I wish that everybody would just die in their sleep. Hello and welcome to episode number 49 of unrelenting shooting for November 4th, 2022. Yes, believe it or not, Gene, we're almost at 50 episodes. I am Daryn O'Neill. Dear Sir Gene, there are surging or counting? Yes, surging. How are we still not? I thought we were like 150 by now. It seems that way. There's like a total. Because we did have them and with a different title. So right there was the press. But it.
Was the ramping up of the unrelenting thing. I mean, although I saw in the Good Old Boys podcast that you do with your other co-host, dude named Ben named Ben, you didn't even know his name. I mean, so we know that's still pretty early in the relationship. Feel like you know he said you said, hey, how about we take all those shows that I did with you on your other show and we stick them into the RSS feed. Right? Because it's like the new show round longer than. Yeah. And I said, fuck that shit.
I don't those. That's, that's just the. Yes, that's right. I owed you. I asked you to this new show where you were in charge of getting the car painted and you screwed up by not painting the roof. Yeah, you missed the. Heads and you show. Lag C, but that is like so. That is so totally on him because that he outsourced that whole process to him and he thought about it.
He's like, Do we want to, like not be an apple after a week by having show art with a Confederate flag or should we stick around long during the week? Well, here's what I do. You dude, I outsource this year to year decision. The technology is now really good at being able to edit video. Mm hmm. How long before the Dukes of Hazzard episode? Oh, it's probably already done. I wouldn't be surprised that the Confederate flag is off the generally. And it'll just be. It'll just be a plain blank rough.
Or they'll put something else stupid over that. Maybe they'll put advertising there, you know, like buy Viagra or something. I'm a little surprised that you noticed that the flag was on the roof, given you're blind. But. Hey, I mean, I. Have a large size. I have a large size version of that image. So I did notice it right away. But I mean, the image in the in the back. Yes. Isn't all that big, though. No. But you can actually go through and enlarge. Not quite like they do an FBI sting.
Yeah. Well, enhance. Yeah, enhance, zoom, zoom, enhance. I look around the wall. I know. I cringe every time I watch one of those shows. Yeah. You have to wonder, though, if if somebody in that show's production team is a fan of Blade Runner and they're literally doing it tongue in cheek. They maybe because it the way they work it and some of the I, I don't watch CSI.
The only one I really watch is FBI because I like missing a germ or a germ or however you say your last name and they often use that's. Called. FBI. And the chick's name. Missy Perry. Jared Perry, John P, G y Ira or something like that is. I've never heard of this woman. You'd have to send me a photo at some point. Well, she was in way back in the day, a very weird little show called Reaper, which was on like the WB or something like that back in the day.
And then she wound up on Rookie Blue, which was another cop show, and that was like six or seven seasons. So she's like a perma teacup. It seems like that way now. Yeah. Which is. Like. It's not bad. To be typecast is something that there's shows that have been running for. Kind of like. I see. Yeah, kind of. But she's a little hotter than Ice-T. Well, no, man, they. She's a pretty cool dude. He's a pretty he's a pretty handsome man. He's a he's a cool cucumber.
But they use the technology in a way on that show, every now and then to move the plot forward where you just go, it's not anywhere near real at all. I mean, they're getting like, well, let's track somebody. It goes from like let's literally in within the span of 10 seconds, let's track the cell phone. Okay, I got him. There's the cell phone. Okay. I'm pulling up street cam. Okay. We have a live picture of this person sitting at the stoplight, whatever.
Okay. And then where's the where's the fake part? That's just not quite that fast, I don't think. I know you've talked about this kind of technology. Maybe it is. Maybe I'm the one that's like there's no way the technology can be this good. And I'm just being naive. Yeah, maybe. Okay. Yeah, yeah, there's. There's. Okay, I understand.
Now, this is scaring me, because when you would you lose the ability to speak, that means there's some legal reason why, which means everybody should be very afraid. Where man is. Trying to think back, what were my non-disclosure agreements? What length were they set to? Oh, yeah. Life time. Okay. Yeah, this is the scenario. Because if that's reality, it's like, wow. No crime should ever be allowed to happen because we have coverage of everybody for everything.
We we do have coverage of everybody, but we don't have yet quite. Is eyeballs for that coverage. Oh, it's all it's like the Paul Pelosi thing. We have a live camera, but nobody's watching. Correct. That's very convenient. Yeah. And that's is this is the main reason that we need to get the next generation of eyes built. Well, that would make sense. Because we need somebody. And I think the acronym will be Jodie for the Eye.
But we need somebody that can literally watch every camera in the entire planet simultaneously and discriminate on the images that they see to determine whether what they're watching is legal or not. Well, and to determine whether or not it matches something that looks like a crime is about to happen. That's the next generation. That really you. The current generation is going to check. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly.
The first generation or the first generation of this generation is going to be simply evaluating for legality. The next generation, based on that data and the accuracy of the current generation or next generation, that they're going to get mixed up, that one will be able to then determine the future crime with a very high degree of accuracy. It's not going to be some weird balls dropping based on, you know, three humans in a vat of water, some bullshit like that.
Those the a roomful of racks of computers. Well, like in the Pelosi case, the A.I. doesn't even have to be that strong if you have cameras on a premises. We know that facial recognition. The stuff when you have sodomy laws are not like I don't recall. I mean, California is was a weird outlier for a lot of things. It is.
But with the facial recognition technology, this even if somebody was not monitoring the cameras at the Pelosi residence, you would think that the video footage would be always being run through a facial recognition thing and it would be like, oh, well, okay, that's Nancy. Okay. That's her husband. Okay. That's the housekeeper. Hey, wait. We don't recognize this person at two in the morning on their property. That should maybe set off some alarms.
But Nancy, wasn't there so kind of wondering if Nancy was a little pissed about the whole drunk driving thing. And we heard there was another person in the car with him with the drunk driving thing. That's allegedly that was what I've heard. Yeah. You know, maybe there. There's there's always these these other men that don't seem to be accounted for around him. Yes. And it's like, well, maybe this was a hit job. Maybe this was Nancy tried to take care of the problem.
I think she'd do it less publicly. She would probably do it herself. Well, I don't know about that, but she definitely would figure out a way to not make the news when that happens. Well, that's impossible. Although if you're going to whack your husband and you're a political figure. Oh, no, it's not that. Hardly killing people have all kinds of hot tub acts and. Well, okay, he could be could die in weird circumstance. He doesn't need to be that I will agree with you.
Just fall off the balcony of the 28th floor summerhouse. He could have just had a massive heart attack as well. Could have had a heart attack that happens all day long. Yeah, but no. Luckily, Jeffrey does not have sodomy laws. Or at least they don't have a non-consensual or the only sodomy laws they have are non-consensual. Non-consensual sodomy. Well, it in San Francisco. I mean, everything kind of goes against everything. Consensual, I guess. Yeah, that's true.
They certainly wouldn't prosecute even if it was against the law. Wait, wait. She lived in San Francisco. I didn't realize this. Yes, this. Was lived in the. Burbs. They have multiple homes, but this one was in San Francisco, which also my boy had a question. Oh, boy. Right. Oh, yeah, right. Yeah. I mean, I've had a couple of friends live in San Francisco and I'd say the ratio of there's about 50 or more, but a minimum of 50%, you know, gay looking for guy type.
And that's why you avoid San Francisco like the plague. Though. No, I this this I don't know. I mean these days for shit I would definitely avoid it now. But that's like back in the eighties and Cisco was happening. It was a beautiful city. Well before AIDS hit. Yeah. I mean, the Foushee spread the whole thing up. No, he fixed it all, didn't he? Uh huh, yeah. Just like all of it. It's all about population control in so many different ways.
Yeah, but the population controls, it's sort of like, well, why? And I think it ultimately it comes down to power and money. Well, doesn't everything if. They could figure out a way to control a larger population, then we wouldn't have to talk about population control. Is it that they just want to be able to control or there's is there the insanity that. The people that you see allured can only have so many serves before the service rebel. And then they want more which is why.
They want more bread and and tournament. And so the the Lord has to provide those. Well and the things that the Lord does not want to provide here and the sacrifices that the serfs are going to have to make. We've long said that's the reason for the climate crisis, that. We know. That that's the reason for everything, because that's the well, don't run your air conditioning in the summer. Don't run your heat in the winter. Don't eat red meat. Don't do this. Don't do that.
Don't drive too much cooking. No, those are all things that I'd be reserved for the Lords, not for the service, exactly. But they give you that reason. So that way the lowly believes there's a large percentage that go, Oh yeah, I'm doing my part, I'm doing good for the planet. You're doing the right thing. No, you're not. You're being duped. You're being scammed.
But I digress. Well. The the whole idea of having individuals be responsible for the fate of the whole world sounds very, very familiar. And it's, you know, from the Bible, and it's a good technique to, uh, screw with somebody else's psyche, to get them to do what you want is you just place an unreasonable burden on them that they can't possibly achieve, but they will have gnawing at the back of their mind all the time. And it makes people a lot more compliant.
Right. We heard from Joe Biden just the little, what, one or two days was it last night? Two nights ago? Well, if you vote Republican, you're you're a threat to the democracy of this country. It's like really you're. Well, not technically true. I mean, if you're vote Republican, you're not voting Democrat. You're a threat to the Democrats, that's all. Yeah. That makes sense. Democracy just means lots of Democrats. But he may think so. Mm hmm. A lot of people think we have a democracy. We don't.
We have a democratic republic. And then that blows everybody's brains because they're like, what's the difference? Yeah, and we. We shouldn't really have a democratic republic instead of a republic. Well, that wouldn't be a bad idea. But, you know, there are. Lords and serve the way the government. Is that the way God intended? Now, you sure that sounds like Lara Logan talks. We have to cut all ties with you and not allow you back on the network. Oh. How dare you speak for God?
Well, last time I saw Daddy, he told me a thing or two. It's like things are about to get real scary. Thinking of having a sex change operation. It's the only way to get into a hospital quickly these days. Hmm. There's a waiting list for everything. I hear you got cancer. That's going to work. We can't really get you in for a year. Oh, you want to? We are in the UK now with the national health system. Pointing towards those countries, not the United. Oh, well. That's been a while, though.
I mean, you get part of those countries medical system process is to see how many patients they can get rid of before they show up. That way it lightens the load. Yeah, because then you don't have to provide for the level of health care. If people die before they get their appointment date. That as a planned sort of a obsolescence. Yeah. Well, this is it. This is all. So, for whatever reason, it seems to be the population control. Yeah. Well, it's the same thing.
With the relationship. That. Yeah. Three related topic. I just read something in Canada that now they no longer have to get the parents permission to euthanize as a minor. Wait, wait, wait. Decision that could be made by the health care system. Wow. Yeah, well, we know that there is euthanasia.
And that was, I think in the UK where there was the woman that was in her early twenties but was at the scene of a terrorist attack when she was a teenager, did not have any physical injuries, was just emotionally scarred from it. Yeah. And they were like, okay, yeah, you could die. We'll kill you. The state will kill you because you can't handle your mental pain. I think in the Netherlands, they're making some strides along that path as well. It's insanity.
Just treating life like it's garbage, isn't it? Yeah. I mean, I'm a I'm a big supporter of suicide. I think that you don't truly own yourself unless you can decide what you want to do with yourself. And suicide is can't be illegal for that reason. It's part of the picture. But there's a difference between suicide. Well, at homicide, which is something that you think you. Yeah. Yeah. Or making a decision for you when you're out? Yes. Like you're you know, you're in a coma or whatever.
Yeah. Go to sleep right now. But we're thinking maybe it's time. Exactly. Nap. But that's just another version of the. Well, let's see if they die on the way to the hospital so we don't have to deal with them syndrome. That which is the whole you know, we'll get to your cancer in a year kind of problem. Yes. You don't have to. Just sources. Yeah. Like there's a big problem with somebody else making a life and death decision on your part.
But I feel that every person should have and does, in fact, have that personal choice to make. And so I would not stigmatize suicide the way it's currently stigmatized. There's no reason to stigmatize it. People ought to be able to make those. I mean, have you been to a nursing home? Have you seen people? Yeah, I don't want to do that. And I've said that multiple times.
It's like, thankfully, I still have my mind at the ripe old age that I am, but at some point the mind is going to start to go and I would prefer to make the decision about my future or the lack thereof when I have health facilities. And, you know, not when I'm dribbling oatmeal down my chin. Hey, I. It's okay that happen. Yeah, exactly. That that happened this morning.
But that joke aside, it's all we're done is we've prolonged life in the absence of a mind for an awful lot of people, because there's an industry that has been built to suck money out of people before they have an opportunity to leave any inheritance. Right. Because the state wants that money. And that is what time. It's an industry. It's in the state.
It's the way that they're set up for anyone that hasn't have parents that they've had to put in nursing homes deal with it is they charge absolutely absurd rates. Oh yeah as the norm we're talking about grab something the size of a hotel room, right? No, not, you know, barely. Well. Well, a hotel room that will you know, it's it's a it's a a bed in a desk and then one window. And they for that, they will charge $7,000 a month.
Oh yeah. Easily. Yeah. And you know, the, the food that is included in that is literally oatmeal. I mean, it's just you would not call this this is not restaurant food. This is you know, it is the cheapest, most brutal way to do it. And the staff. Every place I've ever talked to, they're always short on staff. There's nobody that's fully staffed up to a a level where they they or you would be comfortable.
Yes. For and so they charge seven grand a month until your parents are out of savings, at which point then they will pass them on to a government facility because they no longer can afford to be at that nursing home. Well, but they'll do everything they can to make sure that the these elderly folks are on all the meds that they need to be on to not accidentally die in the middle of the night because that cuts off the revenue stream.
Well, it's even more nefarious with a lot of these homes where, okay, your parents have, you know, $500,000 in savings. Uh, well, for them to be accepted, you turn over that 500,000, and their guess is that they're going to make money the longer some people will outlive that and that they don't throw them out. But that's the yeah, that's that's the. Other that's the other version of that. So instead of paying monthly, it's like, well, well, do it for a fixed fee, which is ridiculously high.
I mean, if you literally could just go stay in a hotel with a swimming pool and daily room service for less money than what you pay for these nursing homes. Yes. And you're right, the food was one of the issues where my wife's grandmother was. And they they kept having problems with keeping a chef, which is horrible, because this is a case of where somebody quits while you have to provide food for however many people are in the. In. The facility. So that got kind of dicey at times.
But the other thing was because food was included, you know how old people are. My grandmother never wanted to this. She would complain about the food and we were like, well, at the time I knew somebody that owned a Italian restaurant right down the street. I'm like, Just call, they deliver, get whatever you want. You know, we'll pay for it. Well, no, it's I already paid for my food here. It's like, yeah, but if it sucks every dollar that if you want something good, they will deliver it to you.
Don't worry, you don't have to worry about it. And but there's that mentality like, well, I'm paying for the food, so this is what I have to eat. And that's. Yeah. You know, unfortunately, one of the, one of the ways. It's a it's a horrible industry. I honestly I wish that everybody would just die in their sleep out of context. Everybody would die in their sleep. The age of one. Before needing to go to a nursing home like that would be for most people a blessing. Oh, yeah.
And that I mean, I've seen with my mom's cousin a few years ago where her health deteriorated, but she had the ability to have in-home workers, which is just as bad of a system as the nursing home, because it's really hard to get somebody you could trust. They stole stuff from. Her. You know, things disappear. And there's really there's not much else you can do.
But my parents, I mean, knock on wood, are both in their eighties and they're both living in their house and they're able to take care of themselves. And, you know, that is a rarity, though. Just whippersnappers still. Yes. Oh, yeah. Well, again, this is where the question of where to provide health care comes in, because two years ago, my mom had colon cancer and had cancer surgery. She needed double bypass.
This all happened within a couple of months and she's back fully mobile doing like nothing ever happened. But there's a lot of people that would be like, Oh, you're 80, you have cancer or you have a heart attack. Oh, well, you know, you're probably not going to live that long. So and it's like it's it's crazy. It really is. It's a crazy system.
We were warned that with all of this health care stuff, that there was going to be the death panels and all of that and and it seems like we are inching towards that. We're not quite there yet. If you have. Oh, we did have death panels in New York. Well, that's true with the COVID. Yeah. We're going to just. Send them right back to the nursing homes and wipe out the large. Yeah, yeah.
Well, we're even just some people in general who have covered nursing homes because we weren't allowed to have them staying in a hotel. It's a good place to quarantine. The nursing home, a great place to quarantine. And they always have a room available. Well, no, they don't. That's the sad part. They're they're filling what they. Do for sick people. Just throw. Right. Well, let's throw them in the kitchen, because there's no way the disease will spread this way.
No, no, no, no. So, yeah, fun topic. Fun topic. But you do that, right? Mm hmm. This this is about tech news. I get tech news. Okay. So I recently upgraded my computer monitor again. You had, what, a 32 was it? 43? 43? Wow. Yeah. So this is also 43. This is same size, but this one is 144 hertz. Also faster refresh rate. So it's a faster 40. Three for the gamers. This is literally gaming monitor. Yeah. And I have to say, I kind of did it somewhat on the whim, but I wasn't sure what to expect.
The map how are your fast refresh rates and not like the old one was a slouch or 60, but going from 60 to 144 I think is easier on the eyeballs. I don't think my eyes are getting tired ever since I upgraded. Well, it is. It's allegedly a more natural. The more the more the machine can refresh the image, the more natural it's going to be, because otherwise you're not seeing it. But it is blocky, you know, it's just strobe effect, which you can see.
And if you have the camera's set to the right frame rate. Now. Because most are like what the standard was 30 or drive was it the 60. And well, the computer standard was three. The TV's standard in the U.S. was always 60 or 59. But yeah. So it was made sense when you got the computers, they're not one. 44 Well, okay, so technically that's, you're, you're kind of right too because it was the refresh was 60, but it was interlaced.
So it only did every other line at 60, which means for the full image, it was once every 30th of a second, but 29.97 I believe. Yeah. 29.99. You see that when you do the. Yeah the difference is always annoying. You know why? Why is it like that? Why is that a round number? Mm hmm. Well, you got to have time for the electron beam to go back up to the top. That's where that comes from. Have the reset. Yeah, it's. It's the. There's a name for it. I can't remember the name of it.
That stuff. My hand. Now. Has this increased your gameplay at all. As it like the amount of time? No, I don't think so. But I don't have. It's not even more immersive. It's just less tiring to the eyeballs. You know, you'd normally be sitting there for 4 hours. You like you need to take a break. Well, I go for six or 8 hours now. Oh you're getting close to just being in the Matrix now. I've been in the Matrix for a while my friend. Living your life inside. And. Start doing that and yeah.
Between Star Citizen and now cyberpunk, I'm definitely getting my fill in the matrix. There you. Go. They know who you. Are they they do a. Virtual Gebe. Well, you know, it's funny because for many, many years I don't think it's I don't know, maybe it's still your life. But for many, many years this was the preferred method of passing along information discreetly. Right. In the video game.
In a video game. Yeah. And what's so funny is there there were there were FBI training films that I've watched as well as FSB training films that I've watched that talk about how to look for this. Wow. I mean, it's the irony is that everybody knows this is happening, but it's also really frickin hard to do the control because a lot of this data is not passed on in the format. Even if you could like intercepted the server level, it's audio, it's not an image.
It's not like somebody sending a file in a video game. It's literally two dudes talking through a video game interface. But that that conversation in the way that a lot of memos are built is it is localized to the location of those two people in the game. So it'd be no different than, you know, two people sitting on a bench in the outskirts of Virginia having a conversation, which, you know, has never happened in the world of spies, of course. But. Right. That the it's really hard to do.
And they've gotten better at pulling that type of information out of gaming servers. Now. But for a long time, that was the most secure possible communication you could have was a voice communication inside of a video game. That was that global voice, but it was local voice. Right. Well, anybody that plays video games knows what I'm talking about. Well, it's existed. I'm trying to remember when this started. I think it was 1993 or 94.
I remember playing PlayStation baseball with a buddy in California. I'm pretty sure you were not playing PlayStation in 93 or 94. Was it 95? What the whatever the PlayStation, was it the second one, whatever. There was a PlayStation. It was around that time. The three. Okay. Well, Carefree Free is much more recent. That's in 2000. You're getting whenever it was, it was one of the PlayStation thingies. Okay. But that was back to like right about the time I got married.
So that's like right around the the mid-nineties. I an 85 PlayStation. The first one came out in 95. Well, that was it. And it was amazing like, oh my God, you could you could put the headset out and talk to the person you were playing. And it's like you always figured, how would you get a monitor that all the channels that they were ready to monitor, this was not one of them.
Although, again, I guess if if Sony or whoever was controlling those servers let them in, then I guess they could probably pick and choose whatever they wanted to grab it. That had to be so much data. Well, and yeah, I mean, a lot of data, but also the if you had access the server, you would need to know of the thousands of audio canned receptions that are localized that are happening in there. You'd have to either get copies of all of them in real time. Well, that's true. Or whatever.
You know. It was good life. Exactly. You remember Second Life? I'm Adam. Have a big island on that thing. I remember that. Yeah, it was. It was basically casino. I had a little bitty casino. I ran in second. I bet you did. What was it, a casino or a brothel? That's your main two occupations in Second Life. You have to make money somehow. Uh huh. Uh huh. Now there are lightning casinos, which I very just giddy, I think by areas. Yes. There's ads for those that I've seen a lot.
It's a because how do you with the laws there's really nothing anybody can do. You can gamble from anywhere you want. You want to play poker for real money. That's lightning. You can do. This. Well, that's a good way of putting it. Or what? I mean, you're basically giving poker chips when you buy this stuff. Yes. And you can't ever cash them out, but just poker chips as well. Use them may use them to gamble.
You could bring one casino's poker ships to another casino and potentially cash from out into the other brand of poker chips. But nobody ever gets cash back out of this stuff. And it does feel like a whole different thing when you're doing a donation, as I did, I think it was last week. And to Adam Curry and Dave Jones, podcasting 2.0, I sent a half a million SATs. Yeah, so half a million. What is that, like 200 bucks? Yeah.
But it doesn't even feel like a hundred bucks because it sets, you know. It does. Well, yeah. I mean, I know you could get this back into Fiat if you really wanted to. Yeah, but attached to. It, I mean, there's a slight percentage cost. I like to throw a decent amount of what I get from those donations to those guys because. That's the other reason. They exactly. The reason they didn't feel much is because you got it for free. Right? Well, this is it.
It wasn't like I put money into it. This is this for me. It's the vig. Because Adam and Dave, this whole lightning thing come around. So I'm like, okay, I take a percentage of the stuff that comes in and then I send it their way because that just feels right. But it also doesn't feel like real money. So it's a weird right. It's a weird man. And Adam has gone on record and said that everything he gets, he never converts to your salary. It's all sitting there.
Yeah, which means of this bitcoin is it's going up today. If Bitcoin starts going up, up and up, this is going to keep looking like a better and better one. So it's going up. I think donations will start going down right? The lightning, it's like, oh, we said John, hundred thousand. That's today. I'm going to send you like 3000. Just a sec thinking God damn. And I wish there's a way to reverse those things.
It is a question that people want to get rid of their SATs when it's going down that what it's going up to. I got I'm going to save it. Uh huh. Well, because you have future value to think about and if it's on the way down, if we're if we're in a bear market, the future value correct inflation rate, the future value for it, they'll be worthless. We know you might as well use them now. Yeah, we know. There are people that tell the story of back in the day, they bought a pizza for 12 bitcoins.
Yeah. Yeah. And I, I've never done that, but I do have friends my good friends that back one sad for around the Seth when bitcoin was around 100 bucks not 26,000 but around $100. We're super happy when Amazon let you buy Amazon gift cards for sex. Yes. Well, yeah. And it was a it was one of the best ways to convert, as I keep saying, that it was the best way to convert Bitcoin. Yes. Into US dollars to by Amazon.
Services that will do that for the lightning it it seems like it I've looked it to them and it's not bad you can turn in it's like a 3% vig to that. So if you turn it, if you want $100 Amazon gift card, you're going to give them 103 bucks to the SATs, which really isn't bad. That's not a bad ratio to turn that into something you can spend in the real world. I don't think. Anyway. Hi. Yeah, I guess it's it is interesting but like I said, it's, it's kind of a joke.
But it's also true that my, the number of SATs and my wall dips going up is amazing, though. They're still good. The value remains the same. Yeah. How does this happen? And I should say the value compared to the US dollar remains the same. Value compared to the ruble is actually going down. Well, that is the intriguing part. And I've seen a couple of people talking about this recently on the socials, which we've talked about here.
This was Bitcoin and all the cryptocurrencies were allegedly going to be the hedge against inflation. And that's been proven 100% wrong. It is following. Exactly. What is going on with the US dollar. Now, you can't have a hedge against inflation, you can't use readily. This is this is this has to do with the liquidity issue is because even if you could buy pizza $0.04 or four bit buy in general, it's a much more complicated process there. Lot fewer choices than using U.S. dollars.
So for the most part, if you actually want to spend out of your Bitcoin account, you you have to convert it to U.S. dollars. Now, I know that there's a growing number of stores and companies that are willing to accept Bitcoin, but but if you check, they're all accepting it at a worse rate, conversion rate than what you'd be able to do if you use the large bitcoin sellers out there and did the conversion. If you would do it yourself or. Amazon gift cards for that matter.
I think where we're going is you're going to see the major credit card companies decide that they will also accept payment in crypto, but they're just going to charge more. Yeah, yeah. Don't charge more. Which again, it's because they're doing the conversion. They're not just there's no I can't categorically say there isn't one, but there is for most people, not really a native bitcoin economy out there.
Like can you pay for a lot of things with Bitcoin if you accept the idea that the first step is going to be converting it to U.S. dollars, then yes, you can pay for tons of things in Bitcoin. Right? It's not like you, Salvador. That said, every business has to accept Bitcoin as payment. Right? Right. And most most companies like it. Next time go, they'll find a gas station. They'll just take Bitcoin natively. I haven't run across that.
Maybe there are some, but I just haven't seen it. So. And if they do, if they put a little sign up to say, hey, we now take Bitcoin. When you go up there and I've done this a couple of times and it's just so how's your bitcoin work? Oh, well, we've got this machine, and all you do is you punch in here, you send it to Bitcoin and it will then generate a check to the to us. So all they've done is effectively put in a, a money conversion box right into their establishment.
They're still getting paid with U.S. dollars. But there's also like. There's still. A point because there's a machine that'll take it. Yeah, but with the with that example, getting gas is a bad one because at this point it's still 1020, 30 minutes before. Oh yeah, it's using Bitcoin. So that's yes, yeah. The SATs go a lot faster. That they're almost instantaneous. Yeah. But the actual bitcoin now, the cost is lower than it was because Chinese, you know, miners aren't making the point anymore.
But when they were making like it could easily cost you 5% transaction fee just to send bitcoin. And the first time I remember I paid that, I was like, this is ridiculous. I don't never have to pay 5% just to send money. Like, I have cash, baby. That's crazy. Well, no, you've got a lot of other ways. I mean, shifted a money order only cost. Well it's it's either free if you have enough money in the in your bank account or like 20 bucks for pretty much anybody or less.
I think Walmart will do it for ten bucks so. You can get really cheap at the post office or set up the money order. Yeah, exactly. And even if you want to go the high tech route and do a wire transfer that's usually under 20 bucks and that nobody takes a percentage of your money that way. Nobody legitimate. Anyway, I'm sure there's some, you know, some non legitimate businesses out there that'll do it. Yeah. We wouldn't like. Big, big cash. Cash loan companies. Right.
We'll do it for you for a very small and reasonable fee. A small 5% transactional fee, and that with a $10 minimum. Now, how many would you like to send? $50 now? No, I would not really go running. Well, that was like the other day when I went into the post office and when we got our P.O. Box. I know the dude only gave me one key. So this is very inconvenient because. I might not have left there with just one. You should have insist on staying until you got to fees. That was my mistake.
I didn't even think about it. Yeah. Then when I went in to ask at a later date, like, well, how do I get a second key? Oh, we could do that for you, blah, blah, blah. Like, great. I was like, okay, how much? And they're like, 20 bucks or something stupid. Like what? They're like, Well, five is for the key. And then 15. I'm like, Well, the no, I'll just keep inconveniencing you by asking what's in the box if I don't have the key. Mm hmm. So, I mean, that makes a lot of sense, I'm sure.
But, I mean, I had a fun. Story when you said Box. I didn't think you meant actual post office box. You mean one of the multitude of, like, FedEx stores or U.P.S. stores or something? This is the actual P.O. Box and an actual United States Postal Service Post Office. So. And acronym stick. Yes, I know, but is this is what is literally a mile from the house and they're actually cheaper than the FedEx and UPS versions. I'm sure there maybe is a mailbox, etc., or something around them.
I mean, it also to be fair, the post office P.O. box rates have gone way up over the last couple of years. So I need to relook at the pricing again and see if there is a better option. But no, this. Was well, you have a fun story with U.P.S.. You are FedEx. FedEx, yes. Well, I actually don't because. Well, I do. And I don't because I wasn't me. I was you, which is also a great part of the story, which I mean, everybody knows I like Taylor Swift.
She was selling autographed vinyl and you could only order for. So when the autograph thing came out, I ordered for that. I ordered four to my parents address and then they came for me that they came back and I was like, Hey, gee, I need more, I need a fix. And they were popping up and then going away. So it was like they maybe they found they had a few more and then it would disappear.
So I know you would if you were around, I knew you would be quick and indeed, boom, you got the order in and it goes out. Like a very well. I mean. Yeah. And now I'm getting junk mail from Taylor Swift. Thank you. Which is funny, because there's people that are mad about the mail that they sent out today, but we can get around to that. In. A in a minute if we want.
But the thing is, with FedEx or anybody, you know, they and it's like, well, I could have had you shipped to my house, but the one time when I split it up because I have a credit card that's also at my parent's address, you know, that's the mailing address of the last time I ordered some of the autographed nice to my regular haul, but I ordered some autographed ones and set them there figuring well okay, it's the same name, but it's different address.
So of course there can be one more than what Darren O'Neal, right? I would think. Sure. And they flagged it and they weren't going to send it and they had to argue with them. And they were like, Oh, well, that was a mistake. I'm guessing it might have been the fact that I ordered right after each other and I probably didn't change my IP address, but it's like, well, that still shouldn't make a difference when you're talking about if you get four per customer, if it's a different address.
I would think it would be different. Yeah, I mean I would just assume they said four per customer and put a four limit per order, but I would be shocked if they're actually having countermeasures in place to or. Seems like they did, which was the by this time I'm like, well, okay, I would order a number that. You just spewed something up, made yourself think they did. These things possible. I shouldn't have tried that because I could have just sent it to myself for the P.O.
Box Terminology Order it sent it to the P.O. Box. I'll pay you. That. If you could just, you know, use somebody name and put the order in yourself. Well, but they go by, I'm sure, the credit card. And you have a VPN so you could change your IP address all the. Time. I could. I don't have multiple credit cards, although there are. That's another service I saw when looking at people. And I don't think people. I but people would all still be attached to the same address. You have just one paper.
Yeah. Should I have more than one? You don't have a separate PayPal for podcast. No, each podcast. Oh, my God. I know you're. Intermingling, you're co-mingling. That's illegal. Which is why I have to download the the database there. Excel spreadsheet and then go by line by line and. Just not have a separate PayPal for each podcast. Dude, they're free. They're literally free. I don't know, will they let you even do that? You can have as many people as you like.
That I did not know I was muddling the waters. Oh, that's not good. I'm positive now that I can do a whole bunch of money. Now. You owe me a bunch of money. That's possible. Yeah, I'm due a bunch of money. I show you the spreadsheet. You can have them. You could deal with them if you want. I that's why I love when anything that is an oddity if you just click the donate button they marked every one of my PayPal random thoughts by that raid reload relenting.
But if you don't then that just blank it. I have to go through. It'd be like what does this go to. Am. I want to be fair I want to make sure the funds although I mean you always tell people not to donate. So maybe I should just put everything into, into a different show here. That's not a bad idea. I can start doing that. But in this case, I. Would break that stuff up by showing it do. It'll make your life easier. And that way you have a very easy. The accounting would be way easier.
Yeah, the accounting would be easier. And you know how much came in from which thing. So this will be that is easy enough with these the spreadsheet. But if I can do that that's a great that'll be nice and easy to do that for the first of the year where I could just separate. Yeah, there you go. That started sort of in the first year. And that way everything will be separate. But in this case. Yeah. You got the thing ordered. Yeah, I do now. I didn't think this would even be an issue now.
And you're asking me in detail. I first to do said, which shipping method would you prefer? It'll go all the way up to an overnight for like 80 bucks or something, you know? Didn't want it overnight. Yeah, clearly you did. I didn't want to pay for overnight. Oh, you're you're getting a little robotic here. This is a first. Well, I. Oh, man, it's it's my voice. It's a computer. No, it is. It's like, say, lightning. Now, that's weird. I'm right by it. Maybe a connection you could.
Well. I don't know if he's going to let me refresh or are you back thermal. No, it's still going which this is a long, lay, long breathing area. Yeah. Okay, I'll refresh. Mark it. Still doing it. Refreshing right now. Jean is refreshing. We're getting ready to test this connection again. Now we're back. Yes, you're back now you sound better. All right. Yeah. But yeah, it offered the more expensive shipping, and I'm like, There's no reason. Yeah, you're like, dollars free.
I'm like, they don't have free. They'll charge you eight bucks no matter what. So it is what it is. Well, and this was the. Okay, what? I didn't think it would even be an issue when you sent me the thing and it was sent to the P.O. Box Address, which our P.O. Box let you do if you give the Street address. A lot of people don't know that if you have a P.O. Box check with the postmaster, check with somebody at local office.
But ours is like, hey, you want to you want to get FedEx here, you want to get UPS or whatever. Just use the street address and put the number down instead of putting P.O. Box three, five, eight, just put number 358. Unit 358, Suite three, five, eight. We'll figure it out.
And I didn't even really pay much attention that you sent it to your name, which was not any kind of a problem until the problems began, because you didn't send it to Darren O'Neal at that address, you said that the G never really have been. They never asked me. Right. Well, it's like this. They're just like shipping. What they asked me was. Yeah, what they asked me is, what's the name of the credit card? And then what street address would you like?
That's in two. Days. So there was no option there. And delivery. They originally attempted the delivery on Saturday, which I knew was going to be a clue because the post office is only opened like noon or one on Saturday. Yeah, yeah, that didn't. Work. So they missed it. And I'm like morons. So then Monday comes along and I'm watching the tracking because I'm like, well, if it's, if it's at the right time, I'll run out and get it or ask the wife to pick it up at large, whatever.
And it's not getting they're not getting they're not getting there. And I'm like, okay, it's after five. They're going to missed it again. And it like 545. The thing updates with customer moved or address incorrect returning to sender. Uh huh. That's great. And I was like, what the hell is going on? Yeah. So I was on the phone with FedEx within minutes of that being flagged. And customer service is the most inept, most unhelpful group of people. Oh yeah. I've I have to have that.
The local guy that actually delivers is great, but customer service is FedEx. You're better off just driving to FedEx and then talking to them in person. Which we have a FedEx place right here in our town. It's like a new little thing. But again, here's the thing. What I'm thinking is if I have to go into the location, the package says to Gene have to leave. They're going to be like, well, let me see your I.D. That's funny. And I'll be like, fuck, you know, I'm not.
I'm doing identity theft here, guys. So do you mind would you mind just giving it to me and not worrying about what my name is? Right. Help a brother out. I can give you the information on the package. That enough? Yeah, I mean. Well, what do you need? I'll go steal. Look it up. I mean. I tell you, I get somebody on the phone and I'm like, What's going on with this? Yeah. And the first guy, which I don't think FedEx at this point, has anybody in the United States actually answering phone calls?
No, God forbid. Which I don't mind as long as people can understand the words that I'm saying and the vice versa. Yeah. But this guy was like, well, no, you're going to have to contact the company. I'm like, Well, what do you mean I'm going have to contact the company? Well, this particular service that they used, which was also an oddity here, is that the service of the FedEx page said it was smart post. Which smart post? If you ever got FedEx smart post, they bring the package.
FedEx does to your local post office. They'll figure now the post office does the last mile. Last mile, yep. Correct. But for some reason, they kept saying this was FedEx economy, even though the web tracking said it was smart post. Cause I was like, what I saw was smart post. I'm like, this is great because, you know, who knows where the fucking post office is? The post office has. All over this by now, but no, because it was FedEx economy, they couldn't open up a ticket. I was told.
And I was like, you know what? If anybody from Universal, Taylor Swift, who sent out like a half a million copies of this record. Uh huh. Maybe want to know that FedEx is like shaming you for not using an expensive enough service. I've never heard of that company. Okay. Okay. It was not Taylor Swift that used the cheapest service. It was use. Universal is the. Cheapest. Service. No, it was universal music. It was for Darren O'Neil that that was give them an opportunity. My name wasn't.
Used as much better service and asked, would you like to use a service that will not lose your package? Or would you like to have your package lost? See that you said. No, no, no. I want I want the service. Of course, nothing. Okay, we don't have that. Okay. Give me the one that costs the least with the highest opportunity to lose my package. That's that's. The question. That should be a disclaimer out there.
If you choose this option, there's a 5050 chance your package is never going to get there. Yeah. If you pay more, it's a 75% chance that you'll get it. There's still a chance you're not going to. Yeah, there's always a chance, that's for sure. And it's always been things in my history. Any time I've bought something expensive that I need right away, like, say, a new computer, that's when there's always delays and problems with delivery.
That's when you get a a and I've had this happen more than once. And unfortunately, again on ship that that was electronic they they didn't want just sitting there as you'll get a little notice and in the delivery thing and FedEx or UPS that are almost interchangeable that said attempted delivery nobody of the address. Right and then there's no note on your door. Oh, hey, motherfuckers. I have a ring camera. I can look and see if you were here to deliver. Oh, you were not. You never showed up.
You never stopped at my house. But you decided to go eat a burger instead and just market as nobody home. Pretty much that. Has happened to me more than once where there was no attempt to deliver, but it was marked on a website as delivery attempted no one home. Well, that's what they tried here. But even worse, because then they said, Customer, move it. It's like, okay, asshole at FedEx gets to the post office. I can't believe it's cursed. That he used to live in the post office.
You no longer live it right? You must move. I must have got away. But we find a tent out front or something here. I don't know what we're looking for, but you know what it is to mark this thing down then? Yeah. Customer The. Incorrect address. It's like, I can't believe we're not the only person ever to use this to get a package delivered. It's like there must have been a house there. But that house no longer exist because now there's an old post office at that location.
So this must be clearly the person. Must have. Moved right up. You know, that was the infuriating part when they're like, well, we really can't even open up a ticket because the the service here was economy. And I'm thinking, you know, the post office can look up anything from anything that was sent priority mail so a FedEx can look this up and I'm like, well, what am I supposed to do that? And they're like, Well, it'll be attempted another delivery tomorrow.
And I'm like, Well, that's not what your web page says. Your web page says Shipping back. Yes, yes. It's returning to said without it. I'm like I'm like, give me somebody else. Okay, sir. And then I get a woman in India. I'm assuming that goes through the same thing and why she can't be helpful and says, really, you should contact the company and that is where I snap. My wife was looking at me like I was then. I said, You know what the reality of this was? I should have been rolling tape.
I should never call anybody on my my regular phone. I should call them from my Google voice number and run a recording so I can have it for a podcast or something. Yeah. Yeah. Because that would have been way more entertaining than just entertaining my wife. But sir. This woman tells me it's like, you know, call the company, and I'm like, Mm hmm. What do you what company? Well, call the shipper, and I'm in. I just went off, and every. I'm not exaggerating.
I think I got fucked in, like, every second to third. I'm like, yeah. And I'm just like, What the fuck do you mean? Do you want me to fucking call the fucking company and fucking tell them that FedEx can't fucking deliver to the correct fucking address that's on the fucking package because they're a bunch of fucking lazy motherfuckers. I mean, what do you want me to fucking tell them? Wow. I mean, that was my wife was just like, what the hell's going? Had enough of the contact.
I want my Taylor Swift, dammit. It's not even that. Not even. What was it like? Contact the company to tell them what the address is. Correct. But FedEx is fucking stupid. Now, that's one way to do it. I mean, it's. Like, wow. Okay, okay. This is. This is never lead up to what happened. Well, okay, so I started dealing with the FedEx folks on Twitter who at least seemed intelligent and were trying to help, were very apologetic. So you got zoomers now that are in the mix. Okay, probably.
And this is very much like dealing with Comcast. The only way to deal with Comcast support is through Twitter. Yeah, you will get things done. It's hilarious. It's true. When I've had to deal with the airlines, that's the only way they ever get back to you is Twitter. It's bizarre. It is very bizarre. But here's how it was left on Wednesday, Thursday night. Whatever it was, it had to be.
No, it well, whatever night it was, the person told me, well, I got somebody at the local mokwena thing and I'm like, Well, could you do a redirect? Because if that's the problem, they're like, Well, we can't guarantee service between nine and five because that's not the service that was paid for. I'm like, But the post office closes at five. I'm like, I can give you an address to do a redirection. And they're like, Well, okay, we will.
What's your what's the best phone number to reach you at, I guess the phone of. Mr. Naftali of. Right. Well, this is it. The whole time they're referring to me as Gina. I'm so sorry. Yes, we're so sorry, Gina, about your package. My Twitter fucking account is at Darren O'Neil, but that doesn't matter to the people at FedEx. And because the first people, it's sitting there waiting at the FedEx and I'm like, can I pick it up?
And I'm assuming by the time there was enough markings on this account, I'm sure there was a note that the person is unhinged and ready to like rip somebody's throat out gasping. They didn't want Mr. Neff to leave showing up at the location. And I'm like, Can we do a redirect? And they're like, Okay, yes, we could do a redirect. You have got the guy at your local FedEx. What is the best phone number to reach you? Because I guess the number that you had on there was disconnected.
They tried that number, I guess, for further information on on shipping. I don't recall putting a number in there. It was a901 area code, whatever that was. I do not have a name number. Okay. Well, this is very interesting as well. No, here's the number where they can contact me. And I left. Okay. So you're some random dude off Twitter that's just trying to get FedEx to redirect somebody else's mail. Yes, yes. Yes. Yeah. But here's the funny part.
That was how we left it that the guy from the Hub going to call with further information and nobody ever fucking called. The next day it showed up at the post office in the morning. Oh, look at that. Okay, so there was a just a note that says deliver before five. There's also a big thing written. Well, there's is a return to sender written on the package. And then there is another big sticker which is written, that recipient verified. This is the correct address.
So it's like you people are so fucking stupid. It's a post office. I mean, I don't understand why it was that difficult, nor do I understand. It's like a one never ship FedEx because if you do it, you ship aground economy or whatever this was. Well, the only answer is they can't help. So there isn't. Well, I guess there is now. There never was a FedEx ground that was not a thing. FedEx was a company that specialized.