And some platforms, some of the hosting platforms, just check on the box these days. You just check the box. So that's pretty great, too. Yeah. The one that I'm thinking of, I think they're still on Libsyn for their host. So I don't know if that would work out. Ah, yes. That is a problem. Yep. If you do end up emailing them, you could tell them that they could use a service called Podcast Mirror, and they could put PodcastMir in front of their standard RSS feed and it will inline-add... podcasting 2.0 features without them having to modify their primary feed they will have to redirect people to the new feed that it generates but essentially it takes their rss feed and it mirrors that and then it just inlays podcasting 2.0 features and lit is one of them so something you could is.
That is that the blueberry. You got it you got it yeah okay tapped in yeah i totally. Forgot about that i'll uh i'll definitely mention that yeah. Well thank you for the call thank you man yeah cool yeah. Keep the show going good all. Right saving the saving the show one call at a time thank you all right we got one more caller coming in who we got there and where they calling from uh canada all right canada let's get canada on the line bringing them in canada you are you were talking to angie and chris are you there hello canada they might and i may not have worked No.
So you hung up our hosting call instead of the previous caller. So it's their fault? No. No, it's their fault. What can I click? Can I click this? Oh, that's another caller. Yeah, we got another caller. Callers? Wait, can we talk to both of them at the same time? That's what I thought would be really cool. They're in the host room. I think we need, are we hosted? Are we connected? I don't know. I'll find out. Yeah, I was connected. Welcome, host. You are now in the host room and can manage your callers. Oh, yeah. See, now it has the pink bar.
It has the pink bar. All right. So do we have two collars on the line at the same time? Did we do it? Did we successfully have two collars? Hello? Well, hello there. Hello there. Are you Canada or Netherlands? I'm the Netherlands. Oh, hello, Netherlands. I'm like Bitten. And then Canada, are you there? Can you hear me? Yep. I'm Canada. Whoa! How about that? All right. Cool. All right. So Canada, stand by. We're going to talk to Bite Bitten. Then I'm going to come back to you. Stand by. I just want to see if I can do it. So, Byte, what are you up to right now? You're not... Oh, you are in the mumbling.
You could have mumbled me, Byte. But what's the fun of having a phone number when you can't call it? Right? Yeah. 774-462-5667. She's got it. She can call the launch. There we go. What's new, Byte? What are you up to right now? You listen to the show and doing what? Yeah, I've been training in the heat, so that was kind of taxing on my body. And now I'm really tired. Woo! I'm exhausted. so yeah the temperatures went up to 35 degrees Celsius that's about 95 degrees Fahrenheit and I have been training on a concrete surface I've been radiated from the top and the bottom yeah.
Burnt crisp yeah so. Yeah seems. Like to me the procedure would be to listen to the show in a cold shower go take a cold shower yes the Canada hang. Up on this? oh certainly oh I can't go ahead I built my own split air-cons, system in my home so because yeah in Europe the house aren't built for the heat they're built for class and template but a little fun news I got called yesterday by the place that I applied to them for job for and they're like okay we tried like five other contestants and you were always the, measurement, the comparing, and we still had to accept you were our top choice so you will get an offer this week.
And they'll let you still listen to the launch? I hope so right? Or is it the Netherlands is probably not during your work time? Oh that's true, it's a time hack. This is evening, yeah a time hack. In the evening about 8 p.m. and the show starts, so I've got all the time to listen to the lines. Nice. Well, thank you for calling in. I hope you can cool down. I recommend take the phone into the shower and turn us up and take a cold shower and cool down. You know? Absolutely. All right, bye. We'll talk to you soon. Thanks for calling. Bye-bye.
All right, let's go see if we can pop over to Canada now. They're calling in, and they dropped off, but they're back, so let's bring them in. Canada, you're on the line with Angela and Chris. Are you there? Hi. yep I'm here this is my nickname is Papa John there oh yeah hi Papa John in. The chat what's going on today. Well I had a question like so with fountain subscriptions does it allow like you have to have a fountain account to do those or can you have like your own self hosted thing and somehow do the lightning invoices through like a self hosted note or do you need to be right on a fountain to do it?
That's a good question. So I think it's going to roll out in three stages. So stage one is you need a fountain account. And then stage two is you'll need a fountain account, but you'll be able to do it from the web and you won't need the fountain app. And then stage three is going to be you just need a Nostra identity. So sort of a three-stage rollout and we're on stage one right now. Okay. Yeah, it's a work in progress. I would love it if they had at least the web part first because I think that would help, but then again, as I've tested it, we have run into a couple of bugs, so it's probably best if we just, you know, take time and get it right.
Yeah, for sure. then i just wanted to kind of respond about ai with um electricians and stuff yeah yeah, like at least i'm sure it's pretty similar in the states um our code book is paywalled so i don't know how good ai results would be for electrical code ah maybe and then we have a pretty pretty robust apprenticeship program in Canada, so like when you're starting out, you're typically, like for four years, you're working with a journeyman who should know what he's doing, but that's not always the case either, so. Sure. Seems like it'd be a good way to start, though.
Yeah. As long as you have those people that can play those roles, I think that's becoming more and more of a problem. It seems to me, too, like that kind of information that's kind of down under lock and key, like you say, for the AI, they're probably going to get some big fat paycheck one day when some AI company comes along and writes them a check to license it or something. Totally, yeah. Yeah, until then. Until then. And then you'll have to pay out of the nose for that AI service, whatever it is. Oh, I'm sure, yeah. Well.
I know the Canadian Standards Association, they've got their own app now, and they're probably going to work out how to put AI in there at some point, I bet. Papa John, thank you for the call. It's nice hearing from you. Appreciate it. Taking the time on all of that. Call again, okay? Call back. Yeah, it will do. All right. Have a good one. You can take the rest of the day off now. You've earned it. Good job. Thank you, everybody, for calling in. And we have one last voicemail to finish off the call-in segment. This is from Mark in Michigan. Hey, guys. This is Mark calling from beautiful northern Michigan.
actually Lake City, Michigan. Love the show. I got turned on to you from the, I really wish that would come back, but I'm thankful that I found it because I found you. I love the content, and actually my wife loves the content, too. I want to chime in with some things that I've learned to do that I never thought I would learn to do. In the past couple of years, I just turned 55. In the past couple of years, I've learned to wire my whole house and the Internet, create a home lab and a home networking wire my shed with 100 amp wire other rv spots yes you're welcome to drive out to michigan and get free and most recently i changed the thermocouple on a water heater doesn't sound like much but yeah i'm old to be learning how to do that so anyhow Well, I love the podcast, love you guys, and please don't cancel.
And one of these days, I'm going to sit down and figure out how to boost. Right? Nice. You know, that's a good list. The one that caught my attention, though, 100 amps to the shed? Like, this entire house, because it's a... Former military. Is 100 amps. The service to this house is 100 amps. And he has that going to his shed. Shed. Yeah, what's going on in there? I bet it sounds like maybe he's got like an RV hookup coming off that. Grow plants. What? Yeah. I was like a Bitcoin mining, which you might be right. Yeah.
But that's really a great list. It feels good, too. Like when you learn that kind of stuff, the next time something in that realm comes up, it's not a panic. It's not a worry. You got it under control. Thank you, everybody, for the call. Why don't you call the launch? Leave us a voicemail. Yes, and people support the show with a boost like Withers, who sent in 8,888 sats. They'd like to know, where did the name Jupiter Broadcasting come from? And also, their favorite note-taking program is Trillium Notes, and it is self-hosted. It's a good question, Withers. So, you know, when you think of the name, we want to, well, the original Jupiter Broadcasting content lineup had things like Radio Revolver and Mac Murphy PI.
And it wasn't just Linux content. Some of it was old-time radio. So you wanted something that was kind of vague enough that sounded modern but also classic. And space-themed. Something about space. It was in that early lineup, too. Yeah, something kind of spacey. But also we early on experimented with a project called Jupyter OS, which kind of inspired elementary OS. And we decided to bail on the whole OS thing and focus on the podcasting thing. And, well, dang near 20 years later, here we are. Thank you, Withers. Appreciate that support.
Outdoor Geek comes in with 5,000 sats. Don't use soap. Dry with a paper towel. I am unsure. Is that, what, my injury? My cat bite injury? Or what? I think it's just good advice in general. Okay, just a general. I think it's just don't use soap. Dry with a paper towel. Unless it's plates, I think. You know, I don't know. I think it's probably specific to something, but you could apply it to anything. Magnolia Mayhem comes in with 5,000 sats. I only recently remembered this because it's been a while, but speaking of branded shirts, I indirectly got a Tailscale shirt from the Jupiter Broadcasting Matrix.
I think it was after an interview. Someone posted a link for a free shirt. The link misspelled Tailscale, but it still went to a website and required personal information. Thinking I was about to get played by a scammer, I filled the form out with BS information and put the address of the post office I work at part time as the address. That's a good hack. That's funny. Long enough later, I'd forgotten about my little adventure and the postmaster came walking up asking me what the heck I had ordered and then handed me a weirdly marked bag. I was scared that I'd made a mistake and gotten something bad, but I'd opened up to find a clear bag with a tail scale shirt in it.
So yeah, I do wear a branded shirt from time to time. Nice. That's a funny story. Yeah. I would have assumed scammer too. Thanks, McNally. Odyssey West is here with a row of ducks. He says, I love that parody song, Fried Pork Chop, right? I love pork hips fried too. Have you ever had, what are they called, Ange, when you fry the pigs and you eat them as, what is that called? Pork rinds. Yeah, pork rinds. You ever had pork rinds? I don't know. I don't think so. My dad used to eat those. Oh, really? Frog legs, yeah. Yeah. I'd never had them until I met Hadea. She's diabetic.
And so chips and stuff affect the blood sugar. Pork rinds don't as much. So I'm like, I can't, I can't. She's like, all right. It's literally like pig skin fried. I know. That's so gross. So then I go to this bar and they make them fresh there. Gross. I wonder what it smells like. Does it smell good? I didn't really, I didn't smell it at all because they had pretty good separation, but they brought it out while they were still hot from the fryer and they were delicious. I don't know. I don't know if I could do it. I know. I didn't think I could either, but I ate the crap out of those things.
let me tell you it was really really good i really enjoyed it okay you ready we're moving on thank you very much appreciate the boost odyssey western it's good to hear from you uh we didn't get any chucky cheese boost this week but pod bun came in and he's got 5444 sats, i feel much more comfortable if i could verify my id through a government portal rather than sending it to a third party they already have all information and they've already issued me an idea in the first place. This is about age verification. Yeah.
I don't like the idea of giving all of these companies our information. It just, and then they all could lose it. Right. It just seems really bad. Or sell it. Yeah. There's so many things. He also boosted in saying, I'd love some JB quote shirts. We need to get on that. Yes. Yes. We probably need like some sort of swag person in the audience that's just passionate about swag that comes and like gives us a few great ideas and then we run with it. Because we're so heads down here, guys. We're just so heads down. That's why we don't get to it. We'd love it. And I'd wear it. I sure would.
PJ comes in with 6,666 sats. Aliens and cryptids, I have seen a few weird things. Oh yeah, I forgot about that ask. Yeah. I grew up in the desert where the skies were rather clear. On one particular road, going to pick up my then-girlfriend, now-fiance, there were always just three dots just in sight off the windshield that would slowly form a triangle. This triangle would then rotate slowly as if it were scanning something. It would then break apart, separate, and then repeat. No planes doing this. I've never seen anybody, no planes doing this, but maybe satellites. But I do want to believe, maybe the aliens are real.
Sounds like drones too. Could have been, but back then? Because they've been together for a long time. Oh. You know, the other thing that's really weird about this one, I did not expect this, and now it's kind of creeping me out, I have to be honest with you, is PJ's description is extremely similar, to the description my stepdad gave me one time. Oh. A triangle that formed in the air, then broke apart, and then came back together is exactly the UFO encounter my stepdad saw when hunting. Hmm. I don't know, that's a little weird. PJ didn't know that story. Yeah.
Huh. Thank you. If anybody else wants to boost in, I'd love to hear it. Thank you, PJ. Turd Ferguson rounds us out with 13,000 sats. I believe that also makes him our baller this episode. Here's some age-old cat wisdom. Swap stands with blankets, give the old cat the VIP spot, and let them meet through a door first. Slow intro, safe lives. Right, and furniture. Yes, so the Toes has been hanging out inside a cat tree. About halfway up a seven-foot cat tree, there is a box, right? A carpeted box. Is that the VIP spot? Well, neither of my cats have ever used it, like ever. But Toes loves it and does catnip stuff in there. But when Toes.
Getting high on the nip in there. Yeah. When Toes is put away, Gypsy has now began sleeping there. Oh. Taking over now. Yeah. Yeah. Like hunting. Claming on the spot. Hoping that she'll run into him. Yeah. When he returns. And be ready. Oh, man. So, yeah. It's scary. But, yeah. I'm hoping that time will help. And making this kitty a little bigger. Yeah. Will help. but I also need to get him fixed before he starts marking. I don't know when that will start but yeah. I think he still might be a little too young to do that process. Thank you everybody who did boost. Appreciate you. Nine of you stream sats.
We stacked a humble 7,570 sats for the streamers. When you combine that with everybody boosted it was a rather unimpressive but still extremely grateful for 53,790 sats. The old show continues. really saved by the calls, the boosters, and the members. Thank you, of course, to everybody who supports the show with a boost or a membership. It means the world to us and keeps us going. If you'd like to boost in, Fountain.fm makes it easy. They self-host the lighting infrastructure and make it super simple to connect to different fiat sources, so that way you can get started.
And then send us a message above 2,000 sats, and we'll read it on the show. I realize what I've been doing wrong. I've been trying to convince you that you should invest in a house. But a house comes with maintenance and all kinds of additional costs. So why not get almost all the value of real estate without the house and buy a parking spot, right? A parking spot, Ange. This is a parking spot in Boston that goes for $160,000. What the heck? You can find a screenshot of the listing. So you can kind of see it's a little corner spot there in a parking garage that somebody else owns.
Now, for a little background, this is a hot piece of real estate. See, as you get closer to Beacon Hill, you can actually snap up some of these parking spots for as much as $200,000. Most buildings in Boston, according to a Redditor, especially on Beacon Hill, don't have parking since they're over 200 years old, and the entire neighborhood is under strict historical preservation laws. So, a few buildings that do have garages, and the standalone and garage that have been built, well, those spots go for a massive premium. There's no way. You could buy like five cars for that amount.
Yeah. Or like five new cars. Some of them, this started about 20 years ago and they were going for incredible. Money. Some of them today go for as much as $300,000. That's insane. So, I mean. How much money are you making though? I know. Like how bad do you need that spot too? Wow. Yeah. I'd just rather not have a car, I think. I would just hire somebody minimum wage to drive me, you know, like. It would be cheaper, wouldn't it? At least for the first year. All right. So, OK, there's another investment strategy. And, you know, a lot of times when the majority says why, the smart investment is to do X.
And so when everybody's running out of a building, you run in. When a knife is falling, you catch it. That's what they always say on Wall Street. Catch a falling knife. What? Now you also could have bragging rights okay you could claim you live in a glass house check this thing out now. Which which link do i click on. Uh inside the seven million oh no no no you click on the now you can live inside the glass house i'll click on the other one because i want to want to walk you through it um six beds seven baths yes 10 000 square feet, And they've just recently lowered the price.
These big ones, these mansions, they are so incredible and over the top that they've attracted a genre on YouTube. And that is the real estate influencer who likes to show you mansions. And this guy tries his best to sell this place. This is a $7.1 million home in East Hampton made entirely out of glass. My name is Eric Conover and I'm going to take you on a tour of this one-of-a-kind mega mansion. Now your monthly payment would be around forty three thousand dollars a But for that you do get a four-car garage that has a private access underground tunnel Okay, I. Was gonna say is it private because if it's made of glass.
Evil the garage is private the rest of the house is not and here's a bit more about the place it's a really fascinating investment it's an opportunity to catch a falling knife as I say and get yourself somewhere special. Tour here at the exterior of the home this property is situated on almost two acres of land which is huge for the Hamptons you can see this is your front yard it's been kept natural how this land has been for hundreds of years right behind me we have the gated entrance to the property then the. Totally natural except for this giant driveway and this huge gate but otherwise totes natural.
So So welcome to the most unique home in East Hampton. So we always like to push the envelope in these tours. So we're filming this entire episode during the night. But just because this house is so incredible, I thought we had to do it justice. We're going to cut back now to show you what this place looks like during the daytime. Now you hear that echo? Yeah. Well, this might be part of why the house had to be lowered from $7.1 million to $6.8 million to now $6 million. dollars. This house features two living rooms, to make it extra awkward the two living rooms are literally right next to each other if you want to get from one side of the house to the other you better bring a snack because you're going downstairs you're crossing the house and you're going back upstairs to get the other side of the house, it's really weird when it comes to the bathroom the main floor has no bathroom so guests have to jog downstairs to go to the bathroom the plumbing does not exist in places you like because the builder forgot it the cooling system yeah the cooling system well they tried to put these little tiny mini units all over the place but it's a giant greenhouse in july in california all glass walls but it's in new york new york oh is it okay uh all football size glass all over the place just huge huge huge glass windows on the roof huge glass windows on the side just a solar oven you can't escape there's no walls so there's nowhere inside you can escape the sun and it has a warehouse feel to it.
Yeah it does. It's just a box the nicest thing about is the property the rest is all just garbage there's a pool yeah uh so they've had to bring it down to six million dollars for this place not not probably gonna go any lower i'm so now if you buy now angie i think it's gonna deal could you imagine a payment no of 43 000 a month for this place insane okay boy i just never seem to really I do like the. House it's cool. It is cool I wouldn't. Want to live there. A movie like a studio should buy it and use it for movies it looks like a house from a movie right yeah all right I tried, okay you can find links to what we which what which what which way we talked about at uh weekly launch dot rocks this was episode 31 you'll have everything listed out there also So our phone number and ways to boost.
And of course, you could always join us live next Tuesday. Make it a vibe. That's what I said. Because, you know, the kids say it. And I'm pre-firing right now. I'm pre-firing about next week. Yep. And mogging. I'm definitely mogging. I don't exactly know what that is. But I feel like I'm doing it. Hopefully it's not inappropriate. Yeah. Hopefully. Thank goodness it's an audio podcast. I think it means you're looking better than other people. Like, I think that, gosh, yeah, we need to. We got to look that one up. Yep.
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This is the launch for August 12th, 2025. Streaming from the beautiful Pacific Northwest and the mighty American West Coast, we greet you all a good morning, a good evening, or whenever your timeline may fall. Time-appropriate greetings indeed to one and all. This is The Launch. My name is Chris. And I'm Angela. Hello, Andrews. Coming up, we got a big show, so just a few things you need to know. We'd love it if you called us during the show or after the fact. That phone number, 774-462-5667. That's 774-462-5667. Call us in, leave us a voicemail, whatever you like. Of course, you can always give it that live vibe on a Tuesday, 11 30 a.m pacific 2 30 p.m eastern 7 30 p.m utc at jblive.tv or in your podcasting 2.0 app of choice and then we release wednesday mornings with links at weeklylaunch.rocks and this is episode 31 well it's a big day for you andrews it is it's maybe uh maybe your second third favorite maybe number one favorite holiday of the year you.
Know i've never ranked it but. It's got to be up Yeah. Many believe that birth order plays a pivotal role in personalities of children. I can see it. For example, the middle child syndrome describes the firstborn as the leader and the role player. Meanwhile, the youngest one earns the title of the baby of the family. Therefore, the middle child's role remains undefined. Uh-oh. That sounds like it could be bad. Yep. That sounds like it could be bad. I'm in danger. Each year on August 12th, National Middle Child Day honors that in-between child and the family. That is what I am.
Middle child. I am a middle child, and I have a middle child, and we are going to celebrate National Middle Child's Day today. I've been doing it for about five or six years. No, maybe longer. My mom went into the hospital with pneumonia, and her roommate in the hospital was a middle child, And she's the one that told me about Middle Child's Day. Yeah, I hadn't really heard about it before. Yeah. And so ever since then, I have done something with Abby every year for Middle Child's Day. And I haven't decided. I wanted to take her out for steak this morning. Oh.
But she was not awake. What's your favorite thing you've done for Mid's Child Day? Oh, okay. Well, so I think the second middle child's day, Abby and I went to Olive Garden with Dia. Like we invited Dia because Dia is also a middle child. Chris is a firstborn. Technically. But then after my dad got married, his wife had two older daughters. Oh, you know, that's not. Yeah, it was a little bit because I go over there and I had two older sisters and I go home and I see the older brother. Yeah. But that was I was more the older brother than anything. Yeah. I have read a lot about this birth order, just, you know, in raising kids and understanding, you know, why they do the things they do, why they don't follow in their footsteps of their older siblings or younger or whatever.
And it's just always intriguing to me how your mom. Your mom. No, your mom. My mom was the baby. Chris's mom was the firstborn, but was given up for adoption and became the baby. Yeah. In the adopted family. And I've always just been so curious about how that birth order has really impacted her because she's both. So anyway, yeah, it's middle child's day. Are you a middle child? You should boost in. Yeah, tell us. And also, do you celebrate what might be considered a non-standard holiday? It's not non-standard. We need recognition. All right.
And then, just a quick follow-up. Yeah. I did not take the antibiotics. Oh, are you doing okay? Yeah, yeah. No necrotizing. Faraday Fedora called in. He was a concern. I know. Yeah. But I did start using my thumb too much, and whatever reconnection the nerve was doing, it has reversed, and I am full numb again on my thumb. You can use your thumb too much? Well, because the nerve is trying to reconnect. What, are you phone tapping? No, no. I've just been trying to do normal things. It feels like the thumb gets used a lot on the phone. like for scrolling. Yeah. Well, I also, like, I intentionally bent it a lot to see if there was extra pain. Oh, my goodness. You know? Yeah.
You're overusing that thing. I did. Yes. I need to not use it so that the nerve can grow back. I used to work with a guy who had some nerve damage. I know. Oh, yeah. Okay. No. Tell the audience. And his hands were numb. Yeah. And so he would hurt himself all the time and not realize it. Was this Chuck or Stick? Chuck. Okay. And, oh, yeah, Stick had some nerve damage. Too. Yeah, he did. Yeah. i worked with two guys that had nerve damage yeah and but it was great for unboxing stuff because they could just rip through the boxes yeah and they wouldn't hurt them at all they would just the.
Rubber band fights too. Yeah that too yeah bastards coming at me and i've got i've got no nerve damage i'm i'm i'm nerve nominal it was totally disadvantaged in those situations but it was useful for unboxing i was trying to think if there was any like, holiday that i follow and they would all be like linux milestones like when the linux kernel was released or when the bitcoin white paper was released oh yeah that was a big day but i don't have any like you know no official holidays my i think my favorite holiday it's probably thanksgiving sometimes new year's can be really nice but it's rare no thanksgiving is a top.
One I enjoy the feel of Christmas. Yeah. Like for the whole month of December. Yeah. Yeah. The actual Christmas itself is a little stressful. Yes. And goes by real quick. Yeah. And it's just worse this year or like over the last couple of years because I can't buy too much in advance for the kids because they change their preferences. Oh, geez. Yeah. So much. And they're older. It's like, what do you get these old kids? Yeah. They don't want just toys. They don't want toys. Yeah. Which was nice. Or books. Dylan doesn't want books. I told him I wouldn't get him books, but then I got him, like, a driving book. And, yeah, he was mad.
Oh. I know they want cash, but that's sort of uninspiring. I hate that, but I did it, too. Yeah, they want cash. So I try to do things, or, you know, like, lights for the rooms, which I need to give you. Oh. I have some for Bella. Man, they're sharing. Bella and Abby are sharing a circuit. I don't know if they can take much more. They're LED. They're pretty light. Okay. All right. They could run off a battery. But, yeah. So Christmas is, it's not that I, I wonder if maybe when I'm older, and the kids are grown up and like, I'm hoping they'll come visit.
And they visit, yeah. Yeah, maybe then I'll like enjoy it again in a way that I used to enjoy. It's not that I don't enjoy it, but it's just not my favorite holiday. Yeah. Thanksgiving, it's a little more low key. There's not as much travel and you get to eat and then you generally have good food for a couple of days too. That's just hard to beat. Yeah, I've been really enjoying New Year's Eve. I've been spending it with Robin Schall, a comedian. She does an East Coast live show. So it's at 9 p.m. Okay. Oh, so you can... Yeah, yeah, yeah. You saw where that was going. You're so old.
Yeah. Yeah. So, or I'm sorry, it starts at eight and ends at nine, right? You know, for the... Yeah. And the kids watched it too with me the last two years. And... How'd you get them to watch anything longer than 15 seconds? Well, it was fun. I don't know. But we... Because it was a special holiday. We called in and we won. Oh, no way. Yeah. Would you win? And Abby, like, they asked a question and Abby Googled it really quick on her phone. Atta girl. And showed me the answer and that's the only reason why we went. Yeah great. So I want I.
Want to customize journal. That's really nice from my stuff like that more often. Gosh darn. Yeah, I have a hard time Getting them to watch movies these days. They just don't want to watch movies because they're so long You know. And it's a long time to I mean that sounds like me and fortunately. But then just randomly last weekend. I'd be like, let's watch spider-man and, Okay, let's watch Spider-Man Yeah Great, sort of random, it's a little late, but we'll do it Yeah. I think she just watched a movie called, like, Taken Oh yeah, yeah Or something, or it's like the girls on the antenna tower thing Oh yeah Fall?
Yeah, maybe, I just saw it's like an online video or something I. Don't think it's Taken. Yeah, it's not, but I know what you're talking about Anyways, let us know about your non-standard holidays We'd love to have some fun with you Boost in, support the show, and tell us about it, So you might remember I was chronicling my attempt to run away from the rats. And we had a home base that was pretty great. But our neighbor got a rat invasion and it was really close proximity and they're not doing anything about it. So it sort of spooked us. We want to get out of there because... Oh, they didn't drown the rats in the basement?
They aborted after day one. It was a three-day plan. Oh. And they paused it because they were going to go to a protest. And then they never came. When they came back from the protest. They just never finished. They never finished it. And then we talked to them about it. They're like, no, we're not going to do that. And I got the sense that. So when they told me, it was so profoundly stupid. I generally have a pretty good poker face. But I looked shocked. Like I looked alarmed and shocked. Because for those that don't know, my neighbor who's like, 25 feet from where I was at. They had anywhere from a dozen to 500 rats in their house.
And they decided the solution was to flood their crawl space for three days. Just put a hose down the door for the crawl space and let it run for three days. And of course, then I was worried about the rats looking for dry ground and running to me. So we packed up the old RV and hit the road for a month and just sort of hopped around while we try to let this figure out the situation and we we ultimately ended up on an old family milk farm but it just it was not sustainable there was no services there's nowhere really to park, there was really it was just not ready for us and so we couldn't stay there for very long and we were running off of solar and all that kind of stuff didn't have water didn't have a way to dump our tanks etc so kind of went back to our main home base thought okay it looks like it's safe put out lots of rat traps sprayed you know all that kind of stuff did all the things we could I also, I find cameras to be really effective.
It's something people don't talk about, but, you know, ring cameras and wise cameras and these types of things can be very effective at finding critters like this and their Wi-Fi and they have long lasting battery life and you can put them in little nooks and crannies and catch them. So cameras, I also deployed several cameras, which can be very effective. And it was sort of a temporary thing. We knew probably before the end of summer we'd try to find somewhere else. And what we decided the best route was let's go build out that spot at the farm. And so we built out a spot there with some gravel and we put in plumbing for water and power and all that kind of stuff.
And then we went off on our summer road trip with Brent, with the kiddos, where we baked. And then on our way back, instead of going to our old home base, we went to the farm and started building it out some more. It was it was not ideal at first. The situation was not ideal. And I think you'd understand this one. So this is a picture, Ange. It's an old milk farm. Have you been there yet? No. Okay. So it's an old milk farm. I don't even know. I should find out how many acres it is. But I can walk around, and it's over two miles, and I haven't walked the whole farm. So it's really big.
Wow. Which is great because you can walk around. You can go for a walk and take the dog off leash and all that stuff. But it has a well that's about 150 feet deep or something. It's like a super deep water well. And it has tons of water, which is fantastic. and we're able to run some plumbing and get it over to the RV and it took so much work. And then we turned on the water and it was, oh, we got running water and Hadiyah's father tells us, oh, you're going to love the taste of this water. This is true well water. And I grew up on well water and I genuinely loved it. I thought it tasted great.
Well, a few days go by and we notice something's wrong. And we think maybe like the vent to the black tank is broken because it kind of smells like poop. Oh, my God. The water does? Well, that's what we discovered. It's the water that smells like rotten eggs, actually. The water, but we didn't know at first. Yeah. Because, like, you'd run the toilet and it would stink. And you'd think, oh, that must be the black tank. Right. But it's actually the water in the, yeah, something like that, or venting wrong or whatever. But it was actually the water in the toilet bowl. Gross.
I know. Her dad likes a taste of that? Yeah. Well, so it just turns out, too. I think, like, the sulfur smell, because that's what causes it, the rotten egg smell. I guess it can be worse in the summer. Oh. And better in the winter. Do you have to treat the well? Is that the problem? Yeah, I guess maybe you could. I don't think, I think it's stuff that's in the ground. Oh. Yeah. So you got to treat it like at the tap. But it's a retired farm, so it's not like it's actively being sprayed with. No. It's weird. Maybe it could just be the ground. Oh, my God, though. It's so bad. Well, so what are you going to do?
So I've been looking into different filter solutions, and they range from like $35, of course, to $2,000, depending on what you want to have done. So you can put filters in line. And so I have a cheap one in line right now, like a $25 one, and it helped. So it like knocked it down 50%. So I'm going to put another one. So this isn't drinking water? No, not yet. No. No, I mean, we don't generally drink out of the tap in the RV. We sort of bring in water in, And we but we do use it for like dishwashing or running the toilets or teeth brushing or taking a shower. Right.
So we have to get it. Yeah. Right. Yeah. So I think ultimately the long term solution is I'm going to get a sophisticated filter system that'll make it like premium water. But right now I just got to get the damn stink out like you would not. Yeah. No, I wouldn't. You can just end it there. I wouldn't. And like took like a few days to figure it out. Yeah. You don't think of the water. Of course. And then I think the way we figured it out is we poured a cup of water for something. We don't normally drink a cup of water from the faucet, but we poured a cup of water for something and held.
It was like, oh, my God. Yeah. And then went outside and poured it from the faucet. Oh, my God. Yeah. It's in the water. It's in the water. So, like, oh, man, totally nerd out, deep diving into the filtration system, all of that. And I think I'll have a solution pretty much in place. the thing though it's so i go through this it's these ups and downs because when you when you build out a new home base nothing's there there's you don't you don't have anywhere to like cook outdoors you don't have anywhere to sit outdoors you don't really have anywhere to park you don't have any power and like you have to build it all out it it takes so long and we'd stay at these places for like two to five years so you're constantly doing like is it worth this effort, but this time it's like no i'm just gonna fix the water i'm just gonna it's gonna be worth it i'm going to fix the water.
So where do you dump your black tank? They put in a septic system for us, although it's not... It's not great because they want $400 a month to service it. It has to be serviced monthly? Yeah. Oh, like emptied? Yeah. Oh, because it's just a tank. I see. A dump tank. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh-huh. So what we can do for $130 a month is they'll come out and weekly they'll dump a port-a-potty. So I might dump into that. You're going to get a port-a-potty? Well, they bring it out. Like you rent it. Yeah. And they drop it off. and then I'm going to run a pipe from my tank, a hose, into that port-a-potty.
Oh, my gosh, that's funny. Yeah. Oh, so you won't actually use the port-a-potty. Well, you could. Yeah, sure. You could. Maybe the kids might when they're outside or something. Huh. But, yeah. And then they're just going to come out and dump that. That's what I'm thinking. That's creative. Because $400 a month is crazy to dump poop. Yeah. And I'm trying to do the math here and I'm like, you know, this is an old dairy farm. They've got a whole sewage system here. Like, is there any? No, no, we can't. But, you know, they dealt with a lot of poop at this dairy farm. There's these slots all over the place where they would wash all of the waste into.
And then it had all this whole drainage system underground and everything. Well, just dump into the slots. I know. I thought about it. But, you know, ugh. And then your water will taste. Yeah. It gets to the well. Like, the smell's back. Yeah. What happened? My filters aren't working. But we were kind of lucky because there's an old milk shed where they would line all the cows up and they would do their thing. Wow. And they've got a lot of power. I guess all this equipment took a considerable amount of power. And so we were able to tap into that and run that over to our spot. And then it overlooks this man-made pond that they used for irrigation and stuff.
It's a pretty big pond. And then off to the left of the sort of hill that we're up is this wildlife preserve. I think it's owned by the city. And it's also a lake, which turns out it's so handy to find your property on a map when you're next to a lake. because you just find the lake on the map. Oh, that's me. What a hack that's been. Even on the bat, there's like... But I don't think the kids are thrilled. I don't think the kids love it, you know, because before our home base was essentially in town. Yeah. And they love that. They're at that age where they just they love. And it's a.
Is there a bus stop nearby, though? Right by. Oh, yeah. I know. And the buses are free for kids. Right. So I know. But, you know, it's not the same. It's not the same when you just walk out the door and you go a few feet and you're kind of down. Well, yeah, you know, more than a few feet, but you're basically downtown. It's all a flat walk the whole way. But, you know, Dylan and his buddies camped over because the one thing that is neat is we have all this land now. And so there's spots all over the farm where the kids could camp and they don't see us. And it's like they're off in the woods, right?
And so Dylan and his buddies this last week came over and camped. And they were able to walk to town and walk back. So it's doable. It's, you know, it's like it's a two-mile walk, which is no big deal for them. They walk that all the time. Well, one of them doesn't. Well, yeah. That's for sure. Well, did you hear what happened? No. Oh, yeah. Okay, so this is, so Dad's trying to make, you know, everybody happy. We got the new farm, and I love the idea they're going to come out and tent camp on the new farm. But also, they want to walk around downtown during the sunset, right? They want to walk around during the sunset.
So we get to the farm, and I say to the kids, I'm like, before you take off, because I know you're going to be gone for hours, go find your camp spot and set up your tents. Oh, goodness. You know where this is going already, right? They tried to set up the tent in the dark? Yeah. Idiots. They don't do it. They don't do it. Of course not. They go downtown. They spend hours downtown walking around. I send them some cash so they can all go get burgers. It's really kind of cute. I'm really glad they had a great time. But 8 o'clock and I look at my phone, oh, sunset's at 8.30.
So I send Dylan a text message at 8 o'clock. Hey, you got a half hour before sunset. Why don't you come home and set up the tent before it's dark? No, we really want to be here when the sun sets. It's the whole thing. And he had mentioned like two weeks ago when he was planning this whole thing, I want them to be downtown during the sunset. So I knew that was a goal. And I'm like, right. But you understand you're going to have to walk this farm in the dark and set up two tents you have no idea how to set up in the dark oh it'll be fine it'll be fine did you. Have to help.
I know i refused oh yeah so. They figured it out then. So i so i'm like all right so because i'm old 9 30 or 10 o'clock i text them and i'm checking i'm always checking them on find my right and they're walking back but they're taking their time they're stopping at parks and stuff like that because there's a couple parks along the way hooligans yeah and i like hey i'm about to go to bed last offer i can come pick you guys up if you don't want to walk the rest of the way because you got like another half mile to go right no no we're having a we're moggin he says we're having a great time oh my gosh of course yes yeah all right so i go to bed and i manage to fall asleep which is incredible because usually like you know i'm like a little worried or yeah it's like i managed to fall asleep even with my cpap on right so this is like this is incredible 10 for 10 going to bed a decent hour cpaps on i'm asleep and i tell him if anything goes wrong give me a call and he doesn't usually call he texts right well my phone starts ringing right as I fall asleep and I was just falling asleep so and I'm worried I grab my phone oh how's going on he's like dad I think I need you to come pick us up okay what's going on well there's some guy and I think he's yelling at his girlfriend but he seems real angry and it's freaked us out I'm like okay of course he couldn't have just accepted the invite for me to come pick I'll pick you up. All right.
So of course I get in the car and I go pick them up. And it was all fine, but they were a little freaked out from the yelling and you know, I said fine, I'll come pick you up if you're weirded out. So I drive like the half mile. They were almost home. I go, I get them loaded up. And I'm on the way back and I realize they don't have a campsite. They don't have their tents. They have tons of stuff. Like it would take multiple trips. Like how about, when we get back, we'll load up the car and I'll take you out and I'll help you find a camp spot with the headlights.
So we loaded up and it was loaded to the ceiling. The car was loaded to the ceiling with all their stuff. And so we're driving around. We're driving around the farm looking for a place. And I kind of I had one in mind. So I pull up in there and it's a decent spot. But, you know, now that it's dark, you don't know if you're setting up on top of spiders or a beehive. Like, you just have no idea. Right. Thankfully, it was a harvest moon. So it was almost like a distant light was on. And like, did you guys even bring a flashlight? And they're like, no, but we got our phone. So all four of them have their phones out with the flashlights on.
They're like forming a circle around the tent. I'm just unloading stuff. I'm like, all right, I'm out of here. Good luck with the tent boys. And I guess it took them like an hour and a half. Yeah. Wow. But they got it done. Yeah. But I don't think they got much sleep because it was a warm night. Yeah. Well, the report that I got was one got nine hours. Whoa. Two got six hours and Dill didn't go to sleep. That's what he told me too. Yeah. He told me it was too warm and he couldn't sleep. but like he could have just walked back to the rv it was like less than a half a mile he could have and they did at one point walk back to the rv which was another time they woke me up oh man at like 1 a.m i.
Didn't even know you slept. I know right that was that was sort of like the thing was like this was like i was sleeping yeah i'm like oh this is and it was saturday night so it's i guess. You got to appreciate it. It's like the night before yeah it was the night before lup too so i'm like please just get some good sleep right uh but they came back at one point grab snacks and and more pillows and blankets and left again. And I'm like, well, you could've just set up a bed there and crashed there, that would've been fine. Silly kids. But it has been quite the adventure, so it's sort of the summer adventure, but there's so much to do before winter to winterize stuff and the water's all gonna freeze.
And whatever filtration system I come up with for this rotten egg smell, is going to have to be shelved during the winter because the filters can't freeze. So I have to come up with a totally different solution. Because the filters are outside? Yeah. And they're filled with water and they crack, they expand, and they bust. You might ask me how I know. I've gone through a couple of them. It's just the worst. So, yeah, that's my goal is to figure that out. That's my goal. So if you have any suggestions on getting rid of rotten egg smell or anything you've done that didn't break the budget, Boost in. Let me know as I build out the new home base.
Oh, I like that. That's right. You can boost the artist. 95% of the sats go directly to them. Today's track is Cheap Suit's first value-for-value release. And we're featuring their Dubé single, and it's also their most popular track. It's called Poster. And it plays homage to the more authentic kind of live style of music, but also satisfyingly well-produced, I thought. It's got tight riffs, the vocals are punchy, and the chorus are massive. So boost in while this track plays, and turn it up a little bit. Enjoy Poster by Cheap Suits.
And we did have a nice batch of voicemails this week. Thank you. I know. You see that nice list there? I do. Wow. Isn't that great? A guy named Ryan's back with his dozenth. Yeah, dozenth. Is that how you say it? Twelfth. Well, I don't like twelfth. I just don't like the way it sounds. But he's back with more calls. Hey, JB Launch Crew. This is a guy named Ryan. Long time, 12 times. I made it to a dozen, baby. And you mentioned Psybite in response to my last voicemail. and I just keep waiting for the day Chris comes to his senses and relaunches it. I miss that podcast so much.
Anyway, I'm calling about the age verification rules that are starting to roll out on the internet because that was the topic. And I don't know where I stand as a parent, but I'm someone who is in recovery and I'm a moderator on a subreddit called slash r slash stop drinking. And we've noticed there's a recent decline in visitors and subscriptions. And we're starting to wonder if it's a result of the age verification requirements because that forum has been ruled as containing adult content. I mean, it's a forum where people with addiction help other people with addiction, and certainly that topic is going to include some adult topics.
But if you have young people struggling with addiction, I imagine they're actively living out those adult topics already in their lives, and now they have one less place they can go to try and get help and support. Okay. That, to me, just seems more harmful than helpful. And on another note, Chris, man, I cannot believe the tirade you threw at the end of LUP, threatening to cancel the launch if you didn't get our voicemails. Oh, man. I'm just hoping that these last dozen or so contributions I've made to this great podcast can in some small way help convince you to keep it alive.
Anyway, I hope to hear you guys later this week and in weeks to come, and keep up the great work, everyone. Thank you. A guy named Ryan is hanging on by a thread. I think maybe your voicemail is alone. Saving it. We shall see. We did have some good calls. Yeah. So congratulations on your recovery. I actually started going to Al-Anon. I don't remember. I think I'm six or seven years in, and I was the treasurer for five years of my local Al-Anon. And for those of you that don't know, Al-Anon is for friends and families of alcoholics. So anyway, those groups are very, very supportive and congrats.
Yeah. All right. You ready for our next one? It's from listener Hank. Hank, are you there? Hank, are you there? Well, I was down at my local propane stop and this nice gentleman told me, well, if I don't call that launch, well, they might end the show. Now I thought that boy ain't right. With all the great colors and stories being shared, how the hell could they? But Chris, if a feller wants to train a bird or a wild animal, you've got to earn their trust. Typically through their stomach. But if you feed one, well, you might get more than you bargained for. And them corvids, they've got a great memory, so you better not slight them in any way.
Well, that's it. Call the launch, fellas. Take care. Is that Jeff? Ha ha ha ha ha! Huh. You know, I got to say, the birds at the farm are the biggest birds I've ever seen. So there's golden eagles, which I didn't know were a thing in the Pacific Northwest, and they're big. Cool. And then bald eagles don't go white until they're older. Where are your sound effects right now? Oh, you're right. I should bust out an eagle sound effect. Did you know this? They don't get a white head until they're older. Yeah, I do know that. I did not know that.
There's an eagle's nest that I watch by my house all the time. Yeah, well, so I'm eagle nest watching, and I'm discovering this. It's really fascinating. Yeah, teenagers. Yeah, teenagers. It's crazy. And then the ravens are like the size of a small dog. They're huge. And so last night, we were walking around to lock up the gates to finish the night. And I'm not even kidding. I think at one moment, it was kind of creepy, about 70 ravens just lifted up all from the farm at once, just all over the farm. Up into the air. And then they all together flew over to the neighbor's tree, and then they were circling around the neighbor's tree, and then the other ravens around that tree went in the air, and then they all just took off.
Did it sound like the movie Birds? That's exactly what Hidia said. It's like, that sounds like birds. It was crazy. All right. Next voicemail comes from Magnolia. I think, you know, he's trying to save the show. Hey, it's Magnolia. um like I know you've already made the decision um but I'm you know it's really depressing that there's only really one JB show left and and I just I don't know man like I've been listening for years a decade now and it's just like it it sucks that the the networks dying like this and you're talking about even even Linux unplugged I don't even know like I, You can't kill the lunch, man. You just can't do it.
Well, you got to get calls. We don't have calls. I mean, you know what I mean? Like, it's just a simple, it's a simple dynamic of it. Hey, lunchers, it's Magnolia Mayhem. Again, sorry for calling twice in one episode, but I guess, you know, this may be my last opportunity. Oh, my goodness. Go ahead and get as much use out of it as possible. But I remember on the LUP episode yesterday, from my perspective, here on Monday, but there was this talk of the tool Crush, and it reminded me a lot. I forget exactly what it was. I remember Chris talking about having some issues.
I don't even actually remember what it was because I was listening live, and I try not to go back and listen to it. Anyway, but there's also a tool called the Warp Terminal, and it sounds very similar, but it's actually really slick. And I figured, you know what, it might be worth looking into, or else I just completely misunderstood the problem one way or another. I don't know. Has it been two minutes yet? I bet I could keep talking. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, so kind of partly cloudy. Very sunny. It's weirdly hot here, even though it's partly cloudy.
And, you know, I'm just sitting across from a gas station on my lunch break. talking to the lunch is kind of funny, huh? Two minutes? Not two minutes. That's a cat. It's a cat. What is that cat doing? Oh my goodness. Magnolia is going to single-handedly kill the show with these voicemails. Two minutes. I'm going to have to turn my air conditioner back on. It's warming up in here quick. Yep. Oh look, that's a very low-flying plane. Mimosa trees. They're pretty cool. And some alcohol after them, didn't they? Yeah. Anyways, two minutes.
There it is. Two minutes. Oh, you got it. Yeah. The heck? You got it. And Magnolia came back with one last call in an effort to save the show. Oh, yeah, that's what I was going to do. Okay, cat, mimosa, alcohol. That was the memory I was trying to get back around to. Last episode, two cats having issues. I am not an animal behaviorist by any stretch of the imagination. But I was just thinking, like, I know that, like, I've seen this happen with some people that hate each other before. It was like one person hates the other person or whatever that is. But, like, sometimes you need a little chemical accelerant.
Accelerant? Lubricant? Something like that. You know, like, get the people that hate each other. pliable before and then introduce them to each other. So what I'm saying is catnip. You get some catnip, right? But the cage is next to each other with some kind of non-transparent thing between the two cages. Get them feeling good. Pull the non-transparent thing up. What's behind this door? And if it goes wrong, you can just slap it back down and draw something else. I don't know. It works with humans, right? That's what I was trying to remember. Anyway.
Thanks, Mayhem. So you could, just a little door that slides. Oh, nothing there. I mean, okay, so here is, we still have the new kitten named Toes, right? And he is staying in Abby's room unless the other cats are outside. And then he has free roam of the house. But here's, he likes sitting in this small, like short cat tree. It's like two feet off the ground. He likes laying in that. And Gypsy will be outside the sliding glass door looking at him, trying to attack him. but that wasn't enough so she went and caught a blue stellar jay and brought it to the door and killed it in front of us like and this kitten toes is not that much bigger than this blue stellar jay and blue stellar jays like gypsy can hunt because they you blink and the blue Killer J is like, not going over there.
Cat's a killer. And she caught one. And that bird was looking at me. The bird tried to escape. Oh, man. It was horrible. Oh. Oh, yeah. No, I have video of it. Oh, no. That's good. Yeah. So I think she will kill him. I think he needs to be a little bigger. Aw. I'll have a vet bill and I'll have a burial. No kidding. Oh, my gosh. Wow. That cat. That's some skills, really. To be honest with you. That's some skills. Thank you, Magnolia. I think you're single-handedly helping save the show you and Ryan all right now open-source accountant wants to kill the show because he calls in to take me to account It's totally fair, but he's going after me Chris.
It's Derek the open-source accountant here uh, Long time since I called, but I gotta admit, I'm watching all these different options and I'm wondering what's going on with like the Jupiter Party subscription. Will that be moving over to the Feltman platform as you start migrating? As someone who is already paying for, I think I pay for the Jupiter Party and I also pay for the, what used to be the Coderly. Code early. I think now that pays for the launch. I'm starting to get confused on the different payment rails and starting to get overwhelming. I would love a primer and a little bit of an explanation of how it's getting paid, like what all these are for now and kind of what the plan is going forward.
As someone who loves supporting what you do, I just want to know if I'm going to be jumping rails a bunch of times in the near future or what I should be expecting, because that's a lot of work on my side. I'd love some clarity. Thanks. Well, you just got to get over and help straight me out. You got to straighten me out, right? Come over for a few days. We'll go through things. We'll straighten it out. This is exacerbated this problem by two factors. Number one is I recently launched a test membership through Fountain FM for This Week in Bitcoin because they have a brand new platform that puts the membership deets in the RSS feed and would be cross platform between any podcast app that wants to implement it.
So that's a particular appealing and you can pay in fiat or lightning. So these are particularly appealing to me. But it does not integrate with Memberful because Memberful is its own unique proprietary platform, which is kind of honestly the rub. Then the second issue is I haven't really committed to integrating fully this week in Bitcoin into Jupyter Broadcasting. Yeah. It's just so different. You know, and it's not in the Linux and open source. Well, it's so silly because it is, right? It is open source free software and the entire Bitcoin node infrastructure is all on Linux. But yeah, it's tangential, not necessarily complimentary.
Yeah. If that's the thing is it's it's it doesn't necessarily complement the traditional lineup. And so if if I put it in the Jupiter party feed, it actually could cause some people to unsubscribe. Right. It's a delicate balance. It is. And it's my it's my bad. It's my bad. It really is. And so I am both testing a new platform and I am hesitant to integrate it into the Jupiter party. And I recently asked, I put a member, I put a message out to the party members and asked, you know, would you like to see this week in Bitcoin's bonus content that I'll be creating soon show up in your signal feed?
And about half of them said yes. And half of them said no. So it's like a 50 50 split. Yeah. Half of those that responded. Yeah. Yeah. So there it sits for now. But there does need to kind of be like a clarifying of it all. And then the other thing is we need to make sure that the Jupyter Party members always are getting all of the features they want. So if there was a way for me to grant access to them, like I could put it up on another file share or something like that, but I wasn't spamming the RSS feed or however people would look at it, then I would take that compromise. It's tricky. It's really tricky. especially why we're also trying to test stuff so i get it and i you know uh i tend to move pretty quick when i and so we can we can have a couple of threads going at once and that can be kind of confusing but i appreciate the support you know and i guess i've always viewed it as pick the avenues that make sense to you but it is tricky with the party membership and now creating bonus content for twib i would like to publish it there without turning people away and they don't give me a mechanism to like create a second rss feed for you that you could subscribe to it's you get it or you don't get.
Right where you can uncheck yeah. But uh all right should we switch to live calls we got a couple live calls coming oh my goodness we have let's take our we have we've somebody that's been on hold for a bit there looks like they're calling from minneapolis let's see if we can pull them in i have no idea uh minneapolis you're on the line with chris and Ange, are you there? Hey, Chris and Ange, this is Ross to Calavera. Well, hello, Mr. Calavera. Long time to talk. Yeah, I was into the boosting when you first got into all that. Been listening since like 2008, 2009.
Oh my goodness. Something like that. Long timer. Yeah. So I just, you know, I got a little notification in my podcast 2.0 app that y'all were live and I don't normally listen. And the first thing that comes on is you're desperate for callers. So here I am. Gotta save the show. You gotta save the show. So, Ange has been telling me behind the scenes that if we don't get more calls, she's canceled. Oh, my. No. Stop it. That's what you've been saying. That I'm going to what? You're going to cancel the show if we don't get more calls. Oh, my gosh.
Oh, now she won't admit it. I said no such thing. Well, now, is this your first launch ever? No, you were subscribed. So, you got in the 2.0 app. That's great. So, you're listening on the Lidstream. How's it working? I am. You know what? It's great. I started out as a fountain user and then Podverse, and now I'm Cast-O-Matic on iOS. Oh, Cast-O-Matic's great. And yeah, it's awesome with that live notification. And to be honest, I don't get many live notifications. It's you, Podcasting 2.0, and that's it. So you know what's funny, dude, is this is bonkers to me. It's the number one sleeper thing that a podcaster could do to put their podcast in front of the noise of all of the other podcasts in the world.
Podcasters are so lazy and so stupid. they could be leaning into this and they could be getting ahead of everybody else and taking advantage of this stuff and they just don't even see it you just said it, out of all the podcasts you listen to it's us and one other podcast that's sending you push notifications to listen, these dummies are missing it they're missing it. They're crazy well, and I'll tell you what, I listen to a few different 3D printing podcasts and one of them, they always talk about how they're just there for the fans they're not wanting to make any money it's strictly informational and you know the engaging with the community is what keeps them going and it's like well next time they throw out their email i'm going to send them something be like you should really look into podcasting 2.0 because you just need the the lit tag and a live stream and you don't have to do the the boosts i mean you can do the funding tag and stuff now to send people to patreon or whatever else but like you said the bar is pretty low now Things are pretty well documented, and I think it's a lot easier than people think it might be.
Yeah. And some platforms, some of the hosting platforms, just check on the box these days. You just check the box. So that's pretty great, too. Yeah. The one that I'm thinking of, I think they're still on Libsyn for their host. So I don't know if that would work out. Ah, yes. That is a problem. Yep. If you do end up emailing them, you could tell them that they could use a service called Podcast Mirror, and they could put PodcastMir in front of their standard RSS feed and it will inline-add... podcasting 2.0 features without them having to modify their primary feed they will have to redirect people to the new feed that it generates but essentially it takes their rss feed and it mirrors that and then it just inlays podcasting 2.0 features and lit is one of them so something you could is.
That is that the blueberry. You got it you got it yeah okay tapped in yeah i totally. Forgot about that i'll uh i'll definitely mention that yeah. Well thank you for the call thank you man yeah cool yeah. Keep the show going good all. Right saving the saving the show one call at a time thank you all right we got one more caller coming in who we got there and where they calling from uh canada all right canada let's get canada on the line bringing them in canada you are you were talking to angie and chris are you there hello canada they might and i may not have worked No.
So you hung up our hosting call instead of the previous caller. So it's their fault? No. No, it's their fault. What can I click? Can I click this? Oh, that's another caller. Yeah, we got another caller. Callers? Wait, can we talk to both of them at the same time? That's what I thought would be really cool. They're in the host room. I think we need, are we hosted? Are we connected? I don't know. I'll find out. Yeah, I was connected. Welcome, host. You are now in the host room and can manage your callers. Oh, yeah. See, now it has the pink bar.
It has the pink bar. All right. So do we have two collars on the line at the same time? Did we do it? Did we successfully have two collars? Hello? Well, hello there. Hello there. Are you Canada or Netherlands? I'm the Netherlands. Oh, hello, Netherlands. I'm like Bitten. And then Canada, are you there? Can you hear me? Yep. I'm Canada. Whoa! How about that? All right. Cool. All right. So Canada, stand by. We're going to talk to Bite Bitten. Then I'm going to come back to you. Stand by. I just want to see if I can do it. So, Byte, what are you up to right now? You're not... Oh, you are in the mumbling.
You could have mumbled me, Byte. But what's the fun of having a phone number when you can't call it? Right? Yeah. 774-462-5667. She's got it. She can call the launch. There we go. What's new, Byte? What are you up to right now? You listen to the show and doing what? Yeah, I've been training in the heat, so that was kind of taxing on my body. And now I'm really tired. Woo! I'm exhausted. so yeah the temperatures went up to 35 degrees Celsius that's about 95 degrees Fahrenheit and I have been training on a concrete surface I've been radiated from the top and the bottom yeah.
Burnt crisp yeah so. Yeah seems. Like to me the procedure would be to listen to the show in a cold shower go take a cold shower yes the Canada hang. Up on this? oh certainly oh I can't go ahead I built my own split air-cons, system in my home so because yeah in Europe the house aren't built for the heat they're built for class and template but a little fun news I got called yesterday by the place that I applied to them for job for and they're like okay we tried like five other contestants and you were always the, measurement, the comparing, and we still had to accept you were our top choice so you will get an offer this week.
And they'll let you still listen to the launch? I hope so right? Or is it the Netherlands is probably not during your work time? Oh that's true, it's a time hack. This is evening, yeah a time hack. In the evening about 8 p.m. and the show starts, so I've got all the time to listen to the lines. Nice. Well, thank you for calling in. I hope you can cool down. I recommend take the phone into the shower and turn us up and take a cold shower and cool down. You know? Absolutely. All right, bye. We'll talk to you soon. Thanks for calling. Bye-bye.
All right, let's go see if we can pop over to Canada now. They're calling in, and they dropped off, but they're back, so let's bring them in. Canada, you're on the line with Angela and Chris. Are you there? Hi. yep I'm here this is my nickname is Papa John there oh yeah hi Papa John in. The chat what's going on today. Well I had a question like so with fountain subscriptions does it allow like you have to have a fountain account to do those or can you have like your own self hosted thing and somehow do the lightning invoices through like a self hosted note or do you need to be right on a fountain to do it?
That's a good question. So I think it's going to roll out in three stages. So stage one is you need a fountain account. And then stage two is you'll need a fountain account, but you'll be able to do it from the web and you won't need the fountain app. And then stage three is going to be you just need a Nostra identity. So sort of a three-stage rollout and we're on stage one right now. Okay. Yeah, it's a work in progress. I would love it if they had at least the web part first because I think that would help, but then again, as I've tested it, we have run into a couple of bugs, so it's probably best if we just, you know, take time and get it right.
Yeah, for sure. then i just wanted to kind of respond about ai with um electricians and stuff yeah yeah, like at least i'm sure it's pretty similar in the states um our code book is paywalled so i don't know how good ai results would be for electrical code ah maybe and then we have a pretty pretty robust apprenticeship program in Canada, so like when you're starting out, you're typically, like for four years, you're working with a journeyman who should know what he's doing, but that's not always the case either, so. Sure. Seems like it'd be a good way to start, though.
Yeah. As long as you have those people that can play those roles, I think that's becoming more and more of a problem. It seems to me, too, like that kind of information that's kind of down under lock and key, like you say, for the AI, they're probably going to get some big fat paycheck one day when some AI company comes along and writes them a check to license it or something. Totally, yeah. Yeah, until then. Until then. And then you'll have to pay out of the nose for that AI service, whatever it is. Oh, I'm sure, yeah. Well.
I know the Canadian Standards Association, they've got their own app now, and they're probably going to work out how to put AI in there at some point, I bet. Papa John, thank you for the call. It's nice hearing from you. Appreciate it. Taking the time on all of that. Call again, okay? Call back. Yeah, it will do. All right. Have a good one. You can take the rest of the day off now. You've earned it. Good job. Thank you, everybody, for calling in. And we have one last voicemail to finish off the call-in segment. This is from Mark in Michigan. Hey, guys. This is Mark calling from beautiful northern Michigan.
actually Lake City, Michigan. Love the show. I got turned on to you from the, I really wish that would come back, but I'm thankful that I found it because I found you. I love the content, and actually my wife loves the content, too. I want to chime in with some things that I've learned to do that I never thought I would learn to do. In the past couple of years, I just turned 55. In the past couple of years, I've learned to wire my whole house and the Internet, create a home lab and a home networking wire my shed with 100 amp wire other rv spots yes you're welcome to drive out to michigan and get free and most recently i changed the thermocouple on a water heater doesn't sound like much but yeah i'm old to be learning how to do that so anyhow Well, I love the podcast, love you guys, and please don't cancel.
And one of these days, I'm going to sit down and figure out how to boost. Right? Nice. You know, that's a good list. The one that caught my attention, though, 100 amps to the shed? Like, this entire house, because it's a... Former military. Is 100 amps. The service to this house is 100 amps. And he has that going to his shed. Shed. Yeah, what's going on in there? I bet it sounds like maybe he's got like an RV hookup coming off that. Grow plants. What? Yeah. I was like a Bitcoin mining, which you might be right. Yeah.
But that's really a great list. It feels good, too. Like when you learn that kind of stuff, the next time something in that realm comes up, it's not a panic. It's not a worry. You got it under control. Thank you, everybody, for the call. Why don't you call the launch? Leave us a voicemail. Yes, and people support the show with a boost like Withers, who sent in 8,888 sats. They'd like to know, where did the name Jupiter Broadcasting come from? And also, their favorite note-taking program is Trillium Notes, and it is self-hosted. It's a good question, Withers. So, you know, when you think of the name, we want to, well, the original Jupiter Broadcasting content lineup had things like Radio Revolver and Mac Murphy PI.
And it wasn't just Linux content. Some of it was old-time radio. So you wanted something that was kind of vague enough that sounded modern but also classic. And space-themed. Something about space. It was in that early lineup, too. Yeah, something kind of spacey. But also we early on experimented with a project called Jupyter OS, which kind of inspired elementary OS. And we decided to bail on the whole OS thing and focus on the podcasting thing. And, well, dang near 20 years later, here we are. Thank you, Withers. Appreciate that support.
Outdoor Geek comes in with 5,000 sats. Don't use soap. Dry with a paper towel. I am unsure. Is that, what, my injury? My cat bite injury? Or what? I think it's just good advice in general. Okay, just a general. I think it's just don't use soap. Dry with a paper towel. Unless it's plates, I think. You know, I don't know. I think it's probably specific to something, but you could apply it to anything. Magnolia Mayhem comes in with 5,000 sats. I only recently remembered this because it's been a while, but speaking of branded shirts, I indirectly got a Tailscale shirt from the Jupiter Broadcasting Matrix.
I think it was after an interview. Someone posted a link for a free shirt. The link misspelled Tailscale, but it still went to a website and required personal information. Thinking I was about to get played by a scammer, I filled the form out with BS information and put the address of the post office I work at part time as the address. That's a good hack. That's funny. Long enough later, I'd forgotten about my little adventure and the postmaster came walking up asking me what the heck I had ordered and then handed me a weirdly marked bag. I was scared that I'd made a mistake and gotten something bad, but I'd opened up to find a clear bag with a tail scale shirt in it.
So yeah, I do wear a branded shirt from time to time. Nice. That's a funny story. Yeah. I would have assumed scammer too. Thanks, McNally. Odyssey West is here with a row of ducks. He says, I love that parody song, Fried Pork Chop, right? I love pork hips fried too. Have you ever had, what are they called, Ange, when you fry the pigs and you eat them as, what is that called? Pork rinds. Yeah, pork rinds. You ever had pork rinds? I don't know. I don't think so. My dad used to eat those. Oh, really? Frog legs, yeah. Yeah. I'd never had them until I met Hadea. She's diabetic.
And so chips and stuff affect the blood sugar. Pork rinds don't as much. So I'm like, I can't, I can't. She's like, all right. It's literally like pig skin fried. I know. That's so gross. So then I go to this bar and they make them fresh there. Gross. I wonder what it smells like. Does it smell good? I didn't really, I didn't smell it at all because they had pretty good separation, but they brought it out while they were still hot from the fryer and they were delicious. I don't know. I don't know if I could do it. I know. I didn't think I could either, but I ate the crap out of those things.
let me tell you it was really really good i really enjoyed it okay you ready we're moving on thank you very much appreciate the boost odyssey western it's good to hear from you uh we didn't get any chucky cheese boost this week but pod bun came in and he's got 5444 sats, i feel much more comfortable if i could verify my id through a government portal rather than sending it to a third party they already have all information and they've already issued me an idea in the first place. This is about age verification. Yeah.
I don't like the idea of giving all of these companies our information. It just, and then they all could lose it. Right. It just seems really bad. Or sell it. Yeah. There's so many things. He also boosted in saying, I'd love some JB quote shirts. We need to get on that. Yes. Yes. We probably need like some sort of swag person in the audience that's just passionate about swag that comes and like gives us a few great ideas and then we run with it. Because we're so heads down here, guys. We're just so heads down. That's why we don't get to it. We'd love it. And I'd wear it. I sure would.
PJ comes in with 6,666 sats. Aliens and cryptids, I have seen a few weird things. Oh yeah, I forgot about that ask. Yeah. I grew up in the desert where the skies were rather clear. On one particular road, going to pick up my then-girlfriend, now-fiance, there were always just three dots just in sight off the windshield that would slowly form a triangle. This triangle would then rotate slowly as if it were scanning something. It would then break apart, separate, and then repeat. No planes doing this. I've never seen anybody, no planes doing this, but maybe satellites. But I do want to believe, maybe the aliens are real.
Sounds like drones too. Could have been, but back then? Because they've been together for a long time. Oh. You know, the other thing that's really weird about this one, I did not expect this, and now it's kind of creeping me out, I have to be honest with you, is PJ's description is extremely similar, to the description my stepdad gave me one time. Oh. A triangle that formed in the air, then broke apart, and then came back together is exactly the UFO encounter my stepdad saw when hunting. Hmm. I don't know, that's a little weird. PJ didn't know that story. Yeah.
Huh. Thank you. If anybody else wants to boost in, I'd love to hear it. Thank you, PJ. Turd Ferguson rounds us out with 13,000 sats. I believe that also makes him our baller this episode. Here's some age-old cat wisdom. Swap stands with blankets, give the old cat the VIP spot, and let them meet through a door first. Slow intro, safe lives. Right, and furniture. Yes, so the Toes has been hanging out inside a cat tree. About halfway up a seven-foot cat tree, there is a box, right? A carpeted box. Is that the VIP spot? Well, neither of my cats have ever used it, like ever. But Toes loves it and does catnip stuff in there. But when Toes.
Getting high on the nip in there. Yeah. When Toes is put away, Gypsy has now began sleeping there. Oh. Taking over now. Yeah. Yeah. Like hunting. Claming on the spot. Hoping that she'll run into him. Yeah. When he returns. And be ready. Oh, man. So, yeah. It's scary. But, yeah. I'm hoping that time will help. And making this kitty a little bigger. Yeah. Will help. but I also need to get him fixed before he starts marking. I don't know when that will start but yeah. I think he still might be a little too young to do that process. Thank you everybody who did boost. Appreciate you. Nine of you stream sats.
We stacked a humble 7,570 sats for the streamers. When you combine that with everybody boosted it was a rather unimpressive but still extremely grateful for 53,790 sats. The old show continues. really saved by the calls, the boosters, and the members. Thank you, of course, to everybody who supports the show with a boost or a membership. It means the world to us and keeps us going. If you'd like to boost in, Fountain.fm makes it easy. They self-host the lighting infrastructure and make it super simple to connect to different fiat sources, so that way you can get started.
And then send us a message above 2,000 sats, and we'll read it on the show. I realize what I've been doing wrong. I've been trying to convince you that you should invest in a house. But a house comes with maintenance and all kinds of additional costs. So why not get almost all the value of real estate without the house and buy a parking spot, right? A parking spot, Ange. This is a parking spot in Boston that goes for $160,000. What the heck? You can find a screenshot of the listing. So you can kind of see it's a little corner spot there in a parking garage that somebody else owns.
Now, for a little background, this is a hot piece of real estate. See, as you get closer to Beacon Hill, you can actually snap up some of these parking spots for as much as $200,000. Most buildings in Boston, according to a Redditor, especially on Beacon Hill, don't have parking since they're over 200 years old, and the entire neighborhood is under strict historical preservation laws. So, a few buildings that do have garages, and the standalone and garage that have been built, well, those spots go for a massive premium. There's no way. You could buy like five cars for that amount.
Yeah. Or like five new cars. Some of them, this started about 20 years ago and they were going for incredible. Money. Some of them today go for as much as $300,000. That's insane. So, I mean. How much money are you making though? I know. Like how bad do you need that spot too? Wow. Yeah. I'd just rather not have a car, I think. I would just hire somebody minimum wage to drive me, you know, like. It would be cheaper, wouldn't it? At least for the first year. All right. So, OK, there's another investment strategy. And, you know, a lot of times when the majority says why, the smart investment is to do X.
And so when everybody's running out of a building, you run in. When a knife is falling, you catch it. That's what they always say on Wall Street. Catch a falling knife. What? Now you also could have bragging rights okay you could claim you live in a glass house check this thing out now. Which which link do i click on. Uh inside the seven million oh no no no you click on the now you can live inside the glass house i'll click on the other one because i want to want to walk you through it um six beds seven baths yes 10 000 square feet, And they've just recently lowered the price.
These big ones, these mansions, they are so incredible and over the top that they've attracted a genre on YouTube. And that is the real estate influencer who likes to show you mansions. And this guy tries his best to sell this place. This is a $7.1 million home in East Hampton made entirely out of glass. My name is Eric Conover and I'm going to take you on a tour of this one-of-a-kind mega mansion. Now your monthly payment would be around forty three thousand dollars a But for that you do get a four-car garage that has a private access underground tunnel Okay, I. Was gonna say is it private because if it's made of glass.
Evil the garage is private the rest of the house is not and here's a bit more about the place it's a really fascinating investment it's an opportunity to catch a falling knife as I say and get yourself somewhere special. Tour here at the exterior of the home this property is situated on almost two acres of land which is huge for the Hamptons you can see this is your front yard it's been kept natural how this land has been for hundreds of years right behind me we have the gated entrance to the property then the. Totally natural except for this giant driveway and this huge gate but otherwise totes natural.
So So welcome to the most unique home in East Hampton. So we always like to push the envelope in these tours. So we're filming this entire episode during the night. But just because this house is so incredible, I thought we had to do it justice. We're going to cut back now to show you what this place looks like during the daytime. Now you hear that echo? Yeah. Well, this might be part of why the house had to be lowered from $7.1 million to $6.8 million to now $6 million. dollars. This house features two living rooms, to make it extra awkward the two living rooms are literally right next to each other if you want to get from one side of the house to the other you better bring a snack because you're going downstairs you're crossing the house and you're going back upstairs to get the other side of the house, it's really weird when it comes to the bathroom the main floor has no bathroom so guests have to jog downstairs to go to the bathroom the plumbing does not exist in places you like because the builder forgot it the cooling system yeah the cooling system well they tried to put these little tiny mini units all over the place but it's a giant greenhouse in july in california all glass walls but it's in new york new york oh is it okay uh all football size glass all over the place just huge huge huge glass windows on the roof huge glass windows on the side just a solar oven you can't escape there's no walls so there's nowhere inside you can escape the sun and it has a warehouse feel to it.
Yeah it does. It's just a box the nicest thing about is the property the rest is all just garbage there's a pool yeah uh so they've had to bring it down to six million dollars for this place not not probably gonna go any lower i'm so now if you buy now angie i think it's gonna deal could you imagine a payment no of 43 000 a month for this place insane okay boy i just never seem to really I do like the. House it's cool. It is cool I wouldn't. Want to live there. A movie like a studio should buy it and use it for movies it looks like a house from a movie right yeah all right I tried, okay you can find links to what we which what which what which way we talked about at uh weekly launch dot rocks this was episode 31 you'll have everything listed out there also So our phone number and ways to boost.
And of course, you could always join us live next Tuesday. Make it a vibe. That's what I said. Because, you know, the kids say it. And I'm pre-firing right now. I'm pre-firing about next week. Yep. And mogging. I'm definitely mogging. I don't exactly know what that is. But I feel like I'm doing it. Hopefully it's not inappropriate. Yeah. Hopefully. Thank goodness it's an audio podcast. I think it means you're looking better than other people. Like, I think that, gosh, yeah, we need to. We got to look that one up. Yep.
Because they're apparently doing it all the time. All right. Well, if you can't catch us live on Tuesday, you can always catch us in your podcast app Wednesday morning. If you grab a 2.0 app, you get transcripts, chapters, and that live stream. From the beautiful Pacific Northwest and the mighty American West Coast, thanks for listening, and we'll see you right back here next week.
