Round House Kicks, Tattoos & Mayan Temples
March 4, 2022 · Kris Tyte & Sean Snodgrass

Round House Kicks, Tattoos & Mayan Temples

In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss how technology can extend imagination in a particular domain, but also might stifle the imagination in the macro. We analyze American rightness through might and its various industrial complexes. There is a brief discussion about dominance and submission at different levels of human social structures, and we share a couple of personal stories and even a bad joke - sorry in advance!

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“Just want to find out what they need to do and get out of there. ”
— Kris Tyte
Captures a task-oriented mindset where learning is minimized to required outputs rather than driven by curiosity or intellectual exploration.
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“Learn by doing makes way more sense to most people than it used to. ”
— Sean Snodgrass
Advocates for experiential learning over traditional passive educational models.
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“The attention span has been decimated. ”
— Kris Tyte
Reflects the impact of digital environments on sustained focus and deep thinking.
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Infographic illustrating how notifications, apps, and multitasking fragment attention and reduce deep cognitive engagement.
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“Attention is the modern world's most scarce resource. ”
— Sean Snodgrass
Frames attention as the core currency in modern digital economies.
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Infographic breaking down communication into tone, energy, vocabulary, timing, and emotional awareness across different contexts.
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“When you're first learning, you undercut yourself when you cheat because you don't learn it. ”
— Sean Snodgrass
Emphasizes the importance of foundational understanding before leveraging shortcuts.
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“It's a narrative. It's a worldview, it's a philosophy. It's not necessarily grounded in fact. It's carefully grooming an approach. It's carefully grooming a way of looking at things, a way of filtering and processing information. ”
— Sean Snodgrass
Highlights how media can shape perception frameworks rather than just deliver information.
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“I mean the time you spend on the app is the money. That's the holy grail. It's all about focus and attention. ”
— Kris Tyte & Sean Snodgrass
Summarizes the core business model of attention-driven platforms.
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“Because you're more successful. Because they're more successful. ”
— Kris Tyte
Proposes a future model where technology aligns its success with improving user outcomes.
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Full Transcript

Well. But you know, if you don't show strength when he works, he does not take them. Oh, great. That's good to hear. Yes. So here's something funny for you. It's like Whitey with mighty Whitey MC white. You know, such and such on the internet or on the radio. Right. Like talking about something that involves Latin Americans or, you know, whatever you want to Hispanics and however you want it, whatever the proper word is.

Sure. And in the middle of their sentence, for no reason, they say yes. It's it's well known amongst Latinos that blah, blah, blah. You know, it's like they have to say Latinos. They can't just say, you know, Latinos like an American. Good to throw the accent in there. Yeah. They throw it in only with the word Latinos. It's like what?

What? It's like, whatever you say. You have to say. Oh, no. Yeah. You know, someone's been to Budapest, and so they say, Budapest. It's like you're not impressing me. You're not sounding worldly and cultured. You're sounding exactly like a fucking jackass. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. You know, I love. I love garlic bread. My sweaty. So that what you know is that I always say that.

No. Because I had an Italian friend, you know, Roumain college. You know, that's it. So now it's mozzarella. It's not mozzarella. It'll say like an American name. Or at least that one word, right? And, like summer, my girlfriend, her fucking, neighbor is this guy living with him who was training for UFC. Oh, wow. Yeah. He's Italian.

It's, I'm going to be to the ass. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And that just is scary. Bro. So the guy is a former, like, champion wrestler. Yeah. Yeah. And boxers. Now he's learning judo. So, I mean, you throw those three skills in, you're going to kill people. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we're in style with your accent, right?

Right. I'm going to beat that. That. Okay. Yeah. No, you hit me like a the noodle. Well, now that we started with some, healthy racism and laughter. Yeah, right. Love it. Yeah, I guess the pedestrian aspect out of the way before you get all serious. Yeah. It's true. It's true. But, yeah, it's just it's funny when you hear, you know, it's funny and then, you know, celebrities and then, you know, they'll say Latinos, but they don't say Los Angeles.

Yeah. In the same sentence. It's like, what the what she said, let's say less and less, you know. Yeah. If you're going to if you're going to do this whole, you know, whatever. Yeah. So last night, I was on the phone with, girlfriend and her son, and, I was doing my Duolingo for Spanish. Oh, that's,

And, I asked Summer how to translate some sentence because I couldn't figure it out. And, I said it out loud, and her son was like, Sean, you sound terrible when you speak Spanish. Oh, look, I'm most southern redneck. Yeah. Trying to speak Spanish? Yeah. Like, how does that come through? Yeah. So I'm sure it comes across like, por favor.

You know. Journo. Yeah. Yeah. I'll do rain. I'm definitely sound like him. How? Jesus Christ. It's funny how they language. And then, you know, you you know, you're you're trying so hard to say something like, you know, in the, in the native tongue or whatever, you know, and, you know, simultaneously, you just sound like a jackass. And then probably you're saying the wrong word, too, right?

So it's taking a conversational Spanish class a couple of years ago with, one of my colleagues from work, but they're interested in it. And there was this Italian girl who was a she was an opare stateside. Yeah. And to keep her, visa, she needed to do some continuing education. Sure. Well, what are the things she decided to take?

Was a conversational Spanish. What? I see. And, so it was super easy for her. She had never realized how close the romance languages are to each other. I see. And, you know, so a lot of times she might use a slightly different word or a slightly different pronunciation. In the future, we're just corrector. That's how she learned Spanish.

Awesome. And, man, she whatever or whatever it takes to maintain your status in a foreign country as a servant. Right. And that's really what it is. But she was a high brow servant. She was well paid. She got to go on vacations with time. And I love that. Well, it was kind of like being in the I know, I know, it's a win win situation, being in the field versus being in the house.

Right? She was in the house? Yeah. Yeah. I love that idea. You know. Oh, it's better than it is in their country. Well, you know, what she said is it wasn't better if she did it for the experience. And she got paid a decent wage. Fair enough. So she's like, I get paid better than I would if I worked at Starbucks.

I like kids. And I get to go vacations with the family, and I get to explore America. They even let her go on vacation. Or how she worked for them. And she went for two weeks to Peru. Cool, man. Yeah. So, I mean, you know, I have a lot of reservations towards these, kind of things, but, hey, I'm with you.

I think it's kind of ridiculous, but I kind of think it's an interesting thing to give, you know, a 21 year old girl, some experience. But I agree, it is servitude. It is asshole licious. It is a first world dickish thing. Yeah. So, you know, you can never hire someone in your own country at that wage. So you bring somebody in from afar, and, you know, it's like the gift of my.

That my privilege. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You can. You can trickle down share. Yeah. I mean, she was let's say I was being negative, but no, no, she was living there. And I know that she is in paid. She's getting paid $19 an hour and living there and eating their food. Oh yeah. I just saying in my mind, that's pretty damn good, right?

I worked for $19 an hour before, so I mean, I didn't get free room board. Never mind then. Forget it. Take back everything I said. So, I mean, it's that kind of. So, like, it's what we do. Yeah. And I was like, okay, I do that. And, you know, I get two weeks of vacation. Fuck yeah. Unless it's like, no end to the work shift.

Like she's working, you know, 44 seven. Yeah, but only being recognized first. You know, oddly enough, I didn't ask about that. I just assumed she worked 24 seven. Yeah, I figured they brought her on to work for four seven. That's like a military salary, right? Right. You know, you find out that you're working 24 seven, you know, but they they couch it to you like, you get paid all the time.

Yeah. Your salary is you check it out. It's like, you know, below minimum wage. Right. Like, I think it was 45 an hour. They give you a a cool gun. They do. They give you a cool gun. You get the stuff up from your morning. Oh, yeah. You know, of course the blow goes up a factor. That's. Yeah.

Every man's dream. It's a big draw for a lot of people. Every oh, every boy that's played golf did his dream to do it for real. Well, was in again, except for the refund thing, right? That joke about waiting at the refund point? Yeah. It's nice to see a fellow soldier in mind's eye letting on. So, it makes me proud to be an American.

Where at least I know I'm free. It cost, but, yeah, freedom costs a bucket. Yeah. Get it down to a specific amount. I want it. Those guys are geniuses. Yeah, absolutely. Fuck. Jeez, I yeah, there's a have to fucking say.

I love the I love that whole Team America idea. Like, just this so blind, you know, like, don't worry. Where are you liberators? You know, we're here to help. We're going to fight the terrorists. And they leave this wake of destruction everywhere they go behind, and people's jaws are just left dropped. They have nothing they can't even say.

Right. Yeah. Don't worry. Oh, we stopped the terrorists. Yeah. Destroyed the icon. You know the exactly wonder of the world. Yes. You destroy. You destroy all the history in your wake. Right, right, right, right. Annihilate the culture that you're trying to, quote unquote, save, right? The self-righteous attitude of, like, we're doing the right thing no matter what. You know, just like, just like the hypocrisy of this whole Ukraine thing is, outrageous.

All the all the all the pundit and dialog that I've heard so far, like, on the radio. Have you heard about all the companies jumping in and making it worse for Russia? Of course. Apple stopped sales of all devices. Sure. But a righteous company. Right, right. And BP got rid of a $14 billion stake in Russian oil.

Yeah, it's called the military industrial complex. Right, right. It's big companies get in on the military aspect of it. Right. But it's kind of interesting that Ukraine is out here requesting some fairly outlandish shit of companies, but they're they're kind of halfway complying, like they asked YouTube and Google to G platform, all of, Russia's propaganda channels.

Oh, there goes five minute crafts. If they, demonetized the TW in a couple of other things. And because of that, USA shut it, shut its doors. Wow. Now they're moving to a completely another platform, a completely different platform. The Reuben, the Rumble. Had you ever been. Have you heard of that? No. It's apparently an alternative to YouTube.

Okay. All right. Yeah. There's all kinds of, Elon Musk, the ever present PR asshole, for his company since he fired his entire PR department. Did you know that? Now he fired PR and marketing. Okay. Like, how can you even have a company and do that? I don't know, so. Well, apparently you gotta hire an external PR marketing.

Well. He doesn't believe in it. Doesn't believe in PR and marketing. Oh, Hiring someone. Oh, okay. He thinks they're useless. So that's another mark in the, you want must column of. What the fuck are you? But he,

Shipped over. So, I think it was like, I can't remember. His name isn't. It's better off, but I can't remember his title. Actually, this guy in Ukraine, it's basically their minister of technology, and, he, asked for son for Starlink to be turned on for the Ukraine and to get some Starlink terminals. I see. Okay, well, Musk did it shipped over like a truckload of older Starlink terminals and turned it on for the country.

Well, even in a war, you got to have your online porn. Well, absolutely. But I'm saying that's not a brilliant stroke. Yeah. You're pointing up again that has a good cause. They really are two sides of the same coin. They keep your they keep your publication. They each work on a different head. Right. They work on a different head in the Cape.

You're they keep your the energies of your, populace directed inwards rather than out outward where it's hard to control the l I got, it's, It's great. So now we just hit on something. Now that I see my see my porn again and all of these hot porn models, right? Yeah. And I look at my wife or girlfriend by comparison.

And now I'm so fucking angry, I'm going to shoot a Russian soldier. I mean, it's entirely possible it could work that way. I was just thinking about keeping your population at home, touching themselves. Nothing. Nothing says gets through a crisis like masturbation. Right? Right. It's like we need to get through this. Well, you can always turn to your Russian.

Oh, shit. You're the no more Russian foreign. You know, it's funny. Is that when I was in the military that I never, never even thought to do that. Not even one time? No, no, I mean, I getting I'd didn't because I mean, I'm around so many different ways to stay away from that heavy traffic. Oh, wait, it wasn't that I had plenty of alone time.

It was just my mind was on other things. So much so that like, didn't even Dawn need it to do that. Yeah. That didn't that didn't mean that some people were like, you idiot. Like crazy, right? Some people have like this visceral response, I guess. Yeah. You know, I'm like, they get more primal. I never really went on like an answer.

Anthropological quest to find out how much my comrades jerked off. But no, some of them would, like, make a statement, a proclamation about it. Oh, like like, oh, I got to go clean the pipes, you know, go to the porta potty with a of lotion, right? It's like, are you doing. Did that so fucking crazy? It's a fucking porta potty.

That's nasty. Take baby wipes with you. Right, dude, no fucking, Well. Hey, buddy Gump was talking about force. Well, anyway, are you one of those people? You lie, you tell stories, like, through you internalize them. We make them their own, but they're like movies. I'm just kidding. So it was General Crump, but. Oh, Crump. Is it?

Oh, yeah. Wait, was you really get a ping pong? No. Okay, so before the movie came out again, I'm guessing because Crump sounds a lot like jump. Yeah. Those and so. And does sound stupid. Even before the movie. And he was stupid. I used to call him the littlest thug. Or the thug that could because he was 19 and hadn't had Fury yet.

Oh my God, that's thug. That kid. Oh, those go.

And fucking So that pissed him off a lot. One time he, actually, I was so messed up on drugs, he was over there talking to me. We were having a conversation. He's standing in front of me. He put his hairless nutsack on my arm for minutes before I realized it. Oh, boy, oh, boy. Yeah. So, anyway, yeah, it sounds like you know what you do.

Why not? Right? Right. Especially if you're not here. I was gone. So, Gump was deployed in Afghanistan. Where do you think that your hairy arm would somehow encourages wall? Maybe. Maybe he thought it was like you know, hey, you marinate in that, you get some hair. But I'm not a smart man. I do have some hairy balls.

Now. So the. You know, next year he shot up with you motherfucking lead you got here, and it's nuts. Oh, Jesus. And, he's like, over six foot tall now. He was like five, three when they put in the memories. Right? Well, he wasn't in the army then, okay? He didn't go into the army until. God, he was like 30.

So, so so I've never I did the hair and not check. And I'm like, sorry. You don't have to worry, buddy. I will know in 30. I'm sorry. I need already up your around 2021 somewhere around there. This family apparently his dad had had the same problem. But that's interesting thing about the military is like you'll find probably every genetic variant of human, you know.

Oh, yeah. Amongst you. Oh, yeah. So when he was about 30, you got deployed to Afghanistan. And, he was a crazy motherfucker, as I've just described thusly. Yeah. I've never placed my sac on anybody. So. Yeah, that's pretty crazy, right? So, one of the things he did, what reminded me you were talking about going it let me qualify.

I did, didn't you? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I had placed my nuts on nuts on people. Yeah. Let's not do. Yeah I'm qualified. That money. Yes. Yes. Because I mean I think that's one of the reasons you have them to place them oh so gingerly upon another person. That's why I think this one of the reasons. Right. Sometimes you have to put your coin purse on the bar, let them know who you're working with.

You know, little jingle jangle to show all the people at the bar you can't afford round. If you get my drip. Oh, saddle up to the bar. They didn't have to know that three quarters of them were just little ad. Yeah, yeah. Oh, damn. As long as when you open it up, they see the ones on top or gold.

They'll be convinced the. All of them are gold. Yep. You're right, you're right. It works. I'm telling you, that's how it. That's how you were born. An amazing miracle fraudster. Yeah. That's how you get get by in the medieval tavern called the Boar's Head. And, you know, it's also how you get by in, distributing meth. Yeah, yeah.

Hide it in lettuce. Yeah. I'm produce company. Yeah. These bags of brightly colored biker meth. Just lettuce. Just lettuce. I mean, duh. Can't you see the top bushel of lettuce right here was. So all of the stuff in this container must then be lettuce, right? Yeah. Since you're under worked under paid and really in the grip of apathy, you're just going to let me go?

Yeah. The silver led bargain. Yeah. The first at the border that makes, you know, 35,000 a year, right? Somebody takes him aside, says, you know, in nondescript terms, would you like silver or let. And it turns out you're going to like silver. You're going to get one of the two. Yeah, right. What would you like? I would have a resounding yes, sir.

Hello, silver. Yeah, that's what I would be doing, if that is indeed my my, you know, range of choices. Yes, yes, I will pick the one that will jingle in my pocket and I'll leave a hole in my chest. Yes. And of course, for my soul, for my family. After I get a little bit of silver, I'm taking the, the the red line express out of there.

Yeah, yeah. Get enough silver to eat the 35 KS plus the handful of silver isn't quite worth it. Right? So I guess I need to finish this. It's like burning in my soul right now. It's like money in your pocket. Finished. So got deployed to Afghanistan. You reminded me, because the porta potty, porta potty story that you told, what he did.

He. There's this guy who was in his unit who would, while we proclaim about going to the bathroom. And so, Gump, one day, he waited for him in the bathroom with a fucking thong on and gas mask. I see, I'm starting to see the picture here. As soon as the guy comes in there, he fucking attacks it.

Oh my God, we thought it was an alien or something. Yeah, the guy's like screaming and yelling. The porta potties rocking. Well, the, and then gunk comes out of there going and jumping around like a fucking crazy ass monkey. Oh my gosh. And the guy's still got his pants down and he's screaming. I think it whoever lives that one, two, three, three, you just got a strange awakening.

Just like this dude in the pilot. We're about to do. That was great. Wonderful shared experiences. You know, storytelling is part of the human. Yes. Is it, it brought me to human condition. Deepens it. Yeah. Creates those connections? Yes. Not not, not a peaceful story of being told by Horus, you know, with the children all gathered round.

I mean, you could be yelling, yelling pornography story or gas masks and songs. Gas masks, man. A song in the morning. What better way? But the other thing to wake up to in your sound asleep in your house, it's bonding. Bonding. So male bonding or impersonating a sex crazed monkey, a sexual attack. Yeah. During cycle that. Yes.

So we wonder why women feel the need to interlace their keys in their fingers when they walk to their car. Oh, I don't wonder. It feels. I applaud them for the forethought. No I don't that's a that's a whole topic we can get into. Oh my gosh. Yeah. I applaud them for the forethought. I think that that was prudent.

I think that you understand how the world works when you interlace your keys and your fingers on the way to the car. I think that's exact opposite, but that's me. Well, I mean the exact opposite. I think it's absolutely horrifying how women think that men are all predators and oh my God, I don't know a single guy. That's a friggin predator.

I mean, okay, I don't know a single person who has done it either, except for I, I've been told, that's one of the those years that my girlfriends friend Yasmeen, her, husband, was arrested for pedophilia. Okay, sure. You hear these stories of this, and that's not what we're talking about. I was talking about people, like assaulting women, right?

Right, right. It's a different type of sexual predator. The the extent of it is like, you know, you got her too drunk at the bar, and you woke up and wish that maybe she didn't have that sex the night before. Right? Right. Yeah. That that I think is like where it's at. Not like, you know, slice her Achilles tendon from under her car while she's trying to wrestle with the keys to get in the door, you know, and then when she falls, like, drag her under and like Rafer of, you know, I mean, my only boyfriend to share with it.

So you're my ex-wife. She was apparently raped. Her cousin and then. Yeah. Danielle, I guess I whatever I do just attracts them. She was gang raped. Okay, now, well, you know, so they say I have no reason to deny. Yeah, I'm not going. I am not about to step into the realm of victim shaming or questioning what another person tells me happened to them.

Yeah, but that's a, you know, huge play. If somebody is being deceitful, right? It it is. But, is that going to change your whole disposition towards them? Like they're going to change your idea? I mean, my advice admitted to me grudgingly because she would act weird around her cousin. And so I was like, I just kept digging in that.

Okay, so she'd still be around her cousin. Okay, that makes sense to me. So she hat she would have to be. And really? Yeah. How suddenly didn't believe her and her mom even talked to me about it later. About how she thought she was full of shit, but with the emotional trauma that she would exhibit surrounding it, I kind of believer.

Okay. Yeah, it's it's up for debate and, you know, yeah, you had at the time a bias is what I do is you had a you had a reason to believe I did, but I went ahead and beat his ass just for good measure. Oh, okay. I mean, I figured, hell, like, I hope this guy didn't get beat up for no good reason.

Well, okay, he was a dick hole, so he earned it. Okay, well, then there that is. Okay. It's a wash, right? So that's what I was thinking. Like, okay, if he did do it, he deserves it. If he didn't do it, he's still an asshole and still observant. Still deserves it. Okay. Right. Yeah. It's funny. I don't ever see you as someone that, like, who would be someone's ass and still see you that way.

I get insanely angry. Well, I can see that. I can imagine that. But still, I even with the anger, I can, I can. All right. So when I reached to see some, some form of I used to be really bad, especially when I was with Desiree, I was only like a hair trigger. I wonder why? But before, before her, I did a bunch of illicit and illegal activities and, well, it had to be felt like I had to be on the alert.

Fair enough. And, I, I would participate in dealing violence occasionally. Fair enough. But, you know, I don't know if I could actually do it now, that's. I used to kind of be into fighting and all that stuff until I got my ass. What? The three times in it have changed, okay? Not just my ass up a few times.

Do that, change my idea about it a little bit? Yeah. I mean, I would only have done it even then. I only did it when I was absolutely forced to do it when I was a little, a little kid growing up. And I got picked on a lot. And I have a big mouth, as we all know. So I had to pay for the things that Big Mouth said.

Sometimes for me it was I was always trying to hang out with their kids, like the older kids. Yeah. And, you know, a lot of times when you're the rent of the litter, you get picked on, you have to prove yourself and you have to prove your rank. Yeah. Which then didn't make it for me. Not scared to get in a fight, you know.

Yeah. So allowed me to win most of them. Good. I mean, that's a lot of it is the confidence of you coming into the fight. And a lot of times you can intimidate your way out of it, or you can throw a couple of good blows and be done. You. Right. Yeah. The only fight that I actually lost, lost was that I literally got Sucker Punch from the side, and I had no idea it was coming and was delirious, you know, like, it knocked me senseless.

The two biggest fights, it was me out and knocked me loopy. So I never lost the fight as an adult. But as a kid, I lost two big ones. Those of you got beat up by a midget? Nope. Okay, that would be awesome. I tell everyone that story. I was in sixth grade. Yeah, talk to. You know, the funny.

I love the wordplay. So, this kid, I'm going to call him David Howard. Damn, that's not all of him. That name could be any, like, David Howard, red headed kid. Who would? The guest only. Oh, boy, that narrows it down. All right, so that's all this ginger from Gastonia, soloist ginger from Gastonia, whose parents worked at U.P.S..

Family who called out the family. Yeah. So. Well, this fucker just kept bothering, so, he didn't just bother me. In sixth grade, it continued. Oh, boy. So sixth grade, we ended up getting in a fight, and he talked about my mom and some other dumb shit that pisses you off when you're in sixth grade. Yeah, yeah, you have the same, like, true anger, you know?

What was it? Oh, you're talking about my mom, I got mad, I broke a couple of pencils, so I guess build my anger up, I don't know. And then, as soon as the teacher leaves, removed the desk out of the way to create a fighting rito. That's beautiful. I love it. And how civilized. Write this fucker straight out the gate didn't even give me a chance other than some shit talking piece.

Roundhouse kick me to the face. Roundhouse. I swear to God. Who the who is the roundhouse? I would not believe it unless it happened to me. I ended up on the ground a couple of feet away from where I was seconds before this. Like something that doesn't ever really happen. But he did. That's awesome. I guess I can't even fucking believe it.

Like my jaw is hurting and I'm on a crumpled heap on the ground. Oh my God, what the fuck? Oh my gosh. I'm just a very confused 11 year old. I'm always on your side, but not right now. Like, I love this guy who does a round nose. And so I have to respect that too. So I knew at that point I had lost the physical war and had to win the Social War.

Gotcha. Right. So it was all about so we get the desk back together and everything's cool. Before the teacher comes back. She sees my face is red. Oh my God. She's like, what did you do, Sean? Because I roundhouse myself. I was like, we'll talk about it later. Wow. You go ahead and buy a doorknob. So she never asked me again.

Sure. My sixth grade teacher really didn't like you that much. She was okay. Going to get my ass beat her. She heard the quick rumor. You know, mill came very quickly that you're a roundhouse, and she said that was awesome, right? Like, fuck, I wish I was there. I haven't seen a roundhouse in real life. I know I have it since.

But, I mean, the only other time I'd see it was double drag it, double drag it two on it, and it's fucking nice. That dude might have actually, like ahead of time as the desk for being brown. He's like, I'm going to roundhouse. He had you a plan. That's right. It's fucking insane. So I'm not I'm like you, man.

I wouldn't even mind. I wouldn't mind telling the story. The tale of when I was roundhouse. Yeah, it wouldn't really hurt me. It's hurtful. So anyway, I went ahead and mounted a social campaign against him. It worked. And he had to leave school. Oh, God, you did not come back to school and did homeschool until. God, what was it, the second half of a no, no, it was 10th grade.

You came back 10th grade. Oh my goodness. And, he proceeds to immediately begin to try to steal my girlfriend. Oh my goodness. So, Wayne, over the years, you. Perfect. You're right. Alice, right. That's. No, no, not to my rights at all. I was I was hoping no, it's around half that'll, What what I instead have done over the years perfected doing fucked up shit people and not getting caught.

Okay, so, that was your psychological downstream consequences? Yeah, from the roundhouse. The resounding roundhouse that, like, you play out your in your nightmares every night. You know, I never really thought about it until I saw him again. And then this came rushing back. That's always in your dreams. It comes like in a barrage. Hit you five times in a row.

It's fucking awesome. He just keeps reinforcing, like, oh, we need to get out of this painting. He moved out of his parent's house and into an apartment in Ashland Village. And I went ahead and, he just he keeps persistently trying to worm his way into my group and trying to take my girlfriend said, oh my gosh, I, we just read The Casket of Amontillado by, a girl and Poe.

Oh my God. So this gave me. I wasn't very creative. I lifted the idea completely from the story. Let me break this guy up in his apartment, basically. No way. So me and my friends, over a period of. I guess it was maybe a little over a month, we're stealing paving stones from, like two different lows. No way.

And because they would leave them out at night so we would steal a couple of day. Wow. Then I basically practiced with a few of them to make sure I could lock them together with some, mortar. And what I walked them into his fucking. So his apartment, you go out and there's like a railing on the right hand side, like this wooden round.

I got. And, so I basically went out there one night, built this thing just outside of his door that locked into the railing. What do they have? Them stones. What the hell? And so he comes out the next day to go to school, roundhouse your way out of that motherfucker. Yeah, that would have been awesome if I said that.

I didn't say that. I didn't show I wasn't there. But my friend J.R. Who was friends with him, told me that he had to call the fire department to get his ass out of. No way is isn't there like, you know, every isn't it like a zoning like kind of everywhere in the country that every, every room has to have dual egress.

So I mean, like, he had no way out. You know, a lot of apartments only have one door in and out. Holy crap. You're like close to psychopath. Because if he had struck a match at the same time, that would have completed your psychopathy. You know, it's like, Holy shit, dude, right? That is. And getting friends in on it.

Oh my goodness. Right, right. I mean, I'd say that was definitely fucked up. Well yeah, I mean that's that's a leader in the making. So like let's talk about leadership skills. Holy shit. You have you perpetuating crimes because they hate. It's got some of that of shared hatred. But like so why didn't you just gang on them and say, you know, your time's up, buddy.

You know? So why did it kind of like, bring him in? Like we're afraid of the roundhouse? I think the reason I think the reason we didn't do it is we were more comfortable playing in the psychological realm than the physical at that point. Oh my gosh. And so remind me never across the user, oh, that's not the only thing I did to my goodness.

Let's qualify this guy so a lot right. Yeah okay. They were some there's some emotional scars with the what are some emotional scars. What I mean, you forget this. How does he know to this day? Who victim in. I think you had a good idea. Our podcast is revealing too much and so fucking this guy might come back.

The more you might have to face David Howard with his roundhouse. You're going to be leaving for whatever. Yeah, it'll be a potbellied roundhouse. He'll come out, but somehow he still has to come out. He's balding. He's got the ginger beard. Oh, that's even worse, because now he's fat and he's still so could do it. Oh, I bet he can.

It's going to be like, Will's that motherfucking ass, and it hits your chest. Cobra Kai! Yeah, yeah. Cobra Kai! It's going to be like that Cobra Kai guy, so the roundhouse, like, can only hit you in the chest now. Oh, it's still going to hurt me, but that's what I'm saying. But even though I hit you in the chest, it still takes you out.

Oh, it's going to also, like, makes insult to injury even worse. I can just see it though. I could just see the wispy little hairs on the top of his head blowing in the wind and his fucking big ass beer belly. He belches loudly, throws the beer to the ground, crushes the yeah, that's right. He bends his legs a little more so he can use the guts upward momentum to help him get in the air with the roundhouse.

Yeah, he's got this, like, sumo stance. Yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah. So I get the momentum and then ride the bag of fat up. It's like a tornado of fucking fat redneck. Yeah. It's. And since the since he's got the horizontal momentum, the vertical, the I mean the vertical momentum, the horizontal momentum is easier like if that. So he's like yeah yeah, yeah.

His muscles are still enough to get the roundhouse. Oh sit in a hitch in the chest with that hard solid boot. Oh yeah I guess this. He's got the redneck work boot and it probably works at UPS like your parents did. Yeah. And so it catches you just right and, like, knocks the wind of you and knocks you down.

Oh, that would be amazing. I kind of want this to happen. Now. And you're, like, loopy, half unconscious. And he sends over and he does that thing with the spirit where he like, what's it? Let's it make a light out of it, sucks it back in laser light and sucks. I mean, at this point, as soon as I get my breath, I'm going to be laughing maniacally because I deserve it.

Like I'd never done that. Fuck yes. No, no, I'm going to be laughing because I've earned every bit of does this thing ever done? Yes. It's like if I survive this, we go on the podcast. I can't wait until tomorrow. It's like, Chris, I'm missing seven teeth and my body just is on fire. But listen, come over with the recorder.

We have to do a fart. That's right. Now all this is fresh, you know, the horror of it is still playing forward in my brain. And afterwards, we're going to go to Home Depot and buy some bricks. Yeah, well, I'm still on this side. We're more sophisticated, so, he kept fucking around, genius. One of the things that the new champion.

Oh, damn, that is dirty. Ain't brain girthy in green. Dude, that dong is so big, it's got graffiti on it and it doesn't care. So, Which, of course, reminds me of a joke, which I'll tell. And then go ahead and tell it. Okay? The surfer is like, this guy there, Two roses lady named Wendy, and he wants to do something completely unique for the honeymoon they're going to in Jamaica.

So, as a surprise, he sneaks off to the tattoo artist and says, I want Wendy tattooed on my my dick. And so, he's like, you sure? You know, a lot of times some people get the names and someone else on them, you know, tends to hinder the relationship. It's like, no, no, no, no, no, not in this case.

That's impossible. Right? She's she's the one in my dreams. I'm the man of hers now. Bola. But let's cut to the right here. And you know, with all these trucks. Sorry, sorry. Okay, so, Wendy, the woman of your earrings tattooed on your dot, on your cock. So he goes all right, whip it out. So the guy whips it out and he's like, there's no way in no matter what font I use when he's going to fit on that thing, he's like, no, no, I'm one of those guys.

You know, when I get a real or no to show her. Yeah, yeah. So he's like, okay, well you have to do something to, you know, otherwise you have this, to get it there because otherwise anything on their. So he's like, all right, go to the bathroom. He thinks about Wendy and all the good morning and all the good things that you know or.

Yes. Yeah are to come on this beautiful honeymoon in his fantasies about how awesome she's going to feel when she sees her name here. And, so he is like a semi goes back out there. So this guy, you know, can you sit down there real quick? I think that's like, yeah, I think I can. You're right. You know, you did you did have some growth there.

That's good stuff. So really quickly nae nae nae nae nae nae nae nae nae Wendy. All right. Well, of course he goes like turtle hiding in the shell South. Right? And all you see is W and y on his on his way, right? Yeah. And, he's like, that's a little weird, but she'll get it once, you know, when we're we're we're not, in the throes of art.

Yeah. We're in the throes of her passion. She'll see her name. And so this is just make everything great, you know? Don't even hurt. Yeah, it's pretty. Get good off. All right? Didn't have to stay off the dick for a while or anything. Yeah, exactly. Healed up quick, so his fantasies work out perfectly. And you go down Jamaica, we go in a hotel room.

It's our making out. He gets where he needs to be. She looks down. She is absolutely stunned that you do something so outrageous just for her. And makes it even better, right? Somehow, like this pain pleasure thing working for him, I mean, it, it's worked out. Yeah. There we go. His dreams had become true. I mean, as far as, like, this whole scheme looking.

Love it. So he's like, you know what, Wendy? I really want to. I'm so proud of you and so proud of our marriage and what we're building here. He's like, I want to go to a nude beach and I want to walk down and I want to show. So everybody maybe. Yeah, yeah. And, she's like, I've always wanted to do that though, right?

So you go there and I'll go to the nude beach. It's something I've never wanted to hear right. So the showing down, he looks down and he just sees and he's like, oh shit. Right. Yeah. Like, you know, babe, you know, do something. Do you help me out any a little bit. Yeah. So she does. And you know Wendy's on display again.

All right. And and so of course the natural thing happens. It shrinks again. And she's like, no, if just forget it. Let's let it be what it's going to be very this big, huge Jamaican surfer comes out of the water thing swinging dick, big swinging dick, but his only has one on it as well. All right.

And and the guy goes in, he's like, what are the what the what are the odds? This is incredible. Like there's no way there's no that ballsy dude to go talk to somebody at full mass. Yeah, yeah. No, no, he is with line. Oh the other hand. Right. Okay. All right, all right. And and and the the the Jamaicans.

Like, what are you talking about, man? You know, no, I don't I was cruising sure. Yeah. That one. There you go. You know he goes when my wife Wendy. Wendy it's like, what's this. You know, messing with himself a little bit. Yeah. Gets it, gets a going, says Wendy. Wendy. Hey. The surfer turns around, he's laughing. He's messing with him.

So he turns back around and says, Welcome to Jamaica. Have a nice day.

Oh hi everyone. I hope you enjoyed the racist stereotypes. Oh I certainly it it was wonderful. Oh what a stereotype plays to a certain groups advantage. Is it really right okay. Yeah I'd love to be you know go ahead. Spirit IP is saying wages smart for Asian good as an Asian person and say the guy was white and I didn't say the Jamaican was black.

You're the racist motherfucker. You did not. Am I my own personal biases. There you go. Here it it. So ultimately though, yeah. I mean, I have nothing but negative stereotypes about me and the joke. Just a been funny. I'm a poor white redneck. I mean, let's think about all the stereotypes surrounding that. I should be a very swelling moron who can barely put two syllables together.

You know, especially after all them roundhouse in the face. Thankfully, I only took one. I can only imagine you'd be like fucking Muhammad Ali right now. I'm glad he gave up. Right. I'm glad he was stunned, too. It was like after he kicked me in the face and I ended up across the room. We kind of just ended the fight.

This is so funny. Because of, like, there's given first, we have a difference in personality here, right? So like for me, when I got sucker punched by that guy, I plotted like, not socially. I plotted like, you know, in my mind, first I was like, if I ever get the chance to have this guy alone, I'm gonna be his ass, right?

Yeah. Like. So, I had visualized it in my mind that one time when I had this one opportunity. Right. Because I'm going to get it. There's going to be a chance we have enough, you know, crosses to cross each other's paths. Enough to where I'm going to get an opportunity. It's got to be ready for it.

So this is your opportunity. So I had visualized it over and over in my mind, beating his ass and looking him in the eye. Exactly. No. You were going to do sucker sucker punch me, motherfucker. And sure enough, one day in the dorm, I'm walking down the stairs and he's walking up the stairs. It's like 1130 at night.

Nice. I'd gone upstairs to hang out with my friend. Bill wasn't thinking anything about this guy. All right, Bill, I wasn't thinking anything about the what happened or the rivalry. But as soon as I saw him coming up the stairs, you were ready. My visualization had paid off, and I beat him in the stairwell, like you. And I believe that's fucking great.

I mean, really, I think it was a moment of. Introspection on my part. I knew that I wasn't going to be able to beat this kid, so I had to pivot to the thing where I thought I possibly could beat him. You knew you could beat this kid? No. Not really. That was the thing is that but I, I was going to try, you know, I respected.

And even if he beat my ass, you were going to go down. He was going to he was going to get hurt. Yeah, exactly. And I've been in those kind of fights. Definitely. And when it turned out what it turned out as is that he was completely coward. Let's go. You know. And so when I started beating him, he hardly fought back.

He started defendant's good. Yeah, but he was, you know, he's great. I suck on a motherfucker. That sucker punches people is definitely a cowardly piece. Oh, yeah. He was great at sucker punching. But when it came to, like, fighting one on one, he didn't know what to do. So he got the crap kicked out of his ass. Yeah, he did.

And did he, come correct next time? Oh, yeah. He wouldn't hear it every time it was like. It was like the classic, you know, dominant submission type thing. Because every time I worked at him from that point forward, he'd look down to the ground. Oh two. And don't forget, this is after weeks of talking shit afterwards from the original incident.

Because, I had to go get stitches in my mouth. Yeah, because he punched me in the side of the face and my cheek rubbed against my teeth, and lacerated the inside of my mouth. Yeah, dude. So I had to go in, literally to the hospital to get sutures. You know, and, you know, so he's like, you know, I'm gonna put you in the hospital again and talking shit like this.

And my rage was like, you wouldn't believe. Oh, at that, I was like, amongst the some of the high, high level rage that I've had in my life. I mean, understandable, I'm glad, glad it was a moment of triumph for you and a moment of you need to kind of respect people for him. And then there was that, other moment that doesn't belong on recording where, like, my tear up and.

No, it's okay. It's, I'll share a story with some other point in the future. But the idea was like I was to the point where I was, like, literally ready to murder somebody. Yeah. And, you know, I'm glad that never happened. Right? Yeah. I've never been that mad, but I've been close. There's a certain level of anger that you can possess that, like, lets the jinn come out.

Oh, yeah. And it's like, it's it's part of our human nature. Oh, yeah. To where if someone is under enough duress, they can literally turn into a monster. Oh, yeah. I mean, we aren't. Most people aren't that far from it, you know? Yeah. You put people under enough stress and under enough to rest, And make it seem like they have no other option.

Literally, a monster can come out. Yeah. I mean, I mean, if it comes down to. That's a survival instinct, right? Yeah. I mean, modern civilization, there shouldn't be a method by which that's possible. But you know, we're still we're still not there yet. Well, I mean, how do you prevent that? You have to prevent the kind of things we first talked about the infighting, the intimidation.

Yeah. There's there's there is something to be said for, domain of dominance submission throughout, you know, the hierarchy of mankind, there's still hierarchies of all types. Somebody is more sophisticated than others, right? Right. We've moved up the chain of abstraction. We've moved up the chain of civility. Yeah, but these things are still here. Just. They've,

Here we go, here we go. Let's think about it as a ladder. Of meta. So we are we are moving farther and farther up the meta ladder. But the same problem still exists there. Just the environment in which they created this shapes. Sure. Okay, so the guy could be, like the morning. So the guy could be basically like the chess champion or the best that's throwing darts in the world.

Right. And but what? The mechanic is almost the same. Yeah. And that in that domain, like there's the king, you know, there's a, there's a dominant species in that domain. Yeah. You know, so it's not hunting game anymore. It's not, you know, seafaring direct resources for your family. But it's playing the best in Japan. And sushi. Yeah. There you go.

Yeah. And so I guess you could have like, that sub dominance submission, but it still doesn't have that same primal, like, you know, the alpha is it will mate. All these, you know, most of the time there isn't a direct consequence. There isn't a direct dominant alpha thing. So we get it out of our system though, through the subsystems.

Right. Yeah. And then you can have this like person like let's say in office politics, they're higher up on the org chart than you. Right? Right. And then in that domain you know, they're person, you have to report to you. You're responsible to do what they say. I like you a little bit a lot.

Right. Okay. You're and so what I'm saying here is that in a different domain, let's say you no longer work there and you see this person on another level, right? All that can just wash away, you know, because you no longer are voluntarily in that structure. Now, in this other domain, you're by far the alpha. Yeah, sure. You change.

I don't know, I guess you've changed the context. Yeah, it's changed your context. Exactly. And then you could have this alpha situation where in some contexts you're the alpha here, but in this situation you're the other person is the alpha. Yeah. So that's that's pretty actually elegant and sophisticated. It's not necessarily just unbridled competition. Right. It's boxed. There's.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. There's some boundaries and controls around it. Yeah. And you can actually like like learn to enjoy that, that reality. Not necessarily like see it all as negatives. Right. And you know, if you're a big enough person you can learn to like some neighbor. He was dominant in judo in UFC, right? Guys like a multiple world time champion of judo.

But he took those skills and he said okay, I've dominated, but I want to teach other people to donate. That's cool. You know? Yeah. But you know, the whole thing with the champion, I mean, champions not can't stay. You know, it's always where it's always inevitably gets, you know, different. Yeah. You will be unseated. And if you have any sort of understanding of those things, you know, your your time is short.

Yep. And to preserve a legacy, what you must do is teach broadcast. And then when you're when you are the king, you need to be careful too, because there's, other ways to dethrone a king, right? Like Game of Thrones type in human terms. But in animal terms, maybe the two medium sized Silverbacks come to play, right? And say, no.

You know what? We're tired of this journey. Yeah, and tear Big Alpha to shreds. That can happen. Or like we said earlier with, the guy from sixth grade, the, the social game. It's funny. Now, the the level of competition is still there because you seem to have a glimmer in your eye when you talked about the beer belly and the balding.

I mean, okay, the only thing I don't have against Guy, I got the beer belly. You don't have the full involvement, so it'd be like bumping beer bellies. Awesome, awesome. As long as just some grunting involvement. Yeah. I mean, dude, I think the whole thing would be absolutely hilarious. I'd be willing to take a couple of roundhouse kick to the face, but as far as it went, that's great.

It's funny because this whole competition thing, when you end up like, I guess at a certain level of sophistication, maturity, I think it starts to I think that's it starts to wane. Yeah. You know, like, you know, maybe 20 years ago we were having some kind of like, if you and I were in some type of, you know, either real or imagined competition with each other, I could be jealous or, you know, whatever.

All the emotions that come in with, with, like, having a rival in some sub domain. But now I would just be happy for you, right? You know, not because our friendship is mature, but because I am. And also I think there's elements of there are still friendships that I have that aren't mature. But I see, I see so so so you even have different domains of being resolved.

Yeah. So I feel like, you know, it is the confluence of the maturity of, of our interaction as well as the maturity of yourself and, you know, I don't know if wants to describe me as mature, but, you know, there's that. And. Yeah. So, I mean, I think it's all. Yeah, you become more confident in yourself. That's probably.

Yeah, part of it. And you don't feel like you have to strut around to beat your chest. I don't feel like that. Ever. That's what I'm saying. You do. Or very rarely. Yeah. And at some point in our lives, we felt like we had to. I mean, everybody kind of does. I would imagine you've done that less often than the rank and file, because it seems like you tend more towards this, a report, which is good, admirable.

Yeah. But there's a degree in that. In that domains you were like, you set out to destroy somebody. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I mean I've done it multiple times. Like I was in that one class and the kid just made a fatal mistake. He said, I just agree with everything you just said. Oh ho ho ho ho. And so.

Oh ho! When I heard that he was sitting behind me. And when I when I heard that, I literally turned in my seat to look at who would say such a thing. How do you see this? Do you see this smart ass, or do you see the sycophants? What do you see? I see, like video game addicts that has no worldly experience at all and is about to be destroyed for their insolence.

You dare to be on my level? Is that what you're saying? Yeah, like they they are like the very top U.S.. Summers ex-husband is the videographer there now, after getting fired from the blue e-cig e-cig. But it read what videographer? Yeah, they're like, they're right there. Yeah. Oh how strange. He was like four minutes for me.

Oh, no. Sure. Yeah. What? Why do you have to have a videographer for a tattoo parlor? I'm guessing because of the, like a YouTube channel. They do post videos to social media. No shit. Okay, Joe. Morning. They show off their work, and the show up there, I guess the the tats. Yeah, the variety of skill. But, yeah, I see.

All righty then. Yeah. So, so, like, if I had to guess, you know, as I say, my girlfriend's ex is doing this for work. I don't think I'd ever come up with a videographer for a tattoo shop. Right, right, right, right. Fill in the blank here. Yeah. I mean, it's almost like you, did this, like, random word generator and, that's what came out.

Yeah. That's so funny that that would have had more of a chance of getting that guessing now than I would have. Yeah, you're right, you're right. I mean, it's a weird thing. And that's kind of, I guess why I mentioned it. I thought it was pretty weird, too. He filmed the first one just with an iPhone. They gave me, like, 50 bucks because they're filming back because he got fired.

And then it was good and it got a bunch of views. And so they bought like $3,000 worth of form and they're selling into glasses. Very nice. So what do you think about this idea like, very low cost IoT thing, That's got a small Bluetooth chip on it, right, so it can sync to your phone. And what it does is it just continuously collects air quality data.

Okay. So, like, it's, you know, it's it clicks on your bill or like, you know, where as a pendant or something, right? Yeah. And it's constantly, what we're doing this is like another sense basically, since it's clipped to your belt, you can always know the quality of the air in which you are. Yeah. So the smartphone app would give you a little like meter, right?

Like, you know, it's measuring the amount of droplets in the air and the amount of dust, let's say, you know, just general air quality measurement. Let's say you use the feedback to say, oh, well, I shouldn't walk at 7 a.m. because of all the smog and hear from the cars we'll do that could definitely be one you use for it.

But I was thinking like more about indoor air quality. When it comes to, you know, coronavirus. You see what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah. And so not only does it give you personal data in real time about what the air quality is around you, but it also sends continuously to the cloud. And so you can do like a, a mass effect.

Right. Collect data samples from millions of data points and simultaneously. Yeah. And create an overlay heatmap of air quality in different areas so we can very quickly, a citizen want to know. Good. Yes. And so what this can do is like, you know, you know your local church when you're in service, that. Oh my gosh, this is a red zone right now for transmission.

And so maybe I should throw my mask on, you know. Right. And then also the church itself would get this. It would have access to the data. Everybody. It's open data right. So motherfuker what happened. Doctor thinks you might have fucking mono. It's a good thing I don't make out with him. But still I don't need to be nerd dumb ass.

Funny fucking asshole. Maybe sharing that doobie with that chick was like kissing her, right? I mean, I'm sure. Well, they shared a ball. Oh, well. Same idea. Yeah. You're both. You're both flipping that thing pretty hard. Yeah. So he should probably get. Tell her ass. Oh, I'll go tell her. Well, like, you know that bearded, crazy fucker you had a fucking bong rip with?

He's got mono. To check it out. Maybe there's some advantages that I have in life by not doing these drugs. And, I don't know, maybe. I mean, I don't. Hey, movies are new because I've become. I've realized that my roommate is giving me Covid twice, and there's a plague I keep. I don't really share anything with him.

It's hilarious. So. So let's say you have this personal sensor, right? You check your smartphone at any time you want. Well, open up the app and it'll give you your meter and what your air quality is right now. Right. So and then your Covid risk or airborne disease transmission okay. All right. I guess I'm wondering. All right. We can get an air quality sensor.

But the air quality sensor won't necessarily. It'll tell you about potential for airflow. But as far as transmission, as far as, no. So like Covid is transmitted in other airborne diseases or transmitted on droplets in the air, right. Air quality sensor isn't going to detect Covid droplets now, but you can probably pretty easy detect the quantity or concentration of droplets in the air, possibly set right.

And then on top of that, your general sensing of like, you know, the particulate, amount of particulates in the air. I think that we could easily determine particulates in the air, like like, that's the way a, fire, a fire. Yeah. Smoke alarm. Smoke alarm works. Right? Particulate detection. Right, right. And so the technology is, you know, been well established, right?

Right. But little particulate detection, let's say for argument's sake, it's got a droplet sensor as well. Right. Also like it can tell the approximate concentration of human fucking flying particles in the air, you know, in general sense. Right. Yeah. Enough to give you like a meter from, from, you know, it's, from green to amber to reds I think.

Yeah. Okay. Cool. And, that data is and shared in real time with, you know, the community at large. Yeah. This way. And, you know, maybe you can partner with a, all these different municipalities and countries have come up with these after Covid connection. Maybe you can partner with one of them. So you can imagine a million people wearing this little, little sensor.

Right. And it's all the data scrubbed. It's all anonymous. Sure. That gets reported up. But then what you could start to do is have like a Google Maps heat map of all the indoor air quality around your entity. That'd be cool. And so, like the coffee shop we just walked into, we could say, oh, wait a minute, we might not want to go in there today.

Or if we are, we better mask and just take our coffee. And I don't give you some anecdotal, an anecdotal story about that. My friend Theresa, her, now boyfriend, this guy Mike, she's gotten Covid twice from going to the same coffee shop. Well, there you go. So if maybe if he was armed with this data, that never would have happened.

And then see, the added advantage is that, you know, you're not necessarily shaming or calling out the coffee shop, but what you can do is the coffee shop can access that information as well. You see, and realize they're an epicenter. Yeah. And say, wait a minute, let's let's update our, our Hvac. Yeah, yeah. Let's, so in so that we're not the red on the map if you really.

Okay, so I think the Hvac and have maybe having better filters. Right. So micron filters or something. Yeah. But then, do you think the, the UV light thing works at all. Sure. Surely it does. But if you take the total amount of droplets, you know, particulates and droplets out of the air, you're going to do a huge service deploying.

Yeah. I mean, it works in airplanes. There you go. You know it. And so and I'll say, I mean, so you get where I'm going with that. And so, you know, with a very low cost solution, I think that you can it's also one of my projects. Nice. And part of my project is I have to interview people and get their opinion about it.

Okay. Well, in general, I agree with it. I think there may be some technical hurdles as far as droplet detection, but I think air quality and airflow, you could definitely do pretty easy in an IoT device. So why would there be difficulties in droplet techs? I don't know of a sensor that I know would easily map to that.

I don't know of one way. Okay, so you have regular, like, moisture in the air. You know, obviously that's just a human. You know, the relative humidity detection. Yeah. And then what you'd have is you just do it even with a light sensor because, you know, droplets bend light. Okay. So with a, with just a simple light sensor, I think you can pull it off.

Okay. You know, to, to kind of get an a general idea at least on, on how many you know. So you have something like a digital barometer in to say it's going to give you. Yeah, but you don't really need to measure the humidity. You just need to measure the certain size droplets in the air. Right. Okay. Because like, regular, water vapor dissolves in the air, you know, is just, it wouldn't it's dissolved, right?

So it wouldn't be detectable. It wouldn't change the spectrum of the reader. But, but a droplet, you know, that's coming from a stream. Diffuse some light. Yeah, yeah, I'm sure like engineers have figured that part out. Yeah, yeah. Or crude to get that part out. Right? Right. This this is probably a small problem in some form, and you'd have to adapt it to your device.

Right. And and the masks, of course, lower the amount of droplets in the air. Right. So like when if you're in an environment where no one has masks, you're going to have a hell of a lot more droplets in the air. I mean, you know, you know, they've got these models, where, you can even go online and put some data, like, all right, I'll be in a place for three hours with one window open.

That is this size, with this many people. This many people are masks. This many people aren't. Yeah. And they'll tell you what your risk of getting Covid in that space is. There you go. So I'm looking to just automate that and make the data publicly available. So maybe pull from GIS, the the square footage of a place, they just use Google Maps to do the maps.

Okay. And you're not making any money off. It's just public public data. Right? And you're giving people your best gap, right? Right. You're like, okay, for Google Maps, we can tell you're in a 2000 square foot space roughly, you know. Sure. Yeah. Or or just put like, circles on the map, each of each reading from each device.

So therefore, you wouldn't even have to just over paint the map. This, the current location. Yeah. Don't even worry about the map underlying map. Just be the underlying map. Yeah, that's how I would do it. Yeah. Just, just get started. Yeah. I mean, what's interesting where you wouldn't need to get that fine grained group and then.

Yeah, and then you could just pull historic data too, and change the opacity of the, of the dot based on his age. So more, more recent data is more opaque. And I mean, hey, that's clever. That pendant, it would be nice. Yeah, it would be nice if you could overlay it with, say. Some of that data. Yeah. Anonymized, Covid transmission data from windows, other apps.

There you go and say, you know, do the same thing with the dot. Hey, six months ago, eight months ago, this color because the Covid hasn't been caught here or transmitted here for this long. Whatever. Yeah, sure. Whatever data source you can get your hands on. Yeah, but the kind of, like, personal monitoring real time for yourself, you know, it's it's pretty valuable.

It is. You know, it'll give you a like. Oh, shit. I don't want to mask up here, give you a six, six and stick, you know, augment it. Yeah. We wouldn't make crazy decisions, like, not wear our mask inside the coffee shop, but whereas walking on the street and the wind is blowing. I just had it on.

No. And I have my jacket. I'm holding my jacket, so there's no place to put it. I know, I know, my pants are falling off my ass. This fuck. Oh, I was like, fuck with here, let me keep it on my face. And apparently it's killing me because I can't breathe. Well, I'm sitting here. We're, Are you agree?

I disagree, I don't agree saying. Yep. To funny though. So, part of the conversation today I wanted to have was this idea of, like, the bottlenecking of imagination. Right? So. Okay, think about this. Imagine a point in history where there were no cities, right? There were civilizations. Yeah, but there were, you know, not huge concentrations of people with concentrated infrastructure.

Yeah, not billions of people on the planet, not massive cities creating more semi-nomadic societies. I love that idea. Yeah, to some extent. And, you know, take this into consideration. These clerics, right. Going to the top of a Mayan temple, And the top of the temple is, like, flattened off. Right? So it's like a mini plateau up there, a plain going in, these clerics are gathering around in the night, in the twilight hours.

And, you have survey equipment. So. Cool. Yeah. Right. And so these clerics are up on top of the mountain in the water. Bearers are coming up, and they're filling this carved out basin on top of this pyramid. They're filling it with water. Yeah, right. And what they're creating in the process is they're reflecting pool. Okay. And they're using this reflecting pool to gaze down at the stars.

Yeah. So the clerics are standing around the reflection pool and going into set marks that are carved into the stone. So where they put different sticks in those in the slots, and they look through holes in the sticks at particular stars to target off the reflection pool. Okay, okay. And when they look up in the sky, they stay look up or even see in the reflection pool.

They look up and they can see the entire Milky Way, right? Right. They can see billions of stars with the naked eye because there's no light pollution from modern cities. Right. And so which I mean also explains why we had incredibly good astronomy for so. Well, the level of technology we have. Correct. And so you can imagine this set up and these clerics charting the stars and using that as part of their religion that they're going to then bestow on the people not only to maintain control but to give guidance.

Oh, yeah. And then I think, I think earlier we were talking about the benevolent side of the coin that religion begins with, which is generally guidance, explanation and understanding. Sure. Right. So, so not only the, the clerics, but they might as well be the top scientists of the time. Sure that in, you know, okay. And that's explained by generally a cleric is giving up arms or sacrifices, things to support themselves.

Right. And thereby they have the time to think. Yeah. So you can picture this water bearing servant coming up there and emptying into and seeing what the people are doing. It might seem like magical, what's right. Right. Like chanting the stars and discussing the heavens and all this. Right? So, you can imagine you're on top of the temple.

So you have the physical, you know, monument dam. It smells good. Does they have all these things tied together? Right. And, you know, you can imagine the imagination of those people being so stimulated. Yeah. You know, by this. Right. Well, this is something that can't be done today because we have the technology of modern civilization. Cities are all lit up and light pollution is cumulative, right?

You know, like the photons enter the atmosphere and they cloud. There's actually websites that help you find the darkest places to go. View the sky. Yeah, but still the the atmosphere itself is aglow with all. Yeah, yeah. You're right. Yeah. Not only that. Satellites. They are satellites to cause greater glare. The other way. There you go. And so this is like one example of many I can provide where technology actually stifles the imagination.

Right? Right. Like we've been deprived or just the natural ability to just look in the sky and be it. Oh, yeah. You know, because of our modern, you know, brilliance. Right? No pun intended. And so, yeah, many, many examples like that. But I just wanted to introduce this idea of, like, the stifling of the imagination, based on bottlenecking a person's creativity.

Right. So, like, gamers that all they want to do is game and all they talk about is game. They have great minds and imaginations when it comes to gaming, right? But that doesn't necessarily easily in well translate to other areas of the life. It doesn't. And we talked about that before about how we may repeat ourselves in these kit.

Well, and maybe not. I'm just trying to tie in to things that we said in that this younger generation does have great facility in these certain ways, but then whenever they're taken out of their element, out of the video games, out of this or that, it's hard for them to have that same creativity and passion. Yeah. So that's what I'm saying, is that perhaps even though the imagination is heightened within a certain domain, it's stifled overall because it's limited that to me.

Yeah, yeah. Some extent. Yeah. And so that just might just be a microcosm of a greater idea that the modern technological world, even though it has so much to offer, it might actually be bottleneck if creates if all intellectual fiefdoms, these, these, these places where, you know, thought and experience is cordoned off. There you go. That's exactly what I'm saying.

Yes, I like the terminology. Yes, exactly. And so, being aware of that, we might be able to start chasing some broader experiences in life. There. Just saying. Yeah. And I think all right. Crazy. But it's similar to, you know, like those those experiences where they what is it. There's like these groups can join that helps young people go out and have adventures and do things right.

Sure. Beyond escape rooms. Yeah, yeah. Beyond escape rooms. Maybe you should call it escape the escape room of modern living. Yeah, maybe you should call it that. Something like that. But, I want to set this for today. I think. I think maybe you have to do something like that, you know? Maybe. Yeah. Help broaden people's experience.

Okay. You got your experience in the technology realm. What else you do? I don't know. Yeah. The first step was broaden broadening for myself. Yeah, well, fuck, yeah. Since I, since I have recognition, you have to take that knowledge and translate it into applicable. All right. Ability. Right. Don't assume you're the king of the mountain and apply the same to yourself.

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