The Audio Blog of Steven Sirski

Instagram to create a TV-like APP? Challenging YouTube. Now about that monetization and security policy they have. Bilibili and XHS for the podcasts? WOW. Shtee… you should’ve known. Got an idea for an English learning-only podcast… just looking at some of these sales guys who have multiple podcasts. SLV Episode 61 recorded. TikTok streaming for a month? Every day? Workout in! Only 25 minutes of l...

New week and we’re getting close to the midpoint! My apologies for the audio quality as of late! Will have to look into it. Maca… it’s for motivation, so that means you’re more geared up to go. Not strength. SLV Episode 60 up! Will try to get another episode done this week. Thinking, might split the podcast from the vlog. Workouts in! Uni to hotel 3.53km n 25.36, then chest and legs, then back out...

GOLD keeps going! How far can it go? Bubble mania or just par for the course? Barry Ritholtz website: https://ritholtz.com/2025/10/realtime-bubble-checklist/ Workouts in… and not sure if that Maca gave me any more strength. 100 pull ups, 200 push ups, 300 squats, some weighted, some not. Then rows and shoulders plus tried to do some deadlifts but couldn’t get the bar positioned correctly and then...

Getting cold! Gangster rap or hotel TV music? SLV Episode 60 done and edited, should be up tomorrow. Shot and edited all today. Debatable whether I prefer this method or the multi-day method. Building up landing pages and email campaigns… how will this all work together? Did not stream today, but is content really king? Thinking, is it a good idea to split off the English teaching from the languag...

Wednesday hump day! Only ONE class and a welcome break! How are those supplements doing? So far, so good, no noticeable problems. Investing advice? Guidance? What would you recommend? I don’t give advice except to educate yourself. That being said, educate yourself on the following: -Buy and hold, don’t trade to trade and time the markets -Ignore options until you have the ability to lose that mon...

GOLD... to the MOON! AI agent a go go - deploying to the world! Up for breakfast and stayed to eat! Starting Maca, what is it and WTF would I bother? New supplement stack! -Fish oil -Maca -Milk Thistle -Ashwaganda -Bacopa -Vitamin C -Magnesium -(Zinc) -MCT coconut Workout in! But didn’t get editing done, nor a new podcast. Hey, it was Thanksgiving Day in Canada! Donate to the show! PayPal link bel...

Forgot my cell phone cable! If only I had the USB-C version! I’m the only teacher that walks around! All the others just stand at the front and talk. I’ve been told: sit and eat at breakfast! Maybe time to change my schedule? AI agent due today, gotta get it in! Workouts in! 3.53km in 22.36, an hour in the weight room (legs, shoulders, arms), then another 4.63km in 28.53. I’m a bit stiff right now...

Cold and rainy! We’re number one! Coldest beginning of October in a very long time! Workouts in! 3.51 km run in 28.09 (while on the phone!), then off to do 100 pull ups, 200 push ups, 300 squats + rows, back, deadlifts, and shoulders. Then out for another 4.57km run in 28.23. Big day making calls! Always tough to gauge when to call, but these have to be done. Talked to my Uncle, no one is Ukrainia...

Rain rain rain all day, should’ve brought extra socks with me! Cotti Coffee Drops their prices even more! Wondering… how often do they replace the tiles in Tiananmen? And what if a foreign dignitary wants to walk around the square? Can they? What’s up for the next AI agent? Steven, if you’re just doing your job to be “in compliance”, does that mean you’re just dialling it in as a teacher? Good que...

Back to Changping for a couple of days, rainy all the way. Workouts in! Didn’t go outside until I took out the garbage so worked out at home, including using the treadmill for the first time in a long time! Almost 4.91 km done in about 45 minutes. GOLD a moving! Over $4000 USD an ounce now! Starbucks closing stores! Including Seattle Sodo roastery! … They just unionized last year! Time to short? D...

It might not be the neighbour! It might be the OTHER neighbour! The stock market lady’s father! New vlog edited and posted, all about a bus ride back to Shuangjing. Simple, yet informative. Off to Tiananmen, how was it? Took longer than we planned, which is something we should have planned for. Accidentally went into the area towards Forbidden City so that extended our visit by a couple hours. Lot...

It got cold. Happy Mooncake Festival 中秋节快乐！ The neighbour is smoking more. Workouts in! 7.02km in 53.09. Afternoon light weights. Also hit the gym yesterday morning for a glute workout cause I find it hard to strengthen them any other way. SLV 59 is out! I’m scaling back. Off to the circus… play circus that is. And off to Tiananmen tomorrow, what will we see and how will we get there? Donate...

End of the week, and the middle of the break! Back to Chinese classes, they’re much easier this time round! Re-recorded SLV Episode 59, this one was far better. Workouts in! 7.51km in 46.17 in the morning, weights in the afternoon - 105 pull ups, 210 push ups, 315 squats. Used 5 kg for the middle portion, 10 kg for a couple rounds (10 or 20 pull ups total?), then rows, shoulders and back. Then… ou...

Wow is it quiet around here. Some fireworks yesterday at 8 am, but not much… not that I’m looking. Is that AI agent course worth it? Another WSJ article says… it’s just another course capitalizing on the trend. (But finished my latest homework assignment already.) 1. “Maybe you’re learning how to work more efficiently with the aid of ChatGPT and its robotic brethren. Perhaps you’re taking one of t...

New month! Happy China Day!? 5,000 years of history but today is China Day. Liked today’s hotel breakfast! Will it last? They had ham at breakfast this morning, and goodie bags for kids! (They gave me one). Gotta be careful how much I eat because then I’m just lethargic after! Workouts in! First kilometer was in 8.39, restarted the watch ,next 6.15km was in 33.34. Kilometer 5 was run in 5 minutes,...

End of the month! My how time flies! Work done for the next eight days! Lots to get done. New vlog recorded, editing soon! Maybe I should just re-do the other ones? Workout in, a token effort. Accessory work + 4.01 km run in 36.19. ESL podcasts - they’re talking about things that have been done that I’m just discovering! Or have we all known for a while? AI chatbots, teachers and technology, pros...

A walk around Changping at night, what did I find? Xi’an Small Snacks BiangBiang Mian (𰻞𰻞面)… apparently the character wasn’t able to be printed on screen until 2020. A happy discovery: how to connect my laptop to the school computer AND to my iPad! (Why wasn’t I doing this before?) National Day coming up, when do I leave the breakfasts? GOLD to pull back? Zeal says so. https://zealllc.com/2025/...

Workouts in! 3.52km in 24.27, then hit the gym for my pull up rounds, took 39 min 49 sec to get 105 weighted pull ups in, push ups, squats, then did some rows and shoulder work. Then back out for another 4.51km run in 30.38. Get it done while I can. And yes, I did a work out on Wednesday as well. (7.32km run in 47.34 in the morning, then hit the gym after the work meeting for legs and chest day.)...

Learning all about APIs… remember what I said about Granola being a “wrapper” for ChatGPT? Well, using an API key would be how you would build such a program. LOL, coming across “On this day last year” memes on TikTok! Back when I was posting regularly. (And yes, still doing outreach.) Edited SLV Episode 58. It might be that I just get these podcasts out later cause I’m having trouble finding the...

Mosquitoes in the room! How did it go with your hotel neighbours the other day? Quite fine. I think they moved apartments. Called the front desk, told them the situation, front desk asked if I wanted to move and I said no cause I’ve been living here. Knocked on the wall (gently, not aggressively). I don’t think they heard me the first time but the second time they did. And then it went quiet and I...

New SLV Episode recorded, thinking, should I continue? How is the AI course? Is it really going to change anything? Learning N8n and need to get an OpenAI API key. No workout today, find myself slowing down. Only one week until National Day, anything planned? How was Granola… the APP? Donate to the show! PayPal link below! https://www.paypal.me/stevensirski?locale.x=en_CA *** Show notes n tracks u...

Yup, don’t like the neighbour! But now I have new neighbours at the hotel! FKD UP the return journey to the hotel! Tried to catch the 45, but it only runs every 30 minutes, so ended up finding a sharebike in the ditch which had puke in its basket. Into the AI bootcamp I go! What do I need to do? -Four agents -Need to complete THREE out of FOUR assignments to get a certificate of completion. (What’...

End of the week and a busy day! SLV Episode 57 is up and out! Workouts in! Run from the uni to hotel: 3.51km in 24.43 (a bit slow), 105 pull ups, 210 push ups, 315 squats using body weight, 5 kg and 10 kg weights. Changed them up throughout cause I wasn’t sure if I could only do 10kg. Then back out for another 4.51km run in 27.48. 12 or 13 more weeks to go, gotta find something to do with these ki...

What other skills do I have? Even after fifteen years of living and working overseas, what other skills do I have? Only really done two or three different types of jobs: teaching ESL, working on farms, and kinda trying to work online. Sales funnels and lead generations, how do you do all of this on your own? A curious thing about learning Chinese: you only learn about China. Learning English or Fr...

Hey, Steve! Are you forgetting things?! (yes) What about that gym? (It closed, but it has two other locations, one nearby in Dawanglu.) And your neighbour? (Smoking outside my apartment door on Saturday night, WTF? Is he/she/it trying to get at me? Or did they simply not know? And how to deal with this?) And the podcast?! (Forgot to clean up the storage before recording so it cut out several times...