A bizarre forest encounter sends Chris spiraling into a new obsession, while Angela cuts to the chase: what’s your theme?
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This is The Launch, episode 36 for September 23rd, 2025. Streaming from the beautiful Pacific Northwest and the mighty American West Coast, We greet you all a good morning, a good evening, whenever your timeline may fall. Time-appropriate greetings, indeed, to one and all. This is The Launch, and my name is Chris. And I'm Angela. Hello, Angela. We have some stuff to get into today. Big show. So a few things you need to know before we get started. We'd love it if you call us. You can do it now or after the fact and leave us a voicemail. That number, 774-462-5667.
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Now, Andrews, we were talking before the show, and you said everyone should have a personal theme. I think so. And I know your personal theme. I mean, sometimes it just happens to you. That's true. Do you think your personal theme happened to you? You know, I think it was actually heavily influenced by your mom. Yeah, I think it might. I could see that. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So a personal theme could mean a lot to a person. But. In this context how would you define your personal theme it's a it's not a lifestyle but it is an. It's a way of living yeah yeah so and it's not necessarily word uh it's not necessarily materialistic sure uh right but so basically it's when somebody that knows you well enough sees something and is like oh my gosh that's angela right.
That's a great way to. Define right So for me, it's broadly animal prints, right? Now, I'm not a fan of like furs and stuff. So, you know, like not that. Artificial ones, fake ones, whatever. One or two in particular, really. Yeah, more specifically, as I was just going to say, is leopard print, right? And as my boyfriend states, I implement it tastefully, right? There you go. Like, my house isn't ridiculous, you know, with leopard print everywhere. There is definitely leopard print. Although there is a recent ridiculous. Oh, yeah? I forgot that you saw it. I was just trying to pull up a picture.
No, no. Yeah. And she's got what has got to be the coolest cat jungle gym tree. That's a cat tree. Well, it's more than a cat tree. It's a cat luxury palace because it's got like swinging hammocks and these alcoves and whatnot. Yeah. And the entire thing. How tall is it? Six foot? Well, I can't get it through my office doors. Seven foot? I tried to bring it in there. It's tall. It must be because, yeah, it's nine foot ceilings. Yeah. It's a standard doorway though. So it's like a couple inches above a standard doorway. The whole thing's leopard print. The whole thing top to bottom.
It is very loud. And in fact, you know, my kids have never really made comments, but Abby was like, this is embarrassing. Why did you buy it like this? Oh, my God, Abby. Oh, she's such a teenager sometimes. I know. She didn't mind the leopard print on the cell phone case cover. Oh, yeah. I have so many things leopard print, but yeah. So leopard print is kind of my thing. I would say yours would be Star Trek. Sure, yep, yep. Pretty safe, would be a safe gift, would be a Star Trek thing. The challenge there would be to find me a Star Trek thing I don't have. Although I don't have a ton of stuff, but, you know, like a lot of the older TNG-style stuff I have.
Yeah. Well, did you think about what your theme is? No, I think Star Trek is it. Also camping, you know, could be another one, like things for RV or camping would be kind of a safe gift. Gift. You know, because I like the way you think about it. I guess, yeah. Yeah, it's like if you're thinking of buying something for Chris, like that kind of stuff. Yeah. You know, like for Wes, of course, obviously the first thing that comes to mind is a gun. What? I was watching the chat room and I was in it. So it took me a second to process that. Like, no. That's so funny.
I'm good for questions. I just tickle myself with that. It's just, you know. Wow. I want to know out there, though, the audience, what's your theme? Like if somebody saw something, oh, that's obviously for X. What is it? And how did you fall into it? Like for me, Star Trek started, because I'm an old man, I guess, at home, mom and dad had like the big TV, and that was the TV they got to watch. And then there was like- Like a whole 35 inches? Yeah. Yeah. And then there was like a tiny 12 inch, maybe a little bit larger, 14 inch classic television that had like the click, click, click.
Oh, yeah. And the rabbit ears. Uh-huh. And I would sit upstairs. Jeez, you're old. I know. I'm just kidding. I know, it is old. It's crazy. People don't do this anymore. I would sit upstairs, which was up a little bit, and I would tune in the Star Trek broadcast from Vancouver. And I would watch Star Trek from Canada, a little fuzzy at first. And then as the years went on, I got different places started covering it while local affiliates started playing it. And so that's just sort of how I fell into it. And it's just been ever since. Yeah, your mom just had a couple leopard things.
I don't know how it impacted me so much. Maybe she got me something for Christmas or whatever that was leopard. I don't know. But, you know, we themed things for the kids, and Bella has been the biggest chameleon, but she really loved purple owls, and that was her theme. For a while, yeah. But I think she only liked it because that was her theme, because we, you know, put it there. But she's had so many other themes since then. Yeah, she's a theme shifter. Yeah, absolutely. And so was my little sister as well. But so I think my favorite one with Bella, though, is bees.
Yeah. That one was super cute. Owls and bees were great. They were great because there's so many little owls things out there. All right. So Boostin, let us know your personal theme and maybe even how you fell into it. You can do that with Fountain FM. That makes it real easy. You could also grab Albie Hub and set it up yourself if you're more technical. And then Boostin with several apps. Cast-O-Matic is fantastic on the iOS. And support the show with a message. So I was on the south end of Vancouver Island not too long ago, less than a week ago. It was quiet.
It was secluded. There was a little sandwich shop that we had stopped by, and then we got on the road and went for a little drive to find a place to eat. We pulled into, like, this little pull-off, and we're sitting there eating a sandwich. And I have my window down. My wife Adia has her window down. And we're just sitting there. And an old guy's walking up, kind of going past the car. Levi starts barking. Levi, calm down. We sneak him a little food. He calms down. And I turn around from feeding Levi the food, and the guy is standing at the driver's side window looking at me. He's probably 70, older guy.
Okay. And he just chews my ear off, like figuratively, just talks and talks and talks. Eventually gets to the whole point of, I moved over here a couple of years ago, came from somewhere else in Canada. I don't remember the name of it. It just goes on and on. But this is the part that struck me and sort of set me down the path for today's episode. He moved to Vancouver Island because he wants to be near Bigfoot. Oh. Yeah. Okay. This is ultimately what this guy gets to tell me. And it turns out there's a large community in the Pacific Northwest and on Vancouver Island, specifically in the South area of Vancouver Island, actively, like right now, looking for Bigfoot.
Wow. And the guy, you know, the guy sounded crazy, but seven to 10 feet, they're saying, is when they spot them, covered in dark shaggy fur. They kind of blend in with the woods. When they spot them? Like they are actually thinking they see it? They have some sightings. Okay. Pictures? No? Because darn, the technology wasn't working at that time. All the video, because it was video. The video I saw, ah. Ah. But there is an avid community out there. They call themselves cryptozoologists, and they argue that the Pacific Northwest and parts of Western Canada are home to some of the largest Bigfoot out there.
And so I did a little deep dive, a wee bit of a deep dive, you might say, and found a couple of groups in our area that are big into this. It's a thing. In fact, stories go back to 1924 when a group of miners claimed they had an awful, scary encounter with a couple of Bigfoots near Mount St. Helens. And then the volcano erupted and took care of them. And every now and then, every now and then, the local news does cover Bigfoot stories from time to time. And they usually have a little fun with it. A big black figure. It's a different color than the black, than the normal knights surrounding me. In the Northwest, it scared the crap out of me. The legend dates back generations.
He said this thing basically looked at him. Talked to people who spent a lot of time in these woods. He said it had kind of a monkey face. And you'll hear the stories. And then he said it had a weird smell. Bigfoot. And he kind of walked towards it. A mystery. A mascot. What's interesting is a lot of them describe the smell. That's weird. Wet dog with sulfur is what a lot of people... Oh, interesting. A lot of people describe the smell. I'm definitely open to Bigfoot. What's the world without a little wonder, right? Here in the foothills of the Cascades is Jim Creek Recreation Area, 5,000 acres of protected military land.
We're in this beautiful, lush, private, secure area. Okay, literally grew up there. Like literally a driveway from this 5,000. Did you ever have anything weird? Never. No, but. What about like neighbor's dogs disappearing? No, let me tell you. I mean, we had some animals. Actually, our bunny got just ripped out of the cage. So this military base has a truck with a cage for catching animals. Yeah, a big cage. Why is the cage so big? We got in it as kids. we got in it and they drove us around because they were looking for a what a cougar oh why is it.
Big enough to hold people. It was huge. What snatched your rabbit right out of the cage? Well, probably a coyote. Maybe. Maybe. Or maybe it was... It could have been. Could have been. It has a lot of mystery to it. There's great potential for if there's going to be something, that this would be the place. We're squatching. We're squatching. Deep into the hinterlands, Jim Creek Wilderness Area. This is where... This is so crazy to me. Very few humans tread. Although it has been said. Yeah, but it is true. Very few humans were there. And you did live there. Yeah, I didn't hear anything about Sasquatch up there. Like, okay, so obviously, you know, rode the bus and drove up and down that, crashed my first car there.
There's no Bigfoot, like, signs everywhere or anything. Anywhere on that road. Like, it's not a fanatic road. This is what I've learned is the Bigfoot has been a master at hiding and disguising themselves. And there's a team called the Pacific Northwest Bigfoot Search Team. And they started as an advanced search and rescue team. So when somebody gets lost in the woods, search and rescue goes and tries to find them. And when search and rescue gives up, these guys take over. Oh, interesting. And through their years, a lot of them are former vets and whatnot. through their years of doing this, they've collected nearly a thousand encounters.
And so now they've launched a specific Bigfoot search arm. Wow. I know. And so they're out there looking for Bigfoot. I have a little bit of, I'll play a little bit of this. It's a longer clip. I'll link the full thing in the show notes, but it's pretty fun. The whole team, you know, and some of them are in kind of rough shape. They've taken some serious war injuries, but they're out there climbing through the hills. You got little boys and they're scared of the dark. and what's the scariest thing in the dark? And it's like, it's daddy, because monsters are scared of daddy. As a soldier, you know, I'm good in the woods. After that, I'm not the scariest thing in the dark anymore.
It just doesn't make sense that a four-legged animal would walk that heavy. See how that spread is a lot different? I feel like there's something bigger out there and we all have to look out for each other. I wouldn't necessarily say it would make me want to run. It'd kind of more make me want to follow. I had something come through my camp four years ago that wasn't expected it was large bipedal, yeah it scared the hell out of me after that my buddy Tanner started something and here we are, my name is Tanner Hoskins I am the co-founder of Pacific Northwest Bigfoot Search and the executive director at Pacific Northwest Missing Persons Project Hey guys, Rogue Amputee here.
We're out here, uh, actually smack dab in the middle of Sasquatch country. Well, tonight we'll be, uh, we'll be staked out along this creek. Pacific Northwest Bigfoot Search is a self-funded team of avid outdoorsmen that are collecting scientific data about unknown reported bipeds that are roaming the Pacific Northwest. And so they look for, like, sightings of, like, footmarks and stuff like that as they go through. Evidence. And some of it's pretty fun, but some of it... not a lot of fun. When you're out at night, the search teams have discovered strange sounds that... You can hear there's some dog barking in there, but there are also some sounds that don't quite sound like any other animal, and they captured some of that.
Sounds like Chewbacca. Or there's a tsunami coming. Yeah. Isn't that weird? It is weird. That is really weird. I don't know. I don't know what it is, but it is odd. There's also a wild 911 call where a guy here in the Pacific Northwest has a crazy experience. Now this, what you're about to hear, is a real 911 call, and it's two moments cut together because the guy called in twice when first something happens and then when a second event happens. And, of course, the call was captured. 911, are you reporting? I got a strange going on. I hear something just killed my dog. Something killed your dog?
My dog went flying through the air over the tree. I don't know how it did it. Oh. Okay. Damn it, I'm really confused. All I saw was my dog coming over the fence and he was dead when she hit the ground. I didn't see any cars. All I saw was my dog coming over the fence. 9-1-1, what are you reporting? Second call. We got someone or something crawling around out here. Did you see what it was? Was it a person or an animal? I can't tell. All I know is that my sensor light came on and I just happened to glimpse and see this thing running across the yard. A good-sized man or something.
It looks like a man. I don't know what it was. Just it ran across the yard. Okay. You've had problems in the neighborhood before? Yeah, my dog was killed here just recently. I don't know what it was. Whatever it is, it's running. I couldn't catch it if I was going to chase it, but whatever it was, it was standing up. I'm out here looking through the window now, and I don't see anything. I don't want to go outside. Jesus Christ, you better see him. Hello? Get somebody out here. What's going on now, sir? That son of a bitch is about 6'9", I don't know. Do you see him now, sir? Yes, I'm looking right at him. Uh-oh.
Uh-oh. Okay, hang on. He's right there. Is he in your yard, sir? Yeah, God, he's big. Okay, what's he doing in your yard? He's looking at me. And the guy is on foot. I don't know. It's a big, real big person. That's all I can say. Okay, but it is a person. Yeah, I'd say it was a person, somebody really big. But he's all in black. Is he a black male or a white male? Did you actually see or was he just wearing black? He's all black and he's big. He is big. Isn't that wild? Yeah. That's from 1990. Oh Yeah Hmm I was worried when we talked about bears in the pre-show Yeah That I was gonna have nightmares Uh oh And now And now that we've tied Bigfoot And bears Yeah, Like supposedly living in where I grew up Literally Yeah Where I grew up Yeah And where I grew up is where I would have recurring bear nightmares Of course, Well and cougar Oh gosh Well I.
Should have saved this for Halloween. Oh, I hope I can sleep tonight. Well, if it makes you feel any better, it may be that Bigfoot is actually everywhere and has been for a long time. Some say he's all over North America. In fact, there's like different types, different breeds, if you will, of Bigfoot. In fact, a town in Mississippi claims to have one of the very first spottings of Bigfoot in the North Americas forever. And they cover that. And I saw some trees shaking. And then I really looked and I could see the silhouette of him holding trees like that. And then when he realized, I saw him, he screamed at me again, and that really scared me.
We're in the Mississippi River backwater shooting the story, but I wanted to get a place that looked a little bit more Bigfoot-ish, so I stopped by a couple of spots I know on the way home on the Natchez Trace. Now keep in mind, I had just talked to a person who told me that he had seen a Bigfoot and that the Bigfoot screamed at him. And so here's what I heard in the woods. Can you hear it? Way, way back in the distance. There's this, ah, ah, ah, sound. At first, I didn't know what it was. Sounds like a chainsaw. I really didn't think it was a Bigfoot, but I couldn't rule it out because it just never had heard a sound like that. Not on the Natchez Trace, anyway.
But fortunately, at the end of one of its last yowls, you can't hear it because it's inaudible to the camera, but it went putt, putt, putt, putt, putt, putt, putt. Chainsaw. So that's my Bigfoot experience. Now, had it been a real Bigfoot, I would have turned into a UFO, an unidentified fleeing object. Back to you guys. Now, I feel like they're trying to cash in on our Bigfoot hype. But actually, I'll link to BFRO.net, and they have an archive of various Bigfoot sightings and sound clips. some of them are quite quite interesting yes some of them go all the way back to the 70s one that i liked a lot was uh there's an encounter where they capture it on their walkie talkies, and so they so somebody back at home was recording the walkie talkie and they have a friend out that has the encounter and they capture that on the walkie talkie so that's linked in the show notes for that too. What do you think, Andrews?
It's crazy. Could it be? Yeah, I'm going to be thinking about this all day. I'm going to be thinking about, are my nightmares because of Bigfoot? Boosting and tell me if you think Bigfoot could be real. If you're a sat squancher or a squatch hater. That's right. 95% of the sats go to the artists of the track and Vicious Clay is back this week. We don't often have a repeat artist, but we do this week. Vicious Clay's here with Can't Leave You. And we do have a nice batch of voicemails to get into this week. And our first call this week is from a second-time caller. I think it's from the Caribbean.
Hi, g'day. Long-time listener, second-time caller. This is your Trinidad Connect from the Caribbean. With regards to the lunch, I have two items from my country that I would love for you to try. All right, I'm ready. Unfortunately, I don't know anywhere on your side of America that might have it. If it is that you're able to meet up with a Trinidadian, I'm pretty sure they might either make it for you or direct you to somebody that sells it. Can we mail it? First item is roti. Spell it because some people pronounce it wrong. R-O-T-I. It's a Trinidad East Indian dish.
Oh, yeah. I think we know about this. The second one, East Indian as well, is doubles. So second one, more of a street food. First one, all-around lunch type stuff. The second one, doubles, is what they generally refer to as a chickpea sandwich. Yeah. Looking at it right now. Eat with your hands, both of them. Yeah. Both of them are curry-based. What else I can say? You could probably see a few reviews online. Onions, garlic. Yes. On the West Coast. I'm not sure exactly how it is that you would interact with it. I bet we could find this.
Sorry about the ways cutting in there. But I'm heading after work, heading home. So give it a try. Hopefully you enjoy it. Hopefully you can find it. If I do find anywhere that has it, go see your side. I'll let you know. You could just come on over and make it for us. Do a meetup, come on over and make it. Yeah, I can't think of any Caribbean. Like, there's Mediterranean. Yeah, for sure. But I don't know of any Caribbean restaurants. Kevin and Raleigh calls in. Hey there, Kevin and Raleigh. I was just listening to the launch, and somebody, one of the callers, mentioned a virtual conference he's doing.
It reminded me, and by the way, use this on any show, All Things Open, the big open source conference, is in Raleigh, North Carolina. And it's getting close. It's just over a month from now. Allthingsopen.org, you can find it. Last year, they had about 5,000 attendees. We've got lots going on. It's year lucky 13. I'll be there. Will I see you there? Yeah, I think we went to that back when it, I think it came to Seattle. Maybe. It's been a long, yeah, this has been on my want to go to, you know, and Raleigh's a great area too. We got a great listener base over there. The problem is, is that it's always around something else and it's a long way to travel. It is a long way.
But I really would like to make it. I thought this would be the year. But no, Kevin, I don't think it will be. But I would really appreciate it if you wanted to call back afterwards and give us a little field report. Give us, you know, an on-the-ground. You could even call in while you're there. Get a little background crowd noise and give us an on-the-ground report if you'd like. Thanks for the call, Kevin. Tech Geek in Orlando called in. Hey, guys. This is Tech Geek from Orlando. Calling in a phone mishap. I'm actually still trying to catch up on episodes, and I know that was one of the topics.
In a recent episode, a phone mishap. I don't know if you remember when the Galaxy Nexus was released back in 2011, something like that. Yeah. Love that phone. Yeah. This was before I had, you know, a mount on my dashboard or whatever, but I used to put my phone in my cup holder right next to me in the middle console. Well, one day my wife was riding along with me, and I had noticed that when I put my phone into the cup holder that I was also putting it in her cup of orange juice. Oh, no. Orange juice has got to be the worst. Destroyed.
Yeah. Oh. Who has an open cup in their car? I was able to get a replacement at the time, thankfully, but I don't know. It's just one of those scars that hasn't healed. But anyway, yeah, that was probably my only strangest mishap of a phone. But also, I wanted to point out something that maybe the parents out there should consider. I'm a parent. I have a nine-year-old. Truthfully, I actually have no intent of giving her a smartphone anytime soon. or probably not until at least driving age. But something to consider, and I've looked at, is something called the Lycophone, L-I-G-H-T. It's pretty much a dome phone, but it has some features like texting and such, but something I've considered probably getting my daughter within the next two or three years maybe.
It all depends. But that's one option for the kids out there. And another option is something called Gab, G-A-B-B. You know, I'm going to say, oh, I think you got cut off there. Sorry about that. But Tech Geek, the Galaxy Nexus came out 13 years ago. He's still sore on that. And I think the show has decided wife's fault. Shouldn't have had an open glass of orange juice in the car. That's crazy. Also, I hear from some parents, although I don't know if Ann and I would necessarily co-sign on it, but they get their kids the Apple Watch with cell service. Oh, yeah.
And the advantage there is if you're already in the Apple ecosystem, then you can use iMessage and Find My and FaceTime and all that. yep so that's i know. I do have the uh apple watch 11 oh. You got the new one. I did do. You like it. Uh well so first of all i got the sports band uh-huh new band uh but it it velcro is differently than the one that i had so i might switch it out um it's a little bigger one millimeter bigger i can tell oh yeah yeah um it doesn't do the whole um like conserve charge right my other watch it was preserving the battery and like at.
Low power mode do you mean. No it was just only charging it to 80%. Oh, yeah, yeah, sure. I hate it. I hate it. I have to override it every time so that my watch wouldn't die by the end of the day. But also, I had to update to iOS 26. Yeah, I was going to ask you about that. And it is doo-doo. I knew you were going to hate it. I knew it. Do you know how many times I had to Google turning off the glass, the see-through, the motion? Oh, my gosh. Did you find it in accessibility? In accessibility options, you can turn that stuff off. It is inaccessible.
Yeah. The way they did it. Hadiyah also turned all that off. Yeah, yeah. Me, I'm like, turn on! Even my... Oh, yeah? Even my clock was transparent, and so I had to change my, yeah. The worst, actually, as far as I'm concerned, the worst transparency is the notifications on the watch. Oh, yeah? It's ridiculous. They're hard to read. It's crazy. Oh, I haven't had that issue. Well, if you turn it off, I think it turns it off for the watch, too, possibly. Oh, okay. But otherwise, you like it? Does the battery seem better? Yes, 100%. Yeah, actually, it's getting to 100%. Like, it wasn't getting to 100% ever, even with me overriding the charge past 80%.
That's weird. Yeah. Have you noticed any of the new features or anything? No. No, it's a dumb watch. Like, I just use it for tracking and getting notifications. I did notice that I got a Be Real notification on it, though, which I had not been getting them on my previous watch. I'm not sure what that's about. Well, we got a call from southeast New Mexico, where I imagine the Bigfoot out there are real stinky. Hey, Chris. This is Beard Zero from southeastern New Mexico. You know, I was listening to 630, and you were complaining about the framework 16 laptops costing so much. And I feel that.
But I think what you should take into account is that you're not just buying one laptop that you're going to use and then throw away or, you know, gift it to whoever, right? You're actually buying a system that you will continue to upgrade. I got the first 13 and I've upgraded the motherboard three times already and still have the same chassis like, You're going to be able to upgrade that laptop. So the fact that the modules are there means that in the future, you're going to get to a point where, like, I don't need this anymore, one port or whatever. And you're going to be able to – it's going to be able to change with you.
It's going to be able to grow with you. So you're buying yourself a platform, something for the greater days that are in the future, you know? Sure. And, you know, they have released now the second motherboard for it. And so, yeah, you're buying towards the future. It's more like a normal computer that you build as opposed to just a laptop where the whole unit just goes away when you're done with it. You're going to be able to bring bits and pieces along with you and it'll grow with you. So I think that's probably the mindset you need to look at. I don't know. It's just my thoughts. You know, have a good one.
I think that's funny because half of our lives, that is what you say when you want to buy a technology. Yeah, well, he's right on all the accounts. That is the thing I like about the framework computers. You can replace the parts and you can continue to upgrade. And in the 16, which he was talking about, they even have a graphics card module. You can put NVIDIA in. You can put AMD in. All that's nice. No, I know. There's a but coming though, right? But. Okay. So base price, and this is before I've got, this is, here's the but. This is a crappy version of the laptop.
I'm talking the base processor, base storage, 16 gigs of RAM, no second disc, one terabyte hard drive, no OS, one power adapter. It's $1,600. Now, like he's saying, well, $1,700, but like he's saying, $1,700 for a decent high-performance, well, medium-performance laptop that you can continue to upgrade, that's a fair price. where I think the cost and value gets a little bit off the rails with the framework, is that $1,700 doesn't include a single port on the machine. So if I want, say, two USB-C ports. Oh, wow.
And, you know. Yeah, you're an early adopter. You need all the bells and whistles. You want, well, I got to have some USB-C. I probably need one USB-A port. I need an HDMI out port. I need an Ethernet. I need one. Honestly, I would like to have a DisplayPort too because at work I use DisplayPort, at home I use HDMI. I'll skip the microSD. I would like a sound card. I know I'm a crazy guy. And so I add another $100 in cost. It's now over $1,800 in order to have USB-C, HDMI, to have just basic ports. That's not even everything. That's crazy.
By the way, that's not enough RAM. And you add a CD-ROM? Yeah, probably. Possibly not enough, not enough RAM and not enough storage and not the video card I want. So it's just really expensive. So immediate upgrade required. Yeah. Yeah. And it's like, so now if we were going to price it the way I'd really want it, I would probably get the higher end CPU because I'm getting this to do some AI work. I'd probably get it with an AMD graphics card because I'm on Linux. And quite frankly, because AI workloads are ginormous, I would like to get it with more than 96 gigs of RAM, but that's what I can get.
My primary disk could be one terabyte, but I need a lot of storage for models and for games. So two terabytes for a home directory. So to actually make this a usable computer for me and still only have the bare minimum ports I need, two USB-C, a USB-A, an HDMI, an audio, an Ethernet, $3,200 almost. Wow. Wow. Yeah, it's a bummer. I mean, that's more expensive than a freaking MacBook. Yeah. So I feel what you're saying, man. I feel what you're saying. But once you add the ports and all the stuff you want, the cost is still really high. Now, if those modules lasted for, say, seven years and I could swap out the motherboard three times and the graphics card module twice, maybe.
I'd like to know if people would think that would make it worth it. Nick from Ecuador, I think, called in. Hey, JB Crew. This is Nick McKenzie calling you from beautiful Ecuador. Just wanted to say I've been listening to you guys for a while now. I love all the shows in the roster and, you know, keep doing what you're doing. It's great to hear from you guys every couple of weeks, especially with all the different shows I'm listening to pretty much every other few days. So have a good one. All right, Nick. Thank you. Giving us a little pump up there. Appreciate it. All right. Now we have another call back from Hacker Zero in New Mexico.
Hey there. This is Bearded Zero from South Eastern, New Mexico. And I just got done listening to you guys talking about that there issue with the whole mouse situation. I don't have a good mouse recommendation, but you guys are saying that Andrew is using the KVM, yeah? There's this program called Synergy. Just search for Synergy app. You'll find things like Seamless.com or something like that. Anyways, a lot of you use one mouse and keyboard across multiple screens or multiple devices. If you have, like, a laptop next to you and you have your desktop screen, your mouse will just go between them, kind of like what, what is it, Logitech Flow is a solution that does a similar thing.
But this is a dedicated app for that. Also, let's even share a clipboard between them. You can even drag files between them. It's complicated. I don't think I've ever got that to actually work. But anyway, it does cost money. It's not free, but it's an awesome app. The team that's been working on it has been working on it for like at least freaking 15 years. It's amazing. Go take a look at that. That's not going to help with KVM necessarily, but she has multiple screens. Then that could make it where she has multiple of them active at once. I don't know. Anyways, have fun.
That's a good tip. Thank you, Pyrdyn. Interesting. So at the beginning of that voicemail, I'm like, mouse problem? It was a rat problem. No, your mouse problem. I know. Yeah, my mouse problem, not your rat problem. But yeah, so one of the reasons why I use the KVM is because I'm switching between my personal and work computer, and I wouldn't want clipboard shared between those. You don't want to share them on the same network. They're not on the same network. Right, which is where this wouldn't work in that case. Okay, yeah. No, I have my work computer on a guest network.
Yeah, which is a good move. I know. I know. I'm proud of myself for that. You know, though, Bearded, Wes and I may be coming. We don't have an actual route yet, but we may be heading through New Mexico next week. And what we're going to do, and you'll have to catch the latest LUP for the link, but we're going to have a live tracker of both our location, Brent's location, and each of our average miles remaining to get to Austin. And, thanks to a little magic by Mr. Wes Payne, our geohash for BitChat. So if you're in our area where we're at at the time, you'll see our geohash. You can pop that into BitChat, and you can have a little local chat with us, and we'll meet up, and maybe we'll have a little dinner or something.
Nice. So we'll have to keep an eye on BitChat. So you want to get the BitChat app, and you'll want to watch our tracker page once we actually announce it. But thanks for the call. And our last call this week comes from just outside of Pittsburgh. Hey, this is Joe from just outside of Pittsburgh. Just calling in to say I love the show. I've been a Jupiter Party subscriber for several years now I've been listening since around 2017 Launch is a very enjoyable show Can't wait for more episodes Thanks Well. Thank you That's two out of the seven voicemails that were like Hey, we just love the show Also.
Long-time party member, thank you You know what it is? Because we missed a week? Yeah We missed a week And now people want to call We will be missing next week too I'm not sure exactly Yeah, well, I think I'm leaving Monday Oh Oh. Yeah, it's not on the calendar. I know, because I haven't figured out my plans yet. I know, that's me. That's me. I don't even know what route I'm taking. Okay, when is Texas Linux Fest? October 2nd through the 3rd, I think. Okay, all right. And so I think I'm leaving Monday. Okay. So I don't think I'll be, and then I'll be driving like a maniac Tuesday, you know? Yeah, I'll talk to her 3rd through the 4th.
If people want to go, I'd love to see you. It's a great little fest. And then Austin's probably going to be lovely in October. It sure is. So thank you everybody who gave us a call. And keep calling in, please. We do love it. Yeah, you got to call the launch. Come on. Don't be a fool. You got to call the launch. That's such a jamming tune. It's great, isn't it? Like, I am mouthing it over here. That's the line. And we did get some boost this week to support the show. And J-Cube is our baller booster with 32,000 sats. J-Cube is a Jupiter Party member. Thank you very much.
Woo-hoo. But my wife and I enjoy the show so much, I had to boost, too. It's a breath of fresh air. Amusing fresh air. Well, thank you, J-Cube. It's all Wes Payne. It really is. It's all Wes. Wow. And his gun. That was great. Thank you for the boost. A-Ron's here with 3,333 sats. And A-Ron writes, i recently started playing with suno and i'm having a total blast i wanted to share one song to preface it it's for my son he's obsessed with bluey and has a favorite thing and that to say and that is quote just one more episode of course yeah all.
Parents know that. Yeah so here's a little bit of uh just one more episode that was made uh for his son, Ha ha ha! that's great right on well done aaron thank you for the boost don't. Move on yet did you read the part where this is their first boost using funds from a self-hosted albihub. Whoa good catch edgers, well done isn't that a cool unlock you know you feel like a craftsman well done double well done A.A. Ron good to hear from you Mick Zip's here with 5000 SATs checking in as someone who raw dogs their iPhone 17 Pro ever since the Note 20 wow, Mick Zip I think that's a miscalculation have you seen the scratch gate reports they're back to aluminum and I guess it's very scratchable so No. Be careful out there.
I'm raw dogging it. Yeah, you be careful. You let us know. I'm a little worried for you, buddy. I'm not going to lie. I think that could go wrong. Keep us updated. PJ's here with 6,666 sats. What does that stand for? Sounds a little ominous. Ah, yes. PJ says he misses Android 2.2. Both platforms are just going to crap. I've been slowly trying to wean myself off of mobile apps entirely in favor of desktop apps, but it's hard when the most accessible computer is in your pocket. Yeah. Here's to having a real platform competition one day. Cheers. Cheers to you, PJ. Yeah, the trend of history is not to move away from mobile apps.
It's definitely to embrace the mobile apps, unfortunately. and you know signing up for stuff these days it's like sometimes I don't even have a website you gotta just get the app yeah. No at Taco Bell yeah like I just got their app. Yeah the fast food places are pushing the app so hard. Yeah except they don't have it dialed in like McDonald's although I had a funny story the other day I went to McDonald's right as breakfast was ending but I was ordering breakfast but because they have a buy one breakfast sandwich get one for a dollar right and for the steak bagel that's seven dollars that's a that's a savings anyway I opened the app and I placed a mobile order okay.
Before breakfast was over. Before breakfast yeah seven minutes before it was over actually and I placed it at the wrong McDonald's yes I. Have done that too not with. McDonald's but I've done that and so I called the McDonald's that I thought it was and I was wrong I thought it was the one at my exit but it was the Tulalip one and I was at Lake Stevens and, And it's so stupid, but I was able to cancel it through the app, and I'm going to get the refund. There was no question about it at all. Oh, okay. I was going to call him and be like, hey, give somebody my breakfast sandwiches because I'm not picking them up.
Yeah. I once ordered eggs from Starbucks on the app. This is years ago. I don't do it anymore. No. Why? Because they have really good cheesy egg bites. No. No, they do. They do. Well, they used to, at least. I haven't done it for years. But I did the same thing. Wrong Starbucks, and I show up. It's not here, buddy. Yeah, I did that with Little Caesars, too. I ordered in, like, Anacortes. Yeah, it was like, there was no way. Instead of right around the corner. It's going to be cold pizza. Yeah. Oh, man. Jeez. Thank you, PJ. I appreciate the boost. Turd Ferguson's here with 10,000 sets. Are you allowed to take a week off in podcasting? Those YouTubers have to post, like, three times a week.
I mean, do they? But also, we're taking next week off, apparently. Yeah, I know, right? Also, oh, go ahead. The podcasting's a better business. Let's be honest. Because that YouTube business does seem a little rough. We should do a lunch episode on the different apps. Oh, you're right. All the different food apps. Wouldn't that be fun? That's a decent idea right there. I'll need to get some more. Yeah. I should check how many I have, unfortunately. Oh, I only have two. I only just gave in to the McDonald's one. And then because I did that, it's a, yeah, okay.
McDonald's is the one I don't have. I don't have that one. Well, you know, Bella gets Taco Bell or McDonald's once a week for her entire band career. for starting bands. So... I'm collecting points, which expire, by the way. But this is for the next show. And the irony is, I'll be like, hey, here's some Bitcoin. You'll be like, fast food. And they'll like that better. Kids, they like the food better. They're so dumb. But it is like I have definitely have DoorDash. I also, I think my most hated app is I have the Great Clips app. Oh, my gosh.
I know. I hate it. That was probably a really good clip. That should go onto your thing. Oh, wow. It's horrible. I don't have DoorDash. I don't have any delivery. Yeah, don't do it. Well, what about Instacart? Uh-uh. Really? No, no, no. When I place Costco, I do it on my computer. Yeah. No, I haven't. Nope. Just McDonald's and Taco Bell. It's a slippery slope. Don't do it. I know. You know, I was thinking the other day, I refused to put the Amazon app on my phone because it was too easy. Oh, good. Smart. Oh, no. I mean, like, I gave in, like, I don't know, six or seven years ago. Oh, yeah. Sort of. Yeah, big time.
And then I started placing orders all the time, and now I'm consolidating again, right? Because I wanted enough things to order to make it worth it. But, yeah. Oh, this is so funny. Reject the apps. That's our future show. Yeah, good luck with that. We're going to be like PJ, and we're going to be struggling. Bobby Pink comes in with 2,000 sats. Oh, he says, live video in my Fountain app? We're living in the future. That's right. We have an alternative enclosure for our live stream. What that means is I can both host audio and video streams for the podcasting 2.0 apps and on jblive.tv.
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Love it. If you want to boost us, fountain.fm is the way to do it. Of course, there's lots of podcasting 2.0 apps that connect to your AlbiHub. and AlbiHub is something that you self-host and then you can boost in from like the podcast index or just about anything you want. That was a great clip. That Mario one? That music, yeah. I love Mario. It's so good. It's the best. This house doesn't have it in the looks, but it has it in the personality. It's in Bear Lake, Michigan. Another bear. Yep. 7,374 square feet. It's a big one. It sits on 20 acres of fenced land.
It's clocking in at $1.45 million. Okay. It boasts pretty small rooms, but massive kitchen with a 12 by 4 island. It has new high-end appliances, an electronic fireplace. It has a hot tub, an exercise area, a walk-in tub, a steam shower, and even a garage that fits frickin' RVs. Oh, wow. It's massive. It's just the only downside is it's not much of a looker when you walk up to it. You know what they call that, Ange? They call that the curb appeal. Yeah, I was going to say curb appeal. But look at that. It's got a yard on it that goes for days. That's insane. Did you see the theater?
That's why it's in the show today. Okay. That theater is more legit. Oh, no, no. The walk-in shower with benches in there. They have a urinal, Ange. Where? For the theater, the theater has its own bathroom. Hold on. Yep. I haven't found that yet. That's in there. The theater has its own bathroom, and it has a freaking urinal. I mean, I can't use that. No, but there's a regular toilet, too. Like, it's got the toilet. It's got the urinal. Oh, they have a sit-in bathtub. Yeah. That's crazy. What is that? This place is bonkers. Wow. An arcade?
Like, they don't do much with the yard. They don't do much with the curb appeal. Oh, there's a urinal. Oh, my God. Oh, there's stalls. It's a bathroom with stalls. You're entertaining people. It's better than a movie theater. It's crazy. They have a huge flat screen in the TV. They have a bar area. The inside is like this play paradise. Did you see the shower? Yeah. Yeah. I was like, never mind the theater. The shower with the benches. Yeah. I mean just everything but I've never seen a house also outside the home theater they have an arcade they even have a waiting area with popcorn machine they just.
Thought of everything. Why would you ever leave your house you would never leave your house with this so this is just crazy if you're really big into movies I guess this would be the way to go if you've got 1.4 million dollars, the bedrooms are kind of the weak point, but the bathrooms... Yeah, they are. Yeah. They're not even staged well. No. Because it's all about that theater. Here's this quilt that I got from my grandma's grandma. Yeah. Probably not going to be it. Okay, now, when we're talking big investments, I always think it's good to go with a theme, something that's got some history, so that way when you go to sell that sucker, you can tell some fool about a story that makes him want to buy it. And this one, I think, is it.
This is David Lynch's former Hollywood compound. It's on the market for a cheap $15 million. Okay, who is he? David Lynch? Yeah. Does the name ring a bell? No. Why would I be saying who is he? I mean, okay, maybe to help out the audience. I'm helping out the audience. Yeah. Asking for the friend that is in the audience. He's an American filmmaker. I'm trying to think of what movie he's dated. Okay. Legendary, though. Legendary. Okay. And then... Mullen Drive, but that's not... Twin Peaks. Okay. It's a compound. Does that mean it's multiple living places? Yes.
Oh, okay. So it's an estate that spans 2.3 acres. You get 10 bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, 11,000 square feet of living space across five parcels. Whoa. The centerpiece, of course, is Lynch's home, designed by 1963 Lloyd Wright. I recognize. I took a stupid American art and architecture class in college, and I'm like, this looks like architecture I have studied. Isn't it? That's crazy. And, of course, what Lynch did to make it a compound is he acquired two neighboring homes and their yards. It's got a pool house and a giant pool designed by Lloyd Wright as well in 91. It's got a two-story guest house, one-bedroom unit finished with sort of like a signature style by David Lynch.
So together, it's three residences and five contiguous parcels of land. Picture 25 of 37. Yeah. Okay. There are books with David Lynch's name on it. I don't like that. Several of them say David Lynch nudes. You're right. It's also just like, did David Lynch have books of his nudes on his desk? Like, what's that about? Yeah. Maybe it's a film term. I feel like this would be a good one for Wes because it's got a production studio built in. That looks really cool. Yeah. That actually kind of looks way cooler than the theater. This looks functional. Honestly, the rest of it, I mean, could you picture yourself living in this place with all the cement? It's kind of cold.
It is. It's a little weird. It definitely needs some more rugs. And then like you buy a $15 million home and it's got lime green countertop homes. Yeah. But the main house has lime green countertops in the kitchen. It's gross. $15 million. No. 10 bedrooms. Well, you get your whole family there. But you do get a theater. You do get a pool. It is a very unique look. Weird. It's crazy to get an insight into how these people lived. Like, this is how this guy lived. And you've never even heard of him before. No. To me, it's nuts. 2.3 acres and 10 bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, 11,000 square feet. Wow. Five contiguous parcels.
There you go. See, now that, that's a winner. Links in the show notes. In fact, weeklylaunch.rocks not only has the links for this episode, but for all the episodes that you can find, including our RSS feed. Now, we'll try to get the calendar updated with the live production schedule and all that, so that way you know what to expect. And, of course, if you have a podcasting 2.0 app, when we're back, we'll just put a pending live item right there in your podcast list, so you'll know it's coming. You'll be ready for it. You'll prepare your body. Okay? We really enjoyed having you today, and I can't wait to come back and do another episode with you, but from the beautiful Pacific Northwest and the mighty American West Coast.
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This is The Launch, episode 36 for September 23rd, 2025. Streaming from the beautiful Pacific Northwest and the mighty American West Coast, We greet you all a good morning, a good evening, whenever your timeline may fall. Time-appropriate greetings, indeed, to one and all. This is The Launch, and my name is Chris. And I'm Angela. Hello, Angela. We have some stuff to get into today. Big show. So a few things you need to know before we get started. We'd love it if you call us. You can do it now or after the fact and leave us a voicemail. That number, 774-462-5667.
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Now, Andrews, we were talking before the show, and you said everyone should have a personal theme. I think so. And I know your personal theme. I mean, sometimes it just happens to you. That's true. Do you think your personal theme happened to you? You know, I think it was actually heavily influenced by your mom. Yeah, I think it might. I could see that. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So a personal theme could mean a lot to a person. But. In this context how would you define your personal theme it's a it's not a lifestyle but it is an. It's a way of living yeah yeah so and it's not necessarily word uh it's not necessarily materialistic sure uh right but so basically it's when somebody that knows you well enough sees something and is like oh my gosh that's angela right.
That's a great way to. Define right So for me, it's broadly animal prints, right? Now, I'm not a fan of like furs and stuff. So, you know, like not that. Artificial ones, fake ones, whatever. One or two in particular, really. Yeah, more specifically, as I was just going to say, is leopard print, right? And as my boyfriend states, I implement it tastefully, right? There you go. Like, my house isn't ridiculous, you know, with leopard print everywhere. There is definitely leopard print. Although there is a recent ridiculous. Oh, yeah? I forgot that you saw it. I was just trying to pull up a picture.
No, no. Yeah. And she's got what has got to be the coolest cat jungle gym tree. That's a cat tree. Well, it's more than a cat tree. It's a cat luxury palace because it's got like swinging hammocks and these alcoves and whatnot. Yeah. And the entire thing. How tall is it? Six foot? Well, I can't get it through my office doors. Seven foot? I tried to bring it in there. It's tall. It must be because, yeah, it's nine foot ceilings. Yeah. It's a standard doorway though. So it's like a couple inches above a standard doorway. The whole thing's leopard print. The whole thing top to bottom.
It is very loud. And in fact, you know, my kids have never really made comments, but Abby was like, this is embarrassing. Why did you buy it like this? Oh, my God, Abby. Oh, she's such a teenager sometimes. I know. She didn't mind the leopard print on the cell phone case cover. Oh, yeah. I have so many things leopard print, but yeah. So leopard print is kind of my thing. I would say yours would be Star Trek. Sure, yep, yep. Pretty safe, would be a safe gift, would be a Star Trek thing. The challenge there would be to find me a Star Trek thing I don't have. Although I don't have a ton of stuff, but, you know, like a lot of the older TNG-style stuff I have.
Yeah. Well, did you think about what your theme is? No, I think Star Trek is it. Also camping, you know, could be another one, like things for RV or camping would be kind of a safe gift. Gift. You know, because I like the way you think about it. I guess, yeah. Yeah, it's like if you're thinking of buying something for Chris, like that kind of stuff. Yeah. You know, like for Wes, of course, obviously the first thing that comes to mind is a gun. What? I was watching the chat room and I was in it. So it took me a second to process that. Like, no. That's so funny.
I'm good for questions. I just tickle myself with that. It's just, you know. Wow. I want to know out there, though, the audience, what's your theme? Like if somebody saw something, oh, that's obviously for X. What is it? And how did you fall into it? Like for me, Star Trek started, because I'm an old man, I guess, at home, mom and dad had like the big TV, and that was the TV they got to watch. And then there was like- Like a whole 35 inches? Yeah. Yeah. And then there was like a tiny 12 inch, maybe a little bit larger, 14 inch classic television that had like the click, click, click.
Oh, yeah. And the rabbit ears. Uh-huh. And I would sit upstairs. Jeez, you're old. I know. I'm just kidding. I know, it is old. It's crazy. People don't do this anymore. I would sit upstairs, which was up a little bit, and I would tune in the Star Trek broadcast from Vancouver. And I would watch Star Trek from Canada, a little fuzzy at first. And then as the years went on, I got different places started covering it while local affiliates started playing it. And so that's just sort of how I fell into it. And it's just been ever since. Yeah, your mom just had a couple leopard things.
I don't know how it impacted me so much. Maybe she got me something for Christmas or whatever that was leopard. I don't know. But, you know, we themed things for the kids, and Bella has been the biggest chameleon, but she really loved purple owls, and that was her theme. For a while, yeah. But I think she only liked it because that was her theme, because we, you know, put it there. But she's had so many other themes since then. Yeah, she's a theme shifter. Yeah, absolutely. And so was my little sister as well. But so I think my favorite one with Bella, though, is bees.
Yeah. That one was super cute. Owls and bees were great. They were great because there's so many little owls things out there. All right. So Boostin, let us know your personal theme and maybe even how you fell into it. You can do that with Fountain FM. That makes it real easy. You could also grab Albie Hub and set it up yourself if you're more technical. And then Boostin with several apps. Cast-O-Matic is fantastic on the iOS. And support the show with a message. So I was on the south end of Vancouver Island not too long ago, less than a week ago. It was quiet.
It was secluded. There was a little sandwich shop that we had stopped by, and then we got on the road and went for a little drive to find a place to eat. We pulled into, like, this little pull-off, and we're sitting there eating a sandwich. And I have my window down. My wife Adia has her window down. And we're just sitting there. And an old guy's walking up, kind of going past the car. Levi starts barking. Levi, calm down. We sneak him a little food. He calms down. And I turn around from feeding Levi the food, and the guy is standing at the driver's side window looking at me. He's probably 70, older guy.
Okay. And he just chews my ear off, like figuratively, just talks and talks and talks. Eventually gets to the whole point of, I moved over here a couple of years ago, came from somewhere else in Canada. I don't remember the name of it. It just goes on and on. But this is the part that struck me and sort of set me down the path for today's episode. He moved to Vancouver Island because he wants to be near Bigfoot. Oh. Yeah. Okay. This is ultimately what this guy gets to tell me. And it turns out there's a large community in the Pacific Northwest and on Vancouver Island, specifically in the South area of Vancouver Island, actively, like right now, looking for Bigfoot.
Wow. And the guy, you know, the guy sounded crazy, but seven to 10 feet, they're saying, is when they spot them, covered in dark shaggy fur. They kind of blend in with the woods. When they spot them? Like they are actually thinking they see it? They have some sightings. Okay. Pictures? No? Because darn, the technology wasn't working at that time. All the video, because it was video. The video I saw, ah. Ah. But there is an avid community out there. They call themselves cryptozoologists, and they argue that the Pacific Northwest and parts of Western Canada are home to some of the largest Bigfoot out there.
And so I did a little deep dive, a wee bit of a deep dive, you might say, and found a couple of groups in our area that are big into this. It's a thing. In fact, stories go back to 1924 when a group of miners claimed they had an awful, scary encounter with a couple of Bigfoots near Mount St. Helens. And then the volcano erupted and took care of them. And every now and then, every now and then, the local news does cover Bigfoot stories from time to time. And they usually have a little fun with it. A big black figure. It's a different color than the black, than the normal knights surrounding me. In the Northwest, it scared the crap out of me. The legend dates back generations.
He said this thing basically looked at him. Talked to people who spent a lot of time in these woods. He said it had kind of a monkey face. And you'll hear the stories. And then he said it had a weird smell. Bigfoot. And he kind of walked towards it. A mystery. A mascot. What's interesting is a lot of them describe the smell. That's weird. Wet dog with sulfur is what a lot of people... Oh, interesting. A lot of people describe the smell. I'm definitely open to Bigfoot. What's the world without a little wonder, right? Here in the foothills of the Cascades is Jim Creek Recreation Area, 5,000 acres of protected military land.
We're in this beautiful, lush, private, secure area. Okay, literally grew up there. Like literally a driveway from this 5,000. Did you ever have anything weird? Never. No, but. What about like neighbor's dogs disappearing? No, let me tell you. I mean, we had some animals. Actually, our bunny got just ripped out of the cage. So this military base has a truck with a cage for catching animals. Yeah, a big cage. Why is the cage so big? We got in it as kids. we got in it and they drove us around because they were looking for a what a cougar oh why is it.
Big enough to hold people. It was huge. What snatched your rabbit right out of the cage? Well, probably a coyote. Maybe. Maybe. Or maybe it was... It could have been. Could have been. It has a lot of mystery to it. There's great potential for if there's going to be something, that this would be the place. We're squatching. We're squatching. Deep into the hinterlands, Jim Creek Wilderness Area. This is where... This is so crazy to me. Very few humans tread. Although it has been said. Yeah, but it is true. Very few humans were there. And you did live there. Yeah, I didn't hear anything about Sasquatch up there. Like, okay, so obviously, you know, rode the bus and drove up and down that, crashed my first car there.
There's no Bigfoot, like, signs everywhere or anything. Anywhere on that road. Like, it's not a fanatic road. This is what I've learned is the Bigfoot has been a master at hiding and disguising themselves. And there's a team called the Pacific Northwest Bigfoot Search Team. And they started as an advanced search and rescue team. So when somebody gets lost in the woods, search and rescue goes and tries to find them. And when search and rescue gives up, these guys take over. Oh, interesting. And through their years, a lot of them are former vets and whatnot. through their years of doing this, they've collected nearly a thousand encounters.
And so now they've launched a specific Bigfoot search arm. Wow. I know. And so they're out there looking for Bigfoot. I have a little bit of, I'll play a little bit of this. It's a longer clip. I'll link the full thing in the show notes, but it's pretty fun. The whole team, you know, and some of them are in kind of rough shape. They've taken some serious war injuries, but they're out there climbing through the hills. You got little boys and they're scared of the dark. and what's the scariest thing in the dark? And it's like, it's daddy, because monsters are scared of daddy. As a soldier, you know, I'm good in the woods. After that, I'm not the scariest thing in the dark anymore.
It just doesn't make sense that a four-legged animal would walk that heavy. See how that spread is a lot different? I feel like there's something bigger out there and we all have to look out for each other. I wouldn't necessarily say it would make me want to run. It'd kind of more make me want to follow. I had something come through my camp four years ago that wasn't expected it was large bipedal, yeah it scared the hell out of me after that my buddy Tanner started something and here we are, my name is Tanner Hoskins I am the co-founder of Pacific Northwest Bigfoot Search and the executive director at Pacific Northwest Missing Persons Project Hey guys, Rogue Amputee here.
We're out here, uh, actually smack dab in the middle of Sasquatch country. Well, tonight we'll be, uh, we'll be staked out along this creek. Pacific Northwest Bigfoot Search is a self-funded team of avid outdoorsmen that are collecting scientific data about unknown reported bipeds that are roaming the Pacific Northwest. And so they look for, like, sightings of, like, footmarks and stuff like that as they go through. Evidence. And some of it's pretty fun, but some of it... not a lot of fun. When you're out at night, the search teams have discovered strange sounds that... You can hear there's some dog barking in there, but there are also some sounds that don't quite sound like any other animal, and they captured some of that.
Sounds like Chewbacca. Or there's a tsunami coming. Yeah. Isn't that weird? It is weird. That is really weird. I don't know. I don't know what it is, but it is odd. There's also a wild 911 call where a guy here in the Pacific Northwest has a crazy experience. Now this, what you're about to hear, is a real 911 call, and it's two moments cut together because the guy called in twice when first something happens and then when a second event happens. And, of course, the call was captured. 911, are you reporting? I got a strange going on. I hear something just killed my dog. Something killed your dog?
My dog went flying through the air over the tree. I don't know how it did it. Oh. Okay. Damn it, I'm really confused. All I saw was my dog coming over the fence and he was dead when she hit the ground. I didn't see any cars. All I saw was my dog coming over the fence. 9-1-1, what are you reporting? Second call. We got someone or something crawling around out here. Did you see what it was? Was it a person or an animal? I can't tell. All I know is that my sensor light came on and I just happened to glimpse and see this thing running across the yard. A good-sized man or something.
It looks like a man. I don't know what it was. Just it ran across the yard. Okay. You've had problems in the neighborhood before? Yeah, my dog was killed here just recently. I don't know what it was. Whatever it is, it's running. I couldn't catch it if I was going to chase it, but whatever it was, it was standing up. I'm out here looking through the window now, and I don't see anything. I don't want to go outside. Jesus Christ, you better see him. Hello? Get somebody out here. What's going on now, sir? That son of a bitch is about 6'9", I don't know. Do you see him now, sir? Yes, I'm looking right at him. Uh-oh.
Uh-oh. Okay, hang on. He's right there. Is he in your yard, sir? Yeah, God, he's big. Okay, what's he doing in your yard? He's looking at me. And the guy is on foot. I don't know. It's a big, real big person. That's all I can say. Okay, but it is a person. Yeah, I'd say it was a person, somebody really big. But he's all in black. Is he a black male or a white male? Did you actually see or was he just wearing black? He's all black and he's big. He is big. Isn't that wild? Yeah. That's from 1990. Oh Yeah Hmm I was worried when we talked about bears in the pre-show Yeah That I was gonna have nightmares Uh oh And now And now that we've tied Bigfoot And bears Yeah, Like supposedly living in where I grew up Literally Yeah Where I grew up Yeah And where I grew up is where I would have recurring bear nightmares Of course, Well and cougar Oh gosh Well I.
Should have saved this for Halloween. Oh, I hope I can sleep tonight. Well, if it makes you feel any better, it may be that Bigfoot is actually everywhere and has been for a long time. Some say he's all over North America. In fact, there's like different types, different breeds, if you will, of Bigfoot. In fact, a town in Mississippi claims to have one of the very first spottings of Bigfoot in the North Americas forever. And they cover that. And I saw some trees shaking. And then I really looked and I could see the silhouette of him holding trees like that. And then when he realized, I saw him, he screamed at me again, and that really scared me.
We're in the Mississippi River backwater shooting the story, but I wanted to get a place that looked a little bit more Bigfoot-ish, so I stopped by a couple of spots I know on the way home on the Natchez Trace. Now keep in mind, I had just talked to a person who told me that he had seen a Bigfoot and that the Bigfoot screamed at him. And so here's what I heard in the woods. Can you hear it? Way, way back in the distance. There's this, ah, ah, ah, sound. At first, I didn't know what it was. Sounds like a chainsaw. I really didn't think it was a Bigfoot, but I couldn't rule it out because it just never had heard a sound like that. Not on the Natchez Trace, anyway.
But fortunately, at the end of one of its last yowls, you can't hear it because it's inaudible to the camera, but it went putt, putt, putt, putt, putt, putt, putt. Chainsaw. So that's my Bigfoot experience. Now, had it been a real Bigfoot, I would have turned into a UFO, an unidentified fleeing object. Back to you guys. Now, I feel like they're trying to cash in on our Bigfoot hype. But actually, I'll link to BFRO.net, and they have an archive of various Bigfoot sightings and sound clips. some of them are quite quite interesting yes some of them go all the way back to the 70s one that i liked a lot was uh there's an encounter where they capture it on their walkie talkies, and so they so somebody back at home was recording the walkie talkie and they have a friend out that has the encounter and they capture that on the walkie talkie so that's linked in the show notes for that too. What do you think, Andrews?
It's crazy. Could it be? Yeah, I'm going to be thinking about this all day. I'm going to be thinking about, are my nightmares because of Bigfoot? Boosting and tell me if you think Bigfoot could be real. If you're a sat squancher or a squatch hater. That's right. 95% of the sats go to the artists of the track and Vicious Clay is back this week. We don't often have a repeat artist, but we do this week. Vicious Clay's here with Can't Leave You. And we do have a nice batch of voicemails to get into this week. And our first call this week is from a second-time caller. I think it's from the Caribbean.
Hi, g'day. Long-time listener, second-time caller. This is your Trinidad Connect from the Caribbean. With regards to the lunch, I have two items from my country that I would love for you to try. All right, I'm ready. Unfortunately, I don't know anywhere on your side of America that might have it. If it is that you're able to meet up with a Trinidadian, I'm pretty sure they might either make it for you or direct you to somebody that sells it. Can we mail it? First item is roti. Spell it because some people pronounce it wrong. R-O-T-I. It's a Trinidad East Indian dish.
Oh, yeah. I think we know about this. The second one, East Indian as well, is doubles. So second one, more of a street food. First one, all-around lunch type stuff. The second one, doubles, is what they generally refer to as a chickpea sandwich. Yeah. Looking at it right now. Eat with your hands, both of them. Yeah. Both of them are curry-based. What else I can say? You could probably see a few reviews online. Onions, garlic. Yes. On the West Coast. I'm not sure exactly how it is that you would interact with it. I bet we could find this.
Sorry about the ways cutting in there. But I'm heading after work, heading home. So give it a try. Hopefully you enjoy it. Hopefully you can find it. If I do find anywhere that has it, go see your side. I'll let you know. You could just come on over and make it for us. Do a meetup, come on over and make it. Yeah, I can't think of any Caribbean. Like, there's Mediterranean. Yeah, for sure. But I don't know of any Caribbean restaurants. Kevin and Raleigh calls in. Hey there, Kevin and Raleigh. I was just listening to the launch, and somebody, one of the callers, mentioned a virtual conference he's doing.
It reminded me, and by the way, use this on any show, All Things Open, the big open source conference, is in Raleigh, North Carolina. And it's getting close. It's just over a month from now. Allthingsopen.org, you can find it. Last year, they had about 5,000 attendees. We've got lots going on. It's year lucky 13. I'll be there. Will I see you there? Yeah, I think we went to that back when it, I think it came to Seattle. Maybe. It's been a long, yeah, this has been on my want to go to, you know, and Raleigh's a great area too. We got a great listener base over there. The problem is, is that it's always around something else and it's a long way to travel. It is a long way.
But I really would like to make it. I thought this would be the year. But no, Kevin, I don't think it will be. But I would really appreciate it if you wanted to call back afterwards and give us a little field report. Give us, you know, an on-the-ground. You could even call in while you're there. Get a little background crowd noise and give us an on-the-ground report if you'd like. Thanks for the call, Kevin. Tech Geek in Orlando called in. Hey, guys. This is Tech Geek from Orlando. Calling in a phone mishap. I'm actually still trying to catch up on episodes, and I know that was one of the topics.
In a recent episode, a phone mishap. I don't know if you remember when the Galaxy Nexus was released back in 2011, something like that. Yeah. Love that phone. Yeah. This was before I had, you know, a mount on my dashboard or whatever, but I used to put my phone in my cup holder right next to me in the middle console. Well, one day my wife was riding along with me, and I had noticed that when I put my phone into the cup holder that I was also putting it in her cup of orange juice. Oh, no. Orange juice has got to be the worst. Destroyed.
Yeah. Oh. Who has an open cup in their car? I was able to get a replacement at the time, thankfully, but I don't know. It's just one of those scars that hasn't healed. But anyway, yeah, that was probably my only strangest mishap of a phone. But also, I wanted to point out something that maybe the parents out there should consider. I'm a parent. I have a nine-year-old. Truthfully, I actually have no intent of giving her a smartphone anytime soon. or probably not until at least driving age. But something to consider, and I've looked at, is something called the Lycophone, L-I-G-H-T. It's pretty much a dome phone, but it has some features like texting and such, but something I've considered probably getting my daughter within the next two or three years maybe.
It all depends. But that's one option for the kids out there. And another option is something called Gab, G-A-B-B. You know, I'm going to say, oh, I think you got cut off there. Sorry about that. But Tech Geek, the Galaxy Nexus came out 13 years ago. He's still sore on that. And I think the show has decided wife's fault. Shouldn't have had an open glass of orange juice in the car. That's crazy. Also, I hear from some parents, although I don't know if Ann and I would necessarily co-sign on it, but they get their kids the Apple Watch with cell service. Oh, yeah.
And the advantage there is if you're already in the Apple ecosystem, then you can use iMessage and Find My and FaceTime and all that. yep so that's i know. I do have the uh apple watch 11 oh. You got the new one. I did do. You like it. Uh well so first of all i got the sports band uh-huh new band uh but it it velcro is differently than the one that i had so i might switch it out um it's a little bigger one millimeter bigger i can tell oh yeah yeah um it doesn't do the whole um like conserve charge right my other watch it was preserving the battery and like at.
Low power mode do you mean. No it was just only charging it to 80%. Oh, yeah, yeah, sure. I hate it. I hate it. I have to override it every time so that my watch wouldn't die by the end of the day. But also, I had to update to iOS 26. Yeah, I was going to ask you about that. And it is doo-doo. I knew you were going to hate it. I knew it. Do you know how many times I had to Google turning off the glass, the see-through, the motion? Oh, my gosh. Did you find it in accessibility? In accessibility options, you can turn that stuff off. It is inaccessible.
Yeah. The way they did it. Hadiyah also turned all that off. Yeah, yeah. Me, I'm like, turn on! Even my... Oh, yeah? Even my clock was transparent, and so I had to change my, yeah. The worst, actually, as far as I'm concerned, the worst transparency is the notifications on the watch. Oh, yeah? It's ridiculous. They're hard to read. It's crazy. Oh, I haven't had that issue. Well, if you turn it off, I think it turns it off for the watch, too, possibly. Oh, okay. But otherwise, you like it? Does the battery seem better? Yes, 100%. Yeah, actually, it's getting to 100%. Like, it wasn't getting to 100% ever, even with me overriding the charge past 80%.
That's weird. Yeah. Have you noticed any of the new features or anything? No. No, it's a dumb watch. Like, I just use it for tracking and getting notifications. I did notice that I got a Be Real notification on it, though, which I had not been getting them on my previous watch. I'm not sure what that's about. Well, we got a call from southeast New Mexico, where I imagine the Bigfoot out there are real stinky. Hey, Chris. This is Beard Zero from southeastern New Mexico. You know, I was listening to 630, and you were complaining about the framework 16 laptops costing so much. And I feel that.
But I think what you should take into account is that you're not just buying one laptop that you're going to use and then throw away or, you know, gift it to whoever, right? You're actually buying a system that you will continue to upgrade. I got the first 13 and I've upgraded the motherboard three times already and still have the same chassis like, You're going to be able to upgrade that laptop. So the fact that the modules are there means that in the future, you're going to get to a point where, like, I don't need this anymore, one port or whatever. And you're going to be able to – it's going to be able to change with you.
It's going to be able to grow with you. So you're buying yourself a platform, something for the greater days that are in the future, you know? Sure. And, you know, they have released now the second motherboard for it. And so, yeah, you're buying towards the future. It's more like a normal computer that you build as opposed to just a laptop where the whole unit just goes away when you're done with it. You're going to be able to bring bits and pieces along with you and it'll grow with you. So I think that's probably the mindset you need to look at. I don't know. It's just my thoughts. You know, have a good one.
I think that's funny because half of our lives, that is what you say when you want to buy a technology. Yeah, well, he's right on all the accounts. That is the thing I like about the framework computers. You can replace the parts and you can continue to upgrade. And in the 16, which he was talking about, they even have a graphics card module. You can put NVIDIA in. You can put AMD in. All that's nice. No, I know. There's a but coming though, right? But. Okay. So base price, and this is before I've got, this is, here's the but. This is a crappy version of the laptop.
I'm talking the base processor, base storage, 16 gigs of RAM, no second disc, one terabyte hard drive, no OS, one power adapter. It's $1,600. Now, like he's saying, well, $1,700, but like he's saying, $1,700 for a decent high-performance, well, medium-performance laptop that you can continue to upgrade, that's a fair price. where I think the cost and value gets a little bit off the rails with the framework, is that $1,700 doesn't include a single port on the machine. So if I want, say, two USB-C ports. Oh, wow.
And, you know. Yeah, you're an early adopter. You need all the bells and whistles. You want, well, I got to have some USB-C. I probably need one USB-A port. I need an HDMI out port. I need an Ethernet. I need one. Honestly, I would like to have a DisplayPort too because at work I use DisplayPort, at home I use HDMI. I'll skip the microSD. I would like a sound card. I know I'm a crazy guy. And so I add another $100 in cost. It's now over $1,800 in order to have USB-C, HDMI, to have just basic ports. That's not even everything. That's crazy.
By the way, that's not enough RAM. And you add a CD-ROM? Yeah, probably. Possibly not enough, not enough RAM and not enough storage and not the video card I want. So it's just really expensive. So immediate upgrade required. Yeah. Yeah. And it's like, so now if we were going to price it the way I'd really want it, I would probably get the higher end CPU because I'm getting this to do some AI work. I'd probably get it with an AMD graphics card because I'm on Linux. And quite frankly, because AI workloads are ginormous, I would like to get it with more than 96 gigs of RAM, but that's what I can get.
My primary disk could be one terabyte, but I need a lot of storage for models and for games. So two terabytes for a home directory. So to actually make this a usable computer for me and still only have the bare minimum ports I need, two USB-C, a USB-A, an HDMI, an audio, an Ethernet, $3,200 almost. Wow. Wow. Yeah, it's a bummer. I mean, that's more expensive than a freaking MacBook. Yeah. So I feel what you're saying, man. I feel what you're saying. But once you add the ports and all the stuff you want, the cost is still really high. Now, if those modules lasted for, say, seven years and I could swap out the motherboard three times and the graphics card module twice, maybe.
I'd like to know if people would think that would make it worth it. Nick from Ecuador, I think, called in. Hey, JB Crew. This is Nick McKenzie calling you from beautiful Ecuador. Just wanted to say I've been listening to you guys for a while now. I love all the shows in the roster and, you know, keep doing what you're doing. It's great to hear from you guys every couple of weeks, especially with all the different shows I'm listening to pretty much every other few days. So have a good one. All right, Nick. Thank you. Giving us a little pump up there. Appreciate it. All right. Now we have another call back from Hacker Zero in New Mexico.
Hey there. This is Bearded Zero from South Eastern, New Mexico. And I just got done listening to you guys talking about that there issue with the whole mouse situation. I don't have a good mouse recommendation, but you guys are saying that Andrew is using the KVM, yeah? There's this program called Synergy. Just search for Synergy app. You'll find things like Seamless.com or something like that. Anyways, a lot of you use one mouse and keyboard across multiple screens or multiple devices. If you have, like, a laptop next to you and you have your desktop screen, your mouse will just go between them, kind of like what, what is it, Logitech Flow is a solution that does a similar thing.
But this is a dedicated app for that. Also, let's even share a clipboard between them. You can even drag files between them. It's complicated. I don't think I've ever got that to actually work. But anyway, it does cost money. It's not free, but it's an awesome app. The team that's been working on it has been working on it for like at least freaking 15 years. It's amazing. Go take a look at that. That's not going to help with KVM necessarily, but she has multiple screens. Then that could make it where she has multiple of them active at once. I don't know. Anyways, have fun.
That's a good tip. Thank you, Pyrdyn. Interesting. So at the beginning of that voicemail, I'm like, mouse problem? It was a rat problem. No, your mouse problem. I know. Yeah, my mouse problem, not your rat problem. But yeah, so one of the reasons why I use the KVM is because I'm switching between my personal and work computer, and I wouldn't want clipboard shared between those. You don't want to share them on the same network. They're not on the same network. Right, which is where this wouldn't work in that case. Okay, yeah. No, I have my work computer on a guest network.
Yeah, which is a good move. I know. I know. I'm proud of myself for that. You know, though, Bearded, Wes and I may be coming. We don't have an actual route yet, but we may be heading through New Mexico next week. And what we're going to do, and you'll have to catch the latest LUP for the link, but we're going to have a live tracker of both our location, Brent's location, and each of our average miles remaining to get to Austin. And, thanks to a little magic by Mr. Wes Payne, our geohash for BitChat. So if you're in our area where we're at at the time, you'll see our geohash. You can pop that into BitChat, and you can have a little local chat with us, and we'll meet up, and maybe we'll have a little dinner or something.
Nice. So we'll have to keep an eye on BitChat. So you want to get the BitChat app, and you'll want to watch our tracker page once we actually announce it. But thanks for the call. And our last call this week comes from just outside of Pittsburgh. Hey, this is Joe from just outside of Pittsburgh. Just calling in to say I love the show. I've been a Jupiter Party subscriber for several years now I've been listening since around 2017 Launch is a very enjoyable show Can't wait for more episodes Thanks Well. Thank you That's two out of the seven voicemails that were like Hey, we just love the show Also.
Long-time party member, thank you You know what it is? Because we missed a week? Yeah We missed a week And now people want to call We will be missing next week too I'm not sure exactly Yeah, well, I think I'm leaving Monday Oh Oh. Yeah, it's not on the calendar. I know, because I haven't figured out my plans yet. I know, that's me. That's me. I don't even know what route I'm taking. Okay, when is Texas Linux Fest? October 2nd through the 3rd, I think. Okay, all right. And so I think I'm leaving Monday. Okay. So I don't think I'll be, and then I'll be driving like a maniac Tuesday, you know? Yeah, I'll talk to her 3rd through the 4th.
If people want to go, I'd love to see you. It's a great little fest. And then Austin's probably going to be lovely in October. It sure is. So thank you everybody who gave us a call. And keep calling in, please. We do love it. Yeah, you got to call the launch. Come on. Don't be a fool. You got to call the launch. That's such a jamming tune. It's great, isn't it? Like, I am mouthing it over here. That's the line. And we did get some boost this week to support the show. And J-Cube is our baller booster with 32,000 sats. J-Cube is a Jupiter Party member. Thank you very much.
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Parents know that. Yeah so here's a little bit of uh just one more episode that was made uh for his son, Ha ha ha! that's great right on well done aaron thank you for the boost don't. Move on yet did you read the part where this is their first boost using funds from a self-hosted albihub. Whoa good catch edgers, well done isn't that a cool unlock you know you feel like a craftsman well done double well done A.A. Ron good to hear from you Mick Zip's here with 5000 SATs checking in as someone who raw dogs their iPhone 17 Pro ever since the Note 20 wow, Mick Zip I think that's a miscalculation have you seen the scratch gate reports they're back to aluminum and I guess it's very scratchable so No. Be careful out there.
I'm raw dogging it. Yeah, you be careful. You let us know. I'm a little worried for you, buddy. I'm not going to lie. I think that could go wrong. Keep us updated. PJ's here with 6,666 sats. What does that stand for? Sounds a little ominous. Ah, yes. PJ says he misses Android 2.2. Both platforms are just going to crap. I've been slowly trying to wean myself off of mobile apps entirely in favor of desktop apps, but it's hard when the most accessible computer is in your pocket. Yeah. Here's to having a real platform competition one day. Cheers. Cheers to you, PJ. Yeah, the trend of history is not to move away from mobile apps.
It's definitely to embrace the mobile apps, unfortunately. and you know signing up for stuff these days it's like sometimes I don't even have a website you gotta just get the app yeah. No at Taco Bell yeah like I just got their app. Yeah the fast food places are pushing the app so hard. Yeah except they don't have it dialed in like McDonald's although I had a funny story the other day I went to McDonald's right as breakfast was ending but I was ordering breakfast but because they have a buy one breakfast sandwich get one for a dollar right and for the steak bagel that's seven dollars that's a that's a savings anyway I opened the app and I placed a mobile order okay.
Before breakfast was over. Before breakfast yeah seven minutes before it was over actually and I placed it at the wrong McDonald's yes I. Have done that too not with. McDonald's but I've done that and so I called the McDonald's that I thought it was and I was wrong I thought it was the one at my exit but it was the Tulalip one and I was at Lake Stevens and, And it's so stupid, but I was able to cancel it through the app, and I'm going to get the refund. There was no question about it at all. Oh, okay. I was going to call him and be like, hey, give somebody my breakfast sandwiches because I'm not picking them up.
Yeah. I once ordered eggs from Starbucks on the app. This is years ago. I don't do it anymore. No. Why? Because they have really good cheesy egg bites. No. No, they do. They do. Well, they used to, at least. I haven't done it for years. But I did the same thing. Wrong Starbucks, and I show up. It's not here, buddy. Yeah, I did that with Little Caesars, too. I ordered in, like, Anacortes. Yeah, it was like, there was no way. Instead of right around the corner. It's going to be cold pizza. Yeah. Oh, man. Jeez. Thank you, PJ. I appreciate the boost. Turd Ferguson's here with 10,000 sets. Are you allowed to take a week off in podcasting? Those YouTubers have to post, like, three times a week.
I mean, do they? But also, we're taking next week off, apparently. Yeah, I know, right? Also, oh, go ahead. The podcasting's a better business. Let's be honest. Because that YouTube business does seem a little rough. We should do a lunch episode on the different apps. Oh, you're right. All the different food apps. Wouldn't that be fun? That's a decent idea right there. I'll need to get some more. Yeah. I should check how many I have, unfortunately. Oh, I only have two. I only just gave in to the McDonald's one. And then because I did that, it's a, yeah, okay.
McDonald's is the one I don't have. I don't have that one. Well, you know, Bella gets Taco Bell or McDonald's once a week for her entire band career. for starting bands. So... I'm collecting points, which expire, by the way. But this is for the next show. And the irony is, I'll be like, hey, here's some Bitcoin. You'll be like, fast food. And they'll like that better. Kids, they like the food better. They're so dumb. But it is like I have definitely have DoorDash. I also, I think my most hated app is I have the Great Clips app. Oh, my gosh.
I know. I hate it. That was probably a really good clip. That should go onto your thing. Oh, wow. It's horrible. I don't have DoorDash. I don't have any delivery. Yeah, don't do it. Well, what about Instacart? Uh-uh. Really? No, no, no. When I place Costco, I do it on my computer. Yeah. No, I haven't. Nope. Just McDonald's and Taco Bell. It's a slippery slope. Don't do it. I know. You know, I was thinking the other day, I refused to put the Amazon app on my phone because it was too easy. Oh, good. Smart. Oh, no. I mean, like, I gave in, like, I don't know, six or seven years ago. Oh, yeah. Sort of. Yeah, big time.
And then I started placing orders all the time, and now I'm consolidating again, right? Because I wanted enough things to order to make it worth it. But, yeah. Oh, this is so funny. Reject the apps. That's our future show. Yeah, good luck with that. We're going to be like PJ, and we're going to be struggling. Bobby Pink comes in with 2,000 sats. Oh, he says, live video in my Fountain app? We're living in the future. That's right. We have an alternative enclosure for our live stream. What that means is I can both host audio and video streams for the podcasting 2.0 apps and on jblive.tv.
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It's clocking in at $1.45 million. Okay. It boasts pretty small rooms, but massive kitchen with a 12 by 4 island. It has new high-end appliances, an electronic fireplace. It has a hot tub, an exercise area, a walk-in tub, a steam shower, and even a garage that fits frickin' RVs. Oh, wow. It's massive. It's just the only downside is it's not much of a looker when you walk up to it. You know what they call that, Ange? They call that the curb appeal. Yeah, I was going to say curb appeal. But look at that. It's got a yard on it that goes for days. That's insane. Did you see the theater?
That's why it's in the show today. Okay. That theater is more legit. Oh, no, no. The walk-in shower with benches in there. They have a urinal, Ange. Where? For the theater, the theater has its own bathroom. Hold on. Yep. I haven't found that yet. That's in there. The theater has its own bathroom, and it has a freaking urinal. I mean, I can't use that. No, but there's a regular toilet, too. Like, it's got the toilet. It's got the urinal. Oh, they have a sit-in bathtub. Yeah. That's crazy. What is that? This place is bonkers. Wow. An arcade?
Like, they don't do much with the yard. They don't do much with the curb appeal. Oh, there's a urinal. Oh, my God. Oh, there's stalls. It's a bathroom with stalls. You're entertaining people. It's better than a movie theater. It's crazy. They have a huge flat screen in the TV. They have a bar area. The inside is like this play paradise. Did you see the shower? Yeah. Yeah. I was like, never mind the theater. The shower with the benches. Yeah. I mean just everything but I've never seen a house also outside the home theater they have an arcade they even have a waiting area with popcorn machine they just.
Thought of everything. Why would you ever leave your house you would never leave your house with this so this is just crazy if you're really big into movies I guess this would be the way to go if you've got 1.4 million dollars, the bedrooms are kind of the weak point, but the bathrooms... Yeah, they are. Yeah. They're not even staged well. No. Because it's all about that theater. Here's this quilt that I got from my grandma's grandma. Yeah. Probably not going to be it. Okay, now, when we're talking big investments, I always think it's good to go with a theme, something that's got some history, so that way when you go to sell that sucker, you can tell some fool about a story that makes him want to buy it. And this one, I think, is it.
This is David Lynch's former Hollywood compound. It's on the market for a cheap $15 million. Okay, who is he? David Lynch? Yeah. Does the name ring a bell? No. Why would I be saying who is he? I mean, okay, maybe to help out the audience. I'm helping out the audience. Yeah. Asking for the friend that is in the audience. He's an American filmmaker. I'm trying to think of what movie he's dated. Okay. Legendary, though. Legendary. Okay. And then... Mullen Drive, but that's not... Twin Peaks. Okay. It's a compound. Does that mean it's multiple living places? Yes.
Oh, okay. So it's an estate that spans 2.3 acres. You get 10 bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, 11,000 square feet of living space across five parcels. Whoa. The centerpiece, of course, is Lynch's home, designed by 1963 Lloyd Wright. I recognize. I took a stupid American art and architecture class in college, and I'm like, this looks like architecture I have studied. Isn't it? That's crazy. And, of course, what Lynch did to make it a compound is he acquired two neighboring homes and their yards. It's got a pool house and a giant pool designed by Lloyd Wright as well in 91. It's got a two-story guest house, one-bedroom unit finished with sort of like a signature style by David Lynch.
So together, it's three residences and five contiguous parcels of land. Picture 25 of 37. Yeah. Okay. There are books with David Lynch's name on it. I don't like that. Several of them say David Lynch nudes. You're right. It's also just like, did David Lynch have books of his nudes on his desk? Like, what's that about? Yeah. Maybe it's a film term. I feel like this would be a good one for Wes because it's got a production studio built in. That looks really cool. Yeah. That actually kind of looks way cooler than the theater. This looks functional. Honestly, the rest of it, I mean, could you picture yourself living in this place with all the cement? It's kind of cold.
It is. It's a little weird. It definitely needs some more rugs. And then like you buy a $15 million home and it's got lime green countertop homes. Yeah. But the main house has lime green countertops in the kitchen. It's gross. $15 million. No. 10 bedrooms. Well, you get your whole family there. But you do get a theater. You do get a pool. It is a very unique look. Weird. It's crazy to get an insight into how these people lived. Like, this is how this guy lived. And you've never even heard of him before. No. To me, it's nuts. 2.3 acres and 10 bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, 11,000 square feet. Wow. Five contiguous parcels.
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