Why are there children first? What the fuck is wrong with you? How low end? Welcome to unrelenting episode number 53 for December nine, 2022. It's a Friday and Jean were what actually getting new listeners one at a time. Quite how you do it. Yeah. I'm Darren O'Neil. He is Jean. Sir, I am. Sir. Jean is surging. Jean is surging. Surging. He's always surging. That's right. Right on in. So never heard that before. Yes. You had you added one new listener in the past week. So you know what?
By 2059, we might have enough to make this a viable show. You're optimistic, aren't you? I have, baby. Okay. 2069, baby. 26, 29. I agree with that. That they'd be even better. We're going to need we're going to need some some of that gene therapy to keep us alive much longer than the average. Enough to be viable. Right. That's a podcast title right there. Long enough to be viable. All right. So, yeah, I as some people might know, I play video games.
No, I've never heard that. Really? Yeah, it's true. It is true. It is true that you spend money on chips again. No, no. Totally lies. No, no. I don't know what you're talking about. So you're playing video games? Not this. That's not losing all your money playing video games? No. On the ice. Playing World of Warships, which is a it's a good, relaxing video game. Your ship shoots about once every 15, 20 seconds. So, you know, it's not the super fast running around shooting stuff the kids play.
And I'm in a clan. I'm in a group there. Hey, now. Yeah. I don't want to say that too loud in certain parts of town. I know that's true. I'm in the Texas clan. And there's another guy in the Texas clan there that has been on the while. And we got talking and I said, he says, Well, we would have been busy doing this. Well, you know, I'm doing like three podcasts right now. It's like podcast, you know, you do the podcast, I'm like, Yeah, that's because you don't pay attention.
And so I gave him all the links and and then yesterday we were on and he mentioned that he'd been listening. I was like, Really? He says, Yeah, I'm an episode three. When I get, I am enjoying it. Wow. Hold on. What do you mean? Episode three You you're. Are you going backwards chronologically? Did you just start at the beginning? Right. He started that one. Well that's how you catch up. Catch up? This is a podcast about nothing. Right. You don't want to miss it.
I mean, I'm like, well, I mean, most people start at the back, go forward. Dude, I don't know. It's. Well, we'll see. So by the time he gets to this episode, you'll have a nice little surprise hearing about how I mention them. Probably in about a year in this episode. Mm hmm. There is a rumor in the troll room that you brokered the Brittney Griner exchange. Why? Why would people think that? I don't know. This is how things start. Do I want her back? No, I don't think. Okay.
You're like, wait, if I could trade for any woman in Russia, this wouldn't be the one that you're. There'd be a lot of. Although I will have to say that it's a damn good deal for Russia. Oh, yeah? Well, it seems to make the United States look like a bunch of losers. Uh huh. Because you're giving a way. Although it was interesting. One third transvestites back. The coverage of the guy that they gave back to Russia, which was and they booed something like that. I'm forgetting the guy's name.
There's a movie about him. But we talked about it at length, and you were like, the guy's not really dangerous at all. Yeah, I don't know what gender. Yesterday I heard he was the most dangerous man in the world. So they're somewhere in the middle. And this is his nickname. That's not what he actually is. It's just his nickname. Oh, well, there you go. Did he get did he give himself? It's probably one of these like he gave himself the nickname, too. I am the most dangerous man in the world.
Not really. But it's it's mostly for marketing. It's not at all realistic. But did you watch the movie about him? I did not. Know, Nick. No, we left him. We left other people behind in Russia because it was way more important to get Brittney Griner out. The most important American. Yes, that needs to get through. Now, forget about all the CIA agents that they could have gotten in exchange instead or. Anybody to the deal, not even instead it could have been added into the.
Well. Yeah, but right now, the value of this nine foot tall basketball player. Yeah. You know, clearly American sports are suffering as a result of not having the in the grow the greater here. It's the kind of deal that makes Joe Biden look even worse and that's hard to do. Putin wins this one. This one all he wins most. It seems like every single one for the last two years. Basically Biden not looking really good like we really it's like, well. This is where the American priorities are, right?
Our inflation is higher than it was during Carter. Our economy's going down the toilet. China is making independent deals with Saudi Arabia. And the now that we're reading the Twitter files, it is pretty damn clear that elections were stolen. Yes. And just a completely different way than everybody thought. Well, we thought this is exactly what we've been. There was interference. It just wasn't coming from Russia. Correct. It was coming from actual communists.
Yes. The FBI, the Democrat Party, mainly. The Democrat Party. Yeah, exactly. I mean, I don't think, you know, the FBI certainly played a hand, but I think this has more to do with people in the FBI being Democrats than or does with the FBI just being the FBI. Yes.
And this is why it is very important to understand why free speech is important, why it's important to say, hey, this guy that's spewing all the Hitler isms, I will fight for his right to say it rather than to have him silenced, because that is how important free speech is. Yeah, I don't I don't care about that nearly as much as about getting Democrats. I think that people need to not, you know, by killing him or anything, but. Oh, well, I think he's going to ask for an.
I have to clarify that in this modern world, because clearly people assume right off the get go that if you say get rid of something, it means to, you know, to it. Right. You just mean they shouldn't be in office. I mean, they should be in prison. Okay. It were in a Russian prison. I hear there's a lot of space. If you want to lease prison space elsewhere. I mean, Alaska has a lot of space, too. I don't see why we couldn't build something up there.
We can put them all in an Alaskan prison and then give Alaska back to Russia. I'll give you a very practical, first early start. The Republicans are idiots. First of all, and they've been idiots for a long time, and they don't see what's been going on with the culture war as actually dangerous. Right. But here's a here's here's a tip. Don't ever hire a Democrat if. Your business. Republicans own more companies way more companies than Democrats do.
Even in the tech sector right now, because that seems like it's all run by lefties. It is all run by lefties. Absolutely true. But that's because there's a second hand here. Don't give money to communist businesses. I don't subscribe Netflix. I don't want to support a company like that. But yet I'd say probably 80% of my conservative friends on a regular basis ask me, Oh, hey, did you watch this? Blah, blah, blah. That's a no. No, I hadn't heard of that. What channels Iran? Oh, it's a Netflix.
Netflix? Why would you still be subscribing to Netflix? They love to I don't know. I don't care. Whatever. They watch cuties every day, they love it. Every country has the government it deserves the US included. And the reason that we have the worst government in the world right now is because half the country are communists and the other half are willing to put up with it. I don't know if I agree with those numbers because I don't think most people are engage us.
Now, the people that you're talking about are the the. People that aren't engaged. Right. They're the worst. They're worse than the communists. They're the ones just looking at their phones, swiping left, swiping right, swiping up, swiping down and have no idea what's going on in the real world around them. Yeah, exactly. If they don't engage, then they're part of the problem. Well, I personally agree and that is part of the issue with these phones.
And is they she's not with the phones, the issues with idiots. We have too many idiots. That the the you can't blame the tool it just makes it easier for them to fall down these rabbit holes into whatever virtual world. And I, yeah, I get the people who are like, who cares about Twitter? It's like, well, if you don't believe and I'm like, you are way healthier if you stay off of social media. I agree with that.
But anybody that denies the effect that the messages that flow through Twitter and other social media, if you're going to deny that that actually has an effect on reality in elections and what people do. You're an idiot because it certainly has an effect. Oh, it has an effect.
And more importantly, the the thing that Twitter clearly did now is, as demonstrated and I man, this is I don't know what the outcomes are going to be here for months, because the the thing that should happen is Twitter ought to be sued into bankruptcy. The problem is Musk is going to lose 40 million, $40 billion if that happens. Well, it's interesting because the company has been taken over by a whole new regime.
So going back and saying, well, the sins of the previous regime should be held accountable by the. Same company, I. Understand that. But that's the hilarity of this, which is like you would be punishing the person who's trying to fix what the previous regime did. But that's how the law works. Oh, I get that. And unfortunately it probably is going to happen. I think this is going to cost Musk a hell of a lot financially.
Well, now the real question is somebody had brought back the video evidence, the video testimony of Jack Dorsey before Congress when he was straight out asked, are you. Yeah. And then. Conservatives. And he said, no, are you trying anybody? He said, no. It's like, well, that seems to have been proven a lie. If you go before Congress, you can't say. We're censoring conservatives. They were affecting the visibility of conservatives, too, which they consider to be two completely different things.
Yeah, but we all know again, let's just make the language into something different. We didn't silence them. We just made it so nobody could see them. Don't you understand the difference, you silly person? That's not technical. Yeah, exactly. You know, it's like that's the argument. That's like, know what? Jack Dorsey in jail, he already looks like he's got the beard for. I mean, no offense. I mean, you do, too, but he looks like he's.
Somebody you should never have the beard that I have in prison. That would never happen. He's like, Well, if you send me to Gitmo, don't they keep the beards down there? I don't know. It's very important. But they also get a burial at sea down there, too. And it was it? Well, yeah. Sometimes you disappear now. Dorsey made a comment that was interesting to me, which was to Musk release everything without filters. It's like, what else is there? I'm curious.
What Dorsey thinks he knows or know is that he thinks there's some kind of documentation there that Musk is not releasing, I guess, which is an interesting defense of all of this. Well, it's interesting that somebody that held something back for two years is now calling on somebody else to release something that he wants. Right. But Kim Dorsey is a I'm not going to say, but let's just say is similar to other people that like children, if you go back.
That. Far enough, I actually said this in one of our episodes. I think one of the first ones we did. And we weren't immediately canceled off of everything. There. Yeah. Well, you know. Does anybody hearing this are we we've it's like it right now. We have no listeners. So luckily it doesn't matter. I'm just going to say that there's too many similarities there. And it is an interesting case. It really is. And we have to understand that this. Is it was his platform.
He was the CEO for how many years that there was child trafficking going out? Because we have to believe that these companies can actually control the data going back and forth on it, which is just so ridiculous to believe. But this is, again, the law, all. The things they spent, time, energy and money on trying to block. It wasn't child trafficking, it was Republicans. Right? Oh, and there's no question about it. That doesn't tell you their priorities.
Nothing else. Well. There is no question about that, nor is there seemingly a question now that the guy that was what, the c e the whatever. The head groomer. The head groomer over at Twitter that was on the Kara Swisher show that admitted there another that while they were having weekly meetings with the FBI and other people.
Sure. But leading up to the last presidential election, having weekly meetings with the FBI to get, you know, some tips on who to silence and who to put into this category and who to put into that category. Oh, it's just FBI. There was actually members of Congress sending them directives saying, hey, this person shouldn't be on Twitter and Twitter. You're saying, okay. That's dangerous. That came out. Now, there's a lot of people that use that argument.
Well, that's not covered by free speech because. Hey, a man, a private company, they could do what they want. Well, here's the problem. A private company that is run at the whim of the government is not acting as a private company. And what is. It's acting as a government contractor. Government contractors are companies that have to comply with all the federal regulations, including the Constitution.
The government can't simply outsource something that's illegal for it to do and say, well, it's legal now because we're paying a company to go do it. Yeah. Well, and this is Twitter. This is Facebook. Facebook will have direct investments by this other thing. I, I'm sure, are people with much more in-depth, legal minds and time on their hands that spent looking at this.
But I've always wondered, how can a company like Facebook, which had direct financial investment from the US government earlier than stays or could be argued, was a company that was staked by the CIA. How can it not have to be compliant with government regulations? How can it be able to do things that are prohibited to the government by the Constitution because the company that would not have existed were it not for government investment?
And it's interesting when you look at laws worldwide and I don't remember hearing one case, if you have anybody out there, let me know. But there was a big deal about a year ago, I think, where Poland passed a law that said if a Polish citizen posts anything on social media that is censored or taken down, but it is legal Polish speech. So if you could read out the street in Poland didn't say it and it's legal but a social media company blocks it or does anything to impede that.
They would find the social media companies. I don't remember hearing one case after that, but I don't know if that ever that was challenged or if any, you know, Polish people had these shadow bans. It would be interesting to see. But in the United States, okay, you've got Twitter. And I don't think anybody's going to argue that that is the biggest public square. Facebook is right up there. Instagram is up there also owned by Facebook.
That I'll tell you my personal take on this is I do think that private companies do have more leeway. And the problem I have is with the lies coming out of Twitter. If Twitter simply said that we are the liberal town square, we don't want conservatives on here. We are a company that is creating a product or socialists and communists and whatever other titles they use, antifa's. And that's what we are. So they're effectively the liberal gab Vine I have no problem with that.
Let them be the liberal gab. You know, gab still exists. Doesn't mean everybody needs to be on gab. Even people that aren't socialists and aren't liberals. If they got on gab they would probably be offended. I don't get on gab often. I probably get in there once every three or four months just to see if there's any spam or junk mail. Only when. Somebody is very well. Worn, when somebody is selling some virtual spaceships on gab. Well, it could be.
It could be spaceships are important, but it is not a pleasant place. You know, I for me personally, it is way too much identity politics. There's way too many people on gab that are bitter and pissed off at random strangers who share some characteristics with other people. You know, from people that have never been on gab think of yea it's a whole and then of years it's a, it's a whole community of yis talking about their problems. Now that. Would be doesn't. Mean gab shouldn't exist right.
It doesn't mean that I, I even have an account on gab. I get on gab, I have no problem with them being around. I have no problem with people talking about things that make them look stupid. That's okay. But the problem is that Twitter kept denying that they were the equivalent of gab for liberals. Right. And as such, they garnered a much higher status in society in the world. That was of like, well, if you saw it on Twitter, must be true.
Well, and it's one of these things where they grew to be the biggest when they were not censoring. I mean, that's exactly right, too. That's very true. They they grew because and I remember when Twitter launched, I got an account shortly thereafter, they launched here in Austin and they was just like, this is so stupid. It's only 80 characters. What can I possibly say? You know, it's just a bunch of people putting stupid messages out there about their lives. I'm eating breakfast now.
Haha, right. Yeah. That's what it was. There was no politics, there were no blue checkmarks and there were no reporters. There were no direct messages, there was no adding anybody. The people that were using Twitter came up with that as a feature. This was basically a very simplistic let's just text message, everybody. It was a microblogging platform when it launched. Yes. And that's how they grew. And Jack Dorsey didn't have a beard back then. Right.
It's gotten a way longer since Ellen just said he's pulling now. I think it was one and a half billion accounts which are long left for dead that which again, it's been around a long time. There's been a lot of people that have died. There's been a lot of people who haven't logged in for years. Yeah. Those accounts get to go away again, which is also an interesting thing because we know Twitter's been using those numbers like, hey, we got 14 billion code people.
Yeah, that's. Bullshit. Total bullshit. But you. Absolutely. You grew to be the public square because you were free and open. That's the problem. When you then try to start going in the other direction of like, well, we're not going to allow this point of view. And you're right, Twitter could have done a bunch of different things. They could have one said, you know what, we figured out we want to be the liberal platform. They could have also split into two. They could have made it very easy.
Check a box if you're on this side, then check this box. If you're on this side, check this box and you won't see any of the stuff from the other side of this. Yeah. But instead what they said to do is use the political preferences of the executives and presumably the owner. I'm not going to leave Jack out of this in order to then manipulate their platform to absolutely promote one side and make the other side look bad.
Exactly. With. And if that's not election tampering, I don't know what it is. Right. Because it's under the guise of you're seeing everything. We're not censoring anyone. This is free and open news even around. It's it's literally like going to the to a scene of a fires raging that they were lit by Antifa, pointing the camera directly away from the fires and saying, well, John, we're at the scene. And it appears to be a totally calm, normal neighborhood in America.
I don't know what everybody's talking about. And then you cut the camera at that point and you're done. It's a lie. Oh, it is. It's a lie by omission. And that's exactly what Twitter's been doing, is lying by omission. And while you're never going to change the mind, there are people in it's probably about 25% of the people are ardent on the right, 25% ardent on the left. It's those people in the middle that can be swayed by random garbage they see on the Internet, believe it or not.
I mean, I know that sounds hard to believe, but people are that dumb that they could be swayed by what they see while scrolling Twitter. And if only one side is allowed to make their point, what do you think that does? Yeah, exactly. Well. I mean, all. You gotta do is all you got to do is look at Antifa and the fact that Kyle Rittenhouse had to use deadly force to prevent somebody from killing him. Right. But where are those people getting their motivation from now? You were involved.
By watching mainstream news. I guarantee you that they're all way too young to look. Anybody watches mainstream. That's the problem. Well, not. Exactly. I don't think it's a problem. But you know what? They're motivated by are the lies that were coming out of Twitter. But while you were not on Twitter, I've been on Twitter. I should sign up or sign up. He should start a lawsuit against Twitter. There've been a few. I'm sure there will be more. But you weren't on Twitter.
I still can't find where you are now. I mean, I tried searching for Sir Jean and that. Jean talks on Twitter. Okay. I will add that. But for a long time you weren't on Twitter and I was. So I mean, I could have just been posting messages every day like, wow, Jean this, Jean that. And if you're not there to defend yourself, those messages people read and go, well, this must be true. Yeah. The problem with silencing one side and there's exactly don't get that like.
Well, no, but this is why the hate speech is dangerous. Bullshit has come out like we can't even let anybody that would dare support Trump say anything because this is dangerous for our democracy. They're they're literally doing this just like in, in the novel in the film. Dune Moore DB, which is the main character's new name, became a power word. I mean, they're literally they're saying that the word Trump is now deemed dangerous.
That word by itself, the word Trump causes and what do they call it? It causes harm. They love the word harm. So it's like it's saying Trump causes harm. Nobody should be allowed to see Trump. Because it's yeah, yeah, that's dangerous. It causes harm. It causes harm to LGBTQ, a plus minus divided by equal sign. This is where the people who don't understand why free speech is important. They're the ones that go down. And I get it. I get how this package is sold.
Like you don't want somebody spreading hateful Nazi rhetoric, do you? And it's like, yes, rather than silencing them. Yes. But most people are like, well, no, that would be it would be a better society without that. It's like, well, then where do you think this stops. With. Who gets silence did what magical words mean? We know we got the magical ed word. You know, there are things that if you say or do, you're gonna be canceled, even if you're a teacher using it in a classroom setting.
And I still want to know what the proper thing for a teacher to do in that case, when you're doing a class on racism or whatever and you're like, well, no, you know, the N-word. And that if a student honestly asks, like, well, I don't know what word that is, and I'm not supposed to say, What is that? How do you then let them know the word without getting fired? Well, you clearly you have to expel the student for asking the question. Well, that would be true. That would be dangerous.
That's the correct answer. You're trying to have a of a thought, but we are. The student needs to be sent to a reeducation camp up in Siberia. Whoa, whoa. Oh, wait. We're talking about America. Oh, I thought we were talking about communist Russia back in the 1940s. Now Russia's way more free today than America. Today it is. Yeah. Yeah, they they. Don't have these little petty fights around Twitter, I'm betting is the Russian news. Talk about Twitter a lot. Uh, no, not really.
I mean, they're mostly talking about Brittney Griner because that's the hot topic that. We're finally happy to get her out. Get rid of it. Yeah. Doesn't make sense to. Him her whatever it get rid of it. But this is it. Free speech is important. It has always been important. It's one of the bedrocks of this country. Most countries do not have free speech. And that was one thing that makes America different. At least it did. But I remember even going back, you were there around the same time.
I think going to Ireland in 2009, I believe it was still illegal to say like something bad about the Pope or something. There was a weird law is still in Ireland and there still may be, but it's like, no, you don't have the freedom of speech if you can't go out onto the streets and say, screw the pope, you know, and they'll put you in jail for that, because, well, there are some things you can't do or you can't insult the king or queen of England. You can't you know, there's.
You sure as hell can't in Ireland. Well, yeah. Yeah. You can definitely say whatever you want about the Queen of England while in Ireland. Yes. That's allowed and even encouraged. But people think like, oh, you have free speech. It's like I was I was in Ireland in 2000. It's a beautiful place. It really is. It's gorgeous. It's it's a country that was built for painting. Oh, yeah. If you want to take landscapes. Every landscape, every vista just looks like a beautiful painting.
That's because there's so few people around it. All those sheep. Yes. Way more sheep than people. Yeah. It's a much. More. But all the lawns are very trimmed and manicured as a result of the sheep here. Well, they're very hungry, those sheep and they poop alive. That's a lot of fertilizer. They fertilize and lawnmower at the same time, which is an amazing animal. Like, I need a few of those. Yeah. And unlike, like, you know, cows and other bigger animals, their poops are tiny and spread.
They're literally fertilizer pellets. It is amazing how nature works. Mm hmm. You almost think that, like, the sheep were created to munch on lawns and fertilize them. Then you shave them once out. How many times a year can you share the sheep to use the wool to do it like once a year? You know, that's a good question. I think it's well, it's got to be at least once, but it might be a couple of times a year. I don't know. Like they are amazing resources. Everybody put your money into sheep.
We do not get this. They they will replicate themselves. Amazing is that this. Is like the best system ever. Here's the thing that most of your lawn fertilizes. Your lawn replicates itself and requires no food. But soon you won't have enough room in your lawn to take care of the amount that you have. But free speech. Come on. Free, free. Speech and sheep. That's our platform right there. That's all we need in America, man. Free speech and. Just not enough sheep in America.
That's what this keeping this country from being great. And not teaching people why it is vital to allow vile, hateful, disgusting to some people speech. Because once you start down that road, I mean, it's amazing that we're at the point in our country where if you steal from somebody and it's under $1,000 or whatever it is, and most jurisdictions that have started doing this, they won't put you in jail. You could hit somebody in the face with a brick. They won't put you in jail.
But you say you love Donald Trump. Holy shit. They're ready to put you in jail. Mm hmm. That should teach everybody everything they need to know. Every country has a government deserves. Yeah. The question is, what country is the best or give me a list. We're like the top five. What five governments are. Actually, would you be like. This was saying most governments suck, right? The vast majority of governments suck. Well, that's what Ted Nugent has been saying for years, which. Is, yeah.
Everybody sucks, but we suck less. Mm hmm. But used to be true and they've got to lose direction. Yeah, well, clearly, the Democrats have been trying to make us suck more. Well, they want these socialist mindset. They want to punish the big corporations for being successful. They want to punish the individual. They're being successful because there are still people in this country who are not successful. And that's not fair.
You know, there's one silver lining in this story that came out recently here and that I posted now on social. I'm sure other people saw it elsewhere as well. Is that the the Gen Z males, if you want to call them that, are exciting and protesting with the Gen Z females demanding abortion be free and available in every state and as a form of solidarity, the these Gen Z males are getting vasectomies. And I think this is a great thing. I'm fully in support of this.
I think that there's nothing better that can be done than to sterilize that portion of the population and voluntarily sterilize. Mind you, that is the most detrimental to the future of the United States. Without a doubt, because then they will not have any children that they can teach their idiocy. Exactly. So they won't be able to pass that down. And then they're like, Wait, why are we losing again? Now, this is a great thing.
I think that the reducing the population is an important goal for that demographic in general. They see the planet is being harmed by a high population and so they're actually doing something about it, taking a stance they would have preferred to add sex and then aborted children, but if they can't do that, then I guess they're just not going to pass on their genetics. Whoa. Yes, one snip it and rip it. But aren't the men getting vasectomies ruining it for the women who are pro-abortion.
Because they're not? Yeah. I mean, I guess I guess they're they're saying, well, since you can't have an abortion, then I'll make sure that, you know, I've. Never been with these women. Get to the point where they're like 25 and like. Anyway, they have. Well, no, you don't, you know. But that's not what. No, no, no. When they're Gen Z generation, they're when they're that young, any generation that young, it just happens to be Gen Z right now.
But if you sterilize the whole generation and then the chicks don't want to have kids, then. But no, no, you're missing. The point is, when you're that young and for most women that are certainly of the liberal mind, but even some not so liberal, they're not thinking about having a job. They're like, Oh my God, I couldn't imagine having all these rug rats running around. That's crazy. It's not until the hormones kick in in their late twenties, early thirties that women tend to.
Yeah, but they're. Wanting to be. Able to find a. God God. They're not going to be able to find some. And if they are, I guarantee you it ain't going to be one of these soy boys that decided to cut their nuts off. This is a whole new a whole new scheme for you to get younger women again. Do I really need a new scheme? I know. Well, maybe. I don't know. Are the old ones working still? I haven't heard of anything lately going on. Oh, well, there was something going on recently.
And I'll tell you off the bat. Yes, there was something going on. There's a there's definitely a potential for something at all times there. Well, of course this is the universe. There's a potential for anything at all times. Taylor Swift will finally be half my age plus seven on December 30th. She's going to get married or what? I don't know. I'm just. She's a lesbian. Come. It would be that she'll come out and tell us that she's a lesbian. To all you insiders.
She's been dating a guy for a long time. Goofball. She's always date. Beard. A beard guy. Very possible. I don't know. I've never gotten the know her Brittany. Grimes look like they're about the same height so. Yeah Taylor would probably be better in the WNBA. It could be. Yeah, yeah. She's got less ass to carry around. Although I will say that joke, you know, it's starting to get old because her ass is definitely grown. See, he. Keeps very close tabs on the. I do keep tabs on her ass.
And from the last photos that I've seen of dancers, she's definitely made improvements in that department. Yeah. The magic number 33. She will be. That is half your age. Pretty amazing. Well yeah. Plus seven. Not sure why that. Let's pretend that's. What they say. I don't know. I don't make up these rules. I just follow them on podcast for educational and they're a. Rule follower. Right? Totally. I always knew that. I thought. That was. Obvious.
All right. Well, now we got the intro out of the way. What was that? The intro? That's the intro segment. That was it. So now we can look at a chapter right here. Throw this into the podcasting 2.0 mixer. Hmm. And everything kind of works. I will tell you, it was good to hear Adam Curry live back on the air yesterday. Yeah. On the no agenda stream. And it was the only podcast you will ever hear where you will hear the podcast. Keith hitting the desk during the show.
Well, you say that now, but what. Happened to us. You know, maybe a year from now or so, I might I might have similar things now. I've been talking to Adam about want to make sure I get his all his insights on his dentist, because I don't think my teeth are in horrible shape. But I, I know for a fact they definitely need to get one, maybe a couple of teeth, replace it. You need somebody that's good at this. I've need somebody that's good.
And that's the biggest problem with dentists is like, how often do you run into somebody that's really had major work done by somebody? I mean, hopefully not very often because most people keep their teeth in well enough shape to not require major work. But when you when you do need to get something done, you don't want to just pick a random out of the phone book. Phone book for you kids.
This is the Internet website, Google, where you type in dentist and it gives you a result based on geographic location. Then sometimes you get lucky and some not. Why didn't is there I need to check this is their website just called phonebook dot com. I don't know if they have not they're missing out. I'm going to punch it in right now. It's going to go right up there with the Russian prepper supplies. You got a phone book that to look at. Oh, my God. This is a god awful website. Holy shit.
That looks like it was created about 20 years ago and never updated. Which means it probably was. That as horrible as a the bottom, it has a copyright 2020 from BBC.com Inc. Who leased their INC. But oh my God, there's literally nothing here. And the graphics are missing like, you know, if you. Yeah, their graphics are completely missing. It's a pure text website at this point. Oh, well, I like your text. It's better, it's much more efficient. It's like Twitter.
What it. Use. No, no, you're not saying the graphics are missing. They're not. They weren't not created like they're they're little placeholders. Don't you miss the old days where you get a little red X where the where the image should be. But it wasn't. Heaven sent down a little red X. Yeah, I know. Back in the day on the web when the image they tried to call but it couldn't load it, you just got like a little white box with a red accent. I think that depending on the browser you're using.
Could be was probably Firefox for me back in the day. Got it. Yeah. I was probably using a mouse now. It's brave now I brave. You were brave search. And now the brave search is like, well, we're going to start adding very we're going to start adding good ads and private ads to the. To the. Searches. Yeah. Everybody's in the same. You can't make money with that with searches. You know, let me rephrase it. You can't make money with searches unless you have ads. Well, right.
I mean, you have the service. If you're if it's good enough and you can charge people for it, which is also what Brave would like to do. I think they're saying they're going to charge once this starts with the ads, you can opt out for like three bucks a month, which doesn't seem bad, but this is right on down. The same rabbit hole that we talked about over on Grumpy Old Ben's and Buddy Ryan, Ben Rose, who was just on your searching speech to.
Make a guest appearance in your grumpy on Bill show now. Yeah. He made another guest appearance and grumpy old Ben's. Yeah. And brought the story that Amazon is firing a bunch of people from the talking tube area there because they're not making any money the dots and the. What the. Devices and I don't want to say the ladies first name because I have one close enough that it would be like. Alexa shut down. All right. I see. Luckily, I have headphones on and actually.
But there are people listening to the bus now. Yes. They're like, oh, geez, why did it go dark there. Huh? Uh huh. Yeah. But because they for somehow thought they were going to be able to make money with those devices. Well, they were supposed to have switched all your ordering to Alexa based ordering and you're supposed say Alexa, I'm out of eggs, order me some eggs. I don't get that. I really don't because I know there was a big push for this and it wasn't reset.
It was like maybe a year ago where they were running coupons all the time, like, oh, save 20% or 50% if you place an order through the talking to. Rate, the prices were different. Yeah. And what I didn't understand was why anybody would want to do that over opening up their phone, their tablet or their laptop or desktop to place in order. There's not a big convenience factor there to me for most people. And if you're reading it, there's one caveat.
If you're reordering something that you always get, that might be the one time I would use it. But there used to be a more useful device, I think, in which they've now, you know, it's like now the button was good too. I had those, I had buttons, so I had a whole row of buttons on my refrigerator. So when you needed to order new stuff. Yeah, yeah. So when the housekeeper needed to order something, just push on the button. Didn't have to say anything.
Oh, sure, that's okay. That's an interesting thing. I never even thought of allowing somebody else to place the order, but in a way that they were limited to. The only source to me. Where and where it could be shipped. Exactly. Exactly. So she could, like, reorder all that stuff and the buttons worked great. And then they also sent me a barcode scanner that if I scan something, would then automatically be ordered on Amazon as well. So I don't know, I. Think you're can assume and.
I don't even know if I was in the trial program for that or if that was a thing that everybody had access to. Never saw that. Okay. Well, I had one of those. I had an Amazon barcode scanner and yeah, so that worked fine. You know, got to reorder detergent. You scan your old container of empty container detergent and it gives you a little blip confirming that it's going to put the order in. You hit the button and you're good to go right consumable. Now with a lot of this.
They have their subscribe save, which is good because you save money. So I used to do that a lot. I stopped doing that because more often than not I found that they they were out of stock and things when I needed them. Oh yeah. Since COVID. Yeah, it's been horrible. Yeah. And so at this point, like, I'm going to actually do a search and see who's got it in stock before I just automatically ordered from the same source. Right.
Or you might, you know, I use it for my parents because they take a few different supplements and you know how many they take a day. So it's very easy to set it up where it's like, I know when you're going to need more. But yes, whether it's out of stock, Amazon huge. I mean, I know they'll give you a pop up, but I, I rarely pay attention where. Oh the you know the now brand cautioned it is not in stock would you like to choose something else right. You don't and that's a pain in the ass but.
Well, sometimes you do, sometimes, you know, and all depends. Like when I buy the big red cups, you know, there's the official big red Cup brand that started the whole trend. So low. Yeah, so low. And then there's like 25 different knockoff, right. Is there like a lot of people seem to like plastic red cups. I like them. They're good. Now, the other thing that you have in that same vein now, and I know I'm an asshole because I bought one of these machines. Mm hmm.
And I looked it up to an app on my phone because, again, I don't listen to grumpy old bands or anybody that's I don't do apps. But the new courage machine, the coffee machine that I have, there are some coffees that have the little QR code on them. Oh, yeah, a. Lot of them don't. But for the ones that do, I'm assuming are the Keurig brand, right.
Because they now have the thing if you want to opt in and buy the coffee from them, it knows exactly how many you're drinking so it knows when to reorder them. Oh, that's great. Which the convenience factor is fantastic. The privacy factor still a little weird. What do you get, Richard? How many people know how much coffee you drink? I don't know. Okay. But some I mean.
There is a zealotry there in the information security people world about having no information about anything be publicly available. I think that's stupid. There there is a very legitimate concern there for providing information publicly available. But that you control. There are plenty of that. Well, you should control it all, but it doesn't mean you should block it. All right. And there are plenty of things like the amount of coffee you're drinking or the amount of iced tea that I am drinking.
So that would really. Once a day. Yeah, I it's nowhere near that. No. I mean I think I've said about this, I probably drink a gallon of tea a day. It's, there's no sugar in there so it's not negatively impacting my diabetes or my tooth health at all. But I enjoy tea and so I drink a lot of iced tea and in the winter I drink a lot of hot tea. Now, right now you would think it's winter, but it is 80 degrees outside right now in Austin, Texas. Out here. It's still icy weather here.
Nice. Yeah. Let's see all that manmade global warming that Europe is causing very possibly. And the ice tea is one. It's better than drinking water. I mean, unless you have an issue with the caffeine and you're overdoing or that. Yeah. And there's some caffeine, but clearly not much because whenever I had caffeinated coffee. Well, you're the guy that just ate like £14 of china, covered coffee beans and couldn't figure out why you when did you sleep? I mean, how many days was it? Took a. Week.
I didn't sleep for a week straight. And then eventually I fell asleep and slept for a full day. I believe it. Yeah, that was a really a week without good sleep. You're like, what the hell? Yeah, absolutely. Well, at least a week they. That was the residual effects, but they were delicious coffee beans, I'm sure. Oh, they were super delicious. Coffee brand coffee. 5% off. Five years discount called surge Jean surging gets you 5% off Go use it. Right now we. Don't have ads on the note.
Luckily, there are no ads on any of my podcasts. You just recommend people go to certain websites and use coupon codes. Totally not an ad. No. I mean, I'm just telling people what I if you want coffee beans, that'll keep you awake for a full week. I mean, that's the. To get. It's not what they recommend you use it for. Mind you, that seems like you might be telling people to. You're saying it's off label use. Yes, very much so. Off label use. Yes. No medical advice given here.
It was like with balls came out with all the gamers and then people start going, hey, now, dead after being up by, you know, like two or three days straight gaming because they were drinking all these energy drinks. I think it was the gaming that was killing people. No, I would agree. There was probably the staying up for four days straight while pounding on random energy drinks. Yeah, well, you should know what's in your energy drink. Yeah.
You think? Yeah. Yeah. And there is such thing as excess taurine. I missed having the brain tonic. It was something Kevin Rose I think talked about way back in the day. Yeah, yeah. That stuff was actually pretty tasty and it did seem to give a little boost without allegedly any of the the bad ones. I think it was all. Vitamin. B. Yeah. Like, yeah, it was like, what, vitamin B and ginseng and some other other stuff, but it actually tasted good and it was your brain hard, right?
Well, it allegedly was made your brain just hard in. They not have, huh? You're not talking in a physical manner of hard as much as an emotional state. It gave your brain a woody, is what you're saying. That's exactly what I'm saying. I was just I think that was there there tagline that my brain. Oh, Woody. It's a it's a makes your brain hard. Yeah yeah. That might that would scare people up. I don't think you want hard brain. Well not, not for a prolonged period of time.
I mean eventually you want it to kind of soften up again. Yeah. You want to relax. And it's like, that would be an issue. 24 hours of heart, brain, right. Just to relax. Everybody knows where men think. Yeah. You want to just have a P.B. and J and relax? Mm hmm. Yes, I. You know, if the female in your life wants to help you with your heart brain, then more power to her. Yeah, well, that's what they're for. The females, right? Yes. Uh huh. Yeah. Yes. And the other thing that's, you know.
Yes, I reached out. I'd love to hear from all the females out there or the males who need help. I mean, we are here to give advice, but nothing legally binding. I have a question for you. Okay. What would be the best way to cover a window that is causing light to come through me? I have blinds already on the window. Okay. And the blinds have the little, little cutouts for the the string that is holding them up. And there's light coming through these little cutouts.
Also, it's a there are shades rather than blinds. But where the where the string is going up, there's little bolts of light coming through the little. Yeah. Yeah. Into my face and especially when I'm trying to record a, a video program and my face is on camera with little, little bits of light on there. And I've literally gone completely white trash on this and just put a U-Haul box in front of the window.
But I feel like my neighbors might be pissed off about seeing a U-Haul box in my window for oil. I mean, that is. It may lower my my low. Property value. Yeah exact. I'm cooking meth or something over here. Hell is a shed. The house is just super warm. There is carbon dioxide leaking from inside the house. The the electrical bill is really high because of some reason and the windows are covered up with U-Haul boxes.
You might just want to get a better brand of the of the shade because I don't think we have that problem with ours now really. It might just be that those things weren't made really well. They're all made like that. Don't they all have a little cut out for the string in the middle? Well, there's two cut outs for blind one on each side, I guess, but. Because the strength to go inside of is it a honeycomb or is it just a a pleated shade because the honeycomb one. I think these are blinds, dude.
They, you know, they're like little, little pieces of wood that can be turned. Oh, so. These are just vertical blinds. Well, think of the cage, baby. That's how many shades look. Totally white trash. Now, shades are better. Yeah, for white trash. Just. They're just white on the back. It's great. Neighbors won't be offended. It'll keep all of the stuff up. Yeah, the. If you had it. No matter where, the U-Haul boxes might be less offensive than that.
Well. Why don't you just upgrade the box of Amazon box or tell you what? Call up somebody like Perrier and see if they can send you a few unbroken, unused cases or on, you know, even bent up boxes that they use to show their product or maybe from your favorite whiskey and see if somebody can send you. A whiskey box. Right. Okay. I mean, I know what the the sort of the proper solution here is to then simply get get what you call them.
But the thing you hang over the window, the the thing curtains to get curtains. Yes. Cool curtains over the shades. The blinds would also help. Yeah. But because the curtains you couldn't see from the outside because they're inside. So maybe cash, maybe that's what I need to do. Now, was this a large, like, opening? Is it just a window or is. It my office window? I mean, it's actually two windows in my office. They're not particularly large.
So literally, like, you know, the sad part is I already have curtains. I just don't have a curtain rod. Maybe I just need to buy a curtain rod and be done with it. Yeah. See, Brooklyn says black garbage bags. That's where I would go. Oh, black garbage bags, of course. Oh, my God. That is such the best solution ever. Yeah that that had one of the windows and then the U-Haul box at the other is that tin foil and some of the other windows and just don't talk to the neighbors.
Where do you see them either? Just act strangely. Well, that part's already done. So that's easy enough. They're like, there's this guy with a he's got a really long beard and he's very strange. We're worried that he's bringing weird things into our neighborhood. Completely weird. There's cars coming all times, all day, all night. There's a big snake. They see this. They have the. Yeah, they don't see the snake. That's a different set of windows.
Now, that's too bad, because otherwise I would make sure the snake was like crawling right in front of the window. Yeah, well, some people might think that. That's cute. Well, it's better than cooking meth. Maybe. It all depends if they're afraid of snakes. But here's the sad part. I think the percentage of snake ownership among people like cook meth probably higher than the average. Okay, I have not done that survey. So I mean that. I'm just saying. Well, certainly among the population of.
People that use those. People that sell meth, snake ownership is a higher percentage. So that I. Do does like to show is snake in the window but it has nothing to do with those reptiles. Oh, okay. All right. Slightly different call to the local authority. Yes, yes. Well, get that. We're done with the first segment of the show. You just need shades. You need a nice a nice. So what's going on in Chicago? We haven't talked about Chicago for a while. God, Chicago sucks.
Mm. It's like 40 degrees and raining today. It's beautiful. We had two toilets replaced this week. That was fun. $588 for a plumber. Holy cow. That's for one hour. That took an hour and 50 minutes to guys. Two toilets. Oh, that's not that bad then. So it's 4 hours of man time. Yes. Which is 500 bucks. Yeah, it was 125 an hour. So kids, when the question comes to do you want to be an English major and go to college or you want to be a plumber and make 125 bucks an hour?
Yeah, go for plumber because you're definitely. There for plumbers. Yeah. Because China, there's a lot of Chinese people out there. When China runs this country, they're going to need plumbers. And when we got the the estimate, the guy said that will be between 488 and 580. It's of course, it was 588, but I pulled out 500 bucks. Cash. Yeah. And when he's like 588, I'm like, I got 500 cash, otherwise I won't have to use a credit card. The credit cards, fine.
Like, I don't know, I would have taken the cash and ran. No. Hell, no way. Why would you do that? Credit card? You only lose 3%. You were trying on that off for 85 bucks. Yeah, well, I mean, again, this all depends on I understand the credit card fees are about 3%, but we also know what happens when service industry folk take cash. That always doesn't make it to the allegedly to the bottom line. So you're trying to set this guy up for IRS fraud.
I don't know what he's doing after he takes the money. Yeah, well, he's fine with the credit card. Clearly was just offering a different idea. Mm hmm. Yes. And for everybody wondering, Darren's got 500 bucks in cash to this house just, you know, clearly he said that publicly. Then I went out for Mexican last night, and now. It's more than 500 bucks. I've got about 400. It's like, that's it. It's like that's the. Well, you know, Darren, here's your problem.
You wouldn't have needed to get two toilets fixed if you didn't keep going to Mexican food, right? That's probably true. Uh huh. That is. The wife wanted to change these things since we moved into the house, which was in like. 62 through. Like 2008, I think we moved in here and. It finally had to get done. So you get the. Fancy toilets with the electronic controls. So that's I'm like, Why did you go for the day? You go for the fall. She's like, You know how much that is? I'm like, I don't care.
Yeah, you got to do that. And then also you got to have a toilet that's controlled by your iPhone. Right? That would be a much better way to go. I know that these toilets have been sitting here for months because she got them on. I don't remember what. Christmas sale it. Might have been, but it wasn't. It wasn't even like this Christmas. It wasn't like last year. It wasn't like last. It was sometime earlier this year. That sale, maybe. Like Home Depot had these cooler one piece.
Yeah. You know. You got the one piece toilets. Yeah, Nancy, that's what I said. Very fancy. That. Yeah. And that's a stupid idea. You really don't need one piece. I know, but this again, wasn't my decision, right? And they were on sale for, like, 60% off. It was something crazy to where I think we got the toilets for like 200. Bucks, at least high pressure toilets. They do relieve I don't know what they're sold as but they flush well. So there is that. Okay. All right.
They're not like these where it's like, oh, flush 14 times. If you did any more than a tank. Right? There's a but I don't know what they're technically called. I don't have one of these in my house, but a buddy of mine had the when he put it in toilet. This is a high pressure toilet. So it's more they it it sounds an act a lot like more like a toilet in an airplane. Oh, nice. So when you flush, it just sucks everything in instantly super fast.
And then there's a high speed stream of water going down the toilet instead of this, like, little slow drizzle around the toilet outside, which most toilets seem to have. And he's like, Yeah, that's the best toilet you can get. This thing is awesome. I'm like, Well, it's impressive, I guess. But I mean, no. As impressive as a toilet can. Be.
Yeah, yeah, it is. It's. And I guess, you know, instead of hooking up a little tiny line, water line to the toilet, you're like, yeah, the full, the full potential of the water pressure of the house directly to the toilet to just evacuate whatever needs to get evacuated out of it. Yeah. And our water pressure in our house sucks. And I need to. You need your own water towers. What you need? Kind of. You know, we had a plumber for a while before he retired.
That said, maybe the line coming in, you know, was supposed to be like a three quarter and it's only a half or something. I mean. This is like something that you would have figured you would have like 100 years ago, which is if you're running the shower and then you turn on the dishwasher or anything else, you can feel the drop in pressure, which is like, that's not good.
And I know there's things they can put in to artificially try to pressurize the lines, but I think the real answer would be to just put a new main line coming in, and I'm sure that would be a pain in the ass. Just good. More than 500, right? So yeah, that's fun. And I'm sure the reason why this toilet experience was at the higher end was that they had to get power and break one of the toilets to get it off.
So I don't know what ooh what was going on there. But you know, and having, having them carried out of the house by somebody else is probably worth 100 bucks or so. And so that's true. And not having it leak. And because that's the problem, it's like, okay, the concept of putting them in is not that's super simple. I've done it before. But if you fuck something up, the price is going to be more than it would have been. They have the guy put it in. Because they hard to fuck up. Did you say that?
But you've never seen me do home improvement. Well, yeah, they're a fairly basic concept. As long as you get it down on the seal and that. Yeah, that was the other thing we were worried about because last year, like the day before Christmas Eve, the toilet downstairs here, which is on the sub or I mean, so it's not a complete it's a half floor underground. So it's on the concrete floor, the flange that was on the floor finally, like snap it was not stainless steel.
It was whatever the crap was that was down there. So they had to come in and redo that, which was a pain in the ass. But I was worried that what these two was going to be the same problems. If you have to go in and like pull out the old flanges which are like underneath tie, you know, like that's where they're easier to let somebody else do it and you know, the beauty is if the toilet starts leaking in a week or two. And you call somebody, yeah, you.
Call the guy back, you come back and fix this dude. Mm hmm. I don't like doing the the I mean, it's one that. It's physical labor you're going to say. Right? Well, like doing physical or labor work, and. I do not like doing that, but podcaster, I've been podcasting for too long when I have to pick up my coffee cup. Oh, my God. Jesus, I need to pick. This is really hard to to sip on this. I'm used to just talking. And that is that is about. Yes, your mouth is your tool.
Right? Exactly. Yes. It's how you make a living with your mouth. That's what you said. I don't know. I don't know. But that was basically the amount of fun going on in Chicago. Wow. Okay. Well, let's get up there. We have we have new toilets. The one I told that to Ben Rose. I need to order food. I'm grumpy old Ben's. He's like, did you get to like, did you add two toilets to the house? I'm like, no roof replaced to his like toilets to wear out.
I'm like, well, no, they don't technically wear out, but my wife's been wanting these. And, you know, then of course, once you had them and her brother and her dad, you know, like the one day after they went and picked him up at Home Depot and then just put him in the spare bedroom up here, which only you want your house looking like white trash. Jean For a long time I had a bedroom filled with a bunch of Lego models and two toilets just sitting in the in the corner. So, I mean, it's crazy.
I mean, that is white trash one on one. But I figured once they were in the house. Yeah, there's, there's no way getting around it. And she had been refusing and the toilet in the main bathroom upstairs and again I if I don't have to do plumbing I'm not going to do it. But basically when you would like hit the flusher, it was like so rusted or something that once you pushed it down, it just wouldn't go back on its own. It would. Wow. Yeah. I'm like, it was time.
And I don't know exactly what the quality of the water we have out here, but We're in a town that when we first moved in here into a townhouse, just right down the road, when we moved in, back in whatever it was, 95, they didn't have Chicago City Water yet. Really. Well, it was still go where you needed the water softener and that whole bed. And even though there's been the city water out of Lake Michigan now. For.
Well over a decade or so, the amount of rust that still comes in through the pipes is alarming. You definitely don't want to drink water without multiple water filters. And and that but I wouldn't want to drink water coming out of a faucet regardless of where I am. No, not if I mean, I don't mind it if it's going like are these days. I mean, when I was a kid, I drank a lot, right? Yeah. That's what I had as it was. We had good water when my skin. Got to be filtered, man.
Yeah, actually, these days, yeah. There's too much bad crap in the water. Yeah. Back when I was a kid, like. 19, nobody. Was polluting anything. Well, yeah, but you didn't even have gasoline engines. Yeah. So what? But there was no pollution to. To, you know, have to worry about. Unlike these days. I got a topic changing question for you. How old is Britney Spears? Britney Spears would. Be about 45. It's pretty good looking for 45. It's about my gosh, I think she just. Married a 28 year old guy.
I was Britney off the rails again. No. And why why would you say that? Because she's been off the rails in the past. I mean, I don't know exactly what her mental state is, but that's always been the whole deal with her family, not wanting her to have. Family or so much as. Like a bunch of. Bloodsucking vampire leeches. You know, it's really sad when I type in Britney, in Google, the first thing that comes up is Brittney Griner and then Britney Spears.
Very sad because Britney Spears is always going to be the Britney amen. Amen. She was born in 81, so she's 41, was close. I said 41. Okay. All right. But yeah, I'm so. Self in shape. She does. I mean, yeah. I wonder if she's going to be in less shape moving forward maybe. I mean she's over 40 now. So I mean to your normal scale, that's that's going downhill. Or she's a grandmother now she grandmotherly age. Yeah. I mean I remember,
I'm pretty sure I was working at Circuit City. Mm. The first time when that all the TVs Britney in the schoolgirl outfit in that. Oh baby baby was it. Oh baby baby. Oops. I did. Yeah. Ooh baby, whatever the song was. And it was just like. Whoa, they're showing this at Circuit City. Do you want to get to. Play this all day long? It's just a winner. I'm going to go home and play all day, all night long with my joystick. It is going to be the best way to sell television sets they ever invented.
Britney sold so much stuff without even getting paid for it. Uh huh. No question about it. No question. But she's like the original pop slave. Yeah. Yeah, she Is like she was created. She was not born. They they created a product for her parents. I mean, and utilize that product to make themselves millionaires before she was at the age of consent and then when that funnel started dribbling and drying up, they decided to enslave her illegally.
And so for the last 13 years, they were once again making oodles of money off of her. Yeah, just another girl going through the Disney system. Disney is like the worst possible way to mean they're just evil. There's no other way to describe them. Disney's Evil. No argument there. Now. Christina Aguilera started there. Britney.
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, then they're the ones that didn't even even the singers then there's a lot that were involved with the the Disney television shows know on the Disney Network. It never seems to go well for some reason, you. Know, well, a company built on pedophilia just seems to be a bad place to put your kids. I still have a poster somewhere of Christina Aguilera signed from her debut album. I should pull that up. I don't know if that.
I don't think her signature has gone into the Taylor Swift stratosphere, which is unfortunate because I would love to turn that in. She'd love to sell it. Yeah, I'd love to sell that. And do you know a grant. The. The Taylor Swift lithographs that I there was one that I bought for 200 bucks. Now they're selling for like well over a thousand. Uh huh, I got one that was a Peter Max, an artist. He did a couple. Of different Peter Max's. He did a Taylor Swift series.
And I got I've got one of them that is signed by Peter Max and by Taylor Swift. And there were four different ones, but one, I don't think it was the one that I hit, but there was one of those for. Mm sold recently on eBay for three grand and I'm pretty sure when they were new they were like 200 bucks. They're posters. I mean they're probably like two, maybe three, three foot by three foot. So it's a larger square poster, but it's like, okay, 200 bucks turns into 3000 in about 8 to 10 years.
Taylor Autographs very expensive. If you have some sitting around, put them up on eBay. Yeah, well, you got to have a few. But yeah, I've got I've probably got about 30 different styles and see CDs and then vinyl. Do you really know. Yeah, believe it or not. Uh huh. So you heard it here. No needed for this podcast. Hey, I bought them all when they were like 15, 20 bucks apiece. Exactly. And now you can sell them all for thousands and thousands of dollars.
Not the CDs, those they're still going for, like, maybe 80 bucks. Uh huh. Which isn't bad when you bought it for 20. Well, you know, comparing to what I bought Bitcoin at or Cardano. Oh, don't remind me. That's still not that's not. Even even with the uh, the, the averaging of buying Bitcoin after it's gone down, I'm still upside down. Wow So it's just you haven't, you are totally lose it. You were not able to capitalize on the big jump. Well I mean if it were I never sell it.
Right, I only buy it. But I started buying when it was 50 something. $50 or 55,000. 50,000. Oh, you started buying what. It was at 50,000. Yeah. There is your problem. Yeah, that is a problem. So that's what I'm saying is that and I buy every week but it's still even that the 16,000 ish or so rate, I'm still upside down because you know, it's all over. And I love the articles and all of the crypto that's like, Hey, will bitcoin hit 100,000, will shib hit $2?
Well, I think the articles are mostly what bitcoin hit 20,000. Yeah. Maybe that will go down to 10,000 or 5000. Yeah. I mean, honestly, it's it's always the same problem or it still has the same problem. It's always had, which is it's a collectors coin. It's not a regular replacement for fiat that you can use anywhere. It's moving a little bit in that direction, but not enough as of yet.
There is some availability, but again, you can't have money regardless of it's bitcoin or it's government issued that is worth a different amount every week. Oh, I agree. That's the problem. And this is why it couldn't simply be a replacement for regular fiat money is because there's too much volatility and. Volatility kills all currency. Every country that's had massive inflation is an example of why volatility kills that particular money. It's a cycle.
The more volatility you have, the less people are going to trust using that money, the less use of that particular money, the more volatility is going to experience. I am still pissed off that when Bitcoin cratered to 3800 I was like, should I buy one in my wife for, you know, like, yeah, go ahead. And then I'm like, yeah, it's like so yeah, everybody's like, Oh, it's down to like 16. And it's like, you know, if you would have bought it at four.
If you keep describing your wife as this ideal wife that like is completely agreeable at all times and lets you fuck playboy model is okay with buying, you know, bitcoin and all these things. People are going to stop believing you're married. She doesn't cook. So I mean, let's just put that out there. But yeah, at all. All right. Okay. Well, that's so that's one notch from a deal. That's still pretty damn good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was going to wander through, like, for you. Oh, yeah.
I mean, what what is the price of a beef tenderloin in Austin today? I don't. Know. That has changed a whole lot when. He made it up to date. Price Yeah, that's what people to expect. I'm going, Yeah, I'm not getting groceries. I'm just going to order a lunch and order lunch for a while. I've been cooking for like the last week a half. Yeah, this. Like I said, I went out for Mexican yesterday. It was like the first time in weeks. Normally just eat here because the air fryer is like magic.
It is kind of. And I love when we get and they've had them fairly consistently lately the shish kabobs at our local grocery store, especially the ones now that are bourbon infused steak, shish kabobs. Mm. It is the easiest thing because they cook in like 12 minutes. You're done. You add a little vegetable on the side if you want, but. You. Don't really even have to. Hmm. And it's just easy, and it's relatively healthy by comparison of having a lot of this process stuff.
Although we did buy a ham too. I'm not a big. Like a big, big for ham thing. Yeah. Because obviously the grocery stores here must have ordered way too much ham thinking people were going to go ham crazy for Thanksgiving. Because remember, I mean, I'm guessing this is all just speculation. But remember, turkeys were going to be like $5 a pound. So you want to you want a cheaper. They mean they're not this. Not exactly. I mean, they were more but the turkey wasn't highly inflated.
It was inflated, but it wasn't crazy. And we ordered it already cooked. So that was even better when we just picked up the the catering on Thanksgiving. But the hams were all on sale. For. Like 69 to $0.89 a pound. So the wife went in and picked out a £10 ham for $7.80, which is hard to beat considering they were selling ham lunchmeat like a week ago for a dollars a pound. And you get a whole ham baby for under eight bucks. That's not bad. So. Well, that's not a whole ham, though.
No, it's just the I mean, there's not like a whole pig, but it's a whole £10 ham. But. So how much did it cost you? Eight bucks under $7 and 80 something cents. Eight bucks for £10.80 a pound, huh? That's not him. That's it. Could you maybe you get. I'm pretty sure you got dog meat. No, believe it or not, there was all the hams, multiple brands. I'm like, What the hell, man? They had to order way too much ham. Or there was way too much ham produced. I don't know what, why or how.
I don't question these things I do. I would not trust something like that. And I encourage everybody else to not trust things that are too good to be true and. Ham for under a buck a pound is highly, highly suspicious. Hey, it is what it is. It is what it is. But it's just not ham. That's all. I mean, it is a brand of Smithfield Foods. Which is it? Is this like ham made out of tails? They're all like pigtails shrunk together. No, it's a whole ham, baby. I'm sure it is.
I mean, now that I know it's part of Smithfield, it's probably questionable because that's a Chinese owned company. It is. Probably. Yes. Smithfield. I didn't know. You didn't know that. Come on. When COVID started, when they hit the whole Smithfield plant, wherever, in Minnesota or it was yeah. They are Chinese owned. Did not know if. It is a cook I. Buy ham but and it is sold at $10 a pound. Well, you're wrong, man. Well, I buy literally buy it every week. It is run by.
A pound of ham and ten bucks. $0.79 pound cooks. I have only. Saw him. Bone in portion ham. I'm even going to put the link in the troll room and I'll put the link I can't really. Say I recommend nobody by that ham and the troll room because you're liable to not be alive if you do. Well. If I die right after eating the ham, then you can laugh. If you die after eating the ham, we're not going to have a show. That's not really a laughing matter. Like that will make it a doctor.
But you do eat Mexican food, so maybe your stomach is used to this good. Me I like a good steak in Carrizo burrito. Okay, avoid all Smithfield products. A bad idea? Yeah. No feel is like the Netflix of the food industry. I did not know that Cooks was a part of. Smithfield is the problem with all the brands within the brand. I would avoid brand grocery stores in Chicago because they're all owned by Chinese people. Everything's owned by the Chinese people. Mm hmm.
Yeah. The stream loses, like, 80% of its shows if I go down. Yeah, exactly. So that's a you're playing a dangerous game here. You're playing a dangerous game. What, the 70. $0.09 a pound? That is absolutely insane. I mean, they I'm surprised you didn't go along with the Meyer brand, although I don't know who makes the Meyer brand. Probably Smithfield, because that's the same thing. That's $0.89 a pound. The Meyer Bone in spiral sliced ham. As I said, I think they just bought way too.
Much hams, huh? Well, I mean, it's not out of the question, that's for sure. No. But what did you order for lunch, though? Something good, something healthy. Yeah, I got something I haven't had in the while is my favorite. I got some halal food from Halal Brothers. I got some really good Palestinian chicken. Well, that sounds delightful. Oh, it's really good. I love that stuff already. And the here I'm going to. I see you sent me a thing here. Yeah, that's a link to the ham. Okay, wait.
I'm going to send you a photograph. Oh, God. Widow Garrett and no agenda. So she wants to know if we remember Brittany skirt being plaid or black. Definitely was plaid. She's like, it's one of those memory tricks. All the images now are of a black skirt. I remember plaid. I remember plaid as well. Now I definitely remember plaid. Are you kidding? The skirt was black. That's what the the claim is.
And I could see really, you know, it may just be because you're so used to the Catholic schoolgirl uniform. Yeah. So it was a black skirt. You don't say Britney Spears. It was that. Oops, I did it again. Right? That was the. Uh. Yeah, that was the one dunked them. This is not working. Have your video of running is not working. Yeah, my monitor is too fast. That's the problem. No, no, it wasn't. Oops, I did it again. No, it had to be the one before that. What's the name of that song?
She also shows you what we we really took from the song was nothing about the lyrics to the. Song. One more time. With, uh, with pigtails. And it was Hit Me, Baby One more time. I mean that. Maybe one more time. Yeah, I know. So. So not right right now. That's just not right. I have to look it up now. Let's see. Here's the. School's got the little sweater on. These. Okay, now they're black. Okay. Yeah, really? So our memory is wrong. It's mainly because.
Of black skirts with long kind of socks, stockings, things, whatever you call them. Exactly. And I don't know why. Because that would be a different. Was there a different video where she was wearing a plaid skirt? You should say. We did the whole thing or. No. I said no. There had to be another image of Britney wearing plaid. Then we're thinking of. The anything's possible. But this is kind of like when you ask people what color the A-Team van was and it was. Black, right?
Well, the top was gray. The bottom was black. Okay. We're most people would swear it was black up and down. Uh huh. But it's not. People forget that. Oh, my gosh. Um, interesting. So Brittany did not wear plaid, but Ariana Grande. They did wear plaid. Uh huh, yeah. The the Mandela effect. Our videos about this on YouTube as well which is not a surprise. About the rounded granny wearing plaid. No. About Britney and the everybody remembering that the skirt was plaid rather than black.
But I think, you know, it's probably also because every girl that dressed as Britney Spears for Halloween in that outfit from that. Let's go to the now. I do have a photo of Britney wearing a plaid skirt that is a high school skirt, but that's a paid photo. So that would that be something that was publicly visible? Oh, she just sent that directly to you. Well, it's autograph. Nice. Yeah, that way.
So you, you give me a hassle about having Taylor Swift autograph stuff, but You have Britney Spears autograph stuff. Wait, did they say that out loud? No, not at all. Your secret's safe with everybody listening, which is? They're free. Which is no way. For people. To answer. And then you'll cut this portion out of the podcast. Yes. Just the people on the live stream. So nobody perfect. Absolutely nobody. Better. Nobody will remember him. But that is interesting.
And that happens, I think more times than not is that you just remember something in a different way. It shows that our memories are not hard drives, they are not perfect and things will get mixed though. Like I said, my hard drive does have a photo of her. The plaid skirt. So I know what you're talking about. I'm sure there's plenty of those. Uh. She would have made a lot more money. Oh, that was. There's a link that the widow Garret just posted to a Vogue article where.
Yeah, Brittany redoing that outfit with a plaid skirt. And it's like, this is why. Because everybody thinks it's like. Because when you think I have never seen and I went to an all boys Catholic school. Of course she did, as I. Mentioned. And it wasn't the reason I picked it mainly, or maybe it was that it was a little bit further away. There were there were really two main choices that I had, and the one that was a little bit closer is where most people went to because, well, it was closer.
The school I went to was a little bit further away and it had a sister school, which was like the most popular, all girls school from our area. I may have told the story before. No, I don't think so. Where the bus and it was like 25 minute bus ride from where I live, maybe 30 minutes by the time I was picked up and then got to school and on our bus. And what is a what does a normal school bus fit like 80 kids or so? Not that many. 50? 60. How many kids? There's probably 50 ish. Let's see.
School. Bus capacity. How do we not know these things? They always said, like, if there are any more, how many seats are there in the school bus? You can find anything on the Internet. I tell you. There's 12 rows. It says The maximum seating capacity of a standard school bus is 72 passengers. Okay. Well, that's not what they actually use, though. I thinking about is for these kids are 15, ten, ten for the little I think that is what the seating capacity let's just say 72.
Okay. On the school bus and they were filled. There were five guys on the bus, 268 girls. So awesome. Or six was. The point of having separate schools if you had the same school bus. I don't know that the busses are what brought you in, but that made the bus ride way, way more interesting. But I can. I would. Think so. Yeah. They were plaid skirts. I can guarantee me they were bled skirts. Yeah. They always pants because that's what they were in Ireland.
Two never black, never a solid black shirt. So why was that. Why was that shows in black skirt. Yeah probably to not offend Catholics. That could be. That could be. Although I don't know if that's necessarily just a Catholic thing. The plaid skirt. But it was an interesting it was an interesting ride back and forth.
I mean, I just thought that was way, you know, if you're going to have to choose, you could either be on a bus with like 60, 70 guys think no. And there were times or like two or three guys on the bus and that was like. So I was right. Yeah. Conventional school bus has 13 rows. I said 12. That's 13. 13. So that's times 13 rows. So you had four kids, four row. So four times 13. So that's, uh, 52. It seemed larger than that. Are you sure?
Well, there, there, there's theoretical capacity is three kids per seat, but nobody ever said three seats. Three? No, you had to add 13 rows unless. You had two Catholic high school girls sitting on my lap. And that would have been a lot more fun. That's not a seat. That's a lap. Actually. So the theoretical capacity might be 72, but the actual capacity is 52. How many seats out a school bus? These are the kind of topics that you will hear hashed out. Like finding that. Out in any other forum.
And and incidentally, you could barely get one adult per seat. Well, that's probably true, too. Because they have they have 16 inch gaps between rows, which is not big enough for your legs. No. And there was a story about a guy I'm. Surprised that was big enough for your legs when you were in school. You know, you kind of had to sit either sideways. Uh huh. Yeah. Or you had to sit on the aisle and your. Your knees went into the air. Oh, my God. It's so safe.
I know. Isn't it just what could go wrong? Yeah. Nobody's ever questioned. I don't know. Is it different now? Are there seatbelts and shit on school busses? Yes, there are. That's like now. No, we didn't have seatbelts. Fuck that shit. No. We did not. We remember the drills of jumping out the back of the bus. Yes, yes, yeah, yes. Or in my case, the horse drawn carriage. Which says the type D busses can carry up to 90 passengers. Uh huh. Good luck.
Well, yeah, that's like trying to fit 14 clowns in the way. Volkswagen. I get it, I get it. But it just made it more fun. But there was a story of a guy that was on an airplane and people. God, what a dick he did. He didn't buy extra leg room, and the guy in front of him couldn't recline. It's like, fuck you, that's me on every airplane. I go on and. You're kind of a dick for not giving the guy in front of your room to recline. Yeah, but it's like, you know what?
Have more fucking room on the planes where they do actually held first. Class, which is what you ought to be flying with this. Shit. Gigantic, enormous. Yet bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. I wouldn't let anybody over six feet fly in planes. Frankly, I. Prefer. Well, see, but here's the thing then, though. Airlines should be required to give people enough room to fit the seats. Okay, so it's. So that means fat dudes out of get free first class tickets, right? Because that's what it was.
I thought that was exactly the system you've been working on for years now. I've paid for every flight I've been on for first. The concept is you can't really change your life. Or you're with. Well, you can change your with. That really. You kind of. Not if you're big boned well that's bye bye. Bye. I'm always glad I wasn't fat I was big boned. I get it. But it's like, you know, this is an issue in this. Well, to be fair, it wasn't an issue with legroom. Back in the wilderness.
Well, exactly. Because they keep shrinking. Because you were shorter back then. I know. Even when I was this high when you fly, I mean, it was not extremely comfortable. It's not like you could kick your shoes off and dangle your feet. But there was enough room for your knees to fit where there is not. Now. And if they know they are condensing these things to the point to where you don't have enough room, then I think the airlines, it would only be to give people and they have a few exit rows.
And the reality is the airlines would not lose a lot of money. It even you know, it seems like we're moving away from first class. I know you've said you fly American a lot. And I thought we talked about American like cutting out first class. Well, you brought that up. I haven't seen that actually happening. Which is good. I mean, I think they should have it, but who knows? I mean, it takes a while for them to retrofit the planes and all that. But the reality is they can have. A few.
Rows on every. Plane. Well, and by the way, I could totally understand why they would want to get rid of first class, because generally I am the only person in first that actually bought a first class ticket. Right. So it's not making them money. Everybody else has upgraded to first, which is their status. Right. But also, I think that is still a valid thing because, you know, you got to give people something for their status. Otherwise you'll have no loyalty to airlines. Right.
So you give them that little extra comfort to. Give them that little extra comfort. Exactly. You know, and then. I hate it when people do this. Well, you know, you clearly have like a husband that flies everywhere and then they decide to take a family trip and he upgrades his entire family to first class. You're like, what are you doing? Why are there children first? What the fuck is wrong with you? Come on. You should have a minimum height. Just like a Disney ride. Yes, minimum and maximum.
Frankly, I would say nobody over six feet. Nobody under five feet. You have a very specific airline you're looking to create where? Yes. Yes, it's called generic. We have to work on the market. Generic airlines or the best airline out there for people between five and six feet tall where we're. Only flying jeans. That would be even. That's like what's your if your name's not Jean don't you don't even. Get to see people alphabetically. Actually, it's a great tip funny. Yes.
But if they're going to get rid of first class, like all you have to do is have a few rows, because we know the reality is there's only a certain percentage of people, although I think people are getting larger, taller, not fatter, but just taller. And as this continues to happen. They're getting larger, too. Right now, 70% of Americans are fat. But as a service, people cannot control their height. I mean, to a certain extent, yeah, they can control their whip, but you can't control your height.
Not really their problem, though, is it? No. Nothing says you have to provide service to a tall person. It does not. Except then you don't. You probably lose the customer base, which is then a lot of them. Well, they should maybe fly in. There are an airline called Darren Air. That would be great. I think there is. That's like. An Irish or. A Ryanair and X in Ireland. And that's like you give them. And by the way, by when your property gets. Even less room in that airline.
Ryanair charges, I believe, to use the bathroom. Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised, because I know in general, European airlines blow. There's nothing like it. I think it takes or something. So I don't know what to do. If you really have to pay and you don't have any quarters on that flight. It's not a quarter, though. It's a ten. $0.10. Probably. Yes. Like a gold coin to that to activate the bathroom. Right, exactly. But well, that's true.
But but nonetheless that Irish whiskey is included with your ticket. Well, see, that's good. That would calm you down or anger you. I don't know. It all depends on how the whiskey. There might be some women holding chickens on the flight, but. But this is the thing. When. When there was nothing that would be more annoying on the airlines like Southwest, where when that you just you sit wherever you want to sit when you get it. Yeah, that's. Horrible.
There's nothing worse than being six foot and getting on and there's like two, three foot people sitting in the front row with all the legroom. It's like as an airline, you can help mitigate with, you know what, if you are and they weigh everything else, they put your little bag into the thing to see if it fits. Yeah, I'm fine walking front of a fucking stick that says oh over six foot four so we need the extra leg room.
I I'm absolutely fine with you having taller seats in airlines that I don't want to pay for. So you could pay for your own extra length seats. And that already exists, doesn't it? It's called first class. But it's not fuck you. It is not the, the, the correct price model. I don't mind paying extra for a little extra, but it usually comes down to something like this. It's like, well, if you want to fly coach that I was going to say $100, but that's probably like $400.
It's $400 for a typical ticket in coach right now. You know, if you want to buy coach, that's 400. But if you want first class, that's 4000. That's not though. Yeah, it is. It's still a come now. It's really not. Yeah. Thousand buck. Well okay so over twice the price, two and a half times the price. I don't want the amenities. I don't need the show either. So Kathy, your. Dream. Your socialist. What you want is a little extra legroom. Yes. And you get that legroom, but they throw in their men.
These better have a few hookers and blow if you're going to pay that much. That's 4000. That's what's that's called the Julia of Julia. Right. That's not 1000. That's 4000 right there. Yes. You just have to click you have to sign this release and that will be good to go. Yes. This is called the special. Jean wrote. I really think that the the airline is in the business of cargo delivery. The passengers that are carriers are the extra money that it makes. There's nothing it says it has.
There can be anything or anybody. Yeah. Economy plus. That is exactly what we need. I have no name. I don't. Some airlines economy pluses I'm thinking some airlines it. May be snowing having flown in a long time. You're just bitching even though you don't fly. Okay. It's been a while because this is part of the reason why. Yeah. Because it's just so uncomfortable.
When we went to Ireland, I will say the people that worked for American Airlines were fantastic because you walk up to check in both here in Chicago and in Ireland. You know, the girl looks up like, yeah, you're going to need extra legroom. Mm hmm. And put us in bulkhead seats both times. I understand that may not always be possible. Yeah. But trying to accommodate that goes a long way rather than, wow, you're too tall, so pay us five times the amount. There are ways to fix this.
I mean, there are. And this is what you may start seeing. If people like companies like American Airlines decided they want to get rid of class, well, they're still going to want to make a little extra money somewhere. So I think you probably will have some roads of what they're going to call like an economy, which is, you know, we could just get a few extra bucks out of you because you know how much they rent. Yeah, they probably will. And it'll be 1200 dollars.
Like, what do you pay you extra inches, boom, you know, or you just. Oh, did you want comfort with your flight? Yeah, that's an extra thousand. Did you not want to die of deep vein thrombosis after. Yeah, well, then you shouldn't be flying, period. I agree. Yeah. I just don't even want to deal with any of that. Now that's true. And you know, unless you're talking about a decent sized jet. Private air travel is no better. It's it's cramped. You can't stand up for height.
You're like even a normal person. Can't get totally recline, baby. Yeah, you could recline. Well, yeah. I mean, you could all go horizontally if you want, but it's, it's not all the people think it is unless you're talking about one of the larger private jets, which most people aren't going to get a chance to fly on. So yeah, I don't know. I'm well. I know it was very nice of you to offer to send your private jet out to Chicago to pick me up, to come out to Austin. But we haven't done that yet.
No, no, we haven't. Probably won't, but. Yeah, but I'm happy to offer it as long as we don't do it right. It's one element of the offers out there. I mean, that's that's that's a great offer. Oh, you. In fact, I'll top that offer. I'm going to offer to send my private TARDIS to pick you up. So that'll bring you to Austin in the TARDIS. Even fact that you know you're not going to get a notice any time going by, well, that's happening. If you actually had a TARDIS, would you go to Austin?
I mean, if you. Live in Austin, so no, I wouldn't go to us. And that makes no sense. You could go anywhere in the universe. Would you really be in Austin at any time? Well, if you watch and pay attention, Doctor Who, most of your destinations yourself seem to be in the UK. Really wild, isn't it? Why would you constantly be going to the UK if you have a tourist. Doctor who is obviously afraid of Americans and Africans? Or how about other planets? Hello? Yeah. No.
Well, that just proves. No, there are. There's no life on most of those planets. Yeah, it must be the case. All right, I have a topic changer, because I don't, you know, I'm done that enough this episode. So we could mark this segment as being complete. Right chapter over. I bought a new replacement earmuffs for my headphones. Have you had to ever do that? I have.
And then I immediately took them off because the headphones sounded completely different, because the amount of padding is vital at moving, where that determines where the speaker is actually going to be. Okay. So but a third party was also a really bad idea. Buying a third party replacement now at different will be a little bit different. But yeah. There's a lot of things that can go wrong. Just buying new foam for your Earpads. Well, sometimes you can't help it. Disintegrates.
Because the headphones aren't available anymore. You can't replace the headphones, so you have to buy the replacement parts. In the this go well, you have to find a company that's making the replacement parts that are. No cheap Chinese shit. See, that's the problem right now. They're fine. They're there. The one downside is they're the foam is very firm compared to the old foam. But the reason I'm buying replace is because the old foam literally turned into flat.
Like there's there's nothing in the foam is disintegrated. So I had to get replacements because I was basically, you know, there were no they were sitting right on my ears instead of round my ears. Yes. And that's so comfortable. No, no. So I had to get replacement, but I noticed how firm almost hard this foam is. And I am sure over years it'll get softer as it starts to disintegrate itself.
But it is something that I never had to do in the past because typically I would not wear out a set of headphones because I would, you know, buy the shiny new headphones. And now this current set, I, I really have liked for many years, it's my favorite set of headphones. I probably have ten sets in the house, but this is my favorite set of headphones. And I've gotten to the point where I had the the cushion has completely disappeared on this set and they don't make these anymore.
So you order new ones and. Yeah, that's the foam was 13 bucks, which is not bad. No, it works fine. It's just firm. It's so tight. The difference is think that I like. I can feel the shape of the foam on my head where it's touching my head, where the original had foam that was on the it's set I think was soft enough that you really couldn't like tell where they were. They were just kind of hovering around your head. What headphone brand model are we talking here?
Oh, this is an EKG case of no one's made in Austria. Well, the best are always made in Austria. But the AKG was purchased by a Chinese company about five years ago. So the new ones are garbage. And they all you can still buy other ones, but they're made in China. So it's you know, it's the same design, but it's not made in Austria. So it's shit.
So yeah, replacement of the actual headphone was not a not an option, unfortunately or maybe fortunately because I saved a bunch of money by not replacing expensive headphones through. Because they last a long time. Yeah, they're supposed to last forever. There is a geek really brand Amazon for 19 bucks of replacement pads. I mean, what you probably have to do is try a few different sets of pads and find ones that are that are to your liking.
Well, I'm okay keeping these it's just they were surprisingly different. I would say the color match was very good though they were exactly the same color as the as the ones that I took off. Yeah. Yeah. The ones that disintegrate. And that's the other thing I like about this particular set of pads or the ones that came originally with the headphones as well is that they have the sort of velour covering rather than leather. Right. Well, that's what the ones I use are leather.
The I didn't mind, but it was just a little too thick where it kind of felt like the sound had totally changed. I'm guessing it's all about the angle that the speakers are pointing interior, and if it's right, it goes right in and it sounds good. And if that's slightly off, then well, I just pulled up Amazon and there's Southern Comfort eggnog. That's cool. Now you might have to order that.
I get like that's a that could be a party I mean eggnog I can tell you that more around Christmas how the Christmas Eve where the eggnog was spoiled and everybody else had it. And I was never an eggnog fan. And with all of my cousins, there were only this was at my grandmother's house down like. The traditional Irish eggnog. Now, this was not the Irish side, but this was. Oh, this is the Polish eggnog. I see.
No, this was the Irish of my grandmother that married the Irish men, then got divorced and married somebody really wasn't an Irish household, if you will, but it was an old house down on the south side of Chicago, you know, back of the yards of a thing. Oh, dangerous territory. Now it is. Yeah, well, even then it was at the point we were still going there, but there were only two bathrooms in the place. And when you have like four or five people throwing up at the same time, my dad.
It's a poor man. So there was it was the eggnog was so poison people couldn't like this was not a delayed reaction. They literally were throwing up right afterwards. Yeah, it was it was not good. I don't know how they didn't notice with drinking except that. They was like there was actually poisoned. Bourbon. Wood like with arsenic. You never know. I mean, my grandfather's dead now. There is really no way to ask if she was trying. To knock off the whole family all at once.
Because if you the most typical issues with products that have dairy in them is salmonella. But salmonella poisoning doesn't really you don't feel it for about 4 to 6 hours. It wouldn't normally hit. Because the bacteria has to go through your stomach, into your gut before it really starts to multiply and go crazy. It's not going to do that in your stomach. So it's definitely a delayed reaction. Now, some of us are immune to salmonella, so that's done this year. But for now, there's a challenge.
What's that? To try to poison you with salmonella? Not going to happen. I mean. I see. Exactly. I'm immune to it. Nothing to worry about here. Not at all. No salmonella. I mean, there's a few different poisons I'm immune to. It just randomly, naturally happens to be the case. It's just why the three letter agencies brought you on board. Or when I supposed to talk about that. I'm sorry. The three letter at least. Caesar. No bother. He was k he a legitimate businessman. Everybody knows that.
Completely, perfectly legitimate business man. Exactly. I do legitimate business. And how is that going? You know, his dog is. Yeah, yeah. I don't know. I'm not. Nothing happens in December. December is a dead month. So for shopping, you can ask me what's new in the Christmas mood. People could have been buying angry Russia prepper dot com goods. Uh mafia Christmas not a big push is going to be in January. We're going to we're going to do a massive marketing campaign in January.
We'll all be waiting with. Bated breath, breath. For that. One. Yeah, I'm sure you heard. Me before we had. I do want I. Got to get your address so I can send you a free sample. Ooh, I like free samples. Yeah, I know. Send that with a few Apple Watch is a couple of I mac many shoes and would you. Wear the Apple Watch if I gave you an Apple Watch. But I don't have a fucking iPhone. Yeah, I do. Yeah, I have an I use it and an iPad. I mean I say. Okay, okay, we'll come.
Oh, if you have an iPhone or iPad, then you need to send me whatever the hell name you use on there. I can use you with iMessage because this has been my major complaint in trying to communicate with you is that you're fucking an Android phone doesn't have iMessage, which means that it only receives regular text messages, not the Apple kind, which means that I have to only use a phone to send you stuff and I can't use a computer.
Now see the nice thing is the iPad that I have sits next to when I'm watching television. So that's the only time I'm going to see that. But that is what I'm not sitting in front of the desktop, the iPhone. The iPhone is rarely used, but it is charged and sitting within arm's length where I'm so you. Keep insisting and using some some program that nobody else does for text messaging. Only you and your wife are the only two people that use this product. Yes. Nobody can trade. Nobody else can.
Yeah. Exactly where the rest of us use signal, aren't you? Privacy? Fuck signal. Just like telegram. Both telegrams really? You see that one? Now they're turning to stop talking. It's never been safe. Signal, though, on the other hand, is the one that everybody uses. That one's actual safety. Yeah, the actual safety. I scoff, I laugh. I can't wait till signal people start getting arrested for the stuff they put on signal.
All right. All right. Yes. And I'm sure tax which nobody uses because it's not a real product. It's open source. Exactly. It's open source. Peer to peer. Baby signal. Yes. I really want my my products to be treated in the way where my messages are sent through. Other people works the best. They can. But we do have to thank Sir Truck Driver for being the lone person that ignored your pleas not to donate to the show. You came in with. All right. 565 monthly donation.
And that's very much appreciated, sir. Truck driver Lee. Well, I think he gets a portion of his truck driving, listening time us. So he's appreciative of that. Yeah he listens to this. He listens to Grumpy, he listens to Rage. He listens to the rock and roll pre-show. He listens to Random. We have a lot of fun. And does he. Listen to anything that doesn't bother Darren? Probably not. But why would anybody listen to anything that I'm not up?
Well, it's hard to find the time now to listen to anything that has a dare in the because they're in zone 24 seven. It is it is the Darren O. It's the whole experience. It's nonstop. It is unrelenting. They might even. Say it is unrelenting in some ways, that's for sure. But, you know, it's also pretty random unreal show. I also got a it was very nice Christmas. No. But it was it was addressed to grumpy old Bens, Darren O'Neil. And it was from Lady Get Over It.
And Sir Hopscotch who had very big donations too unrelenting recently. Nice. So I don't know why they decided to put grumpy old bands on that. Was I, like, not supposed to share the good tidings with you? Or maybe they know you're anti Christmas or something like that? I don't. Know. Maybe. Maybe Or they think they're Santa Claus. I am totally. I'm probably like two years away from playing Santa in the mall when. The beard the beard just going to turn white that quickly.
I mean, have you been coloring it? Is that it's. No, the beard has been turning white. Like if I look at the bottom of the beard, which is probably about two years ago, that it is predominantly brown with a few strands of white. And if I look at the top of the beard right next to my chin, it is like 95% white with 5% brown. So you're not the guy on that commercial that's like about to go on a Zoom meeting or something and he's like, Oh, I'm going to brush this stuff in just for men. Mm hmm. Why?
No, you're not trying to. You're not trying to really latch on to the you're. You're Santa is literally my retirement gig. Is that. That's your exit strategy. That's my exit strategy right there. It's a good one. You get to. Work like Monsanto out. Of the year. Are you? It's more than one week. It's about three. Weeks. Are you inspired by the Billy Bob Thornton movie Bad Santa? Yes, that was a great film. That I rarely say Christmas movies are great films, but that one.
Every Christmas movie is a great film. That one's a great film. Christmas Story is a great film. I mean, I don't I don't know what Christmas movies you don't like. All but Lauren Graham. That's her name, right? The whole scene. Oh, fuck me, Santa. Fuck me, Santa. Fuck me, Santa. I mean, that will that will stick with you even if you only see that movie once. But Billy Bob Thornton fantastic in there. Was is pretty good in there. He's better than there than he was in Slingblade, that's for sure.
The performance of Sling Blade was very mano. I love Brian for but. Like it wasn't very difficult to do like anybody. Like you're doing it right now. Literally, I won't. I love french fry potatoes. Mm. But when he, when he took the little kid home and who's home. Well just, I'm just my grandmother is granny spray. She was just. Great one liners in that movie. It's it's it it is fun to watch a movie making fun of American culture, for sure.
If you're going to have a nice Christmas, what you want to do, I think, is watch Bad Santa back to back. There's nothing to do with Christmas but just throw in shakes the clown too, because it's very much the. Snow in London. Yeah, that's a dangerous movie to watch. You're liable become suicidal if you watch Jake's. I would not recommend anybody watch that movie unless they're properly trained and prepared to deal with suicide. You think that's that bad? You know, put people right over.
It's not a bad movie. It's just it's going to make people suicidal. A little depressing, maybe. A little bit. But how could you not want to watch Christmas Story? It's the greatest Christmas movie ever made. Yeah, I don't mind it. I like little. I'm going to. Try. B.B. Gun. Right. And I did. But not with the B.B. Gun. Though. Oh, that's why you don't like it. I see. Personal. Yes, yes, exactly. I don't want to deal with that. I mean, they know they were talking all.
Do you think that kid is that was in that movie as a kid. When he played the part? How old do you think he is now? I think he's like 50 now. Yeah, he's 51 now. Holy shit. But I have to know, they were talking Adam Curry after his dental work that there were pictures and how his whole face was black and blue and that I know I have a picture like that after the last ice surgery that you would look like I went ten rounds.
Tyson all along, if you want to, but. You might as well tell people that I. Have like you want to talk about pain and misery. Having people in your mouth is one thing. Let them do it in your eye. Hmm. Don't know. Don't. Yeah, I know. Even guys that are like. So it's like, no, don't, don't even want to hear that. Nope. It's it freaks people out.
And I understand why nobody wants to think that they're taking little needles and they sticking them in your eye and they're trying to push the retina back up. Hmm Good times. Yeah. You're just turning people off left and right here. Oh, that's the end of the show. So, I mean, that's the perfect time to do it, isn't it. To turn people off. You Do another big episode of the Good Old Boys podcast this weekend. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's a regular thing sticking around. It's a regular thing
sticking around and gaining subscriber is at a nice, brisk pace. Oh. It's anybody sending you funds? Are they are they supporting the show? Yeah, I'm not really soliciting funds. Which is good because nobody was offering. Well, I mean, they wouldn't even know where to send them. Well, they could send it to searching speaks and in lieu of you. They could they could send them 13 speaks. But I don't really check that. You know, actually, here's a serious true story.
I don't check that PayPal account because I assume nobody sending anything. So when the last time I logged in, there was $120 in there. So you're. Like, well, where do I. Get I have no idea who sent what. I actually send you your half of the nothing that comes in here, which is. Oh, maybe that's where it came. From. Every now and then that comes in, it will be doing that again here at the end of them. Very, very good. So I'll get my half of the $5 for my awesome.
You'll be able to buy yourself like a whole box of rich crackers. Or maybe even the replacement set of right in my headphones. Definitely new foam for the cans. New phone for the hey, what else is a podcast you need be a new phone for the cans as. Long as you have a good microphone. Good foam for the cans is. Yeah. Vital. Here's the thing I like about audio gear. It fucking lasts a long time. If you buy good stuff, it does like literally a one night can last year. 40 years. Oh yeah.
You take care of that stuff. It'll last. Same thing with a good set of headphones. Not the cheap shitty ones, but the good set of headphones. Well, yeah, the foam and stuff may go, but you. Can replace the foam and the mic clearly needs to get replaced at some point. Too. Yeah. Which is the problem.
Like with the ari twenties is that eventually the inner foam has to be replaced and a lot of people don't know that, which is why if you know what to look for on eBay, a lot of the times you can find these old really cool vintage ones relatively cheap. As long as you're willing to go buy the $30 kit that I think they still cost about 30 bucks to replace the foam. Yeah. Go in do that. Good is do. Exactly now it's the compared to the price the make still good deal. Hell yeah.
They are sold for now if only we can get good cheap quality multi-use built up. Well this thing is seems to be lasting. I mean. Well, knock on wood when you say shit like that but the fact that they're still not manufacturing them until next year, the next batch definitely is problematic for people wanting to get into. But guessing. True, you need a good device and I still don't like the road big podcast store thing. I don't. I don't want it takes up too much space.
That's my problem with it. Exactly. Is it for what it does? It takes up way too much of your desk. It doesn't need casters. Don't know how often you're going to fiddle with those dials, man. Seriously, where you.