Welcome to the Agenda Fluid Show podcast.
I guess it's got to be a regular thing before you call it a podcast.
Well, it is a regular thing. We do it every two weeks.
I feel like it's an experiment still.
I mean, aren't all podcasts an experiment?
Some of them make money.
We can't all be Joe Rogan.
Well, yeah.
He got lucky.
Yeah, so I'm Ben still, and I am joined by the Reverend Donovan Adkisson.
Actually, it's Reverend Grady Donovan Adkisson on the certificate, but yes.
Well, I wasn't going to give that first name away.
I don't care.
I've thought about using Grady Donovan as the actual real name anyway,
because most people can't fucking say Adkisson.
I'm going to give that first name.
to officiate or whatever, but that's not the reason why I did it.
The reason why I did it was because, one, I could.
I thought it would be kind of cool.
Two, my wife has actually been an ordained minister for over 20 years
through the same Universal Life Church.
And there'll be a lot of people that look at that and go,
oh, well, that's not a real thing, which, yes, actually, it is.
And there's a couple of different organizations out there that will ordain you as a minister.
The funny thing about the Universal Life Church is it costs absolutely nothing to become ordained.
You literally drive up to their website.
You put in your information, your full legal name, and submit it, and they add you to their records,
and now you're ordained.
how they make their money is like, I got the certificate, and then I paid to get an actual credit card size identification card
that I can put in my wallet that says that I am Reverend Grady Donovan Atkinson.
And they've got other little kits like a wedding kit, officiation kit, and all kinds of stuff like that.
But, you know, there's no legal requirement for someone to actually start preaching
and call themselves reverend or minister or any of that.
Yeah, yeah.
The Church of Shiggles.
Mm-hmm.
Some people may take exception to it.
They may think it's making fun of their religion or whatever, and that's not what it was intended for.
I just got to thinking long term, I guess, what is it that I want to do with my life?
And even my wife tells me that I can get into Southern preacher mode and sound just like damn wholeness Baptist and everybody else.
And I'm like, she kept telling me, she's like, you really should start a podcast doing that.
And I'm like, eh?
I don't know if I'd keep it up.
Well, if it made money.
Eh, if you pass the offer plate and it comes back full, I guess you can find a way to keep doing it.
Really, the whole point of it was to add a little bit of credibility as much as it could to the idea that—
And this is something I put in our group chat earlier today, and I think Sam and I almost got off on the wrong foot, and I completely understood.
I don't believe in the supernatural aspects of the Bible.
That's the reason why Jefferson went through—I'm pretty sure it was Jefferson, the Jefferson Bible.
He went through the actual King James Version of the Bible and cut out all of the supernatural aspects that were in the Bible, and then that was his Bible.
He looked at the real events or as the events are depicted in the Bible as being real and just cut out all the supernatural stuff.
So his idea was if you abide by the teachings of the man that we call Jesus the Christ and ignore all of the supernatural bullshit,
then there are good—there are good life lessons in there to live by, you know?
And that's like, you know, my thinking on it is—because honestly, and I think I'm correct on this—
every book in the King James Version of the Bible that tries to—in the New Testament that tries to talk about Jesus did that and Jesus did this
were written by people that didn't know Jesus.
Right.
You know, Paul, as we've talked about before, never actually met Jesus, even though he created an entire religion around the man, but he never actually met him.
So, you know, you can take stories like where he fed multitudes of thousands with just one loaf of bread.
Okay, A, no, he did not do that.
That is a metaphor for being compassionate and trying to help others.
That's what that is.
You know, the stories of him healing the blind so they can see and all this other kind of stuff.
No, he didn't.
It's about being, again, human and compassionate and helping others as best you can.
Those were the lessons that he was trying to teach, you know, overturning the money table in the temple and all of that.
Jesus was a socialist.
He was a progressive socialist, a rebel, which is the reason why I've said that if he were—and others have said this—if he were to come back today and proclaim that he was Jesus Christ, as depicted in the Bible,
the good majority of the right wing would crucify him again because he's too woke.
So that's the idea behind this, and, you know, if the Knights of Joshua ever get off the ground for whatever it is that I'm thinking I might do with it,
that's kind of the whole point of, hey, why don't I just go ahead and make it official?
I am a, quote, reverend for whatever it's worth.
Okay.
So that was it.
That's all?
Mm-hmm.
You know, kind of light, nothing heavy.
Well, to add to that, I'm of the opinion, because, I mean, I didn't know Jesus either.
I'm of the opinion that he probably didn't claim himself to be Christ incarnate or the Son of God.
Yeah.
And I think—I don't think that would be boastful and kind of a dick move.
So, yeah, Jesus probably didn't do that.
No.
No, I'm quite convinced without any proof.
But then again, they have no proof on their side either if we're taking sides.
Yeah, so we're both right.
Yeah, so I don't think he—I mean, it's not like he walked around and said, you know, I'm the leader of Christianity, because Christianity didn't exist when he was supposedly alive.
So, yeah, it's wild.
And that's—that's kind of the way I look at it.
I mean, I don't want to shit on anybody's beliefs.
I mean, used to, I did, because I thought they were off their fucking rocker, but—
It's still new, but it doesn't count to pull that out all the time.
Yeah.
If it makes them feel good and they're not hurting anybody, okay, whatever.
I'm fine with that.
Yeah.
But if you need that to be a decent person—
Yeah.
If you need the threat of fire and brimstone to be a decent fucking human being—
Preach it.
You've got some other issues.
Amen.
Hallelujah.
Oh, goodness.
So, in other news, I've started journaling.
On paper?
No, no.
I'm committed to working it out on the MacBook, because it's really nice to type on.
Ah.
But I'm committed to trying to only do it digitally.
Mm-hmm.
Even though it's not that I could write better.
It's my—the pen to paper forces me to be slow and intentional.
And the pen and paper and my eyes focused on the paper helps me focus on that.
And it's kind of—it's kind of nice when I can focus on one thing.
Mm-hmm.
I can't really do that at a computer, but if I'm at this tiny MacBook and I've got it in, like, focus mode—
Right.
I can sort of type slow.
You know, I type as slow as I handwrite, and that could—so far, it's been all right.
It's a good outlet.
Now, they have the journal app on iOS devices.
Do they have a—do they have the journal app on the Mac OS itself, or are you using something else?
I'm using Obsidian.
Okay.
I actually paid for a year of Sync, so I've got it on everything.
Didn't we talk about that in one of the South Geek News episodes?
Obsidian?
Didn't you—
I mentioned it, because—
Yeah.
Because the second brain stuff.
Yeah.
Samuel was talking about—
Yeah.
Brain mapping, mind mapping, and whatnot.
And Obsidian has sort of a way to do that.
I've never used the journal app on the phone.
Journal.
I think I tried one time, but—
Start writing.
I just hit the plus, but start writing.
Okay.
Then I decided I didn't want to type out everything I was thinking on the iPhone keyboard.
Yeah, me either.
I just looked at that and went, no.
No.
Now, if I could—
Something that I've discovered that I actually like, but I don't do it all the time, and it's
a way of journaling, but it's an audio journal.
I have actually put on one of my lapel mics and started my Just Record app on my phone, which
to me is the best audio recording.
And I'll just walk around my office talking, talking to myself.
And then I can take that audio, run it through Whisper, tell it to give it back to me in text.
And then if that way, if I want to do something like a post or something like that, then I've
got it.
Yeah.
Or I can literally tell it to summarize to myself what I said or to rewrite it in a more coherent
fashion other than my all over the damn place as I'm walking around.
I've done that a couple of times.
I've actually done a couple of podcast episodes that way.
I would just off the cuff, start recording them into the phone.
Then I would run it back through Whisper so that I could then get it into a format that
I could sit in front of this computer right here and then read through it and essentially
the final recording, if you will.
It takes a few more steps to do it that way than just, why don't you sit your ass down
in front of the microphone and record it in one shot?
Because sometimes I like to walk around.
Walking around helps me think.
Yeah.
When I was in the higher math classes, I put a whiteboard up so I could stand up at home
to do my homework.
Mm-hmm.
That's one thing I wish I've been looking around and I cannot make room for it.
I miss the whiteboard that I had in my office at CityNet.
Mm-hmm.
And that huge, like $150, $170 whiteboard at the time.
Yeah.
You know, you can get that in like a four foot by eight foot sheet and put it on the wall,
frame it and put it on the wall.
Yeah.
I don't think it costs, you know, what they do at Staples, so.
Right.
I mean, to my right, right here is a mirror that has that paint that you, chalkboard paint.
Mm-hmm.
So, but it's in such a, it's not accessible.
I mean, it's got one sentence on it that I think Lee put on it decade and a half ago.
Good thoughts make good days.
Yeah, I've seen that.
It's been there for at least 15 years easily.
So, but it's not where I can easily get to it.
And then I don't like the chalk dust because as you, you know, if you're going to write with
chalk and then I've got to have an eraser.
No, I'm not doing that.
Yeah.
So I'm still pushing terabytes to the cloud.
I found a better way to do it though, directly from each server.
Yeah.
So it's going faster now.
Well, how were you doing it before?
So I had the QNAP in the hybrid cloud mode mounted to that bucket.
Yep.
And so it would keep a local cache of a size to specify and push everything else to the cloud.
And I can share that directory to local cache.
It has the file listing for everything in the bucket, but only certain recent items are in the local cache.
So if you want something, you double click it and it'll download it for you.
Mm-hmm.
Um, it's supposed to be seamless, but if I want to write to that share, there has to be enough room in the local cache, uh, to hold that.
It won't push to the, it won't shove off to the cloud while I'm copying to that from a network computer.
Mm-hmm.
So I had to create another share, throw it in there, and then go to the QNAP interface and move it to the cloud archive.
Because then it would push stuff off.
So that was slow.
So I found this application, actually it's from Wasabi, called Wasabi Explorer.
It's a CloudBerry Labs product.
It's kind of a branded Explorer.
Yep.
Um, because I use the CloudBerry, um, application on the machine over there.
Because then I can just drag and drop files like it's file explorer.
Yeah.
Um, so I've got that on the server directly connected to the bucket.
So.
But you just copy, grab something to copy, throw it over there and just let it, let it do its thing.
Yep.
Waiting on, I'll wait on two jobs to finish right now.
One's from Gainesville and the other's from here in Tifton.
I wonder, does Wasabi have, because, you know, I use Backblaze.
Mm-hmm.
And there is a limit to like, which you wouldn't run into that because of the thing that you're using.
But if you were trying to do it through the web interface.
Oh, yeah.
Backblaze has a limit of like a couple, like 20 gigs or 100 gigs or something at a time.
And it actually tells you, oh, you need to use the CLI and an API and all of that, which Cloudberry apparently uses.
Which I'm assuming that the Wasabi Explorer probably does the same thing.
They're, they're using the, the underlying API calls to.
The program looks the same.
I just can't connect to a bucket in anywhere else.
Yeah.
I've, I have found that using that Cloudberry Explorer with Backblaze is, is just real easy.
I keep it until my machine decides to reboot and do updates, you know, because Windows 11, you know, I just keep it running.
Just got it minimized down on the taskbar.
And so when I need to move some files over, because I put our transcription files over the SRTs for the podcast and all,
because when you put that in, Spreaker is like, hey, where's, where's your, where's your transcription file?
So I'll throw it over there and then I'll put that link because you can right click on it, go web link.
And by default, it gives you a timed link, but uncheck that so that it's a link that works forever.
And so if anybody ever, you know, are thousands and thousands of adoring fans that want to actually read the transcription,
download it and read it, they can, it comes off of Backblaze.
Yeah.
So that's kind of all.
Oh, I've got this laptop here.
It's been ready.
I just need to go find the person who needs to get it.
Yeah.
That's like earlier.
I got a, I got a text Monday.
I sent you the picture of that computer, what it was doing.
Oh yeah.
The checkerboard looking thing.
So I was thinking, okay, once I got it back here, I was like, is this, is there something wrong with the drive?
Is there something wrong with the HDMI port?
I'm not entirely sure.
How would you call that one monitor?
No.
I actually put it on the bench here because, you know, I took one of those little B-Link units that I had as a spare, got it loaded up with the software they needed, carried it out there the next day.
The technician, service technician, who I've never met, real nice guy.
I mean, he was just like, man, I appreciate this, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
He started moving stuff out of the way.
And he's like, if you need any help with anything.
And I'm like, no, I'm good.
I'm good.
And so then I showed him that the computer was now this little thing and Eddie tripped me out.
He was like, oh, so I don't have that big modem anymore?
I'm like, yeah, that was the computer.
And no, you don't have that anymore.
And I put it on the floor.
And he's like, oh, so I can put that somewhere and get it out of the way.
I said, no, I'm taking it with me.
You don't have to worry about it.
He's like, oh, man, I appreciate it.
I appreciate it.
So I got it here and I put it on the bench and I fired it up, did the same thing.
It was not the monitor because that had occurred to me, but I was about 99% sure it was not the monitor because it never would fully boot.
Okay.
I only had that still image, but just the effect on the monitor on the display looked like something has gone wrong in the processor in the monitor.
Now that, that, uh, that still image is, is what you get, except it vibrates like that.
And, uh, it never gets past that Dale because that's an EFI boot.
Yeah.
It never gets past that, that Dale.
It looks like it's, you've got the Dale circle and it looks like it tries to do the little dot, dot, dot, dot, dot at the bottom.
And when you boot and that's all she wrote.
So I pulled the drive out, pulled the memory out, put the case back on it and put it in my pile to dispose of because there is nothing I'm going to do with that machine.
It's an i5-6500, so it's, it's still processor wise, still a decent machine, you know, doesn't, doesn't meet the Windows 11 requirements.
And it's not worth my time to dick around with it, to try to figure it out.
I'm pretty sure there's something fucked up on it on the board because it's not just HDMI port.
I also hooked up the VGA because this is, these are the Dale business classes, like the 7050s or whatever.
So it's got a VGA two, two display port and one HDMI, tried the VGA, nah, same thing.
So I got their, I got their spare, their, uh, I ordered another spare, so I've got it already activated and put, got to put it back up in its box.
So, you know, next time they have another machine do that.
So I went all week last week without touching Twitter.
Do you feel cleaner?
You know, I think I had a better week.
Honestly.
You know, I, I don't, I don't look at Twitter much, maybe once every week or two, but I'm always on blue sky every day, Instagram and threads.
And I thought, maybe I need to stop that.
Yeah.
Because it really does piss me off every time.
And I mean, and I'm looking at it first thing in the morning, but here's the thing.
Here's what I run into, Ben.
If I'm going to do this morning show, Tuesdays and Thursdays, I need shit to talk about, you know, and where I find that shit to talk about is usually on blue sky, Instagram threads, ground news, the various newsletters that I get.
The 404 newsletter, the, um, uh, the, the Georgia fly over, the fly over.
That's where I source a lot of the stuff that I want to talk about.
If I stop looking at that, I have nothing to talk about.
Well.
So, how, how does one do that?
I don't know.
Let me guess.
That chair is not comfortable.
Not at all.
I never found a seat cushion.
But you're probably right.
I mean, I, I, I can, because one of the first things I do after I get up in the morning and take a shower and get coffee going is I look through my emails.
And once I've gotten through all the emails, I start hitting the socials, blue sky, Instagram, ground news, ground news, not really social, but, and I can immediately tell that, you know, within five minutes, I'm pissed off.
There's not much there on Twitter that pisses me off, but I see so many posts of people saying what you need to be doing.
What's stopping you from creating an app that wipes your ass, whatever.
So, yeah, I mean, it, it, reading all that, it kind of, kind of, um, puts me in this mood that, or this manner of thinking where I'm, I'm not doing enough.
And I just, I don't have to form a startup and exit with $200 million.
That's what everybody's trying to do.
It's a lost cause.
Yeah, I actually saw somebody the other day that was, um, I don't know if you've ever watched any of the episodes or any of the clips of, um, there's a podcast and it's on YouTube called The Diary of the CEO, Steve Bartlett.
Yeah, I don't really like that guy, but I have, um, seen a few of his episodes or listened to a few of his episodes.
Yeah, he had a financial guy on there.
Some, I guess he had a book or something, but they, he was talking about how, you know, when it comes to, what got my attention was the name of the, of the, uh, video was
people don't need to save or something like that.
And he was basically talking about how to become wealthy.
You basically just have to play the long game.
and be like, more like Warren Buffett.
He pointed out that, you know, Warren Buffett is 93, 92 or 93.
He said, Warren Buffett didn't get into his multi hundred billion dollar, um, wealth until after he was 60.
And I was like, okay.
And he basically said, that's because he would, he would just buy stocks and just hold on to them, which I knew that about Buffett.
But he even made the comment that people have the wrong mindset when it comes to, I'm going to, I'm going to form this startup.
We're going to run it rough and hard for two years and get bought by Google and cash out.
And that's all anybody ever does.
And that's not long-term wealth.
I mean, if you get bought for, you know, 75 or a hundred million dollars and 90% of that's yours.
Yeah.
That would, that would be long-term wealth for me.
That's, I mean, for my family, that would be generational wealth.
Yeah.
I mean, if I could walk around, if I could walk away with 10 million.
Yeah.
I mean, that's what I've always said about playing the lottery.
I don't want to be the guy that wins 800 or a billion dollars off the lottery.
I just want about 20.
That's it.
I'd take five.
I mean, five.
And then by the time you, you know, everything gets pulled out of it, you, you might have two or three.
That would still, that'd pay off everything.
Yeah.
And I could live comfortably for the rest of my life on that.
Take a lot off the mind.
Yeah.
It doesn't mean I would stop doing what I'm doing.
I mean, probably.
Okay.
Let's be honest.
If I became a millionaire, Donovan would quit supporting IT shit.
Oh, definitely.
I'd be out of the game.
Yeah.
I would not be doing this anymore.
And that's not to say, I mean, I love my clients.
Don't get me wrong.
It's, it's just, I get aggravated.
I get tired of trying to chase down a goddamn rogue print job, you know, because we're supposed to, we're supposed to know everything.
Yeah.
You know, and, and every IT professional will tell you, we don't, we're just good at troubleshooting and figuring shit out or we're all bald.
Well, we're, we're good at troubleshooting and figuring out, but we, we have the, we have the basics.
Well, then we understand operating systems, TCP, IP.
Yeah.
The OSI layer.
Yep.
How a print job works, how an email gets sent.
And most of us are good at critical thinking.
Yeah.
I mean, it's not our total shit, but that's, that's what you get in, in an industry where you don't have to prove a fucking thing before you go operate on somebody's life.
Yeah.
Yeah, pretty much.
That's true.
Yeah.
But, and that, that's kind of the reason why I'm, I started moving forward with trying to do the morning drip Tuesdays and Thursdays.
I'm, I'm trying to carve out something that might be a new venture for me, a new job.
I mean, I don't know.
I looked, I looked at the rate card that I had chat GPT help me with for the radio station if you wanted to run ads on it.
And I looked at what I, what I bring in gross now and how could I replace that with just the radio station.
And I wound up needing fewer consistent advertisers than I thought I was going to need.
But even those would still be difficult to get.
Yeah.
I think it, I think it worked out to needing only like 14 episodes or something, 14 episodes, 14 advertisers to, to hit the gross that I make now off of the IT company.
But, you know, I might as well, I might as well be selling ice to Eskimos than probably getting those 14 advertisers because nobody's listening to the station right now.
And I mean, it's not like I've done a marketing blitz, but every time I send out a Tifton Talks newsletter, I've got a self-promotion of wrto.fm, which I did buy that damn FM.
Motherfuckers are expensive.
$85 for that thing.
What's the renewal going to be?
Well, at least it's the same.
Yeah.
That's what I looked at.
It was through Cloudflare, but I, and that's another thing, you know, especially with online radio stations, you don't have to register those call letters.
They're just arbitrary.
Yeah.
Nothing depends on a tower.
Yeah.
So I, I just started naming it WR, the W is, I did go by this.
W's are for radio stations that are east of the Mississippi.
K's are the ones west of the Mississippi.
So since I'm on the east of the Mississippi, I went W and then the name of it is radio TIFT and I went radio TIFT online.
So W-R-T-O, R-T-O, radio TIFT online.
So that's where the W-R-T-O comes from.
And I've done, I've had that even when I was running the radio station last year.
But yeah, W-R-T-O.F-M, it goes to radio TIF, but yeah, that's what I'm, I'm still, I'm just trying to figure out what's my, what's my next gig, you know?
Because even if, even if I continue this through 62 or 65, I still want to be able to do something after that, that might make a little bit of change, be a little bit of fun.
Yeah.
Of course, at that point, I'm going to basically be in a, I'm hoping I'm going to be in a, I won't have fuck you money, but I'll have fuck you time.
Yeah.
You know?
Yeah, that works.
Let's see, the rate card, as an example, if you want a three times daily ad to run on the station, a 30 second ad, it's $85 a week.
If it's a 60 second ad, it's $125 a week.
So, and then of course there's sponsorship packages and stuff like that, you know, segment sponsor, which is a 30 second pre-roll plus mention at a segment starts $150 a week.
So like if somebody wanted to sponsor the morning drip and I have, basically I've got it carved out to three segments.
If they want to sponsor those segments, it'd be $150 per segment.
So I could technically get 450 bucks out of each episode, do two episodes a week.
That's pie in the sky stuff, man.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I think, well, one, people got to know about you.
Yeah.
So you're going to do some marketing or at least some outreach.
Yeah.
And two, you've got to have a differentiator, something that makes you unique, something that people like that would keep them coming back and listening to.
True.
I just keep looking at the fact that the damn Valdosta station, the talk radio station, has got the bill, the morning drive of Bill Osborne.
And all they ever do is bitch and complain about the Democrats.
So that's what that show is about.
Well, again, it resonates with enough people.
Yeah.
I just don't know if there's enough centrist or a little left of center folks around here that actually want to talk common sense and truth that would listen to something like this.
You know, well, there's some folks at ABAC who might be online on the same line.
I mean, I mean, that's like our illustrious Congressman Austin Scott.
You know, he sends out a newsletter update every week.
Does he?
Yeah.
I've gotten something from him, but I swear I don't get a weekly thing.
Yeah.
I'm pretty sure I get one every week.
Well, the last one he sent out, he's he's he's perpetuating the same fucking bullshit lie about the reason why the Democrats won't won't sign the CR.
And that is the Democrats want to provide free health care to illegal immigrants.
That is a 100 percent verifiable lie.
It's not true.
But yet that's that's what the right keeps pushing.
And I just I don't know why, but I feel obligated to push back on shit like that because I literally saw that in the chat one morning because I'll tune in for about maybe a minute or two just to see what's going on with the morning drive.
And they do they they stream it out on Facebook as well as it going out over the air and because they don't have to worry about copyright because it's a talk radio show.
They don't play any music.
So and I saw the comments, people on Facebook commenting like, yeah, the Democrats want to provide a free health care to the illegals like.
No.
And that that just fucking irritates me.
It's like if people don't push back, then that becomes the narrative.
You know what I'm saying?
So probably want to read the read the proposal and then just talk facts.
Which I have done on at least two episodes of the morning drip.
I have pointed out exactly what it is that the Democrats are holding out for.
One, they want the the ACA subsidies, the enhanced subsidies, which were put into place around covid time.
They want those extended permanently because they're they're set to expire at the end of this year.
Well, when that happens, people's premiums are going to go up by roughly one hundred and fourteen percent.
So, I mean, think about it.
I pay not that I didn't mean for this turn into a political show, but I pay one hundred and thirty dollars a month for health insurance through the marketplace for me and Lee.
That is going to go up by one hundred and fourteen percent.
Donovan will not be paying that.
Donovan will not have health insurance.
I get it.
Yeah.
So there's that.
The second thing is.
They want in the the BBB, the the the big bastard of a bill, because that's what I call it.
Donald Trump called it the big, beautiful bill, but it's the big bastard of a bill.
They cut something like ten billion dollars or some shit.
I forget how much it is, but they cut so much out of Medicare and Medicaid over the next 10 years.
That's going to start throwing a lot of folks off of Medicare and Medicaid, especially Medicaid.
And that's the other thing the Democrats want.
They're like, we need to rein this in.
You basically fuck people over.
Something to the tune of I forget how many millions of people, millions of people.
And so the Republicans are like, OK, we hear you.
But how about we talk about this?
We'll negotiate this if you will sign this continuing resolution and let's open the government back up.
And the Democrats are smart enough to know that if they fall for that.
Once the government's back open and they're going, OK, guys, we need to talk about this.
The Republicans are going to go talk about what?
So that checks out.
Yeah.
And so I guess that's what I, every time I see that, I just have this instinct to go, no, that's not right.
Quit lying.
I just, ultimately, I just wish people would tell the fucking truth.
But I guess that's hard.
No, it's really not that hard.
I mean, apparently it's hard for the Republicans and some Democrats.
It's probably on both sides.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm not going to sit here and tell you that the Democrats are squeaky clean because they are not.
They have done some stupid shit, too.
But their shit's not as stupid as the Republicans.
But anyway, I don't know.
Nice cabin up in the woods somewhere.
I live off the land.
As long as I got Starlink, I guess I'm all right.
I'm not sure I'm not sure I'd need that.
I mean, I still want to see what's going on in the world so I can, I can feel good about it and not participate.
Well, I can feel good about myself sitting up in my, you know, side of the mountain going, thank God I'm not down in that shit.
Just me, the wife and the bears.
So, yeah.
So, I can see you on the porch one morning with your iPad.
Yeah.
And you just start cracking up.
You go, hey, honey, look at this.
Look what they're doing.
Yeah.
Hey, them some stupid motherfuckers.
Well, Kamala Harris, Kamala Harris was at something yesterday, I think it was, or sometime in the past couple of days.
She's sitting there and she was talking about some things.
And then basically she just, I mean, it tripped me out.
She said, these are some crazy motherfuckers.
She literally said that.
I was like, yes.
She could have done that during the campaign.
Yeah.
Why didn't you do that during the campaign?
Anything to let us know that you're human.
Yeah.
Don't vote for Donald Trump.
There's some crazy motherfuckers.
Oh, yeah, I don't know.
So, how much have you journaled?
Probably five days.
Not consecutive.
But I started on the 30th.
No, 25th.
And again, I don't get to it every day, but I've kind of set that MacBook aside just for that.
It's the one you've brought here before, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, it can't do much more given its age.
Intel-based?
Yeah.
One of the last.
Mm-hmm.
The old dying gasp of the Intel MacBooks.
Yeah.
It just updated macOS to like 15.1 or something.
Man, what am I running about this Mac?
I am running Sequoia 15.6.1.
I don't remember what the new one is.
I don't think that's the new one.
I don't remember.
It's macOS 26, whatever it is.
I don't remember the name, but that's easy enough to remember the numbers now.
Yeah.
Everything's 26.
Until 27 comes out like July.
Yeah.
Of 26.
Exactly.
Well, it's for the coming year.
Yeah.
You know, they already got Christmas shit up at Walmart.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Pretty soon.
I think they're just going to leave it up.
They should.
They should do like us, have a holiday tree to change it out every year.
Just a holiday section.
It's always there.
Come to this aisle.
You can get your Halloween, your Thanksgiving, your Christmas, your New Year's, your Valentine's, Easter.
St. Patrick's Day.
4th of July.
Oh, can't forget that.
Yeah.
Just have one big aisle.
That's, you know, your holiday aisle.
I like it.
I don't care for it.
Like, I don't even know where the Halloween shit is.
It's not Halloween yet, but I don't know where.
Well, I guess they have a couple of, yeah, they do have a couple of aisles that wear Halloween candy.
Mm-hmm.
But the Christmas is already up.
Yeah.
At least they're not playing Christmas songs yet, are they?
No.
No, they're playing Walmart Radio.
B-A-R-T, Walmart Radio.
Like, they have a call-in, something, like they have a question and, you know.
Really?
First one with the answer or, yeah, they gave us an 800 number.
Huh.
And I wonder, well, is Walmart Radio available outside of Walmart?
Like, can you tune into it?
Is it?
Like, or would I just have to stay at the fucking store to call in and win a prize?
Walmart Radio station.
Walmart and Sam's Club Radio.
Walmart Radio, listen live, Bentonville.
What is this?
Confirm.
Is this a real thing?
I'm trying to.
I clicked it.
Oh, and it took me to walmartworld.com slash content slash walmart dash world slash en underscore
us dot html.
Exclusive.
Jessica Simpson talks fashion and new music with Walmart Radio.
What's the interview?
You know, her career's over.
Okay.
I am.
Hang on.
Oh, that's.
That's a Walmart.
That's Walmart music.
Music.
All right.
Oh, they actually have a fucking studio.
A round table with microphones.
What?
The Walmart World Radio podcast.
What a bunch of whores.
Are you kidding me?
Who the fuck would take that job?
Walmart and Sam's Club Radio offers an exciting array of podcasts that dive deep into the vibrant
life and innovative spirit of Walmart.
With the employees or all the workers in China.
I don't know.
Each podcast brings a unique flavor, making them a fun and approachable way to stay connected
with the heart and soul of the company.
Listen to Give Me a W for firsthand experience from associates who bring customer service, innovation
and leadership to life every day.
Beyond the Aisles explores how our people powered tech driven initiatives create career
growth, drive sustainability and give back to communities worldwide.
Check this out.
Spotlight's exclusive brands, budget friendly finds and game changing services like online
grocery pickup and fast home delivery that make Walmart more than just a place to shop.
Stars and Stories is your backstage pass to meet the music artists getting you through
your work day or get to know the entertainers and influencers behind some of your favorite
products at Walmart and Sam's Club.
I was today years old when I discovered that not only does Walmart have radio, they have
fucking podcasts.
I would never take the job.
That's fucking embarrassing.
You show up at a neighbor's housewarming party and they're like, oh, what do you do?
I would be fucking ashamed to say it.
I'm a producer for Walmart World Radio.
I host a podcast.
Really?
Where?
Yeah.
What's it called?
Walmart.
Oh, that's like the FedEx guy was listening to podcasts several months back and I was like,
yeah, we do a, we do a tech podcast.
Really?
Yeah.
Ah, where, where, where I find it on YouTube.
And I'm thinking, really?
Yes.
South Geek is on YouTube.
Oh.
So is this one on, we, on, we tube, on YouTube?
Not yet because I got to figure out, I got to figure out, do we create a, do we create
a separate channel for it or do I create an, like a Tifted Media Works channel and put it
there?
Because see, South Geek already had a channel.
Mm-hmm.
So I, that's where it's, it shows up.
Call me Donovan, I already had a channel.
So I, I actually started looking at that last week, I think, and I was like, I need to get
this on YouTube, but where, what am I going to do?
Do I, do I just create a new channel?
I don't know.
I haven't figured it out yet.
Hmm.
Where, where else are we?
Um, right now we're on Spreaker.
We're on Apple Podcasts.
I have not pressed the button.
I don't think I have.
There's a button to put it on Spotify.
I've searched on, I've searched for it on Spotify just to see, but I didn't, I didn't find it.
I didn't know if it was an algorithmic problem or if it just wasn't there.
Let me log in and, and take a gander because this is what we do.
Yeah, this is what our listeners want to hear.
Exactly.
All right.
So we'll give the people what they want.
Distribution.
Uh, I am submitting it to Spotify.
Your podcast has been submitted to Spotify and is awaiting approval, which if it's like everything
else, it gets approved in like two minutes because of the other ones I've done.
So usually I can, that's distribution, go to social sharing, go back.
And it is now on, it says your podcast has been added to Spotify.
I wonder how quick it is.
I can tell you this, I can tell you this, here's the link, I'll put it in, uh, but it usually
takes it about five minutes before that link is actually good.
Oh, Theo Vaughn had Louis CK on.
Yeah.
I like to, I like Louis CK.
I just, Theo's hard to listen to.
Yeah.
Matter of fact, I think, I want to say it was Fallon was the first one to have him back last
week or earlier this week.
He looks old.
He's got a, he's got like gray hair and a gray, like almost a beard.
Yeah.
He really was never one of the ones that I, I mean, he was all right, but I mean, you really
shouldn't be standing in your room, whipping your dick out and, you know, to the ladies going,
what do you think?
Um, in hindsight, probably not.
But if, if you're a comedian and you pretty much say anything, talk about anything.
Yeah.
I mean, one could understand it.
That's true.
I mean, I whipped mine out in front of my wife and she's like, put that damn thing away.
Yeah.
She doesn't call authorities.
God, I hope not.
That would be a problem.
Only once.
Yeah.
Only once.
Let's see.
I'll put that.
Let's see.
Dismiss.
It's trying.
Couldn't find the, okay.
Yeah.
It usually takes about five to 10 minutes that I've discovered that it, it'll eventually,
cause I was like, oh shit, how long does this take?
And so I went back a few minutes later, might've been 15.
I don't know.
I'm one of the other ones, South Geek, I think.
And, uh, bam, it was, the link worked.
So I was like, aha.
Oh, cool.
We're there.
We're already on Apple Podcasts.
So what's aggravating is in the speaker interface.
There's not a, hey, post your, or, or paste, copy and paste your link to it in Apple Podcasts.
There's just a submit button.
Well, I don't need to submit it again.
I don't need it in there twice, so.
Hmm.
Yeah.
You got those cards handy?
So cards?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
I'll, oh shit, come back here.
Go into random and we'll do it.
And then we'll get out of here.
Cause it's, we're closing in on an hour now.
Yeah.
I forgot to run the, uh, hello microphone.
I forgot to run the stopwatch.
We were already talking for about 15 or 20 minutes sitting at 38.
Um, all right.
Okay.
What's one sign that you would probably stay friends with someone for life?
Hmm.
They listen to me.
Yeah.
And they don't judge.
One sign.
They don't try to tell me what I want.
No, what you need to do is.
Damn it, Ben.
I've been trying to tell you for the longest time what you need to do.
Yeah.
So that means we won't be friends in like 10 years.
Okay.
Let's go.
I'm going to do one more beside it.
Um, I think I agree with you on that at some, cause that's not really one, but it could be all wrapped up into one.
It's like they, they listen.
They don't judge.
They accept me for who I am.
Um, warts and all.
Yeah.
You know, I, I feel like I've gotten that with, with a lot of my, even though I, someone like Walt, for instance, you know, we, his birthday, which was just this past Saturday.
And I sent him a text, you know, happy birthday, old man.
Hope you have a hell of a day, that kind of thing.
But I still feel like he's, he's someone that I could probably call and go, Hey, I'm in jail.
Can you come get me out?
So I put him and Chad, you, Sam in that same, in that same bucket.
Sam's not coming to bail you out.
Well, no, he's, he kind of can't, but you know, he would, if he could, let's put it that way.
I feel like he would, and I would do the same.
So along with that, the next card was, what is the easiest way to break your trust?
I'm going to, I'm going to state the obvious here.
Mm-hmm.
Lie.
Mm-hmm.
Any, if you can't, if you're not comfortable enough to tell me the truth.
Right.
What else, what else is there in a relationship?
That's true.
If you don't have, if you don't have trust.
I mean, trust is confidence.
I mean, it's built into everything between two people.
Have you ever had somebody in your life that you'd been friends with for a fair amount of time,
and then they, they did something that broke your trust, like lie about something or some action or inaction?
You don't have to be specific.
I'm just saying.
Yeah.
I got a friend, in air quotes, who, one, whenever the phone rings and it's him, he always wants something.
He never calls to check in.
No, you do, we have nothing in common.
Right.
But yeah, he, he's just gone through a, a divorce.
I think his third divorce.
Yeesh.
But, um, yeah, he, he was telling me stories and then some of it just wasn't true.
And then he finally owned up to it.
And I was like, why do you, I don't fucking matter in your life.
Why did you have to lie to me?
It doesn't make your divorce lawyer any different.
What, why does, why did you want to, why did you think you couldn't tell me that?
Mm-hmm.
So, yeah.
Um, and of course, last time he called me a couple months ago, he wanted to use the trailer and I was like, nah, it's full.
And we're busy that day.
Mm-hmm.
And I haven't heard from him since.
Yeah.
I'm busy.
I haven't.
Which days?
It ends and why.
I'm busy.
Yeah.
I, he, and he's one of those, no, what you need to do is, or no, you don't want to do that.
I know that's just kind of how you say things sometimes, but don't ever tell me what I want to do or don't want to do.
If I want to, if I want to install NVIDIA drivers in Linux, fucking let me do it.
I'm confident nobody wants to do it.
But if I want to do it, don't tell me I don't want to do it.
I, I think it's harder to install AMD drivers.
I don't know.
Uh, I don't know.
Yeah, I tried, I have over the years tried to watch the way I approach certain things like, yeah, I don't want to say, well, here's what you need to do.
Yeah.
I try to preface it with, in my experience, this is what, this is what happened with me and how I did it.
Now, your mileage may vary.
Yeah.
You know, I, I try to be more pragmatic about it and, and, uh, not just go, I'm all knowing, all seeing, this is what you need to do.
Yeah.
When, if somebody comes to me and go, should I do this thing or do this thing?
I'll approach it like, I wouldn't, I wouldn't.
Yeah.
Um, but yeah, trust is, uh, is everything that you're going to show up on time, that you're going to, that you are who you say you are.
Um, um, that you are not your wife's killer.
You got to know the truth.
Otherwise you could get in trouble.
Yeah.
Don't lie to me.
If you did kill your wife.
It's kind of an important thing.
Let me know.
Because I either, I either need to turn your ass in or I'm going to be a good enough friend that I got your back.
Yeah.
It depends on the wife.
Maybe I killed her.
Exactly.
So we could be friends.
Oh gosh.
She was standing in our way.
She was getting in the way.
And that's how we wound up on a list.
I think we just got dropped from Spotify.
Yep.
Spotify said, fuck it.
You're out.
Yeah.
That automatic approval.
No more.
Yeah.
Not, not going to have it.
Not going to have it.
Let's see.
Is the link live yet?
I'm curious.
I don't think so.
It's taking too long.
I'll check in like three to five days.
Yeah.
Well, like I said, it didn't, it doesn't normally take this long, but.
I'm not going to listen to the show.
I just, if somebody wants to, I can at least send them the links here and there.
If you want to claim your podcast on Spotify for podcasters,
make sure you set your email address here.
Okay.
I do have the email address set there.
It's podcast at agenda fluid.com.
So how does one lose your trust?
I think it's a given, probably like with you, it's a given.
Don't, don't lie to me.
You know, don't even lie to me to save my feelings.
You know, it may piss me off to begin with, but I like brutal honesty, you know?
Yeah.
I'd rather have a bad truth than a lie and a delayed truth.
Right.
Yeah.
That's true.
Also, the other thing is, and this might be petty, but not having my back in, in certain situations.
And I'm not talking about, you know, killing the wife kind of thing, but the thing, I think it didn't, it didn't really stress the relationship between me and Walt and me and Chad.
And when I got terminated from TiffNet, because, I mean, I don't really, I don't know what I expected anybody to do, but I actually lost respect for a lot of the people that worked for me there.
Because I guess I had, and I guess I was just being stupid and naive, but I thought I had worked up enough cred with everybody and respect with everybody that, you know, they would, they would step into the fire with me and go, we don't think this is right.
But they didn't.
And so I pretty much lost respect for everybody there that, that just like, oh shit, you know, he got fired.
Oh, because literally one of them said, well, at least now maybe we can get another technician.
I was like, what?
Really?
So, yeah, because of my, my salary, a technician was half my salary.
So technically they could have gotten two.
Pretty sure I was less than half your salary.
Well, my salary was not, when you were there, my salary was around the 40 something, 42, somewhere in there.
They came in and did a market study and found that we were being woefully underpaid.
And that's how I got bumped up to $72,000 a year.
Walt got bumped up to around 60.
Tim did too.
We all got significant raises because as the marketing people try to explain to the, uh, to leadership, think of the organization as a pyramid.
And at the very point of that pyramid sits on top of IT because we weren't just sitting at, we were also MIS.
Yeah.
We handled all of it.
And that's what they told them.
And they said, without your IT department, your entire business goes kaput.
You can't function.
And so you're not paying these guys market rates.
And we were like, oh, that's great.
So I, I got shot from, I went from 56,000 to $72,000 from one week to the next or two weeks because we got paid every two weeks.
But, uh, and of course those salaries translated over, uh, when we went to plant, but yeah, I don't trust any of those people there that any, any of the original people that were there that worked for me.
They, they lost my trust and respect because, and I get it, you know, they have their own lives to live.
They didn't want to jeopardize their job.
I understand that, but they could have at least said something like, we don't think this is right, but we understand you own the business and move on.
As far as I know, nobody gave a shit.
Well, we were still recovering from 08.
So jobs, you know.
In 2012?
Well, eh, fucking, yeah.
We were in the heyday.
Savings yield didn't come back to like last fucking year.
Yeah, but we were in the heyday of Obama at that point.
I mean, the economy had recovered.
Yeah, I don't know.
It's been a while.
Yeah, it has.
And I'm not going, I'm not going, wow, wow, woe is me or anything.
I'm just simply saying that that, that actually was a wake up call that the people that you think are your friends and that you can depend on,
a lot of times you can't.
I mean, it's not like I went out and drank, you know, beers with everybody.
I mean, my, my close friends were Walt and Chad.
Yeah.
And then Tim.
But, you know, I guess it is what it is.
But yeah, basically that, that's it.
You know, don't, don't lie to me.
Give me the, the honest, brutal truth and have, have my back.
Yeah.
I think if, if I can, if I can trust you, if I can put trust in the idea that you'll be there.
Yeah.
But if, but if you're not, then, uh, yeah, the trust is broken.
I can't, I can't lean on you.
Right.
But I think you can break trust by leaning too much.
Yeah.
Like if I, if I show you how to do this thing, but every time you try to do it, you call me three times a week and that's all you want.
You're just fucking, that's a lack of respect, really.
I agree.
Um, and I guess that kind of goes back to not listening.
You didn't listen to me.
Yeah.
Kind of like, uh, it's like a three-step process to solve this issue.
Oh, it's too complicated.
I don't understand what you said.
Can I send you the document?
I'll, I'll whip something up real quick.
It's real easy.
Can you just remote in and do it?
Okay.
That's what you pay me for.
Yeah, but I'm going to highly encourage you.
I'm also not going to answer if I'm the first try now.
Next time.
Dude, I've done that.
I've, in the past few weeks, what shit, in the past 10 years, I will miss a call or I'll see a call and go, not right now.
And by the time I call them back, they go, that's working.
I'm like, all right, you're welcome.
Or I figured it out.
I got one of those yesterday.
Yep.
I called her back.
She's like, I figured it out.
Sorry.
I should have texted you.
Yeah, we don't, we don't want to train ourselves out of, out of jobs, but at the same time, a little bit of, of aptitude and just trying to figure it out goes a long way.
More of my job is in the back end, handling, that kind of stuff.
I mean, I mean, user issues, printer troubleshooting, a lot of that's secondary and it's, it's maybe once a month I get a user level issue unless it's, it's one client who always has a problem with doing something in Excel or trouble getting something to print right.
But apart from that, not a whole lot of help me.
I had one issue one time where they had the spreadsheet and, uh, they used it to print out these, these cards.
They, they, they were like, I forget what they called them, but it was like extra accessories or whatever that would go on the windshield of, of, uh, the car that was for sale.
And they started trying to, one day they, they tried to print it.
And of course, you know, in Excel, you can go in and you can set your, your print area and that's the only thing it's supposed to print.
But by default, I think it will normally just print whatever the text is there.
So if it only goes down 20 rows and goes over maybe five columns, six columns, then that's what it's going to print.
But they were trying to print it and it was just, it was just, I forget what it was doing, but it was not printing correctly because they, their little cardstock was set so that it needed to print on these cards.
It didn't print out on regular sheets of paper and, uh, you know, and this is one of those spreadsheets that's anybody can fuck it up, which is the reason why I have, I have backups of this kind of stuff.
Normally this one, I think might've been saved on the actual local machine.
So I was like, okay, you, I hope y'all can recreate this, come to find out what the problem was.
And they just couldn't figure it out.
Somebody either maliciously or accidentally put one character down around row 30,000.
And you talk about a proverbial needle in a hay fucking stack trying to find that damn thing.
But I figured out some key combo where, you know, you can do control in and it'll take you to the end of the spreadsheet or it'll take you to the end of the last thing that's there.
It finally dawned on me to do that.
You can get in the blank spaces and do control arrow and it will travel in that direction to the next, uh, non-blank cell.
So I did some combination of that because this, this was a couple of years ago.
I found it, deleted it, re-saved it, and it started printing.
And I was like, okay, you see this?
Yeah, we don't know how that happened.
All right.
Well, if it happens again, this is, go look for it.
God, I ran into something like that earlier and I can't remember what it was, but it was, it seemed like, oh, it's taken so long to print.
And it was like an export of something from somewhere, but it was in a spreadsheet and, and, um, it was either taking a long time spooling or something.
I was like, I don't know.
And I look, yeah, down 30,000 rows, there was something and it was trying to spool all that, all the sheets to print all the way down to that last value.
Something like that.
Yeah.
I can't even remember who, what client it was, but.
Yeah.
It's stuff like that.
It's nitpicking, but it irritates the shit out of me because I'm like, why?
Yeah.
Why?
But the, the process and figuring it out is kind of fun to me or figuring it out and going, holy shit, I never thought I would see something like this or be the one to figure out that's what it was.
I mean, I do, I do like it when I can figure out some obscure shit like that, but I don't like being faced trying to figure out the obscure shit like that.
Yeah.
Especially, especially when I've spent 20 or 30 minutes on it.
I've done all kinds of research.
Chat GPT has, has led me down into a ditch somewhere.
Because I'll literally go, everything you've just told me does not work.
The screens do not look this way.
And it invariably will come back and say, my bad, you're right.
There must have been some changes.
I'm like, artificial intelligence, my ass.
Yeah.
We are, we're a ways from AGI.
Yeah.
So, I mean, that's like trying to figure out as, this is the dumbest thing is about the printer, the printer, the print job.
And its recommendation was, well, one, physically be there and go into the menu and go into the report section and tell it you want to, to print out the networking report.
And it should show you the active connections.
All right.
Think about what it just told me to do.
Think about that.
I have a runaway print job that every time you slam paper into the printer, it continues to print bullshit on the pages.
And you're telling me to print a fucking report that will not print until the end of this print job is over.
Okay.
Yeah.
Because I don't think it'll supersede what's in the, in the queue, in the printer.
Because I, I asked it, I said, is there a way to do it?
In the web interface?
Because I have access to that.
And it's like, oh, sure.
Go here, go here, go here.
Hit that.
It'll display it in the, in the web browser instead of printing out.
No.
It told me it queued it to be printed at the end of the current print job.
Uh-huh.
Okay.
Well.
Everybody's a rookie.
Sometimes.
Or at, at some point in their life.
Shit, I feel like it every day.
Yeah.
But, yeah.
Chat GPT is a, um, a fresh college grad with no experience.
Mm-hmm.
It's got all the facts.
But it has no idea what it's looking at.
Well, and the regular search is no better.
I mean, Google search is complete shit.
I get better results from DuckDuckGo, but.
Mm-hmm.
And, and I'm even allowing its version of an AI summary, which does seem to work better.
But even still, I mean, after you've gone through three pages of links and everybody's got the same goddamn problem.
Nobody's got a fucking solution.
And it's like, um, unplug it.
Take it outside.
Who's got the biggest truck?
Run over it.
I want to build a big trebuchet.
And send them out to the back part of the, the property.
Yep.
I so want to do that.
That would be so cool.
Turn it into a game.
It's like, okay, X marks the spot.
Let's see if we can hit it.
Yeah.
And I got some 80 pound laser printers that, that need to take a flight.
Yeah.
The, what gave me the idea is, I think it's in Delaware.
They have this annual event called the pumpkin chunking.
Mm-hmm.
And it's trebuchets and, uh.
Pumpkins.
And, uh.
Catapults.
Yep.
And they, I guess they have a competition for throwing a pumpkin the farthest.
Oh man, that'd be so cool.
Yeah.
I think they do it every year.
Probably around this time.
I want to see the pumpkin hit the ground.
They just, yeah, they just explode.
Just like a watermelon does.
Yeah.
Get one of those oversized 800 pound pumpkins or something.
It's like, my prize pumpkin.
Yeah.
It's about to get trebucheted, bitch.
Oh, that would be pretty fun.
Mm-hmm.
All right.
I reckon it's time to wrap it up, huh?
Yeah, probably.
I hope you enjoyed the show.
We didn't have anything to really say, but.
No.
I hope you're, uh, I hope your dishes are done.
The grass is mowed or whatever you were doing while you were listening.
Yeah, that's true.
Right around on the lawnmower.
I haven't cut my yards in three or four weeks, and I, this weekend, I can't do it, so.
Yeah, Brayden cut.
I mean, it's been too hot.
Brayden cut Sunday.
Not hot.
It's been too dry.
Yeah.
Well, it hasn't been raining a little bit here.
Yeah.
But I got stuff to do this weekend for clients, so.
Yeah, we hope you enjoyed it.
I was just rambling and bitching and moaning and griping and complaining, et cetera.
Oh, that was just me.
Maybe, maybe the, maybe the show will gain a shape after a while.
You know, we got to put out some shit episodes, but.
Yeah.
We hope you keep listening.
And we'll let you know if, um, if this is not working out.
Yeah, and if you have any comments or concerns or critiques or whatever, email address is
podcast at agendafluid.com, and we both get that.
Or if you just want to hear me say your name.
Exactly.
Email.
You may be rewarded.
So Ben can say your name.
Especially if you're of the female persuasion.
Oh, shut up, Donovan.
I'm going to get me too'd.
I can say dude names, too.
Yeah, that's true.
Yeah.
They could be, uh, gender neutral.
Doesn't matter.
You know, it's surprising how many of those there are.
Yeah.
Something I noticed, it's interesting.
I don't know if I'm ever going to get this corrected, but my name is spelled D-O-N-O-V-A-N.
That is the way my mom and dad wanted my name spelled.
My fucking birth certificate has D-O-N-A-V-A-N.
So does my social security card.
And I didn't realize that that might even be an issue until I sold the property over in Fitzgerald.
And they noticed that the way I sign was different, the way I write my name and spell my name.
So they did an affidavit that said that Donovan and Donovan were the same person and I had to sign it.
So I don't know if that's ever going to cause me an issue because I mean, the way I, the way I do my signature now, I mean, it really wasn't my signature that they called.
I think it was something else, but she said it was just a formality to cover everybody.
And I was like, oh, okay.
But the way I, the way I, cause I, I write Donovan in cursive, you know, I'm one of those fuckers that actually can write in cursive.
Unlike Gen Zers and some millennials, you can't tell that it's an A or an O.
Yeah, you can't even tell it's my name when I sign.
I've had to sign my name so many times.
Yeah.
As a business owner, you, you sign a lot of shit.
Mm-hmm.
So I get, I get the D, O, N, the rest of it is squiggly and then ad kissing is A, D, K.
Pretty much it.
Yeah.
When I sign, I do the B and when I'm rolling off that lower part of the B, it goes right into the J.
Yeah.
And then a, and then a, a line that's supposed to be A, M, I, N.
Mm-hmm.
And then I, two dots for the I and the J and then an R and then scribbly and the end of the G.
That's it.
It's less than a second.
Except when I have to sign, when I had to close the, the deal on the house, I had to sign my full name.
Mm-hmm.
An initial, like, 250 pages.
Yeah.
But I had to, I mean, I had to build the muscle memory in that session for that long signature.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, I, I write Grady so infrequently that I have to pause and go, how do I make the G again?
You know, so it's nuts.
It's nuts.
Yeah.
Everybody, email us about your signature.
I'd be curious about that, too.
Yeah.
Let's talk about signatures next time and then see where it ends up.
Yeah.
All right.
We're going to get out of here, everybody.
Thanks for listening.
Appreciate it.
Also, no promises.
I don't know where we're going to start next show.
That's true.
Probably not signatures.
Probably not.
So, don't hold your breath.
Nah.
Could be Satanism.
I don't know.
Whatever comes to mind.
All right, everybody.
Thank you.
We appreciate it.
See you later.
Bye.