Scuba Struggles & Hot-tub Hotpot (Ep. 4)

Darkness creeps earlier, the air turns sharp, and a craving for heat sets the tone—hot showers, outdoor tubs, and then, somehow, cold-water scuba certification in the Pacific Northwest. I walk through the comedy and pain of learning to dive where the ocean bites back: hands going numb in a dry suit, clumsy gear swaps on frozen beaches, and a one-gallon thermos of near-boiling water that becomes the only way to unlock my fingers between dives. Beneath the discomfort, the fundamentals click—buoyancy control, equalizing, breathing economy, safety stops, and the hidden math of pressure and nitrogen loads.

The reward shows up in small miracles and big moments. In murky water, a guide rattles a noisemaker and points out a tiny stubby squid; later, warm-water trips to Niʻihau flip the mood entirely with monk seals growling like nether mobs, rays ghosting overhead, and sharks passing with indifferent grace. We get into how underwater sound scrambles direction, why swimmers eat like furnaces, and what it takes to stretch a tank from 40 minutes toward an hour. There’s ocean lore too: resident vs transient orcas and their strict cultures, great whites that lose only their livers, and the bone-deep thrum of humpback songs that can rattle your chest.

Above the surface, we riff on storms as sleep music, the weird comfort of sea legs on land, and a burst of gaming nostalgia—from early Fortnite chaos to COD zombies marathons and the hype for GTA VI. It’s all one thread: seeking heat in cold places, trading comfort for curiosity, and finding perspective between pressure and pause. If short days have you dragging, consider this your invitation to explore—hot tubs, dive shops, or whatever pushes you into a new layer of the map.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Fall Vibes And Daylight Saving
• 1:05 Hot Tub Lore And College Stories
• 4:55 Getting Scuba Certified In Cold Water
• 12:10 Gear, Dry Suits, And Fighting The Cold
• 18:30 First Warm-Water Dives In Hawaii
• 23:10 Marine Life Encounters And Underwater Sound
• 28:55 Buoyancy Basics And Breathing Efficiency
• 33:40 Orcas, Sharks, And Ocean Lore
• 40:10 Boats, Whales, And Harsh Seas
• 44:10 Gaming Nostalgia: Fortnite And COD
• 51:30 Hopes For GTA VI And Collectibles

Transcript

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Hey yo, what's good? We're back crashing out. Another week in the books. We're getting balls deep in fall, edging on winter. Jack Frost is just around the corner. You can see he's he's visited my neck already. But definitely getting colder out there. Days are getting shorter. Just always uh it's dark. It's early. It's about to get even worse. I think the next week is daylight savings, or I think so. Is it save savings? Is that I don't know. How's that work? Is it saving or what's like regular time? Daylight spending? Are we spending right now? Are we you know blowing those sunshine bands? I don't know what what the technical terms are. I feel like that should be. That's not that makes sense for the you know the counterpart to daylight saving, daylight spending. But think about, I mean, at least we get an extra hour of sleep out of the deal, but that just sucks when it's like dark at four o'clock. I'm not really you know pumped about that, but you know, it is what it is. Well we'll make new. Gotta get our, you know, actually I've never used those, you know, those like sun, what is it called? Like light therapy. I don't know. I feel like they're kind of I feel like I know people who have used them and they say they like them. I've never tried them, so if people recommend, maybe I'll check one out. Uh I don't know, I have to get that seasonal shit. I just, you know, I like I like the sunshine. I'm definitely a little bit of a, you know, a fair weather fiend. But it's getting cool out, it makes me want to hop in a hot tub. Um although I I want to hop in a hot tub all the time, so actually doesn't mean anything. But I feel like it definitely hits, like, especially if you've ever been in like outdoor hot tubs, actually any time of year, even all weather. But it's not as like when you when it's cold out and you get in a nice hot tub, but even when it's hot and hot tubs. I remember like uh when I ran college tracking cross-country in LA, sometimes I would do a real, a real warm-up. And by warm-up, I mean you know, actually get warm, and I would like just sit in the hot tub before practice. Um, although I would always be pissed. I was kind of addicted to it. Like it's some dumb shit. They'd like lock it up. You're not allowed to go in the hot tub when it's over 90 degrees outside. He was an outdoor one. I'm like, this is some bullshit. Why can't I why can't I, you know, roast myself, make myself a little hot pot? But those are the rules. There's some big fence around it. I kind of debated trying to climb it, but it was it's pretty tall. This shit was like, I mean, it was at least 15 feet. It's kind of like overkill. I don't know why they had this like Fort Knox hot tub. I mean, I I debated climbing at a time or two, I will admit. Um, but I don't know what that would have done. They've probably been like, what the hell is wrong with you? Like it's 100 degrees out where you're trying to go in the hot tub already. But it's it's about that's one thing I wish I had in my apartment. Maybe, I mean, honestly, yeah, I'll swap up my bed for a hot tub, just get a scuba tank, just sleep there. I'd be down scuba in the hot tub. That'd be kind of a vibe. I kind of like sitting underwater in the hot tub. That actually has happened at a time or two. Well, I didn't fall asleep. But sometimes I just like I think you're not supposed to do it, but I'd like just go sit on the bottom of the hot tub, kind of like wedge myself down there and just you know, vibe underwater for a few minutes. And there's this one time, it was before practice. And sometimes it was a thing where people would like I think the trainers, if people were kind of hurt, would send people like to like soak a sore spot before running and shit, before doing more of the actual practice stuff. But there's one time where I was in the hot tub, you know, usual routine, just you know, hanging out, got out of class, and it was like I could, you know, do some work for a half hour, or I could just go sit in the hot tub before I gotta run. Um and I chose the latter, obviously. I suppose a vibe in the hot tub, you know, relaxing. It's usually pretty quiet there, honestly. I mean, especially when it is hot out, no one's going to the fucking hot tub. Um, I guess sometimes if I go later, there would be like if they had like the swim and dive team. I guess like honestly, that sounds fun because like the divers, I feel like they just hang out in the hot tub, go dive, and go hang out in the hot tub again. So that would have been a vibe. Because I feel like sometimes I got to say what's up to some of them. But I I normally wasn't there at the same time. Otherwise, it's usually pretty quiet there. But one time, uh, this time they're talking about, I was hanging out, doing my thing, and I was, you know, chilling on the bottom. It was probably, I don't know, probably gonna go there longer than I should have at the time. And then I popped back up and there's like a shoddy sitting like directly across from me with her foot in the water. And I don't I think she had to know him I was there. Normally they would turn on the jets. It was just like, uh, what's what's good? Hey, yo, how you doing? You come here often? Like, I did not know how to play that. It was pretty entertaining. I think she got a kick out of it. Like, I don't know what you think. Like, if you can just like walk up. I'm trying to think about it from her perspective. You get up to come to the hot tub and you just see a motherfucker like laying on the bottom. I mean my eyes are closed. I'm not gonna be looking at my like burning my eyes underwater like to see what's good and just but you like walk up, see me there, and I just pop up. It's it's kind of entertaining. Didn't know how to play it. But I I could get I could get jiggy with having a hot tub for a bed laying there, scuba. I now I'm I mean recently became scuba certified. Maybe we'll get into that more. That was a whole process. But in general, I just you know, hot tub and like mountain y places when it's cool, that's the vibe, or even in like a hot weather, especially in Hawaii. I like basically do a rotation of go swim around, look at fish and swim, and then go after I get kind of cold or like too much, you know, when you get too salty, that's the thing. Or if especially if I'm like snorkeling around, I feel like I get more water in my mouth, and then like at some point I feel like I've eaten like way too much. You know, if you get had too much sesame chicken or Chinese food sound salty, like takeout, and like you just feel puffy, that's sometimes how I get from swimming in the ocean for too long. It's it takes a while, but I definitely get there. Then I'm like, okay, we'll go to the freshwater hot tub. Then I'll go there until I'm like too hot, although that that takes like a good hour in the hot tub, especially if it's hot. And then I'll go lay in the sun for a minute to dry out, and then you know, just keep that going all day. Take breaks to you know, go get some lunch, go to the farmer's market, stuff like that. It's a good vibe. But also good vibes is like some good weather. I mean, it's nice in the sunshine. It is kind of a vibe in the hot tub when it's rainy. I don't think I can think of a bad vibe for a hot tub, at least personally. Some people haters. I like hot tubs, hot showers. I feel like allegedly, um I think well, you know, they say how girls like to take like devil pissed hot showers. I think I might even like them hotter because I've had some shoddies, but like, what the hell? You can't I can't get in there, it's too hot. You're hurting yourself. One chick told me I need to go to therapy, he said, this is like a form of self-harm. This is too hot. I don't know what that yet was about. I mean, it's just it's just a good vibe. I like it hot. What can I say? I don't I don't think I'm on any um um whatever that I don't even know what the term for that is. Is that a thing? Do people actually do that? I've never looked into that. Like, if you I don't know, I don't I don't got burn marks in my back or nothing. I don't think it's that bad. I just like it a little bit toasty, you know. And I don't think there's anything wrong with that. But correct me if I'm wrong if there's any you know doctors out there in the chat. I don't know if anyone's listening to this, but if anyone is, I appreciate you. Thank you for you know tuning in, being a founding father of this, you know, masterpiece that is taking place. And yeah, appreciate you, and you're welcome also for providing you with such great wisdom and entertainment. But yeah, no, I'm I'm really racking my brain. Can't think of a bad time for a hot dog. Even a lightning storm is not not a good idea, but it would be kind of a vibe. I love thunderstorms too. The good thunderstorm, curl it up in bed, you hear the extreme pitter pet or the rain and the occasional thunderstorms. I feel like that's I don't quite get down some people that like love their white noisemakers where they just got like old-fashioned TV static at like deafening levels. I have no idea how people sleep with that. But like the rain sounds or thunderstorm, I I can get with that. Sometimes in college on some like theoretical, like really annoying lame Matt CS stuff, when I like procrastinate my homework, one of my like extreme lock-in grink something out in like the last day before something's due. Really had ass strategies, but I'd just like turn off all the lights in my dorm with like one little lamp. Also a key thing. I would just have like an entire like jug of blue Hawaiian punch and then you know put on a hoodie in the dark, lightly lit room, and put on headphones at blast thunderstorm's house to you know, really focus. That was that was a pretty stupid thing. I don't know if I'd fall asleep to that. Other sounds, oh, I feel like there's like this like Delta Wave sound thing at like uh I don't know, some YouTube, but let's sometimes that's kind of good vibes. I have feel like I've tried to sleep through that. When I've there's like mostly times we're actually in cross-country stuff, where in California, especially a lot of times, the meets they'd actually like start the race at 7 a.m. just because it gets so hot if later in the day, especially like when it's like late summer races. Um, and like if we had to drive somewhere, by the time we got there, had to like factor in driving and then a warm-up before the race and just getting ready. We have to leave like so early, like the bus would leave at like 4 a.m. sometimes, and like then factor in like even like getting up, getting my stuff together, and then getting across campus to the bus. There's times where like set my alarm for like 3 a.m. and be so dumb. And then oh my goodness, our coach too sometimes wants us to like run a mile after waking up before I'm there, so then it'd be like an extra hour they gotta get there. Is like I don't even know why I bother sleeping. I mean, you definitely should sleep before the race, but I was never on like a good enough sleep schedule to actually like get any real quality sleep or like fall asleep at eight. I don't I don't know how I mean I guess we had early practices, but that's like so ridiculous with early. So like sometimes being desperate trying to like watch like random meditation videos, he just makes me fall asleep. Like, how navies feel asleep in like 30 seconds didn't work for me. I guess I'm not not cut out to be a CEO. I um maybe maybe I can acquire that trick. That'd be kind of nice. Or the Deltoy was one of something. I think there was like some Andrew Huberman, I don't know, some like mini sleep nap podcast like thing. I tried to listen to that. He's got a soothing thing to listen to, but never knocked me out. So I tried a lot. Anywho, that was going we're going all over the place. Um oh yeah, I was gonna go back to school driving because I got into that. That was one thought I had. I've never done it in a hot tub. I feel like that just I wonder how that affects, because I feel like there's lots of things. I don't know, it's probably not great to have the tank get that hot. I don't know. I don't know at what point it becomes like problematic. I mean, I don't think it's hot enough to make the thing blow up, but I feel like any pressurized tank, you probably don't want to get hot. But I did finally get whatever certified this year. I think like I was kind of wanted to, because I like I was like swimming around in the oceans, diving with fishies. I mean, I just do like snorkeling or not not with like snorkel things, because I feel like I'd always just like end up like choking on water with that. And then also like to dive deeper. I mean, I guess you can and you gotta blow it every time, but that's just so much work. I was like, I can just lift my head out of the water. I feel like it seems like so extra to have like the whole snorkel when you can just like turn your head and breathe. I don't know. That's just me though. Um, you know, different whatever flows your boat, different strokes, whatever they say. But I like just having like the swimmer goggles nav been around. So then I was like always kind of interested in like cool places where I'd like swimming around and seeing cool stuff, see the people down there deeper scuba diving. Like, that'd be kind of cool. I'm jealous, especially when there's cool stuff. I don't they don't gotta come to breathe. So for like years I always wanted to, especially doing it in Hawaii when I visited. But the process is like, well, it's expensive. A it also takes a long time, it's like a week of stuff. I mean, maybe it's quicker if you like are really grinding at like full day things, maybe it's only a few days, but it's like a full days. And I never I just kind of I never wanted to do the time on vacation to do it. I figured, you know, I'll do it somewhere else when I'm like not on vacation, not spend the potential beach time learning the stuff, the ropes when I can do that elsewhere. And I put it off for years because I think I was probably like I was pretty young. There's like one time I tried it in a pool. I'm like, oh, this is kind of sick. I feel like I'm Poseidon, I'm Aquaman. I don't need no air. I mean, I guess I have air. I guess I just I don't gotta come up though, you know. But anyways, I finally bit the bullet. Um, it was in the in the PNW, and it was in winter, so it was a bold call for um deciding to jump in the ocean because it's cold as shit. But I was like kind of reading things, I was like, yeah, people definitely said, I mean, also apart from the just like taking the time of vacations in some places maybe to learn a little bit better than when it's like places that are super easy, which is maybe true, but it was honestly I was suffering. It was it was it was rough. General basics, we just did stuff in the pool. Honestly, even that got kind of hard. I like water tires you out, it really does. It like just drains you, and I think that's like one of the things why you know when they used to have those subway commercials, like for like Michael Phelps, and he's like, yo, I I'd be gobbling like these foot-long glizies, 10 of them a day, is whatever 12,000 calories. Like the reason though that swimmers do is not because they're like exercising so much, but it's because like the water is you just like burn so much energy trying to stay warm because the water cools you off. And I was like, dang. I mean, I read that and I was like, okay, dang it. But I didn't like really process that until I was like doing this training in the pool and just in a swimsuit with a tank. We weren't even we were in the water in the pool for like two hours, but after like an hour, I was actually like visibly like shivering in the water. And it I mean it was cooler, but it wasn't like cold water. I feel like it's like 70, maybe 70 degrees. I don't know. If you know your pool temps, I could be saying something totally off. I don't know. I didn't I wasn't checking, so the number doesn't matter. It just after not that long, just doing some stuff where you're not really moving that much in the pool. I think yeah, you get really cold. I feel like as a kid spending lots of time in the pool, I'd never noticed that. But I think it's because you're doing a lot more, you're like really fucking around, throwing stuff around, swimming around, being way more active. But when I'm just like sitting there trying to do these like basic things and learn all this like equipment, it got it got chilly. Even the later days when we're like in there longer and like put on a full wetsuit, it was better, but I still got kind of cold. But learning the ropes was interesting. Um nothing too crazy. There are some things. I mean, I guess it's good to do it in a pool where it's like I feel like the first stuff is feels like a little bit unnatural. Um, I think one of the things that they said, which I was like, yeah, whatever, but it definitely was a little bit harder. It's like, especially for runners, you don't want to breathe through your your nose, always through your mouth, which I guess you kind of have an instinct more to your nose. You're just kind of always like sucking air out of every hole, um, you know, pause. But when you're running and you kind of gotta like fight that sometimes when you're underwater, like you try to like, I feel like just you know slurch some air, and then I'm like, oh, I cannot do my nose, especially if I can have the mask off and just like, or if there's water in it, and you just start like snorting oxygen or not oxygen, it's just water, and like you cough kind of the bottom of the pool. It's not it's kind of uncomfy, so it's kind of like a weird. I guess stuff could go pretty wrong. There's like lots of risk, but it's also pretty safe once you know what you're doing. So it's just kind of weird to get used to it at first. But I mean, some people, I think there was a lady that had to dip or once we got to the ocean. Makes sense, but they they didn't she didn't do it. It was a little bit more robust than like I mean they did it. I was a high school uh lifeguard during high school in the summers, and like the training for that. Um, I don't think anyone failed it, but there's like no way some of these shoddies should have like passed it. Like if anyone, you know, larger than like 12 pounds was in trouble, they're gonna fetch chicks in the pool. Like it was something that's not like not that hard and definitely should be capable of like for someone who's gonna be in charge of like watching over in safety, being a lifeguard, I feel like should 100% be capable of this. It was in like the diving bar pool was like maybe 10-15 feet deep, and they'd throw down like a five-pound break, and you're supposed to like just dive down and get it. And some of them couldn't do it, and I'm like, that's concerning. And I think they maybe finally did that for many tries and like barely, and I'm like, I mean, I don't know. I don't I wouldn't feel if I if I smack my head on the board or something dumb is done so don't send your kids there uh if you are concerned about them doing some stuff. But does the scoop traffic seem more legit? I don't know if it's I mean I guess it's good. Definitely was concerning about the high lifeguard stuff, but that's besides the point. But some the pool was cold. Um water, ocean in the northwest, way colder. I don't know if even even like California, just west coast beaches, ass. Um okay, the beach is a good vibe, but like doing anything water ass. I think I've got spoiled by like Hawaiian beaches versus like decently warm water. Because the first time when I first moved to LA and like went to the beach, like Malibu or like Santa Monica, and like try to go out to the water, I'm like, I have to be like actively swimming as hard as I can or I'm gonna like fucking freeze. It's it's chilly, and I did not realize that. So even in a warm pool when you're just doing not much, um, and I was getting cold and then I was like real nervous with the water. So I did add this one thing, which I'm very glad I did, because it still sucked us, it's like a dry suit that you do the scuba diving in, which is like kind of like some extra thing where it's like this big old I don't even know how to describe, it's kind of like an astronaut type suit, where it like totally wraps up your whole body. Um other than I guess your head and your hands have some like wrist heels that go around them to keep your body dry, and you wear some special like onesie suit underneath it. That these like I guess everything in scuba is just so expensive. I don't, you know, I need some I need some broad if I really want to get into it, and and maybe somewhere warmer also. There's all sorts of fancy gadgets. But um I think it's some special material that maybe doesn't hold much air because when you go deeper, if you have air, it kind of makes you harder to sink and all of this. But I did it in that and I I still freezing. Um in general, my hand circulation I feel like is not that great. These hands get even when I don't got ice on the wrist, hands just get cold and just walks anything outside running. I feel like it's a little bit better. I gotta wear gloves normally, but they can warm up. But I don't know. I don't think I have like the what's it called, rain odds where your hands like turn like blue and black. I mean I had some friends and some shotties that had that, and like that looks it looks like that thing's gonna about to like fall off. I don't have that, they just like get they don't work, especially problematic, you know, in the Midwest winters when I have to go shovel and come in and you know hop on Fortnite with the boys. I'm like, if I still was playing out, like even controller, but particularly the keyboard too, it's like I actually my my aim was off because my hands were so cold, and it was I like legit tried some you know, real head-ass MLG Pro gamer shit, like trying to buy some like hand gloves to increase your circulation at the warm up quicker. But normally I just have to stick my hands in warm water for like five minutes before you know we we got to drop in Tilted Towers, so I was you know in peak performance mode. But scuba diving, even with some thick gloves, my hands stood no chance, so it was a pain. After like getting out of the water, my hands just did not work at all. And you have all this stuff on you, and like these people are like trying to like keep things going because you had to do a few different dives to do like different tests and like make sure you can do things underwater, like take apart your gear and whatnot. But it was it was rough even underwater trying to do this stuff. It's like I kept losing function of my hands to like get it down. I I did, you know, I did it all, but then the worst part is honestly afterwards when you get out of the water and you're just like you're I mean, even beyond my pants, like you're just cold to the bone, even with all this stuff on, it's cold. Like the water is like I don't actually know the temperature, it's like 50, 40s, I don't know, somewhere in between there. And I mean, I don't think it's that much warm in the summer. I think the ocean's pretty stable. I mean, maybe a little bit, but also it doesn't help when it's I think one of the nights it was like below freezing, it was like in the 20s, so then you come out and it's like everything's freezing on you, and you have like all this gear that you gotta like clip off and like unclip from yourself and to hook up a new tank, but I was like, I legit can't, my hands actually don't work. So it was a struggle the first few times, like they were like looking at me like what's wrong with you, and I was like, they had like helped me put on my gloves. It was kind of pathetic. Like, I actually like I couldn't even like bend my fingers enough to put my hands back in these gloves underwater, and I definitely needed them because they were in horrible shape even with the gloves. It was it was I don't know, it was an ordeal. What I ended up doing for the later days of it was it this first one? I don't know. Because I did take like a second class a few months later that was like a more advanced. I mean, not that much more, but just for more practice, and then you learn some more things about going deeper and whatnot. There are lots of things to learn, so it was fun. But I bought like a one-gallon thermos that I would fill with boiling water in the mornings, and I'd bring that with me and just throw it in the back of the truck, and it was it was a sight to see. I'd like to hobble out of the water, like shivering and like real stiff. My hands barely worked. I'd kind of like fumble with my like block hands to open the trunk, and then like with like no dexterity in my hands, just trying to use my palms to open this thing and just dip my gloved hands into the boiling water until they got like warm enough to slightly move, and then I got enough finger strength to like unclip my stuff. I don't I'd be curious to know what the like the instructors and other people in the class thought of me. They're like, This what the fuck is wrong with this kid? Because I didn't even, I was kind of concerned the first few times. I was like, I have no idea. I don't know if you've ever had like really cold hands and you like put it under like even cold water that's just warmer than your hands but still cold and it feels like it's burning. I was like, I actually can't could not tell if I'm like actually just blistering my hands, giving myself like third degree burns or something right now, but we gotta we gotta heat them back up somehow. So it was interesting times. Many of the interesting things I've done, but we look we learned it, got better at it. Um, well, I don't know. I mean that part didn't get better. I just got figured out some strategies. I tried buying some hand warmers to hold them between it helped, but nothing really took the edge off. I think there are like fancy suit gloves, like dry gloves, um, that maybe are better. There are lots of things that I think help, especially in like cold water diving that take the edge off, but it's also expensive. But I don't know if these dry gloves where they like hook up to your suit and keep your hands actually dry. Because like my gloves, my hands are still in the water. And like I feel like that's a big part of it. So I don't know if the thing I mean they'd still be cold with the this rubber like hand condom that hooks up and keeps your hand dry. But maybe like that plus gloves, which I think is what people normally do, is better. So I'd be like, yeah, try that. Although I don't know if you can do that with a rental suit. I have no idea. If you know someone, you know, let me know. Because I have I'm like renting my suit. I don't got the bands for that. Everything's so expensive. Other things that are expensive and maybe useful, like there's like special heated vests that you can wear, but they gotta be like whatever, pressure and waterproof. Those are also like a rack, I feel like when I looked at the dive shop. And that's what all the instructors had, which made me feel better or at least understand more. Because I was like, I'm just like dying, I'm like freezing cold the whole time, just hanging on, feeling like it's by a thread, but they're just kind of I mean, they seem chilly, but they're kind of vibing a lot more. And I'm like, okay, that that checks out. You got all the gear to like survive. I think they say some people do it without the the the dry suit. I actually cannot fathom how you do that. Like I can fathom a lot of head of shit, but that's something that I just don't know. Like, can I get my eat some like GMO something stuff to like make me like really crank some heat production? I don't actually know how that would how that work. They have those like there's some like diet pills that I think basically if you really want or done on like the biochemit, like interrupts like some when you're eating food, you break down like glucose, just pyruvate. Wait, I think so. I think I got that right. That's a glycolysis, and then it goes into your mitochondria, you know, your powerhouse. Everyone knows that. Uh but that's where you know the real magic happens, where it's like essentially you're pumping protons into like the the inner part of the the middle-ish. I don't know, there's multiplayers, like an a make I forget the name, inner membrane, inner membrane space. And so you get like a whole bunch of protons jammed in there and you make them shuffle out, go through the subway ticker gates, and when those ticker gates like spin, it makes them ATP. But these drugs basically put holes in the wall so those protons come flying back down and you can't make energy, but you make a lot of heat. Um I think they were good for diets, but I think they're pretty dangerous. I think they're banned by the FDA. I think that's maybe the first thing bad by the FDA. That might be wrong. I don't know. But it's pretty bad for anything, like fuck up your heart. So don't don't fuck around with that, but maybe, maybe to stay warm. I'd be I'd be I'd be tempted, not gonna lie. Um but don't don't try that at home. Definitely don't. That's kind of I feel like there's security stuff because they have like I don't actually know what's bad about it, but I know it makes some bad stuff that does bad things to you, so I don't actually want to find out. But maybe there's other stuff. I don't know. Because there's like different types of fat. Is it brown fat? Is white fat just like the the the good old regular jiggly fat? There's like brown fat where like that's what like bears and stuff got where it makes more warmth. How do I get some of that? Let me fatten up to hibernate or scuba dive. I don't know. Maybe I gotta eat the right berries. If any if there's any bears out there listening, you can let me know. Let me know. Um, yeah. But I don't think there's too much more on that. Just nothing's so eventful. Only did like the training on a few dives with the club. I mean, it was pretty cool. There's like lots of stuff in the northwest. I think it's pretty biodiverse, as they say. Although I think I was kind of spoiled like swimming around because I got to go to the Galapagos once, and that was so crazy. It was like the little mermaid under the sea. Where there's like just so many things like sharks and fish and turtles and iguana, like the Godzilla marine iguanas diving around, those are super cool, and penguins and flightless cormorants. I was just like, So when I tear all about this like gas about like the the Puget Sound and other whatever Pacific Northwest areas of diving, how rich they are. I mean, there was cool stuff, but I was like, this is kind of like they're not a whole lot going on. And it I think it does, you know, growing you start to appreciate some of these smaller things. So these things I called like Nudibranks, that's the symbol for them underwater that people always do. They're actually like super cool. There's like these little like super dripped-out frilly slugs, and they're all colors and variations of them. So it's like little stuff. These people that like are diehard divers, like I have not gotten to this level where they pick out the teeniest, tiniest things and like like you know, come over here, um, click it. I should they don't click it, or I don't know. I think I went diving once. This lady had, I think she had like some little rattle that works well. It's crazy though, like how far away you hear it. And it's sound underwater is so trippy, I think, because like sound travels so fast in water, um, it throws off your hearing. Like normally when you're on land and you hear sounds, there's like it goes slower through the air, so it hits your ears that like one way different than the other. I mean, not way different, but different enough for your brain to know. Like, then it can like triangulate or whatever the word is to figure out where the sound is coming from. But it's too quick underwater, and you just have no idea. Like, I just hear this little rattle sound and I'm like looking around, like, what the hell? Anywho, um, they really pick out the teeniest, tiniest things, and I think I'm like also just not like fully, you know, like second nature enough on all like the equipment stuff. Because like, I mean, I really had no idea anything about scuba diving. Like the main thing is like this boy, if you don't know scuba diving, you have this like big like life jacket sort of thing. It's called like your this BCD, what's this buoyancy control device? Yes, that's what it's called. And like you either like pump air from your tank into it or not to like make you float or sink less. You kind of want yourself to always be like not buoyant or sinking. You just kind of want to like float at whatever depth you're at, and you gotta kind of gotta like pump air, let air out as you go. As you like sink, you've gotta the air gets compressed more, so you'll sink faster and faster if you don't pump some air in as you go, so you gotta kind of be careful. And I mean that's like very basics of it, but when I'm like kind of like constantly trying to like figure out remember where the buttons are and press them, I feel like I'm focused on that a lot more than looking around. And some of these stuff is so tiny. I think I guess there's something that was allegedly pretty rare. Um, if you're in the now, you might I think it's called like a stubby snub. I don't think it's not snubby, I think stubby, stubby little squid. It's kind of a cute little thing. If you it looks like some like cartoon animal, honestly. It's got these like big eye. I think they're eyes. I don't know. If you look at pictures. Of them. They're they're pretty cute. And I was my first dive with the club after doing like the open whatever basic certification. And I was um snorkeling with the shawty who was like leading it, and she took me and she like pointed out this thing. It was super cool, but I'm like, how in the hell did you see this little thing in the sand as we're going? I like I actually just don't know. But I'm always impressed. And like then you I feel like you do appreciate the little things more once you get going, and then there's cool stuff. I haven't done it enough because I feel like some of these people know all these like different size, like the back of their hand, and it's it's kind of impressive, honestly. So maybe I'll get there. I don't know if I got the the uh thermal capabilities to do it, but maybe if you all hit the lotto, this takes off and I got racks on racks, I can get nice warm gear. Um, I need like hand heaters, no heated gloves to that thing. It needs to be. Or I don't know, I just gotta figure out something better. But there's cool stuff. I never got to see the there's like the Great Pacific octopus, which I think is like the the holy, well, not the holy grail, but because I think they're fairly common. This around here, I never saw one of those, but it's not cool stuff. Like um, what do they call it? The wolf eels. Um, those are kind of interesting, they're kind of ugly looking creatures, and they're just hanging these rocks. They look, I guess they also look finding not finding Nemo, which the Little Mermaid. Um and the kind of the cool thing about some of the scuba stuff is like a lot of the science reporting is done by these people just doing it for the love of the game. Like one of the instructors, I guess, was saying he found the the first thruple of these wolf eels, and like the scientists were like, What? Ain't no way. They don't be freaky like that. They don't have no wolf eel Eiffel Towers, we've never seen that before. But and I guess he took them out there and showed them this wolf eel two man going on, and they were like, What? Um, but yeah, so that part's kind of cool where there's like all these people like out in the field, just you know, vibing and they're like seeing the some new stuff. But I think there is other cool stuff. I mean, there's like sea lions. I never got to scoop it up with those in Northwest. Um other thing I don't know if they're here or not. I watched this like documentary thing about it, but there's like these like super deep sea sharks that are like super rare, but maybe they like come into like the Puget Sound, like even like right around, like in like downtown Seattle or something, where people are catching them, or like these babies. Um that'd be cool. I don't know if people I think people do just scoop it out with them. I feel like if they said in the documentary, so that'd be kind of sick. I think they get huge though, so it'd be kind of spooky. But I guess if they're nice, I don't know if I don't think they're I feel like they look like they had teeth. I don't know. Is it a basking shark, a Greenland shark? I'm trying to think of names of sharks. Nurse. No, not nurse. That's not it. If you're if you're a shark fiend or shark expert, let me know. I'll have to double check after this, but that would be kind of sick. But it seems like they come in waves, like they'll be like super popular, at least from what they're saying, make a resurgence, but maybe it's like they it's like a daycare every whatever breeding cycle, and who knows? Because I think these things live deep in the ocean for long periods of time, but they just you know come back up. So that's kind of cool. That'd be sick to see. I don't know if there's other animals I'm missing, but I think there is cool stuff that I'd like to see more of. And there's I don't know, it's very pretty areas to dive, or like even just like that when you come up out of the water, some of the areas in the northwest, just all the trees. There's one place is like kind of like a secluded. I don't know what the heck the name of this place was. It's like maybe like one of the first or biggest, oldest homesteads in the US. Oh my gosh. What's it called? Like Sunda Rock or something. It was pretty, it was also so beautiful. Like there's a little like parking lot surrounded on the water by all these trees and seeing bald eagles fly around. It was so cold though. Because I think also the places where there's like some freshwater runoff that's freezing cold, like some mountain water just pouring on you. And it's not supposed to like you can't see shit in the water. It's like the mix of, I guess, fresh and salt water makes it turn like so like blurry in such a weird way. The first time I was in it, like before I was like going down, I was like trying to wash out my goggles a few times, like kept doing it because I like put my goggles, you put on some like anti-fog stuff before you now, so you don't have to. I mean, you a lot of times do you have to clean them out in the water when you're down there, like you let water and then wash it and then drain it by pumping in your nose air into it to blow out the water. Um, that doesn't matter. That's in the nitty-gritty. But when you kind of first are like put on, you rub it and like wash it off, and I like put them on and looked in the water, I'm like, I can't see shit. And I kept thinking, like, I was like, how have I not wiped off like all this excess anti-fog? But then like, no, that's just the salt in fresh water mixing. I'm like, oh, I thought it was actually just like somehow totally um incompetent and could not figure out how to rinse off this uh film from my goggles, but I was like, it's not that, it's not that much, it's not that hard. But then it's like you get through it and it's like all of a sudden you can see it's kind of it's really weird. I don't know how to describe it. It's kind of like swirly, kind of like if you're like looking through like a TV static, but like uh transparent, it's I don't know. But if if you've if you've ever experienced it, you'll know what I mean. It's kind of trippy. I don't know if there's other stuff that makes that similar like phenomenon, but you really just cannot see shit, and the water's so cold. I think there's one that's like got to almost like low 40 degrees, and that was also maybe an area like that, and we got deep. But there's cool stuff. You really don't know, although also how deep you are. I think the deep I don't think I've actually gotten into triple digits past a hundred. I think I've only gotten like eighty, but like honestly, you can't tell really how deep you are, like it does not that much different. It's kind of crazy. So that's also something you gotta be careful of. You don't want to go too deep or whatnot. But it makes sense, I guess like the physics of it. The first time, well, even just like swimming in like deep pools, sometimes like when you go down to the bottom of like the dive pool, I'm like, this kind of hurts my ears. How do people dive so deep? But I guess like you kind of like blow your ears, kind of like when you go on a plane sometimes to equalize as you go down. But when you I think it's like every 10 meters, there's like a whole atmosphere, so you see like when you go down 10 feet, or I guess 10 meters, like 30 feet, that's like double the pressure that you do on like at C level at least. And so like you have to like get used to like double the pressure, so like it's like the top stuff is like the most violent, but then if you go down like another 10 meters, I don't know if that unit's right, if that's the right distance, something like that. Then you go to like three atmospheres, but like going from two to three is like only like a 50% jump relative to like double, and then I mean like from there, I feel like you just kind of like it's smaller pressure differences, I guess, if that makes sense. And then I honestly I feel like if the first time I don't ever need to like equalize again, I feel like my ears just automatically do it, luckily. But I don't know how if you got your ear like plugged, that'd be so rough. I don't I don't know how. I mean, I think you're supposed to just go up. There are a lot of things that could go wrong, but it's been smooth so far. Luckily, knock on wood. That was not what it's drywall. Um sorry girl, spooked my dog doing that. Hope knock on this wood for real. Anywho, definitely a trip. And after all of that, I finally be with a broken foot, which I was hoping was gonna be able at that point, but scuba diving for the first time in warm water in Hawaii. Um, and that was so much more fun. Still chilly, but without having to do the big dry suit, you also like feel like you look kind of like an astronaut in the suit, and it's kind of hard to move around in the water. Also, I guess you don't want to move around so much because I guess you're burning oxygen, but it'd be kind of nice to like stay a little bit warmer. You're just kind of like meandering, drifting around, like but in in Hawaii when it's like just wearing a wet suit, like you can do like full or a half, and I was like, no, give me the full. I'll take all the warmth I can, honestly, after having been in the water places. I don't know, it just gets cool real quick. But that was a lot more fun when everything was not numb, and it was super cool. So I went, I was visiting Kawaii, that island, and then we went to this island, Ni'ihao, to go scuba dive, which is like a forbidden isle. Well, they call it the forbidden isle. I think in I actually have no idea. I think it was, I mean, it was one it was sold to some I think it's like the Sink or Robinson family. I don't know. I don't know, the name doesn't matter, but they live there now, or they own the island. I don't know if they live there, and the only people that are allowed are like them and the native Hawaiians who originally lived there. I think the origin of that was if I remember, and this could also all just be kept, you know, this is all going off like tour info. There was some lady who's from New Zealand, some badass pirate lady. Well, I don't think she's a pirate. Um, I didn't mean to slander her. I think she was going to Cali to catch it on the gold rush. But and she maybe stopped by Hawaii on the way, and they were like, thought she was sick. Um, this lady running the ship, and they're like, hey, yo, come on stay. And she's like, no, I gotta go get some gold, gotta get secure the bag in Cali. But she got there, and I guess at that point, uh, Cali was uh nowhere near as progressive as they are currently. They were real sexists back in the day when Shaw just couldn't out on land, so she's like, fuck this ham out, unfortunately. Um, and then went to Hawaii and then bought this whole island to like sold to her. I don't know how much of a bag that cost back then, but this is probably a pretty good come-up if you were flipping it. Although I think there's some condition where it can't be sold or it has to all be kept together, which is cool. But no one can go to the island. Like I think if you go there, well, you have to be like invited by the native Hawaiians, and I mean I don't know how that process works. But also the one feels like I don't actually have any idea like what it'd be cool to like just know what's out there. I don't need to visit. I mean cool to visit, but I don't you gotta like be like cleared by like doctors because I don't think they got like a hospital in there and you don't want to bring them any new uh you know smallpox blankets like happened in the Americas, R and P and the fucked up shit like that. Um it would that wouldn't be good. So I don't exactly know how like things keep going there. I think when the kids grow up, they maybe go to either go to school from also I this is all hearsay or whatever they say, and then maybe once they're done with that, they can choose to either you know stay in the the modern world or go back to you know native Hawaiian, which I think it's gotta be such a trip, like that transition, like going from like homeschool to you know just public school or college, but like up to like a thousand, like even with the transition of going from Ni'iha to like school in like Hawaii, if that's how they do it. Which maybe isn't, maybe this is all bullshit. I don't actually entirely know, but that's what I've been told. Word on the street is heard to the grapevine, and you're hearing it from me. Um no more grapevine. So but so you can't go on the island, but you can scuba dive around it. And so that's what I did with this look little charter, and that was super cool. And there's also like this little island, it's not the island, it's called Lehua. It's like a big basically just a big rock off the island. I think it's a bird sanctuary now. Something like that. But it's kind of a cool rock. Looks like a little mini island, you know, but it's things just like real steep and rocky, and she lost a bird all over it. And maybe they dropped some like rat nuke on it a while ago or something, they're telling me, like you maybe had like rat problems, and those were like eating the birds, and somehow they eradicated them. I don't know how they do that. Kind of interesting. I know there's like in like the Galapagos, like, goats are a problem and they're gun run some of them, but I feel like they had to do stuff kind of like they do in Texas with the pigs when they just like flew choppers around and we're just going like Vietnam chopper gunner, calling in the Huey, the AC-130, and just blasting the shit out of the goats. Which I mean, I guess it worked. I feel like there's definitely gotta be some, you know, casualties, some um victim from some friendly fire, but I don't know. I guess I don't know how you do it. But swimming around there is it's super cool. Um there's like I think the main draw is like these Hawaiian lung seals, which are pretty fun. I think they're a little bit unique compared to other seals uh due to their name, or well, their name is cut because of this, but because they're solitary. I think a lot of seals and tealons are more social, but these guys are kind of just more, you know, lone wolves hanging around, and it's kind of cool to dive with them there. So I think that's the big draw. And we got to see some of those. They're kind of I mean, just in general, seals are kind of just like water dogs swimming around. They make really weird noise under the water, like one of those swimming around, like whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, boop, boop. I don't know, something like that. It's probably horribly off, but it sounded really weird in the water. And then there's some where they just like lay and they find they get their turf, they're like little rocks they lay on, and you just lays there and it's like and it's like a really it's like you pull up to the nether in Minecraft and you hear like the the pigmen grunting, although like maybe the angry ones. And then like the first time I hear that, I'm like, what the fuck is there's some like water final boss coming out, and then I like turn around and see because he's just laying on this rock. And I guess they gotta go for air more than I realized. I mean, it's probably way more than we can hold our breath, but when you're scooping up, you know, they just like swim up, go flip around, take a breath, and go back down to the other rock and go growling at you. They're kind of they're kind of cute, pretty fun to watch. So the main thing you can see like mana rays and stuff. I think there was one in the water, but I had to go up because I ran out of air. Couldn't stay down long enough. I have not figured out how to burn through air slower. I got, you know, the big old V12 lungs, you know, chugging gas. Um, real gas guzzler here. Haven't learned how to, you know, become a little more fuel efficient. That'd be nice because I was kind of bummed to miss that or eagle ray. I don't know the difference between like a manta ray and I guess the eagle rays at the spotted one. Actually, I have no idea. I don't know my rays. I think they're related to sharks too. Something weird like that. Although the cartilage cartilaginous, that's maybe the right word stuff. But like some of these people, they're really just telling, I don't know what the secrets are. So if someone can tell me how to, you know, breathe less, that'd be sick. I don't really know what I'm not doing right, or maybe it's just how you do things. I don't know. Or do you just have to be like perfectly still, not have any metabolic process, not breathe anything. I don't know. It'd be nice though to not have to come up. I mean, it was still like 50, 40 mesh minutes, but people are going to left for like an hour, and I was like pushing it. I was like, I don't there's no way I could have enough air unless I'm just like really out of breath, but um, that'd be stupid because you also want to take like a have air, extra air in case anything goes wrong, and you gotta like sit at the bottom of the pool, or not the pool, like from the surface, like like 10 meters or maybe 15, 20 feet. I forget the numbers. I should know these if I'm certified. So I need to review Here we go again. Safety is popular to call it reset for a few minutes there. Help so you don't get the bends. That's not good. Where you get like too much nitrogen because you have like more nitrogen pressure in the air you're breathing when you're like diving deep. And it gets up in your bloods and all of your nooks and crannies of your body, and if you come too quite fast, it like all like rushes out and just bubbles in your blood, and I don't know, it can kill you, or it come up in your joints, and it really hurts. I don't know, it sounds rough. And so you gotta be careful coming up and you can't go to elevation afterwards, you don't want to go on a flight too soon after. The other thing I was realizing is like trying to look at like how long I could like because it was a like a week before I left, but I didn't really know how long you had to wait before a flight. Especially like the elevation, because like planes fly high, isn't it like 30,000 feet? And then I realized they like pressurized it to like 8,000 feet, otherwise we'd be like blacking out on the plane. But then it was like made me realize like, wow, if this like plane lost its pressure, am I like cooked? Wouldn't I just like turn the nitrogen bubble so I can get the buttons in the plane? So I don't know. If you know, let me know. Because I was like, I realized that on the plane, and I'm like, oh, I didn't think about that. That's kind of scary, but nothing went wrong. We made it back, all went swimmingly, as they say. But um, there's cool stuff there. I think those are the main drivers that feels and I was glad we got to see some of those. There was some like big old that was maybe Nurse Shark. That's maybe where I was pulling it from. That's kind of swimming around. It's kind of one of those, you know, derpy looking sharks. Just say what's up, just like kind of in your face. I'm like, oh hello there, buddy. That's what I really want to do. I want to go to well, actually any big sharks. It'd be cool to see a great white. Oh, whale shark. That was the one I was gonna say, too. I think they do have those there sometimes. That would be super sick. That's what I really want. A great white could be cool, but I want like three cages. Or in the in the Bahamas, where they have like the huge schools of like hella hammerheads, that would be kind of sick. I kind of want to go watch and like have them all swimming above you, like dap them up as we go by. They're real funky looking, but they're pretty cool. That would be awesome. I want more like a fish tank with they think like some people keep some of them in tanks, that's one you can have. And there's like these like baby hammerheads, I think they're called bana heads, they're kind of cute. So it'd be sick if you had a big tank. Although fish tanks are like especially salt water. So finicky, I feel like I'd be terrified. See like these horror stories of people that have like such crazy tanks, but then like something gets slightly bit off and everything just dies. I'm like, I like my turtle tanks where like it can be like pretty stink water, and these guys are just vibing. That's nice. Fish and stuff like that is kind of scary. Or well, I mean, it's not scary, it's just I feel like I'd always be nervous about like how delicate everything's gotta be in there just right for them to, you know, be thriving. And so in in you know, I I guess you can only scuba dive, or well, they only do regular charge there during the summer, and then like winter time it gets like the waves, there's like huge swells. That's maybe the right term. I don't know. Don't really know. I'm not I'm not a uh a nautical boy. I would love to know. Maybe that'd be kind of cool. Go learn all the things, sail around the world, get abducted by pirates, Captain Phillips, and all get lots of crazy lore. Not actually miss me with all that belief. But I feel like sailing would be kind of cool. I don't know if I got the the guts for it. Because I feel like I definitely can get seasick. I don't know if you ever get broken of it though. They went to kayaking once with this lady who like led these open ocean kayak tours, and she allegedly has to take the dramamine or a different one, something similar, some anti-seasickness medication, like every time, even though she's been doing it for like 20 years. So that was discouraging. I was like, maybe you don't. But I feel like maybe maybe you're always on it. I have been on like a boat one time for like 10 days, and it is crazy that when you go to land and like everything's moving, and just like it kind of after a while, like you do get comforted by the motion, it's kind of like feels right. And then when you're like on land, it's kind of trippy. Like I was like, who's where's my my baby cradle? Put me in one of those and rock me around, please. It's too still right now. It's trippy though. It's like you're looking around too, and like this the stable earth is just moving. It's kind of, I don't know, it's it's a trip, it's like you know, all natural, high, no, no chemic chemical-free, uh hallucinogenic hallucin like hallucinations. That's the word I'm struggling. Jesus. Um, yeah. I think the other really cool thing, too. Oh, yes, that's that's what I was talking about with the winter. So it's hard to get out there, they don't really regularly do it, but I think that's the craziest time to be there because there's like a lot of life hanging out, maybe because of some of the things that maybe the seals are gone, but they have like humpbacks come in. I don't know if it's their breathing season, uh, whatever, they're there for some reason. And you can hear those like sing around even at a distance. I guess they shake your bones. I guess it's pretty loud. I think it's I don't know if that's like dangerous. I wonder if that's like because I think there are like things like even if like people are by a submarine in the water, when they do their sonar charge, they can like actually just like blast you. It could maybe kill you. I don't know, it's like the power of the sound waves, or it could definitely fuck you up. It probably like even if it didn't kill you, it'd like fuck you up enough where you know you're underwater and uh we don't got gills. That'd be sick, they'll get gills. Uh and then you just go back down, never to be seen again. Go ocean gate on them. But that'd be cool to see. I think there's some sperm whales. I think those are one that maybe were really loud. I don't know why. Is that a thing? Because they go really deep. They got some like crazy headful of nut juice, or like it looks like sperm or something, that's why it's called that. I don't know. I'm giving a lot of like half-baked things that I feel like I've heard, like half a fun text that I'm like really fuzzy on. So my apologies. But I think most of these maybe have, well, I guess I wouldn't say shit if I didn't think it maybe had something to it. But that would be that would also be pretty sick. That's one of the things also in the north, in the Pacific North, this would be fun to see, like orcas. I know there's around. I don't know if people have like scuba with them. That might be a little bit scary. I think it depends though. I think there's two different kinds. There's resident orcas, and then there's transient or migratory. And the resident ones, I think they're chill, they're the homies where they just they just like to eat their salmon and that's that they just hang around. But the the ones that you know, the world travelers, uh, the passport borough whales, I think they're they're the real fiends. They're the ones that like eat seals and just you know, fuck them up. Have you ever seen like there's like a video of them like hunting seals with like dude just that that poor seal you take I mean he went out with a bang, but I sent him flying in the air, and then before they finally killed him. So it'd be cool to see those. I mean, they're like pretty awesome looking things. I mean, I want to watch them like swim around and jump, see shamu running free, swim shamu, swim, force of gump, free them. But I that's really insane how they have those in a tank. It's pretty fucked up. But I would definitely like to maybe not, you know, swim with it. I mean they'd be kind of cool if it was chill. But just see them like out in the water when you're with them, go away watching, watch them do some shit, because they're pretty awesome. It's also crazy that I think that there's it's like you know, whole Romeo Juliet, the Forbidden Love, like they don't fuck with each other. Like there's like no in-breeding between the residents and the whatever migratory ones. I don't know how that works, like how none of them, you know, get too, you know, freaky or you know, need to bust a nut and find each other. Like maybe they got like a whale language gap. I have no idea. But that's honestly kind of one of the crazier like animal social things I feel like I've ever heard. That they are like they're like the same species, but there's like no uh you know intermixing between the two. They're really on that I guess not even racial segregation, but like cultural. Because I think they're the same. Unless there's some difference that I don't know. But I'd be a little I'd like to change chill with the resident ones. I think the the microcreen ones too, there's some that I don't know why it is, but they just like hate great whites and they just go go apeshit on them. And it's some like real fucked up thing where they like all they want is their liver, they like just batter them to death, or I think they may even drown them, and then they just like somehow like do some like backgelly body shot black market kidney harvesting, but they just flirt about their liver and then just that's it, they call it a day. I don't know why that's all they eat. They've got some liver king whales out there, but that's that's how they go. So I think great waist are terrified. Maybe if I go with great waist, no cage, just put on like a a shamu costume, and then you'll be you'll be Gucci, they'll come run. But they assume it's them, they'd just be too scared and run. I don't know. I feel like there's something where I've seen like they've done something that mimics them, and those guys are like, I'm leaving for years. I'm never coming back, I'm not gonna get the smoke like that. So killer whales are the real king bombs of the ocean, I guess. I think they gotta have yeah, like the strongest bite, too, of like anything. Although no one's actually been able to measure it, but they think. Because I mean, I guess how the hell are you gonna be like, open up, buddy, and put like a sensor in their mouth. I mean, I guess I don't know. Does anywhere even still have orcas on display? Like, I feel like there are C rolls, but I don't know what they have. I mean, hopefully not. Although it sounds like there's some like real like Illuminati power on them. Because like, wasn't there like some Canadian was a Canadian one or like some black fin? Sounds like blackface. Is that what they called in the ocean? But or like some guy was like trying to expose it, or maybe it was a guy with like walruses. I don't know. This is I'm really not saying anything coherent. But it seemed like there was like, you know, some like threats against him and all sorts of shady shit. There's like I think he's alive. I don't think he had a Boeing type instance where he was blown the whistle. Maybe he did, hopefully not, and I don't know. I mean hopefully there's no more whales locked up, but I'm not that optimistic about that. So I'd be curious. Free my boy, tell us backwards, as they say. Cause I don't know. And I don't think at least it's the grey whites. I feel like there's other sharks where they've never actually been able to keep them. And I think that now that I'm trying to think of this, I think those like Seattle sharks that I was talking about, I think they did something where they're trying to like keep them in cap wait, no, I think I'm tweaking. I think that was just gray whites that I'm thinking of where they tried to like catch babies and bring them in and see if they can survive. I don't know if there's a reason. They just like keep running tanks and stuff, like a two threats and either like just die or they let them go because they're about to die. So can't lock 'em up. They're gonna, I don't know, at least need us until we figure out a suicidal watch cell for sharks, but uh for now, I don't I mean, I don't think anyone needs it. There's plenty other. I don't know. Just get out there in the water in a a non-oxiding gate submarine and go shark hunting. Well not hunting, but looking for 'em. Whaling? It's crazy. I don't I mean, well, I feel like I don't apart from it being like sad for whales, the worst movie scene, well, up there is if you ever saw the new Avatar, the the whaling scene in that movie. Bro, new called the that's what made me want to see like uh, you know, those crazy Trump videos where it's like the cartel boast getting just blown to shit. I was like, hit the whalers. But um I don't know. That's whatever. I is that I mean I feel like it's like is it Japan that does a lot of it for some things? I mean it used to be more popular, but like also I feel like do they do it on wooden boats? I don't know how whales eventually destroy a wooden boat. Because that I mean if I don't know. So many things when I see like ocean things, I'm like just cannot fathom how like people, you know, cross all this stuff in these like little wooden dinky boats. Like I how many of them did you send to actually like make it here in one piece? Because it seems crazy. If you ever see, I mean I guess they're probably thinking those the craziest passages, but what's that one? There's like the Drake passage, I think is the one. It's like the one between like South America and like Antarctica, or it's just somewhere around Antarctica where they got all the yo ho videos of like ships with like giant waves. That's I just don't I feel like there's no way any of those like little wooden floaty bonies are making it through that. Everyone's going to swim with the fishes for sure, for sure. But maybe it is kind of crazy. I just feel like if I saw one of those days and someone told me to get on it, I'd be like, hell nah. I mean, it'd be pretty cool to go on like a Viking ship and you know, swim around for a little bit. But um, if that thing goes down, especially in those like cold places, you're you're cooked, you ain't you ain't swimming that gives us Titanic. I've never seen Titanic. Is it a good movie? I feel like probably. It's famous at least. Some how many people actually survive that? I don't know. Careful now. I mean, if as long as you got a door, at least one out of one person can survive on that, according to the movie. But now that I've been in like cold water, I don't know how long you can make it. She's cold, cold like ice, bro. Ice ice ice, baby. I'm I'm tired. I'm totally going rambly rambly, rambly shambly. Is there a Fortnite place called Rambles? I don't know, something like that. Still can't believe that they if you're in the now on Fortnite, they made some new like Halloween place called Viny Shafts, also Freaky. feels there's no way they didn't know what they're doing with that one. Like no. No way, Chief. Who that's not even like uh like I it's not like other names like sometimes I feel like none of them that nowhere near that sus. It's not even like that high Halloweeny. Like Freaky Fields I mean it's not that bad. I mean it's not really bad. It's kind of funny. And it's I mean you know Halloween but like Viney what is what what what is Viny about Halloween and definitely adding that to chefs. I mean I respect the hell out of it. Shout out Epic Games you know hopefully you win your I don't know what is the status of that lawsuit with Apple that big thing where they had all those crazy ads and playing off I don't know I would I would be sick if they you know finally brought it back because I used to play it on a Mac and then they like shut that down. I don't know but I think it's resolved although it might not be back on Apple computers but that's like there's no reason that's a thing. Or I don't know. It'd be kind of cool I kind of alternate back and forth on what I played on. Because I I mean I guess I grew up playing it on that like first when I was first hot played on Xbox and then in college I started playing on a computer like get that mouse and keyboard grind. Especially for building it was so much easier to like do building on like keyboard at least for me. I didn't have like the claw grip those weird things that people sometimes do. And then this is when I said that and then they like got rid of it on Macs then I like found a keyboard that I could hook up to the Xbox and kind of did that. It's kind of jank for a while. Then I got it like a like this like big lap keyboard thing so I could play the on the couch keyboard on the TV which my Xbox hooked up to didn't have it on a monitor anymore so I did that. But then I got into playing a Mora controller again especially because it was like no build and I'm like half of these keybinds I don't even use for like all the things I feel like a Fortnite building just got way too sweaty these days. All these young GS be clapping my cheeks paws but um it's it was always demoralizing it like pretty quickly on after like I don't know. It's been years since I've actually tried playing builds but it's not I don't see it in the cards. Not gonna make me the next booger thief who Fortnite champion but it's fun I don't know not too much. I don't think yeah I can't think of any actual real sustained other than that but I think they need more of them because it's it's it was pretty entertaining. Viny shafts there's no way they're definitely like maybe they just tried to try to name it Viny shafts and like oops typo. I'd believe that more not actually but what are the other ones Tilted Towers I mean that one's nah I mean that's not so bad. I guess like Tilted I mean for questionable but that was still crazy when that dropped way back in the day I feel like my Xbox was about to blow up that poor old thing when drop it and there's like everyone in the map good old times early Fortnite. What a peak experience especially when everyone's just trashed everything and like especially the very first season what a what a time to be alive. I feel like that was like peak peak moments when people playing Fortnite before it was like I mean it's still fun I can't hate. It's just you know I guess like the first time playing Minecraft if you know you know remember that terrified for my life the first time it was night and you hear the spiders chirping and then and the zombies going banging on your door I was remember I was like 10 and I was like shitting myself trying to build a dirt hut and hide in the ground but all those things I was so gassed the first time I I found a a village remember also I was like took over this village met myself you know king of the village village dictator and then I was like trying to round up a farm and I didn't realize like stuff would follow you if you held like wheat so I'd like trap animals and then like try to like push them in like tunnels I built is how much work but good times good times. It's like if only you could like you know get those those men in black neuralizers to like wipe myself with like some memories and just like re-experience it good times. That would be I don't know what other things you know I mean like you know you want to remember lots but like just temporarily forget a few things. Not not in like a trauma and just to you know relive that vibe the first time pause but uh that'd be that'd be definitely one up there oh right called zombies the first time I remember I was scared on like I feel like yeah the first ones are Black Ops that I really played. Maybe there's some phone once I don't know if I played that first but yeah black ops is the first COD I actually played. Maybe get it all that so many deep in the the core memory vault there relive them lots maybe I'll get I don't know if anyone keeps up with COD I feel like I haven't played that many of the new ones occasionally I'll get them and get diamond snipers you know relive you know phase up is that backwards on the camera maybe this one I don't know which one is and like you know try to quicksope people to get diamond and then I feel like that's why I play zombies reliant hit since BO3 I did play BO4 though like kind of after the fact that those are pretty good. That nine map that was fast fire like the all the the gladiator zombies and the tigers and the the elephant final boss still remember that staying up way too late over like one Christmas break trying to like do that Easter egg with a homie then I still yeah because I think he's like uh his parents it was probably like 6 a.m his time because he was like east coast at the time too and it was actually maybe it may have been seven because I feel it was like five for me and hearing his parents yelling at him in Spanish like what the fuck are you still doing out that was pretty entertaining. But we you know we got the job done we I don't even know what the goal easter egg was but took out the elephant that was fun so hopefully BO7 zombies hits get that get some more maps running back I don't know if I saw some like maybe they're gonna remaster some BO2 maps that'd be that'd be tough. I don't I guess I don't know which one I'd want remastered the most I mean even just classic town I mean they had so many good maps but like so like town is just like a classic hit that I remember like really grinding with the the homies I mean there's like all the other main ones I mean Origins but they already remade that for BO3. So what is I'm trying to think other like peak one that I haven't had remastered that I would I don't know does anyone know how BS5 zombies were I feel like I played the first one a little bit. I mean it was entertaining enough but it seems like the new ones have made too much going on I never played Infinite Warfare. That was the one that looked like so crazy but like looked kind of fun because it seemed like pretty entertaining vibe the zombies like totally different. I don't think I would be as jazz about it but maybe I'll bust that out because I think I've I mean I think I've bought every COD I've like burned through way too much money you know keeping you know Activision and who runs into float but you know don't got too much to show for it. Hopefully GTA six is where it's at I mean I've spent way too much money I guess over the years but it's crazy. 2013 I still remember that came out that was that was a vibe 2013 that's 13 years what it's gonna actually be 13 years. Took yeah I don't know how what was it between GTA whatever sand and drice was that the one before five or is it four? I forget the numbering but better be I mean the jysical physics on the trailer crazy I'm hump I I'm like pretty hyped especially if you can you know pick up an alligator walk in the gas station like the crazy Florida shit. I hope they have all sorts of like absolutely unhinged uh NPC actions uh I don't know I'm kind I'm I'm just hyped though I think it's it's like next spring. I don't know when it's coming out hopefully they got some like cool collector's editions. I feel like that's something that you don't see enough of anymore like sick collector's edition stuff. I remember I was always hyped for the the the COD ones like I got like the RCXD uh there's one for the old old hail I don't should have played that much but I had to like get an old Master Chief helmet skyrim with the Eldon statue. B03 I was pretty hyped I had like kind of for all these alerts to get like those juggernock fridges I don't think that's I think that's the last real collector's edition I bought so if they maybe had one for Modern Warfare where they had like night vision goggles. I think MW2 ones I got that like late but I think so I think I have them but if I don't for MW or B07 I would definitely I mean I really don't get the bag to cop it but I probably would be reckless with my money as usual and cop that I'd be sick if I some like especially if it's some six hope on if it's just some like generic random like little figures some black ops character I might have to pass. But keep our fingers crossed okay well it comes out in a few weeks they definitely would have announced it by now and I think I did look and didn't see anything. So probably not but maybe they'll make some they do occasionally make some cool collectible stuff like especially like a Ray Gun replica maybe a Wonderwaffe. Wunderwaffe I don't know how I properly say that any Germans in the chat that will uh let me know how to say that but that's also pretty good. I don't know the best is okay maybe we'll hash more of all of that later because we're at time um but I'll catch you next time to crash out some more appreciate y'all for tuning in but peace peace lasagna