I Greetings everyone, welcome to Progressive Discussions. I am your host for Progressive Discussions, James P. Madonna. And I am very happy to be here. It is already the end of the end of June 2023, how about that? The end of June is here already. The first day of summer has passed, it is officially summer, the summer solstice. So welcoming the summer solstice, 2023. It is a very nice time of year, but the summer will go fast. Anyway, I was reading an article where they voted the Jersey Shore Boardwalk, being the best boardwalk in the world. Yeah, I can believe that. I can believe that. Okay, let me have a sip of my chai tea combined with peppermint, delicious. Okay, let me go on to the first topic. Not that one.  All right, let me, let me open this one up. I'm singing my theme song to myself, which is the copyright-free version of Mortal Combat, for those that are fans of our long-time theme song. There we go. This is actually funny, but not to the guy who got screwed. To me, it's funny, you know. I don't know. A man checked into a five-star hotel in India for one night. The hotel says he stayed for 603 days and didn't pay his $70,000 bill. Oh man, let's see if they mentioned the name of the hotel. An aerial view showing clear skyline of Delhi, NCR region, whatever that means. All right, Delhi, India, looks pretty hazy there. Most likely it's hazy, hot, and humid. A man in India checked into a five-star hotel for one night and ended up staying for 603 days. Well, did he? He left without paying his $70,000 bill. The hotel alleges. The hotel has filed a police complaint alleging fraud among its staff. A man is accused of staying at a five-star hotel in India for nearly two years without paying a single cent. Local Indian media reported on Thursday. Well, which is it? He stood for one night or he stood for two years. The guest identified as Ankush Dutta checked into Delhi's Rosyat House on May 30th, 2019, and booked a room for one night according to the Indian Express, which first reported the news. He kept extending his stay, okay, and left 603 days later on January 22nd, 2021 without paying his bills, which amounted to $5.8 million Indian rupees, or over $70,700. The newspaper reported citing a police complaint filed by the hotel's board, the hotel located near Delhi's main international airport. So he can make a quick getaway, right? Alleges its staff helped Dutta evade his dues by falsifying accounts. Yeah, well, he probably paid off the staff. The hotel wrote, I'm sure, the staff that doesn't get paid much in India. I'm almost positive about that. The hotel wrote in the police complaint that staff forged, deleted, added, and falsified a large number of entries in the guest's account for the Indian Express. The accounts were falsified to conceal the actual outstanding dues from the senior management to avoid detection of their willful illegal acts. The hotel added in the complaint. The senior police officer told the Indian Express that the hotel staff and Dutta, the deleted entries, forged reports, gave forged checks and documents, and cheated the hotel by misusing its electronic system to avoid the bill payment. The hotel alleges that the large scale forgeries and falsification of accounts of Dutta was to siphon off cash payments per the media outlet. Police investigations are underway. The Indian Express reported owned by India's bird hospitality. The 216 room Rosyette House opened in 2016 and builds itself as an upscale contemporary hotel. The hotel is home to several restaurants, a luxury spa, and a co-working space. Rooms at Rosyette House start at around 8,500 rupees a night. No arrests have been made and a police investigation into Dutta and various hotel staff versus underway per the Indian Express. Rosyette House did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. Insider was not immediately able to reach Dutta for comment. What a situation that is. The allegations must be high today. Oh, sorry. Let's go to the next. Seems very embarrassing.  We asked the NASA scientists, is polar ice nothing? What is this here? I lost.  She's a lovely photo. It's good. It's good to have a painting like this during the summer, especially if you don't have good air conditioning. You can stare at it and cool off. Polar ice is indeed melting, a process that is not only about the melting itself, but also about the balance between the snowfall and the ice melt. NASA's satellite lasers monitor the thickness of the ice in Antarctica and Greenland, identifying where the ice sheets are thinning and losing mass most rapidly into the ocean. As of now, polar ice melt is the primary contributor to sea level rise, leading scientists to persistently study the relationship between ice sheets and sea levels. Well, you better study how to reverse all this damage to our planet. ASAP is polar ice melting. The simple and straightforward answer is yes, it is in fact nothing, but it's a bit more complicated than that. You can think of ice sheets or Antarctica and Greenland as a bathtub full of water, and we want to know how much is going into that bathtub and how much is coming out. For instance, snow falling over the ice sheet is like running the faucet. It's a good comparison. You turn on the faucet, it fills up with water, and then nothing when you get a warm atmosphere or a warm ocean. It's opening up the drain and letting water out. So it's not just about nothing. It's also about how much snow falls and what the balance is there. Now we have an El Nino, the warming of the Pacific Ocean and the North Atlantic now. I would play the video, but for some reason the microphone with live streaming doesn't pick it up. I mean, I could play it. Let me know. Any of you viewers out there, please type in the comments box if you hear the audio of this YouTube video. Is polar ice melting? The simple and straightforward answer is yes, it is in fact melting, but it's a bit more complicated than that. You can think of ice sheets or Antarctica and Greenland as a bathtub full of water, and we want to know how much is going into that bathtub and how much is coming out. So for instance, snow falling over the ice sheet is like running the faucet. You turn on the faucet, it fills up with water, and then melting when you... No, it's not picking up. I just tested it. Is polar ice melting? The sobering answer is yes, and it's the number one contributor to sea level rise.  NASA scientists, Dr. Brooke Medley tells us how NASA studies the relationship between ice sheets and sea level to better understand our changing planet. Well, they're repeating the same... This paragraph is a repeat of what I just read. Well, that's it. The analogy was good about the bathtub, I think. It was good. All right, on to the next topic. Now, we'll break it up a little bit with something different. I hope everyone had a very pleasant and enjoyable Father's Day weekend last week. I hope you took your... If your dad's is still alive, I hope you took him out to a great restaurant. Not a restaurant with atmosphere where they give you tiny portions and a little artistic design of swirling sauce that women like.  What you see on the food channel, men like a hearty meal, like a really good steakhouse, and men love a great value. I know I do. Yeah, I'm meant to upscale buffets. All right, on to the next topic. Zombie buildings abandoned during commercial real estate apocalypse. See, now I'm getting more on commercial real estate. Inflation in the new era of remote work is creating a global commercial real estate apocalypse where zombie properties sit vacant and owners with loans coming due and their keys back to lenders according to experts. Yeah, many people, companies have come to the realization that which started during the height of the pandemic that many office worker employees can efficiently and work from home and not come into the office. They have a decent desktop computer that could work for home and I know people that still do and it works out fine. Why not? You don't have to dig your car out of the snow and chop ice to get your car out and scrape the windshields in the winter. It's beautiful.  Just get up off your seat and we'll walk to the kitchen, walk to the bathroom. It's great. Okay, the apocalypse that's facing commercial real estate at this moment is all about interest rates and debt maturities. Harold Boardwin, a managing director at Teen Summit Capital Partners, a New York firm specializing in assisting distressed properties told a post even if you have a building that had all of the same tenants and all of the same income it had three years ago. If your debt is maturing today you have a real problem, Boardwin added. While these spaces don't skimp on the square footage, the inflation wave that crested at a 40-year high last year and remains raised as owners scurrying. In addition, the Federal Reserve's continued tightening to reach its 2% inflation goal has increased the returns on risk-free government bonds, forced commercial real estate investors to demand more yield to simply justify holding the physical asset Bloomberg reported. The proof is in the vacancy. Just last week the owners of downtown San Francisco's largest shopping centers abandoned a lot, abandoned the lot after 20 years. Unibale Rodamco Westfield said late on Monday it will transfer its Westfield San Francisco shopping mall to lenders as the shopping center continues to face declining sales occupancy and foot traffic. Oh, here's a nice shot of lower Manhattan, I think. Oh no, that's wait a minute. No, that's not Manhattan. I got, I miss, I miss, I don't know what's wrong. I think I need more chai tea. There might be San Francisco. Uh, I don't know, is it? That might be, you know what? That might be New York. This looks like the Chrysler building. This looks like the New World Trade Center. It looks like Manhattan from the other side, from the East River. Hmm. Commercial real estate owners in hubs like New York, San Francisco, London and Hong Kong are handing keys back to lenders for properties worth less than the debt secured against them. US offices are also plagued by emptiness, prompting landlords to hand keys to their property, properties over to lenders that are worth less than the debt secured against say, again, redundancy, they're repeating themselves again, according to Bloomberg. Earlier this month, at least people probably are paid a handsome salary for these articles. Earlier this month, a study released by economists from NYU Stern Business School, Columbia Business School and the National Bureau of Economic Research showed that vacancy rates are at 30 year highs in many American cities. In New York City, the vacancy rate was an eye-watering 22.2% in Q1, the first quarter of 2023. I'm not sure. The study predicted that rates would plunge even further later this year as prices are certain to go down the drain. Lower values means less tax revenue. In the case of the Big Apple, the paper predicted a 6.5 drop by 2029. To plug the hole, cities will raise taxes and fees in other ways, making the city less attractive to living, which means even less revenue. San Francisco, a help for big tech. Meanwhile, has already seen companies like Salesforce, Tesla, and Oracle, among others, taking their leasing dollars elsewhere. When Salesforce, a software company that's San Francisco's largest private employer, has made three separate announcements since 2020 of plans to slash the office space it owns in the city. The consequences have been devastating for the California city, where office workers accounted for 72% of the area's GDP, 531.28 billion dollars in 2019. Wow, before the pandemic. Okay, now you see where this is going. Boardwin said lenders are going to be faced with the choice of pushing mark to market or extending and pretending. Mark to market was a tactic used in the savings and loan crisis of the 80s and 90s. Boardwin told the Post where stress debt was clear by asking who will buy this at what price. And there's vacant office space. Harold Boardwin, a managing director of Key Summit Capital Partners, said lenders will choose between again redundancy, pushing market, mark to market or extending and pretending tactics that were used to crawl out of the 80s and financial crisis. Things were sold at pennies on the dollar and regulators made their way through that inventory, he said. Another option would be the extend and pretend tactic that was used during the financial crisis of 2008, where borrowers take loans allowing banks not to think about what collateral is really worth. Boardwin explains, however, there is just a massive amount of obsolete space. The real estate expert said noting how the pandemic shifted the way of the workforce to remote and hybrid models. That's what I said at the beginning. Nobody has a great answer to how that could be dealt with. That's progress, remote office work. Okay, nobody has a great answer to how that could be dealt with, he added, noting that a portion of these buildings could end up getting knocked down eventually if they're deemed unable to be converted into residential or lab space. The vacancy problem isn't unique to the United States. It's a nice shot. Is that Hong Kong, right? In Hong Kong, home to some of the most expensive commercial real estate in the world, 13 million square feet of office space sat empty in June. Wow, pretty breathtaking shot. Obviously, sundown in China. In Hong Kong, where gleaming office towers are some of the most expensive commercial real estate in the world, they record 13 million square feet of office space sat empty in June, and 15% of the most valuable space was vacant. Bloomberg reported, all right, you know what? That's the end of it. I can't stand redundancy constantly repeating the same words. This is an important article about social security. Social security to 2023. Recent study shows quarter of Americans underestimate their benefits by $5,000. Oh, underestimate. Oh, that's quite good. Many older Americans are pleasantly surprised when they receive their first social security check. According to a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research, people tend to underestimate the amount of their future benefits and wind up receiving more than they expected. Why not? The fat cats get a fortune in free money, handouts, corporate welfare. Social security, no matter your age, do not claim benefits until you reach this milestone. Three ways to recession-proof your retirement. But while more money is always welcome, any incorrect assessment of social security can throw a wrench in retirement planning and invite unwelcome surprises. Recipients are accurate about age, amount not so much. The NBER study found that older adults tend to accurately assess the age they claim social security. In other words, they remember how old they are. But lowball, the benefit amount they anticipate receiving and many are way off. The average person underestimates your benefit amount by $1,896 and 11.5% miscalculation relative to the average benefit received. But 25% misjudge your benefits by $5,167 or more. On the other end of the spectrum, 10% over estimate their benefits by at least $5,319. Okay, retirement savings and here's how much cash baby boomers need to retire in the next five years. Who could stress about getting more than they had planned, winding up with a bigger monthly check than you expected is not ideal. Why is it not ideal? Accurate retirement planning is. One danger of lowballing your benefits is that a bigger social security payment could increase your taxable income and actually cost you money in retirement.  So, taxing social security payments is like being taxed twice, paying taxes twice. That is definitely a sneaky racket coming from Washington.  They shouldn't have to pay taxes on social security, just like they shouldn't have to pay taxes on the pitiful drop in a bucket known as unemployment payments. Unemployment insurance. Motherfuckers, now I'm riled up. But there are more immediate risks to consider.  If seniors underestimate their social security benefits, they might be saving more than necessary for living too frugally, missing out on the quality of life. Yeah, right. The quality of life with the Trump change that they get. They could have in their retirement, says Dennis Shershikov, a financial professor at the City University of New York and head of growth at Orning.com. On the other hand, it could push some into risky investments in an attempt to boost their retirement income. Well, yeah, because the course of living is racketeering in itself. It's definitely a capitalist racket, the rising course of living. Shershikov shared a story about a family friend whose parents invested heavily in a volatile high-risk stock as a hail Mary to catch up on what they thought were insufficient retirement savings. Like so many in the NBER study, they had underestimated their monthly social security payment. They were not experienced investors that ended up losing a significant amount of their savings. When the stock tanked, he said, well, that's their own fall. They're closing their eyes and rolling the dice. This situation could have been avoided if they had a more accurate understanding of their social security benefits. Without confusing retired senior citizens, I just want to say what my friend Iron Man Vinnie Blake, the golf expert and enthusiast, he said, in terms of living on a budget, in terms of living expenses, credit cards, and all that stuff. If you don't have the cash, it was never meant to be. If you don't have the cash, it was not meant to be. That's the best way to manage your retirement funds. It's as simple as that. If you're living on a fixed income, you should not be investing in anything speculative. Nothing speculative. So I'm simplifying all this mumbo jumbo. I mean, you could take a panel of the best certified financial planners, along with this guy, Shershikov and the stock market and this and that and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.  It's not any business of some college degree, a yuppie, to calculate how you should be, what you should be doing with your retirement funds. Fuckin' yeah. Goodbye. Adios. Adios. There you go. Hey, good afternoon, Mr. Ronius. Originally from Long Island, New York, now residing in Clearwater, Florida. Good afternoon, Bart Robinson, from the rural parts of southwestern New Jersey. I haven't seen you around. I hope you had a good Father's Day weekend, Mr. Bart Robinson. All right. You can see, what am I down to here? I'm down to the end, actually. All right. I'm down to two topics. Hold on for a second. Let me leave the worst for last. Okay, here's another Antarctic Antarctic situation.  Look at it. Surrounded by advertisements. All right. Let's see how it comes up. There you go. Climate change hits Antarctica hard. Sparking concerns about irreversible tipping points. Well, that's the last topic is about that, too. Give or take. Okay. What happens in Antarctica doesn't stay in Antarctica? Yeah, that's for sure. Let me see if I could increase this. Antarctica may be in serious trouble. Satellite images show that the amount of sea ice floating around the pristine polar continent remains far below long term averages despite the South polar region moving into its peak winter period. Yeah, because don't forget Antarctica is the extreme south of the equator. You can't get more south of the equator than Antarctica. Any any location south of the equator, the seasons are the opposite. So we're having summer here in North America. Okay. South of the equator. They're having winter. And I also heard that the water goes down the drain counterclockwise instead of clockwise. That I'm not sure of, but that's what I heard. Somebody from Peru told me that. Could be. All right. Researchers at the British Antarctic Survey observed with trepidation in late 2022 and early 2023, a satellite images reveal that sea ice attached to the coast of Antarctica have been disappearing month after month at a pace never seen before. And they continue to observe in near horror as this sea ice failed to sufficiently replenish after the colder months arrived. As of mid June 2023, sea ice extent in Antarctica was about 0.9 million square miles, 2.28 million square kilometers. That's the equipment. Below the average from 1981 to 2010 for that part of the year, according to the United Kingdom Weather Authority, Met Office, and about 0.4 million square miles, which is 1.15 million square kilometers below the previous June record low from 2019. This development is worrying deviation from a previous trend that saw an article hold quite steady against progressing climate change, which has long been decimating its northern counterpart, the Arctic. Scientists now worry that the frozen southernmost continent, which plays a crucial role in stabilizing the global climate may be reaching its tipping point, a point of no return beyond which the polar ecosystem as we know it won't be able to survive. Now you see what's happening because of greed of mankind, the greed of capitalism. They are destroying the earth as we know it. In the Arctic, we have seen steady decline of sea ice over time. Peter Fretwell, a remote sensing scientist at the BAS, told Space.com, Antarctica up until 2016 was steady, even getting more sea ice, which we couldn't understand. But since 2016, it's gone down and it's going down even more. At the moment, something has happened and it's gone down suddenly very much. The amount of floating ice surrounding the polar continent dropped to an all-time low in late February this year, shrinking to 691,000 square miles, 1.79 million square kilometers. That's 50,000 square miles, 130,000 square kilometers below the previous record low of February 2022, according to NASA, which followed a previous record low from 2021. The problem is, as Fretwell said, that what's happened to Antarctica doesn't just stay in Antarctica. The warming polar seas affect weather patterns all over the world and accelerate the melting of Antarctic glaciers that in turn will lead to faster sea level rise around the globe. How would the poor penguins adjust to all this?  Animals have an amazing ability to adapt. Climate change is affecting the polar regions faster than anywhere else in the world. They're really at the front line of climate change, Fretwell said, but we know that sea ice drives deep water currents around the world and it has consequences around the world and it's like, yeah, say goodbye. There goes the ice. There goes the ice. The penguins, the emperor penguins, poor penguins. I'm just going to like speed read certain parts. It's really sad. The colony lost three generations of chicks after sea ice in the Haley Bay in the Wendell Seed broke up too early in the season in 2016, 2017 and 2018. Emperor penguin chicks huddle on the sea ice while their parents fish for food as they can't enter the frigid water before developing their outer feathers. When the sea ice disintegrates underneath the colony, the chicks drown or freeze to death. Three generations of emperor penguin chicks were lost. It's a very sad situation.  It's an advertisement. Again, and it comes back out fun goal. It's really a sad situation really with mankind in their greed. Big oil or cutting down the rainforest with what it's doing to the creatures of the world, what it's doing to our future, what it's doing to our planet. It's a sad situation. Oh, let's see. Bart Robinson says, I'm not a father, but all is well here. Hope you're doing good also. Heading to the gym for light workout, too humid outside.  I've been reverse hibernating, which means hibernating in the lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer. I cannot stand humidity. It's been like a steam bath outside. I hate it. I hate it. Western Mike is here from San Francisco, California. Howdy Western Mike. I have one more topic left people. I'll listen after I get done. I have one more topic left before I send out the link for my panelists. Okay. It's really sad. Three generations of emperor penguins lost. Ecological doom ecosystem collapses sooner. Oh boy. Oh boy. It's the last of the Moegans. There we go. Ecological doom loops. Why ecosystem collapses may occur much sooner than expected. Around the world, rainforests are becoming savanna or farmland. Savanna is drying out and turning into desert. And icy tundra is thawing. Indeed, scientific studies have now recorded regime shifts like these in more than 20 different types of ecosystem where tipping points have been passed. Well, thank capitalism for that. Around the world, more than 20% of ecosystems are in danger of shifting or collapsing into something different.  I clicked on it because I'm interested in reducing dust and I mentioned nothing about cutting up these phone noodles. Nothing. Deception. These collapses might happen sooner than you think. Humans are already putting ecosystems under pressure in many different ways. What we refer to as stresses and when you combine these stresses with an increase in climate driven extreme weather, the date these tipping points are crossed could be brought forward by as much as 80%. This means an ecosystem collapse that we might previously have expected to avoid until late this century could happen as soon as in the next few decades. That's the gloomy conclusion of our latest research published in Nature Sustainability. Human population growth increased economic demands and greenhouse gas concentrations pressures on ecosystems and landscapes to supply food and maintain key services such as clean water. The number of extreme climate events is also increasing and will only get worse. What really worries us is that climate extremes could hit already stressed ecosystems which in turn transfer new or heightened stresses to some other ecosystem and so on. This means one collapsing ecosystem could have a knock on effect on neighboring ecosystems through successive feedback loops and ecological doom loop scenario with catastrophic consequences. How long until a collapse? In our new research we wanted to get a sense of the amount of stress that ecosystems can take before collapsing. We did this using models computer programs that simulate how an ecosystem will work in the future and how it will react to changes in circumstance. We used two general ecological models representing forests and lake water quality and two location specific models representing the Chalica Lagoon fishery in the eastern Indian state of Odisha and Easter Island Rapa Nui in the Pacific Ocean. These latter two models both explicitly include interactions between human activities and the natural environment. The key characteristic of each model in the presence of feedback mechanisms which help to keep the system balanced and stable when stresses are sufficiently weak to be absorbed. For example the fishers on Lake Chalica tend to prefer catching adult fish while the fish stock is abundant. So long as enough adults are left to breed this can be stable. Well what you want to do is you want to throw back more females however when stresses can no longer be absorbed the ecosystem abruptly passes a point of no return the tipping point and collapses. In Chalica this might occur when fishers increase the catch of juvenile fish during shortages which further undermines the renewal of the fish stock. We used the software to model more than 70,000 different simulations across all four models the combinations of stress and extreme events brought for the date of a predicted tipping point by between 30 and 80 percent. This means an ecosystem predicted to collapse in the 2090s owing to the creeping rise of a single source stress such as global temperatures could in a worst-case scenario collapse in the 2030s once we factor in other issues like extreme rainfall pollution or a southern spike in natural resource use. Importantly around 15 percent of ecosystem collapses in our simulations occurred as a result of new stresses or extreme events while the main stress was kept constant in other words even if we believe we are managing ecosystems sustained ability by keeping the main stress levels constant for example by regulating fish catches we had better keep an eye out for new stresses and extreme events. There are no ecological bailouts oh boy not good previous studies have suggested significant losses from going past tipping points in large ecosystems will kick in from the second half of this century onwards but our findings suggest these costs could occur much sooner we found the speed at which stress is applied is vital to understand system collapse which is probably relevant to non-ecological systems too indeed the increased speed of both news coverage and mobile banking processes has recently been invoked as raising the risk of bank collapse as the journalist Gillian Tett has observed okay there's not much left here the collapse of silicon valley bank provided one horrifying lesson in how tech innovation can unexpectedly change finance in this case by intensifying digital hurting recent flash crashes offer another however these are probably a small foretaste of the future of viral feedback loops but there the comparison between ecological and economic systems run out banks can be saved as long as governments provide sufficient financial capital and bailouts in contrast no no government can provide the immediate natural capital needed to restore a collapsed ecosystem now it doesn't work that way there is no way to restore collapsed ecosystems within any reasonable time frame there are no ecological bailouts in the financial vernacular we will just have to take the hit well they better get their asses in gear and do what they have to do to save this planet you know and that concludes the topics for this week's progressive discussions for the first half of progressive discussions the second half of the show is a red pill man cave and it's an open topic format you can discuss anything you want anything that's important to you or to society to the country to the world you can talk about dating relationships the the perils of feminism anything your heart desires professional wrestling fitness nutrition whatever whatever is important to you okay you can discuss us ronnie s yeah i mean you you may you may if it doesn't kick in you may have to leave and come back like like uh mcvon raven does it might work it might just work ronnie s okay what i'm going to do is this is what i'm going to do in the comment section i am putting the link and there's the link to join the show now bear with me because i have to do my thing here for a short short period okay hold on um i'll be right with you yes bear with me okay i get so many scammers texting do you believe that this one is funny hold on for a second look at this are you tired of feeling unsatisfied i don't know if you could see it are you tired of feeling unsatisfied well that changes now try our male enhancement products and be confident click here yeah i get all kinds of crap here's another one someone that i don't know amy says thank you for your help yesterday can i take you to dinner tomorrow i don't know this person and then and then if i if i mention that they try to be friend me and and and bring out bring up the fact that they're they're a crypto currency investor hey uh i can join for a little bit i'm going to a concert tonight oh you got a concert tonight yeah you know when when do you have to get there i mean when do you have it's five to seven the concert is it's an early one and then it's about 20 some miles away so i can i can chat with you a little bit okay you know you just estimate uh with the distance of commute you estimate when you have to leave the house that's why i have to eat dinner too so i got a few things i got a second interview tomorrow i'm excited about oh the second interview is tomorrow yes yes hey ronnie est is coming to us ronnie is the house he's coming to us from the pool uh what's up ronnie how are you good to see you man hey guys look he's living the love of you good living the life in florida with that sunshine hey hot yeah in the summer yeah he's uh he's hot he's how long this works what is that song hot time summer in the city yeah yeah he's uh the in-ground pool at the condo complex there including water florida uh oh there you go beautiful beautiful a lot of kids today get your sunscreen on ronnie he's under the umbrella i hope get that sunscreen on bro you get fried by that stuff nowadays you know what the problem would happen a lot of kids in the pool pee yeah i don't mind it's okay you know what the problem is they the little monster they pissed it's not the pee no that's not even true because a lot of the adults not excellent especially especially when they get drunk just don't dive in mouth open if you feel if you feel if you feel an unusual warmth warmth and saltiness well no no like the warmth like like if it's 72 degrees the water temperature and all of a sudden it feels like 85 is hitting your leg yeah get out yeah but it's the water temperature is never 72 degrees this time of year it's always the whole pool is hot because it's just so damn hot it's like a bathtub it's a bad bathwater that's what they use uh did they use did they still use chlorine by you or they're using sea sea salt now yes as many people have switched to sea salt in their pools no chlorine i think the sea salt wouldn't that be for like the on the salt water yeah like my brother's in ground pool he uses sea salt and uh it's a lot safer than chlorine right yeah it's not toxic it's not uh nothing survives really no no bacteria or viruses or even fungal it survives the salt i want to say something mikvon raven and mr ronniex are both using iphone's and their video and audio quality is perfect knock on wood for now for now for now for the momentarily for now all right right it doesn't know it doesn't usually last that long yeah that's what she said i had a big adventure this morning i had a recliner delivered by from sam's called by fedex at my front door at 9 a.m and i hauled it in myself and assembled it it's a big bad boy it's a home theater okay so it was a big feat i did that all myself it was heavy man it was heavy it's the uh it's the theater seat they call it it's got these uh different cup holders it's not leather leather would have been over a thousand dollars i couldn't afford that i paid i got a 250 instant savings off it so yeah that's where i i all my energy before i even ate breakfast i got this thing down here it was crazy crazy man let me tell you you better try and go get to sleep early tonight because your it sounds like you know between that and the concert later you're going to be tired tonight well let me tell you the interviews at 2 p.m the concert is an early one it's 5 to 7 p.m with a vanilla fudge the 60s band and these guys are 170 so they're not going to be on they're oldies but goodies so you're i remember them so you're gonna your your uh your appointment for the second interview is is great it's 2 p.m yeah yeah i like that not 10 a.m or anything crazy no no yeah so my my neighbor was out with her two dogs and she's got a doberman and a collie and the doberman is very friendly and runs over frequently it's a puppy like one and a half years old so you have this doberman running down on you it's a big dog it's a big pup yeah they don't dobermans really dobermans are very obedient they they listen to you you know they take their smart yeah rottweilers are hardheaded oh ryan he's gone yeah he don won and then he's gone but yeah he might come back you know he maybe i don't know maybe got boozy or i don't know maybe nature call they had to dive into the pool to take a pee that's disgusting i'm kidding of course anyway i was reading one of the articles was about the poles melting and that's horrible in Antarctica because of the ice sheets melting too fast and too soon three generations of emperor penguin chicks were lost oh that's sad they they went like sad freezing water because they got down they don't have the outer feathers yet they got down that's so sad and this is all because of the greed of capitalism and mankind they're saying the tipping point is is rapidly drawing near you know that's tragic tragic no return out there destroying our planet yeah it's a brutal planet that we're we're making it sucks it really is i mean for the kids the generations uh that are we they're going to replace us they have nothing to look forward to no except for being woke and taking down statues yeah yeah oh that they have the ambition for uh yeah get that statue of Lincoln down get that statue of washington down yeah what about greatest stone wall Jackson oh what about oh anchorman we gotta get yeah poor anchorman my fictional character fictional character that take her down but what's going on you got booted bro you got booted well it's made it i i think it froze or something what did you sure you're in from for me nothing nothing no it went it went from perfect to to blackness black as soon as you said that it was right i thought you should you should what it went black don't you know black you'll never go back i knock i knocked on wood and i didn't it made it worse but oh look at how clear the sky is by him nice very nice he's got hey ronnie so where did you grow up on the east coast shit fucking iphone yeah he grew up in long island he's from oh okay he made it down to flat flat yeah flood is too humid for me man my other friend Jacksonville the guy from north northern new jersey that i know first oh yeah they missed the clean the guy i yeah he's in mc clean mc clean uh uh you know what let me see if he's around hold on hold on take a look at that i'm showing you stuff off camera oh okay what am i viewing the the kitchen just nothing yeah just nothing i'm just oh i get it i have no visitors to show you you're being funny i i get it yeah hey look at this hey look at that hey look at constantly i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm look over there look out don't pay don't pay attention to that man behind the court exactly uh oh what's going on with donald trump i read i'll read about more and more violations and more crimes he committed what in hell and i heard that his his supporters say that yeah he's guilty but they still support him how about uh putin having almost having a revolution i don't know how they stopped it but written almost yeah the mercenaries uh instead of because he because yeah putin had two thousand troops that were killed and the mercenaries feel like he's responsible that's why they did it yeah well the mercenaries are now going against russia they don't like the way the war is being handled or going it's being handled very badly you know that well they're they're starting to realize who who they were fighting for yeah a loose cannon that doesn't care about them doesn't care about them and i think the the head of the mercenaries is moving to belarus uh because he's uh he doesn't want to fall out of a window or get poisoned he's a wanted man yeah putin will pull a kgb on him yeah putin's in decline big time and uh and you know what they said that the Wagner group the mercenaries fighting putin they uh they're sparking enthusiasm revolution yeah there should be a rough they should revolt against putin he's done nothing but hurt them hurt them deeply that country's been hurt on on being uh you know different sanctions and other things he's not been good for that country he's too busy showing off you know going in shirtless poses and all that crap yeah on a horse riding a horse yeah exactly a horse riding a horse with no shirt on um you know donald trump he's going down a rabbit hole and he's not gonna come out smelling like roses i mean the charges are mounting i saw an interesting post saying hey you know uh um hunter biden has you know been charged and he's accepted it and he's doing what he needs to do whereas jared kushner's never been charged yeah the one is that guy jeres kushner's broken all kinds of laws when he got that security clearance fbi recommended him not to receive it and he they gave it to him anyway so biden is only guilty of a misdemeanor yeah something like that you know the smoking gun's not there they wanted him to be guilty of treason but guess what he's not sorry that's the president the former president donald trump he is guilty of treason in my opinion oh we're out and all those all those the insurrection people are all getting pretty stiff sentences you know another one was sentenced to six and a half years i think one of them got close to 20 i think one of the leaders i think i think i think the infamous shaman's uh buffalo head buffalo hat should be in the smithsonian institute what do you think ronnie s yeah his audio is uh um not working he's yeah well he's clear he's clear but he's like gotcha you know that's i don't hear you careful the sun is very strong nowadays yeah the document charges against trump yeah everything keeps mounting there's more and more charges building up there and then once they do the atlanta on the january 6 he's gonna be ineligible to run for president in my opinion and maybe in jail we don't know yet yeah well donald they're taking so fucking long well i think they're being meticulous and trying to make sure that they have everything they can to win the case or they won't go to trial you know because they don't want to do what what mulner did and muller went he went only so far and then didn't even win anything so they're not gonna make that same mistake yeah what is that fucking mulner what is he doing was he paid off well it was because they didn't want to charge it a sitting president that's never been done before so they wanted to wait yeah you know now it's uh so when you're in in that position apparently you're above the law hey ronnie's so nice we see him twice the double like the double make them double vision i got double vision yeah i saw a special on forner and i taped off of xs db it was good yeah you were you were on there twice uh ronnie yeah no he had to come back and uh uh it's easy he's he's getting the old iphone shuffle he's getting if uh cluster fucked from the yeah so you think it's all iphone based well it has to be if it was an android it would be like me and you what i'm doing okay so maybe it's a system problem maybe the wi-fi when he when he leaves the um condominium uh the complex the dome is the dome file maybe the the wi-fi in the area when he's outside is very poor it's very very uh low scatter scatterbrained uh wi-fi maybe speed yeah it's like a flower duh type of wi-fi that trailer i sent you for a while bunch that takes place in mexico that's a great movie it's bandits in mexico they run away to mexico it's pretty cool yeah i like i like a good western he's not like a good you remember tombstone uh they had a lot of stars in tombstone i liked uh pale rider myself with uh gene hackman little bill that was really good how about the uh the outlaw josey wales yes uh rip to frederick forester the character actor that was the the chef chef on apocalypse now on the boat he passed recently uh frederick forester great character actor i noticed um um what the hell's his name he he stars in a lot of westerns for for look for decades um cleanest one sam elliot yeah yeah sam elliot uh yeah oh he's a great actor yeah uh yeah we understand ronnie you know it's uh no problem bro i mean at least at least you tried and um um for a little bit until i open my mouth for a little bit it was it was crystal clear maybe the wi-fi uh speed is is is slow outside free wi-fi usually is oh you know the insecure when you go outside the condo complex when you're out in the yard by the pool sure the unsecure wi-fi maybe it's excuse me you know i mean where where where um where mic van raven is is in is in his residence he's inside and then i'm in my humble abode yeah it's humble abode he's humble abode without shooting alone and not lately not alone i mean only alone not with good company yet i'm trying to find the right woman uh you know what yeah they say stop trying and you'll find her i guess i don't know you know what even even with even with the so-called right woman that doesn't mean that doesn't mean there won't be ups and downs and sure sure hold on for a second let me try here but what i'm going to try to download google chrome i'm not on wi-fi here interesting no you don't oh you don't you don't have google google chrome like like i have i might my phone i have google chrome but it won't work for me so i have to go to safari son of a bitch yeah that's what's going on yeah i have to i have to sign off i got to start making something to eat and i'm leaving a little bit so i'm glad i could stop by for a while where's it called vanilla fudge yes and uh they did they're famous for covers for psychedelic organ driven long covers like you keep me hanging on uh it was at supreme's i can't remember we did that song originally but motown stuff pretty fun pretty fun i like i like stephen wolf i like the animals sure sure with the organ and purple hush who's saying magic carpet right was that that was that was uh stephen wolf that was a great song and the keyboard and of course uh um rolling i'm not rolling stones up what's his name morris and uh jim morris doors yeah yeah yeah so it's good to see you jimmy have a good rest of the show i'll catch you later bye everybody thank you thank you for stopping by even though you don't have a concert today you know no problem all right uh good to see you bye bye wing it all right bye bye well that was uh the one and only mcvon raven he's he has a concert to go to um and it was nice of him to come on board um runny s says there's a hot latina with white skin here that's wearing uh gymsh gym clothes and waiting for her to take off her tight pants and show her tongue a bikini what do you get you get a lot of girls in florida that wear the tongues tongue to tongue tongue tongue let's see if i well that'd be good she has a tongue bikini maybe maybe you can try to try to come on the show uh even if it's for one minute and and and show turn your camera and she won't she she won't know i mean you make you make like your you make like your texting to friends you know tongue to tongue tongue tongue tongue the hell's going on here okay oh well you would have to spread your your thumb and index finger to zoom in your you would you would have to spread your index finger to zoom in you would have to spread your thumb and index finger on the screen to zoom in on her yeah i haven't seen anything yet but i'll let you know yeah i no problem i wanted to show you look what i got i got a gun is that a gun of vodka it's a gun what is it what in there look look what i do with it that's bringing it my face oh it's water yes the water oh i thought you were like taking shots doing shots of vodka in your mouth the gun yeah i know you know yeah maybe those other guys from the from the show would do that take a shot from a water gun and never even go to that filling it up with uh vodka or white rum or i'd be filling it you could fill with anything i mean it's on a while though i don't know i think that could be done you would have to um you would have to worry about that huh you gotta have to worry about that and listen listen you take the gun you fill it up with hard liquor of your choice all right not with the cure but hard liquor of your choice you put it in the freezer it won't freeze and then you don't have to worry about ice cubes you take you take the ice cold gun with the clothes and hey james i wonder if maybe the iphone works better if you're not like only two people because i see that makes less and it's like it's working now i don't know the eye i i i barely hear you could you hear me you can see me your mic is how's your mic volume right now do you hear me now i hear you better yeah i i have i have a pair of earbuds over here is the mic no you shouldn't you shouldn't have to hold it up it should be sensitive enough to pick up yeah pick up your voice uh i mean worst-case scenario you can i hear you if i focus i mean if i really concentrate i mean the worst-case scenario so what do you think uh is that better like good too close i hear too much like noise too much uh disturbing noise it leave it the world where it was otherwise it's like yeah too much noise um you have any you have any colorful bandanas yeah you know what would look good on you one of those tie-dye durags that uh paul anthony mantia makes one of those like uh tropical printed durags let me see if he's around let me see if he's around well if he was around as long as long as i i i'm able to cut out the water my my food see if he's around mr clean no word from mr clean i i sent the link to eric so what do you think that might work right you put you put the you fill that up with hard liquor keep it in a freezer i think that would work i just came up with that idea a few folks out there that don't want to make it obvious that you have instead of bringing a bottle of hard liquor with you to the pool or or to the beach you fill up one of those guns from the freezer put it in your cooler nobody would know they don't think you're squirting water in your mouth oh you tried to come back somebody tried to come on anyway lazy hazy crazy days of summer that's what we're experiencing now are the lazy hazy crazy days of summer where are those motherfuckers that go on the booze review shows see like any messages in well it was a good show hello my dear i am i am alive now on my show crazy lazy hazy days of summer i do the best you can oh okay gotcha all right i'll try my best to uh so so yeah sure why not pro razzlin yeah you're right so how's everybody doing out there how the hell are you hey how the hell are you so what do you feel like talking about what do you feel like talking about people viewers you're like my authentic wool hat a beret matches my background plus with the green polo shirt has has the christmas colors or the italian flag colors or possibly even the the mexican flag colors i love mexican food anybody out there love mexican food i i've been i've been cooking uh case i'm pretty good at it i make case of these soft tacos that that's the easiest thing for me to make the only problem is the corn tortillas that i've been getting from a company called la bandarita la bandarita they're too thin and if i try to toast it hulls start appearing i wonder if the corn street style taco tortillas i wonder if they're thicker they're smaller but they might be thicker good morning my dear masumi creamy matcha milk welcome to my show good morning and happy monday to you it is now i guess 5 45 am monday in the tokyo region of south east in japan and i hope everything is good with you masumi yeah um shit you just reminded me son of a bitch you know what i have to do i have to put it on the calendar i missed collision are you talking about aew's collision i missed it i missed it i really have to put these these things on the calendar hey brine no no i'm not uh but i do believe in see the problem with vigilant vigilantism no i'm very much left i'm very left wing so you can you can think of the red color as being a socialist the problem with vigilantism is it can easily get out of hand that that's that's the only problem with it i think that's true see you should see how how muscular his wife aj lee became she's uh she was so skinny not anymore i wonder if she's uh on the juice or maybe she's on a strength training program uh putting away a lot of calories and high protein grant grams of protein yeah yeah hillbilly jim i definitely do from mudlick kentucky i definitely remember hillbilly jim thank god i'm a country boy no no what was this song again don't mess with a country boy that's thank god i'm a country boy was uh yeah was uh the singer that died in the plane crash uh uh yeah don't mess with a country boy was his song and he had the uh the iron horseshoe around his neck yes john denver thank god i'm a country boy john denver that was a good song rocky mountain high and all that stuff poor guy let's have roberto clemente died in the plane crash and so so did rocky marty anna i don't and thurman munson i i do not like these small propelled plane airplanes i do not like them i don't like them at all there's just too many people and then what was the other crash uh bloody holly um um richie uh valin valenzuela the big bopper they went down um and then um john f kennedy jr john f kennedy jr went down after taking off from coldwell new jersey airport and i'm trying to remember all the people who died in these small plane crashes um some wrestlers went uh rick flair broke his back he survived but he broke his back uh during a crash of one of those small planes he was with other wrestlers funky brunch making some funky brunch house james and chat almost almost heaven west virginia west virginia yeah country road take me home to the place where i belong something like that west virginia mountain mama take me home country road the holocaust wasn't my song i don't mind you making brunch on the show we're on the red pill man cave you know i'll go over yeah i don't even know if he was a manager i think he was he was this tag team partner some haystacks calhoun six hundred pounds you know bruno san martino actually lifted him up onto his shoulder and slammed him you know and went hulk hogan uh did a half ass body slam on andre the giant because he didn't bring him all the way up he hurt his back he hurt his back but then again hogan screwed his back up uh big time by doing a uh the leg drop finishing move for so many years i mean just picture it you're doing the leg drop means you're coming down on your tailbone your coccyx bone which means you're jamming your vertebrae in your back every time you come down very bad finishing move he curses the day he ever chose that finishing move that's the reason why he had 10 back surgeries and he has his his spinal cord fused because it a damn leg drop yeah bruno was a world class champion powerlifter in the uh in the late 1950s he won he won a world's championship i believe or world or national championship in like 1958 the late 50s and uh he um what do you call he um he almost died as a kid you know he um he was like like the remember the the cartoon uh the cartoons in the back of the magazines that young men used to read you know what is it uh field and stream that these the 98 pound weekly they got sand kicked in his face he was emaciated and scrawny didn't speak english and um these jewish guys befriended him and they both brought a young bruno to the uh to the hebrew or white wire mca the jewish wire mca and taught him how to lift weights and yeah that's where that's where he started uh not being who he was yeah you could you could tell that andre kind of jumped up a little you could tell and it wasn't it still wasn't a full slam i mean andre i heard was heavier than he was built that he was built at like 500 a little over 500 pounds and they said he was uh in reality he was like more like 600 but he at that at that time andre knew he was very sick so because andre would not like normally he would not lose to anybody um so he was passing the torch because he knew he had that pituitary disease the tumor in the pituitary gland and uh he he refused to have the surgery now the big show had the same affliction the tumor in the pituitary but big show had the surgery andre refused to have the surgery ronnie s should be coming back uh that's what he says um he'll be booting up his desktop in the house where he would not have any issues you know there'll be no internet issues so i'm not going to stay on too late because um i want to order probably chinese food i actually the calzone i ordered from this pizzeria by me called pomodoro brick oven everything i order from that place is a number one pizza anyway the calzone was the best i've ever had in my life andre could nobody can um out drink andre they nobody could even come close andre was able to drink a lot of wine a hard liquor because he had like a bottomless pit when it came to booze and i and i heard that uh you know on one of the pro wrestling videos when they talk to old timers that knew andre very well they traveled with him they said that he was drinking that musk that musk he was drinking that much to mask the pain pain from his affliction he uh he had like he had pain in his joints he was not he was not a lush he was just doing it to mask the pain i haven't been there in a long time actually um i took the the autumn i think the last time i was there was last autumn sometimes then when the weather got cold i used i used the cold weather as an excuse because you know it's four blocks away but and now it's like a steam bath outside it's it's really super humid hazy hot and humid but it's no excuse i could i could still walk there i'll get there you know i don't think it'll be any different with the food i mean uh compared to the uh when i went live last year i i will probably order the same things and show the same thing so it's like what's the point i gotta look i gotta look it up online and see if they raise their prices i know other restaurants that raise their prices i hope not 35 bucks was uh was enough for me i mean but look at the bright side not only did they have fresh seafood for the 35 bucks they also had cooked Japanese food and grilled like tempura you can get like um deep fried tempura oysters and their beef teriyaki was very good they had grilled squid the culinary they had grilled squid yeah a lot of restaurants going belly up yeah though the pandemic hurt the restaurants and and the retail stores too but mostly the restaurants and a lot of people are a lot of people from the food service restaurant business are going takeouts they're opening up takeouts of pa are very popular because you know you have all these delivery people door dash um rub hub uh what's the other one there's one i use it's called i menu so many so many uber eats sucks because uber eats charges a big fee to the restaurant and it's for takeout and the fees are just too high with uber eats and they're gonna price themselves out of the food delivery business damn right it does and the Bronx yeah damn right it does i i the best the best fried calamari i ever had in my life was at a place called Johnny's Reef restaurant is 75 years old family owned and usually those are the best city island in the Bronx you don't even know you're in new york you don't even know it's it's it's such a quiet clean well landscape manicured uh residential area you don't you can hear a pin drop marinas restaurants bars a lovely area Johnny's Reef is all the way on the end on the long island sound very nice i had a fried calamari and they gave me a mountain of fried calamari a mountain very tender i didn't even need a knife and uh it came with you know the wide french fries what they call them steak fries and uh i had a great um combination chocolate and vanilla milkshake extra large it was very creamy very rich it really was it wasn't icy it was like really a good milkshake you know look at it look them up they're on uh they're on the internet Johnny's Reef city island in the Bronx Ronald J. Terrio from Louisiana took me when he came up here to visit from Ronald from Laplace Louisiana which is southeastern Louisiana because he knew he knows new york pretty pretty well we were going to go to the italian restaurant but what happened is that was the time we had flash floods there was a really bad thunderstorm and we had flash floods and we couldn't go to the to the italian neighborhood in the in the Bronx so i told him to stay to stay another day in Baltimore south jersey south jersey i told him and come come tomorrow the tomorrow was it was clear it was crystal clear no storm no nothing but you know he's a stickler for uh keeping a schedule and and the clock the clock in the calendar he's a stickler for that i know you're you're becoming a good cook uh there michael living alone you learn how to cook you make it your business to learn in trouble uber eats asks where you live well they all want to know where you live otherwise how are they going to deliver your food you well what you do is if you have an app that deals with uh online ordering and deliveries you make an account and in the account you put your address you shouldn't have to repeat your address over and over i have my uh my debit card number in my account all i have to do is click and and the transaction is completed i don't have to type in the same financial information over and over and over and over i don't like redundancy i always hate a redundancy uh johnny's reef city i own in the Bronx that is correct it's uh it's like uh uh it's uh kind of like an indoor outdoor place they have picnic tables outside if you wish to sit out there um and uh it's cafeteria style you know you get a tray and you push it along the steel what the fuck do you call it the steel railing you know you put all you got all your utensils and napkins and all your condiments and everything on on the tray and you just tell them what you want they cook fish any style they serve beer and liquor they make cocktails there there's a little bar section that's also part of the cafeteria style but when i say i had a mountain of super tender fried calamari i'm serious uh ronald ordered the the jumbo well actually it was a super jumbo shrimp salad super jumbo shrimp salad i told them you're so slim uh how come you're watching your weight i mean you know order something that's going to stick to those those ribs all right now he's late ronnie s is late so that means you may have to close down the show but at least he was able to come on the show when he was at poolside you know he lives in clear water florida in a condo he's from long island but he lives in clear water florida now which is a suburb or tamper he's enjoying that weather okay no problem okay my dear no problem i understand it happens to me too you remember a friend of mine's cell phone is almost dead normally my phone is supposed to send me a notification that my battery is low and maybe i have the volume of the of the notification sound the jingle whatever you want to call it maybe i have it too low and i didn't hear it see i have to i have to remember to put the notification sound higher because when i visit my sister at her house her and her brother her and her other half um my brother she gets upset when when my phone starts going you know the sound keeps on going off every time someone sends me a message becomes very annoying especially at night so i have to shut it off but then i have to remember to put it back on you know what is it now it's a little after 5 p.m eastern time ronnie ronnie ronnie where are you you can't say i didn't wait you can't say i didn't wait it's been over 20 minutes right since uh since ronnie asked left he said 20 minutes hey mike what's going on western mike you should you should come on and prop up your phone in the kitchen face it towards you uh you doing the your your chef action there food preparation otherwise i might as well close down the show two hours and five minutes it's not bad usually i go three hours but that's when i have a panel i'm not going to sit here like an idiot staring into space how does this look bad that's better mirrored before was mirrored or is it or now is it non-mirrored video non-mirrored okay it looks better now the camera's non-mirrored yeah it's a lot better now okay ronnie yes i waited along enough western mike you want to talk you want to talk about your workouts and your rowing machine that'll be good alpha male conversation i'll give it a little bit longer that's all yeah what i was i was telling mike last time see he has a rowing machine and he he was doing too many repetitions burning too many calories using up too many nutrients so i told him to increase the tension on your rowing machine and don't roll for like 15 minutes 20 minutes half hour or just roll for like like five minutes increase the tension so you build muscle and i said to him one day you row with your palms down another day when you hit the rowing machine you row with your palms facing up and the reason why i mentioned this is because you're emphasizing different muscles in your back to get a more complete development plus if you're rowing it's it's considered a pole exercise as opposed to a push exercise it's a pole exercise and when you're using when you're doing when you're doing an exercise involving pulling you're working to a great extent your biceps your forearms your rear deltoids as well as your back so if you have a good rowing machine you're already getting a great bicep forearm workout and your rear deltoids are hit now if you do if you do push-ups or if your rowing machine has tension when you when you bring the the bar back then you're you're also working the pushing muscles okay and the pushing muscles are the chest the anterior deltoids the front deltoids and the triceps now i don't know if you remember i put your name on the one of Chris Cuomo's videos on instagram and Chris Cuomo had this very practical body weight exercise device it's a real space saber in one area there's a chin up bar pull ups and chin ups a little bit lower there's uh parallel bars for dipping and when you're doing dips you're working the triceps and the chest very much okay and then they have a bar that's even lower where you can do push-ups with it or you can also do tricep tricep extensions you know you can turn around and do the triceps so you must remember that that device because i i made a comment about it i think i think that device is is very good for minimalists people that don't like clutter and it's a workout it's a complete workout station where all the muscles of the human body accept the legs accept the lower body the whole upper body is worked by this one device oh yeah without a doubt yeah i i enjoy his his many videos on instagram i noticed a lot of people that started off with like a facebook account most of their action in terms of video uploading and information most of their action is on instagram very little is on facebook it's almost like they're they're all gravitating away from facebook and towards instagram okay that's what it seems like because instagram is much more sophisticated than facebook the only thing the only thing that facebook is good for are groups and pages really uh groups and pages and well you can't i noticed you can't really post your own commentary i don't think you could you can only comment on other people's information other people's videos like you can't you can't like post several paragraphs of you talking about a topic on instagram it's mostly about photographs and videos so i can't really say i take that back before i can't really say instagram is a replacement for facebook it's just different but aesthetically it looks better mike says no uber asks but then ask again after you already put it in they don't know where your house is they sound like they're really fucked up in the head that doesn't make sense and then it makes you worried or if you're going to receive your food or not you know then you then you're concerned about your food yeah anyway uh mr. western mike uh goldsmith you you your weekly show should be coming up uh not in the in the very near future uh today on sunday right you you should be going live um i don't remember the exact time but you do go live sunday uh um either in the late afternoon or early evening and it's a good show um i usually hop on or stop by after i place my my food order so looks like ronnie fell off the edge of the earth so um i will keep my antennas up for your show for your sunday show western mike and uh thank you for stopping by six p.m my time oh i was right about the near future yeah knock on wood everything has been peachy keen uh here on restring better without a doubt in my opinion better than stream yard better than stream yard in more ways than one thank you thank you western mike goldsmith thank you i read an article about office office real estate is uh he's crashing it's uh it's like there are there are so there are so many vacant there was so much vacant office space in all the major cities of the united states and because in san francisco uh because it's a high tech hub there are there are the value of the office buildings are plummeting and the offices are vacant because of remote work people are working from home office workers are working from home and we we all know it started during the pandemic it was it was created from the pandemic and it turned out that it's more efficient i mean if a person has a decent desktop computer then they can work from home they may need um they may need a good fax machine i most likely so i don't know about printers but definitely uh well if you if you if you if you if you deal with pdf files then you definitely really can get away with not having a printer or a fax machine and tell you the truth if you're dealing with pdf files and you use like google drive okay you can attach documents to an email and just send it to the right people so why why spend the money on ink very expensive inkjet cartridges for a printer if you can just simply attach a pdf document to an email and send it on its merry way right western mike ghost smith says work from home is nice think there may also be a reason for on-site though even in 2023 yeah well it lowers it lowers the cost of releasing an office space or buying an office building for the companies because most humanoids today have a desktop computer if not they have a good laptop you know you have a good laptop you might be able to pull it off i know people personally that work from home still after the pandemic they still work from home you know so um actually actually with the ability to attach a pdf documents to an email people can get away with not buying a printer yeah and they have these these miniatures scanners like let's say you need to scan something um you know usb port and you can scan doctors offices use it they ask for your uh your photo id your insurance card whatever insurance cards you have and then they scan it it's instantly they scan it and it goes into your account into your online file so the remote employment is working out and it was created by the pandemic anyway i will bring up the app i think the app i have is q menu i call that i menu but no i think believe it's q menu and i will decide what i feel like eating because it takes me a while and they deliver it they don't ask me the same questions twice they only all my information comes up and they deliver it in a timely fashion and uh and that's it then and then a little bit later i'll go on uh western mike goldsmith's uh youtube live stream on his youtube channel okay everybody thank you thank you for joining progressive discussions until next time have a pleasant and safe week yes this is the last week of the month of june 2023 and the month of july along with the one and only july fourth weekend that's right and the the holiday after the july fourth weekend um or some people like to say fourth of july weekend the next holiday would be the unofficial end of summer known as labor day weekend see you in september see you in september it's an old song okay the lazy hazy crazy days of summer i'll try to play it enjoy people


in this video about why I do not use Emax. Now if you're an OG subscriber to this channel you will know that literally two years ago I did a video and sort of a video competition where I put out a video said convince me to use Emax okay and that's what I wanted people to do I wanted wanted them to submit tutorials and stuff like that and people have been asking me about you know where's the update are you gonna use Emax have you started using it of course if you watch my videos you know I don't actually maybe at this point I should even explain what Emax is because I am sure there are a lot of people who watch this channel who don't know so maybe maybe I should at least say what it is so GNU Emax is Richard Stallman who wrote it but it is a I guess it's improperly called a text editor it used to be a text editor but it was so extensible that basically you can do everything in this text editor it is one program to rule them all it can send email can you can do web browsing you can look at PDFs you can do like people when you use Emax and you get into it Emax becomes your operating system and everything else you know you might use Ubuntu or something like that but that's really just your boot screen into getting into Emax so that is the Emax ideal and a lot of people of you know Emax has a lot of very famous features one of the biggest ones is of course org mode and stuff like that word mode it's sort of hard to explain but it has some crazy interesting features it I guess I mean it's one of those things I guess it started out as a scheduling application or mode or something like that but it can do all these crazy things in terms of like monitoring the time you use on things it can like compile documents and weird what I don't know it just does everything okay so a lot of people ask me now now first off 95% of the people who do it ask it as if I don't know what Emax is hey there's this program called Emax maybe you should check it out oh you've heard of Emax have you ever heard of org mode it's really cool you should try it out oh you don't like Emax bindings did you know you can use a Vim mode in Emax I don't know why people do this like I'm sorry I have the internet too I have YouTube's recommended video section too I've seen all this stuff I've seen all these videos anyway when I put out this video two years ago what I wanted is people to put up tutorials that were sort of like tutorials on my channel where it's just like you know a couple of minutes see here's how you do this here's how it's useful but I wanted the equivalent in Emax I wanted people to show me things I could not do easily or as elegantly without Emax you know I wanted to see how Emax does things better now needless to say I have not started using Emax okay first off now this is gonna sound like rambling this is totally relevant to the actual question but I want I want to talk about the what kind of things I got in that video competition okay for example there was a guy I think is YouTube I don't know if he actually puts up videos anymore but he had a YouTube channel called Uncle Dave and he like he put out like you know again I said like oh do do a brief tutorial a couple minutes about cool things you can do in Emax he did like why I use Emax part one it was like 40 minutes and of course there are you know he showed some cool stuff but the thing about it and I mean I had used Emax in the past I'd sort of tried to familiarize myself with it and I knew some of the features but I guess not just from his videos but other people as well the pattern is extremely long videos basically saying Emax is a terrible choice if you just want to sweat like Emax is good for tinkerers who want to learn like a totally new program and totally how to I don't know redo everything they already do but in Emax and I don't know it's cool from the Emax perspective but in terms of like actually getting efficiency out of it that is something that is sort of you know a long time in the future if you're gonna switch to Emax I'll just say that there's basically of all the videos I watch of all the things that people sent me I basically saw nothing that I found in Emax that was really impressing impressive impressing it didn't it wasn't impressing me and it wasn't impressive either or at least nothing too out of the ordinary and I guess even more than that I as I started to think about really what this channel is about this channel is about man that sounds so stupid really my experience in using a computer let me explain it again this sounds like rambling but this is answering the question okay when I started familiarizing myself with a Linux operating system or a Unix like operating system it really went like this and I think this is how it usually goes you look at GUI applications and you look at minimalist alternatives to them and when you learn to use a minimalist alternative you sort of get closer to how the system actually works you're getting lower level as you learn how to use a system and that's that's something really nice because if you have a better you know as you familiarize yourself with the system and you have a better lower level knowledge of it you realize all these crazy things you can do with it just by having an intimate knowledge of it okay that's the only way I can describe so for me learning like becoming good at computers I mean to simplify things is more about stripping away the unnecessary cruft and looking at core essentials okay now my perspective on emacs now I'm gonna say emacs might be perfect for you and other people it might even be good for me in an alternate universe but from my perspective now if I were to start using emacs emacs would be like you know I've been learning about this a Unix based operating system by stripping away things and getting at core principles using emacs would be like plopping this enormous redundant mess on top and saying now this is your operating system now you know all the stuff you learned about the principles of you know Unix based operating systems and text streams and pipes and all that stuff although of course emacs Lisp still has stuff like that I mean it has its own internal logic that can be very elegant it's sort of it seems a little like I'm making on progress you know I'm going backwards right where it where again you know I don't really find anything about emacs although there are cool features oh wow look at the cool looking things you could do an org mode none of that is cool enough for me to first off I'm not actually I'm not a big fan of cool things I don't do things just because they're like wow they're interesting or something like that um like I don't the org mode of course which does a bunch of scheduling and stuff like that that is just not something I do with a computer like I don't have a need for that it's interesting it can do that but it's one of those things where it's just like okay I mean of course org mode does more than that of course I I always have to make caveats here because people say oh actually it does more than that well actually blah blah blah yes yes I know but again from my perspective using emacs is sort of like making things like putting an extra layer of complexity over my system which I now know very well and I would just have to relearn that and I might I might even get something out of of learning emacs but it just seems like a lot of redundant learning now notice what I'm not doing here it's probably too late in the video for people to even notice but I'm not knocking emacs I'm not saying it's a waste of time I'm not saying any of that kind of stuff because I know that emacs can you know if you get into emacs it can be like in a super productive workflow and stuff like that so like I'm not I'll never gonna knock that any more than I'm gonna knock familiarizing yourself with the Unix based operating system I guess I I guess I would be more comfortable with emacs if it were actually just an installable operating system with that you didn't I mean you didn't have to install some like you just booted into emacs you know what I mean I would feel like oh okay it's just a different operating system that's sort of how I really look at it I guess and that's how I think it should be looked at so I guess the question then is should I switch my operating system from Unix to emacs I'm not convinced there's any I mean I again I might learn stuff about the operating system but I don't know how much generalizable stuff I can get out of that that's actually gonna be useful so anyway in general hopefully that explains why I'm not I don't use emacs again it's something if you have a lot of time you're just wasting I guess and you might be interested in emacs it might be something to look into but I think the learning curve I mean comparing it to Vim I think you know Vim of course Vim is a text editor emacs is called a text editor it's really not I mean it has it does everything but edit text well but if you compare Vim to emacs Vim is one of those things that you learn and within the first like day or two of you using it you're like wow I feel so stupid for never using this before especially if you've like knocked people who use Vim you're like wow I just feel so dumb like not using that like there's so many things that I can do so much more effectively just by having a very basic knowledge of them okay emacs although I've tried it many times I've tried to use it I've never felt like that or if I'm eventually gonna get something out of if I'm gonna get some maximum gain of productivity from using emacs you must have to invest a lot of time in it because I've never you know I've never been able to do it all the time that I've used and again I've had two years now to play around with it actually more than that I've used it even before I did that original video and there's just nothing that is like I don't know there was just nothing for me anyway that's hopefully explains why I don't use emacs but also I think my computing philosophy generally I don't like new schemes of doing like I like things getting simpler and minimum minimalistic not not just because for the meme of minimalism but because I like things being more barebones because it's easier to understand everything that's going on and if I add on this is also why I don't like containers and these kind of things that I don't know this I just find them big cringe or all this kind of okay so recently maybe I should do a separate video on this yeah I'll do a separate video on that but um anyway that's that's why I don't use emacs hopefully that was coherent enough but anyway see you guys next time