EP:64 - The Permanent Crisis

Scott Horton (0:00)

Tonight, I throw my PC out the window like Stacey Peralta's TV in the search for animal chint.

SPEAKER_2 (0:10)

All humans break.

The difference between humans and gods is that gods can break humans. Negotiate now. End this war.

SPEAKER_3 (0:21)

You're watching Provoked with Darryl Cooper and Scott Horton. Debunking the propaganda lies of the past, present, and future.

Scott Horton (0:41)

All right. Good evening, Mr. Cooper.

Darryl Cooper (0:43)

That was not my fault.

Scott Horton (0:45)

You ever have one of those days, man, where your computer wants to take eight minutes to restart? And it doesn't say why. It's not like it's updating Windows or anything. It just takes eight minutes to restart Windows PC sometimes for no reason at all.

Darryl Cooper (1:00)

Yeah, I kind of figured out a long time ago that I'm not very, I'm not very good with that stuff. So I just, I don't demand much of my computer. And I just, I record occasionally.

Every once in a while, I look something up.

Scott Horton (1:14)

Well, you know what I...

Darryl Cooper (1:15)

I get to play a game.

Scott Horton (1:17)

I cut a giant hole in the Matrix because I did an interview today on Zoom. A guy interviewed me on Zoom. And so now then my camera and microphone wouldn't talk to StreamYard because they're very jealous of each other's Zoom and StreamYard. And then I had to uninstall Zoom. I don't know. Restarting wasn't good enough.

An eight-minute restart wasn't good enough.

Anyway, whatever. Hey, man. How are you?

Darryl Cooper (1:46)

Doing all right. I've been, dude, I've been chopping so much wood.

And that's not a euphemism. Like I literally just am trying to scramble to get all of my firewood chopped before it gets really cold because as I was finishing up this most recent episode, I just did no work around here at all. So I've been catching up and I chopped wood for like six hours today. And it was a lot of work, but yeah, that's what I've been doing.

Scott Horton (2:13)

Hey, make your own firewood. That's, you know, save some money.

Darryl Cooper (2:16)

Well, we've cut down on our property here probably in the last, in the last two years, we've probably cut down like a thousand trees.

Scott Horton (2:25)

Yeah. And let's run my fireplace on Christmas.

Darryl Cooper (2:29)

A lot of them are like, you know, crappy ponderosa pines and stuff that aren't really great for burning indoors, like in a stove. And so, you know, a lot of that stuff, we just use for outdoor fires, but there's a lot of Douglas firs and stuff around here. So I've got, I mean, honestly, probably, I would say 15 cords of wood that I've, like I'm about halfway through it now, but it's a lot of freaking wood, bro. And, you know, like at the very beginning, when I started doing it, my wife's like, you're getting one of those machines that splits it, right? Like one of those hydraulic things. And I was like, nah, come on, I'm a grown man. I got a big ax. I'm ready to go.

And I wish I had never said that, but now it's too late. Like I can't go back on it and be like, oh, okay, fine. So it's a trap of my own making.

Scott Horton (3:18)

Yeah. Poor bastard. Well, whatever. I hear your podcast is being very successful.

Darryl Cooper (3:25)

Blowing up, bro. Yeah. Like how cool is it that there's, so I released it, what, Monday? Yeah. This Monday, right?

Yeah. This most recent Monday, I released it and it's got over 400,000 downloads.

So it's like, you know, there's an audience out there for some dude talking for five and a half hours, about a couple months stretch in early 1919, when it's supposed to be a World War II podcast. And that's just, that's very, that's very heartening.

Scott Horton (4:04)

Well, yeah, they know you're going somewhere with this.

Darryl Cooper (4:07)

So eventually, yeah.

Scott Horton (4:08)

Yeah.

Geez, well, I wish those same people wanted to listen to the audio book of Provoked. It's really long. It's not even done yet. And it's already like 30 hours long.

Darryl Cooper (4:19)

You should have had me, you should have had me do the recording for it.

Scott Horton (4:22)

I guess so. I hate recording audio books. So you're hired for the next one.

Darryl Cooper (4:29)

Well, it sounds like audio books, like because I used to think it would be fun because I like reading. You know, I like reading out loud. My wife and I will read books together and I'll just, you know, we'll kind of, you know, one night she'll read, next night I'll read. And we'll go through book like nonfiction fiction. We'll just read like 45 minutes to an hour a night. And I like to really get into it, you know, and I'll do voices and stuff sometimes like subtle voices. And I've gotten better and better at it and I enjoy it. And so I talked about doing it one time.