 Good morning, everybody. It is 1015 a.m. or so Pacific Time, US Pacific Time. Hi, I'm Keith. Aka ThinkBolt, aka 30 Second Sci-Fi. You're on the ThinkBolt channel. You're on YouTube and on Twitch. It's been some time since I've done any live streaming here or uploaded anything. I've been seriously unmotivated. There are book review videos I could record and upload, but honestly people don't watch my videos. I get more participation and feedback when I do live streams, but I've not been doing them regularly. I haven't been feeling physically up to it for some time. Anyway, I'm going to talk about science fiction if anybody wants to, and I think I'll get started again on this failed installation of Windows 7 on this old laptop. I've attempted twice to do it. The second time I was stymied by an inability to open up the front of the machine here. I want to disable the Wi-Fi card. I want to remove it all together. I think I understand now how to get this keyboard faceplate off. The sources I looked at online which purport to instruct you how to open these things are completely inadequate when it comes to telling you how to get this faceplate off. They just say, just snap it off. Just carefully snap off, but it doesn't work that way. It doesn't work that way at all, and they don't actually show you what they're talking about. Two people watching. Somebody on YouTube, somebody on Twitch. Good morning. Looks like I lost one of those viewers already. Let's start the music up again. I'm going to keep the music playing the whole time. Such a nice music. Hi, who's watching? Somebody on Twitch. I suspect it's a bot, as usual. I've got my Fortnite guy on the shelf behind me. He got him on display nicely back there. And again, ironically, I stopped playing Fortnite at about the time that I received the guy. Anyway, let's see if I can put this faceplate off. I've got plenty to talk about as far as science fiction. Let's see. Lifting up this... Okay, the stupid camera is frozen over there. I'm going to have to unplug it. Plug it back in. The connection is too delicate. Let's delete that camera. Video capture device. Okay, let's put it in the background there. That's actually a good picture right there. I'll just leave it like that. My other camera... I'll change it up a bit. Okay, yeah. And there we go. Who's watching? Somebody on Twitch? Say hello, please. Okay, if I can get this... Yeah, I can pry into the lowered portion. Snap this out. The two sources I found for this model computer... Both of them say the same thing. Carefully snap off the bezel. The keyboard bezel. And neither one of them shows you what they mean. Neither one of them includes video of them actually removing the thing. Which is insane. Because the thing doesn't just snap off. You can't lift it beyond this. So I suspect... I noticed that once they did have it removed... I noticed that this entire upper lip came off with it. So I'm thinking that it slides toward the screen. That's what I'm thinking. Yeah, there doesn't seem to be any movement. Maybe I slide it down. I'm going to pull it. It snaps off along the lower edge here. But right about here on both sides... There is no pulling it upward or inward. It's underneath the lip. Maybe we think that it slides as long as it's upward here. Because this... Again, this upper edge comes off with it. I can't get over how unprofessional both of those videos I found are. Both of them... In both cases, they just say carefully snap off the bezel. And it doesn't snap off. And neither one of them shows you how they removed it. Neither one of them actually shows you how they removed it. That's insane. That's insanely stupid. If they're going to make an instructional video about how to do this, they need to actually shoot video of them doing it. I took this apart once before. I took this apart once before, years ago. And I don't remember... I don't remember if I ever took this part of it off. There's no movement here at all. None. You can wedge this screwdriver in here. And you can see that there's a... There's a gap. Or there should be a tab. But other than a little bit of lateral movement here, there's nothing... There's nothing coming loose. What is holding this in? This is insane. This is crazy. The Wi-Fi device is under here. It's under here. You can't get to it from the back. You have to do it this way, apparently. And that's the one thing that I'm trying to get to. Look at this mess with the sticky surface. You can't see the details here. This is disgusting. Unprofessional piece of equipment. This Alienware machine was always problematic. Okay, there is... Good Lord, there's no movement here. Zero movement. Can anyone hear me? Yeah, there's nothing... There's nothing to do here. This is pure insanity. Alright, I'm done with that. I am done. Maybe off camera. I'll try to do something anyway. Okay. I'm gonna turn this camera off. No reason to keep it on. Okay. What can we talk about? Someone's watching? Did someone come in? Somebody on YouTube? Say hello, please. The chat tells me I have two people watching. One person on Twitch, one person on YouTube. Nobody's saying hello. When I only have two viewers and neither one of them will say hello, that's really frustrating. That is super frustrating. I don't mind people lurking, but when my only viewers... don't say anything, God damn, that's frustrating. Say hello, please. Someone on YouTube said hello. I was asking you to say hello, and I can't... I'm not sure how to pronounce your name. How did you find me? Oh, there's three people watching now. Somebody else came in on YouTube? Yeah, how did you find my channel? And what brought you here? I need to... Move the camera a little bit. There we go. That's better. Sitting here, I gave up trying to open up that old laptop. Wasted a good... a good 15 minutes. Okay, whoever was the third person that came in on YouTube, they left again. Ana Ragh says that's a perfect pronunciation on my name. Great. How did you find me? And where are you from? Where are you from? We can talk about science fiction. We can talk about movies. We can talk about TV. What do we want to talk about? I have this huge backlog of science stories that I've saved the last several months. I've got like a hundred things saved here. I used to do a science live stream. Uh, what's going on? What brought you in? How did you find my channel? Have you seen my channel before? I could kill a little time. I'm a budding sci-fi fan. I discovered your channel as I was searching for book reviews before I buy from Amazon. Your 30 second reviews were great. Great, thank you. I have another regular viewer from India. I can't think of his name right now. Oh wait, yeah I can. Um, I can look him up real quick. Here. What is his name? Swapno. Swapno Putdar. Does, uh, science fiction book reviews over in India on Instagram? So which books were you looking for on Amazon? Are there any other online sources for books in India other than, uh, other than Amazon? So I always, uh, I always urge people to look elsewhere besides Amazon. Here in the States when I'm looking for a used book, I go to eBay first and then I go to, uh, oh good lord, what's the name of it? There's a a website for for books. What is the name of it? My god. It's been so long since I've ordered any books online from them. I used to order books from them all the time. Past couple years I haven't needed to but I go to eBay first. Um, I used to, I've done videos about it. I've told people to people to look them up. Alibris Alibris.com A-L-I-B-R-I-S They're a network of bookstores. And, um, when you search through their selections and find a book you want, you order the book directly from an independent bookstore rather than Amazon. And thank you for saying that you like my, uh, book reviews. Which, uh, which of my book reviews did you see first? What was it that, uh, made you find my channel? What book was it? I always like to know that. Okay, we've got three people again. Uh, two people on YouTube, hello. Uh, say hello please. Let me know who you are, where you're from, how you found me. It's been so long since I've streamed one of these, uh, sci-fi chat things, my, my regulars. I have a small group of regulars. Um, but if I don't stream consistently, they, uh, they lose interest. Which is understandable. And it's been weeks since I've streamed. But I haven't posted, uh, any book reviews this year at all. Um, as I was saying when I first started the stream earlier today, um, David Wardrip, hello David. As I was saying, I, uh, as far as posting book reviews, is making book reviews this year, I'm seriously unmotivated. I get more, more visitors and feedback when I do these occasional live streams than I do making book reviews. You know, nobody watches my book review videos and, uh, I get no feedback really. Certainly no revenue from advertisements. Even though I have, uh, a person turned on, not enough views. There's no reason for me. I'm not motivated. Um, I had four viewers there for a second. People coming and going. As, uh, as per usual. David Wardrip, uh, you've been a, you've been a semi-regular here. You've come in, or do I know, um, uh, David said, do you stream the talking stuff on Twitch as well? I'm streaming on Twitch right now. I'm, uh, simulcasting on Twitch and also on, uh, also on Dlive and also on Mobcrush and, uh, where else? There's something else I'm streaming on too. What is that other thing I'm streaming on? Let's look that up. Instagib. Yeah, YouTube, Twitch, Dlive, Mobcrush and Instagib. Oh, Instagib says I'm offline. Well, to hell with that then. Yeah, David says it has been a long time. Uh, do I know your name from, from, uh, from this channel, from the sci-fi thing or do you watch the 50th Street Studio stuff as well? Cause I stream on 50th Street all the time. Um, David says, can't recall what you talked about last time, I think it was a mail haul. Oh, there was an unboxing. Yeah, I unboxed this, uh, these Fortnite action figures. Yeah. Um, I think that was the last time my livestreamed. Yeah, that was weeks ago. But yeah, um, go, go follow 50th Street on Twitch and on YouTube. We stream mostly on Twitch, sometimes we stream on YouTube. Every Saturday morning, I have a co-host that streams bad cartoons with me on Saturday mornings and, uh, once a month at the last Saturday of every month, I stream a double feature. Oh, David says I do watch Bad Saturday from time to time. Okay, that's probably where I remember your name from. Um, yeah, tomorrow evening, we've got a, uh, double feature of obscure animated films. Hoppity Goes to Town and Twice Upon a Time. I've shown Twice Upon a Time on 50th Street. Uh, excuse me, uh, Hoppity. I've shown Hoppity once before. Um, and then next Tuesday evening, I have a live interview with, um, Mark Milano, who, uh, is the official, unofficial historian for Kukla Fran and Ollie. He's the guy who put Kukla Fran and Ollie on YouTube. Um, that's where, uh, that's where we found him. We've seen some episodes of Kukla Fran and Ollie from 1950 on 50th Street. And, uh, I had a great time. Me and my co-host laughed all the way through from a really interesting show. But, uh, what do you want to talk about? Do you want to talk about science fiction books, movies, TV? I put on the title, uh, uh, David says, so how long have you had 50th Street? In 2015. So it's been six years, almost six years. And at the end of 2019, we, that's when we set up that, uh, that retail space up here just outside of Seattle. And we were going to start shooting our own material. I was shooting videos all the time, trying to start new series, trying to get, uh, uh, subscribers, trying to drum up paid subscribers, and we needed our own studio space, so we set that up. And, uh, we were in there for about 90 days, and then the, uh, and then the virus hit, and the governor shut down all business in the state. And, uh, I wasn't going to sit there and waste this nonprofit company's money on paying rent on this space that we, we couldn't use, that we were blocked by the state from using. So we picked up and left. It was tragic. We lost and we lost tens of thousands of dollars on that. Yeah, it was tragic, absolutely tragic. And I've been, for the past year, I've been holed up in this little, little space south of Seattle streaming, uh, several times a week, just, uh, killing time. It's light at the end of the tunnel now. I've got my first, I've got half my vaccination done last week. Um, speaking of which, there's a, uh, there's 50th Street merchandise you can buy. And there's Thinkbolt merchandise. Let me get the, the link. The, uh, link to that. Streamlabs. Yeah, I've got a merchandise store with some great stuff on it. Stuff that I'm really happy with. I'm going to put the link in the chat. Here's the link I'm putting in the chat right now. Um, um, David says I'm currently reading valiant comics. Have you read any comics, graphic novels lately? No, not lately. Valiant comics. Are you talking about the stuff from the early 90s? Or is there a new valiant comics now? And he says, did you get the Pfizer jab? No, I got the Moderna. I wanted the Pfizer. If, if I could have had my choice, but then, uh, last week I checked, I checked late one night, late one Friday night and found out that there was a, what they called a mass, uh, vaccination event happening at a junior high, just one block from here. The next day. It was a one day event. And there were some appointments left at the end of the day. So that Saturday evening at 6.30, I just, I walked a block down. Less than an hour, I had my shot. BB came in. Hello BB. Who's BB? So what was my dream job when I was three? I don't specifically remember what my thoughts were when I was three, but I was always into dinosaurs. I remember, I remember always saying that I was gonna be a paleontologist. When I was three, I don't know. Uh, David says, new valiant comics. 2014 onward. I've not read the old ones. Valiant comics. Is it the same, same characters, same stories? I do remember a valiant rebooted Magnus Robot Fighter. And they had a whole whole cast of new characters. XO. What's it called? XO, Man of War. It was like an Iron Man variant. Am I remembering that right? And they had some kind of Ninja Woman as would be predictable. Some kind of Kabuki Ninja Woman if I remember right. Bloodshot is the most well-known character. Hmm. Most well-known? Who is BB? Tell me who BB is. Is that Becky? I don't think that's Becky. They actually had a just two weeks ago. Maybe it was less than that. Actually had actually had a hack on the 50th Street studio website. A literal hacker got into the WordPress and put in some kind of link redirect from the 30 second sci-fi to the 30 second sci-fi page. Just that page. They could have messed up the whole 50th Street studio site, but they didn't. Just the 30th Street, just the 30 second sci-fi page. Which makes me think it was an angry Republican who saw my Little Baron Trump book review. Cause I got thousands and thousands of views on that. And almost 100% of the comments were angry. David says, I do like XO Man Award to not recall female Ninja, but there is Ninjack, a combination of a Ninja and a James Bond. BB says, I'm from Babylon south of Iraq. Babylon. Is Babylon still a city? Is that a real place anymore? Anyway, I have a whole bunch of t-shirt designs at that store link that I posted. I'll post it again. It would help me out a great deal if people would buy t-shirts. We'll look up Babylon City. Yeah, province Governorate, Central Iraq Ishtar Gate Borsippa Ziggurat Oh, it's just south of Baghdad right outside of Baghdad. He says, well now Babylon wreckage but I think the future will revive again. I hope you're safe out there. I know our nation's government made a mess of that place unnecessarily, entirely unnecessary. I was pointless to apologize for that. I hope you're serious. I hope you're being truthful with me about that and I hope you're safe. I've got four people watching on YouTube now. The other name of Babylon is the slang language, Hila. How's the internet access there outside of Baghdad? Okay, now we're back down to three views on YouTube. Yeah, people come in two or three seconds and then they're gone immediately. I always say this I always say they come in they see that I'm not playing guitar and there's no dog or cat on screen so they leave immediately. David says I would love to learn Arabic. I think all of us would do better to learn other languages. I'm not gonna be able to go I'm terrible with that. Although I'm always surprised how much Spanish I know. I always think I don't know I don't know how to speak or understand Spanish but I'm always surprised at how much I actually do know. How is everybody welcome to the people who just came in? We're just shooting a breeze killing a little time. I've been streaming for just under 45 minutes now. BB says from April to September the temperature is like hell. Totally oven. Yeah. April to September that's a long summer. David says bueno muy bien muy bien. Come on sas. Muy bien. I already said. BB says Arabic most complicated languages in the world need at least six years to learn. Arabic or Chinese? What's going on with Russia right now? By the way as I was sweeping past stories I saw that all of the Eastern European nations have expelled the Russian diplomats. What the hell is going on over there? People are finally telling Putin to get lost. David says I know a tiny bit of Mandarin. Is Mandarin just a dialect of Chinese or is it considered a different language? BB says the most phonetic language and have most words also around 12 million words. Dang. Is the Arabic alphabet a syllabary? Not like the western alphabets it's not the characters are syllables, right? But the Arabic number system is the same system that we use in the West. David says Putin flexing his muscles or something. BB says other languages 1 million words maximum. 12 million words, that's a lot. We're back down to back down to three viewers on YouTube. David says Mandarin is the main language of China. Okay. And there's Cantonese as well, right? Arabic alphabet 28 letters. Okay, so are they syllables or are they are they individual letters? Chinese are they're Chinese has pictographs and also individual letters. The characters are Hanyu. David says you have four tones with the speaking language. Yeah, different different high and low tones. I read I reread a book there's a book that I listened I listened to the audio book back in 2018, maybe 2017 I forget. But I re-listened to it just last month. It's called the library at Mount Char. And the people in this book speak this fictitious language called Palapi. And this guy who heard these two people talking in Palapi he said it sounded like a cross between Vietnamese and a cat fight which I thought was really a really vivid description. Ni Hao David says that's hello. I've heard that before. Bibi says Chinese letters are not words, so most important thing is the words not letters. Chinese letters not words, so most important thing is the words not letters. I'm not sure what you mean by that. Anyway, Bibi, what book was it that you, what book review did you first see on my channel? What was the first one you saw? I've got I've got a couple hundred book reviews up there. Like two or three hundred. Yeah, just tons and tons of book reviews. And yet with all the book reviews, all the books I've read, all the books I've reviewed, still people are always asking me have you read this, have you read that? And I was like no, no, no, there's so many books I've not read. And if neither one of you has read the library at Mount Char, you should. And I just listened to an audio dramatization of Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson. Yeah, I just finished it yesterday. It was surprisingly short. I thought it was going to be an unabridged dramatization. I thought there was going to be everything in it, but it was really short. And I was like, wow, this must have been heavily heavily abridged. Uh, Davis says, I really cannot remember the first thing video I watched. Yeah, you you first saw my channel a long time ago. I'm going to blame you. I wanted to know if BB only just recently found me. I'd like to know what what he first saw. The only new television that I've seen recently was Wanda Vision. Back at the beginning of the year. And I didn't have any interest at all in seeing Falcon and the Winter Soldier. But what I've been, the things I've been seeing people talking about it, it really looks impressive. Mike says I've heard of Brian Henderson, but never read him. Brandon Sanderson is what I said. Not Brian Henderson. Brandon Sanderson. He's a hella writer. I've not read his novels. I read one of his novellas and I was floored at how much I loved it. I was flabbergasted at how good it was. The best writing I've ever seen. One of the most impressive, most memorable stories I've seen in recent years. His novels are monstrous. They're huge. And he writes these five novel cycles. My friend Becky M on YouTube reads his stuff like crazy. And I've never started one of his novels. They're just too long. And they're all series. Davis says I've heard of Wanda Vision, not bothered with any Disney stuff Marvel stuff. Yeah, I usually don't either. But as you've heard me say before, I was a dedicated Fortnite player up until a few weeks ago. And I would buy the every new season of Fortnite that would come along, I would buy the Battle Pass so I could do all the challenges throughout the couple of months that the seasons would last. And we're talking about very small amounts of money. And I usually didn't even have to pay for it because I would complete all the challenges throughout the season. And because of that I would get the next Battle Pass free. Anyway, because I had the most current Battle Pass they gave everybody two free months of Disney Plus. That's the only reason I saw Wanda Vision. And I have to tell you it was impressive. It was really unique. It was really unique. I'm not crazy about Olsen. The Olsen woman. What's her name? I forget her first name. I don't think she's right for the she's she did a good job. She's done a good job acting with it and everything. I don't think she's right for the part of Wanda. Wanda Maximoff of the Scarlet Witch. I've never thought she was right. But David says I'm watching the leftovers because of you. Well great. That first season of Leftovers had amazing TV every episode all the way through the second season. Not so much, but it was worth seeing. The third season I watched four episodes and gave up a friend of mine because it was terrible. A friend of mine told me, oh it's worth it, it's worth it. So I started watching episode five, got halfway and quit because it was awful. It was just awful. So yeah. And everyone who recommended Leftovers to me told me that seasons two and three were the best. And I'm like, that's crazy. Season one was amazing. Season two no. Season three unwatchable. I do not understand people's reasoning when they say things like that. People have consistently said that seasons two and three were better than season one. I'm like, having watched season one I'm like, that's crazy. Season one was amazing. Astonishingly well made television. Season two not so much. Season three unwatchable. And yet people consistently, every time you look at reviews they tell you that season two and three are the best. I'm like, that's crazy. BB says, do you optimistic about the future? No, I've never been optimistic about the future. David says, to me the best TV in modern times is the Handmaid's Tale. I started watching the Handmaid's Tale having read the book. I read the book first. That's an amazing book. I started watching the Handmaid's Tale and it was well made. But it got to a point where I just didn't want to see anymore. I was just, oh god, I can't. And I didn't stop watching it because it was bad. I stopped watching it because it was too uncomfortable. David says, not read any work by Tom Perota. That doesn't sound familiar. He's a screenwriter. The Wishbones, Election, Joe College, Little Children, The Absence Teacher, The Leftovers. Oh, he wrote The Leftovers. Okay. Short stories. The Wienerman, Wild Kingdom, Smile on Happy Chang's Face, Kitty Pool. I do remember noticing that I do remember noticing in The Leftovers TV show that the writer of the novel was also one of the screenwriters for the series, which is usually a bad idea. But it looked like he did a tremendous job. You always want authors of the original material to have some creative control over. You always wish that the original writers could have some creative control over the adaptations. But honestly, it's usually a bad idea. PB says the future ended by leaving. That's not a good future. Yeah, the Leftovers series, TV series is a real downer of the series. It's not a positive experience at all. But it's very topical for what's been going on all over the world for the last year. Very relevant, very topical. I'm not optimistic about the future. I think there's going to be light at the end of the tunnel, like I said, for those of us who are able to get vaccines. There are a lot of people all over the world that aren't going to be able to get vaccines. I'm afraid where you are, BB, I'm afraid that people over there aren't going to be able to get vaccines. I know people in India. I know India isn't bad shape and so is Brazil. BB says, do you have any secrets? I'm not sure what you're asking about. Can you be more specific? David says, have you read the new Netty Okorafor book? I need to read a lot of Netty Okorafor. What's the new one? What's new one are you talking about? I started reading Who Fears Death. In fact, I've got it right here. I started reading this. I read the first couple of chapters and really liked it. She's a hell of a writer. She is one hell of a writer. Really interesting writer. Really interesting non-western viewpoint which I think we need more of. David says, been meaning to read N.K. Jemisin. Yeah, I haven't read any N.K. Jemisin but I hear tremendous things about her. BB says, if we not die by corona we will die by another reason. Yeah, I mean we're still governments all over the world are not taking a coronavirus seriously. Here in the states it's been a disaster. A friend of mine was just telling me that there was a study done in Missouri showing that people who survived people who survived the virus are much more likely to die in the next six months than people who have not had the virus. And I'm like, wow, so we're going to lose a lot more people. And people are just not taking it seriously. So, yeah, I think there's going to be a lot more die-off all over the world. Even if a majority of the people in the world get the vaccination there's going to be a lot more virus-related deaths. And I think we're going to lose a lot more people. We're going to die of death. It's unpleasant to think about. And then we're still not taking global warming seriously. I'm not going to call it climate change. It's global warming. That's what it is. And I think everyone talks about by the year 2050 by the year 2050 that's only 30 years away now. That's only one generation away now. And then by the year 2100, I don't think there's any guarantee that the human race is going to survive in the next century. I don't think it's a given at all. Yeah, this century is going to be bad. This is going to be bad. And this century, as far as technology, this century is going to be the century of bio biological science, of biohacking. We're finally going to crack DNA hacking and real cloning and real biohacking. And man, somebody's going to make a mess. Somebody's going to do something really astonishingly awful. It's the kind of thing that only needs to happen once. You know? Like last century, the development of nuclear weapons only has to happen once. And Genie's out of the bottle. And Bibi says he belongs to the Shia group in south of Iraq and Iran. I really don't want to start talking about religion. I really don't want to start to start a discussion about religion or afterlife. I would really not rather not discuss the subject at all. But yeah, I think David says, when do you think humans will be on Mars? I have no idea. I don't know if that's going to work out well or not. I think I'm really sick of Elon Musk. I'm really sick of the guy. I think he's finally starting to show his true colors. I think people are some people are finally starting to understand what he's really about. He's not a scientist who's interested in science. He's a megalomaniac who I think he intends to go to Mars and be the emperor of Mars. I think he fully intends to do that. On his Twitter account, on his Twitter account to Imperator of Mars. He acts like he's being tongue-in-cheek about that like he's being silly. But if you want to know what people really think what people really believe listen to the things that they joke about. David says I hate Jeff Bezos more. Yeah. Musk is in the same class as Bezos. Bezos, Zuckerberg Musk Musk the Microsoft guy, Bill Gates Donald Trump they're all the same class they're all in the same class. We understand now what Bill Gates motivation is. He all these years he's been talking about global warming and finding a solution finding an environmental solution to global warming. What his motivation really is he's starting to hawk this this new green nuclear energy he wants to sell nuclear power plants these new so-called green nuclear power plants to the US government. That's what his goal that's what he's after he's after he sees after the money and BB says we're here for a purpose not by chance. That's exactly what I don't wanted to start talking about BB because I disagree completely I'd really rather not start a discussion about that um yeah that's not a that's not a subject I want to start discussing because it'll be an argument not a discussion I thank you for being here I thank you for watching my my science fiction videos I hope you continue to watch them and uh if you want to talk about science fiction and the books and TV shows then yeah let's do that I'm gonna post this link to my uh online store again there's a link in the youtube chat and the twitch chat it would help me out a great deal if people would consider buying um some of my t-shirts t-shirts are mugs let me see if I can show some of those designs on screen here oh this is interesting this is really interesting you go to the uh if you go to the streamlabs store site the uh I was actually not intending to post the streamlabs uh link it was a different link I was intending to post but I do have the streamlabs merchandise you go to the streamlabs store the twitch chat is live on the store I'm looking at the store right now and I'm seeing the chat I just hope I can make it Saturday um what's the other spread shirt is the one I wanted to go to okay that's not right it's telling you that there's no uh there's no think bolt site on spread shirt that's not correct yeah that's not correct at all I definitely have a uh yeah I definitely have a shop I think bolt art it's called bolt heart okay I'm gonna post a link to that as well um bb says my age is 37 a mathematician teacher my salary around 450 dollars uh 450 a month is I'm uh never getting married before I'm always isolated and shy I'm sorry to hear that uh bb I don't think this is the right place to to discuss that either that's a bit too personal uh davis's last sci-fi I read was clays arc by octavia butler clays arc by octavia butler I don't know that one here's the link to the spread shirt shop I don't know if there's a way for me to post uh a button somewhere on the screen and the in the twitch chat you know have there be a button on the side of the thing I don't know if there's a way to do that um anyway I've designed a yeah I've designed some t-shirts I'll post uh I'll show some pictures of those let me save some of these yeah the spread shirt has a better variety of uh merchandise types their um their t-shirt you're setting up your t-shirt shop on spread shirt is uh damn difficult um um david says kiss me on vaccinated is a nice t-shirt not sure we're in public um the link works fine as far as okay how are you here hi how you doing hey Keith came in a little late but you already got your first shot right yes I did I got my first uh vaccination and I've got a new uh t-shirt shop set up there's there's the link I just posted how are you thanks for coming in it's good to see you how are you how are things in El Salvador let me set up a uh let me set up a slideshow here so I can look at uh look at these pictures bear with me a second what I need is a window capture yeah there we go there's my uh alvira shirt that's my alvira design that's one of my favorite uh one of my favorite drawings of all time I've done and the spread shirt has this this neat little tie dye this little faux tie dyed shirt you can put it on I think it looks good it looks good on there and uh then there's the kiss me I'm vaccinated David says he's not sure he would wear that in public I would the the point is to is to get people to point I say the point is you know the the idea is just to get people to to point and laugh and then I can tell people hey I made this I made this shirt um David says in the style of bewitched yep it's uh alvira bewitched mashup kind of thing obvious it's not too bad people are getting the shots here as well me not yet that's good that's excellent I'm glad to hear that I actually made this drawing I printed it out as a poster when alvira came to a convention in Tampa where I was living at the time that was almost 10 years ago you know I gave her a print out of it got her to got her to autograph one for me um kiss me I'm vaccinated then there's this thing up here in the Seattle area I would definitely wear this in Florida I'm not sure I would um and then there's my shut up about Star Wars shirt I used to wear this shut up about Star Wars shirt at conventions and some people would point and laugh and some people would get mad they would get downright mad when I wear this around just just daily when I go to the grocery store or just whatever people always notice it people usually point and laugh David says I love the Mr. B natural well thank you yeah that's one of my favorites too I'm really I honestly don't understand why shut up about Star Wars shirt never found an audience I truly don't understand it Aviar says shut up about Star Wars his gold yeah I think so too when I first had the idea I thought it was just a tremendous idea there's the Mr. B natural shirt so I've had to shut up about Star Wars shirt for for many many years now almost 10 years and uh in those years I've sold three shirts total is there an actual Star Wars font yeah I found a Star Wars a faux Star Wars font online and I had to I had to hack it a little bit to to get it to come out right but yeah there's my Mr. B natural shirt I knew your father I did I always liked that line yeah whenever people see my shirts they always like them they always smile they always like them but then nobody buys nobody buys them I've been on the internet since 1994 it's coming up on 30 years that I've been on the internet and um I've never had a success I've been posting original stuff like this continually since then I mean continually new drawings new merchandise all the time I've never had a success in in 25 25 years coming upon 30 years is depressing as hell when I want to stop and think about how much work I've done how much how much of my talent I've spent how much of my time and talent that I've spent making new stuff constantly and I've never had a success in in all those decades never and and every every endeavor I've tried on online all the different things I've done and Davis says the internet must have changed a lot since yeah back in 1994 in the late 90s I could get traffic like crazy I had a shop that I set up in the late 90s and get this it was getting 100,000 visits a day 100,000 visits a day 100,000 because the internet was so much smaller that if you had something online you would get seen by everybody who was on the internet I had a shop that was getting 100,000 visits a day zero sales zero I've never understood it I've never understood what it is that makes people successful when I see these little artists that go online they post their little drawings and their drawings get thousands and thousands of views and they sell t-shirts and stickers like crazy and I don't understand what they're doing and it's always the same when I ask people what do you do what do you do to get all the traffic what do you do to get sales and they always say the same thing oh you gotta do social media you gotta post on social media and I'm like that is such bullshit that's all I've done is work the internet and post it on social media I post on social media constantly I gave up on it a few years ago I just entirely gave up on it because it was a complete waste of my time zero evidence zero that any of the thousands of hours that I spent working social media posting my links posting links to my stuff I have zero evidence that that ever resulted in any any clicks any notice anything are you on Etsy no I'm not on Etsy I'm not when I'm complaining about this I'm not asking for advice okay I'm not asking for advice I've been doing this for 30 years I've been doing this for 30 years and nothing I've ever done has worked when we opened up this retail shop I put together a first episode of this new series this new video series that we started and there was this local guy here who's an expert on you know a quote unquote expert on on internet traffic and who I've been consulting with regularly about he was really good resource for he knew literally everybody in the area literally everybody everyone in government everyone in business he was a real good source for context and he was going always going on and on about how his business is is internet promotion and I told him we have this new series we got this first episode of this new series I want the video to be seen thousands of times maybe even millions of times and whatever your basic packages for promotion his response was oh just post it on social media and I was really offended by that because we were a brand new company we had just started all our social media I had just created a twitter account for this I had just created a facebook account I had just created I had just gotten on yelp and google google whatever google plus google maps I had just started these these social media accounts and he knew that I had just started these things we had zero followers on our social media and his response when I told him that I wanted to hire him his response was oh just post it on social media as if that would do a fucking thing as if that would accomplish one goddamn thing for us that was so dismissive my experience with professionals when you go to professionals it goes for lawyers accountants really professionals of any kind you pay professional level prices and you get shit that's been my experience with professionals David says I've never understood why Logan Paul is popular that's the kind of asshole that gets that gets noticed online that's the kind of person that's successful online and here's the thing that I finally understood I came to this understanding finally it got across to me about 15 years ago because I was working I got it I worked briefly at a phone at this phone this cold calling service that would would call people up and offer to consolidate their their college just call people off of a list and tell them you want to consolidate their it's a garbage service but there were kids there that were really successful at it they would complete sales every day and they were the rudest most hateful of the bunch the most aggressive most insensitive and it finally it finally clicked with me I finally understood why people in every walk of life are successful why the biggest assholes are always at the top they're not successful they're not successful and they happen to be assholes they're successful because they are assholes and that's true in every in every business in every walk of life when you see the wealthiest most successful person in whatever business in whatever area that person is the biggest asshole you can imagine the reason they're successful is because they're the biggest thief is because they're the biggest liar is because they're the biggest crook it doesn't just happen they're not successful because they're the hardest worker are because they're the most intelligent they're successful because they're the biggest thief it's a fact of of the universe it's a fact of life on the planet I Did see that that he was boxing. I saw that was trending on Twitter. I did not click on it. I don't care I'm not gonna give him the attention I Really resent the success of this guy on YouTube called mr. Beast I Really resent the guy. I have to say that I admire some of the stuff that he's done with his money He's done some really interesting things with his money. He's he's distributing money to other online creators He was part of this this plant a billion trees program from last year I do have to say that I'm surprised at how creative he's been with his money, but I deeply deeply resent his success Because when I first heard about him I Went and looked at Because I'd never heard of him. I've been watching YouTube people on YouTube for 10 years And I'd never heard of him He's one of the biggest money makers on YouTube and somehow I've never even heard of him much less seen Much less seen his stuff and I went and looked at his website He has become a multi-multi-millionaire He's this he's this completely talentless redneck He has no talent. He has no charisma none and yet He's become a multi-multi-millionaire because he and his friends go in his backyard and shoot guns They set off explosives and shoot guns in his backyard and he has become a multi-multi-millionaire Completely talentless completely without charisma and he's been rewarded with multi-millions of dollars for that David says I like that Neil deGrasse Tyson is somewhat popular. I guess if anybody's Should be popular. It should be somebody who's serious about science and education David says I don't watch star talk. I don't even know what that is Is that a is that a show that he hosts? But anyway, let's Continue to promote my my t-shirt shop That's what I need to do. There's the stuff you can buy at my t-shirt shop. I need people to buy My t-shirts and my mugs Spreadshirt has a wide variety of Merchandise that you can you can get with these Designs on them. I have lots of designs that I could David says I also love Michael Schermer Javier says people go for the lowest common denominator. You're right lowest common denominator Is is a very big deal It's very much a part of it, but it's also People people reward the the biggest liar they reward the the most hateful The most hateful hypocrite Michael Schermer see that See that atheists No, Michael Schermer is the Is a scientist I Don't I think I'm seeing his face Yeah American science writer Oh the skeptic society right editor-in-chief of the skeptic magazine. Yeah Yeah, what I remember of him I liked I was thinking of somebody else I was getting him confused with somebody else there for a second head of the skeptic society, right? I've not followed him or or de grass Tyson closely I did do a drawing of de grass Tyson back in 2015 with a drawing of him with the planet Pluto Because he was going always going on and on and on about how Pluto is not a planet He was instrumental in getting Pluto removed from the list of planets and when When the Pluto when NASA's Pluto Pro was about to get there I made a t-shirt those It was a drawing of him and Pluto boxing I Called it rematch 2015 And Just like everything else I've ever done it got no attention at all. I'd like to the drawing. I thought it was a funny little drawing Not really a fan of Dawkins I I agree Dawkins is a really poor communicator I think I Was founder of the Houston Atheist Society back in the early 2000s I was involved in the atheist activism for a while and people were always going in atheist circles People were always going on and on and on about Dawkins and how they thought he was a great a great communicator and I was like I Don't think so I don't think he is at all Richard Dawkins, right? I know who you're talking about I didn't think he was very good at communicating his points at all There were people were especially going on and on about his books But how good his books were so I sat down to read One of his books called the Something about the watchmaker something there's something watchmaker The And I thought it was pretty bad. I thought it was pretty bad. I thought especially what people in atheists in atheist groups were always saying is that his His books and his writings communicate really well to to Christians to non atheists And I was like I was reading it and I was like the language in this book is he's totally writing to the he's Talk he's speaking to the choir. He's writing to for atheists he's not communicating anything to to Religious believers with this stuff. I didn't even finish the book the blind watchmaker. I think that's what it was Yeah, I didn't think it was I don't think it got his points across well at all Yeah, you came up with the title after I after I said it just Yeah, I don't think he's a good representative I think people in The problem with atheist activism Is it people people in this country who use the word atheists to describe themselves? Unfortunately almost 100% of them are libertarians and Libertarians are fascists are straight-up fascists And Libertarians Libertarians do not work With each other they refuse to work with each other the one thing that a libertarian hates more than anything else is other libertarians They they they despise each other more than anybody else And David says most of all I love Carl Sagan. Yeah, Carl Sagan was great I think the best communicator for For evolution was Darwin himself if you've ever read Darwin's book His his first book the The origin of species I almost couldn't think of the title of the book if you've never read origin of species you should The the the popular version these days is the first edition his his first edition And it's great. He makes his case in the introduction Excuse me and the rest of the book is evidence The rest of the book is just evidence chapter after chapter after chapter of evidence It's an amazing book And easily readable and and the thing is he never used the word evolution the word evolution never appears in the book He never used the word at all After his book came out Who was the other guy that had the other popular guy that had an alternate view of Evolution Lamarck Lamarck was very critical of it and After Darwin wrote after he published his book people's other people people and other scientists started publishing Their ideas about how old they think the Sun and the solar system must be and of course They didn't understand nuclear physics at the time. They didn't they didn't even understand Adams at the time and They concluded that they were the their calculations of the size and the heat being produced by the Sun they were they were they were using They were using classical Classical physics Newtonian physics and they were concluding that the Sun was only a few hundred thousand years old and So Darwin started having to rewrite his book and subsequent editions He he got more and more Lamarckian because his his original ideas About the origin of species required billions of years and of course he was right But he was being a good scientist and he was listening to the scientists in other in other disciplines in physics astrophysics and You know, he he understood their science. He respected their science and he was he was being a good scientist himself and he was rewriting and rewriting and But then of course after he died In the early 20th century people finally understood started understanding Einsteinian physics and subatomic finished physics and started understanding that nuclear physics explained that the Sun really was billions and billions of years old and So the the the addition that we read the addition of ordnance species that we commonly read today is the first edition Which was the most correct? although he he Although Darwin himself had trouble Even understanding in himself at the time David says I think I read voyage of the Beagle, but not sure I finished it Yeah, origin of species is a daunting Book it's a science book for one thing But I was surprised at how readable it was and people always quote that That quote from the last page where Darwin said there's there's a grandeur To the scope of to to what he was proposing and What he was envisioning I forget the full quote there's something about this there's a grandeur people quote that all the time I I read again. I read the whole thing and I thought there was a better quote from that same page Right near the end of the book and I can't think of it at the time But there was another quote from the same page that I thought was better. It was actually more impressive I can't think of it. I Have my addition here somewhere and I have it marked I'm voyage of the Beagle one of my first book reviews way back in 2014 or whenever I 2013 when I started doing these book reviews was voyage of the space Beagle my A.E. Van Boat and there's a story in there There's a story included in that collection about The space Beagle that this exploratory vehicle of the space Beagle that they reached a point halfway between the Milky Way galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy kind of a Kind of a null point halfway between like a Lagrangian point and they encountered a living creature that was floating there in empty space and they brought it inside and While they weren't looking it revived and begin Abducting them and dragging them into the air vents and laying Injecting eggs into their chests into their chest cavities And so strikingly similar to alien really bizarrely similar to alien. It was written in the 1930s Um David says standing on the shoulders of giants, but I think that is a quote from Isaac Newton that is a quote from Isaac Newton and that's interesting That that's an interesting quote. It's interesting that you bring that one up Isaac Newton did say that And he didn't say it in any of his any of his books any of his published writings. He said it in a letter to his his main science rival Whose name I can't remember right now Um But Isaac Newton actually did not stand on the shoulders of giants He did not rely on the work of Scientists who came before him. He was he was really the first modern scientist So there really wasn't much for him to rely on as far as As far as deriving his conclusions by by putting together the work of others like Einstein Einstein Did not Reach his conclusions just out of the blue. He actually worked with existing science And he understood the mathematics extremely well so many scientists don't do and so many people today don't understand he He put together his conclusions By working with a great deal of the physics that was happening at the time And that had come before him Newton did not do that Newton reached his conclusions almost entirely on his own And he and he did so much that he didn't even publish there was so much more he did that he didn't even publish So there's no telling what he What conclusions he reached that he just never told anybody about but the guy that quote about standing on the shoulders of giants He he said that quote in a letter to The other guy He he created calculus Isaac Newton created calculus as we know it today. There was another guy Who who invented calculus as well at the same time, but Newton never published this other guy did publish and They say by the way, do you have a library card? No, I do not But anyway, he He and this guy this other guy hated each other they despised each other this other guy. I can't remember his name What the hell was his name? But this other guy suffered from dwarfism He was he was very small. He was a very short guy and Newton wrote this this scathing angry letter to him and he included that quote about standing on the shoulders of giants Just to piss the guy off just to insult the guy. It was an insult he was not talking about Science or other scientists or the science scientists that came before him. It was an insult And people quote that all the time thinking that that Newton was praising other scientists But no, he was just insulting a guy that he hated Who happened to be a dwarf? Newton was not a nice guy He was not a nice guy. He was extremely hateful He was a genius. He was also a religious nut In addition to doing great science, he was also with a serious religious Nutball I have to say nut that's what he was And And just a hateful guy All around and he lived us like a super old age like 80 something Why do you ask if I have a library card by the way, I think I am going to get when I was in Florida I had a library card. I think I am gonna get a local library card here Up in Washington state because I finally have a home address up here. I Was just I was just moving around. I was just floating around up here for the longest time I was the other scientist British or from another country. No, he was a he was an Englander. He was in He was in England Isaac Newton versus type of Newton versus On the first thing that comes up is a rat battle Isaac Newton versus Bill Nye really I Think it's Robert hook. I don't think that's the guy though. It says Robert hook Isaac Newton rival rival between Isaac Newton and Robert hook Yeah, that might be I Don't know For instance, he's often create credit as being the founder of calculus of some of that credit goes to Gottfried Leibniz a German philosopher and that says he and Leibniz accused of their copying information from the words Maybe it was Leibniz. Maybe it was the German Leibniz Okay, Isaac Newton and Robert hook Had a dispute over the nature of light so Hook is not the guy I was thinking of I guess it's Leibniz Gottfried Leibniz Yeah, German. I thought he was an Englander getting my Getting my scientists mixed up here prominent German polymath and one of the most important logistic tradition of rationalism developed most prominent accomplishment the ideas of differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton Yeah, I think this is the guy he wrote that quote about But then maybe if he had a rivalry with hook, maybe that's who he was writing to I don't know. I could be I know that he wrote that quote not He was not talking about science when he talked about When he wrote that quote David says I can get Charles Darwin at the library You can get you can get origin of species anywhere. You can go to any used bookstore Literally any bookstore and say I want a copy of origin species. I said, oh, we got it right here. Yeah You don't have to go to the library You could find it For a dollar just about anywhere So he says my library is close for almost a year things here will start to open back up soon might be a while before I go As soon as I get my second shot, I think I want to go to the Senate I think I want to get together with some friends who have their vaccinations and Go to the cinema. I definitely want to get together with vaccinated friends for dinner I definitely want to do that. I'll tell you what I'm not gonna do. I'm not gonna go back to To handshakes. I'm not gonna shake people's hands anymore Because I I've had the healthiest year of my life this past year I've never had a cold once. I've never had the flu once I've never had any allergy attacks nothing and That's unheard of for me. I'm 55 years old now, and I've never had a year where I've not had a cold repeatedly Terrible terrible colds You know Sinuses so so swollen up there like like cracking my head open Repeatedly throughout every year and and terrible asthma and allergy attacks apparently the solution to my problems The solution for me was zero contact with other people So I'm not gonna shake people's hands Davis is not interested in that new Ghostbusters movie. I might be No idea what movies are coming up. I might be interested in seeing that I yeah, I had no interest in that new Ghostbusters movie from a few years ago with the the cast of women in it Because it looked to me like they They're rebooting these movie franchises. They're always so dishonest about it. They tell you that they're rebooting them And then that's not what they actually do and and then when they do reboot them They do it they do it so poorly from every description I saw of that movie of the story and how the movie was made and that the script was written It looked to me like it was just God awful bad that new little Ghostbusters thing. Maybe Maybe it looks like it's so different But I do want to go see a movie and if and if that's the only thing that's showing Maybe I will go see that But I had already started to get healthy I already started Getting past my my colds and flus and allergies In late 2019 I decided to stop Yeah, I had to ride the the city buses. I had to do it all the time. I decided I was gonna stop I Was gonna make sure that I never touch anything and I started being really conscious about touching my face by keeping my hands away from my face and I started getting healthy Yeah in late 2019 because I was doing that Ivory came in. Hi Ivory. Thanks for coming I got your I got your DM on Twitter but that that link to But that link to that wacko thing Davis says I've still not seen the James Bond movie what James Bond movie I'm not even I don't even know what you're talking about. Is there a new one? You know, I really don't care about the James Bond stuff. I've never been impressed with James Bond movies. I think they're bad movies I'm not I don't really understand why people think those are good movies. I Saw one of the Sean Connery James Bond movies finally for the first time just a few years ago I'd never seen any of the Sean Connery James Bond movies, but I watched it and I was like this is bad. I Don't like this. This is just not good. How you doing Ivory? What are you up to today? I've not had very many viewers today. David's been chatting with me I've been streaming for almost two hours now the last Daniel Craig movie I haven't seen any of those I'm gonna post the link to my t-shirt shop again. Whoops That was my Gottfried Leibniz Just resting and reading okay Here's a link to my new My new t-shirt shop We're just looking at some of my t-shirt designs here. I've had these designs for years Don't I never get any sales There's t-shirts that I have in my shop. I really want to sell some of these kiss me on vaccinated My alvira shirt Ivory says I just got up from a nap and turned on my PC and there you were yeah Here I am There's a stayed up most of the night watching the launch over the SpaceX launch which launch are you talking about actually didn't Whether more astronauts going to the the space station or Or was there a SpaceX launch this the music has been running this whole time Have you seen those those clips of the of the ingenuity? Helicopter on Mars They've flown it twice now It was a a helicopter drone flying on Mars now SpaceX feeling so happy for the four astronauts. What a fulfillment. Yeah And the the oxygen generator That perseverance Mars probe actually has an oxygen generator on it It's a little gold box. That's generating oxygen pure oxygen from the carbon dioxide in the Martian atmosphere It's working it actually work Are they docked tonight? Okay? My ears are a little clogged up making me yawn One is the wife of Bob Benkin who just got back from the space station? Okay, so he and his wife aren't up there together They missed each other they passed each other So the people who are already in the space station, they'd be like oh your husband was just here you just missed him I Hadn't read about that trade-off on childcare. Yeah I'm unfortunately. I'm not gonna stay on much longer. I've been streaming for almost two hours I need to get a nap myself And I need to Tonight I need to get ready for the streams tomorrow. There's two two live streams tomorrow in the morning Gonna be showing some bad cartoons from the 70s That Mike chose that Mike curated for me and In the evening, we're gonna show the double feature of I have the picture up here. We're gonna show the double feature of animated films hoppy goes to town and twice upon a time And then on Tuesday, there's gonna be a live It's gonna be a live stream on Tuesday my Tuesday night live stream will be back For a special I'm gonna do a live Interview and discussion with Mark Milano the guy The guy the historian for a kukla fran and ollie kukla fran and ollie Every says I also live the Arthur C Clarke quote about science being indistinguishable from magic. Yeah Sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable Irish says I have a copy of twice upon a time in VCR is a constant in my home. Yeah That was released on videotape, huh? I know the the two guys who produce that film Davis is Tuesday. I hope I can see that. Well good. It'll be on video on demand. So, oh, yeah Whoa, whoa, whoa Hope you saw the two times that we showed kukla fran and ollie episodes recently. Those are great fun But yeah, the two guys who produced twice upon a time It is a brilliant film. Oh, you recorded it off TV. When was it shown on TV? as I was gonna say the two guys who produced it they had Serious differences About the final editing of that film and They they wouldn't work with each other wouldn't talk with each other. So it was really difficult Getting that film Released and distributed on on home video, I Think it only it was only finally put on DVD. I think just in 2015 just a few years ago When I showed the film I showed the film on the secret movie club I said that it has never been released on DVD or blu-ray and then immediately someone started posting links And so in recent years it was it finally released on um Yeah, but the two guys had very serious differences and do some reading about it and When you read about what the problem was When I first read about that I was like, yeah, I would be mad at the other guy, too so Yeah, I'm not gonna discuss it here because I'll get the facts wrong but Anyway, I've been talking for the last two hours my throat is getting a little raw Hearing I'm talking about how I haven't been sick for the past year and I'm feeling a little bit Just during the past couple of hours my ears have started to stuff up my throat is getting a little Since it's spring I might actually have an allergy problem, but we'll see But thanks for watching and thanks for talking with me. I'm gonna go and please Post that link in the chat again. Please go to my t-shirt shop and please buy something. It'll help me A shop that I just drink vitamin C. That's a That's a myth. That's That's not real It's been one of the most heavily studied Vitamin C in the effects on illness has been studied more than almost any other Any other idea in modern medicine and The conclusion has always been the same. There's no truth to it at all I'm Stomping bronchitis for me. Oh, I'm happy for you David says I've been watching Wayland flowers and madden lately. I found that funny. He was pretty funny David says thank you for talking with me. Yeah, thank you for thank you for being here Yeah, the I just started the spreadsheet shop. I've had a shop on Threadless for years now and years and Just this past week. I got a notice that I'd sold a shirt And I was like, I think that's the first time I've ever sold a shirt and all the years I've had that that threadless shop and I went and looked and I've had that that shop for I think three years and That was my fourth sale Four items sold in three years on that shop. That's pathetic Iris is glad I caught you a Gram a day for two years Of vitamin C. See that's real hard to to prove that that's what did it. That's real hard Anyway, yeah, I'm glad I'm glad you caught it too, and I'll see you tomorrow morning at bad Saturday morning I'm gonna go ahead and sign off and Get a nap and Turned off the music. I closed the music. I didn't intend to turn it off. I was gonna leave it running. Anyway, I'll see you all See you all tomorrow and Whenever bye