040: Writer’s Block

Oh, my God. I can't. Handle this. Buy me a seat. This year. Hello and welcome to. Unrelenting episode number 44, September 2nd, 2022, with a let you back into the country, Gene. I don't believe it. There was a question in the troll room before the show as to how many illegals you brought back in your luggage. I thought that was kind of a racist question, but I figured I'd ask anyway. Yeah, really? I mean, does anyone really need to bring illegals back in? Given how open the border is right now.

Is it kind of funny that they're checking your information to come back while they just wave everybody with no documents? It is literally that where if you have a U.S. passport, you have to go and get your retinal scans. And if you don't, then you just go on through. And it just there's nobody at the post. You just walk right through the gate. So, yeah, it's a little wacky. The border seems to be inverted right now. Why is everybody so racist? I think this is hilarious.

Lori Lightfoot, a lot of people like to call her Larry. She does look like one of those troll things. She looks like the critter from that horror movie back like 30 years ago. She looks like a few critters from a few different horror movies. Like if they. All got together and had a baby. Like, she's got a shrunken head and the, you know, shit, like, totally New Orleans kind of. Oh, yeah. Very cool, shrunken, head looking thing. Yeah.

I don't understand what kind of idiots would elect somebody like that? The people of Chicago. I mean, that's beyond deranged. When you just visually look at somebody, you don't have to know anything about their politics. You're like, nope, no. She looks insane. Yeah, but she is insane. Yeah, exactly. So there you go. The look matches reality. The governor of Texas, Abbott, has been sending out busloads. Of yes. Migrants. Now, this is a very interesting thing because it's not like it's forced.

And that's the one thing that anybody on the left avoids mentioning, which is this is a program, as far as I can tell. Anyway, I'm not down there. I haven't seen this firsthand, but it appears to be a program where they go to where these people who've just came into the country illegally are and go, hey, you want a free bus ride to New York, Chicago, wherever? All the cool cities. Right. And if they say yes, they put them on the bus for free.

Now, now, Lori Lightfoot says this is a racist policy and I'm only thinking. It has to be. She says to Chicago. She does have a point because they do check IDs. And if you have an I.D., then you can't get a free ticket. Then you can't get out of the bus. Yeah. You have to you have to not have an I.D. to get on the bus. I just I think it's funny because. It's I think it's a great program.

People like if the rest of the country doesn't want to keep them from crossing into Texas, then the least Texas ought to do is ask them where they'd really like to go. Yes, we could relocate. It's okay that way to Texas. Communities on the border there do not. Have to. Face the brunt of everything coming in. Help equal out the load. Ironically, nobody wants to go to California, but. Well, yeah. D.C., New York, Chicago, those are all big destinations.

Some people want to go to Florida, but not for them. I just think it's funny that the mayor of Chicago, the mayor of Washington, D.C., the mayor of New York, who are, I believe, all black, say it's it's racist to send people to their cities. And incidentally, how is it racist for these black people to say that sending Mexicans to their cities is somehow racist? Well, no, I guess that sounds that sounds like a racist statement. Yes. Yes, it does. That this is a racist policy.

And it's like, are the busses air conditioned? It's like, yeah, they look like nice New York greyhound kind of busses. They're being an air conditioned bus that it's like one. Hundred and six degrees. In Texas right now. Yeah, exactly. It's no. And then, believe me, people don't want to stick around Texas. This is where all the relatives live. They want to get somewhere for their way. As people often do. Get away from the relatives. Mm hmm. Exactly.

But how was your vacation? South of the border. Oh, it's good that never left the hotel. Which is perfect. Which is the only way you don't get kidnaped down in Mexico. Oh, that's bullshit. Mexico is totally safe. In fact, I'm going to go back next month. Oh, really? Yeah. Just to maybe backpack through Mexico, walk around, see where you can find. Yeah, I figured I just take my own car down there. Just drive around anywhere I want. Perfect. Yeah, definitely.

Keep a live video stream open so we can. Yeah, we can hear you fine. I'm going to. I am going to check on the border, see anybody if anybody wants a ride back to Mexico, my guess is probably nobody. Meanwhile, you're going the other way while you're trying to say. Yeah, exactly. Hey, free, free. Right across the border into Mexico. Anybody interested? No. No. Okay. No. There was rumors on the no agenda socials.

I mean, you are a man of mystery because people seem to think you have like multiple different passports from multiple different countries. So I. I have no idea why people would think that. I don't know. It seems like they're digging. Like, I don't know. It doesn't doesn't seem right. I think it's just Polish rumor. It could be. I mean, the last I heard was you had an Israeli passport and it's like I didn't know how that play worked out. But you could be an assassin or is that too close?

We need to cut this part out of the show. Oh, and that's like an assassin would be doing something public, like talking on the podcast or whatever. It'd be the person doing cover or. Like, acting or something. That's crazy. I mean, Julia Child's was a spy for the CIA, right? Well, that's true. Yeah. And she was like, right out in the open. This is hiding in plain sight. That was well documented. Yeah. But you got relaxed in Mexico. Oh, yeah. Probably more than I should have my goal.

Well, my goal was to work on my next book, and I did that for like three days. And then just became kind of uninterested. Well, I didn't do them three days in a row either, but no, it was just kind of like I was just relaxing, enjoying, enjoying, not doing anything. I only got online like once a day to play pool. Right. So, I mean, you had to get that in. Funny enough, temples on the local TV stations down there. So that's really you know, I didn't even have to worry about that.

Yeah, they run Tim pool video. Yeah. You know, I guess it's cheaper to run YouTube videos than to pay for actual programing. Oh, that's interesting. Mm hmm. It is interesting. I don't know what the legalities are. What's next? Mexico. What do you mean, legal? There's that. There is that, too. But that's kind of a it's kind of funny, like. Oh. Mean. Hmm. It I got I got all the cat videos that I could watch on TV, which was great.

Did you accidentally turn on the AM radio in Mexico and hear us talking? Yeah, right outside of that would be pretty funny with it. Like, now we know who's listening. Uh huh. Exactly. Either content out there. You know, I wonder if we could get on the same radio in Mexico. Probably could. Well, you know what? I think we could get on here in Chicago. Really? As long as we kept out the swearing, I'm pretty sure I could. I could twist this. No agenda guy. The guy that runs that station.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, I remember. And he's running no agenda. I think he's doing the editing himself, but because it just got to be too hard for me to do it. And yeah, we need. A team of people that would, you know, get together and turn no agenda into a a radio friendly show, cause it's more work than most. I think. Yeah, I. I don't disagree. I mean, part of it too, is I think that there are occasionally copy rated things played correct.

And, and you got to not just check for swearing, but check for that as well. Right. Because the station has to be aware they'll need the proper licenses and it's a lot. Which is why sports radio is a lot cheaper than being a music station, because, again, there's that part of it. Although I don't think it's super expensive being a music station, not. For an actual terrestrial radio. Yeah. I mean, you basically are an advertising transmission station with some gaps filled in with music.

Which is true. I mean, if it comes down to it and and I so I was doing it long drive yesterday. I was listening to some public radio. Oh, NPR. Really? Yeah, that's usually what I listen to. And if I listen to any terrestrial show, usually it's podcasts, but I listen to anything terrestrial that's going to be NPR. You want to get your government programing in there? The thing about NPR is it's probably the most. The most pirated series of all radio. Yeah, exactly. It's the most podcast like.

Well, that's a good way to put it, actually, and thought about it that way. But it kind of is there. I've I always lived life the sound that they have and and I'm stoked about it the how they're they have some of the best studios and the best equipment guy and the best producers in the world because they have more money than every other radio station. Yeah, I mean, National Public Radio and asking their you know they were on the whole value for value bandwagon. Yeah.

Well Curry stock stole some years ago. Yeah. Oh he did. He fully admits it. You know that that's been around public radio for like 50 years plus. We've had listeners like you. Yeah, listeners like you and advertisers, but mostly, you know, we just. It's no advertisers. They're just a corporate sponsor. They're sponsors. Yes. We today's show sponsored by Dr. Fauci. Yeah. So we do not remind you. Uh huh, uh huh. AIDS is bad. Don't forget that he says AIDS is bad.

You know, Dr. PoUce. Dr. PoUce is quite the character. I'm trying not to get sued. Yeah, well. Yeah, he's going to be dead before the lawsuits would get in. I don't know that he necessarily will ever die. Really? I think he may be one of these lizard people I know. I think he may be one of those people that made a deal with the devil a long time ago. I we just thought maybe he actually knew what he was doing with the drugs, even. Though we know that Mengele actually died.

No, you don't. I don't. I don't. I've never seen the two of them next to each other. Could be this foul. I'm just saying. Oh, you mean, does he speak in the Dutch. And he speaks with a fake jaw, a fake German, fake New York accent, let me tell you. Yeah, yeah. You got it. You got to get two shots. That's a Wolfman Jack doing a shot. Uh, maybe for some reason, the wolf. He didn't get it. Get out there. You know, the ball and give him a lot of fun when the wolf man.

That's the one there, you know, can't do an episode without having a wolf, man. He's a little bit it's a little bit of a see originally I thought the wolf man was like this really low, beefy. And then I went back and listen. It's like, oh, no, he's not. Yeah, it's. It's that higher. It's raspy, but it's a higher voice. You're thinking of the undertaker. Could be. Now. For the summer Svengali. I would seem pretty low. Bad, really. He's the guy that does all the horror stuff on television here.

Way bay. Kids. Yes, pretty much pretty much. That's the bit. But he made it into a career like Elvira. I mean, made that into one hell of a career, just that. Oh, apparently we have a hurricane Danielle. Hurricane Danielle. Yeah. Oh, my God. This is amazing. Yeah, I finally see this proves it. There is climate. This is climate change, right? Because we were told, like, what was that? Ten years when the. You know, it'll it'll be nonstop hurricanes all year long.

Which is what the original Al Gore The Inconvenient Truth. Oh, there is going to be so many tropical storms and hurricanes and yeah. There's going to be nonstop tropics this year. It's September 2nd. It's the first one. Yeah, barely. It is it a big Danielle. Is she a big girl? Small girl. What's it going to be? Well, I mean, just crossed over into a here off of tropical storm. So just barely crossed over. Wow this is that we'll see where it goes. Do we need to go hide in our basements yet or.

Is it okay? I mean, that's usually where it gets flooded. So I'm not sure what he's going do that this is not a hurricane. Yeah, I mean, it is a hurricane. It's not a tornado is what I meant to say. Right. If it's a tornado, then you'd want to be there. Yeah. You want to be in the basement? Yeah. That's what you heard. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, hurricanes have straight line winds. Tornadoes have sucked power.

I had a dream about a month ago where I was literally looking out my window and watching a tornado form like a hundred feet away from the house. And I'm realizing. Premonition. Or I'm realizing this is not a good thing because once that sucker starts spinning up, I've been I've been in that situation once before. It was a little more than a hundred feet.

It's probably about a, uh, probably a quarter mile away tornado started forming and I was literally shooting photos of the this is in the pre video these shooting photos of the the clouds just started swirling and then. Were you looking for the storm? Were you chasing the storm? That was just the cool looking clouds. I was taking pictures, cool looking clouds outside. Was this in Texas or was this still back in Minnesota? Okay. Minnesota, yeah. Yeah. You do get some bad weather in the Midwest.

You do. And I, I mean, I've been to places where the tornadoes gone and ripped through town, not super close to me, but within like five miles. And you know, massive damage. Houses just blown away at five. Miles is pretty damn close when houses are just gone. Oh, they're gone. They're there. Kind of. Well, people in other countries make fun of the way the American houses are built, which are basically matchstick houses.

We build our houses with wooden frames and then put paper on them and then put a little super thin layer of fake brick on the outside to make them look nice. Whereas in other countries they actually are typically built out of concrete. So we, you know, we see exactly how strong the houses are when we have things like hurricanes. And for me, that was coming. Through, you could just rebuild them. Exactly. That's that makes it easy.

Now, in Florida, I think they have requirements for homes where you can't build it unless it's a hurricane proof house or something. Now, there's three year old houses that are not breaking through, but I think if you rebuild, it has to be hurricane, which means has to stand up to 100 mile an hour solid line winds. Straight line winds. Yeah. We had during the other show that I do at Monday's Planet Race. Oh, you do another show? Yeah. 80 mile an hour winds during the show.

I didn't realize it was quite that bad at the time. I got beat, it got really dark and of course I'm like halfway below ground anyway. When you live underground out here. Well, right. You have to be at least four or five stories underground at all times. You got like really dark, which is normal if it's going to rain. And then all of a sudden my my spare apple phone, which really never makes noise at all or does because there's really nothing. And this thing starts beeping.

And I like looked at the thing and it's like dangerous wind warning. Yeah. Now. Like, holy crap. And there was a town not too far from here that they had the recorded the 80 mile an hour winds. I'm just kind of guessing that's about what we had here. I think the strongest one that I've been in is 50. It's it was I mean, you could hear you know, it was just a weird kind of a vibe because the house kind of just, like, vibrates or something. I don't know.

It's like the where the windows going to come. Why and what's the. Oh yeah. But now it's like seems like everything weathered that, but you don't know when this kind of stuff is going to pop. No, no. And you don't know if you're literally one mile speed faster than the whole thing would come down. Yeah, yeah. There's Yeah. When the house just kind of starts vibrating.

That's why I also have a little from back in the days when we used to go to the NASCAR races and a little scanner that has the weather bands on there. Because if that way, if the power goes out in the Internet goes out, you can at least go. And it's just something fun. To listen to when they're like. Ooh, you know what, I have a was spotted. Yeah, I have the weather bands on my watch. Well, see, you're way more advanced. The same idea.

Yeah. You just want to be able to get that information when you need it. Yeah. Because everybody's like, Well, I could just go to the Internet, and it's like, what about when the Internet's not there? Then happened to about a week or so ago? I remember we went down. It was that was the day that I it was the day of unrelenting error. No, not unrelenting. It was two weeks ago with planet rage. And yeah, maybe maybe somebody is trying to tell you something.

They think maybe that the Internet went out for like 2 hours and it was like, well, what can we do? What would you do if you can't record a podcast, man? I know you have to. Do what's your main activity is recording podcasts. I mean, I can record a solo show without the Internet. So that was. Yeah, I guess, you know, I listened to your last solo on was it called Random Thoughts? Grampy Grumpy's. Right. Yeah. I mean, Grumpy Old Bens or Random Thoughts or Grandpa Grumpy. But the solo show.

It was talking about baseball cards, of all things. Well, you have the Mickey Mantle card. Yeah. And I went as soon as I heard the topic, I'm like, oh, crap. All right, this is totally not interesting to me. I'm going to turn it. Off, which is what Larry always says, because he does not follow any of that. But he's. Not you know. You do it in such a way that it was intriguing. Well, this is the crazy thing is actually listen to the whole goddamn episode. I was too lazy to turn it off. I gotcha.

Yeah. Apparently, you just sucked me right in there. But the the thing that's interesting to me is the the story about the guy that, like, he used to be a driver and courted all these cards. Yeah. That he used to deliver for Topps. What kind of idiot kid would sell that stuff? Why wouldn't you keep that? I don't know. Then that is. That is the one part of this story that you go back to. And at the time that they thought they were bringing in a lot of money, that was a lot of money at that time.

But you realize how much money, you know. They brought in 100, right? $125,000 in 1981, whenever that was. I mean, it was good money, but it was not your set for the rest of your life. So the average income in 81 I think was 31,000, so it was maybe 29,000. So it's about three years worth of salary. It wasn't bad money, but given here's what I would have done in that situation, right? Assume I don't give a shit about cards or the game. Right?

I would have gone through and found every duplicate card and I would have kept one of those in that time. And then I would have done a what do you call the you know, where they price this stuff out. Well, that was it back in 1981. Yeah. The system that we have today with multiple companies that grade these things. Yeah. It didn't exist so you couldn't send them off anywhere. You could just be like, well, that's good. And the well fair enough.

But you could, you could blame the like I have literally done this, laid all the cards on the floor, the better, whatever. And take a photo, send the photo and say, are any of these worth anything? Yes. Well, he knew they were worth big bucks, but the big bucks back then was completely different.

And it's the insanity of the grading, which is both great and horrible at the same time that a card like that, the which the one that sold is the best version out of all of them that are known from a 1952 printing. So I mean, there's there's a chance that maybe something will be graded just as well. Probably not. But you never know what people are going to find. Yeah, yeah. No, it's, it's fair enough. And then plenty of those get thrown away.

I'm pretty sure all my baseball cards get thrown away. My dad's always tells that story of how his mom threw them away and he had some 52 mantles. But we not every 52 mantles worth millions, although from looking up, as I mentioned, worth a hundred. Grand, though. Yeah. Well the the worst versions you look them up in it's a the PSA is the big grading company if you look up one that was rated a one and this is a one out of ten scales, this is the lowest grade they'll give.

It was inside of a bicycle was still right still. Would sell for like 20 grand. So yeah. Yeah. You know, you put that into perspective, it's like, yeah, that's crazy. But you know, you know, I've looked up some Jordan cards and there's one that the Boy Scouts gave away. It was an extra large card that a ten has sold anywhere in over the last year or so, from 100000 to 250000. But one that's graded an eight, which is a lot more normally what they would be.

It's like 6000, which is still good money, but it's a huge drop down. Yeah, but back then, I mean, the guy that went to buy all these cards talked about bringing a cop with them. I'm guessing like 125,000 in cash or something. I don't know exactly how that deal went down. Yeah, but that was a you know, it's like that seemed like so much money. But then you go, one of. That's a lot of money.

But again, it's like, why would you not keep one of everything if you have all these duplicates in there that that's the part to me that seems completely rational? Well, I don't. I've thought about this because the question is, where is the top when it comes to having these collectibles? And where do you decide to sell if you realized today, oh, wow, I've got this whatever card I got this Mickey Mantle card, and it just sold for 12 million.

Well, that's a bad example, because anybody would want 12 million. Yeah, but if you could look back and see that, okay, this card is worth $10,000 today. It doesn't matter what you're selling. It's the same thing with, you know, art. Right. Paintings. But does it always go up or is there an eventual downward trend? It's the same thing with cars, right?

I think there's a number of factors here playing because really when you're buying something that is no longer made, what you're paying for isn't the quality of the item. The rarity paying for it is the uniqueness and the rarity of the item. You know, this is why people are always really blown away by the fact that I have wines or cigars or spirits that are really fucking expensive. And the way that I've done this. Is buy them when they're cheap and wait. That's exactly right.

So what I do is just not fucking drink and smoke this stuff. So I have what are considered to be. I don't have many anymore, unfortunately, but some consider to be one of the best cigars ever made in the history of cigars. I have 1987 Dunhill. These cigars, when they came out, were already considered a great vintage. But as time went on and you literally can't get them right.

So 1987 happened to be the absolutely worst year for the volume of cigar manufacturing, which also meant that was the best year for cigar manufacturing, or I should say for cigar smokers. Right? Right. Because there was nothing crappy that went into production because the production numbers were so damn low.

Whereas you go forward in time to the mid-nineties when the cigar boom was really crazy and everybody in their cousins started smoking cigars and the production was using tobacco that would have been absolutely thrown away in the past that was just substandard and just really shitty quality. So, you know, you when you buy the 87 cigars within a couple of years of them being released and then you keep them for 30 years, that's how you end up with hundred dollars cigars.

Yeah, it doesn't happen overnight. Same thing. Yeah, same thing with different wines and then different spirits like, I personally think there is something cool about consuming the last of whatever it is. You want to be the guy as more of these now I'll, I'll drink it then. Yeah exactly. It's like I, you know, I enjoy being the last person to do something. It's, it's, it's a pleasurable feeling. And the price of this stuff is directly tied to the availability.

So when it comes to baseball cards, what happens? Well, most of them get thrown away by mothers. Especially the ones that were made in the 1950s, because there was not any money to them. As I talked about in that episode, when 1960 rolls around, Topps disposes. Hmm. Garbage truck. Sales. Of these cards. And it just would make it.

I don't know if it makes a whole lot of difference now because they're I'm sure they're cards that are coming out right now that 50 years from now we'll be like, Oh, my God, why didn't everybody else just collect these? These are super valuable now. Well, last nobody. Knows.

See, there's less because of the way Topps runs now, which they still have the regular sets, but there is a a run of cards the Topps has been doing for the last few years that I've never really understood the mentality of people collecting them. I mean, I get if it's your favorite player and you want the cards. Great.

But as far as going up in value, the way they do the series is if something happens in the game today, like if somebody were to pitch a perfect game today, there's going to be a card now tomorrow that they're going to take orders on for like two or three days and then that's it. They print it once it's done. Yeah, but anybody that wants the card can buy it. Yeah. Which means there's no rarity to it. There's no. Well, there is a rarity.

It's just not going to be apparent for a while because these things will disappear. It's the same thing with cars. I'm blown away by how many people, both in movies, TV shows and in just driving around. How many millennials and Zoomers think that having in 1970 Easter 1980s car is cool. This is the worst pieces of shit ever manufactured on the planet. Three miles to the gallon.

The it's not even that it's it's not even the shitty mileage it's the fact that there were no standards of manufacturing in the United States in the seventies. The country is going through a depression. Inflation was starting to go up. There was no pride nor requirements for quality control. And the manufacturing in the US and especially in U.S. cars was atrocious. They are pieces of shit. They're poorly designed and even more poorly manufactured. Watch.

I'll get hate mail from some zoomer telling me how wrong I am. Like, lived through this shit, motherfucker. I don't. I don't need to listen to anybody telling me otherwise. They're horrible cars. And yet this is what now is becoming like. The cool cards. You got to be shitting me. 1960s cars are way cooler than seventies and eighties cars combined. You know, there's a lot of good things about the eighties, right? Music, the cocaine. Oh, come on.

You know, you want these Sonny Crockett doors that a Ferrari that they have. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the number of good quality cars in the eighties, including that Ferrari, you know, those Ferraris need to get serviced every 3000 miles. Yeah, like a good woman. Yeah. The woman needs to get serious every three to. Uh huh, that's. What I've heard. I don't. I hear they just need to get traded, and that's all. That's. That is your bad? That's true. So, yeah, the cars are just.

They were just shitty, man. I would not want any of those cars. Now are there. Were there interesting, unique and cool cars. Well certainly the Ferrari 308 that was a cool car. I definitely have a soft spot for it. Still not a great car, but it also wasn't a US car. You know, the manufacturer I'm talking about is US manufacturing was shitty. You didn't want it. Oldsmobile, Delta 88 from the 80. I had an old real Delta 88. I literally drove one of those first. Yes. Yeah.

The 46 was a 78. The second one was an 85. I think I had a 78 and then a 79. Those that's two on the drive, man. Uh, they were. I don't know if you would. I would not call them fun. They were more like, you're driving a boat than a car. Yes, they were. The car that nobody was going to try to cut in front of you, merging for good reason. Yeah, they were. But they also had way less power than they should have for their weight. That's true. They did not. They did. They were like. Most cars in that.

There's somebody else that's trying to explain to you that didn't wasn't around back then. It's like the average or not even the average, let's say the top HPS in the eighties, the most powerful car engines that we have, around 200 horsepower. Well, that's why the. Minivans have more than that today. Was it the 80 was either the 85 or 86, the Buick Grand National, the special they came out with? Yeah, still worth hundreds of thousands, which.

Is insane because I remember sitting in that thing and it was super uncomfortable and the visibility was and the only thing that it had was a more powerful engine than other cars, but it was a piece of shit in every other way. And so I really don't understand the appeal of that now though, like I said, there's a few exceptions. So I did like the most the 81 Corvette. That was 88, I think. I think so, yeah. 87. 88. Right around that time frame.

I remember looking at that of the car show and going, Oh yeah, this thing is very cool. You didn't buy one in each color back then? I did not buy one of each color back then. The other car that I really liked was the 300 X, the Nissan. You remember those? Yes. Yeah. So they kind of became a car. But back in the day, back in the mid eighties, Nissan was way ahead of every other company when it came to electronics. These cars had full digital displays in the cockpit.

They had the ones some of the they may not have been the first, but one of the earliest cars that had voice instead of chime commands. So whether you left your door open or whether you know the fuel level, I remember this, the car would say in the very sexy female voice, fuel level is low. You were like. Oh, fuck, yeah, oh yeah. I'm not going to feel that up at all now. I'm just going to listen to this. Your trunk is a left. Door is open. Now, it would talk to you.

They had they had 12 speakers in them, which is an ungodly amount because American cars are too funky. Yeah. Yeah. Or if you're. Lucky. No, but speaker's right. Yeah, exactly. So, I mean, just to the left or right or I mean, there was just a a slew of high tech functionality that these things had and it had a super powerful 200 horsepower engine. And I always thought, why is it called the 300? You've got 200 horsepower in me, the 200, the Xe.

But they they eventually had a 206, but the 300 eventually ended up in the nineties with a 300 horsepower engine, but it really lost a lot of its unique factor. It's just not I mean, I don't I don't even think it's made anymore. I would be shocked if it was made anymore. Most companies stop making to the sporty cars. Now, you're not going to even be able to get a car with an engine that's not electric. I mean, I think it's a travesty that down in.

California, you can't charge electric engines, which is perfect. Yeah. No more chargers after next year. No more challenger. Because, you know, we're Dodge and we're going to go all electric. It's like, yeah, that's not going to work. Work, work. Sure it will. Electric works great. Do they like electric cars? I think electric cars can work great. But the whole charging and driving them across country, there's a lot. Of nobody drives cross-country. Here's the dirty little secret.

If you want to go across country, you go to Texas, you get on the bus. You out a bus. Now, my buddy Larry just drove cross-country again, 7033 miles from L.A.. To the east. It's he a truck driver? No, your buddy Larry. No, Larry from that Larry show. Yeah. Yeah, I can't I can't hear him. That is that was too low. He's got. That. We have to give him a shifter. This. Exactly. But how do you know when it comes to the collectibles? How do you know when the high end is reached?

Because there's it's never reached. That's the the bottom line. It like it. Could go down. It. No, it's like well it could go down temporarily, but generally it's going to go up simply because the rarity will keep going down. And ultimately, this is true of Bitcoin as well because bitcoins collectible. I don't know if you knew that. I did not. Yeah, it's. Real. I know it's not. It's not really real, but it is a collectible.

Okay. And so it's a virtual as more people lose and or give away and or get confiscated, bitcoin, the price will go up. But right now the price is shit. And of course, if the world, you know, ends up going nuke, which there's a pretty good chance that it will. Then all your bitcoins are screwed. And bitcoin's not going to matter. I'll be the least. Your concern is how much bitcoin you have is on the coin, on the off chance that it doesn't go nuclear. Nikola? Nikola. Hey, George Bush. All right.

Okay, he is. He's somewhere around here. He's mostly painting these days, I hear. I don't blame him. Although I did see the Texas Rangers, the one team out of the 30 Major League Baseball teams that has not had an LGBTQ at the ballpark ever. Why would they have an LGBT teammate? Because all other 29 have had LGBTQ. Speaking of LGBT and numbers things. Uh, did you hear about the, the story out of London where the lesbians were kicked out of the gay pride parade?

Yeah, because they're not gay enough or something. Because they're anti-gay trans. Because they think there's such a thing called woman. Well, the trans stuff is another big part of there was a just a big article on just the news dot com about MLB. That's where I saw that the Rangers were the only ones that haven't had a pride night.

What they talked about as a part of this, the organizations that are, you know, sponsors or that get, you know, funds are the ones that the baseball teams are donating to because they want to be woke support. How many of them anyway support child early child transitioning. Yeah. And it's like I don't think most Major League Baseball teams have any clue who they're giving money to when it comes to charities. But this is a really bad look.

I just don't really have a problem with, you know, woke people not reproducing. Well, that's true. I do have a problem with ruining a child's life when they're 12 years old or whatever. It's like. Yeah, but the. Thing is. We. That may have already happened. Well, probably, yeah. But we have ages for other things.

I mean, you can't drink in this country until you're 21, but you can mutilate your body and at 14 because you say, Oh, I think I want to be a boy, or I think I want to be a girl, but You can't drink until you're 21. So it's like, let's start looking at the laws and ask why you can't buy Cigarets you can't drive a car until you're 16 or at least have a license. Yeah. So why do.

I think the solution to this and I've talked about this is very simple and that is get rid of any kind of restrictions on suicide. Get rid restrictions on anything. Well, no, on suicide specifically, be it stop trying to keep people that don't want to be alive. Alive, because what that allows people to do is to take themselves out. And then you don't have to worry about what happens in the future with those people. Well, nobody talks about how much the suicide rates go up

after somebody goes through the trans surgeries. Mm. Well, I mean, you hear about it all the time, but yeah, well. We do because we follow this kind of insanity. The average person that is like flipping down on tick tock and, you know, they're they're clueless. For for every one that ends up looking like and being well just being here personality wise, the way that Blair White is, there's like a thousand that don't, right? Yeah. It doesn't work.

And you have to be sure you want to do something like that, which is why letting children make that decision, it's funny. It's like you want let your kid decide what they're having for dinner. But, you know, if they want to chop off their dick, then go for it. Yeah. Yeah. And honestly, the idea of I think a lot of the child kind of basis for not wanting to quote unquote, you know, stay the same sex has more to do with just puberty in general.

It's sort of like as a kid, you don't think about sex and all of a sudden puberty hits and then all. You can think about is sex. All you can think about is sex. And it's like, Hey, I want the opposite. I want to go back to the way I used to be. And maybe again, I mean, it's hard to say.

We look, we've always had a a group of people in most civilizations going back to prescription that have been like, you know, they're they never got to really find themselves sexually, you know, these people became nuns or priests or castrati or, you know, a whole slew of people that just they couldn't deal with sex and therefore they had none. So I think that this is not a new problem. The solution is new. And the the age at which we're now talking about doing this is, I think, new. Yes.

Because I think. For. Most I mean, there are some people that are so set in their ways, maybe so much on a religious path that they don't want that I think, for anybody. But I think most rational thinking people that are like, yeah, you got to do you, but let's make sure that we don't let kids make decisions impacting the rest of their lives before they understand the repercussions. I don't know if 20 year olds understand the repercussions at this point.

No, no, but but the thing is, there's a big difference between doing things that have a permanent effect and things that have a temporary effect. Just go all for the temporary. You want to play games, that's fine. And look, you want to go have sex with somebody of the same sex. Now, that's not permanent. That's not permanent, right. That you made for me. That's not permanent. Well, you know, I mean, I wouldn't recommend that, but. I mean, you might get your ass kicked.

You might get your ass kicked, then you should get your ass kicked, frankly. But, well, you know. If you're really committed to it. Well, exactly. But because this sucks, here's here's the thing is, how is it that all these kids know exactly what a man and a woman are? But none of the adults know what a woman is exactly. Well. You can't say I want to become my true self, which is a woman, unless you know what a woman is and you're not a woman. And you're able to define one. To one.

So that so the people that want to switch their well, I mean, I'm going to call it gender, which is ridiculous because gender is so misused. This this word has a meaning. And the meaning is gender is something that defines words, not biology. So you don't really you still sex that really what you're looking for. Yeah. And that's, you know, the traditional term for the disease, for the dysmorphia was was people were experiencing and trans sexuality, not transgenderism.

Transgenderism means you want other people to call you a different sex trans sexuality means you want to be a different sex or you are a different sex. And there is a there is a difference. But the people that want to be called a different sex, they they seem to feel like they have more rights than the people that actually want to be a different sex. Yeah, because they're whackos. I mean Darren Oh and other one thing that that's not.

So understood any of the stuff with oh like somebody's meeting you going up and down the street now between your friends, people that know you, you could be like, hey, I want you to call me this. That's fine. But if you walk into the DMV and the guy's like a man, you're next. You know, I'm a man now. That didn't work. I know. That's that's nuts. It's insane. And why the hell. Why would you wear a button or something? I guess. Yeah, well, Adam talked about that.

You listened to the episode where they talked about the buttons or your pronouns and the positive. Way to do it. Because otherwise. How do you know what to call somebody? I have to admit, I was laughing my ass off when he was describing it. What was your button going to be? Oh, my. Well, I don't think they have my button. I mean, my my pronoun is Lord and master. Oh, well, so you can make that way. Sure, you could make it, but I'm just saying I don't think most places does default.

But the thing that's so funny about it is how the episode before going Adam was very, you know, gung ho. It was going to be talking about podcasting 2.0 and, you know, all the, all the new cool stuff. And we'll get guys getting excited. Excited about going to podcast expo. Yeah podcast movement, which turned out to be a wreck. Yeah, exactly. Though he's there it is like it's horrible. The food's horrible. The the people are even worse than the food.

It's the Yeah. And it's super politically correct. And then they apologize for Ben SHAPIRO walking through a hotel lobby. Oh, my God. That was. Oh, my God. Skype video. I don't I'm sure this was elsewhere. But Skynet has had the video of Ben SHAPIRO with a bunch of people coming up to him, shaking hands, taking pictures. And it's like the the podcast movement people, the the statement that they put out like, oh. Yeah, oh, my God. We're sorry for. Any harm that might have been caused?

Yeah, there's no there's clearly harm caused by having this person be allowed to be on the floor of a building that we're renting. So if Ben SHAPIRO gets killed, are not the people that the podcast movement partially responsible for him? Fully responsible as far as I'm concerned, generally, yeah. Generating that he does. There's no hate quite like the hate coming from the Liberals. I mean this is like pure hate because it's a religion and that's what you have to go. The girls are.

Going back to is it's a religion posing as a political movement, which. Is why they're against people having an actual religion. Well, I. I mean, they may or may not be there's plenty of them that that's still your faith, Christian, believe me. But they do. They do. They they're really they're really part of this religion, John. And they're the Green New Deal is a religion. We're we're really living in a theocracy right now. Though. There's no question. The Biden administration. Well, let's be.

Clear, talking about the MAGA Republicans as the greatest threat that America has ever seen. Yes. And you're absolutely right. Saying the Biden administration, not Joe Biden, because that guy's brain is mush. No, it's it's whoever is running him. But he's just a prompt reader. He is no different than a TV news host. He's worse. He's reading a prompter. That's all he does. Most TV news hosts actually can tell you maybe what they read afterwords that. Oh, come on. Some. Well, I mean did you.

Watch season two of the morning show. Yeah, I watched the morning show and I have to say the season two season sucks. We are really good. I thought that. It was again. It was horrible. It was horrible. Yeah. It was like they ran out of the ice. They did. They, they, what I think happened is they once again, this is an example of somebody taking an existing book, packaging it up and spreading the story of the book over the course of one season. Yes.

And then getting. It because that's how you sell it. That's how you sell the show when you're trying to make it read is like, here's the story and here's what we know about blah, blah, blah. And then it's successful. And then there's like, well, we're going to pick it up for two more seasons, huh? Now. Okay. Yeah, yeah. No, that sounds great. Yeah, no, we got great script. Writers will crank out some scripts, so it's some shit. This happens all the time in every genre.

Game of Thrones is a perfect example. When they ran out of book material, which was season five, season six, I think maybe I think, yes, seasons six, seven and eight were post-Bush and they were God awful and they progressively kept getting worse and worse the further they got from where the books actually ended. It's like they're all alone in the wasteland now. They don't know.

But here's what they don't have is they don't have any any grasp of what the story and the characters should be, because when they're working off of a an existing book there, there's some guidance there. They even if they want to take little detours, there's there's always a central plot that brings them back there.

There are descriptions of what the characters are like, even though in Hollywood these days it's like, okay, but which one's going to be black and which one is going to be gay, right? Luke Have to we have to add that in. As if it's not in the book. We got to fix the book. Okay. Season two of the morning show going back to We Have to be gay. Was was that a surprise to you when the 202, shall we say, spoilers because this is an old show. Spoilers, whatever. Yeah, nobody's watching anyway.

Nobody's listening. Reese Witherspoon's character, all of a sudden out of nowhere is gay or. By now the character that was introduced as the conservative voice that was dealing with the liberal bullshit. He just happens to be gay. Just flip that switch. Well, why not? You know. It was hilarious, but what it really seemed to me was that they had their climax that they wanted for season wanted. Season one worked really well. Yeah. And then they didn't know where to take those characters

because they have shit writing. They have no clue. And the first like 5 minutes of season two was some of the worst television that I've ever seen in my life, because they show a scene of the one guy getting fired and then they go, I think, to the to the credits. And then they start with a montage of empty New York streets and then go three months earlier. That's like what it was. It was very strange because then they drop you into a whole different time and you have no idea what just happened.

And I like what's going on here. And I ended up picking it up afterwards on Reddit just to see what people were saying about that episode. And there were a slew of people that were like, Yeah, like ten or 15 minutes. And I had to pause this and then come to the Internet to see if I was just really stupid or what. Mm. Mm hmm. And that's not the way you want to start a season of a television show is confusing your audience, not because you're trying to, but because you are so bad at your jobs.

That. You can't properly tell the story. And it just seemed to completely run out of steam. They tried to add like COVID into this. And then, I mean, the interesting thing to me though, for that whole for over the two seasons, they kind of stayed pretty solid with the concept that the big bad white guy that was fired from his job for being a sexual predator, they did portray him as a fairly good guy, which is interesting. And it was just it's so cringeworthy to me, the part of this whole thing.

And there was a lot of cringeworthy moments. The one that I thought was worse was the Oh, Mitch Kessler targeted black women. It's like, you mean he dated and screwed them? Yeah. How is that the targeting? Sounds like it's a serial fucking killer, you know? And it's like this. Oh, my God. This made it even worse because, I mean, he was. What do we get with black. Women and how is he targeting them? It's like he's an exclusive. Every fucking black great. It's like this is just been so very.

Hard to fit some kind of racist narrative into the writing. And you can't even figure out how to fucking do it because you don't even. Know what it is. Yeah, that's true. And it was maddening because it's like, I don't really understand. And to be fair, sometimes entertainment is just entertainment, but it's like, what are you trying to. This is poor quality entertainment. It's all because like, what are you trying to say? What what impression are you trying to give to this guy?

And it wasn't even like, well, we're intentionally just trying to show you that this is a very complex situation because they were very much so like, oh, no, this is horrible, right? This stuff is just so horrible. And it was just funny the way they portrayed a lot of it, including the the younger staffer, you know, in her twenties going after the older weather guy and basically fucking him until they get caught and have to go to H.R. and then she can't handle it anymore.

It's like, but it was you that did it. So there was a lot of it that just didn't make sense. Like the writers didn't know how real people reacted. Real situations. Yeah, I think that's a large part of it is that unlike book writers who have a lot of time to come up with believable characters and. Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite if. They do. Yeah, exactly. I think that the script writers have a lot more of a time pressure. Well, gee, I wonder how many writers are on the show.

I should have looked that up. So I'm wondering how many people were in that writing room. Yeah, I. I would be surprised. There was less than four. Well, I would be surprised if it was less than like tethered to bloody. No, come on. I think it's between four and ten. Let's see the show. Would they? Although this is also a very hard name to look up things. For. Because like, well, there's a lot of morning shows, let's see, writing credits. IMDB has everything. 25 people in writing credits.

Oh, my God, you're right. Holy shit. That's insane. 25 people who don't know what the fuck they're doing. That's amazing, you know? And there's a lot of them that are just, you know, two episodes, but a majority. Yeah. Let's see how many people on all 20 episodes, there's at least, you know, just a handful.

And then there's a lot that are ten episodes, which probably four different seasons, but a lot of different a lot of different hands going into this, which is, you know, the question it's written. Some know short fiction stuff. I understand the process of it in two different ways to go about writing. And there's either the people that like to have a flowchart, they want to go in and be like, okay, well, here's the character and this is what's going to happen. Here's the end.

And there's this is a couple of the waypoints along the way. And then they write to to meet those to get to this. And then there are people like the crazy liberal Stephen King, who is a panther, who comes up with the character and they kind of do a character study, but then they just start writing and see. What's a cancer. Writing by the seat of their pants. That's a it is a term in the writer's world, believe it or not, cancer, which means you don't have a road map going in.

You're writing by the seat of your pants and so you just start writing. Regardless of how stupid Stephen King's politics are, he is one of the most prolific one of the most professional writers. Yes. In the world. Yeah. And it starts he gets his character. He's like, I put the character into the situation I want the character in. I have no idea where it's going to end up.

Yeah. Yeah. But like, he sits down every morning and in the writes and I have to travel to Mexico just to do a little bit of that. That's scary. But, you know, after you do it enough, it becomes like second nature and you just kind of I mean, I think a big part of. Yeah, I don't think it does, dude. I think you have to a personality that makes it second nature, but I don't think it does just from doing it.

Well, I think there's a certain amount because even with podcasting, the more you do it, the easier it becomes. Your podcasting, not fricking writing. We'll see. This is it is writing that different? It depends on the mindset. It depends how much gets thrown away, because there are a lot of writers who, when they get the writer's block, just stop and can't write anything.

And then there's the ones I think that maybe it is a personality thing, maybe it is just having the experience that they're able to write stuff, even if they know they're not going to use it. Because just the writing, maybe you'll get back into the flow when a lot of stuff gets thrown out. I mean, I think most people realize that most books are edited down and it's not like this is the exact thing that came out of the writer's fingers. While.

Originally writing it, whether it's fiction or nonfiction. So there is a kind of a skill there be able to kind of power through and keep writing, even though maybe you don't have your best ideas and I've watched a few of the masterclasses, one from James Patterson and one from Margaret Atwood, both different concepts of writing, but both really interesting if you're if you have access to the master class stuff. Yeah, well, I'm sure you didn't pay for that either.

Well, you never know. I mean, the Internet's interesting them. I'm pretty sure. So, yeah, I've written, I've written, I've written, wrote roasted, blasted as I wrote it on. And I write was done wrote it down I write it down. Exactly. A shit ton of nonfiction and a little bit of fiction. But I've I've easily written several thousand pages there over the course of the last 20 years, but it's hard, hard work for me. I do not enjoy writing at all. I do it because I have to.

I don't do it because it's fun and given an opportunity to do pretty much anything else. I play video games, go sit in the pool with a drink, whatever. I'll take that over writing. Now, for fiction, it's I've had a little more fun, but I've also never published my fiction. I've never finished anything. I've started a bunch of stories, but then I finish. Then I run into problems with tying up the loose ends and I'm like, Okay, we'll just move on to a different story, then. Write this anyways.

When it turns into work is where it becomes a problem. It's always work. It's it. I really think it is always work. And some people like I know a guy who's written nine, nine, eight, nine fiction books. He's he's pretty good writer friend of my one of my friends dad. And he has a you know, it's standard routine. Like he he writes in the evenings and generally after he's had a drink or two. To say just these thoughts. Yeah, exactly. Loosely, he never writes on an empty stomach.

He writes with a few drinks and continues drinking while he's writing. And I guess that allows him to put more stuff down. It still takes somewhere between six months and nine months of book to to write a book. And these are typically, oh, he's got a few different series, but they're kind of what I would describe as the, the, the Hardy Boys or kind of a, you know, Jeeves and Worcester type books. So formulaic. They're like adventure, mystery kind of things.

There's usually either a detective or somebody solving something or, you know, it's something of that regard. But he's got to develop the whole plot line. He's got to map everything out. You got to get the character traits down. He's got to make sure that everybody's paired up nicely. You know, kind of like if you look at a perfect example, that is what Agatha Christie always did is it's not the world. It's not just the mystery. It's having the right counterbalances of everything.

Well, then let me ask you this. Like, what was your favorite television show of all time that you've, like, seen over the season? You've seen them multiple times. Do you have a favorite television show? Um, I mean, there's been many over the course of my lifetime, I think Battlestar Galactica was definitely one. The Expanse was one. But here's the problem it's always seasons one and two are great, and then three is okay, and four and five suck for all. Yeah, that. Happens.

It doesn't matter what the show is, it's just reality. But if it's just take, you know, say that first two seasons of Battlestar Galactica. That yeah it was very good. And I'm like, okay, write a story that happens right after the second season ends now is that it's easy? No, that's easy because. You have the characters and that's yeah. Anybody you wonder why these writers go? Well, I don't. Think they read the previous stories.

I think they come in as writers into these writing rooms like, okay, we're going to create a story about Character X, and they're like, Great, here's what X is going to do. Well, do you not want to read on what they've done in the past? No, no, no. That's unimportant. But this is. Authors that go with you. Wonder why these series have the same guy or gal as the hero through the whole book.

Because they know the character, you know, and you know the characters because it's very easy to go, you know? I watched MASH from an early age. It's like if somebody were like, Hey, go write a story revolving around the characters that were in Man. Yeah, it's an easy, easy thing to do. Now, one thing that both Battlestar Galactica and Game of Thrones did, which I love when they do this, is kill off main characters. Oh, yeah. Because nobody's expecting that. Yeah.

Because in America you're not used to that happening. So the idea of having a character and The Expanse did this to by the way, Expanse was another one of those that a great, great show for many reasons, good books and the characters. And The Expanse, incidentally, was written by two guys that were kind of fans of George R.R. Martin, except they were doing science fiction and he was doing fantasy. Although George R.R.

Martin really liked science fiction more, apparently he's talked about that he is known for his fantasy, but He really is a sci fi nerd. Shocker, right? Looking at him, you'd never know. He's a sci fi nerd. A whatever you're good at, though. I mean, that's it. I hear he is a pretty good podcaster, too. And podcasting is. Easy. Anybody can do it, although it's hard to get an audience. Yeah, speaking of audience, so I guess we're wrapping the show up. I saw that nobody listens anymore.

Nobody wants to hear anymore episodes of the least popular person you do a show with. So we're done, right? You mean not wrapping today's show up? You just mean overall wrapping. Yeah, I mean, today's the last show. Yeah. I thought it was an interesting poll, and I thought that Jennifer would be far and above any of the other people that get votes just because the voting was happening. I know what you didn't. Even though you did a show with her.

She filled in for Larry who what would have been our third missed week, because we had the first missed week where I had the tooth infection. We had the second missed week because he was traveling and then he ended up traveling for the third week and the next show was going to be our one year. So I'm like, Well, no, I don't want to skip a whole month and then do the one year of planet rage.

So I asked Jennifer if she wanted to fill it like she does the opening for that show where she's like, Oh, Larry in there. And then she was on the show once before with Fletcher when we did it live, and I figured it would be fun to have a completely different vibe for a show. Yeah, totally. And people like Jennifer. So I'm figuring there's this isn't even going to be close. People are all even if they hadn't heard the show, we'd be like, Oh yeah, Jennifer is the best.

And then, you know, who knows for you, Larry and Ben Rose. But it turns out I think them Rose had a bot and one overall. The interesting thing was there was at least one or two comments of people that are like, Yeah, I like the Ben Rose because I like your adversarial. Yeah. Yeah, I'm forever the as well. Yeah. Which is like, oh. So I guess it's better if you don't like the person on your podcast. Well, that's true. And we are kind of moving in that direction.

So, you know, maybe that things will improve over time. Eugene, I am tired of listening to your stuff. I just can't handle it anymore. I just don't have no idea why people even listen to you at all. Thank you. Just. There's nothing. Nothing really. You bring to the table. That good voice. I mean, really. But it's an empty words that are coming out. I mean, it's a good voice. And I think it's it's good for announcing what tune is going to play next.

And you kind of do that with your most popular show. It's the most fun show. He gets it right. You get to roll. But then we do all the podcasts and we go to all sorts of different lengths to bring in all sorts of different topics. And every show is different, which I like, which, you know, I think speaking. Of shows, so I'm going to plug the new show and this show. So finally, after God knows how many episodes of just being a guest on sort of Gene Speaks. Oh, are you finally getting a spinoff?

Yeah, we're getting a spinoff. So it's a death knell for a show we like. In the first. Yeah, yeah, exactly. The spinoff The Ropers was a horrible idea. That was like got off late. You know, you want to know what's a God awful idea? I just read The Jeffersons. No, the just The Jeffersons. There was a good show. The the movie company, whichever it is, Paramount, that owns Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Uh huh. Is now making a movie. No, which is about the. No, the two fucking valets that took the car.

Oh. Now their story is going to be told like 30, 40 years later. It's. Oh, that's terrible. Yeah, that's, that's, that's a story that clearly was pitched in a drug induced or not pitched bought in a drug drug induced stupor. I think there's no question that shows you've run out of ideas. Oh, my God. They literally cannot make anything original more than they know. Well, I don't even know how they go back to any of that, because the old stuff is it woke.

And, you know, that's the interesting thing. Even just going back, watching stuff from the. New stuff is for. Sure. Yeah. I mean, I, it was not a good series to begin with, but I've been watching episodes of The Odd Couple, which remade with Matthew Perry and the other dude. But he was clearly the gay one right. Now. That was still fairly non-PC and that was just a few years ago. I don't know what flipped the switch to go all in on this stuff, but it certainly happened.

Well, I can tell you what, it's giving up your children to insane people. Yes. To indoctrinate them for 12 years. And then they watch something on TV and they're like, oh, my God, I can't handle this. Find me a single. Yes, yes. Either find me a safe space or change my sex. Yes. There is no safe space from changing your sex. So I don't know if you name Ben and Sergey. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You interrupted me with that. So we're going to we're going to start a new show.

I've got the in fact, I'll go ahead and announce it on the air, because we kind of tease that on our show. You are doing out this. Like air, this is the bitstream. Now, make sure you cut this part out of the actual episode that's published, because I want this only for people to see on the stream. Oh, yeah. Ready? Mark your time. Is it okay? Yeah. Good. So for the first time. So I. It's called just two good old boys. So it's a The Dukes of Hazzard remake. And I don't even know what that is.

I just happened to come up with those words. I'm totally on my own, and the music has nothing to do with the show. I mean. Never do it, Harm. That's always been a big fan. Yeah, exactly. Never do no harm. But I got the I got the URL, which is good. So we got that set. We've got some theme music already done. Yeah, just some good old boys. It's amazing. Now that that's the shit you're renditions pretty good. They're actually like.

You. Might have you have you do it as well and then we can enter intersperse it. That'll be good. Yeah, man, I'm totally up for it. But the idea is we're, we clearly have developed a certain focus in a certain type of person that likes that show and then I can get surging speaks back to be just my personal gene ranting about things kind of like your random thoughts make sense? Yeah. It's good to have a solo show. Oh, I think so.

So that'll get me to the three shows that I'm still a of behind you. That's the point where I was thinking, you know, I really like eighties music. Maybe it's just eighties music. DJ show. That'd be fun. Yeah. Right now we could do a whole, like, look back at the eighties and do yeah. Like rewatches of movies. To 81, 82 and 83. I mean, if you really want to get granular, you know, that's. Usually how they do these things.

If you watch it on TV, it's always like they're going to stretch it out into ten episodes. I just bet you could probably do like one whole season of 1980 and then another whole season of 1981. Oh, yeah. The best of the best. Exactly. The price of cocaine during 1981 surged all the way up to $89. Now you kind of look back and is that how you inflation meter is? It's the price of coke. Yeah. The price of coke. Coke get cheaper in the in the mid eighties. So that would be deflationary I guess.

Well that was good Reagan was doing his job. And he was doing his job, you know, brought. The price of coke down. You know, Reagan had the the good sense to like say he was senile, unlike the current president. I mean, that's not a surprise to anybody. And Reagan had an excuse. Reagan's one of the few people that you saw mentally failing, even after he was shot, but somehow made a comeback, which was amazing.

I mean, I'm not saying he got back to 100, but it's very rare that pendulum even goes back a little bit in the other direction of what it is. And it did it well. And I, I experienced this with my dad where. He he was five, six years ago. So he was in his late seventies isn't is eighties now he's in the late use driving his old, uh, Ford sport utes out to the dealer in Seattle to buy a new car.

And on the way to the dealer, the uh, there's a car that was making a left turn in front of him, so he stop, you know, he's behind the other car waiting for him turn and got rear ended by a guy who didn't stop and ran into him at full speed in a in a ram van. Yeah. Yeah. Completely totaled my dad's car and they had to helicopter him to a hospital in Seattle. He was totally out of it.

He was passed out the, uh, you know, this is like he had an old Ford that he never I mean, none of us really do this. I can't really blame him. But the ear, the airbag, the airbag did not deploy because there was a car that was, like, ten years old and he'd never had the airbag checked. Well, if you were from behind, would that bring the. I guess. It would. Oh, absolutely. Yeah.

Because you get hit from behind and pushed into the seat and the car is hitting the car in front of it and slowing down immediately. And so that so he had these nasty gashes on his face from hitting the steering wheel, the seatbelt worked. But, you know, seatbelt is only going to save your life, not your face. Yes. Well, the airbag is what saves your face. Testing an airbag. It's like, well, then how do you know it works? Once reset it? Yeah, well, what they tell you is it has to get test.

I mean it's not they don't tested by blowing it up. They, they test the I guess to make sure that there's no leaks. Right. Like the tosee. Like the actual charge is still good. I don't know, whatever. But they tell you you're supposed to do it like every ten years. Nobody ever does this. So just assume if you're in the car that's over a decade old that their back is not going to deploy. Who needs to save them for we never used to.

Yeah dude we didn't need fucking seatbelts like we to fly out of front windshields in the in the day and walk away from the accident. Hell yeah. That's how we were back. That these pussies these days. That 1978 Oldsmobile my friend. Yeah. It takes about 5 seconds to fly over the hood. Just look. Watch this. It's going to take a while. It's like. The. Midwest. Yeah, exactly, exactly. Yeah. I was in two car accidents and that thing.

Well, that's why I had two cars and each of them got totaled and one of them I got rear ended. And the guy that was in the passenger seat wasn't wearing a seatbelt. I was wearing a seatbelt and he ended up getting his back fucked up like he became paralyzed. Nice. Yeah. Not my fault. And Then the other time, somebody I could see somebody was going way too fast on an icy road as I was stopped for a left turn. Oh, and there's no way he was going to be able to stop.

So I quickly put the car into forward gear and I just started going forward just to lessen the impact still ended up getting hit and still ended up getting the car totaled. So to I've had to they'll say it's totaled. And that's hard to do man. Not a lot of crumple zone with those cars. The good thing is, you know, it didn't affect me at all. Right? This was fun as well. I wouldn't go that far because you do get the knocked out of you.

And so it's kind of like, remember, this is like a seventies car. The thickness of the seats, like the panning on the seats is not what it is in modern cars. You're not in a full five point harness and yeah. Ginger Yeah. Held Exactly. And so you get that seat whacking you in your back and then your, your headrests are basically minimal and your head just whips back and hits the head rest. This is a time when nobody wore well. They didn't wear like a roller blade with just the blades.

Nothing on my elbows, nothing on my knees, no helmet. I mean, when we rode bikes and skateboards and stuff. There was nothing, none of this bullshit that makes children weak. And you wonder, you know. We believe in we believed in Murphy's Law. And the survival of the fittest. Exactly. If you can't if you can't survive skateboarding, you probably ought to be dead or at least afford it. Yeah, well, but if you're going to skateboard, then you deserve to be dead. That's okay.

Something dumb? Yeah. I mean, I remember Kid Bill and I never really did it because I think I have the part of the brain that says you're going to die doing that was back in the day when they call it sketching where it was an icy road and, you know, somebody driving kids would run and grab out of the back bumper of a moving car and see how long they could hold on. Mm. Well, that sounds horribly fun. Yeah, well, the person driving the car does not know you're doing it. No.

Even more fun. Oh, yeah? Well, I says a certain fun aspect to it until it where it's pretty loose. It's not icy. Yeah. I mean I've done a full 360 on the highway and then I see condition before it. That's always fun. Yeah, you. Just. You just continue to have to. Well, yeah, eventually and then didn't hit anything and managed to get off the road.

But yeah I, I've, I've slid with wheels locked towards a car at 50 miles an hour that's in I could a sworn I was going to and so basically so I see highway but you know didn't seem to bother me at the time and I had this car going in the left lane I'm going in the right lane and I feel like I ought to be to pass them and get in front of them because, you know, he's just blowing snow on me because he's slightly ahead of me. And then the left lane. You were using. White Russian privilege.

And so I'm using my four wheel drive privilege to accelerate. But as I'm accelerating, I see that there's another car in the right lane in front of me. But he's moving way slower than I am. So I'm like, It's not going to happen. I'm not going to be able to get in front of the other guy in time because. I can't accelerate fast enough because the ice on the road, I'm barely accelerating. So you were really mad at your ability to do the math at that particular point?

I was doing the math with my eyeballs moving left, right, left, right, left, right, trying to estimate the distances between each of the cars. Finally, there's the sense in me and I said, it's not going to happen. So then I have to slow down and not have to get in front of me, hit the brakes and nothing happens. And I have anti-lock brakes. This is not an old car. This is like a 2,000th car. Well, that doesn't look good when they're trying. Not so old cars to do that. New ones don't do that.

But in this case, it didn't do that because all four wheels just locked. See it? The car only knows that it needs to apply anti-lock brakes if one of the wheels is turning at a different speed than the other three. So if they're all the same, it's like. All four wheels come to a complete stop. That means the car is no longer moving. This is perfectly fine, except I'm moving at 50 an hour and I'm starting to. I'm starting to slightly turn very slowly because the car is no longer using wheels.

It's basically pads just skidding. And I'm getting closer to the front bumper of the guy in front of me and I'm getting close and it's it's slow. My my relative speed to him is not huge. My relative speed probably was about ten miles faster. And it's slowly dropping as the car's going on ice. The guy in my left lane is now getting to be, you know, is still next to me, but he is a little bit ahead me.

So if I could slow down enough, then I can jump into the left lane behind him and pass the guy without getting him in. Front of me. Right? But I also can't turn because my wheels are stopped. So I'm literally just skidding at like 50 miles an hour and I'm pretty sure it was 50 because I think I get up to 60 before I realize I'm not going to make this. And and then I'm I'm edging up behind the guy to the point where his bumper is no longer visible in front of my hood.

And I'm bracing for an impact. And it seems like that took like an hour is what it felt like to me sitting there with his bumper not visible, just waiting for that feeling of my car, just hit his car and hoping to God he doesn't hit his brakes. Right. Because that's going to add to. The fear that will really fuck things up if he hits his brakes because he wants to brake. Check me because I'm too close. And I was way close because I couldn't see his bumper and it never happened.

He didn't break my front bumper. Must've literally been an injury his because I couldn't see it under the hood. You were doing some bump drafting. But holy shit, that was the closest I've ever come to having a full speed on highway crash that was out and that was totally my fault. And I slowly started seeing the car was slowing down and falling back. When I was down to about 30 miles an hour, I let go of the brake and the wheels did a little wiggle left, right, and then started spinning again.

And then I was able to change lanes and pass fucker and give him the finger as I was passing him because clearly he deserved it. All the time. On the radio was Waylon Jennings singing just some good old boys. Exactly. So this is the show is going to be nothing but car stories, that's all. It's just a car story. Some do, but that would be awesome. Yeah, it's a car talk radio. You're listening to Curb Talk. Yeah, I used to love Car Talk.

Yeah. When it was. Well, yeah, that's. Do you want to know how to. The brothers huh. Yeah. People would call it. My other brother. That's why like, I mean. Those fuckers were extremely accurate and correct in their diagnostics. It was amazing. For what they were given. Yeah, because I'm a kind of a car guy. I understand how to work on engines. I've done all that. I was forced into it as a child slave labor at Henry Ford's plant. So you know what I mean? But I get my cars.

Those were much easier to work out. It. Yeah, I think they were easier to work on. Was a much simpler thing. You know how. Computers. Yeah, but we didn't have electric cars back then. I mean, that was a major threat to Ford at the time. Yeah, well, that's because. They had about the same range. Yeah. Well, that is the sad part, isn't it?

Yeah. Yeah. And Tandy didn't have and you didn't have gas stations, so you'd like it be harder to actually charge your vehicle because the electric you could plug it into the house. But the, you know, the gas stations were few and far between. Well, I did love that. The story was out. I saw it elsewhere, but no agenda covered it. Mm hmm. That what happened to you, that you were able to opt out of quickly happened to a bunch of people with California with their thermostats?

Well, it sure did. And they didn't get to choose. Uh huh. But this is where it's going. And I say, you know, I've said this a few times, but Glenn Beck warned of this stuff like ten or 20 years ago and people said he was nuts and it's all coming true. I mean, Grant's because he's a mormon and that's why. Right. He's nuts. And a lot of different stuff. But he was right about that. Yeah. And it's it's hard to really fault them for doing that. I mean if the the in. Either the planet. Well yeah.

I mean how would they not save the planet? In my case, I did figure it out eventually. And I think I remember if you were the one that came up with the hypothesis, but somebody did, then it wasn't me, but it was a correct one, which is they did is they decided that they're simply for the people that opted in like me. I did opt in voluntarily. Well, for $100, right. There's there's your babies.

There's my bonus is $100 is they decided that the best thing to do is to simply bump everybody by four degrees warmer than whatever their thermostat was set to correct. Not knowing somebody might have. Ready, not knowing somebody might have a thermostat set to 79, because that's what my snakes enjoy. Which also makes you wonder if they know what it said it or they can do. They do. Plus, I don't know. I think it's plus or minus. Yeah, I don't think they know what it set up and so that.

Was my guess on. That one. If it was set to 72 or 74 U and like a lot of people that would get to an uncomfortable 7670 some degrees. But given that mine was set to 79 and it got to 84. Well, a lot of people turn these things up when they leave. If you do that, you're also screwed by trying to do the right thing again.

Yeah, they definitely screwed. So that's currently that was not in not something that I enjoyed and uh, the like it, I think it would work better if they could read what your thermostat was set to. Right. Which is then and. Then just as one more rule, which is moved up by three or four degrees, but only up to a maximum of 78. Right. Which would have actually my temperature by one degree.

Now, one, this is obviously massive government overreach, but people are signing up and asking for it because they don't think it will ever be used against them. That's fine. Yeah. But well and I signed up because it was 100 bucks and I figured, you know, I keep warm all the time. It's not going to affect me because. Why would they be upset with me?

Well, because, again, my thought was that it's if they want to have people not be trying to cool the house to 72 because that constant non stop never turning off air conditioning that's fine. It won't affect me because I never go that low anyway. Right. And consequently I'm just going to get a free hundred dollars for nothing. But I think what ended up happening that I never even thought of at the time is governments. They don't know what temperature I have, mindset do.

All they know is that they can bump it up. Right? And they did. And they did. I was wondering while reading that story, what about portable air conditioning units? I think everybody's going to need to buy these because eventually the government's going to control everybody's thermostat and you're going to have to have a portable air conditioner unit that you can put in the room to at least keep the house cool because.

As of yet, the it's going to take a long time for the technology without them just being like, well, you can't have any electric which then your fridge is going to shut down and everything. And my is going to get turned off great. Right. Which I don't think they can do, but I'm thinking that. They can do it. All right. You might want to I mean, this is not the program that you should take legal advice or, you know. Get advice.

But companies that make portable air conditioners, I'm thinking might be in might be in a good place. Now, if this kind of stuff continues, I've. Thought about it. I already have purchased a couple of electric heaters. And they work really well. Well, then people would say, Well, idiot, why are you buying electric heaters when the thing you're trying to fight is the electricity going down the middle of winter? Well, I also have a generator.

Correct. So, yes, yes. The portable heaters running after generator will keep the house, you know, in a probably 72 degrees is what it'll drop down to. It'll keep. Having to go up the stairs every hour to keep your snakes. Warm. That's exactly right. I mean, the method that I utilize, which is probably something most people never thought of doing, was about the only way that I could manage control the temperature in one room of the house efficiently enough to keep the snakes alive.

So which was boiling? Boiling, yeah. Boiling water on the stove. And then bringing that hot water just below boiling and then sticking it into that room to transfer the heat from the water to the air in the room. And then once that starts cooling off an hour later, going down and doing it all over again. So I was doing that literally once an hour for three days now, four days, four days. We didn't have power. So once hour for four days with a 96 basically 100 water boiling and changes.

Now, of course, of that event. I'd be very surreal by the end of that. Well, it means I had to sleep in 45 minute increments. Yes. Which also has to have a detrimental effect. It's a real effect as well. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you're in the dark all the time. There is no power to anything. Nothing works. And the only well, luckily, the only thing that does work is the stove. But you have to manually light it because the electricity that would normally light it doesn't work.

Right. And there are people confused about how you light the stove. Yeah, there are people definitely that don't understand what a matches with the ending thing. Yeah. I have no name in the royal room which if you're not the troll control room today or when we do these shows live on Fridays, you're missing out. Said black market for old school unpowered thermostat. So I've thought of this because I'm like, I have a thermostat. Mm. That is programable but it is not wi it is not internet enabled.

Yeah. Yeah. And look, you don't have to this. Is I mean, I think they're going to force the Internet enabled at some point. So I think what the rhetoric is going. To be. Is to have the wired one reporting back something that if you have a secondary thermostat that's doing something else, yeah. You could do that. And yeah, you could. You could. Certainly stick the old school one and replace it, but only if it's your house. Right, because I don't know if you remember.

So back when Adam used to live in downtown Austin there, right through the whole building use nest thermostats, which was sold as a benefit, of course, to you because the thermostat knows when you're there and it'll save you money by controlling the temperature by itself. But the nest was also one of the first ones that sold also this program to the government saying, hey, you guys are a subsidized people, replacing their old school thermostats with a mouse.

And they do subsidize it because you can control the nest through the back channel. And of course, then we find out the not only can they control it, they can also know if you're in the house or not, which is convenient. So all that data is going to the government to know whether you're inside or outside the camera, access, all that stuff we. Have the smart water meters are a big part of that. Yeah. Because most people don't think about that.

I mean, with electricity it's a little different because your air conditioners, your refrigerators, there's a lot of things that are running while you're not home. It's rare for water to run in a house unless you have an automatic sprinkler system outside or something. Really. Rare. If there's nobody in the house for water to be on and people don't think to really go flush your toilet, that's enough for that to light up. There's somebody here at address. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah. I mean, unless you've got your toilet set up to flush once an hour just for the hell of it. That's not a bad idea. Throw them off, man. Hmm. This is exactly why there are some things set up online, which is throws out fake data. So. Yeah, well, my lights go on and randomly I have one of those devices here. Oh you have to the people that have set up at the exact same time.

Yeah. You're fucked. Yes. It, I like the outdoor lights that just turn on when it's dark and turn off when it's light and stay on all night. Because the LEDs now even in even in Biden America, with the prices of electricity going up, I mean, I figured that out would we got the outdoor lights along. With just. Plugging in for light because you could buy light bulbs.

I don't know if a lot of people know that you can buy regular sized LED light bulbs that you can put in your outdoor fixtures that just have a sensor so you never have to turn those on or off again. If it's like a penny per, like 24 hours to run those things. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, you can. I kind of prefer what my neighbors have, which is just insanely, overly bright. Uh, lights that just shine on their entire property, that are motion triggered.

Oh, yeah. Because they want to see the animals coming around. No. Well, I mean, I think they just want to make sure there's nobody stealing shit from them, but. But they're like, really like they're bright enough to where you would seriously have second thoughts about trying to rob a house. But those are. Great because you're going to be seen you believe. Yeah, whereas I just have the old standard. Whatever came with the house, you know outdoor lights.

Yeah. But inside you have a led disbursement device that will. Well, I also have a forced carbon dioxide atmosphere here, which is going to make most people just fall unconscious once they walk in the house. I've heard that you are a big believer in that. Yeah, dioxide is awesome and it is the is the the miracle element. And of course the powers that be know this and try and get rid of it, not. To make it. Seem like, well, carbon monoxide you shouldn't really be generating.

I mean, that's a, uh, that's not a it's too active and a molecule. So you don't want that inside of you because it's going to prevent the ability for you to exhale carbon dioxide. Because you'll be dead. You have enough carbon monoxide. Well, you'd be dead if you have carbon. Enough carbon dioxide, too. Well, if there's no oxygen. Yeah, no, you need the oxygen. But I also have an oxygen generator here so I can control the, the indoor air ratios pretty well.

Are you growing like plants there or something. That maybe. That's the problem. Yeah, I have a green thumb but at times I see. I mean tomato stuff like. Sure, yeah. No, actually potatoes. Oh is that. Yeah. Irish heritage coming out. I have of my Martian heritage is just coming out. Yeah. Potatoes are some of the, the best plants to grow in an environment that is hostile most other life. Bowheads Ireland. Yeah, that's a very good point. That's very true.

And he could do the Penn Jillette diet and just eat nothing but potatoes for 30. What was his diet? Tater diet? Well, it was he could choose any one thing, just that was the whole thing. And reprograming your body. I guess. I think I would probably do ice cream and then I guarantee you I would not lose weight. Uh, yeah. Yeah, the. I mean, potatoes is a. Horrible, a natural, you know, whatever it was. Well, I've done that and I did the, the only filet mignon that. Well, that's not bad.

I mean that's very good. That's for the ultra rich. I did think it was funny now. And speaking of that sort of ultra. Rich replacement diet. Yeah, so. Recommend. So low. Yeah so you know he's going to do that now is Tina. Will because there's some very good Texas beef from Texas slim and they should have whatever it's called. There at all yeah the beef Initiative whatever it's called. But yes, she's she's going to start doing the carnivore thing, which I think is great.

I always enjoyed it. The the only issue I have with it and I typically I've done it three times now. The thing that always gets me to wrap it up is a. Really bad case of the runs. Not at all. You have no runs, so you're getting no you get runs you can do. That only happens from vegetables. I thought that was the water in Mexico. It's the vegetables in the water in Mexico. That makes sense. Stay with vegetables, kids. Yeah. Vegetables are evil don't don't be around vegetables.

No, it's the opposite. The beauty of eating nothing but. But meat is that that meat is has a such a high absorbency that you only poop every other day. Oh well. See that saves so much. Time. Well it saves water in the environment too. I mean, you are thinking about the planet. I will give you the. Mostly I'm really a greenie. Been thinking greenies. Yeah. What the. You never heard anybody refer to themselves as a greenie. I mean that you but. Oh no I'm like dude I like plants.

I if I have to, you know, potatoes growing in my house. That's what I've heard. Yeah. All potatoes all the time. I'll take those in a carbon dioxide measurement. I think the whatever you picked for that diet, I think it had to be like a single ingredient thing. Like you would have corn. You know, blaming the answer on a single ingredient that. It would be. I mean, I'm guessing you could also do that with the meat. Well, he did lose quite a bit of weight. He lost like £100 in the year.

And I think he's kept it off, which somewhat I think the concept is you do the crazy thing and you get down and that you just try to manage well. It does get easier. So I have lost a lot of weight many years ago and lost about £100 in fact. And it is much easier to eat. I don't want to say you can eat anything, right, but you can eat quite a bit when you're at low weight and not really gain any weight because your metabolism is running a lot faster.

Because one of the things that happens when you end up adding fat to your body is it has a counterbalance effect with your metabolism. So the more stored you have, the slower your metabolism gets.

And that makes total sense because generally if you look at the the history of, you know, humans are really mammals in general, but for sure humans that when you're starting to to build up a lot of fat deposits, that would historically only be at one point in the year when a lot of things are harvested. So generally right before winter, before the long winter. Exactly.

And so during you don't have to do as much work because you don't want to be burning as many calories and you're living off partially off your fat in your body and partially of whatever foodstuffs you've managed to, you know, put in storage. And this is as true for, you know, squirrels and chipmunks that are bearing nuts for the winter as it is for humans up until very, very recently, probably last few thousand, maybe even less than last couple of thousand years.

So it's kind of a natural thing that your body knows that, Oh, you've just gained a bunch, mate. That means that winter is coming. That means that we're going to go into slow mode. And you don't to be in slow mode. Yeah. And the problem is when you're in slow mode and you keep eating the same amount of calories that you've always eaten, those calories are more in fact, of those calories are converted into fat.

And so you're just adding more fat and more fat and your body keeps weaning for that slow down of the winter. And instead you're just like accumulating ongoing in your body. And that's not good. So you want to get it all rocking and rolling and then you can. Coast Yeah. Now there are a few drugs that are out there that will artificially like move your body out of winter mode. Well, that's like the what the drug companies have been looking for.

They want a magic pill that's like, oh, you pop this, you'll never be overweight. Yeah, well, and there are some I mean, they're not really pills. They're more injections because they're either hormones or precursors. So they're they're not really FDA approved. Now, this is where we this is this is where it's not a advice show. This is what you do. Not, huh? Yeah, that's serious. Oh, God, don't do this, boys and girls. Solely for your educational well-being. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

But one of the things that worked tremendously well was ephedrine. And ephedrine has now been brought into a controlled substance. Because you can use it to cook meth. But if we could but before that, you could get ephedrine alkali tablets over the counter. And then typically they had Mao Wang in them, as it were, the that was derived from and ephedrine stimulates the production of a few different hormones in your body that kind of kick it into high gear.

Uh, I think predominantly through the pituitary gland. So that was one of the things that work right now. There's a number of peptides, I think three different ones that are available in Mexico. That you went to Mexico. No, I was on vacation in Mexico. Oh, you're talking about. You were a totally legitimate business man. How many patients in places have come back? I love you packages. I don't believe in suitcases. I don't know. It's like.

When you ask somebody to carry something over the. Border. I don't know anything about any meals that you're describing you like. So anybody, anybody? Come on. You literally, literally anybody can cross the border right now. Even you. Even me? Yes. Unless you're trying to go the other way. And that's all. Well, that's smart. That's. Yeah, you got to be careful about that. But yeah, they're that's all they're doing now. Now, this is not over-the-counter stuff.

This is not even like stuff you can get from your doctor. But there are doctors there that you can get prescriptions sort of kind of for this stuff. So it's funny, too, because what it actually says on the bottle is that not for human consumption. Oh, nice. And in fact, it's not for animal consumption either. There's so much consumption. Is it for. It's for animal testing? Oh, yes. Well, animal testing for for the like the before you get human studies, you do animal studies. Right.

So that's what this is currently manufactured for. Okay. Now I. Totally work. So if comic strip loggers listening, I want a doodle of you like popping pills that say not for human consumption all. Not for human consumption. Exactly. Uh huh. So it's a it's there's a lot more availability in Mexico than the US. They're a lot more forward thinking. Well, they're a lot less bureaucratic. Yes, they're yes, they know money talks. And they'll let people try stuff.

I mean some of the stuff may kill you, but then again, so will this stuff. The FDA approves. So yeah. So, so and stuff. Back when we were kids. Driving in a 1978 Oldsmobile and miles an hour. It may not kill you, but it'll kill the car for sure. You do that? Uh, yeah. I remember jumping the curb in one those things accidentally. Like I was at a parking in front of a store, and I thought I was in reverse and I was going to back out of the park this basic.

But I was in drive and instead of going back that went forward. But the car, even though it weighed like £10,000, was perfectly fine as it were. Jumping the curve. Nimble baby. Very yeah. Well because it had about a foot of suspension travel. Yeah. You know. Yeah. The bumpers weren't exact. What's occurred on the ground. No, not, not where I was. Yeah. They were not that. Although the bumpers themselves were really shit. Oh yeah. They, yeah. They would totally fall off. Oh my god.

I remember having that issue back then. I mean that's what I'm saying. Let's say we start talking this whole topic, eighties cars, American cars in particular were the absolute shittiest time in manufacturing. So you have an eighties car. You loved leather stuff. Yeah. If you currently have in the eighties car, I'm sure you could sell it for some bucks. You as well. These millennials or Zoomers are going to think it's the coolest thing ever.

My parents had a Dodge Intrepid that was probably around a 2000 or so, I think maybe that had like maybe 90,000 miles on it, just sold over the like maybe three or four months ago or 3500 bucks, which it's like them. Again, this is the world we're living in. I remember that car. I remember renting in the rental place. They were solid. I mean, there were big were really bad. But yeah. This year was solid, didn't have problems with it.

I think I rented a that would have been a 95, maybe 95 version. Some hold up better than others. Yeah. Hey, so what else going on? Like, I feel like I've been a little disconnected, somewhat on purpose. Anything I need to get caught up on. I'm having a root canal next week. Yes, I'm in the world with you personally, but congratulations. I guess I think that's about it. I mean, we do have a couple of people to thank, too. I mean, literally. All right. Cue the cookie.

With ten bucks, Kevin, say with five bucks and we got a boost to Graham from blooper of nos are saying how dare you hate Angie bodies. Well we barely I don't know so. Oh is that is that the body of the GM that were they was the Delta 80 a g body? Is that what he's referring to? Possibly, yes, that would make sense, because we were talking. About body by fissure. It's body by g. Of the rib that the car's body was actually made by Fisher and beer and. Yeah, but I don't drink.

So but we appreciate everybody for listening. This is a value for value show even though you know. There's no value drives. So if we're all good. Unrelenting. That's Joe. I mean, we like the show. Let us know. Yeah. I mean, honestly, I've said this on. I think all my shows in the past. The best thing you can do costs zero money and that is to leave a review for the show on iTunes or Google or wherever the thing you use as leader.

Leave a review because shows that have reviews and I don't mean a shitty one star either but the shows. But it doesn't even have to be a five star. But all goes. Back. Yeah the al goes will actually recommend shit with reviews over without reviews. Even the shit without reviews may be better. So leave us a review. That's the number one thing.

Those are always appreciated and the second thing that cost you nothing as well is hit somebody in the mouth say, hey, you know, there's a show with two guys talking about like nothing interesting. And, you know, you know, the topics are always different, but they're never particularly good. The show about nothing. You're. Just like Seinfeld. You should check it out. And a lot of people like Seinfeld. I hear that the case I watched, I never really watched. It seemed like a stupid idea to me.

But show about nothing. Well, what's going to be fun? There was interest. I mean, the characters again, I could write a Seinfeld episode fairly easily, I think. Oh Sure, that's exactly what the last group of writers said. It was how the series ended. It was the were again and they had to do it on purpose. That was the worst final episode ever. Yeah, they always are. It's why you avoid it. A lot of these series that I've rewatched, I do just pass of the last episode or two.

Well, I do like that Steinbrenner and and the Peterman catalog day was were on the show. Yeah. Well there are some good bits I think of Seinfeld and it was never Jerry mean, it was always supporting. Jerry was the straight guy. Jerry was the straight guy in the show. Which made it work. Which made. But otherwise. But I think he was the straight guy in real life, too. Well, that's true. And they had the whole episode of If You're Gay, whatnot, but it's wrong now.

But yeah, not that there's anything wrong with this right now. The thing. Is. Not that there's anything wrong with it. The fact that. I'm just slightly misquoted, correcting me lets me. Know I've never seen this show. I don't know you're talking about if I really it'll bore. That's right. The I am a Larry David fan. You know that. Yes. Yes. The thing in the world or we talked about a little bit, the Trump Mar-A-Lago thing, the coverage on Mother Jones, which is just a.

Total. Bullshit liberal that's. Still around. Holy shit. I know. I remember Mother Jones from the seventies eighties. The headline on this. This just shows you how the left is covering the Trump moral Lago thing. Yeah, the headline is Trump Stole Secret Government Documents. That's true. Which is why. Yeah. Why do you steal all those documents now. That they know that he stole documents that were. It's like, what do you mean stole documents? He was not. He never did. Yeah, no, he.

Well, but the what you're saying president can't steal documents, right? Well, I'm saying that if he did, then Barack Obama has stolen documents. Bill Clinton has stolen documents. Any of these presidents have done. Biden even stole the whole election. But they. Let's not talk about that exactly. Let's avoid that. Just be like we know that he did this. It's like, no, we don't. That's what they're actually investigating right now. So as a news organization, you.

Folks now did not the Clintons steal the silverware from the White House? They had trucks, stuff that they had to give back because they absconded with the. Yeah, they just took everything. Yeah. Yeah. The don't look there. Don't look at that. No, no they were up but they were also they were ahead of their time. They, they turned the White House into Airbnb. Say that a brothel was. Well, no, but it was they were renting out. They were renting out the Lincoln Bedroom. Yeah.

Way ahead of their time. Well, I mean, you said it was pretty nice when you stayed there. I mean, it's not it's the ceilings are tall, but I don't I don't like that style. Well, they probably have remodeled since Lincoln. Well, it had a bed that looked like it wasn't remodeled since that time. Oh, that that could only talk. It was like a, you know, for post bed. May look nice. Yeah. Not my style. Hey, we'll be looking for some photos of your style. What's the inside of jeans?

Dojo looks like taking YouTube video. People want to know cribs. Oh, Jean. Yeah. I don't live in the dojo. Oh, we use as a two hip language. Well, yeah, we are. We slapping it down and you ain't picking it up. Come on, man. We're in. The eighties. Dojo. Are you a. Dude? That's. Wouldn't that be called a dojo? The dojo is your garage. I didn't know that. You don't consider a dojo a garage? Yeah. Interesting. What do you call it your hot pad? What's your what? You got your crib?

The crib would be the the the, you know, people of a certain persuasion name for it. People of a certain persuasion. Yeah. Yeah. You know, like urban pursuits. Self-Censoring here on unrelenting. The urban persuasion the smoke. It's unrelenting. It is. It's definitely unrelenting. So speaking of unrelenting, you know, we shut down our metro, got our I mean. It's still there, right? Well, it. Was I'm going to dismantle it. So it's not going to be there for any greater length of time.

And I should unlink. Yes, please do. So I'm going to run a little experiment with that local. So instead of creating a new one, I'm just going to recycle that one. Oh, for the good old boys hour. Exactly, exactly. Well, let us know how that goes. Yeah. But we will be. I'm sure it will not only not only can I let you know how that goes, you can even listen to the show. Well, I'll be a member because I'm already a member of that community. That can be a word. That's true.

That's true. Point. There you go. Yeah. But yeah, I think I think that show's got some good legs. So we're going to have a in fact, I'm going to pre-announce the guest on your show. See, I'm going to probably get some hate mail from my co-host, but I'm spilling all the beans on your show. And of our show. Better that show host. Exactly. Oh, the good. Old boys power. Of the good old boys hour. The federate flag in the back. And we're not going to do video.

But that doesn't mean the Confederate flag still not going to be in the back. It's true enough. Doing it from the seat of the Dodge Charger. Generally, people generally forget. Exactly. Yep. With the horn that plays. Yeah. Dixie. Right. Did it. They see that there that. There you go. That's the one. I dig it. So that's there's a again. Yeah. So we're going to yeah. He was just on Tim couple weeks ago. We're going to have him on. We going to be in temple soon. I have no comment up.

Okay. But, but we will have Tucker Max on, on our first official episode. We know you've done episodes already. They were just kind of like pre episode. Our first official episode with the new name. You were just kind of working up to it. Well, we've been doing stretching. I mean, it's kind of like this show, right? But good. No, no, no. What I meant to say is I wouldn't go that far. But what I meant to say is I did how many episodes of Grumpy Old Ben's before.

We decided that it's probably time to. Be like nine or ten. Yeah, I get you. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Exactly. And then his if if you're going to have a one year anniversary with Larry, that means you're a miss the one year anniversary of for doing our show. Though, depending on how the naming went. Yeah yeah. Because episode 40 here so I think it was the naming thing so we're still coming up and. Well, I mean, if you want to say so.

But we I know we started doing that show before you started doing one theory. Yes. It's all about. Chronologically. Yes, we'll figure it out. But also, you now have skipped two episodes. They gave you an opportunity to have somebody else fill in for me. I can really fill in for you. Yes, yes. A lot of I even sent you a list of people that could I even sent you a list that included Ben Rose on it. Although ruins the Ben Rhodes Ben ruins memories. Memories.

Ambrose was bitching about having to get up at. Too early. To do a 9 a.m. show Friday. Oh yeah. That's that's tough. I mean, I get it. That's a rough life when you got to get up for 9 a.m.. So, hey. All I have to say is show up or not. We'll be back. Anything more need to be said now. That was a good way to end it. So I'm not sure why you were waiting for me. You're.