🚴‍♂️ Zwift Indoor Cycling Session + Random Chat/AMA

All right, I gotta find somebody to ride with. Why am I hearing an echo? Are you guys hearing an echo, too? Oh, I know why. Cuz I'm watching my own stream. I think I was working on my um my site, my website. Yep, there it is. All right, I'm glad I fixed that. Also, I need a hat. I need I need to ride safely, people. I need to ride safely. I really like the color of this red one, even though I don't like the visor. Black one's nice, too, though. I just like the red. I really like the red. This one's good, too. Oh my god. No. That's like ancient. This is good. What about this? No. No. Majiro Vanquish. Yeah. If you're going to look like a superhero, you might as well look like a superhero, right? I can mean it. All right. Lots of people are out right now. Oh my god. What are they even talking about? Where's my watch? I need my watch. [laughter] Like, what is this guy gonna start writing? >> Where did I put it? I mean the the Belleite doesn't look so gay or whatever. You can't say that word anymore. Oh, how you doing, Mark? Yeah, I'm only going to be here like an hour. I might go to yoga. I decided to ride instead of climb today. It's amazing how you recognize names after you've been in here enough. I've been doing this for what, six years on and off. All right, we got to change. We're gonna teleport with our companion app. I go ride with Let's go ride with somebody easy for a while just to get warmed up. There's really no rush here. Let's ride with Richmond. Nah, let's go straight. They're the 1.8. Let's go join the 62 group. There we go. Let's go. Let's go. How you doing, Mark? Just know that you are being streamed to YouTube with VODs, Twitch, and Facebook simultaneously. Can I get a woot woot? All right, that was lame. Rob, I'm falling behind even though I have a disc wheel. No, I'm going to get dropped. like to thank the academy. I don't want to get too tired. I got really hard hot yoga tonight. Oh my life. Hey, I can change the view. Yeah. Yeah. I can't watch. What should we say? Oo, I like this one better. It's first person. Sorry. Come on. Bone. Did the snow finally melt? And in North Carolina mostly gone. It rained all day, huh? Got rid of it. Ohio is cold as crap. Well, it's Ohio, so there's that. Oh, look. Look. The robots got fancy fancy outfits. That's new. >> [laughter] >> Oh, I have to rub it in. That's my middle name. Rub. It's actually my first name. Rub. Call me Rub from now on. How's everybody's day at work? Oh, look at the cute little animal. Also 100 jersey. I think they actually added 20 more levels because of people like that. Level 100 to get to level like between like like I don't know like 50 and 100 is insane. The amount of XP you have to have for level is crazy. They'd be like, "What would be nice to know is how much writing you'd have to do total to earn that much XP." It's like, you know how people spend like 6,000 hours in Dota 2 or something like that? Magba good. No more on call. You got out of on call. Good on you. Nobody likes on call. I mean, I kind of do. I like the whole use work with a, you know, work with somebody kind of thing. Look at these slackers drinking their coffee. [laughter] I want a little furby toy. How do I get the fur toy? I guess I I must have screwed it up. [snorts] Right on. Mark, do you still have a job? He said in a nicest way. [gasps] Now that you're supporting a family, [laughter] only 8%. You hate RTO. Everybody does. People from my company got fired over it. They protested it and they got fired. It landed on Reddit and everything. [snorts] Yeah. Yeah, those the shiny execs came down hard on everybody. Thou shalt not disagree. >> Yeah, my family I won't give details but they work for a company that most many of my family I think four of my brothers and sisters did I get that right? maybe three. They work for the same company and that company forced everybody to go back to work. And two of them have special needs kids at home. One of them was watching over my alien parents, my aging parents, you know, and they're they're like, "Screw you. You have to come back." They're like they like there's a guy at my work that I know who his entire life was built around working remote, right? God, that girl's got a hundred. Wow, she's hot. I want to I want to meet her in person. [laughter] Anyway, what was I saying? It may work at the same place. Yeah. Well, this this happened a while ago, so they've already been through the pain of going back. They all had to go back. They had to work it out. It's painful, though. Yeah, this is definitely zone two work. We have a 90 in here, too. All right, this is a leg a leg rest out of the seat. My legs look so tiny because of the force perspective. [laughter] Looks like I have like a huge upper body though. [laughter] Lies. Wait, do I have another? Oh, I don't have one yet. I'll give everybody write ons. That's right. I said ride on. Get your mind out of the gutter. It' be nice. I've been writing in the morning every day for an hour. Nice easy pace. I've been riding in recovery mode in the morning. This is more of a zone, too. What music are you guys listening to? Keep teasing me with that Hunter jersey. Those pretty zip wheels. Oh, she's going for it. Oh, we're going to finish our route here. Yeah. Is it a sprint? Oh, it was a sprint. Actually, sprints are kind of fun. Sprints are really fun because you can like just ride normal and then when the sprint comes, you can like, you know, pour on the gas so you can kind of make your own intervals. Super fun. 210th out of 306. Oh my god, I love this song. Hey, someone do Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I think I have a song button. Don't I? I think I do. did not work. My bots are hosed. I need to fix them. So, I go through Google Street View. They We should make that. Actually, there's there's other services that you can do that that have real streets like the big rides, you know. I can't remember the name of them though. Been out of it for a while. Ah, yes. Cycling. This part where you get to watch men's asses for three hours straight. Ultra video for graphics. Oh, they have it. They have it. The cartoony stuff won out. Yeah. Don't not know why. There's been at least like at least two companies that have tried to do realistic and they have not gotten the adoption. There's like millions of people in here right now. Like I think it's like 9 million. It's like World of Warcraft numbers. You want to see a Here, let me give you a different camera angle. This is a fun one. Helicopter. Let's do Sideline. First person angle rear chase. What's that? Ooh. I like controlling the camera with my hands on the keyboard, but the keyboard is too far away right now. Have to fix it. Third person's short. How about rear pacing? There we go. How about Yeah, first person. I like helicopter, too. Kind of. What's up with the lighting? It's kind of weird. Right on. This actually has a helicopter sound effect. I have it turned off. There we go. Time to sprint. Lose these bumps. I know. I have the helmet for it. I want to get the shoes that make that make lightning when you like Whoa. What the hell? Must have been a turn. I want to get the shoes. They have shoes. When you sprint, it like paints fire out. I don't know how to get them, though. Oh, they're socks. That's right. What is this? What? How do I get them? Tell me how to get them if you can. I know. I can't remember which upgrade though. That is the question. Hold on. I think you actually have to do like Italy or something like one of the one of the I think it's one of the big things like a Tron bike. You notice Tron bikes are out of favor now. Nobody rides on them anymore. Used to be everybody had a Tron bike. There's one. Tron bike used to be like a huge flex. It's not really anymore. I'm gonna go another What? Another half hour. I'm going to go to yoga. Fire sucks at level 50. No way. I'm level 49. Oh snap. Okay, now I'm motivated. I have to make fire. It's so freaking cool. When you sprint, when your power goes up high, you make leave a fire trail. So freaking cool. Nothing says I'm level 50. I want that. I'm almost going to get an upgrade to my bike, which is new. They didn't have that before. You get upgrades to your bike, the bike you're running riding on. It gets more advantages depending on how much time you put in on a specific bike, which kind of makes you have a favorite bike. You have to select them. Yeah. Sounds awesome. I think I'm pretty far, though. I probably get him by the end of the week. I don't want to burn out though because I got yoga. And she is so mean. Skyler the yoga teacher. Our yoga class is called some like a hot. It's It's one of the hard It's more like calis yoga cal yoga drill sergeant. [snorts] It's the hardest yoga of the entire week based on her teaching style. I'm going to try to go chill. Da, you're you're writing. Maybe I get you riding indoors, too, so you can come ride with me. I mean, Mr. Terry B, he's all about indoor writing now. Is he got a Swift sponsorship? I think he does. I was looking at his video the other day. I was like, he's got to have a Zift sponsorship. You know what I mean? You don't have the Zift. Well, me too. I just started on February 1st because I'm doing other stuff. I'm doing yoga and climbing and stuff, hiking cuz there's no snow here. It's Utah, but no snow. There's no snow. You could climb to the top of Baldi, which is the local mountain. No snow the entire way. We're talking like 5,000 ft. No snow. This poor ski resorts are dying. But it's fine. They deserve it. They suck. Except for Beaver Mountain, which is run by locals. Uh uh uh tongue. Yeah. You have snow that's going to last forever. North Carolina got a foot of snow on the floor like on the ground. That's crazy. Crazy. Oh, look. Carmen thinks I did my goal. I don't know what it's tracking. It's tracking something. Wow. Van Park. Hello. 50 to 60 cm. Wow. See, I don't know what happened. The north up here didn't get touched. Uhuh. God, it's almost six already. All right, I can only go till like 6:10, but I got to get ready. I stopped wearing like toe tight yoga pants. I did not like it. [laughter] Do you know those backup dancers? Have you ever seen the backup dancer skit from Second Life for Beyonce? This is a funny story. It was actually Skyler's class. She's very I don't know. So, when she first started, it wasn't I mean, when I first started with her, there weren't that many people in her class. There was just two of us, and it was two guys. And one of the guys is uh the husband of one of the other teachers. and he wore this like ultra tight black outfit [laughter] and [laughter] he looked fabulous. It was amazing. And then and I wore I wore my compression black shorts and it got really hot. Got really hot. So I took my shirt off and >> [snorts] >> and she comes walking into class and she's like, "Ooh, I got my backup dancers." [laughter] We we totally look like like Beyonce's backup dancers like in that SNL skit. You know that SNL skit? [laughter] If you haven't seen it, you need to go watch it. It was so funny. We were laughing so hard and she when she does yoga when she teaches she actually will dance while she's doing the yoga pose. Hey Bellum, she'll dance. She's up there dancing dancing and utkatasana. She's like shaking her booty and stuff and you can't help but laugh and like want. She's like, you know, you have different styles of yoga, right? You have kick your ass yoga. You have party trick yoga, which is like, you know, crow and headstand work and all that. I'm falling behind because I'm talking. No, must catch up. I got drive by the pack and then all the wind resistance just like took me out. Anyway, so uh what was he saying? I can't remember what I was saying. My brain has no sugar. Woohoo. I got the arrow upgrade. I was the backup dancer. Yeah. But yeah, so she like dances. Everybody's got their own style. So Bart, he's a climber and a sport, you know, paddle boarding, all that. Mount biker. His classes are packed. By the way, there's literally an inch between the mats. You you guarantee he'll like hit somebody next to you, but nobody cares. And he'll do like party tricks. He'll like get you ready to go do like crow or side crow or side plank or something. Then you have Meline. She's like yoga high. By the end of her warm yoga class, you're like literally high. I call it like driving under the influence of yoga. I told her I want to make that t-shirt. Driving under the influence of Meline's yoga class cuz it's you can't even think when you come out of there. You're just kind of so high on dopamine because it's hard enough to get your heart running. But it's also got a lot of music and she does Ricky Reiki and she'll like give you a scalp massage and essential oils and all this stuff. It's amazing. And then you have you have like kick your ass yoga which is like Skyler. It's pretty much yoga style calisthenics with music and you're like dancing around doing different things trying to keep up with her. It's more like 1980s aerobics class. [laughter] She doesn't move your And there's actually there's another teacher who who does do 80s. She plays 80s music. We have another teacher, Matt, who he's he plays he has these special yoga sessions where he plays dark rock, like throat rock. Like he always says dark metal is problematic. So I have been sure to select the best of it's like there's a big poster of Cali in the front of the room with her big old tongue out. You're like doing yoga poses to like they're There he's got the lightning. See that guy sprinted on the other one. You see that? He had he had the socks. You can't see it, but it was like over on the side. Rewind the volume. Go see it. He had the socks to the far left. It's kind of fun. I'm going to go buy those upgrades. You have to buy them. You just earn the right to have them. Is that it? Do you have to? Yeah, that's good because I wouldn't want to like I might want to give it to another one of my bikes. I need to do the research to find out which one to use, you know, like which one is the good one. You know what I'm saying? [snorts] They have like entire YouTube channels and blogs dedicated to the fastest Zift bike for their specific purpose and like only the insiders know. It's literally called Zift Insider. That's the name of the newsletter. Three bikes update the Toronto. three zip bikes that they have to Oh. Oh, that's interesting because the Tron's a really good all-around bike. Just pick that one. That's going to be tough. I have to look at which one to do. All right, another another eight minutes. Three zip bikes. What are you talking about? They switch their bikes. I have a I have a climbing bike. This is my arrow bike. And of course, you have wheel sets you can combine. [snorts] The wheel the arrow wheel sets of course are heavier. So, you have to decide when you pick your terrain like what am I going to be riding on? TT climbing and speed. Oh, really? That makes sense. I hadn't thought about TT. I don't do TT very much. I think I may have like maybe 20 hours on a TT bike total. I don't like riding TT cuz you you don't get any girl gains from the group. I like I like playing the game, you know, and you can't you can't really do that. Uh oh, we pass Miguel. There's so many old parts in this game. So many. There's a guy from France I met who's like got a huge following on YouTube and whipped. He has evered like several times in here is insane. He basically spends like six hours on his bike every day. A little bit too much for me. We met him once. We met him once. He came into the chat and was talking to us once. Sometimes I'll rate him. He He does his riding on rollers. He has an actual bike and he rides on rollers in France. Guy is amazing. He doesn't just lean on his arrow bars and pedal his wheels like me. I just want to cut my abs out of my belly. That's the only reason I'm on my bike. [laughter] I mean, I'm getting there. I'm getting there, but they're still hiding. [laughter] already. This music is awesome. Okay, how what time is it? 6:05. Okay, five more minutes. I don't want to miss my yoga class. Get penalized for being late. I do this every morning at 5:30. If you're up, come do it with me. Come ride with me. I don't normally ride at night. Only when I'm bored and there's nothing else to do. [snorts] I'll watch a movie or something. I like just writing with you guys and talking and listening to music. That's my favorite even more than watching a movie. People come in and tell me what's going on in their life. By the way, what's going on in your life? Hey, Bellum. I just love love love cranked to good music in my ears. Sadly, not much. Nema, write the next Canadian novel. The next great Canadian novel. Write that. I'll buy it. I'm about to vomit. Ham radio. Oh, cool. Yeah. Yeah. We were like I failed the test. Remember I signed up for signal for the first time. Speaking of spying, things are getting messy out there. People tech up. Pack her up. Pack her up. Get ready to join the fight. Mtastic. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. I love Signal. I didn't know it notified everybody that has you as a contact when you join though. I started getting like random unknown. Like one person said, "Glad you finally made it." I was like, "New signal. Who this? They told me everything, but I was like, seriously, I got random messages from people on Signal. I was like, do I know you? Cuz they're using it, right? They don't put their name on it. I don't care. My name's on mine. I just don't want people reading it. Signal is like this absolutely groundbreaking messaging system where every single message is encrypted with a unique key. Every message that means in fact it's so powerful. You can go watch the this is really great impish. It actually Facebook offered I think 300 million or something for it and they I I don't know the story. go look it up. But they refused it because they wanted to keep it open. And then they had a whole bunch of other people. And then oh, England tried to sue them and shut them down because the government's like, "No, you can't have that. It's too secure." And they said, "Fuck you. We'll leave here then." So they left. I [snorts] mean, talk about champions. I love them. It's so powerful. Their algorithm and their technology is so powerful. Facebook has talked about putting it into their messaging which obviously they just want to say they use it. They'll still crack it because Facebook but signal itself is Telegram I think is something similar. I don't know how much and you can do that whole thing where your messages get deleted after a certain amount of time. So somebody would have to hack your network, siphon packets, crack your which would take even a a quantum computer several you know months or years to crack and then they only get one message and then um that's even protected because if you can set the messages to delete after 10 seconds. So if somebody doesn't see this is not Mr. robot. If somebody doesn't see your message within 10 seconds, it gets permanently deleted. [snorts] So, no record of it on your phone. Somebody would have to be running a a screen capture layer on top of your phone like Facebook tried to do that captures all of your input. Facebook actually tried to do that and they got sl it got shut down. They tried to do that. They just say, "Oh, you'll be able to put our icon on the top blah blah blah." and their their app was going to be on the very very top and it was going to capture everything every interaction basically sticking a screen scraper for Facebook on your on your they got shut down they got denied so thank god for that right all right I'm done that was a good warm-up grappin OS I I haven't studied graphine at all is it the same thing I don't Enjoy the yoga. Thank [snorts] you. All right, have fun everybody. Go rinse my sweat off and go sweat some more. I need some electrolytes. I need some electrolytes. Electrolytes. Oh, garage frame. It's only 100,000. I mean, okay. I love my dogma. All right. Boom. 105. Yeah, I don't even care. I think I did the research on this. I think this is the best arrow bike. So, let's go. Why doesn't it Oh, say it right here. Oh, it just says there. It's got the upgrade. I got you. I got you. I wonder if I come back if it'll change the star. I doubt it. Nope. Uh uh uh uh uh yeah, right there on the bottom of zone two. Good for me. End ride. Timeline screenshot. I got to screenshot it so I have reference. Okay. save. I was going to do another tour to Swift right, but it's too late. It comes It's starting right now. Uh didn't quite make it. So, all right, my friends. See you later. I need to race some more. My race score sucks. All right. Bye.

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