 There we go Welcome to Bruce and Ed live from New York. It's a sunny gorgeous day. Oh, no January It's not I wanted to show you of New York in the spring in the summer. It's the best There's the only time I'd rather be on the beach. Anyway Welcome to the show. Today's show is sponsored by, yeah VIXE.com Arvix and Dropbox and Mountain Rose Herbs MountainRoseHerbs.com We thank them for their support And co-host today our guest co-host today is Tim Moss sir sir sir singer interhosts extraordinary Fabulous everything He's with us on a fabulous fabulantainer fabulantainer. There he is He's all that and much more. He's too big for the screen He's awesome. We love him. Can you hear us? Good morning to you on this beautiful New York morning. Yes, isn't it gorgeous? It's wonderful. I Just love it like I said, I'm just crazy about New York in the spring the summer And I love when all the rest of you know in all the restaurants open up and you can sit outside and the Outdoor dining and stuff. I just love that. It's so so nice. It's the best I do not get it why people come in the winter. Why why the hordes of tourists Coming online forget it. You want to get out and have fun come now, you know People complain about New York in the summer. Oh, it's like you just wear beach clothes And you sit outside and slip slip on you know sex in the city, you know, whatever fabulous and people watch I love that. What do they call it those drinks cosmos? Have some cosmos. I'm just not getting after remember what those are called. But yeah, it's just so fat I love it. I love New York right now in the wind. It's like, oh my god It's 30 degrees below zero and you're all bundled up and let's stand in the freezing rain and watch the ball drop Oh my god, you know, we're we could almost see it from the rooftop But we stay inside and watch it on TV because it's insane Anyway, don't get me started about that So what's new in the life of Tim? Oh my goodness. I've got so much going on Oh my gosh, I can't even think of everything. I just did a little stint My one-man show or a little bit of my one-man show the other night and Actually a couple nights ago We did one scene out of a new play called peaches that I got cast in it'll be up in september and then they're shooting the film in december And what's your one-man show is that singing or comedy or everything? It's everything. It's basically on a biographical it just talks about my life growing up and And um, I see that Just talks about me. Oh, when can I see that very high highs and some very low lows and Well, that's life. I mean exactly life is good as long as there's dips and when can we see that? When can we see it? Well, actually in september? We're gonna be bringing it back What we basically what we did was a friend of mine had called and said she had an hour slot open at a theater And knew that I was writing a one-man show. Well, my one-man show wasn't really ready So I contacted my friend aura gibbons. I don't know if you know aura from from unity She's in the choir and she's blind Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, yes I had went to see her one woman show a couple years ago And she was just telling me that she wanted to resurrect it again and get it back on back up and running And so I said well, listen, why don't you take a half hour and do part of your show? And I'll take a half hour and do part of my show We'll come out at the end sing a song and call it a show Perfect and it worked. It worked great. That's very cool. That's great. So what theater are you in? Well, we were down at the wings theater, but um That was a one night only but we're going to bring it back for a few nights in september And I will definitely let you know Cool. Yes, please. I'd love to hear your life story because what's your website if we want to do you have a blog or something? My website is being built right now. I am so excited. It is so cool Oh, um, but it will be tim moss dot com tim t y m t y m m o s s s dot com In about a month. Yeah, t y m m o s s double m double s dot com Anyway, that's the thing about the internet if you don't spell it right. It doesn't work That's exciting. That's really fun. Oh, I'm telling you that's yeah one of many one of many things But peaches the show peaches that we just did this last weekend. We just did one scene out of it That is the first time since a high school play that I actually stepped out on stage in drag. Oh my gosh Well, wait a minute before or after the Shakira. I don't know if Shakira account That Was the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. What if that show is called, uh, What is it called Colin and Colin and Colin not Colin and Colin Ryan and Colin I always forget right like Colin with Steriles Colin with Bells Colin and two L's and Ryan Colin and Ryan or Ryan and Colin Ryan and Colin Is that how is that um, is that still in development or is that coming soon? Yeah, it's still in development. Well, it's it's it's a continual thing there. They've uh um Have they taped episodes yet or is it just no no it's still the same original episodes, but they're working on the next set of episodes And also shopping around they were talking to Comedy Central and so that would be cool. Yeah doing like a series or something That's very cool. Uh soap opera like a gay soap opera or comedy. It's kind of like Beavis and Butthead meet South Park in the flesh, you know, they're just like wild crazy characters the non animated version The non animated version of Beavis and Butthead meet South Park. Yes, right I'm not sure if I would describe it like that It's I think of it as like as like kind of like a sitcom Between yeah, it could be definitely a second comment. It's about two roommates Ryan and Colin and you got and they've got like Batman and Robin thing going on They're like Unambiguously or ambiguously gay or something like one's gay or are they both gay or neither's gay or No, the one you don't know. You don't know. You don't know. That's the ambiguity. Yeah, that sounds like I love it It's so funny. It's hysterical because you just don't really know that they just One acts really really like he's gay and the other one is like, huh? And then you're like Are they both they're always doing girls, you know, yeah, so yeah, right? They're just such studs. It's like, okay It's like what it's so true to life. It's not like life. It's like life because you know people like that What do they do when they're home alone? That's what you don't know They turn off the camera. We don't know that well girls. There's always girls in the scene So, you know, like I love the best one of all is when there's a close-up on his face and the roommate just not It doesn't even knock he just comes in Oh, that's my favorite one He comes call it. Is it calling it goes calling calling calling and he goes get out He goes, I need to talk to you get out get out get out And then you see that he's like right in the middle of making love to his girlfriend He actually calling crawls on top of him. That's all you can see is him on On top of the other one going. Oh, come on. Give me some. Let me get a little bit. Let me get a little bit And then as the camera backs up, you see that he's actually having sex with this girl She goes get out of me Yeah, that's the best Get out. It's not get off of me. It's yeah get more. It's only on the internet I think that might have been their last date Oh my gosh, that's hysterical, but yeah, the Shakira you can't even it's indescribable. You just have to go to it's uh Ryan and colin.com with two L's Ryan and colin.com, right? Yeah, right one with two L's and look for Shakira. Oh my gosh I have gotten yeah, it's a it's a parody. It's a takeoff on Shakira's video called a she-wolf. Oh, I thought it was real This is called Shakira's he-wolf Right, so we love it. I thought it was real. I didn't know it was a parody. I've gotten so many adjectives thrown at me Whatever they would be Oh describing it like they would be like, oh my god, that was hysterical some said exhilarating some said very disturbing So it's like somewhere like ew That's it you should put those all together into one quote like like, um, you know What is it the the what's the big rock magazine rolling stone? Like Unbelievable disturbing We've showed it at parties and it's a great party. Oh, yeah, it's a party. Oh good. Thank you We have we have Shakira parties he-wolf he-wolf parties It's a great thing to put on the big screen When you have a whole house full of guests with cocktails and little hors d'oeuvres and stuff and you put that on the screen And it stops the conversation. They look at it and they go What is that? That's our friend. Is that really? Yeah, like we know we know that we know that guy Well, thank you for claiming me because many people are like, I don't know It was on youtube. I don't know. You never know what you're gonna see on youtube Don't worry. You'll always be cleaned here We love you. Oh, thank you And so I saw some pictures that you're doing a soap opera or something too or something like that another one a soap opera And let me think this oh the gay soap opera. Yes. Yes. Well, I just did I did one scene for a couple friends of mine Um, okay, let me think of how to explain you're doing so many things you can't keep track of them But they all of all of my little universes keep keep intersecting That's I have the internet radio show called artist exposed with tim moss artist exposed. What I do is I've been very lucky and fortunate. I've I've Interview and play the music of some of today's top Gay and lesbian singers across the nation, right and there's there. It's a whole Area of these incredible singers that are just kind of overlooked because of their sexuality and they're amazing singers Yes, actually one of them a couple nights ago won a tony award leave by christ He was on my show because I was promoting his album And leave by christ just won a tony award for his performance in million dollar quartet. Wow and um So I've had like these amazing entertainers that have come on my show And uh, one of them is Athena Reich. She's a singer. Um, are you familiar on on logo on the television channel? The cable channel. It's called logo. They have a television show called the click list click list. Yes Where they don't like they vote on the on the films. They like the best, right? Isn't that the one where voters they vote on the website Like they vote on the website the winners end up on the air or something. No, this is on on the music videos Everyone yeah people go and they vote on they click they go online and click on what's their favorite music Right and out of all these gay artists. Well, it doesn't have to be gay, but it's mostly it's gay and gay friendly Yeah, and then once a week they have the click list, which is the top 10 countdown down to whoever's number one Who's the number one has the number one music video that week in the nation right and probably about 15 to 18 of my guests have all been in the number one spot at one time or another So I've got And Athena Reich was one of them um with her song love is love and she also has one out called the logical song, which is a Cover of super tramp song But anyway, Athena Reich and her manager Stephen Shulman had got together and they had wrote written this script. They came up with this idea for a Gay television soap opera that just continued is a continuation And they had contacted me and they said, you know, listen, I think you'd be good for this one part And so I went down and I shot it the other day for the pilot And oh, we just had a ball. I love working with them and everybody on the in the cast and crew is just so cool You know, it's like this huge gay family And we all just had a ball. It was wonderful. So what were you doing 16th and 8th? 16th and 8th. So Chelsea, that's the name of it. Yep, it's all about Chelsea That's the name of the the soap opera 16th and 8th the name of the soap opera is 16th and 8th, which is written in the heart of Chelsea We we we lived at 19th and between 8th and 9th 19th and 8th So, yeah, we know 16th and 8th very well We'd go 17th and 8th is where we go for the energy kitchen and what's it? 16th and 8th 16th and 8th is the subway right in the starbucks. No Yeah, you can catch the starbucks and Washington the other corner wammu. Yeah Is that still it? Yeah. Anyway, I saw and you were what was the explain that scene because you had your pants down And some really good-looking guy like facing you. Oh, wait a minute. Now I gotta google this Is it online? Yeah Oh my gosh, is that online they have a picture. Oh, I think page wrote Yeah page wrote heads it has him up on the on this site. Is it No, that's just me. I just walk around without pants, you know but Which side is it? No, I had basically what it was was I was I played a john Like this really grotesque guy that is just that is paying this this gorgeous young man to 10 months. Can I say this on the air? Oh I didn't hear that and Yeah, so we we I was standing there for you know, a couple hours with my pants down and with this gorgeous young man On his knees in front of me, you know, all in a day's work All in a day's work and uh, but you were paying him. So hopefully they paid you Yeah Some of the best things in life are not free. I read the script and it's a very very funny script It's it's about a kid Like from the midwest which I can relate to it's not me but This younger kid who is who is currently in west side story on broadway. Um, He's uh, he's starring in the in the soap opera and then it's just got all these different characters that live in the building And it can just go so many different directions. It's a wonderful script Oh, here's an album they got. Oh my goodness. They got a whole album of him. Can you see that? I don't know. I can't see it. He's putting it on. I'm looking at an album of me. No, it's him Well, there's you. Oh, there's you you're getting your makeup here. I'll just I'll just flip through. Oh, yes from annie I love the annie my makeup artist. She's wonderful. Yeah um, let's see here Yeah, those are probably Pedro Vasquez's um pictures Pedro's wonderful. He's he's a brilliant Part two actually that's the guy that's billy Billy was in the scene with me. I love billy Billy's got nice pecs Billy's got pretty much nice everything from the middle. It's bill billy yoder. Oh He's wonderful part two or 16th and 8th part one 16th and 8th part one That's where I saw the picture. No, I think I was part two. Okay, then he was part two then. Okay. Yeah, there you go I don't remember what or maybe part three. I don't know. I think two. I don't know But you'll see me standing there with my my pants down Page two page two of that And patched in my hands Yeah, I know I know that's why I was curious what what was going on there because it You gotta keep going Yeah, it's it's an adult gay I mean, I mean adult themed gay television show And I think I think it would be great for like showtime or HBO personally Is that a scene from the show? Yeah What's that in his hand? Okay And where is this taking place like where are they filming it in? Actually, yeah, they're filming it here in town a lot in chelsea. So Yeah, so this is the part three is maybe try three. I don't know if I'm in three or what it looks like a great crew to work with Oh, I'm telling you everybody everybody's very professional. Everybody's really You know, you you get on set and especially if you've got like gay people. I mean, I'm not putting anything bad, but A lot of times you've got little divas and you've got your little, you know, the people that are hard to work with and Oh, there's Billy together. Yeah, but in this this cast and crew are all it's like everybody Everybody's so easy to work with. Yeah, everybody's everybody's focus is on the project We want to make the best we can and everybody gets along great and everybody's just wonderful Oh, there's where you're paying him cash Oh, this yeah, we're getting ready. You're setting up the scene or something and That's funny. So Uh-oh Yeah Yeah, they want to see the in the chat room, they want to see the pictures But they have to be friends with you. I think to be able to see all that you'll be well in in facebook Yeah, but you'll see it on the in the taped version of the show. Yeah, you'll see the tape version 16th and 8th They're watching live and so they can't see it very well because it said Oh, there's the pants dropped And look at all the people standing around that's so funny. That is so funny It's like you're on camera and they're actually that's the way that's the way it is on set. That's the way it is on set Let me fix that You have to as an actor you have to put yourself into the scene When you have all these people standing around That's cool. Yeah, and actually that scene was very funny. It was kind of a calm It's definitely comedy a comic scene. Yeah, where I'm paying this kid and I'm just like That looks like fun. I can't wait to see that Oh, I'm telling you I have had so much fun with acting because I just got back into acting and like the past couple years Acting and singing and everything. I basically I kind of woke up. I did kind of like a rip fan winkle thing and I just woke up a couple years ago and and uh Built my life and I remember that I'm an entertainer. That's what I'm supposed to be doing and I'm having so much fun and just with everybody. It's just amazing And I thought I knew technology the technology has become so affordable that if you know, the especially the younger people that are in the 20s That they're catching Yes, they're catching on really really fast and they're learning that this the Technology that you can buy for a hundred bucks or two hundred dollars now Is was you know was like $30,000 just you know, like yesterday exactly exactly And that is the internet the combination of that and the internet and forget it Everybody can have a television studio other than living room. Oh, they can have they can have quality quality like hd hd um Quality you want to know footage, you know, I know we're diverging on to uh technology a little bit But that's okay because everybody cares about this stuff. Sure. You get a load of this We we bought, you know, just we've been Vamping up our our little creation here our little tv studio in our apartment, right? And um, We're always continuously trying to improve it, you know, learn and figure and try new things We without screwing up the old things try new things and all that stuff And so we're always buying new things and trying new stuff. Well, what we found out Is that people think you need, you know, a seven thousand dollar camcorder and all this crazy stuff But for a studio In fact, like well, first of all the audio is is very very important. That's why we talk right into the mic and uh, This is a studio condenser microphone Which most people don't think of but you've got to get a really really good microphone because audio is like 95 percent of the Show if even if they're watching online or something if the audio is bad, they're not going to listen So and and also probably more than half only listen to the audio as an mp3 on their portable devices and stuff And they're commute or whatever so audio is really really key It's more important than video But then when you get up to video we were using we were actually using an old camcorder and we weren't even recording We were just taking firewire directly into the computer a firewire cable And recording it on the computer What we found out though is I was researching getting a better camera because we wanted to bump it up to hd Which we are by the way, we're in 10 today. This is now 1080p even on youtube as of today We're kind of like in sync with what's happening because youtube just went up to 1080p We are now at 1080p as of this is the first show And it's new phone hold up your phone his the new htc evo from sprint is 1080 well, it's 720p. It's actually 720p, but it you know, it's it's hd So what we wanted to do is bump up the video quality as well So we'll see how this how this works out, but here's the thing Here's the thing this might cost $88 or something the camera Guess how much guess how much this camera cost it's uh 1200 by 1600 Um, it it records in 1080p. Guess how much the camera cost? I I have absolutely no idea It just about wiped out our life savings It was it 55 dollars 55 dollars Oh Because what I realized I was reading and I was studying I'm googling and I'm studying, you know He's asleep and I'm in bed googling googling and I'm always doing that and I was reading and researching I was going wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. What do I need a camcorder for? I don't need a camcorder. This is a fixed studio We need a camcorder if we're out doing things shots, you know, obviously out Whatever you're moving around and like but we're fit. We're we're at a fixed stationary setup We don't need a camcorder. In fact, we don't even use the recording functionality at all So what we did is they have these new Web cams that are and you but you what you have to do You've got to ignore all the marketing garbage on it and look for the specs where it says And and also ignore the megapixels. That's irrelevant megapixels is nonsense. You're not taking still pictures with it Look at where it says maximum video resolution. That's all you have to look for maximum video resolution And this one is called rocket fish, but it was 55 dollars at best buy right off the shelf and it's You know 1200 is 1200 by 1600 or 1600 by 1200. I think 1600 by 1200 Anyway, it comes out at 1080p So we uploaded it to youtube and I didn't even know youtube could go that high. I uploaded it and boom There's a button 1080p. It's amazing. Yeah, it's amazing. So now you now we have now we really need makeup Yeah, don't look at the crows eyes Yeah, speed. Well, I was I was telling him there's nothing like having like being so close that you can almost feel like you're right there So that's I think that's the whole thing about hd and for a show like ours You know people really get to know us and feel like they actually have met us If with this new hd, he's got a great eye for that So, you know when you're watching if you're watching this on youtube Make sure that you click right down there where it says 360p change it to 1080p and it's like whoa Suddenly you just transported yourself into our living room because And he's right that he's absolutely right psychologically when you see somebody that crystal clear It really does feel like you're sitting right there with them. It's not like a cartoonish Like you're looking through a window or something. Yeah, right or a blurry picture of a bad picture in a magazine or something Yeah, it's actually like you're there And the audio too the audio makes all the difference too because when you're when you have a really good microphone And you know you use it properly like we're supposed to be four to six inches away or whatever in in front of it Then and that's in the other way. This is the secret. This is the you know speaking of uh cost saving high tech gadgetry This thing I don't have it lined up, right? This is how you integrate skype and all computer audio anything that your computer can put out Whether it's you're playing a youtube video or skype or anything if you try to integrate that into a feed and record it into the same Uh encoder that's recording this you know 1080p video and all that crap You're gonna have all nothing but technical nightmares I guarantee you the most technical people all the software It's gonna just have this big collision in your computer It's a nightmare and and it won't work after you invest all that money and all that and you're just gonna pull your hair out But this is the answer You see what this is That is a speaker That's a speaker. That's right. That's your voice. And that's your voice. You're literally between us here You've come between us, but that's your voice and it's sitting where right in front of the microphone This is a pop filter, which we're actually using as a shelf But so that speaker anything that comes out of the computer including your voice It's like your lips are right here in front of the mic as well All three of us are right here So it all goes into one mic, which you know the less microphones the better because the less to go wrong less You know you're gonna get a hiss and a hum and you're not gonna know where it came from and uh You know the levels and all that stuff so that we have no mixer One mic less to go wrong and it's recorded straight in you know one video source and one microphone And the speaker so anything that I bring up including you on skype Sounds crystal clear just as if you're sitting here That's the secret and what did it cost it cost basically like nothing. I mean this equipment is That's the secret is knowing how to do it on a shoestring You can really make and you don't have to use a microphone like this You can also use lavaliers and if you want you can get a mixer You know that you know you can have two or three or four lavalier microphones That are similarly that with a mixer and going to one usb There you go like this handheld absolutely Absolutely Right, right. Yeah, I handheld exactly that works great too So anyway, it's it's really easy to do I mean It's above Technically it's above a lot of people's heads to do it and then when you talk when they talk to people It's just like computers in general when you talk to somebody anybody who knows more than you is a consultant You know, but um if you talk to somebody And they you know, it depends on who you talk to about how to do things you talk to an audio engineer Oh my gosh, you're gonna have to you know mortgage your house to get the equipment you need You know or or a video and you know somebody whose background is in television and broadcasting They don't really know about these 55 camera cameras, you know, they're like, no, what no, that's just for You know, uh, you have to have you know a $15,000, you know red camera or something Yeah, and I'm telling you this camera this it's rocket fish, right? It's $55 1600 1200 it has it has autofocus so it immediately focuses itself And it also I'm sure it has auto light adjustment because when we did it at different lighting levels It would automatically adjust to that too. It's amazing It is plugs in with the usb and it has a microphone, which of course we don't use that microphone But you know, it's it's just incredible how those electronics are getting small and this his phone Is obviously it's a 720p You know high def video camera And it plays it plays 720p high def video on it So when you watch like he can watch youtube in 1080p on his phone And watch our show right like our show this show right now on his phone in the restaurant and people are like Wow, because they're looking at it. They've never seen high def on a phone And that's not all you can plug in a kid. I sound like a commercial for hdc. I was gonna say but wait, there's more And they're not a sponsor. They're not a sponsor yet, but we will anyway They have a you can plug in a cord and plug it. Are you ready for this? You could plug it a cord into his phone Plug it into your huge hd tv hanging on the wall and watch movies in hd coming out of your phone Yeah, it's great a movie that you downloaded or off of you know, whatever a creative commons license movie or whatever It's amazing this technology and it's just like boom boom boom boom My recommendations are only good for two three weeks now at this point. Things are changing so fast So let's about uh, no go ahead I was just gonna say because bruce you and you and ed are my consultants Because i'm bro. I always see you on twitter and you've just got like the latest knowledge on the latest gadget and And how many pixels and all of that? I have no idea what you're talking about, but boy you do I'm here for you, baby. Call me call me whenever you have a question. Just call me anybody. Anyway, I'm open Call me email me feedback and that goes for you and the audience too. I mean, that's what I'm here for I want to help share this um knowledge because I know It's it's not out of reach. It's just that people don't know what to buy or how to plug it in Right, but it's so simple and the thing is we're living in such an exciting time. I mean in in many different ways. Yes, um culturally it Because everything is is is been shaken to the core now. I'm going off into a different direction, but Like in in entertainment in the music industry the major labels They're shaken because of the internet television who watches television anymore most people if they want to see something go to the The internet it has changed The way people view television anymore they're watching they'll go to hulu. They'll go to youtube or something and watch repeats So everything seems to be shifting towards the internet. It's a very exciting time that we're living in totally In fact, I'm like always one step ahead You know in my my circle of family and friends and and whatever twitter fan twitter followers or whatever I'm always a little bit ahead and the the you know Like netflix just came out with a box that you can buy or rent or something And it'll you can plug this box in between your internet and your tv and it's like, oh, wow So I can still keep netflix in between my internet and my tv and pay them every month No, no, you don't need to do that You can you can buy a computer a brand new desktop computer for $199 at best buy this thing called the Revo Evo something like it's uh, what was that? Revo Revo Acer Acer Aspire Revo $199 at best buy. It's amazing has an hdmi out You plug it into your tv you install ubuntu on it You install boxy and now boxy has a put.io app and I know this is technical This is a little bit too technical for the scope of this show But we have another show called absolutely so tune in there and I'll tell you all about how to the recipe How to do it but get a little bit of this the box is $199 Everything else is free ubuntu is free The boxy is free the put.io app is free. The only thing that's not free is put.io. That's a service But that it allows you to download absolutely anything off the internet and A wow it like an hd with no commercials and all that jazz and just watch it right there on your tv in hd It's it's like the comer it's like the tivo On steroids of your dreams. It's amazing. You don't need cable that saves 111 after tax a month Wow, you don't need cable. You don't need netflix that saves whatever it is You know 10 or 20 dollars a month people are paying for that You know these monthly expenses add up to a cruise We could take we could all take a 14 day cruise together For the amount of money that you know that you save every year on that stuff. Yeah, that's true It's nuts Oh, and the other thing is they talk about the internet changing everything The technology and the internet kind of hand in hand There's absolutely not a single industry that isn't changed You know, I I agree craig newmark the guy who started craigslist and you know People think oh craigslist is you know classifieds. Okay, whatever They kind of they really don't think it through about the impact that craigslist has on the world But it does because yeah every industry. I mean, I don't care if you're talking about dating Things like e harmony match.com all those kind of things. Yeah They have to actually the whole industry change their business model Because to a free model because their biggest competitor is Craigslist and it's free craigslist. Yeah same thing with ebay ebay You know ebay is not just an auction site. It's a an internet conglomerate now mega billion dollar company But ebay the auction site's number one competitor craigslist craigslist and it's free and it's free imagine whatever business you're in if your biggest competitor is free Yeah, well, they kind of set the standard or set the bar. Yeah, and they set the bar at zero Zero so it's like The benefit to mankind that craig mark is craig newmark. Thank you craig newmark Mike craig newmark is doing is beyond belief. He turned down, you know, I mean Everybody knows the story. He turned down four and a half billion. He turned it down And I interviewed him, you know last year about this. I want to get him back again and talk about more things But he just blows my mind. He you know, I mean he doesn't want to be called a you know I don't know You know that craigslist is a business, you know Um, but it's really more than that It's like the most amazing profound contribution to mankind that there is and you think it's just a little free classified site But it's actually it's it revolutionizes everything. It really does. You can find anything on there a job um anything You can find trash that people are going to throw to the curve Pick it up before I throw it away. Hey, you know, we've earned an apartment our apartment on 19th street We you know is half furnished by craigslist and half by cosco You know, I mean craigslist is is brilliant for finding Apartments furniture dates, you know anything it's just absolutely everything and it's free free free free and that sets the bar on you know a high quality Communication it's really I think it's really about freedom of communication and and how that Gives everyone an equal playing ground playing field. It's kind of like this thing about fos. You know, I don't know Getting technical again, but there's this internet. This is a little bit technical, but the internet coding um I guess we call it coding language the codex that encode video and audio Okay, there's like mp3 is one but everybody thinks mp3 is just a format that would actually patent protected thing That every time you yeah every time you use an mp3 You you have an mp3 player some money went to the guy who owned the patent You encode something in mp3. You play it back every everything you do with an mp3 Some money goes to the guy who invented the patent. It's a patented thing Um, the so is h264, which is the video uh codec that plays on iPhones And and a lot of mobile phones h264 So what wow, I didn't know that I didn't know all that Now you do That's why I go to you for your consultant your high tech consultant And not only that but here's why it's important. Why does it matter? Why do you care? Who cares? Whatever it works, right? But it really does matter the engineers at google are smarter than me That's for sure And they realize that this really really does matter because you can't share something freely If you have to pay somebody a patent and they're going to end up sued and court and sued to bankruptcy and all that nonsense This intellectual property Is nonsense is really really It's it's almost it's a it's almost the opposite of free speech. It's really Restricting everyone's use of of material. So anyway google But the problem is that those proprietary codecs are superior. They're really really good. They work. Well, they're good technology So google in its wisdom, okay Um, decided that in order to they want to expand the internet because obviously more people use the internet the more money they make Um, apparently that's their, you know, that's what they'll tell you is their business motive. Well, they and they own youtube Hello, like all the videos on the internet almost, you know, it's all it's youtube, right? It's a massive massive video thing So what they did is they found they found a superior codec video codec that existed out there I had never even heard of it. I mean, I sort of had I'd heard of it I'd heard of the company, but I didn't really know that it was better Well, they did they figured it out. And so they they bought the company And the video codec is called vp8 and then they're the audio codec There was already a free open source audio codec that was superior to mp3 and all those called vorbis And so what they did is they put the two together they married they bought the company So now they own the codec They took the vp8 and the vorbis and they put it together and they called it a new a new package a new Name called web m like m like mary web m You're gonna hear a lot about web m even though you you don't know what it is right now You you're gonna hear a lot everything is web m soon And what they did oh i'm supposed to look over here Is that video video and audio right? Yeah, vorbis is the audio and vp8 is the video and combined into one One unit Is web m is both and this but this I mean there's always been packages like that But this is because you've heard of you know flashes like that and there's the other one is html can be H2 264 is the video part and so all this nonsense all this craziness Well, not the here's the thing. None of those were free Open source. They were not unencumbered by patents Now this what google did they bought it. They own the patent So they unlocked it. They made it free. They they freed it They gave it as a gift. It's christmas. That's why I said it's christmas in june and google is santa They gave the whole world this this codec for free and now Everything everything even apples proprietary little big brother kingdom is gonna be supporting web m They won't have any choice because everything will be web m And right now google who owns youtube youtube is converting all videos on youtube to web m Wow, all videos are in the process of being converted to web m right now. So it's really an exciting time It's right, you know, like I think of you know, you talk about unity and I think of This free open source movement. They call it fos free open source software is kind of like the unity of Philosophy as applied to technology. It's yeah, we're all one It's like the word of buntu the linux is the operating system of free open source world and linux is the superior Operating system we won't get into all that like almost all of the web is run on linux the nasa or the Mars lunar rover runs on linux. I mean everything important all of google runs on linux. Well, anyway, the number one installation Type of linux for desktop computers is called a buntu a buntu linux, all right Well, anyway, the word a buntu itself is an african word that means unity It means like we're all one community connected. Yeah, it's a very cool thing and when he says free open Yeah, when he says free open source, it really means free dumb as yeah No, no, not just like people think it means like it doesn't cost anything which is true also But the main meaning is freedom freedom. Yeah, it just it gives you the freedom to do anything. Yeah free as in free speech Uh, not just free as in free beer Yeah, right Um Talk about our sponsors. Yes, we definitely want to thank our sponsors We didn't forget about you Okay, let's see. No sponsors are wonderful. That's right. They make it all happen. 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I moved to new york to become an entertainer singer and actor and I got sidetracked in Real estate Which was the biggest role of my life for over 20 years. I played the role of a real estate broker I hated every second of it. I could not stand. I learned thinking. I learned Cultures from around the world Because we had people coming in those are the things that I drew from it But that From the dark side that also created I was so unhappy and so miserable that that developed into a huge Drug addiction alcoholism all of that stuff Once I crashed and started and relapsed prevention My memory started coming back and I remember it that I'm an entertainer and acting being part of it and I know ed and bruce from unity of new york, which is basically a metaphysical Um type of thinking Mixed with christianity mixed with like basically all of the religions from around the world And it's basically that we hold the power within ourselves and the universe will help us I think it was maybe jung Or girtha one of the two that had said when You commit to something Then the universe will conspire to help you. That's right And that is very true in my case once I decided that I would clean myself up and That I wanted to get back into acting the doors started to open for me And all of this knowledge that I had accumulated over the past several years started just to come into play Um, but but my advice is learn the craft learn the craft In in anything that that falls true if you want to be an accountant Learn it if you want to be an actor learn it if you want to be Computer technician learn that what whatever whatever but but My advice is follow your heart Whatever whatever your heart is telling you and and if that's what brings you joy and happiness by all means go for it Go for it. It is an unconventional business So don't expect to work nine to five hit the time clock and go home That's not that is not this business So but otherwise enjoy it. Enjoy. Enjoy. That is my philosophy of life. How do you learn it? Like where do you where would you recommend learning some, you know learning this trade? Well, it Okay, well it depends Normally the best schools are in the big cities, you know, you're good. You're talking la new york um, miami chicago, um But I would say new york and la are really like the two main ones in the united states that offer Top quality acting. Um, I don't know. You might even check online. I'm sure there's something online Yeah, they want to know, uh, would you suggest new york film academy? Oh new york film academy. I love them. I've done a lot of film work with them In actuality, I did uh, when I that okay, let me explain that Um, I wanted to learn film acting how to act on film And so one of my first jobs I I signed up There are a couple of things if you want to get a piece of paper and a pen I'll tell you about in just a moment. Um, we have like two minutes left Okay, but there's there my first my first job that I went out on was to be an extra on A big budget film with like andi garcia and alan arkhan and And I was just one of the people in the background and I was like, this is so not acting I want to be doing That's me. Yeah And um, so I ended up going to Following up uh leads to new york film academy And because they always need actors for their projects and these are speaking roles there You learned lighting and and camera work and all of that and how to act on film That would be a big suggestion. I would definitely recommend that as well But the two names that I will give you are actors access dot com And also, uh, if you're in new york, um, it's new york Casting dot com, but that one also covers many across the country. They have not only new york casting, but la chicago All of these others. So I would definitely recommend start there. Those are awesome. Awesome tips. Great. Thanks for sharing that I think that we met you On your uh, the flip side of your life, which is the new the new you have the good fun side And we love it. We're gonna have to we're definitely gonna have to continue this We're gonna have you on another time soon. Oh, there's lots to talk about. Yes. Yes. Thank you so much for being here So much. I had a wonderful time on here. I love you guys. Thanks. Thanks. I love you too All right, we're gonna continue this for sure another day Maybe tomorrow Take care and thanks for coming. Thanks for being here with us. Bye guys You