what humans do that AI cannot. [The Counter Hit #3]

Millionaires and boats.

Are there any good ones?

All that and more

here on the counter hit.

Welcome, welcome ladies and gentlemen.

Welcome, welcome one and all.

Welcome to the internet.

You are now here.

And so are we.

So let's enjoy our time together as we

waste a little bit until the end.

I'm your host, Sam Kirk.

And this is the counter hit where we

punch back pervertibly that is, against

all the insanity that is

out there in the world.

Gives ourselves a little bit of solace as

we continue on in this

great journey that is life.

Folks, let me ask you this.

How do you feel about boats?

Hmm?

Ever thought about owning one?

Ever thought about being a

multimillionaire and just cruising along

whatever proverbial

lake that you're nearby?

Mmm, sounds mighty nice, doesn't it?

What about this company?

Grady

White Boats.

Yeah, look at those boats.

Look at those people having a good time.

Look at those people affording something

that not many people can possibly afford.

Oh, experience the finest

boats have ever crafted.

Well, what if I told you that

there are some good

people that own boats?

Rather, there are some good people that

own entire boat companies, such as the

CEO of Grady White Boats.

As reported by the great good news

network dot org, the title is "Inspiring

CEO Gives Company to Charity" after

working four... sorry, working in 80-hour

weeks for 58 years

saving it from bankruptcy.

What's this?

A good CEO?

What's going on here?

Well, it says right here that this

particular individual turned down half a

billion dollars in the weeks of the end

of July specifically in order to pass

controlling stakes in Grady White Boats

to a purpose trust that will operate

according to his values and convert its

bottom into community service,

conservation, and

other philanthropic causes.

Whoa!

Eddie Smith Jr. of 58 years worked 80 to

100-hour work weeks to salvage this

company that was at one point near a

bankruptcy and turn around into a

nine-figure revenue-generating machine.

And he wants to give it almost all of it

away back to his community, to

conservation, and philanthropic causes.

He's quoted in saying, "I just think that

those of us that are fortunate enough to

be in a position to help others, it's

really a gift to me to be able to do what

I do," Smith told Fortune.

And, of course, we talk a little bit

about more of his upbringing.

Born to a father who was orphaned at age

10 during the Great Depression, Smith Jr.

grew up near the poverty line.

The first break was when his father

worked enough odd jobs to start a

mail-order business.

The son, who remembers eating spam three

times a week, then lied about his age to

get a job on a paper route for becoming

the first in his family

to graduate from college.

He was a professor at the University of

North Carolina in 1965.

There's more details here in the story by

good news network.org.

The story is by Andy Corbally.

Most importantly, though,

yachts, boats, all that stuff.

That's for the uber-rich

that don't want to give back.

Apparently, this guy's bucking the trend.

So I think that's some

pretty good news all around.

There's probably, probably

some kind of tax benefit here.

But again, the story is he's declined

many, many multimillion dollar offers to

acquire his business.

And he's doing so under

the guise of evangelism.

He's doing so under the guise of trying

to build a community to service those

that he's close to and conserve and focus

on philanthropic efforts.

Again, these are his words and what he's

trying to shoot for.

So, hey, next time you feel

differently about boats, ask.

Is it a Grady White boat?

Because if it is,

Eddie Smith Jr's got your back.

(Upbeat Music)

Meta Chief Technology Officer says,

employees should use AI productivity

gains to do even more

work, not take more time

off.

Aghast, oh geez, oh man, this whole time

I thought artificial intelligence was

gonna like make my life easier and stuff,

but it's not, oh no.

That's right, ladies and gentlemen, as

Business Insider reports, this report

comes from Charles Rollet,

forgive my pronunciation,

should tech workers supercharged by AI be

able to take more time off?

And according to Meta's Chief Technology

Officer, Andrew Bosworth

said he doesn't think so.

That's what Bosworth said told employees

at a Q&A in early July, according to

three people on the call.

(Barking)

Let

me get this straight,

AI is gonna make your job easier.

It's gonna let you get more done.

So instead of taking that optimization

that AI gives us, we're gonna work even

twice as hard now to optimize it on both

ends, burn the candle from both ends.

Wow, okay,

yeah.

His argument is that he works for Meta,

one of the most exciting

companies in the world.

So they quote, are doing the most

exciting stuff on the planet, end quote.

Quote, I hope that what we do with our

extra time is do even more and cooler

stuff for the users who use our products

every day, end quote, Bosworth said.

We got billions of people

using our products every day.

I get an extra hour.

You know what I would do with it?

I put into that.

Okay, all right.

This sounds like evil CTO

spouting evil CTO stuff.

And in some ways it kind of is, but let's

understand the context.

This is a Q&A for the business, right?

If I'm a CTO, I've

got to tow the company line.

can't

publicly tell you to

start wasting your time.

It's not good for shareholder value.

It's not within his interest to argue

that, yes, go ahead and take a

sabbatical, take an hour off.

If your AI can get done in five minutes,

but it used to take you an hour, go ahead

and take that time to yourself.

It's just not good ML stuff.

I respect that point of the argument.

However, the other piece of the argument,

which is that, hey, you know what?

You get any extra free

time, optimize it even more.

That's what separates

human beings from robots.

Let it be known, ladies and gentlemen,

that your boy, Sam Kirk, scare quotes

your guy right here.

I'm an anti-optimizer.

Let me say that one more time.

I'm an anti-optimizer.

What does that mean?

Are you saying that

you're not interested in

trying to do things better?

Of course I am.

Because if I were to say that I'm not

interested in doing things better, that

would make me very inhuman.

But I am human.

One of the great things about human

beings, 99% of us, is that our brains are

geared, are hardwired

towards optimization.

They're hardwired towards it, which means

I can't help but get better at things if

I give myself enough

time to do those things.

So what I'm against is the

grinding into optimization needlessly,

because it doesn't

actually yield any kind of result.

We see this time and

time and time again, folks.

The human brain does a

lot of amazing things.

All we have to do is trust

in it to optimize for us.

Us trying to optimize on top of that

optimization usually gets in the way,

leads to misery, depression, and in many

cases, results that aren't any better

than those that aren't

trying to focus on it too much.

So look,

if you work for a company that I own,

and we have a new exciting technology,

it's allowing you to

do things faster for me.

First of all, I probably asked the

question, why am I paying for the

expensive technology, which is what AI

is, incredibly expensive,

and you at the same time?

I'd ask that question, honestly.

And I'd probably go with the person as

post-technology, because I'm always a

people-forwarded person.

But let's just assume for a

moment, I'm bypassed that.

I say, you know what?

It's fine for me to pay for both the

technology and the person.

I think that's an equal cost for me.

I think it's fair to me

as the business owner.

That were me.

I'd say, yeah, if something used to take

you an hour and this tool gets you to do

it in half an hour, spend that 30

minutes, whatever time you

have, doing not work stuff.

Why?

Because I'm assuming as putting you into

a capacity where you have a tool that

does some of your work for you easier,

that some of your work has some kind of

creative or innovation element to it.

And if that's the case, I'd want you to

spend time not thinking about work so you

can do some background processing and

think about innovations.

I don't need you to grind and grind and

grind and see what

else you can optimize for.

That's a waste of time.

There's only so much time

you can spend doing that.

I'd want you instead to

spend time with your

family, do a Skype call.

Skype call.

That's how dated I am,

folks, using the vernacular Skype.

No one's Skypes anymore.

Doing a FaceTime call or a Discord call

with a friend, checking in with family,

because you've only got so much time left

on this planet before your time has gone.

Spend that time and cherish that time.

And then, and then,

come back, recharge, and

see what new ideas you have.

Because we've got this technology, does

all the grunt work for you.

I want you for the innovative stuff.

If I was your boss, that's me.

That's if I was your boss.

Of course,

this is somewhat fictitious because if I

had this innovative technology and it

truly did all the things

that it's supposed to do,

I'd ask the question, why do I have you?

On my payroll.

That's what I'd ask.

And very quickly, I would find out that

this technology, there's a lot of cool

stuff, but it doesn't do everything super

amazing and wonderful and fine.

Take in point,

when we were formerly called the Zero Dot

Podcast, we had a

platform we use called Riverside.

Riverside is a popular cloud-based

platform where you can not only publish

and distribute your podcast in many

different places, it

also allows you to do

remote calls with people and seamlessly

integrate yourself with someone else

who's not in the same room as you.

It allows you to do AI-based editing

to make your AI

process more streamlined.

It does all of those things.

It does all of those things.

Only problem was we called it on all

those innovations and we found that it

could not exactly do all the

things it said it could do.

And then on top of that, we gained a

little bit of a conscience and decided,

hey, we're not gonna go down this path of

overly using AI when human beings can do

a lot of this work really well.

It's true.

We went down that path, folks.

We asked ourselves the big question, what

is this helping us solve?

What is this optimizing for?

And we found it didn't

optimize for too much.

It's true that hiring an editor of some

kind is a bit of work and a bit of money.

Sure, true.

But we found that when we applied the

human touch to our editing, we always

always wanted it and liked it more than

the AI generated

edits that it would make.

So

again, looking at both sides, trying to

be as fair as I possibly can.

If I was the owner of a company and

people worked for me and we were using

AI, I'd ask the question, what purpose

does AI serve that either A

replaces my workforce, again,

that sounds unethical, but I mean, I'm

just thinking logically, or what does it

offer an value add that is in addition to

my workforce that

gives me more value add?

And if I make the decision that from a

cost benefit analysis, it pays me, it's

well for me to both pay for this AI tool

and my people, then my people are my

sources of innovation beyond the scope of

what AI could ever do.

So I wanna give them that extra space,

that extra leniency,

wherever I possibly could do.

But again, from experience, it would seem

to me that I wouldn't make that call.

I'd probably say, you know what, my

money, my wallet's a little tight

and I have to choose one, I'm gonna

choose people every single time.

I will choose people.

I'd rather pay people versus paying a

fancy schmancy tool.

But what do I know?

I

don't run meta, I don't own meta.

I will never be that financially solvent

enough to have any kind

of enterprise that large.

I am not

Andrew Bosworth.

And also I wanna be super clear,

the scope of this, scope of this article

that we're talking about here.

He was talking to people

in a Q&A within the company.

So

you gotta sell yourself to the company.

You gotta sell the

company line to people.

I don't begrudge him for saying this.

I get that's how he does it.

He had an opportunity

to be real and honest.

He didn't take that path because he's

probably got an answer to shareholders.

But check out this last line again.

This comes from Business Insider.

Go to your parents and ask them, hey,

like every time I get a chance to talk to

my boss, ask them if I

can have more days off.

Ask your parents what they think of that

as a career strategy.

Oh, okay.

So that is a formative argument that

is deferring the entire

logic of the situation.

They're now deferring to your back

history, deferring to your parents,

deferring to what other

people would might think.

What would they think if you were to ask

them to get more additional free time?

That's no way to be

successful in your career.

I've seen this before.

I swear I've seen this before.

Where have I seen this before?

That's right.

There was this kind of notoriously famous

article floating around social media,

thanks to fortune.com, floating around

this kind of misrepresentation of what

this one CMO was saying.

But basically the headline says Gen Z

Jobseeker Should Be

Willing to Do Anything.

Squarespace CMO who cold called firms

from the phone book for her first role.

That's what the title was.

This kind of got misappropriated to Job.

Gen Z Jobseeker Should Be

Willing to Work for Free.

Long hours willing to do anything.

Says Squarespace CMO.

And people rallied

behind that on social media.

They're not wrong in that

misappropriation of that headline because

she does say things like you should be

entering the beginning parts of your

career with no intention of

making any money whatsoever.

You should be going, you should be asking

if you can work for free.

And then once you develop enough skills,

seeing if they'll be willing to offer you

some kind of job and capacity, this is a

common line of rhetoric I see over and

over and over again.

Now, here's the truth.

I kind of did the

same thing in my career.

Honestly, I did.

And depending on where you are in life,

if you've got money, if you can live off

of what you're working on and you wanna

change careers, you wanna go for a

lucrative career, this is not bad advice.

Offer to pay someone for an hour of their

time and ask them questions or offer to

just be someone who works there for a day

just to kind of observe and absorb

information, offer to get a mentor.

There's ways to do this.

But in the extreme case, it's kind of

highlighted in the story and many other

stories that I hear again

from good old Andrew Bosworth.

There's this

implication, there's this idea

that

you know what, work hard, hustle more.

If you're lazy, get the hell out.

That's not what your father's

generation would have liked.

That's not what I did, all that stuff.

And that's insane.

That is absolutely categorically insane.

They know it, but it's kind of working

for right now because

when you

struggle through something really hard

such as the job market, doesn't matter if

you're this generation, last generation,

80s, 70s, 60s, doesn't matter,

we all believe because I have one shared

experience that I was

successful because of that struggle.

Ergo, you must also go

through the same struggle.

Forgetting the fact that we live in a

world that is so demonstrably

different than it was prior.

Why should we, under

any circumstances believe

that we should be

successful in exactly the same way?

That's dumb.

And on top of that, every single

generation, every single parent I've ever

met wants their kids to have

an easier life than they did.

This is counterintuitive to what our

pre-natal, paternal

instincts suggest to ourselves.

This thing's weird, it's wild, it's dumb.

Don't fall for it.

The truth is there's something in the

middle about, hey, there should be some

strife, there should be

some kind of struggle.

Doing that does lead

to some quote unquote

gains.

I'm using gains in scare

Gains in terms of life lessons,

hard-earned lessons, and you get to be

more valuable to your family, to your

community, to yourself.

And then after all that, the company you

work for, I guess, there's some middle

ground there, right?

But again,

if I have a tool that does this for me

and makes it easier, why wouldn't I use

the tool and give myself

some additional free time?

We as human beings are

really smart creatures.

We will always take the

path of least resistance.

Ask us to

make the other choice.

It can only happen for so long, because

the one rule, the one rule that you

cannot deny is that nature always wins.

And if my brain is hardwired to take the

easier path, as we all are, because

that's what we want out of life, then

yeah, we're gonna take the easier path.

We should be incentivizing people if we

believe in this technology, which the

jury's out on this one.

But if you believe in this technology,

incentivizing people

to use the extra free time they get,

because this amazing tool does everything

for them or does it for them faster and

easier and more efficient, to use that

time to get time back, to take that space

and that pause and be the

better innovative thinker.

If we don't do that, then

we're just running in circles.

They know this, of course.

I have a deep seated

suspicion, they all know this.

They're just saying the lines that

they're told they have to say by somebody

to make, again, shareholders happy,

to make their employees buy into whatever

they're trying to sell on you.

I believe that's what they're probably

doing, but don't fall for it.

I don't think anyone listening to this

podcast or this show would ever fall for

it, but just in case

you have my blessing,

not to fall for it.

Before we get off this AI train,

here's the question I have for you all.

What if our kids are the newest kids on

the block right now, already are getting

a whiff of this newfangled technology and

they're not buying what

the heck we are selling?

That's right folks, as Wired Magazine

reports to us, some kids

will never think AI is cool.

How about them apples right there?

That's the headline there.

Some kids are saying, "I think it should

stand for artificial idiot."

I love that.

And some kids are calling AI disgusting

and creepy of all things.

That's pretty

fascinating there in that capacity.

One of my favorite things

about this story though,

isn't just that.

It's rather the vernacular that they're

all using, which is to argue that

whenever there's something they don't

like or it seems a little sus, instead of

calling it sus, like we used to call it,

gosh, I just said we used

to call it, I'm old, I'm old.

They're saying, "That's so AI."

Oh, that's so AI.

That's so AI.

And this is brilliant.

This is fantastic.

Because it shows that as great of a

technology as AI might be,

scare

it seems also just as likely

that actually,

it has a structure to it.

It has a way in which the AI functions.

And if it has a structure, if it has a

pattern, then kids can recognize it.

I mean, adults should too, but

kids are quickest.

They have neuroplastic

brains, like you have no idea.

And when they pick up on a pattern and

they don't like what it's given us,

they're not going to buy it.

And that means an entire generation is

going to think that AI is not for me,

goes somewhere else.

I had the privilege of

attending an art gallery

special event for Halloween

last year, actually.

So this actually dates me a little bit.

And I was talking to someone

who was just about to graduate

from a university in Pittsburgh,

and he was there to visit

his girlfriend, young man.

He's getting ready for medical school.

And he said he just could

not, could not get behind AI.

And most of his classmates aren't into

it, but there's a few

that think AI is okay.

And he just does not understand why

anyone would be interested in AI.

Does not even have,

doesn't have an iota

of a clue why that is.

And to be fair, trying to be as

diplomatic as I could, I offered some

contextual evidence to why someone would

be attracted to what

AI can possibly provide.

And I'll offer the same thing here.

There are things artificial intelligence

can do, and it does

them incredibly quickly.

Incredibly quickly.

And that's it.

I'm actually repeating what our good old

former co-host John Merritt said.

It can do things really fast.

It can do things really fast and is

learning things and it is

adapting things for sure, for sure.

But I don't know.

I've seen the human spirit.

I've seen human beings

being able to identify

something that smells really quickly.

Human beings have this incredible ability

to kind of sniff out

intention out of people.

Not even robots, people.

We can just tell when someone's being,

not quite who they say

they're supposed to be.

Something just feels off.

I'm a big believer in

the gut of the human being.

And I don't mean the actual stomach.

I mean,

we as human beings are creatures,

animalistic creatures, and

we respond to fight or flight.

And in the same way, if something feels

unsafe or safe, our gut is usually the

first thing that can

send us some kind of signal.

Now, we are often told in academic and

corporate and adult

circles not to trust your gut.

That your gut

gets you to do things on impulse.

And there's a truth to that.

There's a validity to that.

Sometimes we do things impulsively.

If we react too quickly, we'll regret

those actions later.

That's true.

However, in my line of sight, in my

circles, which is leadership consultancy

and executive coaching

and all that good stuff,

I have found that

the wisest people in the room are those

that never dismiss what their gut is

saying, but don't ever act on it until

they can validate it.

Never dismiss that there's something

funny going on, but they don't know what

it is until they can validate it from a

couple of different

sources, not just one.

And so the fact that the newest kids on

the block, "Jin Z's" as we call them, I

hate those words, but I'm using that for

an acular so you know

what I'm talking about.

The fact that they are so sensitive to

this and saying,

"Hey, this is all hogwash.

I want nothing to do with this."

That

makes me happy.

Makes me really gosh darn happy.

It means that there's hope.

There always was hope, by the way, but

there's really more hope now.

There's a new wave, a new generation of

people that are going to be

coming into the entire world.

They're not going to put

up with the shit of the

other generations, just like my

generation didn't want to put up with the

other shit of the other generations.

We keep screwing this up, but we screw up

enough times we'll finally get to where

we actually always wanted

to get to in the first place.

One of the things I

shout from the rooftops in all my

workshops, and I talk to people who are

generally in their 30s to 40s to 50s.

I speak to them about the fact that when

you speak to someone in a newer

generational bracket

and you don't give them the why, you

don't explain to them what's the reason

that we're doing all of this.

More times than not, they glitch.

And by glitch, I mean they just freeze

and they don't know what to do because

they've lived in a world where, thanks to

a tiny rectangular supercomputer that

they've had in their pockets since they

were nine years old, where

there's always been a why.

They've always been able to find out a

little bit more

detail about things, right?

They might not have known the historical

context of things, but they got to, if

they wanted to, dig deeper, dig deeper,

dig deeper, and we

don't give them that why,

they freeze.

They don't do anything.

Or they come across as if they're pushing

back on you, but really they're just

trying to seek understanding.

And so one of the things that we can do,

we can ask questions

and give them that why.

And if we can't give them a why,

maybe that's a clue to ourselves that we

should have been

discovering what that why is.

Maybe.

Maybe.

I think it's going to be a great

uprooting in which we have, how we have

to communicate to others that are much

younger than ourselves.

It's always been true that we have to

kind of recalibrate how we

speak to the younger generation.

This generation is probably the most

extreme by definition, and I think that's

a good thing, honestly and truly.

That's a good thing.

We need a good level set on this, and I'm

looking forward to it.

I'm looking forward to being held

accountable to what I say and what I do.

I'm looking forward to

having to answer

really difficult questions.

That's what we need to

do if we don't do it or

we're screwed.

If we don't do it,

we will be all left behind.

And so that's what these kids are doing.

They're asking the

really difficult question.

What purpose does this serve?

And if you can't

explain it to a nine year old,

then what the hell are you doing?

Warren Buffett

would be ashamed.

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Peace.

Here's the question for you.

Have you heard of Jungle Jim?

This is Jungle Jim's international market

in Fairfield, Ohio, and I have no

idea how it exists.

This 300,000 square foot plot is home to

a monorail, ostrich eggs

and even a wedding venue.

And it's all the love child between one

man and his desire

for all things chaotic.

Jungle Jim.

Is this place successful in

spite of you or because of you?

Well, when I die, you'll find out.

People look at you and

say, did you run the numbers?

Did you go over this and go over that?

I didn't go over shit.

I never touch the computer.

This place talks to me, trying to justify

this piece of shit business.

How would you describe Jungle?

Jungle.

He's one of a kind.

He's a genius.

Creative.

He doesn't take no for an answer,

obviously, if you look around.

Something like the monorail.

You bought that for a dollar, right?

Yeah, and I put like probably

two and a half million in it.

Well, that's the kind of crazy shit I do.

Yeah, why?

Just because.

I mean,

I make money here so I can have fun.

Jungle started back in 1971 with a humble

roadside produce stand.

Why produce?

Why?

Because it's the poor man's business.

For four years, we went from corner to

corner because we didn't have money.

How do we go from that to this?

Oh, Joe, baby.

Hey, no, Joe.

Don't ask me.

I don't get too deep with this shit.

After 55 years and 16 expansions in an

industry where independence don't

survive, let alone thrive, Jungle is

soaking in all of the success.

You want to see my closet?

Nobody sees ever.

Let's go.

Let's see it.

Nobody's ever seen my closet.

This is where all the costumes are.

These are the moods, baby.

When they come here and if they see me on

the floor, you think I was a rock star.

They're taking my pictures.

You mind me if we get

your pictures taken?

You got to take risks.

You got to take risks.

You got to have failure.

You can't have success without failure.

It's impossible.

And this guy keeps on pounding me all

over and over again.

How do you make money

with such a low growth?

You

know what I'm going to do?

Why am I nervous?

Here.

Your parent company,

whoever the hell it is.

Yeah.

Here.

Here it is right here.

See this shit?

There.

See that right there?

We'll buy it.

You want him to work for you?

I think so.

Or you want to work for him?

I think he should work for me then.

I think so too.

I think he should work for you.

All right.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Yeah, it was fun.

Can we take this mic from him?

No, it's fun.

Yeah.

Wow, folks.

That is Jungle Jim.

Who's Jungle Jim?

Let's take a quick look

right now at who Jungle Jim is.

Jungle Jim's international market.

According to Wikipedia, by the way, that

web page was, that video that you just

listened to was from Morning Brew.

Give them a shout here on YouTube.

But Jungle Jim's international market,

I've never even heard of, and I've been

to Ohio many times, and now I feel I am

remiss, and I have to, next

time I go back, pay my dues.

You see,

according to Wikipedia, Jungle Jim's

international market, formerly Jungle

Jim's farmer's market, oh, there's a

different one, is a large specialty

supermarket in Fairfield, Ohio, United

States, with a satellite location in

Union Township, Claremont

County, both near Cincinnati.

The main location is right near the corner of the corner of the corner of the corner of the corner of the corner of the corner. This is a leisure web site, owned by a local retail company both near Cincinnati. The main location is roughly 200,000

square feet, that's, that's quite a bit,

and has been described

as a theme park of food.

Jungle Jim offers one of the largest wine

selections in the United States, live

seafood tanks, and an

in-store cooking school.

Each week, the school is visited by about

eight to eight week...

The store is visited by over 82,000

shoppers from whom founder Jungle Gym

Boniminio, Boniminio?

Boniminio calls foodies.

All right, fair enough.

Maybe the specialty foods international

departments are difficult to find

elsewhere in the Greater Cincinnati area,

and the customers have been known to

drive from other cities for the store's

wide variety of food.

Jungle Gym is also known for its use of

animatronics as well as other displays.

Folks, I've never heard of this person.

I don't know much more about it beyond

what we've just talked about, my gosh,

man, that is such an

attractive personality.

I love it when an individual

basically says, it's not

that complicated, guys.

I make money so I can do

the things that I love.

And you can see it in

that person's expression.

And if you're a listener, you can hear it

in their expression as well.

When they get asked the question, how do

you have slow growth?

They just look at them with a dumb face,

like, what does that even mean?

If you make enough money that your bills

are paid, people are taken care of and

you got excess to spare,

reinvest it in the business.

And if that business is what you love,

then you are basically in heaven every

single day of your life.

I feel like that's our second good story

about entrepreneurs who are doing good

for their community or doing good for

their business and so forth and not

trying to make billions upon billions of

dollars for no reason, just make enough.

Make enough to make yourself happy, make

enough to provide for your family, your

friends, your loved ones.

And then the rest is just

enjoy life while you have it.

If you saw the video, you'll saw that

Jungle Jim seems like he's the kind of

guy that just enjoys life.

I would encourage all of

us to do the same thing.

Oof, that gets to me.

That really gets to me.

Because I think sometimes

I fall into the trap of thinking, I need

to work harder, hustle harder, do more.

And I realize,

yeah, it'd be nice if I had a couple

extra dollars in my bank account.

But if all my basic needs are met,

the question I should be

asking is, am I having fun?

And if I'm not having

fun, then what the heck

am I doing?

What the heck am I doing?

You gotta fix that.

You gotta fix that within ourselves.

I think anyway.

Sometimes we tell ourselves that it's

okay to suffer now because you'll have a

better, more enjoyable life later.

This is called delayed gratification.

And it has some good

principles behind it.

Generally speaking, if

there's something that I want

right now,

like let's say an Oreo cookie, one of my

favorite cookies of all time,

I'm gonna enjoy it a lot more if I let

myself wait a little bit longer.

Like, yeah, I want it right now, but let

me have it on Friday.

Friday comes around, you know, let me

have it next Friday.

That Friday comes along.

Let me wait until, you know, Labor Day.

Let me wait till the

holidays come around.

Let me wait till Halloween.

Let me wait till Thanksgiving, Christmas,

all that good stuff.

And then when I finally get that

opportunity to have it, it feels so good.

That's a great principle.

I love it.

Yet I wonder how often we stop ourselves

short of enjoying what we love for

reasons that don't make sense.

I mean, it makes sense from a fiscal

perspective, like, oh, you know, don't

buy this expensive thing because you

can't afford it right now, or

it's gonna tighten things up.

Or, you know, you'll be able to enjoy

yourself later once you've gotten more of

your eggs in a certain basket, et cetera,

et cetera, et cetera.

There are moments when that fiscal

financial advice makes

sense and it helps us all.

And there are moments when it's like,

what am I waiting for?

What the heck am I waiting for?

I'm not advocating that you go recklessly

spend your money, by the way.

I'm not trying to say that.

Instead, I'm just, I'm

offering the question.

What are you waiting for?

Why can't you be happy now?

And of course, I want

it to be super clear.

physical things don't make us happy.

Objects, toys, gadgets,

they don't make us happy.

In the case of "Jungle Jim," if you've

got the disposable income for it, then

what are you waiting for?

For everyone else that's listening and

you're thinking to yourself, "Sam, I

haven't had disposable income in years.

I'm with you.

You're trying to fight

right now and trying to survive.

Don't let me or anyone else

tell you otherwise.

It's hard out there for sure."

And I think this dovetails into another

topic I want to talk

about right now, which is,

it's nice if we were all "Jungle Jim."

It would be great if we had

that tenacity to just do things.

And after years and years and years, we

start making some money off of it.

But a lot of us are in the beginning

phases of our life journey, and we're

feeling a little helpless.

I just recently stumbled across a video

on YouTube of an individual.

I've never even heard of this person.

I don't know who the heck they are.

And the headline is, or the thumbnail

says, "I don't understand

what we are living for."

It's a short video.

Let's take a quick listen right now here

of what this person has to say.

Their name is called Keep Swim.

This came up on my feed, and

I think it's called Keep Swim.

I'm seeing the sentiment everywhere.

I don't know what I'm living for.

Life feels so painfully empty that it's

something I don't even feel like I can

even ignore anymore.

I've spent most of my life just following

rules or following missions and goals I

thought were supposed to be the answer to

the emptiness in my heart.

I'd blame it on my weight.

I'd blame it on my appearance.

I'd blame it on some random accolade that

I need to achieve, and then

I can start living my life.

Then things can maybe

begin to make sense.

A lot of the time, I'd also use that

goalpost as a way to tell myself, "Well,

I know something deeper is wrong, but I

first need to reach this goal to have a

little bit of a barrier or a protection,

and then I can begin to go

to that vulnerable place."

The issue is

I have been doing this for so long that I

am not even sure that

there's a life worth living

behind that.

What I mean is I am

somebody that over-thinks a lot.

If you want to call it overthinking, I'm

someone that just thinks too much about

things, and I'm sure you are too.

You try and understand the world a bit

too much, and it ruins the experience

because you can't seem to make sense of

it, and you can't seem to make sense of

yourself in it,

especially when you have pain.

I remember throughout my childhood and

adolescence, I spent a lot of time

thinking about relationships, about what

made people love you, because for me, if

I made people love me,

everything would be okay.

That was my main goal in life.

I needed to make as many people as

possible love me, and to do

that, I had to play a role.

I had to do this very specific formula

I'd figured out a while back to making

someone love you, and it was

about not being too honest.

It was about pretending this.

Anyways, I won't go into

the details about that.

Yeah, and she goes on more

to talk about that experience.

I'm gonna recommend everyone check out

the video just to kind of get a

little bit of a pulse check on that.

I mean, keep swim, I've

never heard of this person.

This is a sentiment I've heard a lot.

What am I living for?

What am I sacrificing all of this for?

And I feel you.

Anyone that's in this position right now

that's feeling this, you're not alone.

Yet you are made to feel

like you are alone in some way.

Just another video here, I don't know how

to live without achieving.

Think about that.

I don't know how to

live without achieving.

I still have yet to watch the film, "The

Odyssey" by Christopher Nolan.

I'd like to see it soon.

Problem is, is I'd like to see it in 70

millimeter, that's how we

intended us to watch it.

And all my theaters are sold out near me.

But I wanna bring him up for a minute.

And I'm gonna criticize

him for just a smidge.

And I hope if you're a Christopher Nolan

fan, you'll give me a

little bit of grace here.

I'm a big Christopher Nolan fan.

I love him and his brother, great.

But when he talks about the film, "The

Odyssey" and people talk about the film

with him, they say how much

the film is an achievement.

He talks about what he

wanted to quote unquote achieve.

And far be it for me to say that he

hasn't achieved something.

I haven't seen the film, but I've seen

his other films and I

like quite a lot of them.

I'm a big fan.

He has a very

kind of mathematical structural way in

which he maps out his

screenplays and his stories.

And it's just very satisfying.

And

I always watch his films knowing he has

an intention behind it.

And I always feel like, yeah, he had

something he had to say.

And that's beautiful.

Cause I mean, some stuff you're watching,

you're like, what does this have to say?

Yet

to frame art as if it

is an achievement or not

gives me the ick.

Art doesn't have to achieve shit.

Art is just, art is an

expression of a person being human.

And it's when I communicate,

let's say I'm the artist.

All I'm doing is

saying, here's my experience.

Here's what I've seen.

There's how I see the world.

And not everyone's gonna

like it and that's okay.

But if it's shotgun enough people,

someone's gonna go, hey, that's like my

experience, but a little bit different.

And we learn from each other.

That's art to me.

And if I, the amount of times I've

stopped myself from making quote unquote

art, because I didn't think I was going

to quote unquote achieve anything

is a very large number that I'm almost

embarrassed to share.

And I hear what this person

says, keep swim on YouTube.

Give her some love if he can.

But I hear what this person says and many

other people saying, it

says, I feel like I'm behind.

I feel like I'm behind.

I need to do this thing before I can do

this thing, before I can do this thing.

And the next day you get

punched with even more things.

And before you know it, it's been like

two years and you still haven't even

gotten close to where you wanna be.

That's exhausting for anyone.

And I've been there, I've been there.

I don't have an antidote.

I don't have a secret

ingredient to get out of this rut.

And anything that I would possibly offer

would be incredibly tone deaf now because

even just five, six years ago,

we lived in a very different world.

Five years from that

was a different world.

Like whatever I have to offer is totally

catastrophically different.

What I can't offer is this.

It was my loved ones, it was my friends,

it was my spouse who shook me out of a

lot of my funk that I was

in and gave me permission.

To enjoy life when I

felt that I did not have it.

These people still do that for me.

I'm still the person that

is working late at night,

grinding, getting stuff done, thinking

I'm not doing enough,

I'm not achieving enough.

And it's my spouse, my lovely partner,

whom you'd see if you were on our

Patreon, by the way,

who's like, "Hey, when are you gonna come

downstairs and hang out

with me for a little bit?"

And it doesn't matter what we would do.

It doesn't matter if it was watching TV,

doesn't matter if it was watching a dumb

movie, if it was cuddling, if it was

reading a book, but the implication every

time is, can you waste

some of your time with me?

And every time I do, I hem and hog,

(Imitating Dog Barking)

I got some, I don't have

time for this, whatever.

And then I breathe and I sit, I'm like,

"Oh yeah, this, this family life, we have

a nice home now, we have two cats and

this is what I'm doing all this for.

And what am I doing all this for if I

can't even possibly enjoy it?"

That's my experience, right?

But everyone has their own different

version of what that

looks and feels like.

I can only say, for me, I have to shut

out the noise and I need a mechanism to

help me shut out that noise.

And that mechanism for me

is other people who my trust,

because I am not a reliable source when

it comes to when do I stop, when do I go?

I'm not a reliable source.

I'm either fed with fear that I'm not

doing enough and I hustle, hustle,

hustle, hustle, hustle, I never stop or I

stop totally

completely, I never start going.

I'm not reliable in that space.

So I have my friends and my family and my

loved ones to hold me

accountable in that space.

I would encourage you listener slash

viewer to do exactly the same thing.

And to the pain of the actual title, I

don't understand what we're living for.

Whew.

You know, we've started this show, "The

Counterhit," and I kind of end with every

line of, you know, let's waste some time

together today before you have to go off

and go back into the trenches.

I firmly believe in my heart of hearts

that 99.9% of the stuff

that we do is a waste of time.

Meaning if it's not directly related to

getting a roof over your head, providing

food for yourself and your family and

your healthcare and just overall

wellbeing and safety, everything else you

do in life is a waste

of time, everything.

But here's the thing, we need that.

We need to have that plenty

of time be a waste of time.

Once you've got your very basic needs

met, you're just waiting until the end.

So what are you gonna do with that time?

You're wasting it, of course,

as one does.

What are we living for?

We're living for wasted time.

And that's okay, that's

what we should be doing.

Once you've got a buffer, once you've got

some kind of blanket,

enjoy that wasted time.

And when I say the words wasted time, by

the way, it is often, not

always, but it is often,

the productivity bro

or the red-pilled male

that comes in and says,

"You're not a waste of time.

"Video games aren't a waste of time.

"This isn't a waste of time.

"Waking up at four or three in the

morning "isn't a waste of

time," whatever they have to say.

And I say, you're missing the point.

Video games are a waste of time.

Reading books are a waste of time.

Embracing art is a waste of time.

It's necessary, but it is a waste of time

because it is something we are doing

while we wait for the end

to come, whatever that is.

And I say that with an

empowering smile on my face.

Like, I love wasting time.

I love...

(Laughs)

I love doing things for no other reason

than just the joy of doing the thing

because that makes it

the most joyous of all.

If I have to attach a value to something,

like I can only enjoy XYZ thing if it

does XYZ other thing, then

it's not a waste of time and

I'm in hyperproductivity mode.

I love video games because I'm not

achieving anything when I

play them, I'm just having fun.

Sure, I beat a game.

The game will give me a ton

of arbitrary achievements.

I'll have tons of laughs with some

friends if I'm

playing a multiplayer game.

I'll have tons of memories.

But I only had those memories because I

treated it like this time right now.

Doesn't matter.

We're just gonna enjoy it

while we have it right now.

That's it, that's the whole thing.

(Laughs)

I don't know what

you're living for, Keep Swim.

Everyone's got a different thing.

I don't wanna presuppose.

I don't wanna tell you not to overthink

as you indicated before because

overthinking is something I do too.

What I can say

is

when you talk to

people on their death bed

and you ask them what they

miss and what they regret,

they're never gonna regret

not having achieved enough, ever.

They regret not having spent more time

with their loved ones, their family

members, their friends, their family.

And I forget who said it, but I think

someone was asked, a famous person was

asked, "Hey, on your last day

on earth, what would you do?"

And they said, "I'd go to the diner with

my buddies and have a good time."

He says, "Really, you could do anything

else on your last day on earth."

He says, "What else would I wanna do, but

spend great conversation

with friends and family?

What would you talk about?"

Eh, well, it doesn't

matter, it's irrelevant.

It just mattered that we were all there.

I think there's probably a lesson here

about mindfulness, but I can't use that

word mindfulness without

coming across high and mighty,

but there's probably something there too.

So,

when I think of Jim's, Jungle Jim's

international market,

I think about what he's doing, and I

think about the

struggles that we're all in.

I think about the struggles of the

current generation that are trying to

figure out this whole system and thing.

I salute you, Jim.

I salute anyone like you.

I think that's a model to aspire by.

And to those that are struggling, I'm

with you and I hear you.

I'm with you.

There's at least one voice

that wants to advocate for you.

That's right here, me,

and here in the counter hit.

And if you wanna join

whatever this is, podcast, show, media,

something, something, whatever, and feel

less alone, then you got that.

But even more than that, you've got

yourself too, and your

friends and your family.

Remember,

never forget that our

greatest resource is each other.

I will never, ever, ever think otherwise

because I've seen the magic of what human

beings can do when they're together,

and that's something AI can't do.

I guarantee it.

Today's Patreon-requested feature is,

once again from David Rivera, who

requested that we spend some time in each

episode of the podcast

slash show of the Counter

Hits talking about fighting game stuff

and more specifically

fighting game terminology.

If you're a fighting game fan,

maybe you're not.

Did you know that they have a whole lingo

for things like combos

and reversals and piano and

DJ swipes?

That's actually a term.

Yeah, believe it or not, they have all

kinds of terms for things you probably

don't even know about.

Today we talked to you about probably one

of the most notorious, most ubiquitous

terms in FGC land that I can think of,

which is the term for the good old, and

I'm not making this up

when I say this term.

I want to make sure that you understand

that this is a real term right now.

The meaty.

That is right.

The meaty, ladies and gentlemen.

What the heck is a meaty?

Well,

it's argued where the meaty came from.

People aren't quite 100% sure where it

all came from, but we do know this.

We know, generally speaking, that people

started using the term meaty in the

English-speaking territories thanks to an

old forum group called SF2 group.

I think it was called.

Hold on, let me get my terminology right.

Alt.games.sf2 is where the term kind of

started getting floated

around here on the interwebs.

That's what we think.

It's been misaccredited to a couple

different people, and I won't determine

who the actual person

who came up with it was.

Even back then in 1994, we

did not like the term meaty.

We think it's a little inappropriate and

weird and sus, we'll say.

Or that's so AI, as they like to say.

That being said,

meaty is actually a

word, and it means something.

In the simplest way that I can possibly

kind of explain to anyone.

A meaty is when

you are a fighting game character and you

take your opponent

down and knock them down.

They're knocked down,

you are standing up.

And then, on the very first available

frame of animation that they

are standing up and vulnerable,

you have already done

some kind of attack.

An attack that has an active hitbox,

which you learned from one of our

previous episodes, what a hitbox is, that

intercepts with their vulnerable hitbox.

Hurtbox, sorry.

In doing so, on that very first frame

where the active hitbox is interfacing

with your hurtbox, the opponent then is

forced into a true 50-50.

They can only do two

things at this point.

They can block, or they can do a

reversal, an invincible reversal move.

Usually some kind of special move with

invincible properties to

get themselves out of it.

Otherwise, if they try upon wake up to do

a counter attack that is not invincible,

they will get stuffed.

Let's take an example of what this looks

like right now in action.

This comes from the lovely

glossary.infill.net.

This is their specific entry for this,

and they use the

example of killer instinct.

Let's go ahead and take a look right now.

And there it is right there.

That's the meaty.

You'll see it right

here, slowing it down.

There's the light kick or medium kick,

and you can see that

vulnerable hitbox come through.

That's because the opponent was not

blocking or doing an invincible move of

some kind, so they got punished for it.

There you see it right there again.

There's the counter hit.

The counter hit in most modern fighting

games indicates to you that

the opponent of some kind,

the opponent in some way, in some kind,

was doing some kind of move.

But here in this example, you'll see the

reversal, and the reversal is because

Jago's invincible dragon punch or

uppercut of some kind

is invincible upon startup.

When the opposing Jago does that meaty,

as we call it, kick into their wake up,

they'll get hit by it.

And so you see that's the rock, paper,

scissors, or actually

in this case, the 50-50.

You either block or you reversal it.

Here's an example from third strike.

I believe the meaty right there is that

overhead punch that Ryu has.

I can't remember.

Is it a collarbone

breaker or the solar plexus?

I forget what it's called.

No, collarbone breaker.

Yeah, the collarbone

breaker is the overhead.

That's what it's called.

My bad, guys.

My bad.

Yeah, that's the

animation there for that.

Yeah, that's a common thing we do in

Street Fighter 2 Town where we're doing a

quote unquote meaty.

It's overhead and it's

inside of you when you wake up.

Now, I just said it.

It's inside of you while you wake up.

I guess that's where the root

of the word meaty came from.

Meaty, it's inside.

It's meaty.

You can't do anything about it.

But even in 1994, when they were talking

about it on good old alt.games.Street

Fighter 2, they were like, "Can we please

call it something else?

Can we please just

call it anything else?"

And sadly, the term meaty has stuck.

It's not going anywhere.

So the next time you

play a fighting game and it

feels like no matter what you do on wake

up, there's nothing you can do.

Have you tried blocking

and have you tried mastering your one

frame reversals, specifically with your

special moves that are invincible?

Because chances are one of those two

options, what's going to beat your

opponent when it comes to a meaty setup.

And then that will prevent them from

always going on the offensive during a

mix up setup on knockdown.

More tips here on the counter hit.

(Upbeat Music)

Did you know that you can submit your

questions over on our awesome, fantastic,

spantabular website

called the counterhit.com?

That's right.

And we have a question that was submitted

to us actually quite a bit ago.

And we owe a big, big mass of apology to

this individual who submitted this

question a long time ago.

They're only getting to it now, but I

think it's about time

we get right into it.

This user has a question for us.

Hi, Zero Dot buddies.

Hi.

I've recently found that if I'm ever

feeling a little lost,

overwhelmed, or in a bad mood,

taking all of my many plushies off my

bed, which are stuffed animals or stuffed

characters, making my bed and taking my

time to carefully line up my plushies

really helps lift me up.

Do you have any small tasks

that can turn a bad day around?

I like this one.

What I like about this the most is that

it's specific to this person.

And I think that's one of the most

important things whenever you have any

kind of ritual that kind of gets you back

to being right as rain.

I think for me, what helps me the most

when I'm having kind of the worst day

imaginable, a day that's like, I'm just

in a funk and I need a good reset.

For me, I need to have

some sweat on my brow.

I need to do some physical activity that

gets me just out of whatever

I'm mentally in a fog about.

This doesn't have to be anything crazy.

I can go on a pretty long walk, like an

hour or two hour long walk, which seems

kind of insane, but it really does help

kind of get me out of my head.

If I have the time or I feel like I have

the space, sometimes I'll do like a mini

strength training session.

Maybe I'll do sprints.

There's a calisthenics park near me that

I'll do sprints in, something physical.

That's usually what

gets me right as rain.

Obviously, if you don't have the capacity

for that, if that's not a space that you

are in, then that might

not be an option for you.

Another thing that can really help me, it

doesn't help me quite as well, because it

can get me, this can reset my brain, but

in a way that sometimes

doesn't help me, is music.

I have so many playlists on my computer,

on my desktop of different songs.

I have to evoke different moods for me.

I tend to be a very

emotional listener to music.

Certain tracks can

trigger emotions for me.

So if I kind of want to hypnotically,

emotionally hijack myself out of whatever

funk I'm in, I can play one of those

playlists and I'll

usually get myself out of it.

It's dangerous though, because sometimes

it won't be productive.

Like I have a playlist that's just for

like music that

triggers me to cry and be sad.

I have music that

makes me happy and excited.

I have music that gets me somber and

thinking about things.

So they're all

different varying qualities,

but that can help set

me right as rain as well.

I think what's important is that everyone

finds a routine that works for them,

that's beneficial to them.

And it should be something

that is low to zero cost.

It shouldn't cost you anything.

It should be, my other example of walking

and doing exercise, that can help, but

only if you have time.

It should be something that you've done

pretty quickly and giving yourself the

amount of time to reset.

One of the most effective ways to kind of

get people to turn things around is a

psychological thing of just

passing through a doorway.

Literally just passing through an

alternate doorway somewhere in your

house, and some other facility, getting

outside, going out to the

shops, doing whatever you can.

Just that psychologically

does a lot to reset the brain.

That's why when you pass through a

doorway, you sometimes forget what you

were thinking right beforehand because

your brain subconsciously takes it as a

little mental reset.

And that's a really big boon there.

So recommend those things.

That's what are the

things that I would do.

But thank you for sharing, and hopefully

you inspire others to

share what their routines are.

So if you've got a secret awesome routine

that helps get you out of a bad mood, let

us know in the comments below.

Thanks a lot, good friend.

(Music)

And for our final segment

today, ladies and gentlemen,

I thought I was gonna leave you hanging.

Nah, I would never do that to you.

Last I talked to you before was about the

good old Nintendo 64 and the analog 3D.

I'm gonna have a more detailed review for

you a little bit later on, because I'm

still testing things and

fangirling with things.

And I just read, they just

made a new update like today.

I need to update the system and see what

all is new and stuff.

But

in the meantime, I told you before that

when I got my analog 3D, I got this

little fancy EverDrive 64 X7 cartridge.

Paid a bit of money for it.

It came from the Ukraine.

I'm an EverDrive fan.

I have many EverDrive products.

Quite a few.

Paid a lot of money for it.

Took a while, and literally within days

of me receiving this,

they announced the Pro model.

I want to put this into context.

The EverDrive X7 had been the leading

most up-to-date version of the EverDrive

from the Nintendo 64 for years.

And how unlucky was I that the moment I

put this in and I get my order, they come

out with the Pro model.

Now, I felt kind of burned by that.

I felt like someone could have reached

out and been like, "Hey, do you want to

wait a little bit longer?

A couple days?

Because if you do, we

can give you a Pro."

That would have been great.

No one did that.

Pretty bummed out about it.

In fact,

at one point, it looked

like they double-charged me.

They charged me twice, but then they

undid the charge, and I asked them about

it, and I received nothing from them.

So lack of communication was not cool.

So instead of me buying the Pro, I went

ahead and did my own research, and I went

ahead and purchased something

else called the Summercart 64.

Ooh, look at that shiny.

Look at that shiny.

This is different in a couple different

ways, but in all ways that matter, it is

another flash cart device for

your N64, and I've tested it.

It works fine and

dandy for the Analogue 3D.

It differs in a few ways.

The most important one is

I didn't actually buy this.

I mean, I bought it, but the actual

technology of this is

actually all open source.

So all I did was pay for someone to do

the schematics and make a PCB and make a

shell enclosure for me, and that's it.

Also, they lived really close to me,

which I thought was

surprising, and it was really cheap.

Maybe half the price of the EverDrive?

Maybe?

And it came really quickly.

Didn't have to wait that long.

Once I got it, a very quick amount of

setup you have to do, because it's an

open source project.

Do your own research.

Look at the instructions.

And before I knew it,

I was up and running.

A couple things this device does.

It's all open source, so you can

customize it however you like.

But where this differs from the EverDrive

64 X7 is in two major ways.

One, this device natively

can run 64 disk drive games.

When I say natively, I mean on this guy,

on the EverDrive 64 X7, you have to go

down the path of ROM

hacking and go looking at

sources in which people have decompiled

the 64 disk drive game, put it into an

N64 cartridge ROM, and play

it that way, which is fine.

I've got nothing against that.

But if you want to play authentic 64 disk

drive games, 64DD games, which are called

with enhanced audio, extra features, and

just bigger ROM file sizes, you need this

guy, the SUMCART that allows for that.

And the SUMRCART 64 does.

And then it does one more thing, and kind

of related to what I just said, it allows

you to play games with a higher ROM file

size than the limit, which I think is

like eight megabytes, I think.

I think it's eight megabytes.

Because I think the highest size that an

N64 cartridge could be was 64 megabits.

Let me double check that.

Oh, I'm wrong. 64 megabytes is the cap of

the highest, file size for a ROM that an

N64 could possibly

handle, which is 512 megabits.

And there are three certified

confirmed games that do this.

Resident Evil 2, which is one of those

games that I have, Conker's Bad Fur Day,

and Pokémon Stadium 2.

And the reason why this is important is

that there's a couple of cool ROM hacks,

assuming you have the original copy of

the game and you want to just have fun

with a ROM hack, that extend that far

beyond 64 megabytes.

And the EverDrive 64X7, through all my

research, doesn't allow you to do that.

The pro does, by the way.

You know, the pro that I was not offered,

that no one ever called me and said,

"Hey, you're just waiting a

couple days and get the pro?"

Does that.

But the Summer Cart

64 cartridge does this.

Looks cool.

If you're watching this on video, you can

see that it's black and shiny

and comes with a cool label.

It works fine.

I'll have a more deeper dive review of

that later on down the line, because I

know you're all

keenly interested in that.

I also find the user interface strangely

easier to navigate, even though it's

somewhat more technical.

The EverDrive 64 is closed source,

meaning it's proprietary,

meaning the company cricks.

They own all the software and everything

and how it all runs, whereas the Summer

Cart 64 is all open

source of that nature.

So,

just wanted to give you

that little bit of an update.

Kind of fun, kind of neat.

Yeah.

Play retro games,

however you want to play them.

Notice how I'm very clear in saying that

I'm playing games that I already own.

Because I do.

That being said,

if you go to a retro game store and

they're selling you a copy of a game for

well beyond market price, you probably

should ask yourself...

...the good old question that Snesdrunk

asks.

Or rather, just the good old mantra of

playing these games in

whatever way you can.

That's all I'm going to say about that.

just about wraps up

our show for this week.

A little bit shorter episode

than before, but don't worry.

Tune in next week when we

dive into, well, more stuff.

Give you more time here

on The Counter Hit Show.

Remember, stay weird, be you, be your

true self in whatever way you can.

I'm your host, Sam Kirk, and I can't wait

to see you next time.

Cheers and enjoy.