050: Money For Hotness

You got your tea? You got your. Get my tea. You. Hello and welcome to the least fanfare episode 50 of any podcast known to man. This is unrelenting. Episode 50 And it's also it's numerology. It's also 11 1122 episode 50 And the support shown for this show has been a tremendous, tremendous in a different way, tremendous in a very low way. But that's okay because this show still is and always will be. It's unrelenting. Yes, it is unrelenting. Yeah. Will always be unrelenting.

That that's kind of the definition. Is it? How are you doing. Even if no one's listening? I'm Darren O'Neil. He is surging, as it says in my. That's Ray Clean. He was sitting. Where we last left you as we upset a whole lot of people cutting you off at the end of last episode. Well, no, that was not a we. That was a you. Well, it's the it's the royal week. Uh huh. People are like, it's over.

Like, Jean was right in the middle of a thought and I'm like, Yeah, but if I don't cut them off at some point the show goes 48 hours. It's like we got a hard stop, man. The radio station is going to cut us off here. I'm pulling the plug on Jean. Yeah, the affiliates are. Yeah, we have to cut his microphone. We have reclaimed our time, and we have to cut the microphone. For a second there. A sinking ship with I talking about it again. It could be. Yeah. Now that's all YouTube.

Then I'll cut you off. Oh, right, right, right. So yeah, we had the election and I have to say right up front, you were correct. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. All the reports coming in, we're like, it's going to be a big win for the Republicans. And while it seems they might somehow eke out control of both the Senate and the House, there was no there was no huge wave of support. No. I mean, you know, there was the flip on the House side, which obviously is a good thing and not forget about that.

But yeah, this is a smaller flip in the midterms, the smallest one in the last 20 years. Yeah, a lot of people don't realize usually whoever the incumbent party is loses big lead in the midterm. That's typical. And where they did here, not massively. And this is going to come down to and again, the magic number.

If there's one thing we've been taught by no agenda, the magic number pops up in the first 24 hours after everybody knowing there was going to be a runoff in the Georgia Senate race between Warnock and Herschel Walker. Herschel Walker, his campaign brought in. How much do you think? Yeah, 3.3 million donations. Donations? That 3 million? Not over 3 million. 3.3 million in year. That means there's something to watch here. That means they're done. It means there's something to watch.

A good been there. Done? Yeah, it's going well. See, this is the one thing I hate about the runoffs. And we had massive amounts of arguments with people about ranked choice voting and the one thing I really hate about the way things are done, the way they are now, are these runoff elections. Because there's no reason why. And this is the same thing that happened two years ago in the Senate. There's no reason why the people of Georgia should have that kind of pull.

And I understand their vote is their vote, but you should never know. Like you're going to be the one place that's the tipping point. I really like runoffs. I would love it if every state did that. I think that would be much better because what that allows you to do is to vote with your conscience on the first vote and be practical. And the second vote you. Go, Yeah, I'm looking at my. And the Libertarian Party.

You would start getting 15, 20, 30% of those elections coming in, which would be awesome because again, I'd never have been a Republican. I voted Republican quite a bit, but I would much rather vote Libertarian. And, you know, that's one thing that voting for Russ Brah taught me is that's how you get Bill Clinton. I'm Ruth and you're the boss. But this strikes up that Georgia now the whole country is watching Georgia. There's tons of money. Lindsey Graham's like, I'm moving down to Georgia.

We're going to get Herschel elected. We're going to do nothing. Yeah, Lindsey just wants to do something else with Herschel. I think perhaps you never know. We're pretty sure. But this whole God's, the. Royal royalty. That we have to care about Georgia, that they know that their voters it's that well, it's not holding more and. It would not make any difference if there was an actual landslide.

Like it like if if there is already a Republican majority in the Senate, Georgia's vote would just snap man it on me talking about it, correct? Well, this is why the runoffs are a bad thing when it's like, well, everybody else has figured out who their states are going for. But you guys. Yeah, you're now. No, I think the way to solve that is just to do it the other way around, to have the runoffs a week ago and to have the final elections the same day as everybody else. I would agree with that.

I think there should be then a primary and that that should always be down to the final two candidates up. No, no, no. This two candidate bullshit is bullshit. It's thing you're going to get. This is why. We're as fucked as we are is because we only have two parties. Well, the people with the two most votes, that's not doesn't even matter in California. That's two Democrats. Okay, well, fair enough. That's a good point. But in Alaska, it was two Republicans, a Democrat.

And of course, Democrat wins. With their split. Right, which is why you have to get down to the final two, not the five. Exactly. Both Democrats are the final two are both Republicans that great? You know, one of them's going to win. So you have that. You know, you go head to head. Exactly. Yeah. I don't know. I think that, uh, I don't I don't see the Republicans getting Georgia. Well. I think the Democrats know exactly what they need to do in Georgia, and they're going to do it.

I think both sides know what they need to do. Yeah, but except that the Democrats can do more of the doing than the Republicans. But can they, even after this hateful and obviously racist law has been in effect in Georgia, it's amazing how the. Oh, yeah. That didn't really play out for the Democrats. Yeah, I think they'll still be able to. Stacey Abrams lost again, though. How come she okay? Why can't they cheat well enough to get her elected? Because I'm sure they like her.

I thought so, but we don't know. I guess, who they actually are. And they're just like that. Screw you. It's like veto. Like, yeah, you can keep running, but yeah. So yeah no never get to. There is, there's a couple articles I saw in the liberal media that were saying, you know, this is Vito's final knockout. Well, he's definitely gone through a lot of donor money. With nothing to show for it. Yeah, that's the problem. Zero to show for it.

Well, there was actually somebody at MSNBC, to be fair, I don't know if this was one of their regular commentators or whatever they've got there, but there was somebody on MSNBC, I just saw the headline and I know headlines can be very deceiving, but the headline was MSNBC. Somebody is touting a feather in Abrams ticket for the Democrat presidential. Well, that probably would win then. Can you even imagine that when. They get the word for it?

Yeah, they would somehow. Well, they'd get something for it. It would be entertaining, there's no question about that. Well, my ideal ticket for the coming elections is going to be Santos Kerry. Like now the DeSantis and Trump fight. How bad is this going to get now? I don't know. Oh, it's going to bad. Trump does not want to have somebody challenging him. Well, I agree with that. But I don't believe half the stories I get about, oh, Donald Trump threw a fit and did this and said this.

I believe with. I don't why would you believe it? That's I don't believe it. He's publicly said stupid shit like that. Yeah, but I want to see him publicly saying the stuff that he did. That's the point. But where's the zero? I have so much dirt on the sentence. Even his wife doesn't know. Where's the audio of all this stuff? There's some of it out there. And I know Trump will go after. I mean, these sanctimonious it's it was very funny because he pulled that line out.

These sanctimonious dissenters. Yes, he. Pulled it out in Philadelphia. But then he went down to Florida and he's like, oh, you're wonderful. Governor is getting real. Yeah, you should be a governor then. Forever. Yeah, you're great, governor. Just the state governor in Florida. He doesn't like the concept. He doesn't want competition. I get that. But DeSantis is the one person. In fact, actually one that. Actually had the red wave.

Not that he just won the even flip Miami Dade County, which is Perry. Which is awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Now. So if you're seeing that, you're going well, okay, now on a national stage, what the Republicans need. It'll be interesting. It'll be interesting. You need somebody that can flip those blue areas and Trump cannot do that. No. Well, absolutely to do that. And much as I like what Trump says with his policies.

That's what I was trying to explain to a buddy of mine yesterday who is a very Trumpist day is I said, look, here's the here's the issue is that the the core base on both sides will always vote for the party no matter what. Yeah. Okay. And you're part of that core base, buddy. Yeah. And so if you're your voter, it's like, no, it's it it doesn't matter because everybody knows what you're voting. But here's the issue.

In that middle gray area of people, and I'm not even going to say anyone's going to flip their vote. Here's the difference. They'll either come out to vote or they won't come out to vote. And if Trump running, some of the people that would come out for the census to vote are not going to come out and vote for Trump. And I think the Republicans had. And I'm worried about I'm not voting for Trump. I said this before the midterms is that I'm done with Trump. I think he's a liability at this point.

I think it's DeSantis or if somebody else comes up in the next two years. But it should not be Trump because Trump will lose the election and we'll have another four years of a Democrat. We need somebody that's competitive. And Trump, as much as you may love what he did in a bull in a china shop scenario, he is too much of a liability because what he does is he motivate the Democrats to try harder to make sure he doesn't win. Yes, they're so afraid of him. But are the Democrats at this point.

It's frayed around. They're not afraid of him at all. They just hate. Him. They are they're not afraid of Trump at all. They totally if he didn't do shit the first time, he didn't do anything, he left the same people in charge. That's the thing is, he's he was a failure as a president in terms. And now I will say that in terms of foreign policy, he did very good. But in terms of domestic and hiring the right group of people to actually change things for the better. Nothing happy people.

Nothing at all. Not to me here was also excellent. And if the economy was. Hovered, the economy would have been flying so high that there was no way Biden would have gotten elected. Biden probably would affect the economy up, but it got fucked up even more with Biden because of COVID. Oh, there's no question. So, I mean, I do think that any Republican would do better domestically on the economy than any Democrat. But there's no magic there with Trump.

What I wanted Trump in office for he achieved, which is to be a bull in a china shop to confuse people. And he did that very well with the foreign policy because everybody from Russia to North Korea was like, we have no idea if this fuck is going to push the nukes. Like, he is crazy. He's he's not somebody that is predictable and he's not. And so that was good, but now he is predictable. Now we've got four years of his record.

Now we know what happens and now is not the time to vote for a guy that's basically going to be a lame duck for the entire four years. Well, that's also true. There's no question about that. Do you think the midterm is actually have a red wave? If the Republicans would have gotten in front of the abortion issue because it was a way bigger issue, it seems that anyone. Could predict it. I don't think it was. I think the abortion issue.

We have to just go by the polling and this was one of the main issues which is insane them because how many people does it does it affect? Are they how many people get abortions? Right. Right. Um, no, I think that this is a a red herring that is being pushed by the media to make people on the right side of the aisle think that this is why your lost is because of abortion. I really think it's a red herring in day to day life and just talking.

And I you know, I know plenty of Democrats and fortunately, no one brings up abortion. Or they're like they. Don't. Disappear. Right. Yeah. And they but they you know, the thing that they bring up, honestly, is that like Gavin Newsom is going to keep bumping up their taxes in California because a lot of them that I know, it's the law in California. And they start voting for. Off somebody for, well, there is no alternative. I mean, again, it's like a Democrat versus Democrat state.

There's obviously not going to vote for a Republican. So the question is, well, Democrats are pushing Newsom. That's get them. It's the epitome of the Overton Window in California. Like we just have to vote for the guy that maybe won't look us. Well, they they're definitely not going to vote for a Nazi, which means that Republicans. Will, of course, because they're bad anybody. All Republicans are not. There's no difference in California. The word Nazi is synonymous with the word Republican.

It literally has the same meaning. And thank you. Trump, by the way, didn't used to be the case. Ronald Reagan's in California. Yeah, but they didn't really like it in California. But at this point, you know, Nazi and the Republican means the same thing. So, again, I think that Trump's got a hell of an ego. Well, no kidding. And the. Big news right here is the other. I don't know if you all realize this, but Trump has a bit of an ego.

And I think that if you watch the well, the people that I watch, let's put it this way, though, meaning a libertarian slash conservative leaning people on YouTube, the people that I often will post on the social, the videos of everyone saying what I'm saying right now, it's like, okay, it's time for Trump just to, you know, gracefully bow out and let people can actually win the elections, move forward because there is a point where the votes against Trump are greater than the votes

against any other conservative running. So how much do you want to motivate your competition to cheat? I'm I, I'm perfectly fine saying there is clearly cheating going on with the Democrats. The question is, how motivated do you want them to be? Do that. Well, if you want to win, here's the thing. For most Republicans, I believe up until a week ago here, within this last week, they're like, well, we don't know who else can win at the national level. And I think DeSantis made a very strong point.

I don't think there's anybody else. I don't think there's anybody else that can come through at this point for the next election cycle that the average Republican would go, yeah, he's a better choice or she's a better choice than Trump, except for DeSantis. Now there's a lot of people that are hoping the two of them somehow combined. And I think that would be a horrible thing. That would be horrible. Yeah. Because this also then puts the stink, if you will.

Let's just imagine. Yep. Defeats the advantage of the sentence by having him means a veep. Veep does nothing. A Veep position is basically. Well, it's called. Fluffer. It's a fluffer position. It's great if you win. But for DeSantis that if you don't win there, you're. You're done right their careers.

And it's like you are now tied to Trump and you will probably never win so that is not now if it if they do actually win that's great but that is a big toss up for DeSantis and I don't know why he would want to do it. Yeah, exactly. So it's a chess game. I think that right now the best thing that people if you if you don't want either a Biden or somebody Democrat else victory in two years, the best thing you can do is donate money for the defense campaign. The no agenda, millennial says.

I can't believe this, but I think I actually agree with the Russian stooge on this. You are bringing some people are like, I can't wait. I don't get it. They agree with you. Yeah, well, this is their wise way. It is. If you pay attention, you won't agree with everybody on every issue. I've predicted, every election that's happened fairly well. I mean, I might miss a race or two here and there, but I've got a pretty good gut feel for this stuff.

And I think right now that the the liability of Trump is greater than whatever he brings on the plus side, it's just you want the other side to not try as hard. And the way to do that is they're going to think, God, this fantasy is a Florida guy. You know, there's no way he's going to win. They're not going to try as hard to go against him. Right.

Because whether what they say is true or not, the scare factor, the fear factor that, oh, Donald Trump's going to get back in and do this, that gets people off the couch. This is how they're this is what they're putting in all their fundraising letters. And I'm like, Adam, I'm on the Hillary campaign list as well. Is there a lot of money to the Hillary campaign? Five bucks, because you need to give them something to stay on, right?

I didn't have to give them five bucks, but they are absolutely using Trump as a way to elicit more funds. And it's not just more funds. It's the get out the vote effort. It's like, do you remember how horrible having those Nazi in that White House was? You know, we had to impeach him twice. And there's this cockroach still won't die. And this is. Not not what you want two years before the election.

Well, I don't believe Trump has this in his DNA to give up, which is unfortunate, because if he would have just maybe we need to send a copy and somebody get a what is what is Trump used DVD, VHS, send them. VHS. Of a copy of war games and that maybe figure out that sometimes the only winning move is not to play and the best thing he could do for the party. Well, that's good. That's why is. Is to pull out and say, you know what, I'm done with politics. You know, he doesn't even have to be.

I don't think there's anything wrong with, you know, him being as or even more involved than the previous presidents. Let me just say, I'm not going to run again. Right. Is what he needs to say. And that would take away so much of the Democrats. If you want to go into, you know, 3D chess, ooh. Then what he needs to do is have these conversations privately, but then publicly talk like he's running and become a lightning rod over the Democrats. Keep focusing on him and all of a sudden dissent.

This comes out of left field and they're like, what. If the she. Thought Trump was going to beat him, huh? It's the shell game and then. Yeah, no. That would be that would put him into a much better, respectable position, in my opinion, if he was to do that, because then he is doing something for the good of the party to get to the people and not the good of Trump's ego. Well, what are the odds. Though, right? Well, with his ego not. But that is what happened with Obama. That's how he got in.

It was like, wait, wait, wait, no. We had we had Hillary. We had Hillary. And no. Who is this guy? We don't know what he that. The whole one term senator. One term senator. Yeah. I mean, they might as well run the AOC. She'd probably win. That. We would have to leave very quickly through the back door. But I'm, I'm, I'm taking my damn seat with me if I'm leaving. Well, there is a big push now for Texas to become an independent state once again. Over 50% of Texas adults in surveys want to leave.

Like we can be our own damn country. It's like, I don't doubt that. I mean, it's not like the Army is. Is the Texas flag is the last flag of the Republic of Texas. Get it? Because literally we don't even have to change flags to leave. It's like we're here. We're we're our own little country. You get to be taken over by Mexico in like a week, you know? That's why I was joking about that.

And of course, the dude named Ben, who's like a 10th generation Texas day, is like, oh, no, no, no. We probably take over Mexico ourselves. So, you know, that would be interesting. But they weren't afraid of the United States. But those Texans, they're fucking crazy, man. Oh, you. Know, let's just get drunk one night, and it's like, wait, we took over. Woo hoo! Oh, jeez. Well, the whole. The whole history of Texas, you got to laugh a little bit.

I mean, you kind of feel sad for or bad for the Mexicans, because the whole reason that people ended up here is because Mexico was given the free land to try and bring in some westerners. Yeah, Europeans. Because this whole territory was nothing with tumbleweed and Indians, American Indians, a Native American. And so they, they were doing offers and I can't remember how much it was 100 acres or something. 100 acres. A mule, whatever it was.

Mexico was the one that was enticing Americans or anybody really to homestead in this territory. And a bunch of guys from Tennessee and Kentucky to manage that because they got into a lot of bar fights back home and people said, you know, you ought to take up that deal with Mexico, you fucker. And so they all moved here and once a year, dad, they're like, Well, we don't want to learn Spanish, right? Screw that shit.

Let's just start up our own country and basically, you know, do a war with Mexico like relatively few people got into a war with Mexico and eventually ended up creating Texas by first losing and then winning.

And then, unfortunately, as Ben says, and I tend to agree with them, they they pestering the United States for trying to get them to accept Texas as a new state, which there was a movement literally from day one of the creation of the Republic of Texas to join the union, not by everybody, but certainly by some people. And they kept failing over and over and over and over until finally there were some bribes paid. And the and I think the political conditions were right.

Essentially, the the US realized that if they don't if they don't take Texas as a state, it's going to become a liability. Well, you look at the maps now, when these voting things happen, these elections happen, and when they color coat the country, it's like 98% red. It's just that the the little blue areas are like everybody living on top of each other.

Yeah. And that's why the the rich liberals called flyover country, because they're not places that anybody live that you give a shit about those are you just fly over those places. Why don't we just take Texas? We build walls around San Francisco, Chicago, New York, and it just create a new country that they're all their own little areas. Yeah, yeah. I've always been in favor of California seeing always. Yeah, it would be better. I mean, they don't. It's always been for California's thinking.

Well, we could do that to. Mm hmm. I can't we make that happen yet, can't we? But we can. I mean, the, the, the, the, the submarines, the Russian subs definitely have the capability to build a tsunami big enough to sink California. But, you know, so far we haven't we haven't convinced Russia to do that. We haven't asked for Russia's help to do that yet. Uh huh. I know there was a lot of big news that Brittney Griner is being moved to a work camp somewhere in Russia and there's Siberia.

Whoo! That's not good. That's. Yeah, I don't know. I didn't teach basketball. And they're still going off. And how they're, you know, illegal that illegally but you know, detaining her without cause it's like but there is cause. There's well and that's the irony is they in the mainstream media you love hearing this illegal war, this illegal detainment. It's like what you that's an opinion, dude. You're you're literally contradicting facts and you're sticking in the word illegal and perspective.

Feel good. Yes. Because you believe it's wrong. You know, they. Shouldn't they shouldn't do that. Therefore, you're. Illegal. It's cool. That's right. You know, it's like I it just blows my mind. But this is where we're at. Yeah. Because people somehow assume if you live in. Yeah. If you're in your mom's basement in Portland, you're like, wait, wait, why would they arrest somebody for having marijuana? That's not right. Uh huh, uh huh.

People I don't know if people really grasp how very different parts of the world are. Yeah. Yeah. And I think I think also people that are more public in the US tend to get away with a lot more. You mean like me? Meaning my panel is a yeah. Yeah, exactly. I think there's a certain expectation of celebrities and by celebrities that, you know, the laws of to the little people, not the celebrities. Well, you can't get past the the MeToo movement now.

The and I have no idea what is true or what is not. But this kind of stuff happening to Warren Beatty now that there's some woman that said when she was 14, he was inappropriate with her, but this is going back like 50 years. It's like is there not a statute of limitations? Apparently not. I like the hashtag. All women lie. Everybody lives. Well. But it's true. And I think it's a hashtag. The time has come.

Well, you see, now that and I think it was the same girl that was tied to Epstein that there were the photos of her death, three or something like that. Virginia Guthrie that had the pictures with her and Prince Andrew Mm hmm. I believe she was the one that had been accusing Alan Dershowitz as being somebody that was involved in this. And she swore up and down, and he's been fighting this legally. And she's finally now come around and said, you know, I was it was a very trying time.

I was very screwed up. I may have been incorrect about that. Like you. Said, you know. This. Whole this whole problem arises from the fact that we don't have legalized prostitution. Well, yes, but forget about that for a minute. The fact that you're accusing somebody and saying, yes, this person definitely did this and then you come around after a while ago, well, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it was somebody else.

Yeah, well, this is the problem without having 100% proof when you go after somebody, because this is ruining people's lives and it's on an accusation. And you're right, everybody lies. So if you're willing to ruin somebody's life on an accusation, knowing the truth, that everybody lies, that. And this is why the United States was originally put down as a nation of laws where you needed proof.

You couldn't just say, oh, this person did this because this is for people who are lying knowingly, who are willing to do whatever it takes to win that election to. Make amount. Of money. There's a big difference between somebody that got raped and somebody that used their sexuality to get something they wanted when they were in their twenties. Oh, totally. But the MeToo movement seemed to have completely flipped that script on its head.

And in a lot of ways, thanks to what's her name, Johnny Depp sex. Amber. Amber Heard, who was one of the original MeToo liars. Yeah. And she was smoking back in the day. He was pretty good looking. I mean, I think she probably still clean herself up right now and look decent. Looking great right now. But she's got good genetics and that's the problem is that sometimes not always, but sometimes people with good genetics really learn how to be a psychopath, which she clearly is positive.

She's a psychopath. I do, actually. Yeah, I think you're right. I have quite good genetics. Well, I think you're absolutely right, the Amber Heard concept, because also you're in that celebrity area, you see that people will believe you just because they want to believe you. And it's an interesting thing. I still go back to this whole concept that equality is never going to exist. There's some gymnast I don't remember her name. Cute little blond gymnast. Hmm. That. Yes, that one. Right.

Whatever her name is. There was a coach like an old coach that the gymnast coach like this is bringing the sport back, you know, years. This is bad for the sport. An idea coming to the right. No, that's not her. She was she was older now. Okay, but whoever this girl is now. Back in my day. Right? That was back in our day. And Mary Lou Retton. And that was the. Now, though, this girl is making seven figures. I think it was like 2 million a year and only fans and the coaches mad about that.

And I'm like, but this has nothing to do with her when she's competing. This has nothing to do with her skills as a, oh. How many years do you think before women are going to start? And it's not just women only fans, but before women start suing only fans for ruining their lives because they were vulnerable and young and stupid and decided to go on there and didn't realize what it would mean and therefore they get to sue only fans. I don't think it'll be that long.

I think it's going to happen very soon. It will. Yeah, it will definitely happen. Is this this cancer? That's not my fault in America is one of the things leading to the collapse of America. Yes, you made a choice. No accountability and then you don't want to stand behind it. But in this case, this is a lot of money. I mean, this is a ton of money, millions of dollars. And the question is, why is she making this money? It's not because she's skilled. It's not because she's a skilled gymnast.

She's making it because she's hot. That's it. There's no other reason. And that's okay. I just I think that it is a trade off. People are trading money for hotness. There is a. Human hotness now. There's a show, right? I know, right. Money for hotness. Sounds like a good show. I'd watch that. There's a a YouTuber who is a guy who dresses like a girl. I think the technical term would be transvestite. I'm not gay. But we're bringing the technical terms into this teaching.

Well, you know, I'd like to make sure people use the right lingo here, but and I posted links to like that from a year ago or something now. And the social but occasionally pops up on my recommended videos something I got to catch up I got.

Yeah there you go. And so basically he was a gamer YouTuber and then I don't know if it was a dare or some kind of drunk thing or something, but he ended up dressing as a girl for one of his YouTube videos while playing video games and he has really good genetics, like he has a very feminine looking face. And just in general. That was considered good for a male, though. I mean, this is I mean in the know. If that's what your goal is this good for his goal? Yes. Yes, you have to.

So here's the reason to guns and knives and shit like that. And he doesn't even pretend to do a checkpoint. So it's very much a guy voice, but he's dressing in very much feminine clothes. And so he was doing this, you know, as on a lark or whatever, and probably donations went way up. He was like a nobody YouTuber gamer. And then he became a holy shit though. Just check out this.

Okay, so here's the thing now and he's gotten shockingly in what I've seen in the past is maybe like a thousand bucks, one, you know, a day's worth of streaming, like, damn, that's good income. I watched a couple of videos. On a lot of women's clothing. Yeah. So people are buying women's clothing for him? Yeah, absolutely. So right now he's got a guy who clearly has money than my, you know, whatever. I don't care what people spend money on. So this guy.

Virtual spaceship I. Know I buy virtual spaceships. You know, technically, I guess I'm I've probably spent equivalent to what this guy's spending this not on other dudes I've to get on and pretend spaceships right but where you sent him last month, 30, $30,000 from one guy. Wow. One guy. And he's getting, you know, just pretty much anything in his size in the female rack at Amazon is showing up in the mail. And this guy is just the top donor guy. I mean, all right. I'll bet she is.

Income right now is around 50000 to 60000 a month. And all he's got to do for it is wear women's clothing. Now, it may be he's just ten on a particular fetish. Then I could totally see that of, you know, people. And I think by people, mostly men who get off on being able to dress another guy up in girl clothing. Is this the point of the conversation, Jean, where you tell us what your dress sizes.

Oh, no. I think that that number I don't even know what that number is, but I am sure it's pretty damn big. So, uh, no, I. I just think it's fascinating how much money people are willing to spend on things that are purely emotional for them. And I mean, I think. Right. What's the benefit of this guy sending him 30 grand worth of donations? Well, he's getting something for it. But what he's getting is not physical. It's purely psychological or emotional.

Yeah, there and I do remember from like six months ago in an interview with our What's Your Name? It's very famous chick that was only fans. Good old. What's her name? Oh, gosh. Well, you've been pretty good at guessing names. The Disney chick. No, no, no. She's something. Something blue or something. Something people. People will know who she is, but she's she's a British chick who dresses kind of like an anime character and processes her eyes.

That's the best way I can describe what she's done and she's, you know, reasonably attractive. But I'm not, like, the prettiest girl you've ever seen. But anyway, they have their booth with her. And the radio station that was interviewing here said like, obviously you don't let me interrupt. No. A gentle millennial says Bell. Delphi. Yes, absolutely. Bell. Oh, yeah, very good. It's a bell. Dolphin.

I was interviewed by some British radio station, I think, and the guy. But like, you know the answer, but you know, how much are you making from only fans and sad right now. About 32 million an hour. Yeah, right. No, 32 million a year. I mean, that is a sizable corporation. That that's that's a successful small business. Is the female only fans performer is a good word I guess is that the equivalent to a stripper like 20 years ago when a guy go into the strip, it's often.

It's a stripper who owns her own strip club and has. Yes. Thousands upon thousands of guys that she's doing lap dances for at the same time. Yeah. I don't know, man. I think that in a lot of ways this is symptomatic of the breaking of parts of the family, the nuclear family, because if men are not spending their money to maintain their family units, they're going to spend their money on things like video games, alcohol and women and that even the women they're necessarily sleeping with.

So I think that this is all tied into feminism. This is this whole idea that women are equal to men and therefore. Oh, no, women. Ought to be. Able to work way better at making mother and only. They're way more equal. Yes, exactly. Yes. Hey, how about some some parity of income and only fans? Let's make sure that everybody gets paid the same. No kidding, man. I have no only mentions that that chick also would sell her bath water and something about killing with the bath water.

Yeah, that's all I thought she did. So bath water, like, super successful. I can't remember. It was something like 100 bucks an ounce or something. Yeah. For bath water. And I just wish I would have figured out this whole Onlyfans thing really early. On, like when you were dealing with all the prostitutes. Right? That's Lorenzo Rocha when the program Metro Room today just said, you know, the Playmate of the Year used to get a car in 100 K and.

Yes. Yeah. And the Don Playmates of the Year barely made anything, which is why they were setting up their own websites back then. But there was no easy way. And this all came down to funding. I mean, if we only had streaming satoshis back then, oh, then that would have been a great way to. Yeah, that's not going to pay the bills, man. 30 million a month versus a handful.

Satoshis No. I'm just saying, if that would have been the case back then, a nice, easy way to move funds around because we didn't really even have that back then. They were using credit cards. I don't. Right. You know, this was a whole different system. But damn, why didn't how. Were you charging money back then? I mean, these were not free websites. You were building some. They were not. But I think a lot of it was sending in payments through to P.O. boxes. I think to you.

You get a little preview, then you mail a check, wait for a week, and then get access. I think you could also take a credit card, but it was okay. I don't think there was PayPal yet. I don't remember who that. You don't need a PayPal. You could just process it yourself if you set it up. Right. As a business. Through a year from now, the. Only thing people really did is allow non businesses to process credit cards much easier.

Yes. And I see that a lot of businesses have now turned to Zelle because of the fact that Zelle. Is bank to bank. It's so they do not have to tell the IRS about the transactions because they don't hold any of the money. I guess this is what separates Zelle from pay. Yeah, I think that's an old wives tale. I don't think that is a thing. I don't think that's at all true. What separates them otherwise? That's from what my understanding was reading.

Zelle is owned by the banking industry, unlike Visa and MasterCard. So it's a way to sell was a response to having to pay credit card transaction fees. That was the biggest thing because it's basically a with between the banks and say look we'll send money you know, from our customers if you send money from your customers without charging us. And so it it's effectively free to the banks, which means it's free to the individuals, at least for now.

I'm sure somebody will start charging for it eventually. But what treats them from if you send somebody money via PayPal, they are required by the government to put that down as a payment tool like a company. And you're going to get a tax form at the end of the year. Zelle doesn't have that. They do. Well, it's all part of the same thing. PayPal is a bank, so when you send money via PayPal, you're really sending money through your bank account held by PayPal.

And so what they're doing is they're providing your banking information to the IRS essentially for PayPal. Your normal bank does that as well. So you just don't have people involved, which doesn't mean the IRS is in the dark about any of these transactions. These are all transactions that show up in your main bank. No. Correct. But there is nothing that is automatically being reported on it, which.

Every every transaction by your bank, as of about two and a half years ago, every transaction over $100 is reported to the IRS. Which is make sense. But I don't understand that really. But it is what it is. I mean, I know that's what they're doing. So this is why this is how it would affect. The it's just going from bank to bank without an intermediary. That's all. It is a bizarre world. There's no question about it, for how all these things are different and how they're affected.

The only way you can transfer money that's not going to show up anywhere is if you don't have a bank account number. Well, but. It's not even the question of it showing up somewhere. It's the difference between and being able to separate. I can give him like, Hey, Jean, I like you. It's your birthday. Oh, here's 500 bucks. Well, you don't have to put that down as income. But you do. Technically. I don't think you do as gifts. I mean.

Their gifts are taxable and there's there's there's certain provisions. There's certain provisions just like nobody pays use tax. You get something without paying income sales tax. You're technically still supposed to pay use tax and nobody ever does. But there is there are certain provisions and limits to what is allowable gift. But, you know, if you send me a gift of a few thousand bucks, technically, I got to pay tax on that.

Now, zealots see, they posted that they aren't required to send out a 1099 K because. They're going from your account to their account. Because. That's because they're not an app and they don't pay pal. And this is this is, I guarantee you, was going to be challenged in court. People shouldn't be sending your 1099 either because PayPal is a bank, it's an intermediary. Your account has your Social Security number.

And maybe that's the thing is, if they don't have your Social Security number, then they're going to send you to 99. But if they have your Social Security number, then it's an account. It's not a it's not a transaction. And it says here. We don't give we don't give financial or legal advice on this show. Just through enter everybody. The quote from Zell says The law governing 1099 does not require Zelda report transactions of the Zelle network to the IRS and the end. User. This PayPal.

You can find information that reporting by third party settlement organizations applies only for transactions for the provision of goods or services settled by a third party payment network. Zelle is not a third party network to facilitate messaging between financial institutions. So that's the difference. You don't you don't have a Zelle account. They're just what you're using. Exactly. That's exactly right. You don't have a Zelle account.

It Zelle is something that your current bank account has as a feature. It's not a third party. It's that's why I said Zelle is owned by created by banks to bypass credit cards. Which makes sense. But also the assumption that anything you get through PayPal is taxable income is also wrong because quite often PayPal is used for paying back loans. Or if you look even small things like you go out to eat, one guy picks up the tab, everybody else sends him PayPal for a few bucks.

That's not frickin income. No. Well, this is it. And this is on Terry Savage's website, who's been around for a long time in different newspapers. I've read her articles saying a key loophole under the current estate and gift tax law, you are eligible to gift up to $16,000 a year to any number of people.

And there is no tax consequences to the giver or the recipient of that gift, which means if you're selling a bunch of stuff through, you know, Facebook groups or whatever it is and it's a personal payment that's being said, you know, as long as it's like, well, that this is just a gift, you know, this isn't a sale. This is a gift of the person on the one. If you remember, people always has you check is this a gift or is this a sale?

They don't with PayPal, if you send it friends and family, I don't believe that shows up on their tax forms that it's only if it is down as gifts and services with that or I'm sorry, as products or services. Because the difference there is. I mean we really should of just stopped using people because they're an evil organization. They're all evil.

But I suspect they probably have like 50 or 60 transactions and people every single month because I use them for things like ordering food online so well, so. Great that there's more than 60 a month that's like breakfast, lunch, dinner. I don't dinner. Third breakfast. Order free meals. Dude, please. You got to order something for the snake. Oh, okay. Update. Remember in the last show we were doing, I you correctly guessed the brand name of the cooker that I was ordering.

Yes, the Cosori Air Fryer filter. How? Why not? Amazon supposed to be 24 hour delivery. I was talking about it because I had already ordered the day before the show and it got lost in the mail. So it was. Never showed up. Or that it was U.P.S. or something. It was Amazon. It was. But I think it was like Amazon but shipped through the normal shipping. So after a few days, I kind of bitched them and they're like, Oh, well, wait a couple more days. It's just show up. Sorry about that.

You're like, No. Anyway, never showed up. So finally like two days ago, the option changed to Lost in the Mail. We're sorry, would you like to reorder? So I'm like, goddammit. Okay, so I finally reordered it and supposed to show off today. Now back to them. I was considering ordering a new one because we've had ours for like two years. There's a new version out. That's probably the one that I got.

And the new version allegedly, like even cooks 20% faster, which I'm wondering how do you do that in an air fryer. If you blow more, I. Guess, you know, it's like it's a temperature. There's a fan, huh? Uh huh. I don't know how you make it cook. And I think that's. Honestly, I think that's exactly what it is. It's just a faster fan, more. Airflow and that speeds things up. Could make. Sense, I think so. I'm not a physicist.

This you're you're trying to get as much air to the food to warm the food up per second to the higher the airflow a particular temperature, the more the warmth, the more energy will get transferred to the food itself. Well, hopefully you'll get that soon. It is a great air fryer. I'm looking forward, man, and I'm looking forward to a square basket. Yeah, that's the main thing because my round basket, there's just been a came and they have. The square basket. I mean there's enough room for.

One while I'm waiting for that, I've actually made stew a couple of times. Ooh, it's getting cold here, dude. It's. It's in the seventies thing, so it's already cold and it's supposed to drop to 39 tonight. Well, I hear it was 75 yesterday. Right now 45. There you go. And tomorrow, highs of the thirties. So winters here. Wow. Yeah, I think it's coming in here as well, which is I mean, it's good. It's about time. It's been a long ass summer.

That basket that was big enough that we had a rotisserie that we got, you know, the pre-made ones at the store. Yeah, it'll fit in that basket. You know. So it's like if you want to, like, reheat that thing up or if you bring it from the store and that's a little cool, you throw that thing in there for about. Five to do, you get to. Set up that skin. It's good. To get the regular sized ones from grocery stores are do get the insane jumbo ones from Costco.

The just the regular I don't think we've ever gotten one now from Costco. I did buy a whole chicken a few weeks ago, but it was way too big for the air fryer. So I just had to put it in the oven for like two and a half hours. But that was still it's so easy to do. I don't know. I don't know why I've never done that before. I just I love making soup in the pressure cooker. It's like 15, 20 minutes and it's super tender. Cooking tips right here on unrelenting.

Well, you got to use these things, right? Because I probably pull out the pressure cooker like once a quarter and then you pull the couple times. You try that again, it goes away. Yeah, it's mostly sits the cupboard like not really getting used. It's like my popcorn maker, you know, it's, it's. Yeah, there you go. I just bought I bought popcorn for the first time in probably three years, just recently. You know what?

The trick to making the perfect at home popcorn to make it tastes just like the movie theater does. With the. Coconut oil. Yeah, like coconut oil. It's good you use that with the in the little, you know, it's one of these nothing. It's a hot plate with a little stick that spins around. That is the grand total of the mechanics of this thing. But it's like an ice cream chair. Using well, just so it doesn't stick to the bottom and all this, but it does make a difference.

I was surprised that the coconut oil, rather than just using a little butter or whatever other kind of oil to make the popcorn, that makes a huge difference with the take. I don't know if it's any better or worse for you, but there you go. Well, they don't use coconut oil, but it's good if you find something that you like. The taste of. Oil. You got to use it, man. Yeah, you got to do it. I love coconut oil. I've been using it for a long time because it has a very high burn price point.

So which is also a plus. You in your house. Down doesn't typically smoke and if you get to a point where you have smoke coming out of your coconut oil. Your walk might be a little. You're doing something wrong. Yeah, it is. It really should not ever get to that point. And once you have smoke, all it takes is a spark and you got fire. Then you've got. Yeah, it's like having a tussle in the garage. Exactly. Just like that. Yeah. During a rainstorm inside the garage, right? Yeah. Yeah.

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Every single interview that I've seen with people that used to work at starts with, well, I don't know how I'm going to be able to afford my Tesla now because they're all getting like 180 grand a year for sitting at home not working. So they they're not making the onlyfans money yet that. Oh, no, no, I Think I don't know if any of them can. Maybe. I'm sure some can. You know, there, there are people that I guess could be decent looking working at Twitter.

But but what are we going to do about this inequity for hot chicks making more money. This can't I. Know that's I got to imagine the women are just really mad about this right now because they all want equity. Yeah. Something has to be done. I think ONLYFANS just need to take all the money in and then split it evenly among all the people that are on their. Rights. Onlyfans slash their gene and then make sure that runs. Yeah. And then make sure that everyone's paid fairly.

Which can only happen if you combine all the tips coming in. Yes. It doesn't matter if you have two people on your list or 2 million, you're going to get the same amount of money. It's like a tip jar, the restaurant, everybody wants the tips. Yeah, they're all. They're making the salad for you, you know? Yeah. Or sneezing and coughing into it or whatever. Yeah, depends. Depends on how you treat yourself as your waitress. That's it, though. Now? Probably not.

I've never worked in the food industry and I'm happy about that fact. You're oblivious to what's actually happening. Exactly. I'm a well, I'd rather make my own food most of the time. Yeah. There you go. I tend to agree with that, except for the times that I don't. Except for all of the times you order food for somebody to bring to your front door. I do enjoy the food at my front. You know, this is a function of fucking COVID. I never used to do this this way.

I always thought it was stupid to pay money for delivery like I can get in my own goddamn car, drive down and pick up the food and eat it they're bringing back or whatever. It was just not a big deal to go anywhere. And then during COVID, a lot of places just were closed for in restaurant food, but they were still there kitchen. It was open and so way more places started having delivery available. And of course you get ubereats and the what is it, food, GrubHub and all these other places, right.

And consequently, I started getting used to the fact that I could just, you know, flip through a bunch of web pages, find something good and have it here about an hour later. And it's a hard habit to break because it's so goddamn convenient. And my meat I like I eat a different meal every single day from a different restaurant. And you I have to leave the house. And and it's not like I don't want to leave the house. It just I'm so used to it now.

It kind of feels like, well, I wouldn't even know where to drive to if I had to go and buy food. Now, like, where? Where are these restaurants? I keep getting fried. Uh huh, uh huh. And I generally I mean, I've worked from home for a damn long time, or at least, you know, mostly from home. Like I've had clients where I fly out there for a week and then I'm home for a couple of weeks and then fly out again for a week.

But but even when I was doing that, I've I've never before covered was ordering food delivery with the exception of pizza. Well when COVID started, well maybe not started, but really accelerated the whole concept of ghost kitchens. Which I think, yeah, fantastic. Which is the restaurant doesn't actually exist anywhere without the app. You can't drive up to it because it's Yeah, this great Chinese food, your order is coming out of the back of a mexican place.

There's a there's a place that opened up a few miles from here that is, I think, one of the new concepts that's being created now as a result of this, which is basically what would have been a restaurant, but it is literally just a kitchen. It is a restaurant minus any of the actual seating area. So it's only meant for pick up and drop off. But it's it's not like a food truck. It's not a hole in the wall. It's a McDonald's size, pure kitchen.

And I mean, they have much better food than McDonald's, but it's it's like size wise. It's a building that size that just houses a kitchen. And you could do anything out of that. And they do. And I think they're they actually they're building them and then they're renting them out to whoever, you know, wants to rent their kitchens about a month to month basis to cook food and sell it. Right. You get your little station. So that way, if you have your own specialty, you are now a restaurant.

Yeah. You're on ubereats boom. Yep, exactly. That's exactly right. And I think the other big business that's kind of benefited from this is photography, because all these little hole in the wall places now, even the crappy ones. And by crappy, I mean that quality of food, but just sides of business. They all have beautiful soul food photos if you look like they don't even have plates because they don't serve people at their location.

But yet an uber eats all their food is plated absolutely beautifully and with good light. And so absolutely there are companies that are like, hey, you want to do Uber Eats? We have the $5,000 package for you that will make your food look like it's a top tier restaurant. Oh, yeah? Who would have thought food photography would be big. Right? Oh, it's kind of like drone Steiger Fee for real estate. Like that was the thing that really brought drones into mainstream was real estate. Oh yeah.

Which you can't not see those. Now if you go looking at any. Hopefully it's all got flying footage now. Yeah. You have to have it along with the really, whatever the lens is that makes every room look five times the size. Yeah. Let's see. Yeah. Yeah. So it's these are rectilinear wide-angle lenses, that's what they're called. So they're wide angle, but they're not fisheye. So in the fisheye you get wide angle, but everything is like. Curved, right?

You can see the distortion. Yeah. So what this lens does is it, it's like fold rectilinear. Is it does the same zoom out kind of view, same perspective, wide angle but all the lines are straight. It is an illusion. It's an illusion. It's what your eyeball would actually see. It's closer to what your eyeball and if we don't see curves out of our eyeballs. But when you look at the photos that line you'll I mean. You mimes. Are huge that you walk into it you're like it was a closet.

Well and but you got to keep in mind like these photos are taken from the top left corner of the. Room. Right. And you can literally see the wall that's five inches away. So what you're because that's an unusual lens to use. We're not we're just not used to it. We're assuming that. Well, if you can see something five inches away, that means the camera's like five feet away. It's five feedback, right? Not so. But it's but it's not.

It's literally showing you if you stick your head right in the corner and look around, you pretty much see the same that that embarrassing. And I always wonder, you know, if there's a big difference with people, then go look in the house. Obviously it works because they're using it everywhere. People are buying houses sight unseen, at least here in Austin. Well, here to I don't know if that's still the case, but it was you know. I think that the market is cooling.

I think it's still pretty good market here in Austin for a seller, but it is cooling. But we have had an artificially high market, literally pricing. Housing prices have doubled in three years. Yeah which is a little bit. A. Little high place an there. Yeah well but but but happened in a big way because all the Californians are selling their their 1950s two bedroom houses for 1.8 million in California and then moving to us and going, what for like 1,000,005. I can get a three bedroom. Right?

So that's what it would Hollywood. Well let's keep raising the prices. Oh, absolutely. That's why I started building smaller houses, but keeping the prices the same. Supply and demand. Baby, it is a beautiful thing. There. Yeah. I mean, the number of million dollar houses that are under 1500 square feet right now is huge. Well, that was at the time we were thinking of moving to the Nashville area. That was before that property there went nuts. And it was like, Oh. It's not.

What we can get here, as opposed to what you can get there. It's not even close. Yeah, it's. I mean, it all depends what you want. I mean, I wish I would have gotten the hell out of Illinois, because there's really no. I know. So do I, man. I mean, it's just like I worry about you with all that crime and pestilence and, you know, evil things going on there all the time. I am locked and loaded, man.

I've got as I like to point out, I think what there's three or four guns within arm's length when I'm very close, little for every podcaster. I have three or four guns. Then I'm just like. Yes, because you never know what's going to happen. I mean, I'm. Feeling a little inadequate here. I've only got one where I'm sitting. As long as you can get to it. That is. That is. If I could just see, you know, you know, if somebody comes through the front door, you got to be ready.

My buddy Rob, I. Just have a shotgun pointed the front door permanently. Oh, well, that works too. So just in case. My buddy Ron God rest. I think my my Amazon Alexa can trigger it. Oh, well, that's that's a little more dangerous because that thing does not always recognize the correct words. Oh, mine speaks Russian. Oh, wait, you. You made your Alexa speak Russian. Oh, yeah, you can pick when she's not now. Oh, yeah, certainly.

Well, see, now if you speak a language that most people don't that will be in your home, that is very convenient, because somebody probably that's what you do with your dogs. Like most police dogs actually speak Croatian or some other place. A lot of them come from Serbia. The dogs usually speak Croatian or Serbian, and so the cops have to learn the command. Little words. I don't know if the dogs actually speak those languages, but I understand. What they they understand that language.

They don't they speak woof, woof. But they understand operation. They're Serbian. Most German shepherds that are in the US police departments are not born in the US. They're immigrants. They're not born in the USA. No, definitely not. But my buddy Ron said years ago that he pretty much predicted this dead guy. Yes, yes. He was always a lot of fun. He was the one that predicted that my wife and I, once we both got our got our 6 hours, that it was all going to end very much like that.

Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie movie. It was Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Oh, yeah. We like sliding across the wood floors while fire and yet each. That was a fun movie I remember I watched that shortly before I got divorced and. Well see that probably helped. Yeah. And I was like, yeah, she is pretty good at the gun range. Yeah. You got to be careful that because you can't outrun a you can't outrun a bullet. Well, if you're into kung fu you can. Oh yeah. You could just wipe it right out of the air. Kung fu.

You just kind of know, you know, tilt your head or lean back and let the bullets fly above you. I've been playing a little too much cyberpunk, apparently, because I know how to get out of bullets. They they still blame that game. That's still I. Am still playing. I'm 350 hours into it. 350 hours now. You do that math, dude. That's a I think I paid 50 bucks for it. Maybe 60. Well, that's way better than a hooker. I mean, that's better than any form of entertainment I can think of for the money.

Is it the rarity, though? How many games do you buy? And then you're like, This sucks. And it's like after 2 hours, you're double was half. Probably half. C That's it. You just get. So in those cases it's really just good marketing that gets you in. Yeah, it's, it's like either watch somebody playing it or they or, it literally is just like good marketing on steam. There's like, Oh, this looks like a neat game. And you get into it, you're like, What the fuck? This is confusing as hell.

You're like, the main character in the game looks at Scarlett Johansson, and then that wears off. Yeah, yeah. Well, in this game, one of the main one of my created characters definitely looks like Scarlett Johansson. Phifer says there are definitely just satisfying hookers, too. Sounds like that's an experienced experience. The statement there. From game player. Yeah for different game. Sure. There's no hookers in that game. What are you talking about? He's playing the game of like. Oh, okay.

They're definitely a few hookers in the game of life. That's true. Yeah, but I, I just. I love the eighties retro vibe that game has, like, future eighties, right? Well, that's what all the whole steampunk concept is. You know, steampunk is like. Future. 19 retro future. Well, yeah, right. The original. So you're just taking that concept and putting it into the nineties cyberpunk. It's not steampunk. You would just live in the 1980s if you could. I did live in I mean, there's time for eternity.

I mean, your idea of heaven. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I would totally if I had to pick a single decade to repeat over and over, I would definitely pick the eighties. But would you play it exactly the same every time? No, of course not. Every every time. You play it slightly. That's the beauty of playing a game like this. So I've played, you know, 300 some hours, whatever. What does that actually mean? Well, I've played now through the games. It's a game play through.

I think I'm on my fifth one. And each time you try things that that are different than what you did last time, that's what makes it fun. It's like, Well, what if I would have done this? How much difference does that make? What if I instead of being like, really get a tuning? I'm really good at hacking or I'm really good at ninja skills. And every one, it's like those old books where you could choose your own adventure moving forward. You're like, Yeah, that's a different character.

And so you love those books. Yeah, those were great. They're still around. There was a saw not too long ago. There is a website or program, I forget which, whether it was online or something actually download, but it was a way to make those. So it was the computerized version of that. Which one? That is fantastic. I wrote software that did that in 87. It's like it's so. Mind bending that you have to remember that because there's all these little basically vignettes that you have to make sense.

You can't, like have something, a choice you made earlier, come back and burn you. It's there are just so many choices. It's it is like a lot of the sci fi that tries to decipher this, like, well, what would have happened if this one little thing would have changed. And they'd like to get it?

I think this is one of them thing where I tend to agree with the way it did it in cyberpunk, which is that certain small choices and they're opening up new paths, but also there are plenty of path conversions or from. Virgin to. The Virgin says is the word I'm trying to spit out here. Yes. Yeah. That brings you back. So you may have picked the different two different choices and they have different consequences. And then go through that path.

But then later those two paths both converge so that the end result is the same. And I think that's actually true that that's the part I think everybody forgets about in real life as well as the oh, the butterfly effect. You know, the smallest thing can have a huge difference. Yes, but but that doesn't just work in one direction. It works in both directions, which means huge differences in actions can result in a tiny change in outcome. Yeah. I mean if I could give a little bit of a spoiler.

Corollary. Right here, everybody, their game of life is all going to end the same way you're going to die. Well, for all you all. Oh, I forgot. You're a. Vampire. This is why we've seen photos of Gina. Then at the hundreds. And that one in the mirror. Well, of course, if you ever walk by a mirror when you're next to Jean, just. You'll be like her. Yeah. Wouldn't doubt it. Just like that. Just like that. Go on. One of those. What's the Disney ride? The Haunted Mansion.

Go on. That with Disney is going out of business. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. All for that I think we get we have some new real estate in Florida that's going to be opening up. You know, land. People and the Hamptons land can get the re distracted. And it's sad because I use not at all Disney fad I mean it was back in the day as a kid. Never never I never been a fan. I was a big fan. And it's me, the Daffy Duck, in that the uniform cartoons were pretty funny. But other than that, I'm not a. Fan.

That's your takeaway of Disney are pretty much Daffy Duck? Yeah Yeah. He's making pro-Nazi propaganda in the thirties. They have a two day experience which is based around the Star Wars universe, which seemed like a really cool idea. Again, going back to kid me, this would have been the ultimate being able. This would be like somebody coming up with an area that is the size of a large football stadium with all different types of, you know, rooms and restaurants.

If you could go into something like that that would recreate the eighties, you would dig it. Living in that, being able. To be like a back to the future experience for today's. Right, you know, like everything was back to the way the 1980s, all the dress, all of the, you know, everything. This is what they did with Star Wars. And they were charging, I think, like six grand per person or something crazy like that.

And it turns out they're like at quarter capacity now there's like three quarters not billed. They're cutting things out. The the thing is just failing miserably. It's a good time to be rich right now because a lot of people don't have the money to do a lot of things that they used to be able to do. Thanks, Biden Go, go. Brandon So if you are rich and I don't mean like, you know, you make decent money by rich, I mean you're not working for a living.

You're not working and you have millions in the bank or yeah, you're. Living off investment income. Yes, that's the distinction. Right. So if you live off investment income rather than you're earning money by selling your time, which I am definitely feel the same way time, you know, podcasting. Yeah. Yeah. Selling my time on podcasting. Maybe one of these days I'll get a minimum wage. Probably not. I mean, today, if we're going 2 hours, I think we're making like two bucks an hour. That's fair.

Oh, well, it's fair for the value we provide, I think. Yeah, well, it is. That's it. This is the meaning for value. But think about it. We're basically talking on a phone call. Who else is getting paid to be talking on the phone? This is. True. You know, there's. A lot of we're not. Doing. It. Dough mass amounts. Yeah, exactly. Most people, we're not doing these mass amounts of research and writing stories. And God forbid I ever do a podcast where I write a script of what I'm going to say.

That's work. I'm not going to work, man. This is not about work. This is about having a conversation. I agree. And that's what I like to do. All my shows. Speaking of working at. Okay, sorry. I mean, pivot. Can I pivot? I'm like something. Way is now. Yeah, sure. Okay, pivot away. Here's my period is an ad for my other show. Oh, no, they do. They bet. They bet the good old boys. Did you? Well, I've got the good old boys, right. Which has taken off on its own, slowly rebuilding within yourself.

I think we're we're at about half the listeners that we were with Sir Gene, but that's tolerable. Totally understandable. These are people that basically. After that don't like do after. Three episodes. Now, those people that I think the people that actually listen have figured out to move their assets, the people that have their assets downloading but don't actually listen to the show. Okay. But they have not done that. Right, because they haven't been able to sell.

They don't listen. So they're like, oh, whatever. But I'm still doing, Sir Gene. I'm just doing it with other bands. I don't know if you've noticed. So I've had now two other bands named Ben. Waits to are still on. It's still a show. Hell yeah, absolutely. You should listen. Yeah, I should. Really? You're probably mad about me over there. I do all the time. And. And then there's my other brother, Darrell. Exactly how many brother Darrell's have you found so far?

Yeah, well, I found two other bands that are bands, which is hilarious. So look, I want to have you on the show with three guys named Bet. Well, I've had a show with I mean, there have been three separate episodes right now, clips. Of all three, all. Three at the same time. Right. So I might have to pull off so bad. What do you think about that? What do you think, Ben? Exactly.

But, you know, since I'm not doing the show with a dude named Ben here in Texas that I was doing because that's on its own feed now. I've now done two episodes with two other bands. I'm going to have a preview, a couple other people. I'm going to have I'm going to have the dude named Griff. And he's just a owner of a few bars out in the UK is he. Writes up something like. That is an actor, is he a dude? I mean it's no, he's not a Ben. No, he's a dude named Griff. Knowledge is named Ben.

Have I got. Yeah, yeah. And, and then we might just get somebody who's very angry and pissed off and likes to embarrassment as a guest as well. Yeah, maybe. Not. Gregory William Forsyth Foreman from Kent. No idea. Is this true? Is this true? Breaking news, Baron Spud, the mighty Gallagher dead. Is that true? I always like Gallagher. Well, what are all those watermelons going to do? I know they're like, Oh, we're saved. Let's see if. Back in the day, he was hilarious. I think.

I mean, I just kind of assumed he died, like, 30 years ago. Right? Like we haven't heard from. So the car what's happening is that I don't know. If somebody else just died recently. You know? Congratulations. Welcome to the New World. I mean, it's this called getting old. There's people that you can't even remember dying around you. Well, they're dying younger and younger. Coy Gibbs, son of Joe Gibbs, no father of Ty Gibbs, who just won the NASCAR Xfinity. Series as somebody else.

That was just like somebody assumed it was already dead. I just heard. Just died. You're like, I'm surprised they were still around. Yeah, it was like some actor I think some actor just died last week that I was the supervisor he did. Who did Gene think was already dead voting. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. Think about it. But it was a clearly not enough of a impact on me to remember a couple of days later. Right but who it was, you're like, oh. Somebody. Somebody died.

Yeah, I would say you won't see them in the movies anymore. But with A.I. and the ability to insert dead people into. I think that's going to get much better. I'm going to predict right now. We're going to see Marilyn Monroe in the movie probably next five years. That seems fair to me. It does. They have enough content of her to generate a facsimile. And all it's going to take, I would guess, would be her estate to give the. Okay. It may have been long enough that that's no longer needed.

Oh, you know what? This opens up a whole nother can of worms. Yeah. When it comes to copyright law, trademark and all of that. Yeah. She was not a Disney. She was not a Disney property. So she has a she doesn't have one year trademark. Right. But as an individual person, I mean, the fact that it's like, well, okay, after X somebody. Can we make a movie about Abraham Lincoln? Well, you can make a movie about them, but you can't use their actual likeness, which would be. Why can't you?

Well, what if you use a computer generated, synthesized, totally accurate? The Abraham Lincoln. Now as a as a president, sure. There's a certain amount that is public domain as we. Hire some actors, everything's public. The messages that the White House puts out. But as somebody who's like this, I don't know. That just seems very creepy to me that you could take like this, like, oh, we'll just have this thing, this recreation, do things that maybe the original person would.

Literally every movie that is based on historical people, is that. Right? But it's not using the actual person. What does the actual person's computer program the. Using their image, you know, it's an actress or actor playing the part. Yeah. And I'm pretty sure the real Marilyn's not going to play the fake Marilyn. Well, but you. There's no difference. You're creating a difference where none exists. I thought you were saying you're going to see the Marilyn Monroe.

Yeah, her exact likeness. Yeah, exactly. Movie. Well, that's the difference. I don't know what the legalities would be about that. There's nothing. It's totally open. There's no there's no way. It's totally open. Totally. That this country no way with the dead person all of this. She's a dead. Person stuff. You can't just be like, oh, that person's dead. I could. That was their identity. And either to the world.

So you're saying that in the United States there's never been a cartoon or computer generated image. Person different. No difference. That's all that that it's just a super high quality get. To it and go oh that's I. Don't care what they look like. You're talking about feelings here. No, the. Reality is there's no difference I mean, a cartoon. A cartoon. No difference in the. Cartoon image, though, that would be different. This is a high resolution, high quality cartoon computer generated.

Look like cartoons. A cartoon to. You, does a high resolution cartoon look like reality? Because that. Absolutely. That's not how it works. Yes, it is. You know, I. Okay, old man, I don't think you know what a cartoon is. Then that is a cartoon is anything but. 1939, the the Nazi uniform. That's a cartoon. That was a likeness. That is a true to life likeness. Did Daffy Duck give his permission to be in a Nazi uniform? You're okay.

So now you're going down the rabbit hole that there was a daffy duck. Were you saying there wasn't a Daffy Duck? Is I was there a was there a Pluto? Was there a goofy was there. Absolutely no. They actually have their Pluto stuff that was that was what's his face is dog that since satirical fact. Damn well the dog. Dog paid. A lot. Yeah something no cartoon is anything that is does not exist in the real world it's something that is created by people.

It's art as is something that is a photo realistic. There have been plenty of photorealistic cartoons out there. But I guess it would depend on how it is being labeled, which I thought was really does it make that much of a difference? But if you're like, this is a brand new Marilyn Monroe movie, then no, now. I mean, the technology is there to make this happen. We saw that with Star Wars again, which was right when they started really going downhill, like, oh, Carrie Fisher is dead.

No problem, we can we can buy her into this. Yeah. There you go. Perfect example. And it was very creepy that and I don't know if people would like this or not, but it's true. The tech is getting better and better. Man. Oh, the technology is great. I mean, it's going to keep getting better, which everybody that wants to be an actor or actress or voice, actor or actress, anybody that wants to be in that sphere, it's like, you're done. There's no reason they even care about you.

Because the minute I can take a virtual character, whether it looks like Marilyn, here's the beautiful thing about it. There's there's that. But there's very few people that have that kind of iconic status. I could just take the Marilyn Monroe image and I could just tweak it a little. So it's a really hot blond, but it's not Marilyn Monroe anymore. It's different enough, but it's a person that has never existed in reality that doesn't have to be paid.

Aren't, you know, these playmates even going back? Oh, well, they were paid 100,000 a year to be Playmate of the Year. It's like real women are never going to win this anymore because the virtual reality and the guy is going to do a much better job. And I do believe that the real person probably. Oh, yeah. Well, that's that's kind of what I'm talking about. There's a movie that came out in the eighties. Of course, we're right back to Jean in the eighties.

And I believe it was called her Now Keeper. I think I. Thought you were thinking of weird science really as a kid was that that well, you were older than I was in the eighties. But, you know, the whole concept that you could, like go onto your computer and you could type a little bit and then Kelly Brock would show up. That was a really cool idea. Mm hmm. Yeah, that was a cool idea. And I mean, creating your own sex goddess in your closet for teenagers. I mean, what could be better? Nothing.

Yeah, you're like. And then when they're playing with her boobs, I mean, like the size, they're moving the slider back and forth to make it bigger and smaller. Yes, like ridiculously big. You're like, oh. You're like, oh. It's literally you'd literally do that in cyberpunk. When you first create your character, you're like, how big of a boobs would you like?

And this, they're nice. Yeah. The movie, I believe, was called Looker and it was a movie came out in the early eighties about actors that are getting stand digitized by Hollywood and then ending up dying, and then this guy in the main character in the movie is like investigating if there's any foul play involved to these actors, death is the one commonality they had is. They were all actors that had gone through this scanning thing.

And it's so, so basically to spoil the the plot of the movie, essentially What he finds out is there's a plot by this Hollywood company to get rid of actors so they can just use them for free. And so they have and this is a bit that's kind of hilarious, is they have real actors, real people get plastic surgery to fix all imperfections and then they scan them and then they kill them. It's like, why wouldn't you just fix the imperfections digitally? It's much easier and cheaper and better.

Your power back grab. Apparently they they predicted enough computer power to be able to fully scan a person, which you can literally go and do that at most malls. Now, if, if those things still exist, a lot of malls will have the 3D camera setups to where it's basically you. You're inside a little tiny small room that has like 30 or 60 or 80 cameras around you.

So generates a full 3D model of your head and then, you know, they can print that in the little plastic thing or some other, you know, it's a little tchotchke thing. It's useless, but it's a way to get some money out of you. It says this The movie Looker was the first film ever to create 3D shading with a computer that produced the first ever CGI human character. You really know that. It achieved the feat before Disney's more famous Tron hit the screens. Oh, what year that came out?

19, I think it was early eighties. Yeah, 81. It was the. Mm hmm. So little Miss Partridge. Who is the guy in that movie? Because he was a famous like B actor. Yeah. James Coburn. Was that it? Yeah, he's. And then there was Albert Finney as well. Yeah, but James Coburn is the one that kind of jumps out for me because he was a a pretty famous Yeah. Actor and. Yeah it was interesting movie. It made you think just like I. Hadn't seen it since the eighties.

So I really don't recall much more than what I just said about it. Whether it holds up or not probably doesn't. But in the eighties it seemed like kind of a neat sci fi sort of a thriller. Is it sad or is it satisfying when you go back to a science fiction movie from the seventies or eighties and go, Yeah, they had no idea. Well, I did rewatched Logan's Run recently and I thought, Holy shit, that's a much better movie than everything coming out today. Well, that's not a high bar.

Very low bar. It's kind of a low bar. But they had a lot of high tech stuff. They had Jesus. I don't think most PG movies have closed like they had that movie. They're basically see through chiffon clothes. Which is why a young Jean never truly have enjoyed Logan's Run. You're in an old scene. I thought you enjoyed Logan's Run. No, that was. That was.

I remember that when that movie was made, that was one of the complaints that the the the main actress chick that was in that had that was that like she didn't realize she'd be naked for the entire movie. The surprise she wasn't technically naked. She was wearing pantyhose and she was wearing this like see through chiffon, kind of flowy shirt thing from. 1970. Two. Logan's Run. Yeah. And Peter Ustinov was there, which I've always enjoyed him.

You know, his grandfather was the cook of the Nicholas the second the last hour of Russia. Oh, well, this is what. The family connection there. Said, right? Yes. Exactly. They never truly are. People don't know. They never truly have line. You had to escape out of Russia because you were made out of lines of. The next in line to nothing. Exactly. So I was. Not great title of the. Show. And interestingly enough that Peter Ustinov grandfather was the last of the last sorry Russia.

And Putin's grandfather was the first cook of Lenin, too. Yeah, there's a whole grandfather's pitying thing going on here. I don't know if I want to try to revel reveling that or not. But I don't know. It's just a random fact that doesn't really, you know, anything to your knowledge base. A random thought, if you will. It's something that will never come up in a Trivial Pursuit game, which is a great game from the eighties. Oh, right.

You can still play and then argue about whether the results are still accurate for for the questions. A lot of those. Have been imagined. Imagine there's a computerized version of it. There would have to be because it used to be a fun game board game. It was a brawl kind of. I think it was a very fun game because I tend to have a good. Memory for useless facts. Yeah, pretty much for yeah. Like dominate. There's every game is way more fun when you dominate. It's, not the case.

You know, like my dad would always beat the hell out of everybody in Trivial Pursuit. But then when something came out like, Oh, here's the box of nothing but Beatles questions, it's like, Yeah, no idea. Yeah, they were definitely like the sports edition of Trivial Pursuit. Yeah, yeah. Huh. I'm not going to play that. Like, no vague. You or you could. Take a pass. Yeah, but board games used to be so much fun, but the computers ruined all that or made it better. I'm. Well, I'm not. Yeah, I'm.

I wouldn't go that part. No, I think there was a early computer game I want to say in the late nineties, early 2000, that was kind of a trivial pursuit game. That was very cute looking. It had like a computerized game host and then it would have a question and then multiple people can hit different keys on the keyboard depending on who's answering the question. Uh, I don't remember what was called, but it was a, I thought it was pretty fun and it was just well done.

It was done in a sort of a 1950s looking style. Yeah. The retro thing going on. Yeah. With a very stated kind of computerized host that was also smart I suppose. Oh, well, there you go. Yeah, I enjoy smart ass. There is a game called Smart Ass, which is a trivia kind of game. Oh, which is. Maybe that was it. It was. It was not. It's a board game though. Oh no, no, that's not it then. Which easier for most people. I mean, Trivial Pursuit could definitely rage on and on and on.

There's one called wits and wagers haven't played in a couple of years, but that one was also good because the questions are numbers based and you know, it could be like, well, how Betty, you know inches tall do you think it average orangutan is you know something like that and everybody would give their answer but there was also a betting board so hey, if you like somebody else's bet you could bet on who was going to be the closest to that. This was how you won the game.

So you didn't actually have to know the answers to the questions to win, which I thought was a great thing to add into a trivia game, because there are some people that are like never going to get the answers right. Yeah. So this added a little different bit strategy to it, but I still say the best board game over like the last ten years is a game called well, what is it you get little guns? I don't know. What about guns? And it has guns in something. What is the name of that game? Come on.

I used the that I played a word game and decades. Well you're old you used to play them back in the 1940s cash in guns. Never seen it. It a fun party game you all playing a bunch of hoodlums who are robbing places and it all comes down to whether you are splitting up the loot that who is going to be honest, who is going to try to screw everybody else. And you get a certain amount of cards that actually have a bullet in the gun. And otherwise it's just a blank, you know, nothing in the chamber.

So if you like, point your gun at somebody and they're like, ha ha, screw you, you're bluffing. And then you don't have the bullet, then you lose. But if you do have the bullet that they take a hit, I mean, that's it's for the whole family where you can be pointing guns at grandma at the holidays. Let me just say. Never set. So at least we found something that you have never seen. I think we can find plenty if we start looking at sports stuff. That's true.

Yeah. Somebody had knowledge on the social posted yesterday of something something sports ball and they. Had brain exploded. No, I chuckled and I posted a reply back with a video of a check that was and a sporting event and saying essentially, yes, go team, yay, sports, you know, stuff like that. The Only thing can really, really leaning into the whole thing of like, I have no idea what. You got, no clue. All I've been doing is watching racing. I have not watched baseball once.

That big Chicago race that's going to shut down the city. Next year. Next year. In July. And, you know, it's a two day thing. So they're running. I'm guessing, the extremity series here and the the main series. But it's a two hour thing. It's going to be at least a week of bad traffic. Them a way more. I mean it's I think it's like a month before you should have control. It's like a month and then like a week after to remove the whatever is coming down. But the. All the barricades.

Which is all temporary seating, let's understand because you know, it's a street race. The tickets range from, I think it was like $450 to four hole on the 500. Yeah. Well the tickets here for our actual racetrack are for the Formula One is 2000 bucks C damn. That's like the minimum to get him. Well, no, it's that like for a good seat. Gotcha. So you're like in the paddock, you're. You're not in the you're not in the box.

But that's like the the the I'd say that's the price of the highest price of a regular ticket. So you can to have a good seats in the good section of the track. But you're not going to be in a private box or anything. Which is Chicago. The private box may stop the bullet so that that may be help maybe. Yeah. Necessary out there. You know it's going to be. Yeah, I see. Now that there's that old movie that I should rewatch is Death Race 2000.

The original. Version? Yeah. According to the the website, that's 231 days, 11 hours to the Chicago Street race. They've got the proposed layout, the Chicago experience. So I don't know if you want the. Oh, the Chicago experience nefarious. I know the you know, I don't know what they're going to be doing here. So Death Race 2000, starring David Carradine, was a 1970 something movie, and it takes place in a future totalitarian United States of America. Well, that sounds familiar to me.

It sounds like today. Uh huh. Except it was 2000. Yeah. Uh, so, yeah, it's basically a an events that is a driving event, but in the same kind of idea as the games of the Coliseum. In one person, if you want the President's Paddock Club, that would be 33, 77. That's your cost without hotel. You're 3377. Really? Wow. Yeah. Okay. I don't know where they come up with that number. That's in one day for one day or the whole weekend. That was for the two days. Two days. Oh, that's that's reasonable.

Could very well. Be. That's only like 1750 per day ish. The showing where the little clubs are going to be as opposed to the stream, cause it's like of course most of this there's not going to be any ceiling. It's all just of one area. The rest is where the drivers are going to have to be careful that they don't get carjacked. Or hit by a drone that'll be flying up above them.

Shooting video. Yes. Well, yeah, that's what the NBC or FOX, whoever does, that's what they use or all of the people who just bring their own out that will will be interesting to see. I think it's going to. Be, dude, I totally forgot Sylvester Stallone was in that movie. If you want to know what's even funnier, it's like a month within a month of the Chicago race, I believe, is when Taylor Swift is going to be at Soldier Field for like two or three nights.

And you're going to be camping out there for how many days? Never. I do not go to Chicago for anything. Even for Taylor Swift, though. Oh, my God. I would never go to a concert at Soldier Field. I did that. Why do you live there? Oh, my God. Bruce Springsteen. I did that. That was it. Not good for concerts and for Taylor Swift, for any you know, any of these big shows like you, the all of the Taylor fans on the other, the socials worried about floor seating.

Yeah, but rightfully so, because you do realize when you're sitting on a football field that there is no there is no pitch. This is a flat or flat. Well, she's in the stage, so there's a little angle there. The stage does have a little bit of a raise to it, but I'm six foot six, so the last thing I want to do is to be in front of any female at a Taylor Swift concert. Oh, you're going to be blocking everybody for like ten rose back. No, it's like, I don't want to deal with that. My, my.

Well, I've never enjoyed large concerts. I just. I don't like them. I think there's too many people there. Yes, I've preferred to seem the bands that I want to watch in a small, cozy or private environment. Well, I mean, you have the money. You're like, I like the Rolling Stones. I'll pay to have them come play my backyard. Definitely don't have that kind of money or anywhere near that. But what I did do is I was a I did music reviews for a while. I did as well. Yeah.

And that's a great way to get into Kansas for free. Yes. And to quite often to hang out with the band. But but also just like go to the gig after the gig. The gig after the gig after the. Usually in somebody's house. Yeah. That's when the magic happens. That's, that's a much better way to, you know, watch a concert. So some of the best musicians I've seen, they're actually seen, you know, in the audience of like 30 or 40 people or less. A match is. Pretty good.

That Robert Plant and his band just played somewhere in Scotland. They went to a little place that had an open mic. That's awesome. And we're hanging out for like an hour. And then Robert Plant got up and played the last song of the night, which it'd be like. Damn, yeah. You know, that's funny because that you do that in cyberpunk.

Really? Yeah. In the game, you, you get the band, the band back together again 411 last time and they pick a small little hole in the wall club where nobody's going to know that they're going to be playing and they, they play one, one set. And that is the secret. Nobody knowing that they're playing it can't be one of these things that people know it's going to happen and then they slam into it because a lot of artists do that. Yeah, and it's fun.

But, you know, the place is going to be packed and it's going to be insane as much. I don't like Springsteen's politics. There are stories for years about him just showing up at bars and Jersey and playing, and it's like it was. You know, the stories are always the same.

It's like Bruce walks in, the house, band is playing, there's ten people sitting in the bar and like within an hour of him getting up on stage there's that was a people trying to slam into it this morning just even before the Internet the word was able to spread. But that's how you want to see people. You want to see them at the small bar? I yeah. I looked for tickets the last time Taylor Swift played Soldier Field, which I don't remember tour.

It was on it was before COVID and we could have gotten front row tickets.

But because of the way Ticketmaster has bastardized this whole system and I know we're old were bitter it used to be if you wanted the best possible tickets you got your ass you slept outside all night long or you got really lucky dialing in whether when they went on sale on the phone or with the Internet first started and there was competition, you know, maybe you got in quick on the Internet, but it was still usually better to go in person because the internet sucked ass.

But that used to be the good old days. And if I showed up and you waited in line for tickets and you were one of the first, you were going to get really good tickets at the same price as everybody else. But that's the difference with the way Ticketmaster does things now. And I still think a lot of people don't even understand this, is that it is all demand based prices.

And then you have the Taylor Swift tickets went on sale, front row popped, but they were like 1800 a piece or 1600 a. Piece like that. Like no, not any of that. You know. But somebody is, of course. Or if they don't, here's the thing. It's like it's not about being first anymore that, you know, if it was a 1600 dollar ticket, maybe an hour later there, 1500 dollar tickets and 3 hours later they're 1200 dollars until they're sold to. Remember what year I saw Robert Plant?

I want to say it was like 92. No, it just stuck in my head. I tried to figure out. He was kind of in his prime. Right about them. Yeah, I think as remaining true. He's still a pretty good act. I saw Ozzy in 94. Oh, was that before? He was totally nuts. Uh, that was way after he was totally. No, he was totally nuts in the early eighties, dude.

Yeah. That's why I said Ozzy is one of the few people that I would make the case that most performers that you see have a television and or stage persona that go out right and put out the. Yeah, no, there's no difference. Right. For Ozzy of like I think that's a I don't think there's any act whatsoever. Oh yeah. Yeah, there's I think he burn out as well. Ozzy is proof that you can live without a brain. Yes, it's it's very little. You just have to have a wife named Sharon.

I'll take care of everything. Oh, shit. My pants. Yeah That's. Yeah, but as he's had fun, there's no question about that. Yeah. But there is that most I think most people have that persona where if you were to sit down and chat with them, they'd be totally different than you would expect. Right? Well, Gene Simmons is the fucking accountant. Oh, yeah. So he's a very smart dude. Although he once you hear him being interviewed, he doesn't stay in that persona for interviews and things like that.

You know, I was not really I wouldn't even say most surprised, but I was glad when I found out that Kid Rock is just a normal guy. Oh, yeah. I had a really good friend that well doing the whole country music artist thing that worked at one of the studios down there. The Kid Rock was always that just it was one of the nicest guys ever. He remembered everybody. And when he would come into the studio, he'd be like, Hey!

And it would ask them questions about their lives, you know, where he just assumed that he would just be a douche bag. He would just come in and ignore everybody. Like, No, he was actually one of the nicer, you know, down to earth people in there. What I found always fascinating is a lot of these guys that have a very hard edged image and they're all tattooed it up, right? Completely. And, you know, like good looking, it was like they bad ass. And then you talk to them when they're now dead.

And it's like the mild mannered kid from your high school, right? Like, what the fuck did we. What is all this bullshit on your body? You know. Entertainment. It's all right. Yeah, it is. It's. It's just they're okay using their skin as a billboard. And yet you get. It's like the only fans thing if you're getting enough money for it. Why not? Well, I mean, it's probably a few reasons. Unlike podcasting, where we do have two people to thank for today.

And I appreciate I think these were the same two guys that were the only two on another project that I did the other day. So they're the ones they're the ones hoisting up the the rest of people and sir truck driver coming in with 565 and appreciate that and our buddy Johnny Hipwell up in Scandinavia where things are always just. Yeah I'm I'm not feeling good about what's happening up there the no, the dictatorship that you guys have up there is just very sad.

Are you feeling well about anything up there? No. Although I'm not really feeling that great about anything here. True story. But you guys, we applaud you, sir. Truck driver and Johnny Hipwell for being the only two people that. Exactly what do. How are you doing. Yeah it's come on. Episode 50. Start doing. Of the unrelenting podcast 11 1122 I mean this is like numeral, this. Is definitely a numerology show. I will agree with you on that. It's kind of like, cool.

You'll find the game you were thinking of was you don't know Jack according to Guru. There you. Go. That sounds familiar. Yeah. Yeah. Have you ever played that? I have not, but I've seen the game a thousand times. And I know there were like 4000 very. There's a lot of variations of it. But I remember it came out, I think it was on the I don't know what year it was, but it was a it was not. I think its first version actually came on a disk. I don't think it was a internet thing. Right.

And I think moved to like PlayStation at all. Yeah. And then eventually I think it became an Internet based game. But the first version of it that I remember, a buddy of mine who's long dead playing that on his computer. And it was a it was a game on his CD or DVD or something. Sounds about right. But I liked the game because they're fun. They compete, they're no fun. If you don't know the trivia, though. Yeah, I mean, it would be. Yeah. Oh. Oh, oh is right.

You heard something quick. Yeah. What was that? Yeah, my power went out. Oh, okay. So surging is is surging. You're on battery backup now. Oh, yeah, yeah, we're. I'm battery backup right now. Oh. Well, if you want to support the show before Gene disappears, it's unrelenting. That show. Yeah, memorable. That's funny. The other one, he's off in Hawaii now, assuming he made it. Let's see that he was not allowed. Okay. Because he mentioned he was traveling.

Yeah. Now he was without power for, like 36 out of 48 hours over a two day windy period, I guess, of the goalie shirt. Yeah. So, I don't know. They're covered for you guys. All my co-hosts are losing power. Yeah. What's up with that? I mean, I don't care. I can run batteries. I get, like, an hour's worth of batteries here. It's all either. Yeah, it certainly. I have enough to finish show. Even though I don't have a monitor. I tried to crawl on the desk and plug the monitor into.

Whoops. Apparently I didn't do that. Did you, girl? Who says he still has dozens of CD-ROMs of you don't know Jack so definitely was. Wow. They are old school kind of game. Yeah. Yeah, I still have see I have to go through all this stuff because I'm horrible about just throwing stuff in cabinets and closets. I know I have stacks of CD-ROMs. I have old computer gear, just sitting in boxes. It's like it's never going to be good if you get out of it all.

I have way too much stuff that had value in it. And the worst part of it is, I have quite a bit of stuff that is still shrink wrap that had value and does not anymore. Really like what I mean because they're now doing grading. It has no value to me. Right, that I may have that may have value for money if they're. Grading fucking VHS tapes. And there's there was like a Star Wars. Yeah. That's not. Seven. That's I'm not talking about that, but I'm talking about, like, fuzzy cables.

So they'll shrink wrapped in the box. Yeah, that's the less exciting. Even though it's got a lot more gold that could be recovered. I guess I have just all kinds of prefer pearls and cables and things that I don't utilize anymore. I'm. I'm not a packrat by choice. I am just lazy at getting rid of stuff. Oh, so. That's the distinction, I guess. But I don't believe you because you've been getting rid of all kinds of things.

Well, we've started with the tickets, which I find to still be a very interesting market for that stuff. Although I've also been looking, as they said, Victoria's Secret catalogs from like the nineties and 2000 going for big bucks and eBay very mean. It's things that you would never think of old Sports Illustrated magazines, which I don't have, like the first ever cover of Mike Tyson of Sports Illustrated.

Granted, it was graded it. Yes. There's a company that does grading of magazines like they do baseball cards. But the number one graded version of the first Mike Tyson cover of Sports Illustrated just sold. And that was a gold our heritage auction. For. 16 grand mike holy Jesus. Yeah, yeah. Holy crap. That's right. You know, this was not like this was 2000. It was not a super old Sports Illustrated, though. It's weird. It is weird stuff.

But I have a basement now, so I it was harder when I lived at the townhouse. I did like one little closet to throw all the crap in, so I was very limited. But once we bought this house back in, whatever it was. Odaiba Mm. The basement was about two thirds finished. So that's where I've got my bar now at the old podcasting rig, which I haven't used in years. And the other third was storage and the laundry room.

So once you have the room for it, like when I. Yeah, you know that Heath mixer, I'm like, oh, this Barringer one. Hey, well, I'll just throw it in here. Maybe I'll need it. And then you'd never think about it ever again, but it's just sitting there and I can still sell it. I can probably sold it for more five years ago. Yeah, exactly. As it sits in there, most of it loses value. Although some of this stuff may be gaining. We don't know. Well, there's certainly a lot more gaming than I would.

I would expect, that's for sure. There's bizarre stuff you have to know, because a lot of people, when it comes down to like ticket stubs and stuff, you know, if they if you were like cleaning out somebody's house and you found bunch of old ticket stubs, you would just pick garbage. Absolutely. You would never think that that will have any value whatsoever. Well, I just found it.

I mean, I have my dad's tickets, but I also have a box, which, of course, as a kid, my dad paid for all the tickets anyway, but I went to an opening night back in 91, I think it was for the Blackhawks. So I have four ticket stubs, one of them unwrapped because it was always we'd end up going with three people. Like always you need an extra seat because it's crowded. Is this really about for an extra seat? Well, my dad's buddy who had the season tickets, he just always ordered for. All the go.

So that's what you got. And I had no idea. I was just, like, scanning through tickets and I saw a black car ticket stub and I'm like, Oh, what's this? And it was Lidstrom, his first game with the Detroit Red Wings. Nicole it Nikolai Nicolas, Nicolas Lindstrom, Hall of Famer, NHL player. And I'm like, What are the odds? And I looked at my box of stuff and I'm like, Oh, I got four of those. And I haven't seen any sell, but people are trying to get between five and 800 bucks for them.

So I'm like, Well, maybe if I could sell them for even 400 bucks apiece, that'd be pretty good. Sure. Yeah, that was just garbage sitting in a box is like, just. Just ticket stubs. Wow. I know. It's all what people will pay, though. In Japan. We've talked about this. We don't need to recover. But just the idea that someone is willing to pay for a ticket that they did somebody else. Yeah. That they didn't go to, that somebody else just makes no frickin sense whatsoever. To me.

It's because they're looking for more things to collect. Like if you're a michael Jordan collector, you can't afford. Well you can't afford a rookie ticket either. So I guess that makes it. You can't afford a rookie card, you can't afford a rookie ticket. But there are people doing weird things. I had a woman by three or four ticket stubs for me. That was. Embarrassing. Yeah, that was collecting Tim Wakefield, the knuckleballer from the Red Sox fame.

He played for other teams, but she was collecting Tim Wakefield games, and they all pay seven bucks a piece much. Okay, that's that's more. Then again, they were just sitting there. Sure, they were just sitting there. People will collect their favorite players. They don't have to be at the game. It's just a new collectible. And I don't really understand it. But it is happening. But you're making money off of it, right?

I don't have to understand it to want to make money off of it, that's for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's like podcasting and I don't want to. So do you have any as we're coming down to the end here, do you have any final thoughts? I don't want to cut you off or anything. It's people get upset. No, I think we're good. You know, we've we've actually unplanned.

But I think we've avoided talking about anything Russia related, which is perfectly fine like that does not need to be a topic of conversation. Every fact in the show. No, too much. Russia's not good for the soul. Man. Get rid of that Russia thing. We like to have fun. We'll be doing episode number 51 next week. Exciting. Yeah. Get your donations in now. For episode 51. Yeah, yes, I guess.

Well, I think anyone that wants to donate this year to be on their register of people that have donated for this year. Contrary to Jean's advice, should probably get something in tune. This would be true. Yeah. And we're. We're going to publish that list of shame. Yes, we will. Shame you all. Shame you all. So if you want to be in the list of shame donation givers, make sure you get something. We are going to have the biggest episode 51 celebration anybody's ever had.

I thought that was going to be 55. Oh. Okay. But for Sammy Hagar, I can't drive 55. That's one. All right. Well, we'll be back next Friday. Everybody, enjoy your week and I hope you get power back, Jim. Yeah, I'm sure I will at some point. I mean, like I said, I've got about an hour of back up here. I just need to plug the monitor in so I could actually be on the computer instead of just talking into a mike from you. Like, I still hear voices in my head. I hope I'm still connected.

Well, I mean, this proves I've got the right stuff plugged into the abyss, right? Oh, he's. Like, What side is this? One side is that. I have seen horror stories where the ups mislabeled the two sides, one that one memory back up and the one that one. Is well, yeah, yeah. So I mean, that's why I have a back up on the fiber optic coming into the house. They were U.P.S. for the converter, another U.P.S. for the I don't even know what they just cable modem but it's not really a cable modem.

It's whatever. It's their router, right. It's their router. Yeah. And then they have another one. Obviously there's several on the computer and the normal router and all that jazz. So yeah, there's multiple ups is all running in the humming away right now. Donate now. So Gene could get bigger batteries. Yeah. Might need more batteries you know. Yes, more batteries. You don't submerge them in saltwater, though. Well, hopefully it's not going to rain saltwater thing.

But it's going to be cold, that's for sure. Yeah, cold there and cold here are different things, Gene. Well, you said it was seventies there. Well, yesterday today it's in the forties. Yeah, it's in the seventies today and it'll be in the thirties today. People are like, I heard the ending thing. Why are these assholes still talking? Oh, I'm sorry. Did you play the end? The theme doesn't come through. Oh, that's it. That part's that big routed through. I'll have to fix that. Yeah, I'll fix that.

Yeah. By next show. Nothing to worry. About. Sounds good. I'm done.