Episode 19 – If I Were Desperate

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Friends with brews friends with brews what I have something here called timecode. I have to see what this is

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Well, it’s good to know that we haven’t edited in any way

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I will edit it in some way

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But I won’t tell anybody that I did as as of the time when that guy was claiming that

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Well, I was gonna say as of the time that we’re recording this it has not yet been edited in any way

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All right

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Let’s talk about our brews because we always give our brews the short shrift and I’m not talking about the brews that my

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Running buddy who also is a krav maga buddy sent me because he sent me a nice picture of a bruised forearm because he was doing

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Knife defenses last night in krav not that kind of bruise

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That was a pretty dull knife if all it did was bruise his arm

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Well, I’m gonna say is you don’t coward catch the knife you catch the attackers wrist

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Instead of the knife because it means less hackers. No good

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Well, the idea is to be better than your attacker. So yes, relatively speaking. The attacker is no good. Anyway, what are you drinking Scott?

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Well, I’ve got two things number one. I have a coffee

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I have a Trailhead Sunbreak morning blend and it’s actually not the better coffee that I have in my coffee

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Cupboard, but it is the one that I have not had on the show before so I’m having that and I do like it

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It’s pretty good. It’s all right. It’s weird.

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I think that the pandemic did something to the local coffee roasters.

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I think that whatever supplies,

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whatever coffee they’re able to get has changed in some way. For example,

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Happy Cup used to be our preferred roaster, local roaster.

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We don’t drink Happy Cup anymore because their coffees don’t taste the same to

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us anymore. And Trailhead is kind of that way.

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When we first started drinking Trailhead, it was way, way, way,

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way our favorite. And now I find it easier to brew a slightly bitter cup than I would

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like. Let’s put it that way. And I don’t remember that having been a problem in the past.

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Do you think there’s any chance that your taste buds have maybe COVID changed your taste

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buds? Maybe you taste different. Sure. It’s quite possible.

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COVID changed both of our taste buds in a way that we both agree on what has changed

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with the coffee. Very unlikely.

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possible and extremely unlikely.

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Pretty.

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I can believe that we both got COVID and that our taste buds changed.

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What are you going to use for a bleep sound?

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You just said pretty much.

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And we, yeah, but that’s not appropriate right now.

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Right now you need my old coffee grinder.

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Remember that when we used that on, yeah, we’re going to, I’ll, I’ll, I’ll send you

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a, that hurts the ears, right?

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Well you can mute it down.

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You can mute it down.

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Yeah.

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I like that.

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Now tell me about your coffee.

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Uh, I’m not drinking coffee yet.

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I am currently drinking a tea. I’m pushing the brews boundary, sir. I am drinking.

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Oh, that’s right. This is the Etsy tea.

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Well, no, it’s not. But when I did search for it, the number one result on this actually

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comes up on Etsy, which I found. I didn’t realize that Etsy has, Etsy is just a marketplace

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now. I thought it was like for handcrafted goods and stuff, but you can just find anything

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on Etsy, apparently. Including tea from my local Wegmans. Well, I don’t know, it came

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from the local one, but tea from Wegmans supermarket chain. So I am drinking Wegmans gingerbread

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flavored tea and I like it. It’s a black tea. It has some like caramelly notes. I’m trying

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to describe like the way to, I’m describing like the mouth feel. It’s got a very smooth

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mouth feel to it more than the flavor.

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You’re sure that’s not just your COVID mouth?

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I mean, it could be COVID the same as you and your wife’s. So yeah, that’s possible.

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I’m sure if you drank it, you would feel the exact same way because of the same COVID.

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You used to have a very rough mouth, but now COVID smoothed it out for you.

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It’s smoothed over the palate. It’s great. It’s great. So…

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Your FaceTime call has got a lag between the mouth movement and the…

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Yeah, there’s a slight delay between the audio and the video that I’ve never noticed before.

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If I recall, yours did that last time we recorded, which was kind of funny. So it was disconcerting.

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at first but then it was fine. I’m curious if I shut off my video and restart it if that

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fixes things. No don’t touch a thing. But if I do yeah if I do that’ll mess things up I’m sure.

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Yeah don’t touch a thing. Anyway so my plan is to move on to another brew after this. I haven’t

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decided if it’s going to be a beer or a coffee but I have a new decaf coffee to audition as well.

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Yeah well I’ve already decided what my next one’s going to be and I’m going to get it ready for you

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right now. Well you can get it ready but but don’t tell us yet we want to be

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surprised. Your listener wants to be surprised. So what’s going on lately with

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Scott? Are we still talking Mastodon these days? Are we Mastodon’t? What’s

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what’s the deal? Oh no I’m using Mastodon. I’m barely using Twitter. In fact we

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this podcast now has a friends with brews Mastodon account. Friends W

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brews at appdot.net. It’s kind of weird. Okay. Bear with me. A P P D O T .net. Don’t

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ask me why. There’s reasons, but don’t ask me why.

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This is why Mastodon will not succeed. Oh man. That’s funny.

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This was because this server was started by a bunch of people that used to be on appdot.net

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ADM.net. And that confused me because when you sent me a link to your Mastodon post recently,

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a toot, but apparently they’re not toots anymore, I guess.

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Now they’re posts again because people rightly pointed out that toot was the dumbest thing.

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It sounds like Bart Simpson. Exactly. But my thought was when you sent something on

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appdot.net, I was like, wait, I thought appdot.net was its own thing. That’s Mastodon? I was

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confused. I thought, you know, and then, and then Siracusa was talking about appdot.net and

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You know how it came and went and stuff and now you’ve just clarified it. So thank you. I am drinking an Nikasi Sleigh’r

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Winter ale how do you spell that?

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Just like I spelled it in the notes s L e I G H

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apostrophe R

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I know that’s why I asked you to spell it though because our listener can’t see the show notes

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I’m gonna pour it in the I mean we might publish the show notes and it may show up on friends with brews calm

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Or friends w brews on appdot.net.

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Friends with apps and dot nets.

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Friends with apps dot brews. Friends with brews apps dot net. So I have, as we discussed,

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set up two

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Mastodon accounts, just grab your own name. I’m Paradigm at InfoSec.Exchange

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and I’m also Nikolaidis at InfoSec.Exchange.

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You’re at Nikolaidis at Infosec.Exchange.

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I’m @nikolaidis@infosec.exchange and I’m @paradigm@…

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preceding the @, it’s just, it’s whatever. I’m @paradigm and @nikolaidis on infosec.exchange.

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That’s where you can find me.

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But just for the listener, first of all, we have links on our website at friendswithbrews.com.

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Go to the friends page, the links are there. And if you go to the subscribe page or the footer of

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any page on the site, our friends will be here. Mastodon account link is there. But

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yeah, so if you go to in a web browser, if you go to info sec dot exchange, instead of

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typing slash Nikolaidis, you have to type slash at Nikolaidis. That’s bizarre, but okay.

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That’s how Mastodon works. I find Mastodon works bizarrely and that’s okay. Yep. So I’ve

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been listening to you or reading your, your posts in our friends with beer friends with

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with brews stuff. But I have not taken any other, other real actions on Mastodon yet.

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I have not even installed or downloaded any Mastodon clients.

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Nor have you put in a profile picture yet.

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Nor have I put in a profile. But what I did do is I went to movetodon.org and I logged

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in. I authenticated with Twitter. I sound like I’ve been drinking beer, but I haven’t.

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I authenticated with Twitter and then I authenticated with Mastodon and I let it tell me, here are

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all these people you follow on Twitter and here are all of their equivalents on Mastodon.

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Oh my God, I need a don’t cross the stream sound clip.

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That’s what I got to get for next time.

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So almost exactly 10% of the people I follow on Twitter have been moved over to Mastodon

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and almost all of them are security people.

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So I did use this as an opportunity to prune several of them though.

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There are people like, I’m just not interested anymore.

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Yeah.

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Well, you know, if you just, you just take off, like it’s like, you know, do a plant.

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If you just do like the finger here, like the others will continue to grow around.

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So it’s not, it shouldn’t hurt that bad.

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But I did prune.

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I don’t remember if we talked about this, I bought an Aero garden a couple months back

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And I now am growing my own lettuce and dill and basil at home, indoors.

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That’s why you kept sending me pictures of dill pickles.

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Yes, exactly.

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No, I never sent you a picture of a dill pickle.

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Peter’s lonely today.

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Never once have I sent you a picture of a pickle dill or otherwise.

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Okay.

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So let me talk about my beer for just a minute before we go on because we tend to give short

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shrift to our brews.

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Hmm.

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And this is not just a podcast about friends.

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It is also about brews.

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we should talk about the ruse. Right, so they claim… With our friends. What do they claim?

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They claim that it’s a limited release and they’re right about that.

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Roasty toffee malty. I would say it’s pretty accurate. It’s not super sweet. I don’t know

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what it is about winter ales, but they tend to be slightly… just ever so slightly bitter. And this

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one fits that mold. Okay. I didn’t say it has mold, I said it fits that mold. It sounds disgusting if

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if it’s got mold.

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Yeah. Roasty toffee, malty mold.

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So no, it’s pretty good.

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It’s not-

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Tasting notes.

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Notes of mold.

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If your family is standing in front of the door

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and you have to fight your way out to get to the store

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to get this beer and someone in your family

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is going to get injured, it’s not worth that.

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Or especially if you’re going to get injured,

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it’s not worth that.

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But it’s a good beer.

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Don’t fight to get injured.

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Right. Got it.

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Don’t fight an angry mob, whether they’re family

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or otherwise, to get this beer.

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But it’s pretty good though.

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It’s a decent winter ale, I would say.

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Don’t fight a mob, angry or otherwise, to get this.

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No, no, no, no.

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Don’t fight an angry mob, family or otherwise.

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How does that, oh, family or otherwise, got it.

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How does that compare to well if I was desperate?

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This is better than well if I was desperate.

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Okay, okay, good.

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’Cause I chose this willingly,

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knowing that I’d had it before.

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I am thinking that we should probably modify

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our review scale.

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Oh, no.

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So instead of like one star or a th-

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We’re just doing thumbs up and thumbs down right right see that’s the problem. There are no thumb sideways icons

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I would have to draw my own. I think we might need a thumb sideways icon and the label should be well if I was desperate

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Because I would drink it like there’s thumbs down is thumbs down means. I’m not drinking this again

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I would not drink this again. I would just drink this again

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If I was desperate, you know see right now thumbs down doesn’t necessarily mean I wouldn’t drink it again

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But what it means is I I well, how can it not I?

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Think it means no, I wish you would you buy it again. I guess not. I don’t know

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I think thumbs down should mean I’m not gonna drink it. I think we need

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you know, I’d say

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Thumbs up. Well, here’s the other, you know, we could give two thumbs up. No, but then we’re basically back into stars

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Well, wait Netflix though. I did notice Netflix now has a I don’t like this

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like this and then two thumbs up for love this

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Hmm, so Netflix has gone back into like love don’t like like love

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See that’s the problem is whenever you have a rating system and you’re like this rating system is too arbitrary

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There’s too many levels of rating. This is dumb. Let’s simplify it. And then when you get it simplified, you’re like

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There’s no nuance in this rating system. I can’t believe it. It’s terrible exactly

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Maybe we’ll just stay with thumbs up and thumbs down and say if I was desperate in the comments, that’s true. Yes

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Yeah, if I was desperate that should have been the name of this podcast if I was desperate if

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No, but these are good. I’m hoping these are gonna be good beers

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episode if I was desperate

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Okay, isn’t the correct way to say that if I were desperate

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Mmm. I don’t know that that is true actually so

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I’m not certain. I am not certain unclear Google grammar

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Does why doesn’t Google have a Google grammar you can check out grammar girl. I’m sure she’s is she on mastadon yet

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I don’t know. I actually I think she is but so you are obviously down with you know

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Mastadu as opposed to mastadon’t yeah, that doesn’t mean

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Because just because I’m using it and liking it doesn’t mean that I think it’s going to be a Twitter replacement for everybody

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I didn’t say that you did say no. I’m talking to the listener. We have those maybe I know

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but you may make it sound like I just said, “So you think that Mastodon is going to be a Twitter replacement for everybody?”

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Well, yes, Peter, I do. In fact, I think it already is and the people on Twitter are just too dumb to know it.

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That’s so funny because I feel the exact same way.

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You know what’s weird though? When I do peek at Twitter again,

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I feel weird about the fact that a lot of people that I followed there are still using Twitter as though nothing’s happened.

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Hmm. I don’t know how to feel about the fact that I feel that way because maybe they’re right and maybe I’m wrong, but I…

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I’m telling you right now, not only is the Elon Musk thing going on, but it’s not just an illusion that

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The creepy people are more in force over there. They’re definitely more in force. There’s definitely more of them

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They’re definitely commenting on more things. It’s definitely harder to avoid them than it was

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Yep, and I just don’t feel good about using Twitter as though nothing’s happening

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And yet a lot of people that I followed over there are and I get it

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I understand why but I also don’t understand why I’m very divided on that. Yeah. Yep

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I am concerned that you know

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Musk has made it his actions and his veiled and not so veiled way of saying that essentially he’s you know

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Gonna turn Twitter into an alt-right platform. Well, he’s bringing that he’s unbanning all the crappy people. Yeah. Yeah

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Endorsing DeSantis, you know, okay. Well, at least we know now

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It’s funny that he banned the artist formerly known as… what was the artist formerly known as?

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What’s Ye’s name?

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Kanye?

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Oh really? I didn’t even know Ye changed his name.

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Is that how you pronounce Ye?

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I have no idea.

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See, I’m assuming that Kanye calls himself that for the end of his name.

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But he’s also fairly religious at this point in a very extreme way.

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And I also thought he might be using the… in certain languages the name Jesus is pronounced Ye.

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”Yay, yay-su, yay, yay-su-su, yay-su.”

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Interesting.

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Like in Japanese, it’s “yesu-ki-ri-suto.”

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”Hay-zus.”

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No, that’s not Chinese.

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Huh.

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No.

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”yesu-ki-ri-suto,” yeah, I get that.

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No, I assume it’s the end of his name, but knowing his ego, it just occurred to me.

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So anyway, I noticed that he didn’t ban him again.

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He did ban him when he started saying he liked Hitler and he liked Nazis, but that was after

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he’d already personally insulted Musk. And I do have to wonder, like other people were

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like, oh, it’s good to know that Musk does have some limits. And I’m like, this isn’t

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a fair test case because he, he gave Musk an excuse to ban him after he had personally

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insulted Musk. When did that happen? Exactly. Though, when, when was the week? Cause I’m

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not following, I’m not following it. I’m not either, but I see, I see enough other people

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that’s following you. Right. So I have not been using Twitter much at all. Like the only

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time I do is like when you’ve been sending me a couple links here and there to some folks

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who are still on Twitter. Have I been? A couple. It’s not like whenever the last time you did,

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that was the last time I was on Twitter. Other than logging into, you know, enable move to

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dawn. Oh, I think I sent you a couple things about Elon Musk. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. But

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other than that, I haven’t been using it. Um, since I wiped my iPhone and started from

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scratch, I certainly have not installed the Twitter app on it yet. I wipe my phone at

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at least once a day, because I don’t like fingerprints on my screen.

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That’s that’s good. That’s good. Especially in COVID times, you know,

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it’s good to, you know, keep things clean and stuff. Yeah, sure.

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Is that the kind of wipe you’re talking about? Well, we’ll talk about,

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we’ll talk about your wipe. No, you don’t want to talk about your wipe.

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I don’t. That was covered on the blurring the lines podcast.

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So we’re going to keep it.

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Whatever you do. I think what you said on blurring the lines, and I quote is,

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don’t flush your wipe down the toilet.

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No, you can flush the wipe down the toilet.

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Don’t flush your wiped phone down the toilet is what I said.

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There’s a difference. You’re quoting me out of context here.

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Yeah, but it’s the municipal facilities that get all upset when you flush your

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wipes down the…

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You think how upset they’re going to be when a phone comes down the pipes.

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My God, we thought the fatberg was bad.

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Oh my God. Hey, I am about out of tea,

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so I would like to refresh my brew. Here’s the question.

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Since we’re doing the split recording,

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Do I stop and we restart or do I just record silence and you entertain our dear listener while I step away?

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I can get rid of silence a lot easier that I can line up an ex recording. Oh, I’m supposed to entertain you

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Yes, I will entertain you. So yeah, I am using Mastodon

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I think that I already see some subsiding of what I thought was going to be a culture war between

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people that have been using Mastodon for a long time and were

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very

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hardcore about content warnings for

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thing. And I’m not the only person who thinks that the content warnings have been a little excessive.

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Like, I’ve seen people content warning things that I can’t figure out why.

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People content warning pictures of them making eye contact with the camera.

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Which… I…

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I don’t know, it’s weird. Like, on the one hand I get it at some level,

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but on the other hand there have to be some limits. Like, in human interaction,

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That’s how we communicate with each other and I get that some people aren’t good with it. I don’t know. It’s weird. I

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Don’t know. I think that the culture on Mastodon is already changing and I think I’m pretty okay with that

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I think it has to if it’s going to be adopted by more mainstream people

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Now what I don’t know is if it will ever be adopted by a lot of mainstream people like I’m thinking a

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lot of us are on Twitter to follow journalists and local news and local officials and

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athletes. Formula One race car drivers, for example, because I don’t follow basketball

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players because they’re usually just talking about how flat the earth is. You know, I don’t

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know where Mastodon’s going to fall down on that. I do know that it has been increasing

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very rapidly. I think in the past week it gained 300,000 more people. I think it’s up

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over 8 million people, which is small compared to Twitter, but it’s early days of the Twitter

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exodus.

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I think that the reason basketball players think that the world is flat is because they never leave the basketball court and those are generally flat.

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I think that they’re so busy always. They’ve spent so many millions of hours of their lives holding a round object that they’re just sick of it.

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Being round, yeah.

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Yeah, being round. Yeah, it just drives them insane.

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There’s got to be more to a round thing, yeah.

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And in their dreams it haunts them and they say, “Damn you, round thing! I will have flatness all around me!”

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Uh-oh, Peter’s leaving.

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He’s doing a remote control on something.

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I don’t know what’s happening. I feel scared. What if Peter’s having a stroke? Oh, he’s trying to control something in his house

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No, what I was trying to do was get enough light so that I could read the label because I can never remember the name

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Which there are two beer companies. I like one is Burlington beer company and the other is Burlington brewery

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Brewing a Burlington brewing company my god. Can we just have them have a cave match?

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Well, one’s Burlington, Massachusetts. The other’s Burlington, Vermont. This is Burlington Beer Company out of Vermont and

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I am about to open up Study Hall.

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Study Hall is a maple coffee amber ale.

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Sounds really good. It is. Now, it’s not as good as mochaccino.

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I still have mochaccino one left from the four-pack in my refrigerator from almost a year ago.

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Which you’ve never sent me one of those and I can’t get them here. Because it’s the last one.

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And I haven’t been able to find them this year. I haven’t seen that they’re actually selling them anywhere yet. But anyway

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Study Hall is much lighter. It’s five point five percent alcohol. So I’m gonna pop one of these guys right now

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I mean the mochaccino one was basically a dessert with some alcohol poured into it

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Oh is amazing, but it was only it was a nice seven percent alcohol, which is a nice sweet spot between

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week four and

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overbearing nine point eight

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Which means you will fall down the stairs, but you’ll catch yourself on the last step before you crash and die

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Pretty much, but not with a study hall. Now. I just have to say one thing

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There’s no study hall that I’m aware of that would accept you drinking that in it

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Adult colleges remote learning I mean hey Cheers Trump University

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Hey, maybe yay can start his own University

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Yay, since apparently he’s out of jobs now everyone’s dumped him his he doesn’t have an agent. He doesn’t have his contracts anymore

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Apparently people don’t like it when you say I like Hitler when you literally say the words. I like Hitler

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Huh Nazis probably would

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Hmm you’d think right, but they’re not funding any

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hip-hop artists I

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Suppose that’s possible

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Well, what else is going on? I have to say I’m glad there’s no Nazi rap that I’m aware

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Actually, there probably is if I probably have supremacy subcultures

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I would probably find I don’t know if I would or not. I don’t want it’s not look

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Let’s not go looking for for that. All right, Peter, you have something here called counterculture

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Slow-motion, what is that all about? That’s something I’m not yet drinking. So stop. Oh, I’m sorry

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Oh, I didn’t know it was a drink. It sounded like a social movement

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Yeah, no, Counter Culture, I have drunk Counter Culture on this podcast before, I think, is

00:22:47.760 —> 00:22:50.760
a brewing company, but I haven’t gotten to that yet.

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Well, I’m the guy that makes the JSON file with all the beers in it, and I don’t remember

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that one, but let me go to friendswithbrews.com and type-

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Maybe I haven’t actually drunk it yet, but I did buy it with the intention of drinking

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it on the podcast.

00:23:05.280 —> 00:23:07.420
Yeah, you haven’t had it on this podcast.

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Because the last time we recorded it was in late afternoon and I did not want to be up

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late.

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So that’s why I’ve just gone to a beer route right now instead of the second cup of coffee.

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Although the coffee that I was planning on drinking today, as you can probably guess

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by the name, it’s called Slow Motion.

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It’s a decaf.

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Ah, yeah, that’s definitely Slow Motion.

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Okay, let me talk one last thing about something related to Mastodon and then I’ll get over

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myself.

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You and Adam were talking about Mastodon apps very briefly.

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You weren’t talking about them as much as you were talking about not having really tried

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any of them.

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Ooh, I just mentioned a couple that were mentioned.

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Most of them are fairly not good, I must say.

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Yep.

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Not real polished in the UI department.

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But the people who make Tweetbot, a company called Tapbots, they now have an app called

00:23:58.920 —> 00:24:04.060
Ivory that is in beta, and I am on the beta, which unfortunately is full right now.

00:24:04.060 —> 00:24:09.700
But anyway, they’re working on their own Mastodon app and they’re going to make a Mac version

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and they, yeah, it’s in progress.

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And let me just say, it’s nice.

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I like it.

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Even Siracusa hasn’t gotten his beta yet.

00:24:16.440 —> 00:24:18.880
No, he was very outraged.

00:24:18.880 —> 00:24:19.880
How do you get your beta?

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You have to be like, is it invite only?

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It was just timing.

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I saw someone, I literally was on Mastodon.

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I saw someone say something about it and I’m like, Oh, how’d you get on that?

00:24:26.800 —> 00:24:31.000
And he’s, and after I asked that, I found, I saw the link.

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I went there, I got my test flight real quick.

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And then next thing I knew other people were already not being able to get it.

00:24:35.680 —> 00:24:38.200
It just filled up really fast.

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Got it.

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So now I believe they could increase that limit if they wanted to, but maybe they don’t

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want to.

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Maybe they’re trying to plan for capacity.

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Siracusa I was asking, John Chidgey was asking, people were asking for exceptions, but as

00:24:52.640 —> 00:24:55.480
far as I know, Tapbots hasn’t responded to any of them.

00:24:55.480 —> 00:24:56.480
Okay.

00:24:56.480 —> 00:24:57.880
But what I’m saying is it’s a nice app.

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If you try some of the current existing ones and you’re like, Oh my God, this is not the

00:25:02.400 —> 00:25:08.440
most handsome app I’ve ever seen. Don’t worry, there’s a pretty polished looking and nice

00:25:08.440 —> 00:25:14.000
to use app on the way. Look, I hate to say that because it sounds very dismissive of

00:25:14.000 —> 00:25:18.560
people who have been making apps way before Tapbots decided to come in and grace the world

00:25:18.560 —> 00:25:24.200
with their app. And I get that they’re probably frustrated, but the fact of the matter is

00:25:24.200 —> 00:25:28.760
most of those apps are nowhere near as polished in the UI department. And it does make a difference.

00:25:28.760 —> 00:25:30.240
It just does, you know?

00:25:30.240 —> 00:25:31.240
It just does.

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Mm-hmm.

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So I’m sorry.

00:25:33.240 —> 00:25:34.240
Okay.

00:25:34.240 —> 00:25:36.880
Yeah, I don’t think you have to be sorry.

00:25:36.880 —> 00:25:41.480
Well, I’ve had conversations with people.

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And they feel more sorry for the other app developers, and I get it, but no matter who

00:25:45.460 —> 00:25:50.560
you are, when you use software, or you use any other product for that matter, you are

00:25:50.560 —> 00:25:54.920
gonna pick the one that seems the nicest for you and does the job for you and meets all

00:25:54.920 —> 00:26:00.440
things that you expect in a nice product of whatever category. And that’s how you choose.

00:26:00.440 —> 00:26:06.840
Unless you’re stuck at work using whatever crap they give you.

00:26:06.840 —> 00:26:13.480
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But what I’m saying is you can’t expect people not to use the apps that seem more

00:26:13.480 —> 00:26:19.240
polished and look nicer than the other ones. You just can’t expect it. It’s just not realistic.

00:26:19.880 —> 00:26:25.400
And I look, I’m a horrible designer. I totally get, you know, if I designed a Mastodon app,

00:26:25.400 —> 00:26:28.360
it would be ugly too. But I wouldn’t get frustrated and bitter and say, oh,

00:26:28.360 —> 00:26:31.240
those guys just come blowing in here and all of a sudden everybody’s worshiping them.

00:26:31.240 —> 00:26:35.080
I would say, well, their app looks pretty good. And mine, honestly, it looks a little bit like,

00:26:35.080 —> 00:26:40.360
you know, I would just have to be honest about it. I mean, that that’s honesty. That’s refreshing,

00:26:40.360 —> 00:26:46.920
honesty, refreshing, like your, how is your, so now talk about your beer. So it is, it is,

00:26:46.920 —> 00:26:52.800
You know, it’s an amber ale which I generally tend to like and there are notes of coffee in it

00:26:52.800 —> 00:26:56.700
So I think that’s the study hall, you know, like you’re studying so you’re drinking coffee

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Because if there’s coffee in your beer, there’s no way your study session is gonna go wrong

00:27:00.780 —> 00:27:02.980
No matter how much of you drink

00:27:02.980 —> 00:27:09.080
one of my classmates in college said that the trick if you were gonna be drinking while you were

00:27:09.080 —> 00:27:12.680
programming or if you’re gonna be drinking while studying

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You needed to be at the same level of inebriation when you took the test.

00:27:18.460 —> 00:27:25.860
I never actually tried that, but I am somewhat skeptical about that as a strategy.

00:27:25.860 —> 00:27:32.660
Okay, I wouldn’t try it either, but I will say that it makes complete sense if two things here.

00:27:32.660 —> 00:27:36.560
Number one, the initial level of abbreabbreviation.

00:27:36.560 —> 00:27:38.360
[laughs]

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Help me, Peter.

00:27:39.360 —> 00:27:42.060
Inebriation.

00:27:42.060 —> 00:27:46.060
I was going to say, I wanted to stick with abbreviation. I like that.

00:27:46.060 —> 00:27:52.060
If the initial level of abbreviation is such that you can still actually study and retain some things,

00:27:52.060 —> 00:28:01.060
and then assuming that you actually can get to that exact same level or close enough and maintain it throughout the test,

00:28:01.060 —> 00:28:04.060
those are two very hard to meet conditions.

00:28:04.060 —> 00:28:10.060
My recommendation would be that the level of inebriation be sober.

00:28:10.060 —> 00:28:19.580
Right, it’d be zero, yes. Zero abbreviations. Yeah, that’s my recommendation. Zero inebriations.

00:28:19.580 —> 00:28:25.500
What it says to me is your previous classmate had a bit of a drinking problem, and they were

00:28:25.500 —> 00:28:30.900
trying to find a way to not have to not drink and yet still succeed at exams.

00:28:30.900 —> 00:28:34.460
Huh, drinking problem in college, hmm.

00:28:34.460 —> 00:28:38.000
And because they thought that they were applying a scientific approach to it,

00:28:38.000 —> 00:28:39.240
somehow it justified everything?

00:28:39.240 —> 00:28:41.940
Uh, probably.

00:28:41.940 —> 00:28:44.960
And I think they’re probably wrong.

00:28:44.960 —> 00:28:45.940
Do you think they’re dead now?

00:28:45.940 —> 00:28:48.740
Have you followed up with this person in the last 20 years?

00:28:48.740 —> 00:28:51.080
I have not actually.

00:28:51.080 —> 00:28:51.660
I have not.

00:28:51.660 —> 00:28:52.640
I think they’re dead.

00:28:52.640 —> 00:28:55.500
So, yeah.

00:28:55.500 —> 00:28:55.880
Yeah.

00:28:55.880 —> 00:28:57.280
So, so, so what are these?

00:28:57.280 —> 00:29:01.260
So you’re talking tweetbot, cause you put like ivory and obsidian and things.

00:29:01.260 —> 00:29:01.580
Ivory.

00:29:01.580 —> 00:29:01.860
Yeah.

00:29:01.860 —> 00:29:04.820
I’ve ivory is the beta app.

00:29:04.900 —> 00:29:08.900
It’s the beta massive on app by the people that make Tweetbot.

00:29:08.900 —> 00:29:10.600
Okay.

00:29:10.600 —> 00:29:16.300
Which is probably the most popular third party Twitter client.

00:29:16.300 —> 00:29:17.700
Okay.

00:29:17.700 —> 00:29:21.300
So what I’m saying is probably some of our listeners will know who they are.

00:29:21.300 —> 00:29:23.600
I doubt that we have listeners that don’t know who they are.

00:29:23.600 —> 00:29:27.700
However, we may have I don’t know what our demographic of 10 listeners is.

00:29:27.700 —> 00:29:30.300
I don’t know if some of them are on Android and they don’t use iOS.

00:29:30.300 —> 00:29:32.700
So they may not know what tweetbot or tapbots is.

00:29:33.300 —> 00:29:38.620
Well, there could be tens of listeners even, you know, maybe not more than 10.

00:29:38.620 —> 00:29:42.460
But I also expect that people that are willing to put up with Android are

00:29:42.460 —> 00:29:43.900
probably willing to put up with Twitter anyway.

00:29:43.900 —> 00:29:44.580
So there you go.

00:29:44.580 —> 00:29:47.900
Probably.

00:29:47.900 —> 00:29:50.220
I’m back to firing our listeners, Peter.

00:29:50.220 —> 00:29:50.720
Yay.

00:29:50.720 —> 00:29:51.740
Good job.

00:29:51.740 —> 00:29:53.060
We had too many anyway.

00:29:53.060 —> 00:29:55.100
I know it’s going too well.

00:29:55.100 —> 00:29:57.740
What is the English?

00:29:57.740 —> 00:29:58.560
What is the English?

00:29:58.560 —> 00:30:07.740
The English Peter is a TV show on Amazon Prime and it is an Old West show.

00:30:07.740 —> 00:30:10.060
Oh, I think I’ve heard about that.

00:30:10.060 —> 00:30:11.060
It’s really good.

00:30:11.060 —> 00:30:15.660
I didn’t expect to like it but it primarily follows two people.

00:30:15.660 —> 00:30:22.060
One is an English woman who comes to America to… well, I’m not 100% sure why she’s there

00:30:22.060 —> 00:30:23.060
yet.

00:30:23.060 —> 00:30:27.580
She’s there for vengeance and she might also be there to find a guy who used to be her

00:30:27.580 —> 00:30:30.860
her fiance, but then he went to America and terrible things happened and he decided to

00:30:30.860 —> 00:30:34.860
stay there so that he wouldn’t destroy her life as well as his. But it follows her and

00:30:34.860 —> 00:30:42.680
it follows an Indian who was in, I keep thinking, I keep wanting to say US Army, but it wasn’t

00:30:42.680 —> 00:30:50.360
the US Army. Anyway, it was a US military outfit that was fighting against the Indians

00:30:50.360 —> 00:30:55.360
and other, well, yeah, basically against the Indians because who else was there really?

00:30:55.360 —> 00:31:00.020
But anyway, the reason he did it is because these Indian tribes were already fighting

00:31:00.020 —> 00:31:01.300
each other, right?

00:31:01.300 —> 00:31:04.100
And so he figured the enemy of my enemies, so he joined up.

00:31:04.100 —> 00:31:05.900
He also had a lot of terrible things happen.

00:31:05.900 —> 00:31:10.980
The other reason he did it is because everybody in his family was already killed, pretty much.

00:31:10.980 —> 00:31:18.660
And it follows him coming to terms with what he’s done and what it means and what his relationship

00:31:18.660 —> 00:31:23.220
with other people in a world where the white people are clearly coming in and decimating

00:31:23.220 —> 00:31:29.380
all of Indian, all of American Indians, Native Americans. They call them Indians in the movie,

00:31:29.380 —> 00:31:32.900
that’s why I keep in the TV show, of course, because it’s period appropriate, that’s what

00:31:32.900 —> 00:31:37.940
they call them. That’s why I’m using the word Indian here, because I’m talking about what the

00:31:37.940 —> 00:31:43.700
show says. He’s dealing with a lot of stuff, she’s dealing with a lot of stuff, and they kind of wind

00:31:43.700 —> 00:31:48.180
up saving each other’s lives several times throughout the show because, my god, what a

00:31:48.180 —> 00:31:53.260
lawless play. It really captures the lawlessness of the West and what people will do to survive

00:31:53.260 —> 00:31:57.240
and not just survive, but to eke out a profit in a place where it’s really hard to make

00:31:57.240 —> 00:32:00.980
a living. There’s a lot of people that you don’t mind seeing die. Let’s put it that way.

00:32:00.980 —> 00:32:08.460
Do you ever watch Deadwood on HBO? No, no. I thought it was excellent. And yeah, I’ve

00:32:08.460 —> 00:32:13.380
heard that it was. I’m just not an HBO guy. Sounds familiar. Sounds, sounds similar. But

00:32:13.380 —> 00:32:16.340
But the guy who plays the…

00:32:16.340 —> 00:32:19.620
I can’t even remember what tribe he was from now.

00:32:19.620 —> 00:32:22.540
Probably because of this tribe of beer that I’m drinking, but…

00:32:22.540 —> 00:32:24.860
I just hiccuped in your honor.

00:32:24.860 —> 00:32:26.500
He is amazingly compelling.

00:32:26.500 —> 00:32:28.620
He is super, super compelling.

00:32:28.620 —> 00:32:30.300
And it’s just a really good show.

00:32:30.300 —> 00:32:32.540
I really, really recommend it.

00:32:32.540 —> 00:32:34.780
Emily Blunt is the actress who plays the English woman.

00:32:34.780 —> 00:32:35.780
She’s good.

00:32:35.780 —> 00:32:39.340
And I can’t remember his name, but he’s an interesting character.

00:32:39.340 —> 00:32:45.020
He didn’t actually become super successful in acting until into his 40s.

00:32:45.020 —> 00:32:50.780
He had a lot of drug and alcohol problems, and he finally got clean right before he got

00:32:50.780 —> 00:32:54.980
a big breakthrough role, and then now he’s doing this and he’s got some other projects

00:32:54.980 —> 00:32:55.980
going.

00:32:55.980 —> 00:32:58.980
But the way he plays the part is really, really compelling.

00:32:58.980 —> 00:33:04.300
And it just makes for a good show because there is a lot of conflict in what he’s doing,

00:33:04.300 —> 00:33:07.660
even though, yeah, his tribe is enemies with other tribes.

00:33:07.660 —> 00:33:10.820
Does that justify him going to war against them?

00:33:10.820 —> 00:33:15.020
And the fact that is that he’s helping the people who are also decimating him along with

00:33:15.020 —> 00:33:16.540
the other Indians.

00:33:16.540 —> 00:33:17.540
It’s really fascinating.

00:33:17.540 —> 00:33:20.260
And the good thing is it’s not just a bunch of action of people getting killed, although

00:33:20.260 —> 00:33:23.260
there’s plenty of that.

00:33:23.260 —> 00:33:28.400
It’s the storyline and the characters and the really good acting that really make it

00:33:28.400 —> 00:33:29.400
a show worth watching.

00:33:29.400 —> 00:33:30.400
Okay.

00:33:30.400 —> 00:33:31.400
It’s about the people.

00:33:31.400 —> 00:33:36.860
I mean, so I haven’t been into westerns as much.

00:33:36.860 —> 00:33:40.860
I haven’t either. That’s why it took me a long time to get to watching it.

00:33:40.860 —> 00:33:41.860
Recently.

00:33:41.860 —> 00:33:42.860
Yeah.

00:33:42.860 —> 00:33:49.380
I used to be, I was much bigger, even recently I was bigger into westerns like last year

00:33:49.380 —> 00:33:54.700
when I would be playing and running games of Deadlands, which is essentially cowboys

00:33:54.700 —> 00:34:00.820
and weird west cowboys and zombies version of like Dungeons and Dragons if you’re familiar

00:34:00.820 —> 00:34:02.780
at all with D&D. It’s like that.

00:34:02.780 —> 00:34:08.340
So I was doing lots of different, watching all of my favorite Westerns and things to

00:34:08.340 —> 00:34:09.340
get in the mood.

00:34:09.340 —> 00:34:12.140
But what you’re describing sounds right up that alley.

00:34:12.140 —> 00:34:16.500
Yeah, I started losing interest in Westerns right about the time the Bundys took over

00:34:16.500 —> 00:34:21.660
the Bureau of Land Management in Oregon and were protesting about their rights and all

00:34:21.660 —> 00:34:22.660
that stuff.

00:34:22.660 —> 00:34:25.740
I kind of started losing patience with people on the east side of the state, let’s put it

00:34:25.740 —> 00:34:26.740
that way.

00:34:26.740 —> 00:34:32.580
I’m sorry, it’s just the truth.

00:34:32.580 —> 00:34:37.500
In other news, I’m drinking this beer and it is very wheaty and something that I have

00:34:37.500 —> 00:34:45.420
noticed in relatively low alcohol, wheaty beers. They make me somewhat congested. They

00:34:45.420 —> 00:34:50.420
make my nose get a little bit stuffy. Something, a phenomenon I have noticed that I first noticed

00:34:50.420 —> 00:34:54.540
I think earlier this year, maybe the spring or so this one is doing it to me. According

00:34:54.540 —> 00:34:57.500
to the show notes, that won’t be a problem because nothing can come out of your nose.

00:34:57.500 —> 00:35:02.460
Well, it is a problem because as you just alluded I

00:35:02.460 —> 00:35:05.520
Two days ago just had my nose

00:35:05.520 —> 00:35:12.220
Cauterized the blood vessels in my left nostril because I tend to get frequent nosebleeds

00:35:12.220 —> 00:35:18.400
Especially this time of year. Okay, I guess so I saw a doctor and he was great. I really liked it

00:35:18.400 —> 00:35:22.940
You know, he went and stuffed the hot poker right up my nose and sealed that thing up shut

00:35:22.940 —> 00:35:26.200
I was gonna ask you what did they just heat up a soldering iron and go here you go

00:35:26.660 —> 00:35:39.360
Pretty much. No, what they do is, you know, he diagnosed it and he says, yeah, you have a really big blood vessel running down your left vein, your right vein, however, it’s nice and open and it’s even concave. I’m like, okay, if you say so.

00:35:39.360 —> 00:35:41.360
This guy’s infatuated with your right vein.

00:35:41.360 —> 00:35:44.360
He’s a doctor. It’s what he does.

00:35:44.360 —> 00:35:46.360
Yeah, but it sounds like he’s in love a little bit.

00:35:46.360 —> 00:35:52.520
So he, uh, first he applied some topical numbing agent, which actually the worst part about it was

00:35:52.520 —> 00:35:56.920
that it just tasted terrible because you know, some of it goes down your nose into, into your

00:35:56.920 —> 00:36:02.520
throat. Right. But he was able to like, you know, zap it up and cauterize it pretty well.

00:36:02.520 —> 00:36:08.680
And then as he discharges me, he says, yeah, don’t, uh, you know, here are things you can’t do

00:36:08.680 —> 00:36:16.680
for five days. And the list of things that I can’t do for five days includes blowing my nose.

00:36:16.680 —> 00:36:17.640
Oh my god.

00:36:17.640 —> 00:36:22.680
It’s gross. And here I’m like, I’m snorting and getting ready like, oh, I’d like, I also am not

00:36:22.680 —> 00:36:28.840
supposed to insert anything into my nose. So I can’t like poke around it to like, you know,

00:36:28.840 —> 00:36:34.280
manually like sop like osmosis, you know, the mucus out of it or anything. It’s like,

00:36:34.280 —> 00:36:40.280
it’s really gross and now I’m starting to get, oh I’m also not supposed to inhale sharply so I

00:36:40.280 —> 00:36:46.440
can’t even like snort it up and try to spit it out. It’s not a great place to be right now.

00:36:46.440 —> 00:36:51.880
Basically you can’t use your nose. Pretty much, yeah. And it was hilarious because yesterday the

00:36:51.880 —> 00:36:56.760
first thing I signed into my early morning yoga class yesterday morning, the first thing that the

00:36:56.760 —> 00:37:02.920
instructor says like we’re gonna start by inhaling sharply and then slowly exhaling. I was like,

00:37:03.480 —> 00:37:05.480
I’ll see you next week.

00:37:05.480 —> 00:37:12.560
You didn’t have to do that. You could still do the yoga and just breathe your own way.

00:37:12.560 —> 00:37:15.320
Yeah, I know. I was being being facetious.

00:37:15.320 —> 00:37:21.300
But yeah, I got my nose cauterized after dealing with like rampant chronic nosebleeds for decades.

00:37:21.300 —> 00:37:27.280
I’m really hopeful that this will, you know, stop it. Although the doctor said this isn’t, he alluded to the fact

00:37:27.280 —> 00:37:28.760
that’s not a permanent fix.

00:37:28.760 —> 00:37:33.320
that’s more of a temporary fix because he said, you know, like you should be good for a few months.

00:37:33.320 —> 00:37:41.320
Sure. I have a very American question to ask you. Is this considered a cosmetic procedure,

00:37:41.320 —> 00:37:46.840
Peter, and your insurance will not cover it? Or is this considered a vital and necessary procedure

00:37:46.840 —> 00:37:55.480
and your insurance will cover it? I am not sure. I did get referred and they asked if I had insurance.

00:37:56.200 —> 00:38:03.720
Right. I would think that stopping bleeding would be important enough to be covered,

00:38:03.720 —> 00:38:10.440
but then again, tampons are apparently considered a luxury item. And let’s be honest, you’re probably

00:38:10.440 —> 00:38:14.360
not going to bleed to death from this and it’s just unsightly for you and for everyone else,

00:38:14.360 —> 00:38:18.440
therefore it’s a cosmetic issue. I’m kind of curious. I don’t know. We’ll find out.

00:38:18.440 —> 00:38:23.400
I’d be amazed if they didn’t try to blow it off as some unnecessary… They did ask. I mean,

00:38:23.400 —> 00:38:30.040
they did ask what my insurance was at the doctor’s office so that implies that insurance might be

00:38:30.040 —> 00:38:36.680
covered so we shall see insurance in america is a weird thing oh my god from a record okay well i

00:38:36.680 —> 00:38:42.280
was curious about that because uh uh i was showing vicar show notes and he was like what’s the

00:38:42.280 —> 00:38:46.920
cauterized thing he he was very alarmed by that and i said i don’t know maybe it’s a sinus thing

00:38:46.920 —> 00:38:51.320
i didn’t know what it was yeah no but what do you see he numbed it up and then he had a little thing

00:38:51.320 —> 00:38:56.040
I’m presuming it was a hot poker and stuff, you know, just like a needle sized thing and he just kind of like

00:38:56.040 —> 00:39:01.720
Yeah, soldering arc. I felt a little bit of a pinch, you know, it was the pain was very manageable those

00:39:01.720 —> 00:39:06.160
It was it was mostly it was it was very uncomfortable, but it wasn’t painful

00:39:06.160 —> 00:39:13.320
The good news was I didn’t smell anything. That was my concern. I thought I was gonna cuz literally hot in nose

00:39:13.320 —> 00:39:14.480
I’m thinking

00:39:14.480 —> 00:39:19.880
Burning flesh within the say, you know because that was the weird thing when I had laser eye surgery when I had LASIK

00:39:19.880 —> 00:39:25.800
I could smell the eyes getting toasted. It was bizarre.

00:39:25.800 —> 00:39:31.920
Are you sure? What year did you have this done? Because when I had LASIK I couldn’t, I couldn’t. I could see the flaps go up.

00:39:31.920 —> 00:39:33.920
I could see them flip the flap up.

00:39:33.920 —> 00:39:36.680
That was weird too. That was weird because you have to keep it open.

00:39:36.680 —> 00:39:40.880
Yeah, keep it open and then I could see it flip back down, but I couldn’t smell anything.

00:39:40.880 —> 00:39:44.000
I smelled it and it was bizarre. It was like 20 years ago.

00:39:46.160 —> 00:39:50.600
Yeah, I’m trying to remember when mine was mine was quite a long time ago now to actually

00:39:50.600 —> 00:39:53.260
Probably approaching 20 years as well

00:39:53.260 —> 00:39:57.640
The place I went to they were pretty advanced they were using equipment that not everybody had yet at the time

00:39:57.640 —> 00:40:01.540
So I don’t know okay. Maybe it was the smell remover. Maybe they had a

00:40:01.540 —> 00:40:04.680
super silent vacuum sucking away the smell that I

00:40:04.680 —> 00:40:11.780
See you here. Giant sucking sound. Giant sucking sound. Here, hold on. Now what we’re gonna do is flip your eye open

00:40:11.780 —> 00:40:15.300
No, it wasn’t I would not go to that guy

00:40:16.040 —> 00:40:21.040
Don’t do it. Well, I’m glad that your nose is cauterized, I guess.

00:40:21.040 —> 00:40:23.040
Well, actually, I’m more glad that you made it through.

00:40:23.040 —> 00:40:26.040
And I will be curious to see if it helps with the nosebleeds.

00:40:26.040 —> 00:40:29.040
I have to say, I haven’t really noticed a lot of nose bleeding on this podcast.

00:40:29.040 —> 00:40:32.040
But… No, not today, which is great.

00:40:32.040 —> 00:40:34.040
But, you know, it’s just like, ehh.

00:40:34.040 —> 00:40:39.040
Has this ever happened at work where you’re just sitting there talking with the people and all of a sudden you’re like, “Oh my God, is my nose bleeding?”

00:40:39.040 —> 00:40:42.040
On rare occasions, it just happens.

00:40:42.040 —> 00:40:50.040
The most embarrassing times that it happened, most inconvenient times, was twice it happened while I was at a restaurant.

00:40:50.040 —> 00:40:59.040
And like at the dinner table, all of a sudden I’m like, “sniff, sniff, touch, oh $—t, I have to excuse myself,” and I’m gone for like literally 15 minutes.

00:40:59.040 —> 00:41:00.040
Right, right.

00:41:00.040 —> 00:41:10.040
It also happened once at a yoga class. Like right off the bat, the very first pose, my friend and teacher Sharon says, “Hey, we’re gonna start in downward dog.”

00:41:10.040 —> 00:41:14.500
And as soon as I invert and go into the first downward dog

00:41:14.500 —> 00:41:19.280
I see red drops on my mat and I was in the in the bathroom for about 15 minutes

00:41:19.280 —> 00:41:25.880
Waiting for that one to stop. She’s like, I’m sorry Peter. That’s bloody downward dog. We’re not doing that here bloody downward dog

00:41:25.880 —> 00:41:28.960
But no what what I don’t like is

00:41:28.960 —> 00:41:36.220
What’s interesting is a different thing first. What’s interesting is though is I have like two types of nosebleeds

00:41:37.060 —> 00:41:40.160
One is like just you know, just a spot

00:41:40.160 —> 00:41:46.800
I can hear a sniff sniff touch a Kleenex to it and then it’s done and then there’s like a gusher and

00:41:46.800 —> 00:41:53.040
I don’t know like maybe it’s you know, my heart rate, you know blood pressure is up and it’s really pumping

00:41:53.040 —> 00:41:56.760
But when it when that happens like nothing I do will stop it

00:41:56.760 —> 00:42:00.560
The only thing I can do is wait it out and it’s really really sucks

00:42:00.560 —> 00:42:03.840
How often does that happen often enough that I was like?

00:42:04.320 —> 00:42:09.460
Getting borderline losing my temper and it’s like what am I supposed to get angry at my own nose?

00:42:09.460 —> 00:42:14.700
You know like it was but it was really inconvenient and it sucked so I have a really

00:42:14.700 —> 00:42:19.940
Stupid question would it help to have something that you could shove up the left nostril?

00:42:19.940 —> 00:42:24.440
But I did I mean I would shove like, you know a clean

00:42:24.440 —> 00:42:29.420
I mean before I would hold up and so go out that day with something shoved high up high enough that people won’t see it

00:42:29.420 —> 00:42:34.820
Well, that’s the thing. It can’t be that high because it’s relatively low in the nostril where it happens

00:42:34.820 —> 00:42:38.680
So you’re gonna see something but even then there’s no predicting it right, you know

00:42:38.680 —> 00:42:43.860
Like I’d have to wear this every freaking day. So yeah, I don’t know. Glad we had that conversation

00:42:43.860 —> 00:42:48.900
Yeah, I thought when you were talking about health problems, I thought we were gonna talk about your knee or something

00:42:48.900 —> 00:42:50.780
How is your knee doing?

00:42:50.780 —> 00:42:51.740
so

00:42:51.740 —> 00:42:59.260
It sounds like I have a partially torn meniscus ouch. I had physical therapy yesterday

00:42:59.260 —> 00:43:01.320
I’ve had my third third session was yesterday

00:43:01.320 —> 00:43:10.080
And my PT and this is the same guy who I saw last year after my stress fracture in my foot

00:43:10.080 —> 00:43:12.040
yeah, he

00:43:12.040 —> 00:43:16.320
Was to you know, said asked me like so you got any big races come planned and I’m like, well

00:43:16.320 —> 00:43:19.140
I’m running the dairy cheap in April. I’m hoping to is it? Oh, yeah

00:43:19.140 —> 00:43:22.880
I was gonna run that and yeah blah blah, but you know, I’m gonna do Boston next year

00:43:22.880 —> 00:43:24.680
I just I’m just gonna take it easy and stuff

00:43:24.680 —> 00:43:32.260
But what he did not do was give me the sideways glance or say I don’t think you want to be planning to do

00:43:32.260 —> 00:43:39.700
That so I took that as a good sign that you know, he doesn’t seem overly concerned that you know

00:43:39.700 —> 00:43:42.080
About me doing a doing a marathon in April

00:43:42.080 —> 00:43:46.120
So we’ll see we’ll see I am planning I’m gonna be taking a vacation

00:43:46.120 —> 00:43:51.780
Soon or I’m gonna be gone for a month in between that time which is gonna be cool

00:43:51.920 —> 00:43:58.000
But you know, we’ll see I’m hoping to be you know practicing or you know training and stuff while I’m gone

00:43:58.000 —> 00:44:05.040
Because I deliberately Gardner or something anything that gets me anything that allows me to go live with you for a month. I

00:44:05.040 —> 00:44:11.620
Have guest rooms in both of the places that I’m renting in Costa Rica, right?

00:44:11.620 —> 00:44:15.560
But I need to get paid because I can’t afford right now. Well, Costa Rica is really cheap

00:44:15.560 —> 00:44:21.100
I know but my daughter’s going on a trip to Japan, which is not really cheap and that’s awesome

00:44:21.100 —> 00:44:25.100
But you could work, you could work, you could do your remote work from where we’re going to be, right?

00:44:25.100 —> 00:44:29.100
So as long as you don’t have to go onsite and someone else is going to have to pick her up from school too.

00:44:29.100 —> 00:44:32.100
That’s kind of a bummer.

00:44:32.100 —> 00:44:37.100
I’ll have to see if my boss will hire an assistant for me so that they can do the onsite work while I’m gone.

00:44:37.100 —> 00:44:40.100
Do that. Do that and then come on down.

00:44:40.100 —> 00:44:46.100
I’m actually due for a sabbatical. I could take a sabbatical. I could take a two month sabbatical anytime I want right now.

00:44:46.100 —> 00:44:48.700
Does it have to do you have to take the whole two months?

00:44:48.700 —> 00:44:51.340
Or can you take it in pieces?

00:44:51.340 —> 00:44:55.660
I don’t think I do. But if I was going to go somewhere, I would definitely take the whole

00:44:55.660 —> 00:45:01.300
two months. And then what I would do is go somewhere. And then I would spend the majority

00:45:01.300 —> 00:45:04.220
of that with my family. That’s the that’s the only reason I’ve really been waiting is to figure

00:45:04.220 —> 00:45:07.300
out when’s a good time for my family, which sucks because there is no good time right now because

00:45:07.300 —> 00:45:14.020
we’re still coming out of the tail end of a pandemic. And we’re also not super flush with

00:45:14.020 —> 00:45:18.420
cash right now. So my wife’s working a lot and then, you know, my daughter’s, I don’t

00:45:18.420 —> 00:45:22.860
know, it’s just, I don’t know what I’m going to do. But anyway, what I’m saying is you’re

00:45:22.860 —> 00:45:27.860
tempting me to try to figure out a way to spend a week or two of that elsewhere.

00:45:27.860 —> 00:45:35.120
I think you should. I think you should. So what I did is I rented two Airbnbs and one

00:45:35.120 —> 00:45:41.620
is closer to the beach and one is closer in the mountains, in the woods.

00:45:41.620 —> 00:45:45.180
So you’d probably stuff me in the woods and then you’d go to the beach. Is that what you’re

00:45:45.180 —> 00:45:46.180
saying?

00:45:46.180 —> 00:45:50.780
Sure. Let’s do that. My plan was to do running though, you know, like to be running in the

00:45:50.780 —> 00:45:56.060
woods, you know, a lot of trail running and stuff. And apparently it’s a, you know, a

00:45:56.060 —> 00:46:02.000
safe part of the country, safe neighborhoods, et cetera. It’s still, you know, central America.

00:46:02.000 —> 00:46:07.180
It’s not going to be United States, but you know, they, it’s not Brazil. So apparently

00:46:07.180 —> 00:46:12.140
it’s like a giant playground from the way people are describing it. But then again,

00:46:12.140 —> 00:46:17.700
people that I’ve talked to all, you know, like would go to resorts and stay in these,

00:46:17.700 —> 00:46:20.740
you know, like walled in hotel package deal kind of things.

00:46:20.740 —> 00:46:24.400
Right. Cause I was going to say, I think there, cause I’ve had friends that are like photographers

00:46:24.400 —> 00:46:27.880
and stuff and I’m pretty sure there are places there where you don’t want to go with like

00:46:27.880 —> 00:46:33.260
your camera gear and stuff. Could be. I mean, I plan, you know, like when I’m out, I’m probably

00:46:33.260 —> 00:46:41.320
gonna have my phone on me, my Apple watch and not a lot else. Passport, I don’t know.

00:46:41.320 —> 00:46:45.440
I don’t even know right now what the recommended best practice is. Are you supposed to keep

00:46:45.440 —> 00:46:51.240
your passport with you to prove who you are or do you leave it home? Yeah, I don’t know.

00:46:51.240 —> 00:46:52.680
I don’t know what the best practice is.

00:46:52.680 —> 00:46:57.760
Hey, do these BnBs have, do these places have safes in them so you can put your MacBook

00:46:57.760 —> 00:46:58.760
in your…

00:46:58.760 —> 00:47:03.400
Thinking about that, I don’t know that they do. That’s a very good question.

00:47:03.400 —> 00:47:04.400
I think we should get one.

00:47:04.400 —> 00:47:11.400
But I might at least bring a little security camera along, you know, at least as a backup.

00:47:11.400 —> 00:47:16.760
I think both of the places that I’m going to have security cameras on on-prem as well.

00:47:16.760 —> 00:47:19.960
I’m not 100% sure though now. I don’t have to think about it.

00:47:19.960 —> 00:47:25.160
Because not only would you be wildly inconvenienced if your laptop, let’s say, went missing,

00:47:25.160 —> 00:47:28.640
you would also be screwed because you’re presumably going to be doing some work

00:47:28.640 —> 00:47:29.480
during that period of time.

00:47:29.480 —> 00:47:33.680
Yeah. Oh yeah. No, I am planning. I’ll definitely take some time off. Um,

00:47:33.680 —> 00:47:38.400
but in general, this is just a relocation, not a vacation as much.

00:47:38.400 —> 00:47:42.100
So yeah. Yeah. But I might end up just like, you know what,

00:47:42.100 —> 00:47:43.880
I’m taking a freaking week off, whatever.

00:47:43.880 —> 00:47:48.160
Well, I’m gonna, let me just put it this way. I will,

00:47:48.160 —> 00:47:54.280
I will at least have the idea that maybe I should think about it as a,

00:47:54.280 —> 00:47:59.280
somewhat not certain, but also not impossible possibility.

00:47:59.280 —> 00:48:01.760
An impossible impossibility.

00:48:01.760 —> 00:48:03.980
That maybe I would go down there for at least a few days

00:48:03.980 —> 00:48:06.080
or a week or whatever.

00:48:06.080 —> 00:48:10.320
Well, I have extended the invitation to Adam and his wife.

00:48:10.320 —> 00:48:12.600
It doesn’t work with their vacation schedule.

00:48:12.600 —> 00:48:14.240
They’re going to be going to other places.

00:48:14.240 —> 00:48:17.960
I have extended it to four other people

00:48:17.960 —> 00:48:19.960
and all of them are like, yeah, that sounds amazing.

00:48:19.960 —> 00:48:20.840
I can’t do it.

00:48:20.840 —> 00:48:21.960
Right.

00:48:21.960 —> 00:48:24.800
So, so far, it’s I’ve got the place to myself.

00:48:24.800 —> 00:48:28.160
I’m like, all right, you know, it’s gonna be just me and going out and having fun.

00:48:28.160 —> 00:48:29.760
Then that’s totally cool.

00:48:29.760 —> 00:48:31.640
That’s pretty amazing, honestly.

00:48:31.640 —> 00:48:33.840
It might be exactly what you need.

00:48:33.840 —> 00:48:35.360
There you go.

00:48:35.360 —> 00:48:37.740
This is the perfect time to get your nose cauterized.

00:48:37.740 —> 00:48:40.800
That way you won’t go sauntering into a bar down there and…

00:48:40.800 —> 00:48:41.800
Yeah.

00:48:41.800 —> 00:48:46.860
That would be less than optimal.

00:48:46.860 —> 00:48:50.960
But the short answer though is, but the knee seems to be doing very well.

00:48:50.960 —> 00:48:54.040
It’s constantly stiff.

00:48:54.040 —> 00:48:58.220
And today I was just thinking, the only thing that hurts it though, that aggravates and

00:48:58.220 —> 00:49:02.300
causes pain is like external rotation.

00:49:02.300 —> 00:49:04.800
Like think pigeon pose.

00:49:04.800 —> 00:49:06.940
That’s what causes the pain.

00:49:06.940 —> 00:49:13.120
And then today when I was walking in my living room, like with the foot planted, I turned

00:49:13.120 —> 00:49:18.560
to the right and that torquing motion triggered it.

00:49:18.560 —> 00:49:25.200
Not terribly, but it hurt a little bit. So my thought is, when I was running this summer,

00:49:25.200 —> 00:49:32.880
on almost every long run, at some point during the run, I would trip and fall. It was always my left

00:49:32.880 —> 00:49:38.640
foot getting caught on something. And when I thought about it, the difference between, like,

00:49:38.640 —> 00:49:44.960
my left foot naturally pronates inward, whereas my right foot naturally supinates outward.

00:49:44.960 —> 00:49:46.880
Oh my God, you’re running sideways all the time.

00:49:47.680 —> 00:49:55.760
Exactly. Literally. So I had to deliberately crank things back. And as soon as I put, like,

00:49:55.760 —> 00:50:00.000
focused my attention on that, in addition to all the other things when I’m trail running,

00:50:00.000 —> 00:50:05.760
I stopped falling. As long as I would keep my attention and I could almost, I couldn’t even

00:50:05.760 —> 00:50:11.920
make myself trip over something like when I would try, like going over a rock or a root or something.

00:50:11.920 —> 00:50:16.880
So I fixed that problem. My suspicion is that I was overcompensating.

00:50:16.880 —> 00:50:20.560
Yeah, that’s what I was… or even if you weren’t overcompensating, it’s a change.

00:50:20.560 —> 00:50:29.120
It is a change, but that external rotation is the same motion that I felt with that foot planted and

00:50:29.120 —> 00:50:34.800
then turning to the right. So I’m thinking that’s probably what’s going on. Even if it wasn’t over

00:50:34.800 —> 00:50:39.840
compensation, let’s say you were actually picking an angle that would work well and wasn’t

00:50:39.840 —> 00:50:45.360
unreasonable. It’s just a change and you’re not reducing your mileage or working into it in any

00:50:45.360 —> 00:50:48.700
So it definitely causes strain.

00:50:48.700 —> 00:50:53.120
Right. But I mean, it didn’t manifest until like three, four months later.

00:50:53.120 —> 00:50:53.960
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

00:50:53.960 —> 00:50:57.660
But you know, these things, but that gives credit to like, they exactly,

00:50:57.660 —> 00:51:01.000
they built up and that’s probably what happened.

00:51:01.000 —> 00:51:03.860
I have a news for you. The older you get,

00:51:03.860 —> 00:51:08.060
the easier it’s going to be to injure yourself in that type of way.

00:51:08.060 —> 00:51:09.800
Like where you can tell that, oh my God,

00:51:09.800 —> 00:51:12.360
I just did something way too many times, you know,

00:51:12.360 —> 00:51:19.360
After a million times of doing this one thing my body is angry. I believe that’s called an RSI right repetitive strain injury

00:51:19.360 —> 00:51:22.340
It’s a lot easier to do that kind of thing without knowing that it’s happening

00:51:22.340 —> 00:51:26.480
mm-hmm all of a sudden you’ll just be in severe pain and

00:51:26.480 —> 00:51:29.920
It sucks because

00:51:29.920 —> 00:51:34.800
Overdo stuff without having any freaking clue that you’re overdoing it because you feel great at the time

00:51:34.800 —> 00:51:38.100
Feels fine feels fine feels fine all of a sudden. Oh my god

00:51:40.240 —> 00:51:47.440
Well, I probably need to start giving more attention to what’s called prehab as opposed to rehab

00:51:47.440 —> 00:51:51.720
You know and start doing these exercises and you know things like that

00:51:51.720 —> 00:51:56.880
I’ve got I’ve got two good physical therapists that I’m working with and I don’t know if they’re both runners

00:51:56.880 —> 00:52:02.560
I don’t know if the lady is but the guy he definitely he’s like yeah, I got into Boston for next year

00:52:02.560 —> 00:52:06.180
But I’m gonna delay it. I’m gonna do it in 2024 and I did two marathons last year

00:52:06.180 —> 00:52:09.000
I’m like, okay, these are my people he knows what I’m going through

00:52:09.880 —> 00:52:14.760
He’s probably like, you know, closer to half my age, but still he knows what, you know,

00:52:14.760 —> 00:52:16.560
he’s also a doctorate of PT.

00:52:16.560 —> 00:52:18.280
So he knows what I’m going through and he’s a runner.

00:52:18.280 —> 00:52:19.280
So I’m happy.

00:52:19.280 —> 00:52:23.520
You know, what’s funny is my PT guy that I just, I’ve only seen him one time, but I just

00:52:23.520 —> 00:52:25.320
started going for my rotator cuff.

00:52:25.320 —> 00:52:26.320
Yeah.

00:52:26.320 —> 00:52:30.180
And he is, at first when I saw him, I thought he was half my age.

00:52:30.180 —> 00:52:34.120
After I, we were both wearing masks of course, cause it’s a medical facility.

00:52:34.120 —> 00:52:38.660
After I interacted with him a little bit and I was looking, you know, got a better sense

00:52:38.660 —> 00:52:42.500
of his face and could see some of the wrinkles around his eyes and stuff. He’s probably not

00:52:42.500 —> 00:52:48.100
half my age, but he’s definitely younger than me, and the funny thing is he has a daughter

00:52:48.100 —> 00:52:51.820
the same age as mine, which cracks me up. It always cracks me up when friends of mine,

00:52:51.820 —> 00:52:55.220
their kids were graduating from high school about the time that my daughter was learning

00:52:55.220 —> 00:52:59.940
about the color yellow in kindergarten or whatever. But anyway, but this guy, he seems

00:52:59.940 —> 00:53:05.360
like he could definitely be a marathoner. He’s got that build and he definitely, he,

00:53:05.360 —> 00:53:09.100
I think he is definitely a yoga guy because I was telling him that one of my he’s like

00:53:09.100 —> 00:53:14.360
what are you trying to you know what’s your end expectation from this because he’s telling

00:53:14.360 —> 00:53:21.140
me you might not come out of this 100% pain free you might not come out of this a lot

00:53:21.140 —> 00:53:24.500
and I said that’s fine I already have other existing pains that I have to monitor and

00:53:24.500 —> 00:53:28.740
keep track of but they don’t stop me from doing what I need to do and they don’t get

00:53:28.740 —> 00:53:33.040
worse from me doing those things they’re just kind of there I said if my shoulders that

00:53:33.040 —> 00:53:37.920
way but I can do my full range of motion during yoga and other activities that’s

00:53:37.920 —> 00:53:42.200
the kind of thing that I’m looking for okay he’s like that’s a realistic

00:53:42.200 —> 00:53:46.000
expectation but he does seem to have a pretty good idea of yoga and he was you

00:53:46.000 —> 00:53:49.280
know he likes the fact that I’m doing yoga and stuff like that so I I have a

00:53:49.280 —> 00:53:51.920
feeling that working with him will be pretty good well I was gonna ask you I

00:53:51.920 —> 00:53:55.600
was like wait so you you think he’s into yoga because he tells you you might not

00:53:55.600 —> 00:54:00.880
come out of this pain-free that’s a weird conclusion no no no he’s because

00:54:00.880 —> 00:54:04.240
he’d know he understands when I’m describing the different yoga poses and

00:54:04.240 —> 00:54:08.360
what which way I need to rotate my arm in order to be able to do the pose and

00:54:08.360 —> 00:54:12.200
stuff like that I get that I mean a lot of no he’s just he’s just trying to be

00:54:12.200 —> 00:54:15.200
realistic he’s saying that having suffered this injury and having had this

00:54:15.200 —> 00:54:19.280
pain you’re probably never gonna get to the point where you don’t feel like this

00:54:19.280 —> 00:54:27.200
ever happened yep when I had my rotator cuff surgery my doctor that the surgeon

00:54:27.200 —> 00:54:34.800
told me that, you know, it’s not going to be a hundred percent. And I disagree. I think

00:54:34.800 —> 00:54:39.160
he got me back to what I think was a hundred percent.

00:54:39.160 —> 00:54:44.000
But see, I think the difference is, well, that is actually pretty amazing and that’s

00:54:44.000 —> 00:54:45.000
great.

00:54:45.000 —> 00:54:46.000
Yeah.

00:54:46.000 —> 00:54:47.000
Might even be unusual. I don’t know.

00:54:47.000 —> 00:54:52.360
Well, of course he seemed to think so. Well, you have to factor in though, maybe it was

00:54:52.360 —> 00:55:01.000
the fact that I had been at so suboptimal for so long that that’s why it seemed like 100% you know

00:55:01.000 —> 00:55:07.400
that could be you also had surgery whereas all I’m going to do is physical therapy to build up

00:55:07.400 —> 00:55:14.040
the muscles in such a way that hopefully my arms won’t basically you’re compensating for a

00:55:14.040 —> 00:55:19.640
particular weak spot right and there is no plan to have surgery because mine aren’t that bad mine’s

00:55:19.640 —> 00:55:23.400
It’s not that bad. It’s not as bad as yours were. In fact, you know,

00:55:23.400 —> 00:55:25.920
he does the strength test where they tell you to hold your arms at different

00:55:25.920 —> 00:55:29.560
angles and they press on them and try to see if you can maintain without,

00:55:29.560 —> 00:55:32.160
you know, and he said, your arms are basically the same strength.

00:55:32.160 —> 00:55:36.440
I can’t tell any difference. So it’s not like it’s a super bad injury. Yeah,

00:55:36.440 —> 00:55:39.880
that’s a good sign. It’s just very painful in certain positions.

00:55:39.880 —> 00:55:44.720
And so I guess what I’m saying is because I’m not going to have anything

00:55:44.720 —> 00:55:47.240
massively interventional, like a surgery,

00:55:47.680 —> 00:55:53.020
I wouldn’t be surprised if it probably is true that while it’s not as bad to begin with,

00:55:53.020 —> 00:55:58.140
the overall outcome might not be as super good as yours, where I have no pain that I

00:55:58.140 —> 00:55:59.140
notice anymore.

00:55:59.140 —> 00:56:00.140
Yeah.

00:56:00.140 —> 00:56:06.740
I mean, that said, it did come back, you know, over time, and it did degrade mostly due to

00:56:06.740 —> 00:56:11.320
working out with a teenager in a jiu-jitsu class, and, you know, the kid had no proprioception

00:56:11.320 —> 00:56:17.080
and was wailing on my shoulder after I had already submitted to, you know, through the hold.

00:56:17.080 —> 00:56:20.040
So that was one of my last jiu-jitsu classes.

00:56:20.040 —> 00:56:23.480
Yeah. And then you couldn’t go back there because you killed the kid.

00:56:23.480 —> 00:56:26.600
I did not kill the kid.

00:56:26.600 —> 00:56:31.960
All right. Well, we have been going for an hour now.

00:56:31.960 —> 00:56:32.440
We have.

00:56:32.440 —> 00:56:36.920
And I didn’t talk about Obsidian. Let’s talk about it next time. But I do want to talk about it

00:56:36.920 —> 00:56:39.480
because I think you might find it very interesting.

00:56:39.480 —> 00:56:43.280
I don’t think that Obsidian is a direct Evernote replacement for you

00:56:43.280 —> 00:56:45.800
because it’s not a filing cabinet.

00:56:45.800 —> 00:56:51.560
But what it is, is a very fascinating organizational tool

00:56:51.560 —> 00:56:53.680
that can be scripted in different ways.

00:56:53.680 —> 00:56:55.560
And it’s got lots of different powerful plugins

00:56:55.560 —> 00:56:59.440
that you can get data from your notes

00:56:59.440 —> 00:57:01.120
and present it to yourself in different ways.

00:57:01.120 —> 00:57:02.600
It’s really, really cool.

00:57:02.600 —> 00:57:05.200
And I’m using it both for myself now,

00:57:05.200 —> 00:57:10.480
like for all the notes I take for servers, for podcasts, for anything.

00:57:10.480 —> 00:57:16.800
And I’m also using it for work now. I started using it for work because I noticed with stuff in OneNote,

00:57:16.800 —> 00:57:22.320
there are a lot of times I just drop the ball on something because it’s there in OneNote somewhere,

00:57:22.320 —> 00:57:25.920
but it doesn’t surface to me and I don’t… anyway.

00:57:25.920 —> 00:57:29.360
This makes it a lot easier to make sure stuff gets surfaced to you.

00:57:29.360 —> 00:57:34.640
And so, anyway, we’ll talk about it at some future date, but I think you might find it interesting.

00:57:34.640 —> 00:57:38.320
All right. I’m, you know, I was here interested to hear about new tech options.

00:57:38.320 —> 00:57:42.640
Obsidian is one of those things that air free buddy has been talking about.

00:57:42.640 —> 00:57:47.040
When you say everybody, who does that include?

00:57:47.040 —> 00:57:53.360
Mac communities that I listened to. Okay. I was just curious because you’re everybody does not

00:57:53.360 —> 00:57:58.720
obviously interact with my everybody. Cause I’d never heard of it until you know what I take that

00:57:58.720 —> 00:58:05.760
Beck, my godson might have mentioned that. He told me about this awesome note-taking app that

00:58:05.760 —> 00:58:12.720
he was using and I don’t have it in my shortcuts, in my reminders. Well, the two that everybody are

00:58:12.720 —> 00:58:16.880
talking about, there’s one called Craft, which I could not stand and my wife and I tried it and

00:58:16.880 —> 00:58:22.080
we were like, this is dumb. And then there’s Obsidian, which is very powerful and allows

00:58:22.080 —> 00:58:27.120
you to customize and program against it. I think that’s the one he told me about also.

00:58:27.760 —> 00:58:32.240
I kind of was against it. I’m one of those people that when everybody is raving about something,

00:58:32.240 —> 00:58:38.000
I’m kind of contrarian. But then at Thanksgiving, my brother showed me how he’s using it. And I was

00:58:38.000 —> 00:58:44.560
like, “Okay, now that is cool. Now I get it. Now I understand why I would use this.” And so it was

00:58:44.560 —> 00:58:50.800
really having my brother with his Mac there at Thanksgiving, bring it over and show me exactly

00:58:50.800 —> 00:58:54.240
how he was using it and what he was doing and some of the plugins. And I was like, “Okay,

00:58:54.240 —> 00:58:59.680
Now I’m on board and now I’m deep into it. Okay. All right. Like I said, like as you said though,

00:58:59.680 —> 00:59:05.520
yeah, I am using it. I use Evernote really as a, you know, a filing cabinet because, you know,

00:59:05.520 —> 00:59:10.960
again, it’s basically endless storage, you know, for my purpose. That said, I have no idea how much

00:59:10.960 —> 00:59:15.520
space I’m really using in Evernote. I haven’t done a massive export in a long time. It’s probably not

00:59:15.520 —> 00:59:20.080
even an issue. It’s probably, you know, like, oh yeah, one gig you’re done. Yeah. So yeah. My,

00:59:20.080 —> 00:59:25.200
My godson did tell me about obsidian. Yeah, so what you might do is talk to him and then

00:59:25.200 —> 00:59:29.360
don’t think of it as will I use this instead of Evernote. Think of this as will this help

00:59:29.360 —> 00:59:37.200
improve my organization and my planning and my information. Stuff that I need to work with all

00:59:37.200 —> 00:59:43.040
the time will it will it improve that part of my life. Got it. More than just here’s something I

00:59:43.040 —> 00:59:47.120
might need some time and it could be any type of file and I want to dump it in a cabinet.

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I don’t think they’re equivalent that way, but I do think that it’s super great at being able to…

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Like, for example, let’s say I have a folder and I’ve got a bunch of subfolders, and I can do simple

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things like have a top-level page that says, “Just show me the index page and all those things.”

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I can write a query against that with something called Data View, and then on those subfolders,

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I can have their own index pages and I can show me a list of all the nodes. And not just lists,

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but you can do table views, you can do Kanban boards, you can do all kinds of stuff. And querying

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by tag, querying by page title, querying by… It’s almost like being able to do SQL queries against

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notes. Yeah, that sounds really cool. That sounds really cool. And again, as you said,

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my Evernote usage is I just throw stuff in there and in excess of 99% of the time, I just forget

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about it and that’s it. And you know, but many times I have gone back in and I was just like,

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yep, I needed that. That was, that was, I’m, you know, the, yep, I’m glad I have it there,

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you know? So yeah, it makes sense. It can’t hurt to have it. And so like,

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this won’t replace my use of Apple Notes because Apple Notes is more similar to what Evernote is.

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And it’s stuff that I share with my wife and where documents, receipts,

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little bits of information here and there. And she’s, Hey,

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she’s never going to use Obsidian and B I just don’t see it as the equivalent

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use case. Right. And so, but yeah, we’ll, we’ll talk about it next time.

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Maybe.

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Cool. I’ll put it in the future topics to be addressed.

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Well, on that note, maybe we should wrap this episode,

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put a pin in it, you know, ever note, stick a stick a fork in it.

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It’s done or something like that

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Stick your mastodon trunk

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To this tell your friends tell your friends. What are we supposed to tell our friends? I don’t know

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Oh, I know what you’re supposed to tell your friends

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I

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Didn’t even hear that. I don’t do not know what I’m supposed to tell my friends

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Said get away from the computer. Oh

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Then all the hacker sound clips are very bad. Here’s another one

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You have a zero bug attack and all lock in an overlay file run antivirus zero bug

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Now I want to watch hackers and actually, you know what? I want to watch war games again

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That’s what I want to watch war games is really cheesy. But yeah, it’s not bad

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I guess some of those movies definitely don’t hold up. No, no cool. Well on that note, let’s let’s let’s rock it. Let’s rock it

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My button is orange, but I’ll press it. Anyway, boom kill it big orange button

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Big orange…