048: First Class Mallrats

I was mouthing the make. Hello and welcome to episode number 48 of Unrelenting for October 28th, 2022. I am Darren O'Neil with my friend on the other end Jean never to leave if I can use an Adam Curry ism. And there is breaking news. Jean Paul, Tony Dungy. Attacked in his own home. Is that the the son of the of the which. It is the wife of the. Okay, maybe. Yes, the which is his wife. I was going to say the wife. Oh, okay. Okay.

Oh, so it's a. Husband who, you know, accidentally hit with a cooker and was driving drunk or something. Right. I thought they were like separated. I didn't realize that he was still a husband. I said, Nancy, you know what? This could be Nancy going, You know what? I'm not going to have a job in a couple of weeks because I'm not going to be the speaker anymore. Maybe she doesn't want him waiting when she gets out. Maybe she doesn't want to share her wealth, what she's done.

Yeah, well, I mean, he's done his job. He's bought the stock she sold stolen to buy. Guess so. Yeah. This could be this is breaking news. And of course, all of the news outlets so far like well, the the motive is being investigated. It's like you don't need to investigate anything. Tell me who it was because this wasn't San Francisco. If this is an employee. Oh, okay. Okay, okay. So then it's politically motivated. If it's anybody if.

It's if it's a white guy in San Francisco is probably a gay white guy. Let's be realistic here. Well, then it wouldn't be a Trumper. So if it's a gay white guy, he can't be a Trumper. So then also not politically motivated. You're right. So it has to be a straight white employed guy for this to be politically motivated otherwise. And there's about a 1% chance of that being the case in San Francisco. Yeah, unless they draw it, because they may have to really drive somebody in.

But the odds are against that. I mean, what you describe in San Francisco. Yeah, I mean, the only straight white guys that might live there would still vote Democrat. But the reality is this was most likely somebody experiencing homelessness, as they say in San Francisco, just a guess. And if it's if it's my goodness, if it's somebody of color as the racist say, then I think we really know. Yeah, well, as the genetic tests often show, aren't we all a little bit of color?

I mean, I've got almost zero because I don't go out in the sun at all. And that's true. That's true. I'm keep trying to get lighter. Mm hmm. But that's that's just because I live in the basement, huh? Going out. What? What's the point of going out? There are people out there. That's right. You might actually run into one someday. I've got everything I need right here. I've got a high speed Internet connection to communicate with the world. I am food. I even have alcohol if I want.

And like the dude named Ben on your other show, I'm not shy about showing my firearms. I know you are, though. I was kind of amazed that you didn't want to have the big pegboard behind you. Now, what do you talking about? I was the one who brought up the pegboard and saying, Jeez, I got enough stuff. I might as well make one. Well, you also know I'm. Too lazy to make one. It doesn't mean I'm too shy.

Okay, so somebody has to come to Gene's house, put up a pegboard, arranges firearms in a very pleasing manner. I don't believe I think I think I hear that, too. I heard I was 100% Irish at that show. Do what you are, as far as I'm concerned. Right? Well, it's the way I want to portray it. I mean, I guess if you want to if you want to like borrow your polish, say it on there. I guess that's. You know, muddy the waters. Well, either way the Polish drink really well in the Irish drink Willi.

The Polish aren't particularly dark either. Though this is true. You see. They're generally blond. There's a lot of a lot of prevalence of polish and blandness. From what I recall. Probably that sounds about right. So I don't complain. So this will be a I don't even think it's that interesting of a story except that it's going to prove that crime is if this will happen in the home of Nancy Pelosi, which I'm guessing is in a fairly nice area.

In the palace. Yes. If this can happen in her home, this politically should tell people everything they need to know and that would be you are not safe in your home, which I'm kind of surprised Nancy Pelosi even announced this. There was the comment that she made was, you know, the usual what this time our family would like privacy and somebody are they think it was I think it was the the British website that it was on the Daily Mail, which is not usually great journalism.

But one of the first comments. Yeah. Was like, well, if you wanted privacy, why are you announcing this to an international audience. Exactly. Now, they might have. Maybe they hired the straight white male and put a MAGA hat. Maybe it'll be interesting to see because that's the only way this doesn't make Nancy look bad for her own policies. And even that it kind of does.

But this is, I'm guessing, where they would like to take it and be like, oh, no, this was a MAGA Republican who came in and attacked them. Well, hmm. That's not really the M.O. of the average MAGA Republican. And if it turns out, which is way more likely at this point, that it was just a random act of violence in San Francisco, then that proves that nobody is safe in their own home. With Nancy Pelosi's husband. Isn't safe. Though.

I mean, if they found the one guy that in San Francisco that actually does have her MAGA hat and then. Was it. I hope he made enough money off of this deal because there's not much competition in San Francisco for that, you know? So it's a weird it's an oddity of a story. Yeah. At any time it would be an oddity. But considering that we're now, what, less than is a two weeks to the election, that's Tuesday. So. Uh huh. Yeah. So less than two weeks now. Yeah.

So I mean, this this can't be politically motivated. Have your, uh, your local candidates that you're voting for memorized. No, I don't. But how are you going to vote? I can go in and do early voting any time at the village hall where my wife works. So there's the got the book of like everything, you know, including don't assume gender and that they also mentioned in a meeting that the county was considering moving forward, adding more choices besides MNF, it's like, fuck you, come on.

How about more choices between R&D? Yeah, it would be nicer. That would be a better way to do it. That would be a better change in the ballot. You are absolutely right. It's like I yeah. I mean, what people can do whatever they want in their own life, I don't care. But let's just try to stick with some kind of reality. There was another big kerfuffle, I think it was in a high school somewhere in the United States.

Don't even remember the town where a guy that said he was transgender decided just to go in and start showering with the girls gym team. Or maybe. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's like, you can't have this. I'm sorry. This is every guy in high school. Is that going? You know, I'm kind of I'm I'm I think I'm kind of transgender. I'm I get to go in the shower with the girls team. I'll all I have to do is say I'm transgender.

No, no. I mean, if they want to put their dick in a guillotine and cut it off, then you can do whatever you want after. Think it's mostly the balls that dick is it the both? I think we should remove all of that. If you're going to if you're going to play. I think the thing you've got to do, if you have to have some skin in the game, literally. You know, to the question of what makes a man from The Big Lebowski. I've never seen that movie. Oh, you got to be shitting me. Okay.

I know that you need. To watch it. Around it while. You still have half an eyeball. Or I'm going to be very disappointed because that movie is it's summarizes so many things about that time period that you were still around them. That was still around it. Yes. You know, the eighties, the late eighties. Yeah. The start of. The Gulf. War. Yes. That was my time. Yes. And the fact that you still haven't seen this movie is amazing.

I ignore so many things, although I did watch the new Beavis and Butthead season and that is great. Really? Oh, that's back. I didn't realize that was back. Yeah, I couldn't believe it. And now instead of they do still make fun of a couple of music videos, but now they're also making fun of like YouTube and Tik Tok videos. So it's great. Yes, I'm like, this is perfect because that's exactly what a Beavis and Butthead would be doing it today. I assume it's done by the same people.

So they look the same? Yes, totally looks the same. Like voice more. Frames per second. Yeah. And when you watch that show, I have a very hard time not going into the the voices. So in the. Space Jeff or manic laughter. Now because you buy that yeah he said but I mean that's images. Are they now is one of them still wearing an AC DC. Shirt. Yes. The same clothes which I think I updated that a little bit. It would have been funny. Then how can a Taylor Swift. Shirt will you figure that one?

Beavis wears a metallica shirt. So I mean, he was right on because they're still around and so it's AC DC, which is also still around. They picked two good bands because they are still around. The only reason those bands are around, yes, because back in the day people watch Beavis and BI there. And they were like, Who are these. Bands? Yeah, it's like, Oh, maybe I should check these guys out. They must be good. I mean, I only watched the first season of the Stranger Things.

Was that a Netflix show? Yeah, I watched the first two and it's definitely gotten worse with each season. Now I know they have helped rejuvenate people knowing who Ronnie James Dio is, which is a cool thing. This is the one cool thing where entertainment comes in and I guess they were looking for a Ronnie James Dio shirt for one of the kids.

And Ronnie James Dio, his widow, found out about it and she called him up and like, I got a bunch of stuff if you want it, and they incorporated a lot of it and it's like the album sales actually went up. So this is also an interesting thing. Yeah, I think that show has been good for retro eighties nostalgia sales. People are like that was that was was the eighties much better music I know people can go away. Back then like no there's no argument here. It's just the fact.

The stuff that was considered kind of crappy pop music back in the eighties, including bands like Duran Duran. If you go back and listen to that now, it's like, that's pretty good. Yeah. So and they didn't sound like everybody else. It wasn't like there was a like now when I listen to pop music, it's very hard to determine who is singing. Same thing with country today. Is there pop music today? I all we have was just like hip hop and. Well, whatever is popular is considered rock. And country.

But I think you're right that. Pop music has a particular sound from the eighties that I don't think exists today. Because it's all mainly done by little kids in their basement using the same loops and processing it all has a very similar sound to it. Melody is very hard to come by now, which is one of the reasons I like Taylor Swift. I think she's always done words and melody well, and her stuff does sound a little different than most. Although you like the new album because it sounds more like

a couple of other artists. So you know. What people like it's an interesting thing to think. I've always liked things that have if if they're not dark, they have at least a sort of a shade of darkness. Yes. And I mean, obviously not everything that fits. And then I like I wasn't into emo shit. But I'm just picturing you in the whole emo, you know, little outfit, little skater boy kind of a yeah. With that with jet black hair and mascara on my eyes, as all men have in the eighties.

I think that's why you did the video. No homo. Yes, right. Yeah, pretty much, yeah. That's exactly. You never know. But there is what is considered pop music today. Yeah, I don't. It doesn't stand up. There is nothing that I've heard recently that you're like, wow, this is this is a great sound.

So my local grocery store that I've mentioned before that I have ordered groceries from while we're recording H-E-B about the local not all of them, but the one that's closest to me has eighties music loop in the store though. So this is this is what makes you spend more money because you're dancing around the aisles. This is the only reason I ever go to that store instead of just ordering online is because it, you know, it feels good. It's like a feel good store.

It because it reminds you of your youth. Well, not so much youth for me, but it reminds me of the best decade. That's right. You were still like, what, 80? When? In the eighties. Was that about right. 70 on the the seventies. I remember a little the eighties. I know I. Was in my seventies. Oh, I gotcha. Yeah. That'll, that'll be a joke there in the your Dot Johnson, the starter kit. Oh dude.

I literally I think I have a photo somewhere of wearing a white, white suit, white pants, white suit jacket with a sweater on my back tied around with a the arms tied around my neck. Oh, that is so sad. I literally. And glasses of course but I like I would wear with that going to the mall. And the people are like what's a mall, Jean? What is this thing you speak of? Yes. Yes. There's a there's a movie called Mallrats. Oh, classic movie. That was even multiple times. That was my mall.

And I don't mean metaphorically. I mean, they shot that movie in the mall that I that I used to go to. Well, that had to be weird. Why? I mean, because you're watching a movie and you're like this looks a lot like. The that doesn't just look like it. It is that mall. Right. And you knew that going. Yeah because obviously it was big news at the time that. Well not really. I mean that's a no one's ever heard of a Kevin Smith back then.

Jesus Christ hey, most people haven't heard of a Kevin Smith today. That's exactly that's my point is if they haven't heard of them today, 30 years later, they sure as hell hadn't heard of them back then. What I appreciate about Kevin Smith is he's basically us. That well, he's lost a lot of weight. But yeah, I know I'm working on part. He used to be us. He's a guy that's just like, I'm just going to do whatever the fuck I want to do. And if people like it, that's great. Yeah, yeah.

He's a guy with a fat dude with a beard who is somewhat funny but mostly ironic. That that is kind of the theme of the show. We are way more Kevin Smith inside Bell. Well, we're way more Kevin Smith than Kevin Smith is these days because he's kind of gotten woke. He has he see that? I know you did something with one of the the animated characters. He did a series that people really didn't like. I'm forgetting which one, Green Lantern or something.

Oh, he's done a few things that people really didn't like, including a movie that I don't understand why it was made that was called something The Walrus. Oh, Tusk. Tusk. Yeah. It's like, Oh, my. Sister getting killed or something in that isn't it. That's like a no I never seen it. I've got you have watched. It is watch. No you don't need to watch it. It is a completely ridiculous movie. Like like things just don't make sense. We have Paul. Boesky is totally great. But this there's a line.

Where yes, this The Big Lebowski is a great commentary instead of typical movie, The Late Eighties, early nineties, right. But the Tusk, which was made much more recently, I think is a movie made just despite the studios that they have deal with. So I get it. It's a Spate movie. It's not a real movie. It's a speed movie. It's like we're going to come up with the stupidest script, have the stupidest central plot and theme to the movie, and like, none of it literally makes sense.

Well, this could be very much the same kind of a thing that Van Morrison did to his record label very recently, which was, I think he owed like a final album or two for the contract to be done and he literally less than half asked a bunch of songs and this is it. GO Yeah, I mean, I appreciate that kind of stuff. I was playing a little Hank the third before we went live here. He's done that the same kind of thing with him. He had a problem with his record label.

At one point, Curb Records, where he was just out now selling bootlegs of his stuff at the shows and telling people not to break big. The officially release stuff, that's hilarious when artists and their labels disagree. Yeah. Some fun stuff can happen. Yeah. And I'm hoping there's a lot less of that in the future because labels are a lot less necessary thing. Right? Because you don't need them, which is. Man one It's true. Publishers like you don't need a book publisher No.

I mean, Amazon will do it. And a lot of people hate Amazon, but Amazon will do a good product by you just uploading the files to them at the finished product is actually pretty good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now they get a good chunk of the money for that too, but not any more than publisher. No. You know, aside, if you want a publisher, they're not.

Yeah. And a typical author used to, you know, like a well-known people, not super famous, but the well-known writers, people that would sell books, they would still get under 10% royalties. Yeah, well, it's like musicians. People don't realize. Everybody thinks that if you have a major label deal and I'm going back with my experiences mainly before the Internet was big. But.

I think it still holds true that the artists, they get a money up front, they get a big check upfront most of the time to make the album. The label will give the money, they'll foot the checks, they'll send the checks, rather, to record the album back. Back in the day, that was a little more because you couldn't do like 80% of this at home like you can now. But the reality was once that album started selling, the artist had to pay back every penny of that before they started seeing profits.

So it wasn't like, Oh, that's fair. It is. And it makes sense because there's a lot of artists that part. Of it I have no problem with. It's the owning that camp. You're right. And I have a problem with. Well, that is the owning the the copyright of the sound recording itself. The labels do not own the song, the songwriters writers, but still, who. Cares what the song is?

That's why I think that's why touring and live music was so became popular, is because it's the only way that they can actually make any money. Oh, yeah, there's no question about it. Your favorite artist, if you're like, Should I spend 30 bucks on the CD or the vinyl? Or Should I spend 30 bucks on a T-shirt? They're making way more on the t shirt. Oh, yeah, yeah, absolutely. There's no question about it. Now, in fact, the yeah.

And one of my buddies here at Austin grew a multimillion dollar company supporting that, that they made the t shirts. And, you know, their majority of their clientele when that company was first growing were bands. Obviously a lot of bands in Austin, certainly back in the nineties and early 2000. But yeah, that's about all I listen to was stuff out of Austin around that time. Now. And Austin City Limits. There's now been some really crappy artist on Austin City. It used to be really.

I don't even. Yeah. Paid attention to it. They're still going I guess, which is good. But there are artists, you know, like the latest pop, like Olivia Rodrigo. It's amazing to me what I'm looking for live tracks or some artist. You're like, really? They're they were actually. The last one I saw was Linda Ronstadt. Okay, you're that was what, the seventies. The eighties. Come back. And that was her eighties comeback. Yeah. You know, that makes more sense, but I love that.

No, there's a they had a lot of great stuff back in the day. You know, it was. Well, the whole alt country movement. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Which is all I listened to for like five or ten years. Jacking Rob, Tod Snyder, Kelly Willis, Bruce and Charlie Robison, the Hays Car all just some great songwriters, some great music that was definitely not coming out in Nashville by that time. Nashville was already all completely bubblegum.

I mean, it was pretty bad even when Willie left Nashville, but then they went all bubblegum in the eighties and nineties, except for a few artists. I mean, a few well. They they still have the, you know, the top ten country. With George Strait was still real country and somehow had a major wow feel people like Randy Travis. Were. Randy Travis is going to bring up. Yeah exactly. He was out of there. You know, they were still doing real country. But then it it kind of died.

Now it's the it's doesn't exist anymore, as far as I'm concerned, in Nashville. Dwight Yoakam Well, he's not really Nashville anymore. He's long gone, I believe. No, I'm sure he's probably dead at this point. Is Dwight still around? He just had a birthday the other day. Well, we saw him a couple of times and remember. I remember us some. Yeah, the Dwight. The only concerning thing was Dwight's blue jeans were tighter than any of the women's in the crowd. So it was like.

Well, that's because back then, everybody wore what's affectionately now known as mom pants or mom jeans. You know, men should not wear clothes that are blue in the color of jeans, but actually just tights. You way you. So you think men should wear tights not jeans. No other way around that saying what passes for men's jeans? In this day and age, there is basically tights that are painted to look like jeans. That's not good. You don't know that?

No, I think this is this is how you end up with low testosterone. You get your balls restricted. They're by being squeezed into your body because the pants you're wearing. You have been so many guys with the tighty whities, have no idea the damage they're doing. No idea. I mean that. Sure. Fair enough. But, you know, I think that the tighty whities are a lot more stretchable than this. Then that how you friggin skinny jeans? They're the skinny jeans.

So you don't have leather pants that are going to show off your package. Yeah. Yeah. We all experience I mean, I'm an embarrassment. I mean, a, you know, a funny comment. I thought I saw. No, no. Funny. Anyway, there's I thought was hilarious is that there was something talking about oh it was the image, the re-use. So it was a photo of two different images that demonstrated the use or the reuse of a headline.

That was the first one was a headline from a newspaper in the US Iraqi troops given Viagra. So they can rape more women. And then the next one was Russians given Viagra so they can rape more Ukrainian women and my smartass reply, there was like Russian men don't need Viagra to rape women. And you were wondering why you had. And I thought that was hilarious because, you know, it's it's funny, but it's also true.

And then the one comment I got back on that is like, so you're saying Russian men rape women all the time, make no damn ass? I'm saying that Russian men have normal disaster on that. American men don't. Dream at sur Jean-Francois. Yeah back in my day that, that would have been a funny thing to say. Comedy has changed. There is no comedy these days. What's funny these days. Louis C.K., I think, is still funny. And that's I mean, that's going to get canceled.

Damon Wayans was making basically the same argument, which is I'm going out and tell the same jokes. If everybody wants to cancel and drop me, that's fine. I know I have an audience and I know I can sell directly to that, but if I have to. He's going the way of Dorf on golf. Great. Go direct. Yeah. Tim. What's his name? But Tim Nuts. Now know what Rickles know. What was his last name? Conway. Conway. Yes. Yes. Tim Conway. That we really people are like what the it's like, what.

The fuck are you talking about? Like, oh yeah. He, I remember that he. Was a differently abled character to enjoy. Have, have I person. Yeah. I mean you know how that feels. I do not. But I can well imagine I have a good imagination. It's like that is how I. Feel to be Sasquatch. I tell you, it's good. You can see it concerts. You can see the cats. It's it's horrible, though when you try to main benefit. When you try to get into an airplane. See? Yeah, man. Super small.

Not for human consumption anymore. Yeah. Joe Biden, though, has mentioned that having to pay for larger seats is bad for the black people. For some reason, I, I don't know. They they like to sit with their legs spread whine. I don't know. I guess I don't understand what Joey says most of the time. But comedy is dead. You can't do it in the mainstream. Although I don't know. As of last night, Elon owns Twitter, so. I got a Twitter account yesterday.

After well over two years of not having one, I got banned. I'm wondering, let's let's all post biological men cannot get pregnant on Twitter and see how many get canceled. Now, it might be safe to say that now. Uh, yeah, might be. I mean, he's definitely going through and he, I think firing the, the top of the food chain. There was a very good move.

He's I think he's backtracking his I'm going get rid of 75% of the the employees bit now but I think a very simple question that needs to happen right now is an email needs to go there's something they've done and companies to every employee and it says please reply back and tell me what you did this week. Oh, that's genius. And based on that answer, do you you know pretty much people who you get rid of. That's an interesting idea. I would have not thought of that, but that works.

So why am I highly paid professional? Because the immediately the people that you can verify are lying and saying they did more than they did gone. Mm hmm. The people. What about the people that are honest to just say, I just kind of fucked off this week. I wasn't feeling well. Yeah. Do they get a second chance because they're honest? No, they're not. Okay, so if you lie and say you did more than you did, you're fired. If you're honest and say, I fucked off all week, you're fired. Who's left?

Well, that's the best part, is what's left of the people are actually doing work. Yeah. Because the people that don't do anything and didn't bother lying because they're too lazy, they should be cleaned up. The people that lied will be found out in short course because they'll start pointing fingers at each other and they'll be gone within the month. And the people that are left, which will be about 30% of the company, are the ones that are actually been doing the work for all these years.

And probably have been covering it for. Everybody else. 70%, right? Yeah. That's usually how it works. Yep. And we covered over on Grumpy Old Birds, the show that spawned this show. Hmm. The letter that the Twitter employees said to the existing management and to Ellen demanding equality and fairness and it's just a fuck, you know, world. I think that that the Twitter employees used to work at was that store macaroni or whatever. Oh, the macaroni grill the. Noodle. Noodle boys.

Now and yeah, I mean, I think that's who ended up with Twitter is they graduated from their high school jobs that that noodles. Yeah the whole we demand you keep all employees because otherwise they might get kicked out of whatever country they're in. That's like that's not the reality. The company is not responsible for keeping you in your job if you die form. My God, I've gotten rid of H-1Bs in the past and they rarely go. I'm not going to say never, but they rarely are justifiable.

It was some stupid ass idea that tech companies back in the nineties, well, probably in the 2000. It wasn't really the nineties. We had enough. People need those tech companies in 2001 that rammed through Congress was this idea that, oh, you know, we'd be growing if it wasn't for the fact that there are no Americans with any technical skills. And we're forced to import people from out of the country. So we need more visas. And that is always been a bunch of bullshit.

And I've worked with like those industries and H-1B holders for 30 years and it is a it is as bullshit now, probably not 30, probably 20 years let's say. Let's be realistic. Yeah. For sure. Over 20 years. And it's never justified. It never makes any sense. It seems like it's a cost savings, which is why companies do it. It's never justified as a cost savings. It's always justified is like, Oh, we just can't find anybody to hire those jobs. They were running an ad. Well, yeah, for a day.

Well, yeah. Isn't that a no? Yeah. I mean, that's enough just to say we did it, and now we don't have to do it because we just import somebody always. When you're looking through. Oh, absolutely. And it's it was sold in as two different things to different groups of people, sold as a great way to get cheap labor.

Getting people that have masters degrees for 15 bucks an hour this is would be great and then so two companies and then it was sold as yeah America can't compete and we can't compete because we can't have the people and we don't have the people. So you better allow all these foreigners to get visas to come in and work. It's it's really the sharecropper mentality for high tech. Well and then they go back the other way, which I thought this was interesting.

The AP not that this is a surprise because the AP, the Associated Press over the last decade has become nothing but a bunch of leftist drivel. But it's always been mostly that. The AP looked at the rosters for the two teams playing in the World Series this year, the Philadelphia Phillies and the Houston Astros, and went, Hey, you don't have any American black guys on the team. Mm hmm. And of course, the whole article doesn't exactly say racist, racist, racist. But if you can.

Tell who they have because there's no white guys either. So see, this is again, if you want to talk about going outside of the country, there's a lot of the people that are playing Major League Baseball come from countries like Venezuela and Cuba. And when you see them, it's like, well, they're obviously not they're not white guys like you would mean. I mean, I guess we're almost see through and that's not what you have playing. But I don't know, man.

I got a plenty of Middle Eastern jeans and stuff. Do you do you into them? Are they tight? Do they squeeze your nutsack? The Middle East, you know. They're nice and loose. There you go. That's good. That's a good jeans. Yeah. But I just thought that was kind of hilarious that that was where they were going to go because, you know, and I didn't go look. But how many are the last few NBA finals? How many white guys were there? The teams. Because if you start going, Larry Bird.

Right. Larry Bird, which is like 1981, you know. Okay. I know there was like Dirk Nowitzki, but he was, you know, he was a foreign he was an American. But some white guys have played in the NBA. But overall, the French just. Ruined sports by getting white guys to play basketball and black guys play hockey. Yes, this is what I want for equity. I think we need an all white basketball league and an all black hockey league. That would solve some problems with that. Yeah.

They have the majors in the minors. All the black guys are like, I don't want to play hockey. It's like, this is again, people are good at what they're good at. But we keep wanting to say, well, no, I mean, maybe the reality is that 20, the 30 year old Indian dudes are way better at coding than anybody else. So why not get them to do the coding? Yeah, they're not.

But what I've literally observed that that time period that I've been involved with them is the cost of that used to be cheap labor going up and up and up and up to the point where. The internet's helped change that because you can now work from anywhere so

you. Can. But even before. Well, I mean, the Internet was always around, but it literally I remember having good deals at hiring guys for $30,000 a year that have Masters and there are you know good at technically to then paying 60 8090 and then finally over a hundred thousand to have somebody that is coming over from India to do work that plenty of people in the US would be happy to do. If only you posted job ads. Probably makes sense.

It's it's a it's a here's something that I've mentioned before and it's certainly not politically correct. It just happens to be true other than Americans, literally every other people in the world, because America is a country of immigrants, but every other country has a standard built in preference for their own people.

And what I mean by that is not only if you go to pick a random country in Poland, not only if you go to Poland, are Polish people more likely to get a job opening than the non Polish person with the same skill set?

But Polish people in the US back when Poland was a fairly new immigration country and there, you know, there was the shutdown of politics everywhere would they would help each other and give each other jobs possibly over other qualified people, but specifically in their neighborhoods in, in helping other people with the same background. Yeah. And so this has happened for Indians very successfully in where they started coming in in the really in the nineties.

But big the big push was in 2000 in tech jobs. A lot of them had other skills and that were developed. Then they got to be managers. And again, I watched all this happen and then senior managers and directors. The point were a lot of tech companies, if not most tech companies, were headed up by Indians as CEOs. Now, none of them started these companies. But Microsoft had a there the company India, a Twitter that we just saw Ellen fire, the the company Indian guy.

I mean, Apple's not one of them, but Apple has plenty of senior people in those positions. But even non-tech companies like PepsiCo, like a 15 years ago, the CEO of the company was Indian. And the I mean, it's not to say, oh, my God, you're so racist. You don't want to give Indians promotions. No, that's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is what happens and this is again, this is just factual. This is not some bullshit, you know, racist shit. Yeah, that certainly exists out there.

And I've seen plenty of it about Jews. Oh, w that Jews will, you know, they'll, they'll only do shit with other Jews. Jews will happily sell other Jews for money. And I can make that joke because I'm Jewish. But no, this is what happens is you get a manager who's in in India and you start noticing that his department, which used to be like 95% non-Indians, whoever, doesn't matter, men, women, different ethnic backgrounds, somehow turns into like 80% Indians.

And that and or if it's a Pakistani, it'll be all Pakistanis, but no Indians because they hate each other. Oh, sure. Yeah. But the idea is they kind of start preference based hiring, and you can't do anything about it because they're hiring a minority. So the company's happy about it because they're getting their quota of minorities and saying, Hey, look how progressive we are. We're so progressive that we're only hiring guys from India.

And then they in the bringing these people in, using again the US is like the only country that doesn't exhibit this. I'll use the Russians as an example. Same exact thing. You get a Russian guy gets a job. Next thing you know, there's ten Russian guys in that company and you know, either because they're reporting to him or because he he helped to push their resumes through and get them the the interviews and made sure that more people come in. Do not give Russians jobs.

See Brooklyn in the troll room giving you karma, saying it happened at his job. Yeah, it happens all the time. And it's it's not it's not any one group. I'm not being anti-Indian here. Like, literally every group does this. The only difference is in other countries. Well, they do it only just in companies. This is why people have their friends groups, which is why I find it hilarious. These new television shows, if they were making friends today, one would be white.

Yeah, they've got to be supervision, one would be Russian one. Yeah. No, there would be no, no, Russians would be basically U black eight. All the Russians. And Latino and a disabled female transsexuals. Right. Got to have at least a few. I mean, friends you're going to have you're one token white male. So you have somebody to make fun of. Yeah. The fact that they run the world and, the the patriarchy is evil and that's it. That's it. You got your one token white dude.

And even though he's straight, everybody thinks he's closet gay because, you know, pretty much everybody is. But this is just human nature is that people. I think we just described the hit show. Yeah, I think we did. Let's get to go it. We get it. Yeah. You get the. Balls, man. Anybody know Kevin Smith? Let's get him on the phone. We can get this greenlit today. He'll. He'll be. He'll do it. Yeah. Hell, no. Totally barely get it done.

Well, Kevin has a history of using, you know, other sexual characters in his movies. Yeah, he's hit and miss. He's a great public speaker. He's very entertaining. I don't know. I like it. I like his movies. Most of them not. Not the stupid tusk one, but I just wonder, I mean, his earlier. In breaking news, GM, Tom Brady and Giselle, the divorce is final, so she is back on the market. If you need to go and make your. Way, where is she flying to? Let me buy some tickets right now.

I'm sure she's going somewhere. Probably have the kids, though. So, I mean, that could be a deal breaker for you. And now on the plane. Either get to close the deal at 30,000. MAN Yeah. No, the days of the Mile High Club are over. Man I'm too fat. And the bathrooms are too small. That's my point, is that that bathroom is a one person bathroom at this point in time. I certainly I've done the mile high thing back in the day when I was younger. Much younger in my twenties.

Well, that was before there were even jets. No, they were it was like you. It was a nice prop plane, though. Have you have you flown? I remember seeing this a couple of years ago. I think it is in one of the one of the Arab airlines that has like two shower suites. And now it's like, wait, so you could go up and take it. There's like a full opulent, like, bathroom, shower. It's like that's yeah. Yeah, it's a spa now. Yeah. I think. That the way by. The Qatar Airline so maybe now.

Now if there was ever a way to. Deliver I've never done any of those but I've watched videos of it. It looks very impressive. Yeah, sure. Like this this flies. That's way different than what I'm used to on Southwest. Let me tell you. I've never flown Southwest. I don't know why anyone would. That's not a real airline. Well, now, is American Airlines even going to be considered real? Because last I saw and I don't know if this is happening right now, they were pulling out aisle first class.

Well, I'll be pulling out of them because that's all I fly. And I've been flying American for 15 years, according. To a news story recently. So I guess it's equity. They're saying nobody's buying the seats. I think it's bullshit. Well, I'm buying it. You know what? They may be right, because on the last flight, on the flight back from Mexico, I was in first class and nobody was sitting next to me. And I said, here's the thing.

How the price on first class is like 5 to 10 times what a coach seat costs, which is fine and I think probably fully worth it on any flight over 3 hours. But your flight to Mexico was probably just a little shorter than that. Yeah, it was like an hour and a half. I don't know if I would pay for the first class just for an hour and a half. Well, it is cheaper, in fact. So it used to be super cheap.

So this time around there was over a thousand bucks. But I remember flying to pre-COVID in first for about 400 bucks. That's not bad. Which is like barely three times nothing. It's more it's like double. It's like double the standard. Take a breath. And it. Was actually be. Worth it to me as somebody who is six foot six and doesn't. Here's the thing about first class. If you I, I decided back in the 2000 that that doesn't make any sense to fly coach.

But the thing about first class is you get a lot for your money. You think it was like, wow, so much more expensive. The typical ticket from Texas to anywhere from DFW to pretty much anywhere in the country is about 1100 bucks. And the price of coach tickets can vary between 204 hundred. Yeah, yeah, maybe 500. But certainly within two to 2 to 400.

So it's about two and a half times, maybe three times more expensive, maybe five times if you find that one weird flight that they're selling for 200 bucks just so they can say that's where prices start, is usually there's

one of those in about 20 of the other ones that are more expensive. But but either way, you're so confined to that like it's nonrefundable non returnable the coach ticket like all these restrictions on that ticket including how many miles you're earning when you buy first at full price. You're you know, you could decide an hour before the flight that you're not going to make it and you just keep the full value. That ticket. Yes. Which is one thing you are giving away.

Yeah. If you go with the cheaper ticket is the cheaper coach. And if you want a coach ticket that has that price flexibility, it's it's like 70% of the price of a first class ticket. Beyond that, obviously, you're sitting in first and you don't have to be a super flier, like you're not flying a hundred thousand miles. So you get your free seat in first class if you're flying for work. And I started doing this again like 20 some years ago.

If you're flying for work and they're only paying for a coach seat, you can pay the difference. And now you're basically flying first class for, you know, 500, 600 bucks. Now, granted, you're flying for work and you're like, well, that's my money and I want to spend my money. I'm flying for work while it's also your time and it's also your health and talk to your doctor.

If you fly a lot, talk to your doctor about the adverse effects of flying because there are plenty and being cramped up for an extended period of time, which is anything over 2 hours is not only bad for your like, it's not pleasant for a guy like you, right? You know, a Sasquatch. But it is actually bad for your heart because it's having to pump blood through all these constricted, tight joints and junctions within your body and. It's like being super stressed for a long period of time.

The change in pressure, even though it's not that huge, I mean, obviously there's less pressure as you go up, but it's not the same as being in a hot air balloon at 30,000 feet, but still that constant. And by Kansas, I mean more than once a week.

Change in pressure that you're experiencing is also bad for another, a number of other organs, because what you have is you have a change in the saturation within the blood, within different liquids in your body of different gases, because that that slight change in pressure will actually affect the amount of gases dissolved. There's a lot of stuff. Talk to your doctor and then, you know, as I always mentioned on my show, we don't give medical advice here. So this is non-medical advice.

Now, this is talk to your doctor, if you will, like they know deep vein thrombosis. Is a thing. It's yeah, it's stressful on your body, not just your brain to fly. And by flying in the first class, not only do you have a whiter, nicer seats, you're also less stressed out as your first on. First off, you have a real meal instead of, Hey, would you like to buy a sandwich for 14 bucks and a can of coke for five? You know, it's it's like they're not trying to nickel and dime you.

But certainly this is a long way from the the heyday of the flight eight flights before 911 were a very different experience. And first, when I was flying first in the nineties, we had real silverware, real plates, real multi-course meals on planes. And, you know, everything was much nicer. And when you were flying internationally first, oh my God, I remember waking up in the middle of the Pacific and. Over the Pacific. Yeah, yeah, it's over the Pacific. In the middle of the Pacific.

Over the Pacific. Some people tried to do that, deal. With you on a flight and a flight from Hong Kong. And instantly when I woke up the the stewardess comes over and that's what they used to be called back. And they. Right now it is sexless, like flight attendant. Whose job is not to serve you just to be safety. Goddammit, they want to make sure that you realize these days that their whole job is just the safety of the flight. It has nothing to do with service.

And that's very evident, by the way. But anyway, so the mysterious over is like, would you like anything after and and said, yeah, I would love a lox bagel because you know, I'm Jewish and everything. That's what I've heard. Yeah. And. And Russian. I mean, you are really not blessed with effort to be living at this time. Uh huh, uh huh. And, and, you know, and I was prepared for the ah, I'm sorry we can get your bagel, but, you know, we don't have, like, we don't have smoked salmon.

They said, well, send somebody for some lox. Yeah. She said, Very good, sir. Just a second and see your brings me a so I'm like, holy shit. And this, this flight didn't even have, uh, didn't have menus. You just tell them what you want and they'll make it. This is this is like first class transcontinental flights back in the nineties. It was a whole different experience, probably closer to the one with the flight with a shower that you described.

I've never been on one of those Middle Eastern airlines because, you know, I'm Jewish. But but I have been on the airlines to Asia and Europe. And the experience back then was much, much superior. And the cost was more reasonable. Like you get a a first class flight to Europe for about three and a half grand back then. Well, now I checked. Yeah, I checked recently. $10,000, you know, like for 10,000. You used to be able to take the Concorde for seven, right? It'd be there quick although.

Yeah. The new with Explorer Cabin. Yeah. Well see that's what they say anyway. They've been ordered. They've been coming for 20 years. Yeah. This actually much more recently there have been specifics and allegedly the planes have been ordered. There's a few of a big multi. Yeah. Well see. The the troll room. It's it's horribly non-enforcement to fly those speeds feel worse. Well yeah but this is who cares about the the environment I mean these that the alleged. The environment it's the cost.

It's the the plane, the hours allegedly, you know, it's very green. Don't worry about it. The cost doesn't matter. The trial room C Brooklyn mentioned Panama, but did you see it was a short drive to Pan Am. Totally. Oh, it was a TV show. That's right. Yeah, it. Flipped. Yeah. Now, back of the day as well as a kid. Yeah, but the television show. The Waitress is what? Waitress as well. I'm going to get hate mail. The stewardess. The stewardess, this is. Yeah, very attractive and.

Oh, yeah, well they used to have so this is totally realistic. I remember this but I flew is they used to have a maximum weight allowance for stewardesses of £110. They covered that the show like the way of as you go to the airport only.

Yeah that's what kept them in decent shape is the fact that like they literally had to be thin under the pretense, of course, of, well, we want to maximize our airplanes ability to carry cargo and passengers, and therefore we're going to restrict the weight of the stewardesses. There you go. Realistically, obviously, men like pretty things. And if you haven't seen Pan Am, that was one of the early things that Margot Robbie was at. Well worth watching just for her.

And the chick with the big eyes, they're like 200. Okay. Yeah, I know who you're talking about in there. Yeah. What was. What the hell's their name? Good old. What the hell is her name? Well, she's, you know, she started off as wed a Adams with a little girl on and a movie and she definitely matured. Well, if you know what I'm saying. Yeah, the look the look worked moving forward. Well beyond the look her body became very non wed arms very curvaceous. And Christina Ricci. Christina Ricci.

That's right. And she's been in in basically B-movies. She's never really been an A-lister, but she's been in a few B movies and most recently I think I saw on Amazon. Or was it Netflix? I think it was one of those two where she played the, the wife of, uh, uh, what's the writer, uh, Scott Fitzgerald. So she played his wife and was very, uh, there was a few scenes that were clothing optional. It was they should all be. They should. That's true. That's the way life is. Life is clothing.

But yeah, that was. Yeah, she's been in a bunch of stuff. Yeah. But not really much big stuff. She was I think her first movie where it was either right before or right after where she played The Addams Family was with Cher, uh, in mermaids. She was a little girl in mermaids. I do not remember that. But yeah, that was very early for. That was really in the oh, yeah. MARGARET Oh, I'm not talking about Margot. ROBBIE I'm talking about Ritchie.

Yeah, Margot Robbie. I, I think she was, uh, she had a great body. Well, it worked with the Pan Am uniform for the stewardesses. Mm hmm. Yeah, I still have some wallpaper that scrolls through my machine of her in that outfit, and it still works. Well, yeah, she had a good body. I mean, I think her outfit in the Joker works pretty well, too. Oh, yeah. Harley Quinn. Yeah. Uh huh. Doctor one that's. Doctor Hardly good. Yeah. When she puts the glasses on, that's doctor. Yeah.

Brings out the baseball bat with the. Spine I saw. Yeah. But like those shorts that she's wearing in there, like I, those had to be spray painted on her. They maybe, you know. I mean, I've seen a few of those dresses. Have you seen those dresses? Yes. Recently there was another story that one of the models that was having one of those dresses sprayed on and the technology involved in whatever be awesome. Yeah. Whatever this material is that comes out of that like solidifies.

Yeah. It's like latex, but with fibers like the, it's a combination of of it spitting out both latex as a liquid and some kind of fibrous shed that holds the whole thing together. It's pretty impressive. Jeans. Like that's what every woman should wear. Just something you really know. Only. Only women with a lot of money should wear because those clothes are not reusable. Oh, well. So this is a problem with the environment that.

But if if we were living in the George Jetson future, that was promised to us. Yes. Which we're waiting for. Yeah, well, he's been born now, I guess so. It's just a matter of time. They it'd be that type of animation where, you know, you step out of the shower after taking the automated shower and then you. You step into the clothing sprayer, which would spray on the clothes.

And then, you know, you go to the kitchen where the robot would make your breakfast and then you walk into your little flying car. Then rinse and repeat. At the end of the day. Yeah, of course, for the woman, that wouldn't be, you know, going to work. It would be going shopping is, of course, women's job is during the day. Because women should not be employed in the workforce according to. Women shouldn't have to slave away by working the outside the home. That's certainly true.

That like the way you're framing that. Well, I mean, this was the big, uh, the big thing that stole a lot of wealth but pretended to do the ampersand. And I've talked about this on stage in speaks like two years ago is that women entered the workforce, but the average amount of money made by per family has remained stationary. So what effectively has happened is the number of employees between 1970 and 1990, it was a 20 year period.

The number of employees nearly doubled, but the take home pay per family didn't really move. To more because it was working. It was a horrible trade off, right? It's a horrible trade off because it used to be that you could support a family on one income. And that goes for both high income, middle class and low income people. Obviously, the amount of stuff that you can buy with that is going to be different.

But there were plenty of people that were working lower income jobs and supporting a wife and children who were at home with just the man working. Which was national, though. Yeah, that was not that unusual. Well, it was intentional because this is this is all part of the New World Order, right. Is is the idea that if women are not working at jobs outside the home, then we're not maximizing the workforce.

It's like the serfs are getting to too much time off and we need to get the service to be actually working for us. So I think a lot of propaganda came out spinning this as though there was some kind of a bad thing that women could actually not work outside the home. And I think that practice began the work very well. And a lot of incidentally, it's not that women didn't work back in in the 1760s fifties.

It's that typically women stopped working when they got married and the vast majority of women ended up getting married. So you didn't have a very large percentage of women who didn't get married and continued to work. They needed the breakdown of the nuclear family. Oh, abso. Nuclear family is not a good thing for serfs to have. Serfs should just be anonymous numbers. Because then you have too much power.

Well, a nuclear family allows you to make decisions for multiple people, and serfs have no business making decisions on behalf of others. The the ones that know better need to make decisions for everybody. Your checks. The movie? Yeah. Yeah, the audio started at all. Yeah. For George Lucas. Yeah. Or sorry, not Lucas for Lucas. Oh yeah. It was Lucas then. Yeah, yeah, it was Lucas. I was right in the first place. That's right. Yeah. So it's been a long time since I watched that.

I think Robert Duvall was that can't remember who else was up. But that was certainly one of the themes in that dystopian movie, like a lot of movies that I like. So Ben said that's apparently it's the world we're living in now. There's no need for movies anymore because we're just living it well. This is the same reason we have the mentality of the Twitter employees with their demands letter. This is why we have people doing gig work.

You know, I got to go pick up three guys a week on the ubereats, you know, or Uber or whatever. And then I should be considered a full time employee. It's like, Fuck no, that's not reality. But this is all again about, well, equity and redistribution of wealth. Yeah, there's plenty that during the pandemic two years, the number of new billionaires and the number of billionaires who are making more money, we're both extremely high.

If you're above a certain class of person, meaning your income doesn't derive from the work you do, it derives from the investments you have. You probably made more money during the pandemic rather than less. If you're somebody whose income derives from the work they do from paycheck rather than investment income, you probably made less. We're creating a bigger a bigger difference between the haves and the have nots. And by have nots, I'm including middle class America.

Well, this is all, again, right down to the lines of being able to that use that to create strife, to turn one group against the other. Because obviously, the people that have. Yeah, but strife is not the end goal here like. Well, and that is that is no neither anarchy nor strive are good for the people that actually owned the planet. Like none of that is socialism isn't good either. What's good is to have a shut up and do your work slave population that just accepts everything.

All the decisions that are made by their betters that questions anything can really rewrite history as far as needs arise and then still just go and do their jobs. They're ultimately the benefit of any people to the controlling class. Elites is in the work product of people. And if you got to pick up the trash. Well, it's not just somebody's got to pick up the trash. It's not about demeaning.

It's about, again, the difference between people that have work for a living and the people that simply live off investments. If you're living off investments, you're employing other people. So you want to make sure there's many of them as possible that are available, but you get away with paying them as little as possible and that they will do whatever you tell them in that question you like. These are all positive attributes that you're looking for.

They happen to be the same ones that bring people closer to serve them. And I think we are much closer to serfdom today than we had been 30, 40 years ago. We have high tech serfdom where you you have a phone, but you're provided your, you know, your porridge in the form of social media. So you're you're giving a diet of stuff to keep your brain occupied. It has no real difference. It makes no real difference. It doesn't matter what happens on Instagram or Facebook.

It just needs to be happening all the time to keep your brain occupied. Yeah, which is exactly what's going on now. People should read The Road to Serfdom by Hiatt. Good book. There you go. But you're absolutely right. And that is whether it was the intentional reason behind social media or not. This really has turned into the way for otherwise functioning thinking people to just have their brains over wired with useless crap. Mm hmm.

And there is something very addictive about it, which I haven't ever been able to quite figure out what it is, whether it's, you know, the some people will tell you it's just the fear of missing out, like, wow, I'm going to miss something. It's going to be exciting. And I'm not going to know until it's too late or whether I mean, I understand the you know, the dopamine hits if somebody likes your post or retweets it.

But I don't know if that's the I think most people are just consumers and social media. And I think there's a big difference between the maybe five and 10% of the people who are very noisy on social media like you are, but you post a lot. If I'm not, I don't do so for me. What are you talking about? You're on the no agenda. Social. That's social. Media. That's on social media. It is. Believe it or not. But it's only social media.

If I was reading it to actually read it that I don't even log in to post, I post. Some of that right. So that's it. So I'm a. Content generator, not a consumer. Yes, that is exactly my point. Being a content generator is way different than somebody who is addicted to reading and just scrolling all day long. Now, when most of it is useless information. By the way, you know how I ended up on the agenda social. And I was, you know, one of the earliest people on there.

Adam Curry, said, hey, sign up for this is cool. Very similar to that. Adam Curry said, Hey dude, you're sending me way too many tweets every day. And not even tweets are like text messages. You do it over. We just set up this thing that we're going to call no on the social and you know, why don't you just post that stuff there so it's not just me getting it, but other people and don't send it to my text address. So this was edible, Craig like, you know what? You're a genius.

Let other people know I put it over here so they can see. That may have been what he was saying, but not what he was thinking. What he was thinking is, how do I get this fucking shit off my phone? Yes. How do I get them to leave me alone? Yeah, pretty much. Pretty much. And so I said, sure, okay, I'll sign up, which is also why I'm not surging on there. But I'm just gonna end this because when I signed up, there was no, like, you know, idea of using no gym names.

It was it was literally just like ten of us on there. So it was very low key. And I started. I was posting everything just so Adam would read. I didn't really give a shit. Who else was reading it? You created a whole follower list. You know, I didn't even bother with followers until, like, a year or two in when I realized, Oh, there's more people on here than I thought. Kyrie Like, Yeah, about 10,000. Again, it's not like I'm logging in and reading shit on there. They'll never.

Know. Well, I will log in maybe once in a while just to kind of give a little start to people that have commented on something I've said. And the social me. I mean, I do believe that there may be a change. I don't know. I have to text you to get you to log in. Right. Because it's like when I read something, it's like, hey, what did you think of that thing? I said, give me some feedback. Okay, I'll. Still emails are probably even better. I tend to do that that that led to the text.

But yeah, it'll be interesting to see if Twitter changes at all with the change at the. Oh, it's already changed, dude. This is the this the Twitter info, the Twitter. But Musk's purchase of Twitter was one of the few high points for me over the last month. I would say like, this is one of those things that just made me go, Mom, maybe we're not going completely down to hell in a handbasket.

Maybe the handbasket is going to be at least the car like a Tesla car or something, because his purchase, it wasn't just him buying it. It was what he did immediately after buying, which is fire all the the people that really encouraged Twitter to become what it was. Yeah. Which really liberals cesspool. Yeah exactly. Because the people that were running it were the liberals that wanted a cesspool. Who now decided to go and start their own little Twitter,

which was going to fail like every other. Miserably. Miserably. Yeah. And it doesn't, it's not even because it's liberal. It's the same thing with Trump's truth. Social, nothing like gab. There's nothing like Parler is nothing. Yeah, there's some people there. Yeah, but it is not re. Trump's got a. Tough choice right now if Elon gives them his Twitter back, which he said he would, along with a whole slew of people getting their accounts. But I didn't bother trying to get my account back.

I just grabbed that one. I have an account on Twitter literally since it was launched. It was launched here in Austin and I was at the South by Southwest and I signed up at that point. Early adopter. Very early adopter, but which also my make out is just be known on Twitter because it was available. Yeah, but it's hard to get those names down. Yeah. Good luck getting someone without numbers these days, but I figured the fastest way to it.

And just because I wanted to like reply Elon with this whole purchase message right away, I just created a new account, but the tough choice for Trump is, you know, he's got his own little, little Trump social for for lack of a different name through but it's really Trump social and, you know, it's just full of people that are super fans of Trump, but there's not many of them. There's maybe a million.

But you go to Twitter and Trump's got 75 million followers that he had before his account was shut down. So if that account gets restored, sorry, if that account gets restored, that's like 75 times bigger than his audience of people that already agree with them. Anyway, his echo chamber of Trump social. Well, you can do what everybody does on social media, which is have an account on everything and it's just a service that duplicates it everywhere.

But I think what Trump liked about Twitter, which doesn't exist on True Social, is that humongous audience size. Yeah. And number two, that the people that didn't like him were being poked when he saved. Exactly. It's as much as anything him saying things that he knew were going to be poking the other half. And it wasn't entertaining. Yeah. And the bait is good. That's what all we want is a good debate. I don't care what side of the aisle you're on.

The idea that a corporation decided to punish a sitting president of the United States for free speech that they didn't approve of? Well, hell. The how so? Saying them put him in jail for it. But that's at least different. That's you know, that's a legal process. Right.

This is literally a private company saying, yeah, we don't like what you're saying, so we're going to this is this is like back in the day of Hearst running all the newspapers saying, yeah, we're not going to publish a single story about Trump. We're going to pretend he doesn't exist. And when you own most of the newspapers in the country and you do that right, that that creates a significant impact. Oh, it does. Because is where people go for news. Is it same as it is?

People turn to sites like Twitter and Facebook for news more than they turn to actual news outlets. What is a news outlet? Would you trust one these days? No, no. So people should be turning to other thing. But to be fair, I trust CNN more than I trust a random person on Twitter. And I don't trust CNN hardly at all. But I don't I'd rather trust as a random person. See, but I need to know who the random person is. Yeah. Or you just it doesn't make any difference.

You know, I, I pretty much spent my entire life without a TV set, and there have been some rare exceptions. Like when I was married we had a TV in Miami. Vice was a. Well, I certainly watched plenty of Miami Rays, but for most of my life I just haven't had a TV. The reason for that is that I don't like advertising. I mean, I like good advertising in the form of entertainment, but 99% of advertising is horrible. But that's not a television's fault.

That is the content you put out your TV because no, 95% of, the YouTube videos I watch, I watch on the 60th screen baby. Yeah well that's I'm referring to television not in the size of the screen because I also have a ten foot screen that I watch. There you go. In my bedroom. You mean like a cable subscription? No, I mean that. Yeah. Yeah, but I mean, my TV is. Yeah, cable or broadcast, not the physical device called television.

I didn't have one of those because there was no point in that ever, I don't think. But I, I certainly it like that doesn't make any sense things with advertising to me. I pay for YouTube even though I think Google Sex is a company, but I pay for YouTube so I don't have to have ads. Yeah, because if you watch more than like 5 hours of YouTube in a month, you're better off paying the 12 bucks. Yeah, yeah. At 12 bucks.

Gives you two things, gives you no ads and then YouTube videos, which is and without having to worry about some, you know, installing some plug in that'll delete ads or some bullshit, it's just no ads and it gives you access to YouTube music. Yes. Which is new. They just up like what you get with the premium subscription to what. They've had that for years though I've used to for years.

I thought that was just an email that came of all the stuff they're adding, which makes sense, they want more people to subscribe. But either way, YouTube music, it accomplishes the same thing as music and Alexa does with the Amazon music, I guess, which is you just type in any artist or any track, then it'll just start playing stuff. It's kind of what Pandora used to do before Pandora started putting ads in its ad free music by keyword.

And that's all I've really ever wanted because I don't listen to Top 40. I've always listened to things that are a little bit more edgy and you know, so that's or more emo I'm sure people are know more I listen to. You're totally. Into dark music is. Like a five finger death punch kind guy. I don't even know who that is, I'm sure. Yeah. You've got their posters on the wall. Yeah, I have posters on the wall. You know, the posters I had on the wall were of like the Ferrari or Frey.

Well, I did have a Ferrari poster, but I haven't also I had like the Porsche 928 posters, 944 person Yeah. You're like, these are the cars I want to buy when I grow up. Yeah, not 911. For some reason I thought these look better even though they're crappy cars. And then. You grew up and realized the cost of such cars and decided it was probably a. Bad. Yeah. No, not at all. No, I just realized that there are other considerations than the way the car body looks. Oh, yeah. Performance.

Well, that's one. And the other one is comfort and comfort. Well, yes. It's kind of like your the reasoning for going first class in an airplane. There's a lot vehicles that would be a snug fit for average sized people. They would be. Yeah. But yeah. You'd be surprised though. You would really be surprised. I, I've never had any issues with vehicles. Fact I remember being made fun of by a few people, including Adam, when I got my first Fiat 500. That's a pretty little vehicle on the outside.

I thought that was the cutest thing. Oh, just so cute. It's super cute as a car. It's kind of like the Volkswagen Beetle, but even smaller. Right. And most guys, they say the car you buy is a pure correlation somewhere there to the side of something. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So let me get the tiniest car I can. Yeah so I have nothing to try and, you know, save for.

I will say that one of the cars that I've or the car that I've owned that had the best legroom was a 1996 Camaro because the seat went like all the way back. Right. And that's what Adam said about the original 500. Yeah. It's he remembers driving one in Europe. And that was one of the greatest things about that car is a seat one way back. So even though the car tiny the legroom was great. Yes. Which is good. Yeah. And I thought this car was perfectly comfortable. It was a very fun car to drive.

I had a little cabriolet, a little convertible, the 500 with a red top and of course, a white car. And then I enjoyed that so much that well, actually, I ended up I ended up getting rid of that car and then I bought a Beemer convertible, which is also really fun and not any not any bigger in terms of the interior. Even though the car length was quite a bit bigger.

And then I bought a Fiat 500 electric, which was I was torn about that car because it was I always like to Fiat's I love that the Fiat 500 electric was great. It cost me like six bucks a month to drive. It was super. I was the guy making, you know, nasty comments to the Tesla owners for how much electricity they're using because it was literally twice as efficient as a Tesla lights.

But and it was very peppy given you know electric motors have all their torque at the beginning I really liked that car. It was also super rare. At some point they're going to be definitely collectibles. There was fewer of those cars imported into the US than Ferraris. So like a year's worth of Ferraris I think is around 1300 cars, something like that. 1400 cars. This thing had about 50 cars a month sold. Not a lot.

So so I was I was driving a car that was super exclusive, that expensive, just super exclusive. And the only reason I got rid of it is because Fiat pulled out of the US again, and so they shut down their dealerships, which meant. Oh, it's harder to get those things serviced. Then, huh? Yeah. Having having a in an electric car which there's only 50 of them sold per month across the entire country and no dealer network to support you is very risky.

So if I would have kept it, I would have kept it purely as a kind of like you keep used baseball tickets as a future investment and say, okay, I'm going to do nothing to this car. It'll still have, you know, 10,000 miles on it, ten years, 15 years from now. And then I can get my money back, basically, for I get like 30, 40 grand back out of it.

But instead of doing that, I just chose to go with the option that clears out my garage space and say, okay, I'm, I'm going to have to return this thing or training in there, sell it or whatever. I think I just sold I remember I sold it to Carvana for cash, so they just wrote me a check for it. I didn't train that anything. That it's somebody else's problem.

Well, I'm sure somebody bought it and put it in their garage to keep for 20 years now and I'll be kicking myself when those things are going for 100 grand. Right. What's a $15 million? A classic Fiat. But I'll do you better than the ticket stubs. Yeah. If somebody can explain this one to me, there's a few people that the trolls maybe somebody has run across this. Before my mom was out to lunch with one of her friends whose husband for years worked for the Wrigley's Gum Company here in Chicago.

Sure, I remember that. Yeah. And he had a couple of big boxes. I don't know exactly what was in the boxes, but he had a couple of big boxes of old gum, old candy that were just sitting in a shed. And he found them and he took the first box out. And let's see, put it up on eBay. Sold for over 2000. The second larger box sold for over thousand dollars. And I went, What the fuck? Right, right, right. I went and did a search and found an eBay that looked at the sold auctions.

I know this could all be rigged up, but there was some different gum from the eighties. You remember the maybe they still use these. I just haven't been to a grocery store in a while. The packs of gum that are basically in cellophane and there's like ten packs of gum in the cellophane. And then they they opened that. Let people just buy one pack at the time. But like the cash register. I don't recall them. So it's just like a cellophane. But like what you would buy is one pack of gum.

There's 20 packs in this. I'm sure Costco has shit like that probably. But they were selling these 20 packs from 1980s, whatever it was, and one of them was a Wrigley's gum that I'd never even heard of or remember called Express. It was just like a white packaging. Oh yeah. I remember that. I don't. But they were like that 20 packs of gum. Mm hmm. Just within the last few weeks on eBay. 20 packs of that. So just 20 packs. Not 20, 20 packs. Just 20 little packs in the one package.

Mm hmm. 580 bucks. And I'm trying to figure out why is there a B? Just I think I think what some of this is not. But I think what some of this is the the what I would describe as pseudo nostalgia, which is it's not real nostalgia because. It's experienced by people who weren't around to remember these. So this you think this is at the market for people that never experienced this and are like, well, now are they buying it in this case, do you think, to consume it for drinkable gum?

It's a no course. It's a trinket to show their buddies in their eighties room. To, like, look at this man. You can't even buy it out there. Yeah, this is I think I've I've kind of seen this like back in the eighties, about the fifties, through where people were buying completely useless things like Howdy Doody clocks, like, what the fuck do you need that for? To put it on your wall and be cool. That's not cool. That's kitsch. First of. But it's it's also ridiculous. But it's that mentality.

It's like people that were never around and alive in the fifties were buying fifties memorabilia because the fifties represented a certain lifestyle and mentality. And I think the eighties for a good reason has become the fifties for a lot of people that were not around it, because people like you and I talk very fondly about the eighties, about how was the best music, and it was really revolutionary in a lot of ways. The game I've been raving about cyberpunk 2077.

You still play in that a week later? That's a good sign. Yeah, man. Yeah, hell yeah. I'm doing like 30 hours a week of game play on that thing. Wow. Is this your full time job now? Yeah, I wish. No, I probably don't wish because it wouldn't be fun if I. If I had to do it. It's only fun because I choose to do it. It's true. It's like that. The show I told you to watch on Appletv. That was. My run. The one of my was the company I watched. Yeah, that was a great show. I love that show.

Where the testers are just like, Oh, Jesus. Yeah, they hated that. And then of course, the testers had to be like lesbians because. Because that's the new world order, for. It's actually true because every video game is only tested by lesbians. Well, that's why, you know, they're good. Yeah, the way it takes them two years after they come out to get the bugs out. Right. That could be it as well. Yeah. It's that was a I think a very satirical but yet touching on real world issue show.

Which is where we're. Being work and. There's got to be a bit of truth. Yeah And there was the guy from Always Sunny in Philadelphia that was the main dude in that. But if anybody can tell me why otherwise the old is worth money. I'm guessing that the guy who bought the big box for 9000 probably made like two or three times that by breaking it up, maybe selling individual.

That could be or it's worth that much because it's all kept together and then it's wrapped in cellophane which will disintegrate or get eaten by critters because plenty of insects eat something. Interesting. I did not know that. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a lot of ants will do that. The there's a number of different garden animals that'll happily chew down and so I've been.

Blitz says he's guessing it's because it has no aspartame it's like well that's why I'm like curious are they are they consuming the gum? I mean that's a lot. Is gum still fresh if it's sealed in the pack for. No. It turns out I've had old gum, dude, like 15 year old JAMA rock solid. It like the stuff from your Topps baseball card collection? Yeah. Like, I hate all that shit. And it's like, whoa. Threw away the baseball because he gives a shit, right? I buy this for the gum.

He went the wrong direction there. It did go the wrong direction. Not only do I not have the gum to sell on eBay, I don't have the cards to sell on eBay. If it did, that would be a much better way to go. Or at least the ticket stub is from buying the baseball. Yeah. Yeah, well, I never went to those games. The there's a podcast and 2.0 news, which I think is interesting. Do they finally introduce my band to Tag? Obviously I don't think so. So waiting on that.

But this is a out of pod verse, which is a pod verse. If it was one of the ones I liked. If you go to pod verse, dot FM slash live streams now, it will give you a list of the shows that are currently live and the shows that are scheduled, which I'm noticing like I always have the next rock and roll pre-show scheduled. Most people don't because there's only like four or five shows scheduled, including the podcasting 2.0 with Adam Curry and Dave Jones coming up today.

That's on the list by next month. That shows around this the rare encounter show fun fact Friday those are. On our show. Behind the schemes see I. I need to add the up. Yeah what how is it that you add all your other shows but you forget throughout this one. But you notice the top of that page right now is our show. Now I don't have the next scheduled one up. I only have one thinking it with just the next show. Who cares now that this exists? Uh huh. This is absolute genius to me.

This is a killer app until it gets overrun. And it will. Yeah, but this is killer app for somebody like. You know, when I interviewed all the guys, I started to interrupt you when I don't even. I'm not sorry at all. I'm horribly sorry, but I'm going to do it anyway when I interviewed all those developers for podcasting 2.0 about almost two years ago, not quite two years ago, I really liked the guys that were working on that verse, and when I tested it, I thought it had the most potential.

They weren't quite there yet. I think I make the shift to pod verse because they were still missing some stuff. But they were. They their presentation, their UI, everything was very good. They took my advice about the forward and backward buttons. I mean, there's a lot of stuff that I really like from that up, so I'm very happy to see them continuing on developing and pushing the boundaries with that app.

But I think this is a killer app for people to discover new shows because I'm one of these people that I want to listen to things live if I can. Yeah, I don't. But I get it. Plenty of people do. I prefer to listen to everything and at least one in the quarter X right. Sometimes 1.75 x the lion. If I could do that, you. Might be awesome. Well, yes, you could. You could make that work live. That'd be great.

So yeah yeah well I like on Tim Guest yesterday they celebrated Musk buying Twitter by opening up a bottle of Louie the 14th, which was, I think it's typically around the $100 per drink in a bar. So it was about a 2 to $5000 bottle. And you felt like you were taking part because it was live. It was live and it was clearly not planned. They were going to be drinking their it was. But they were so giddy.

And I use the word rarely, but they were so giddy about Musk not just buying the company, but then firing the executives that they had to celebrate. I think rightfully so. Yeah, I agree. I think this is one of those few bits of good news lately where you can say, you know, maybe the world isn't completely going to hell in a handbasket, but at least it's going to go in a Tesla. Well, it must give. Nobody is confused. Musk is not the answer.

And I don't agree with a lot of his, you know, concepts, but he does seem to be a free speech guy, which having that kind of person on Twitter is good as well. And he put his foot in his mouth just recently by telling Ukraine they're going to have to start paying for their Internet service. Right. How horrible that their. Trial is over there. Trial period is over. Now, we gave you this for free thinking this was going to be a you know. Yeah, right. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

And now it's them being assholes at Twitter like we get banned, you know, fire virus. Fuck. Then we demand they don't fire people for their political views. Yeah. You know, this whole keep keep giving us free what you've been giving us free. It's like, fuck, you know. Yeah. Because that's what they, they got away with that with their parents because their parents let them and didn't beat their enough. Yes, probably true. Probably true. It's like you are just what you get.

You can't no good deed goes unpunished. No, not only that, Twitter is now owned by an African American. So that's good for that. He's South African American. That that's called an African American based. I don't know if you realize this, because Americans are good at geography. They understand. South Africa is in. Africa. Yeah. So really, since I would put Candace Swanepoel up at the top of like the most beautiful women in the world. I have no idea who that is. She is a South African supermodel.

I've never her your your you. Have you seen her? No question. About it. I doubt it. You doubt it? Come on. No, no. Shortly, you know, there was a this thing the other day where like a couple of weeks ago where she was rumored to be dating yi yi yi. But no, that's just. Yeah, that was right before he got really canceled by the world. And that was just a publicity stunt.

Yeah. So the only problem I have with this whole business on Twitter is how much she paid, which is, I think, insanely overpaying for what it is. Well, of course he did. That's why you tried to get out. Yeah, I don't know. I it's like he wanted to buy them and they didn't want him to buy them. And then he tried to get out of buying it and it didn't want to let him get out of that. Buy it, get out of buying it. They didn't want to let him not buy it. And then he's buying it.

He says, Fine, we'll go through with it. And they were trying to get the president up to the last moments. They were hoping that they could get a presidential executive order to prevent Musk from being able to buy Twitter. Right. I mean, it was all over the place. It was just they're driven. And this is true, I think, of all Democrats, I'm going to say all, not most, because frankly, you're complicit. It's like being a during the Holocaust and doing nothing.

All Democrats, they just want to create pain in anyone that isn't like them. They're the most extremist people out there because they're driven by hatred and by punishment. They're really they're status, really. I think Democrats are basically say this. I mean, I can't prove that is wrong. Therefore it's right. Yes. I dropped a link into the show page over at the Zen Kastner there. Just for you. Oh, you did? Yeah. Yeah. Do you? I me. Look, I'm. Is the project. Yeah, that's Candace. I want to.

Be hot for an African-American. Yes. She just hit 34. She American or she African? South African. Well, what was their citizenship is what I'm asking. I still believe she's South African. Never. She ever naturalized. Okay, that's definitely padded bra. She has very small breasts. If she. Needs a green card, I'd be happy. To send you. Can you help me get a quick divorce and uproot a baby? I don't know. I don't know how quick the divorce from. Your wife would be. Okay with that? Oh, yeah.

I mean, I think that would be perfectly fine. Yeah. How big is your list of, like, allowable, acceptable women for either being? I mean, there's like, only three, and I maybe I need to take more time to make the list because I can really only come up with, like three. So I think it's a very short list which also lowers the odds dramatically. Kind of does. Yeah. And, and they're all. Who are they? Okay, well, now you said three. Now we have two here. The three.

They're all pretty much age appropriate now that Taylor Swift's going to be 33 here in December. Uh huh, Candace, as we just talked about, she's 34. And Adriana Lima, who I believe now is, what, 40, huh? I know I should be thinking way younger. Yeah, it should, but I guess it makes sense, because that's like when these women were hot and young, used to have vision. Right? This is true. And you were around fat women? Yeah, quite a few.

Yeah, that was even when I was married, my wife had no problem, like, oh, you're working for Playboy playmates, going to the Glamor Con Convention here. And Chirac, she was always like, Yeah, if you think you can get that, go ahead. Yeah. She has a lot of faith in you. Yes It's like that going to probably not going to happen. Yeah. I mean, yeah. No, that's I mean she's got a good attitude. Yeah that were. Never met your wife but I like her. She owns a multiple firearms so.

I mean, I know you'd get along. Oh, yeah. We told you long. Does she have a pegboard wall for her firearms? No, no, that would, that would. If there was, that would have been overtaken by the Lego now. Huh. Yeah, that's right. She's into that. You know I, I time you see Adriana Lima, I, I first think of Adrian Curry equally and then I remember that. Oh yeah, that's a different person. For the rest. There are different people in the world. Yeah, yeah, that's true.

Everybody different strokes as far as models. Models. There are plenty. But I always liked Adrian Curry. I see a lot of it is the attitude there is like her attitude she's she's a a smart ass tomboyish kind of model or. Well, I don't know if you can call her. What do you call an old model? I think still a model. I don't think. She an ex model. Is she still a model? I don't think anybody becomes ex. I think you're not an ex model. Former model. It's just like a former model.

Maybe literally she hasn't been modeling in 20 years. You know, usually, though, if somebody is an actor, you don't go, well, you haven't had a job in 20 years. So you're an ex actor. I think I would call an ex actor next actor. I mean, I've told you. Yes. So she she was the America's Next Top model winner in 2003. So 20 years ago. I do like that on her Instagram page that I just pulled up. The second thing she has listed in her bio is recovered Hollywood douche, huh? Yes. Yes. I like. She.

She is very much red pilled. Yeah she is. She was on tim gas and it was funny because she was the oldest person on that show in the room is you know, it's a bunch of millennials. Yes. And she is it she's right on the border of millennial and Gen Xer, born in 82 I think. And so a. List of links to and she's on truth social she's on her she's a rumble. Figure. Along with the regular I mean.

I'm on I like her way before any of this stuff I just really thought she was one of those chicks that'll always put a smile on your face, you know, like a hot looking chick that knows how to take an engine apart and see guns. Yes. And you're like that. This is very helpful because. I'm like, hell, yeah. I want somebody else to do the work, do. Like all the time. And I'm like, I don't know if you ever watched Boy. We're talking about a lot of movies and TV shows. You ever watch Big Love?

Maybe that sounds familiar. It was Big Love was an HBO show for about 40 seasons about a polygamous mormon. Oh, they know. Oh, it's a great show. I would recommend that. But, you know, four years worth of seasons is a lot to watch there. But it was a a show about a guy who is a successful business owner. And, you know, I liked the community blah, blah. And then you kind of find out at the end of the episode of the first intro episode that he is, you know, got more than one wife.

And now that's just asking for trouble, everything. Well, and the biggest thing I think that show does, after you watch it for a while, you realize, why would any man want this, right? It's so much work. You're like it sounds. Like like you. Said. Like it might. Yeah, it sounds cool to have a harem, but ultimately, you just want some peace and quiet. You know, your man time, man cave time.

But you can't because you're too busy handling three families with three different sets of kids from different women and trying to balance it all out. But he had his, uh, his older wife. His first wife was Jean Tripplehorn, and then his middle wife was my favorite one, which was Chloe thingy. And she was the very traditional Mormon chick, meaning she came from a big Mormon family and.

So she was always on that show, the one doing all the house repair stuff, like when the roof tiles needed to get replaced, she'd be the one climbing up on the roof to retail, you know, she knew how to use all power tools. She could fix the washing machines. You do all this shit, but yet she's still hot and feminine. Nice. Well, I see. Adrian Curry, born right down the street from me. He was born in Joliet, Illinois. And Julia. Really? Yeah. Home of brilliant chicken. Elwood Blues.

Yeah. How are you? Born in 1982. So again, you're like the eighties. Thanks to DG Guru for pointing out that she was born in Joliet. Hmm. Interesting. I did not know that. I didn't know. She's also 511, so you'd probably like that, too. Yeah. Yep. She's currently married, so there you go. Well, yeah, I think she's done that a few times. It looks like second time to me. The third. The second time the answer is the first one was with Mark PEREIRA. With that one the bridge kids.

Christopher Knight, that's Peter Brady. Peter the married Peter Brady. Yeah. No, he had to be like 8000 years older than her. She was he was 20 years older than her. Yeah. Interesting. They and it would happen on live TV. It was they met in the reality TV show and then hooking up and by the end of the show, like she totally wanted to marry him. Television's a weird.

But a she certainly back in the day I mean now she's older but back in the day she's super hot and she was a video game junkie and she did a lot of cosplay stuff. I see. I mean, I see where you're coming from. Yeah. I'm telling you, this this is this is a chick with the right personality who happens to be hot looking. Well, that is important. The right personality is important. It is. It is.

And this is the I mean, this is why I married my ex-wife is she was super hot and had the right personality. And why did she then decide to run for the hills. Or was it. Well, there might be a few reasons for that. It's a different show. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But we're, you know, we're still friends. We, we chat and we've been now I think, we've been divorced about as long as we were married. Well, see, there you go. That brings with it a certain calm and understanding.

Well that, came about a year after we got divorced, but I told her and I mean this is that I, I really wish we would have just been friends instead of getting married. That's that always the way. Because she she was a cool chick that I would still enjoy having as a friend. But now you can't around her because you're afraid she's going to step around. And I mean, you know, she turned like 32, so I had to get rid of her.

There is that. And. Expiration for you I. Get it there is there is she's 23 when we met and like the rock and 23 she was, you know, wearing like size two clothes. So we see what you were attracted to. It was not her personality at the time. Oh, it was solid personality. That's the main thing. Yeah. Personality, yeah. Sure sounds that way. The script. Tell a personality back in the day I was. Going to say that descriptor but. Yeah.

And, and if you're not anyone gives a shit what my ex-wife looks like but. You everyone wants to know. Basically. Natalie Portman. Natalie Portman. But hot at 23. I mean, Natalie Portman has had her moments in watch Black Swan. Um, well, yeah. I mean, the character she played was horrible in that show, but this might be like a pre black swan. This would be more like Star Wars. Natalie Portman. Yes. Young Padawan. Yeah, that's what she looked like.

You're like, yes, my Queen, could you put out the could you put out the outfit from Star Wars? Come on. Yeah. See, that's perfect for you. I can tell by that. Oh no, I'm laughing. She did that. Yeah, that's how it's what I was gonna say. The laughs said been there, done that. Yeah. That, that's exactly what that laugh was more than anything else. Uh huh, that is. But I. Well, I like this thing, that pod versus doing it this to me, Rose. I mean, that's what we're talking about. Perverse. Yes.

This reminds me of Way Back in the day blog talk radio, which I believe is still around. But there was an easy way to go and see every show that was currently being streamed live and for people that are live junkies, this I think this can help find shows that maybe you wouldn't have listened to before, but you're like, Well, it's live, so I'll turn it out and see what all about. Yeah, I don't I mean, I do occasionally watch Tim Kass live, but you keep seeing. The 1.2 button and it's not working.

I What you pushing the button like 1.25 speed. Come on. I am right that's speeding up. But the problem is it's unnatural. It's not the speed, it's the like. They're edited bits that they came out with from those shows are just a lot more concise and topical. Well, they should be, because they're edited. They are. But then you take a show like ours, which there's not anything to edit down to because our show is about nothing, but we're just. So that we can't even edit anything out.

That's how good we are live. You know, it's you even have the the intro that was taped live today. So you don't have to cut out a clip and stick it at the front. It's like bullets. I would always. Is. It's like right there. It's literally the last thing I said before hitting the record button. It's magic. Sometimes that just works. And it helps when you're lazy. It does help when you're lazy.

Mean, I just want to point out this is still a value for value show, even though we had no donations this week, although Grumpy Old Bens did great on their first episode. Good for you. We're still little short of that here. But I mean, I know Gene says not to not to donate. Apparently, people are listening. They're like they're like, I'm finally going to listen to Gene one. I'm going to pick one thing and I want to listen to Gene. And this was it.

But you can still go to unrelenting dot show and find out all the information and how to help support the show. I think we do need like to go mug club or something like that where we can you know yeah they nation we send something out. It's all cool. Uh, if you want to take that on, buddy. I noticed you started doing t shirts. I did want won't because Dame Lisa was like, Well, why don't we have a rock and roll pre-show t shirt? And I'm like, okay, I have a logo.

So he's helped slap that on a cheeseburger. I think I want to tweak it a little bit, so I haven't really seen range. How much they take? Are they as bad as the other guy? That cafe press. That's very similar sort of thing because. Cafe Press was basically, we'll sell the thing and we'll keep all the money and you'll get a quarter. But I think that would have to sell if if the sales were good I would go to our buddies over at no agenda shop dot com.

Yeah yeah yeah and have them make it I own the domain no agenda store dot com which takes you to my T spring site. Oh we're no agenda store. Yeah. Dot com. You're sitting on that. Yeah. I've got that troll that that's not sitting at it. I use it for selling no agenda merchandise which then I cut in the boys it no agenda which is how it all works. But for something if I remember correctly, if you take a t shirt and sell it for 33 bucks, you're making about eight or $9 profit, I believe.

Who the hell pays 33 bucks for a t shirt? That's insane. That's like normal. Now, ten bucks is what a t shirt should pass. I would agree, but that's not the world we live in anymore. I wish they were that when I was doing the fan for the country music artist Canadian Carolyn Don Johnson, Sweet Lady, when we had the t shirts printed up, this was probably 2008 right around there that the t shirts wore for us to print them up. We're five bucks apiece so that you could sell them for 20.

But you were buying them for five bucks a piece. Custom printed, I think that's a lot. Yeah, that's all right. It's a little on the expensive side, but I guess in a lower quantity. It was lower quantity and not the crappiest. T shirt. You know, again. I remember pricing out shirts and they really did get them printed for between three and five bucks. Yeah. If you want to go with the. Really. Yeah. And then cafe press would basically they'll, they'll charge you know like 15 bucks for the t shirt.

And then if, if somebody, if you want to sell for more than 15, then we'll start doing revenue split, right? If you want. To sell it for 15, you get nothing. Right. They're taking it their cost anything over the cost together. Cost is like a buck. You want to charge over that they will give you. So it basically becomes, hey, you're buying a $15 and everything you pay over that is your donation to support. The show part of it, not even the whole thing.

But most of it over that they don't take them. That was a fair cut. I believe it. Maybe, maybe it's different. I haven't used them in a while. Forever, but I remember I used to do. For short little brown print them. Yes. Now, if I got like a hundred orders for rock and roll pre show or unrelenting t shirts, then I'd be like, Well, we're going to move this too. Yeah. And the minute you move it, people stop ordering. It'll be a beautiful. Oh, yeah, yeah, totally.

Hey, we. Ordered 10,000 shirts. Great. Yeah. Then you want to put them on eBay and just said 1980s. Yes. And then whatever I. Just found on eBay and I, I think I have to order one the t shirt, 22 bucks in the same color. Do you remember from the eighties, the Reggie Bar? Reggie Jackson had his own chocolate bar, did he. I don't recall. That. Yeah, the logo was cool because it was Reggie swinging the bat. Hmm. And I remember that night because I was looking up old candy to see what it's all for.

Yeah, and there is somebody making t shirts of that Reggie Jackson bar, the Reggie Bar, the logo on a shirt that was the same color as the wrapper back then. I'm like, Oh, that's cool. I want one. Reggie's awesome. So that was how long did they make those? It was only around for a couple of years. The Reggie Bar, but it was nationwide it wasn't like it was just a New York thing or something like that. They were they were big man.

Reggie It was probably right after the 77 World Series where he hit three home runs in one game. He was never hotter than right about that point in time. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah, I remember watching them. Uh, well, in the eighties. Yeah, late eighties. It's funny how everything for us happened in the eighties. It is kind of funny, um, because, uh, yeah, I think he was playing for Kansas City back then. Well, he started with Oakland and then went to the Yankees obviously and.

Then. I don't know if he went anywhere after the Yankees, if he retired. He, you know, remember Toronto. He may have retired out of Kirby Puckett. Yeah, that's Kirby. My God. God rest his soul. He was one of the Mets. Yeah, he was very good. Of course, you were living in Minnesota, so Kirby was like a god around. The same streets after the man. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, one, because he was really good at his craft and he was a good human being, both for everything I can tell a lot of athletes are douchebags. Kirby seemed to be a really high quality human. I think that was in the pre douchebag days of baseball. It may have been. It's I kind of feel like douchebag in baseball really started in these. They kind of go together now. Because it used to be just like dudes that would go and eat a bunch of fried chicken and then go play baseball.

That anymore. Yeah. And then in the nineties they started doing steroids. Yes. And that changed the game. It it brought a bunch of people to the game because all of a sudden the balls were they were actually good. Yeah. And then they went, oh wait, this is bad. And for some reason I still will not get this. The players like Clemens and Bonds and Sammy Sosa are being punished. But fucking Selig, the commissioner of baseball, who oversaw all of this, they put him in the Hall of Fame.

Fuck you, Cooperstown. That is bullshit. It's unbelievable the hypocrisy of that. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. And it is ridiculous, but it's. Well, it used to be that you'd need just, you know, God given talent to be good at the game like you have to have the right genetics for it and a bit of a gut. Yeah. That seemed to help in baseball and the. Red Shirts seemed. And chewing and spitting the. Babe Ruth look. Oh, yes, exactly. He's the Kevin Smith of baseball.

Does. Yeah. Although he was more successful in cancer, I think. A little bit. Uh huh. He definitely got laid more. Uh huh, yeah.