This episode of Geek Therapy Radio, I commiserate with USB Type C or Thunderbolt
four hub woes, and I talk about I go off on this tangent about
which of my political friends, what group of political friends i'd rather party with?
Let's do it. Welcome to Geek Therapy Radio. You've got your mental
creator, Johnny Hamburger. It always feels good to crack the mic and just
talk with y'all. I didn't have anything really specific that I wanted to get
to in this show, like any specific tech news. Maybe I'll get to
something like that. Maybe I won't, but I did. I did want
to at least start with something. So I have a longtime listener friend of
the show, Ed, he is a pilot, and every once in a
while, and I'm sorry Ed for one calling you out like this, but
too that I don't that I don't respond so quickly to the voice messages that
you email me. And I'm using this as an example because I'm telling all
of y'all listening, whether you're listening to this on the radio or whether you're
listening to the podcast a while back, and every once in a while I
kind of remind on this. Maybe once every couple of years, I've reminded
this. If y'all want to send me audio recordings of yourself talking about a
particular subject that you are interested in, or a hobby that you are interested
in, I would love to not only just hear that from y'all, but
I would love if I could share some of that on the radio. It
would be would be awesome. So if you're talking about video games or an
ed's case, aviation or whatever, even if it's just a question for me,
Hey, Johnny, what do you think about this or that? Send
it my way. You know, it's really easy with a smartphone just to
record your voice and share it in an email. I mean, it's super
easy. Whether it's Android or Apple or whatever you're using, it's it's really
easy to do. Um. But if you are so motivated to do that,
I would love to have your audio clips, and I would love to
share it on the air and on the podcast. You could just send them
to Johnny jao H and n Y at geek therapy radio dot com. That's
just the easiest way to do it is to email me, and you can
find the email on the website geek Therapy radio dot com. You can send
them to me on any social media, share it with me on Twitter,
you know, hit my dms uh so geek Therapy Radio on Twitter and Instagram,
and I'm technically on TikTok um. Just however, you want to send
me audio clips, that'd be great. And if it's audio clips in the
form of video clips, that's fine too. I'll pull the audio from it.
But yeah, easiest way to get me some audio. If you're so
inclined with questions or comments or just talking about what you're into, and it's
something that I can even share on the radio, that'd be great. Johnny
j o h n n Y at geek Therapy radio dot com. So that's
how I wanted to start. Like I said, I have nothing specific,
but I did want to start with a message that Ed had sent to me.
I'm not going to play the audio fro him because I did not ask
for his permission beforehand, just kind of off the cuff, which was great,
but he was mentioning he has this USB Type C I believe, and
forgive me if I'm wrong, a hub, a Type C hub that he's
trying to use with his MacBook. And it doesn't matter the specifics of the
hub or the specifics of the MacBook or the iMac or whatever device it is
what I wanted to touch on. It was basically a cautionary tale. It's
a frustration that I as I'm recording right now on my sixteen inch M one
Pro MacBook Pro, I'm looking at a few different USB hubs, USB type
Sea hubs, thunderbowl hubs. I've got two or three, and hubs are
kind of the bane of they can be the bane of your existence. So
when Ed was telling me about his hub woes, about display outputs and maybe
he needs to format the hard drive that's built into the hub, and all
sorts of just hub problems, hub gripes, and I was like, you
know, that's so true. And that's the cautionary tale. Is that you
buy a hub. Let's say you get a hub off of Amazon has tons
of good reviews, blah blah blah, you've read you've read reviews on and
people say, yeah, it works well with great with my thirteen inch MacBook
Pro and data. Yeah, I used display out I use it for an
extra display out put, and blah blah blah. There are it's really hard
to know beforehand that the whatever hub you buy, the Type C hub or
whatever Thunderbolt hub is going to be completely compatible with your Mac, with your
Mac or with any device, Windows device, anything, with your Android,
with your iPhone. It's hard to tell, like where where's the hidden fault
in it? That doesn't work with my setup. So let's say you type
in your USB Type C hub and your USB ports are working, but you
can't get like four K out of your HDMI output of the hub, or
you can't get four K but the four K is locked at thirty frames per
second or less like that. Maybe that's the kind of Achilles heal of it.
Sometimes you hook it up and then some ports like they don't work.
Sometimes you hook it up in your computer just doesn't For instance, Oh gosh,
which was it? I think that one of my hubs that I have.
You plug in the Type C into the Type C of the computer and
then you plug the power delivery from the Type C power break into the hub.
So it kind of had does this pass through power? It doesn't see
it? Oh, I remember what it was, my newest Windows laptop that's
seventeen point three in Oh gosh, what was it? I haven't used it
in a while the Zephyrus, I'm sorry, it's brain fart gigabyte A ORS
seventeen h awesome laptop. I haven't used it in a little while because it
still needs some and I granted I haven't tested like in a month or two.
Maybe the updates are already there, but had It's been put away for
a while because I've been having audio issues with it. It's not playing nice.
At least Reaper on the A or seventeen H is not playing nice with
my task gam audio interface and blahade blag. I get lots of pops and
clicks just with Reaper on the air or seventeen H. So it's either an
update issue on a Reaper side or an update issue on A or seventeen h
is chip set side, which I kind of lean more heavily towards because Reaper
works on everything. But I haven't been using it and my Type Sea hub.
When you plug it into the Thunderbolt four port of the A or seventeen
H, it doesn't receive power delivery, like you can't do pass through power
delivery. So I have this hundred watt brick and I want to plug my
Type Sea hub into it and then I want to use the remaining eighty or
so something watts available to charge the battery and just run the system, you
know, in kind of a silent lower performance mode. But the A or
seventeen H does not recognize power delivery coming through any USB Type C DOC that
I've that I've tried yet. So when you buy a Type C DOC or
a Thunderbolt DOC or a HUB, who knows what issues you're going to run
into, and ed running into issues with his docs and his IMAX and everything,
it hits very close to home. More geek Therapy Radio coming up.
Don't go anywhere. Welcome back to geek Therapy Radio. You've got your mental
Cureator, Johnny Hemburger. Go to geek Therapy radio dot com to contact me
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me first in Spotify or iTunes or whatever. I checked a rank. I
checked my rank I think on Apple on iTunes, I think like that.
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where my podcast rank ranks on iTunes or Apple podcast and it was like two
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What I'm number two forty two? What is it saying for? Like the
genre? It was like science, Indonesia, hobbies, Like what is happening?
I did not put Indonesia as one of my as one of my genres,
Like, okay, so I'm number ranked number two forty two under the
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that works. I don't know all I'm saying, whatever, whatever the case
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which is good. That's not a brag. They probably have more episodes,
they probably have more listeners, They probably have like whatever. I don't know,
but I guess in the in the search engine optimization, geek therapy radio
especially if you type in geek therapy radio podcast that's how you're gonna you're gonna
see me in your spotifies and you in your Apple podcasts and your Google podcasts
and of course the iHeartRadio up all that good stuff. So anyways, I
say, you get in touch with me. Back in the last segment,
I was I'll just finish up this thought. USB type C hubs and thunderbolt
hubs Thunderbolt three, hubs, Thunderbolt four hubs, it doesn't really matter.
Will you go out from the type seaport of your computer or your laptop,
of your phone or your tablet, and then you have access to extra USB
drives, extra display outputs, either display output or hdm MY or multiple hd
MY outputs, headphone jack, a microphone, combo jack, ethernetport, whatever,
a normal type Sea hub. That it's kind of a mixed bag as
far as typing any random USB type Sea hub into any random device. Like
I mentioned in the previous segment, I won't go to much further on this,
but that I have three or four type Sea hubs and Thunderbolt hubs,
and like they all work differently with differently computer with different computers. I don't
have just one hub that works perfectly across all devices. And that was an
issue that that listener in front of the show Ed was coming, was having
that he left a voicemail for about was, Hey, my, you know
I've got this hub or this adapter Type C, it's not quite working right
with with the things that I'm using. Like, but that's just kind of
part of the gores with Type C hubs and adapters. It's just it's kind
of it's kind of frustrating. One of the other frustrating things and something that
I would look out for when getting a type C hub is this maybe just
because I do a lot of videography and video editing and editing in general,
where I need to dump a lot of files, big files off of SD
cards into the computer. Make sure that the SD slash micro SD card reader,
that any sort of card reader built into your USB type C hub is
running at USB three point zero speeds, like verify that that it's either running
at five gigabits or ten gigabits or whatever. Make sure it's not just running
at USB two point zero speeds. That's just me personally. If you buy
a random USB type C hub, odds are unless you look carefully, is
that the card reader inside of it, it's going to be operating at USB
two point zero, which is which sucks. It's so slow. Depending on
what kind of files are offloading. For instance, I may be offloading a
ten gigabyte four K video clip off of off of Maya Lumix S five,
you know SD card like big giant video files multiple gigs, multiple tens of
gigs, which takes forever at USB two point zero speeds if that's what the
card reader is limited to in your USB type SEA hub. So that's a
little little tip, like at least when you're looking for a Type S hub
and you move giant files around or do giant file dumps off of SD cards
that can go over one hundred megabytes per second, that even faster than that,
you can like US. There's all sorts of different protocols like UHS one.
I think UHS two is out now, Like make sure that just make
sure that the memory card interface of the hub is running faster than USB two
point zero. Make sure it's at least on the USB three point zero protocol,
if not three point one, if not three point two, like get
all the speed, don't don't buy like if there if it's a difference between
five dollars between a hub you're looking at that has that has the card reader
at USB two point oh speed, or five dollars more for the for the
USB type C hub that has the card reader at USB three point zero or
three point one or three point two speed. Go for the fast one thank
me later. It's so infuriating to buy this fancy hub and hubs aren't particularly
cheap. I mean the hub that works best for me across the most devices.
I'm looking at it right now. It's attached to my MacBook, and
I don't want to jostle it too much because I don't want to jinx anything
or or make it not work. But it has um Maybe if I can
find it, I'll put in the podcast description. So if you want a
hub that I semi swear by that works for me, I'll include it in
the podcast description. I think it was around forty or fifty dollars. It's
works out really well. My only complaint about it is that it gets really
hot. It gets like really hot to the touch, like sometimes you can
smell it, which USB type SEA hubs getting hot is not uncommon. That's
kind of par for the course, especially if you're using the kind of power
delivery throughput function of it, like you're pumping a hundred watch through a USB
type C hub. It's it's gonna it can get hot. But the hub
that is kind of my go to war course that I throw on my backpack
that it takes traveling with me, that I'm using right now as we speak.
The audio interfaces running through it right now into my MacBook Pro sixteen inch.
It has three USB Type three ports, one HDMI output that's four k
up to sixty hurts. It's got the Ethernet jack RJ forty five. Of
course, it has the Type C power delivery throughput. And on the other
side it has a full sized SD cart slot and a micro SD cart slot
running at full USB three point zero speed. That's a good amount of ports
for something that's really kind of compact. It's really no bigger than a mouse
or a small battery bank or a small external solid state drive. That's been
my go to. I have another one. Well, you know, I'm
looking behind the mic here in my little everything catch all drawer, and I
have got several Type SEA hubs in there. One of them is really good.
It's like a thirteen in one hub. It has multiple It has like
three or four USB three point zero ports, one USB two point o port,
which is like for your wireless mouse and keyboard and kind of things like
that, like two HDMI outputs, headphone, microphone, combo jack. Like
it's got every and if it's on your desk, it serves as a wireless
charging pad for your phone or whatever. It's really cool. The Achilles heel
of it, though it has the power delivery through put. Of course,
the pass through the Achilles heel of it is that the SD and micro SD
card reader on there are only at USB two point o speeds. I was
like, that sucks. It's such an awesome and it has the VGA output
also that I can run into my CRT behind me here. But it's got
USB two point out for the SD card reader and it's some devices I plug
into. It can use all the ports, some don't. Something like.
It's just it's so varied and it's frustrating because you just want to buy the
one USB type Sea hub or Thunderbolt four hub that's just gonna work across everything,
and that's almost impossible to find. Maybe you know where it is.
If you do, you can let me know on any of my social media
is just typing geek Therapy Radio podcast or email me directly Johnny at geek therapy
radio dot com, g O h n n Y at geek therapy radio dot
com. If you have the perfect type sea hub or Thunderbolt four hub that
works awesome with your Mac and awesome with your PC and whatever else, let
me know more. Geek therapy Radio don't go anywhere. I should just rename
geek Therapy Radio, which you're listening to it. And right now I'm Johnny
Hemberg, your mental curator. You're listening to to geek Therapy Radio. I
should name this episode like the type Sea Thunderbolt four hub, wine Cast belly
ache Cast, because it's so hard to find the type C your thunderbolt hub
that just works perfectly across all of your devices. I have not found such
a type Sea hub yet. I've found great type Sea hubs that work the
best, you know, mostly across a bunch of different devices that suck the
least. I guess you could say between multiple devices, but I've not found
the one that's just like this just works with everything. Everything, the protocol,
all the everything that communicates great with Mac, communicates great with PC,
Vice versa. Does unplug it here, plug it in there, everything works
fine. I've not found that hub yet. If there's always something, no
matter what hub I use it, no matter what device I'm plugging it into,
there's some sort of achilles heel and it just kind of sucks. And
I'm just commiserating with you the listener and Ed who sent me this this voicemail
into my email, which is Johnny j h n n Y at geek Therapy
radio dot com. By the way, sorry for repeating that so much,
but you know, when you're listening on the radio and there's four or five
minutes of commercial saying god knows what in between the segments of my show,
then you have to repeat it once in a while. That's that's the radio
broadcaster in me that you have to kind of do these little calls to action
kind of repeatedly because the radio listener, you don't know where you're catching them.
You don't know when they're tuning into the show. They probably haven't been
listening to the whole show. They're only tuning in for ten minutes at a
time. That's that's kind of like the rule of thumb with radio. And
you'll notice when you listen to like a lot of talk shows, like if
you're listening to Michael Barry or Kenny Webster or anybody else on the sister station
or on KPREC whatever, like they'll repeat things. You'll notice every ten minutes
or so. They may touch on a thing that they've already touched on.
It's just it's kind of rule of thumb, and it's not perfect. Every
radio host isn't perfect about doing it. It's just kind of something to keep
in mind that if if there's some information that you really need the audience to
know, you need to repeat that information. I think it's really like you
need to repeat it every two or three minutes, but at most every ten
minutes, because you don't know when someone's tuning in, you don't know how
long they're listening, so you just get the important information out every few minutes
or so. And that's that's what I'm doing with my you know, my
email address Johnny at geek Therapy radio dot com. Is you just repeat it
for the radio listener. For the podcast listener, it's a little annoying other
than if you're just listening to the podcast. It might be fun for some
of you just to kind of know the inner workings of how the broadcast side
of things work. I face famous last words. I do not want to
get very sidetrack with this, and I promise I won't. I just want
to say in the vein of you know, if you think listening to kind
of behind the scenes of radio broadcasting or even TV broadcasting, how it works.
When I kind of let you behind the curtain here a little bit and
tell you the little tricks of the trade and whatnot. I have this recurring
thought, and this is all I'm going to say about this is I have
this reoccurring thought that I if I wanted to have little red laser dots on
my forehead from snipers of giant media conglomerates, I could write a book about
what actually happens behind the scenes of radio shows, especially on well certain certain
all all radio is biased. I mean, whether no matter what you're listening
to, you, Matt, whatever source. And I promise I'm not going
to harp on this too much, but if you're if you're watched and c
an N or MSNBC or Fox or whatever, like, they're all bias their
own kind of different ways. And if I wrote a book kind of the
behind the scenes of that bias and how it works, then I would be
not only would I lose this show, that then I would probably lose my
life because somebody would come after me. If I pulled the curtain back and
just revealed how how taken advantage of the audiences, then like that's the real
nitty gritty stuff that would belong in a book that should be kind of ghost
written that maybe I don't put my name on. It's kind of that kind
of seedy stuff. But then again, and I'll end this with this because
I don't want to go down this path too much. I've been warned by
my bosses, you know, whenever I go off in these tangents sometimes is
you know, just be careful. All I will say is, you know,
it's not it's not entirely let's say, corporate radio's fault or corporate television
cable television's fault that the audience gets kind of sold, you know, in
incorrect things as gospel truth. I'll just say it like that, because here's
the other thing. Here's something that I realized a year or so ago when
I was getting all hot and bothered about the subject of just the way TV
and media manipulate in the idea that this crazy, you know, dividing line
between mainstream media and let's just be specific, like conservative talk radio versus mainstream
media, Like it's there's no such thing as that it's all mainstream. If
you're Sean Hannity and you have twenty million listeners each day, that's main stream
hundreds of millions of people, over one hundred million people listening to conservative talk
radio every single day. That's main stream anyways, without getting too fired up
about that, here's what I realized a couple of years ago. You know,
people outside, like you know, people like to the hurl names at
each other's old lemmings and fish in a barrel, And it's so easy to
manipulate this audience. A da da da da da da da da. Well,
that's one thing. I mean, Like, the thing is the realization
that I had a couple of years ago someone mentioned this to me, is
people want There's a huge part of the audience that wants to be lied to.
Like even if I were to write a book and say, here's all
the truth, here's all the ways you have been spiritually and politically and emotionally
hijacked day in day out to sell your stuff, here's how it all works.
You, if you knew the truth, you enter insurrect Fox News and
not Washington d C. If you actually knew what was going on behind the
scenes that somewhere like Fox News, you turn your pitchforks towards whoever's making those
broadcasts. But the thing is that also probably won't happen because the realization I
made is people want to be lied to. Not all people, of course,
not all people want to be lied to, but a huge part of
the audience just wants to be The lie they believe is like a safety blanket.
They know that what they're being fed and what they're feeding and what they
re respout to whoever will listen. They know that it's nonsense. They know
that there's obvious blind spots they're purposefully not checking. They understand all of that.
They understand the flaws with their political party, They understand the flaws with
the other political party. They understand they know that their part, their belief
system is imperfect. They know it for a fact that what they believe is
wrong in many, many, many ways, but it's still comfortable to hold
that belief. They don't want their minds change. And even if you did
change their mind, they don't care. They would want to continue to the
warmth of the lie. So even if I for me, I'm just saying
me as an example, like if I quote unquote expose the truth of what
happens behind the scenes and in corporate radio or corporate television, you'd want to
you'd run the pitchforks towards the radio stations and not towards Washington to see even
if I made that book, like even if I put all that truth out
there, people want to stay comfortable in their lie. They don't. They
don't want the truth. And even knowing the truth, they wouldn't go towards
the truth or believe the truth. Or maybe they would believe the truth,
but they still their lie is more comforting. The lie is way. It's
the security blanket. So that's why I don't get all kind of hopped up
on it anymore, even though the last three or four minutes is obviously evidence
to the to the otherwise is that even if I was to use this platform
to speak truth to people, they don't want to hear the truth. It's
just people don't want to hear the truth. They want to believe what they
believe. It's it's it's hard to check your blind spots. And that's kind
of a saying that comes up a lot in my own mind. Here's the
key therapy part of all this is I am I try to be conscious and
I'm not perfect. Try to be conscious of like my own blind spots,
not and I don't mean just like I try not to be that kind of
person that says, hey, I don't see color, I don't see race.
We're all one like, No, I'm not like that. I'm not
that of twos or oblivious. But just there's things about other cultures, even
if it's a I apply the same the same consciousness to like a diehard you
know, let's say Trump supporter, as I would a diehard liberal. Like,
it doesn't matter. I try to be in these situations where I'm being
sensitive and understanding my blind spots before pre judging somebody or pre judging an entire
group, just be sensitive to the blind spot that these are individuals. These
are individual people. In a matter of fact, it goes along with the
whole scope and mission statement of Geek Therapy Radio that no matter what side of
the aisle you are on politically, whatever you believe, we are all geeks
about something. We have that in common. We have our hobbies, our
hopes and dreams, and they overlap greatly. No matter who what walk of
life you're from, We're all geeks about something. We all have our passions,
we're all have our hobbies. Liberals love the astros Conservatives love the Astros,
like it SAIDs the thing, maybe not this season because people people forget
about the All Star break and they see how the Astros are doing right now
as I'm recording before the All Star break and saying, oh, I don't
have hi high hopes of the Astros. Nothing matters until after the All Star
break. And that's something that a liberal and a conservative can both discuss over
a beer, is whether or not the Astro suck this year or they have
a chance, or we'll see what happens after the All Star break. That's
my whole thing. We're all geeks about something, no matter where we are
on the spectrum, we're all geeks about something more geek there Paradio, don't
go anywhere. Welcome back to Geek Therapy Radio. You've got your mental cure
rator Johnny Hamburger. And I'm gonna say this for my radio audience more than
i will say it for my podcast audience, because there's just it's differing demographics.
I've been in this radio business since two thousand and nine. I ran
KTRH. Starting over, I did full time overnight so Coast to Coast AM.
I had George Nori on geek Therapy Radio. That was a perk of
working in the industry, as George Nori was one of my heroes, and
I emailed them, was like, Hey, do you have a few minutes
can you come on my little RinkyDink show? He's like sure. So I
had George and Orion a while back. But I ran ktr RANK. I
was the bolllop for ktr RAH. I was not program director or anything like
that, but I worked at k t H for a very long time and
I was co producer for a long time on The Michael Berry Show. I
provided a lot of voiceover content for little comedy skits on Kenny Webster and producer
Pursuit of Happiness. I've been on a Jesse Kelly show a number of times,
so I've been in this industry. I have ran those shows. I
have call screened those shows. I have helped with content and pre show meetings
with those shows. Like I've I've been in here for a long time.
I know I know how this works, specifically how conservative talk radio works.
I don't agree with everything that I have worked on or like. I don't
agree with hosts hundred percent of time. Obviously, I don't agree with Kenny
hundred percent of time. I don't agree with Michael Berry under percented time.
I don't agreeve Jesse Kelly undrepercent time obvious sleep. But I've I know,
I've been in here long enough to see like what's really going on and how
things kind of operate. And I feel like I'm just meaning it's confession time
for me. I feel like there may be a vibe that I kind of
pick on conservatives or conservative talk radio more than other, like more than tenants
of liberalism, which my I always say, like my scapegoat for my biggest
gripe against liberalism is if it ever came after the Delirean, Like if we
if if for some reason liberals passed this law that you can't drive a V
eight gas burning classic car anymore, Like if they came after the Delirean,
which is still is a V six but burns gas and everything, if they
came out, I would have a beef with that, Like that's a kind
of a slope of the quote unquote green new deal that I'm weary of,
is like don't take away our classic cars. Come on, that would be
a problem if if you start coming for for our vates and our manual transmissions.
And you know, like you're worried about an old nineteen sixty seven Mustang
it's not as fuel efficient or whatever as an ev whatever. Like that's that's
a problem, And that's a that's a beef that I take all day long
with you know, liberal some some liberalism. Is this attack quote unquote.
If Fox News is writing the headline Liberals attacks on classic cars, they want
to take away your classic car, they want to take away your your Corvette,
the war on classic cars. That's how Fox would would label that segment.
It's utter nonsense. But I want to say because it maybe it feels
like I pick on conservatives most it's just because that's that's like, that's my
people, that's where I live, those are my people. Most of my
friends are conservative, and I've got a lot of liberal friends too. It
doesn't matter. But I'm kind of like, that's that's the business I've known
for a long time. That's the business I've been steeped in for a long
time in this radio businesses conservati radio business. So yeah, there's there's things
that I see from the inside that I that I you know, poke at
and take issues with sometimes I have a feeling that if I worked for NPR,
I do the same thing about blind spots of an NPR doesn't matter whatever,
But I do want to say this here. I want to clear the
air a little bit. This might be got of controversial, but at the
same time, I bet you've got a lot of liberal friends and a lot
of you know, self identifying liberal listeners that would probably agree with this.
You know, come on us be honest here, Let's be on. Let's
just be real honest, heart of the matter of time. This is my
truth that I want to speak. I'm gonna get real close to the mic.
Conservatives are way more fun to party with and throw away better parties there.
I say at it. If I had a choice, if I had
two party invitations from like one group of friends who it was that that are
that are self identifying as liberal, or and I got the same for the
same night, same date for my conservative friends, Like, Hey, we're
going out to a field. We are drinking, we're gonna be shooting twenty
two is at beer cans. We're gonna have a bonfire, We're gonna have
the boom box going, like we're gonna be going muddon, we're gonna be
doing all that. Let's go to the beach, Let's pop a tent,
let's pop a cooler, Let's just let's get rowdy with it. That's the
party I'm choosing versus a liberal party where I'm just being funny here. This
is called satire, where they might want to use paper straws to drink organic,
naturally produced my ties with bunny safe sweeteners, and I don't know,
that's just a tire, just being a joke. But I'm just saying on
average, Like, like, given the average, if I had a party
invite from a group of friends, I knew that we're way conservative and we're
just gonna be listening to country music and we're going to be drinking. They
don't drink bud light now, but we're rigging whatever they're gonna drink. Now,
I'm adelo fine or a group of from a liberal friends that have a
party going on the same time. I'm just saying two parties happening at one
time. Liberal group of friends, conservative group of friends. I'm going to
choose the I'm going to choose the Conservative party every single time, unless like
I'm obligated to go to my liberal friends party. Now if they're on two
separate nights, sure, I will go to both parties and I will have
a good time at both. Just going to have a better time at the
Conservative Party. That's just that's just the truth. That's the olive branch I
offer out to my conservative listeners who may think that I might go after to
conservatism like unbalanced Lee on this show kind of again, it's the grain of
the whole ethos of the radio station I'm on. I don't. I'm really
in the middle, like if you were politically speaking, I feel like I'm
just really in the middle. Like I said, I just I just know
the conservative media game works because I've been doing it since two thousand nine.
I've been in the belly of the beast, so to speaks, since two
thousand nine. It's what I know. So I can pick on what I
know. But if you feel that I go against conservatism sometimes or at least
the political ideology of it, y'all are who are going to party with like
that Liberal party or Conservative party? I am going I'm going to hang out
with the Conservatives and have a good time because it's gonna be a better time.
It's gonna be a better party than the Liberal Party is going to be.
And by party, I don't mean political system or Democrats Republicans. I
mean like you're going to party down as Friday night, we're having a party.
Liberal group of friends have their party plan and conservative group of friends have
their party plan. I'm going to the Conservative Party. Those are my people,
those who I know. Even if I disagree with a lot of what
they believe, I'm still parting with them because they will party better and it
will be more funner. We'll be doing donuts. We'll be doing donuts in
the middle of a field in a Ford Mustang at the Conservative Party. That's
gonna be how that party goes down. We're not we're gonna pull up to
We're gonna pull up to Whole Foods in a prius. With a Liberal party,
you go look for the organic chips and all sorts of bullcrap. I'm
partying with the Conservatives. I'll hang with the Liberals, but I'll go to
their party if it's on a separate night. Just conservatives through the better party
come at me. That's just the way it is. And I hope you're
taking all this and tongue in cheek. Don't cancel me, bro, I'm
just talking. It's freaking satire. I know liberals can throw fun parties.
Sure, I'm just saying, Well, I've said what I've been to say.
Ed you asked how my pilot training is going, I haven't even started.
I'm kind of you know, the cost of it all scares me.
Not necessarily the cost of getting lessons, but like then, the cost of
airplanes and things like that. It's like, geez, twenty thousand dollars engine
overhauls and such for assess and I want fifty. It's scary. You are
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