 It's cold. Good morning. It's Tuesday, January 2nd. This is the second day of week one 52 and 52 where I try to write a short story every week for a year and then at the end we will be compiling all those stories into a collection and selling it to the masses If you'd like a free copy of the book when it is done You can sign up for my patreon links down there in the doobly-doo. You can go to my twitch any any place You want to go basically five dollars a month get you on any of these platforms five dollars a month gets you a physical copy an ebook copy and an audiobook copy Sometime next year. I'm not sure when it's gonna get started. Of course. I don't know how long it's gonna take to edit all this stuff But yeah First order of business this morning is I got some wild ass news Some very wild because I'm me and I'm no big deal three of my pin names ended up on mid journeys leak list of Authors and creators artists all that stuff that they have been using to Feed their database which all of us knew Anybody in the creative field knew that AI was a problem knew that these Companies were drawing from somewhere and it just so happens three of my names are on this list I think one of them is hilarious because it was a joke and it wasn't meant to be there It wasn't meant to happen. It was just something I goofed off with That became mildly successful and then the other two sold really really well I don't know why the third one is there, but anyways, so there there's your update I doubt I'll see a penny from anything even if there's 16,000 creative individuals on that list and If there's a class action, we might get a hundred dollars each if that I've been a member of several class action lawsuits And I think the most I've gotten is like six dollars and fifty cents But this one was probably gonna be much much more than the other ones that I was involved with So yeah mid-journey owes me some coin whether that be pennies Nichols dimes quarters. I don't know mid-journey owes me some some some some Fedia So how are you guys doing today y'all woke up? I'm not I'm just here I am going to start writing here very shortly. I know where this story is going I just have to fill in the blanks. I got the next three stories ready So this month is taken care of not ready as in written but ready up here in my head I got a story about a family of four. They get stuck in a loop after visiting a barbecue restaurant and going down a seemingly abandoned road And then I have another one about a X mob hitman I'm not really sure where that's going to go, but if you spend enough time on tiktok YouTube any of those places you will see the interviews with all these ex mobsters these hitmen and what not talking about What's going you know what what they did in the past and you're wondering why are these people walking free that kind of thing So I'm gonna do one about that and then the last one. I have a title. I do not have anything to go with it But yeah So those those are the four and I have plenty of time to think about all that good morning Viking. How are you doing? also Damn near killed myself out in the office today Not YouTube calm down not literally, but I have the the way this office is set up I didn't have enough plugs in the right places Morning Richie, I didn't have enough plugs in the right places So I got a bunch of stuff over here on this wall plugged in bunch stuff over here on this wall plugged in It's the only two regular outlets I have all the rest of them are for like air conditioning or dryers or you know, the big the big ones and I come out here to start my heater about I don't know eight o'clock this morning seven forty five something like that I Come out here to start my heater. I turn on my computer and the problem on this side over here It's all behind my desk over here I have a pathway about yay big that I have to step over a cable to get by Well, that's been going on for whatever since I started the twitch The twitch channel so it's been months and I knew eventually that I would either trip over this cable Or I would fall over it and this morning I stepped right on it My TV my light my switch that's not charging the controllers All of it hit the floor. So I don't know if any of this is stuff This stuff is working. I'll find out before my my live stream Over on twitch today, but if I hang on But if it's not working, I can I'll just have to stream from the console itself without The the face cam make them all make them pay all the coin I wish I could but like I said, there's 16,000 people on that mid-journey list And it all depends on who sees it who's informed Who is brought in on a class action lawsuit all that stuff Which is wild as hell because mid-journey has been making money hand over fist with this thing and They've been using us. They've been using the people who can't pay their bills, which is fucking wild It's absolutely, but it but is the fog machine. Okay, the fog machine is on a pedestal off to the side The fog machine is fine The fog machine isn't even plugged in right now because you know every time I turn it on You know we lose sound Also the heater, but I can't do without the heater because it is currently what 30 degrees outside 26 it is it's not even 30 degrees. It's 26 Let me update this last time it updated with 7 a.m It don't matter at it at the highest. It's a Do I need to get your do I need to get my baseball bat? What exactly are you doing with said baseball bat? Is it illegal if you plan on beating up mid-journey? That's like a thousand folks. You got to beat up That's a whole ass company Hang on my phone didn't have a signal I'm Put it on airplane mode. Hopefully it picks up the Wi-Fi. I Also had issues with my internet today. I tried to hard wire my my computer And for some odd reason it wasn't working and Okay, it's 35 degrees right now. So it has gone up nine degrees. Anyways all in service of the chair Yes, I already missed church of the chair. I already miss it but people didn't like it and on top of that every time someone tried to search for me because YouTube will give me analytics for you know what people search to find my channel and Everybody was searching literal churches like you know Church chair that kind of thing Church chairman church chair church board any of that stuff. They weren't looking for book content They were looking for religious content a little bit of the ultra violence with a little bit of the ultra violence with the baseball bat. I I'm gonna go outside and wait for old bill They come around with a submarine Anyways, so Come back over here. I changed some stuff. I guess I can go through and show you I already changed some stuff just because it was hurting my eyes So here's a drive for go for you today. No car. No problem. We'll provide the deals and wheels You provide the service is what it initially said and I didn't like that at all So you provide the meals So now it says we'll provide the deals and wheels you provide the meals I figure that sounds more like catchy company jargon Let's see here. I Changed a couple little things just to make it flow better, but other than that. I haven't changed much like here It said the last 12 billion 12 dozen applications. I use dozen a lot Like half dozen little less than a dozen. I will use dozen a lot. So I changed it to 11 billion any you guys who Who know where that comes from I think it fits the story Pretty well considering this guy's vernacular There's still some more awkward stuff that That I'm thinking about changing. I don't know how it's the it's the repetition of that in this section That's a mouthful. That's what she said giggle fit. Anyways I'll figure that out and I don't know why it keeps wanting me to write write in past tense I haven't written in past tense in a long time So anyways, that's what we're doing today. We are finishing up the story or at least making a nice dent in it We have 1,750 words. I don't know how long the story will be I'm expecting it to be under 5,000, but I have no idea. I know the twist at the end. It might be a little too convoluted I don't know but things kind of work themselves into place and You guys know I started this I started this story Because me and my I told the story yesterday But me and my middle sister wanted to create a door-dash uber eats kind of thing before any of those things existed Called go for you g o The number for you So I was laying in my bed this morning, and I was like wait a second I Want I also want to show you something up here that if you go back and watch the first episode You will you will understand That this this came before today Okay, so Talking about this is you know how everybody's hiring, but nobody's hiring then if they do call you you've already found a job Or you've taken a permanent vacation from a temporary problem like my boy Doug Doug just came off the top of the dome. I had no idea Where it came from that was in there, but I want to show you something interesting I want to show you something very Some might say creepy some might say it's a little weird But if you go down here, and you type Doug, okay You got that bold you got Doug now. I want you to come down here and do the same thing with go for you Now what letters do we have we have G? We have O? We have you But what's the fourth letter of the alphabet? a b c d and we have D What does that spell if you reallent rearrange? You get Doug. I Don't know if that's too convoluted and people are gonna roll their eyes Roll their oh, you're gonna hear more about Doug Doug is now a bigger part of this whole thing But that just happened if you've read my book life after Dane the ending of that book just happened These things just happened when I was working with Chad It happened multiple times where we had set something up, and we had no idea In fact Chad was the one who set a bunch of stuff up, and I was the one who was like wait a second What about this Chad had some of those moments also, but what I'm getting at is this stuff just happens That's why I say Be very light with your outline because you don't know what's going to happen in the story to make the story more interesting I went back to listen to the rest of yesterday's dream after I got home from the auction I'm intrigued by this story. It seems like it could be an eldritch horror if you incorporate the others Wife has to borrow the laptop today, so I'm practicing guitar instead of hey, hey, that's that's great You're more about Doug. I need to audible life after Dane now go for it because that is Not only Richie and I'm not this type of person I don't brag on myself Not only is it my favorite of my work just because what I was able to accomplish And the fact that it didn't change much. I added two chapters in the middle, but that didn't affect the end at all Everything just kind of fell into place, but it is literally one of the best endings I have ever read period and I'm not I'm not just bragging I'm saying that I go back and I read that book myself Just to read the ending sometimes I just go back and read the ending and I'm left with a smile on my face Sometimes these things just happen and you need to let them happen So what we're gonna do is if you remember the old Chadwick Chadwick streams We always came in we talked for a while then I took a break I've already been here what 13 minutes. I'm gonna go another 15 minutes talking And then we're going I'm gonna take a short break Come back and we're just gonna jump right into it But I like to give you guys time to talk to me here at the beginning So if you have any comments questions concerns anything like that Please leave them down here. Also to the five individuals Who all some of them restarted some of them joined the for the first time Who joined the patreon yesterday? I appreciate you one person prepaid for an entire year I believe it was $51 I think And Yeah, I just want to thank those people. That's what I was getting at there I just want to thank those people the book will be coming also I still owe patreon a copy of lady falls that will be up eventually everyone who was here Last year everyone who was on the patreon last year will be getting lady falls at some point. I'm still working on it I'm having issues with editors trying to find people that have openings People who are willing to help but just do not have the time. I'm sure y'all understand that So, okay, you talked me into it. I'll download it today and listen while I take ebay pictures. Awesome Well, enjoy it. Veronica does a fantastic job narrating it There is a couple of odd things in there I think she clicks her tongue where she makes a mistake and then repeats the following line Neither one of us caught it before it went live or she uploaded the wrong file. I'm not sure But some of that stuff's in there. So just keep that in mind It is not perfect, but it is a good audiobook Um My favorite audiobook of mine is crawl. That's uh, it's fantastic fantastic, uh performance in production I had some gunk under my thumb trying to get that out No talking me out of it now. I have it downloaded. That's fun. I wasn't trying to talk you out of it I was trying to warn you that it's uh, you might you might run into some issues. You might not Uh, I approved the entire thing. I listened to all seven eight hours of it However, long it is I listened to the whole thing and I didn't catch those things Before it went live. So I'm not sure if it's audible's problem when they uploaded everything Maybe they picked the wrong. I don't even think that's possible, but maybe they picked the wrong stuff Maybe Veronica replaced some things thinking she fixed it and uploaded an old file. I don't know But uh, anyways, it's not that big of a deal. It's like right in the middle of the book And it's not during an important part. So Where did we leave off yesterday? The video feed cuts. Oh, yeah the dude Morgan friendly owner operator of big brothers burgers. I don't know if I'll use this or not But this seems interesting to me So if I come across something where I need to use a company or whatever, I'll use big brothers burgers I really like I don't like it none whatsoever. I tell you like Like fond of telling the misses it sounds like they's talking about really big tiny titties And that's a reference to uh triple b It also I thought of um, you know people say hot water heater or They shrug their shoulders that kind of thing. It's just It's redundant. Um, you know, you only shrug with your shoulders. Uh, you're not heating hot water. It's a water heater um And what I was thinking of there could be also be a joke that says triple b burgers So it'd be big brothers burgers burgers Be something like that too. There's all different kinds of stuff you can do. Um When playing with things but the important part to remember when you're writing is all of this is practice All of it every word that you type is practice Until it goes for publication Whether that means you're approving the final edit from the publisher Whether you're doing a final edit yourself It's all practice until you publish it. Hey terry. How you doing, hun? All right, um Just cool. Yeah, is it just me or does everyone have a side hustle nowadays? I was just talking to someone yesterday that does uber in philly. I that's why I'm doing door dash Uh, but it's my main hustle now because I I'm not moving these books. Um, I don't It could be any number of reasons people not having disposable income or whatever it may be But I love Here's something that I haven't talked about yet. I love restarting I don't mind it. That's why I have as many pin names as I do. I love restarting. I love Starting a new it's it's almost it's not really Maybe it's a bit a bit of braggadocio, but I like To I like the feeling of being a debut author Um, I like how people pay attention to that after you get in, you know the business for so long People either start to forget about you or they feel that you they've read everything that you have to say Someone and so forth. So I like the idea of being a debut author over and over again So I like rebuilding Um, and it's also probably a trauma response from all the times that all my shit has been destroyed by Uh by hurricanes or what what have you? Um, I've been homeless twice. Uh, nearly homeless very recently. Um, that I don't know. There's just something about the rebuilding this time. It sucks because I didn't want to have to do it I thought I was just going to go start a new name And this the first time I've ever had to rebuild an existing name. Um, and that's of course the Lorne name Uh doing good doctor appointment was canceled. So getting extra reading in is Is the doctor appointment a good thing? I mean getting the extra reading in is cool, but Did you it wasn't an important appointment Ah And how's phyllis doing? Phyllis if you're there. Hello How'd they do it? It was therapy intake to start the process of disability mom says hi and she's doing good and knees are aching Yeah, this cold if you got bad joints bones any of those things It's cold This cold will do it to you and I keep hearing that uh that That shouldn't be the case like doctors are saying, you know It's not because you're cold is because the cold is making you tense and you're tensing up It's not actually affecting your bones and I'm like if the cold is making me tense up It's the fucking cold It's the cold because I wouldn't be all if I wasn't cold, right? It's like the it's like, you know cold cold weather does not make you sick It lowers your immunity and you end up catching a cold So there's a higher chance to catch a cold If I'm cold Seems like the cold making me sick, but I get what they're saying, you know, the cold doesn't inherently make you sick for babies good too Marvell likes to piss outside the oh, that's wonderful. That's wonderful All right, let me close this no, I don't want to close that leave that up You probably answered this already But are you planning for just a rough draft of each story each week or are you going for edited drafts? I am it all depends on whether or not I can wrap up a story by wednesday if I can wrap wrap anyways if If I can wrap up a story by wednesday, then I will try and edit it on thursday But if I go all the way to thursday, I will edit it the next week. Um, but I am hoping I am hoping To uh to not have to do that. I'm hoping to finish a story and then of course it We might have a first draft done of each story But they're still going to be significant editing at the end of the process Especially if all these stories tie in somewhere. I need to make sure there's no holes. There's no inconsistencies. No impossibilities all that stuff So hey, Pedro, how you doing and lacy? Hey y'all, I ain't seen either one of you in forever. Well, I haven't been here, but yeah It's it's nice to see both y'all Oh, yes three times yesterday Uh everything is going about the same Pedro. We're not as Chomping at the bit as we were but we're still Showing about a two to three hundred dollar discrepancy every month Uh, and what that two to three hundred dollars that I did not calculate in my brain because I'm not a business person Is the gas that it takes to do door dash So we will make 150 dollars in a day And then end up having to put 50 of that into the car So if we make 100 we're only making 50 if we make 150 we're only making 100 you get what i'm saying So, uh, yeah, terry i'll be putting it in there and Members on here you can do one of or the other of each thing Uh members of the patreon at the five dollar level Membership if you have a youtube membership or if you sub on twitch all those are about five dollars so if you sub to any one of those In january and you keep it until december You get the uh physical book the e-book and the audiobook all three of them at the same time When they're released you get them all for free not really free, but you get what i'm saying Uh, good to see me back. I'm very happy to be back. Uh, i'm still around Glad to see you back posting regularly. It's only it's it's only this stuff and then every Week or so we're gonna have a stream highlight from twitch. So video games and my own marketing stuff and then, uh Every now again now and again when I have time I will throw up a book review But like I was saying during the Channel update live stream not yesterday's live stream but channel update where I announced this series um It's going to be 90 percent my own content my mean marketing myself all that stuff showing people what how I write what I do and all that stuff And about maybe five to seven percent video game content and whatever's left over whether it be three to five percent That's going to be a book review. You might get one book review every month or two You'll sign up later awesome. Um Am I missing anything? No, I'm not. Okay We got about two and a half minutes and then I'm gonna go ahead and go on break and when I come back We will be writing So if you guys have anything you want to say ask any questions get anything in go ahead and do that now Ugh It's too early in the morning for me and I've been up since like well That's a lie. I woke up at two o'clock texted a friend fell back asleep in my recliner And then went back to bed when I woke up from that and I got up at like 7 o'clock one And I was like, I gotta go stream I don't I don't use an alarm. I wake up naturally. So I just got lucky All right chat's quiet enough. I'm gonna go ahead and take my my 10 minute break And when I get back we will be doing the writing. So let me put this up on the screen Let me turn off I had no idea them shits existed I had no idea Z quill made gummies. I shouldn't be surprised because melatonin comes in gummies, but Whatever so this Ashwagandha, yeah, I take ashwagandha in the mornings It definitely perky up. It'll perky up in the morning Forgot it was an electric car Easy fix though Morning Tim Yeah, we finished it, but we haven't edited it yet and I haven't even read the ending of it which chad wrote so I am Currently oh I forgot to set my timer. So we'll just go for 20 minutes Uh, yeah, we've been here about 10 Uh We finished it, but I need to find time to work on that I'm trying to get back into the swing of writing too writing every day. So this is what I'm doing Hang on. Let me finish this Let me finish this thought So I got a slot machine for $35 yesterday was sitting there playing with it about 10 minutes ago and hit the jackpot I think it's going to be a good day. Hell, yeah Hey richie, how's the hubby doing? I ain't talked to you in so long He's doing well meds are finally balancing him out. That's good Excuse me. Um, he quit the storage business too. So now I have a pseudo employee when he needs money. Got you Uh, hey, alec. I'm doing pretty good. How are you doing? Doing good. Awesome. You're working on a private eye novel cool What's the setup? And what's the private eye in vastigating? I've only been to vegas as a kid. Um In my adult years, I've been to beluxy, but and that was with my mother Uh, I've never been either the slot machine was too good of a deal to pass up listed it last night starting bit of 150 so hopefully it sells Hubby wasn't angry that I got it but was totally questioning why I got it So now it has to sell. I I understand. I understand Okay Yeah, they they make they make really cool. Uh Conversation pieces too. All right, so I'm gonna go ahead and take my break. I'll scroll up A little bit. Um, and when I get back, we will continue on. I'll probably only be here until Uh 11 or 11 30 I have to get Dan to work by 145 so I got to leave here at one and then I got to get back here and stream on twitch between two and two 30 Um, so anyways, uh, y'all hang out talk amongst yourselves and when we get back We will continue this but for right now face me I'm not playing it. All right back to work. I see you richie Saving that I'm gonna go ahead and take a 10 minute break and when I come back we'll finish up This round Uh, let me do some math real quick Let's just say 1700. Well 1700 and 1700 is what 3400. So we've done more than we We've done more than we did Yesterday, but I'm nowhere near. I'm about halfway through this Halfway through this story got a lot more to go. So I might hang on so Might be done tomorrow might not I don't know. I'm not gonna push it. I'm gonna just gonna keep going Uh, probably gonna need to cut out a bunch of stuff. But anyways, uh, see you guys in 10 minutes. Let's say bye. Bye face Okay Let's go over what we've written today Just like we did last time Okay, this is where we ended last time Um Couple miles down the road the dash lights up again new order from fish and sip ships Maybe Let me highlight this I might change it to fish and sips And have it be a bar also I don't know a european fusion place on marshal that deals in fresh seafood on a variety of hoagie rolls or subs Whatever you want to call them I figure the ships part of fish and ships refers to the torpedo shape of their rolls Linda makes a right when she should be taking a left There's only one thing I know better than my shoe size and that's my own and that's this town Marshal is three blocks east we're heading west Because I don't have to worry about the The steering wheel I lean forward and start tapping the screen moonlighting as a car's dashboard Linda Doesn't like this one bit. I have provided you with the fastest route If you'd like to change my routing to energy saving mode, please give the proper audible command proper audible command Bitch, I barely know you It was meant as a joke problem is machines don't have a sense of humor. Ha Linda laughs My bad lady. Yes, you do have a funny bone after all despite your laugh being creepier than a 50 year old trawling in elementary school If you would prefer an energy saving route, please say I'm shocked when my own voice like One to one me finishes the statement instead of Linda's mechanical delivery Change route to energy saving. Please and thank you The please and thank you catch me off guard when I was a kid My father had numerous sayings your own parents likely used to use on you Likely used on you before we could leave the table after we'd finish our Our food the script called for thank you. I enjoyed my dinner If you failed to say as much you got the belt another gem of dad's was do you think you're better than me? This he'd say anytime. I got good grades or mom got a promotion at work Everything was a slight against my father everything now concerning the aforementioned. Please and thank you if we asked My old man for anything and I mean anything we'd have to follow it with the proper closer Dad can I have five bucks? He'd stand there head cocked waiting and if you didn't correct yourself And if you didn't correct yourself In time he'd correct you with you guessed it lashes from his belt Sometimes if he was in a good mood, which was admittedly rare He'd lead you to the correct response something akin to what should you say now? Given the chance, I'd spit out the right words. Please and thank you in a heated rush He'd give me the um, he'd give me that ominous smile of his and agree or disagree to provide me with whatever I was asking for at the time, but Because these moments were few and far between I got the belt nine times out of ten Felt really good when I got it right the first time though, and that's what trauma does to a kid Change route to energy saving I pause not wanting to say what she's asked me to say What should you say now? Linda returns my heart drops. What did you say? Command unclear repeat the command please and thank you Do I sense an attitude from this massive metal wires and plastic? I take a deep breath hold it Then then I'm nine again asking my father for 10 bucks so Doug and I can go to the movies Change route to energy saving Please and thank you Changing route says Linda the car comes to a sudden stop I'm thrown forward the seatbelt catches me a few inches from slamming into the dash slash screen Jesus I scream my name is Linda Jesus Christ who I assume you are referencing Would not have known the ways of modern technology although stories suggest he was well hung ha ha Nailed it. I can't move I can't breathe can't move This artificial intelligence just crack a joke an offensive to some people anyway joke at that What did you say? Linda giggles the humanity in her voice sends icy spiders up my arms and down my spine My humor is not for everyone. I suppose you suppose Changing route she repeats as she pulls a perfect three point turn on an empty street We ain't gonna just breeze past you telling a joke. I say but Linda isn't studying me She's driving in silence while her humor humor echoes Mechanically in my head ha ha nailed it It takes Linda less than two minutes to get back where we were before I made her change routes But now the way is blocked by a fender bender a white Nissan Um, I don't it's far worse than that car accident blocked by a Pretty gnarly car accident a white rogue has rear-ended a black GMC Yukon The Nissan is the worst for wear having launched itself under the ascent of the far bigger suv Linda comes to a slow laborious stop at the green light We can't get through because of the accident Should I reroute she asked I hear her ask but don't process what she's saying right away because of what's happening right in front of me The rogue's passenger door pops open with a grinding of metal so loud I can hear it clearly through Linda's closed windows A man with half a face half a head stumbles out of the car takes three unsteady Unsteady steps then collapses onto the street Someone needs to call the police Dialing 911 says Linda. No, no, no 911, what's your emergency? Hang up I growl Call ended says Linda. What are you doing? You requested the presence of local authorities. I simply did as I was told No, I said someone needs to call them not us Why should I differentiate between you and someone else? What makes you better than New order from fishing ships This order has been stacked along with your previous order rerouting. Should I maintain energy saving mode? What would you like me to maintain? I know what you asked? I shout It's not lost on me that I've become one of those weirdos who talk to computers Next thing I know I'm gonna adopt a cat and refer to it as my fur, baby If you know the answer, why did you ask me? Let me out I'm fumbling my hand against the smooth inner door without a single pull without a single handle to pull on Not so much as a button to roll the windows down Fucking technology. Open the door. Your request is pending Says Linda as the gopher mobile reverses. Stop the car. Your request is pen. Fuck you. Let me out Cannot comply your shift ends on january 5th at noon eastern standard time. What today's Today is God damn it. What day is it today is january 2nd? The time is 12 43 p.m I'm speechless. I literally can't speak I grumble and groan trying to process what linda's saying Stumble and stammer attempting to make sense of any of this. Finally. I blurt that's three days from now Two days 23 hours and it's three fucking days Not quite linda continues reversing down the empty side street Let me out of here your request it. Yeah. Yeah pending. I got linda gained speed Because she's an ev there's no revving But there is a whistle that's getting louder as we speed up I vaguely recall an article about how tesla had to create an engine noise for their cars because blind people were walking out in front of them This must be that sound Then all thought of that article vanishes as linda whips the gopher mobile trademark crying emoji around Tires squeal the whistle disappears. I'm flung to the side as the car course corrects Sliding into the 180 Then we're oriented properly driving straight ahead and i'm thanking deities. I don't believe in for my survival Where are we going now? I manage after a few minutes Come on We have two deliveries awaiting us at fish and ships We have until 150 to deliver the first order the second order requires a longer traveled Travel time We are currently running on energy saving mode. Would you like me to alternate between modes depending on traffic situations? I'd prefer I'd prefer you let me out, you know like yesterday your request is pending for fuck's sake We will arrive at our destination in four hours 19 minutes and 55 and 35 seconds my jaw drops open Four hours 19 minutes and 35 seconds correct Fish and ships isn't that damn far away? Recalculating just take me home. Okay. I quit or whatever command you need to stop the car and let me out I and do not tell me your request is pending. Fuck off linda giggles then You first You're broken, right? This is like those headlines. I read right the danger of automation and shit like that. You've gone rogue, right? The to that the 2024 Nissan rogue comes with self-driving technology that enables just just shut the fuck up What should you say now? I can hear the smile on linda's voice What the hell have I gotten myself into? How do you know I am programmed to know everything available on the internet On june 4th 2009 you wrote a wordpress press blog post about your relationship with your father cited source the dash slash screen switches from gps Layout to an archive blog post. I deleted I Deleted the original post in 2015 three months before I nuked my entire page Nothing went wrong. I was just depressed My mother passed away in july from complications with diabetes then my childhood friend dug often self two weeks later I didn't feel like being seen. So I removed all my online content and disabled my blog I'm well aware the internet is forever, but this is a little absurd Why in the fuck would this ai car go hunting through my past posts? What purpose would it serve? For her it's To know so much about me. I don't want to see that is all I can think to say Closing cited source says linda before the screen returns to the gps layout linda breezes easily through dense traffic thing is She doesn't always follow the rules of the road. She rolls through stop signs Speeds up through yellow lights passes on double lines all that shit I think i'm gonna have a heart attack at any moment if my chest doesn't calm down My rate's got to be over 120 maybe as much as 150 And it's stable there too. I can feel it keeping time in my temples. I inform linda that I don't feel good You don't feel Well a clip of the comedian tracy morgan pops up on the dash slash screen He looks into the camera and says superman does good you do well Great now. You're correct to my grammar fan fucking tasked it linda giggles I ride in silence trying to figure out a way to get linda to stop I have no control here the steering wheel is all for show doesn't do a damn thing when I grip and turn it There's no gearbox and the pedals under And the pedals under the dash on the driver's side are flush with the floor as if linda has the gas to the max while also slamming on the brake Brake there's only one brake pedal I don't have anything on me that I can use to break a window I'm stuck and the scariest part about that is i'm sure linda intended it that way Don't be an idiot. I think it's just a car and a computer It'll need to refuel or recharge whatever at some point and when that happens I can try and make a scene There's always cars lined up waiting on waiting At Waiting at charging stations. So I'll just get their attention tell them to call the cops whatever it takes Having a plan calms me down considerably Now all I have to do is wait until linda needs more juice We drive and drive and drive with seemingly no destination in mind until linda pulls up to the curb in front of fish and ships We've arrived at our destination Through the windshield I can easily read the text on a sheet of paper someone's tape to the front doors Or should I say what's left of the front doors? plywood has been attached to three of four shattered windows in the store's frontage The panes of glass that remain are riddled with bullet holes A soft shove would knock them out of their frames. I'm sure of it I read aloud the note tape to the plywood Due to situations out of our control. We are closed We hope to reopen within a few days That's unfortunate says linda and I'll be damned if she doesn't sound sad as hell I wonder what happened. I say not expecting a response. Although by now I should know better. All right That's where we go. All right I'm a sucker for evil machines You're gonna be surprised then getting terminator vods. Uh, if I end up referring to a cat as a fur baby kill me I'm giving permission. I don't mind that. I'm actually just make trying to make him seem like an asshole Literally literally. I'm just trying to make him seem like an asshole I'm not present any judgment against you alec, but I'm just saying I'm trying to make the dude sound like an asshole That was awkward. I love a good awkward an innocent awkward situation Program to know everything on the internet. Yikes. Yeah, that's what these ais do. They they just scrub the internet looking for You know information Uh, my cats are fur babies feel slightly attacked here. Yeah, you should because the guy in the story is an asshole I'm not calling Alec an asshole, but I'm just saying asshole Uh, never said I was saying though. Yeah You don't have to apologize. I find shit like that hilarious Uh, it doesn't hurt anybody But yeah, I am just trying to make him a jerk Uh, I think I might have referred to my cats as fur baby or my animals as fur babies a couple of times, but But yeah, I was just trying to make dudes sound like a jerk All that's gonna come into play I I don't know that there's going to be like a scrooge element to this But it feels like there's got to be some kind of lesson learned by this dude And I don't know what that is So i'm just going to keep on going if there is no lesson then fine. We just uh If the story will be whatever it is My damn zoops got to build another bookshelf got 80 free condensed books from the library I have never read a reader's digest Uh condensed book always feels like i'm missing something, you know, um, I feel like uh I don't know. It feels like there should be something more there just because they're called condensed and i'm sure that's exactly what they are They're a bridge but uh, um I can't remember. Did I I tried The abridged version the abridged audiobook of dan simons druid um and I remember finding out later. So I went out and bought the not later I I remember thinking that that was an issue like they had to cut out good some good stuff And the first chapter that I listened to Um, I went back and read the book and there was so much good stuff cut out of it. Um, just just little stuff You know like Little stuff like character inner thoughts things like that pretty much when they abridge things They just go straight for the action and you lose all the all the intricate details that sometimes they pay off Sometimes they don't but I like reading those things the author felt like I needed them So I like reading them I used to see those readers digest condensed books in the used bookstore all the time Oh, yeah, yeah, they're everywhere, man I'm getting rid of a ton of books most are antique pricing guides. Oh cool um, yeah, you guys were you you do and And ticking Is that why you got the slot machine things are starting to come back to me now about you richie When I moved I got rid of a ton of books. I'm trying to sell ever everything I got back here Putting the direction of the channel it'll be like my books and you know posters and things having to do with me Uh and give my big comic book collection to my boss's kids. That's nice of you It's really nice of you All right, so I am done for today It's good is good and I need to copy and paste for For antiques and collectibles. Yeah, I remember that now. I need to go back up To copy I'm gonna highlight this word just because that's where I'm ending I gotta post this on patreon and then I'll be uh free and clear for you guys Oh, where am I going? Where am I going? huh New rap battles of history henry ford versus carl marx I was a month ago YouTube studio content lives Get shareable link post Next oh, I need a title oops Publish All right, cool We're done. Um I'm going through everything I have to try to get rid of most of the stuff I got starting to feel weighed down by all my stuff in my house starting to feel that way too honestly at least in my office You know, if you like so many people It was just time to move on You're going in the right direction Who who ishmael and by the way, hello ishmael. How are you doing? How he just got his library card after a year or so of me hounding him to Got him a new kindle for christmas and now he has no excuse not to read more They'll go through a book a book in a day or so. Good gravy Kindle downloads are fun. I'm reading comic books on kindle now. I had a uh, what was it? Comixology or something like that. I had an that account for a long time um, and I stopped doing I've read all the hell razor comics a couple batman A bunch of different stuff Oh, but then I just stopped using it Uh, makes me it makes no sense to buy them for him to read them once whereas I'll read them several times But I'm a slow reader so I like audible for that makes sense I go through periods when I'm a fast reader and periods when I'm a slow reader right now I'm a no reader and I haven't read anything in A while unfortunately But I'm gonna try and get back into it. We'll see. How did I get another follow? I must have lost somebody. I got another follow on twitch but It was at 79 and it's still at 79. So I don't know I think you are super challenge and response. Gotcha. Okay. Well, I'm just I'm try I'm literally fighting to get back into the routine of writing again. Um, this is why I said, you know I I used to write every single day and this is the reason Because it's not in my opinion. It's not like writing a bike. Um, it I know once once you stop using it for a while you you lose that skill Have you ever read howard the duck? I have So I have read howard the duck First off, this is cool as shit. This is just a lapel pin or a pin. Whatever you want to call it but also I have the novelization of the of the film my friend sent me All right, and then I have this Which is all of the old comics before the marvel reboot Uh, the entire omnibus my wife and kids got it for me for uh One of my birthdays, but anyways, yeah I've read them. I have oh, you're shelvin. Okay, alec. I got you. I knew you had I'm just poking fun at the obscure reference. Yeah But yeah, I got a bunch of cool howard the duck stuff Loads and loads of cool stuff And this is stuff I'll never get get rid of um, it was funny because When I did that thing offering to sell off my collection Damn near everybody wanted, uh it all my copies of it And I was like that's the only thing I'm not getting rid of Uh That is the other than my first of first printing first edition first edition first printing of uh Carrie it's my most valued item is my entire it collection I understand you if you don't use it you're gonna lose it. Yeah, but you're doing just great. Thank you ishmael. I appreciate it Uh nice edition if you're talking about the howard the duck stuff, I I agree They got into trouble because he looks so much like they they did. Yeah, especially in those early ones Disney was very litigious and still oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, but now they own him because they own marvel. So Now they can do whatever they want And I'm worried that if they ever do another howard the duck movie that it's gonna be I don't know Of course, it's gonna be modern and it's not gonna be a remake of the old movie because everybody hated the the old movie Even though people who grew up watching it Still remember it fondly like me. I it's my favorite movie of all time. I've watched it more than any other movie And that of course is completely biased It's not a good movie by any stretch of the imagination But it is super fun and we don't get too many movies like that anymore that are just Stupid fun and that's one of those movies. Um, I feel the same way about the dark tower movie Um, the Idris Elba Matthew McConaughey movie It is a fun movie. Is it a good movie? No, is it a good dark tower movie? Fuck no But it's fun. We went to go see it at the theater and I had a blast Yeah, it won't be the same. Um, I like that love that as a kid because the uh And I I think the reason why they they haven't rebooted him yet Not only because he's not as popular as say literally any other Marvel property But because it ruined that director's career And also, you know, it's just one of those things where Howard the original Howard the duck stuff Was very political. Um, and it was all about that was at one point in time I think Howard is running for senate or congress or maybe even mayor or something And the his later comics Really cut back on the action and really went for political satire So in today's political climate, I you would alienate somebody and I don't think they're going to do that It was crap, but the nostalgia is there and wins out. I agree Movies do need to be more fun. Yeah, I'm even mayhem was a blast. I I like that one I really like that one All right, so I'm about to get out of here. Thank you guys for joining me. Um, if you're interested, I'll be over on twitch Uh, I have to take Dan to work at one 115 something like that. They got to be there by 145 and it's a 30 minute trip So as soon as I get back, I'm gonna be like over on twitch so I can't put the link to twitch in the youtube videos Because they don't like that kind of thing They will either shadow ban the video or whatever But all you got to do if you're interested in watching me play video games We're doing god of war, uh, ragnarok balhalla the dlc right now If you're interested in watching me go over there and type in edward lorn into the twitch And I'll be there after two o'clock today probably sometime between two and two thirty but uh Howard the duck manchurian candidate crossover Okay I don't hate it. I know you're kidding, but I don't I don't hate that whatsoever Anyways, but until next time I have been e you've been you this has been another episode of 52 in 52 Where I'm trying to write a short story every day for every week until for an entire year I'm gonna get my outro back eventually Uh, but until tomorrow Y'all have a good one. Um, I'm gonna take a nap only got a few hours of sleep last night Definitely do that. But yeah, I'll see you guys later. Have a good day. Bye. Bye