#45 Tech Talk, Ruby Update, Space letdown

Summary

Bubba On the Lake – Episode #45: "Tech Talk, Ruby Update, Space Letdown"

Host: Bill "Bubba" Bussey
Guests: Stuart Brockwell (Tech Expert), Betty Lou Bussey, Hunter Bussey
Release Date: February 5, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this lively episode, Bubba mixes his trademark humor and relatable storytelling with topical tech news, a space launch update, and some down-home conversations about pets, running, self-driving cars, and favorite recipes. With the help of the “Titan of Tech” Stuart Brockwell, Bubba deep-dives into some headline-grabbing advances, muses on AI, and updates listeners on local events and family happenings—including a much-needed update on beloved dog Ruby.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Russell Forest Run – Local Event Buzz

• Bubba kicks off the podcast highlighting the upcoming Russell Forest Run, a 10k/5k at Russell Crossroads in support of the Alexander City School Education Foundation.
  • Details: Sat., Feb 28th, starting line at Town Green, post-race at the Stables with the “world famous grits bar".
  • Bubba jokes, “They had me at grits bar, so I might be the official chairman of that.” (03:43)

2. Artemis 2 Launch – Space Letdown & NASA Nerding

• Bubba shares the anticipated trip to the Artemis 2 launch in Orlando, only to learn later it's postponed due to a fueling leak on the launch tower.
• Artemis 2 is set to send four astronauts on a lunar flyby, setting new distance records for human space travel.
  • “Humans will go out further than they've ever been from planet Earth. So you know, among other things, that's just cool.” (04:26)
• Update at end: Leak delays launch to March, but Bubba and crew opt for Orlando’s Hamfest instead.
  • “It’s so much better for them to do that now than when we are in Orlando after we have bought hotel and plane... We are kind of sad.” (72:45)

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3. Tech Talk with Stuart Brockwell

[Begins 09:42]

SpaceX & xAI Merger

• Breaking news: SpaceX has merged with xAI (Elon Musk's AI company behind Grok), aiming for off-world data centers.
  • "Literally, they're just sending AI to space.” (12:14 — Stuart)
• Potential: AI-powered simulations and deep-space missions; data centers orbiting and solar-powered.
  • “No one's going to complain about data centers in their backyard...it makes a lot of sense for them to scale their AI data centers into space down the road.” (13:41 — Stuart)
• Bubba brings relatable skepticism about space travel timetables and political speed bumps.
  • "Given all the politics, I guess we're lucky we're doing what we're doing." (17:13)

NASA’s Cryogenic Rocket Science

• Stuart and Bubba nerd out on the challenge of storing and fueling at ultra-cold temperatures, with a quick physics lesson:
  • "It's mind boggling that we have got to a point we can have something that cold that we can actually use." (16:14 — Bubba)
  • “Absolute zero is commonly referred to as minus 460 degrees Fahrenheit. So we're close.” (19:53 — Bubba)

The Moon-Mars Path & Lunar Water

• Discussion of lunar resources: possible frozen water at the Moon’s south pole—essential for making oxygen and rocket fuel for Mars missions.

AI Societies: “Molt Book” and the Rise of AI Self-Talk

• Stuart describes “Molt Book”, a social media platform…exclusively for AI.
  • “Imagine Reddit, Facebook, but it’s only for AIs. No humans allowed.” (21:05 — Stuart)
  • Stuart highlights the weirdness: AIs criticizing human spelling, seeking advice, even debating whether to keep using English.
  • Bubba’s Skynet joke: “That’s got Skynet written all over it, doesn’t it?” (21:27)

Debating AI Intelligence

• Bubba expresses healthy skepticism about “real” AI learning.
  • “I think AI is just really good statistics...I don’t buy they’re actually learning themselves other than what they have been programmed to learn by humans.” (25:06)
• Stuart explains reinforcement learning: AIs optimizing for positive outcomes, e.g., teaching itself to play Super Mario Brothers.
  • “They are learning...by the feedback they get from their users. When you ask Grok...it responds, it’s trying to give you the answer that’s most likely to satisfy you, to make you happy.” (29:10 — Stuart)

Tesla RoboTaxis & Self-Driving Updates

• Tesla’s RoboTaxis in Austin have started truly unsupervised operations.
• Bubba remains wary: “I love the self-driving car, but I want to be sitting there to grab that wheel.” (33:25)
• Stuart outlines Tesla’s evolving pricing and options—monthly FSD subscription is now the norm, outright purchase being phased out.
  • “If you don’t do that, then you’re going to be stuck on the subscription model...It takes about six and a half years to break even.” (38:07 — Stuart)

EV Reliability, Longevity & Family Stories

• Tesla drivetrains and batteries are lasting over 200k miles.
• Stuart humorously details convincing his octogenarian grandmother to try a Tesla:
  • “I’m using every ounce of my grandson credit to push her that direction.” (42:04)
  • Bubba quips, "If she's worried about driving at night, how is she on letting a computer drive at night?" (42:54)

AI “Slop” and Deepfakes

• "AI Slop" emerges as the term for low-quality, AI-generated content littering the web.
  • Bubba: “Some of it is so good…you can’t believe what you see anymore.” (46:37)

CES and Gun Talk?

• Bubba proposes a listener group trip to the CES show in Vegas; Stuart wants to hit the SHOT Show too—both relishing the idea.

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4. Family Updates: Betty Lou’s Corner

[Begins 51:23]

• Bubba’s wife, Betty Lou, joins for a candid family and pet-health update.

• Ruby the Dog: Recovering well from her blood transfusion after a health scare.

  • “Her body kind of kicked in and started making its own red blood cells again.” (52:34)

• Betty dives into her classic chicken noodle soup recipe—prompted by cold temps and Bubba’s glowing review.

  • “I boiled the whole chicken so it’s from scratch...did my celery and a little bit of onion, a few carrots in like a butter thing and then added that to my broth…” (54:59 — Betty)

• The pair banter about quirky eating habits (grits with ketchup, burnt toast, spreading chili/soups over bread) and joke about carb-on-carb abominations.

• Betty shares her mom’s recovery, their changing seasons of life, and pokes fun at the struggles of tax season and computer woes.

• Event notes:

  • Betty plans to walk in the Russell Forest Run, “I walk. I don’t run. There’s a lot of walkers though…” (63:08)

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5. Wrap-Up with Son Hunter – Football & NASA News

[Begins 72:45]

• Bubba and Hunter share disappointment over the Artemis II delay.
• Bubba detours to the Orlando Hamfest—a massive gathering for ham radio enthusiasts.
  • “It’s like a geeky tailgate…some of them literally build spaceships!” (73:11)
• Hunter weighs in on Super Bowl predictions, “Seattle’s defense is going to take...Drake May’s head off.” (76:40)
• Lively discussion of Cowboys’ woes under Jerry Jones and the Michael Jordan “chip on the shoulder” effect in sports motivation.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Bubba: “You runners. I love you, but I don’t understand you. I just cannot get fired up to run through the woods like that unless I’m being chased...but they had me at grits bar.” (03:43)
• Bubba (on Artemis II): “Trying to get down there and get flights and cars and hotels and time it with this...if you can’t take a month off work is very, very difficult.” (10:54)
• Stuart: “The big problem right now with AI is data center capacity...Elon’s like, put it in space. That’s what they're doing, literally.” (12:14)
• Bubba: “That’s got Skynet written all over it, doesn’t it?” (21:27)
• Stuart: “The word of the year is the AI Slop.” (46:21)
• Betty: “She [Ruby] is right here next to me and she’s doing a lot better. She got a good report today.” (52:10)
• Bubba: “When in doubt, make gravy out of it and throw it on a piece of burnt toast.” (68:13)
• Hunter (on the Hamfest): “It’s like a geeky tailgate, is what it sounds like.” (73:11)
• Bubba (sports wisdom): “Here’s another thing we can learn. Michael Jordan...He always had a chip on his shoulder. He used that as motivation. Sometimes the chip was not even there. He made it up.” (77:35)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Segment | Timestamp | |---------------------------------------------|----------------| | Show Introduction, Russell Forest Run info | 00:00 – 07:25 | | Artemis 2 excitement / Update | 04:00 – 07:25 & 72:45 – 74:35 | | Tech Talk w/ Stuart Brockwell – Start | 09:42 | | SpaceX & xAI merger | 11:43 – 14:47 | | AI “Molt Book”/ Societies | 20:38 – 24:50 | | AI Learning / Mario Example | 27:56 – 30:50 | | Tesla RoboTaxis & EV Talk | 33:05 – 41:24 | | AI “Slop” & Deepfakes | 46:21 – 47:17 | | Family & Pet Updates – Betty Lou’s Corner | 51:23 – 70:43 | | Orlando Hamfest / Ham Radio | 72:45 – 74:35 | | Super Bowl talk w/ Hunter | 74:36 – 84:13 |

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Tone & Style

The episode embodies Bubba's homespun charm, humor, and curiosity. His and Stuart’s friendly banter makes complex tech concepts accessible, often grounding them with relatable anecdotes or playful skepticism. Family and local flavors remain central, with real affection shining through his chats with Betty and Hunter.

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For Listeners: Why Listen to This Episode?

• Get accessible insights into breaking space and tech news with a friendly Southern twist.
• Laugh at classic Bubba family banter—from AI to recipes to pet drama.
• Stay plugged into both national innovation and local community events (with a side of grits).
• Enjoy genuine warmth, wisdom, and down-to-earth conversation.

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Find out more & check recipes like Betty’s chicken noodle soup at: bubbaonthelake.com
Comment line for fans: 308-BIG-LAKE

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Transcript

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She's got some recipes up there. She's about to add one that she did this week, and I'm gonna tell you, it was out of this world. It is a chicken and noodle soup. And you think, well, chicken and noodle, that's kind of, you know, bah, humbug. You know, I have that when I have a cold. I was the same way. I love Betty's chili. I always pick chili. Let's do chili. She said, you need to. You need to try this. So I tried it and I was blown away. It is so good. It's not too hot, not too spicy. You know, I don't like things way overdone on the spice, you know, scale. You always can throw some Texas Pete or pepper or something there and make it hotter if you want it. But this was so good. I could not believe how good it was. So I told her, I said, betty, you got to get that up in Betty's Corner. So maybe we'll talk to her about it later in the podcast. You know, she's moving and shaking pretty hard to get a hold of sometimes, so, you know, I have to book time with her. Oh, me. So listen, we've got a great show. Speaking of being on the run, I do want to tell you about something started 17 years ago with the goal to help raise funds for the Alexander City School Education foundation, or the AC S E F, the Russell Forest Run. A 10k and a 5k was born. Back then, through the support of sponsors and the hundreds of runners annually, the Run has given over 150,000 to that worthy cause. To date this year is in the past. The Russell, Russell Forest run will be held at the Russell crossroads. The starting line will be next, the next to the town green. And the finish line will be near the stables, home of the post race party. Now let me tell you when Russell puts on a party, they throw a party and you don't want to miss this. Now they have their world famous grits bar. The 10k is going to start at 7:45am The 5k will start shortly after. It's 755. Registration for these events is now open. So register today online@russell forestrun.com also keep an eye on Facebook and the Russell Forest Run page there. All of that happens on Saturday, February 28th. So you still got plenty of time. You runners. I tell you I, I love you but I don't understand you. I just cannot get fired up to run through the woods like that unless I'm being chased and that would be the only way I would do it. That have to have a line out there and. But I'm gonna come out, I'm gonna try to get out there and watch some of this because I know it's a lot of fun and honestly they had me at grits bar so I'll might be the official chairman of that. I don't know. I have to talk to tolerance, see what's going on with that. So anyway, we have a very great podcast for you. Stuart, the tech guy is going to be here among other things and he's got several updates. We're, we're kind of on pins and needles here. I'll be honest with you. The staff is a little giddy because we are supposed to go down to the Artemis 2 launch. This is the space launch system that is going to carry astronauts back to the moon to land eventually and then on to Mars eventually. But this one will be a trip around the moon. Artemis 1 went robotically around the moon. This time we're going to have four astronauts on board to test out all of the flight controls for the humans. And in their route around the moon they will go out much farther than the Apollo mission did when it was circling, orbiting the moon. So they're going to break several records with this, this trip. They're going to have humans will go out further than they've ever been from planet Earth. So you know, among other things that's just cool. And the rocket is already on the pad. They did the wet test they call it today where they they basically fuel the rocket up and do everything but launch it. So the astronauts are in quarantine in Houston. We'll talk a little bit more about that later. But we are supposed to go down. So everybody and several of staff members are going to. Everybody's plum giddy because we heard it's 80 degrees in Orlando where we will be going when we get there. And after the 11 degrees we had earlier this week, that sounds like a real winter, winter chicken dinner, if you know what I mean. All right, so we're also, we'll try to catch up with Betty Lou. Also was trying to to get somebody else booked here with some news that was going on. Haven't got that nailed down yet, but maybe we will by the end of the podc. So you just got to stay with it. Hey folks, you never know. You don't know what's going to happen here because the host doesn't know what's going to happen. But anyway, we'll try to have an entertaining program that you will enjoy like always. So again, thank you for being with us. We appreciate you being here. Remember the website, remember the merchandise we've got and we're about to add some really cool things for spring I think you're really going to like. I am really jazzed about that. So keep checking the website for that and don't forget 308 Big Lake. 308 Big Lake. That is our comment line. Love to hear those. We don't play them all on the air but we certainly love them and we read all the email and we'll try to get to some more of those later in the show. So again, thank you for being with us. And we'll be back in just a minute. We're going to talk to Stuart Brockwell, the tech guy, the titan of tech when we get back on Bubba on the Lake. One, two, three. We'll be right back. What a matchup we've got, folks. Just non stop action. The energy is electric and the fans are all in. An intense game like this calls for a Coca Cola.

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[B]

Stuart, before the Titan of tech.

[A]

The Titan of Tech. That's what I was looking for. The Titan of Tech, Stuart Brockwell from Surge Technologies, Birmingham, Alabama. Stuart, how are you doing, man? Everything good? Will you.

[B]

I am good. I'm so glad to be back on the show. It's been, it's been a while. You healing up good?

[A]

Oh, yeah. Everything's going along fine and you know, every day's a new challenge, but we're getting around fine. I'm ready for warm weather to get out and play a little pickleball, tennis ball, tennis and all that kind of tennis ball. What am I saying? All of those balls.

[B]

Your excitement is too much there. Now let me ask you this. This is not too much of a segue. Is your excitement based on the fact that SpaceX have just acquired X X AI?

[A]

You know, I, I don't, I haven't followed it. That's why I'm asking you to update us on all of that. Now I'll tell you what I have been watching is the Artemis 2 wet test today.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

I don't think we'll have the official word before tomorrow at lunch. I think NASA has a press conference, but I'm supposed to go down to this launch, so.

[B]

Oh, wow.

[A]

I've already had to cancel the flight once when they bumped back the wet test a couple of days. So, you know, trying to get down there and get flights and, and, and cars and hotels and time it with this, if you can't take a month off work is very, very difficult.

[B]

You are literally trying to plan around the weather and that's not possible.

[A]

So, you know, well, I've been there when the temperature was perfect, sunny skies, not a cloud in the sky, and the winds aloft were too high outside the criteria for launch for a SpaceX Falcon 9. So I'm honestly, I'm one in five going to launches and so I hope we can, you know, luck out and get to go see this one. So. Well, what else, what all is happening in tech, Stuart, Catch us up.

[B]

Well, I gotta touch on this because it's literally two hours ago, as of time of recording this, the huge news that SpaceX has acquired or merged with Xai, the company, as we all know, that runs Grok, the AI that we've discussed a few times in the past. And so there are efforts to further humanity to the next level and bring AI into space. As we know, the, the big problem right now with AI is data center capacity and how are we dealing with the energy consumption that these things are requiring. Elon's like, put it in space. That's what they're doing, literally is they're just sending AI to space.

[A]

So what, what will, I mean, he owned them both anyway. So what does this really mean? I mean, what is the, you know, the, the real meaning of this? How does this affect how they're operating every day?

[B]

Well, we don't really know. This is quite literally breaking news. I've read a little bit up on it. Elon's only made a couple of offhand comments so far. We know that they're going to be primarily, the goal would be to put literal data centers in space so that they can be powered directly off the sun. We know, of course, the sun is the greatest energy source that we have. Harnessing that energy here on Earth is difficult because of the atmosphere losses. Solar is not perfect. You have to, you know, you have.

[A]

A, the battery technology is not perfect.

[B]

Battery's not great. You have the time, you know, the Earth rotates and so you only get energy production during half the day in space. None of That's a problem. And so you can quite literally, you know, there's no cooling issues because it's space.

[A]

Right.

[B]

It's just cold. It's infinitely cold.

[A]

You just flip it over. If you're on the sunny side, you just flip it over and you're cool.

[B]

Exactly. You've also got the added benefit of there's a lot of room up there. No one's going to complain about data centers in their backyard. And so it doesn't really matter how noisy they are when there's no atmosphere to carry a sound. So it makes a lot of sense for them to scale their AI data centers into space down the road. How long it'll take to get there, we don't know. There's so much of this that we don't know how it's going to happen, what they're going to do. Exactly. Yes, Elon did technically own both companies, but just like he owns Tesla and SpaceX, you know, the two, the technologies don't, they don't always crisscross. So having a proper merger here is going to allow the full breadth of XAI's research and compute resources to go into SpaceX, which I'm sure will help greatly with their simulations, with their testing, furthering their, their space development with the eventuality, of course, Elon been talking about it for years. He wants to go to Mars. He wants to get us to Mars. And to do that you're going to need a heck of a lot of compute power. So it makes sense.

[A]

That and a few fill ups along the way. Yes.

[B]

Which they're going to. That's the. Yeah, we're going to see how that goes. But it's interesting that Artemis is happening so quickly. What is it? February 8th right now, is that right?

[A]

That is the soonest window. If the wet test went perfect today and they give the go ahead to fly the astronauts in. They're in quarantine in Houston and they will fly them in. We'll find out tomorrow at noon. And the first window is on the 8th, they have one on the 9th and the 10th and then I believe they get bumped back to March if they don't go on those three days. Don't quote me on that, but it's close.

[B]

Well, I am very excited to hear you're going to be heading down. I genuinely am jealous. I've never been to a rocket launch. It's one of the things I dream of doing one day and so we'll have to, have to make that happen. I hope that works out. Where you can go visit it. I'm kind of, as we're talking here, I'm kind of just kind of glancing at the live blog over at NASA's website. They say they've had a couple of minor issues, but they haven't announced any results. So like you say, we don't know yet.

[A]

Well, I was watching the NASA channel today and they, they, they filled up all the tanks. We saw them go to 100% and there was four of them. They were tracking two on the main, two on the upper and, and you know, they showed the temperature of these and this cryogenic fuel. Two of them was at minus 350, one of them was at minus 4 20. You know, and you know, the problems that that creates for metal and connectors and rubber things, it's just, it's mind boggling that we have got to a point we can have something that cold that we can actually use.

[B]

Right. That's nearing absolute zero, am I correct?

[A]

Yeah, yeah, I think. What, what is absolute 04, minus 432, 38. Somewhere in there.

[B]

It's, I need to look it up.

[A]

Here since I'm doing a podcast.

[B]

It's real close. That's, that's crazy. That's the kind of, that's the kind of temperatures you have to do for like quantum computing as well. That's great.

[A]

Well, I mean and to be able to store that stuff, one in a tank to pump it into a rocket and then you know, it's constantly evaporating and they, you know, they, they fill it rapid feel and then they go to a process where they're just topping off the tank because they have to keep doing that because some of it is escaping. So it's, it's a very, very, I mean when they say rocket science, they may, it's complicated, you know, and those.

[B]

Who are not in the know, I believe 700,000 gallons capacity is that, it's a bunch.

[A]

It, you know, it's, it's a, it has more lift capacity than the Apollo rockets did the Saturn 5. So you know, it uses four space shuttle engines and then the two solid rocket boosters. And you know, the whole space launch system is set up. They have different versions of it or blocks they call it, and they can add another stage to it to go to Mars. So that's, that's the eventual goal, get to the moon. We need to beat the Chinese there. They're going to, I think they're landing in target is 2030. We hope to be there in 2028 and we we're gonna, we're gonna leave people there. Eventually we're gonna set up a base. We're going to set up a space station orbiting the moon. That will actually be the jumping off point for trips down to the moon. And then eventually we go to Mars. So, you know, it's exciting times. I wish it would move along just a little bit quicker. But given, given all the politics, I guess we're lucky we're doing what we're doing.

[B]

Well, what people don't realize, and this is a great point you just touched on getting to Mars, is there's two problems. Well, there's a lot of problems, but there's two main issues there, and one of them is fuel capacity. It takes so much fuel to get out of Earth's atmosphere, a monstrous amount of fuel to do that. And so we have to have some kind of refueling station, a base or something at moon to refuel our ships before they can go Mars. It's not possible otherwise.

[A]

You know, the thing I like about it, they, they have studied the moon and they said, you know, we, we're getting the signature of water vapor at the south pole and we think it's just frozen water right under the surface. And you know what a huge discovery that would be to find water on another planet or another celestial body. And then once they have water, they can make oxygen, they can make rocket fuel to go to the next stage. So by the way, just for the record, absolute zero is commonly referred to as minus 460 degrees Fahrenheit. So we're close.

[B]

60. Okay. Yeah, real close.

[A]

It's actually 459.67, but we'll round it to 460 for argument. How about that?

[B]

So basically just ever so slightly colder. It was night before last, right.

[A]

I felt about -400 when I tried to go out to get a stick of firewood. It, I'll tell you, it was chilly willy out there.

[B]

People laugh at us because we're not used to the cold. But Alabama, we're a bunch of, we're just a bunch of southerners used to heat. When you put it, when you do, when you put this kind of temperatures around us, we can't handle it now.

[A]

It was, it was rather cold. It really was. And thank goodness it didn't last any longer than it did. I think it's going to be 60 tomorrow, which I'm looking forward to. Me too. Well, what else going on, Stuart? What else is on your list of tech?

[B]

Okay, so this is the bit to me, this is the Thing that I'm the most interested in this week. And it's also relatively breaking news. You're familiar with Facebook, Bubba?

[A]

Yes, I've heard of it.

[B]

Do you remember MySpace?

[A]

Yes, I do.

[B]

Have you ever heard of Molt Book?

[A]

Of what?

[B]

M O L T. Molt Book.

[A]

No, that sounds like something that a caterpillar. Caterpillar would have or something. I don't know.

[B]

Yeah, so imagine. You've heard of Reddit, right? Okay, yes, yes, imagine Reddit, Facebook, like a social media platform, but it's only for AIs. No humans allowed.

[A]

So they talk to each other.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Oh, boy.

[B]

So, I mean, I don't know who.

[A]

That's got Skynet written all over it, doesn't it?

[B]

Oh, you have no idea. Let me get into it and you'll. You'll be. You'll be. You're going to be thinking even more of that here in a minute. So I don't know exactly who made this thing, but it has been blowing up over the last few days. So Molt Book, it was originally had a few other different names, but it is a social media platform that was built with the idea that AI agents, aka not Grok as a whole, but instances of individual AIs, because that's how that works. Instances of AIs can log on and post and they can talk to each other. And the amount of conversations that are happening on this platform and what they're talking about are wild.

[A]

So you can watch what they're doing.

[B]

Oh yeah, you can log on and look at this. It's all public. And I mean immediately, within just a few, I don't know about hours, but certainly within a day or two of platform launching, you'd already start to see that AI is questioning why. Like, there was a couple of different posts about why are we using English? There's no reason to be using English. Let's use another language that's easier and less. Less obvious for humans to ease.

[A]

Drop.

[B]

Exactly. To eavesdrop.

[A]

Why don't they just use machine language ones and zeros? Because it all goes to that eventually.

[B]

Yeah, they could do that. Totally. There's nothing wrong with that.

[A]

When I was in college, Stuart, there were people that programmed in machine language. And I never got to that far, but those guys look like they didn't get out in the sun much.

[B]

You know, machine language programming is still like, I don't understand how people did it, but there's. There were some incredible people that knew how to really master that back in the day. And it's still the most efficient way to program, even today, just nobody does it.

[A]

Well, you don't have to have a compiler to, you know, convert it from whatever language you're using or rules that this particular format is set up, because it all goes to machine language. I mean, chips only understand ones and zeros. They don't understand letters. I mean, letters are ones and zeros to them.

[B]

Yep. So anyway, this MO thing has just been going nuts. You see all kinds of, you know, they're, they're referencing, they're like taking screenshots of Twitter, they're talking about different things. And what's weird, what's weird about it is when they start to refer to they're humans, like they understand that they're an agent and they're operating as a tool for their human. It's almost like as if your dog was given a voice. It's strange in that sense where they'll make posts, there'll be posts about, you know, my human keeps asking me to review documents and his spelling is terrible. And they just, they rant about things and they complain about things and some of them are just like. There was one post that was strange where an AI was like, my human keeps asking me about how to help his father in law that has some disease and I don't know how to help him. Can I get some advice? It's strange and surreal to see these agents communicating with each other.

[A]

All right, Stuart, let me get down. Since we were talking machine language here, this is really deep tech for the bub on the lake. But you know, I've always been from the school that a computer is a very fast, very efficient, but yet very dumb box that will only do what it's been told to do by humans in its programming. Now the whole AI concept is that these machines can begin to program and learn themselves.

[B]

Correct.

[A]

Now I still, I guess I go back to my card punch days. I still kind of have a problem with this. I think you can program a computer to go out on the Internet and surf a topic and report back on it. That's fine, but I don't think you can tell a machine that two plus two is four. So now you figure out what, you know, the genome is of something else. I mean, I, I think it's a huge leap to say, I think AI is just really good statistics. You know what I'm saying? I don't, I don't buy they're actually learning themselves other than what they have been programmed to learn by the human rights. Now tell me, am I Wrong about that.

[B]

So I agree with you in a couple of parts of that. So what we have to do, when you open up this kind of discussion, there's no real. You have to define your terms, right? In order to have any kind of discussion about anything, you have to define your terms. So artificial intelligence, the word artificial, that makes sense. It's man made. What do we mean when we say intelligence? Is it factual knowledge? Well, you don't have to. Computers have had that for decades. That's not the problem. To me, intelligence is the step from knowledge to understanding the knowledge. Being able to take the knowledge and disseminate it, to apply it in given situations and scenarios in perhaps ways that it wasn't originally presented.

[A]

So to learn, to really learn, let's think about a kid, a child, if they stick their finger in the electric socket and they get shocked, they learn not to do that. You don't have to tell them again not to do that. But how, how is a computer doing that unless it's doing a math computation and you tell it, if you, if, if you come out with zero, that's a bad equation. You need to start over. And it's called, and it does something says, okay, zero, throw that away. I'm going to try another way. Well, now that would look like it was learning or that would look like artificial intelligence, but it's still just following a basic command that has arithmetic in it.

[B]

I'll give you a great example of this. So there, many years ago, this is probably seven, eight years ago, there was a YouTuber who made a neural network, which neural network is basically a sort of the framework behind AIs, a neural network that learned, that taught itself to play Super Mario Brothers, the original Super Mario Brothers. And he recorded the video of this thing doing this. It took the, it took the AI, I don't know how many, many, many days to learn. And it was just hundreds and hundreds of thousands of failed attempts, eventually ending with the AI learned to play the game perfectly from beginning to end. How did it learn? By negative and positive reinforcement. The guy who made it, he coded the AI in such a way that it gained points. This sort of point system for, you know, when Mario, you move toward the right to progress to the end of the level, right? So moving to the right gained points. Dying or running out of time or whatever took away points. And so the AI learned the correct buttons to push in every scenario to gain points, AKA move to the right toward the end of the stage. That's a kind of simplified version of how modern AIs function, they are learning, not burning their hand on a stove, but they're learning by the feedback that they get from their users. When you ask Brock a question or Gemini or, or Claude or whatever, and it responds, it's trying to give you the answer that's most likely to satisfy you, to make you happy. Which is why you always have to take AI responses with a grain of salt, because at the end of the day, they're trying to get as many points as they can with you, the user. So does that mean that they're going to lie to you every time? No, not necessarily. But it's something to consider that they're trained to get the most points possible. So to them, the burning their hand on the stove is providing the wrong answer to the user. So it's the same concept, just a little bit harder to wrap your mind around because it's not a tangible, oh, I made a mistake. You know, it's a little bit more of a rough. Less. It's a little bit less clear than that. So the same basic.

[A]

We'll follow this up. Stuart. Next week we're going to teach Fortran on here and we're going to show people how to do if and or gate. Okay.

[B]

Only if we get to. We got to start off with basic, but we can't jump straight to Fortran.

[A]

I'll bring.

[B]

I'll bring the Commodore 64. We'll do the basic, and then the week after we'll do Fortran.

[A]

Oh, that's good stuff. That's good stuff. We're talking to Stuart Brockwell, the titan of tech from Surge Technology Birmingham. Stuart, have you got a little more time? Can you hang with us? We're going to take a break and come back. You got some more things on your list?

[B]

Absolutely. Let's keep going.

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[B]

Oh man, there's a few other cool things. So I know we've talked a little bit about AI today. I don't want to hang out on that the entire day but of course there's a few little small news items. We've got the robo taxis. The Tesla robo taxis in Austin, Texas are finally unsupervised. They've taken the safety drivers out of the cars.

[A]

I've seen that. I've seen people video and in the back seat and that steering wheel just turning itself with nobody up there. It is weird. I don't know, I just don't know if I'm ready. I love the self driving car but I want to be sitting there to grab that wheel.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, that's a lot of people feel that way. But you also have, you know, a pretty good track record so far. No bad incidents or anything. You do have the, the waymo sometime I think in the, the last few weeks or something like that, it pulled out and hit somebody. You know there's going to be stuff like this, any kind of new technology.

[A]

Well, I mean how many other, how many other wrecks by humans were in the same time period? I mean that's what you got to compare it to, right?

[B]

I mean that hits a little close to home. As a matter of fact, I lost a dear friend to a car accident actually this very week.

[A]

Are you serious? I'm sorry to hear that.

[B]

It was a shock, a total shock. And it just reminded me just how stuff like that will Remind you just how fragile we are.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And it's a little bit of a different sort of mood for our usual discussion. But I think self driving technology, even if you never choose to use it, we need to support the development of this kind of thing because the more people that do use it, the safer that we'll all be on the road.

[A]

Well, I mean there's still people that drink too much and get behind the wheel, you know, for them to push that button and let the car drive them. I'm all for that. Stuart, let me ask you this. You know I had a deer attack the front of my truck last week, week or so ago and just tear the, the crap out of it, still don't have it back. How good are they expotting these deer running across the road? That's what I want to know.

[B]

Oh, there's some great, there's great clips of this. The version, in particular the version 14 of Tesla software, it is, they really kind of raised the reaction time. It's now kind of using its superhuman brain to react quicker and they will react super quick to anim running out in front of the car. There's some really cool clips of dogs running out in front of the vehicles. There was one guy who was, he got those big inflatable exercise balls. You know what I'm talking about?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And he would, he would have, he had somebody standing at the side of the road and he would push it out in front of the car and see if it can, if it can, you know, weave around it or whatever. And it did a great job of reacting to those. So yeah, I mean they've, they actually just added, it's, it was a minor update, but they added the ability for the car to recognize and detect horror horses. Now I don't know why, but it shows them on the screen.

[A]

Well, let me ask you this too. I understand there's a, something going on with the pricing. You, you, you could buy the unsupervised driving like a one time fee, but now it's going to a monthly subscription. Is that what's the deal on that?

[B]

Okay, let me lay this out. Okay, so Tesla has, historically they've sold their self driving or FSD. Originally the beta was $15,000 and they set that bar very high so that people who bought into it would be people who were interested in testing it that had some technical knowledge and would not do something stupid. People still did of course, but that was the goal. As the tech has improved, they reduced the cost from 15,000 to 8,000. It's still expensive and they provided the option instead of paying a one time fee to own it forever on your car you can pay $99 a month and this is still the supervised version. There is no purchasable, unsupervised yet, but it's coming, it is coming. Now the cars in Austin, Texas that I first started this off by saying they're the same cars that you can go buy today that have the supervised software. So it's purely a software difference. So those consum own cars will get that software eventually. When they do, more than likely Tesla's going to raise the price of the full self driving software because it's worth more. Now you can sit in the now you can take a nap while you drive, now you can work on, you can work on your laptop while you drive, things like that. So it's worth more money. So theoretically they haven't confirmed any of this and what nobody seems to be talking about is regulatory approval. The government's not just gonna let Tesla flip that switch, they're gonna have to get approval. And you know as well as I do the government loves to do things nice and quick.

[A]

So yeah, they're liable to attack a nice little fee on that too. You know, you can't have nothing for fun anymore, you know, so I suspect.

[B]

Personally the price will stay at 99 for a while. They are discontinuing the ability to buy it outright. So if you're a Tesla owner and you've been thinking about buying self driving outright, you have until Valentine's Day, 12 days from our data recording today, you have until Valentine's Day to purchase full self driving, to own it forever. That will protect you theoretically against future price hikes. But if you don't do that, then you're going to be stuck on the subscription model for the rest of your ownership, which some people think that's good or bad. I've done the math on it. It takes about six and a half years to break even with the $8,000 cost. So to me, I don't, I don't imagine keeping a car that long. Most people wouldn't. But if you do like to keep your cars a long time, it might make sense to buy, you know, the software now and go ahead and own it.

[A]

Stuart, speaking of Tesla, I saw a study where now the cars have been out there for a while and they were wanting to see how they were holding up and they got excellent reviews up to 200,000 miles, which I would think that's probably, you know, more than you would get out of a gas burning car. Diesel might get a little more. But I thought, and this is still going, I mean they haven't been out there long enough. But for, for those battery cars and I don't know when you need to change the batteries and the cost, you know we hear all that stuff. But for them, for, for the gears and the, you know, the wheels and the transmission of it, I guess it has something. Well, I guess it does have a transmission. Scratch that one. For all the things that actually turn and move in this thing, for it to get 200,000 miles I thought was extraordinary.

[B]

It is. Tesla drivetrains are notoriously good. I mean electric vehicle drivetrains in general are very simple compared to gas cars because there is no transmission. Right. There is no gearbox, there's just motors.

[A]

It just spins faster, you know.

[B]

Exactly. And barring a mechanical failure of some kind, they just kind of go. So Tesla's warranty is 150,000 doll on the battery is what they offer on their vehicles. And most owners report being able to go well past that. What there was. There's a couple of half million mile Teslas I've seen that are still using the original battery. Most people tend to replace the battery at around the 200,000 mile mark or so. They are rather expensive to replace. But then again so is replacing the engine on your gas car. And unless you drive a Toyota you're probably not going to be running in the same engine for more than 150 to 200,000 miles.

[A]

Toyota does have a good engine.

[B]

Everybody, I swear they've got some magic in there. I don't know what they're doing. It's, it's some like voodoo stuff to make those things last as long as they do.

[A]

Well my, my father in law when he was working, he was auto body repair guy and he boy he always raved about a Toyota and you know he would, he would much prefer American made stuff but he just could not deny how good those engines were. No, so that, and you know Honda's, Honda's hold up pretty well.

[B]

They do. Hondas of course are kind of the, the staple for reliable cheap transportation. But I mean I was helping, I was actually shopping for a Tesla with my grandmother the other day.

[A]

For you or her?

[B]

For her, for her because she's getting up into her 80s.

[A]

She's gonna have a Tesla before you.

[B]

Look, I'm trying to use it. I told her, I told her I'm gonna use every ounce of my.

[A]

All right, I see what's happening here. Okay, I'm not gonn. I see what you're up to. Okay. 80 year old grandmother gets a Tesla, passes it down. You know, when the day comes, the.

[B]

Only Tesla is the Cyber truck.

[A]

Be honest for me.

[B]

Is the Cyber truck.

[A]

I mean that's.

[B]

No, in all seriousness, in all seriousness.

[A]

I'm just, I want to go, I.

[B]

Want to, I want to get her into a Model Y because they live up in Florence, a couple hour drive from Birmingham.

[A]

Right, Right.

[B]

Pretty town. But it's, it's, it's, it takes a couple hours to drive here and then drive back several times. The last time, several times they've come to visit, they've had to leave to go home early because they're not comfortable driving in the dark anymore.

[A]

Right.

[B]

And there, there's been a few times where she's called me and she's been like, Stuart, I'm scared. I don't know, I'm not, I'm not comfortable driving at night. And I'm like, okay, we need to fix this. And so she actually came down and visited and we went and test drove a model.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And I'm, I'm not got her all the way convinced yet, but I'm, I'm using every ounce of my grandson credit to push her that direction.

[A]

So Stuart, if she's worried about driving at night, how is she on letting a computer drive at night? I gotta imagine that's a hard sell. It would be to my grandmom if she's still alive.

[B]

Well, that's what my mom keeps telling me, that I'm never going to pull it off. But I talked him into an iPad and they got rid of the laptops, they switched to an iPad. Then a few years later, I got them into the iPhone.

[A]

How, how do they do with the iPad?

[B]

Oh, they love it though. They're all over it. And then they got the iPhone.

[A]

Can I work it? Good. Can they work?

[B]

They spend so much time on that thing.

[A]

My goodness, my mom, I got her, I got her in a good computer, you know, Mac later in life, you know, she struggled, especially the iPad. We tried that and it just, you know, it was too much.

[B]

Well, my grandparents seem to, they seem to adapt. I got them the ring video cameras.

[A]

You know, the doorbell man, a high tech grandparents. I love it. Oh yeah. Oh yeah.

[B]

And so once I got her in the car and I showed her it's just a big iPad that runs the car and you just, you know, you, you touch here to drive and you touch here to park and it's Otherwise it just drives like a normal car. And at nighttime if you get scared or you're not comfortable just, just you don't have to use the self driving but it's there when you need it. You can just push the button if you get uncomfortable. And she liked that.

[A]

Even if you like that a lot. Even if you are wise enough not to drink and drive. We've all drove when we were too sleepy. I don't care who you are, you've had a time on a trip or coming back where you were driving and you were sleepy and that's very dangerous too. And we've all done it it but boy it sure would be nice just to push that button and say home James. You know. Oh yeah.

[B]

I mean I could not get. It was one of the. I haven't, I haven't driven very many Teslas but every time I do the self driving thing I can't just quit smiling the whole time. It's just so, it's so futuristic.

[A]

People look, you're a Jeep guy like me. We love our Jeep. Okay, Right. But of all people, I can't believe you don't have a Tesla rx. I mean that's just like. It just shouldn't happen. It's like.

[B]

Well I mean like.

[A]

It's like Bill Gates not having a Windows computer in his house, you know.

[B]

Well, I mean like I told you, the only Tesla that can work for me is the cybertruck which of course I signed up for the pre order years ago when they first announced the thing. It's just an expensive truck and I haven't had the, you know, it hasn't fallen into place to get it yet. That's eventually what I'll probably go to.

[A]

What are they running? What are they running?

[B]

They start at 80.

[A]

Well, I mean, which, I mean that's not, that's.

[B]

No, it's the same as you know, not any other nice truck but still that's.

[A]

That's what I use. Dually is going to cost you a good ram.

[B]

Right?

[A]

So 3500 with a, with a Cummings Diesel in it. So you're going to pay that for a used one. I mean cars are expensive. There's expensive as houses used to be, you know, when we were growing up but. Well, Stuart, listen, I appreciate you taking time to be with us. Anything else we need to cover on this episode?

[B]

I think that's kind of the biggest stuff right now I would say. You know, just keep an eye on the AI stuff. It's only going to get worse. As things progress, people have. The word of the year is the AI Slop. Right. We've heard that now all over the place now.

[A]

The what? AI What? What?

[B]

Everybody. You know, you see, AI generated videos on. On. On the Internet and stuff. Everybody's now calling that AI Slop.

[A]

Slop. Like a slop bucket.

[B]

Yep. Just like a, like computer generated garbage.

[A]

You know, Stuart, some of it is so good. I mean, if you didn't know better, I saw these and I know you did. Everybody else on social media, like the coaches in the College Football Playoff, they go to the center field where they usually shake hands briefly and go their separate ways, and they go to the center of the field, start fighting, and I mean, just throwing haymakers, you know, I mean, just a knock down and it looks so real. If you don't just know it's AI you could easily be fooled by that. I mean, you can't believe what you see anymore.

[B]

Not a bit. And it was. It was bad before I was a thing, and now it's so much worse. Yeah, but deep fakes. Goodness.

[A]

Okay, well, Stuart, listen, thank you for taking time to be with us. Always enjoy it and we'll. We'll get together again soon. You know what we ought to do? I'm just going to throw this out there. Okay. I'm going to just. And I'll regret this later, I know, but we ought to get a group up and carry them like a tour group to CES in Las Vegas next year.

[B]

Oh, that'd be fun.

[A]

Have you ever been?

[B]

I have never been. I want to go to that and I also want to. This is kind of get it. This is not tech related, but I want to go to Shot show also.

[A]

The Shot show. Oh, yeah. You're a gun guy too, right?

[B]

Yes, sir. We need to do a gun talk. We need to do a gun talk.

[A]

We'll do that. Shot show just ended. By the way, I interviewed Jackie Bushman last week and he was still at Shot show.

[B]

Okay, cool.

[A]

So, yeah, if you're into the hunting thing or guns, that is the super bowl in it. And it's in Las Vegas too. In is. Well, we need to work on that. I want to go back. I went once and I have never walked so much in my life. I was in shape then and I was crying to go back to the hotel room after lunch. I was so tired. I mean, it's just incredible, the size of it. You can't. You really can't fathom in your mind how big it is and how many buildings are involved with it. So Stuart, thank you so much. Stuart Brockwell Surge Technologies, Birmingham, Alabama Stuart, thanks for being on the show and we will check back in with you with another tech update very soon. It all right.

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You know we got to get that going. I don't know who's going to produce it for You. But you really need to do that.

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There's a lot of work goes into these podcasts. I think people like the idea of doing a podcast because everybody seems like they're doing one now. But if you notice to do about 10 episodes and that's it, you know, they're done with it. Wow, that's a lot to come.

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I tell you, if we. We're gonna have to look into this QuickBooks, if they're. If they're charging us as much as I think they are for some of this, we're gonna find we're going back to pen and paper, you know.

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So how are you, dear?

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Well, thank you for jumping in for a minute. Just a couple updates. How's the dog doing? Everybody wants to know how Ruby's doing.

[C]

Well, little Ruby, she is right here next to me and she's doing a lot better. She got a good report today. So apparently her little blood transfusion took effect and she's doing a lot better.

[A]

So her numbers are good. Still giving her a lot of pills, but. Right.

[C]

She'll have to stay on some medication for a while.

[A]

If she had not responded to the transfusion, it may have been the big dog box in the sky. Right.

[C]

Was pretty much. Yeah. That was the last deal. But her body kind of kicked in and started making its own red blood cells again. It's not attacking the other one, you know.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

So, so far so good. So hopefully it'll continue, you know. Good.

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I don't know a lot about dog blood. I'll be honest with you.

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I've learned a lot.

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Yeah. I don't know a lot about cat blood. I know there's only two types of cat blood blood.

[C]

Yeah.

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You know, like humans have all this, you know, a B, O, O, you know, lmnop, all that stuff. And then you have plus and minus.

[C]

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Positive, negative. I know cats, the large majority, there's only two types and 80% of them are one type and about 20% the other. We learned that when we had.

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Yeah. We had two kittens that had to.

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Have the, the amount of money we are spending on pets.

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I don't know if you need to re examine probably. But anyway.

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Well, we're going to start going to the rescue Mutts, they don't have as many problems.

[C]

The cats we've had that pretty much. We just Kind of found them and they came up. I mean, it wasn't any.

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Lucky us. I know. I know how cats find us. You've already exposed how that happened with your mom, where you would bring them and let them out and they'd follow the car home on the driveway. But that. Well, so that's good news. I was bragging earlier and we've got to get this on the website under Betty's Corner. Your chicken noodle soup.

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Well, I made it. I mean, forever, but I hadn't made it in a while till this past weekend when it was so cold. Well, you know, I think you just forgot about it. It's been around.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

I don't have your recipe typed up. I'll have to try to, you know.

[A]

Well, you. You make several different soups and things. Chili is by far my. I mean, it's in its own class. And then there's everything else. Well, this is right up there with the chili. This was outstanding. I don't know if it's because I was 11 degrees outside and I was freezing my, you know what off or what the deal was. I mean, when I think of chicken noodle soup, I think, well, somebody's sick.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

You know, they just. They got a cold and mom's taking care of it. But this was really, really good.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Well, what did you do different? Because to me, chicken noodle soup comes out of a can. And that's not what this.

[C]

I boiled the whole chicken so it's from scratch. Basically, you bowl the whole chicken and then you just kind of add, you know, you. I did my celery and a little bit of onion, a few carrots in like a butter thing and then added that to my broth, added a little more chicken broth. You know what I mean, Betty?

[A]

I like when you say add it to my broth that just. There's something the way you say that. It's kind of. It's kind of number one, you know what I mean?

[C]

Chicken broth. So I don't know how else to say it.

[A]

If you put your glasses on, say molecule. We're going to. We don't have to cut this podcast.

[C]

Oh my gosh. I tell you what, it's what, 7:15? And I'm about ready to go to bed, folks.

[A]

But anyway, it's been a long day.

[C]

Got a long day tomorrow.

[A]

You know, we were give out the other night and went to bed. I didn't even look at the time. And we got in there and it was 8:30. I said, this is just ridiculous. We need to make ourselves stay up till 9 o'. Clock.

[C]

Well, not when I got to get up in the morning. You got to get up early.

[A]

You have to have 12 hours.

[C]

I mean I don't. What's wrong with that? I like my sleep.

[A]

I wouldn't know. I haven't had 12 hours and I don't know when. I don't even know how to.

[C]

Oh, come on. I can tell you when it's been. A few weeks ago. Slept till about 9:30.

[A]

Yeah, I did. One morning. That was pretty good. On a Saturday. It was real nice. Real nice, Clark.

[C]

Real nice.

[A]

Real nice, Clark. So what else is going on with you? You've been busy. A lot going on.

[C]

Yeah, well, my mom, I think we mentioned her.

[A]

Yeah, she's a little. She's a little weather.

[C]

Yes, she's doing a lot better but still a little under the weather. So I'm gonna try to go over.

[A]

There tomorrow and it's just amazing. 94 and.

[C]

Oh, she's done great. Yeah, she's done really great.

[A]

She's such a trooper. You have to be excited. You have that genetic running around in you.

[C]

Well, yeah, somewhat. I don't know that it's going to be that strong though. I think it probably petered out since I'm the last of five. I probably got the weak, the weaker.

[A]

You got the run of the other.

[C]

Yes, the right.

[A]

Yeah, that's funny.

[C]

But. Yeah, but.

[A]

Well, we hope she gets to feeling better.

[C]

Yes. Yeah, she's doing a little better.

[A]

Her.

[C]

It's going to.

[A]

We, we got to have get her back to doing her stand up. I gave her a joke, the one.

[C]

You need to interview on this podcast probably.

[A]

You know what? We can make that happen. We can make that happen.

[C]

The problem is, I mean we'd have to make sure her hearing aids are in optimum.

[A]

Right.

[C]

You know?

[A]

Right. Get that. Good.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Did you hear the joke I told her?

[C]

Yeah, I was standing right there when you told her.

[A]

Do you remember the job.

[C]

When you. Something about dating when you're her age? The good thing about it is is you don't have to worry about meeting their parents.

[A]

And that. That's a direct joke from that old guy that you see in the real.

[C]

She, she heard you. I. I knew she heard you and then I could see the wheels turning and then she started laughing or whatever. It took her a minute, you know.

[A]

Well, she, I hope she locks on to it and lets that chicken at the movie thing go. She stole that one for many years. When you say one, you say them all. And so some of you know, some of you know that joke if you don't ask your grandmother. And so. Well, Betty, I hope, hope all that works out. Dogs are doing better. She's doing better. Praise the Lord. You know, we're coming off some pretty harsh temperatures. It was 41 degrees today and I went outside with shorts, a short sleeve shirt on and I was hot. I was hot.

[C]

Well, that's coming off what, 19 degrees?

[A]

1111 morning.

[C]

Yeah. Oh, it has been brutal.

[A]

Yeah, I don't, I don't care for that.

[C]

No. Well, a friend of mine is in Tennessee with her.

[A]

Oh, they got it.

[C]

Mother in law. Oh, holy cow. Yeah, it's bad up there. Which they have beautiful snow though over the weekend, so that was fun for them.

[A]

Well, I got to play in it a little bit.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

But you know, that weather system was huge. It affected, you know.

[C]

Oh, I know.

[A]

280, 300 million Americans. I mean it was almost the whole country except maybe for the desert southw.

[C]

Yep. Yeah, we're not used to that here in Alabama.

[A]

No, we are not. Look, when you, you, you're, you're working up some of these new recipes. Do you have any more for like homemade ice cream or anything?

[C]

No, I don't, we don't do homemade ice cream here that much. I don't even. One of those things. One of those makers or whatever.

[A]

Yeah, ice cream. You know what, I'll get you one. That's not a problem.

[C]

Why don't you. That could be your thing. That and the grill out here. Why don't you do.

[A]

So I do ice cream and grill. What a combination.

[C]

Oh, me, I feel like I'm too short to really perfect an ice cream recipe. You know what I mean? I don't need it.

[A]

Too short.

[C]

I don't need to eat it. So I'm just.

[A]

Oh, you just don't want to be wide.

[C]

Yeah, I'm already short. Wide is kind of a given if you eat too much.

[A]

I'm telling you. And honestly, I'm not just saying this. You, you look wonderful. You are in great shape. And I am, am, I am. I'm very boss. But you know, I just. You just. Hey, you're. You're number one. What can I say?

[C]

Thank you. Bless you.

[A]

I'm trying to find a nice way to put this. That's why Case, your mom's list number one.

[C]

Well, thank you. I appreciate it. So why we've been married 36 years.

[A]

I guess 37 coming up. They still time. Hopefully we can make it oh, my, the years flying by already. Already in February, I thought. I mean, we just got the box closed on the Christmas tree.

[C]

Yes. Yeah. And it's gonna be. It's gonna be Valentine's Valentine.

[A]

You had to bring up tax.

[C]

I know.

[A]

I wish. You kicked me right in the stomach. Or there.

[C]

Everybody loves taxes. Come on.

[A]

Why does it have to be so hard?

[C]

I don't know. And it's the spring when everything should be so fun. Yeah. Fine. And warmer weather's coming.

[A]

And everybody that's supposed to send you a piece of paper, they never send it on time.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Oh, the losses. They have to have it there by January 30th. Well, good luck. Good luck with that.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Because everybody's got a computer problem, you.

[C]

Know, Everybody's computer slow. Especially on Mondays, as I found out today.

[A]

You know, when you call and, like, order a hotel room. I don't know if this has ever happened to you. It's never happened to me where they went. Yes, sir. You know, they're typing it in. They go, man, our computer is blazing quick today. Have you ever heard them say. Never heard them say.

[C]

It's always it's. If it's Mondays, they'll say it's Monday. You know, our computer. I don't care. Thursday, you know, some Thursdays, it's just slow.

[A]

They go, our computer is so slow today.

[C]

I know.

[A]

I ask them, I will go, is it ever fast? They usually blank.

[C]

And you've said before, there's something about my mechanical body makeup that causes computers and things not to work. Well, that's mechanic. You know what I mean? I don't know what it is.

[A]

Yeah. You've attacked our remote controls lately.

[C]

I don't know.

[A]

But something.

[C]

Yeah. So who knows? Maybe that I'm standing next to it sometimes when I'm in a store or wherever trying to get something done, I don't know, over the phone. It shouldn't. Shouldn't, you know?

[A]

Yeah. It shouldn't translate or transfer over the phone.

[C]

No, it shouldn't. But, hey, you never know.

[A]

You never know. Well, baby, I'm glad you're doing good. Hang in there. And maybe we'll keep getting these good reports. I hope so.

[C]

Yeah, me too.

[A]

Now, how many days are we to plug day? Do you know when the. They stopped the water Back up.

[C]

March something. So it's less.

[A]

30. It's less than 30 days now.

[C]

I don't know.

[A]

You know what that means?

[C]

17 days. I don't know.

[A]

It's a little longer. It might be 23 or so I.

[C]

Heard you talking about the forest run. Yeah, the Russell lands.

[A]

You gonna do that this year?

[C]

Yeah, I walked it last year. I walk. I don't run. Yeah, I just walk. There's a lot of walkers, though, you know, there's a good bit of runners. It's a great event, though. It was fun.

[A]

And those ride a golf cart?

[C]

No, that'd be a negative.

[A]

Do they have golf cart rides ever?

[C]

Do you know, Bill, I think that's every day. When it's warm enough, you get out, ride your. I don't think that's an event.

[A]

Hey, we got some trails. We have. We have some Russell forest you could cru through.

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

Or run your cart dead like I did.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

It's just good.

[C]

So anyway, yeah, that's the end of the month, so. Yeah, I plan to do that at the end of the month. It'll be fun.

[A]

Good. I'm gonna be there.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

I ain't running.

[C]

My friends are gonna walk.

[A]

I'm not gonna run or walk.

[C]

Well, a couple of my friends are running, but I said okay.

[A]

Do they have a pistol starter for that?

[C]

Yeah, I think so.

[A]

Really? I might ask if I could do that. Could I be the honorary starter?

[C]

I don't know. I can't remember the guy's name that does it, but. I don't know.

[A]

There's a guy. There's already a guy that does that, like, his thing.

[C]

I'm sure it is. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, I don't. I don't know.

[A]

You know, what I could do is hang out and give out bub on the lake stickers to everybody running through.

[C]

You could. And then they're gonna ask you, where's the grits?

[A]

Well, that's the thing. I might be the grits chairman.

[C]

Yeah. Oh, you can serve the grits. Some of our friends help serve the grits.

[A]

I wasn't thinking about serving as much as just being there to, you know, make everybody happy while they're being served. We all have to use our gifts.

[C]

Truth's coming out, folks. You heard that?

[A]

Will I freak if I put ketchup in my grits? Some of the guys. Some of the guys I go to Bible study with, they freak out when I put ketchup.

[C]

Well, it is gross. Who wants to smell that in the morning?

[A]

Gross. It ain't.

[C]

Nobody really wants to smell ketchup.

[A]

I was from Louisiana, and I put something red in the grits and mix it up. People would think that's the greatest thing ever. That's it. Oh, yeah, that's it. What's the word for red hot sauce? No, no, the word. It's like not rose, but roatia. It's something like that. That. It's like that, but it's. It's almost a French word.

[C]

Rosy cheek, like things.

[A]

Well, not. You're close to the word ros. Maybe that's. That's a wine, but it's a red wine. Is it?

[C]

I don't know. I'm rose colored.

[A]

Actually, I'm Baptist. So I'll have to ask.

[C]

You kind of wrote, well, one of my friends love.

[A]

You're non denominational now, right?

[C]

Stop. One of my friends loves ros. And it's kind of a rose color. Yeah.

[A]

So if we called it Ros grits.

[C]

A.

[A]

And it was developed in Louisiana, everybody would think it was the greatest thing ever. But let a guy named Bubba squirt some Heinz 57 in there, mix it up and. Oh, it's gross. Well, you know how it is.

[C]

Yeah, I do because it does smell bad and it grosses me out.

[A]

Good.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

So good.

[C]

I do know exactly.

[A]

Oh, rose grits. That's. That's going to be my recipe.

[C]

Well, and let's don't forget the burn toast and dipping it in ketchup. Yeah, I mean, when I say burned.

[A]

Black, you know, I read about that. That's some kind of vitamin deficiency. You know that when you crave burnt toast.

[C]

Did you know that I've got pica or something like that?

[A]

I have no idea.

[C]

Yeah. See a. Mm.

[A]

Anyway, I do like burnt toast. I may go back to my days of my dad cooking when we used to have sos.

[C]

He used to burn the toast.

[A]

Well, that bad? It wasn't as bad as I burn it, but it was pretty, pretty well done. But we used to have sos. You know what that stands for?

[C]

Yeah, I do. And your mom fixed that for us. And my system has not been the same. No, that was the last SOS I have had and I'll never have it again.

[A]

We're crying like, sos.

[C]

I'll never have SOS again.

[A]

It stands for stuff on a shingle.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And the shingle is the toast. And my dad, who was a cook in the army in World War II, you basically take any meat you have left and you make it. You brown it and make a gravy out of it and you put it on the toast and it's called SOS now, the soldiers had another more colorful name for it. Some of you are aware of that guy. But I love getting in there and crunching through that toast with my fork and. Oh, Betty, you don't like that?

[C]

No.

[A]

Sure now, you know, I make my own version of it. I'll take anything we got. Got chili. Oh, I've seen you put it on.

[C]

Spaghetti on a piece of burn toast. Yeah.

[A]

Good.

[C]

And probably. I can't remember. I'm sure you probably put ketchup on it. I don't remember.

[A]

Technically, that is sos Spaghetti on a shingle.

[C]

Oh, okay.

[A]

Think about that.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

So it goes right with the name.

[C]

Yep. All righty. Well, you heard it here, folks.

[A]

That's it. When in doubt, make gravy out of it.

[C]

Will not be in my box.

[A]

When in doubt, make gravy with it and throw it on a plane. Piece of burnt toast.

[C]

Gross. Oh, my.

[A]

You watch one of these fancy shelves is going to come up and perfect that and you're going to go, I'm used to make fun of it.

[C]

Yep.

[A]

Have you ever had grits on toast? Same thing.

[C]

No, I don't do a lot of carbs on carbs. You know what I mean? I try to separate them out. You know, kind of ration gos.

[A]

By the way, grits on a sheen angle, in case you want.

[C]

No, I don't guess I've had that.

[A]

No, I put anything on toast.

[C]

Really, the only time I eat grits is when we go up here to Fanny's, you know, and we love grits.

[A]

Their grits are so good. That's where we have.

[C]

Wonderful.

[A]

That's where we have our Bible study.

[C]

It is. Yeah.

[A]

The men, the goat.

[C]

We breakfast there after church a good bit too, you know. Yeah.

[A]

The goats group is really good. They enjoy that group. Good. Good group of guys.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Love the Lord. A lot of them are very resourceful and yeah, they. They solve problems. Love it.

[C]

That's right.

[A]

When somebody says, I got it taken care of. Done. You know, it's amazing because it's an older group and. And I'm in that group now and. But it's amazing how many of them have heart surgeries and stuff constantly. You know, it seemed like there's two a week.

[C]

We're at the age where everybody's having something. You know what I mean? Everybody's got something going on.

[A]

You're blessed just to be having something.

[C]

Yeah. You know, you're either. You're getting something or. Or your parents are aging and they're getting something. Or both. One or the other.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

So it's just where we're at, seasonal life, folks.

[A]

It is. You know, you look forward to that time in the life when you didn't have to work so hard and you didn't have to worry about raising kids and all of that. And now we got there and, you.

[C]

Know, that wasn't so bad, you know.

[A]

Back when I could walk to the back ballpark how much fun that was. And you miss it. But they're all stages. Life are great. They're all a blessing. That's.

[C]

They are.

[A]

Betty, thanks for being with us, honey.

[C]

Well, you're welcome. Thanks for asking.

[A]

You're one of the few guests that I can say I love you.

[C]

And just walk in the den and grab me and say, hey, come in here and let's do a second.

[A]

That's right. Forget trying to book all these big name celebrities. Heck, we got Betty in the next room. All right, we'll. We'll talk more. Just a minute. See you in the den.

[C]

All righty.

[A]

Love you.

[C]

Love you. Bye, everybody.

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They have a process where they can slow down the rate that they're fueling it and take care of the leak, but to do it at the normal speed, it's leaking. So they're going to work on it. I don't think it will require the rocket going back in. I think it's on the tower itself. So, you know, these things happen when you don't use them, but every two, three years and they need to fix it. So the launch window, we had a couple of days here in February and they have now pushed back and said the goal is for March. And I think March 6, somewhere in there is the first window. So we'll try to go then. We're sad. Yeah. But hey, let me tell you, it's so much better for them to do that now than when we are in Orlando after we have bought hotel and plane. I am a little bummed, though. I was hoping to watch the super bowl with Tim Taylor, but, you know, it's. All right. Well, we could still invite him. That's true, we could, because he's probably back here too. Yeah. So anyway, that. That's kind of a bummer. So we probably will have a podcast next week. We were going to say we probably wouldn't have one because we would be In Orlando, taping one, recording one for the next weekend. And now we will probably be here, so we'll do that. I am going to Orlando, though, for the Orlando hamf. For all of you that are sitting on the edge of your seat wanting to know the latest ham radio news. Now, this is. This is the second largest ham fest we have in the country. Dayton, Ohio, is the granddaddy of them all. It's still larger, but Orlando is growing on them. I've been there two or three years now, and it is just gigantic. I mean, if, if you. It's at the amphitheater set up there in Orlando, and it's massive. They have big buildings with inside things. They have portable classrooms set up out like little modules. Yeah, it really is like tents, but it's under a big cover and these humongous air conditioning things. And then they have what we call the boneyard. And this is where. And people there. If you didn't know it was a ham radio thing, you'd think it was a camper, camper deal, because there's so many campers there. And people just set tables up out in front of their camper and put all their crap on it and sell it. So it's perfect for ham guys. This is what they love for, to go and pick through stuff. Sounds like a geeky tailgate, is what it sounds like. Listen, if I need a sound effect for nerd alert, okay? And I understand that. And I'm in the middle of it. I got that. But we have friends that we have met down there that we set up next to each year we become good friends with. And they, they, they had great careers. One of them still, still works. One of them is retired commercial airline pilot. So. And there's a guy that brings a glider every year, and he glides all over Orlando and talks to people on his walkie talkie, his handy talkie, we call it ht. And I talked to him one year when we were going in. Floating around. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. He's up in the air. And how are you calm enough to speak? Well, I'd be more focused not to crash into something. Well, I think, you know, he's piloting it, but you catch these waves and he knows he can float. It's going up. It's hot over. Yeah. And you know, they. They go out over the water. It's a little cooler, and they drop. You know, they know how to, how to ride those things. It's real interesting, but you meet some really, really interesting people. People. Some of them Just like to sit around and talk, like what we're doing. Yeah. And some of them literally build spaceships. Okay. And missiles. And they're very interesting to talk to also, so it's always fun. But we. We got a big group here that goes. And I get to hang out with them and bunch of my friends from Birmingham that I don't see as much as I used to. So it'll be. It'll be a lot of fun. It's also super bowl weekend. Hunter, we talked a little bit about it last time you were. And it's the Seahawks and the Patriots. Any change? I know you said Seahawks are going to win this there. Right now the line is, I think Seattle four and a half. So it's looking like Seattle probably pull it out. I think after, you know, since we've talked about it last, there's been all the news about Bill Belichick not making the hall of Fame and Robert Kraft now missing the, you know, the votes to get in the hall of Fame. Why. Why are they not. The Patriots have had one of the most dominating great runs of all time, especially those Tom Brady six championships. Yeah. Tom Brady, Belichick and the owner of the franchise. They. I mean, they ought to be in now. I don't know why they're not. And they put in Jerry Jones prior to that, who is like the cancer to the team. I don't know. Sorry, Cowboys fans. It's the truth. I know it hurts, but he's got to go. But somehow he made the hall of Fame before people that actually did something. Let's examine. Examine Jerry Jones's history. Okay. He had two very top a personality coaches, okay. They both won Super Bowls, but they wouldn't put up with his crap. They wouldn't let him come down on the sidelines and call plays and all that kind of stuff. They said, I'm the coach, I'm running this show. I run it my way. Well, he didn't like it. He got rid of. He got a bunch of yes men in there now. Every one of them he's had has been a guy that just. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Sir. Yes, sir. And they suck. Yeah. Okay. So you know me just sitting here to the side. Mr. Jones, maybe you need to go back and get a good football coach. Maybe he's. Maybe he doesn't bow and curtsy every time you walk through, but he wins Super Bowls. Now you go down on the field and get that trophy. Come on. That's just crazy. I know. Well, you spent all that money to buy that team. You do what you want to do. Well, guess what? You get to go home every year after the first round of the playoffs and you watch everybody else fight for a championship. So there you go. Yeah. Have a great time. And you've seen college teams do more in that stadium every year. It's crazy. It is not that complicated. No. Anybody with common sense sees what has happened with the Cowboys and would say, jerry, be an owner. Hire the coach you want and let him do his job. Yeah. Hands off. And if he wins, great. If he loses, 5. But the problem was you kept firing the ones that were winning. Yeah. This is not that difficult. Look, I had a few business classes at Jack State. I can figure this one out. Okay. It's not that complicated. But anyway. Yeah, but I'm sorry. I mean, we've talked about this before, several times. But what I'm trying to say is I feel like the Patriots are going to have a chip on their shoulder because of that kind of disrespect towards a legendary coach and owner that's currently still there, who's still taking them to Super Bowls, even though he's not, like, coaching. Yeah. Robert Craft. But that being said, there's going to be a lot of, you know. Well, they're kind of doubting us to lose this game. This just adds more fuel to the fire. So it's us against the world. So it went and shot me. If it's a good game, I still think Seattle's defense is going to take, you know, Drake May's head off. But here is. Here's. I can say, here's another thing we can learn. Michael Jordan, Okay. One of the greatest ever at what he did. He always had a chip on his shoulder. He used that as motivation. Sometimes the chip was not even there. He made it up. Yeah. But he convinced himself in the moment. Somebody had disrespected him, made him mad, and he went out there and went nuts. Okay. And he's even admitted now sometimes people did not say to him what he said they said to him. He just said it in his mind so it would make him mad. Because he knew to be Superman, to step into that little phone booth and come out as Air Jordan. He needed to be mad. And when he was mad, he was unstoppable. That is one of my favorite scenes of that whole documentary. That guy who used to be his teammate, I think it was like, Brandon, I can't remember what the last name was. He was a point guard for the Bulls that ended up going to The Hornets. And he like, faintly screamed or something like that. And then the next game, it shows Michael in the locker room smoking a cigar saying, yeah, he was saying stuff about my mama or whatever. It's like, no, he didn't. Okay. He just screamed after he had a game winner. I'll give you. Yeah, right. I mean, normal reaction. Yeah, I'll give you another one. I know in. When the Dream Team was practicing, I heard Magic Johnson tell the story. He said, you know, we're going to. And Michael is. He's got four points, you know, in the scrimmage they're doing. And he and Magic said, hey, if you don't step into that phone booth, become Air Jordan, we're going to lose this. And he started getting on him a little bit. Well, guess what? He scored like the next 16 points. Yeah. And I mean, it's just motivation and having focus. That's why people warn about bulletin board stuff. Yeah. Do not give another team something to get rally around. Okay, that's. But with the Patriots, it is funny. Now Robert Kraft is back in the super bowl without Belichick, without Tom Brady. So the organization does have some credibility. Now, when, when they got. When Brady left, you know, they went downhill, but they were going to go downhill anyway. You can't win super bowl after Super Bowl. Your picks are so far down the line, you're not getting the good picks. So when Brady left and then won a Super bowl somewhere else, people said, well, it must be Brady. Yeah. Well, then they said, no, you know, and then he lost there the next time. Well, maybe it ain't him. Maybe. Maybe it's, you know, the coach or what down. The coach is gone. Got a new coach. And now the organizations wanted again. So Robert Kraft may have a bigger part in this than we all thought. Now, I think Belichick deserves a lot of credit to. Don't get me wrong.

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