051: Tenderloin Tariff

Plus hash sign side and percent sign ampersand. Hello and welcome to episode number 51 of Unrelenting Friday, November 25th, 2022 at Black Friday. Jean. Is that racist or what? No, it's great. It's great. Sure it is. Everybody's shopping right now. Like I tell you, man, there's some deals to be had. There's a lot of stores that really want your money. I think it's funny that I've been seeing Black Friday deals since like November 1st. Well, true, true. The Black Friday sales are starting.

Yeah, I get really lucky here. I have a some friends. I got married and they're they just got married, like, last week. So I was able to buy their wedding gifts and like, really. Nice the Black Friday specials. And I'm like, Yeah, you guys are getting some good gadgets. The best time to get married. You get twice the gift that way. Are you do. You do you kind of do I just order multiple gifts. Like this is when you're going to get the best deals on everything.

Allegedly. Although I've noticed the shipping times, they're really starting to kind of push out. Yeah, well, there was the headline on Drudge today was Amazon Workers Striking Worldwide. So depending where you're ordering, that is. It's funny because it's like I. Didn't think they were allowed to do that. Well. This is a question of how many people that end up getting fired. It's like we figure we're going to hit them at the time they need us most. It's like, I don't know.

It all depends, I guess. I guess it's how the economy is working, how many people are there to take the jobs that you think you can walk out on. It's like the Twitter folks with Elon Musk in the the letter did with you better not buy or anybody you know I'm just like see you. How are you today? Not bad. Good. You're a little under the weather last week. Yeah. This is like the first time I'm doing just a talking show.

I did the the pre shows and yesterday did a pre show for no agenda with Fletcher and Phifer. But yeah, I was thinking about it because it started out they go. I saw the ad for that. You know, it's it's always fun but it's less musical. It's it's a it's a weird thing for me. It's better to, I think the end result. I mean, I have maybe less fun, but it's a better end result because everything is snappy when it just be you go in and out of the songs, you get back and forth.

But when you have somebody else, it's like, Well, you want to chat, you want to. So you did a real morning show yesterday. Kind of, yeah. So it's a different vibe. Morning Zoo. Yeah, it's the border. Welcome to the jet stream. Morning Zoo. But I thought it's like, yeah, went back to and I was feeling fine. In the morning. Yes. Well, yeah. Here we go. We even have Bill O'Reilly. In the morning. There you go.

And well, we the first skipped show for me was grumpy old Ben's on the Wednesday because Ryan was traveling out in Hawaii. That's right. Yeah. So and then I kind of start feeling it, and then that's why we skip this show. Yeah. So you just took the week off. I get it right on Friday and then it came Monday and I'm like, Well, now let's not that I wanted to do the planet rage with Larry, but then I'm like, now I'm still not feeling great. And I took that off.

And then by Wednesday I'm like, Well, yeah, I'm not going to do random thoughts then. And then I'm like, Not. As Fletcher pointed out to me, if you're going to take some time off of memorize it doubled the time off is probably better so that we went we went a week without a show and it actually kind of it felt good because when you're doing a show, you're always trying to find timely topics to talk about. You're trying to follow. Yeah, you got to keep those vocal chords healthy, man.

You got to take that time off every. Now and then. It's good. It really is. Well, that's I think we may have talked on the show or not the Chicago radio legend Jonathan Brad Meyer had been off the grid. He came back after a few years. He did a podcast during COVID and then he disappeared again and nobody really knew why. And it turned out that he had, like, cysts or something on his vocal cords. Yeah. And needed to find a, a really good surgeon to. And they'll change your voice too.

And it didn't, which is, you know, he was, he would have gone with the first doctor that he found it probably would have, but he found there was a guy that had like five vocal surgeries that is a Chicago Cubs announcer here. So being a legend here in Chicago, it just took a call for Johnny to get this guy on the phone and he's like, No, no, you want this doctor who was off now in in Cincinnati because there was a whole then funny bit of the crap kind of angle.

But he ended up going to Cincinnati to get this done. And it was like the hardest thing was he couldn't talk for like two weeks and then could only talk for like 5 minutes an hour. For a while. And but he sounded exactly the way he used to, which is which is great. I guess when somebody is doing a surgery on your vocal cords. The journey fever, get the surgery from him as well, then maybe. That guy was always the best. That's what I've been rewatching. Oh, my God. Have you really? Yes. That was.

That's where I went to. I'm like put on a crappy and it was funny because I noticed. For people that don't know what the hell we're talking about, that was an old, old TV show back from the eighties or even. Seven, the seventies into the early eighties. And it always. Set a radio. Station. Yes. And it always seemed way more dated, obviously, because it was in the seventies. But part of the shtick was having artist posters up.

And from what I understand by the, you know, after the first season or so, once they started getting a little bit of traction, the artists wanted their posters featured on the show because that's great advertising. The and just seeing the artists like wait U2 was really they were the police. That's right. They were that old and even madness. There was a big madness poster in one of the later episodes. And it's like this is it's interesting because it's a lot of them, but.

There is there is plenty of Loni Anderson posters around to. Oh, yeah, not in the show. But I. Think that in the. Show, you know, that was exactly. It's. I've said I mean, I've learned pretty much half and half on how to do podcast ing and that kind of stuff. From Jonathan, Brad Meyer and Dr. Johnny Fever. I mean, those are kind of the. The go to. But it was really you know. Yeah Wolfman Jack too.

Well yeah you got well the Wolfman that's where you really start trying the vocal chords when you try to do that. It was interesting with WKRN because they covered stuff like the deaths at the WHO concert and that was in Cincinnati or Cleveland, whatever it was in Ohio. I don't remember if that was in Cincinnati that actually happened. But the it's like they you know, they covered that. They covered a lot of really serious stuff.

But they also the comedy was definitely there and everybody should check it out if you haven't watched it. It's a hot take a show from 1978 or nine. So I'm curious now when you watch that now without the ads, presumably those like 20 minute episodes. They're like 25. There does he goes back then the shows were longer there unless ads back in there. Okay. Okay. The further you go back, the less ads there were with shows.

It's now when you look at the running time of a half hour show, I think it's like 21 minutes now. I mean, it may even be down to 20, but it was it was a little bit longer. How ironic is it that YouTube videos now, which are 24 minutes on average, are longer than TV shows? Yeah, well, people's attention spans are weird. Well, also that the advertising is the magic number is 24 minutes. Well, that's because you can do multiple ads in that. Time, huh? Uh huh. You want to be able to do a pre-roll?

We want to be able to put one in in the middle. And a pastoral. Yep. That's how it works. I mean, we don't see the ads because I mean, no. Hell, no. 1199 or 1299, whatever it is, if you watch more than one YouTube video a day, then. Yeah, you'd be an idiot not to have had free experience. For a while because you can usually skip the ads after a few seconds. You don't have to watch the whole thing. And I was fine with that. For pre-roll.

But once they started popping up in the things you were watching, it's. It's too annoying. Yeah. Way too in there. Yeah, it absolutely is. But yeah. Well, let's see what else going on here. You're off for a week. I actually did more podcasts because I was recording a couple of guest appearances on podcasts. Oh, and he could go little Tucker Carlson. Maybe Ben SHAPIRO coming by. Yeah, yeah. No, no other way were I was the guest. Oh, okay. So you were going you were at Tucker's.

Yeah, I was in the. Well, not quite now, but I did I did do a few guest. Wait, wait. People actually wanted you on their podcast. I know. Exactly right. Not for my politics. So these were business podcasts where you got a very serious Jean. No, not the fun, jovial Jean that you're. There like Jean. You're used to the information that you have that could actually help the people listening to our show better. They're right. Right. Help us make more money, Jean. Okay. Sure. Yeah.

You don't give that away free. There's no hell, no, no, no. This is where this is where you give like, well, there's three vital steps to what you need. And then here's the first one. Here's the second one. Now, if you want the third one, you need to go to my website. But you're thinking of Ben SHAPIRO. That's pretty much his concept. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah.

Ben SHAPIRO, you or his YouTube videos is basically the first half of his show where okay, again, if you want to get the rest of the show, make sure you go to Ben SHAPIRO like Common, become a member. You know, it's an interesting concept. We've looked at all the different ways to try to monetize doing shows. And that is that is one that obviously works because enough people do it. I find it to be the most annoying when when. They give you have the thing for free. Yes.

The whole well here's half and then you have to pay for the rest. But then I guess the flipside is they could give you none for free. And if they just they would just nobody ads. And just make ads to get people to sign up. I mean, if you look at like Tim, which I watch pretty regularly, they technically they don't split their show in half, but they have two shows. Right?

But with each this much content that it's like guy who, who has time to watch the free tim cash content and then really who has time if he actually have the time to watch the free that also that has time to pay and watch more. Well. I mean, I know you do. Uh huh. You might be the guy he's gab. I think he is. He's talked about an immense number. I think he's like 200,000 subscribers right now. He's up there in O'Reilly territory. Then if that's not bad, Bunny either. No, no, not at all.

Well, it's. Yeah, yeah. He's got a pretty big crew over there. I don't know what they all do, but he has a lot of bodies walking around with skateboards. So what's the vibe? That's just is definitely the vibe. That's all he wants is the vibe. He wants it to be that look and that feel. Yeah. And get people to believe him because he's wearing a beanie. I don't I don't think that's why people believe him. But sure. When will the beanie come off?

I mean, will he be like 70 years old, like O'Reilly still with the B doing? Is he still making money? Maybe. Yeah, it's definitely his symbol. I mean, if you look at the logo of the company, it's it's basically a, you know, a microphone with a beanie. Which is that's what he's known for I guess. Yeah. Mm. He just unfortunately a bad, a bad wardrobe decision is going to define him forever. Just like I just started the okay.

Boomer because most of the kids these days and by kids I mean people under 30 wear hats indoors. Really? Yes. Why? It's a thing. It's just a thing. Okay. It's a thing. You know, I think there were like generally if you go back far enough, like us old farts, you think of wearing a hat because you want to keep your head warm. Right. But if you go back even further than this, wearing a hat had less to do with staying warm and more to do with decorum and expectations of wardrobe.

I suppose when you go back and see pictures of like the 1920s, everybody. Oh, and 1800s. Yeah, good luck seeing anybody without a hat on. It was a weird time. Yeah. And I think that during the nineties wearing of hats became a lot more in indoors. But my assumption there was always because none of these rock and roll band people ever washed, right? Well, right. So they had to wear ahead because their hair looked like shit. Yeah, well, you just shave it all off.

Well, but I mean, like nineties grunge rock definitely have people wearing hats. Yeah. And then you did not want to put that hat on after they did. It, you know, I'd be in the same room with that. Yes. That's exactly right. Uh huh, no, I think yeah, I think that thing is just that weird looking for people that are of a younger audience and, uh, you know, you're. You're just sounding like an old, curmudgeonly boomer when you just make fun of the hair.

I'm just saying, when you're shoes, that is something then that you have to stay with. We know that fashion trends change. Right? What will he do in five years when nobody's wearing a hat? Will he continue to wear it? Will he be a rebel and finally take it off? Oh, it's been about 25 years since people have been wearing hats like you have, but. Okay, right. It could end now. Does anybody know if he has any hair under the hat? And he does not. He is bald. See?

There you go. No, I'm. Yeah, now he's bald. He could be like he. Talks about it too. He's like, yeah, I looked like Brant Seltzer if I take the sing off. So there you go. Or just wear a big old rug. That would be. Fine. No, Dad, that's worse. Come on. Hey. But people would notice. I. I really think that the the the embracing of the baldness is the way to go. But then again, that's the way I looked. So. Yeah, some people just grow really long beards. Uh, I.

Yeah, well, that too. Yeah. I don't know that he can. He's, you know, he's Asian, so. Yeah. Well, then that's a problem. You just make. Me grow a Fu Manchu. The Russian genes. No, he doesn't. I think he's like Irish, Asian or something. Which is an interesting combination. Irish, Korean. I think he's very angry. I mean, there's Mom's Korean. He's always angry that little. I wouldn't say he's angry. I think he's passionate. And I think there's a certain certain really. I think he was angry.

I think this was and then he got the audience and it's like, oh, money. Got to keep doing this. Oh, he definitely knows what to do to maximize money, that's for sure. Which is the hard part at this point. At this point, that is these growing. I think right now I don't know if he's the fastest, but he is definitely on the heels of Ben SHAPIRO. Right now in terms of, you know, spirits companies worth like 250 million right now. It's not bad. Uh huh. I mean, it's the network, right?

I mean, there's yeah. A bunch of different shows. Yeah. That he put together. But I know we can't. Get Jordan Peterson. He's got Gina Carano, he's got Ben SHAPIRO. Yeah. You can't monetize a network unless you have talented people that are all banding together in which case I think you can. Yeah. And the. But one thing that they're not doing that Tim's doing is he's also putting out a song a quarter, and each of the songs hits the number one on the charts.

Because it's just strictly a, a gaming mechanism. Doesn't even. But that's what radio is. It's a gaming mechanism. So yeah, it's no less legitimate than anything else. Okay. You know, however, that, you know, the one the one deejay that came in that was getting cocaine and the. The record. Jacket to play it. Yeah, they'll pay all the baby. It's still illegal. Yeah. But that's it.

But that's what you can do when you have fans for any reason, as you can say, Hey, I. You mean I care about music, but just spend the two bucks, right? Well, that's. What gets the number one. That's how Gary Vaynerchuk made a ton of money. Oh, God. Yeah, absolutely. And he really lost me because he is still fully entrenched on TikTok is a good thing. And I'm like, fuck you do now. Totally not. But that was. He. He was never I never really like the guy.

You know, he offered he was one of the guys that really used the Adam Curry method of value for value to his advantage in a slightly different way, which was he was putting out a ton of content. He wasn't there was no way at that point to have, you know, paid subscribers. He wasn't doing the value for value, like promote my shows or support my shows that way. But then he started writing the books, you know, like a book or two a year and was like, you know what?

If you like the content you've been watching for the last year of my book. Yes. Do me a favor and buy the book. A lot of people did. Yeah, it's a great concept and I think, you know, there is something about that, especially in the Biden economy. We've seen the people supporting all sorts of podcast go down.

I think if you had something that was in there like, hey, if you support the show and over the time you get a book or a mug or something, I think more people stick with it at that point because they can tell the club. Right? But they can tell themselves, I'm getting something out of it. So it's not just I'm giving money for something. I'm getting for free already. Right?

It's I'm giving money to support this and they'll also getting X, Y and Z that I can't get any other way, which is why we we put out the idea of the, the big oligarch dinner. Yeah. Here in Chicago. And I mean, I know we don't normally do this early because we normally don't have any donations. Anybody supporting the show. Now don't do it. But I wanted to do this because I think this this is an interesting because it's only to sort of be nice and quit.

But this was before the last show that was canceled. And we got a donation in from Sarah Hopscotch, who's been around other shows that I do. Okay. And he came in with a note that says Phase one to unrelenting oligarchy status and a step closer to a dinner invitation. So, hey, somebody's listening. And he came in with $103.48 each. Wow. Yes. Okay. Those donations are perfectly fine. Yes. Now he is married to lady. Get over it. Uh huh. Who?

Just moments after his donation came in with her own 103 48 is the note. Save me a seat at dinner. Nice. Yeah. No, that's cool. Here's the thing. I want people that want to donate in spite of me telling him not to. To be the donors. Well, see, everybody just not the. People that just kind of throws, you know, a couple of bucks here and says, okay, great, now promote my website. Right? Yeah, it's it's it. People dislike you so much.

The more you tell them not to donate, they're like, I don't like that gene. I'm going. To donate. I'll they don't like me so much. They want to come to dinner with me. I just like you so much. They're going to send you money to get a dinner invite. Yeah, it's like spy dinner. Yes, but we. We appreciate that, sir. Hopscotch and lady, get over it. That you are so well, definitely attracted, but you know, we have bad memory, so make sure you track it as well. Yeah, we have zero memory.

I mean, Gene's like 106. Team. Right? Well, I put his I put his name into a search engine. I think he's actually younger than I am. So there's there's that. It could be a time travel thing. The search engine is younger than you are. I guarantee you that. Yeah, well, that's true, too. Uh huh. That is very true. But it's like that was the those were the only two donations that came in over the last two weeks. But they were damn good ones. Yeah, absolutely. Thanks, guys.

And it may be because there's that idea of, hey, we're going to do a dinner that's different. Nobody else is offering that. It's but it's something you can only get. Well, technically speaking, John and Adam discussed doing a dinner in Vegas for the the try to remember what year it was. I want to say about seven years ago, seven or eight years ago. But it was going to be I think it was right after the higher level peerages were opened up. Oh, so okay. This was like, okay, wait a minute.

We've got we've got the knights. It's kind of like us with the oligarchs. Once people start hitting oligarchs, you're like like we. How do we keep soaking people for more money? We have to go. There has to be somewhere to go for we. We know that answer. Yes, exactly. Yeah. And so the idea was so if if you're like a baron or higher, then let's get together and have dinner in Vegas. You get to get in the van. I thought it was a great idea. I was like, Hell yeah, I am.

There's a few places in Vegas I enjoy having dinner and I don't know if if it just kind of went by the wayside because nobody ran with it or if they expected to get a bunch of people coming in with more donations to get up to that level and that what happened or if John just decided he didn't want to travel. It's a lot of work. All of the all of that combined. But whatever it is, it just the within two episodes, it just kind of blew up.

So somebody's really listening to the old shows I'm sure is running run across that episode where they talk about the Vegas dinner. It's not a bad idea. It is a community building exercise. Now, what is a an oligarch dinner look like this? Do people have to show up in like old time Soviet dress? Or here's the cool thing about doing it. Like if we were to do it in Chicago, which I'm not 100% committed to, but let's say we were to do it in Chicago.

The cool thing is there are actually nice Russian restaurants in Chicago. Yeah, there's Russians here. Well, there's Russians everywhere. But there are. Actually don't tell people that. High end Russian. So Russian behind every rock. There are some high end Russian restaurants, or at least there used to be. So it'd be worth checking to see if they still exist. But that I've been to Chicago. In fact, I remember back in the 19 as being shocked that the parking was 20 bucks an hour.

I was like, You got to be kidding me. That's like the price of dinner. Yeah, well, it's. It's only gone up since then. Oh, I'm sure it's 50 now or more awesome as 50 to 60 bucks an hour for parking right now. Like, would you like your car back. Would you like it back with our bullet holes? Would there's a bunch of different levels you can have. Yeah. Why I'd, you know, maybe take a lap around the, the, the track that would be worth 50 bucks. There are.

The official F1. Tracks. Though. It should be probably something, some kind of Russian aspect to it. Yeah. And that's so the the the only Russian restaurant in Iceland closed three days now I was born that was about two weeks after the liberation of Ukraine started. Really. Mm. That people were like, no, we're done. You are horrible people because of your. They oh it's worse than that. So within a week they took the word Russian after sign. Whoa, they went Russian woke.

They weren't. Yeah, they weren't Russian rock. They're like, yeah, we're just going to serve ethnic food now. We're not going to it's no longer Russian. It's right. It's quote unquote ethnic, but it's the same food. There's not going to follow. Yeah. And then within like probably two weeks after that, they just closed their doors. That's crazy. It is. It is. The well is it was definitely not expected. The the owners were not actually Russians. There were fake. Russians.

They were they were Belorussian. But I don't know, maybe they were a little too sympathetic to Ukraine. Maybe maybe they got some threats and they didn't want to deal with the fuckers survived COVID, which as a restaurant is not an easy thing to do. And then maybe, maybe that's the issues that surviving cold COVID just put them into a huge death. And then this happening where they're like, No one's going to show up because no one wants to be in a Russian restaurant.

Nobody want maybe. They just said, fuck it. Right. We're yeah, we're just going to shut the door. And then the only grocery store that was a Russian grocery store, which again, when I say Russian, it's loosely Russian, it's usually either Belorussian or Ukrainian or one of the other Slavic countries that the people that own it came from. But then they know the big market obviously is for Russian stuff.

Well, I'm just really surprised they didn't just turn it from fine Russian food and do fine Ukrainian food. I know, right. How easy would that have been for them just to say, you know, we support Ukraine over Russia. So what you can call it Ukraine, it needs to be called Russia. House okay. You going to turn it into Ukraine? House Yeah. Easily. Easily. And they would call them pussies, but I would have still eaten there because you know. The food with. Goods the same. Yeah, there was.

And there was something crappy about Russia and it was, the joke was that they're probably in Ukraine by now and I'm like, Wow, this is going back 40 years. Like nothing has changed. That's oh yeah, well you things have changed. There's a, uh, there's a, a US installed government in Ukraine, but other than that a few things have changed. Just that little conflict going on. Just that little, little, tiny, bitty thing. And man, you really feel bad for those folks.

It's still going on, too, which is amazing. Um, yeah. I mean, it's. Yeah, I don't think it's that amazing. Is it? When Russia went in there, they were doing zero damage to any infrastructure. They were doing zero damage to anything that wasn't specifically a military target. And um, you know, I think by doing that, they were hoping that it'd be over quickly with minimal destruction.

And unfortunately we didn't count on is the Biden money that was in Ukraine that was going to be defended until the last Ukrainian days. Well, Biden has to wash his currency somewhere. The Biden crime family, that is him. And what about the whole crypto aspect of the money going in? Like, oh, so now we have a failed crypto king Yeah, we have billions of dollars are like, yeah, this was kind of a Bernie Madoff. We're using your money. And there's money going from this to Ukraine

and. Ukraine that was investing the money that it was receiving from the United States and Europe into Bitcoin, which just sounds just like, huh? Well, it's like a get rich quick scheme, man. Yeah, it sounds like they shouldn't have been sent. The money is what it sounds like. Yes, that's it. So it's. Essential. Also, I don't know that this wasn't planned all along because you're doing a double cover up here.

First of all, you're converting real money into Bitcoin, making it less traceable and not just Bitcoin other coin right through the exchange. The exchange is operated very shady, as you would expect to be the case in Ukraine. And then it just shuts down and money just disappears. So now nothing is traceable.

So, you know, all those payola payments made out to the folks whose kids worked in Ukraine and there's quite a few of them in the US politician rates, they're completely now gone, untraceable and taxable and all of the above. Nobody wants to mention that. Oh I just did. Oh well, yeah. This is not, this is not the lamestream though. No, no. You'll hear different ideas here. But you are a Russian apologist obviously.

Oh, obviously. Yes. Yes. I know you have 13 different birth certificates, 14 different passports. Who told you that? There are spies everywhere from the seen letter. Three letter agencies. Yeah. And some people just with their three letter names they know. Yes. Speaking them three letter names. Did you see that the Colorado shooter, do they have three names? No. But that's usually the most famous way. I mean, I know. Who he is. Yeah. He had three names in the media.

You could just feel right when that happened. They were hoping for a white guy. They were hoping for a republic. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. And then it turned out to be another crazy black guy, and it's like, oh, no. And convenient. Black guy. He looked pretty white to me. Well, I mean, you know, different shades. The Colorado shooter's black. You're kidding me. No, the Walmart one. That what? You know, not the Walmart. No, the Colorado one. Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, the. Gay club. One.

Oh, gay out. Right. Right. Because they were hoping for, you know, they were. Hoping for the. White guy to see and turn out to be a gay dude. You had a thing against somebody there. You know, that's in conversely. Vendetta. Biden is going to strongly go after guns they say oh. He's doing it, you know. Yeah like January because that's. When the there which was really trying to sneak things in because the House already passed a new ban on black guns.

Ooh, black guns are bad. Yeah. The whole concept of assault weapons is hilarious. Why don't just call them weapon weapons, right? Sure. I mean, that just kind of what they mean. It's like, hey, we're going to ban weapon weapons. Well, people are so ignorant. I mean, there's a percentage of people in this country that are gun owners that understand what the terms mean, people that are not gun owners, when they hear the term semiautomatic, they're picturing a full on Tommy gun.

Yeah, they're not they're not understanding that a a semiautomatic is pretty much every pistol that's been sold since the 1800s. Exactly. Although I got to say, you know, those of us that are deep into the gun culture also aren't necessarily helping things when you can do searches for videos called fully semiautomatic and see a bunch of guys shooting out of reselling trigger guns, which is hilarious because they're semi-automatic shooting at about 500 rounds per minute.

Yeah. Well, and it's like you can use a rubber band bungee cord kind of. Thing to. Give your to give your gun a boost. I mean, after that, they can really shoot accurately at those kind of speeds. Those guns weren't made to be fired. Well, we must stop. Yeah, I mean, some were. But that is the, you know, the concept. It's like, well, okay, let's ban this. It's like, but okay, but if somebody adds a rubber band to it, it's now this. So how do you you know, how do you know?

So they want a banned rubber band. Probably that would be the next line of defense. People seemingly keep driving their cars into parades and people into Apple stores, which I guess the Apple Store one was a just a bad accident where the guys would. That was. A robbery. That wasn't a robbery. No, that was just a guy allegedly, from what I'm understanding, he got his foot caught between the accelerator, the sidewall. However that happened.

You know, it looks like he tried to break with his other foot and all that didn't quite work. Wound up in the Apple Store. But he doesn't think of shifting into. Neutral I guess not how dangerous cars are. Mean all cars. Well, I mean, I think there'll be some good arguments for electric cars at that point because the electric cars are going to hit the brakes without asking you. The electric cars have way more torque, though, so you can get a lot quicker. A lot sooner.

Yeah, but they they also are watching where you're going and they're going to prevent you from hitting people. Well, not just because they're electric. That would be the smart cars. Yeah, well, fair enough, but the electric cars all have that. Like you can't turn it off. Whereas the other cars, only the expensive versions of those cars have. Well, that's true. It is the haves and have nots, but cars are dangerous.

But yeah, we had those, the multiple shootings and O'Reilly or my buddy Bill O'Reilly I know yeah I mean I heard hearing about Tim O'Reilly talked about this the other day, how his people pulled out the stats with the mass shootings and the percentage that were black on black crime. But that's never the stuff that's being covered on the news. Right? Right. Yeah. It's always the white guy, you know, it's like that's shooting up the school, but it's like, yeah, that's not a majority.

I mean, that's horrible. They all are. But that's the minority. But it doesn't even matter. I mean, honestly, the as a percentage of population, the number of school shootings we have is statistically insignificant right. Yeah. Well, they're being picked intentionally because this is where we're trying to, one, do the most damage.

And two, it's when you know when you know a place and people had been talking about this with the Walmart shooter once, you know, you have a company, you know that their policy is it's no guns. It's anywhere. There's a no guns on a gun free zone. Yeah. There's more likely to be shooting, right? That's where the people go because yeah. Anybody that is being and a law abiding, rule abiding citizen says, well, I can't bring my gun into Walmart. Whereas if a few of those people were around,

when a guy comes out and starts firing on. Now. The employees or the shoppers, well then they could be taken out. Mm hmm. There was a story of a mall shooter not that long ago where it was literally within 10 seconds, a good Samaritan took him out. Yeah, I mean, I'm like 12 times. Yeah. From, like, 40 yards away. Or that was. Which is unheard of for police. Yes. What is heard of?

Of police? I remember in, uh, one of the cases in New York where they, there was six cops that each fired several magazines. So we're talking like more than 15 rounds per cop. So let's say 20 and per cops, about 100 rounds and one round hit the perp out of 100. That is not gun control. The other 99 went somewhere else. That is definitely not good. Gun control. No. And well, that's not what you want flying around. Not bullets in general. Yes. In general. That is that is inconvenient.

Yeah. Yeah. I think we need to go back to the good old days where the cops didn't carry guns or tasers and they instead they had a billy club. Well, let's. England. Welcome back to the the way if the cops actually have to get within the zone of danger themselves, I think that they would tend to be a lot more polite. Would they? Well, they actually get to do the job, though. I mean, you can't fight guns with the Billy Club.

Well, they don't need to fight guns because statistically the amount of gun crime that we have is insignificant. But it happens. So in those cases, there's nothing but. Well, it happens. But I mean, if you want to look at it that way, that's why you have a SWAT team. The SWAT team can have guns. But the I don't know about the everyday cop whether they need to have a gun. Here's the thing.

The joke which is, you know, as all jokes is based on reality for young people, is if you manage to buy a used gun from a police department, it's always a great deal because it's never been used, which is crazy because it'll have it'll have more wear from the holster as the guy took it out and put it in every night than it will inside the barrel, which probably still has original oil in that. How is there not a range and practice?

And there there is a range in the practice, but cops are lazy and I don't mean just cops. Most people are lazy, but cops certainly are no exception there. Most police departments will give you a one box of ammo per year per practice. It's not quite enough. The the expenditures, things like guns and ammo and police departments are way behind the expenditures to maintain the salaries. So like, for example, I've got, I think three different guns that are top guns.

Uh, I've got a couple of Glocks that I bought for about a mile, not quite that far off, but close to half of that were top guns and one of them literally did still have the original gun sort of oil on the inside. You could like you could tell it's not been shot because there's been no rubbing at all on the top of the barrel against the frame.

It's just looks. Yeah. And then I also bought and I think I talked about this on my other show just recently I bought a sig, uh, SWAT rifle from the Plano Police Department out here in Texas, which was awesome because it was not only was it a captain, it was the sergeants tactical rifle. Ooh, you know what that means? Never really got the never shot. Exactly. That was like, oh, this thing's perfect. And the guy is like, Yeah, it's got under 200 rounds and I'd probably under 100 now.

And this gun is like eight years old. How many rounds of you put through since? But not that many, actually, probably about 50. Do you think that's the other half of the the oligarch dinner will be. Oh, going to shoot. Yeah. Are you in the expensive part of the dinner. Yes. Well yeah because no matter what it costs for good steaks and alcohol, shooting now is way more expensive. Oh, yeah, shooting is definitely more. Any time there's a Democrat in office, shooting is more expensive.

Ammo is down at least a little bit. So if you're if you're looking for Christmas presents or people, the ammo is always good. Yeah, ammo is a pretty good Christmas present. Availability is getting better and the prices are definitely coming down, which is great. I've been stocking up on some AK surplus Ukrainian ammo which is in great shape. Get some good deals on it right now. If they don't get. Any of the the surface to air missiles or anything.

But they can't seem to fire at the right direction. On the conversation. Oh, sorry. Now just legitimate ammo. You know what you need coming from Ukraine? Just stuff you need to protect your home or Russia and just. You know, go have fun. The range. Yeah. Yeah. I mean honestly the I wouldn't consider any East European ammo particularly good. If you look at test results, it's usually the least accurate shit out there.

Doesn't matter which country, whether it's coming from Czechoslovakia or I guess we don't have a MA, Czech Republic or Serbia or Russia or Belarus or Ukraine or any of those countries. The the ammo quality is not the best. And you want reliable ammo. Yeah. Yeah. So like, I have my good ammo, which is all Israeli, and then I have my G. Bama, which is East European, and then I have the, uh, the hunting ammo, which is all American.

Now, which is, which is the gun that's sitting there just in case you have an intruder pop into your house during the podcast. Um, well, I usually have multiple guns within arm's reach. Well, that's the way to go. Yeah. If you get a stop by jeans, make sure you're regular. Dwight I always say the same thing. You know, somebody talks about a gun for home defense. I see you never do better than the shotgun. Shotgun does not require you to be nearly as accurate.

And for most people, they have not practiced shooting with high levels of cortisol in their systems. Like you need to practice stressful shooting in order to know what you're going to do in those situations. Most people have not gone and done that. Yeah, you don't want to freeze. Well, not only that, you can be shooting at a, you know, a three inch group in the gun range, which turns into a 14 inch group when you add stress. Makes sense. Yeah. Because you're in a yeah.

You're hurried, you're frazzled. Yep, yep. There's nothing like being shot at that decreases your accuracy. It is not at all surprising, but nonetheless, for most people when they experience that, it it is a, uh, like they they only realize just how much of a difference it makes when your hands are shaking, you know, like a half an inch back and forth with you not being able to control that at all. You're not going to be shooting very accurately.

Yeah. There's no way really to prepare or simulate that coming up. Oh, there is. Absolutely. There's a number of things. The have somebody shoot at you. That's one way. You know, there may be other ways the but one of the easy ways back when I was younger was paintball. True, because paintball hurts like the sumbitch. If it hits you because it's a 68 caliber ball of goo. So it's as, you know, as denser, denser than water. And it's traveling at 300 feet per second.

So it carries quite a bit of weight. Now, paintball, I think, is kind of fallen out of favor these days for the what they call it the little be the little beads that everyone goes shoots. Now, I don't know. It's not bad for the environment. Damn. What is it called? Um. They've replaced paintball with something else now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It doesn't have paint. It's just like you're shooting little plastic pellets, but it seems to be quite popular these days.

Well, then, how do you know you hit somebody? Well, I mean, they know, but. Well, the person's supposed to raise their hand and say, hit. Sure, but it I mean, it hurts. And like, it's the idea is when you get smacked, they're going to keep shooting until you raise your hands. So you don't want to wait too long to raise your hand. Although they are clearly cheaters or someone has got to know in their if anyone's listening what the hell I'm talking about, you know, the. Oh, Black Friday. Oh, yeah.

Nobody listening. That's what everybody's out doing, their bodies out doing, shopping anywhere. I'm just waiting for whatever will happen today. I mean, because if you're really you're going to go shoot up a place. I mean, this is a perfect day to do it. Now you can send emails to Darren directly bypassed me for still don't even I would never say anything like that just saying who would. And then Illinois.

I mean if they don't change the law that they passed that goes into effect January 1st, I'm going to need to really load up on ammo because the law is now going to be. Airsoft. If guns. There you go. Yeah, that's what I meant to say. Yeah. So airsoft seems to be way more popular than paintball, which I think is because people just didn't want to have clothes that are. Close and ruining it or just. Yeah, full of stuff.

But I used to play a lot of people like back when I was single and stuff and like every weekend they'd be at the paintball range. Hey, deep. Like 30 years ago this was a hundred bucks a day hobby. Now it's probably a thousand. That I don't want that. But but it's probably 200 probably. I'm sure it is. But it's also I don't know, I enjoyed it. I thought it was fun, but certainly the airsoft stuff they make look more like real guns.

Yeah, because the paintball gun, you know, it looks a lot more like a paint sprayer for your wall, right? Because. Well, then it goes. Yeah, it's big and chunky. And like I had the remote action while I was in action, there was a remote nitrogen tank. Right. And my back under the cameras and then a braided metal hose running through the sleeve down to the gun. That was promo mounted to me. And then but it was it was enjoyable.

But that's one of the ways you get used to like still focusing and concentrating and shooting when somebody's shooting at you. The other thing, you could take a class that there are gun skills that do simulation classes. Simulation is it's it's what a lot of the more I guess let's just say military contractors trained with their you use real guns but instead of shooting bullets they shoot these little squibs that are kind of like paint balls but smaller.

They're they're standard bullet size and yeah, that like you go through your house on those and you've got the red team. Blue team boy that gets the adrenaline pumping. Oh I would imagine. And I know yeah. Different things now that like shoot out the laser that they're used. You use your own pistol and they have special things that go into it. So when you fire it, it just kind of shoots the beam light. But then again, you're trying to shoot at certain targets because that really.

Yeah, that doesn't work. It has to be something painful if you're not afraid of the pain that it's going to result in, you're not going to have the same type of response in your performance. Well, this. Is why a Sig Sauer from all of their most popular models, they now make baby guns to. Give you. Oh, they make airsoft guns. Yeah, I don't know about boobies, but they're definitely make airsoft guns of all the things. Which is probably what those are.

But I know they're, you know, they're safe to shoot in your own backyard. Well, legal anyway. To shoot in your backyard. Yeah. Yeah. And I know they're not the only ones either, but. Yeah, absolutely. I've posted a couple of videos and not just the social of what you're showing. Really. What gender. Social. Yeah. Are you not. No, I hardly see stuff from you. That's true. I don't post a lot. No I don't think I'm probably around 100 posts a day or so. Well, see, you just take up the slack.

Like I take up the slack for half the people on there for crazy. That's right. It's like Ellen said on Twitter, there's like 10% of the people doing 90% of the content. Mm hmm. Yeah. They deserve to get some cash. They deserve to be cut in. Yeah, man. Keep on the thing. Run it. Totally. But as of January 1st, I think we talked about it a little bit. The law's going to be I mean, there's a lot of asinine stuff about things they won't hold people that commit criminal offenses for.

But the biggest one seemed to be that they made the trespassing charge. They dropped it down a rung, meaning that if somebody actually comes into your house or your yard. Or, you know, this is in Illinois. Yes. No, they you can call the cops. The cops can come out. The cops can give the person a ticket. But the cops cannot remove them from your property. So you have to shoot them. That's what I said.

You know, it's going to be it's going to be kind of a roundabout at that point, because I think that's what people are going to have to do. And then, of course, they'll probably try to prosecute you for doing that. But I don't know if somebody comes into your house, it's like what you're telling me that if somebody actively breaks into somebody's home and just is like, I live here now. Yeah, the cops here, right? The cops get come remove them.

Yeah, of course. People are going to start getting shot. What's the what's the point in having cops? I mean, I'm I've been on the defund the police bandwagon longer than most people way before it became a thing. And BLM because I've seen way too much police corruption. But what's the point in all of paying cops if they can't do things to provide safety at that point?

None. And that is the point that a lot of the local mayors here in Illinois and the police departments are making because it's like you're not letting them do their job. And Mick can. And does that law just apply to state police and city police have their own laws? That was also one of the things that was discussed because very much like we have federal laws and we have local laws in the States. Yeah, there will be, I'm guessing. Local. Authorities who are like, fuck the state of Illinois. And.

This is not how we're going to run our local unless it's, you know, unless they're somehow going to have you know, I don't know what the state can do to local towns if they're like, yeah, the whole trespassing thing. Now, we're not we're not we're not doing that because that's insane.

You know, I understand if somebody in your yard or something like that, but it's like, well, if they're still on private property being unable to have the police take care of the problem, you're absolutely right is. Although technically the police are never going to take care of a problem even before this law, because the cop's job is to show up and collect. Its information. From the witnesses. It is not to actually do something about a criminal event. No, I would agree on some of the stuff.

But if you had somebody that had broken into your house, the cops will come and they will arrest them and take them away. When you change too, it's not. How often does someone stick around to wait for the cops to show up? Never because they know they will be arrested. Now, if you change that too, the cop can only give you a ticket, which you can then just ignore them. This is again the concept of having repercussions for the crimes. Yeah. And this is like so long. As you get a shotgun.

I mean, I don't know what the laws in Illinois are around shotguns. Maybe you have I mean, I already have pistols and we've got now in Illinois to own a pistol, you need to get a a federal owner ID card, which this Jesus please put out. I know, but we've got. Them. I've got the wife's got it. You know, we both got pistols and shotguns. I don't think you need the void card for. I think you can buy them. Yeah. I mean I remember they, they used to just sell shotguns and Kmart.

Yeah. Like the walk up or the manager start shooting them up. Uh huh. Maybe they wouldn't get shot up if they still carried them. If people were afraid of the repercussions, a lot less crime would happen. And I just can't believe that people don't understand that. It's just like if you have kids. Yeah, the, you know, the parents who are like, yeah, we never punish little Jimmy, your. Little girls. For anything they do. Those kids continually misbehaving. They're little brats. Yeah, absolutely.

The parents that reprimand the kids. I know. Finally the line. There was a dude and kind of the the, uh. Hello. I guess he was sort of conservative ish. Um, but he had a, an interesting, he was one of the early sort of political YouTube channels. Uh, and he had a kind of what was his name? He was a Canadian dude with a British accent. Well, that's weird. I'm sure, though, that people know who actually what I'm talking about.

But he always used to do his videos where it was just him standing with a next to a white wall, and he'd talk about how he's generally conservative. But and he he was one of the early people got banned off YouTube. But one of his stances I could just never understand or agree with why the hell he had the stance, which was that he was completely against like using a belt on kids corporal punishment. I'm like, dude, that, that works. Right?

If you don't believe in corporal punishment, then there's something wrong with you, not with the people that actually engage in it, because your children take they take quite a bit of time to understand and learn logical, rational thinking. Right. I'm not saying you you beat a one year old with a belt. Absolutely not. Obviously, you have to be yourself a logical, reasonable adult. But the idea that you can't spank a kid or you can't, you know, cause anything that is physical pain is asinine.

It is literally pretending that you are not an animal, which we are. We are animals with brains. But all of those animal instincts are still there. Any animal that has managed to survive up to the present day has a built in, doesn't even have to think about it, doesn't have to use brain. It's almost literally in their spinal column. This idea that if there's pain in part of my body, I need to stop doing what I'm doing and pull that part of my body back.

Whether that's caused by touching something hard, touching something cold, getting thwack by a branch, I don't care what it is. We all have natural reactions to painful stimuli. Yes. To knowing there's a repercussion to the action. Well, it's not even knowing that there's repercussion. I mean, that's the idea is hopefully you learn not to do the thing that caused pain. But we all have an instinct to avoid pain.

And so to simply say you should never lay a hand on the kid because they're a kid and you should not trust them. Understanding your explanation logically. Right. That's just that's just stupidity. I mean, that parenting. It really is. It's like you might as well give women the right to vote. Right. That's not going to gene at unrelenting that show where you want to wait. What they just said. That is repercussions. Yeah. What was the guy's name? Cassie.

He is still perma man, I think from all the platforms. He. But he was one of the early guys like before Alex Jones. But you saw Trump got his account back on the Twitters. And a whole bunch of other people and more games. Yeah. And even more people should be getting him back because Musk put up a vote thing. A poll say, should everyone get their accounts back unless it was deleted for a legal reason in hell. And the poll the poll had a 70% affirmative vote.

And I mean, you either have free speech or you don't. Yeah. And I think he kind of stepped into it with his comments about Alex Jones was like, dope. He's never getting back. My kid died in my arms, and I just I don't you know, it's like, well, that's unfortunate. Dude has nothing to do with Alex Jones, though, you know, you're you're as Ben says, your emotions know what the hell's been say he has a funny little thing about emotions your emotions or have rights or something like that. I can't.

I got to look it up. Oh, yeah? Have you heard it? No. Oh, I don't listen to Ben. I've never listened to Ben. No. I can't listen to you. But he talks. You've had a, shall we say, constructive, and I would say so things together. But that's why you have to accelerate all other podcasts to match his speed. Right? Uh, in order to understand Ben SHAPIRO, you could either slow him down, or you have to speed the whole rest of the world up. Yeah, just to try. I just. I just speed everything up.

But repercussions are an important thing to know. And if there are never any repercussions, then you will have people running rampant. We're seeing that in the major cities that have gone to these no bail laws. Oh, here you go. There's guys that are picked up multiple times a day for committing crimes because we just. A day yesterday, you know. There was out in New York, there's been some just horrific stories. Uh, so Ben saying is facts don't care about your feelings. This is true.

Nobody cares about your feelings. Really? Yeah. Yeah, that's very true. Don't say that to your wife, though. Yeah, yeah. No, that's. I think Ben is. He's built himself quite the nice little empire. Yeah, there's no question he's made some poor little. Little, fast talking lawyer. Pretending to be a conservative. That's what people say. Yes. He's still faking it after all these years. He's doing a good job. There's no way. Yeah. Uh huh.

These figured out how to make money in a sphere that's kind of hard to make money. Yet. Mm. And in a land of the cancel culture, this the Ellen thing. I know a lot of people don't give a shit about Twitter. But Ben is such a stereotype, though. Well, yeah, but he's. He's a lawyer. He's married to a doctor. Uh, uh, you know, obviously Jewish, both of them Russian. Jewish, for that matter. Well, see, there's a cancelation just waiting to happen. Uh huh. And his mom was a Hollywood exec.

Wow. This wasn't preplanned. I mean. I mean, it's just like, go back, dog. Everything. Everything around them is just like, goddamn, he's so stereotypically Jewish. It's, uh, Mr. Way. That's why I think it's that we talked about this before we start recording that, if you haven't seen Freedom Tunes Thanksgiving special this year is Tucker Carlson. Last year was um, Ben SHAPIRO and the super one, I think, is even funnier because it's easier to make fun of.

SHAPIRO But Tucker is was pretty damn good this year as well. In general, I just like freedom tunes. Most of their stuff they they've got a few things that fall flat, but for the most part, they're right on the money. Never heard of them. YouTube channel is this. Yeah YouTube channel freedom tune. You never heard Freedom Tunes it's one of the sort of conservative cartoon channels. I don't want to see it. Go watch it. Conservative cartoons? No. Oh, how do you not watch conservative cartoons?

You pay for YouTube for Gracie. I know they barely watch anything. Mm hmm. The less is more concept is better when it comes to YouTube. Well, I would even though the guy that owns that company is Catholic, I still recommend that. Even though. Yeah, you can't trust those Catholics. That's for sure. They're out there with the Crusades causing all these problems.

I know. Right. And I'm surprised that my local, you know, the high school I went to, it hasn't been totally canceled because the the mascot was the crusader. Like, wow, that seems to be that seems to be glorifying some really bad behavior. How was that? The Crusades. There was a lot of death and murder and. There was quite a bit of that. But I mean, the the word crusades predates the Crusades. Oh, it just means a journey with a point to it. Yes.

But when people say, though, you know, the Crusades did have that other connotation, which in a woke world would that should be canceled from all memory. Yeah. I mean, crusade, really. You could say that King of Khan was on a crusade. We're on a crusade. Well, I'm Belk. Yeah, I speak for yourself. They're team savvy, but they're not crusading on anything. I'm just talking. But you are talking in a way, as if to be on a crusade.

Hey, man, if somebody wants to go do something based on what they hear, that's up to them, man. Not on me. Exactly. It was like. Again, I've been watching what's going on with Kanye. And R.P. the one day Johnny Fever, there was a problem with it was like a garbage strike or something. So he just mentioned how you should just go take all your garbage and throw it on City Hall. Oh, and I guess people started doing it and he was like, really surprised that people started doing it. Uh huh.

So they of course forced him to apologize. And of course he does the apology. And then it's like, you know, but of course, if you're still out there, I feel responsible with that garbage in your car. You know, the bears house is see, that's kind of like that's that's what podcasters do. Yeah. You're like, oh, wait, I can I can cause people to maybe go do something. That there's no actual power there. No, not at all. There's nobody listening right now. Well, and that's definitely true.

I mean, first of all, it's it's Black Friday. It's day after Thanksgiving in the U.S. For all our international listeners that don't care about Thanksgiving, there's somebody I was watching that was a big conservative British two that just gave a hilarious comment to the whole Thanksgiving thing. He's like, Well, you know, our country didn't go and rape and pillage another indigenous civilization and steal our land. So now we don't celebrate Thanksgiving.

You're like, you're not familiar with the British Empire. And that's literally my reaction was like, Oh my God, you literally conquered half the world. And you're going to tell us about that. That Americans did that. Okay. All right. That's it. This is the the block that people have because they don't understand history. They have made no attempt to understand the history that I guess we now live in an era. Or three free era. Yeah, the most important things are not what came before.

It's all just today. Woke transgender whatever the cause you're is but yeah. You don't know what happened in the past. It's like that's really kind of scary. Yeah, well, and Russia just keeps pissing off Democrats because they just passed a law outlawing child sex change operations. Well, as they should. That seems rational to me. It's clearly evil. Evil Russkies. What you can't be thinking that's rational.

I mean, I just can't believe this country is gone that far down the rabbit hole where the average person is like, I don't know, let's cut off a kid's genitals at 12 because they say they're confused. Well, on the path to settlement Gomorrah, all things start looking normal. Yeah, and that is the issue. I mean, I just want to know who's going to be like, oh, those horrible Russian people. They won't let us cut off the kids. Dick and Dili's at least 18.

Mm hmm. Wow. Yeah, that's horrible. Those who are. Gonna change that administration, that's for sure. We got to. Wait. But what? Moving out of there? Did you get the sex change in Ukraine? Is it okay? Are they. Do you have 212 year olds in Ukraine? Well, they do that in voluntarily, but yeah. There you go. Uh huh. That is the one of the big stories since we last talked, the the missile, these stray missile, if you will. Oh, yes. That landed in Poland.

And immediately, the news coverage, everybody in. Russia just bombed Poland. Russian missile lands in Poland, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian. And it's like that. Does it make sense? Because that's the Russians aren't I mean, everybody wants to play this. It doesn't make sense at all because there was an S-300 supposedly and. It fragments too. That's the problematic. Yeah. And the S-300 doesn't have the fuel to fly from Russia to Poland. So What the fact.

Well they were in Ukraine that took Ukrainian missiles and sent them to Poland. Yeah. It needs all the fucking retard at the U.N. and I don't normally use that kind of language. Right. That came out and was like, well, this is still an illegal war, so it's still Russia's fault. It's like, fuck, you know, it is not. What's an illegal war. Right? Oh, you mean like the like.

Yeah, you mean like the US war in Syria or the US war in Yemen or the US war in Iraq or the US war in Afghanistan or the illegal war. Those are all fight. Yeah, those were legal. Okay, so who who is the determining factor on the legality there? The UN gets to decide what are. The the war in Serbia. That was pretty legal dope. That's messing with the countries. Now, huh? Uh huh. All five all dandy. But just like the same crap, the Brittney Griner stuff like being unlawful,

you know. Unlawfully detained. Yes. Or like the whole Ukrainian action general. Were there unprovoked war, right? Unprovoked war. Always. Oh, yeah. It's unprovoked. Right. You know, that's. Well, no. Has been covering. 2014 bombing the shit out of the east. Uh huh. The news has changed so much and no agenda has pointed this out a bunch of times. So I'm not taking credit for it. But you'll notice the news now doing things like Trump said without providing proof.

You know, it's like, No, that's not your to to add that kind of subtext to what your reporting. You know, the only sources that exist these days are anonymous. And they're never right. And they're usually coming off Twitter because that's all that media does, is just read Twitter. That's the entirety of their research. Because it is a lot quicker to get your research that if you them to look at Twitter.

And I think it also makes sense why they're so gung ho on Twitter having fact checkers so they don't have to even do that as media. Right. Because somebody else is. Well, this is fact check. You know, the fact that the the conservatives are all all being paid for by Russia and it's all collusion that's been fact checked on Twitter to be correct. So we're going to report it. Which is why the Elon Musk thing taking over. Oh, my God, is it pissing off?

Yes. Oh, my God. This is to them, this is worse than almost, if not worse than Trump. And you know, this I think it may be it's going to get their name. But you notice these folks, including the you know, the radical wackos like Whoopi who said she was leaving Stephen out. Yeah, the usual. The usual suspects. Now, they're not leaving because they they they say they're going to leave. And then they realize that every other platform out. There. Has, a small percentage of the reach.

What did you see there? The reply from the head of mass. Then he says, you know that Mastodon is pretty fucking liberal. I mean, they were trying to kick off no gender social off the platform. Well, they have. Tried to do a mass ban. Yeah, well that's the no agenda. Social and other other like instances. I mean the people that are familiar, the you know, the mastodon is like Twitter, but it's a bunch of people hosting their own servers and they all talk.

What they do when they release the software is tell you, well, there's a. Bad server's. Like this, this and this, and we block that by default because, you know, they're saying horror. And it's funny that the excuse, the reason that they give is like free speech. So really, that's the reason why going to block an instance. Yeah. Is because people are allowed to say whatever they want. It's like, well, is which.

Which is bullshit anyway because a number of people saying things that are at all questionable I'm not in the social is pretty frickin small. There are some other servers on Mastodon that so far into the you know, Hitler was right side. That's right. But it goes back to the question of how you deal with that. Go back to 19. 80. Or the Blues Brothers, great movie. You learn everything you need to know about life from the Blues Brothers when they come. Across the Penguins.

Yes, you come across the the Illinois Nazis on the bridge. Yeah. And you know, it's like I hate all the right Nazis. And then they go and they drive the car over the bridge and all the Illinois Nazis have to dove off into the water, but the Nazis are allowed to speak. That's part of the deal of having freedom and free speech, is that the horrible people that you don't like or don't agree with still get to spew their stuff. And then you get to respond. Write me or you not listen.

Well, that's also true. And you can't put tape on their mouth. Yes. That's that's not the same as not listening. I mean, you could drive the car over the bridge and make them jump off, but. Well, they get. Shouldn't really.

Do that but be yeah but that's the thing is so this lefty that is in charge of mess down I mean it's open source so anybody can set up their own but the official big mastodon that started the whole thing he had to put out a statement saying, if you're coming here from Twitter, please use the tools that are built in like muting or ignoring somebody and stop sending us requests to block people. Right. Because all these people on Twitter, they're. Used to that. You stop.

Yeah, they used just sending a I don't like this person blocked them from your platform. Right. Make it through like. Just mute them yourself. So like no, that's not the point. That's not what they want. They want to remove people they disagree with. Right. They don't want that even to be out there for anybody else to hear. They want to decision for you. And that's dangerous. Which is exactly what I want in podcasting, because I want my podcast to only be heard by people that are approved by me.

I know you're trying to figure out that technology. That's it. You're like, one. Day, one day I can I will make it happen. I only want to be able to talk to the ears of people that I like. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. How do we do? Everybody be technically. I guess I could do that. There's a way to do that. Just through, like, a patriot type system where. Where I could make the membership for free, but then I get the check. Anybody I don't like, I've. You need a big bunch of people. All give tons of money.

That's what we need. Big people giving tons of money. If you want to help. If you want to help. Jean, figure out a way to ban people from podcasts. I think they need to send the donation in. And really, he's only targeting one person mainly. So there's that. Could be a whole country. And he comes at me and I'm like, you do realize he is just trying to annoy you said, come on, don't give into it. You're playing the game all wrong. That's yeah. You got to have fun. Yeah, I have fun. Exactly.

Yes. There's no malice. There's no malice in the unrelenting show. Not at all. Or any show. What? None that we do. I mean, yeah, stuff shows. There. Maybe it's a mouse and in like Michael Miles's shows. Yeah, there's probably a lot there. But it's he does have some malice. And every show he does. With Twitter, though. What do you think of that guy, by the way? I don't know if we ever talked about him. I heard very little, but from what I've heard. Okay. Yeah, I mean, it's not so.

He's a self avowed anarchist, which is different than the libertarian. And it's interesting to me because he's a righty anarchist where most anarchists that I've known in my lifetime have been lefty anarchists. That is like they're the people for whom, you know, socialism and communism doesn't go far enough. You're like, This isn't working for me. This is way too. Easy, huh? It's like, Well, everybody should have all this stuff. But also I don't trust somebody to enforce it.

So anarchism is the way to go. I was like, Okay, let's go back. To the Wild West. That's why we all have an ammo. Yeah, I mean, there are certain aspects of anarchism that I'm totally fine with, but as a general philosophy, government anarchism just seems to fall short. Well, I remember going back to the bulletin board days. How way back? Yes. How afraid people were.

I remember the big board here out of the Chicago area, which I think is still a company and still around called Rip Go, R.I.P. CEO, the famous bulletin board. But they had. The. The files section. You know this is going back into the early mid eighties. Yeah. And they had the files section with stuff like The Anarchist Cookbook and the Poor Man's James. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. And people were so worried about that new technology.

Now we look at the Internet go, Wow, you guys had no idea how easy it was going to become to share things is back then. I mean, yeah, it was text files, but you were calling it out a 56 K modem or you know something, if not even that, maybe like a 300 baud modem back at the time. Yeah, early eighties, probably would not have been 5600. No and the amount of time that it would take to download this kind of stuff. But I remember I had, this would have been like late eighties.

I had to tell a bit trailblazer, which was a 19 two modem, which was super fast for its time. And 4G kept getting better. Yeah, before that there was all 2400. But I mean that's all kids today that can. Courier. 96 yo on their phones. Yeah no. Idea. Well the computers that were using those modems and you know they were less powerful than your iPhone. Oh, yeah. By far. By far, yeah. I mean, they only router was nothing. They could only show 256 colors at a time.

Yeah. Well that was, I had a the trash, the color computer, the original. Yeah. That's 16 colors. It's like that was that was going. Back in the trash 80 was a terror city for anybody wanting to look it up. Yeah. Welcome to Tandy Corp. Oh, they were kick ass, dude. You know, they the reason they sued by IBM was because their market share was actually surpassing IBM's at the time. That was released.

The colored computer was released in September of 1980, and so it cost 399 bucks, which is the equivalent of over 33 today. So I think it's more than that. Yeah I think it was the closest to the PDA has. Yeah, they're fucking socialists. If you look at the real inflation numbers, using shadow stats is quite a bit more than that. The sound of the trash 80 color computer was a six bit DAC. Uh huh. Yeah. And you could tell a classic video game sound.

And I think I don't remember what mind the the cheapest ones came with four kilobits ah kill a bunch of ram I think I had one that had 16. I think that was. When. I though the CPU was a 689. E. At .89 5 to 1.79 megahertz. Yeah. Speedy Mm hmm. And it was the worst thing about the color computer, which I did not realize until long after having the color computer was once the online stuff started happening.

For some reason, the assholes who made the color computer made the text with because you had to. This was the other thing. There were really no monitors. I mean, there were, but these were meant to go on television, which was the issue. But the width of the screen had 32 characters to it. Oh, it wasn't even 80 characters. No, like. A lot of them were 40. Yeah. All of the bulletin boards back then were 40 characters and all of them tried to get everything wrapped. Yes. Oh, they, I mean so you.

Couldn't even see all the like the text nudie photos? No, of course not. Oh, my God. It was horrible. Yeah, it. Was absolutely. Horrible. So how big was your screen? I used a few different televisions with a back. Remember using just like a small portable, maybe 15 inch screen to start. Wow. See, I was on a I'm a nine inch Mac screen. All of these those were even better. Black and white, nine inches. I mean.

Yeah, sure, it was higher quality and they were know very small, very small, insanely small to the point of it was basically it was definitely smaller than your iPad is barely bigger than the phone screen. That's true. And it was that was out of the thing that weighed like £80. Oh, it was heavy. It was transportable. Have a handle on top. In which was that machine. It wasn't a mac as a mac was it. That was a. Macintosh. Yeah. Yeah I know that. My buddy two.

Hundred and 28 Ram. Well that was big time. I remember they had him at high school and a buddy of mine in high school had a Lisa, which I don't know if. That was the pro. One. Yeah. Yeah. And those are now worth a shit ton of money. Well they were worth a shit ton back then when was for sale. I remember seeing this in the store. Lisa's were selling for four and a half thousand dollars in 1983. Money? Yeah. It sounds about right. So that's like seven. No, no, it's more than that.

It's probably like over ten grand right now. Yeah, for sure. And I remember. Those clunky mouses, those Macs had early back in the day. Yeah. Yeah. Um, y you mean. You kids there was square, mile, square. Well, my mouse is wired right now to that. That hasn't changed. You still like that? I you prefer. I like faster for gaming. You want the lowest latency possible. That's True, I don't game so I like that. Yeah. A good Logitech wireless mouse has been where I've been using.

Those those Logitech batteries. I don't know what they do. They last a year. Well yes, well they last a very long time and I you know, of course shitty eyes and big, you know, meaty fingers. I'm a big guy there was I had a mouse for like years and I bought a replacement battery because that was the thing that finally went. I love the old Logitech mouse, but I pretty much destroyed it, trying to take it apart. So I had to buy a new one. But it just is good. Yeah. Especially on Black Friday.

Yeah, well, you can get all sorts at the Black Friday. I was always a trackball guy, ever since Jack Balls came out. I love track balls. They seem like they're better than mice. I was never able to get used to those, and there were a lot of people that do a lot of computing that swear by them, you know.

Less, well, I used to do this one and then when I went back to the Mac, like in 2000, six, seven, I just got used to using the touchpad and then for the PC and I'm just replacing that with the mouse. Eventually. Mouse is definitely better for video games as the trackpad, but then I haven't used the trackpad in probably ten years. I kind of got a hankering for one, so I ordered one about a month ago. But would it. Come in yet? Is it like, yeah.

I came in, it came in, it came in, I use it and it's exactly that feel that I remember and I'm like, Yeah, it's like a mouse better now. Yeah, just it's gone. The thrill is gone. I just. It. I remember using him. I feels exactly the same. But maybe mice have improved. I don't know. Maybe that's what it is. But it is. They're way more aero. They're not aerodynamic. Aerodynamic. Yeah. The the speed that I move this mouse, it has to be aerodynamic. Yeah, that does it.

They are, they're, they're streamlined and they're much more comfortable that they are streamlined. That's true. The old ones were like, just here's a box with a couple of buttons on it. And those, those, those balls you had to clean all the time. Oh I'm. Just hating those balls to. You know, when your balls get dirty that year, computing power goes way down. Oh, way down.

And I was always amazed it would take because you could take those mice apart and the little rubber ball in those things, you wouldn't be able to, like, rub gunk off. Oh, it was grimy. And there's lint in your balls. I mean, it's like, what the hell am. You doing that that's not good. Now, the senior balls people. That's why you went to lasers and it was like, this is much better. Laser. Yeah. Laser balls. Yeah. They'll be totally hairless. That's the only way to go. It is.

You're going to get a much better response, time out, everything that you're doing. But I wanted the air fryer. I mean, has it changed your life? Well, you know, I replaced one air fryer with another air fryer, right? No, I thought that was your first. No, no one. Was small. Air fryer forever. You just loved one big thing for you. This? Yeah. I complained about my air fryer because it was round. It wasn't. Small. You couldn't fit. Your body just round. Yeah.

So you would put it in like three slices of bacon and you're done. I'm like, we won't see just three places. I know you need at least five or six. Yeah. So this one is square and it goes that the other thing is it goes up to over 500 degrees. It does it. I was like, damn, I might need one of those now because oh well. Hey, guess what? It's one of the black specials on Amazon right now.

I believe that it looked like it was a slightly less height on the basket because like that was sold as an air fryer. Fryer and something else. And a grill. It's a grill fryer. Yeah. But I know the just straight air fryer has worked. Well. It's fine. I've just made potatoes in that yesterday. Damn, I went oh sweet potatoes do I. Oh that would be good. Yeah. Like that was actually like the morning baked potato. I don't know. I keep forgetting to buy them. I just buy regular potatoes.

But I. I probably should buy some sweet potatoes because they taste. Better and they are better for your glycemic index. They don't spike your sugar. And the potatoes spike the sugar much. Oh yeah. Potatoes did. Oh yeah. Because it really. Yeah. Oh yeah. I mean, I know it's all carbs. It's all just, you know, starch, but I didn't think it was fast acting search. I believe it is the bad, bad taters. Well, I had a couple of taters last night, so maybe that's why I slept like a log.

Yeah, we had a nice Thanksgiving dinner over with my parents, had some turkey. Of course we don't cook. Mm. And this there's a there's a little grocery place here that does pretty good catering. Nice. And they do the turkeys very nice. Now, I mean, I guess we were lucky that we ordered for the 1 to 2:00 pickup because there was there were two choices. We were bringing it over to my parents house, but there were two choices. There was an 11 to 12 pickup or a12. And I guess we went to pick it up.

My wife went in and whatever happened, they didn't have anything at 11. They were just they moved everything to one. So anybody that had ordered for an 11 to 12 pickup, they weren't ready until one. Those those glad we had a 1:00 pickup. Hmm. That's a little inconvenient for people who are like. I've got this. We're getting close. Yeah. This way and that. But the turkey was very well. I mean, it was big, it was juicy, it was brown on the outside.

Nice. It's much better than trying to do it yourself. No, but I mean, that's a pain in the ass. I yeah, I would agree with that. I don't remember the last time that I actually did Turkey. I think it was probably five years ago, the last time I had Turkey at the house because I've had I've gone to other people's things are like this year I just do shit. You just lay. Off. You're like, I'm just don't want to see anybody. I had Mexican food for Thanksgiving.

See, now that I would prefer a good what? You have Mexican? Yes. Some case ideas. Uh huh, yeah, I did. I had the best deals and burritos. There you go. Yeah, that Were the Mexican restaurants open because, like, everything here closes? Oh, yeah. Like the Chinese place? Yeah. The Chinese Mexicans were the only ones running things. So they should. They should be open.

It's like this is different, especially now that you're seeing there was the stats are always bullshit, but the stat that I saw on Drudge or Fox or something was like 25% of people just didn't do Thanksgiving because the food prices were too expensive. It's like we still got to fucking eat. We do have to eat. Yeah, that's true. I mean, you could. Just order a pizza if you want to or do whatever. You don't have to have the the big turkey dinner.

Yeah, but we had the turkey, we had some, they had like green bean casserole. Some sweet potato casserole. Sweet potato. Yeah. To me it's always like sweet potato pie. And I like stuffing more than the turkey itself. I would agree. Although the turkey skin, especially if it's a fried turkey, is really good. That was I had a little of that because I was the one cutting it and it's like otherwise.

Yeah, but yes, the little bits that are just which is the only the that's the best part of a rotisserie chicken as well is the. Yeah, yeah. Those little bits of fried skin. I was talking to a buddy of mine about this. I'm like you remember the Arab sub in Seinfeld where. The four tops. Yeah, the muffin top. You just wanted some like thing, but since I just. Yeah. How about just fried chicken? I mean, it sounds gross. But is the most tasty part.

Yeah, but what do you do with the rest of the turkey? I throw it away, whatever. It doesn't matter. But you. This is a perfectly green bin. There's nothing to worry about here. Uh huh, uh huh. Feed the world's. Poor. Well, you can also turn it into or something. Yeah, you could just hit it. It's all organic. Nothing like you could throw it away. And it's not a bad thing. True, but. But the skin part is truly the tasty part of the bird. Yes. When done so only when it's seasoned, correct? Yes.

Yes. Just right. Yeah. You got to put themselves into that oil for sure. Uh huh. Which I've never deep fried a turkey. It's always been. Something I have. Is it is dangerous is I mean you don't want to do it in the house because. First of all it has to be fully thawed you don't want to be throwing frozen turkeys out. Explosion. Well, yes. Because no. Well, maybe, maybe not. I know we never know who's listening and how much their culinary skills come out.

But yes, you never want to drop anything that has a lot of liquid inside into hot oil. No, no ice cubes into oil. Don't do it. That worth it? But it's slightly faster. I will say that's probably 25 to 30% faster than baking it. But it is it keeps all the juices in. It is very, very soft. The skin is extra crispy. It's all together. It's a very good tasting bird. But it's not cheap because the cost of the oil to cook it in is about the same as the cost of the bird.

Right, because there. Is a lot of oil. Yet you need large enough vessel. Which is why this isn't for the. Yeah, the the amateur are weak of heart. They're not that bad. I think I bought a turkey fryer. When you heat up the oil. With it's a whole thing. It's a turkey fryer. And that was what, 120 bucks. And that comes with the vessel and then you fill it up. It's propane powered, so you just plug it and think from your grill into it. You let it go for how long for a turkey and the the.

Deal it's about 25 to 30% less than whatever the time they tell you would be for for just thermal baking, which is. A while because I haven't done a turkey in a while, but I did a. Thing. And that was like over 2 hours, like almost two and a half. Hours. Yeah. Which I just do. I cannot wait that long for should these days. I know I want. More instant gratification. Because we don't go to the store. Right. I order online line and I was totally misunderstanding the size.

When. Ordered the fresh chicken because I'm like I've had when we buy the rotisserie chickens. Yeah they're small enough to fit in the air fryer. So I'm like, Well, if you could just buy one of those before, they're cooked. It would been fine. In the air fryer but this was so big it didn't. So I had to just do it. The other did. Yes. It's like two and a half hours of. Yeah, it's like it's fine. Speaking of air fryers. Yeah. Because we're, you know, a show that provides service to be like.

A culinary show at heart. We really are one thing that this air fryer does that my last one didn't is it pre-heat? Yeah. So it first warms up the insides of the air fryer for a few minutes and then it says, Now put the food in. Yes, my old one didn't do that. It was just like took food in and hit a button and it'll keep it running until it's done.

But it didn't bother doing any kind of preheating, which made sense because the old one just had kind of a, you know, a light aluminum basket thing where this current one, it's got a fairly hefty grill surface on it, like looks like a grill. And it's I think it's steel. It's not aluminum. So it totally takes a while to get that bottom plate portion, heat it up. So it makes sense that you would want to do that first and then. But the food and the care, the sizzle right away.

Yeah, well, the preheating I think helps even hours because we don't have the grill, we have the same brand, but ours is just a big heating element at top. And then. The basket, which is very similar I think to the what you've got and it does seem to help to preheat because I mean, as with anything, you understand that the physics, you know, the thermodynamics of what's going. On. Right, is if you're going from cold, which I go from cold with bacon.

I never preheat when doing bacon, I just put it in and turn it on. But if you're doing something like fries or chicken wings or something like that, you really want to preheat to get the outside crispy and everything to cook. The way there. And it only takes a couple of minutes to preheat. Yeah. And it's like you don't need all the oil. At first I was like, Well, when you hurt Air Fryer, it's like, Well, do you have to put like a little oil spray or any of that on the outside? That's enough.

It's like, No, you just throw it in and it's magic. And it is. Just a convection oven which have been around. Really time. Yeah. And they just a rebranded convection oven. Yes. With a basket that lets you put things in and maybe get a little it probably helps the way the baskets depending on the different brands, but that is probably the biggest part and how the basket sits in and how the air is allowed to circulate, which is how well they work.

Yeah. And I think the convection oven warrants like I think they, they just had a heating element like a normal oven and then added a fan to stir around or. Just blow in the air. That's it. Yeah. Just blows the air. But these things are a little more targeted to where the air is blowing through the heating elements. So it's coming out hot. And a lot of people don't realize all the kind of stuff you could make in there. I know the brand that we've got French fries.

Well, they make different things, even you want to do. Like you want to make little mini quiches or muffins. I mean, you could put those in there as well. They have little inserts, you know, that you can put in there. And the biggest thing is I just made burgers, which is great, being able to make burgers that taste like burgers, but you make them indoors. They're right. They're very close to grill.

That's what my parents and that was the biggest surprise they had because we got them an air fryer it was even you can throw in the Polish sausage and it's like making it on the grill. It's like, yes, the magic. Jump. In burgers the same way you could throw the burgers. And if you're not dealing with. The. The highest end steaks, we've made some damn fine steaks in the air fryer as well.

You know, if you really want to, you know, step it up a little bit, you can sear them quickly first just to get the outside extra seared. But even without that, the end result is better than half the time I would have put it on the grill, so you just have to know the timing.

And with the steaks I found the best thing you could do is to remove the steak from the refrigerator for at least an hour, if not more, before let it get up to room temperature and that it's even better making it in the air fryer but I need to figure out the the never to live method of it using the the meats first I've got to get those marinate the little little vacuum. Yeah we've got the vacuum sealer. I just need to get some of the containers that will allow me to, to throw a style.

Yeah. Yeah. That's a great way to do it. Absolutely. Because the the little grocer will not the little grocery myer the grocery store we order from. Yeah. Weekly they because we were buying shish kebab which I know is another thing you wanted to put in the air fryer works. All right. In there they've started doing rather than just steak that's like bourbon infused marinated steak. And when I want to do this at home, because that's way better.

Yeah, well, and marinating in general just makes the meat taste so much better. I don't know how anyone could possibly eat meat or lamb, I should say. If it's not marinated, it's like lamb doesn't taste good unless you marinated. I didn't think lamb outside of a euro spit. Yeah. That's pretty much. Yeah. It's been a long time since I've had one of those, which I don't. Yeah. You know I just had one the other day. Extra's Kiki sauce. Yeah. And I love that the ethos. Absolutely.

But you know after like a week that was the I guess the one plus of feeling a little under the weather is that I was eating next to nothing. It was like I would make a like half a peanut jelly sandwich. It was like, that's enough. And you're like, you know, I'm full. Yeah, that's that's what I remember from Covered. That was one of the distinct changes for me, wasn't it wasn't so much a lack of appetite as it was a feeling of getting full very fast.

Yes. Which is why I'm wondering, I didn't take any tests and I had the I don't want to say full blown COVID, but it was a few months ago that I had the COVID where the test came back positive and I had, you know, the the fever and that that kind of stuff. This kind of felt like maybe just a a slight version that the only thing I pretty much got was the the stomach issues with it. I never had a cough or anything.

I did have a little bit of heart skipping beats, which happens when I get viruses every now and then, which is very disconcerting feeling. Now, is that something you just kind of feel or is that you're like, you're using instruments, detect that. You can I can feel it. But if I put on like a little monitor, like little O2 monitor, you know, that shows your pulse, you'll actually see a skip a and skip a beat.

And that at first I thought what I was getting was A-fib, but I don't think it's actually afib. I think it is just a a skipped beat and he's read up on it and people are like, Oh yeah, I've got it. It's, you know, it's no big deal. It's not the, you know, it's not a sign of any huge heart problem. It's like the heart is being irritated, which it can be with a virus.

And I remember it having this before, just not even realizing what it was, because the main thing you feel is like you want to cough, you get this little feeling in your chest like you want to cough, and then at one point I finally realized, Oh, wait, this is this is what's causing that. It's not a cough. It's you know. That it's a weird kind of fluttering feeling.

Well, that's interesting you say that, because I don't know if you know this, but whenever you do cough, like genuinely, I know it's right. Whenever you sneeze, it's this wasn't coughing. This is whenever you sneeze, it always happens between heartbeats. I couldn't believe that. Yeah. That electrical signal thing going on. And you don't want to cross those too. And you know. And I know.

But I think it's it's also I think the pressure build up in your chest with is very intense when you're sneezing compared to breathing. True. And you don't want to compete with the blood pressure. And the interesting thing is I found that this sensation and this happening almost always is along with stomach issue for me and I've read up on it. There is I think it's the vessel nerve that the stomach and the heart share. And there's a lot of research that.

There is a weird connection between the heart firing and stomach issues. Interesting like that. Just tells you eat better food, man told is that we're all going to die anyway, I suppose. Yeah. So who gives a shit? But it's like it's one of those things like, okay, I felt it before. And when you're, when you're not really sure what it is, well then the panic sets in. That's a lot better if you're just can understand, like, okay, this isn't a big deal. Although yeah.

Then you read all of the stuff about the, you know, the heart issues going on with COVID and the vaccines and all of that. So it's like you have to understand there's a connection and there's still people arguing that I know what gender social about that and it's like, you know, just wait for really yeah for the data to come out. Because it's like, well everybody figured out by this point in time.

Well, I think there's a lot of people that believe that the myocarditis and other heart issues are only with the vaccines and the vaccine causing them. There's no question. But this virus that's going around, whatever you want to call it, because some people don't believe COVID exists, that's also causing it. And about that. Yeah, it's the data is there that seems to prove that, which again, I don't know who you trust and who you don't.

There's data that shows that people have never had a vaccine, have the same percentage of microbes as people have. That's bullshit. That's what I've. Seen. Yeah, that's not correct. That's what the doctors. And not the right doctors. You got to find other doctors. You got to. Find new doctors. But it's like that, you know? It's like, this is it. It's like. But it would make sense to me.

It's the best one I've heard recently is people saying that it's not the vaccine, it's that the people that never get the vaccinated reinfect the people that did get vaccinated, that is causing the people that got vaccinated to have stronger problems with their hearts. I mean, it's just like completely twisted bullshit it up. Yes. Explanation for something that is pretty fucking obvious is that. We have a people. Aren't we don't know what the hell got shot up into millions of people.

No. And there were we don't. Know what the end results are, what the long term results are, and the companies that made this crap have full immunity. Yeah. Absolutely. But there were different things and it's that we're finally starting to see now, maybe over the last couple of months when people are doing stories, covering the vaccines that they are separating out the everyday as opposed to the non m RNA vaccination. It's like I get it the Johnson and Johnson one that I took this was not MRSA.

They had blood clotting issues with those, but it was from what I can tell the side effects on the and stuff, we're going to happen within 10 to 14 days. And if they didn't, that was it. And then you were kind of clear where the other RNA stuff, I'm not so sure that that's not. You know. Continuing to cause an issue, but it makes a certain amount of sense to me. It's like, well, the m RNA was sending it a part of this bug or whatever you want to call it.

It was sending that into your immune system for it to figure out how to fight it. Well, if the thing that they sent in was the thing of the actual virus itself that was causing heart issues, well, then it would make sense. The vaccine would also cause the said problem. Well, it would, but it wasn't. They don't really know. Well, we do know that much. I mean, that the what the RNA was encoding was the spike protein. Right.

Which all of a sudden went what was interesting to me because that went from well, you know, it's the spike protein that is, that is exactly what's in the common cold. Mm. And then it was like, wait, the spike protein is the deadly part. It's like, wait, wait, it can't be the same as in the cold if it's now the deadly part because the cold wasn't so I mean, again, science, let's believe the science except the we are not at the level to understand this quite yet.

Yeah, I'm inclined to not believe people that are in the business of making money with products. Know not to make money with the drugs. I mean that again television echoing reality. I thought it was a great sublime from the Big Bang Theory, which is a show most people either love or hate. Mm hmm. But tell. Pretty good the. Bernie's character that worked for the medical, you know, for the drug company. And it was all just their making up. You know, the reality is to sell the drugs.

It's like, I believe. That's very true. Oh, totally. That's where they're making their money. There's. She had a super annoying voice or her voice annoying. That kind of thought. It was hot. Oh, you're a little weird. I don't know. Yeah, right. Yeah. I mean, being. It was the exact same voice as the the woman that played the Howard's mother. It was not the same voice at all. Was very close. Yeah. Yeah, it was. Their yell was the same, but her speaking voice was different. That's true.

A little too high. A little too nasally. Yeah, I kind of like that. See, that's what she. If that's what Gene's into, if that's the kind of voice you. Have, it's animated chick voice is what it is. Well, see, that's true. The all the animated chicks speak like that. You're like, we can get this in reality. Is it a and it's I always wonder. It's like, was that a put on? Was that her actual voice? Because there are people that, you know for the characters.

Not what you haven't seen interviews with her. It's not her actual voice. She said it was a that her and and. And you're just like you would be like hey do the voice. Oh yeah. But they're no it's she was an interesting character and they, they kind of developed her probably the most of anybody because she started as a waitress and then became like a person. Which is like, this is what television is. It's not reality. I mean, yeah, she could have been a waitress. She could have been a hooker.

A lot of people get Ph.Ds by doing other jobs. It's true. That's true. But They didn't really present her in the introduction episode as like, Oh yeah, this is my friend Bernadette who's working on her PhD while working here. They just kind of presented her as a waitress. Yeah, because then they thought about it after and like, Hey. We could do this. Well, I'm sure somebody said, Oh, hey, wouldn't you be funny if he starts dating a waitress being such a genius?

That way we can make her smarter than him. Yeah, that was. Yeah, which is kind of a trope in Hollywood these days, is that men are stupid. I mean, they're not entirely wrong, but. No, but there is a balance there. Yeah. What's the balance? Would be nice. This is why I only watch old television shows more or less because I'm tired of all of the new ultra woke crap. And like, no, just tell me. A good story. Yeah. You know, it's okay. It's okay not to have to check all the boxes.

Like, wait, we don't have four LGBTQ characters in this, but no, just tell the story. And so I've just started whenever I have to refer to that in a tweet. Yes. There's a there's a safer way. I know. I just I do that and then I do the plus. And then I go down the row of all the symbols over the numbers. So it's plus hash sign side and percent sign ampersand because, you know. It seems more inclusive. I want to be fully inclusive to all them. The less you list minority characters on the keyboard.

Well, this is true. That's equity. Because those don't get to be used nearly as much as the normal letters. So I want to be. Inclusive in all of your passwords. Kids. They well that's the only time they get to go have fun right. From of the password stuff. But I think they should be used all the time. While it's only nice to include them all. Yeah. And not just for hacker speak. No, no, that's you don't, you don't want that extra. No lead speak.

Yeah, lead speak. Exactly. The Oxbow posted World Cup. Dutch violently wounded person of color. Wait, are the Dutch racist, too? Now. I've didn't you know that. No. Yeah, they're white. Oh, that's true. Yeah, that's a problem. My wife's family, they're Dutch on a year. They're. They're horrible. The Dutch are horrible people just saying. She says she's like, Yeah, they, they are. So. Uh, they're super nice people.

Every time I've been the Netherlands, it just is reiterated and just how nice Dutch people are. No, I would agree mostly. Yeah. They're too tall. That's the one problem they have. Well, you're. Maybe you're just too short. No, I'm standard. Average size is. Everybody. They're definitely. The Netherlands. Are all Kerry sized, you know, the same Bob. They kind of all right, even though he's from there. But they kind of are. There you go. He fit in.

I wonder if he became taller as a result of living there, huh? You see, it is. It's that whole thing. Blend in, blend in with everybody else. Is that the, you know, genes or is it is it your environment or your jeans? That's that's the question. Yeah, exactly. I know. I think it was probably a little bit of both on his part, but yeah, it's, uh, I've, I've can't think of a bad interaction I've had in the Netherlands.

But everybody's a little more laid back, I guess now they're angry maybe after two or three years of COVID, are they still doing the lockdown stuff? I mean, I know talking just brother. They're they're trying to remove food from them by not allowing the farmers to farm. Yes. I mean, just the brief times that I've talked to our buddy Mark from the Netherlands voting zero, it's like, yeah, things sound a little like one day. Yeah, a little crazy over there.

Yeah. I mean, not that they're saying here. Yeah. I mean, we out of talk radio, the US right now is completely fucked up. Uh huh, yeah. From From the highest level to the lowest, there's no question. Yeah, that's why we're buying them, man. That's what I should put on my Christmas list. Lots of nice. Mm. About. Well that, that could probably be a much better investment than the US dollar. Probably better than Bitcoin. Oh yeah. Definitely better than Bitcoin. Good. I've been watching me together.

I've talked about this at extent, like I've all in my whole life bought like a grand into cryptocurrency. The rest of it's all been stuff that came in as donations that I just never took out, figuring now it's like playing. It's like playing the slot machine and it's like it still hurts because there's a lot of money that's gone down. I know you put a little bit in every week. Yeah. And it's like, um. It's gambling. I mean, anybody, it's.

It could go up. It could go way up. And I'm like. It. Could because my dad was asking about this, and I'm like, you know, trying to explain the whole arc of this. And I'm like, well, when it hit 30, when it bottomed out that last time, it like 3700 or 38, whatever it was, I was, you know, should I buy one at the time? You know, I had enough money, like I could put 4000 into this should I buy a Bitcoin?

And of course, even though it's crashed again, it's still at 16,000, which meant you'd still be four times your. Yeah but, but it's also a quarter of it was less than a year ago. Correct. Which if you. Think about that's like if you had a stock. That you bought at 60 that you. Bought it. Yeah. At $64 it's now trading at $16. Yeah. You'd not be. Happy. You're like, you know, I remember that three times I lost well over $100,000 on three term. Uh huh, uh huh. Which is why the bad memories.

All of these shit coins, as CSB calls. Yeah, I don't know what you're talking about, but yeah. There's, there's other people that know the social talked about the coin crypto about. This shit coin. It's like only bitcoin. Only Bitcoin. Yeah. And, and I think that, I think that's kind of obvious. I think that the people that make money on other coins of the people that create the coins, that's about it. Oh yeah.

Well, or, you know, there is usually a point where those go from being nearly worthless to worth a few pennies and at that point, you're still making a ton of money at a percentage level. Mm hmm. And that's what that was kind of what I had figured out. I don't know if there's a good place. But that's literally the same thing, is just looking at Odyssey Penny stock. Yes. Well, you know, one of them might go from being worth $0.10 a share to $0.40 a share.

Right. Well, I the winning formula and I don't know any place because if somebody were to be like, hey, there's a brand new cryptocurrency that's hitting tomorrow, then I probably throw 50 bucks at it. And it's like, I would do that with everyone. You know, I'm seeing all these things now because she keeps getting more and more talk. Mm. And it's like, Hey, will this ever go to a dollar? Will this ever go to too.

Well, here, let me, let me just fast forward. No, it never will because I bought $50 worth of this back, you know, six months ago, whatever it was. But I own like five point something million she bought. So will it go to a dollar? No. Will it go to $2? No. If I'm wrong, will I be happy? Sure. But it's not turning $50 into 5 million. Probably not going to happen. Well, unless your last name is Clinton.

Rule that if you now, if you have the Hillary assassination group and you can make the right that's happened before PELOSI You know, I believe well, yeah. And I believe that one of these coins will do that. I mean, there is I do believe that if you if you know. What. To buy or even take a runner, 50 bucks is probably a great amount when a lot of these coins first hit, when you could buy literally millions for a dollar, then.

Sure, you might make a lot of money, but the whole way you're going to make money. Yeah. Don't waste your money, people. That's just not worth it. You might as well start buying lottery tickets. What exactly? Well, this is exactly what it is. It is a lottery ticket. It's not an investment.

So you cannot look at it that way because you're going with very little knowledge of what's going to what's going to pop. And what's interesting with the stock market, which is gambling to a slightly different degree, like, oh, the Bob Iger is coming back to Disney, up 10% in one day. Now, if you know what you're doing, if you know how to time this kind of stuff, you can make a lot of money, but it can go down as easily as it can go up.

And just when you're dealing with stocks, you're under, I think a slightly false. Yeah, in fact, I would control it. We don't give stock advice, but I would say I would do a put on Disney. Iger coming back isn't going to change Disney's downhill descent. No. I mean, if it does, it's not going to be for a while going to take it's like the Twitter thing. It's going to take some major restructuring, which major restructuring is never good for the stock price, the whole hey, you know what?

We're going to have to fire half the staff. Never good. Oh, that's actually pretty good, because it reduces your operating expenses by a lot. That's true. You bring in more money in and you wonder like, how many people do you really need to run Twitter? It's a. Very well. Thing this time. We are now at a point where Twitter is operating on 80% less staff than it was two months ago. And you know what? It's still working. And it's working better. It's amazing.

Oh, I love the Ellen coming out every day, like, hey, we hit a brand new high in usage. Yeah. It's like, that's. I mean, that says it all. I mean, I don't think there's. I think Ellen's going to be very much he's going to be courted by all the same advertisers that are pulling out right now because he will have to be profitable. And the only companies that will advertise on Twitter are companies he owns. Ooh, that's an interesting cut. And nobody else will be allowed to advertise on Twitter.

And they'll be like, Ellen's. No good. Yeah. And they're like, Well, we'll pay you $1,000,000 for ten impressions. And he's like, Nope. Don't want to do no. Because I think it things are moving in that direction. And Ellen has a good memory. He's not going to forget how people reacted. And, you know, again, Ellen's voted Democrat every single election. Do you think is that game is to turn Twitter into the way people are going to pay each other?

Yeah, absolutely he said that on a number of occasions when I interviewed and I think she was buying. What are you doing with Twitter? What do you want out of Twitter? I think is a bunch of actual humans, no bots. And he doesn't care about all the blue checkmarks like he's not to keep this sort of, you know, a bunch of media people talking to themselves. Platform. He wants Twitter to grow.

He wants more people on Twitter and he he will rollout real ID ID for Twitter because it solves two problems. One is it gives him a no bots policy, which means a bot doesn't have a driver's license through or a proof of incorporation. So it's not a company, it's not a person. Then you're going to need one of those to either a state ID or a incorporation of the state to be on Twitter. And the other thing it does. At least have the blue checkmark, but.

It's just to where I'm going with this, because the goal for Twitter isn't what Twitter was, right? It is what what's that app and channel called waving or something or whatever. It's all the concept. Of what happens. Yeah. And so the point is it'll be a no because you're like, well, no one's going to give their driver's license just to be on Twitter. No, you're right. But you already do that when you open up a bank account and that's exactly what you're going to do.

And this is where I'm sure you are seeing articles coming out saying Elon Musk is on a collision course with Apple. Yeah, because what Musk is talking about and what what the underlying currents to this is because the context for a news media is like, well, because he wants to bring Alex Jones back and Apple will kick off Twitter off of their platform. If he does that. Well, they don't understand that is what Elon Musk wants to do is challenge Apple Pay. Right.

He wants people to use Twitter, pay what he owns. Yeah, yeah. And he owns XCOM. So I'm sure we'll see XCOM introduced at some point and Twitter. I had an excellent account from way back in the day when he owned that company. Well, you jumped back on Twitter, didn't you? I did. I'm on Twitter now. Again? Yeah. And I think that is what a lot of people are misunderstanding as well.

Just how many people jumped off and stopped using it and either went to something, either they stopped using it altogether or they jumped over to gab, which sucks. So they jumped over to Parler, which sucks. They jumped over the truth. So. Joe Which sucks. Yeah. Nobody jumped over to social. All that. It was all Trump talking to himself. Yeah, I'm sure there's I'm sure that if you paid people out there with them. But beyond that. The political workers. It that's too fragmented.

And this is again the case where you can't beat where the people already are. It's impossible. All these people think they could do the Jerry Maguire move. Well, who is with me? Nobody. Nobody's going. Exactly. Exactly. So I think Trump will get back on Twitter. I think that it's going to be too tempting to he's going to look at his numbers and he's like, I'm sure he's got like 2 million followers. Well, then you can do both. You can hand on Twitter. He's got 100 million followers.

Yeah, you can do both. And you can create your own little app. He's one of them is irrelevant and it happens to be one that he bought into. Right. But he can keep doing it there. He can try to limit that along and he can have his back. But that was a stupid thing from the get go because what he should have done is right away when the tweet of Twitter is just going to amass them and then he's on everything, right? Everybody would have blocked though because bastard really scared.

Yeah yeah. There's some of these. People. If free cheese, careful caution free speech had. Yes he might hear something but you don't know. I think what Twitter blew will ultimately be is just simply excite com Twitter blue will be people that have associated bank account through Twitter, whether it's called X or whether they called Twitter green or maybe it's just going to stay Twitter blue, whatever it is. Basically, if you have a bank account, guess what?

You're verified. Yeah. And if they do things like you can post full podcast. Oh yeah, yeah. And they've said they're going to do that. I'm in too. And you'll be able to do things like the equivalent of what, no agendas. Their knowledge and that what Adam has been doing with podcasting 2.0 where you'll be able to have a, an ability to send money for somebody if you're just tweeting like deal, oh man, this is a great tweet. This guy is saying truth to power.

I'm going to just click one button, right. And send him a dollar. They're building that in which it's already there. I mean, you could do that with the Lightning network now with Alby, because if you have an Alby account and you open up my Twitter page, you could do that. It just shows up like. Yeah, but nobody does that. My point is it'll be built in. Yes. And that's what you want is you want stuff that's into the system, you know. So I'm not. Using any of that content.

Right. Do it that way. It is kind of combining the ability that YouTube has for videos. Yeah, yeah. You'll be able to do this with various content, including audio podcasts, which nobody's been able to figure out how to do. Which, you know, YouTube, like I occasionally will do super chats, you know, messages. Well, obviously if I have the ability to send money through YouTube to somebody, YouTube knows that I'm an actual human being, right? So Twitter though the same.

And also they probably know that because I pay them every month. They really don't care as long as the money's good. Yeah, but with Twitter, this is a great way to get rid of the but like I mean it's true on YouTube to if you just said is nowadays like I'm only going to pay for the views that come from people that are paid YouTube's subscribers. Right. Because I mean even with you can't track we. Know those are not bots. No. Right.

Because with all of the different VPNs that are out there like I can, I mean, I think at this point like something like nordvpn's up to a thousand servers, which means I can watch a video a thousand times under a thousand IP addresses fairly easily and automatically yeah. Which there was a great article, video I posted on social about just how evil VPNs are and why nobody should be using them or. Everybody should. Because they're literally the worst at collecting your data and selling it.

Of course, to Google, they're worse than everybody else now. They're paying attention to everything you're doing. They're tracking every website you go to, and they're selling all that shit. And this is the best part. They're not based in the US. Nordvpn's the worst of the bunch though they're not basically VPN. Well, you don't know. And they're doing this on a consistent basis. Sorry dude, I'm talking about security professionals that did the analysis. So your opinions are not relevant there.

I pay for it. Therefore I know. No, you don't know you to do the data analysis. Now they've done the third party. Huh? Watch the video. Watch the videos if you still want to use them. If it's at YouTube, it has to be true. Well, it's true because it's done by. Professional security people. Yeah, but there were professional doctors that did stuff you didn't like and they weren't real. And I don't trust the security profession.

I would trust security professionals a lot more than doctors like friend. Are they based at all in, by any chance. The doctors or the security professional. Professionals or that know it? They're probably in Ukraine now. They're definitely not in the Ukraine because that's where most VPN companies are based out of. Really what's based of Ukraine. Oh, there's a ton of them out there. I mean, it's probably true because it's corruption from top to bottom, but.

Well, no, it's a it was actually technically a good idea because Ukraine got a whole bunch of money for improving its infrastructure. And a lot of tech companies were able to get great deals out there. They get a lot of Biden and Clinton money and like we can put servers. Who's going to notice us here? Yeah. I mean, they're I don't know, man. I think there's a quite a few gaming companies that that were based out of Ukraine. I don't know how many of them have moved or not, but.

I believe there are some decent VPN companies out there. I know they're not all. Yeah. There's a lot that I mean, never use a free one because that is all about collecting your data. But people follow this very closely and from what I understand, there are some that. Are well. There are third party audits that are done that they don't collect any, they don't keep any data. Mm. No I don't, but they don't have to keep it. They thought wait if you don't keep it how do you sell it.

You can't sell something you don't keep on. Not keeping just simply means that you destroy the logs afterwards. That's not keeping means. But it doesn't mean you can't sell it. The real time data. That which I can see if it's anonymized that does it really matter. So where do you think Nordvpn's offices are? Panama. Panama and Lithuania. All Mm hmm. I did not know they were in Lithuania. It Lithuanians bad? Yeah. Yes. Sir. G says Lithuania. Absolutely. Yeah. I'd never trust the Lithuanian.

That's very good advice. But you can help. They make good food. Not really Lithuanian food. It's not good. Polish food's way better than Lithuanian food. That's probably. True. That is, even though they're kind of related. No, I know it. It is a Black Friday. It normally there is a podcasting 2.0 coming up here on the stream. I was at. I'm taking time off. I don't know if there is or not. People are asking in the in the podcast because. They're sick of listening to us yammer for saying.

They're like, these. Guys are still on the stream and the. Hell Adam and Dave are normally here. So I don't want to step on that. If they're if but they know the suit. They don't start for another hour and a half. So there's. Always out by the time I normally am done with Lodge and come back down here to do the editing of this show, which is normally at about 10 to 1, they are already on an end of the show, so they usually. Literally take 2 hours for. Lunch.

I wish, but normally they're starting somewhere between 12 and 1230 I believe. Mhm. But people are probably mad, they're like this is a driver. It's more like 130. Normally. No, it's not my time. I don't know what your time, but if you guys have special gene savings time or something like that going up there. It's possible savings. Time did not like are you like one of those old folks. That doesn't change the clocks when it happens and you're just oblivious to what time it really is.

It's possible. It is possible. Uh, well, I just don't think that it's anywhere near as early of a start period as a thing. Hey, so what time did they start? No agenda. Cause I. I haven't been listening live lately. I just listen to the. Yesterday started an hour earlier than normal. Just to get. Dinner. It was, I guess because it was Thanksgiving. Yeah. So they'll go back to the normal time as far as I know. Now back on Sunday, Sunday.

Sunday. Mm. But we did the rock and roll pre-show like I said, mixed with the two hour folk hour and we had a gale time on the stream. And there was a two hour folk hour normally on right before you. On Sundays. That is the show that's on Sundays. Oh, but not Thursday. Correct. But since this was a holiday, everybody was getting into the spirit and really was listening. I mean, the way less than a a normal day.

And it was probably because one holiday and two because it was an hour earlier, there's still people for no agenda that are coming in going why is the show on. It's like, well, they changed that like a year ago now. I mean, maybe not quite, but it spent months. It just depends. People pop in, they pop out, and they're not used to change. People don't like change. Yeah. Yeah, I, I don't know.

I occasionally turn it on live, but the problem I have is that it's not running at a 25% faster speed months live. If you like that to speed up. Everything's dredged though. Every everything. It seems like you're in a time warp. I don't see either or Adam in the troll room, so I'm guessing maybe there is no. Yeah, I just waved at them and asked them and I don't see a response back.

So he probably is doing something because I suspect if he was sitting in front of a computer, he would have seen the message come up and respond right away. Yeah, it's a. Holiday weekend, though. It's nice cause it's like I didn't have a heart out here. The wife's just been sitting here annoying me the whole show, doing Christmas, buying on the next thing over, I'm getting popups on the screen. Like, you just spent, like, hundreds of dollars at the bed. Bow Wow. I didn't know I spent that.

Huh. But it's great, because when you have somebody that could do the shopping instead of you having to do the shopping, it's. Yeah I need to. I'm actually going to drive down to Walgreens here since we're done. But we do have. Because they've been pestering me for you need to go pick up their prescription something like that. Yeah, they do that. My mom gets it all the time too. It's like, leave me alone. I'll pick them up when I want.

I've moved most of them to Amazon now, so they just seem to me nice. But. But the insulin is like you got to keep it. Cold, right? You got to be refrigerated. And I'm I mean Amazon does it. So I'm sure they can ship it in a, you know, Styrofoam container with ice or something. But yeah. I suspect there'll be a pain in the ass. So I'm like, okay, just keep that one at the local Walgreens and pick it up the normal way.

But fresh information coming in, you ask and you get answers with a booster gram. Comic strip blogger says today no podcasting 2.02 from Dave and there's a link so. There you go so. You comic strip. Anonymous person on the Internet. Just tell us the weasel. He always wants absolutely me. He wants to have that set of free speech. That says no free speech. This is a private show paid for by the hosts themselves. This is not free speech. This is absolutely. It is. What is. It? This is. Yeah, yeah.

It's a lot of relenting so unrelentingly and exactly. That also came in with 10,000 that says Happy Black Pride Day Friday. I like their pride Day. That's creative. Never believe it or not. In all the years I've been around, never heard anybody referred to as that. No. I mean, it's great if you turkeys a little Cajun, Black Friday, I. Mean, Friday.

So on the way back, I think from the Walgreens, I might stop by at the old grocery store that I haven't been inside of for months because I order it online, which it actually does cruise around and see what kind of post-Thanksgiving deals they have. Maybe they old sweet potato pie or something like that. Okay, well, you're just talking about insulin. I'm picking up in sort little sweet potato pie. Sounds perfect. Sounds perfect to me.

It's just let me just do a little, little extra boost to insulin. Now I get my sweet potato pie. I'm just hearing cause effect completely. No, absolutely. Absolutely. I should not be consuming any of that chip, but it does taste good and therefore I will. But I am curious to see what turkeys and all that will be, because leading up to it it was like price gouging in someplace is somewhat normal from what I saw. But there were some groceries that were like, turkeys are really expensive.

Now you're going to find out if they're sitting out. A few turkeys like. Yeah they'll turkey. Come get that. Price. Yeah. Pennies on the pound. Come on. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. We're already talking for for Christmas to do again the big beef tenderloin. They'll be interesting to see what the prices is this year. Well, beef prices seem to be up for sure. I don't know about turkey, but beef definitely is up. Well, I think I could probably you know, it wouldn't it would be shipped frozen, I'm sure.

But I could order from Adams buddy down there in Texas about, oh, lightning. Yeah. Yeah, he probably do. That would be an interesting test. Yeah, I guess. I don't know. See what the local b the local place here is usually pretty good. I mean. You are in Illinois, which does have good availability of beef. Yeah, we got strictly we got the steak. So I don't know that you need to think about. Well do Texas search for the. Yeah, I mean I, I don't think the best beef is in.

I know it's kind of a heresy to say this. But in Texas you that. You. Say. That but I really like Kansas beef. Like if the origination of the beef is from Kansas. Yes. I to me that is going to be the best beef. We've had some really good through a local butcher. Here. That right. But where's the beef from though. It was specifically ordered the Chicago area which they say that means that they were raised within 200 miles of Chicago, which came all. Really interesting.

Yeah, but what I like about the the beef up in Kansas there is it's far enough south that they have a long grazing season, but it's also far enough north that you have a a need for a higher metabolism. And I think that that creates a really good muscle. It's a tastier. Treat. Tastier. Yes, tastier beef. Because, again, unrelenting is just a culinary. Masquerading as a political show.

Exactly. Exactly. But I think and, you know, I tend to predominantly eat the same kind of beef, which is the Tenderloin occasionally doing other cuts. Like I've made a stew recently and you know it really well into stew almost like. Well, no, no, no. But like, really? Well, not just okay. But the first time I've tried this, but prime rib makes really good stew. Oh, I would hope so. It should make every good everything.

Well, but, but it noticeably good stew because that that me just falls apart just right with just your tongue. Like you don't even need teeth. Which is good. I mean. It's really good where normal meat cuts made for stew, which are kind of crap cuts that the supermarket sells. Right? Well, that's usually what they're selling them for is like, hey, we, we have a use for this really cheap fatty, right? Which is not going to taste good in anything else, but it'll be fine for stew.

But yeah. Or if you make do yeah. But if you make you make hamburger that but if you make do with prime rib with the you cut the cubes up, put it in there, it just is very, very good. But eating predominantly tenderloin or filet mignon, the what I do when I've cooked that and I've done like we weren't doing the podcast yet, but a few years back I did a but you know about it, I did it like over two months of eating nothing but tenderloin, right?

And so I took it different ways and come up with different ways to, you know, but you could definitely survive as a human and nothing but tenderloin. That's totally doable. But generally when I eat it, the only thing I do to it is a a sprinkle, just a tiny bit of salt because I actually want the flavor of the meat to be the predominant flavor of the dish. Right. Well, the sun naturally helps with the crusting on the outside of the pulling out. The little bit of that moisture in it. Yeah.

Yeah, exactly. So if you slather a bunch of sauce on a meat your tasting, mostly the sauce with the texture of the meat. But if you do very little in terms of adding flavor the meat you're actually tasting the meat flavor added the that my preferred cooking and result method is blurred so it's got a a nice sear on the outside and it's still cold to the touch on the inside.

So you'd never want to have the beef be any warmer than about 80 degrees inside now and and you can really test taste the flavor of the meat and so well I think you can what texture but you could still get the texture when you're you even if it's warmer. Right. But the flavor, the more you cook it, the more the flavor changes because you're adding the cooked to the meat.

I kind of like the raw flavor of the meat, but because of the raw flavor being there in my preferred style of cooking it, I think I notice more how that flavor is different between steaks coming from different locations. That would make sense. And that's where I do think meat that was raised in Kansas tastes better to me now from. The grocery store right down the street here where we normally get the tenderloin from currently right. Now you. Can get, say, $4.50. Great.

And what is the price it is your store is super cheap compared to what I paid. Yes. Right now it is a 1299 a pound four or Bearcats famous beef tenderloin all yeah now they also. Have that's literally impossible. Okay. They also have the USDA choice whole beef tenderloin that is 1999 about. Oh so this is an even choice because choices and all that great. This is the choices 1999 now they're a little home brand.

I don't know what it is, but it's always been really good at the at the price that they've got. Okay. So I'm looking at Tenderloin right here, locally here, and it's a cheap $41 a pound damn. Yeah. So everybody listening. I know, I know. What gender, social, what your current pound price is. Sorry, sorry, sorry. That, that's, that is the. Yeah, I guess it's the by Friday price. Normal price is 40 to 99 a pound. You'll buy it on Black Friday.

And the typical typical cut of tenderloin which is about £4 is $182. That's crazy. That's normal pricing good. That's what it ought to be. No, it's crazy. Good tenderloin is always going to be over 40 bucks. Let's see. And this is looking at the other place. We've got a bunch. Of pork tenderloin. Pork tenderloin I can get for 12 bucks. Well, you got a lot of hogs down there. A pound. And take us. We have too many hogs. Sure. We need it. We need to eradicate those.

Yeah. It's interesting that the New Zealand grass fed the Wagyu tenderloin is actually cheaper than the the USDA Prime Angus Tenderloin, which is the one I get. That's a little bizarre. Well, I guess it's cheaper to raise cattle in New Zealand. There is the beef tenderloin roast. That's what we're talking about. You can also get the beef tenderloin tips, but the beef tenderloin roast. Let's see here's this is the quality meat place. It is 84, 95 for £5, which is this is USDA. Prime.

Prime. Really? Yes. Yeah, that's the one I was telling you. The USDA prime is 40 to £99 here. Well, here we go. The USDA prime. I can choose different ones here. That is one and 45 or £5 ones. What kind of what kind of beef cattle is that. That would be. Let's see, that's 2860 a pound. It says USDA prime, produced from young, well-fed beef cattle with abundant marbling. Yes. But which which species of beef I. Don't know if it. Says Angus Holstein. I mean, what are they using.

Now you can have here. Let's see let's see what they've got these. Chicago is a premium black Angus, which is, like you said, born and raised close to home on grass pastures with a 250 miles of Chicago. Of Chicago, that is unavailable, you bastards. There you go. Now, there. Now, that's more like it. That's what I would expect. Otherwise, the Chicago there's the Chicago 250 and the Chicago. Although maybe that is just out of the other. It looks like maybe that's one 5595 for £5.

So that's getting close to the 30 bucks a pound. Yeah. Make me want to try the better meat. May I'm wait if you want to I mean that's probably worth doing at least once is buy the most expensive and I prefer the grass fed corn finished that tastes better to me tenderloin and then get one of the cheap ones you used to. Make them. And then by side.

Do them, side by side cook them the same way or I would actually cut them in half each, cooked half with in exactly the same style and then mix up the other half. But I don't know. I mean, it's, it's hard to say, but because I do prefer my my beef to be on the very rare side, I don't tend to experiment too much with cheap meats. Which makes sense. Yeah. Which if I'm making burgers, I will obviously use much cheaper meat than I will if I make. Oh, you buy the buy the best tenderloin.

You throw that to a meat grinder, you got yourself a G. You know what happens if you put a tender line into a meat grinder? It destroys itself basically. Literally has zero structure. It turns into a goop, it doesn't turn into ground beef, it turns into literally snot. Yeah, you can see that because it doesn't have the toughness to it at all. The cells just all break apart. It just that it's Yeah. It would not use it for that. Again, this is a culinary show.

Not a that's what people expect that that's what we're here for the day. We're thinking what. Other what other show what other podcast of all podcasts compares tenderloin prices in live real time in multiple states. Nobody nobody is doing that. We have a niche. There's no question. We have a niche. And that's the niche we ought to be going after right there. Yes. People who are all very big tenderloin consumers, we can we can pivot very easily because no matter what, it's always unrelenting.

Have you made Chateaubriand? No, I've made the tenderloins. I've never gone the whole, you know, classical preparation. Yeah. That's another good way of doing it. I mean. It's like, hey, you can add a nice little sauce to the concept that will raise your heart attack rates. But you live in Chicago. The heart attack is what you're all. About that we have we have hospitals and ambulances standing. By. Uh huh. Yeah. There's no lack of there's no lack of trying with the food.

You just have to be able to moderate. You know, you just don't overeat just because you got all of the, you know, turkey. It's like, it's okay you can have some tomorrow. You can save some. For your. Sandwiches. It's good. Yeah. You don't have to eat it all in one day. Well, it's not quite chateaubriand, but what I like to do when I go to the hell's a place called the forgot to Chow is if you go if I go to chow, which I assume everybody's been to, is that's all over the country.

Never heard of it. You've got to be sure. No, seriously. You never heard of go to China? No. Dispel that for one. F go dca0e it's it's a Brazilian charcuterie. That's a steakhouse. Yeah. So they have all you can eat. Brazilian steak which sounds if you are a, the opposite of a vegan, it is exactly the restaurant you want to go to. That's why because. We eat all the time. All meat served to your table.

So the Brazilian steakhouse concept is sort of like dim sum because what you have is you have the gauchos, the cowboys wearing the traditional garb, bringing a skewer of meat around the tables. And if you want to get some pieces of that meat from the skewer, they will trim them up for you and put them in your plate and then move on to the next person. And so there's a constant just rotating supply of a parade.

It's a parade of freshly meat, both beef, chicken, pork, you name it, that is flying between tables and they, in fact, give you a little coaster, which is red on one side and green on the other side. And then you have the green side. Yes Yep, yep. You want them to stop. You have the green side up. If you are so full and you've got the full plate that you're still working on, it's going to take you a while.

You flip it over to the red side and then that way they won't bother you with new meat coming out, like around a minute here. Yeah, yeah. $60.95 a person. The closest one is in Oakbrook here, which is where the the good Gibsons is. That where you don't have to go downtown, huh? How far away is that from me? About 45 minutes. That's not too bad, though, but luckily for me, it's three miles away. See, now that's. You are the way they know. They're like you would need the little.

Well they don't they don't post go with pre-COVID. They absolutely knew me because I would eat there like once a week. They're like, this guy's the one guy that's losing us money on this deal. Oh, yeah. I'm not the only one, but. No, because I. Would you I still have my little electric car back then. And so that that meant that it was cheaper to valet it because give you a break if you're, you know, having lunch guys. Yeah, it's great. Well, it was great, but I have one.

I don't have one anymore, but yeah, you know, I'd show up every week, they'd know me, get my usual table. I've eaten there with Adam probably four or five times because I tend to take people there when I have people that I'm going to meet up with lunch. Oh, well, there you go. I'll be right outside me. Grab a grab a flight. Yeah, yeah. Do it from. Tomahawk and Shell. Ooh, yeah. There you go. That's. That's always good.

That's more of something I would have if I'm, like, in Vegas or, you know, someplace where the. The dinner is going to be on an expense account. Yeah, I can understand that. That was something. You had the pineapple mint lemonade, too. That sounds. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That sounds delightful. It is very. Thought of that combination. What? Pineapple mint lemonade? Yeah. That sounds delightful. Yeah. Pineapples. Good for you. It's the only bad part of pineapple is the sugar. Yeah, I can see.

That everything else in pineapple is actually quite good. It has a lot of enzymes that are not in other fruit. There's a lot of probiotic benefits to pineapple. And there are a few other places like this. In the area which. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm sure there are. But this one seems to be a little more on the the fancy side. Well they yeah. But it's also a national chain, so it doesn't matter where you go.

There's usually a Fogo somewhere in the area and it's I want to say lunches like around 40 bucks. Dinner is like 65 bucks thereabouts. Hey, you're absolutely right. Lodge 41, 95. A person continuous tableside service of signature cuts of fire roasted meat. And the bonus to it, ironically, is they have an amazing salad bar. And you're like, forget that. That's. Yeah. So for those of us that know you skipped the salad bar because you saved the room in your stomach for the expensive chef.

But the quality of the foods in the salad bar. Well, because they have to they have to tempt they do before them. But no matter what what is in the salad bar, how fancy it is, it's still cheaper than the meat for them. It's still a scam. And so the more they can have you fill up on the vegetable manner, the less meat you're going to consume. So they also have some of the tastiest breads. They're like a cheesy bread thing. Of course, will fill you. Up, which totally will fill you.

But man, you can't help but eat like ten of those. And they're so good. But anyway, the reason I started talking about it is because. Because it's because I mentioned Chateaubriand. Where you think. Yeah, we're talking about Chateaubriand. And they have a, a pork cut that is wrapped in bacon. Which it should. Be. It's like bacon. Bacon, pork. It's like a Parmesan pork thing wrapped in bacon.

And what I see most people doing is they'll, you know, cut it up with their knife into pieces, but they'll basically just eat it with the bacon. And that's wrong. What you. Well, I mean, I can't tell people what they should do, what I do and what I think is they would enjoy if people did it as well as the bacon is just there to keep the juices in. It's not actually to eat. So you cut the bacon off and then what's underneath is just a really juicy piece of meat.

I wait. You're suggesting not eating the bacon? Yeah, yeah. The bacon just gets thrown out. It's like kind of like the tender, like the turkey after you eat the skin, right? The turkey tried to start. Right. Same thing here, except the other way. So you check the bacon and you just keep the actual meat in the inside. It's a system. It is. And then, I mean, look, don't get me wrong, there's ways to eat bacon and I enjoy bacon.

I made a very, very tasty bacon apple pie, where the the latticework of the top of the pie was actually made of bacon. Whoa. Yeah, I got pictures. I might stick one up on that note on social. Now, that's delightful. It was very good, and it was crunchy. And it's it was a sort of a cinnamon apple pie in a pie crust, but top was actually the lattice was made of bacon. Now, I know you've had pretty much every other job in the history of jobs. Have you ever been like any street chef or a chef?

So I did start cooking school Cordon Bleu. See, now that I believe. Yeah, but I didn't. Can't say I really even went there because I got as far as like paying for it. Then you're like this is forget it. And not well kind of. But I mean, I had full intentions of doing this and the cool part was you get to you get to do a part of it in France. But I got a contract and I I think this was my target project from Target that, you know, obviously had a timeline that I couldn't say, Oh, can I do this?

A year later, guys? Right there was good after I come back, there was very good money in that and I was like, okay, I'll have to come back to it. And then I never came back. Let's see, let's try to get enough donations to send Jean to cooking school in France. Yeah, yeah, that would be awesome. I mean, you know, they don't have electricity or won't soon, I guess. But other than that, yeah, they also don't have the natural gas to run the stovetops.

Well, they're making that illegal like in California, you know, so you won't be able to cooking. Yeah yeah. They're you know there's still carve for restaurants, but you know, they're going to screw that. Yeah. Well, yeah. I mean, the beauty of of gas cooking is just the instant seat and infinitely controllable temperatures because electric stoves tend to be slower to apply the heat because they get to heat up first.

And also the way they work is is essentially oscillating full power and no power. Right. And so yeah. Yeah. And so what you have is just fast on off on off that simulates heat, which is not as consistent as gas heat. But you can get like professional stand alone induction cooktops that they're ridiculously priced. Yeah, but they're controllable literally up to like degrees.

So it'll, it'll maintain the temperature within five degrees that you're setting, which if you're doing anything with sauces you really need that fine level of control. But I'm also a big fan of TV, which also gives you literally to the degree control. You have never tried that. Oh, okay. Well, one of those is definitely on sale on Black Friday. You may need to pick up a CB. Yeah. Cook your food in a bag and water.

Yeah. Never be the same. It's It is amazingly consistent and the only thing about sweet is it's generally a slower way to cook. So I think of it more like a smoker than a other methods of cooking. That would be what you're doing. Lower temperature for a higher duration. It's not like the old fashioned. You just slow it lowing just in a different way. Yeah, exactly. Which is appropriate for some food. But like when I make stew, I do it in a pressure cooker.

And so you have what takes literally 25 minutes, but it takes it tastes like it's been for the last 4 hours. That's sometimes you just got to know when when you need to pressure cooker, when you need to survive. When you need to oven or air. Fryer yeah. Too many kitchen gadgets, dude. That's, that's the other problem is that you end up filling up your kitchen full of gadgets. To an end too unrelenting to find out what to do with all. Those kids out there on the cooking show.

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