036: Soft Noses

We're like, Oh, I get it. Okay, they're going to go over there. Then they're going to bomb those guys and then like, they go dancing. It's like, wait a minute, what? To those Chinese? That's all they do. They bomb people or they go dance. Well in movies. Yes. Believe it or not, we're doing a podcast. This one's called Unrelenting. It is episode 36 and it is July 22nd of 2022. That's a lot of news. I noticed that when I was naming the episode as well. Seven two, two, two, two.

Two, two, two, two, two, two. So I should donate something in the TOS. In the TOS. That would be awesome. So speaking of music, though, who who is the jingle for our show? Who performed it? You mean. Performed? Wrote? I don't know. Where did you get it? My buddy Tom, who passed away about five or six years ago now. Oh, that's okay. I was going to give him some, you know, credits and stuff for people that run jingles, but apparently. Ain't going to happen. You know, he does.

You know, I've clipped this out a few of the random thoughts. The other show I do, that's also his music. We spend a lot of time together right before he passed away. Because he got a document with the rights to the music. That's cool. You're his wife, then? He, you know, that was on his estate. Yeah. They have no interest in it, which.

Public domain music. Awesome. Which I that's, you know, I've set it up like hey whoever wants to hear it, he would be more than thrilled that people are listening to it and he plays that legacy.

Yeah. You know, back in the day, like in the sixties seventies, he played in the band and he was like for a while they were co-headlining with bands like Cheap Trick, you know, of course they didn't quite make it there as far as Cheap Trick did, but he for years didn't play because, you know, life gets in the way. And he was like, I'm going to have some stuff that I've been thinking I'd like to. Use to play in the band. Oh, what did you play? Bass.

Drums. Oh, really? Yeah. You seem more like a bass player, although, you know, now that I do, I. Have a guilty or something or. Yeah, kind of. You have the very long one. You have that which would get in the way with drumming. That could be dangerous. Would you have to tie the beard behind your head if you wanted to go drum now? No, no, it was. It was. It wasn't a drum set. It was ethnic, percussion. Ethnic. So you play the bongos or something? Yeah. Mm hmm. I did.

I played conga and a variety of other percussive instruments. G was I used. To have a store, you know, I used to have a store that sold percussion. Oh, you were. You were the best damn triangle player they ever saw them straight? Yeah, this was. We did. We did kind of a mix of jazz and polka. Okay, now that I would like to hear. Yeah, yeah. It was interesting. A little bit of reggae in there, too. Jazz, polka and reggae was the name of the band just. After The Flaming Juice.

Well, that perfectly makes sense. Uh huh. Because nothing says reggae is as much as the flaming juice. It's kind of a, you know, a play on words with the the, you know, is that the Poland is where the Auschwitz is and stuff. It would totally get you canceled or killed today if that band showed up. Probably. I mean, it was. It would be we were. We played in the sort of, you know, a hipster coffee shop circuit. That I can see that I can kind of see. Yeah.

And douches boosting, saying you look like a skin flute player. Wow, the trolls are out early in the morning for you this morning, apparently. I don't know exactly why. Yeah. Were they out last week? I mean, I missed the show last week. I mean, I was in the troll room. And, you know, it was a total Kumbaya show.

Last week I noticed it was like and there was a lot of people it was much more listen to than our other shows because I think people were hoping for the drama you did not deliver, and I think they're pissed. I did not. There was no drama because there was apparently nobody stirring. The pot is remembrances. I thought that we agreed on just about everything. Concluding that he was an arrogant prick. Was that where he started? Yeah. I never say, hey. Let's have this great. Show, right?

It's like he hated me. And then and he was in there again breaking them. We tend to agree on everything. It's kind of weird that way, isn't it? You? I don't know, man. You know, I've had him on as a guest.

And Sir, Gene speaks in the past, much like you as well. And other than, again, that initial, like, offputting ness, he was pretty much on board and, you know, stuff that I brought up and I was just mostly on board with stuff he brought up that the thing, you know, the thing that I gave him shit for in that show, this was like what, two years ago was I said, Yeah, what's the deal here? You're harder to get on the show than than Adam is. Well, you know. Wait, wait.

There's an imbalance between speech yet? No, that was metaphorical. No, Adam has not been on 13 speak. But you've asked him. Yeah, multiple times. But you did get the bigger star in that family, though, because you got TiVo. I did. I got Tina was the first one. She was on my show. She was that was the first show she'd ever been on at all. And before now she's a star casting phenomenon. She is a phenomenon. Exactly. The show I listen to, probably more than even though gender.

Probably inside baseball, which I see now, I would assume, you know, a lot of what they discuss, but. Well, I have actually been there for over a year. I haven't been to their house. I mean, occasionally. Well, I'll talk with both them occasionally, but but I, I haven't been out there since. Well they're so far away now that they've moved out to the Hill country. They well they're yeah. They're our 30 minutes. That's the drive time if I remember correctly.

That was, that's a drive time if you're obeying the speed limit or what does it take you to get there though. I mean I mostly obey the speed limit. I see. I kind of got the whole driving thing fast out of my system years ago. So yeah, same here. I'm generally at, you know, whatever must be below. It's usually a little above the speed limit, but not by much. The more your eyesight declines, so should your speed. I would agree with that.

I don't have eyesight issues, but I definitely would not want blind people driving fast. No, no. Well, she's going to stay off the road, so we have the whole thing to ourself. Yeah, exactly. No, the last two times that I got stopped by cops, it was that for speeding. Would you like to discuss what it was for? Well, they don't like people using guns from inside the car, apparently. I don't know. It was. It was in Chicago. I'd be right at home. Yeah. Yeah, it was really stupid shit. It was.

I got stopped for because I didn't have a front playing on my car. And then the cops wanted to check the darkness of my glass, so. Oh, wow. So they just thought you were a dick. Because if they pull you over for tinted windows. Yeah, yeah. But unless it's totally blacked out and, and, and I'm like, sure. These are, these are factory windows. Okay? This is not like aftermarket shit. This literally this car came from Germany with this car with no. Oh, well, see, Germans.

Yeah. But even here in Illinois, irony. Was I was on my way to Fredericksburg when I got pulled over. Let's leave it here because of the fact that we're a front and rear license plate status. Yeah, sorry. But they're talking about dropping that off to save the state money. That's awesome. I can afford an extra piece of ten. That's aluminum. I don't really aluminum's gallon priced by about four. Well, everything's gone up. Yeah, but like, a lot. And it's all coming from China.

I just don't like the way from plates look, so I never put them on. Well, the way they usually attach to the car too. What I hear it's. An afterthought, right? It doesn't flow with the the car. Yeah. When I had my 1996 Camaro, it felt wrong because you had to, like, drill it into the plastic on the front of the car. Yeah. Fuck, that's it. I know it ruins things. So every car I've had, I've not had from plate them.

Now, are we looking at a spinoff, the Roseanne Searching Show is that this time the public came out? And I don't think the cameras has the the caffeine in the system to do it to do a show every week with somebody, unless I did it like way, way, way later. All right. Then it would be a boozing show, which I've always thought might be a fun alternative because I do my shows during the day. Mm hmm. It's been a long time. Early.

Early on in my podcasting career, we did some nighttime shows, and it's definitely a different vibe. It is a very different vibe. You end up getting like, you think you're going to record a show like this, but you kind of end up getting a show more like the smoker, right? Turns into a drunken mess. Mm hmm. Yeah, which. Isn't necessarily bad, but definitely different. It's different. And it's different consumption or it's consumed by a different crowd. You know?

Or if you do it really late, then you end up with the nick, the rat. Right. Is like, what the fuck? Yeah, that's what we used to do on Blogtalk Radio back in the day when my buddy was out, we would end up drinking and broadcasting, you know, starting at like one two in the morning and see what kind of calls you got. And then there were some good ones. So my, my first podcast that I did back in the mid 2000, which is called Sex This Sexy Sue Dick.

And on that show we started every episode by the people on describing what they're drinking, and it was always a random crowd. It was very much a designation. Yeah, it was sort of indignation. Yeah, it was. It was. Here's what it was. It was literally a knockoff of the nation with guys that have security clearance to see. Now, that would have been an interesting show. I thought it was pretty interesting. Especially the more you drink, the how much of the security secrets.

Well, I'll tell you, the guy that held his liquor really? Well, it was my buddy. His. It was at the NSA. Yeah, I would hope so. Yeah, well, except that this is a funny story relating to that. So. So this is a guy that wrote the the red book. If anybody's insecure, he knows what I'm talking about. The original NSA security red book and I happened to be in Washington, DC for an event. You mean an arraignment?

There was something I needed to do in DC and so I called him up and he was out there and there's like, Hey, let's go grab dinner. And he's like, Yeah. Then I only known. I'm like maybe two or three times. We'd met at that point that the various like security conference things and the like great of that. So I know a great restaurant is like perfect. Where do I go? Well, and I said, Well, let's meet at Russia House. Oh of course. I mean, that's so on the nose for you.

So we, we got to Russia and then if you've ever been well, you probably haven't been to the one in D.C., but it's a it they really go out of their way to kind of, you know, do a dove deep into the stereotype type Russian thing. So it's like a big. Restaurant in that. From a uniforms of the the waitresses, the waiters to the. Point where they hire. Music playing for. The waitresses where they. Hire. You have to ask really. Russian outfits or.

Of course, I mean, we had a Russia house here in us that's shut down now. And the Russian house here that I swear to God, they this is where I used to do parties all the time. I block off part of the restaurant for parties. ADAMS Been to a bunch of them. I've I've had a bunch of friends that have come to them. We used to do the the New Year parties there.

But anyway, getting back to this story, so I was at that Russian house and DC and you know, we started ordering some food, get caviar, get a bottle of vodka. I was just saying, has to be drinking. I was going to say it has to be vodka. Yeah, that's real. Like another shit that people drink in America and yeah, we're drinking long. And, uh, he is definitely enjoying the consumption of the vodka big time.

And then it recognized somebody I knew I'd go over and chat with them for a while and come back. And, you know, we had a fun time eventually with the little drunk, I thought. So I said, Look, let's just leave your car. Just a cab home did that. And then the next time I talked to him, which was probably a month or two later, he said, Man, that was a hell of an experience there. I'm so glad you like that.

This is the dude. You know, I. I thought before we even got there, it's like, oh, is this where I'm going to get bagged and sent over to Russia? And then, yes, when, when I was half a vodka bottle down. And then you took off for a while to go talk to somebody else. You're like, Oh, here we go. It's it's actually going to happen. Yeah. That is kind of like to see The Sopranos. If they take you out in the woods. We're just. Yeah, that's like, hey, let's. Well, we'll just meet here.

Hey, I'll be back in a little bit. You just hang out here, a bunch of guys show up with guns. It's just overkill. But no, I thought that was a hilarious thing. You're going to confess to me later. He's like, Yeah, no, I thought this was. This is going to play out. Just like the movies you're. Like, he could have. Yeah, you should have been like, you have no idea how close you came to that, Doug. You really don't remember those 4 hours do, right? You don't know what was in that vodka.

Uh huh, well, vodka being in the bath is usually all it takes. It's. Well, Russian vodka. Yeah. I mean, that'll make your synapses kind of stand. Give it in the U.S. anymore. The for my fridge. Oh, okay. Well, squeeze off to come to your house and open range. Oh, it's the only place in the U.S. right now with real vodka. There was a story. And then I'm sure somebody will ask Russian standard platinum. Oh. Baby, this is the platinum. Better than the gold. Do they make a gold?

Do they make a silver or do they just. They do. Yeah, they do. They have a silver as well. Yeah. There's the the platinum is filtered more times. That's the only difference which makes. I can't. Yeah. I can't remember how many I think the standard is which is silver I believe is maybe 20 times. The platinum is like 50. It's like the drunk ass college kid concept which you can buy the cheapest vodka you can find. But it through a coffee filter. Yeah. Or the, or the Britta filters.

You can put it through the carbon in the British filters and ghetto. It just makes it so much smoother. I would say just buy does not go well. Yeah. Or because that filter is more expensive than the bottle of vodka. Right. But it actually does for cheap but it won't make any difference for expensive like that. Right. It will make. Filters for injuries. Well yeah. Because carbon predominantly takes out organic substances and that's what adds flavor.

And so by filtering shitty vodka like Gray Goose, you may end up with something that actually is closer in taste wise to what by both tastes like. A lot of the stuff it's filtering out is also the stuff that causes the hangovers, correct? Yes. And that's why if you drink beer or vodka, you do not get a hangover. See, pure Russian vodka. You drink all day, party all night, wake up feeling refreshed, washed. Mm hmm. Why can't we get a sponsorship from Russian vodka?

Because you can't buy it through us. I mean, that's irrelevant. We have people outside of the U.S. listening. Do we? Yes. Have you looked at the graphs, the charts, the breakdowns? Yeah. It's with all of the podcasts they do. It's very interesting because none of them have a big crowd.

I mean, most are around a thousand regular downloads per episode, which is a very small podcast, but within that sample size, you're always getting a decent amount from besides the United States over in the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, there's always some that pop up in very weird countries like, you know, Iraq. In Iran. But you're onto which one? Where did you run to? Where did I run to? Oh, I ran so far away. It's early in the morning to do a flock of seagulls.

Iran. Iran, it's pronounced, not Iran. Well, now you're going to get into the Kiev. In Kiev, think again. I talked about that the other day. But there's a very advanced Kiev. Kiev. I mean, we've always said because of, you know, the chicken frozen stuff you buy. Yeah. Now that has that, why is it just because there is like butter and chives? Why is that a chicken Kiev now? Did that start in the in Ukraine or is this just a appropriations?

I think it was a hotel that I mean, most of these food names like Beef Wellington and shit, they're all started by hotel restaurants because. They need they need this marketing, which is called. Marketing. Yes. You get no other words. We are just like the the mighty was created by Trader Vic's. Was it really. Yeah. That's too funny. That's. I mean, really, it's so on the nose. It's mm. It's kind of crazy but we have a very interesting group of people listening, which I liked. We do.

It's the weirdest thing about doing this, which is as a kid it was, I mean I certainly I can find cassette tapes of me at like 12 or 14 years old doing the radio deejay thing and doing the talk radio thing into a microphone and recording it onto a cassette. The concept that you could do this in your home, at your desk, like I am now, and you are that people are listening from all around the world instantaneously is just it's wild, really.

And we thank everybody for listening, especially when they do it live and come into the troll room. Yeah. You know, for those people that are allowed to come into the throne room. Sure. I saw you in there on Friday. You didn't even mention. Interesting because I wasn't in there on Friday. Somebody decided to come in as me, apparently. Right. And then you didn't mention when I booted you out that was there again. That's because I wasn't the one in there. I think you were. I don't think so.

I may be a mystery that nobody. Will ever know, but even NPR. I saw an article this morning the liberal NPR corruption concerns involving Ukraine are revived as the war with Russia drags on. Oh, it can't be. NPR. Corruption day at. The NPR or NPR. Ever wrong to me. Here's NPR clearly, clearly lifting the boot of Putin. Now I am questioning if Ukraine is actually corrupt, because if NPR says it is, I'm like, Wait, I. NPR never is right about anything.

Mm hmm. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky's dismissal of senior officials is casting an inconvenient light on an issue that the Biden administration has largely ignored since the outbreak of the war with Russia. Ukraine's history of rampant corruption and shaky governance. I know this is NPR. Somebody broke in there and changed the copy. Clearly.

As it presses ahead with providing tens of billions of dollars in military, economic, indirect, direct financial support, aid to Ukraine and encourages its allies to do the same. The Biden administration is now once again grappling with longstanding worries about Ukraine's sustainability as a recipient of massive infusions of American aid. Hey, Mr. Zelensky, I think your checks are about to get cut off. Well, he's asking for 100 billion a month right now.

Oh, is that all I could use? 100 billion? He says that. Well, that that's the amount that the war with Russia has cost his country in lost productivity. And he'd like to get a check for that, please. That would be nice. We would all like that. He's going to get it. No, I think he's going to get it. This is it's interesting that this is the ultimate in the liberal media bringing this up.

And it's also if you go down a little bit further, they mention, you know, these issues which date back decades and were not an insignificant part of former President Donald Trump's first impeachment. So now they're even tying Ukraine to Donald Trump. Oh, yeah. There you go. I mean, this. Is the death knell for Ukraine when the liberal media in the United States. It'll turn out that Ukraine supported Trump. And that's it. That'll be the last check. It's done. Not only that, but Biden might come.

Well, if it kills some Russians, I suppose. There has to be at least one or two Russians. I would imagine maybe like 35% of the population. But yeah, see? So it could all be easily explained away. Mm hmm. But this is where, as I've said from the day one on all of this, there's way too much going on for me to tell you anything about what's really going on. So that's probably true of every topic. Well, this is true. I know nothing about nothing.

I mean. You sit in the basement all day long. What are you going to do? Why would I want to go outside? There are people out there. They are there. They clean people. Deposition. When it gets hotter, the more I want to just, like, stay inside. Exactly. Well, we all kind of want to do that at this point. Yes. Which is why last Friday, the A.C. dude was out here. Yes. And you had to miss the show. Yeah. Which is okay.

Because the air conditioning got back on and he got me a price on a whole new unit, which they're not cheap now, which, of course, Biden's America. I don't think they were ever cheap. No, well, not super cheap, but they've gone up quite a bit. Oh, I remember. AC is running about 3800 bucks this. Yeah, about 4000. Yeah. So it's, it's not horrible for a three, but. Not that much more expensive than the one I recall. And that's a whole House unit you're talking about.

Correct. Yeah. And he tracked the leak down. He came out yesterday. Anybody ever try to find out where the leak is? Because if it's a simple leak, then you might just be able to fix it if it's in the coil. And he's like, well, you could replace the coil, which is like 500 bucks or something. Hmm. Or you can try this magical juice that is basically kind of like a run flat sealant for tires. This is kind of a similar thing for the age vac, which is a chemical that safe to go in with the coolant.

And when it gets when it hits condensation, which it will, if there's mild leaks that it will just seal itself. Interesting. It looks like it's about 75, 80% of the time it'll work. He's like, But I would try that. It's like he's he's like, it's not my money. It's like, if you want to hold a unit, get a hold of a unit. But I would try this and then so we'll see where it goes. I mean, it would be much better to do that. So did you get a whole new unit or did you get this $80 leak thing?

He's going to do the leak thing. The old unit still working because once you pump it up with the coolant, it works. Which is why he's like, it's your unit doesn't work. With the new coolant because you can't buy the cylinder any more. Yeah. So it's a new, the machine's new enough that it runs on. The engine that. It. Yeah. Because the old stuff. Wow. Yeah. He said he just ran into a buddy of his who had a couple of those tanks of that stuff and he's like, what's that going for now?

The guy's like, about 1600 a day. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now, like, the. What are they? The chlorofluorocarbons, the reason. So bad for the environment, you know. It's totally not bad for the environment. That was that was all bullshit. Right. And he's like, there are still, you know, places that have those old machines. So it's like service on those. Mm hmm. Eventually you'll die. And that. That's the only stuff they still use in China, because it's deeper. Yes, I'm douches.

This is the only podcast where we talk about my size of my unit for hours at a time. Yeah. And how much he charges. Right. Hey. Hey. With the size, the bigger it is, the more it is. I mean, this is not a surprise, is it? Yeah. I mean, there's a pretty old unit that you have to fix because it's not working to hold its own pressure. This is sounding a lot more like me than the air conditioner. Hmm. But that'll be the, you know, hopefully the repair work.

If not, you know, you got to bite the bullet, and then I'll just have to ask people to boost way more. And if I have to get a whole do. Yeah. The air conditioning boost. Yes. Would you be nice? I mean, it's 90 degrees. It was like 92 yesterday. And of course, he was out here for a couple of hours and while doing the leak, looking for the machine had to be off. So it took like the rest of the day for the port to catch up. But it's all nice and cool right now. Mm hmm.

I mean, I'm not going to complain about the heat because y'all y'all got some heat in Texas. We've had a bit of heat. It's been over a hundred just every single day. How do you live with that? I mean, I know Joe Biden's going to do something. Well, I think it's coming to an end here because today it's supposed it's only 87. Right now, it's supposed to be 101. Oh, well, that's like cooling down. Yeah, it's in the trend is in the cooling down direction. But it's been I think it peaked at 110.

And how cool can you actually get it inside at that point? I mean, I guess you just have I. Figured something out. Okay. This was this was kind of my fault. I guess ultimately in retrospect is remember I was bitching about how the house like that my thermostat got reset by the. The I'm at the power. Company electric company do 84 degrees and I'm like, what kind of idiots?

83 degrees. It was 83. What kind of idiots think that it's appropriate to put a house interior and the three degrees blah blah blah it insidious idiot I talked about right and my my other co-host Ben said oh well so that's a that's a four degree difference from where you were, right? I'm like, yeah. Is the thermostat set to 79? Like, well, have you thought if maybe you set the thermostat 74, it would have only gone up to 78? That's a sliding scale, huh? And I thought, well, I mean.

Let's see, here's the here's the maybe. Well, let me finish. Thought so I did that. I put the thermostat on 74 and it's never been above 78. And I was set to that. But you're not on that's you'd like opted out. No, no, no, no. I opted out of I opted out of the thing. But I still get the alerts. They come up whenever there's a event that's going to happen. It's just not doing it. On my thermostat. Boarding hotel, there's hot out, so people are running the air conditioning.

Warning. It's hot out. We're going to raise your temperature. Uh huh. Um. But that was the worst they ever got was the 83. When I had the thermostat set to 79. And the reason the thermostat was 79, because in the generally during the day, I run it about 76, 77. I mean, I do keep it warmer than normal because of my pets, the the reptiles enjoy the warmth, you know.

And so that's, I think, partly responsible for the fact that I get up to 83 is ever since I, I dropped the normal temperature at 74 inside the house, the pets have been less happy and sleeping more. But it never goes above 7879. But it shows you the downfall of this allegedly smart system because it reality, what it should have done is went, oh well you're in the range we want you to be anyways. Yeah. So we'll leave you alone, right. Exactly. Yeah. And I think turn everybody. You think 30.

Exactly what it was is their expectation is that the average thermostat is probably set to 74, 75. So during this emergency we'll just bump it by four degrees. And yes, it'll be warm, but it'll still be in the seventies. Right? It'll still be close enough people for. Those of us that are basically, you know, we love our planet, Mother Earth so much that we always keep the thermostat at 79. You know, we're ahead of the curve. We got punished. With my thermostat is at 70 right now.

Okay. Well, you're just you're a complete hater of the planet that I'm setting. You know, I figure I'm only going to be here for another 30, 40, 50 years, tops. I'm the one that's like generating the, the the the environmental credits that you're wasting. Well, that's good. See, we carbon offset each other. Yeah, that's exactly right. Now where's my money? But I'm just being offset. Uh huh, uh huh. I like it nice and cool. You like it nice and hot.

I mean, if you want to go out and get some of that Russian vodka out of the fridge. Yeah, exactly. I mean, I. I didn't mind obviously it being cooler. It's just I've had reptiles living with me for a long time and I don't mean my parents. So I thought it was going to go with your ex-wife, but that would have been a much better joke. Yeah, that would have been. But yeah, she's definitely not a reptile. But if she was a reptile, she would be a lot friendlier. But whoa. A lot warmer, right?

A lot warmer. Exactly. Yeah, that great cuddly toddler. But I did get reptiles because of her originally, because that was a my my first reptile pet was actually something that I got her for her birthday. I'm just I'm just. I mean, I need my brain. Well, I never met a woman that was like, what do you want for your birthday? A You don't say she wanted one for her birthday. Oh, is this when we were at the store? Is this why you split up so quickly afterwards?

Now, this is this is way, way, way later that we get divorced. But no, she well, first of all, she's a veterinarian. So, you know, there's that may explain some things like unusual pets. But no, she thought that the Chinese Water Dragon was the coolest thing ever. And so I decided, oh, I think a birthday gift. And that was an easy pet to take care of a Chinese water dragon. Relatively easy. I mean, you do have to be sensitive to the temperature and the humidity.

So that makes it a little less than easy. But, you know, they they mostly like grubs and worms and things or crickets. They're they're carnivorous, so. Oh, so they're they're evil creatures if they eat meat. Well, I don't know about that. I mean, usually very cool creatures that he'd be nuts but they're they're fun to watch. They're pretty active. They're they don't require a huge cage. I had a pretty big one for them. I had they it was about three feet by three feet by six feet.

Uh, qualifies as a fairly. Large Yeah. For two, for two of those things. So that was pretty, pretty good size. But yeah, they're supposed to do, I mean at the pet store they said they, they live about three or four years and one of them live to nine. The other one left them so they seemed happy. So they were I think they were pretty happy. I mean, eventually when they die, they were blind and just, you know, old age,

the way we all want a gold age. You and then the other one that I got, which I guess wasn't really for her, it was Mara. Our pet was a a a small snake, a ball python. And that ball python is living with me right now. Little bit bigger. Yeah, they don't really. They kind of stopped growing at about six feet. I mean, it was a baby. I was the one who got it was tiny. But that ball python is right now 20. Yeah, 20 years old. Living the good life. Austin, Texas. Yeah, pretty, pretty good life.

I think they moved here from Minnesota now. Well, they're like, no, this. Is way better weather. At that pet move here from Minnesota. I guess all the other ones, the ones that move their dead and then the the the big snake that I have about a 20 foot one, that one I got when I lived in Dallas. It's like a zoo. So if you go to Gene's house for some Russian vodka, you could just see the exhibits. Well, from the past. The exhibits will see you because they have free rein. Do.

Yeah. And if they decide that. I don't believe in cages for carnivorous carnivores, get to walk around anywhere they want. If they don't like your guests. Oh, the guests are in trouble. Yeah, well, the guests have to sign a waiver when they walk into the house. That makes sense. I'm sure there's a whole system in place here. You have to make a video. There's. Yes, there's a microchip as well. No that makes. Sense. Mhm. So what do you think about the corruption in the Ukraine.

Is there any new Ukraine news on your side there? Honestly, I mean there's been a few videos I've posted in the social, but it's mostly just more of the same. That's the category I would put it in. Yeah, which is it's a little surprising because how did you expect this? I mean, I don't remember exactly talking about the lengths that you expected this to go on because a lot of people thought, well, this was going to be a couple of days thing to a month. Yeah. And it's now.

People that thought it was going to be that short are idiots. No, I figured that this this would be three months. Best case scenario and probably nine months worst case scenario. So we're definitely moving towards the worst case at this point. And it's really there's the media here has kind of I mean besides NPR saying that Ukraine is corrupt. NPR's infiltrated by Trumpers. May would that be interesting? This would be a whole different type of programing for people on that.

It would, you know for sure. We don't want the corrupt people to be getting our money. It's like, what do you think is going on? But the one thing I did say right from the get go from the first days is that Ukraine will have a line drawn from the northeast. Do the earth from the north? Yeah. Northeast to the southwest, separating out the portion that is Russian controlled and that we are almost to that exact thing right now.

Something for people to watch for that seems like that's about the most likely conclusion of all this. Well, it's it's not random because those areas, the the southern areas, the coast and the eastern areas are majority Russian, ethnic population. That that is bringing up a story that I saw earlier this week. Twitter blocking Russian Embassy over biolab tweets.

It was the Russians that were there was a story that came out like I didn't even read this because I thought this was just too bizarre, that their theory was that Ukraine was doing so well in the war because they have bio created warriors that that they've created made enhanced in a lab with the United States. Hmm. I'm like, this just sounded like pure sci fi to me. I think I watched the movie like that. Huh? I mean, there's been a lot of movies like that.

Yeah. What was that? There was the one about that superhero character. What's her name? Red Spider or something? I don't know. Where, though. Yeah, that's the one like Widow. Red. Makes no sense because she's not really black. She's white. It's very I mean, Scarlett Johansson playing in the movies. I mean, Jewish, but pretty white stuff. But I go back to the television show, which I'm betting that you watched back in the. Day which one? Dark Angel. Oh, yeah, I worked that, yeah.

You're a young Jessica Alba and a young Michael Weatherly. Yeah. And the whole concept was she escaped from a facility. She had a barcode on her neck. Gray. That was, I think, the back of the neck, you know, that they were growing the next generation of yeah. Of fighters. And this is basically the story that's coming out now that this is what's happening in Ukraine. I'm like, I don't buy that because I don't think Ukraine's all that advanced. I mean, if you well. There's actually a TV show.

I don't know if it's on Amazon or Netflix. That was about a young girl that was also kind of grown in a government facility to be a super warrior. It was a girl's name was the name of the show. Let me see if I can find that while we're talking. But keep. Going. Was the key that or something like that.

Something like, well, Nikita was that was a French movie originally and then turned into a US TV show that was about a woman who was actually a drug addict, who was given the choice of either life in prison or ending her identity and becoming a, you know, super spy comic character. And there was a report today that Russia and Ukraine are making deal so they could export their wheat. So, I mean, they're working together now. It's all kumbaya, nothing to worry about. There's no corruption at all.

Yeah. Except for in Ukraine. Right. Well, Ukraine that's obviously there's corruption. Yeah. There's a plenty of corruption. Way before Ukraine, it was even the country. It was just the region. And it have plenty of corruption happening there. It was somewhat known for being a corrupt part of the USSR. And this is not a new thing. This concept that, oh, we're going to grow warriors in a lab no. I don't think it's. It's basically a Star Wars movie, too, isn't it? All the clones. I mean, this is.

Yeah, I was there. Yeah. Well there was wasn't there even stuff like that back in the fifties with, you know, part of the Superman then a comic book thing that that the, the Soviets were drawing these super soldiers by combining like chimp DNA with human DNA, maybe creating men that were ten times stronger. That would make sense. But this is now the claim that's being put out there, which I, I don't know, that's seems a little farfetched, although it is Twitter. So who knows. Which claims mean.

That they're the Ukraine and the United States are working together in bio labs to engineer the new fighters. That's why that's why Russia is losing. Did you, guru says Brigitte Fonda. And that led, says John Wick. These are names just being thrown out randomly. Yeah. Brigitte found there was an Nikita, an American version. John Wick is a is it a cartoon character or not? Somebody tell me, because it seems like it probably is a cartoon character. Before it was a live action show.

Yeah, I'm not sure, however. And that was the name of the the show that I was referring to on Amazon about the, the young girl that was created and then in the lab and then smuggled out by one of the workers who she then knew as her father, who wasn't really her father. But she's, you know, like everybody likes to watch bad ass chicks because much like unicorns, it's a figment of people's imagination. Wow.

And so if there's any chicks out there that think they can kick Gene's ass, we will put out together a little fight. Yeah, yeah. Pay per. View. Yeah, that would work. Yeah. John Wick is Keanu. So yeah, that's in the live action. But I, I'm pretty sure John Wick was a comic book or at least a book. We'll have to start somewhere. Yeah, it seems like it should be a comic book. Haley Barry, I think is also on John Wick. I to be honest, I've only watched it on an airplane.

I've never like taken the time to watch the full series of John Wick movies. There's three of them, I believe, but I've seen like bits and pieces on the airplane doing other things. The 12 room reports, it's an original franchise. John Wick Really? That's shocking. I can't believe that it's without a without a comic book attached. I mean. They actually had a decent writer who came up with a concept that wasn't stolen from somebody in the past.

Well, to be fair, there's not much writing involved with mostly shooting and martial arts. Well, that sounds entertaining, and it's a lot easier to, I guess, put together the scripts. Yeah, he's like a former hit band type, but I don't know, it just feels very comic book to me. That's a very Jim character, like former Hitman, now posing as a podcaster. Wait, did you. Say too much? Hitman Don't go around like biting people. Hitman Yeah, you don't see. Only have a job if nobody knows what they do.

Well, does anybody know what you do? I'm legitimate businessman. Exactly. Which is what? Every hitman, business guard says. Totally legitimate. And business cards to be seen a few. Uh huh. I mean, they're not. They're not the high end ones, mind you. But Yeah. So jump. John Wick was born in Belarus. Though. Another place where there's no corruption. And as an orphan was taken in by the Russian mafia, where he was raised and trained as an assassin. Now raised and trained.

Way different than biologically also. Right? Exactly. Exactly. Well, La Femme Nikita was not, you know, biologically altered either. He was trained. But this other girl, I think, was biologically genetically male. And then what what about stranger things? That that central line, at least in the first movie, involved a little girl that was being raised in a facility that had ESB. Yes. Not just the FBI. She had the genetic gag powers. I saw most of the first season was not a huge fan of the show.

I have always been a fan of Winona Ryder. So. I mean, I do like what they've they've given Ronnie James Dio some props in that show in this most recent season. Yeah, I haven't watched the new season. It's just not really interested. Have you seen the Bear yet? I've not seen the bear yet. I mean, you have you've had two weeks. It's only 4 hours. What are you doing? I curry told you to watch the bear. I did not. Yeah. Listen. And I just have not gotten around to it. What channels that on again?

Hulu. Oh, that's probably why. Yeah, doesn't it. I'm not normally a subscriber of Hulu. It is only on Hulu or, you know, those torrent sites you might find it on that if you need somebody to send you a link. Not anything illegal at all. Do that for you. It's it's not the 1989 film The Bear, though. No. This is a brand new it and they call it a television series I think is wrong because it's eight episodes and a grand total of like 4 hours. So it's the. The British TV series. Kind of. Right.

And it's really bizarre show. There's some British shows. I really love it. It's like, oh, let's start watching that. And then, yeah. That's done right. It's like if you find it out on a Saturday afternoon. I'm watching it right now. It's it looks like there's a lot of good fucking season here. There is, yeah. I would enjoy this. There's a life goal. Think the number one fucking porn show that ever been made is Hannibal. It's a different kind of cooking. No, it's the same kind of cooking.

It's amazing. Cooking is what it is. Beautiful. I have the cookbook. Well, the cinematic part has to be really spot on. Oh, my God. It makes your mouth water so good. So good. But, yeah, no, I bought the cookbook from that, though. It did get picked up for a second season, so there will be more to the bear. Whether it will also be. British thing. No. Place in Chicago or. What. It is not British. It just seems like it's British because there's only eight episodes.

Well, but also the actors don't look American. They are. The third. And I look at the British. British, I don't know what the British look. Is, you know, kind of gay looking man, though. Maybe the the lead character is Jeremy. Alan White, I believe his name is. He played the. Very British. In Shameless, which ran 11 years. That's about the Irish people. In the south side of Chicago. Yes, yeah, yeah. There's there's a lot of Irish in the south side of Chicago. There are. There are definitely.

The last time I drove the south side of Chicago, I put the windows up. That don't blame me. I wouldn't I wouldn't know who lives there. You don't want to know. You want to get right through some of those neighborhoods as fast as humanly possible. Uh huh. Which is why I you know, I've mentioned this on all of the other podcasts I do, but NASCAR coming to Chicago, I'm just waiting for the first driver to get carjacked during the race. I'm really that would be the best.

That would be a hell of a addition to the race. That would. Be the ratings for the ends of the sex. Tape. They pull it, you know, it's like, you know, they pull into the pit stop and all of a sudden, like five guys with guns come out. Just jump in the car keys. Yeah, you wouldn't be that would be funny as hell. It would not be the first time in Chicago. And they're they're asking for trouble because this is going to happen next year, in July, if all things go as planned.

It's happening over the 4th of July weekend and it's happening partially at Lakeshore Drive. Partially. That's like a totally muggy weekend in Chicago. Too horrible. Yeah. But it's also happening right by they're going pit road is right down the street, which is next to Buckingham Fountain because you know they want that in the in the shot. Yeah but it's like anybody that normally thinks you want to go downtown over the 4th of July, go do not get anywhere near there.

I have no idea how they're going. To get there in the 4th of July. You know, they used to be fun. With that 1997. The Taste of Chicago used to be over the fourth, I believe. I don't know if it still is. It's been a few years since I think it's. A few years since I've ventured to Chicago. It's probably been 15, but I used to go there all through. But having a race through the city streets, I'm just taking bets on. Will any cars have bullet holes at the end of the race? Mm hmm.

I mean, if not, it's really not a Chicago race. Do you think it's dangerous to. Have the the routes already mapped out? They do. They have it on NASCAR dot com, at least right now with their assuming. And as I said, part of this will go down Lakeshore Drive, which means if you have to close Lakeshore Drive for a week or so around this race, the people are going to hate it. Allegedly.

They'll they're talking about going right by Soldier Field in like as I said, pit roads supposed to be right by Buckingham Fountain. It's going to be interesting to see what they can pull off. And I think the already have contingency plans because they signed a three year deal, but they're already like, well, the first years are total, go fuck then that's not their words mine. Then we might move back somewhere else for that for those two years.

So when I go to NASCAR, it tells me to turn off my EB black or white. When I turn off my handler, I don't. Know. I hate that. I love my ad blocker. Yeah, I'm friends with them. What the NASCAR sites, at least one that says you could just say, you know, sod off and it'll continue to show you the page, rather that, no. No, you have to change your settings before we show you anything. Okay. How about I just turned off JavaScript. Has that that usually works. Yeah. Okay.

I don't see a map. Where's the map? It was right in the article about the Chicago race. If you see an article about the Chicago race. An article about staggering. Babies, maybe they already cancel. It. Name. I'll start with. Oh, here we go. Street racing. They're like, we do not want to do this. This is a really. Oh yeah that is the proposed circuit. Okay. Okay, interesting. So it's going to go up Roosevelt over lake door down.

No, I was really kind of hoping they would somehow get them into Lower Wacker Drive at some point, you know? Right. I mean, let's use everything we got. Lower Wacker would be fun. So I told you before, I think the place I always used to stay was on the Upper Wacker and it was now it was across the street. It was right across the river from the Tribune. Whatever that previous. I don't know. You don't know if that there had no. But what hotel was it. Executive Plaza.

It sounds like something a very honest businessman would stay at a hotel. It's what it's called. Would give me shit about the hotel though. I mean, I thought it was great. It's like a totally out of business man. Of course it would stay at the Executive Plaza. I mean, where would you stay if you were in Chicago? I wouldn't usually stay in Chicago, although I heard the at the Trump Hotel is really nice. Oh. Okay. Okay. So I found it. Yeah. So it was the it was off of.

Let's see, there's this, uh, Michigan. Michigan, the the Wacker. It's now a hotel 71. Um, is it also in one? This is Mather Tower. The link that he brought me to says Royal Sonesta, Chicago, downtown. Now. Oh. Royal. And that's the. Sonesta Aso and etc.. The Royal Sonesta, um, 71 East Wacker Drive. That sounds right. I have no name says the few times I've been to Chicago, I've stayed in Indiana. That's not a bad idea. That's the guy, you know. It's not a bad idea.

I think it's the Mather Tower. According to the map. It's possible these exchanged names and owners, all the they do. They do change names, numbers and. Yeah, and I'm sure it hasn't been an executive plaza for a long time, but what I loved about it is it's right on the bend of the Chicago River, right where Wacker, you know, follows the curve of the river. And so from the hotel, if you have south facing windows in the hotel, you can literally see straight down the Chicago River.

So it's not like an angel or anything. It's literally just straight down. And then from there, I mean, I used to walk this whole area from from the hotel down to lakeshore, down to the pier, and then over to I think there was a Gibson Steakhouse out there. Oh, yeah, there's multiple Gibsons down there, but they have an Italian theme to Gibson's do. They, where. They have the upper level, as far as I understand it has a retractable roof.

So during the summer on Nice days, you have al fresco dining on the upper level where they're smart enough to know there's a lot of usable space that when it hits 40 below, they still want to use it. So why not have a retractable roof and a restaurant map? I as well a good idea, genius. And then coming back walked by. What's his face the the radio announcer guy restaurant. Oh very scary. Harry Kerry's the announcer guy. Legendary baseball announcer. Well, you know how he.

Started in Saint Louis, made his way to Chicago, worked on both the south side and the north side. He was a bud man. That Harry Carey. Yep. Yeah. Never, never eat there but walked by it all the time. Yeah, yeah. Yes. I really think back then Chicago was very much a pedestrian city. Yeah, it was fun. Chicago. I mean, that was great. I skipped a lot of school in college, which would be, you know, 88 to 92. And because, you know, the city was right there.

I mean, I went to school in Lincoln Park, so he would just go, Hey, do you want to go to class or do you want to go to, you know, Hooters or Water Tower or to the record store? Do you want to go down to Tower Records? Yeah. Mm hmm. I remember going through our records. Dude, I loved your the tower records. Yeah, I. I bet you did. I mean, I spent way too much money, but it was like this was when you actually had to find music. If you couldn't just, you know, press a few keys on a keyboard.

Yeah, yeah, I know. Kids are listening. God, what do you mean, record store? What do you mean? Find music. Huh? These things. I mean, it's like the size of this store. I mean, before Tower Records, even there was one I remember going to downtown. To the Virgin store in New York. Right. I've never been to the Virgin store in New York, but I was at a Virgin store in in Orlando right after it opened. Oh, okay. I don't know how big that one was. The New York one, that was huge.

Or amazingly large. The Tower Records was great here. But I remember going my sister also went to DePaul and she had classes downtown. And I remember going down when I was in high school and she was in college, so I was maybe like 14 or 15 and just hanging out the whole afternoon in Rose Records, which was one of the, you know, even earlier that the whole big tower thing. And it was great because you could just find music that you couldn't find anywhere else. And I enjoyed that a lot more.

I mean, the convenience is great, you know, you don't even have to leave your house and all the music just magically shows up on your hard drive. But there was something better, you know, besides be paying for it, that when you had to get out. That was an experience I like. My local store was called Digital Only and it sold just CDs because I think all other types of music medium was crap. Well, they were a lot easier to store. Yeah, it was more compact.

But the cool thing about that store, unlike other music stores, was that every CD was opened and like, you could listen to it before buying it. All right, listen. Yeah. They weren't shrink wrap. They were, you know, they were like the exiting in ingress and egress out of the store was very inconvenient. You have to go through a turnbuckle. Yes, but the flip side is all the seeds were opened and you could, like, bring them up to the cashier and then say, I'd like to listen to these.

And they'd give you a, you know, them in, give you the headphones on and then you can listen to them yourself. Yeah. I remember a place here that had like eight or ten CD players just sitting in a little kiosk in. And and so you could decide what you're buying based on listening to it, because a lot of stuff that I bought was fairly esoteric. It was not performed by any means. I believe that. Yes, that's a shocker.

Yes. The no agenda millennial says the gun store with the shooting range in the back is the new record store. And it's always been that way, I think. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, most good gun stores have always had a range in the back, right? Because they're like, oh, an hour, which is they keep changing the name of it. I think it went from point blank to shoot point blank to now it's range something or other.

But I love when they run this stuff like, Oh, come in for a free five shot firing of this brand over the weekend. It's like, it's great. It's just like a wine tasting thing. Right before you buy. Gets you to buy it. Yeah. But that way, that's. Not a bad idea. With the music. That was a great idea. I'm still waiting on, apparently the most elusive gun out there. Ooh, yeah. Which is.

Well, I've had this on the order forever, and it's just like, apparently they're just not showing up in stores and they're way to overpriced and gouged. If you go on the auction sites, I'm waiting a I, I go real in with a nine inch barrel in 762 by 39. Ingles Well let's see why. Let's see here. While those look like dangerous guns. Oh, because they're black, right? Yeah. This makes them dangerous. All right. They look like they look like an assault rifle. Gee, why would you want them? Hmm?

What could you possibly need that for? Except to protect yourself against the animals in your house. Deer hunting the deer. What does the deer is armed with? Deer hunting gun. How horrible that you would kill a deer. What do you mean? They can't even fight back. You never hit a deer, have you? No, I have not. But they can absolutely fight back. They'll damage the hell out of your car when you hit them at 60 miles an hour. Yeah, and they'll damage the hell out of you if you. If you piss them off.

Oh, yeah. I've been pretty good about that. That sounds awesome. I know. I figured I would try a Dvorak and put that right up near the microphone. Is that sort of water? Sounds like sort of what it is. That's Poland black cherry. A polar black cherry. All natural seltzer. Yeah, that's what I could tell by the sound of it is one of us has good ears. The other one, I don't know. I can tell you exactly what sounds good and what doesn't. Well, that's part of the training.

I mean, you did sound halfway under underwater when you were talking to Ben Rhodes last show. Uh, Ben Rhodes underwater. I think that had more to do with the fact that I was running on 3 hours of sleep. That might be because you sound way better today. Yeah, that was not a function of technology, unfortunately. That was a function of the the vocal chords. So when you said you gave Ben Rhodes an extra hour and pushed everything back, that was more for you than being nice to Ben Rhodes. Okay?

I mean, it was really for both of us. No, I was just happened to be up until 5 a.m. that day. And then I had to record with Ben Rhodes just you know, you. Had to write that is you were probably. Oh, I. Did have to because that was my slot that I was told was the slot that I can't go over time with. So you know. What? Because, you know, on Fridays we do have the on the no agenda stream Adam Kuria Dave Jones come on. At I don't know if that is noon. Or one or something like that.

It's called Podcasting 2.0. We just kept going until that started, so I think we were pretty good. I just love that you were so excited that there was more and more people showing up the later the show went and I'm like, They're here for the show. They're in the queue. For the next guys. Yeah, I don't think that show gets a whole lot of live listeners. It gets a nod that like no agenda, but it gets a decent amount. Really. There's a. Lot. Of people that listen.

It is kind of like work related for a lot of those folks that are in that industry. So you probably turn that out at work and be like, Hey, I've just I've learned and I'm learning the new stuff. I'm learning what's coming in. Yeah, well, that was, that was the, the, the marketing that we use on that show that I mentioned earlier this is that we've, we kind of sold it as a use this as part of your yearly continuing education credit. And rightfully so.

Yeah. So then you could get credit for listening to a podcast because most things needed 20 hours to 40 hours depending on what it was per year of continuing education. And if you can knock out 40 hours worth of podcast hours, that's pretty good. So how long was it before you had the NSA guy bad done tagged for Russia? Oh, he can't remember those hours. Okay, that's better. Yeah. If you don't remember some time you spent with GM, either you had a good time drinking or.

A you always had a good time, so time guaranteed. That's the plus. Even if you were taken to a secret lab in Moscow and angrily probed, at least you had a good time. All the secret labs are in Ukraine. Oh, really? Even the Russian used. To be back in the day. Yeah, you know, it is. It's like the United States. You have to have your black ops site that you're so on Dynamo Bay, right? You're like, get me here. Which is really I've never understood that.

Like, nobody can go to Cuba, but we've got a little base there exactly. Like, why do we have why do they let us have a base there? Why is that not I mean, not that they I guess they could fight back. I don't know which. Uh huh, uh huh. It raises questions that. Yeah, that was a piece of property that we never returned. So that was inconvenient. Well, I mean, I think that it still spends money with Cuba. Like, you know, people have to go out and party and stuff and get past is.

Well, see, it's doing good for the economy, unlike what you're doing getting here. Yeah, totally. Uh, CNN's Van Jones. I mean, you probably know Van Jones that your, you know, the listener, you've probably heard Van's voice these. What about him? He said that under Joe Biden, life is. Worse for. Black people. I mean, why this. Is I mean, I'm not sure what that means, because if you if you don't vote for Joe Biden, you ain't black. Right. So I'm pretty sure that he and black.

He said the walloping of the economy is hurting the black community in a particular way, which, well, it's hitting everybody, but it doesn't you know, the economy doesn't care about your skin color. Van Jones But what it does care about is your economic status.

And if you are not wealthy, you're having a problem right now because I mean, anybody that's even considered middle class, when you go to fill up your $80,000 SUV and it's a few hundred bucks, you're seeing a lot more money coming out of your pocket. But when you. Yeah, that's. True. But isn't it kind of a going, you know, comedy bit to ask people in government, a.k.a. rich people, what the price of eggs is and their idea, $10, right. Where they're pegged.

We are. Getting yeah. We're getting there. Yeah. Is when you're so isolated from reality that not only do you have assistance, but you have somebody that cooks all your meals, somebody does all the shopping and you're just writing, you know, or you name writing. You have a person that works for you that's writing checks rate in $10,000 to a variety of housekeepers and other support staff. Yeah, it's totally makes sense.

Why you wouldn't have any idea what the price of ingredients is, because that would mean that you'd have to give a ship and you'd have to actually go to a store once in a while. And understand that what the cost is for people that have to do their own grocery shopping. Then you see this going up, right? I mean, I pick my own groceries out on the website and somebody else does the shopping, but I still know how much stuff costs. Well, I think especially so.

And I've had this conversation with people about mom included who loves to go to the grocery store because she doesn't think that doing it online. Well, I'm going to miss something or it's not as convenient. I'm like, I see it exactly the other way around. If I was not shopping online, I could not tell you what the cost of yogurt, for instance, has been. But because I shop online, that price is right front and center. When you go to the $0.06 store.

Yeah. Who pays any attention when you're going to pick up your, you know, Chobani flip yogurts that I like? Yeah, nobody knows that. Well, that's actually a buck ten. That's a that's more expensive. It is. Well, here's the I've figured one out exactly. Because one our Myer store used to. Well, they still do every now and then. Maybe not anymore. They were part of a ten for ten deal. They have some ten for ten stuff.

And then you get the 11th three, which means, okay, just slightly under a buck apiece if you want to buy 11. The normal price, the retail price at Myer, a buck 29, that is now up to a buck 79 for really for one can of yogurt. Yes, for one can of which was why would our other grocery store sent out an email yesterday that they had packs which are like the family eight packs of those yogurt for 399 or just about $0.50 apiece. Yeah, just about a buck there. You know.

So it's like when you get those 50 yogurt. At least as of last time I bought, it was a buck at the local H-E-B here. Oh, we'll check it the next time because that is a good way. To check it right now. I mean, I didn't do grocery shopping during the middle of the pack, really looking at. One item and kind of seeing what it goes. But with that, the eight pack, $0.50 apiece and my wife went and bought a couple of them.

Yeah, the expiration date was like August 2nd, which means, you know, they're they probably. Okay, so it is up to a buck 22 now. Well, see, that's still a lot cheaper than here. Yeah. And this is the same store that has, you know, the meat prices that I've been sending you. Oh, the. Crates. You this is it. And I've talked about loss leaders as well, which is, hey, they get yen, which is why they did this.

You know, besides the fact that they probably bought a bunch of the yogurts they're advertising, hey, come in and get the yogurts for $0.50 apiece. Everybody else got them for a buck 70. And then they're hoping you're going to buy everything else while you're there. I just don't like the money. You're you know? I don't really love them. But it's just a quick little snack that it's that I. I've always been I've always. Liked yogurt. I love Bulgarian yogurts the best.

You're absolutely right about that. Bulgarian yogurt is the bee's knees. But when it comes to flavored yogurt. You are 100 years old. I am. But the Bulgarian yogurt is like not flavored. It's just yogurt. It has a yogurt flavor, but for flavored yogurts. I've always really liked the Dannon coffee flavored yogurt. Ooh, I never tried that. Which you probably can't.

I was the only person buying it for a very long time, and I would have to buy in bulk because otherwise the grocery store with very little and mostly stores do not carry it anymore. In fact, Dannon yogurt in general has kind of disappeared off American shelves, which is weird. I something else that was the big one.

Yeah yeah there's still some your play but but it most yogurt has been supplanted by this bullshit Greek yogurt crap which is very different tasting and it's thick it's, it's like slab of yogurt. Whereas French yogurt recipe has a, a almost drinkable yogurt. Like, it's a it's like a shake milkshake consistency rather than a something you have to eat with the spoon consistency.

Now, still with the, you know, the coffee flavored yogurts, still other websites are they're making a 22 grams of sugar, which is the same as all of these yogurts, which. Yeah, I think they're all the same. But I like about the coffee yogurt. Is it? It was a like that flavor was through every bit of yogurt. It wasn't like there was you know, if you buy a strawberry yogurt, you know, it's a strawberry. But the yogurt is, you know, a barely tasty strawberry. So the same thing with most flavorings.

The coffee one was just brown colored yogurt all the way through, which is your body does. Maybe the reason why that didn't sell. I don't know that Chobani also has coffee and cream blended Greek yogurt. Yes. It does not taste nearly as good as the Dannon yogurt. How about you just take some Bulgarian yogurt and put some instant coffee into it? It doesn't work. I tried. I just tried making coffee. Flavor it. The problem is, I don't know how they do it.

I mean, there's obviously some kind of mechanical process that's involved in the food production that does this. But you have to make coffee with water, but you can't add any water to the thing you're trying to flavor as coffee flavored because that will dilute it or a little just separate it. They won't combine correctly. So you have to make coffee flavor, but It has to be like a non water based ingredient, maybe an alcohol based flavor or something. I don't know.

It's not easy, let's put it that way. The ingredients in the Dannon low fat, which it's really weird, the Dannon swoosh is pretty much the Amazon swish without the arrow. At the end. The ingredients of the coffee flavored yogurt, which is cultured grade A, reduced fat milk. Mm hmm. Cane sugar. Mm hmm. Natural flavors. Mm hmm. Pectin. Yep. And that's it. Now, what is. What is pectin, I guess. I don't know. What that is. Is it's emulsifier, so it thickens things.

It's, it's used often as a thickening agent, so. Okay, so it's kind of like a xanthan gum kind of thing. Yeah, it is like as in from gum kind of thing. So it's under the natural flavors which must be worth the coffees. To use the natural flavor. Yeah. Yeah. But which is, this is one of the things I remember seeing a video of somebody talking about this, which is would you see natural flavors on a label? You should avoid it.

And then you start reading labels and realize everything says natural flavors. Mhm. Yeah. Exactly. It's like where do you get, how are you getting it. Do you have a coffee flavored yogurt. But I'm looking at the ingredients. No. Where does it say coffee bean. Mm hmm. Kind of weird. Techno is the thing that, like, makes apples or that that's visible and it turns brown when you cut an apple in half and leave it open and oxygen makes sense.

Which is why I always want to put a little water on top of your avocados and keep the keep the air from them. Yeah, same thing with butter. Keep the oxygen away. It'll last. You can store butter at room temperature indefinitely. If it's under water. It makes sense because you're keeping it away from the air, which is where the bad stuff is.

Oxygen is a this was on the first episode of Bumrah's Dark in 13 where we talked about how oxygen is the most corrosive killer of animals on the planet and how the first mass extinction on the planet happened due to oxygen. We should get rid of all the oxygen then. Yeah. I mean, if we want to get rid of pollution, that's probably not a bad place to start. Extinction of the human race. Oxygen is not a well as a side effect. Oxygen is not a historically, not a part of the atmosphere.

It's all because of the damn plants. Yeah, it is because the damn plants, specifically the the.

The C.I.A. bacterium which preceded the plants and started utilizing photosynthesis to split up carbon dioxide into oxygen and carbon and then all the excess oxygen, which is really a, you know, it's a byproduct of that process, ends up just being dumped into the atmosphere pollution and get to such a high level that it started corroding and oxidizing all the other living things that were on the planet. And that's where the first mass extinction on the planet happened.

The more you learn oxygen bad. Yeah, it's always been bad. That's don't we talked about antioxidants all the time. Yes. Well, if antioxidants are good then what's bad accident. Yeah. Accidents, bad. Accident. It's accident. Accident? Yes. Van Jones says the poor economy is a special heartbreak for African-American voters. I don't know how it's more. Of a heartbreak special. Yeah, I I'm not going to agree with that. He says the pain is more intense.

I also disagree with that because, again, you're talking I've been. Shown that black people have more pain sensors. Well, I think what Van is saying is that black people overall don't have money. That's kind of racist in that. It seems that way. It seems that way. He says the hope was so much higher. You have a community that came out in high numbers in 2018, huge numbers in 2020, expecting things to get a lot better. And instead, economically, at. Least hold up.

Then we now have a black president for like 20 years. Yeah. Yeah, I thought so. We had thought it's. Already gotten as good as it's ever going to get, guys. It's only going to get worse at this point. Well, this is the sidetrack, but I point to Barack Obama and Joe Biden as his great vice president. Yeah. Anybody That's complaining about these abortion situation in this country right now only has to look to Barack Obama and the Democrats who had the House.

They had the Senate, they had the presidency. They could have been like. Now. Any damn law they wanted to, but they don't really have it now because it's too close. In the Senate, you have people like Joe Manchin. Yeah. They don't have a supermajority in the Senate. That's true. Which they did that because they couldn't just go out and pass whatever they wanted. Yeah. Well and they, they, they also did overthrow a legitimate elected government in Ukraine during Obama.

While he was doing good there. See part of his legacy now and that's when Joe first got his little grubby mitts into that country. This seems to me Van Jones is catching himself, though, when he says that the black voters expecting things to get a lot better and instead, economically, at least it didn't come true. It got worse. So it's like, oh, you're trying to make the case that other things are better, but is it is it really what's better?

I'm assuming, you know, racial justice and all of this, because we were expecting a lot more from Joe Biden. But, you know, as far as the economy, it didn't come true. And he says and I think Joe Biden has to take this very seriously. I don't think Joe Biden could take anything very seriously right now. But yeah, I do find it interesting that we still put a color of your skin meter on whether the economy is hurting you.

But if we're going to do that, let's point to the four years of Donald Trump where the economic situation for everybody, white guys like me and also for black also for Hispanic people, the economy got better. Everybody was making more money. Nobody was left behind. Nobody was left out.

Things were better across the board until Joe Biden came in on day one and said, you know, this Green New Deal bullshit needs to be put into play, so let's attack the fossil fuel industry and make the prices of everything go up and then pretend it was because of Putin. There's yeah. That the prices started going up way before any Ukraine anything. Oh it did from day one of a of a Biden presidency. Things started to change for a variety of reasons.

The main one being we're no longer going to be energy independent as a country. And, you know, when you're not energy independent, then anybody can charge you anything. I mean, I saw that. I mean, granted, I could probably call five different guys out the first time this went bad. And the guy that my parents know that came out and, you know, is doing the work now that I mean, I could have gotten a bunch of different prices, but when it's 100 degrees out, these guys are going to soak you.

It's it's supply and demand. If I if I had a cash. Of. Of the cool it just sitting around well that it would have been cheap but no I didn't and he had it it's supply and demand. Yeah. If you have a lot of food in your pantry and your local grocery store raises the prices by ten times, you just don't buy food until you need it. But it could take a while for you to have to go out and buy food again.

But if you have a the ability that you know you don't need it, then the raising prices doesn't really don't really bother you. Yeah, but what you have when everybody needs gasoline and you're controlling it well and you go now we, you, we don't want to be energy independent anymore. So whatever we weren't buying from foreign countries. You now go. Hey, you know what we need? We need some gas now. And they're like, Oh, you need it now, huh? Well, sure, of course the price is going to go up.

I mean, I don't think Joe Biden understands supply and demand. Well, we know that. Absolutely. How much longer do you think he's going to last? Because, I mean, he says he has cancer and they say he has COVID. Yeah, cancer. COVID, they both start with the same price under the current name of the hotel that used to be executive power. This has been bothering you, hasn't it? It has. Is it that what you said it? London house, Chicago. Well, that has nothing to do with Russia. London house to house.

I don't know. It's a house. It's just a stay of ours. I want to stay in a hotel. Why would you call our hotel a house anyway? Well, it's called London House, which is a, I guess, a fancy hotel brand of health. And there's something. But I'm looking I like I look for the photos and I'm like, yep, that's that's the view that I had. Except my room was higher up than this picture. But oh, well, I mean, they put you in the penthouse, obviously, because you were a totally legitimate business man.

I was in Chicago for doing business things. In the whole website is a video. When you open it up. Interesting. I remember back in the days you couldn't do this. Yeah, it used to be from them. It used to be done with some of the technologies because Flash goes got off all the flash. Your computer looks like a nice hotel though. And it was right across. Yeah. One of the images in there is of the right down the river, like I said, and it's doing the two round buildings.

I forget the names of the buildings where the House of Blues is, where those buildings called like the record stacked buildings. Yeah, I know. Well, that's all those are just like, mainly like parking garages, I think. No, the first ten floors are a parking garage. The upper 25 floors are I think it's a condo. That would make sense. They use that in a movie with a car going over the side. Yeah, yeah. But that's where the house is right behind there. That's saw Uncle Ted of the House of Blues.

He said the before. Put out a good show, came out riding a buffalo. Really? Yes. And that like his person. Like, is that real? Is that whole. Yeah. Was it real? Yes. 3D there is a live buffalo as a prop for a shell, I guess. I don't think those things are T-Mobile I. I did not either. So I was. Like, I want to stay a little.

Further away from. Day. Yeah. Every time I've been to like one of the national parks that has Buffalo walking around there, they always tell you, even if they are standing there, you don't know what the hell they're thinking. And usually what they're thinking is they want to, you know, hit your car with something. Yeah. That they want to do massive damage to you. Even though they're used to cars and they're used to people all over the place, they tend to get aggressive.

There are let's see, do we have we have pictures here, not necessarily of this particular show. But if you do a search for Ted Nugent, ride, you will find pictures of him on stage riding a buffalo. That's not. Yeah, well, it's Ted. I mean, it's nothing. Not. Not to me. Then. Yeah. I mean, he was probably the safest one by being on top of the buffalo. It's everybody in the crowd below that. Yeah, that would be dangerous. I just painted that image for you, by the way. Let me see if Ted.

Okay. I'm sure people are loving when we're typing search terms and. How it is. Because it's exciting radio. This is great radio. We're talking about Uncle Ted riding the buffalo. We're talking about a hotel. The G one stage of it has changed names 40 different times, but it's still there that we that one stayed in there. I stayed there every time I was in Chicago. I would stay there. There is the gene, the trillium suites that you can go.

To that there's Ted Nugent looked a little bit like that I'm curry. Maybe a little I mean they're both tall. Yeah tall people all look like. Yeah, I have a very clicky keyboard. I just have a really good noise gate. So I mean you don't hear the typing either on the up there, but if you stay in the searching suite, there is a hidden cache somewhere in the. Room. Which is available if you like, knock three times, rather write part of the floor or wall and the thing will come out and.

I remember I had a Ukrainian female companion once there. A Ukrainian female companion. I mean, are we talking call girl or are you actually talking a Ukrainian or is there a difference in your line of work? Is the Ukrainian national? That doesn't answer my question, but. Okay. Okay. Well, we have to go to the embassy. There's Ukrainian embassy in Chicago and we have to make a short stop at the embassy. Is it corrupt? And they know. Is the embassy correct?

Yes, it is. Okay. Like the country. And I remember I remember I had to drop her off at the hotel cause she was super tired and. Well, spending a day with you. I can understand why. I went out partying. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. Killer body, the. Holy shit. I mean, she's cute, but, like, the body was the killer thing. Met her when she was 19. And you were 106. It was the. Appropriate age for a female. We've already discussed that between 19 and like 22 is your. Yeah, that is the sweet spot.

What's your past college? Dean's like, oh, no, no bueno. Uh huh, no bueno. Well, I posted in the the link to the TED pictures on top of his top of the buffalo. Yeah, that's cool, man. But yeah, for Van Jones, bad. I'm so bad for you. He had a white buffalo and some other pictures. Do they change the buffalo he's running or. Probably the great white buffalo? Uh huh. I think the the hell of a certain tribes that would be not kindly raining white buffaloes around. Yeah, I could see that.

I mean, it would probably be cultural appropriation, the buffalo. It kind of makes them look, uh. Small because the buffaloes are big. Yeah, my favorite type of steak, or actually not even steak, but I mean, in general, I really like I just had the buffalo meat yesterday, made some history made buffalo hamburgers from Ted Nugent's buffalo. Nice. Yeah, I'd pay extra for that, but that was worth it. Well, Ted's got a place down there, so. I mean, I know that's what Ted's brand Buffalo Burgers.

Absolutely. We have more exotic animals here in Texas than the whole continent of Africa. That doesn't seem. Right now because they've all been hunted down to extinction in Africa. Over here, there's a whole system. Is that I don't know if that's a verifiable number a shit ton. Should it's a technical number it sits on we have like herds of 3000 Springbok. And they're just roaming like now there's like conservatories and there's the places that people run. Do they're not.

Yeah, they're, that's what they're for but. They're, I mean, you know, they manage them very well so that there are thriving population density and the amount is called by the hunters every year is the appropriate amount, not what it is in Africa, which is overhunting. And in Africa they have to deal with predators. And when they're living in the preserve, there's no predators them to deal with. The predators are all living in a different preserve. It all makes sense. Yeah. But conservation man.

One of the, one of the parts that I used to be a member of, I don't. I haven't been there in ages, so I'm sure I'm not a member because I don't paper anymore. But I want to say it's 3500 acres. There's nothing like a to my spread of a private property ranch thing. And this one doesn't isn't for hunting. This is strictly for photography. And you can drive through the park in your car and then what? I hope your car is stronger than whatever animal wants to kill your car.

I mean, they don't really want I tell you, there's no buffalo there, but there are a lot of African animals there and. The worst thing for your car is really the Rams because occasionally they want to have. But your car, you might get a little bit of a impact. But then you'll get a good story. You got a good story out of it.

But my favorite animal out there, which they don't have anymore, unfortunately, he was a I forget I can't remember the the variety, but it was a species of zebra and have a really bad reputation. For some reason people think that they're mean and they're not, you know, friendly. I never had any issues with zebras I hand-feed fed zebras all the time. They have the softest noses of any animal. They're super cool. They they're intelligent. I like their coloration pattern. You don't.

The zebras are not black and white. You know that. I did not know that. They are actually dark brown and white. Was kind of like the whole thing. What? What is the color of the A-Team van? Mm hmm. It's dark, brown, white. Right. A lot of people think it's black, but no, it's don't over the stripe. It's a gray. Yeah. Yeah. So I've always been a big fan of.

I always like to hand feed them and pet them and I just, I don't know, I there are other animals that are more typical, like animals that people like to feed, like draft. Yeah. Giraffes are, they get a big purple tongue. It's all. Slightly. Yeah, that's not my idea of fun. I mean, if you like long, slimy things that are purple, I guess maybe the draft would fun Barney the dinosaur. That's exactly where I was going with that. Yes. I like your little. Slimy things that. Are happening.

I believe in Barney. I mean. Yeah, but he's got a big, slimy thing sticking out. It's something that's. Different. That. That was like pedophilia even in the day. Everybody looked at it going, it's just that, right? A big purple dinosaur. What's wrong with that purple dinosaur? Nothing wrong with that.

I mean, the whole world is going to shed I mean, if you saw the ad, if anybody paying attention to the news and see at least part of the video of the two families now fighting at Disney World, which I do think it's hilarious. I haven't seen that video. It's all over, man. It's all over. I don't I don't have that channel. Tempers running rampant around the country. You can't even go to Disney World where people, you know, you expect people not to be a dick.

Well, if you were to watch Tim cast, you would know that in surveys around America, 80% of the population now thinks the Civil coming. And the latest numbers is that 20% of the population has their weapons already ready for the Civil War. I mean, I've got my weapons. I just don't have. Enough ammo. Well, that's the problem. Boost. I need ammo, man. I need nine millimeter ammo, man. Boost. Now you can get that. That's that's available now. Yes Yeah, I just need more.

I mean, I remember hearing the. From. Uncle Ted when he talked about getting the ammo delivered to his property in the pallet load. I would love a pallet of nine millimeter just to show up. You can order it, you know. I mean, I don't want to pay for it. I would just like it to show up. Well, I mean, you should pay for it. You want to steal that? But no, I didn't want to steal it.

I thought maybe if somebody out there listening owned like an ammo manufacturer that a pallet of ammo could just show up and that I would be ready for the impending apocalypse. If it showed up. If it showed up, right? Yeah. If not, I mean, I've only got a couple hundred rounds and then. Then we're screwed. I mean, it's enough if somebody breaks into the house, but it's really not enough for the impending civil war. Yeah, that's 200 rounds. That's probably more than the average Ukrainian soldier.

Well, I. They're corrupt. They can just trade those bullets for. You know. Have you seen that video? I don't know. I posted online social the video of the Dutch reporter going through a American weapon bazaar in Ukraine. So it's literally set up like a a like a flea market except on the tables instead of junk. You have 80. Do you have RPG guys? You have all variety of American firearms. And then on the other side, you've got tanks, your tat.

I mean, it's just literally you could buy anything from an armored personnel carrier to a, you know any variety of American weaponry gear that we're currently paying for we have shipped out there. It reminds me of an episode of where they went out to the black market to buy back their own stuff. And. They had all sorts of blitzed as the Stinger missiles swap me that is would be a great place to go. Yeah, that's hilarious. I mean, I only have a nine millimeter. I mean, can I get Stinger missiles?

Is that legal here in the outskirts of Chicago? I mean I mean in Chicago, it probably is because I don't think your mayor this allows that true. They would not want to they would prosecute me because I'm a white guy. But otherwise, I mean, Stinger missiles in a NASCAR race on city streets. What could go wrong? I right now, I would pay to watch that. It's like this is death race all over again. Death race, 2000. David Sterling, one of the best movies ever.

Like this could be Death Race 2023 NASCAR returns. I mean, have you seen Death Race 2000? I don't think so. It was I think it was made in the early eighties, maybe late seventies. I made it. I might have that. David Carradine plays one of the racer dudes. And it's it's literally like a race, you know, between people that are going to get killed. It's like a dystopian future that finally got here. Yeah, I think so. Would you have to watch the bear?

I mean, if you don't enjoy the bear, there's only he'll be, like, 4 hours. I'm like, Damn, I wish there was more of this. Oh, I'm sure, I'm sure. I'll watch it. I just haven't really gotten around to it. The worst thing about the show was like the last 5 minutes of the season. Otherwise it was a great, great series. Okay. So let me ask you a question. Okay. Yeah. Is pimping easy. Right? Some people say it is Snoop Dogg. Mm hmm. Well, see, see. I don't know. You don't know? He would know, though.

That's a fail. Okay. So clearly you don't actually watch known in the social rarely. No. No. Yeah. I mean. I'm there rarely I interact. Yeah. But I mean, I figure people hear enough of my crazy rantings to in the audio format. Do I really need to bring those to the text format? Well, I mean, maybe, maybe should just do it for all the Ukrainian news that I post happens to live. But okay. Maybe I should do like a little five or ten minute videos and post those to no agenda social.

Yeah, people would love that. It would be like a little daily update. Mm hmm. I mean, I think I follow you. I know what you know, the social. I mean, your your sir g that that sir. That's correct. I'm no, I'm not that now. I am, Sir Gene, but I'm not at surgery. Oh, who is. I don't know. Is there a there gene. I don't know. Would be funny if there was. It would be funny. Now that you can't sign up is that like people would be like go grab that. There is a sir gene, but it's not me.

Are you sure it could just be a split personality thing? No, it's. It's my my pet snake is 13. Oh, well, that's good at searching. So I'm at Gene N at Seattle. No understand what that means. Demon Gene. And it's confusing. Jenin. Jenin, the brain surgeon. A lot of people call you surgical like surgeon. Yeah, I think that's what the arrow text to speech converter calls me. Yeah I don't get the. We deserve better. I'm a surgeon.

I that the CSB just sent me a little clip of a the transcript because he's working now I guess if you go to podcast index that org it's going to. Be. If a show has a transcript yeah a button will appear on the episode over a podcast index. You could just download or look at transcript. Yes. Which is interesting if you're trying to get a concept on like what a show's about. Yeah, yeah. So that's a really cool idea.

But the way he said it to me and it was where I had mentioned CSB and it shows up fine CSB all capital letters in the transcript, I'm like, But every damn time I say aria duby, it brings it up. There's never comes out, correct. That's because it's not a word. Well. But neither is CSB. CSB is just a series of letters. Right, but that's what I see. But I spell it out. Well, that's what I'm saying when I spell it out on the podcast.

So people like I say, hey, random thoughts Randy UAB it shows up as the correct letters. It's always like an arm you have is in there and like BBT it's like, come on, we need better guys in. The other funny thing is with the Amazon are not the Amazon sorry. The Adobe Air. Yeah, it spells Darrin O'Neil differently every time. Darrin and O'Neil pick one. I mean, they're. The Nans O'Neil there. And O'Neil, I mean, that's easy enough.

I mean, I know you can spell Darren D.A.R.E. and as I do, you can spell it D.A.R.E. and I guess I. S.T.A.R. Yeah, I write on them. They're aware and I've seen as well the O'Neil Of course there's oh, a. Possible Hillary is running again and she looks younger than she did last time. Well they, they put her in a tube or something. Oh. Any names that you've got, any ailment, got any ill people really get confused with the. Two also gave her blunt hair.

Really is does it a do younger is it maybe it's a is it Chelsea. It looks like more of a Chelsea. Hillary Wow. Maybe she is. Maybe she's working through her head. May Who is Adrina Chrome Yeah. Yeah, I hear they do that. Those people. Those people. You mean lizard people. Or. White people? No way. You're insulting lizards. I just. Because no agenda show has taught me that the hoi polloi is usually lizard people. You're missing videos of farming chick getting sprayed with water in white years.

Oh, well, that's something people should be pointed to. You should post that. No agenda social. I did post it on the social. You have some great content. I mean, people. Have the content there. People should follow me. If you're not following me and those on social, then you're missing out and you're not giving me enough numbers. But you should be following. How many people are following you and no agenda. Social 1.1 thousand. 1.1 thousand. That is is that a lot? I know how many people are.

I think you're the most fouled person on the here what are your now. Adam and John of course. Outside of Adam John obviously those were automatic though that doesn't. Count. I believe Dame Jennifer still has me beat by quite a bit. Really. Yeah, I've got. I've got 1.8. Yeah. You got way more than me. But Dame Jennifer, rightfully so, has quite a bit. More here where I guess the search never. Works out here. Dame Jennifer, what's her name? And the thing. It is just Jennifer.

She has to also 1.8 I finally caught up. Yeah I'm going to over pass both of you guys. She has I doubt it she has 1838 and I have 1843. Wow. Did that I told you you were one the most from an Adam and John obviously. Well obviously because it is there it is their backyard and we are just honored to be able to play in the sandbox and get the trolls riled up and do the shows. Mostly follows me anyway. So that she has good taste gene. And I think so yeah it was.

Just followed use as you can remember. With your incorrect though she has way more followers than you. Yeah. 2050. Wait, no, that's not what. Yeah. No. Yes, 2050. Where are you seeing this. Is following 1838. Oh six. Okay, it's a net lying down. I'm deflated now. Yeah you are. I got beat, Jennifer beat me, man. Yeah, yeah. I don't know why it's so mean. I was just trying. To catch up in the past, mostly, I guess. And. Yeah, this as you. But I'm the only one posting on here. Now you guys are.

Wait, we're supposed to post the. Yeah. Yeah. The last post. That name Jennifer it did was January 19th. Well she's probably busy. Some people have things to do. I mean, I guess you don't, but. You go, yes, I don't. Does the guy who lives in the basement that he don't work. Plenty of good content. But here we have this is the lovely and talented dame, Jennifer. So what's pissing you off this week? Forget or why all the rage? Why all the raised eyebrows? You did that one there.

We don't those enough on planet rage. Yeah oh on the planet raged well I can't hear that.

So at the beginning of the show with the female voice that comes in over Fletcher's screaming guitar is name Jennifer announcing us, which I like and we I should really ask her to do that for this show, too, just to have something like, well, here's Darren O'Neil and Sergey, because I hate the whole always having to come in and be like, hi, I'm Daryl come to life from a bigger table that you know I would it's much easier

if you have somebody else do the intro and then you could just start talking the planet rage intro is long I get that but it's Fletcher we can maybe cut it down. I think our interest a little on like that is just borderline. It's like 10 seconds. Yeah, I kind of like the like 5/2 intros. You're like, hey, here it is. We're going to put you right on here. And that is like. Shit that worked. And then you're into it. My I can barely remember my co-host name when I do searching speak.

Well, don't you do that by yourself? I do. So it's like. Which which personality are you going to. Me? No, I don't do it by myself. I do it with Ben and didn't name Ben. It's the enhanced synergy now with do name Ben named Ben. Yeah. Until we come up with a new felt title and then it'll split off a brand new show and I'll continue doing Searching Speaks by Myself. They say the Surging Speaks intro is about 5 minutes long, according to more rock, more.

Clearly not listening to the show and saying bullshit, which is okay show is literally 5 seconds. 5 seconds long. Well, if you like surging show you want to support surging show. I notice that you would Membros didn't mention any of the donors last week, which is okay because. We couldn't find them. Because there were none last week. Well, that's why it was. That is signal one. Yeah. It's bad. Which just says this economy thing is really hurting the black community.

It's hurting the podcasting community. Probably. I mean, you know, my stance on it, I just I don't think people are to donate. Right? No donating, which is why, again, our top donator today, 25 bucks, sir. Joshua the historian. Yeah, he was a yes on my last surgeon speaks. In fact. Did he donate to that show or. No, he stopped doing that once he became a guest. Well, that's that's I guess that makes sense. I mean, I kind of stopped dying to use. And so it became guess.

I think you donated once to Grumpy Old Ben. I donated more than once. But yes. I know you tried to give money to Nick the Rat and he didn't like it. I gave money to Nick the rat. I didn't try and give money. He just didn't acknowledge it. And I did it again about a month ago and he wasn't even frickin there. He he was on twitch with some weird music, shit happening and a camera of an empty chair.

And I thought, Well, I'll just send them some money and say, Hey, Nick, and, you know, maybe give him an opportunity to apologize for the fact that he never said anything last time. And then it turned out he was there and ask. I was like, Hey, it's Nick. Not here. No, he hasn't been here for like half an hour. Oh, okay. And so, yes, I've given them money multiple times and never heard a peep at them, but I guess that's how it works. These are the is part of the Insult Comics Group.

Thank you for sending your money. Please leave a message after the beep and we will get back to you as soon as we can back. We'll get back in there. Sir, Joshua says, unrelenting, is my drinking buddy. And we are drinking buddy. That is true. I think he enjoys this podcast more than the one he was actually on. Well, I could see that. Does any five interact with you? And it's like that's that's a whole different thing. Mm hmm. Yeah. No, he's. He's a good guy.

He is a he's getting his, I guess, masters in history or something like that. So he's planning on teaching history this. But which level. Yeah. And I have no idea if he's going to be teaching college or high school or what, but I don't think they teach history before high school. Right. I should. Be. They sure did, but. Well yeah, yeah, fair enough. But today they teach herstory now instead of history. Yeah, I think they're. Josh was the kind of guy I'd be like, Okay, suckers,

I'm gonna show you what real history is. Yeah. You might only keep a job for a week. I know, because they're going to be like. We're like we didn't have that. The the thing. The thing that I, I thought was fun on the last 13 speak is, you know, appropriate talk about the other shows around Midwestern cross-pollination. I mean I think it was the the surgeon speaks but. I don't know that John would approve. I think John thinks that anything that dilutes your brand is not a good thing.

Oh, he talks about to unplug that. Know what? Just every now and. Then, that's his. Brand. He knows how to butter bread. Yeah, but having both Josh and Ben on the show with their very Texan accents. How do they get a word in against you, though? That's the question. Well, you have to listen to find out. Don't doctor the way first is supposed to follow. You have no agenda social that I'm supposed to listen to your other podcast.

I mean that be nice that you know I mean if you had a podcast that I could listen to that wasn't like subsonic. Right? I would certainly do that. That would be random thoughts. That would be your favorite. So I used to. I used to listen to random thoughts, but I just found that they're like one of those up on random thoughts. They I mean, I kind of already heard it from O'Reilly by that point. Well, you know, Bill does say a lot of the same stuff, but lately.

I've heard I've heard somebody say that. Yeah, lately it's been great because I've been beating O'Reilly to stuff and that's kind of like stooping. O'REILLY Yeah. And no agenda, which is why it's great that Grumpy Old Bens is back. And on Wednesday, because we used to always be a day after. No agenda. No your day before. The day before is actually way better. Well, what? Why does that make any difference? Because Grumpy Old Ben has nothing to do with politics.

That's basically computer gear talk. Now, there's a lot of politics somehow. That that much. It sucks its way right in, but we don't have clips. So I think what you're referring to, politics is just steamrolls opinions. Well, that never stops. I mean, you noticed that last week on Unrelenting with Sir Gene and Sir Ryan. Ben Yes. There's a lot of no agenda servers around here. There's too many I'm well and I'm the episode that we just recorded that the last episode of Gene Speaks was with Gene.

Sir Ben and suggests. You see I mean and that have the type concerns everyone views it because. Now do you actually buy your title honestly like everybody else or is yours on air? No, mine was mine was purchased in back in the day when it became official. I had a couple of donations then that was like 600 and something. Bucks. And Scandinavia and a few other people were like, Oh, we need to we need to make me a knight. So somebody did donate on my behalf like three.

I remember that episode. I remember that. Yeah. Yeah. And then to make that right, it wasn't that long after that, a few months after that, that same amount that they donated to push me over. I donated in the name of a certain that Ned and a lot of people to try to do this you know kind of spread the love around.

Back in the day in the early no Jen the days when I used to be on right after no agenda on a live stream podcast with Mr. Oil and get mostly I remember that it and get my slave kind of ran a lot of the stuff for the infrastructure mean get my slave basically had uh got I'm blanking out his name the current day working for him. VOICEOVER Yeah. Yeah. So we were one day.

Mark Yes. Mark One day and fact I was the one that was telling my mark Mark that he needs to just reach out to Adam directly and instead of trying to do, you know, doing all the work in the background, but for another person or another company, effectively there's. You get the middleman out. Yeah. Well, I mean, that was kind of getting to that point where the middleman was making Adam unhappy and Mark had nothing to do with that portion of it that was make them unhappy.

I'm like, Mark, just reach out directly to Adam. I'd be very happy to chat with you and you can explain, but you're actually doing all the work and you can do it for him rather than doing it through these guys. And it was, I forget the name of their company, but Mr. and Get My Slave had a corporation that basically was the intermediary and Mark didn't have any actual stock in it, but he was one doing most of the work for free. So it was it was an interesting story.

But anyway, the reason I bring that up is because I get the slaves did not have like he wasn't the sir unlike the rest of us. And so I remember I made a pretty substantial donation in his name to get him up to that level of being a sir. So there you go. I mean, I yeah, I'm very close now to being a baron and I'm like, well, do I do I actually go and. Embrace roles as close to being a duke? Yeah, I think he might be.

He was up to account or something, but I'm thinking that would also be a maybe a good way to to get some donations to my other shows. Be like, Hey, send it a donation. I'll pick one here after a month, everybody that donates for a month could hear their names go into a hat and I give you a no agenda knighthood. How does that help you? Well, anybody that donates to me over a month gets in the drawing. Oh, so you think you're going to get more than $1,000? No, but I mean. The.

Well, how's that? Good for you then. Because I would have cash rather than rather than taking the name. You see what I mean. And I know it's because the. You're basically selling no agenda naked, right. At a discounted price. At a discounted price. Okay, maybe. And maybe you would get over a thousand. You never know. Yeah, maybe not a discount price. So you're like a you're like a money launderer. There is I well let me give you my email address in the it's

Darren at Ukraine dot. Gov. Everything goes through there you know that way the taxes and everything just works out more. Legitimate that way. Totally legitimate operation. What do you know about the Irish Lottery there, man? Tell the truth. Nothing. Nothing. Also, thanks to Sir Sean of the Allegheny Valley for coming in with his monthly 25 bucks. Nice. And I looked the podcasting 2.0 for unrelenting. I mean we had a couple from AMD's douches, which was nice just boosting during the show.

But over the last two weeks of unrelenting 12,562 stats, which is $3. Yeah. Over two weeks. Oh, 4000. To be fair, that's just for me. So I got $3. You got three. Dollars? I didn't even see it pop up. What? I saw a donation from you to bring the keeper. Right. That was what, 60,000 SATs or some shit? Yeah, 66,666. Yeah, yeah. That's a lot of south to be thrown out there. I just wanted to say a happy birthday to Tina.

And yesterday, Wednesday, rather, was two years of rare encounter called Acid and Abel Kirby's podcast. Oh, congratulations, guys. And I sent them because they have a website that tracks how many stats they've gotten from people, and it's a leaderboard that adds on. And our buddy Blueberry was at like 330,000 SATs or so over the time. What does that like, a book? No, no, I then I sent him a 350,000 stats, which was like 80 bucks. 80 bucks? Yeah. You get. But I think, you know.

Unfortunately by that, by the time they take that out, it'll be 20 bucks. It's not that bad. I mean, really, if converting it out of the out of the lightning to to the Bitcoin, that is the biggest hit, no question about it. But it's not horrible. And as I said on the previous show, when more and more people start accepting lightning, hey, if I can get nordvpn with lightning, I'm sure there are other services and other things you can buy directly with lightning.

There's more of these payment processors. Add that to their to their line of what they accept. Mm hmm. That it'll out pretty well, I think. But I had to give a nice shout out to Tina. I mean, she is the podcasting, as we talked about earlier, just coming up in the ranks. Is podcasting. Yeah. Does a hell of a job. Yeah. I mean. There's a lot of people if you go back and I know she's worked in PR and all of that. So speaks well. But if you go back to like my early podcasts, I mean like decorum.

Yeah. Very just a very good at the the whole radio. On stage got a nice laugh. Which helps I guess. Yeah. We don't have a nice laugh Gene. Is that what you're saying. I don't have a nice laugh. Does that doesn't really. Yeah. I mean if you didn't just play a clip from the Roadrunner but on and something I would. Woody Woodpecker. Yeah one of those but yeah I think she comes across very well on the radio. Obviously Adam setting her up to sound good helps, but I think no, I think that was natural.

I thought of that when she was on my show as a guest. I'm like, Oh, that's a great. Still to date, my number one most downloaded episode was Tina. I believe that. And there's a lot of people, too. Men put a microphone in front of them. They no longer sound natural and it takes time to get used, but they get self-conscious. Right. But I remember she told me like she was super nervous and she like prepped for that interview for a whole day.

And then realized this is not like just sitting in the gene. Yeah, exactly. I was like, what? We did prep. What do you mean prep? Well, I'm not going to be quizzing you. I'm just talking to you. So asking the hard questions. Yeah, I do need to make the pilgrimage out to Fredericksburg. You are listening to Sir Gene. Interrogates. And trying to spread, you know, in honor of the pod father and all the stuff that he's done.

And I was just trying to spread a lot of those sets that came to me around in other places. Yeah. No, I think that's appropriate. I mean, I center on their I think it was their second episode of of of three the Keeper. I think I sent them 100 bucks. And it wasn't meant to be, you know, Saint. Tammany. I mean, I know it got a laugh especially because of all the the religion talk.

Of the sixties. Yeah. Yeah. Well and that that has been a drastic change I think certainly from when they lived in Austin in heathen country here. Oh yeah. It was once they moved out to God country, their, their podcast became way more religiously. Well I was just like, you know, 33, 33, three didn't seem like enough. So I figured I would double that. It wasn't like oh six.

They said, Well, you're the number in the priest, although it works out because Adam now with the new road caster has the button that puts you into the dropping the Yeah. Dropping your voice and to say the level. Yeah, yeah. Although he needs a list he's going to do Satan. Would get, you know what you're just doing some production meetings with them, let them know what he's doing wrong. I'm sure he will take all of your oh I'm sure suggestions to heart.

But if you want to help this show out, the thing to do is go to unrelenting dot com slash donate and Dan donate. I asked a rogue tester. Right buyers a road. Tester and then bitch about how bad it is. Which is probably what I would do. Which is I mean, I know it's what I would do. With like this is, you know, I think is the problem. It doesn't work with them. Caster It's a piece of shit. Why wouldn't it work with that? Because I'm just saying I'm just pretending, you know? Right.

I understand you'd find every little thing wrong with it. Yes, yes. And I would just want to relate it to the MOTU, which the MOTU does everything. It literally does everything. It is the best device that's unavailable that you can not get. It'll be back soon once Joe Biden fixes everything. Well, next year they said next year. Wow. Yeah. There's a new Michelle Obama book. Be sure to pick that up. What's he talking about? What does did you say what does he talk about?

Yeah, well, I don't want to miss gender. Michelle Obama. It's called the light we Harry. Mm discovery let's see. It's. It's all very so like blurred something about uncertain times. She reflects upon her experiences and shares insights on navigating an increasingly stressful world. You know. Thanks to your party. Hmm. Thanks. There's something vice president. Interesting from the Hill, though.

In an article on the Hill they have the bring court, Justice Kagan warns that the Supreme Court legitimacy is at risk if it strays too far from public sentiment. The job of the Supreme Court is to follow public sentiment. No, in its rulings, apparently. I know it's realize that. But Elaine Kagan has now had a teaching moment for all of us, telling us what the Supreme Court's job really is.

Right, not to actually enforce the laws, the books, not to decide what is constitutional and what's not is to go along with the mob rules we become. Well, it's brightness. You know, she's not liking the decisions coming out of the court and that the legitimacy of the entire system is at risk if it needs to be demonstrated to be impartial and nonpartisan by not straying too far from the public radio sentiment. Let me quote We become bolder in brightness.

If you know your light, you know yourself or you know your own story in an honest way. In my experience, this type of self-knowledge build confidence, which in turn breeds calmness and an ability maintain perspective, which leads finally to being able to connect meaningfully with others. And this, to me, is the bedrock of all things and quote. Well, I think that's a sentiment a lot of fans people have. You a little coffeehouse. Steps.

I like that better than the the the cat calling but either way it. Works. Oh you got the yeah. That's the way it works. I mean everybody will want to be rushing right out to get a new Michelle Obama book. Yeah. Does Joe Biden have complications from COVID? I guess we'll find out by next week. It might be a new we may have President Kamala Harris by next Friday. We may never know. Uh, you know, I think she's already technically been president once. So this will be her second term.

Well, when they put Joe under. Yeah, you got to pass the reins over Barack to Beautiful. I just. I, I'm just counting the number of days left in his administration until the country is in complete ruin. Is there a chance for a comeback? How long is it going to take? A hundred years. That's kind of a sad thing, because, you know, we're not going to be here in a hundred year. Well, you may be. I might be. I kind of doubt it, though. I don't know what your alien life style genetic makeup calls for.

I don't know. I don't question anything. That's a Bulgarian yogurt. That's the secret. How you could live to be a 642 if you just have Bulgarian, you know. No, I live to be thousand 31. Well, he had that big boat. He didn't have the big boat. And all those animals. Yeah. Methuselah lived through, what, 683 three. Something like that.

You know, some people want to take the Bible literally, and there's some problematic things in there or a literal translation, although a lot of those people will answer it because it was translated poorly from the original. Well, I don't know. A lot of that is also in the original. You got to believe. What you got to. Believe. Yeah. I mean, it's there's some historical knowledge in there. To show up at Jeanne's house. He will school you and give you an ice cold shot of Russian vodka, platinum.

Chef West Standard. And William, what do you what would you do? Like throw some steaks on the Barbie two? Is that would people come out and hang out. Shrimp on the Barbie, a nice. Big buffalo steak? I mean, do you keep a buffalo in the backyard? Just a slaughter when you need to? It's just the slaughter. You know that scene and in Apocalypse Now where they slaughter the buffalo. I remember that vaguely. I haven't seen that movie like this.

Should rewatched that scene because that was actual the shot like that like that couldn't that couldn't be made today because that animal's actually killed. Like how dare they how dare they show. That they killed the animal. Yeah. That they were going to kill anyway. Probably to. No they weren't but they may have.

But when were trying to come up with what they're going to do, this big fact based scene with the I guess I don't know if the production crew or just people that were there was like, oh, you know, we've been we've got a perfect animal for this that we know exactly what we're going to do. And the the American I guess crew did not realize that these guys were actually going to chop the head off the buffalo why wasn't. Running tape. As they're running dome not safe film.

Yes right. Well. Yes that was a one shoot. You know, you have one chance to get it right kind of thing. But they did have multiple cameras running, so they did get from a couple. But it looks very disturbing, I think would be the word to use, even though technically it's probably one of the the fastest way to kill the animals. It's not going to feel any real pain because you're stuttering and spinal cord as it was in like microseconds.

But it it looks quite gross when you're literally have a live animal standing there and they chop its head off. Who would have figured that? I don't know. I mean, we're just not used to I'd like I'm sure people that do it for a living. You're totally desperate. Well, that's it. And there's and. I think it's probably arguably a cleaner way to do it than what do in the US, which is electrocuting cows to death, which doesn't always work before dismembering them completely.

Yes, I think there's something to be said for knowing where your sustenance comes from and understanding what is being done. Mine comes from Buffalo. But you're not killing them yourself. No, I'm outsourcing that. Always a better job to do it. Leave it to the experts. Yeah. I'm outsourcing the growing killing, packaging and even delivery. Everything short for my house. Probably the cooking at a lot of that. I do. I do cook my. I do get the buffalo myself.

Well at least that part you've got handled. Yeah. And the buffalo is I like the thing I really like about buffalo is it's the appropriate amount of body fat to where you can cook it at a skillet without butter in its natural fat. But the fat content is low enough that it doesn't taste like a cheap burger is cheap burgers always have high fat of. Yeah, you'll notice that just when you're buying ground beef, it's like you want at least in 8020.

I mean, you want a little bit of fat for a delicious burger, but you don't want it to be like, Oh. It's right around 10%. That's nice. That's like a 9010 split for the ground beef boom. It is a 9010 split. Yeah. Absolutely perfect. Cooking tips with GM. They had a little bit of vodka. We're all having a big bar. No. Do you not do that? Is the vodka is extremely combustible. No kidding. Don't put it anywhere near the. Don't put it in the next open flame at all.

Ever Do that. Spray it on the grill. You can use it as a lamp like an oil lamp. I've done that in the past. If you have an emergency lighting. Need, I mean, if you have an oil lamp that needs to get rather than you're out of oil, you could put that in there and it will still work. No wick required it. Just the evaporative alcohol from the high quality vodka will just burn naturally without a wet. Is there a surging speech this weekend? What do they mean? Yeah, yeah. We do it every week.

It really it's a regular show. The regular weekly show, amazingly. I hope to. Check that out as a run of the no agenda. Stream. No, I don't think so. I think it does. I've seen I think it's been. Some some freak that's in charge of that. Decided to boycott it. You were. Probably banned. Run it. You probably banned. I might have been banned. And I have no idea why. But yes, far as I know, it's not. On that note in the stream. Free, sir. Jim. It's t it will be back next week.

Same unrelenting time, same unrelenting channel. Adios buffers and such. They have the softest noses of any animal.