 Okay, I think this is actually working now. I forgot I had created this little script for streaming. Yeah, the audio issues, okay, now we should be streaming. Let's see if that's working. Give me a second, just give me a second. Okay, yeah. Now I think we're working. Now tell me if the audio is actually okay here. When we did the test before, it was totally crappy. It was like breaking up all the time. I tried it privately. I'm doing something different. I'm not using OBS. I'm using an FFMPEG script and I think it should work a little better. So I will go ahead and say, since I'm going to assume this is going to be the final copy, that I got internet at my house. I'm actually literally streaming from my house, unbelievable. I know. Crazy. It's crazy it's actually happening. Crazy. I've been here for like three years. The funny thing is, I used to be a full-time YouTuber. I know that's hard to imagine. I haven't put up a video in months, but when I moved out here, which is the best decision of my life, I just kind of figured, okay, I'll figure out a way to upload videos and you know, I'll go to the library or somewhere else to do it, but I kind of cut off. I don't know. I just kind of cut off uploading that often. It wasn't a habit anymore. So as for weather, well, anyway, now I have internet. So I got Starlink, which I guess a lot of people know about. Starlink is like this low earth orbit internet thing service by Elon Musk. And I figured since I have a public presence, it costs a lot to start up, well, maybe not a lot in the grand scheme of things. It's $100 a month and to get the whole system, it's like 500 bucks. Yes, I know the audio and video are out of sync. My script isn't perfect. As long as the audio is working, as long as it's not like 10 minutes out of sync, it's not a problem. I see people saying that it's fine. But so you have to pay like 500, maybe 600 bucks to get Starlink at the beginning and then it's 100 bucks a month. But the results I've had are very good. I don't have this set up so I can display my screen so far. But I've gotten like 130 megs down and I've gotten as high as maybe 30 or 40 megs up. Now right now, I will say that, actually, let me, where are those headphones of mine? I will say, I haven't really figured out where to put the thing. So Starlink, you don't even have to put it on your roof, it just is, you can put it on the ground. Like I had it in my front yard the other day. And so that's, and it worked fine. I want to think about putting it on the roof and like running the cables right. The thing about it, the thing that annoys me about Starlink is if you want to have a worldwide internet like provider that's going to be revolutionary, you might as well do the bare minimum stuff. They send this little router thing out. It doesn't even have an ethernet port. You have to use Wi-Fi, which annoys me to no end. Actually, I can show it to you. It's this stupid thing. This is what it looks like. I don't know, I can't see if that's showing up so far. But there are no buttons on it. There's no off switch. There's no nothing. It's just like this stupid brick. These lights, it looks like these things should be lights like if it's on or off. It's not even that. It just sits there. It's useless. So like they don't, there are a lot of things that just don't, anyway, I'm just complaining that it works fine. Like it works fine as internet. But I kind of wish that they would give you like a foot like that it would have all the benefits to it. Okay. That's what I'm complaining about. All right. So I'm going to pull up the chat. I do. Well, I do kind of have it pulled up, but I'm going to pull it up in a window here. And if you have donations, I will read those. And when I get to look at the chat, I will do that. So what have I been working on then in the past couple of weeks or months really? It's been like several months since I've done a video and I might do more now that I have Starlink now that I have internet, but I'm not guaranteeing that. I think I can at least make live streams a kind of habit. Like if I'm at my house and no one else is here and I'm bored, maybe I will do a stream. So I might be able to do one like once a week or something like that. But we'll see. We'll see what happens. So what have I been doing? I've been working on Lindy Press. So again, if you don't know, I have this new kind of site. It actually only has five books on it so far. And that's just because, let me actually put the link in the description or not in the description, I'm going to put it in the chat window. So LindyPress.net. So I'm just reprinting out a print books. And I did a video on that a couple, maybe two months ago or something like that. I only have five books out now, but there are a whole bunch I'm working on right now. I'm doing a whole bunch of like, the one I was doing yesterday is The Secret of Secrets. That's like an early, it was influential on like Roger Bacon and other alchemists, but it was supposed to be this thing that Aristotle had written to Alexander the Great because you know, Aristotle was Alexander the Great's teacher or whatever. Now it's nearly uniformly thought of as being, oh it's not actually Aristotle who wrote this. Maybe some other Greek or maybe someone later on. But it's a really interesting book for its influence and like what it covers. It covers like everything from like diet to physiognomy to like, you know, crazy stuff like that. So I'm going to look at the thing. So how is the, how is the audio doing? Let's see. Someone says there's a 15 second audio video desync. That's pretty extreme, but that's crazy. The disorganization of your bookshelf is inspirational. It actually is not very disorganized. So really all of them, so I used the Library of Congress to organize my books. Now you can look back at videos I did like several years ago when I had like this little apartment. These are not all my books. These aren't even like half of my books. There's another bookshelf over here, and then there's like boxes and boxes of them that I have in storage. Like I can't even fit them. Like I need to build some bookshelves. That's what I need to do. But I have them all organized by the Library of Congress system. And also if you go to lukesmith.xyz.library, I list out all of my books that I own and they're actually in that order. And then the books that are on top of it are like things that are supposed to go in there that I bought later and like it can't really fit. So I really just don't, I need more room. That's what it is. So that's that. You probably have seen these, I don't know, this room in like videos. I'll usually have the camera a little different. I don't know if I mentioned it here. You will notice my camera quality is extremely crappy. That is not because Starlink is bad or something. It's because, I don't know, like maybe my webcam broke or something. I might need to get a new one. Maybe I should get like a higher quality one. I got this one years ago. It says it's 1080p, it's not even 1080p. It can like take pictures in 1080p. It can do like one frame a second 1080p, but it actually is kind of crappy. All right, so let's see. I'm going to look at the chat lag. Yeah, I know, I know it's not synced in. Yeah, my question is, is the audio and video going to get more desynced as it goes on? I don't know. You know what I should do? I should just sit here totally still and like barely move my mouth. So people don't know it's actually desynced. Yeah, now see, now you can't tell. Video looks like a 2009 in-game video feed. Yeah, probably does. Is this a fed deepfake? Yeah, it's a deepfake. I'm actually dead. So if I haven't been on YouTube in months, here's some things I realized. My deepfake blackface channel has more subscribers than I do now, which is pretty fun. Well, you know, I'm putting videos up on that channel. I'm not doing videos here, so be sure to like, comment, and subscribe. So either way, you know, the one thing I like about mental outlaw is that if I quit YouTube totally, well, this is, I haven't seen any of his videos in months, and I'm just going to assume that he hasn't sold out yet. But the one thing I like about him is that, like, now I feel like I can quit YouTube because at least someone else is like within the realm of sanity. People always ask me about mental outlaw, so I might as well get that out of the way. Like in every stream, people ask me the same questions. People are probably going to ask me about Jordan Peterson, and I'm just not going to answer those now because I'm just sick of those. Let's see. When are we going to do a podcast episode? Well, now that I have internet, I don't really have an excuse not to do them. I was going to do, so a couple weeks ago, people probably know there was this like hilariously cringe Reddit moment on TV where like some Redditor, from some, it was like an anti-work Reddit, okay? People, I don't know, people probably know this better than I do. I just saw it and I thought it was freaking funny. And it went on TV, on like Fox News, and got like humiliated, or like he didn't even get humiliated. It was just like he, it was just embarrassing. And like people made a big fuss out of it. But I was going to do this episode on, even before that happened, there's this book by a guy named David Graber who, you know, say what you want about him. But he wrote this really interesting book called BS Jobs that I wanted to do kind of, now I don't agree with him on a lot of the most stuff actually, but it's an interesting book basically talking about the fact that, you know, if you just, basically what he did is he just pulled people and asked them like, is your job like totally unnecessary? Could it be eliminated right now? And something like 30, 40% of people will just be like, oh yeah, I don't do anything all day. Like I just like collect money. You know, so that is, so I was going to do a video on that book, not necessarily, like that's an, there's a lot to say about that in the, in general, but I think you have to, I think in order for people to understand how corrupt the world is and like how corrupt, like having a corporate job, or a corporate job that sounds like kind of cringe to even say that, but like, you know, what I recommend to people a lot of times, like being more self-sufficient and, you know, being your own boss and stuff like that, you know, people, people kind of assume that the boomer economy, the whole notion of going in and, you know, working for a corporation for 30 years, like that's the normal state of life. And like your stuff, like cringe, redditors who know, notice that that's stupid or, you know, who are just lazy or whatever, they'll realize that that's wrong. But there's not really a narrative for people who just advocate, I don't know, general independence, right? So I was going to do a podcast episode on that. So I don't want to, you know, waste it by talking about it now. But the thing, you know, I need to just sit down and record it. Mostly I'm just thinking about, ooh, do I have enough time? Can I stretch out for an hour? Quoting enough people and doing enough stuff. Anyway, I'm not going to talk about it. I'm just going to do it or not talk about it. What's your opinion on E. Michael Jones? That's another person people ask me about a lot. Not as much as Jordan Peterson, but E. Michael Jones, yeah, in general I like his, I have one of his books. Where is it? I have a libido dominandi, which I think was a really good book. It's not what you expect, okay? It's supposed to be a book about, I mean you hear that it's a book about like sexual ethics and like, you know, I don't know, sexual degeneracy and stuff like that. And like how it relates to politics, that's how people talk about it. And so that's what you expect to get when you read it. But it's actually kind of this historical view. It goes through like individual people's lives, like Marquis de Sade and like Shelly Girl. What was her name? Shelly's mother. I don't know if she was also a Shelly. Anyway, it's an interesting book because it basically shows how like sexual liberation is used for political ends. Like one of the, I also wanted to do a podcast episode on this, but I'll go ahead and give you a preview. You know, the whole idea behind it is like in the enlightenment, right? There was this notion that there is, you know, we want to have a science of humanity in the same way that we have a science of like atoms or physics, okay? So like atoms are highly predictable. You know, we can make models of how they move around. I mean, hypothetically, not really atoms, but you know, like physical objects or something like that. Or Newtonian physics is a good example. You can have this like built on certain principles. You can have this model of how the universe functions, okay? And you can make a lot of predictions on how things moved. So in the enlightenment, there was the idea, we got to do that of human society as well, right? We want to have a political science or like, you know, social, I don't know, social theory, sociology and stuff like that. And we're going to make the humanities, we're going to make human sciences like a science, right? And so one of the like commonalities in a lot of the people in the enlightenment was not just, oh, let's try and understand human society and scientific methods, but it was the idea that there's somehow something good if we can get humans to have highly predictable behaviors. Like if a human is governed by sexual impulses, you know, let's say, his behaviors are actually a lot more predictable. You can understand like who's he going to support in politics, what things is he going to do, like what lifestyle decisions he's going to make. And so there's a lot of ways in where like, if someone is governed by sexual impulses, they're a very controllable person, right? Even if you think that, oh, you know, I'm doing what I want, there's a sense in which if you are predictable, you're really easier to control. And so it talks a lot about that. I'm giving my own kind of twist on it. His narrative is a little bit different. But I did do a video, what was it? Maybe it's the one with like Aquinas where I was talking about what's, no, no, no, it wasn't the one where I was talking about what's natural. It was like, I know at the beginning I was like two different definitions of freedom. Like what does freedom mean or something like that? What was it? I'm trying to remember what the thumbnail was or what the title was. I did it a couple of months ago, but just look up, I don't know, Luke Smith and freedom, and it'll probably come up. So yeah, that's a good video as well, because I kind of talk about, I think I actually did that video after I read libido dominandi. Anyway, so I like E. Michael Jones. Just in general, his writings that I've seen are pretty, all right. Okay, looking at the chat. I actually should probably check donations too, but I don't think I've gotten any donations. Oh, did I even, I probably didn't even like put a link in there, but. You know what? I haven't actually gotten super chats, which is weird. Do I still, am I still monetized on YouTube? I literally have to, can you give? I'm not asking people to give a super chat because YouTube takes like 30%, but do people see like a super chat option? I don't know if there's one there. Let's see. Okay, yeah, what is freedom anyway? Yeah, someone said that. That was the video title, I think. What is freedom anyway? What are your thoughts on Moldbug's new blog? I haven't read any of it, so I don't know anything about it. Are you streaming only on YouTube? Yeah, I don't have a system for streaming on multiple sites at once right now. I need to just set up a relay server, but I've had trouble doing that in the past. I need to turn this freaking cell phone off. It's a good idea to just, okay, yeah, someone says they can donate. That's good. Good to know I'm still monetized on YouTube. Yes, I heard that Ted Kaczynski has cancer. Why do people just like type the same questions over and over? Oh, I guess I responded to some of them, so I might as well. Jean-Jacques Rousseau has already said, oh, cringe, recommending Rousseau ever. Okay, someone just gave a donation, so yeah, I definitely do have soup chats. How do you go from being an intelligent, resentful, and arrogant lad to a stable personality? You can be, I'm not really resentful. Resentful, I don't know. I kind of resent being called that. I don't, I understand how someone could describe me as arrogant, but I don't really agree with that either. I mean, there's, you can be knowledgeable of the things that are going wrong with the world and still be stable person. I think a lot of people see me on videos and I don't know if I'm gesticulating or something and they like assume that I'm some kind of schizo or something. If any of you met me in real life, okay, I'm very, I wouldn't say I'm quiet, but most of the time, you know, if I don't have something to say, I don't say it, you know? Like I don't really have that much, I don't talk about trivial stuff. And honestly, that's why I go on breaks of not doing videos, because if I don't have something to say, I'm not gonna force myself to say something, you know? So, you know, people see me on videos and stuff like that, and they get this twisted view of what a person's like, right? Have you started a small farm yet? What about planting trees? How's the homestead going? Well, I have many fruit trees, but they were on this property before I got it. But, you know, I've got to keep up with them and stuff like that. You know, I'm still mastering how to prune grapes and fig trees and stuff like that. I have a couple of those. So, yeah, but this year, like I haven't started, I haven't planted anything this year, but I need to. So, let's see. What does brought to you by Starlink mean? I said at the beginning of the video, I'm using Starlink, I'm streaming from my house, which is unbelievable, literally unbelievable. Oh, wasn't talking about you in general. Oh, like someone's asking, how do I go from intelligent and resentful to being a stable person? Like, really, if you, the thing, the reason why people are freaking schizos on the internet, okay, is because they don't have enough exposure to people in real life, okay? A lot of the stupid things that someone says on the internet, you wouldn't say in front of some boomer you met, okay? Like just out there, you know? So, I think that's one of the things the internet does to everyone, independent of what they think about anything, right? It kind of depersonalizes things and gets them, like they're kind of schizo personality were on the internet, it becomes like who they are, which is actually really stupid. Like, again, if I gesticulate in the video, it's just, I mean, it's not for show either, that's not how it is either. It's not like I'm saying I have a different personality on the internet, but it's just not, you know, I have a friend who's a YouTube, YouTuber too, and you know, the way he describes it is like, when you're on YouTube, it's kind of like you have guests over at your house and you're kind of like, you turn it up a little bit more, okay? Maybe that's kind of what people do. Why haven't you taken the home gym pill yet? So I'm against, so obviously I have no gains, you can look at me, like I'm like super skinny, but really my view, like I've never really believed in like working out as a thing. Now over the summer, I will usually put on muscle as I'm like doing work outside and stuff like that. I've actually been pretty inactive the past month or so, although I had this tree fall and I'm like moving a bunch of limbs and stuff. Anyway, my view on like being fit is that I'm more like a naturalistic person. Like I live in a place where I'm not really worried about getting like fat and like totally nasty. So I'm not really worrying about, like I'm not worried about that. I've never really tried to get like really big, but I mean, it's a good idea. Like I'm not knocking anyone who does like gym stuff or anything. I just don't, I've never been big on it. You guys know, you might know that I do play throw the rock and carry the rock. I have this massive, like I don't know how big it is. This massive rock that I've actually carried around like since the last place I lived. And it is actually the best way. Like if I'm feeling like, oh, you know, I haven't really done any like, where I feel like my muscles are gonna atrophy and stuff like that. I haven't done that much work. I'll just pick up the giant rock and like walk a mile or something. That will get you like in shape real quick, you know? But yeah, I haven't really done that much. Yeah, I don't really do working out, but hey, you know, if you wanna do it, do it. It's a good idea. I mean, especially if you're out of shape, you know, you gotta take care of that. But I think people being out of shape is more like, oh, I eat sugar and stuff like that, right? Just, you know, don't, yeah, it's mostly a diet thing. I think people overestimate the extent that, especially people gain or lose fat by being inactive or not. I think it's like 90% diet, maybe 10% activity. Okay, let's see if, let's probably check my email for donations. I don't think I've gotten any. Yeah, no one's gonna give, well, actually, let's see, okay. Yeah, shoot, you know, maybe I should see if my donation portal's actually up. Let's see here. I don't think I'm getting any. I'm not getting emails from it. It's usually a little irregular for me not to get a donation this long. So I'm like kind of thinking, did my donation site break or something? I'm not talking about super chats. I'm talking about the donate.luxmit.xyz, but Luke is coping, cope. Actually, are you saying that about the donations or about the working out? That's fine. Either way, Luke, you are wrong. Working out is necessary past 30. Your test levels begin to drop. Yeah, that's true that your testosterone levels drop, but there's nothing inherently wrong about your testosterone levels dropping as you get old. That's like how it works, you know? That's called being an old person, you know? Like that's how it is. You should be active, but like what I'm objecting to is not activity. It's not, my view of it is that if you have a life where you are sitting at a desk all day and doing nothing, like you have nothing that will naturally, I don't know, that is naturally like exercising you, you're in a bad place in life. That's my view of it. Like it's not that I'm against activity. It's that, you know, it's more of an issue of, like gym memberships and stuff like that. To me, it's mostly people who live in cities and don't have anything. And like, it's just annoying. Like it's people trying to ultimately cope with the fact that they have like a really unnatural lifestyle, right? Okay, so, yeah, I know. I know the videos make it a little late. Yeah, Luke stop asking for money. Don't give me money, okay? Fine, don't give me money. I'm not actually interested. On money though, independent of donations or not, I really wanna go 100% using Bitcoin and Monero on the internet. Like that's gonna be my resolution for this year. That is, I want to, and this includes lindypress.net. Like I want, I don't wanna use the traditional financial system anymore. I wanna only do Bitcoin and Monero. Only, you know, I really, my resolution for this year, you can hold it to me, hold me to it. Is I want to like totally get rid of any fiat, any way of getting fiat money for me. I want it all to be like Bitcoin, Monero, something cryptocurrency and stuff like that. Because, you know, really it's my view is on the internet. You should be using technology like that that is built for that. That is self-custodial, that is peer-to-peer, stuff like that. You shouldn't have to, I don't know. Like I feel like if I, you know, even allow people to donate to me. Like it's, well okay, I know everyone has freaking debit cards and credit cards anyway. But I just feel like, you know, I wanna move on from that. I'm in a position now, you know, where I should be thinking more, it's the same thing with free software, where like hypothetically you can imagine someone benefiting from using proprietary software. But like, it's the wave of the future, it's better if we just move on. And, you know, I probably should just like take the hit and like just end all my donation stuff with fiat. Which, you know, I don't get that much. I probably have, I have the thing where people can like have a monthly subscription or whatever, or like monthly donation. And I think I got, I probably get like around 200 bucks on that, actually there was a guy who subscribed the other month that like just gave 100 bucks. So I guess 300 a month. But you know, people add themselves to that or subtract themselves from that all the time. So, but either way that's not, it's not that much. Although someone just sent in a $10 donation. Louise says, sorry if it's intrusive, but what's your religion slash church? I am, was a Protestant converting to orthodoxy. Looks like you are more or less the same. Just got convinced about icons yesterday. Got a wonderful, wonderful article that answered me and complimented a Jay Dyer video. Thanks for everything you've done. Yeah, I'm in the same position. I think a lot of people are where, yeah, orthodoxy when you evaluate, when you wanna like window shop a bunch of Christian denominations, especially if you're in, you know, in Western Europe, right? You are, you're comparing like the Protestant sex with Catholics and stuff like that. And there's this back and forth about all the stupid things they disagree about. But then you discover orthodoxy and it's like, oh, here's like the older, like more unchanged, like the more, I mean, they're just right on everything basically. Like all the stupid disputes that Catholics and Protestants have, the orthodox are right on. So the thing, you know, my position, and you know, I'm probably wrong for this, but I do go to a Protestant church because there are no orthodox churches like, you know, I have to drive like under two hours to get to one. That's my position. Now, I think that everyone who is, you know, especially within 30 minutes of an orthodox church, you should definitely go. You should definitely talk to them. You should talk about becoming a catechumen and, you know, contemplating conversion. But, you know, and I sort of feel bad that I haven't done that. You know, I probably should take the plunge because honestly I actually have a lot of friends or a lot of family members who are in the same boat of, they kind of know that orthodoxy is right, but because of momentum or because the, you know, the lengths they would have to go to get to an orthodox church, they can't do it or, you know, or at least they're set where they are. So yeah, I mean, I do think that the orthodox are basically right about everything. So, okay, oh, YouTube donations. Let me look at those. Master Bain says, here's some lunch money. Have yourself a nice day. God bless. $10. Why not Catholicism? The Orthodox Church incorrectly broke for a moment. Says who? Like, I mean, the one thing about Catholics is they have to pretend that there was like the position that the Pope had, he had for all eternity. Like, and, you know, you can go back and find some people like back in the 300s who said, oh yeah, the Bishop of Rome, he's kind of special. But this idea of like papal superiority and stuff is so late in the game. It's like, it really originates around the time of the Gregorian reforms, which of course is around the time of the schism. So yeah, and the thing about Catholics is they're constantly, you know, they're, I don't know, they're constantly, their view of things is that Christian doctrine needs to be improved and added to and discovered, developed as they say. So that's why they're constantly, you know, saying, oh, well, you know, here are some new doctrines we've discovered, whereas Orthodoxy is always kind of on the conservative side of things. The five solar are better than everything else. No, the five solar are like absurd. Now, probably the most nutty of all the solas is probably Sola Scriptura, right? Because the whole notion, like the validity of scripture comes from the fact that it is, I mean, who decides what is scripture? You know, we get those from tradition, right? Scripture is really a subset of tradition. It doesn't make any sense to say that it is, you know, better than the thing that gives it validation. Got some emails, let's see if they're, okay. Max says, what are your reasons for believing that the Orthodox is the true church? I agree with you, but I was wondering what your reasons for, by the way, comfortable shoes and their consequences have been a disaster for the human feet. Yeah, I do advocate, I go barefoot as much as possible, to be honest. Less this time of year when it's really cold, but in the spring, summer and fall, I will literally go on walks barefoot, like several miles. And hey, there are thorns and like sand spurs and stuff out there. I mean, you get used to avoiding them, like you know how to avoid them, but yeah, people should go barefoot more often. So as for reasons for believing the Orthodox church is the true church, I mean, like it's just every individual issue they're right on, okay? The thing is, so there are things like, okay, I don't know, what do Catholics and Protestants disagree on the, well, okay, really in general, like what I've said before in live streams and what I kind of alluded to a second ago is the fact that the Orthodox are highly conservative in the sense that they don't wanna add stuff to tradition and add stuff to scripture, okay? So Catholics, for example, how does one attain salvation? So the Orthodox basically say, we have commandments that we follow, we have faith, we do these kinds of things, we do what the Bible says, and God will grant salvation. But the thing is we're not exactly sure how the mechanism works, okay? That's a divine mystery, right? We don't entirely know who is going to have salvation and who doesn't, okay? And that, frankly, you can try and take some Bible passages out of context and say that there is some mechanism that is given in the Bible, but the reality is, and the proof of Catholics and Protestants is that they can have these debates over, oh, are you saved by faith alone? Are you saved by, you know, baptism that remits sins and then you have to go to confession if you commit a mortal sin or stuff like that? Like, so what happened historically in Christianity is the Orthodox just said, okay, how do we attain salvation? Just do these things, we're not really sure of the mechanism, whereas Catholics tried to like, they tried to create this giant system of, you know, mortal sins and things like this where people could, you know, that systematizes and makes it all rational so we can know whether we have salvation or not. There's like a big, you know, there's a giant system involved. And then Protestantism in a lot of ways was like, well, that's sort of stupid, let's just get rid of the whole thing and say that basically, you know, oh, you know, you could do what Martin Luther says, oh, you could commit adultery a thousand times a day and murder people a thousand times a day and still be saved, right? So the Orthodox Church in general just takes like, they don't opinionate themselves about a lot of things. And that's the thing that's good. They don't opinionate themselves about things that they shouldn't opinionate about, right? So Christopher donates $10. Luke, thanks for all your content. I appreciate your takes on Christianity. Hope to see more. All right, thank you. I am gonna, I'm gonna get some water. I didn't bring my water bottle. Oh wait, no, it's right here. Stupid me. I didn't see it. Okay. Okay. Let me go back to the chat. Yeah, I know audio and video are not in sync. George Sprave says, not a Christian, but Christian identity is supported by the oldest OT translation, Aramaic Targum. I don't know what Christian identity is. Or is that, is that one of those like nationalist movements? I'm not, I'm not even sure. Such a cringe take, mortal sins are in the epistle of John. Sorry, that scrolled off the, you have no idea what you're talking about. And the thing is, the thing with the Bible and the thing with, oh, here's the Bible saying this very specific thing about Catholic or whatever. I, well, actually, to your point, I do believe that a thing called mortal sins exist. Okay, I was not saying that mortal sins, now Orthodox don't use that term. Okay, but I do think that there are sins which in themselves constitute rebellion against God. So I don't object to that. But I will just say on that point, I think that's still fallacious reasoning. I think there are a lot of things that people are just so used to. Like, you know, there's like a one sentence justification for this highly complex doctrine that Catholics will, I don't know, spell out. It's just silly. Like I don't, I don't know. I don't think that's a good way of reasoning through things. Because if you did that, you could easily find doctrines that like contradict each other. I like the Pajit spammer who's spamming about getting rid of spammers. All right, I'll get rid of you. I'll get rid of you. We need some Discord moderators here. No, we don't need Discord moderators. I'll tell you that. Okay. Yeah, people are just talking about denominations now. I like how it got my water and I didn't even drink. Do you remember you can block people in chat if you don't want to see their comments? Is that applied to, you know, other people? So I actually had, I'm pretty sure I actually had the official coronavirus the other week. Now there have been many times I've like gotten sick in the past couple, you know, minorly gotten sick in the past couple of years or whatever. But I'm pretty sure I got it. I actually went to a city and I went to see family and everyone I saw like had the coronavirus or had just gotten it. And then when I got back, I had a fever for like a day. It was like 24 hours. But the thing is after that, I mean, this isn't just the coronavirus thing. Honestly, like it's how all flus work or all minor flus work, you know, it's just like you get sick and you get better pretty quickly. But then you kind of feel sluggish the next couple of weeks. That's kind of still how I am. Like I was out doing work and I was just like a little winded, you know, so. Yeah, I know the audio is delayed. I know I have to say that like every five seconds because the new people come in. Crazy audio delay. Yeah, I don't know. Does anyone want to give an estimate out of how big the delay is? Okay, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to clap and then you tell me how long it's going to be after the clap. You tell me how long it takes. Okay? You look at the audio codes, tell me how long it takes for that actually for you to see that. Okay. Barnes says, good morning, sirs, please do the needful. Okay, I will do the needful. Lindy press version of color and Daniel's beginner Latin book. See, people ask for that all the time because I said it's the one that I used. It's not necessarily any better than, well, I don't know, maybe it is. But I don't feel it's that much different from any other book like that of the time. And there are a lot of them. But maybe I will. The thing is to do a book like that with charts and stuff like that, that takes a lot of formatting. And in law tech, you know, the one thing that law tech is kind of bad at is like, I don't know, charts and things like that and tables. It's just like kind of hard to do all those. Get them all worked out. Someone says 10 minutes. It's like 10, 15 seconds because it keeps changing. Oh, that's funny. Someone says 30 seconds. Someone said 10 seconds. Someone says 30 minutes. Okay. People say they still can't see the claps. Wow, I can't believe the audio delay is that bad. Yeah, if anyone knows what they need about, so I'm streaming with FFmpeg, I need to figure out what exactly is causing that. Because like this doesn't happen when I record videos using FFmpeg but something's going on. 12 seconds by my account, 6 million. Saw the clap but I didn't hear it yet. So someone has video before audio. What the heck is wrong? You guys are just memin' now. More than one minute delay. It's weird that everyone is saying, I don't know if people are trolling or not, but. So you mentioned the Hermetica. Is that still in the works? So for different reasons, I've been divided on if I wanna actually publish it. But yeah, I mean it's basically done. But I have some reasons I might not wanna publish it. But I do have a byglottic Greek and English Hermetic corpus. All right, let's clap again. Maybe, yeah, maybe you can't see the clap because he told he would clap before he did. Wow, it's really that bad. Someone says that the video comes first. See, yeah, these people are just making things up. I don't know. Yeah, I'm gonna be, once this is over, I'm gonna have a lot of fun. I'll download this video and I'll see what it actually looks like. Just saw the clap. Like right now. Video is before audio by 10 seconds. What is causing this? Someone else does videos behind. Wow, this is crazy, like I don't know. I don't know, maybe I have FFM, no. It's gonna say maybe I have FFM pegs sending two different streams to YouTube. Any thoughts on manual labor as a job? Well yeah, it's the only real work. So, okay. Here's what I'm gonna do. What am I gonna do? I wanna do something else that we could test the Sinkwit. All right, I'm gonna pick up my trash can. I'm gonna pick up my trash can and show it to you. I have my trash can in my hand and it is in front of the webcam, okay? So if you're seeing that, I'm hoping this is unique enough that if someone is seeing the video first, they are gonna comment about the trash can. Okay, so we'll see. Can you dab easier to spot? Okay, now people are, all right, anyway. This is enough stupid conversation. I'm gonna go back to reading donations or comments or stuff like that. Blake says, my friend, Alan and Balagan, something, is currently living in a major U.S. city and occasionally gets frustrated as he is surrendered by intense liberal co-workers and lives in a cramped studio apartment. He has actually started attending an Orthodox church, but what are other things he can do to better enjoy his time in a large city besides leaving? Ooh, that was gonna be my first recommendation. Yeah, I don't know if he's there for work. I mean, obviously leaving would be number one, but I'm gonna assume this guy is here specifically for a job and he can't change jobs and he can't do anything else. I honestly don't know, to be honest. Living in cities is so terrible now. I mean, the other week, I think I mentioned I went to a big city and I saw some family and stuff like that. I had a bucket list of things that I can't do out here that I wanted to do there. And most of them I realized are not even worth doing, but there's some weird things I didn't think I'd miss about cities. I really miss Vietnamese food for some reason. I know that's actually a super liberal thing to say, but I kinda miss, especially this time of year, when you have, as they call it, pho, but of course I say pho because pho that violates English phonology, but to have a good steaming hot bowl of that stuff and eating that when it's nice and cold, that's nice. And I even miss, this is totally effeminate, but I actually miss the freaking boba tea crap that they have sometimes. But anyway, so I went to a Vietnamese restaurant and of course everything is, it costs like 25 bucks to get a bowl of this crap nowadays. It used to be like 10 bucks, but that's how much inflation has just gone wild, especially in the cities. But anyway, all the things that I thought I was gonna enjoy doing in the city, they were just a big let down. And I was like, well, yeah, I definitely don't regret moving out of here. So I don't know, let's see, what can you do? I really don't know, I'm sorry, leaving has to be my only recommendation. Other than just find some people who you would, I mean, if he's going to an Orthodox church, that's great, just get to know the people there and do stuff with them. But if not there, you could probably find some other kind of civic behavior or club to be a member of and do stuff in, but just I don't like cities. Like they're honestly much more stressful than I remember too, just like, I don't know, traffic and stuff like that. Out here, if you're turning onto a highway and you have to wait for two cars, that's really bad traffic. Mackis, Dennis $5, have you looked into some modern saints like St. Paisios? Paisios? I've heard that said a million times, but I've never actually pronounced it myself. Paisios, Paisios? But now I'm thinking about how do they actually pronounce it? Or Porfirios, I don't actually know him. So yeah, I have heard of Paisios and I think I've read a lot of his stuff. I don't have anything to say about him though. I haven't heard of the other guy. I am gonna go get a bathrobe because I'm kind of cold and I don't wanna turn on my heater or at least turn it up. Shoot, I wasn't actually looking at the chat to see if someone was talking about the trash can. Okay. Okay, yeah, I guess some people are seeing the video first because they're commenting on me leaving and they don't, I don't know. Okay, yeah, so the video is definitely first. Okay, there's a cat that was meowing at me. I think it wants to go outside. Yeah, okay, so I guess video is ahead. There's a 20 second delay. Nick Fuentes and AFPAC based a cringe. Definitely on the based side of the spectrum. I'm sure Nick has said something cringe. But I don't know about it. Now someone says the audio is first. What do you think of the Eastern threat on democracy? I am much more worried about threats in my own country. If you're talking about like China or something, that's such a boomer thing, like caring at all about China or thinking they give a crap about you. Soilink not looking so good. No, none of this problem is soilink. It's my problem because I'm literally using a FFNPEG script to do this live stream and it like, I don't know, I must be stupid. Or it might actually be a YouTube problem, but I know the de-sync issue. Nick likes cat boys. That is disturbing. Nick is garbage now. Okay, I don't know. I'm not gonna speak ill about him unless I have something. I actually, you know, I really don't believe in speaking ill about people now at all. That's why I don't want to talk about Jordan Peterson or something or someone cringe. But it's just a bad habit, like especially on the internet. Luke cooking for Musk. No, it's legitimately not Starleg's fault. It's my fault. It's just the FFNPEG script. Where did you get the script from? I wrote it myself. The thing is, I have no clue why it would not work. Or why it's like having this thing happen. Like FFNPEG recording and FFNPEG streaming are just a little different. Okay. I do best not to read any news happening outside of my state. Yeah, you know, over the past couple of months, I'll tell you this, you know, I'm a big fan of RSS. Like, you know, I use RSS to keep, you know, update. I don't know how to get updates with stuff like that. But over the past couple of months, I just kind of realized that, I don't know, like I was reading too much news. You know, and it would just be like, oh, in the morning, I'd refresh some RSS feeds and read some stuff and go from there. But I don't know. So I actually purged my RSS feed reader of everything, except for my own RSS feeds, just to make sure that they're going through properly. So, just joined here. What's happening? Well, the audio and video are desynced by like 30 seconds. Someone says, just use OBS, use SPURG. Well, you must have missed it because I was using OBS and it was even worse. Because the OBS, OBS is like, it keeps getting worse with every update. Like the audio was just not working at all. Okay, so it's either audio that's delayed because I need to troubleshoot this FFNPEG script or it's audio that doesn't work at all. So I'm gonna go with delayed or delayed audio or some people are saying it's like audio before everything else. Consumed daily RSS feed, yeah. So I think it's bad to, I don't know. I was just like reading too much news. It's just bad. You literally should not read news. Yeah, there's this idea that, oh, I'm gonna get informed by reading news, which is just nonsensical. And even like reading based in, okay. They're all obviously in the mainstream news is all like, disinfo and stuff. But like a lot of people like, oh, I'm gonna read this based in Red Pill, the news channel or whatever. But the thing is, yeah, okay. You might want to keep tabs about what's going on. But that, my way of looking at it is that important things are gonna reach you anyway. And the thing with reading based in Red Pill stuff is that for a lot of people who just read it every day, they just get freaking angry because things are bad, right? So it's just, that's one of the reasons it's just like emotionally not good for a lot of people. FFNPEG, no delay. Is that actually a thing? Is that actually what it does? FFNPEG, no delay. Yeah, I don't think that's an option. Not that I see. So, multiple people are saying it. So maybe it's not in the man page, or at least in the, yeah, I don't see anything. It might be in one of the other man pages. FFNPEG, oh, I don't see it there anyway. If you got, supposing you guys aren't meaning me, I'll look it up to see if that's something. Oh, FFNPEG sync to audio, please. Yeah, FFNPEG make it work, yeah. I get my news from Reddit. No. Honestly, you shouldn't ever, like, whenever I get an email from someone who's like, oh, tell me how to do this, or some kind of life advice, or something like that, and then they mention they use Reddit, I'm just like, dude, what are you doing, man? You really, like, I can't understand anyone who uses Reddit, it's just the worst place you can use. Mendel says, I get my news from internet racists, much better than Reddit. FFNPEG, eat milk, drink, eat meat, drink milk, yes. You know, right now in my refrigerator, I have five gallons of milk. That'll tell you how much milk I drink. Eight Reddit, eight the news, eight based in red pill news. Love talking to me, pub mate, simple as. Yeah, basically, yeah. And the thing is, all the stuff that I hear on the news first, and then I hear from other people later, it's like, who cares if you're first in the punch, you know? Saw something about reducing probe size from default value, probe size. That sounds familiar, I may have actually, okay. I see that that's actually a setting, maybe I'll play with that. Yeah, so I drink a lot of milk and I eat a lot of liver. That's my, I actually, there's a story I go to, I don't know how many pounds of liver I got, but that is like, excellent. That's milk overload. Yeah, so milk, I actually have trouble not, I have trouble drinking too much milk, because if you drink like a gallon a day, like you're gonna poop white, I'm telling you. It's kind of weird. But I limit myself to half a gallon of milk a day. And to be honest, I only drink, I haven't drunk milk today or even yesterday, but on days where I'm working on stuff and I'm too lazy to make food, whole milk is basically a meal equivalent. And I drink non-homogenized milk. I never drink like store, like I do have some gallons that are just like normal store bought whole milk, but I usually use that for like yogurt or ingredients for other stuff. The stuff I drink myself is either raw or non-homogenized. Yeah, you should drink, you should eat liver though. It's pretty good, like when people first have it, it's really weird because they're like, oh, this is some kind of meat. And they expect it to have the consistency of meat, but it doesn't, like it, it's kind of, it's weird. I mean, I'm gonna say it, but it'll sound like a, it'll sound weird, but it's kind of like grainy and slimy. That's kind of how the consistency of liver is. But once you get used to it, it's really good. And it's like the best thing in the universe for you in terms of like nutrition and stuff. But so what's wrong with homogenized? I mean, it's just like another level of processing that's totally unnecessary. Non-homogenized milk is, I don't, like it honestly just tastes so different. It probably, so the provider around here that there's a dairy here that sells raw milk and non-homogenized milk and stuff like that, to be honest, their raw milk tastes about the same as like normal milk, but they're non-homogenized milk, which I think is pasteurized, but it's obviously not homogenized. It just, it has a different taste to it than like milk does otherwise. It's like a little, I mean, it's closer to like drinking a shake. And the consistency, like it's non-homogenized because there'll be like, again, this is going to sound nasty if you're like a freaking redditor, but there are little chunks of it. I mean, that's how milk comes out. And that actually is the best part when you get used to it. Like you shake it up, you get some good non-homogenized milk, that's some good stuff. Base Luke, bring it back. Teenage Kummer memories with that video quality. Oh, well. Okay, Kummer. No sound. Someone's saying no sound. It's probably because they came in in a moment that like the video, or the audio is like me leaving the room. And, or maybe I'm just like not talking there. Kenny sends in 20 bucks. Hello from Kenya. Unibummer is now dependent on soy link from industrial soy scieties, ultimate shill, the Elon. Yeah, I know. Elon Musk, everything he's done is a scam, except for this is apparently working. Anyway, good to see you pop up. I enjoy your videos on Christianity, modernity and living independently on gym and working out. Take your time to investigate the folks over at startingstrength.com. They redpilled me on physical fitness and capability. It is not about aesthetics or body fat like the mainstream fitness industry preaches, but strength training has numerous benefits. Now that you're hooked to the soy link, you could watch the relevant parts or you could skip to the parts meant for coaches and he sent a video link. I'll check that out. But, I gave my view on working out and stuff like that. And like, again, I'm not against working out or anything like that's not what I'm saying. It's just, I really feel in many cases, people work out because they have a sedentary lifestyle and they live in cities and like they don't do real work. You know, I don't do that much real work out here and I probably could benefit from doing a little more exercise, but I do, like, I don't know. I do yard work basically every day and like in the summer, I'm lifting big things and stuff. So that's all I'm saying, but anyway. Laurence says, I don't know how to pronounce that name. It looks Lithuanian or something. If he's not Lithuanian, he might get insulted, but whatever. Have you heard of repeat about liver and milk? No, I have not. No, I have not. I already read that. Yeah, I really need to have a way for people to donate Bitcoin and Monero and give me a notification. So because again, like one of the things I want to do this year is stop using Fiat for online transfers of money and just use Bitcoin and Monero for everything. So I can imagine Luke doing the Rocky style workout. Well, I do have a Rock style workout that we already talked about. Yes, I know the audio is desynced. I have to say that every minute. Okay, yeah. Someone says, FFMPEG use wall clock as timestamps. Yeah, that would be convenient. Marcio who donates basically over stream. I haven't seen him in months though because I haven't done one. He says, thoughts on SSRIs is that really bad long term. Yeah, everyone I've known on SSRIs is screwed up. I would never ever take them. I would never give children SSRIs. It just goes without saying. Luke, where are the not related episodes? I will post until I get an answer, simple as. Yeah, I saw. I mean, like, oh, they're under that rock over there. I'll do them when I do them. Again, like if you want to sport not related, you can go to the not related site and put up a pledge and you will not be charged until I do two episodes in a month. And as I said, there are at least some things I want to do episodes on. It's just like I don't do things unless I kind of feel there's inspiration for it or I know I can sit for an hour or so to do that. But I'll tell you what today, later today, because everyone is nagging me and actually because I should do that, I will go ahead and get, you know, put together notes for the episode on anti-work and BS jobs and stuff like that. It seems that Bitcoin and Monero will be banned in some countries. Look at China, like, you cannot ban a peer-to-peer network, okay? There's no such thing as banning a peer-to-peer network. Now, China can come out and hunt people who are doing mining, okay, but there's nothing to prevent individuals from using a peer-to-peer network. You just can't do it, okay? So, yeah, put up a sign on the bookshelf that says my audio is delayed. That's what I should do. So that, I mean, especially Monero, Monero stands a lot to gain if crypto in general is regulated, which I don't think will really happen. How many categories of books do you have, Luke? Well, you can go to lukesmith.xyz slash library and you can see all my books in all the categories. Luke will do a video on word cells. Oh, yeah, we haven't even talked about word cells, but I should do a separate video making fun of it. I love that that's now a word. There's finally, I always use the word word thinker to describe that thing, but it's just as good. Luke thoughts on Faraday cages for phones, absolutely based. This girl got me for Christmas, not a Faraday cage, but a cell phone jail. It's like this thing that boomers get for their kids. It's like a little box with jail bars and you can put phones in it and lock it up. I don't know, it was funny because she knows I hate phones. Aleph says, best resource on cybernetics, there are none, unless you read the academic papers in the field, really, best source on cybernetics should be the not related episode I do on it. That should be what it is. But what was I gonna say? Something about cybernetics. Yeah, I even have the book by one of the guys who is credited as, what is it? The human use of human beings, that's actually not a good book to read on cybernetics because the field means more than what he talks about in that book, but yeah, I don't know. I should do some blog posts on that kind of stuff, just to put some stuff out there with resources. Nothing I can give you right now. Cobold sends in 50 bucks, great. It's been a long time, brother. Was just going back through some of your old vids. Serendipity, thank you for spreading the gospel of Monero, well thank you. I need to do more videos on Monero. Thing is, whenever I do crypto videos, if I do one on Bitcoin, I get a bunch of people saying, oh, do a video on Monero, and oh, Bitcoin is stupid. And then I do a video on Monero and I have the exact opposite. People are like, oh, Monero is stupid, do a video on Bitcoin, it's like, dude. And the other thing is, I don't know, maybe I should just do a video on why I recommend them and only them and none others. And I know in videos I've talked about Ethereum and stuff, but I'm not even, I'm less okay with Ethereum as time has gone on. What changed your mind about Taleb, you mentioned him like it, mentioned liking him before, but I think he's cringe now. I think we talked about that in the last live stream. Taleb, there have been a bunch of things where Taleb, like Taleb basically became a Twitter liberal. I mean, that's the thing about using like any kind of social media site, like whether it's Reddit or Twitter. Even if you think you're super resistant to like the gradual social conditioning, you will eventually succumb. And Taleb, like, there were warning signs, like there were a couple of years ago where he started like saying that IQ is fake and a lot of his criticisms were actually decent. But I did a video, I never released on that. I should probably, I don't know, maybe I should talk about that. But like then Taleb like went really crazy in 2020, like he became like a total COVID cultists, a COVID cultist and like he was like, you know, just totally nuts about the stuff. And then he, let's see, then he like started attacking like Bitcoin and stuff, really because Bitcoiners were like the one people on Twitter, the one people remaining on Twitter who were like, yeah, this is like a big hoax when it came to Corona. So he like really hated them because of that. And basically because of this like disagreement on an alternate issue, you know, he was like, oh, now I hate Bitcoin too. And it's just like, I don't know, it's just silly. And there have been a bunch of things over the past couple of years that he's just become gradually cringer and cringer. But you know, I still think his books are good and I occasionally recommend them. But every time I recommend them, I sort of feel bad about it. I'm like, oh, this guy has sort of said some cringe stuff since, but you know, whatever. All right, let's see. All right, let me check out donations. I actually just pulled up the video. I actually look pretty comfy in here. No, that's kind of funny. I didn't actually look at how I looked on this. Although I am definitely overexposed. Like it's way too light in here, but there's nothing I can do. It's just cause I'm on this crappy webcam. Did you switch back to Firefox from Brave? Yes, I am not using Brave anymore. I'm using Firefox. And I think I changed my website to reflect that. Like I think on my programs page, I think if you go to lukesmith.xyz slash programs, I think I have, I say that Firefox I don't recommend at all. Has Luke, has your, wait. Has Luke's, wait, changed his, oh, okay, he's asking third person. Has Luke changed his opinion on masturbating just curious because I heard that not masturbating is not good as doing it every, no, you shouldn't masturbate ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever. Okay, that's it. Like anyone telling you that there's some reason to masturbate is like totally fooling themselves. Like this whole, whole cope of, oh, like you'll drop dead of like cancer if you don't masturbate. Oh, well, I mean, that's really unfortunate cause I guess like everyone in the past like died of masturbation or like a lack of masturbate. It's so stupid, it's so stupid. You don't die. And in fact, like if you just go like a month or two without masturbating, you will not want to anymore. It just won't happen, okay? So it's just utterly stupid. Or the worst thing is like, when I tell people don't watch porn, they're like, but how am I supposed to masturbate? Wow, solves two problems. Do not masturbate, it's freaking weird. It's disgusting. Do not do it. You do not die. It actually, it actually gets weight. Like, you know, if you go a month or so without cooming, it'll be kind of hard cause like, you know, obviously, you know, your body produces a lot of semen and it wants to get out and stuff like that, obviously. But as you go on, it'll just like, all I'll tell you is it just gets easier once you're around the two month mark. And then after that, you'll be like, oh, there's no reason for me to masturbate. You don't waste your seeds. The true red pill is no cooming with your wife. Semen not actually ejaculating. Yes, that is the true red pill. Now, although many cultures actually do that, they would, men would like engage in it, of course, with their wives, but not actually, you know, ejaculate. And they would like say, because they were like, oh, it makes you weaker when you do that. I know the Japanese did that. I think that, you know, people in Europe would occasionally do that. Although that's kind of like, that's kind of like within the realm of birth control and thus mortal sin in Europe. But I know the Japanese were big on that. Are you actually using Starlink? Yes, I am. What's wrong with Brave? Nothing per se. It's just, I got a configuration on Firefox that is better. Like I used, what is it? Like the Arkin Fox user.js. And that sets it up. It basically, you know, turns Firefox into not a spyware program. And then I made some changes on top of that and I'm pretty content with how it is. So I'm pretty happy. But I haven't used moved larbs over to using Firefox just because, you know, Luke, you don't understand the level of cum. It's ball popping proportion. Listen, like this whole notion that people need to ejaculate is nonsensical. Okay? A, like especially if you're a young guy, you will have nocturnal emissions. But B, even if you don't, you will be fine. Like you will not die. And it might hurt a little bit at the beginning. If you're, well actually, what causes it to hurt is actually, I can't believe we're talking about this. But you will not magically, like the thing that causes pain is, you know, what people call blue balls, right? What is it? Vascular contraction or whatever it is where like you are like stimulated. You stimulate yourself like you almost cum, but you don't cum all the way. So if you like touch yourself and you don't finish, that will hurt, okay? But if you don't do that, like if you don't give the double a foothold and don't start, you will not deal with that. It will not be a problem. I guarantee you as well, like when you're like two months, just give it two months. Just don't do it for two months, and then it will be super easy, okay? I guarantee you. Anyway, I should probably just do a video on that because I don't really, like I feel like YouTube, back in the day you could talk about masturbation on YouTube or like this kind of sexual stuff. Now I feel like it's so constrained. Well, I don't know. There's a lot of perverted stuff on YouTube anyway, but of course I'm giving you the unperverted take. Like don't masturbate, you freaking retards. Yeah, it's hard to stop cumming, but keep doing it and you will see. So yeah, I mean, probably the easiest way. So here's a hack tip for you. Here's about human psychology that you can manipulate. If you are moving to another place sometime soon, make it a thing when you go there that you're not gonna watch porn or cum or anything like that. Just make it a thing. I'm in a new place, I'm gonna start fresh. Psychologically, it will be easier there. Or if you're not moving to a new place, do something like reorganize your room or something like that. That might sound totally crazy, but psychologically, if you change how you do things, you will be able to break habits. And that goes for anything. That's not just cumming, okay? Have you tried extended fasting yet? I did a 72-hour snake juice fast and gained superpowers. Can't say I do that. I do fast, I do make it a thing to fast. I kinda wanna do it in sync with the Orthodox Church. I wanna say do Wednesday and Friday fasts. What I do now is on Wednesday, I'll usually eat at church for dinner, but before that, I will deliberately not eat anything. But there are some days where I feel like, oh, I've been eating too much for whatever. I'll usually go through a day where I totally stuff myself after I get a bunch of work done and I just wanna go to sleep. And then the next day, I'll just be like, okay, I'm not gonna eat today or maybe I'll eat right at the end. I think the whole square meals, like a systematic eating pattern, I think it's kind of, I don't know. I guess you can say I do intermittent fasting. In fact, I basically invented it. I was doing it before it was cool. But that was just when I was younger, I would play video games all day and forget that I had to eat. And I just would not, I just, I don't know, wouldn't, I just forget about it. Or nowadays, I'll just work on something else and be busy. So, you know what, the audio and video are desynced terribly, but that is not an internet problem. I am just very surprised that the internet has been going this whole time. It's really great. So, I can't believe I'm doing a stream from my own house. Let me check for donations on my site. Oh, none. Okay. Let's see. Oh, we're not good though. There it is. You should do a conversation or interview with Roosh V. I don't really know him. I have talked to him via email a couple times. He did, he did, excuse me. He did actually roast me. I mentioned before, you know, I agree with Orthodoxy. I think it's basically the true church, the most unadulterated church, but I do go to our Protestant church because to get to an Orthodox church, it's not just like a new thing. I have to drive like two hours and stuff like that. So, I was talking to Roosh via email and he did roast me for that. He was like, you gotta make sacrifices. Make sacrifices. You gotta like, you know, you gotta do it. Like, this is a test of your faith, stuff like that. And he's right. Like I'm not going to, I mean, he's right. Okay, at the time I had a really crappy car that was kind of my legitimate excuse. It couldn't get like an hour long, but you know, now I really have no excuse. So, I really should do that. And again, as I said, I do have friends around here who kind of want to experience Orthodoxy and be in, you know, contemplate converting. So, you know, I probably should go with people. Yeah, I mean, I don't really know Roosh via though. I mean, we had that conversation. That was it. I think he said that he, I forget, why did I, why did I email him? Or maybe he emailed me. I forget. Oh no, okay. So, I had friends in real life that wanted to meet him. And they were like, dude, you should invite Roosh to come see you or whatever. And there was this time when he was going to be in Atlanta. And I was like, oh, you could come to see me after that. But that got canceled and stuff like that. So, I never ended up seeing him. And then we started talking about the Orthodox Church. But anyway, but yeah, I like a lot of the stuff that Roosh does. Obviously, he's a great, he's a great guy. He used to be, if guys don't know him, years ago he used to be like one of these professional comers. He would like go to other countries and like, you know, hook up with women and write books about how to like pick up girls and stuff. And then he became a Christian and you know, the rest is history. You know, he has a side, I think is RooshV.com. So, they don't have socially distanced Orthodox Church streams cringe. It's not the real thing. You can't receive the body and blood remotely. Please talk to Roosh. Yeah, I don't know what me and Roosh would talk about. So, I don't really know the guy. I mean, I like it. I do read his blog and stuff like that. And he said he's seen my videos and stuff, but the thing with me doing collabs with anyone, this goes for anything. Like I know I talk about a lot of stuff and I do videos on different things and people kind of follow me and stuff like that. But like I don't really have one category that, I don't know, makes me this type of YouTuber that collabs with those people. You know what I mean? Like, I don't know, this is kind of funny. So I've always felt weird about doing stuff with other people. All right, I'm getting a little tired of talking at my screen. So I think I'm going to call it quits in a second. I am going to, I don't know how desync things are. So what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna take a leak and I'm gonna come back. If you have any last donations, send them in now and hopefully with the delay, I will be able to read everything. And yeah, I'm gonna go take a leak. I'll be back in just a minute. So I got this chair put in. I know the video and audio is like way off. I got this chair put in. It was actually in my other room. It's on a new chair. I never buy stuff. Like that's just how I am. But I can like, since I don't have a mouse, you know, I just have a keyboard with like the little thingy there. I can just relax and, you know, I don't have to be anywhere near my desktop to do work. Which actually, you know, my whole, I really need to look into like what is most optimal for, you know, what is the best like height of a desk and stuff like that. Ergonomics, that's what I'm thinking of. I need to look into stuff like that just because like my desk is a weird height and I need a, I really need a chair that's a better height that is more conducive to actually doing stuff because when I'm sitting here, I'm always like trying to get comfortable. Like this desk is like a weird, it's just weird. Anyway, audio is delayed by eons. Yeah, I know, I know, I know, I know. All right, let me check the donations. If there are none, I will probably, I will probably call it quits in a second. Yeah. Oh yeah, so I did try to do a stream on PeerTube. There are just some things, and I really wanna make that a regular thing, not streaming on YouTube, but streaming there. There are just some things I need to get ironed out with, I'm trying to figure out how to stream from my phone. There was actually a PeerTube, I turned my phone off, didn't I? There is a PeerTube live streaming app or whatever that has not actually worked for me yet. It doesn't, I don't know, there's something going on I need to figure out. But I wanna be able to do streams on that and I could theoretically go walking and like do a stream. But yeah, I'd rather do things on PeerTube but there are things I haven't figured out. I actually need to figure out the live chat thing as well. I think that's like based on XMPP. But anyway, I guess that's about it. Let me check the donations and check the chat a little longer. Okay, Boutros Maronita donates $5. Hey Luke, I got the anti-modernist papal and cyclicals book, it's great. By the way, congrats on Cedars.XYZ such a based and Lebanese Phoenician Maronite Pilled Name. Do you think you could reprint some Syriac Fathers writings? I am not very familiar with them. Most of the stuff I'm gonna do for now is gonna be Western European, Scholastic or I guess early English stuff. So thanks, I'm doing now. All right, so again, actually let me put it in the chat. LindyPress.net, that is the hottest site in the universe. Where's my freaking chat window? Where's my LindyPress.net? Yeah, that's right guys. I know that like the video and the audio and the chat are like all on different times. So LindyPress.net, go there, you can get a book, all typeset by me. And the reason I'm doing it is just to put books out there that are not in print anymore or are rarely in print. Some ones that I'm doing soon, I am doing a reader on Alchemy, okay. That is one thing I wanna finish pretty soon. I am doing The Secret of Secrets. That is a book attributed to Aristotle. It's probably not actually written to Aristotle, but it's supposed to be Aristotle's advice to Alexander the Great. It was highly influential. I originally thought about including that in the Alchemy reader. But it's big enough to be its own book and it's not related enough to Alchemy. Although it was very influential on Roger Bacon and other alchemists and stuff like that. In the medieval period, it was hugely influential. So that's something I wanna print. I actually have Roger Bacon's Opus Deut, then it's yum here too. This I've been working on for freaking months. This is gonna be in Latin. This has been so hard to do because I had basically a PDF to text copy of this and I had to go through the whole thing and correct it. And now I'm going through it in the third time, like correcting all the bad Latin and the things that have not been transliterated properly and stuff. So anyway, that's about it. I think someone says there's a server error. Let's go check on that. Sorry about that guys. It's probably, it might just be because everyone is connecting. I probably know what it is. I don't know, it's working for me. If you're getting 500 errors, I don't, let's see here. It is loading. It's taking a long time to load. It might just be because everyone's going on it. I probably need to, anyway, go to it in a second. I'll just, sorry about that. Okay, okay. Let's see, what's it doing? All right, I'll fix that. I'm gonna probably in the stream, let me do one last check of, why is it doing that? It's done that before, but it's not caused by the same thing as before. All right, anyway, okay. All right, no more donations. So, check out Lindy Press, although, yeah, it's getting some kind of server error. I'll fix that in just a couple of minutes when I have some time. So, yeah, I guess that's it. Okay, yeah. I feel like there's something else I was gonna say. I always feel so frazzled during live streams. I need to just have a list of things I'm gonna talk about and slowly talk about them. I always feel like I'm talking about 5,000 things at once. Luke can't touch type. I can touch type, I just usually don't. It's usually not even worth it.