Alright, welcome to the Canary in the Cage podcast. I'm Ron Morgan, my co-host.
Dave Havlicek.
We're here to entertain you, educate you, and hopefully make you laugh. But I have a
feeling we are going to have some laughs today.
Well, before we get into that, I got some announcements.
Yep. I want to do your announcements first.
Okay, so first one on our channel last week, a reminder, it was tell me what I was doing
on a specific date. And then for the bonus, you had to give me a photo of the location
I was at. And Chatter, I'm AYN.
Oh, no one.
Well, he was in one of the wheels before.
Because I couldn't spell that one either.
But this is his first win, I believe.
Congratulations.
And he got both of them.
So where were you?
I was hosting a video game tournament at a game store called The Dungeon in Burbank, Illinois.
Really?
Yeah. And if we have time on the show, I'll go over the story of that because it's a pretty
funny story.
So that was 2013?
No, 2003.
2003. Oh, did you do other land parties like later on?
No, this wasn't a land party. It was a console game. It was Super Smash Brothers Mainland.
Oh, okay.
And my son, I didn't ever talk about this. He started, he was doing a business. I don't
know what my name is, business on here, but a land parties.
Yeah, I did that in college. Yeah, like I was into gaming a lot back then.
Were you into gaming like 2005, 2006, when you go into the game?
That's kind of when I started getting out of it because I got a real job and had to
be an adult and all that bullshit.
But no, I was like part of the original eSports community.
Huh.
Because now it's like a big business and they have arenas and fucking sponsors. And what
I was doing and all of us were doing at the time was just fucking mom's basement type
stuff and we got that whole movement going.
Yeah, my son had made the shade because he hosted the land parties when the buildings
we lived at Vyalsa worked there. So he had the entire party room.
He had free parking for all his, they were basically doing a land party in River North.
Okay.
Yeah.
And it was a big high rise and yeah, it was a lot of fun.
It'd been funny if you shut up to one of those.
Well, it probably wasn't the game I was playing, but I think 2005 was...
Oh yeah, they did play Mario Kart or something like that.
2005 was I think when MLG started major league gaming.
Okay.
And like I knew the people that founded that company.
Oh, that's right.
Yeah, really cool. So yeah, if we get to that, if we have enough time, I'll get into the
story. But yeah, congrats to Hein who got the 0.02.
Congratulations.
And he found the location. They're no longer in business, but he had the photo of the building
and everything.
So was it, how was it, how did he find it?
Well, he listened to last week's show.
No, no, no, but you didn't give like, hey, if you go to this website, this picture here,
you left it ambiguous.
So...
Yes. Well, that was the whole point of the topic.
No, no, how did he do it?
Where, well, I assume he googled various names of mine and just found out, you know, who
am I, what's my history, that kind of stuff.
All right.
And then he was able to find... So the Smash Bros. community, they're still going. It's
amazing.
I mean, they still have like, Evo here in Vegas. There's a part of that.
The Smash Bros. forum is where we hosted all the, or we had all the info for tournaments
back then.
Okay.
So now all their old posts are archived and gone, like they've deleted it all, but he
used archive.org to find the old posts where I announced their location and dates and lots.
Oh, that's a...
A dollar's worth of Monero.
Two dollars.
Oh, that's right.
Actually, more because Monero's like pumping these days.
All right.
So it's probably about four dollars and five.
Yeah, it's because Bitcoin's owned by the government.
Second announcement.
So last year we had the first annual Canary in the Cage, Harvest Time, Barbecue and Pool
Party.
So the dates will be announced right now for this year's.
Oh, when is it?
September 6th.
All right.
You got plenty of time to book airfare.
Yep.
And I'm hoping to get at least one dark web person.
So contact me if you need help looking up hotel rates and all that stuff.
I know lots of people that are VIPs and casinos.
We can get you discounted or even free rooms.
Oh, wow.
That sounds exciting.
Yeah.
And this is the week after Labor Day, I believe.
So if you want to do a whole week here, you know, come here Labor Day and stay for our
barbecue and then head home.
It's a fun town to live to hang out in.
And as a reminder, you have to bring something that you did not acquire with fiat money.
So that mushroom lady, I've been buying my mushrooms.
Oh, Desert Moon.
And I bought a grown my own mushroom kit from her.
Nice.
Yeah.
So I'm actually pretty excited about that.
Those are delicious.
Yeah, I have an announcement.
Oh, okay.
Awesome.
No, I know you already knew that.
Backcheck false.
No, you already knew that.
Community notes.
Yeah, Facebook's new community notes now.
So anybody in the LA area that's affected by the fires, if you're looking for a shelter,
the mayor of LA announced today that all you got to do is go online and there's a list
of shelters that open beds.
All you have to do is go to the URL.
Okay.
Yeah, go to the URL.
Just the URL?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I'll go there.
Good.
Good to know.
Okay.
She's done the buck and buck's a rock.
Speaking of going to URLs, Eagle Eye viewers will notice a new sticker here on my laptop.
This is a design by one of our listeners, R.N. in the chat room.
Oh, cool.
He, she, or they, I don't actually know their gender because they're very secretive about
that kind of thing.
There you go.
They are working on an AI tool that can put images mixed with QR codes.
So you've never seen anything like this before.
It's breaking.
So we got the first one and I'm going to be handing these out to listeners.
So what you're going to do is contact me.
Tell me how many stickers you want.
I'm probably going to cap it out at five per person.
And then you have to take a photo of that sticker in a public place.
Now don't vandalize, right?
Make sure that you have permission of the owner or it's somewhere where this is acceptable.
And then we'll give you 0.01 one arrow per sticker.
Wow.
For photo that you send us.
Nice.
So, and you have to geotag the photo.
Right.
So because of what I'm going to do is if you go to our website right now, thecarnaryinthecage.com/stickers
you can see it live.
There's a map and all the stickers that you've given us or all the photos will be up there
and people can click around, see who's posted where and all that kind of stuff.
So we're going to be paying out.
I printed off 100 stickers.
I've used two myself.
So there's 98 left.
So get your Monero guys.
Oh, I see.
I have another announcement tonight.
I was wrong.
Go to the URL.
I was wrong.
That made her get the deep, deep dig on her.
Because she's dumb.
She is, I think her height is higher than her IQ.
I mean, seriously, what is wrong with this lady?
Measured in feet?
Or meters?
Measures and meters?
Yeah.
So, I was wrong.
I was thinking that there was going to be some bumpy roads for Trump to get confirmed
and it went through smooth.
But what I found to be funny is.
No, no, wait a minute.
There was an insurrection like snowball fight.
I didn't see that.
I actually was almost going to post that.
At least this time they brought weapons because they're bringing less time.
No.
So there's a podcast on a listen.
I'm not going to name them because I'm not going to call them out.
But they're like, see, we told everybody that there was no, you know, we can't believe
people thought there was going to be a problem.
I'm like, uh, yeah, that'd be you guys two weeks ago.
She said that you're wrong, man.
Who cares?
We're, we're looking at a pile of shit and trying to guess what's going to, what the
future is.
Um, and it's a fucked up thing going on right now with all this shit going on.
So, um, I actually thought I knew they would eventually confirm.
I just thought there would be delays.
Um, there would just be, I just figured there'd be some kind of, um, right.
Just something would happen.
But no, it was a snowstorm and they were talking like, well, I'm not going to go to work today,
but they all did show up.
So did you see my meme?
So I had a little meme crazy on Sunday.
I saw a bunch of them.
I don't, I was well, cause, oh, you didn't see the Bill Gates bus.
I finally got a picture of the bill Gates.
Oh yeah.
And then I did, I did a drone, uh, the bus, the mystery fog, and then the conspiracy
theory that they're trying to stop Trump from getting the light.
Cause I mean, you know, I'm pretty sure that Bill Gates was sitting.
I felt the drones on him in seeds.
All right.
Well, so we got one more announcement.
Oh Jesus Christ.
Before, yeah.
It's a heavy, it's a new year.
We got lots of stuff going on.
Um, so, uh, some, those of you that follow us on either YouTube or TikTok, we have some,
we have a TikTok presence.
I don't know if you know that.
That's awesome.
We put out clips, right?
So like one to two minute clips and those are all automatically generated by Opus.
Yep.
Opus is awesome.
OPUS.
So, uh, I just wanted to give them a quick shout out.
Um, you know, thanks for the, for the amazing software you guys write.
They do a great job.
And they're very responsive.
So I, I did notice some minor, uh, bugs here and there.
I reached out to the support team.
They fixed it right away.
If they can just zoom out a little bit.
I don't like seeing my face that close.
Well, no, it's fine.
That's automatic.
I remember I sent you a link to one of these things and you're like, how'd you do that?
Yeah.
I said, well, I put our YouTube link in their software and then it did the work.
No, it's great.
It does everything.
Yeah.
And they keep improving too, which is amazing.
Yeah.
I don't, I don't watch our podcast.
I don't, even when I did open my comedy, I would never, I would, I wouldn't record
myself cause I just, I don't like myself on camera cause it's, you know, it's, I'm
too awesome and awesome.
This is kind of like, just as like really bright and it affects everything.
So if you, if you guys are doing your own podcast or any kind of media, check out Opus.
Opus is it.
Great for clips.
It's the place to do your clips.
Let's get into the show.
Oh, I guess we might as well start with LA.
What the fuck?
It's on fire.
It is?
It's been on fire for the last, I mean, it happens every year.
Why are we surprised?
Well, no.
Okay.
So you think it, well, no, fire season was ended in October.
It's, it's LA.
This is pretty much, I'm pretty sure Arson.
No, I mean, Arson's happened before.
There's a couple of cases that I think there's always is.
Yeah.
What are you going to do?
Well, I mean, but it's, it's bad.
It just shows the massive incompetence of the Democrats that run that state.
I mean, massive incompetence.
Yeah.
Well, the city really, because there's other, there's like very red parts of California.
And for some reason you never hear this about them.
Yeah, I know.
Well, you never, I mean, we're in Vegas.
We're in the desert.
Well, you know what I mean?
It has trees, Montana has trees.
Yeah.
It gets pretty dry.
It's like, you're fours, fours, you dumb motherfuckers.
Well, they're saying, they're saying the fire hydrants are out of water.
So you're next to a fucking ocean.
You can't use the ocean water.
Yes, you can.
It's federal law.
How did you get a fuck?
I'm taking a second federal law.
You can't salt the earth.
Of course.
Dude, it's your house.
Your house is burning down.
What are you going to do to get back?
No, I'm saying the planes that swoop down and pick up the water, they can't.
They don't fuck off.
Of course they can.
No, they'll salt the earth.
Nothing will grow.
It doesn't matter.
Your shit's on fire.
So fire hydrants out of water.
So I was watching a clip from Fox 11 in LA.
They got a pretty shitty fucking newscaster there.
He was interviewing the developer who ran for mayor against dumbass.
And he was like, oh, the fire hydrants out of water.
He was just kind of going through everything.
And when they cut back to him, he goes, oh, no, there's been no reports of fire hydrants
being out of water.
And I'm like, you're fucking covered for the government.
You're fucking, like, really?
And then he goes, oh, let's cut to Gigi.
And Gigi's out in the scene of a life.
And the fire hydrants are out of water.
I'm like, oh, she might be missing her job.
But if Elon Musk does buy MSIn for us, we'll hire her.
Oh, there you go.
Yeah, see, I already got a plan of action going.
And I saw that the LA Fire Department chief came out and...
Well, she came out years ago.
Oh, well, yeah, yeah.
And was saying how their hiring program is focusing on certain initiatives and...
They're going to fix the fire department, make it equitable, make it...
Yeah.
So they pretty much got rid of all white men, apparently.
Well, he would take the facts.
I mean, what are you going to do?
Right.
So actually, Adam Carolla did a little quick video on that.
I saw that.
He said when he was like 18, he marched out of the firehouse to try and get a job.
Yeah.
And it took him seven years to be able to test.
While he was in line, he was talking to other people.
He turned around and talked to a woman of color.
He goes, oh, wouldn't you get on the list?
She goes, Wednesday.
No.
Okay.
So we got to talk about a couple of things about this.
So police officers have qualified immunity.
Right.
And I would assume politicians have...
They have more than that.
Okay.
But when they're neglectful and negligent...
Doesn't matter.
...soother ass.
No, there has to be some...
I mean, they are beyond incompetent.
Doesn't matter.
Newsom's got to go, whatever their lady's name is in LA.
They all got to go.
This is ridiculous.
I mean, this kind of relates back to some stories we've talked about before, about
fire code and doing your shit properly.
If they had proper preventative maintenance set up on their fire equipment and had fire
equipment because they sent a whole bunch up to Ukraine.
Right.
Do you know about this?
Yeah.
Jesus.
So, no, but this is the thing.
When you don't maintain your life safety equipment, this is what can happen.
So I am an advocate for keeping your fire life safety stuff in order.
This is why we should privatize it.
No, I mean, no, I mean, that's not necessarily a bad thing.
I don't necessarily have a problem with privatizing as long as they're properly funded and you
can do the job when the government can.
Well, they'll be funded because you as a customer will fucking pay when you keep your shit off
of fire.
No, no, no.
Fire hunters have to be tested yearly.
Okay.
But they obviously weren't.
But you don't care.
You just pay the monthly fee, right?
And Netflix has to test their servers every week or whatever.
And you don't give a fuck about that.
You just pay Netflix's monthly fee and say, that's your problem.
You fix it.
Right?
That's how it would work.
Right.
But it's not about privatizing or not privatizing.
It wasn't being done because...
Well, because the government has no incentive to do it, whereas the private fire department
would.
That's why they have to be sued.
I...
We can't...
Like, you can only sue them.
So this is how qualified immunity works.
You can only sue them if what they did, one, violated your rights.
They did.
And then they knew they knew at the time that it violated your rights.
No, Trump told them.
And there's precedent of a case with the exact same facts where they would have ruled
to have violated your rights.
So private properties have fire hydrants on them.
And we have to maintain our own fire hydrants.
We have to have them tested.
We have to do a yearly test and inspection of them.
And in a five year...
It would have to be five years of flow test.
I can guarantee those were done.
But that's not happening.
Well, that's you not...
But you can't show me a prior case that ruled that your rights were violated by people
who didn't test their fire equipment.
There's no such case.
I don't know.
No, no, no.
Is dying, violating your rights?
Yes, but you have to meet all three of those things.
I can meet all three of those things.
I don't think you can.
Very easily.
Show me a court case.
I've not looked it up like...
Well, then you can't.
You can't do it.
There are numerous lawsuits of people not maintaining their fire equipment properly.
Yeah, that's you, a private person, not maintaining it.
It's different.
Okay.
Well, they just recall their ass.
They actually do some step down.
And people are going after insurance companies again because...
So last year, they said we need to raise our rates because there's a huge fire risk
right now.
And we can't afford to cover these damages if the fires happen.
The California has a law where you have to ask permission to raise your rates.
Well, they have a cap too.
Right.
And well, they could raise the cap if they wanted to.
Right.
And they said, no, no, you can't.
So all these companies said, well, then we can't renew these contracts.
Right.
So they pulled out.
So they pulled out and now people are uninsured.
And all the fires happened just like the insurance companies predicted they would.
But now people are bitching at the insurance companies.
Like, well, what do you want them to do?
Well, okay.
So the only case I know about is in Florida.
Florida has a similar situation where they get flooded a lot.
Right.
And their insurance companies pulled out all the time.
My only thing is if you paid for a year of insurance company, of insurance, they can't
pull out during that.
Right.
But in Florida they are.
So I'm assuming...
I really doubt that.
I think you're reading...
They cancel you and send you a check for the balance of your money.
I don't think you can do that.
I think you're...
It's happening in Florida.
I think you're reading media sources that are lying to you.
Talking to the people that live in Florida who have had their insurance companies.
There might be a clause in there that lets them...
I don't know.
I'm sure there is because our government writes laws to protect big companies.
Of course.
Because the big companies...
It's a big circle.
They all...
So fuck the insurance companies.
But in this one, I would have made the same decision.
Of course.
You can't just insure...
Like, you can't just throw money away because, okay, let's say I am a customer of State Farm
in Nevada.
Right?
Now, State Farm is...
Let's say they're forced to insure these mansions in the Hollywood Hills.
For fucking movie stars.
And my rates go up.
And my rates would go up.
It's not movie stars.
It's poor people too.
In the Hills, come on.
Malibu, fuck that.
That's all the people.
No, no, no, you have to understand.
I go to Malibu quite a bit.
I did.
I was gone now.
My favorite restaurant is Malibu.
Say I had a Malibu.
Fuck yeah.
The Balsky, yeah, Malibu.
They never kicked me out though.
Although, I've had some strange interactions in Malibu.
It's because they're left liberals.
I met Sam Elliott in Malibu, which is weird because they've been in a row because of the
whole movie thing.
Yeah.
So kind of cool.
No, I...
So, in Malibu, some of the houses have been passed down from family member to family member.
So they bought the houses when Malibu wasn't necessarily Malibu.
There was one lady, she was there protecting her parents' house.
She was...
They don't have insurance because the insurance was canceled on them.
And they're like, you have to go.
And she's like, I can't.
I have to protect this house.
So she's out there, I don't use in a hose or...
Well, the firemen stopped because of how firehunders did work.
They were using canvas bags.
Yeah.
So we got the bucket brigade back apparently.
Jesus, they are incompetent shit out there.
California.
And yeah, no.
So, yeah.
And I did post a picture of the Hollywood sign on fire.
It's not, never was.
I posted that picture for a different reason.
I know, no, I want to make a meme of that later on about some other stuff.
So I wanted to just somebody...
I guess I should have put something on there and said, this is...
Because I assume that people would see the picture and they would go, that's a fat
photoshop because they had a trail of fire coming over the hill.
You're just going directly to the sign.
I'm like, this is obvious that it's fake.
Whatever.
But yeah, no, it's...
Oh my God, it's horrible there.
But yeah, but it's something that though.
I mean, it's not just Malibu.
I think at one point there were six fires.
They got...
The Hollywood Hills one has now been extinguished.
Oh, okay.
And then there's five other fires and they all kind of started around the same time.
And then someone tried to...
Somebody in California was trying to blame it on fireworks from the 4th of July.
From New York or from New Year's Day.
Oh, okay.
What?
They just smelt it for like a week and a half.
And then it's just funny, it caught everybody on fire.
But I mean, that's the thing.
I mean, Trump literally said, because he was on Joe Rogan, said they really need to do
this.
He tried passing the law when he was in office.
And so apparently, California is a river that comes all the way down from Canada that
brings in a lot of water down to Northern California.
And he passed a bill to bring that water down to Southern California.
They fought him in court and won.
So fuck them.
I mean, and that's, you know, because he wanted to make sure that the fires would not do what
they're doing right now.
And he predicted, Joe Rogan predicted this.
Joe Rogan left LA quite a few years ago because he fly out said, he goes, if we ever have
the St. Anne and Wyn's kickoff and the wind comes from this direction, he goes, we're
going to have massive loss, massive life of loss.
And we're not going to be able to get out quick enough.
So good for him that he got out.
Yeah.
I don't think there's any saving these people.
And like, if you, if you're still there, like, what the fuck are you doing, man?
Get out.
If you, if you live, if you were effective in this fire and you ever punched that ticket
for a Democrat again, you deserve everything you're getting because I don't want to make
this political.
And I know Newsom doesn't want to make it political because all that shit's pointing
to right at him.
This is, this is just goes to show you the incompetence of a Democrat run city.
This is not one example.
There's numerous examples.
This is by far the worst.
I don't think Republicans would be any better.
Like it's, so the thing is the kind of people, okay, it might be run better in the sense
that Republicans might have a chance of privatizing that stuff.
But if the government runs it, it's going to suck.
True.
And that is a very valid point.
But they also don't defund their fire departments.
$17 million was taken away from LA County fire.
They would not send their fire equipment over to another country who we've given, I don't
know, a hundred million dollars to.
I don't know about that.
I think they would send it to Israel.
Absolutely.
Something.
Of course.
No.
Absolutely.
They don't want to protect those pedophiles over there.
Yeah, they don't.
What?
I didn't say that.
That slipped out.
No, they're all fucking insane.
Like anytime you get government in charge, they're going to find a way to fuck it up.
No, and that's, that is very true.
I mean, they are not.
I mean, I do bash on the Democrats a lot, but the Republicans are just as bad.
They're bad in different ways.
That's actually the picture I posted.
I'm like, this is the fact the fire came over the hell.
But no, because I actually want to use this in a meme sometime once.
No, because I want to use this.
I forget the word I'm looking for, but because Hollywood is the shines off that turd.
And I don't mean the Hollywood, I mean like the actors and actresses.
Right.
They overstep their usability and they don't produce any good content anymore.
Right.
So I kind of want to use that.
I guess that was a really cool picture.
We discussed the DEI fucking people.
Jesus Christ.
They don't, they're college educated.
Yeah.
And, but nothing new to a fire science.
I mean, oh my God, it's just college doesn't teach that stuff anymore.
It doesn't teach you.
No, no, you can go to a fire science degree and you can.
They teach you that why fire is racist or whatever.
Like, why, why, why, why an actual fire science degree actually will help you
understand how a fire works, how a fire breathes, how a fire.
Man, I fucking knew that when I was 12, man.
I figured, figured that shit out myself.
Yeah.
But, but still, I mean, it's, but how about we use higher people that fucking know what
they're doing?
No matter what color they are, because again, I don't care what sex you are.
Women can do stuff better than men.
Men can do stuff better than women.
But I'm going to tell you right now, if I'm in a house fire, I don't want to 80
power woman coming into the house to rescue me.
Yeah, you're dead.
You're both dead.
Yeah, exactly.
I'm just going to try to pick me up.
We're going to topple and just become like a melted pile of bones together and
we'll die there in each other's arms, I guess, apparently.
Oh, Jesus.
What else do I want to talk about?
You got too much shit here.
When it comes to LA.
I got another canary in the cage exclusive.
Ooh.
Yeah.
So it just happened this week.
Okay.
Well, okay, it happened maybe a half a month ago.
Okay.
But the news about it happened this week.
So, like I said, about half a month ago, or maybe more than that, maybe about a month,
I noticed there was an unauthorized charge on my credit card because I check every morning.
It's part of my morning routine, right?
I sit on the toilet, I check my credit card, pay off my bills, all that shit.
Okay.
So there's some things we don't need to know.
Hey, I'm just saying, like, if you guys do this as part of your morning ritual, you'll
be better off.
So, check your credit card every day.
So I'm looking, I see another unauthorized charge.
I dispute it and the credit card company is great.
Like, they've had this before with me and they just, you know, there's no questions
asked.
It's like, okay, we trust you.
Yeah.
We're going to send you a new card.
This is a weird thing.
It was my real card, my physical card number.
And I almost never use that because the card company I go with has virtual cards.
And what that lets you do is create a new number every time you use it.
And if you guys' company supports that, you definitely start using it.
So but I noticed it was my real physical number.
I'm like, well, this is either an older company that was before the virtual cards or it's
one of the few times that I physically swipe.
But I didn't look into it any further.
I just, you know, I figured whatever.
They're going to send me a new card, done, whatever.
So this week I get an email from Proton and they said, we found your info on the dark
web and it was part of a breach tied to NV Energy.
And NV Energy is the monopoly company that the government in Nevada says you have to
deal with to buy energy.
Right.
Yeah.
You have to deal with.
I don't necessarily trust everything I see in my email.
Right.
So I go look myself because I'm on the dark web and I went to the place where people discuss
these things.
Sure enough, I find the database, NV Energy breach.
It's got names, addresses, credit card numbers, everything.
Right.
So I tweeted at NV Energy and they never replied.
Nobody replied.
And then I tweeted it.
The Las Vegas Sun and the review.
I saw I was going to ask you what that was.
And they didn't reply.
Like nobody gives a f- Why am I reporting this?
Where are...
I'm pretty sure that they legally have to disclose that they've been breached.
I'm not 100% on that, but I'm pretty sure they have to.
No, I think you're right.
They do.
And I haven't seen any announcements from them.
Yeah, but how long ago was the breach?
The breach was in late December.
Oh, like 24?
Yes.
Oh.
Yeah.
So NV Energy, right.
Fuck you guys for not doing your due diligence.
First of all, you shouldn't be storing credit cards in plain text format.
What the fuck are you doing?
Right?
That's against the law as well, but you're a semi-government entity, so you probably
can get away with it, you fucking assholes.
And the news companies, the media companies, where the fuck are you guys?
Why aren't you reporting this?
What is going on?
But any of our listeners are in Nevada, which I think most of them are.
Check your credit cards, check your bank accounts, make sure there's no unauthorized charges.
Call up NV Energy, fucking rant at them on the phone.
Don't threaten them.
Don't do anything illegal.
Let them know how you feel.
And any of you guys in any other states, keep on this shit, because they don't give a fuck.
They store your data in plain text format.
They don't care.
So you've got to take your own precautions here, people.
So back when I was in Chicago, I got a message from my bank and it said, we've shut your
card off because of a weird purchase.
Yeah, I've seen that happen.
Okay.
So I looked into it a little bit.
Somebody used my credit card over to buy flowers.
Yeah, he would never do that.
I was like, I must suck as a husband.
Yeah, so whatever.
I just, I don't agree with flowers.
I mean, just don't.
Yeah, I don't like flowers.
My wife doesn't like flowers too, so I'm lucky.
Yeah.
Actually, my wife doesn't either.
But it was just funny that it was shut off because someone bought flowers.
But why are you stealing credit cards to buy flowers for?
It's, I mean, you know.
Here are these the flowers that I stole for you, apparently, whatever.
No, I, Chase trusts me off all the time.
I, I, I tell that, are you with that bartender at that?
I don't know if you're at that bar or not.
She's like, I'm getting off shift.
I want to swipe your card now and close it.
Yeah.
I go, listen, if I swipe my card twice at this bar, Chase is going to shut me off.
You know, because especially when I traveled for work and they would shut my car off.
Oh yeah.
Well, then now they started figuring out, like they watch if you buy airplane tickets.
And then if you start charging in the place where the ticket was bought to, then you're
okay.
But I use the company's credit card to buy the tickets.
So yeah.
So I went to Canada once and they shut my card off up there.
I called them when you didn't tell us you're going to Canada.
I go, what the fuck do I got to go to Canada for?
Oh, no, like that's kind of one of the good aspects of them spying on you is like, you
know what I mean?
But just take into account, yes, they are spying on you.
They know where you're going.
Yeah.
But when you are using your card, here's advice from me.
One, check for skimmers.
Yeah.
Because they're not only on gas pumps, but they're also on the stores, the convenience
store.
They have a skimmer that sets on top of that.
The other thing is don't ever, ever use your pen.
Right.
Just don't.
I've actually walked out of stores and I don't know the pen.
I pay cash.
Like I start paying cash people because the less we pay cash, the more comfortable the government
will be banning cash.
And several European countries have done this already.
And they want to do it here in America.
So don't let them, don't give them the chance.
They're paying cash.
If they don't take cash, walk out.
Yep.
So your money is insured in the bank account.
Are they fraudulent?
No, no, I've always gotten the money back.
It's happened this quite a bit.
But here's the thing.
It literally says it in there.
If money is taking out your account with your pen, it may not be insured.
Right.
Okay.
Because we have trusted you with that number and you obviously gave it to somebody.
Well, I mean, a four digit number is obviously very secure.
I mean, it's fucking stupid.
No, I get it.
But that's the point.
But just don't use your pen.
And if a store doesn't want to do that, because here's the thing.
If you use your pen, the store doesn't get charged for it.
You do.
Right.
If you use your credit card, the store gets charged for it.
Right.
And sorry, but that's a cost to do in business.
They don't take credit cards.
Well, but they raise their prices to cover that.
But they're actually not allowed to do that, but they do.
No, they are.
They are.
They change that law of 2016, I think.
Oh, okay.
Because I haven't checked into it in a while.
Yeah.
I think that's a good thing because a lot of places offer cash discounts.
So if you pay cash, you pay less.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I just, it's just the way of the world.
And I just, I don't know.
I think corporations are evil, greedy and...
Well, you're buying convenience.
I mean, I see it.
Yeah.
You and I disagree with stuff like that, but it's just, it's, it's...
When you have a fee and it's applied to the store, it should be paid by the store, not
by the customer.
Because you have to do, you have to run your business.
They raise your fucking prices.
They did.
And they did the fee too, weird.
So we put the next president in the ground.
I don't know if he actually went in the ground today, but we had him ready on the ground.
Yeah.
What did you think of Carter?
I mean, top five or four presidents?
Well, I wasn't alive.
No, he's not, dude, he's not that, like, I mean, he's probably in the middle somewhere.
I mean, he had bad things.
He had good things.
I mean, he was a great man, a great person.
He was a no-war president, right?
Yeah.
Um, Trump is like talking to himself, oh, no war, no, Trump, you didn't start any wars.
You still fought wars.
Jimmy Carter didn't fight any wars.
Well, yeah, but that's, that's, if you inherit the war, that's not the best time.
He can end it.
He can end it, dude.
He's the president.
He says, you're the generals?
We're going home.
I want to plan on my desk in one week, or you're all fucking fired.
He could have said that.
Yeah, but you have to withdraw slowly.
You cannot do what Biden did in Afghanistan.
But he ramped it up.
He fired more drones and more bombs and murdered more US citizens.
Well, I don't have a problem with peace by fear.
Like what Trump's saying to Hamas, those houses, houses used better be released before I take
office.
Yeah, I get the fucking idea.
No, no, bullshit.
They need to come home.
That's ridiculous.
But, but, but, so, so, Carter, um, now people blame the inflation of the 70s on Carter, and
that's wrong.
Why is that?
The inflation was caused by Johnson and Nixon.
Okay.
Um, so Johnson is the guy who started the Vietnam War, and he, uh, added all the welfare programs
that we have.
I'm sorry, police action.
Okay, whatever.
Fucking assholes.
And, and all the welfare systems that we have now are Johnson as well.
And he had a famous quote that, uh, made use of the N word about why he wanted some of these
programs.
I'm not going to say word for word.
You can go Google it if you want.
Um, so, so when you do that and you don't have the money to cover it, that causes inflation
because you're printing money, right?
Oh, I think we all know that now.
And so Johnson, we were still on the gold stand at the time.
And I, I know I went over the story before.
Um, so I'll just quickly go through it.
Uh, Johnson was, was printing all this money.
Um, European nations were like, Hey, you, there's no way you have the gold to cover that money.
Give us our gold back.
Uh, so they started draining the gold from the Federal Reserve and from Fort Knox.
Uh, and then by that time Nixon was in, in the office and he said, you know what, you
can't have your gold anymore.
Fuck you.
We're going to create, we're going to be full fiat money, uh, but it's temporary.
It was a temporary suspension.
The gold, like a hundred years, right?
No, he just said temporary.
He didn't, he didn't get a timeline, but it's been 50 so far.
It's been 55, 54.
Yeah.
Um, so yeah, so that's why all that inflation happened.
So now Carter comes in office and, and that's what the inflation started hitting the consumer
markets.
So inflation doesn't happen right away.
That's, that's, that's the trick people don't understand.
Right.
So they print all the money.
It goes into the investment market first and then it takes five, 10 years to filter down
to us.
Right.
So now the, the COVID inflation, the reason that happened right away is because they printed
the money and gave it to us.
Right.
Whereas normally they print the money, give it to investment banks and then it slowly
filters down.
So, so Carter, the inflation happened on his watch and to his credit, he hired Paul Volcker
as the Federal Reserve Chairman.
So you have no idea what the fuck I'm talking about.
No, no, the name.
Did you look this up?
No, I've known this for a while.
Really?
Yeah.
So Paul Volcker, uh, said to kill this inflation, you have to raise interest rates.
Uh, and now he did, he did this on Reagan's term.
So, so Carter had been out of office already, but Carter's the guy who hired it.
No, but, but Carter had double digit interest rates on home buying.
Okay.
So okay.
Then maybe it did start at that time.
So, so yeah, he hired Paul Volcker.
Volcker cranks up the interest rates.
Um, and then like Carter, Carter gets removed because he gets blamed, right?
Uh, so they left Reagan and Reagan says, you know what?
I'm going to keep this Paul Volcker guy.
I like this guy.
So he says it because Congress is pressuring Reagan.
Right.
You got to fire this guy.
He's fucking jacking up interest rates.
He's going to cause a recession, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Well, the recession does happen because that's what happens when you jack up interest rates.
But it killed inflation.
So Carter's the guy who killed the inflation by hiring Paul Volcker.
Okay.
Yeah.
That's reality.
I mean, but then you also had the, uh, hostage is like ran.
Right.
Well, that's one of the bad things.
So he had no war, but yet he's, he's a snag American.
So that, that's one of my problems.
I mean, I believe there was a failed attempt to get them back.
So that was secondly an act of war.
Yeah.
That's hostages.
That's not an act of war.
He didn't get them back.
But Reagan's, Reagan's got released really quick.
Yeah.
Like I said, he had bad issues.
Good issues.
He's in the middle somewhere.
So did you, did you watch any of the funeral footage?
I just saw the clips that you posted.
Okay.
Did you see someone missing?
I didn't pay attention.
Michelle Obama was out there.
Really?
Well, the rumor has it was she's on vacation with her and Obama.
Well, you can't, I mean, you're on vacation.
You can't just cancel your vacation.
Well, no, no, great.
Like the LA mayor, I mean, well, I mean, whatever, you, you, you, you, you, whatever the hell
she was in this African country, I don't know.
Oh, okay.
But, uh, no, I had heard that her and Obama are on the outs.
Huh.
He beat her in the sword fight.
Ah, okay.
So, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, come on.
I don't believe she's a man, but I'm going to take it.
I'm going to come eat that comedic, I'm going to jump this as much as I can.
I didn't post on the ex.
I probably should have.
So Trump and Obama were talking, which actually that does bother me.
It truly does.
But he's an ex-president.
He's a future president and ex-president, whatever.
And he's being hospitable.
But I don't know how I could not talk to somebody who's set out to destroy me and actually made
huge leaps and bounds to, to destroy me.
But there was a conversation where Obama kept laughing because I think Trump is a funny
guy and the USA today brought in lip-readers and tried to figure out what they were saying.
And they had something like, well, they're talking in code, which, or your lip-reader
sucks.
One of the two, I don't know.
But they did somebody, well, interjected their own words.
And it was Obama leading over to Trump.
Hey, man, we got, I got to talk to you about something important.
And, uh, Trump's, again, made up words.
Trump's response was, oh, it's about you wiping a man.
He's like, oh, you know that?
He's like, oh, everybody knows about big Mike.
I'm sorry.
I find that really funny.
I don't believe she's a man, but I do find it really funny.
Um, oh, you know, I posted something else.
Wait, is that all about the funeral?
I think so.
I don't think I have a bike and fall asleep shocker there.
Yeah.
Harris didn't like Trump and Obama talking.
Uh, oh, what else?
So I posted another meme and I actually didn't know this.
I would see if I can find it because I don't know if you watch.
Did you watch the link I hosted Dana White?
Um, I don't know.
You need to watch it.
And it's, it's on my company.
I might be sure if it's even here anymore.
Um, where the fuck it might be gone.
He is a huge advocate of free speech.
Oh, yeah, I did see that.
I did watch that.
Yeah.
And so, yeah, they were asking him why, um, yeah, yeah, that is Bill Gates,
a weather machine.
They were asking him, why don't you punish your fighters or something for
saying, why don't you, yeah, why don't you put a leash on your right?
Right.
For what they say.
He goes, why would I tell another girl, man?
What to say?
Right.
So I just thought that was kind of ironic and kind of fits into our life a little bit.
You know, yours more than mine, but yeah, I don't think a girl man, she's not
another girl man, what to say, what to do or anything.
You don't like it.
Get the fuck away from me.
Um, not my problem.
Um, but actually my wife brought up a good question with LA fires.
If Bill Gates could go and seed everywhere and make it right, why doesn't he
see Los Angeles?
Why would he do that?
Put the fires out.
He doesn't live there.
Well, yeah, save lives.
But again, if they're, if they're land grabs, he care.
It's, yeah, I heard there's a fire sale on land in the, in the Hollywood Hills.
Jesus.
Um, what else do we got going on?
Um,
I think it was a whole lot.
There was a whole lot there.
You saw, you posted something about the pipe bomber.
Yeah, I was going to get that in a second.
So they, so apparently now that Trump is coming office soon, there's a lot of federal
employees who are just dumping shit out there.
Now they've been holding for a while and they, they proved that the released footage
of the pipe bomber was, was altered.
First privacy.
Uh, yeah.
And they, and they, and they blurred out his face still.
Well, yeah, you gotta protect his privacy.
Yeah.
So, so we still don't know who it is, but this is, according to Dan Bongeo, this is
going to be one of the biggest news stories of the year where this breaks.
And maybe cash, Patel will, uh,
Interesting.
We'll figure that out and, uh, might release some information on that.
Maybe it is cash Patel.
Maybe it was him.
I don't know.
Cause there was an FBI agent who said I was, I followed the man home and they would
not let me breach his house.
To write the, we'll tell us the address.
Well, he can't, he'll be fine.
He's gonna be a whistleblower.
So what?
They're protected with a whistleblower law.
Yeah.
That's only if you're a Democrat.
Yeah.
Uh, cause I actually got, because when a Democrat does it, they're protected.
When a Republican does it, they, they, they literally attacked this person, put
this person's name out there.
It's pretty gross.
Um, oh yeah.
I post this video of the conservation officer.
Did you see this?
Uh, what's that?
So the dude's got a deer strapped to the top of his jaw.
Yeah.
I saw that one.
Apparently this is Washington state.
I'm assuming because of Washington's ghost.
No, he just put, that's just his name.
Oh, he's not for people.
Also, all sorts of cop videos.
Okay.
Again, I assume it's America because well, I'm not sure it's America's day.
Only see $1 general store in the background.
But did you hear what the fucking dude was saying?
Yeah.
Your name and address has to be on every arrow that you shoot.
Yep.
What the fuck is wrong with our government?
Jesus.
Um, they're, they, they can make money doing this.
It's profitable.
Like you, you, you bitch about companies being greedy.
Like this is greed.
This is real greed.
I'm not saying the government is not.
I, I mean, anti-government and anti-cooperation.
This is what real greed looks like, right?
Cause the company can't do this to you.
Right.
If you're, if you're out hunting in the wilderness, uh, and like you just shoot
something with an arrow, it's not like the fucking CEO of Walmart could show up
and say, Hey, you didn't put your address on that arrow.
Well, what if you shoot the CEO of Walmart?
Well, then you get hung by the gallows.
Apparently, cause CEOs got their own little fucking protection from our government.
Passers.
Uh, don't shoot a CEO.
I mean, like, I don't know if you've ever, okay.
So there, there are private hunting lands, right?
Like take Africa, for example.
Yeah.
So a lot of, a lot of these places in Africa make money by attracting, uh, rich,
foreign people to come hunt lions and elephants and what have you.
Um, you think they're making you put your address on your arrows?
No.
Because they actually want the money.
They want you there.
They want your customer, your business.
Right.
And no matter what you feel about hunting, I mean, I'm, I don't have a problem with it.
I just don't hunt.
Uh, there's a couple of reasons.
I'd like to go hunting.
Huh?
I'd like to go.
I haven't been, I'd like to go.
Yeah.
I, my problem is, is, um, one, it takes patience.
Yeah.
I am not, I don't, I'm not overflowing with patience.
Um, two, uh, I don't want to feel dressed a deer or, you know, I would like, I mean,
I did a chicken.
Yeah.
No, no, I mean, you can go, you can go fes and hunting, but those fucking things are
hard to shoot.
No, I would, I would, I mean, I, I want to get in touch with my ancestors.
You know what I mean?
Cause this is, they had to eat.
Yeah.
They touched you.
So you want to touch them?
Yeah, exactly.
No, I hope you weren't raped as a child.
Oh my God.
I wish I was right.
Hey, let me tell you this story.
Here's a little segue here.
I'm being one up on a rape of a child story.
I, I went to high school, uh, at St.
Lawrence in Burbank, Illinois for two years.
And while I was a freshman, uh, one of the religious brothers, it looked at up.
If you don't know what that means, uh, got caught by the FBI, uh, for having images
of children.
Okay.
And it came out that he was also doing physical things with children.
Okay.
Uh, one of the kids in our class, my class was one of those kids.
Oh, and he's an anonymous victim that sued the Catholic church and one
millions of dollars.
So I wish they fucking raped me down.
I was going to say, did you go through like withdrawal?
Like, was I not good enough?
I did actually.
I'm like, yeah, why don't you fucking touch me asshole?
I'd be a millionaire right now.
I've not been over in front of you enough.
You said question.
What, what, why?
Why didn't you rape me?
So the guy was the coach of the bowling team and I knew some of the kids on the
bowling team and I don't know.
And I don't know who the victim was, right?
But man, fuck you.
Give me my millions of dollars.
That's bullshit.
Actually, the, um, the raping of the Catholic priest rapes your first
brother's pedophiles in every industry, every religion, everything.
So don't, don't, um, but actually the, the priest raping kids actually affected
my, my family's life in a big way.
Actually.
Oh yeah.
Um, this is a joke or no, no, no, no.
It's not, um, I want to have the right mood here going into this.
Well, one, um, so my son was the, an ultra boy at the, the, the, the Holy name of
the, the, it's like the shirt.
Right.
If a Cardinal George whoever was there, my son was his ultra server.
Um, and we were setting him up to go to quickly, well, it'd be quickly north, but
quickly because we'd be South.
And they had to sell one of their buildings, um, to pay off some of the sexual
abuse lawsuits and they, and they turned quickly north into the office building.
And it was like, literally it was, we, we moved, I took a new job and moved.
Cause I was the boy I worked at.
We were like two blocks from quickly, um, you know, my second walk to school in
the morning, stop at Starbucks and some coffee.
He was doing summer programs there and like literally right before he started,
they shut it down, which then led to my son going, where are we going to go
to school at now?
And, uh, cause she talked, she was my wife, my wife, my wife, my wife, my wife,
George kind of like talking to her in a hard time.
But he goes, um, name the school you're, you're starting, I'll get him in.
And we're like two trains and a boss or a boss on a walk.
I met doing that to my kid at first.
Cool.
Yeah.
So we, we didn't do the Catholic thing, but, but it did.
I mean, we literally moved and we set everything up and it was, we were all set
for it to go quickly.
It was all boys school, but yeah.
Well, yeah, most Catholic schools were back then.
Yeah.
And it's, it was a, um, wow, what's the word they use?
You had to have your options open to become a priest.
You didn't have to become a priest, but they wanted to care about that for us.
No, but no, quickly was, yeah, this is all about quickly.
Cause that was like their prime school.
So yeah, it just sucked.
Um, what are you going to do?
But, but, but my, my son did come home because he was too young to work.
Yeah.
So we had to go to the state, filled out.
We had to ask permission from the government.
Cause my son could work before he was 16.
Yeah.
And we did.
We filled the paperwork out one on every, he was probably like 14.
He comes home from work one.
Cause he was getting paid to, he was also getting paid as a sacristy.
Oh, so Ron, I believe in child labor all of a sudden.
Yeah, I know.
Um, but my son comes home and he goes, you know, I prefer red war.
What the fuck are you talking about?
He goes, well, when, when the, when the church is over, we have to get rid of the,
of the white.
Yeah.
And he goes, we can't pour it down the drinks.
That's been blessed.
Like I, first of all, I, I actually disagree with the drink.
It needs to be 21.
I, I think it's disgusting.
I think it's, it's, it's wrong.
Um, I think at 16, you're should be able to drink if you're with your parents.
I don't think there should be a government involvement at all.
Like, you're, you're an apparent, like you decide.
It goes to when my son is 21, that's when they're, at this point, they're not
listening to their parents anymore.
Right.
You know, so you cannot teach your kid how to enjoy alcohol.
Right.
Use it as a, as a, um, as, use it in a good way, not a bad way.
And, and, you know, I kind of, you know, you know, he's a little bit, but he's a
little bit, he's a little bit.
I don't know, I mean, I'm drinking right now, which is weird, but it's kind of a
one, I thought it was water.
Yeah.
It would, it's colored water.
Oh, okay.
Sometimes it's tequila.
It is.
So is mine.
I know.
Yeah.
Well, it's tequila.
I could probably say water, but the house with a beer over there.
So, um, but no, I just got up, works up drinking.
Um, and I might be an alcoholic.
Hi, my name's Ron.
No, I'm like, I'll never, I'll never quit drinking until I have the story.
I mean, it's gotta be a good one.
Like, you know, I went out drinking one night.
I didn't come home for three days.
I ended up coming home riding a horse with a rope tied to a police car's
door, toe in it behind the horse.
That kind of story.
Then I go, I gotta stop drinking.
We've never had DUI.
I don't get into fights when I drink.
I'm a funny drunk.
I'm a, I'm a, I'm funny sober though.
Yeah, that's true.
No.
Um, so, wow, do we get off topic on that?
But I feel like I've released some stuff.
I feel better about myself now.
There you go.
Oh, what else?
We did the bomber thing.
There was another story I wanted to talk about.
Uh-oh.
Uh, Dana White, I did that one.
But there's a few people in our group who need to see that comment though,
by the way, just saying.
Um, what else?
And I left my notes out there.
Yeah, I got nothing.
So, um, I guess we go because we're already at 47 minutes.
47.
Do you want to do the teaching or do you want to hear about the hosting
video game tournaments?
Hosting video game tournaments.
Is that what your thing is?
No, it's not like, it's like a story that, uh, because it was related to the
Monero challenge.
Yeah.
If you want me to do what you gotta do.
Yeah.
So, uh, back in, uh, so 2002 was when Smash Brothers Melee came
out.
Yeah.
Uh, now before that, there had been like various tournaments for like Street Fighter
and those type of games and mostly on the West Coast and New York.
Right.
Uh, so I don't even remember the names.
It was like Battle of the something.
Man, it's like, this is ancient history.
Um, but so Smash Brothers was a popular game.
Uh, it was for the Nintendo 64.
And then the Melee came out, which was, uh, for the GameCube.
And like everyone that liked the, the game, the N64 one bought the GameCube one.
And we were all playing it and having fun.
And, uh, this was in college, I was in college at the time.
So me and my friends were always playing with each other.
And we're like, I think we're pretty good at this game.
Like we can, we can kick some ass.
Right.
You play with your friends, but okay.
What are you talking about?
You, you, you, you first played it with each other.
Played a game.
Oh, okay.
I'm sorry.
Video game.
Dude.
We just talked about it.
He used it.
He gave it to me.
God.
I'm already there.
All right.
So, so Google had like just come into his business at the time.
So we go on Google and we look up, are there tournaments?
For this game, right?
Cause this wasn't like, eSports did not exist.
There was no fucking like TV channels and commercials and all.
Like that didn't exist.
Right.
So we, we find smashboards.com and there was a group in Chicago.
Uh, and so we, uh, three of us went out and went to their tournaments.
There was like a six, seven per person tournament.
Okay.
Really dinky in a game shop.
We got a fucking destroy dude.
Holy fuck.
We thought we were badasses, right?
Cut walking in like we're going to take the fucking thing.
Right.
We got our asses handed to us so fucking bad.
It was embarrassing.
And like a lot of people are discouraged by that, but I'm not.
No, I mean, yeah, lose, get better.
I'm the kind of person that's like, I'm going to fucking beat these guys.
Fuck this shit.
Right.
I'm going to learn how to play.
I'm going to beat them.
So I started hanging out with some of those guys, got their phone numbers, whatever.
Uh, you know, we would, we would play all night into three in the morning, six in
the morning, eight in the morning.
Yeah.
Um, and, and finally I started getting real good.
Right.
And I was competing with these guys.
And there were, there was regular tournaments every so every two weeks or
something.
Um, but it was, it was very disorganized, right?
Yeah.
It was only in Chicago, not even Chicago.
It was like this little tiny neighborhood, the 10 people.
And there was a tournament out on the, on, um, it was at San, I believe it was
San Francisco and it was called tournament go.
So this guy, like his parents were rich or something.
He had this huge mansion and he hosted the tournament in his parents house.
They let him do this.
And like he would fly people out, house them.
And like he would, he would post on smashboards, like everybody come out to
tournament go, we'll see who the best in the world is, right?
Wow.
And he, you know, he got some of our Chicago crew out there.
I never went to one.
Unfortunately.
Uh, I kind of regret that, but, uh, he got people from Japan and, and
Netherlands and all these people flying out to, to California.
Uh, and, and I wanted to kind of do this in the Midwest because the Midwest is
convenient, more convenient for everyone else in the country.
Right?
Like, you don't got to call it California.
It's not expensive.
Um, so I started talking shit online, which, you know, okay, that started.
I, I continued talking shit online saying, we're going to host a better
tournament.
This is going to be great.
Like we're going to, we're going to have all, all these people from, cause
it's faster, it's easier, you know, come out to Chicago, uh, to have a tournament.
Right.
So we start getting buy-in, right?
We got buying from people in the West coast, people in the East coast.
Oh, it's cool.
Uh, we got Canada people.
Um, I think, no, we didn't get any, any other international besides Canada,
but, um, it was great.
There was, I want to say 40 people roughly and back then that was fucking huge.
Yeah.
No, it's like, now you're talking like 3000 entrance and the prize pool is $500,000.
Like dude, that, that fucking wasn't a thing back then.
40 people was huge, right?
Yeah.
So I, this place, the dungeon in Burbank, I used to go there for
my Dungeons and Dragons shit, right?
And we had a little group that did that.
Uh, so I asked the guy like, Hey, can I have a video game tournament here?
Yeah.
And I had the dates and everything all laid out and he's like, sure, no problem.
Uh, and like we worked out a payment plan for how much of the, of the prize pool
would go to go to the rental.
And, uh, so in the morning on the day of I start showing up, right?
With my, with my TVs and like he's hosting a Dungeons and Dragons event.
And I'm like,
he double booked you.
Dude, like what's, I got like fucking 40 people coming.
Like there, there flew out from everywhere.
Like what do you, so he's like, Oh fuck.
What, uh, I mean, so we actually got it.
We got it done.
Uh, we had to kick out the D and D people and, and.
I bet that was hard.
And, and like just, it was just so like ghetto and janky and, and, but fun, right?
It was fun.
And like, I didn't know how to draw brackets properly.
So like I fucked up the brackets and it, and like, it came
around to what time I think like 9pm, 10pm.
And we're not done yet.
And the guys like, I got to close up.
Like I can't, I can't be here.
So like we drove to one of the group's hotels in the suburbs.
And like, we're like, well, let's just sneak in the back.
Like we'll sneak in the back and we'll have the finals.
So everybody gathered into one hotel room and we had like the, the, the last
four or five matches of the tournament and like we were trying to be quiet to
not, you know, alert the hotel people, but you can't stop cheering, you know,
to me because it's a type tournament.
Um, but it was, it was fun as fuck.
Like everybody has memories and like I went out to a bunch of tournaments, you
know, and another play, I got to see a lot of parts of the country.
Uh, and then like a year and a half later, two years later, they're like, well,
let's do this for real.
Right.
Let's like have a real company, major league gaming.
We're going to sponsor people.
And I'm like, I'm already like graduated college.
I had a real job at this point.
So I'm like, I'm leaving the community a little bit, but I thought this was a
great idea.
I didn't think it was going to take off because like who the fuck wants to
watch a bunch of nerds play video games.
Right.
Well, yeah, you missed that.
Like TV is one of the biggest websites and fucking one of the top streamers on
Twitch is a Smash Brothers Melee player, Mango.
And he joined the community right after I left.
So I never got to meet him in the old days.
I did meet him eventually.
Um, played some friendly matches with him.
He beat the shit out of me, of course, but it was fun.
Dude, it was just so fun.
Like, dude, my son, we get shit, all kinds of free shit sent to him.
Yeah.
And all he had to do was, you know, take pictures and he would get, I mean,
20, 20, 15, 20 people and they, they had a blast.
I mean, it was, and, and my son was a gamer pretty much from, uh, probably
like junior high on and it was gaming was, was slowly starting to take off.
People are like, you want your son on the internet?
And I'm like, no, but in my son was, when he was a shit talker, like a motherfucker,
he'd be like, he'd be like, yo, man, I traced your IP address.
I'm going to come to your house tonight.
I'm going to skin you.
I'm going to turn your skin into a lamp.
That's a little too far.
Uh, but I mean, but, but people are like, you know, you're, you know, isn't it bad?
Your son, so they don't make lists.
He played baseball.
It was fucking T-ball.
Yeah.
They didn't keep score.
Um, and he's 40 played was the, the, the woke shit was already starting.
Yeah.
And I'm like, guess what gaming does.
Yeah.
It gives competition.
Right.
Cause if you suck, everybody's going to tell you that you suck.
They're going to tell you why you suck.
And I mean, I go, cause my son, I mean, when he first started gaming, he'd be like,
dad, he goes, I don't know what to do.
They're, they're insane.
They're, you know, they're yelling at me to scream at me.
They're calling me names.
I go, well, suck it up, man.
Right.
Get better.
I go, get better.
And he did.
Yes.
Like if you guys, like, if you ever have a chance to just join a community that's
competitive, um, it's, it's just in someone's basement or whatever.
Like, don't, don't be like, oh, this is, is too, is beneath me or whatever.
Cause you could be a part of history.
Yeah.
Right.
Like you can build a community out of nothing.
Yeah.
No, I mean, except my son, his company, I mean, he wouldn't get, I mean, yeah, he
wouldn't make a lot of money off of it because he didn't want to charge people a
lot of money, but you had to pay to come to his site.
Well, I lost money even when I won the, like I would spend 50 bucks driving to
St. Louis, uh, and then like win 10 at the tournament and I'm happy, right?
Yeah.
I had fun.
I mean, like one day my son came and he was like, dad, if I'm in a game, I gotta
build my own computer.
I go, oh, fuck, we got to do that.
He goes, we're going to learn.
I go, okay, let's do it.
And we did it together.
We built his first computer.
Yeah.
He had some older boys and not much older, but they were helping them out and they
were teaching himself.
And I mean, honestly, I think it made him a better bigger.
Oh yeah.
Absolutely.
So I'm all for it.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
I mean, like I learned how to host an event.
Right.
I mean, that's, that's a skill.
Yeah.
Um, but yeah, so, uh, I guess we can move on to the teaching segments.
Yep.
All right.
So I'm going to talk about freedom of information today.
Oh, cool.
So in America, we have something called the freedom of information act.
Yeah.
Good luck with that.
Because we're a free country and we love freedom and liberty and everything's
free all the time.
Uh, so what is we do our government?
Well, so what this law is, is that anytime the government creates a record or, um,
any, anything, any kind of information, they're supposed to give it to you.
If you, if you're allowed to have it, right?
Sometimes they have secret military shit that you're not allowed to have, but, uh,
it's supposed to be open to you, right?
Cause you're paying for it.
Uh, this is your info.
You should be able to access it.
And all 50 states and territories also have an equivalent law for state related
matters.
Um, most representative in quotes, governments have a similar law.
So I can't speak to whatever country you may live in, but check out the laws in
your country.
There's probably a law on the books that you can get information.
Um, now, if you're talking about like the state laws here, each one could be named
differently.
So they're not all freedom of information act.
Yeah.
They, they're different.
So in Nevada, we have the Nevada open records act or Nora.
Yeah.
Um, uh, some states actually require you to be a citizen of that state for you to
get that info.
Uh, now Nevada is not one of those states.
Anyone can.
I would argue that because if you buy anything and pay sales tax, you pay
tax, that's how the law works.
I mean, like you can get a friend that lives there to do for you.
So there's always a way to get that.
Um, so yeah, basically it's, it's to get government records related to a person
or a topic, uh, criminal records, arrest records, police body, camera footage,
uh, surveillance cam footage from public buildings, uh, 911 calls, all that kind of
stuff.
Uh, you can also get government contracts.
You know, what businesses they're working with, what they're buying from them,
what the prices they're paying on.
I got, I got, I got leases.
Yeah.
So, so when you hear like, Oh, they paid $500 for a hammer, you can go look that
stuff up and verify it for yourself.
Uh, you can get employee information.
So name, position, salary, a couple other things for all the government workers.
Find out how much they're making to fucking deny your for freedom of
information act claims all day.
Uh, you can get emails from government servers.
So, uh, this is a big thing.
They're in COVID, right?
So Fauci and his fucking cronies were emailing back and forth.
Um, and this fucking rat bastard, you know what he did?
They, they hired somebody to teach them how to get around the FOIA request.
Would you know how they did it?
Uh, at what point I did, I don't remember.
So they purposely misspelled things that would have been search terms.
Oh, so like vaccine, they would have spelled it like VAX or VACS, something
whatever.
So, so whenever you're making a request, make sure you take that into account.
Yeah.
Right.
Um, I don't want just vaccine.
I want all the misspellings, all the typos, all the, like put it in your report.
Right.
Get it as detailed as you, as you need to be.
Um, cause they're going to try and fucking fuck you over.
Right.
That's what they're designed to do.
They don't want to help you.
And this brings me to my next point.
Uh, all of these, uh, all the states and the federal government, they have a
website where you can conveniently go do your request.
Right.
Don't do that.
Right.
These websites are buggy.
They don't work.
They're designed to make you get frustrated and give up and go away.
Um, I have not experienced that, but I also haven't done a ton.
I mean, I've done it for work.
I've been for a request for work and I've done it a lot for personal as well.
I've always had a fairly easy path at it, but also those are like, I've never
followed one with Metro, but I have done with Henderson.
Henderson was nice and sweet.
So yeah, I mean, like your, your mileage, okay.
So try the websites.
Yeah.
But if it doesn't work, don't be discouraged, right?
Cause these websites are buggy as fuck, right?
A five year old code of these websites.
That's where to God.
Well, some governments do not want to turn over anything.
Right.
I don't feel you have a right to do.
So, and the other problem with the websites is there's really no proof that
your request was ever received.
Right.
So by law, they have to reply to you within a certain number of days.
Um, but they could say, Oh, we never got it.
And how do you, how would you prove otherwise?
You're on a website.
Take pictures.
It doesn't prove anything.
I mean, it doesn't just doesn't prove anything.
The website responded.
No, I think, again, the one's if I will you hit submit is that's like you were
submitting.
If you take a screenshot, but that doesn't mean anything.
Yeah, I could, I could code that.
It doesn't mean when to anywhere.
It's almost like, I know you're going to trust the websites, right?
Be prepared to go in person.
Yep.
So government offices, um, now most states, uh, have to accept your request.
Even if they don't have that record, even if they don't manage that
record and then forward it on to the person who's responsible.
Now, Nevada actually doesn't have to do this.
I found out.
Okay.
So I went to, uh, um, the official public records request building, which is for
like building codes here in Las Vegas.
Okay.
And they're like, Oh, we can't do police records.
Right.
Now, if you're in a different state, they might have to forward that.
And so now check your local laws, right?
Um, because think about it.
If, if you live next door to the building code office, but the police
station is 30 miles away, why the fuck should you have to drive 30 miles?
Right.
That's their problem.
They should, they should send that along and do the work for you.
Right.
So you go to a library and you just sit at your home and see, you have to forward
it on to the right people.
They should.
Okay.
Again, it varies by state.
No, I agree.
Um, so now the other thing you want to do, uh, when you're in, when you're in the office
is get the full name of the employees that you're talking to.
Yep.
Right.
Um, if they have a business card, you get the business card.
Uh, otherwise get their full name right down or make sure you remember it somehow.
Technically, you can record yourself being in there.
I'm going to get to that.
Um, and then get a receipt that your request is taken because like we're talking
about the website, well, the website can say whatever the fuck it wants.
It doesn't prove anything.
But if you have a receipt signed by this employee, right, you know that they took
your request.
Now they have that many days to respond to you.
Um, so you might want to bring a copy of the relevant laws in case they give you
a hard time, right?
Cause again, like if they say, well, we don't handle that here, you have to go
to that office.
No, sir, the law is right here.
You have to forward it, right?
Have that prepared, read through it, know what, know what it says.
Um, and like Ryan mentioned, be ready and willing to record the interaction.
Right.
Uh, pull your phone out and start recording and say to them, I'm going to record you.
But no, you're said, if you do that.
Yeah.
Because they're going to, they're not going to like it.
They're going to complain.
They're not going to say, uh, we can't, you can't record here.
You have to leave.
They're lying.
They're allowed lie to you.
Yep.
Um, but like just be calm, be polite.
Look, I just want to, I just want to have a record that, uh, that this happened,
that you took my request, but you know, be, it's, it's not against the law.
So if, if they do threaten you with arrest, if they, if the police come and say,
uh, you have to leave, ask them straight up.
If I don't leave, will you arrest me?
Now once they say yes to that, now it's up to you.
If you want to get arrested or not, but if you do leave, you, you can
not hold them accountable because they said, yes, your rights have been violated.
So be ready to sue for that.
Um, and the other thing you want to take note of is you can do requests anonymously.
So, uh, a lot of times they're going to say, I need your address.
I need your phone number.
I need blah, blah, blah.
No, you fucking don't.
You don't need my name.
Uh, you only need a way to contact me.
Right.
Now you can give them a phone number that leads to a burner phone.
Uh, you can give them an email address that can't be connected to you.
Um, or whatever you prefer.
Um, but they don't need your name.
They don't need any private information about you.
Uh, so now how would you get that?
Well, they would email you or call you and then you would go pick it up in person.
Uh, and, and they're going, they're going to find an excuse.
They can to deny you or to redact things that shouldn't be redacted.
Uh, you got to be persistent.
So be, be ready to do it more than one time.
Um, just like, don't let, don't let them get away with it.
Right.
This is your info.
You paid for it.
It's your right.
Uh, speaking of paying for it, they might charge you depending on what you're trying
to get, um, because they have to print copies on pay.
Yeah, some get pretty pricey.
Yeah.
So, well, that's the other thing is if they quote you a price that sounds like
bullshit, you can challenge it.
Yeah.
And again, this is part of the law.
So you can, you can sometimes file an affidavit saying that you're living
poverty and you can't afford this and they'll just waive the fee or, or, or reduce it.
I don't think it should be in charge of fee because you already paid for that.
It's like congestion, right?
Uh, congestion that would New York just did.
Yeah.
It's, you're, you're, you have to pay extra to drive on their streets.
That you, okay.
So let's, let's say hypothetically, your taxes pay for them to record and keep the record.
Right.
But now if you want to go retrieve the record, that's an additional.
Extra labor, but you're, what your, your taxes technically go to their salaries.
Your, your taxes go.
I'm just saying this is the armaments they're going to make.
It's in the law.
But the copy, well, just because the law doesn't make it right.
Well, that's what you're not going to get your records.
But I mean, you're paying for the copy machine.
You're paying for the pay for it.
You're not going to get your records if you don't pay.
Right.
That's the, that's the fact of the matter.
Yeah.
I've never been charged for it, but I, but I've heard some, some, yeah, they, they
charged me for the Vegas body cam and it was reasonable.
It wasn't unreasonable.
And if it is reasonable, I wouldn't care.
Yeah.
Um, but yeah.
So, you know, just be prepared for all this stuff.
Read the laws.
Make sure that if there's any specifics that apply to you, that you understand those.
Um, and, and, you know, do this stuff, do it for fun even, right?
Just fucking go out there and do it and see what you can get right, right to the
FBI and say, I want info on me.
Yeah.
Give me my info.
Yup.
And they have to send you something, right?
It might be a big redacted page.
Send them another one.
Keep sending them more and more and more requests until they give you the info they
have on you.
Well, we did them a file on you, but now we do.
Yeah.
So, but that's, that's my whole spiel for freedom of speech.
I started watching, cause you, I guess you watch those first minute
auditors.
Yeah.
I might like that stuff.
I've kind of picked up on this.
I wanted to kind of see what they were all about.
So the cop uses his personal cell phone to record something.
Yes.
You can, you can foil that.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yes, you can.
Yeah.
Cause there was one.
Is there on duty?
Well, actually, no, it was a TV show actually.
And the cop was using his personal cell phone and Sergeant goes, what are you doing?
Yeah.
He's like, well, my camera's much better.
Yeah.
She goes, do you have any naked pictures of yourself on there?
Because before that, you got to, you got to get those up.
Yeah.
So when I, um, we've already mentioned, I do contract work for the government and
they made it very clear.
He's a federal.
He works at the FBI.
They made it very clear to me that any info that goes to my personal devices is subject to search.
So I have to very, make it very well sure that I isolate my government work machines from my personal machines.
Okay.
Wow.
That is cool.
All right.
Your turn.
Um, actually, I typically do this to you.
I thought of another story I want to talk about.
Oh my God.
Uh, General Milley.
I've already told you before how I feel about him.
Okay.
What do you, do you believe these direct energy weapons exist?
What does that mean?
I don't know what that even means.
Well, okay.
So they claim that they started the Maui fighters with a direct energy weapons.
Oh, you're, that's okay.
Yeah.
But not to this extent.
I mean, I, I kind of do believe they have these weapons.
Eh.
Well, again, you paint your, your roof blue or green.
If you wish when it was, you didn't have to catch on fire, whatever.
But there's also ones that are much more teared down.
It's called the, the Cuban effect.
They got all, there was an embassy where a bunch of people got really sick and no one could figure it out.
And now it's kind of looking like it was a direct energy weapon because we have them.
Russia is the one who came with them first.
They, they have, I mean, couldn't you just fucking like release a virus there or something?
Well, no, but I mean, well, no, you're, uh, so Nilly is being accused of because he said he did it.
He used some of these direct energy weapons any time people gathered to support Trump.
Well, I know, I know that there's, um, something that will do like ultrasonic sound waves.
That's, that's would be a direct energy weapon.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
Then those exist.
Yeah.
For sure.
And they apparently can even make voices in your head with some of this stuff.
I don't know about that.
I know that one's a little bit, but again, Milly's bragging about using them.
So they have used these weapons and they were actually,
Well, actually, let me, let me clarify that.
If you have metal tooth inserts.
Yeah.
It's an antenna.
Um, so there was a famous story.
Was it Lucille Ball?
It was a, it was a famous woman in the, in the fifties or sixties.
Like she would get radio signals.
Yeah.
It just happened from her, from her metal feelings and she would hear the radio.
Yeah.
Um, so, so yeah, if they knew that you had metal fillings and in which teeth you had,
they could maybe deliberately do that.
I don't know.
Hmm.
Well, no.
So back in the nineties, there was some Fox news reporters.
They actually did it to them as a test to show them what it's like.
And no, these reporters are like, yeah, that was fucked up.
Yeah.
They go, it doesn't hurt you, but it makes you want to get out of that area very, very quickly.
Yeah.
Well, so, um, do you know how seasickness works?
Um, at one time I did, it's, uh, the.
So you're on a boat, right?
And the boat's gently rocking.
Uh, but it's not rocking enough for your eyes to register it.
Okay.
But your ears are what keep your balance.
So your ears are like, I'm moving back and forth and your eyes are telling you, no, you're not.
Yeah.
So you look at her, the horizon a lot of times.
Yeah.
So, so when your ears and your eyes are telling you different things, that's what you get seasick.
And this happens to me when I play certain video games because my eyes are saying, hey,
you're moving and my ears are saying, no, you're not moving.
Right.
So I get seasick.
Uh, and, and that's what these weapons can do.
Right.
So they can make this ear here or something and this year's here, something else.
And now your ears are saying, I'm, my, your left ear is saying, I'm moving this way.
Your right, you're saying, I'm moving that way.
And that causes seasickness.
So that's how that would work.
Yeah.
But so what I'm going after is so they, um, apparently someone is filing charges or
demanding the government file charges against Milley because he admitted to using these on
American citizens because military weapons cannot be used upon its own citizens.
So I'm, I'm actually following the story now, but there's, because I mean, this is what's
weird when Trump won the election, oh hell has broken loose.
I mean, in, in, in maybe it can small segments, but like in federal employees are coming out
going, this is what I had to do.
This is what happened there.
I mean, it's not really whistleblowers, but they're just, it's just like they've been
wanting to talk about it for four years.
They could.
And now all the shit's falling.
So imagine what it's going to happen in a week when Trump takes over in gas.
I'm actually kind of excited about this.
But I still say he's got to get me off.
It's not going to crash the economy.
That's the plan.
You think they have the economy?
You can't do COVID again.
We're not going to fall for that.
I mean, they, they won't, someone died at birth.
Lou, I don't get it.
Yeah.
Okay.
California can fall for it.
We're not going to fall for it.
You think that hasn't a fall for that?
Fuck no.
Florida, Florida will definitely.
Florida won't, but we, I mean, we kind of like, no, we, we have Lombardo and the guy's
an asshole, but he's not going to fall for it.
I hope so.
I mean, because this, this, I can't do this shit again.
Oh, I get another question.
So Biden's doing a lot of, well, he's doing a lot of weird shit.
He's releasing pedophiles.
He's releasing sex offenders from Jen.
He's giving them immunity.
God.
So, and presidential immunity is, it's done.
Like you're over.
Yeah.
But the Democrat party and high-ranking officials in the Democrat party have already said he's
compromised mentally.
And even the report that was done on him that said, oh, he can't, he can't stand trial because he
cannot provide his own defense.
Yeah.
Can Trump erase all those and go, he was demented.
He was not in his right state of mind.
Can't do it.
No, but he was not in his right state of mind.
Can't do it.
If you do a contract.
Doesn't matter.
And you can be proven that.
Doesn't matter.
If you change your will.
That's doesn't matter.
Why?
Read the constitution.
You're in that fucking constitution.
I didn't write it.
I don't believe in it.
I wanted to hear, I want to get rid of it.
I don't.
But yeah.
No.
Okay.
That's why I guess.
Are you trying to cover it for the fact that you don't have a teaching segment today?
No, I do.
Okay.
Well.
I'm going to keep talking for like four hours and like, oh God, oh, I didn't have time for
my teaching segment next second.
No, actually, because of what I did, what I did, because there was a request that I do
something on electrical.
So why not go ahead and hit HVAC and pumping around your house?
Cool.
So I'm going to do HVAC today.
Nice.
It's simple.
It's easy.
First, you got to identify what kind of system you have.
You're going to either have, well, I guess you're going to have, I guess there's three systems out
there.
You know, you got propane, which I'll know if you have propane, you know your shit's all propane
because you have to, you're monitoring by your propane.
Natural gas and electric.
So find out what kind of system you have here in Vegas, rooftop units, the RTUs or package
units.
They're very popular here.
And basically with that is the metal box, everything's in that metal box.
Compressor, gas valve, heat exchanger, burners, all that shit's in there.
More than Midwest, you've got, we do like split systems there.
We got either a gas or electric furnace and you got AC unit that sits outside.
So if you got a condit unit that sits outside, you know you have a split system.
Yeah.
So what else?
Oh, then you've got heat pumps.
Heat pumps really, they're important.
The weather can, the weather around you is important if you use them or not.
Because heat pumps are not real.
I don't have a lot of background heat pumps, even though I'm getting that because I have
them now, not at my work, but heat pumps are not going to really, I can't know, Chicago
weather.
But the way they're doing them now is they're installing boiler systems and cooling towers
to condition the water so that the heat pump works efficiently.
So you might have a heat pump, more than likely in a single family house, you're not
going to have a heat pump unless you're in Florida or something like that.
Or even I guess you got swamp coolers too.
Those are popular in dry areas.
So there's a whole bunch of different systems out.
You know what, find out what you have.
It's not that hard.
Have fun with this.
Get to know your system so you know that you can fix it yourself.
Right.
You know, the major thing is get to your whatever provides your heat and then whatever you have
sitting outside or if you have a rooftop, you get pictures of the data tag.
They're all on there.
And look it up.
Go to the manufacturer, put the model number in and it'll kind of tell you what it is.
And then it also tell you how to do your own preventive maintenance.
Now you won't be able to touch the free on because the federal government has locked that
shit down.
And it's not.
It's it used to be R22.
Everybody used R, everybody loved R22.
Then it went to 410A.
Now they're being a 410A.
So we got to go to a new free on and it never gets better.
It only gets worse.
Of course.
Well, if it was better, they would have been using that better from there before.
But performance wise, it never gets better than R22.
R22 rocked.
Yeah.
If you're in like...
Yeah, but it turned the frogs gay or something.
Right.
Doesn't that what happened?
For some reason, I remember hearing some from the frogs gay.
I remember what...
Alex Jones.
Oh, is it?
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
Oh, that's right.
Oh, and birds aren't real.
I like that one.
I loved that.
I actually saw a van once.
I see pictures of...
I see one, I forget where I was and said birds aren't real.
Birds are actually droned by the government, just so you know.
But now get to know your system.
The only thing you really have to do on a fairly regular basis is change your filter.
Every unit has got a swamp cooler or evaporator, does not have...
Take a picture, it doesn't have a filter, but it has a medium inside that you,
I guess you've got to hose it down every once in a while.
But you want to change your filter.
But you have to be careful on the filter you put in because they're making all these filters,
now HEMPA filters and we micron size will filter out anything of two micron and larger
or three micron and larger, it's actually really low on that one, but it's maybe I think eight,
one of the average standard is.
But be careful using those because you need proper airflow through your system
for it to function properly.
And if you've got...
If you're actually in cooling mode and you put the wrong filter in,
you will shut off your compressor.
Your compressor will trip off on an internal overload.
The only way to solve that is to shut the damn thing down and let it cool down.
You can also freeze it up as well.
So find out what filter is recommended and use that filter.
Don't get sucked into these fancy filters because they're not really good for your equipment.
So go on the website, learn, they'll tell you exactly what you need to do.
And they lay it out in such a way that it's actually understandable.
You can also go to a trusted YouTube channel, not necessarily YouTube, but a YouTube channel.
Right.
Because you can check their reviews and kind of see, you know, how long they've been doing it,
what people say about them, and they can actually help you out and give you little tips and tricks.
So it's worth doing that.
And then you can, you can maintenance your own shit.
And it's actually kind of fun.
You know, I mean, some, if you got stuff on the roof, if you're scared of heights, maybe don't do it,
but roof's aren't that scary to deal with it.
Yeah.
So just learn what you have and learn how to maintain it.
And it will help you out in the future.
It will save you some decent amount of cash.
Because every time a tech comes out, they're going to try and upsell you.
Yep.
Because a lot of these HVAC companies, what they do is they pay their guys salary plus commission.
So every part they replace, they get a little coin in their pocket.
And then that might bring them up to mislead you.
I've never seen it as bad as it is here in Vegas.
We have a lot of scam artists in this town.
We have a shit ton of carpet baggers.
Yeah.
It's, I mean, I actually had a job interview once for a plumbing company.
And they basically said, you need to lie to people to get bigger jobs.
Yeah.
You'll make, they told me you'll make more money the bigger the job is.
I'm like, I don't lie to people.
I mean, I don't lie to him, but I mean, who the fuck is he?
I can't believe you anyway.
It doesn't matter.
Yeah.
So, so no, it's just, it's just not, I just don't want to live my life lying to people to steal money from them.
And just, I just, it's just gross to me.
It's just gross to me.
And I, and then where I work at, I've caught people trying to lie and they'll, they'll, they'll, they'll
attempt to do it, but call them out on it.
Get it, you know, get educated on your own stuff and know how to ask questions.
If you are going to use a secondary company, learn how to talk to them.
Yeah.
So there's a, one of the best ways to find out if your, if your system is performing properly,
you get a little temperature gauges and put one in the closest supply duct to your unit.
You got to know what your unit is, put one in there and then put one in the return.
The return is typically where the filter is or it's going to be the bigger grill,
because that's, that's what's returning the air to the unit.
And then the supply ducts are what's distributed in the air.
And then you, but you get, you want to be the closest on the distributed on the distribution side.
And then wherever the return is, and you want to calculate the difference.
Typically you're looking for at least 20 degrees, 18, though it will suffice.
It's called a delta T across the coil.
And you want to make sure that you are actually conditioning your air, whether it's heating
or cooling. And you can tell that by the temperatures. It's pretty simple.
Again, but there's stuff online you can go to and kind of see how it works.
Yeah, but yeah, it's kind of fun.
Get used to it.
Do your shit before you need it. If you got, if, you know, before winter comes,
turn your heating system on, make sure it works.
Burn off the dust. The burn is going to smell. First, let me run it. It's going to burn.
That's just the dust on the heat exchanger.
When it comes to the AC, kick the AC on, on the very, very first warm day, kick it on and make
sure it's working. And that way you know you're good. And you're not, you'll be that fucking idiot
on the first 90 degree day. Call an HVAC companies when they're all booked up because
everybody else waited the last second. So, uh, yeah, many questions. You know how to contact us.
I can probably answer them for you.
Oh, we got to do, we got to do a Monero chance this week.
Okay.
Yeah. Just going to see your word out there.
I thought about one. I kind of lost it.
I don't want to do that.
Just pick a word.
Blue.
Blue. Blue is a secret word.
Oh, it is. Everyone have blue shirt.
Everyone who says blue.
I got a button down blue shirt on.
You go in the wheel and we'll decide who wins the Monero next week.
There you go. Have fun everybody. See you next week.
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