hold it with two hands. Oh, I'm sorry. Good morning, everybody. Sorry. I caught Chad off guard because I was like ready. He's like, yeah, so I clicked it. I was just about to start the countdown to go live and he was anyways. But good morning. Hello, everybody. He here again with my cohost Chad Lutsky. We are currently working on a collaborative novel entitled Planet Caravan. The point of these dreams is to show the collaborative process. Also, it is just to give you guys someone to work with. Maybe you have writer's block, whatever. You can hang out with us and get your own work done. And also there's people out there who just like to listen to us talk and type. So anyways, yeah, sorry about this week. Right off the bat. It was one thing after another, whether it be appointments, power outages. What else was there? I can't remember me just feeling absolutely awful. There's a bunch of different stuff going on this week, but I'm back at it. This is our last day of the week. Hey, Jayrod, this is our last day of the week. And then we start back up on Monday. I have the entire weekend to rest. I do have the two live streams to do. But other than that, those aren't going to last long. Anyways, so here we are. I'm sure Chad's been over streaming on Twitch. If you don't follow him over there, you need to. He streams his writing, not games, not like, you know, I do the games, he does the writing. So if you want to follow him over there, link should be down there in the doobly-doo. Trying to think of literally anything else I need to say. I think that's everything. Anything you want to say, Chad? No, no. Just making sure. But he's been writing over there and I need to get caught up on everything that he's done.  Here are you. Oh, we're up to 131. Nice. Oh, I finished the scene where they spend the night together. I wrote that and then I started revisions on the last scene you wrote. I think it's the last thing you wrote with Jay and Henry getting busted or Henry getting busted for the drugs. Yeah, that's about right where I'm at. I'm reading. Jay Rod, just a heads up. I don't think Vikings in here. I think that was yesterday. I'm pretty sure it was anyway. See you in the right. It's got to be. Oh, okay. Never mind. Cool. The first time in a long time I've been comfortable out here in the office without any heat, without any air, nothing. And that helps the audio. Yay. We could barely hear you. I mean, I can hear you when your air is on sometimes. It's louder when it first kicks on. Yeah. What the heck is that? And then if I have it on in a video that I'm recording, the audio, because of the program that I use, the audio drops insanely low, no matter how high I have it because it's compensating for the noise in the background, that is aggravating. Hi Jennifer. I don't know how much I'm going to get done today, but goddamn, when we get back to work on Monday, man, I'm I am booking. My head is just not in the game right now. I'm still I've been I've been forcing it. I mean, I've been doing, I feel like the stuff I've been writing is good. Yeah. Everything I've read has been because I keep thinking quality. I mean, we got like two weeks. I know. And so I keep thinking that I'm like, what, whether we have to postpone our thing for a month or whatever we have to do, which I don't want to do, but I'd rather have it done and then have it sitting. I'm with you. I'm with you 100%. I also mean, we've already I've I'm not going to speak for both of us. I've already lost the flow at least like three times because I'm not used to working on anything this long, you know? Yeah. So I have other projects going also and I keep coming back to this one and I'm like, okay, here we are. This is the voice and I still end up missing. So just I'm just curious. You said you finished up the most recent scene I wrote or you start to work on it because I started revisions on the the scene that you were writing about him kind of walking around and then seeing Henry get busted. Yeah. I also needed to put Priya in there at some point. The walking around. I wanted to unless you want to do the reveal of her piranha tank the day they open. I don't know. Yeah, that probably work. Okay. Right. And then, you know, I did I wrote the scene where he can't he can't stay the night in the regal Beagle. It's got to go in I guess that's what I'm looking for. Hang on. I'm trying to find it.  I believe is what you called it. I forget. I don't do anything, but it actually did title something. Yeah, it's right about bad omen. The sun is long gone. The ground is lit by a few floodlights. That section. You help make this happen, Shane. No, that's the magical moment. Never mind. That's not the night underneath the stars. Is it? No, that's definitely that's definitely the magical moment. I just feel like I'm missing something all of a sudden. Here it is. Here it is. It's called barbed wire belly. There we go. Okay. All right. Cool beans. Cool beans. All right. I didn't think to go down that long that far. Of course, it's the it's the last thing in the book. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because we're just freaking pinball and all. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, we're both going to have. Well, I know I'm going to I keep speaking for both of us, but I know I'm going to have to go back and reread this open to do that this weekend. Oh yeah, that's a nice little chunk. Let me get to reading and I'll go on break and get back to get to work. I usually sit on on my porch and have coffee for an hour and start to wake up. I didn't have that this morning. So is I so in case anybody out there's wondering, he just got here. Are you going to take a break after reading this?  I would that that's funny. That's really funny. I was going to ask you if you mind of me cutting that literally about to look up and ask you. What?   That's crazy. I know at least once in my in my entire bibliography, I've used this exact line or a black canvas filled with well, maybe millions of what should have been billions. But yeah, there's actually a story behind me using that. And I know I've used different variations, but I'm pretty sure this is worded almost exactly the same as one of my lines. I had a buddy who got high and we were all sitting around a campfire and he just kept staring at the sky. And it was of course, dark. And he's just staring up there, staring up there.  And he goes, you guys ever wonder if there's a brighter world outside of this one? And someone just came along and poked holes in the in the in the wall. And that's what the stars are. I was like, boy, this boy. Hi. Anyways, but that's actually where I got that from. I've been using it in some variation ever since. Yep. That'll do. Good job. When I was writing that, man, I was like, you know, I was there, I was in the zone.  Yeah, definitely.  But I started wondering, I was like, and I was live streaming. And I said, maybe it's a was like, maybe it's not too poetic. It's just when you're when you're feeling these feelings, you just you get kind of get in that mindset anyway, like the first kid. He's he's also a reader. So his vocabulary and his emotional depth is going to be a little bit more than, you know, someone who doesn't. So yeah, I've thought of that. But what love and heartache tend to put us into a mindset where our vocabulary can change. And we can think of things, view things as being poetic. And I remember it was so funny, because when I was writing this, I was really in the zone live streaming. I think there were people in there. I actually got rated this weekend, which is cool. But and I remember, like being in the zone, not paying too much attention, and then kind of coming out of it, and being really embarrassed because of the scene I was writing happens here.  Right. And it's like what I kind of snapped out of it. And people, not that I was sitting here typing, going, that was hilarious. But that's what that's how I felt inside. So when I kind of came out of it and realized dude, you're online, it was it was it kind of maybe felt kind of vulnerable and almost embarrassed, even though they couldn't see in my head.  Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, it was a weird it was a strange feeling. There's so many times when I have just burst into tears, just like that, that cliched, like author moment from like movies and things where they're like doing like you know, typing something that there's so many times with that has actually happened to me.  Yeah. But yeah, I feel I know those moments. And as far as to poetic, I mean, we need something like like that in this, we need something, you know, extraordinary. Have let him have a moment of deep introspection and magic and all that stuff. And it also comes the day after he watches the carnival come alive for the first time. So he's still in this magic moment.  You know, let's wax poetic. And I know some people might try to pick the like sudden love, but it's like, yeah, it happens. Kids do that. Yeah, adults do that. But you've got kids who they really needed each other. So maybe they don't truly, you know, love each other. Maybe they think they do. And there's all that really matters. The connection is all that matters, whether it's lust, love, a puppy love, whatever it might be, the connection is what matters. Yeah, in fact, I was going to suggest that we cut out the part where he goes, hang on, I'm not I don't want to, but there was something. Is it foolish to think I may love her? That was the the only reason why is like, I don't think he'd be he would put it that way in his head is like, you know, because that's more of an adult thing.  You know, and all this stuff that the I don't want to call it flowery, but the pretty language of the, you know, the beautiful prose going on in this section fits his inner monologue. So I'm I'm fine with it. But that was the only thing that stood out to me. And but I think you're right.   Once Sam dies to have him have no inner I don't I don't know. I there's an idea brewing, but you know, letting it be so bleak that even he his head's empty, that he is he's completely numb. I don't I don't know. But we'll get there. It's just something that's marinating in my head right now that just kind of popped in there. Anyways, but yeah, damn good job. I love it. I would have got to go down here. Excuse me. So I almost got sick. I won't give you details.   And it's just it's lingered all morning also. So I keep like, you know, big big swallows at any time I drink anything. I'm like, Oh, is that it?  It is sounds like it seems like everything, everything. But but everything got done to we had multiple crises. And everything got sorted out eventually. So Dan starts work on Monday. They are excited. I'm excited for them. We went to say thanks, Jayrod. But it was just because like I was I wasn't actually going I shouldn't have gotten sick because I take I take a handful of pills every day, every morning. And this time I just I don't know if I didn't take enough water or whatever. But I was like, Well, that was a tractor sound. Good job. Anyways.  But it's not. There's nothing in there. Is it heartburn or indigestion? No, I mean, it could very well be but I take I actually take two different acid reducers. I take over the counter stuff and I take a prescription medicine. Because I was on well, the drugs and all different of the kind, all different kinds of things at one point in time, I was semi addicted to excedrin. If you if anyone out there doesn't know that's Tylenol, aspirin and caffeine, and it will wreck your stomach if you don't use an acid reducer with it. And the reason why is because it would, I don't know what it was about that mixture of those three. It was almost like speed for me, it would, you know, heighten me up and, you know, get it get the blood pumping and whatnot. And I tore this my stomach lining up. And any junkie knows, you're going to look for the next thing to cover up the last thing. You know, you kick one thing, you're looking for something else. For me, it was food. And then on top of that, it was the the excedrin. And any anyways, so I take all those acid reducers to help my ulcers is what is what I was getting it. But I took a lot of that. So I would take two, two excedrin every four hours for like two years. And finally, doctors like you can't do this anymore. And I'm gonna have to put you on something really strong for your stomach. Like, okay, I can't eat. I can't really eat too much spicy food anymore. I used to do hot pepper challenge. I used to buy peppers in bulk from a guy off Facebook.  I used to did it on the channel to numerous videos of trying different extreme hot hot spot hot sauces. I can't have any of that stuff anymore. In fact, the spicy jelly beans that I have for which people spend their channel points on those even upset my stomach just a little bit. But as long as I don't do more than like two and I tell everybody I'm like, okay, don't don't use your channel points for that anymore, because I can't take it. But it's just a weird switch me going from eating the hottest stuff on the planet to if I eat like a jalapeno, I mean, I have they're called cat cramps, capsaicin cramps, I have cat cramps for hours.  That would take a whole handful of pills without water. I don't know how he does. Yeah, I know. I can do one or two at a time without water, but no, I can't do any more than that. And I take nine pills in the morning. Actually, two more. So I take 11 now. Well, no, one of them is nighttime. So 10 and then one at night. Anyways, that's all my business out in the open. I'm going to go in and go take a break from back and start writing because I'm going to get into this. We got to get this done. And I do not see two weeks being impossible. So but we definitely got to got to hit it. So I have to, because I'm the one who ain't been working all week. I have I just came out here this morning just talking for Chad. I've been saying we we we we we we. No, no, we we don't know. No, no, no. Anyways, I'll be back probably in 15 minutes. Okay. All right. So what are you working on? I can just click your name never mind. Still working on that. Okay. Yeah. This is where, yeah, from this point on, see, hang on before you. Yeah. I didn't think that's why I did the porta potty thing because I did not believe for a second that Mingo would would just throw it away because someone else might come along and grab it. Well, I was thinking of having him say because he just kicked her out.  You're done. So I know I was thinking about that you say, you know, like you can. I understand what you're saying.  She wants to use them. She wants to sell them. Okay. You know what I mean?  She's leaving. All right.  Haven't really got that far. But okay, yeah, probably. Yeah. Okay, I'm down with that then. No, no problem. All right. But yeah, from this point on. I wouldn't call it. I don't know if I call it the third act, but you know, this is it's it's all about the paranoia now and you know, soon, he's gonna like he he he has no choice but to go get to that cocaine today and get rid of it. Yeah. Okay. I'm thinking there might should be a another scene with him and Sam Sam. I always forget her name. Somewhere that maybe we can throw in after either either after one of us, you know, reads the whole thing again and finds an appropriate spot or when we do our second draft. Because I think that to I think it will help this whole love thing and this first kiss thing if they have another scene together. Okay. Um, so we haven't done the we haven't done the library and he's about to find that. Yeah, he's about to find that. He's gonna find that missing and then there's the next phone call. So okay, well, hold on. The library. Yes. Okay. I'm gonna do that. How about after I'm just gonna stretch out the scene where they're spending time together. Yeah. They'll have this. They'll sit on the blanket. They'll have this discussion about the books and everything and then she lays back and then she gets all weird with the whole like tell me your dreams.  So, yes, thanks for the reminder. I really want that. Yeah, I was. Yeah, he could pick up. That's why she brought the paper by the that's why she brought the backpack. Yeah, because it's got books in it. Got you.  He's assured her and now she feels comfortable showing him the library. So that's that's how I was imagining it. So right after that. Well, the the I mean, if we rearranged it, but the the promising thing is for the kiss. No, no, I I I know that but it's also just like just a motivation for her. You know, he's gonna be here.  He's going to be here and now she lets him even farther into her life is what I'm getting at. It makes sense on a thematic on a thematic level because she would now feel comfortable enough to you know, to show him to let her so you let him even more into her world, but you don't have to do anything else. I'm just saying the I know, but I mean right after that, right, right, which is that that's why I got confused because I was saying they sit on the blanket. She's like, I want I got something I want to show you. They talk about the books then the kissing, but you're saying stop the kissing for the books. Well, I would say we we lie back and kiss and the kiss lasts a lifetime, but when it's over, we peck for now we revel while the butterflies. Yeah, basically right after this this section, the very last part, maybe go into open up another chapter. Keep that one short and sweet and contained and then the next chapter literally opens up with something like I want to show you something or or whatever and then you can lead in so it would be a different time somewhere else. No, no, no, it would be right right. Okay, hang on. Okay, well, my thing is okay, here's my arguments. I don't like I like ending it with this blissful moment that they're sharing. I mean the the fact that they're important to her is cool, but I feel like kissing like kind of like uh like like she has so much self-worth despite um what's his name? I was gonna say Ringo. Despite uh despite but despite buzzer relationship with buzzard which was nothing more than almost some kind of weird Stockholm syndrome. I'm getting out of it. I'm being saved by you know yeah um I would agree with that yeah and then she uh but the kiss is something like she's not slut.  Buzzard. Yeah, buzzard. Um I keep wanting to say Fes too like the Ferris wheel and then a Z in there. Look dude I'm I'm completely fine with it coming beforehand. I have no problem with that at all. I just wanted to make sure we got the order. It's still it's still we will still stress that this is like a big deal to her you know like I don't I don't share those with too many people. Mm-hmm and now it's going step further it's like I'm ready to kiss you but I can't you know mm-hmm. No I'm fine I'm fine you don't have to explain anymore I'm fine with I'm fine with that I'm fine with the being beforehand. I was just wondering literally wondering where we were going to put it and I was wondering if we were going to skip over that idea. It's just it's just not there because I totally forgot about it. Well like I said I had the backpack there. I've done that many a times.  Um I have 30 followers now I guess 40 is 50 50 is affiliate so you can start monetizing your channel at 50. Well when they they asked me if I want to set my goal and my goal was 40 and it set affiliate 40 so I set my goal for 40. Did they did they literally drop it like right after I got it uh we'll do going in five minutes awesome. Um I don't know. Yeah it's uh reach 50 followers stream for eight at least eight hours stream for seven different days and have an average of three viewers at the same time. I had that bookmark because I kept going back and forth to it. Now we got that all settled. What am I writing next? I don't know if I want to tackle the next phone call already or if I want to do something else. We have the one uh Shane goes to town again but this time with K he finds out cake and talk no problem. That's so weird. I'm I'm seeing a page on here for achievements path to affiliate says reach 50 followers stream for eight hours which have gotten now there's now there's a bunch of stuff and achievements that don't mean a damn thing like more than half of the stuff on there doesn't mean anything. It's just basically trying to get you. Yeah I will Jordan. Um it's just trying to give you milestones to hit before you actually hit the affiliate one. Uh huh. I remember watching that achievements page you know daily. Uh you know sometimes two or three times during the stream to see if I was hitting any new landmarks. It's fun for someone like a completionist like me so I I keep you know going for the next thing going for the next thing but yeah you'll you should get there relatively easy with your built-in following already. Not saying it's going to be overnight but uh I'm trying to find the I'm trying to find the goals thing where you say your goals and it gives you a suggested. Now are you using stream labs to stream through twitch? Are you streaming directly from twitch? I'm using uh twitch studio. Twitch studio? Okay. Yeah. I use uh stream labs. Uh awesome. I subbed on my solvents account. I messaged you about I didn't share it yet. I'll do okay yeah I saw I saw that you were um unless you're talking to uh to Chad yeah I got 60 followers now so that must be you because I don't have anybody new. Um let's see here where is that?  It is so confusing find and when you get affiliate I'm going to warn you now when you get affiliate you have to relearn it all over again because they put things in different places after you get affiliate. Oh great.  All right so you got the magic moment down you got here it is manage goals it says um can yeah it's down there in the uh it's down in the doobly doo in the description Jordan should be anyways no wrong wrong thing hang on I'm I'm just making sure that it is actually down there yep and I spelled twitch wrong in the doobly doo wonderful anyways cancel save okay yeah Chad's trying to get to 52 so he can make some pennies off of his stuff dude these platforms you you make so little uh based on what they're charging like as a twitch affiliate you get $2 and 50 you get half of what people sign up for you get a hundred I think a hundred percent of your bits but uh when people cheer you or whatever um you get a hundred percent of those um but the best thing to do that affiliate part of twitch affiliate is important because what happens is you get ad revenue from the game that you you're playing so or if you're not going to be playing games but what happens is like let's say I've been playing Liza P if someone clicks on the Liza P thing when I'm playing if someone clicks on the category it'll take them to where they can buy the game and if they buy the game you get money um but it's you know it's like maybe it's probably like 0.01% of whatever it costs um but uh there's that then there's uh the bits there's so many different ways to monetize on twitch I love it but I'm also having problems keeping track of what and my point here is youtube takes a huge chunk of memberships also um twitch takes a huge chunk uh at least 50 percent I think youtube even takes more um and then youtube takes damn near half of your any donation not donations but super chats or anything that you get I don't understand that I can understand them taking your membership um your your membership money ad revenue splitting all that but when people send you money and you use super chat it should be a hell of a lot more than you know 50 percent it should be you know I think 70 percent because even amazon unless you have your book under 299 even amazon has the two different tiers you have the 30 percent and the 70 percent and if it's below you know this but I'm telling everybody out there if you go indie on kindle you have two options with the book that you're publishing you have a 30 option which is anything below 299 um if you charge more than 299 it's 70 cut um but you can I don't know why you would but you can still check the 30 um if it's over 299 I don't know why you would do that but anyways um and even when amazon is giving a higher cut of profit to the creator there's an issue there's a problem here with these platforms I'm not asking for 100 percent unless you could be bad for 70 you're competing with uh I think a big draw of twitch you know used to be like games but as I searched around um different channels and stuff like the chat channel and which is essentially softcore porn for lonely men yep I was even recommended a channel yesterday I'm not sure what how they come up with recommendations I don't know if it's based on popularity I clicked on one and it was a chick that was uh looking like a cat and he just getting ready to be nailed from behind with her bikini on and and just talking to people I'm like girls don't you're doesn't your back and your knees hurt because you can only arch your back for so long yeah um I am a and there was there was over 4 000 people in there I'm of two minds when I come across something like that uh the first one is good for them uh get that bag make whatever money use your body do whatever you want because I'm pro sex worker too at the same time I'm like the opposite of that oh I'm a hundred percent pro sex work in fact I want to put if I want to put people in charge of themselves I want the of course health regulations but as far as you know no pimps no hustlers that kind of thing it's all about the person and them getting paid for what they're doing um but anyways I knew we were going to disagree on on that one but um the the next one is uh I also know the type of people that are in those streams and those people are sick and we're not just talking about young youngsters um you know coming in trying to catch a glimpse of boobs for the first time we're talking about sick people um who flock to these channels and uh it it's just so I mean I feel almost the same way about that as I do like uh sex dolls that are made to be younger for certain demographics you know when I'm talking about that disturbs the fuck out of me I don't care if it's a doll or anything but there's so many people that say hey it would cut down it's like no it won't because people who are attracted to adults still use those things and still have sex with adults just because the thing that you're getting at is one of the first things I thought of when when I saw how good virtual reality was because I know there will come a day where where they're going to uh that that sort of thing that sort of thing is going to be you're going to be able to customize your uh and you can have your and you can look at all looking as anime as you want I don't you know which a lot of those dolls that's what they look like they just look like this uh three foot tall anime uh for four foot tall or whatever anime thing that's like 12 years old but I think virtual reality at one point uh is seriously going to get like that maybe it might take 10 years but I can see I'm sure no I'm sure it's already out there if you go to like the uh the tool I'm saying I'm saying like mainstream and and becoming uh that becomes mainstream it's over I mean I just I don't want to be here anymore we're we're already in some areas that were like people that lived 50 years ago would would not believe oh yeah just the twitch thing yeah I just yeah I don't I don't and but I mean I don't see here's the thing I don't see any difference between the twitch streamers that are doing that and the bikini clad ladies that are up you know walking around with cards uh at a boxing match or whatever or or e-girls you know all the all the cleavage bubbling over at the at the game but I also at the same time I do feel like an old man you know yelling at clouds even when I start talking about that stuff because I'm not in that position if I was in that position and I had those attributes I would 100 use them for the betterment of my you know my finances I guess it's the best way to put it and I wouldn't want anyone telling me hey you can't do that with your body what does bother me is there's absolutely no kind of uh a safeguard for kids on twitch other than the actual uh streamer themselves marking their own channel adult content there is nothing forcing them to click that this is adult content now you can get removed but someone has to report you and who the hell walk going into one of those streams is going to report the uh the I guess the topic of their fantasy anyways but uh that's yeah that's how I do anyway I'm of I'm of those two minds they're very sick disturbed people in there but also if the woman feels safe and comfortable in that environment you can do whatever the fuck she wants to do I just wish there was a better I mean we have only fans uh but they end up going over to twitch because with only fans you know it's it not only is the price higher but why go over to only fans when you can get the content free and there's always going to be someone willing to show and do for free so or there will always be places to go that are free I guess I just saw uh someone on twitch post a video from um like a a clip from a disney movie where they are using um uh I don't know if you would technically call AI but like uh digital actors in the like it shows like it's like there's four five or six uh digital actors in the background like clapping behind this team of of I don't know what movie it's for it's some disney movie but they're the focus is really on the people in front but when you look at the um you back you see these clearly digital um people like clapping with like uh what's sad I don't I don't know what's worse that they're that they are taking actors jobs or even extras you know everybody could use a few bucks to be in a movie and say yeah check out that I'm in this scene right here whatever they're they're paying for digital actors and what's even more insulting is every person in this digital these all five of these people in here are minorities they've got an Asian woman a black guy it looks like Middle Eastern oh so they're forcing they're they're forcing me so it's like so it's like we're getting all our people in yeah it's it's a check they're fake that sounds like a double slam that is in the the disrespect of that it's like you're not even you're going to show diversity but you're not even going to hire real people to show your diversity that's uh wow I know that they didn't want that to be seen or focused on in you it's a quick scene so you would you would miss it unless you were uh someone like me who observes things in the background stuff but it's getting scared I haven't trusted Disney for years I don't I don't trust Disney yeah um I in fact I pretty much swore off Marvel movies once they bought in um I don't I don't bother with I don't watch any of the stuff that's on there in fact well mainly because it's so fucking expensive now but I don't I don't fuck with Disney anymore either unless it's a Pixar movie that my kids absolutely just have to see because my oldest is like a like a Pixar not conspiracy theories but one of those people that do deep dives to find basically they do the same thing with Pixar that I do with Stephen King excuse me finding all the connections Easter eggs and all that stuff so if there's a new Pixar movie 100% gotta go see it but uh it times have already come and it is beyond scary because I saw a video that I could not tell was CGI AI generated whatever you know the freak on a leash uh corn's freak on the leash video yeah it wasn't johnson davis singing and bouncing around and doing his head it was Barack Obama and I could not tell that it was not that I thought Barack Obama you know literally did this like they like they got him to do it in front of a green skin but I couldn't even tell where like one image and you know how you can usually tell there's a you know it's out of place but the shading and everything was so perfect that it literally looked like Barack Obama head banging and dancing around the same exact way Jonathan Davis does in that music video and I'm sitting there with my jaw on the floor because I cannot believe that I am seeing this literally looks 100 real and this comes from someone who watches loads of movies with CGI in it this was better than than most movies and I was just like I can't I can't believe and the only reason I know it was completely completely fake is because right well right above it so it had been after they uploaded that when they uploaded the making of it and showed the I guess it's a program Adobe AI Photoshop has a new AI thing and they use that to create this whole thing I just like that's fucking crazy it took them like 16 hours but they were still able to do something that completely fooled you know me which I was like when I saw that deep fake stuff I thought this is the scariest thing our planet has ever seen because it's going to start a war one day and if you can make it on your own I mean we all we already get photoshopped images from whatever side needs to fit something into their agenda and they want to make some headline that's completely untrue they're just trying to strengthen their side both sides do it all the time and with the steep fake stuff it's going to get way worse and you're you're not going to be able to yeah it terrifies me man I'm not I'm not worried about that I mean the actor and stuff that that kind of thing that's one thing but this can be used as a as some sort of weapon yeah oh 100% yeah I know and there's there's actually no regulations on it other than copyright infringement and that's the scary part because you can in fact there's a there's a dude right now that just ended his own life it was named his name on twitch was inquisitor three and he was a ghost from call of duty a cosplayer and this young young girl and her boyfriend at the time inquisitor didn't know that she was under age but there was nothing sexual going on he just didn't know because she told him that she was an adult because he checked because he had to pay her for editing some stuff and all this came out after he he took he took you know took his own life I'm trying not to get demonetized but I'm trying to tell the the story properly anyways but she had photoshopped all these messages from him about what are you wearing all that all that nasty shit and he kept on saying I did not do this I can show you the other chat thread and all that stuff and he would show his side and people were like well you can delete your your text messages off your own phone so that doesn't prove anything um anyways he finally he finally died and um so now everyone both her and her boyfriend pages are on private um but the police aren't doing anything about it yet and that's why it's kind of making noise on tiktok because it's against the law to do something like that you cannot you know defame someone you can actually you can also get manslaughter charges for pushing someone to that point so I'm really hoping that happens because she literally when it her and her boyfriend went in and destroyed this man's life career following everything and it was all bullshit and the unfortunate part is none of this shit came out until after um so every not everyone believed it but yeah there's quite a few people that uh believed it and now there's even more backlash now because the people who turned on him are now coming out to support him and it's like you know you you had the knee jerk reaction of believing this person like well I had I had evidence I had pictures pictures ain't even evidence anymore and that is the problem you know you can watch whole videos that look I just I just got through watching uh Donald Trump Joe Biden uh Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter playing call of duty that's another thing that that's going that uh not I didn't watch them but they have the the AI faces and the voices so they and they're doing back and forth like they're playing the game it's like I got you bitch kind of like Joe Biden saying like I got you bitch and Trump over here going you need to get that economy under control you know that that kind of thing um but uh you you see and you hear this stuff you can't even believe your own eyes anymore you have to go down the rabbit hole to try and find that that's that's where we're at right now is we can't half the time we can't even prove something is fake because it's so far buried underneath the real stuff it this dangerous and scary times for real I mean yeah yeah what was the timeline for Skynet to go live uh I believe Skynet already went live um as far as like a time frame when did Skynet go live hi Pedro yeah August 4th 1997 no no no no uh it was August 4th 1997 is when it goes when it goes live when does uh let's go take over when does Skynet take over uh August 29th 1997 so it only took 25 days for it to become self-aware and take over but yeah dude I don't I was just telling my wife when I went inside I don't know that I'm gonna get anything done today as far as writing um I just my my head is not in the game yeah there but not only that but at the same time I got I'm on a new well I'm not on new I got double blood pressure medicine and it hasn't leveled out yet um to where I feel normal so I'm insanely sleepy um and I still have to stream I don't I don't want to go right now but I'm not going to get any fucking writing done um hopefully I'm leveled out by Monday even if I'm not I will force it I don't want to force anymore because we really don't have the time for you to be rewriting everything that I do um so yeah that's that's where I'm at today so that's another reason why I'm talking so much I'm literally procrastinating I'm going too fucking honest I could have just been like oh the words aren't no that's I'm I've been procrastinating that's why I've been talking as much as I have now that it's any different from any other time I talk but uh yeah I don't I don't feel it um I thought it was 2027 uh no I think that's when everything is finally gone to utter shit um when John Connor is leading the resistance I think that's the year that that happens but yeah we're we're real close to uh to you know exos not exoskeleton is it ex not an indus skeleton that doesn't make any sense if it's an exo exoskeleton because x is x turn anyways we're we're very close to t800s you know stepping on fucking skulls is what I'm getting yeah we're on track yeah I just sent you a twitter message with the uh Francois Valencourt um versus on a butterfly uh cover all right I'm glad you told me because that sure as hell I haven't open oh I think you've shown me this I may have shown you some of the art yeah the mock-up or something with the this is the final this is the text yeah they gave me four font choices I went with this one I mean I don't I don't dislike it but about the art or the fun hang on hang on give me a second I want to look no that's not gonna work I'm trying to get into thumbnail will you see what the see what the words look like in thumbnail because that's how I judge whether or not but I mean I love the artwork I was sending these other ones then they sent me all right I I like the way that that I don't particularly like I'm not I don't love the font but I like the way that it fills the whole page out and uh brings your eye to it without distracting that one's way too simple for me that second one you just sent way too simple ah that's I hate hate the font for the byline on the yellow one oh it's sci-fi I it's what it looks like to me I hate it like I I'm having a visceral reaction now I don't mind I don't mind this last one it's up to you of course it's your book but I don't mind this last one at all but now that I scroll up I like I I get what you're saying and I agree with you the way it fills fills the top and brings the eye out there yeah things like symmetrical and yeah it just fills fills up the top yeah and then this like handwritten Chad Lutzky I like that too it's not handwritten of course but it looks more handwritten than any of these other ones but I mean yeah that's the I think that top one is the best one you got um even though I really really love the last one yeah we're on track Pedro how you doing by the way oh and on top of that my mind is on this interview I have uh this afternoon and I'm hoping that goes well uh so my head my head's not in the game and I'm exhausted because this medicine this medicine that I'm on they also put me on a new uh I was on this stuff called Trulicity for it's been keeping my blood sugar in check and all that stuff um but then it got to a point where I was having these side effects where everything basically it was giving me Crohn's disease um without it actually being Crohn's disease um where anything I ate would just come out the way it looked when I ate it um and it was just everything was just running through my system I wasn't holding on to any nutrients or anything so she took me off that and she put me on this stuff called Farziga F-A-R-X-I-G-A so instead of filtering out the sugar and all that stuff through the through the bowels or the intestines and all that it filters it out through the urine um and there's nothing on the the stuff that says that it makes you sleepy um but I started both what I'm trying to get at is I started both of them I doubled I had my blood pressure medicine doubled and I got to Farziga so I have no idea which one of these is making me tired or if it's a combination of both of them um Farziga a new is that a new drug I'm guessing I don't I don't know I've never heard of it before um but uh she did say that if I'm also on Metformin just kind of maintenance drugs because I'm technically not diabetic anymore but she wants to keep me there um and the the diet plan that I'm on I only really eat once a day uh if anywhere between four and eight window um and it's it's not really like fasting or keto or anything because I put cream in my coffee uh but the thing is with with me my problem is once I start eating I don't ever want to stop eating um I'm missing the I think it's a I think it's a hormone the hormone that tells you that you're full the switch that's like okay stop eating um and I think I broke that in myself by doing all the food competitions I used to do back in the day um because I could I can put you know 30 pounds of food in my stomach um and that's not even an exaggeration I can eat 30 pounds of food um my stomach it keeps and since I'm already such a big guy it just fills the cavity you know where you know it inside me so it feel I feel better when I've eaten 10 pounds of food than I do if I I don't eat or I eat a regular size meal at least mentally even physically I can't really tell unless I lay down then it's hard to breathe kind of thing but uh yeah I I really wrecked my body anyways so the farz farziga um and the metformin if both of those work out without any horrible side effects she can put them both into one pill but right now I'm taking those two pills on top of it like I said I'm taking nine pills every morning it's ridiculous um but I also take a vitamin D supplement because I don't get out in the sun um I don't I take that I take uh the two the uh the two uh stomach medicines the acid reducers um blood pressure metformin farziga um ashwagandha but that's just that's not uh that's just over the counter ashwagandha and sometimes cratum um so for my pain anyways so every morning I got to get up and take all these different castles and uh I'm I'm hoping to get some of them narrowed down to just one um I had another point to where I was going but this is this is my mind today even worse than normal I can't stay on track and that's what I'm worried about when I get on this phone call that I'm just gonna start fucking rambling so I'm trying to get all my rambling out now uh knowing what I had to do this week what we really should have done and we talked about this on like Monday we should have just taken another week off and then come back at it and just you know guns blazing we did get more done but I didn't I don't feel like I I wasn't even and I I think I told you this I wasn't even happy with the fish chapter I was just trying to get through you know trying to get that done and I'm glad you changed as much as you did but I was going to cut it all together and write something entirely different um because I wasn't happy with it but uh you know I'm glad you were able to save what you could out of that one because I didn't like it at all um it felt like I was just going through the paces and I hate it when my writing reads like that so anyways you ever talked for so long probably not you probably don't have this issue I know you don't have this issue but have you ever talked for so long that you become intimidated by your own silence that's where I'm at right now like I don't want to be quiet because I'm intimidated by my own silence and I don't know what could possibly happen if I shut up that would be bad but that's where that's where I'm at right now just letting you know that's why I'm just talking interesting yeah the touch of the tism and ADHD my brain's all fucked up I ever tell you the story about uh the doctor that I went to when I was younger told my mom that uh it was it was an autism ADHD spectrum test did I ever tell you about that I don't want to spoil it no okay so um I was in eighth grade and my teacher I got this I got this teacher it was middle school so it was we had periods instead of just one classroom so uh I finally have these periods and uh pretty much it's it's the same old routine just we're going from class to class but I ended up getting one teacher who knew what was wrong with me um and his name was Mr. Haas um I'll never forget the dude I love him forever he's an amazing person uh he's also the reason why I'm a writer today because I broke my wrist playing football and he said just just write stories for me instead of writing out uh instead of doing your classwork write me a story every night and I'll I'll turn that in and I'll give you the same credit as would if had you done your homework um and anyways because I could you know type on a typewriter I couldn't write out so I literally every night I would sit there and write him a story but uh he said he called up my mom is like I I know this I know I know your son I know what he's going through you need to have him checked for this that and the other so when he went I got I got checked and the the guy went through the whole thing memory tests all that stuff and he gets done um and I did not learn this until two years before my mom died so I would have been 40 no hang on here she died in 2020 I would have been 38 at the time um so I would however long later um I found out about it but she said the guy that did the testing after we were after we I was done and she and I left the room so she could talk to the doctor the doctor said well he's definitely definitely has ADD maybe even HD um but I was worried we were all worried about and this is what the guy's telling her we're all worried that he has autism but he's not in continent so he can't be autistic so basically he said because he doesn't shit on peeing you know shit on himself he can't be autistic that was that would have been in 92 or 93 um and it's just it blows my mind that even back then they thought of autism as something as a massively debilitating thing because of the more extreme ends of the spectrum you know nonverbal you know not whatever it might be um and you know looking back on that I mean there's nothing you can do for autism there's no there's no pill there's nothing there's nothing that's going to fix it you just have to learn to live with it um but I thought that was first I thought it was horrible because she didn't tell me for 30 years um second I thought it was it was hilarious that I've been struggling my entire life with certain things that do not fall in the ADHD spectrum um like my uh OCD and all these all these other things that just come prepackaged in autism um that I could have you know tried to get some help for misdiagnosed uh borderline well not misdiagnosed but I got borderline narcissistic behavior uh or personality disorder I have a borderline obsessive compulsive I have a bipolar a huge manic swings followed by huge depressive swings uh but that that's my mental health is a bubbling cauldron of bullshit um but yeah anyways I thought I'd share that with you because I I got a kick out of that one when mom finally told me it's like yeah you said just because you didn't shit on yourself you couldn't be autistic I was like that is a fucking shame that's weird so your reaction was priceless turn your head and say that's weird sorry sorry I thought it was funny anyways if you want me to leave you alone so you can actually get some work done I will but uh yeah anyways I'm I'm probably I'm I didn't wake up in uh you know because I had that I was trying to get all those blurbs and I had emails and crap that I was trying to send out so neither one of us wasn't yeah neither one of us our heads are not in the game I'm thinking of um you know gonna get this done this month gonna do uh this uh project I'm excited about well project a book I'm gonna write right I will say a novel that I think it's gonna take place in a in a motel um uh where uh more than just more than just separate novellas but uh like I just finished goblin a couple days ago really enjoyed it a lot but my thing is going to be much more interlaced rather than different things happening in the same place right right that's that's what I did with my big project is I did that instead of having like you know disconnected interconnected stories all the all the stories are interconnected but it's still a mosaic because we never go back to that point of view ever again but those characters are in the the following chapters following scenes and all that stuff so uh I even have another idea that I'd probably be working on for nano um because we were talking about mosaic novels because you mentioned your idea I think we were offline at that time but yeah anyways keep going sorry I just interject yeah so november will be filled up with that and um I'm also going to I plan on just trying to I plan on doing my absolute best not to edit as I go and just finish with a uh just a nasty messy blood draft yeah uh I'm gonna try and I love those man I love I'm also gonna um well one of the reasons why I want to do that is because I want to do something I want to I want to try to learn to write faster and just to see what happens with that and see if I'm capable of and I'm sure I am but capable of going in and really making it something completely different than than the first draft rather than making it you know pretty much the same but fixing all the errors and yeah but you already know you're capable of it because that's literally what you've been doing with this yeah well I I I mean yes you know yourself a little bit better I can see myself writing a paragraph and just fighting the obsessive compulsive urge to go back and fix that and just every writing session be like that but I'm going to try my best and I'm also going to outline because uh this thing that I'm I'm writing needs it it's kind of like writing a mystery or something you know you kind of you gotta have more than just an idea so um and then December we'll get back into our thing to clean that all up as best we can but also um I think come january because I got a book coming out in january and I got a book coming out in february and I'm just gonna try to do as much promo as I can but I think in january I'm only gonna write screenplays I think I'm gonna write like maybe two of them cool um I could probably you know I haven't written a screenplay in almost three years so it's not something that you can get back on the bike and just take off you know because of the formatting and it's like what even just not even just the formatting but and I have final draft so I've got I've got um yeah so I've got everything I need as far as that goes but even that you open it up and it's like how did I do that again and and there's just like you you forget to what even the the tiny things that you need to add and the tiny things that you need to take out right you know the the obvious thing it's like a when writing a screenplay is it's not pros but when you write your first screenplay it's you do um end up leaving stuff in there that you think needs to be there and it doesn't so it's it's a constant revisioning to get down to 80 pages 110 pages yeah so um yeah so I'm wondering you know screenplays works well uh sorry it's not works well sells well they sell well if you can if you can sell screenplays they can people do that make money so I'm gonna I'm gonna see what I'm probably gonna write one for a foster homes and flies I just wanted to point out Pedro I just want people to be able to see it like in the playback um and then Pedro follows it up with and both work that's the important part um me and Chad have two completely different styles and even mechanically speaking how we write um the speed and you know velocity of how quickly we get through things Chad is still fast um because I mean you just go back and look at how prolific he is for that um he's still fast he's still putting out more content than you know most people um so even though he's a slower writer than me we both take the exact same amount of time because he edits as he goes and I edit at the end um or not right at the end but I let it sit and marinate whenever then I come back and I completely overhaul it um but anyways yes that is a good point Pedro thank you for that because uh um it it it nails it and it just goes to show you that as long as you get to the as long as you're getting to the final destination it doesn't matter how you take the trip you can either go from a to b you can go from a to b to c to d to whatever all the way to z it you can cut cut corners replace corners and make it longer whatever you want to do but the important part is whatever works for you find what works for you maybe it's a mishmash of a bunch of different styles or work ethics or whatever you find that thing and you you stick with it um but you continue to grow of course you know you might add in you know okay I'm going to read this book instead of this type of book that kind of thing for inspiration um but anyways yeah whatever works for you is what you need to be doing don't look at the way Chad does it and go I I have to do it that way don't look at the mad fuck way I do it and you know think I got to do it like E you have to find your own path just like life you have to find your own way of doing it um but yeah great observation Pedro um and I think it's important too to get your feet wet with so that you can find out what works for you like if it like what I'm doing right now and I saw Mallerman do it a a year or two ago he said he's going to write the landsdale way which is the it's that's how I write is if you've got a if you've got to give it a name the landsdale way just so happens that I found out that we write exactly the same way so um he wanted to try it for a book and you might find that um something in it like you were saying you can you know mix and match you might find something in it that works or you might find that I think this works even better than what I have been doing that was already working before but I'm happy with this because it's it's moving things along faster or it's it's doing something you know that I wasn't getting before I think it's rather than you know getting stuck in your way at least you stuck in your own ways at least try different things and then before you find out okay this is what this is how I roll right here um I think another important thing is just because you like an author's writing and an author's work they may not be the best role model for you um and that that's going back to the the differences and the you know the uh the preferences for how you how you write you know how you how you go about your your thing um it's like most people are like okay well he is a hundred percent uh a school of Stephen King author um not really um whenever I'm writing I'm usually not right reading Stephen King um because his style for me is so easy to mimic it it'd be nothing for me to write an entire novel that sounded exactly like Stephen King because I've read so much of him um who I look more to towards for writing inspiration um tends to come from uh it tends to change on every single project because I'm reading different stuff all also at the same you know same time but uh it has a lot to do with the music that I listen to it has a lot to do with you know several different things but when I do find the right method for that project and what this is my point here when you get into not every project is going to be the same and the same mechanics the same structure routine all that stuff is not going to work every single time um sometimes like Chad said you know with uh the new project he has coming out he's outlining um he's he's just gonna blow through it try to see what's up with that just you know get done and then edit it in post um and I think that's important that people do that you know switch up their styles uh to whatever makes the project feel easier to do um so often we get stuck and this is why people go this is why people hit you know authors like me I don't know if they do it to Chad hit hit me up all the times like will you read the first 10 pages of my manuscript fuck no now I'm not going to read the first 10 pages of your manuscript finish the fucking thing and then we we can move on the problem that they're having is either imposter syndrome or whatever it might might be what they're realizing is what they are doing is not making them happy in the process so they want someone else to validate their feelings and if I were to validate those feelings and they still couldn't push forward that's an issue for them they are now stuck they've lost their motivation they lost their momentum all that stuff so yeah also don't show your shit until it's done unless you have a request from a publisher saying yo we want to we want to see this or whatever you pitch something so on and so forth but don't just give you know Tom Dick or Harry your your your stuff and be like please make me feel better about this always finish it clean it up the best you can and then send it out okay I don't get that often but I have had a couple really close friends of mine who wrote uh some uh a couple of short stories um one of them sent it to me and I was like uh this is good you should continue doing this and the other one sent it to me and I was like and I told him beforehand I was like we're still gonna be friends right I mean if you're really sending me this to critique I had I had no idea whether he could write or not if you're sending me and he's a really smart guy uh very very nice guy but that doesn't mean you can write so right um yeah oh gosh it was not good and uh I did the best I could as far as like explaining you know uh if if somebody can get past um uh if somebody can thoroughly understand the show don't tell rule uh to me if you can really really grasp that you're probably a good writer yeah um I had a I had a friend and this this going back to not all advice is gonna work for everybody um I had a friend who uh so how do you write just literally like how do you write I'm like I just sit down and I just start writing because like you don't have any like thought process beforehand like sometimes I'll have like a line or character or something that's already speaking to me but most of the time when I get done with a project I jump right into the next project before you go I want to tell tell everybody about my project in November too but anyways and they're like okay so you just sit down you just start typing I'm like yeah that's pretty much it I mean some people can do it some people can't so don't expect wondrous things but you know it it it probably be a good you know detector whether or not you're at least a good storyteller even if you're not a even if you're not a good writer and I said I gave them all these pointers and everything they're like okay I can do this I'm gonna go home they went home and they wrote 30 pages without a single piece of punctuation not a single period comma quotation mark nothing they're like well I did what you told me to do and I just sat down and started writing I was like you at least gotta follow the basic rules because I don't even know what the fuck this says it's just 130 page run-on sentence so yeah I've tried to add a little more to that and be like okay you know you at least got to have the basics you know you got to at least know what periods and you know commas and you know when to use these things you you at least need to know that and when uh when she asked me she said well what's a semicolon I'm like okay all right well then I gave her you know grammar books instead of you know like kings on writing or the zen and the art of writing or whatever by Bradbury and you know you gotta you gotta test the you gotta have a sample of the waters before you give advice sometimes also I think that's hilarious um but uh anywho I want to talk about it because I'm gonna be doing another mosaic project uh and I don't know how it's gonna go I don't know if it's gonna be like a short story collection in it just interconnected stories or if I'm gonna have a framing device whatever but I've had this image stuck in my head of this gigantic snake I'm not talking about like a boa constrictor I'm talking about this thing's the size of a bus like it's as big around as a bus and I'm going to call the thing snake um the whole the whole project snake and it's how everyone on this street reacts to the snake being there they can't get out of their house they can't get out of their houses because it's taking up the entire thing there's you know brick walls at the end of every every block so they can't they can't even really get out without going over the snake um anyways uh and I was going to do just bunch of slice of life things and just have the snake be the uh be the constant so I think it's cool uh going into November we're both gonna be working on some kind of mosaic project um but that's that's something I yeah that is crazy yeah um I really I really want to do and you brought it up the other day uh you brought up nano the other day and asked me if I was going to do it and I got to thinking about it was like I don't have any idea what I'm going to do I probably will um even if I don't I will still be cheering people on but then I got to thinking about it was like I don't really have anything else the big project is pretty much done for now um and I'm and I haven't written anything anything that's not that big project since last nano um I believe no no no way saying I did how to no I can't say that title um I did that one so I did two I've only done two um so I've been working for the past year pretty much a hundred percent on the big project and then I had a couple other like not spin-offs but a couple other novels that I got done also um but I was just thinking about it's like I've been doing stuff not for myself for so long like the big project um was made made possible because a good friend of mine pretty much funded me writing it was like if you just write this I'll give you so much money because I love the idea so I did that um and then the last two smaller things that I did and I'm one of them's 100 and I think 110,000 words the other one's 150,000 words but the big project is 902,000 words so they're little they're smaller projects to me but my point is I haven't written just for myself in so long I just want to kind of just let it go and because the last time I did it was uh I wrote someplace other than elsewhere and that's locked deep inside of a trunk um there's that one so I'm going to work on this time I'm going to focus on just entertaining myself um not worrying about you know if people think it's too vulgar if it's too boring or whatever I'm going to write for me this time because I have not written for me in so long I'm I'm excited for it my most unique thing is uh I don't know if it's going to be a trailer park or a uh a motel but uh it's where four people it's it surrounds an evening where four people different people leave the hotel for for different reasons um but uh they all intertwined some of the reasons some of the reasons in particular really intertwined with one another um it's going to be called Exodus or Exodus uh on Evenwood or something like that it's like some work Exodus on Evenwood sounds really good that's another one of your titles that would sorry I mean come on guys bruises on a butterfly the strangest twist upon her lips fucking I mean you are I would say right now you were the fucking king of titles in in this fucking community I'm not kidding I know you got people out here with like 22 word titles I'm not saying any names they just keep on getting longer and longer talking about um we we got we got that nonsense and then you know with where most of the cover is just the title of the book anyways and then just like a wonky image and there you go you have a novel but anyways um you got that or you got you know the Stephen King syndrome where it's either just one word or the something you are absolutely killing it with I mean three smile mile it fits in perfectly with you know what's going on in the in the story uh it took me did take me I'm not gonna lie did take me a while to be able to say it without stammering or stuttering me too but but I loved it three smile mile fucking skull face boy is so so perfectly simplistic it just draws you in you know it with me I would have called it something completely different and then just had it be that thing you know about the skull face boy um so I never would have thought just title it skull face boy you know that's the point that's the easy way um that's that's the you know to get right off the but but it's also while I say that that's the easy way it's perfect it's an absolutely perfect title there's not one there's not a single one of your books where I haven't been impressed with either the title or the subtitle neon owl eh but that subtitle considering the way it ties in to the yeah to the story absolutely beautiful uh yeah wallflower um all that stuff there's a wallflower is one of my favorites yeah not not the book it's one of my titles yeah I get you but the yeah because of the wallflowers and because of the foster homes and flies come the fuck on man I mean yeah we're we can sit here stirring the sheets part this it's just utter perfection man I have some titles that I wish I could find betters um that I've just settled for bay's end being one of them uh there was most of my books most of the published up under the lord name all started as titles uh the bedding of boys especially I had no idea what I was going to do with that but I started thinking of all the different ways that the bedding of boys could be taken you know you have sheets you have uh you have the actual physical thing you know you got so many different ways sound of broken ribs so many different ways that you can use that you have the literal the metaphorical the figurative all that stuff um but anyways I'm yes I am always impressed a cannibal creator straight into the point perfect title for that book absolutely perfect um would I go see a movie called cannibal creator no um would I would I've read anyone else's book other than Chad Lutsky's name cannibal creator no but it is perfect for that book it and I I'm literally going through your entire catalog in my head um and everything that I've read at least is absolutely the same deep water as you or is it me that's the only way when I get confused as you as you okay so it's why just remember why it's you say it's all that anyways I'm just gushing I'm absolutely gushing but uh yeah Pedro wait till wait till you finally read out behind the barn and then you look at the cover again okay all right I'll keep that in mind uh and Chad was going correcting thinking going it was fascinating thank you that was the whole point of this series Pedro was to uh to show people how how different we are and how we can still work together um and what the outcome you know is probably going to be pretty fucking amazing uh once we're done and uh yeah but that's yeah this project I'm anyways guys I'm gonna go ahead and go um I am dunzies for the day as far as I'll probably end up taking a nap after after the uh after my phone call uh and that's at noon I believe and then I gotta be back over on twitch at three o'clock but anyways yeah if you haven't already go follow Chad excuse me over on twitch um I don't think there's anything else you have anything you want to say anything new to promote even a friend stuff anything uh um I just put you on the spot I'm sorry I hate doing that to be did I did I already talk did I already talk about the shallow waters thing being out just how it just came out yeah you did that one last straight okay all right guys well thank you for joining us but until next time I have any you've been you this has been another uh live stream with Chad Lutzky I'll talk to you guys later bye bye new old outro


Hi, I'm Sarah Shoemaker and here's the rest of our mentorship and research team at NCSSM. Over the past four decades, NCSSM has been going through great links to provide student learning through unique experiences for students. And our team has had the pleasure of leading that effort with the school by supporting NCSSM faculty-driven opportunities that are offered within departments, as well as running programs that cultivate opportunities for students to work with researchers and professionals who serve as mentors in research innovation experiences for students. So you might be asking yourself as you get excited hearing about this, how will NCSSM engage you as you design your future? So there's a wide variety of real-world learning experiences to engage as a thinker maker and doer, both in and outside of the classroom at NCSSM. These include opportunities such as service, leadership, entrepreneurship, robotics, and much more. Over the past five years, we've greatly expanded our research opportunities for students to pursue their passions and to develop not only research skills, but also the transformative skills or soft skills, those that are vital for student success, such as how to embrace failure as a necessary part of the process of learning, how to approach and solve a problem as part of a team, and how to effectively communicate their findings and their personal growth through the process. Speaking of research findings, we have more than 125 students who've submitted their findings and abstract in order to present their research and innovation. We have research symposiums both in the spring and the summer each year where we share the students' findings, the students share their findings to our community. In addition, NCSSM has two research journals that are published showcasing student research, both abroad street scientific as well as fifth world, which showcases our great humanities research at NCSSM. So if this sounds like something of interest to you, where can you find these opportunities? Well, all four departments at NCSSM, including engineering, computer science, math, humanities, and science are all offering opportunities for students to engage in research and innovation as part of their courses, January term, and also just offered programs that are by application or registration. In addition to the departments, the mentorship and research office runs the mentorship program serving 150 students a year in the summer research and innovation program, which provides housing for almost 200 NCSSM juniors at no cost each summer. So how do you get involved? What are the next steps? Well, at this time, there's no requirements. There's no prerequisites. It's just getting excited about the opportunities. And if you're wanting to ask some questions or hear a little more, you can attend our summer info session, which is entirely optional, but will be held via Zoom on Tuesday, June 2, from seven to eight o'clock in the evening. We welcome both students and their families. And again, as there's no requirements at this time, we can guarantee that each junior will hear about the research and innovation opportunities in a required junior meeting coming up in mid September. This meeting will be followed by an optional research and innovation fair, as you can see in the image above, where students have a chance to go up to tables for every opportunity that they are interested in and talk to the instructors and the seniors who participated in those activities that year. Finally, I invite you to check out our website here on the bottom of this slide to learn more about the excellent and amazing opportunities available to you in research and innovation. Thank you, and I cannot wait to meet you.


The challenge of the Yukon The Wonder Dog King, swiftest and strongest of Eskimo lead dogs Blazes the trail through storm and snow for Sergeant Preston as he meets the challenge of the Yukon Sergeant Preston was typical of the small band of Northwest mounted police who preserved law and order in the new Northwest country Where the greed for wealth and power led to frequent violence and bloodshed But in spite of the odds against them Sergeant Preston and his Wonder Dog King met that challenge and justice ruled triumphant In 1833 Alaska and the Yukon territory were for the first time invaded by white men Before these men appeared the Yukon had known countless generations of peace Inhabited only by Indians who were disinterested in the yellow flakes of glittering ore they found in clear streams and along riverbanks To them animal skins were far more valuable and it was for the same skins the Count Igor Petronovich made the journey to an unknown land But any furs the handful of white Russians secured were never to grace imperial robes in far away st. Petersburg It was late in the afternoon in the year 1834 a tribe of friends exavages gave voice to a cry of triumph as they watched a fort the Russians had built go up in flames They thought they had killed all of the white men when suddenly a tall dark-haired man with flashing eyes walked toward them His hand was raised and in it was a small figure carved in ivory Studded with rubies and diamonds behind him walked an Indian What are these peace-loving countrymen of your saying?  Can they know who I am?  Tell them they must take me to their village. They must start building me a boat Tell them you're here Tell them they have this please the fire god and unless they do as I command fire will descend on their villages There are people will be killed Igor Petronovich joined an expedition at the headwaters of the Yukon River and set sail for his native Russia Thinking the idol he left behind was a small price to pay for his life As for the idol itself it remained with the Yukon Indians Many years passed before white men again disturbed the peace of the North country The tribe moved their quarters and settled near a lake the chief himself carrying the sacred figure to the site of their new village Then 1897 and in the white man's world Excitement was everywhere gold had been discovered in the Yukon Sally Lawson with her stepbrother Tom and Jim Wilson Left Dawson far behind them as their sleds covered the frozen trails Four days passed and then a week and in the middle of the second week as they sat beside a campfire Sally spoke to Jim Wilson Glancing occasionally at her stepbrother who stood inside the tent flap studying a piece of paper He hardly talks anymore Jim It's been tough on you hasn't it Sally? You never should have come in the first place. That's not But Tom's the only relative I have and I didn't want to stay by myself back in Seattle Seattle A long way from here doesn't it I guess it does Only I wish you wouldn't worry about this Tom got that map from an old timer. He paid him for it Sally whatever he paid for it I'm beginning to think the whole things are fake. I think we should turn back. We'll wait a few more days Give him a chance to prove he's right Remember part of my money's wrapped up in that sheet of paper, too. We can hope for the best anyway Tom I'm going to turn in all right. We'll start early in the morning. Nice good night, Sally Tom Sally's worried. Oh, she doesn't know what it's done.  Well, what do you mean? Just what I said we couldn't go back now even if we wanted to could we? Well lost isn't that it yeah, that's it And there's only one thing to do Keep going It was a week and a half later that an Indian scout found them Wandering in the snow half dead from hunger half crazed with despair They were taken to the Indian village In one of the tents Tom Lawson talked to the poker-faced Indian who'd saved their lives. I sure are grateful you They've saved our lives Indian friend white man.  Who's that? well The unanswered question aroused Tom Lawson's curiosity Until finally piece by piece from various men of the tribe that had befriended him He got the story and the description of the idol that couldn't be bought with any amount of gold Have you heard anything about it Sally? I? Goodness no Tom. What do I care about the superstitions of these people? They've been kind to us. That's all the matter You haven't seen that met in a mind. Have you must be worth plenty? It can't be bought they say I wish you forget about that little fire god if I don't find my met in my left hand will be That must be Jim. I hope he's found it for me miss Lawson. Oh, how are you sergeant? Hello Tom, buddy? I just stopped by for a minute about the meeting you lost did you find it? Oh, no, I didn't find it, but you certainly can't get along with only one So I'm brought an extra pair of mine over Probably too big for you, but at least they'll be warm. Oh, that's very generous of you and not at all No, I've got to get back the Indians are having a meeting and I've got to sit in on it That was nice of him wasn't it? Is our warm You know Tom, I think we might as well go back to Dawson that map of yours is worthless Maybe we won't get the gold we came after But what if we could get something that would be worth a lot more than gold worth more than gold Never mind, Sally We'll get set to mush in the morning They left the village early the next day Tom drove the dogs hard and by the time darkness had fallen they'd covered about 30 miles That night in camp Tom called to his sister and Jim Wilson What is it Tom something wrong?  Yes and those awful devilish looking red eyes Almost look as if there's fire dancing in the Tom Tom you didn't take it sure I took it and just look at it What's worth of fortune Tom? You shouldn't know when the Indians discover though, right? They'll be on our trail in no time. You've got to take it all the trouble ahead getting it not on your life Sally hand me that extra mitten of yours. What extra mitten Tom? You've got to take that back. Come on. Come on. Give it to me Creston gave you a pair so you've got two right ones Now Slip the idol inside it Hmm a fortune in diamonds and rubies And it fits inside a mitten When the next day dawn sharp and clear Sally Lawson came out of the tent to find Jim Wilson standing beside the embers of the campfire Good morning Jim. I'll start breakfast right away Isn't Tom up yet? He's gone Must have cleared out during the night. He took the sled with him When the Indians come high-tailing after us, it'll be you and me.   You take theirs.  Yes Ah We take man and girl to village.   Oh I make sure that mittens there I can't Oh I know what's wrong with my eyes Sally's got the snow goggles in her pack, but I'm snow blind I'd get to get my hand on the board of the sled Now much much you malamutes Hey, hey the dogs are leaving me. I can't see I'm blind. I'm snow blind When the dogs pulled the sled had given a sudden forward lurch throwing Tom Lawson off balance He fell headlong in the snow and as he raised himself on one arm He could hear but not see his dogs fading in the distance Struggling on in the snow. He was unaware of sergeant Preston who is already close on his heels Strange that turn he made in the trail several miles back Where the Lawson knows it or not. He's heading back to the Indian village Maybe he intends to return the idol and wait a minute. How are you asking? So you already discovered enough, fella? Tom's footprints go one way and he's sled the other He fell here and the sled went on without him Well, we'll follow him The dog king took his place at the head of the Mounties dog team And as they covered the trail his sharp ears caught the sound of another pack in the distance Turning king cut through the timber the sound of the snarling dogs serving as his compass Following the tracks of the driverless dog team king stopped suddenly For a moment he was puzzled and then he slowly approached the supplies that were sprawled in the snow He saw where the sled had overturned and had been dragged down by the dogs. He could still hear Seconds went by as the dog sniffed the air A familiar scent filled his nostrils Quickly he found its source Preston's mitten In the Indian village sergeant Preston stood facing a circle of men who'd become suddenly unfriendly Beside the Mounties stood Tom Lawson His hands rubbing his burning eyes. You take fire god. You know half fire god That's right. He doesn't have it with him, but it's on his sled. I'll go after the sled Sergeant Preston tell us him bring back fire god him not keep promise Indian no keep promise. You must trust me chief and I'll bring it back The policemen's words fell on deaf ears The circle of faces began to close in on the mountain in his companion And then looking beyond the Indians sergeant Preston saw king running for him King king old fellow Would you find my mitten?   I was mighty worried for a few minutes Oh sergeant, isn't that the mitten you gave me? How did you? It's for the right hand That's the one tom took to put the idolist sergeant Preston Chief o' wager heaps sorry him not believe you when you say you bring fire god back Indian never again not believe what you tell him What's he talking about sergeant? You mean you found the idol in the mitten? I didn't find it miss Lawson My partner did your partner. Yes king found it Yes fellow Thanks to you this case is closed These copyrighted dramas originate in the studios of w x y z Detroit and all characters names places and incidents used are fictitious They're sent to you each week at the same time Jack


We have a workout class this morning. I did not vlog yesterday so we're one day behind on the advent calendar and honestly my mom woke me up this morning. I want you guys to leave me a comment below if you are like quote-unquote an adult but your parents still call you and wake you up in the morning because I would not be making it to this 8 30 a.m. yoga class today if it wasn't for my mom calling me so I'm gonna go to core power workout and taking my friend London's class so that's really exciting I don't think I'm ever taking one for classes before then we'll probably get a coffee not at Starbucks because y'all be calling me out and then I actually have to do a lot of homework for finals and stuff today I'm not sure if I'm gonna do that here at my apartment or if I'm gonna go to like a coffee shop or like a local library I originally intended to go up to campus but I just do not think I can do that today all right let's go to corporate I literally when I get home from like the gym I'll put on the Renaissance album and everything I want to do like that is my time period like when America has a problem comes on I'm like okay prioritize what last a little bit do I want to clean because after this album is over it's finito because otherwise I literally will just clean like all day and for hours but we're gonna keep the productivity trend going I need to answer some emails pay some bills and Christmas presents and then I also need to like order some last-minute things for the apartment there are so many like little things that I wanted to get done I don't know if you guys remember but I started an apartment series over the summer that I have not finished so I want to update my apartment like just the last 12 days for 2023 so we're ready for 2024 and someone asked me to film an apartment update for you guys so I'll probably do that then too I still don't have a Christmas tree and I haven't really decorated for Christmas besides this Christmas candle that I got yesterday so it actually may be a really good like evergreen video if it's not too Christmassy but that is the plan for today I have a lot of schoolwork to do because it's final season so I want to catch up on my psychology my positive psychology class I missed an assignment last week so I want to do that first things first and then I also want to finish my midterm or my final rather for that class then I need to work on my psychology and law project and paper and then hopefully maybe if we have time we'll probably we're gonna stop by my friend's birthday party she's turning 29 as well and she literally picked a venue that's anyway she picked a venue that is really close to my apartment so I'm like I have to go it's really right in my neighborhood so I'm gonna go and like visit her there later and yeah we should have a really fun Saturday I need to edit so many videos I'm behind on vlogmas already I was supposed to at this point have posted like four videos but I think we're at two so hopefully I have some time if not like fully editing the videos at least setting them up in Final Cut so they can be edited at a later point in time but yeah let's get this productivity train started and choo-choo keep on shutting along Christmas gifts now and I kind of already know what I want to get my brothers for Christmas and when my brother's birthday is 29th and I know what I want to get him but why are they charging me 1299 in order to get everything in time for Christmas like I I'm really upset I don't like paying for shipping at all and I might because my brother's birthday is the 29th so like maybe I'll just pay six dollars and have it in time for the 28th then I feel bad because my other brother won't get his gift in time for Christmas but he might just have to wait a few days because I do not want to pay $13 for shipping so I mean hopefully fingers crossed this is December 9th and I'm ordering it it's just it's personalized so they're like inscribing their names on it so that's probably why it takes so long but I'm just gonna order it who cares but I'm not paying $12 for shipping I'm paying six dollars and they're lucky because I'm only paying that because they gave me $12 off because they're having 15% off everything so basically I'm just not getting a big deal of discount as I want but I'm definitely not paying $12 for shipping that is insane a few moments later okay an hour has gone by and I feel like I've done nothing but I did get all my Christmas shopping done so that is Veneto I wanted to do it on Black Friday but literally nothing that I wanted to get my family was on sale on Black Friday so I just paid full price I guess I'm rambling anyway I really need to start doing some school work I'm gonna put my phone like in my bedroom and then I'm gonna try the Pomodoro method I went ahead and make a little to-do list of everything I need to do that I think I already told you guys so I'm gonna put on some music and we're going to be focused for the next 25 minutes fingers crossed rounds now and so this run supposed to be like my long break we just 10 minutes which is not enough my long break needs to be like 20 minutes so I'm going to eat my lunch watch like a little YouTube video and then we'll get back to work I feel bad because one of my friends is in town from Philadelphia and she wants to get drinks before she has a Christmas party she has to go to at 8 o'clock and I just it's 4 now I will it's actually like 345 I just don't think I'm gonna be able to be in a good place to feel like I can go out at like five ish like I think I'm just gonna go to my friends party and I'll probably arrive there around like 7 8 o'clock so gonna have to text them and let them know I'm gonna miss it this time but that's the way life is you know sometimes you gotta prioritize school and like getting things done even on the weekends because it's 4 o'clock I'm actually am very surprised by the willpower I'm just exuded by like eating and then coming right back to work and not going to join my friends at the bar for drinks so I've been working on positive psychology all morning but I actually want to switch gears to my psychology of law and sexualized violence class just because I've worked on positive psych so much that I feel like I know I want to write my term paper about and the word requirement is a lot less than my psychology of law and sexualized violence class and I have my topic but I don't really know how I'm gonna structure the paper so I think I just need to put my brain power towards that I'm also like the most nervous about this excitement because I don't know our teacher can be a little intimidating but she's very sweet very nice but like if she feels like you don't know your stuff like she will rip you apart I want to just make sure that I am dedicated some time to be prepared in that aspect my topic for the paper is domestic violence and pregnancy and how it affects birthing outcomes so I really want to focus on like domestic violence during pregnancy one out of six women say domestic violence either starts from their pregnant or increases during pregnancy so I want to have that be a section and then I want to have a section on birthing outcomes but I haven't found like really good literature on it yet so it's just a lot so let me do that now I'm also like looking at laws and stuff and I had to literally go to the law school library to like get access to the laws because they are very expensive if you don't have access to like law articles and stuff so yeah let's get back to studying literally been working like all day but I got a lot done I sent like some more emails and I got to pretty good place with my presentation I feel a lot better about it and I did literally like last week or like an hour or so ago so that's nice my hair feels like it's kind of wet which I hate that for me I don't know how it's so wet I worked out hours ago I honestly need to just wash my hair but I think I'm gonna try to hold off to tomorrow because I teach at the studio tomorrow so it's like I wash my hair I want to at least pretend that it's not gonna be like sweaty and gross within the same 24 hours that I watched okay so this is my outfit I kind of want to change so I'm wearing like this little Christmas sweater and then these ugly leather pants sorry if you watch real houses really helps that you know I'm talking about but yeah just like little other shorts and some tights I'll probably wear some like not thigh high boots but like just like longer boots you know I honestly think they might change into a different top though I'm gonna change I'm gonna change yeah I like this so much better this is actually the outfit that I bought together because like when I go shopping I always just buy outfits so like I have things in my closet that I bought together that I feel like go together and this is one of them I actually feel a lot more comfortable in this I'm not sure what I'm gonna do with my hair though I might put it up maybe like a half up half down something okay I'm actually obsessed my hair is giving like 80s 90s punk rock like I love it so much okay so that feels good now because I like my hair I want to put on a little makeup I'm not gonna do too much because I honestly don't feel like being there too long and in the words my mother the sooner you get there the sooner you can leave we're gonna be super quick I'm not gonna do too much because I'm going to this girl's birthday party and I don't have anything for her I feel so bad but honestly like it'd be our first time hanging out outside of work the yoga studio and I didn't even invite her to my birthday so hopefully this is gonna be a start of like a really good friendship and we can hang out outside of work and next year I'll have the opportunity to get her a birthday gift but right now like I just don't have the brain power to do so but I hear my mom's voice in my head like don't show up anywhere empty handed but the president's gonna have to be myself so I am wearing the sweater I'm really happy I changed the shorts and then some black leather booties I actually got these boots from Paris when I went to my mom with my mom for my 25th birthday that was really fun not gonna bring my big camera because I'm bringing my teeny tiny Louboutin bag so I will vlog some clips on the phone but I think this might be the end of the vlog guys I think I've vlogged basically all day I hope it wasn't too boring my life could be kind of boring sometimes I have so many videos at it so I don't really think I need to continue this video into tomorrow because I need to get on top of what I have to edit on the schedule now yeah I love you guys I'm gonna insert some clips but yeah basically probably the last time you're gonna see me until next time


If you're doing anything with audio on your Mac, then I can highly recommend Audio Hijack. It's a great application that allows you to do lots of cool things with audio on your Mac, including adding filters and things like that. But I specifically use it for noise cancellation. So just down there, I've put up my audio chain. This is my setup on audio hijack at the moment. And what I have is I have my just sort of at the top there in the middle is my short mv7 feeding into audio hijack. Then I have it going through some noise cancellation to remove the background noise of my fans worrying on my computer and also my aircon. Then I have some levels and then that gets output as a virtual device. But what I also do is I have this other chain that sort of links into it underneath. And that allows me to route my system audio into this virtual mic as well. And that's great when I'm on zoom calls to be able to incorporate anything that's going on on my Mac system audio and feed that into the zoom meeting. So if you want to know more, check out my youtube channel youtube.com slash take one tech