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This is the launch episode 39 for 10/28/2025. Streaming from the beautiful Pacific Northwest and the mighty American West Coast, we greet you all a good morning, a good evening, or whenever your timeline may fall, time appropriate greetings. Indeed, to one and all, this is The Launch, and my name is Chris. And I'm Angela. Hello, Andrews. Here's a few things we want everyone to know. We'd love it if you gave us a call. You can do it while we're live, or you can call us and leave us a voice mail after the show. That phone number is (774) 462-5667.
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Well, Andrews, rumor has it you've fallen down the rabbit hole of another favorite series. Yes. Again, I think I briefly mentioned it last week, but I wanted to expand on it a little bit. So, I started reading the silo series, like, I don't know, a year and a half ago or so. It was, part of, the book club at my work. Slack channel is get dash lit and, you know, get literature. Yeah. I really loved the first book and ended up nobody else continued on with the series. But Did you pause at that point and switch to the TV show? No. Oh, okay. No. I read the whole series. Because so at the time that I was reading the first book, you and Hadiya were watching Yeah. The series. The first season. And so no. I waited till I finished this the whole series reading it, and then I watched season one. And then I rewatched season one last year, and I'm going to rewatch season one again here soon. Mind swapping between the book and the TV show, No. I do. Oh. I do mind. I don't know. I think I'm gonna try to get through the series again before well, I don't know. I'm not sure.
Yeah. I'm just not sure. But I am reading it, and I love it. That's usually a pretty tricky thing to do. It is. Switch between the book. It is. Especially because some of the characters are different, just completely different, you know, in the show. Or combined. Or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. So the cool thing about book one is it has an epilogue, at the end of the book. And it is the author talking about how we're obsessed with, end of days,
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and the different themes over the entire in the silo series. That's interesting. Yeah. So
[00:03:09] Unknown:
the silo this is mentioned in the epilogue. He actually wrote this as a just a short story. He just sat down to write because his dog had just died, and he was in pain. So he just started writing this story. He posted it on somewhere for 99¢, and it started getting a bunch of downloads. Word-of-mouth spread it, and he made, like, or he sold, like, a thousand copies. Wow. And the the reviews were, where's the rest of it? And so that's when he decided to write the rest of the book. And that I think that ended up being his sixth,
[00:03:38] Unknown:
book, the silo book one. Do the books move slow? Like, I find the TV series literally, I would say 60% of an episode is slow mo. Like, I'm not kidding when I say it it it figuratively moves slow, it narratively moves slow, and it visually moves slow.
[00:03:57] Unknown:
Well, I don't know because because I've already read it, I know what's going to happen. So it's kinda hard to determine. But when I rewatch it, I'll let you know. I will say that it it can it starts with deaths, and it's like, it's jolting. It makes you wanna throw the book away or or, like, the skipping timelines. That that really bothers me too. Like, oh, we're a hundred years, you know, and then a hundred years forward and then a hundred years back. Yeah. Every other chapter. Invested in this space and then yeah. Yeah. Sometimes I don't like that or most of the time I don't like jumping around. But Yeah. And then book two is like a prequel.
So it it just doesn't have any of the original characters in book one. And and it just yeah. But I am really enjoying it again. I was wondering why I like dystopian novels.
[00:04:43] Unknown:
And Does the epilogue make you think why, maybe? Like, is there something in there that that that made you think why it's appealing?
[00:04:51] Unknown:
Well, I I yes. But I can't quite figure I I don't quite have the words. I wonder if it's because it's like it's we have a general sense
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that, you know, our world is built on growth and always expansion, and that's impossible. And that eventually, this is not sustainable. Something's gonna change. And if we don't do it in a measured, kind of honest way, it could be more of a collapse than the transition.
[00:05:19] Unknown:
Yeah. And these sort of show us what it might look after that collapse happened and how life would go on. So it suggests that we've already, like, figured everything not figured everything out, but, like, explored things. Like, we're not afraid of the wilderness
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per se. Right? Yeah. But We do have a lot easier in some senses. In a post apocalyptic
[00:05:37] Unknown:
world, the whole landscape literally changes. Yeah. And and there's new challenges. You know, we're we're all just too comfortable. And that might be the draw to,
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Well, move into an RV.
[00:05:51] Unknown:
Right? So yeah. So I started book two a couple days ago. I started book one a couple weeks ago, and now I'm on book two Cool. Of three. Oh, man. I love it. I love,
[00:06:01] Unknown:
a good series. Mhmm. And, like, I really enjoyed the Expanse series. There's been a few. So here's what I want. I need a new book series. Right now, I'm relistening to a famous classic that I've I've listened to before. It's an audiobook at night. I just look for something fun, easy, you know, something that won't disturb your sleep. Send it in. Get send us a boost or a web zap. We'll have more on that in the future. And, give me a few suggestions for a series I could listen to in the evening. I didn't know that you liked series because I love series. Yeah. I I it's something probably I'd say in the last year or two. Yeah. As I've been looking for books in the evening that
[00:06:43] Unknown:
I'm like, I'm gonna strap down and I'm gonna get into this for, like, six months. Mhmm. You know? This is like Yeah. Right? I hate just reading one book and having it be over. Yeah. Like, although I am gonna reread the Ferryman. That's a good one. It's not a series. It's just a single book, but it's,
[00:06:59] Unknown:
it is dystopian and fun. It doesn't have to be doesn't have to be dystopian. Let me know. I love sci fi. All those kinds of things. Doesn't have to be sci fi either though. Boost it in. Appreciate that. Alright. This is a bit of a crazy idea that I have had. I am hallucinating a plan to solve my sleep. Okay. I I I don't know what happened. I'd say three years ago, I was a pro sleeper. In fact, the kids used to give me What? Three, four years ago. Yeah. I nailed it for, like, six Really? Oh, it was great. That's insane. I just Was wondering you ever had achieved that. I know. Well, I was but, of course, you you it's funny because Dylan would constantly razz me because I'd be going to bed at, like, 09:30. Mhmm. And be, like, dad, you know. But as time has gone on the last couple of years, it's just progressively and I I mean, I was when I say nailed it, I mean I was getting at least eight hours a night. I was sleeping with my CPAP mask every single night Mhmm. Waking up feeling like I got enough sleep.
But for, like, the last two years or a year and a half, I've been developing all kinds of really horrible sleep problems. It started with just insomnia that would hit me about once or twice a week, which I've never had insomnia before. And that was a new thing to deal with. Then restless leg syndrome started building up over the last year. Magnesium deficiency. Both of those. I wonder but I take magnesium supplements at night. Which one? Glycinate? Yeah. But I need to look into that more. Mhmm. I've also heard iron. I've also heard iron. Most people with ADHD have low iron. Yeah. I could see that. So that's been getting so bad that it's like, when I when I heard about restless leg syndrome, I'm like, there's a medication for that? Like, how bad can that be? Mhmm. Go take a walk. It doesn't matter. I can, like, I can be I can walk 10 miles. I can physically exhaust myself that day, and I still have horrible restless leg syndrome. But also my arms flail all over the place. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not familiar with that at all on Ambien.
And that's so that's a thing. My legs, I mean, it's bad. Right. But you're not taking Ambien or anything? No. Yeah. No. No. No. I don't even take melatonin. Maybe, you know, once or twice a year. What I've been doing just because I don't don't really know what the core problem is, and I'm not really great at pattern recognition on my own behaviors. So I started just over the last six months having casual conversations with chat g p t. And And at first, I was really apprehensive about this because I don't like the general idea of them collecting this data about me. Mhmm. Not a fan of that. But I sort of, as time went on, started telling a bit about what was going on and asking for ideas and suggestions.
And it started in the most recent conversations pointing out a few trends it had noticed from our previous conversations. Mhmm. And it dawned on me, maybe I could leverage this. So I started thinking, well, I sleep every night with an Apple Watch and I track my sleep. And I have six, seven years or whatever it's been of sleep data on here. Mhmm. And I have definitely the last two years of really bad sleep. Six, seven. And, so I got this app. And if you're interested in this, I I think it's a pretty good app. Absolutely. It's called Health Auto Export. Mhmm. And it lets you export any of your health stuff or all of your health stuff to CSV file or JSON. K. And you can also specify a date range or you can say all of your data. Mhmm.
And then what I did, I don't recommend you do this necessarily, but I grabbed all of my sleep data for 2025 and then I imported that into chat g p t Mhmm. And had it crunch on the data and analyze it. And try to find out trends and give me some sleep stats. So, I have a variability on on average. These are all averages. A variability of four hours a night of sleep that I get. I get sometimes there's a four hour variability in my Yeah. Four hours of variability in my sleep. Lots of time in bed but not asleep. Mhmm. On average, I awake about 8.3 times per night. Mhmm. Weekends are slightly better. I'm in bed for ten hours with an efficiency of out of one, an efficiency of 0.6.
On weekends, I'm in bed for an average of nine hours with an efficiency of 0.7. Interesting. But big swings night to night, and the trends are getting worse, including, this one of the stats that ChattCPT is focused on is wake after initial sleep or WASO as it calls it. And it shows some more fragmented sleep and it shows that fragmentation is increasing with time. Mhmm. So I thought, okay. Well, if you know my sleep trends, you have my sleep data, could we create a seven night sleep optimization sprint? Mhmm. So I said, recall our previous chats about my sleep, my restlessness, health data that you've now imported and chewed on, and create a seven day plan that starts tomorrow night and tries to improve my sleep in a way that you can measure after the fact. I don't want any generic advice, but tailored advice with a tight easy to execute action plan.
And with a goal to improve sleep efficiency, etcetera, etcetera. And then after the end of the seven days, I'm gonna come back to you and I'm gonna load the last seven days of sleep data and we're gonna see what worked and didn't work. It's sort of a way to sort of troubleshoot my way through the sleep problem. It could take a while, but if every seven days I check-in in this thread and I say, okay, here's the latest sleep data, what worked, what didn't work. So I created a seven day plan. And day one is kinda like a reset the clock and just say to bed a baseline bedtime, 09:30, 10PM. And also a couple adjustments to my sleep tracking so I get accurate data capture.
And then day two, which actually starts tonight, is, lower what is that? Cortisol. Thank you. Cortisol before bed. So no workers scrolling. Or stress. Like, just try to be calm and not, you know, get triggered by anything. It wants me to do breathing before bed. Yeah. Yeah. There's some deep box breathing is really good to And then some gentle neck and hamstring and shoulder stretches for three minutes. Trying to get my wake after sleep down. Day three is stimulus control.
[00:13:01] Unknown:
Yeah. So yeah. Retrain your body to associate bed equals sleep. Because yeah. Laying in bed for ten hours but only sleeping for four. And it, like,
[00:13:10] Unknown:
that your body's probably confused about the purpose of being in bed. Perhaps. So no TV or podcast or audio book once in bed. What? I know. Oh. I know. It did suggest any white noise, but I already have white noise. And then day four is energy curve alignment. Move early, wind down early. So I have to take an early outdoor walk, well, before 4PM. Mhmm. Avoid late evening caffeine or excess water, which I already do. K. And then, maintain the magnesium routine, but I'm gonna double check what type of magnesium it is. Yeah. And then day five, cognitive cool down. A a quiet mental loops that cause restlessness.
So ten minute journal, which I think what I'm gonna do is more like task list of, like, this is what's on my brain if things need to be done. To do list. Yeah. Yeah. And then they say some sort of neutral audio
[00:13:59] Unknown:
that is sort of like, you know, chills you out. Yeah. I have lyric less music playlist That I could see. That I put on just because and I've heard them so many times that it just doesn't I don't pay attention actively. Yeah. Like an ambient Ambient sounds. Yeah.
[00:14:15] Unknown:
Day six, this is interesting. Light therapy. So morning, ten to fifteen minutes sunlight within an hour of waking, which how do I the sun isn't even up within an hour of waking. Right? So and especially, we have we have daylight savings this coming weekend. Actually, I guess it will be lighter earlier. But I'll be I already be past well Yeah. I mean, this might line up, actually. Yeah. This might actually be fine. Even if even if it's overcast, you're still getting some benefit of Yeah. The sun. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then day seven, last day, consolidate and review, same bed wake times, short reflection, rank each habit one to five, then export the CSV file, upload it here, and then it'll go through.
[00:14:54] Unknown:
So it wants you to do each of these, not every day.
[00:14:58] Unknown:
Like, these are just Yeah. I think that was gonna be Do you build them? Build I think I'm going to. Yeah. Okay. I think I'm gonna compound them. Interesting. Yeah. It doesn't necessarily it didn't specify that, and that was probably a lack of my prompt. Mhmm. You know, I probably should've had to be more clear about that. And that's that's really true. Failed. Right. Well Okay. I'm seeing it. Sense that it you don't know what you don't know, and it doesn't know what you don't know. So it'll miss it. A ripple will always miss it. Yeah. Yeah. See, the blind leading the blind. Dummies all the way down.
So this dummy is gonna try, like, going back and forth with it. And then what I figure is, like, it's probably not gonna be perfect in the first seven days. Mhmm. But two or three weeks into it, maybe I'm gonna be on to something. And at first, I was like, oh my god. Three weeks? Mhmm. I'm like, dude, you're like two years into, like, this being awful. Three weeks isn't so bad. Right? I'm actually at three weeks of supplementing iron again. And in three weeks, I can get it tested and see how well I'm doing. So It takes a while. It does, but it went by so fast. Like, yeah. Implement it now. Don't wait. Just implement it now. Yeah. Just start doing it. So I started day one already, because there's not much to do other than go to bed at the right time. But, so hopefully we'll have a report in the next episode of how it went. I I'm I'm interested to know if an LM can be useful in this way. Mhmm. Because there's other you could think other health habits that you could probably apply and measure, like steps and walking. Anything that Yeah. A health tracking device export, you can record and export. You could then work with one of these LLMs to create a plan and then go back and measure it. Mhmm. That seems to me to be the particularly useful part is you can actually measure the results at the end of the seven days and see what worked and didn't work. Yep. That's bonkers. Mhmm. So hopefully it works. Who knows?
I'm ready for anything at this point.
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They sure like that. This seemed appropriate. Our track this week is by auth is by Arthur, Yori, I think is Urea, maybe is how you say his name. Urea, probably, y o r I a. Mhmm. Urea. Arthur Urea. And the track name, How Perfect Is This? Mhmm. Sleep is on the way.
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Face the grin when I'm here sober. Taste the fist when I get pissed. Made a wish and now it's over. Took the blame, but One second, but who do you turn to?
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Well, I'm just gonna make a quick call to my lunch. I haven't checked in since yesterday. (774) 462-5667. That's it. Alright. (774) 462-5667. Call now.
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Told you'd hear twice. And now,
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on with the show.
[00:20:53] Unknown:
Alright. We have a live caller. Wanna get that going here? Oh, papa. I like that one. We should play that one more often. Mhmm. Alright. Let's pull him in, Andrew. I'm gonna hit the button here. Standby as it makes a connection. Caller, who's been waiting on on the online for, like, for for, like, eleven minutes or something like that. Who do we have there? Caller, are you there? Hello.
[00:21:15] Unknown:
Hey, Chris and Angela. This is our podcast. Hello. Hello. Hello, our podcast. We. I can call on this live. I don't have a work meeting destroying my afternoon, so
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listen in. They are afternoon records. I I don't know if you're this kind of guy, but I'm the type of personality that if I have a meeting, say, at 1PM Yeah. I'm not getting anything important now. It's not your personality. It's it's your ADHD. Well, that's what I You're dreading it. Yeah. I just I can't I can't, like, start a big project because Yeah. Eric, what if I got in the flow? You know, if I'm in the flow, and then all of a sudden I gotta stop for the meeting, so I can't risk flow state. You know what I mean? Is this you, or do you not have this problem? Oh, I know exactly what you mean. Wednesdays are my day of hell for meetings, so I don't get anything done on Wednesdays. But I get it. Totally get it. Yeah. I stack them on Thursdays. I generally stack the calls on Thursdays. Yeah. Good for you.
[00:22:05] Unknown:
I wish I could stack them all more than one day, but I digress. I have a very probably silly question about some AI stuff I've been thinking about, which is not nearly as productive as what you're trying to do to solve your sleep, but bear with me here since you are easily the most creative person I've ever seen online of all this stuff. If you recall, what was that, about a month ago, I had asked for that advice about generating the songs of AI that kinda like what you do, and that was really helpful. It was, kind of a big hit at the conference I went to. But I wanna take it up another notch. Nice.
I want to do something kinda silly inspired by a lot of the classic sitcoms like Seinfeld, Everybody Loves Raymond, all those fun ones. I wanna generate a funny kind of sitcom set of quotes for data science jokes, but use the voices of famous characters from TV shows. Yeah. I see where you're going. Sure. Okay. If you think where I'm stitching with this, I wanna do what you just did with Hank Hill, but for my kind of data science jokes. But first, I gotta generate the jokes themselves. So first question, which model do you think would be good for just generating the text around,
[00:23:20] Unknown:
you know, comedy jokes or stuff like that? I mean, assuming you primed it, you know, with some themes and and whatnot, and you gave it a good prime, a lot of them would do this. Grok and chat g p t five would probably handle this just fine. I might try Grok first just because it tends to be a bit spicier and, you know, a a little bit more, sarcastic. And then, for the voices, that's a tricky one, you know, to to really do this right. I think what you'd have to do is you'd have to get some sample isolations of the voices you wanna clone and get clips of them and probably several minutes worth of of just the voices without other people interrupting or talking over or too much music.
And then it's not very much money to get an eleven or I'm sorry. Yeah. It's eleven Labs. Their pro, which I have been I have been coveting getting their pro subscription, has a has a very interesting voice cloner system where you can do something really quick and that's okay, that takes about thirty seconds, or you can supply it really good source audio to clone a voice. And, they do this with the intention for, like, podcasters to clone their own voice so that way you could, I don't know, have it read something that sounds like you. And they also another things that Eleven Labs has been specializing in is is agents that you can have answer the phone. So these voices are pretty good. And one of their specialties is is voice cloning.
So that but the and I think the pro subscription is, like, $10 a month. It's not it's not too unreasonable to get in on that. But you would have to have the clips to get the really good stuff.
[00:25:02] Unknown:
Well, imagine I'm creative, I. E. I, like, have a safe clips of old TV shows like Ping of the Hill or Raymond, and I could just use that, rip it a bit, and put it together Yeah. Possibly as a voice over? Here's a demo. So this is the original voice. Alright. So get this. I'm at this new cafe downtown trying to act all sophisticated with an espresso. You know? And here's the clone voice. Alright. So get this.
[00:25:26] Unknown:
I'm at this new cafe downtown trying to act all sophisticated with an espresso. You know?
[00:25:31] Unknown:
And I'm sitting there It's pretty close. Mhmm. It's pretty close. Yeah.
[00:25:36] Unknown:
So I could be I think I'd love to know how it goes. I think this is worth it. Yeah. Yeah. I wanna try it.
[00:25:42] Unknown:
That's fun. Yeah. If you do it, let us know. Let us know the results. Okay? Oh, yeah. Oh, I'll do it. And it's gonna be for a very,
[00:25:49] Unknown:
I guess, either techie crowd in life sciences, so who knows if the jokes will actually land. But I tried something like this last year or two years ago when I did kind of a battle wrap between users of R, Python, and SAS, and it was actually a pretty big hit. So I think I can I can take it up a notch here? Well, our podcast is always good to hear from you. Yeah. Thank you so much for the great advice. And every time I do either conference presentations or whatnot, I always find a way to plug JB one way or another. Oh, nice. You. Trying to pay it forward. Thank you very much. Thank you for calling too. Thank you. Alright, sir. Have a good one. You too.
[00:26:26] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. We got one you hear that jingle? That means we got one more caller there, Andrew. Should I try pulling him in? A California Dreamin'? Yep. California Dream. I don't know how this any of this works. You know what I mean? Yeah. I think you California Dreamin, are you there? Hello, California. Hello? Oh, it's not California. Is 17. I'm not California. You're not California. We look at all these, like, strange skulls going on. Well, adversaries, it's great to hear from you. Hello.
[00:26:50] Unknown:
Hello. I believe earlier you were asking for some books to read.
[00:26:57] Unknown:
Yeah. You got a series of variety. There's
[00:27:00] Unknown:
Peter f Hamilton is a fantastic writer. You may wanna look in some of his books. He's got several different series. Yeah. And on good authority, once you start one, it's very difficult to quit. So
[00:27:16] Unknown:
Okay. Alright. Good luck. Are they are they he's a That's fun.
[00:27:20] Unknown:
So he's, what is he, a sci fi author? Definitely. Yeah. Yeah. Peter f Click on both. Book. Look at the second tab in books, and you'll see by the covers.
[00:27:29] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. There's some space covers. Yeah. I see space covers. Oh, yeah. Okay. Oh, the okay. I think I know a couple of these actually. I don't know if I've read them, but I think I recognize them. Alright. That's good. That's solid. I'm writing that down. Thank you.
[00:27:43] Unknown:
Very well developed characters and a very thick plot. Not, like, thick and difficult to follow, but there's a lot going on, and there's several different plots. You have you seen The Expanse? Oh, of course.
[00:28:02] Unknown:
Yeah. I love The Expanse.
[00:28:04] Unknown:
So similar
[00:28:05] Unknown:
similar style. Really? Really? You don't say. That is appealing. That is very appealing. Alright. I like that tip. I like that a lot. Where you at right now? I mean, are you on your are you on your, on a break? Are you on work? Are you at home? Are you, on a on a boat? Like, what are you doing right now?
[00:28:23] Unknown:
I'm at home. Okay. I took today off just as a personal
[00:28:28] Unknown:
mental health day. And we get the treat of you calling. That's awesome. Yep.
[00:28:31] Unknown:
Thank you.
[00:28:33] Unknown:
No. That's you deserve it too. I I know that. I mean, your work I don't know. If they have any questions or anything, you just or whoever, you just have them contact me. If anybody gives you a hard time, you send them out. Okay.
[00:28:42] Unknown:
Yeah.
[00:28:44] Unknown:
Hey, guys. Talk to this guy out in Washington. We'll write the doctor's note. And they'll say, who the hell is he? And you say, he's a podcaster, and he's got he gave me this note, and then yeah. I'll I'll write something up for you. That's fine. We can get actually a professional
[00:28:57] Unknown:
on solving sleep insomnia problems now. So, yeah.
[00:29:03] Unknown:
Yeah. I'm a I'm a Vibe sleep consultant.
[00:29:06] Unknown:
Yeah. There you go.
[00:29:10] Unknown:
Alright. Oh. Well, thank you for calling. Oh, yeah. Is there anything else before I hang up? At least I attempt to hang up on you and not me.
[00:29:18] Unknown:
Yeah. Well, I don't have anything else, but, yeah, don't hang up on yourself. That's true. There's another caller in there. I know. Alright. Thank you. It's good to hear from you. Call again. Likewise. Alright. Bye now. Bye bye.
[00:29:31] Unknown:
Alright. I'll try it. I think I got it. I don't think I hung up on us. Nope. Nice. That feels good. You know, when you get it right? Yes. It feels like I did something, Ange. It feels like I did something right. I I like that. Alright. Here we go. Alright. First up on the voice mail list, we have, I think it's Jasco, and he is he's in California at least, I believe. Hi, Chris and Angela. This is Jasco
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calling from Sacramento, California. Had a great time meeting, well, at least Chris up at Lenoxxpress Northwest earlier this year. Alright. I just finished listening to your your latest show. Happy to have it back. Love the lunch. But, Chris, you had mentioned getting car parts, ordering them. And I well, buying cheap cars, I've learned that the best site for getting car part or the best way of getting car parts is rockauto.com. Oh, yeah. They're not the fastest shipping, but they've got everything. They break it down by, like, the economy and premium and all that. And they've got Wow.
Kits for you. Like, I was looking for replacing my rear struts and, you know, you could just buy the the cylinder or you could get the whole assembly, and it was just as expensive to get the whole assembly, so it just went with that. Yeah. No complaints there, and they send you a cute little fridge magnet in just about every order. I I've gotten somewhere. It was too small to include it. But, yeah, rockauto.com.
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This is good. As for Amazon,
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I I've done the the have a friend ship it to you or buy it for you, ship it to them, and drive by their house, pick it up. But if I really need it and don't wanna, you know, work that out with a friend, I just got the one month subscription, grab a whole bunch of things, and then once it arrives, cancel the subscription. So a lot of the time I forget to do that. Cancel it.
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That is the that is the trick, isn't it? Rock audio Rock auto, not audio. Rock auto. I've heard it before. I forgot about this. This is so good. Here's a little price test is, so liquid molygen, which is the, which is the fancy boy oil that I put in my vehicle because it's a Volkswagen that wants to tear itself apart constantly. Mhmm. This is interesting. So it's $17 for a bottle of this stuff from Amazon, just as a benchmark. K. And from Roc Auto, it's $10.20. Wow. And so that kinda gives you a discount of the price differential. This is it's not the prettiest website, but if you need to buy parts for your car I've heard other people mention Roc Auto. I completely forgotten about it and putting this on my
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on my list of things that I will be checking in the future. It is a crazy good website too. It is like the Amazon of auto parts. They just it's so well organized.
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So what do you think? I so I've so far have made the decision to hold on to all of our cars because they're all three paid off. Mhmm. But, my my GTI has 80,000 miles on it. And they usually start falling apart around 90, a 100. What? Yeah. Nah. Yeah. Is that crazy to you? 80,000 miles on my Okay. Yeah. No. Twenty eighteen. No. Yeah. It's a twenty eighteen. Yeah. I just hit 30,000
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on my twenty twenty two. Hadeas is about a 190,
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and the Volvo just is rolling over to one ninety probably this week. Week. Oh, wow. So they're all really up there in mileage. Yeah. So and they're all getting to the point where, like, rubber gaskets are gonna start failing. Mhmm. Belts are gonna start failing. So what's the question? Well, so the question is is it it's like, do you think it's worth adding up my maintenance cost, adding up my insurance, and seeing if that exceeds and gas, and seeing if that exceeds the cost of a new car payment?
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Well, so So I think I I think there's value to not having a car payment, but I don't know what the premium of that is versus what I'm spending to maintain old car. For sure. And I was there with my MDX. Right? Like, there was a lot of events needing to happen. Yeah. And I wanted a new car, and then I was forced to get a different car in the meantime. I don't know. Have you lowered your insurance coverage since you're not, since you are the owner of the vehicle now? I think maybe on the Volvo.
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Not the GTI, but yeah. I don't know. I just I love not having a car payment, but I'm feeling like, basically, they're constantly needing maintenance now. Yeah. There's always something. Right. And that gets old really quick. It's like, jeez. I'm never gonna get I'm never gonna ahead. Yeah. I mean, the worst I'm having is just tire problems. Maybe Rock Auto will be the solution. That's a good tip. Yeah. Alright. Our next call That's so cool. Is Mark, and I believe he's in Michigan.
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Hey, guys. Mark. Northland Michigan here. Called in on my drive home. Just so thankful I have you guys. So you wanna know why we're living 25 miles from anywhere in Bremer, Michigan? Yeah. Well, we're campers, and we used to have a seasonal camping spot up in the area and found a property that we absolutely love. Oh, yeah. It was during COVID. We moved our fifth wheel over to that property to make it become our seasonal campground spot that we own, but it was COVID. My wife was working permanently remote. I had to be in the office one day a week, and our youngest was graduating high school. We said, hey. Why should we wait until we retire to live where we wanna live? So
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we sold our house
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and moved and lived our fifth wheel for a year that well, that summer we moved up there. Wow. And, lived in our fifth wheel for a year while we decided what's next if we build a house. We love it. We have 20 acres, mostly pine trees. Nice. Boy. Only downfall is the week we were closing on our house, my boss informed me that we are going back two days a week. That kinda sucks. And then a year later, it went three days a week. So I had to travel all the way downstate one morning, spend the night at my in laws for a couple nights, and drive back. And And like I said, hey. Then I get to listen to you guys. And thanks for the tips on, eating out. My wife and I love to eat out. We're gonna be looking for some places.
If you got a tip for a great real Japanese restaurant,
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love to hear it. Talk to you soon. Oh. Ow. Is he talking about locally? Yeah. Because remember they're visiting Vancouver. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I love Tokyo House, but I don't know if there's one in Seattle. Yeah. It's good. Boy, Mark, that's a that was a venture. Curious what you did for Internet while you're out there. If you had Starlink or if you had new cellular. Yeah.
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That's fun. Back to the car thing. Mhmm. No car payment is gonna be cheap. No. Like, they just like, it's just accepted that they're gonna be yeah. Minimum. It's crazy. But then also,
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you know, we're we're maybe going to have Dylan driving. Oh. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And that's gonna skyrocket. Well, but that's another factor. That's a fourth vehicle. Dylan's vehicle has 300,000 miles on it. Right. So it's a fourth vehicle with super high mileage. That was actually what sent me spiraling when I thought about it. Yeah. I was like, oh my god. I'm gonna have four cars. Yeah. Oh my god. Like, they're all old. But I just, like, I don't want a $600 payment, and I don't want $400 or $300 a month insurance or whatever it's gonna be. Right. Well, you wanna keep,
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the younger Dylan assigned to the oldest car. Mhmm. The yeah.
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That will be the lowest premium impact. And what cross my mind is if I could get like, I don't know if I would do this. So bear this in mind. But, like, say I took my GTI in and got a good trade in value on it because it still has some value to it Mhmm. And got like a Volkswagen EV. Mhmm. And I just use that for commuting to the studio. And then I don't even buy gas anymore. Because like if I go on a long drive then I take a Diaz gas car. Mhmm. But if I'm going on a just driving back to the studio at home, like I do six days a week Mhmm. Then why not Yeah. EV it? I don't know. I don't know. The idea of not having to replace oil, reduce maintenance costs, and not having to buy gas.
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Well, I don't understand why an EV vehicle wouldn't need any oil. There's no oil. Really? None? No. Okay. Because it's not a hybrid. I was thinking of a hybrid. Right. Okay. There are there's there's fluids and there's coolants,
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but those are pretty low Yeah. Those are pretty low maintenance. And then tires Mhmm. And brakes. Yeah. And the battery when it dies. Yeah. But that could be a decade. Yeah. I know. I know. So it's I don't know. That's that's been on my mind. Alright. Alright. Moving on. Captain Tee calls in. I think he's in Central Michigan.
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Hey, gang. This is, Captain T from Central Michigan. Listen. I just came into possession of some older computers and thinking of starting a home lab, home assistance. I got a bunch of Wyze cameras and a old Buffalo station router. And just looking for some suggestions on what I can run on these eight gig of RAM, 500 gig spinning hard drive, Lenovo m seven twenty q's. Let me know.
[00:38:48] Unknown:
Alright. Thanks, guys. Oh, you got a lot of options. You have a lot of options there. You might wanna start with something simple, like a basic Debian or, you know, something like an unraid, maybe even easier. And by the way, they're a sponsor of Unplugged, or a free NAS. That's sort of a management NAS OS. If you wanna make them into desktops, really you Fedora could be I mean, there's so many great options there. You they're actually you're in a pretty good position. The the small the the RAM's a little tight, but, that's a really good one. There's the endless possibilities. If you wanna do a home lab, create a little Plex server or a Jellyfin server. So that would be my three recommendations. If you wanna make it a server, check out Unraid or FreeNAS. If you wanna make it a desktop, check out Ubuntu or Debian or Fedora.
And if you want to make it, something like a media server, do Jellyfin. That's That's such a great it's like almost too many options. Captain t, let us know how it goes. Speaking of adversaries
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Hey, Curtis. It's Adversary seventeen checking in here. Mhmm. I'm listening to the episode where I believe it's 37 where you guys are talking about what do you do when power goes out. Well, first thing I'm gonna do is fire up my portable generator because I won't have water or heat without any power due to being in the middle of nowhere. So probably the first thing, then we'll fire up some candles. If it's prolonged outage, then I'll probably get some wood and put it in fireplace and start a nice cozy fire to keep the house warm. But after that, not really sure. Hopefully, it doesn't last too much longer than necessary.
Also, I'm still waiting on a call during the live show from you guys. Chris, you've been talking about calling people and seeing Yes. If you could just if they pick up or cold calling them, I'm still happy to be on that list. So what's taking me so long? Yeah. Where do we have that list? Anyway, keep doing the show. Appreciate you guys. Bye bye. You called me. That worked better, I thought. I thought that worked better.
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So we had a power outage this last weekend, and it wasn't too bad. I was really glad to have the diesel heater because that doesn't require very much power and just requires diesel fuel. But I was slightly concerned because they said it was gonna take two days to restore the power. Well, this is probably the last trip of the RV for the winter. Oh, yeah. For sure. And we park and, you know, we hold down. And one of the things you have to consider with an RV is if you're storing it over the winter, the the fuel will go bad. Oh. Because we put corn in our fuel, so it makes the fuel go bad. And one of the things you can do is you can add a stabilizer product. Mhmm.
And one of the other things you should consider doing is filling the tank. Because if you don't fill the the gas tank, it leaves room for moisture to accumulate and rust and gunk to accumulate on the inside of the tank. But if you fill it, there's no room for that moisture. So boy oh boy. I'm like, I got it figured out. We'll go out. We'll do our Halloween camping out in the woods. And then on our way back, there's a great gas station I'll fill up before we park for the winter. No problem. So we're rolling into the campground. I'm like, oh, look at me. Just enough gas to get to the campground and down to the fuel station. Oh, gosh. We're gonna be good. Then the power goes out. Well, the way the the generator works on the RV is it pulls from the master tank. Of course. Right? Why have multiple tanks? Right. And to make sure you have enough fuel to drive, they automatically cut the generator off when you're at, like, the last notch before the red. You know, like the last quarter or whatever. They cut off the generator. Uh-huh. And I was right at what we call we just refer to as generator cutoff. Sure. And so I'm like, oh, it's fine. We're at a campground. We're gonna have power. Right. And I thought, oh, it is stormy? Nah. It'll be fine. Yeah. And then the power goes out and I check their website and it says two day outage and I'm like, oops. Uh-oh.
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Crap.
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Thankfully, it came back on later that morning. So it was a little exciting. Alright. We got another call about power outages. Linux four twelve called in. Hey, launch crew. This is four twelve Links calling in because I wanted to touch base on the power outage conversation.
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Next to ensuring that my family is safe, the most important item that I have to do after that is ensure I have battery backup for my CPAP machine. There's nothing scarier than not having power because, frankly, I'm not gonna sleep at night. So as a 28 or CPAP user, I have a battery backup specifically for that device. If I get sleep, then everything else is gonna go a okay. Yes. Anyhow, enjoy the show. And, PS, Ange, I, also took advantage of the 92% discount on Amazon. Nice. And this will be my last year with Prime. So
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anyhow, have a good show. Thanks. A prime a prime a prime nice prime move. I agree with you on the sleep. I think Colonel's still in our bumper tube. Let's see if I can pull him into this. See if I get all that wired up. Okay? Atypical, are you still there?
[00:43:56] Unknown:
I am indeed. Hello, sir.
[00:43:59] Unknown:
So how are you doing? I'm alright. You know, actually, last night, slept pretty good. So, I mean, not great. What was your sleep score? Oh, yeah. Good question. I don't know if I have my can you tell on the watch? I earned,
[00:44:11] Unknown:
I don't know. I don't use my watch for anything. I earned a 97. What? Yeah. Oh. I've never gotten that high of a number ever. No. Did not achieve eight hours. I do try to get eight hours. I only got seven and a half. But I got an 87, which is really good for me. That is really good. Mhmm. Mhmm. So I'm doing alright. How are you doing, colonel? Oh, I'm doing alright. So a couple of things that might help with your sleep.
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So one of the things, I looked into the restless leg syndrome. Yeah. And depending on the person, there is actual restless leg syndrome, but you can get a condition that mimics it if your electrolytes are out of whack. Yes. And it's not just a lack of potassium or a lack of magnesium. It's actually the ratio of the two Right. For your, calcium ion gates in your cells and whatnot. Oh, boy. So, yeah. So just taking one, you might be have plenty of that, but not enough of the other.
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So should I take it with, like, an electrolyte drink at night? So that was gonna be my next recommendation
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is there's an electrolyte drink that I really like because it doesn't have the standard mineral stuff they put in there. It actually has trace no. It's trace minerals. Oh, yes. Mhmm. And they make one that is sugar free, comes in packets, you mix it in water, comes all predosed, and it's called zeolite. Zeolite. Okay. Yeah. And so it's zero sugar. They use stevia, not an artificial sweetener, and it has a pretty good electrolyte blend. Okay. That has been my go to for hydration for a long time now. I have a bunch of different hydration powders and mixes that I use, but that one, if I'm really trying to just bulk the hydration, that's what I go to. So it's a powder, not a drop? Because I see a dropper on Amazon. Right. So trace minerals, they make a bunch of different things.
So they make, one that is a, a liquid that you put drops into water. That one is unflavored supposedly. No. It's not. Has a flavor. No. I No. It definitely has flavor. It tastes like dirt. I have it. Yeah. I have it at home. That's what I was just gonna say is yeah. It they say it's unflavored, but that means they have an added flavor. It definitely has a flavor. Okay. I see. Yeah. And even their zeolite product, that one, it tastes salty, but it's the first time you drink it. It's like, woah. This is salty. But then what I have found is that my brain starts to associate that taste with hydration Mhmm. And actually start to crave it. Okay. Yeah.
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Doctor Berg has stated to,
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load up on salt before bedtime. Really? Yeah. Because salt is what allows us to be hydrated. I'd be yeah. I know I know that, but I'd just be worried about having to pee all night. That is a symptom of dehydration, though. Oh, okay. So if you're drink okay. Alright. So that's something I gotta look into, zeolite.
[00:47:12] Unknown:
Alright. Yep. Yeah. Specifically from Trace Minerals. From Trace Minerals. And you can look at, yeah, and you can look at some of their other other products as well. I have not seen any product they put out be bad. Just be aware that different products are meant for different things. Of course. And they're pretty good about telling they're they're pretty good about telling you that on their site. So And is it is it a zeolite? Is it like a a tub with a scooper, or is it like So it comes both ways. So it comes with the individual packets. So, like, a single dose packet or it also comes as a tub. Okay. I've always gotten the packets. They come in, like, a combo flavor pack. I want the packets. Yeah. Just because it's so much easier. And I have so many different things that I mix into water that if I got the tub, it could go bad before I use it all. Mhmm. Yeah. That's, you know, that's the other reason I go with the packets. Yeah. Okay. You'd also been talking about the type of magnesium that you're taking.
The magnesium that I recommended to you a while ago Mhmm. Which, Anders, if he is taking the one that I recommended to him, it is a chelated. Yeah. I think so. Yeah. Yeah. That sounds right. Yeah. It's actually it's a specialty form of a chelated magnesium that is a ultra absorption. So that's, like, best you can buy. Okay. So but there is another type of magnesium, which I may or may not have mentioned to you at the time. So the one you're taking now, assuming it's the same one, is a magnesium glycinate formulation. The other one you can look for that will specifically help with sleep is magnesium threonate.
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Oh, yes. Yeah. I I have that. Magnesium,
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is is it is that is it taurinate, t a u? Or is it No. It's tauinate, like c o r like like t h e r e o n a t. We can't spell, but yeah. Okay. I see. I got you. Theonate. Alright.
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Yeah. Because the magnesium threonate is the only one that will cross the blood brain barrier. And crossing the blood brain barrier, one of the primary minerals that your body will use to get rid of, caffeine and other central nervous system stimulants is magnesium. So by putting that magnesium directly into the brain In the brain. It can Mhmm. It can actually help with getting that caffeine out of your brain faster, allowing the the GABA system to activate. Because you have two primary systems in in the body. You have the cortisol system. That's what keeps you awake and moving and doing things. Then you have the GABA system. That's your go to sleep, regenerate, detox. That's that system.
There's multiple factors that control how far you are into either one of those systems. But one of the other things that you might look at is and I don't have a specific recommendation, but something that I guess feed the AI Yeah. Would be the, supravagus nerve. It's this information highway for all of your hormonal stuff. So you could try you know, there's different breathing exercises and hot cold exercises and stuff like that that can help tone your vagus nerve. And then that helps to have those systems better communicate
[00:50:32] Unknown:
so they can turn off and on. The old vagus nerve, my wife mentioned that to me recently. Mhmm. Okay. Well, this is good news. I mean, this is all very useful. So I need I need to go buy a bunch of products now.
[00:50:47] Unknown:
And then the other thing too is the AI was talking about, you know, making sure you get light and everything. The one of the things a lot of people don't realize is that the it's the type of light, but it's also the intensity of light. Sure. So if you take an, like, actual sunlight, even on a cloudy day, is going to trigger those brain mechanisms better than, say, like, a happy light or a daylight bulb or something like that you you stick on your desk. Because it's a fuller spectrum, it's a more intense light, and it's not just your optic nerve, but it's also
[00:51:27] Unknown:
the more skin that you can expose to the sunlight Oh. That will also make a difference. So you're saying I should go out there and, like, take my shirt off and walk around like an adventure.
[00:51:35] Unknown:
Is that what you're saying? Well well, I mean, if you do that, you know, you gotta go all the way and make sure we post it on the JB afterthought.
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You know? We gotta livestream it.
[00:51:46] Unknown:
Yeah. Yeah. Scare all the neighbors away. Right. Hey. Hey. If you do you do that, you won't have those hunters coming up on your property. You won't have to worry about getting the drone out. That's true. You're right. That's so scared those guys off real good.
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Alright. I added all that stuff to my cart. I'm gonna I'm gonna take a look at that. I found a gummy of, glycinate with l threonate that I'm gonna get for, Abby. Yeah. Thank you, Colonel. I I know I always appreciate your deep dive into the sleep stuff. Yeah. It's always good stuff. Yeah. Well, it's something I've struggled with all my life, so I've done a lot of research into it. Yeah. Yeah. I've some of this stuff has cropped up in my conversation, so some of these things are, like, ringing bells for me too. So yeah. Absolutely appreciate it.
[00:52:27] Unknown:
Alright. Yeah. Just just remind Hadiya to not go calling me doctor colonel.
[00:52:33] Unknown:
Alright. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. See you. Alright. We have one last voice mail. It's for mister Magnolia.
[00:52:40] Unknown:
Hey. It's Magnolia. I keep after every show, I keep thinking, oh, yeah. That's what I was gonna call in about. And then I don't. And then I think, oh, wait. There's something something I was supposed to call in about, and then I don't. And then I forget. So I thought, what if I just call in, and then maybe I'll remember what I was gonna call in about, but, well, shit. Nope. Didn't work.
[00:53:01] Unknown:
It's no nice to hear from you anyways. He's actually in the call in queue. Oh, he is? Yeah. Oh, I call I closed the call in queue because we were closed it. Because we're running long. But leave us a voice mail because we're we're running long. We have to keep moving, because we still have, we still have a I have I have a great investment opportunity for Ange that I really want her to have an opportunity to look at. So See, I didn't budget for any boost because before we started the show, we had zero boost. Yep. Zero boost into the show, and I thought, oh, no. We have a big hole in the show. Nobody loves us anymore. Show's doomed, and we're gonna have, like, a whole gap we gotta fill with something.
But, that's all changed. That's all changed because during the live show, we got some great support. So let's do it.
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And now, as the French say, it is time for Le Boost. And
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our first boost is our Baller Booster by our podcast, AKA Eric, who called in just a little bit ago, and it is a baller boost indeed. 190,000. Gosh. That's adorable. Appreciate that. Yay. Keeping the show going. Thank you very much. Can you be the And bringing in the younger generation. Uh-huh. Indeed. Indeed. Thank you, our podcast. We, always love hearing from you. Adversary 17 comes in with, also a quite substantial boost. 94208¢. I hoard that which your kind covered. Paid for my voice mail. You pay, by the way. Yeah. I do pay. Yeah. So that's true. Make it up. On last week's numbers were a little poor, so here's some extra love from me. Make it so. Yes.
Appreciate that. Boost. Thank you very much, adversaries. And, I also appreciate the call. Mick Zip came in with 20,000 sat. Let's go. 20,000 sat from Cast O Matic to say, you always get me with a lowered expectation sound bite. Consider this a seed to start a Dakota fund. Oh my god. So I showed that to I showed that to Hadea last night Mhmm. Or the night of of the launch Yeah. That of that toilet sensor. Yeah. And she got it because, I was probably telling her a week ago. She got it? She no. She guessed it. She guessed what it was. Oh, she okay. Because it was probably a week ago, I was telling her about my idea about a toilet sensor. It was like a week before, she's like, is this a toilet sensor? But then I had to explain that it was actually a camera sensor. Mhmm.
Thank you, Big Zip. Appreciate it. Well, alright. We did a lot better than I thought. We had four of you stream sats, 4,555 stats sats, stacked that way. And, so we went from zero sats before the show went on the air to now 308,000 Wow. 663. One of the better episodes. Actually, maybe the best ever for the show. I was just gonna say it's a different record. The value for value ride is a wild one, man. I tell you what. You just never know. It's all or nothing. Yeah. And we experienced both. Yeah. In one episode. Yeah. In one episode. I was gonna I was I had this whole thing. I was gonna blame Brent. You know, the legal stuff. And the lunch. Yeah. Yeah. It held up our pivot, and the audience, I thought, was revolting. Mhmm. But it did it did motivate us.
I looked at the stats, and I realized that about 74% of you are using an app that doesn't support Boost. That's a big chunk. Now, 26% of you are. That's also remarkable. 26% of you are using a new podcast app, and I really appreciate that. But it does mean 74% of you cannot support the show directly with boost. So what we're going to do is set up a promo code. If it's something you've wanted to do but you just can't boost, we'll use we'll have the Jupyter Party promo code you can use. If I can say it right. The promo code is just simply SOS. Save our ship or show. And, jupyter.party and then promo code SOS will take $4.50 off every month. It's a big discount, maybe one of the biggest, because we love the launch crew. And we figured this is, you know, it's a tight show. It's a tight niche community.
This is something we could do for you guys. And we'll have a link in the show notes for monthly and annual discounts. Or just go to jupyter.party and use the promo code SOS. It'll take $4.50 a month off of the Jupyter party membership. But now, we don't have this wired as of this exact recording moment, but it should be by the time the episode's published. I'm gonna try what I'm I'm gonna experiment with the name. I'm gonna call them web zaps. You can support the show through a web message. And if we get this working, you can use your debit card or your credit card. It should also support on chain Bitcoin if you just don't have a new podcast app or lightning stats. And then you can send a message and your name. And I'm going to experiment with assigning that to a particular episode. So I'm gonna generate a link every week, and if you go to weeklylaunch.rox/zap, that'll point you to that week's web zap page. And then it'll go the anything you submit there will go to that episode. Does that make sense? Mhmm.
So it's weeklylaunch.rox/zap. It'll be a web form, and it uses Stripe on the back end. And so whatever Stripe supports Right. You can send a message, you set a value. If it's above a couple of bucks, we'll read it on the show. That's basically how it goes. Below a couple of bucks, we still save and read it, but we don't read it on the show. And you can put a message in there and your name in there, and, you don't need a podcast app. So that's something we'll try. And if it works, it could be a great way to keep the show going because this the the the tricky thing, and this is why it's a little crazy, is this is not like an advertiser attractive show. It's not something they wanna sponsor necessarily.
It's kind of a smaller show, but how do you describe the launch to somebody? When you if you were to pitch the launch, what do you say? It's a show where they talk about what? You know, I guess if we said we talk about AI, then we could sell it. If you just said they talk about AI all the time, we could sell it. I think Amazon. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Amazon and Amazon two weeks in a row. And Amazon suspiciously. Those are the three. Like, we should categorize it. AI powered sleep. Yeah. So Yes. Yes. You know what I mean? Like, that's how I could probably sell it now. Post it on YouTube. But that's not really what we wanna do. We wanna create something that's a unique show that doesn't sound like anything else you're listening to out there. And, that the way to really do that is value for value. So a couple options, you can keep boosting us, which we really appreciate. Thank you everybody. You really stepped up. I can't believe we went from zero to hero this week with the boost.
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And, hopefully, you figure it out. It's a quirky community show. Oh, but also side side benefit when if you're signing up for the party Mhmm. Is that you also get the pre and post show of Linux Unplugged. That's true.
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And this show this show here, quite the pre and post show. Alright. Thank you, everybody. We really appreciate it. Moving on. So a lot of times, you know, I try to come up with a big investment idea or maybe a new studio idea. This one, I I think it's just, it's just fun. However, they don't lead in the sales pitch with the most fun thing about it.
[01:00:51] Unknown:
Chris found a gem, an easy flip. Let's cash it in. It's barely standing, kinda scary, but potential's extraordinary. Just trust me, it's
[01:01:15] Unknown:
Alright. So I see the price. Yeah. And it's affordable. Yeah. Should I click it? Yeah. Go ahead. Go ahead. You can click this one. So $250,000. Oh my gosh. It's, it's 1,500 square feet. It's got one bedroom, two bathrooms. It has original pressed tin ceilings, exposed brick walls, wood floors, a walk in closet, a private courtyard patio, light commercial zoning, so you could do a little work in there legally, offers flexibility for both living and working. And it really is a beautiful design. It's also a bank. Yeah. It's a bank. Yeah. It's an old bank. It's impressive what they've managed to do. I love it. It looks really good. It's kind of an open concept, but not really. Like, it's divided well enough that You have sections. Like, there's clearly a kitchen area. Gosh. I love it. It is actually really good. What's funny, if you look at the Zillow link that I've included in the show notes there Yeah.
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That's what I'm on. Yeah. Do you notice how Zillow doesn't show the the fact that it's a bank until, like, the very bottom after, like, 20 other pictures? Well, so I'm on 13 of 35. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So I'm not there yet. But I did see in the article that I clicked on that that was the first thing. And it's so cute. Yeah. Yeah. It's a it's a it's a red brick building.
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The tin roof, pressed tin roof is really nice. The wood floor looks immaculate. Yeah. Looks it looks amazing. I just thought this was a really fun one, but it's funny that they don't lead with the, you know, the whole bank factor.
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There is a video stream
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for this show. Yeah. That's true. That is true. We also put the links in the show notes.
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Yep. Picture 26 of 35. It says bank. Yeah.
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26 so, yeah, the twenty sixth picture of this place is when you discover that it's a bank.
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Oh, and then it was something else on the backside. Did you see that?
[01:03:03] Unknown:
There's a Definitely a history. Some paint. Alright. I got another place for you that's a history. Oh. Got some history. It's a distinctive property. It's in California. It's on the, view from the highway. And it's it's well, it's been labeled a public nuisance. It's been you know how I like homes with a bit of controversy? Built in 1976, last sold for $4,200,000 because California's crazy. Yep. If you were ever to buy this, they will have no open hours. They will have no agent tours. Only serious buyers of this three bedroom, two bathroom dwelling will be allowed, so don't inquire otherwise. Yeah. This is after it's gone through multiple multiple, remodels, this house is now known as the Flintstone House. Flintstones.
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Meet the Flintstones.
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No. Not bedrock, but a bedroom community near San Francisco.
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There are caves right out of history
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Modern stone age digs not owned by Fred and Wilma, but by retired San Francisco Examiner publisher Florence Fang. I like to dream. She bought the pile for close to $3,000,000 to entertain friends. But the property's been called a landscaping no no by the town of Hillsborough, which says she didn't get the proper permits for her statues.
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Dare to dream. Dare to challenge. Dare to make changes.
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Changes Hillsborough calls a highly visible eyesore. It's fined her $200 and is suing to force her to remove them. It would be the same process if she were putting Rodin's statues up there. Feng is countersuing a city and says her home has generations of fans. She ever do. Motorists on a nearby interstate admire it while driving by. Yabba dabba do. But so far, it's a yabba dabba don't.
[01:04:55] Unknown:
Kevin Tibbles, NBC News. Alright. So there you go. It's called the Flintstones house. It is really ugly. It's it's It looks like it should be, SpongeBob's
[01:05:05] Unknown:
home or something under the water. I didn't even get that it was a Flintstones reference. In fact It really is. And then when I saw it, I thought, oh, like, they made something, and then they were trying to play it off as Flintstones. But then after reading it, no, they actually meant for it to be the Flintstones. Wow. I'm not even sure if it's all the dinosaurs and stupid colored fake mushrooms that are tacky, but I think it's the actual house itself and the the kind of garish colors. It's like Pueblo
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or whatever. Like,
[01:05:36] Unknown:
yeah. It's a weird An Adobe style kind of mold. Round. Mhmm. With with a really obnoxious kind of loud color scheme. However, that said, if you were driving by on the near highway and looked off into the distance and saw this place, you'd probably get a little kick out of it. Yeah. For sure. So that's kinda what they were going for. They considered a work of art. The owner countersued and actually won. Oh, I was I was wondering. Yeah. Yeah. They actually so they won the suit, and now they're going for money to from the city. Oh my goodness. Yeah. There is also if you, are so inclined for some reason I have a video in the show notes.
It to me, also, like, part of it is like the Fred the Fred Flintstone stuff kind of borders on creepy. Mhmm. You know, it looks like it's like like a Batman Joker version of Fred Flintstone. Ew. And the colors are so loud. If I was driving by, I would like it. If this was my neighbor Right. No. I think it'd get pretty old after a while. Yeah. And I I don't think I'd want my house next to this. I I would not want to live there. No. Oh, god. No. Did you look at the interior photos? No. It almost freaked me out. No. It's Right? It's Claustrophobic. It's like spray not spray insulation, but spray plaster or whatever inside. Everywhere. Like, and there's no square cupboards. Like, they're they're rounded. Flat surface or no flat wall or anything. It's bizarre. I could like it for a minute, but, like, there's weird ball shapes hanging from the ceiling and stuff. It's just like, I I think I'd smack my head into stuff constantly.
It's a fun thing to look at from the road, but beyond that, it's it's just wild. And what do you what about that price though? It it recently sold or not recently, but a couple of years ago, sold for over $4,000,000. That's great. Did she so she doesn't live there anymore? I'm not sure if that I'm not sure. I'm not I didn't I at a certain point, I started to get a little little sick to my stomach. I couldn't look anymore. It was funny though. You know, basically, the housing authority and then the city got involved. I mean, she got the full bureaucratic might thrown at her and she won. Yeah. What the tech house? Really is something. So if you've ever driven by it and you've seen it, boost it and tell us what that was like, and if you like it or not. From where we're sitting, seems like a bit of an eyesore. Alright.
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Well, Andrews, rumor has it you've fallen down the rabbit hole of another favorite series. Yes. Again, I think I briefly mentioned it last week, but I wanted to expand on it a little bit. So, I started reading the silo series, like, I don't know, a year and a half ago or so. It was, part of, the book club at my work. Slack channel is get dash lit and, you know, get literature. Yeah. I really loved the first book and ended up nobody else continued on with the series. But Did you pause at that point and switch to the TV show? No. Oh, okay. No. I read the whole series. Because so at the time that I was reading the first book, you and Hadiya were watching Yeah. The series. The first season. And so no. I waited till I finished this the whole series reading it, and then I watched season one. And then I rewatched season one last year, and I'm going to rewatch season one again here soon. Mind swapping between the book and the TV show, No. I do. Oh. I do mind. I don't know. I think I'm gonna try to get through the series again before well, I don't know. I'm not sure.
Yeah. I'm just not sure. But I am reading it, and I love it. That's usually a pretty tricky thing to do. It is. Switch between the book. It is. Especially because some of the characters are different, just completely different, you know, in the show. Or combined. Or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. So the cool thing about book one is it has an epilogue, at the end of the book. And it is the author talking about how we're obsessed with, end of days,
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and the different themes over the entire in the silo series. That's interesting. Yeah. So
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the silo this is mentioned in the epilogue. He actually wrote this as a just a short story. He just sat down to write because his dog had just died, and he was in pain. So he just started writing this story. He posted it on somewhere for 99¢, and it started getting a bunch of downloads. Word-of-mouth spread it, and he made, like, or he sold, like, a thousand copies. Wow. And the the reviews were, where's the rest of it? And so that's when he decided to write the rest of the book. And that I think that ended up being his sixth,
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book, the silo book one. Do the books move slow? Like, I find the TV series literally, I would say 60% of an episode is slow mo. Like, I'm not kidding when I say it it it figuratively moves slow, it narratively moves slow, and it visually moves slow.
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Well, I don't know because because I've already read it, I know what's going to happen. So it's kinda hard to determine. But when I rewatch it, I'll let you know. I will say that it it can it starts with deaths, and it's like, it's jolting. It makes you wanna throw the book away or or, like, the skipping timelines. That that really bothers me too. Like, oh, we're a hundred years, you know, and then a hundred years forward and then a hundred years back. Yeah. Every other chapter. Invested in this space and then yeah. Yeah. Sometimes I don't like that or most of the time I don't like jumping around. But Yeah. And then book two is like a prequel.
So it it just doesn't have any of the original characters in book one. And and it just yeah. But I am really enjoying it again. I was wondering why I like dystopian novels.
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And Does the epilogue make you think why, maybe? Like, is there something in there that that that made you think why it's appealing?
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Well, I I yes. But I can't quite figure I I don't quite have the words. I wonder if it's because it's like it's we have a general sense
[00:05:01] Unknown:
that, you know, our world is built on growth and always expansion, and that's impossible. And that eventually, this is not sustainable. Something's gonna change. And if we don't do it in a measured, kind of honest way, it could be more of a collapse than the transition.
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Yeah. And these sort of show us what it might look after that collapse happened and how life would go on. So it suggests that we've already, like, figured everything not figured everything out, but, like, explored things. Like, we're not afraid of the wilderness
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per se. Right? Yeah. But We do have a lot easier in some senses. In a post apocalyptic
[00:05:37] Unknown:
world, the whole landscape literally changes. Yeah. And and there's new challenges. You know, we're we're all just too comfortable. And that might be the draw to,
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Well, move into an RV.
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Right? So yeah. So I started book two a couple days ago. I started book one a couple weeks ago, and now I'm on book two Cool. Of three. Oh, man. I love it. I love,
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a good series. Mhmm. And, like, I really enjoyed the Expanse series. There's been a few. So here's what I want. I need a new book series. Right now, I'm relistening to a famous classic that I've I've listened to before. It's an audiobook at night. I just look for something fun, easy, you know, something that won't disturb your sleep. Send it in. Get send us a boost or a web zap. We'll have more on that in the future. And, give me a few suggestions for a series I could listen to in the evening. I didn't know that you liked series because I love series. Yeah. I I it's something probably I'd say in the last year or two. Yeah. As I've been looking for books in the evening that
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I'm like, I'm gonna strap down and I'm gonna get into this for, like, six months. Mhmm. You know? This is like Yeah. Right? I hate just reading one book and having it be over. Yeah. Like, although I am gonna reread the Ferryman. That's a good one. It's not a series. It's just a single book, but it's,
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it is dystopian and fun. It doesn't have to be doesn't have to be dystopian. Let me know. I love sci fi. All those kinds of things. Doesn't have to be sci fi either though. Boost it in. Appreciate that. Alright. This is a bit of a crazy idea that I have had. I am hallucinating a plan to solve my sleep. Okay. I I I don't know what happened. I'd say three years ago, I was a pro sleeper. In fact, the kids used to give me What? Three, four years ago. Yeah. I nailed it for, like, six Really? Oh, it was great. That's insane. I just Was wondering you ever had achieved that. I know. Well, I was but, of course, you you it's funny because Dylan would constantly razz me because I'd be going to bed at, like, 09:30. Mhmm. And be, like, dad, you know. But as time has gone on the last couple of years, it's just progressively and I I mean, I was when I say nailed it, I mean I was getting at least eight hours a night. I was sleeping with my CPAP mask every single night Mhmm. Waking up feeling like I got enough sleep.
But for, like, the last two years or a year and a half, I've been developing all kinds of really horrible sleep problems. It started with just insomnia that would hit me about once or twice a week, which I've never had insomnia before. And that was a new thing to deal with. Then restless leg syndrome started building up over the last year. Magnesium deficiency. Both of those. I wonder but I take magnesium supplements at night. Which one? Glycinate? Yeah. But I need to look into that more. Mhmm. I've also heard iron. I've also heard iron. Most people with ADHD have low iron. Yeah. I could see that. So that's been getting so bad that it's like, when I when I heard about restless leg syndrome, I'm like, there's a medication for that? Like, how bad can that be? Mhmm. Go take a walk. It doesn't matter. I can, like, I can be I can walk 10 miles. I can physically exhaust myself that day, and I still have horrible restless leg syndrome. But also my arms flail all over the place. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not familiar with that at all on Ambien.
And that's so that's a thing. My legs, I mean, it's bad. Right. But you're not taking Ambien or anything? No. Yeah. No. No. No. I don't even take melatonin. Maybe, you know, once or twice a year. What I've been doing just because I don't don't really know what the core problem is, and I'm not really great at pattern recognition on my own behaviors. So I started just over the last six months having casual conversations with chat g p t. And And at first, I was really apprehensive about this because I don't like the general idea of them collecting this data about me. Mhmm. Not a fan of that. But I sort of, as time went on, started telling a bit about what was going on and asking for ideas and suggestions.
And it started in the most recent conversations pointing out a few trends it had noticed from our previous conversations. Mhmm. And it dawned on me, maybe I could leverage this. So I started thinking, well, I sleep every night with an Apple Watch and I track my sleep. And I have six, seven years or whatever it's been of sleep data on here. Mhmm. And I have definitely the last two years of really bad sleep. Six, seven. And, so I got this app. And if you're interested in this, I I think it's a pretty good app. Absolutely. It's called Health Auto Export. Mhmm. And it lets you export any of your health stuff or all of your health stuff to CSV file or JSON. K. And you can also specify a date range or you can say all of your data. Mhmm.
And then what I did, I don't recommend you do this necessarily, but I grabbed all of my sleep data for 2025 and then I imported that into chat g p t Mhmm. And had it crunch on the data and analyze it. And try to find out trends and give me some sleep stats. So, I have a variability on on average. These are all averages. A variability of four hours a night of sleep that I get. I get sometimes there's a four hour variability in my Yeah. Four hours of variability in my sleep. Lots of time in bed but not asleep. Mhmm. On average, I awake about 8.3 times per night. Mhmm. Weekends are slightly better. I'm in bed for ten hours with an efficiency of out of one, an efficiency of 0.6.
On weekends, I'm in bed for an average of nine hours with an efficiency of 0.7. Interesting. But big swings night to night, and the trends are getting worse, including, this one of the stats that ChattCPT is focused on is wake after initial sleep or WASO as it calls it. And it shows some more fragmented sleep and it shows that fragmentation is increasing with time. Mhmm. So I thought, okay. Well, if you know my sleep trends, you have my sleep data, could we create a seven night sleep optimization sprint? Mhmm. So I said, recall our previous chats about my sleep, my restlessness, health data that you've now imported and chewed on, and create a seven day plan that starts tomorrow night and tries to improve my sleep in a way that you can measure after the fact. I don't want any generic advice, but tailored advice with a tight easy to execute action plan.
And with a goal to improve sleep efficiency, etcetera, etcetera. And then after the end of the seven days, I'm gonna come back to you and I'm gonna load the last seven days of sleep data and we're gonna see what worked and didn't work. It's sort of a way to sort of troubleshoot my way through the sleep problem. It could take a while, but if every seven days I check-in in this thread and I say, okay, here's the latest sleep data, what worked, what didn't work. So I created a seven day plan. And day one is kinda like a reset the clock and just say to bed a baseline bedtime, 09:30, 10PM. And also a couple adjustments to my sleep tracking so I get accurate data capture.
And then day two, which actually starts tonight, is, lower what is that? Cortisol. Thank you. Cortisol before bed. So no workers scrolling. Or stress. Like, just try to be calm and not, you know, get triggered by anything. It wants me to do breathing before bed. Yeah. Yeah. There's some deep box breathing is really good to And then some gentle neck and hamstring and shoulder stretches for three minutes. Trying to get my wake after sleep down. Day three is stimulus control.
[00:13:01] Unknown:
Yeah. So yeah. Retrain your body to associate bed equals sleep. Because yeah. Laying in bed for ten hours but only sleeping for four. And it, like,
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that your body's probably confused about the purpose of being in bed. Perhaps. So no TV or podcast or audio book once in bed. What? I know. Oh. I know. It did suggest any white noise, but I already have white noise. And then day four is energy curve alignment. Move early, wind down early. So I have to take an early outdoor walk, well, before 4PM. Mhmm. Avoid late evening caffeine or excess water, which I already do. K. And then, maintain the magnesium routine, but I'm gonna double check what type of magnesium it is. Yeah. And then day five, cognitive cool down. A a quiet mental loops that cause restlessness.
So ten minute journal, which I think what I'm gonna do is more like task list of, like, this is what's on my brain if things need to be done. To do list. Yeah. Yeah. And then they say some sort of neutral audio
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that is sort of like, you know, chills you out. Yeah. I have lyric less music playlist That I could see. That I put on just because and I've heard them so many times that it just doesn't I don't pay attention actively. Yeah. Like an ambient Ambient sounds. Yeah.
[00:14:15] Unknown:
Day six, this is interesting. Light therapy. So morning, ten to fifteen minutes sunlight within an hour of waking, which how do I the sun isn't even up within an hour of waking. Right? So and especially, we have we have daylight savings this coming weekend. Actually, I guess it will be lighter earlier. But I'll be I already be past well Yeah. I mean, this might line up, actually. Yeah. This might actually be fine. Even if even if it's overcast, you're still getting some benefit of Yeah. The sun. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then day seven, last day, consolidate and review, same bed wake times, short reflection, rank each habit one to five, then export the CSV file, upload it here, and then it'll go through.
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So it wants you to do each of these, not every day.
[00:14:58] Unknown:
Like, these are just Yeah. I think that was gonna be Do you build them? Build I think I'm going to. Yeah. Okay. I think I'm gonna compound them. Interesting. Yeah. It doesn't necessarily it didn't specify that, and that was probably a lack of my prompt. Mhmm. You know, I probably should've had to be more clear about that. And that's that's really true. Failed. Right. Well Okay. I'm seeing it. Sense that it you don't know what you don't know, and it doesn't know what you don't know. So it'll miss it. A ripple will always miss it. Yeah. Yeah. See, the blind leading the blind. Dummies all the way down.
So this dummy is gonna try, like, going back and forth with it. And then what I figure is, like, it's probably not gonna be perfect in the first seven days. Mhmm. But two or three weeks into it, maybe I'm gonna be on to something. And at first, I was like, oh my god. Three weeks? Mhmm. I'm like, dude, you're like two years into, like, this being awful. Three weeks isn't so bad. Right? I'm actually at three weeks of supplementing iron again. And in three weeks, I can get it tested and see how well I'm doing. So It takes a while. It does, but it went by so fast. Like, yeah. Implement it now. Don't wait. Just implement it now. Yeah. Just start doing it. So I started day one already, because there's not much to do other than go to bed at the right time. But, so hopefully we'll have a report in the next episode of how it went. I I'm I'm interested to know if an LM can be useful in this way. Mhmm. Because there's other you could think other health habits that you could probably apply and measure, like steps and walking. Anything that Yeah. A health tracking device export, you can record and export. You could then work with one of these LLMs to create a plan and then go back and measure it. Mhmm. That seems to me to be the particularly useful part is you can actually measure the results at the end of the seven days and see what worked and didn't work. Yep. That's bonkers. Mhmm. So hopefully it works. Who knows?
I'm ready for anything at this point.
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Well, I'm just gonna make a quick call to my launch. I haven't checked in since yesterday. (774) 462-5667. That's it. Alright. (774) 462-5667.
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Call now. Don't worry. I love that jingle so much I'm gonna play it again, but we are about to play our track of the week. We have a caller waiting now. And if you wanna call in and talk to us live, you absolutely can. The voice mail is also, open. So if you're listening after the fact, don't worry. You could call in after the song and leave us a voice mail just like a live caller did. It counts just as much. That's (774) 462-5667. And and, before we get to the track of the week, Hank wants to make one more thing obvious and remind you that if you boost during the music, 95% of your sats support the artist that created that track. Now's the time. It's the song of the week. Remember,
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you can boost the track.
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They sure like that. This seemed appropriate. Our track this week is by auth is by Arthur, Yori, I think is Urea, maybe is how you say his name. Urea, probably, y o r I a. Mhmm. Urea. Arthur Urea. And the track name, How Perfect Is This? Mhmm. Sleep is on the way.
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Face the grin when I'm here sober. Taste the fist when I get pissed. Made a wish and now it's over. Took the blame, but One second, but who do you turn to?
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Well, I'm just gonna make a quick call to my lunch. I haven't checked in since yesterday. (774) 462-5667. That's it. Alright. (774) 462-5667. Call now.
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Told you'd hear twice. And now,
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on with the show.
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Alright. We have a live caller. Wanna get that going here? Oh, papa. I like that one. We should play that one more often. Mhmm. Alright. Let's pull him in, Andrew. I'm gonna hit the button here. Standby as it makes a connection. Caller, who's been waiting on on the online for, like, for for, like, eleven minutes or something like that. Who do we have there? Caller, are you there? Hello.
[00:21:15] Unknown:
Hey, Chris and Angela. This is our podcast. Hello. Hello. Hello, our podcast. We. I can call on this live. I don't have a work meeting destroying my afternoon, so
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listen in. They are afternoon records. I I don't know if you're this kind of guy, but I'm the type of personality that if I have a meeting, say, at 1PM Yeah. I'm not getting anything important now. It's not your personality. It's it's your ADHD. Well, that's what I You're dreading it. Yeah. I just I can't I can't, like, start a big project because Yeah. Eric, what if I got in the flow? You know, if I'm in the flow, and then all of a sudden I gotta stop for the meeting, so I can't risk flow state. You know what I mean? Is this you, or do you not have this problem? Oh, I know exactly what you mean. Wednesdays are my day of hell for meetings, so I don't get anything done on Wednesdays. But I get it. Totally get it. Yeah. I stack them on Thursdays. I generally stack the calls on Thursdays. Yeah. Good for you.
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I wish I could stack them all more than one day, but I digress. I have a very probably silly question about some AI stuff I've been thinking about, which is not nearly as productive as what you're trying to do to solve your sleep, but bear with me here since you are easily the most creative person I've ever seen online of all this stuff. If you recall, what was that, about a month ago, I had asked for that advice about generating the songs of AI that kinda like what you do, and that was really helpful. It was, kind of a big hit at the conference I went to. But I wanna take it up another notch. Nice.
I want to do something kinda silly inspired by a lot of the classic sitcoms like Seinfeld, Everybody Loves Raymond, all those fun ones. I wanna generate a funny kind of sitcom set of quotes for data science jokes, but use the voices of famous characters from TV shows. Yeah. I see where you're going. Sure. Okay. If you think where I'm stitching with this, I wanna do what you just did with Hank Hill, but for my kind of data science jokes. But first, I gotta generate the jokes themselves. So first question, which model do you think would be good for just generating the text around,
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you know, comedy jokes or stuff like that? I mean, assuming you primed it, you know, with some themes and and whatnot, and you gave it a good prime, a lot of them would do this. Grok and chat g p t five would probably handle this just fine. I might try Grok first just because it tends to be a bit spicier and, you know, a a little bit more, sarcastic. And then, for the voices, that's a tricky one, you know, to to really do this right. I think what you'd have to do is you'd have to get some sample isolations of the voices you wanna clone and get clips of them and probably several minutes worth of of just the voices without other people interrupting or talking over or too much music.
And then it's not very much money to get an eleven or I'm sorry. Yeah. It's eleven Labs. Their pro, which I have been I have been coveting getting their pro subscription, has a has a very interesting voice cloner system where you can do something really quick and that's okay, that takes about thirty seconds, or you can supply it really good source audio to clone a voice. And, they do this with the intention for, like, podcasters to clone their own voice so that way you could, I don't know, have it read something that sounds like you. And they also another things that Eleven Labs has been specializing in is is agents that you can have answer the phone. So these voices are pretty good. And one of their specialties is is voice cloning.
So that but the and I think the pro subscription is, like, $10 a month. It's not it's not too unreasonable to get in on that. But you would have to have the clips to get the really good stuff.
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Well, imagine I'm creative, I. E. I, like, have a safe clips of old TV shows like Ping of the Hill or Raymond, and I could just use that, rip it a bit, and put it together Yeah. Possibly as a voice over? Here's a demo. So this is the original voice. Alright. So get this. I'm at this new cafe downtown trying to act all sophisticated with an espresso. You know? And here's the clone voice. Alright. So get this.
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I'm at this new cafe downtown trying to act all sophisticated with an espresso. You know?
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And I'm sitting there It's pretty close. Mhmm. It's pretty close. Yeah.
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So I could be I think I'd love to know how it goes. I think this is worth it. Yeah. Yeah. I wanna try it.
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That's fun. Yeah. If you do it, let us know. Let us know the results. Okay? Oh, yeah. Oh, I'll do it. And it's gonna be for a very,
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I guess, either techie crowd in life sciences, so who knows if the jokes will actually land. But I tried something like this last year or two years ago when I did kind of a battle wrap between users of R, Python, and SAS, and it was actually a pretty big hit. So I think I can I can take it up a notch here? Well, our podcast is always good to hear from you. Yeah. Thank you so much for the great advice. And every time I do either conference presentations or whatnot, I always find a way to plug JB one way or another. Oh, nice. You. Trying to pay it forward. Thank you very much. Thank you for calling too. Thank you. Alright, sir. Have a good one. You too.
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Oh, yeah. We got one you hear that jingle? That means we got one more caller there, Andrew. Should I try pulling him in? A California Dreamin'? Yep. California Dream. I don't know how this any of this works. You know what I mean? Yeah. I think you California Dreamin, are you there? Hello, California. Hello? Oh, it's not California. Is 17. I'm not California. You're not California. We look at all these, like, strange skulls going on. Well, adversaries, it's great to hear from you. Hello.
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Hello. I believe earlier you were asking for some books to read.
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Yeah. You got a series of variety. There's
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Peter f Hamilton is a fantastic writer. You may wanna look in some of his books. He's got several different series. Yeah. And on good authority, once you start one, it's very difficult to quit. So
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Okay. Alright. Good luck. Are they are they he's a That's fun.
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So he's, what is he, a sci fi author? Definitely. Yeah. Yeah. Peter f Click on both. Book. Look at the second tab in books, and you'll see by the covers.
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Oh, yeah. Yeah. There's some space covers. Yeah. I see space covers. Oh, yeah. Okay. Oh, the okay. I think I know a couple of these actually. I don't know if I've read them, but I think I recognize them. Alright. That's good. That's solid. I'm writing that down. Thank you.
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Very well developed characters and a very thick plot. Not, like, thick and difficult to follow, but there's a lot going on, and there's several different plots. You have you seen The Expanse? Oh, of course.
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Yeah. I love The Expanse.
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So similar
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similar style. Really? Really? You don't say. That is appealing. That is very appealing. Alright. I like that tip. I like that a lot. Where you at right now? I mean, are you on your are you on your, on a break? Are you on work? Are you at home? Are you, on a on a boat? Like, what are you doing right now?
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I'm at home. Okay. I took today off just as a personal
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mental health day. And we get the treat of you calling. That's awesome. Yep.
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Thank you.
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No. That's you deserve it too. I I know that. I mean, your work I don't know. If they have any questions or anything, you just or whoever, you just have them contact me. If anybody gives you a hard time, you send them out. Okay.
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Yeah.
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Hey, guys. Talk to this guy out in Washington. We'll write the doctor's note. And they'll say, who the hell is he? And you say, he's a podcaster, and he's got he gave me this note, and then yeah. I'll I'll write something up for you. That's fine. We can get actually a professional
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on solving sleep insomnia problems now. So, yeah.
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Yeah. I'm a I'm a Vibe sleep consultant.
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Yeah. There you go.
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Alright. Oh. Well, thank you for calling. Oh, yeah. Is there anything else before I hang up? At least I attempt to hang up on you and not me.
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Yeah. Well, I don't have anything else, but, yeah, don't hang up on yourself. That's true. There's another caller in there. I know. Alright. Thank you. It's good to hear from you. Call again. Likewise. Alright. Bye now. Bye bye.
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Alright. I'll try it. I think I got it. I don't think I hung up on us. Nope. Nice. That feels good. You know, when you get it right? Yes. It feels like I did something, Ange. It feels like I did something right. I I like that. Alright. Here we go. Alright. First up on the voice mail list, we have, I think it's Jasco, and he is he's in California at least, I believe. Hi, Chris and Angela. This is Jasco
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calling from Sacramento, California. Had a great time meeting, well, at least Chris up at Lenoxxpress Northwest earlier this year. Alright. I just finished listening to your your latest show. Happy to have it back. Love the lunch. But, Chris, you had mentioned getting car parts, ordering them. And I well, buying cheap cars, I've learned that the best site for getting car part or the best way of getting car parts is rockauto.com. Oh, yeah. They're not the fastest shipping, but they've got everything. They break it down by, like, the economy and premium and all that. And they've got Wow.
Kits for you. Like, I was looking for replacing my rear struts and, you know, you could just buy the the cylinder or you could get the whole assembly, and it was just as expensive to get the whole assembly, so it just went with that. Yeah. No complaints there, and they send you a cute little fridge magnet in just about every order. I I've gotten somewhere. It was too small to include it. But, yeah, rockauto.com.
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This is good. As for Amazon,
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I I've done the the have a friend ship it to you or buy it for you, ship it to them, and drive by their house, pick it up. But if I really need it and don't wanna, you know, work that out with a friend, I just got the one month subscription, grab a whole bunch of things, and then once it arrives, cancel the subscription. So a lot of the time I forget to do that. Cancel it.
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That is the that is the trick, isn't it? Rock audio Rock auto, not audio. Rock auto. I've heard it before. I forgot about this. This is so good. Here's a little price test is, so liquid molygen, which is the, which is the fancy boy oil that I put in my vehicle because it's a Volkswagen that wants to tear itself apart constantly. Mhmm. This is interesting. So it's $17 for a bottle of this stuff from Amazon, just as a benchmark. K. And from Roc Auto, it's $10.20. Wow. And so that kinda gives you a discount of the price differential. This is it's not the prettiest website, but if you need to buy parts for your car I've heard other people mention Roc Auto. I completely forgotten about it and putting this on my
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on my list of things that I will be checking in the future. It is a crazy good website too. It is like the Amazon of auto parts. They just it's so well organized.
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So what do you think? I so I've so far have made the decision to hold on to all of our cars because they're all three paid off. Mhmm. But, my my GTI has 80,000 miles on it. And they usually start falling apart around 90, a 100. What? Yeah. Nah. Yeah. Is that crazy to you? 80,000 miles on my Okay. Yeah. No. Twenty eighteen. No. Yeah. It's a twenty eighteen. Yeah. I just hit 30,000
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on my twenty twenty two. Hadeas is about a 190,
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and the Volvo just is rolling over to one ninety probably this week. Week. Oh, wow. So they're all really up there in mileage. Yeah. So and they're all getting to the point where, like, rubber gaskets are gonna start failing. Mhmm. Belts are gonna start failing. So what's the question? Well, so the question is is it it's like, do you think it's worth adding up my maintenance cost, adding up my insurance, and seeing if that exceeds and gas, and seeing if that exceeds the cost of a new car payment?
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Well, so So I think I I think there's value to not having a car payment, but I don't know what the premium of that is versus what I'm spending to maintain old car. For sure. And I was there with my MDX. Right? Like, there was a lot of events needing to happen. Yeah. And I wanted a new car, and then I was forced to get a different car in the meantime. I don't know. Have you lowered your insurance coverage since you're not, since you are the owner of the vehicle now? I think maybe on the Volvo.
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Not the GTI, but yeah. I don't know. I just I love not having a car payment, but I'm feeling like, basically, they're constantly needing maintenance now. Yeah. There's always something. Right. And that gets old really quick. It's like, jeez. I'm never gonna get I'm never gonna ahead. Yeah. I mean, the worst I'm having is just tire problems. Maybe Rock Auto will be the solution. That's a good tip. Yeah. Alright. Our next call That's so cool. Is Mark, and I believe he's in Michigan.
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Hey, guys. Mark. Northland Michigan here. Called in on my drive home. Just so thankful I have you guys. So you wanna know why we're living 25 miles from anywhere in Bremer, Michigan? Yeah. Well, we're campers, and we used to have a seasonal camping spot up in the area and found a property that we absolutely love. Oh, yeah. It was during COVID. We moved our fifth wheel over to that property to make it become our seasonal campground spot that we own, but it was COVID. My wife was working permanently remote. I had to be in the office one day a week, and our youngest was graduating high school. We said, hey. Why should we wait until we retire to live where we wanna live? So
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we sold our house
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and moved and lived our fifth wheel for a year that well, that summer we moved up there. Wow. And, lived in our fifth wheel for a year while we decided what's next if we build a house. We love it. We have 20 acres, mostly pine trees. Nice. Boy. Only downfall is the week we were closing on our house, my boss informed me that we are going back two days a week. That kinda sucks. And then a year later, it went three days a week. So I had to travel all the way downstate one morning, spend the night at my in laws for a couple nights, and drive back. And And like I said, hey. Then I get to listen to you guys. And thanks for the tips on, eating out. My wife and I love to eat out. We're gonna be looking for some places.
If you got a tip for a great real Japanese restaurant,
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love to hear it. Talk to you soon. Oh. Ow. Is he talking about locally? Yeah. Because remember they're visiting Vancouver. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I love Tokyo House, but I don't know if there's one in Seattle. Yeah. It's good. Boy, Mark, that's a that was a venture. Curious what you did for Internet while you're out there. If you had Starlink or if you had new cellular. Yeah.
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That's fun. Back to the car thing. Mhmm. No car payment is gonna be cheap. No. Like, they just like, it's just accepted that they're gonna be yeah. Minimum. It's crazy. But then also,
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you know, we're we're maybe going to have Dylan driving. Oh. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And that's gonna skyrocket. Well, but that's another factor. That's a fourth vehicle. Dylan's vehicle has 300,000 miles on it. Right. So it's a fourth vehicle with super high mileage. That was actually what sent me spiraling when I thought about it. Yeah. I was like, oh my god. I'm gonna have four cars. Yeah. Oh my god. Like, they're all old. But I just, like, I don't want a $600 payment, and I don't want $400 or $300 a month insurance or whatever it's gonna be. Right. Well, you wanna keep,
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the younger Dylan assigned to the oldest car. Mhmm. The yeah.
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That will be the lowest premium impact. And what cross my mind is if I could get like, I don't know if I would do this. So bear this in mind. But, like, say I took my GTI in and got a good trade in value on it because it still has some value to it Mhmm. And got like a Volkswagen EV. Mhmm. And I just use that for commuting to the studio. And then I don't even buy gas anymore. Because like if I go on a long drive then I take a Diaz gas car. Mhmm. But if I'm going on a just driving back to the studio at home, like I do six days a week Mhmm. Then why not Yeah. EV it? I don't know. I don't know. The idea of not having to replace oil, reduce maintenance costs, and not having to buy gas.
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Well, I don't understand why an EV vehicle wouldn't need any oil. There's no oil. Really? None? No. Okay. Because it's not a hybrid. I was thinking of a hybrid. Right. Okay. There are there's there's fluids and there's coolants,
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but those are pretty low Yeah. Those are pretty low maintenance. And then tires Mhmm. And brakes. Yeah. And the battery when it dies. Yeah. But that could be a decade. Yeah. I know. I know. So it's I don't know. That's that's been on my mind. Alright. Alright. Moving on. Captain Tee calls in. I think he's in Central Michigan.
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Hey, gang. This is, Captain T from Central Michigan. Listen. I just came into possession of some older computers and thinking of starting a home lab, home assistance. I got a bunch of Wyze cameras and a old Buffalo station router. And just looking for some suggestions on what I can run on these eight gig of RAM, 500 gig spinning hard drive, Lenovo m seven twenty q's. Let me know.
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Alright. Thanks, guys. Oh, you got a lot of options. You have a lot of options there. You might wanna start with something simple, like a basic Debian or, you know, something like an unraid, maybe even easier. And by the way, they're a sponsor of Unplugged, or a free NAS. That's sort of a management NAS OS. If you wanna make them into desktops, really you Fedora could be I mean, there's so many great options there. You they're actually you're in a pretty good position. The the small the the RAM's a little tight, but, that's a really good one. There's the endless possibilities. If you wanna do a home lab, create a little Plex server or a Jellyfin server. So that would be my three recommendations. If you wanna make it a server, check out Unraid or FreeNAS. If you wanna make it a desktop, check out Ubuntu or Debian or Fedora.
And if you want to make it, something like a media server, do Jellyfin. That's That's such a great it's like almost too many options. Captain t, let us know how it goes. Speaking of adversaries
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Hey, Curtis. It's Adversary seventeen checking in here. Mhmm. I'm listening to the episode where I believe it's 37 where you guys are talking about what do you do when power goes out. Well, first thing I'm gonna do is fire up my portable generator because I won't have water or heat without any power due to being in the middle of nowhere. So probably the first thing, then we'll fire up some candles. If it's prolonged outage, then I'll probably get some wood and put it in fireplace and start a nice cozy fire to keep the house warm. But after that, not really sure. Hopefully, it doesn't last too much longer than necessary.
Also, I'm still waiting on a call during the live show from you guys. Chris, you've been talking about calling people and seeing Yes. If you could just if they pick up or cold calling them, I'm still happy to be on that list. So what's taking me so long? Yeah. Where do we have that list? Anyway, keep doing the show. Appreciate you guys. Bye bye. You called me. That worked better, I thought. I thought that worked better.
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So we had a power outage this last weekend, and it wasn't too bad. I was really glad to have the diesel heater because that doesn't require very much power and just requires diesel fuel. But I was slightly concerned because they said it was gonna take two days to restore the power. Well, this is probably the last trip of the RV for the winter. Oh, yeah. For sure. And we park and, you know, we hold down. And one of the things you have to consider with an RV is if you're storing it over the winter, the the fuel will go bad. Oh. Because we put corn in our fuel, so it makes the fuel go bad. And one of the things you can do is you can add a stabilizer product. Mhmm.
And one of the other things you should consider doing is filling the tank. Because if you don't fill the the gas tank, it leaves room for moisture to accumulate and rust and gunk to accumulate on the inside of the tank. But if you fill it, there's no room for that moisture. So boy oh boy. I'm like, I got it figured out. We'll go out. We'll do our Halloween camping out in the woods. And then on our way back, there's a great gas station I'll fill up before we park for the winter. No problem. So we're rolling into the campground. I'm like, oh, look at me. Just enough gas to get to the campground and down to the fuel station. Oh, gosh. We're gonna be good. Then the power goes out. Well, the way the the generator works on the RV is it pulls from the master tank. Of course. Right? Why have multiple tanks? Right. And to make sure you have enough fuel to drive, they automatically cut the generator off when you're at, like, the last notch before the red. You know, like the last quarter or whatever. They cut off the generator. Uh-huh. And I was right at what we call we just refer to as generator cutoff. Sure. And so I'm like, oh, it's fine. We're at a campground. We're gonna have power. Right. And I thought, oh, it is stormy? Nah. It'll be fine. Yeah. And then the power goes out and I check their website and it says two day outage and I'm like, oops. Uh-oh.
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Crap.
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Thankfully, it came back on later that morning. So it was a little exciting. Alright. We got another call about power outages. Linux four twelve called in. Hey, launch crew. This is four twelve Links calling in because I wanted to touch base on the power outage conversation.
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Next to ensuring that my family is safe, the most important item that I have to do after that is ensure I have battery backup for my CPAP machine. There's nothing scarier than not having power because, frankly, I'm not gonna sleep at night. So as a 28 or CPAP user, I have a battery backup specifically for that device. If I get sleep, then everything else is gonna go a okay. Yes. Anyhow, enjoy the show. And, PS, Ange, I, also took advantage of the 92% discount on Amazon. Nice. And this will be my last year with Prime. So
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anyhow, have a good show. Thanks. A prime a prime a prime nice prime move. I agree with you on the sleep. I think Colonel's still in our bumper tube. Let's see if I can pull him into this. See if I get all that wired up. Okay? Atypical, are you still there?
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I am indeed. Hello, sir.
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So how are you doing? I'm alright. You know, actually, last night, slept pretty good. So, I mean, not great. What was your sleep score? Oh, yeah. Good question. I don't know if I have my can you tell on the watch? I earned,
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I don't know. I don't use my watch for anything. I earned a 97. What? Yeah. Oh. I've never gotten that high of a number ever. No. Did not achieve eight hours. I do try to get eight hours. I only got seven and a half. But I got an 87, which is really good for me. That is really good. Mhmm. Mhmm. So I'm doing alright. How are you doing, colonel? Oh, I'm doing alright. So a couple of things that might help with your sleep.
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So one of the things, I looked into the restless leg syndrome. Yeah. And depending on the person, there is actual restless leg syndrome, but you can get a condition that mimics it if your electrolytes are out of whack. Yes. And it's not just a lack of potassium or a lack of magnesium. It's actually the ratio of the two Right. For your, calcium ion gates in your cells and whatnot. Oh, boy. So, yeah. So just taking one, you might be have plenty of that, but not enough of the other.
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So should I take it with, like, an electrolyte drink at night? So that was gonna be my next recommendation
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is there's an electrolyte drink that I really like because it doesn't have the standard mineral stuff they put in there. It actually has trace no. It's trace minerals. Oh, yes. Mhmm. And they make one that is sugar free, comes in packets, you mix it in water, comes all predosed, and it's called zeolite. Zeolite. Okay. Yeah. And so it's zero sugar. They use stevia, not an artificial sweetener, and it has a pretty good electrolyte blend. Okay. That has been my go to for hydration for a long time now. I have a bunch of different hydration powders and mixes that I use, but that one, if I'm really trying to just bulk the hydration, that's what I go to. So it's a powder, not a drop? Because I see a dropper on Amazon. Right. So trace minerals, they make a bunch of different things.
So they make, one that is a, a liquid that you put drops into water. That one is unflavored supposedly. No. It's not. Has a flavor. No. I No. It definitely has flavor. It tastes like dirt. I have it. Yeah. I have it at home. That's what I was just gonna say is yeah. It they say it's unflavored, but that means they have an added flavor. It definitely has a flavor. Okay. I see. Yeah. And even their zeolite product, that one, it tastes salty, but it's the first time you drink it. It's like, woah. This is salty. But then what I have found is that my brain starts to associate that taste with hydration Mhmm. And actually start to crave it. Okay. Yeah.
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Doctor Berg has stated to,
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load up on salt before bedtime. Really? Yeah. Because salt is what allows us to be hydrated. I'd be yeah. I know I know that, but I'd just be worried about having to pee all night. That is a symptom of dehydration, though. Oh, okay. So if you're drink okay. Alright. So that's something I gotta look into, zeolite.
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Alright. Yep. Yeah. Specifically from Trace Minerals. From Trace Minerals. And you can look at, yeah, and you can look at some of their other other products as well. I have not seen any product they put out be bad. Just be aware that different products are meant for different things. Of course. And they're pretty good about telling they're they're pretty good about telling you that on their site. So And is it is it a zeolite? Is it like a a tub with a scooper, or is it like So it comes both ways. So it comes with the individual packets. So, like, a single dose packet or it also comes as a tub. Okay. I've always gotten the packets. They come in, like, a combo flavor pack. I want the packets. Yeah. Just because it's so much easier. And I have so many different things that I mix into water that if I got the tub, it could go bad before I use it all. Mhmm. Yeah. That's, you know, that's the other reason I go with the packets. Yeah. Okay. You'd also been talking about the type of magnesium that you're taking.
The magnesium that I recommended to you a while ago Mhmm. Which, Anders, if he is taking the one that I recommended to him, it is a chelated. Yeah. I think so. Yeah. Yeah. That sounds right. Yeah. It's actually it's a specialty form of a chelated magnesium that is a ultra absorption. So that's, like, best you can buy. Okay. So but there is another type of magnesium, which I may or may not have mentioned to you at the time. So the one you're taking now, assuming it's the same one, is a magnesium glycinate formulation. The other one you can look for that will specifically help with sleep is magnesium threonate.
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Oh, yes. Yeah. I I have that. Magnesium,
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is is it is that is it taurinate, t a u? Or is it No. It's tauinate, like c o r like like t h e r e o n a t. We can't spell, but yeah. Okay. I see. I got you. Theonate. Alright.
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Yeah. Because the magnesium threonate is the only one that will cross the blood brain barrier. And crossing the blood brain barrier, one of the primary minerals that your body will use to get rid of, caffeine and other central nervous system stimulants is magnesium. So by putting that magnesium directly into the brain In the brain. It can Mhmm. It can actually help with getting that caffeine out of your brain faster, allowing the the GABA system to activate. Because you have two primary systems in in the body. You have the cortisol system. That's what keeps you awake and moving and doing things. Then you have the GABA system. That's your go to sleep, regenerate, detox. That's that system.
There's multiple factors that control how far you are into either one of those systems. But one of the other things that you might look at is and I don't have a specific recommendation, but something that I guess feed the AI Yeah. Would be the, supravagus nerve. It's this information highway for all of your hormonal stuff. So you could try you know, there's different breathing exercises and hot cold exercises and stuff like that that can help tone your vagus nerve. And then that helps to have those systems better communicate
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so they can turn off and on. The old vagus nerve, my wife mentioned that to me recently. Mhmm. Okay. Well, this is good news. I mean, this is all very useful. So I need I need to go buy a bunch of products now.
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And then the other thing too is the AI was talking about, you know, making sure you get light and everything. The one of the things a lot of people don't realize is that the it's the type of light, but it's also the intensity of light. Sure. So if you take an, like, actual sunlight, even on a cloudy day, is going to trigger those brain mechanisms better than, say, like, a happy light or a daylight bulb or something like that you you stick on your desk. Because it's a fuller spectrum, it's a more intense light, and it's not just your optic nerve, but it's also
[00:51:27] Unknown:
the more skin that you can expose to the sunlight Oh. That will also make a difference. So you're saying I should go out there and, like, take my shirt off and walk around like an adventure.
[00:51:35] Unknown:
Is that what you're saying? Well well, I mean, if you do that, you know, you gotta go all the way and make sure we post it on the JB afterthought.
[00:51:43] Unknown:
You know? We gotta livestream it.
[00:51:46] Unknown:
Yeah. Yeah. Scare all the neighbors away. Right. Hey. Hey. If you do you do that, you won't have those hunters coming up on your property. You won't have to worry about getting the drone out. That's true. You're right. That's so scared those guys off real good.
[00:51:58] Unknown:
Alright. I added all that stuff to my cart. I'm gonna I'm gonna take a look at that. I found a gummy of, glycinate with l threonate that I'm gonna get for, Abby. Yeah. Thank you, Colonel. I I know I always appreciate your deep dive into the sleep stuff. Yeah. It's always good stuff. Yeah. Well, it's something I've struggled with all my life, so I've done a lot of research into it. Yeah. Yeah. I've some of this stuff has cropped up in my conversation, so some of these things are, like, ringing bells for me too. So yeah. Absolutely appreciate it.
[00:52:27] Unknown:
Alright. Yeah. Just just remind Hadiya to not go calling me doctor colonel.
[00:52:33] Unknown:
Alright. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. See you. Alright. We have one last voice mail. It's for mister Magnolia.
[00:52:40] Unknown:
Hey. It's Magnolia. I keep after every show, I keep thinking, oh, yeah. That's what I was gonna call in about. And then I don't. And then I think, oh, wait. There's something something I was supposed to call in about, and then I don't. And then I forget. So I thought, what if I just call in, and then maybe I'll remember what I was gonna call in about, but, well, shit. Nope. Didn't work.
[00:53:01] Unknown:
It's no nice to hear from you anyways. He's actually in the call in queue. Oh, he is? Yeah. Oh, I call I closed the call in queue because we were closed it. Because we're running long. But leave us a voice mail because we're we're running long. We have to keep moving, because we still have, we still have a I have I have a great investment opportunity for Ange that I really want her to have an opportunity to look at. So See, I didn't budget for any boost because before we started the show, we had zero boost. Yep. Zero boost into the show, and I thought, oh, no. We have a big hole in the show. Nobody loves us anymore. Show's doomed, and we're gonna have, like, a whole gap we gotta fill with something.
But, that's all changed. That's all changed because during the live show, we got some great support. So let's do it.
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And now, as the French say, it is time for Le Boost. And
[00:53:56] Unknown:
our first boost is our Baller Booster by our podcast, AKA Eric, who called in just a little bit ago, and it is a baller boost indeed. 190,000. Gosh. That's adorable. Appreciate that. Yay. Keeping the show going. Thank you very much. Can you be the And bringing in the younger generation. Uh-huh. Indeed. Indeed. Thank you, our podcast. We, always love hearing from you. Adversary 17 comes in with, also a quite substantial boost. 94208¢. I hoard that which your kind covered. Paid for my voice mail. You pay, by the way. Yeah. I do pay. Yeah. So that's true. Make it up. On last week's numbers were a little poor, so here's some extra love from me. Make it so. Yes.
Appreciate that. Boost. Thank you very much, adversaries. And, I also appreciate the call. Mick Zip came in with 20,000 sat. Let's go. 20,000 sat from Cast O Matic to say, you always get me with a lowered expectation sound bite. Consider this a seed to start a Dakota fund. Oh my god. So I showed that to I showed that to Hadea last night Mhmm. Or the night of of the launch Yeah. That of that toilet sensor. Yeah. And she got it because, I was probably telling her a week ago. She got it? She no. She guessed it. She guessed what it was. Oh, she okay. Because it was probably a week ago, I was telling her about my idea about a toilet sensor. It was like a week before, she's like, is this a toilet sensor? But then I had to explain that it was actually a camera sensor. Mhmm.
Thank you, Big Zip. Appreciate it. Well, alright. We did a lot better than I thought. We had four of you stream sats, 4,555 stats sats, stacked that way. And, so we went from zero sats before the show went on the air to now 308,000 Wow. 663. One of the better episodes. Actually, maybe the best ever for the show. I was just gonna say it's a different record. The value for value ride is a wild one, man. I tell you what. You just never know. It's all or nothing. Yeah. And we experienced both. Yeah. In one episode. Yeah. In one episode. I was gonna I was I had this whole thing. I was gonna blame Brent. You know, the legal stuff. And the lunch. Yeah. Yeah. It held up our pivot, and the audience, I thought, was revolting. Mhmm. But it did it did motivate us.
I looked at the stats, and I realized that about 74% of you are using an app that doesn't support Boost. That's a big chunk. Now, 26% of you are. That's also remarkable. 26% of you are using a new podcast app, and I really appreciate that. But it does mean 74% of you cannot support the show directly with boost. So what we're going to do is set up a promo code. If it's something you've wanted to do but you just can't boost, we'll use we'll have the Jupyter Party promo code you can use. If I can say it right. The promo code is just simply SOS. Save our ship or show. And, jupyter.party and then promo code SOS will take $4.50 off every month. It's a big discount, maybe one of the biggest, because we love the launch crew. And we figured this is, you know, it's a tight show. It's a tight niche community.
This is something we could do for you guys. And we'll have a link in the show notes for monthly and annual discounts. Or just go to jupyter.party and use the promo code SOS. It'll take $4.50 a month off of the Jupyter party membership. But now, we don't have this wired as of this exact recording moment, but it should be by the time the episode's published. I'm gonna try what I'm I'm gonna experiment with the name. I'm gonna call them web zaps. You can support the show through a web message. And if we get this working, you can use your debit card or your credit card. It should also support on chain Bitcoin if you just don't have a new podcast app or lightning stats. And then you can send a message and your name. And I'm going to experiment with assigning that to a particular episode. So I'm gonna generate a link every week, and if you go to weeklylaunch.rox/zap, that'll point you to that week's web zap page. And then it'll go the anything you submit there will go to that episode. Does that make sense? Mhmm.
So it's weeklylaunch.rox/zap. It'll be a web form, and it uses Stripe on the back end. And so whatever Stripe supports Right. You can send a message, you set a value. If it's above a couple of bucks, we'll read it on the show. That's basically how it goes. Below a couple of bucks, we still save and read it, but we don't read it on the show. And you can put a message in there and your name in there, and, you don't need a podcast app. So that's something we'll try. And if it works, it could be a great way to keep the show going because this the the the tricky thing, and this is why it's a little crazy, is this is not like an advertiser attractive show. It's not something they wanna sponsor necessarily.
It's kind of a smaller show, but how do you describe the launch to somebody? When you if you were to pitch the launch, what do you say? It's a show where they talk about what? You know, I guess if we said we talk about AI, then we could sell it. If you just said they talk about AI all the time, we could sell it. I think Amazon. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Amazon and Amazon two weeks in a row. And Amazon suspiciously. Those are the three. Like, we should categorize it. AI powered sleep. Yeah. So Yes. Yes. You know what I mean? Like, that's how I could probably sell it now. Post it on YouTube. But that's not really what we wanna do. We wanna create something that's a unique show that doesn't sound like anything else you're listening to out there. And, that the way to really do that is value for value. So a couple options, you can keep boosting us, which we really appreciate. Thank you everybody. You really stepped up. I can't believe we went from zero to hero this week with the boost.
We'll have the web zap, which will be linked to the website or weeklylaunch.rock/zap. Or you can get the Jupyter party discount, if you're not already a party member, and save $4.50. Can't really afford to do it for everybody, so I'm not gonna mention this on the other shows. It's exclusive to the launch. You You go to jupiter.party and use the promo code SOS.
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And, hopefully, you figure it out. It's a quirky community show. Oh, but also side side benefit when if you're signing up for the party Mhmm. Is that you also get the pre and post show of Linux Unplugged. That's true.
[01:00:23] Unknown:
And this show this show here, quite the pre and post show. Alright. Thank you, everybody. We really appreciate it. Moving on. So a lot of times, you know, I try to come up with a big investment idea or maybe a new studio idea. This one, I I think it's just, it's just fun. However, they don't lead in the sales pitch with the most fun thing about it.
[01:00:51] Unknown:
Chris found a gem, an easy flip. Let's cash it in. It's barely standing, kinda scary, but potential's extraordinary. Just trust me, it's
[01:01:15] Unknown:
Alright. So I see the price. Yeah. And it's affordable. Yeah. Should I click it? Yeah. Go ahead. Go ahead. You can click this one. So $250,000. Oh my gosh. It's, it's 1,500 square feet. It's got one bedroom, two bathrooms. It has original pressed tin ceilings, exposed brick walls, wood floors, a walk in closet, a private courtyard patio, light commercial zoning, so you could do a little work in there legally, offers flexibility for both living and working. And it really is a beautiful design. It's also a bank. Yeah. It's a bank. Yeah. It's an old bank. It's impressive what they've managed to do. I love it. It looks really good. It's kind of an open concept, but not really. Like, it's divided well enough that You have sections. Like, there's clearly a kitchen area. Gosh. I love it. It is actually really good. What's funny, if you look at the Zillow link that I've included in the show notes there Yeah.
[01:02:09] Unknown:
That's what I'm on. Yeah. Do you notice how Zillow doesn't show the the fact that it's a bank until, like, the very bottom after, like, 20 other pictures? Well, so I'm on 13 of 35. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So I'm not there yet. But I did see in the article that I clicked on that that was the first thing. And it's so cute. Yeah. Yeah. It's a it's a it's a red brick building.
[01:02:28] Unknown:
The tin roof, pressed tin roof is really nice. The wood floor looks immaculate. Yeah. Looks it looks amazing. I just thought this was a really fun one, but it's funny that they don't lead with the, you know, the whole bank factor.
[01:02:40] Unknown:
There is a video stream
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for this show. Yeah. That's true. That is true. We also put the links in the show notes.
[01:02:47] Unknown:
Yep. Picture 26 of 35. It says bank. Yeah.
[01:02:52] Unknown:
26 so, yeah, the twenty sixth picture of this place is when you discover that it's a bank.
[01:02:57] Unknown:
Oh, and then it was something else on the backside. Did you see that?
[01:03:03] Unknown:
There's a Definitely a history. Some paint. Alright. I got another place for you that's a history. Oh. Got some history. It's a distinctive property. It's in California. It's on the, view from the highway. And it's it's well, it's been labeled a public nuisance. It's been you know how I like homes with a bit of controversy? Built in 1976, last sold for $4,200,000 because California's crazy. Yep. If you were ever to buy this, they will have no open hours. They will have no agent tours. Only serious buyers of this three bedroom, two bathroom dwelling will be allowed, so don't inquire otherwise. Yeah. This is after it's gone through multiple multiple, remodels, this house is now known as the Flintstone House. Flintstones.
[01:03:49] Unknown:
Meet the Flintstones.
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No. Not bedrock, but a bedroom community near San Francisco.
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There are caves right out of history
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Modern stone age digs not owned by Fred and Wilma, but by retired San Francisco Examiner publisher Florence Fang. I like to dream. She bought the pile for close to $3,000,000 to entertain friends. But the property's been called a landscaping no no by the town of Hillsborough, which says she didn't get the proper permits for her statues.
[01:04:21] Unknown:
Dare to dream. Dare to challenge. Dare to make changes.
[01:04:26] Unknown:
Changes Hillsborough calls a highly visible eyesore. It's fined her $200 and is suing to force her to remove them. It would be the same process if she were putting Rodin's statues up there. Feng is countersuing a city and says her home has generations of fans. She ever do. Motorists on a nearby interstate admire it while driving by. Yabba dabba do. But so far, it's a yabba dabba don't.
[01:04:55] Unknown:
Kevin Tibbles, NBC News. Alright. So there you go. It's called the Flintstones house. It is really ugly. It's it's It looks like it should be, SpongeBob's
[01:05:05] Unknown:
home or something under the water. I didn't even get that it was a Flintstones reference. In fact It really is. And then when I saw it, I thought, oh, like, they made something, and then they were trying to play it off as Flintstones. But then after reading it, no, they actually meant for it to be the Flintstones. Wow. I'm not even sure if it's all the dinosaurs and stupid colored fake mushrooms that are tacky, but I think it's the actual house itself and the the kind of garish colors. It's like Pueblo
[01:05:34] Unknown:
or whatever. Like,
[01:05:36] Unknown:
yeah. It's a weird An Adobe style kind of mold. Round. Mhmm. With with a really obnoxious kind of loud color scheme. However, that said, if you were driving by on the near highway and looked off into the distance and saw this place, you'd probably get a little kick out of it. Yeah. For sure. So that's kinda what they were going for. They considered a work of art. The owner countersued and actually won. Oh, I was I was wondering. Yeah. Yeah. They actually so they won the suit, and now they're going for money to from the city. Oh my goodness. Yeah. There is also if you, are so inclined for some reason I have a video in the show notes.
It to me, also, like, part of it is like the Fred the Fred Flintstone stuff kind of borders on creepy. Mhmm. You know, it looks like it's like like a Batman Joker version of Fred Flintstone. Ew. And the colors are so loud. If I was driving by, I would like it. If this was my neighbor Right. No. I think it'd get pretty old after a while. Yeah. And I I don't think I'd want my house next to this. I I would not want to live there. No. Oh, god. No. Did you look at the interior photos? No. It almost freaked me out. No. It's Right? It's Claustrophobic. It's like spray not spray insulation, but spray plaster or whatever inside. Everywhere. Like, and there's no square cupboards. Like, they're they're rounded. Flat surface or no flat wall or anything. It's bizarre. I could like it for a minute, but, like, there's weird ball shapes hanging from the ceiling and stuff. It's just like, I I think I'd smack my head into stuff constantly.
It's a fun thing to look at from the road, but beyond that, it's it's just wild. And what do you what about that price though? It it recently sold or not recently, but a couple of years ago, sold for over $4,000,000. That's great. Did she so she doesn't live there anymore? I'm not sure if that I'm not sure. I'm not I didn't I at a certain point, I started to get a little little sick to my stomach. I couldn't look anymore. It was funny though. You know, basically, the housing authority and then the city got involved. I mean, she got the full bureaucratic might thrown at her and she won. Yeah. What the tech house? Really is something. So if you've ever driven by it and you've seen it, boost it and tell us what that was like, and if you like it or not. From where we're sitting, seems like a bit of an eyesore. Alright.
Links? Well, those are at weeklylaunch.rocks. We'd love it if you join us live next Tuesday. Make it a vibe. Hang out in our Mamba room or our chat room or just listen at jblive.fm or jblive.tv or catch in your podcast app. It'll be out Wednesday morning for your download enjoyment and listening, hopefully for your commute. I hope you always get to listen every single week, and then let us know what you think. Don't forget you can call us too. We have the phone number in our show notes and that new web zap form also linked in the show notes from the beautiful Pacific Northwest and the mighty American West Coast. Thanks for listening. See you next week.
Welcome to The Launch 39!
Angerz' is down the Silo
Why dystopian stories resonate and collapse talk
Book series swap: evening audiobook ideas
Chriss seven-day sleep sprint plan
Seven Easy Stages
Live callers join: AI voices and joke generation
Caller book recs: Peter F. Hamilton and series chat
Voicemails: car parts, RockAuto, and aging vehicles
Rural life, camping roots, and insurance realities
Home lab starter ideas for reclaimed PCs
EV commute temptation vs. old-car maintenance math
Power outages: generators, RV fuel, and CPAP backup
Electrolytes, magnesium types, and vagus nerve tips
Boosts roll in: value-for-value and SOS perks
Quirky real estate pick: historic bank loft
The Flintstones House controversy and verdict
Wrap-up: live schedule, links, and ways to interact
