056: You’re Wrong

I was finding. I just laughed uneasily. Well, that's just your voice. No, it isn't. Hello and welcome to Unrelenting Episode number 56, January 13th, 2023. Oh, my goodness. What a world we're living in. Jean Crazy. I'm Darren O'Neil. He's Jean. He goes by Jean. He goes by Serge ing. He's surging. Serge Jean, our buddy, the very first oligarch of the show, No beret. He listen to my solo show and he said it was too deep. So I said, Try unrelenting. And he's like, I'm the very first oligarch.

I'm like, And I replied, Then in Russian, Yes. That's why it's. Funny. If you think random thoughts is too deep, unrelenting is where you want to be. It's just a conversation. It is a conversation about nothing. Well, it's about stuff, but you never know what it's going to be in things. Sure. It could be about nuking your lemons in a blender, which I bought another bag of those this week. Nice. Got to get along from the lemon tree. I haven't done lemons for about two months, I think. You betcha.

That's about the same here. And I'm like, I need to turn it because it's I mean, I'm assuming it's actually healthy, but it's there's a lot of these things. Do you have to get into the habit and just. Make. Do with it? So incoming. Order my groceries real. Quick. Oh, you want you all organic. I'm sure. A lot of it now. Lemon, You know, you just reminded me. That's why I've been forgetting to order. Add lemons to the list, some good quality proteins.

You got some beef right out there from the beef initiative, though. But I know you just buy it directly from Reynolds or whatever you get. Well, that wouldn't be direct with it. No, I do need to order some from the beef guys. I you know, my other co-host just ordered some and he's been very, very happy with what he got. Raving about the beef. Do we ever talk about the. The tenderloin that I made for Christmas? No. Definitely a step up. Nice. We went with the highest grade possible.

At. The local meat place. And while I will say I still enjoy the cheap stuff, it is the difference of what you would normally have for home consumption and more what you would expect to get in the nicer steakhouse. Yes. Not even a restaurant, because most restaurants don't buy the best. Now, when you go to the places out here, I love Gibsons. I know there's a bunch of good steakhouses in Chicago, but would you go to Gibson's? It's one of those things where you like.

I have a hard time creating the same taste at home. And I think part of that is because of their ovens. That's one of the things they always talk about. Unless you tell me this is complete and utter bullshit. But part of their thing is like, well, their ovens are like 1500 degrees. So it's the way that they kind of sear everything in and get it cooked the way. Because at home it's kind of hard.

Unless you have something built in your backyard, like a wood stone pizza oven or something, it's hard to get that kind of temperature. Yeah, Yeah. It's it's so it's just really fast cooking, you know? It seals everything in. Yeah, I mean, there's here's the thing. You can cook a really tasty piece of meat really slow, and you could cook it really fast and everything in between. So it all depends on just what you do and how you cook it.

But the temperature, once you cross over the 200 degrees ambient or I think it was 220, it doesn't make a whole lot of difference. Well, I mean, it doesn't it makes a huge difference if you combine the temperature and time. But but you can have a a super tasty piece of meat cooked at over 1000 degrees. You could have a super tasty piece of meat cooked at 155 degrees. Yes. Just for a little bit longer.

For a week longer. Yeah. So and I actually just did two two filets here, one yesterday and one the day before and posted photos and knowledge on the social asking people which one they preferred. They're like so so there's a little bit in the mail we got to Yeah. I got a taste That's what a lot of people's reply was. Well, you know, once they taste it, I'll be able to tell you.

Because it's not always the look, the look it be very deceiving because you can get a really horrible steak that looks delightful on the outside the way people like with their, you know, charred pattern and all this looks like it just came off. Yeah, but does it taste good? Right? Right, exactly. And I typically when I do filets, the only thing I do is I just saw them. I don't use any other flavorings. You shouldn't have to.

Every now and then I like a little cracked pepper, but salt and pepper is. You don't need to go more. I've played around with it and it's better for those lower cuts of meat. So if I get a cheap strip steak or something throwing on the Gibsons, the grub that they sell, which is, you know, garlic and whatever else in there, that helps if you're going with the cheaper meat. But if you have a quality piece of meat, yeah, a little bit of salt is fine.

A little bit of salt and pepper, maybe a little bit of oil on the outside. And you're done. Yeah, it's. I just find that the taste of the meat is so light to begin with that it's really easy to completely overpower it. And then what's the point? Yes. That you may as well just buy the cheap meat in the first place. Yeah, but it turned out really good. So the first way I did it was sort of my traditional way, which is a skillet with butter. And that's a very tasty way to do it.

And it gives you a very nice browned crust on the outside. Doesn't give you the little hash marks on their both crisscrosses of the grill mark But. Again that's usually a lie. Yeah, Yeah. But it does taste very good because that butter on the outside does and a little bit of flavor. So after telling you don't need anything bizarre but the butter actually the little fat actually does help. Yeah and that one I cooked to 95 degrees on the inside which is very good.

And then the second one there the next day I did it in the cosori. Yes. I've had really good success with. The air at 510 degrees for about 3 minutes per side. It just comes out perfect in that. That's like air frying a steak is wrong regardless of how good it is. Yeah, And I mean, poor people always say stuff like that. It's funny because it's kind of like saying, Oh yeah, yeah, the iPhone sucks. It's a horrible piece of shit. Yeah, it's $200. You can't afford one.

Too bad it works and it's tasty. I mean, I again, I wasn't sold until I tried it and the air fryer for baked potatoes. Oh, my God. That is. Well, I honestly, I have to disagree there. I think the microwave is still superior potatoes. No, because then the the skin does not get crusty and crispy and good doesn't. You have a bad microwave? You need to put your mind to it. No, I've never a microwave is not going to do the same thing. The microwave that I have the really nice interesting.

That's weird. I've never had the skin come out good. Really. In a microwave. Now, that's weird. Now in an air fryer, I like to take some olive oil and I rub the outside really good of the potato and then I add a bunch of salt and pepper to it and put it in the air fryer for like 45 minutes. And then it's like you got a baked potato in like potato skins, you know? Yeah, Yeah. So the only part of the potato that says flavor is the skin, the the inside, if you do nothing to it, is flavorless.

Yeah. That's why there's butter and sour cream and chives. Yeah. Yeah. So the more shit you did to a potato and I kind of prefer the bacon with potato as well as a really good chives bacon. I mean. If you wrap your filets in bacon, it's better to. A lot of things are better. I would disagree on the filets, but a lot of other meats are absolutely better. Like I was. GROSS So not too long ago, I need to go back there a lot more. I have I have like gift certificates from friends for photo.

I need to go you life. You're not going out enough. I'm not. I'm maybe once a month. I need to start going out more frequently now. Especially now. It's nice and cool here. It's like 60 degrees. Perfect weather. Yeah. So at Fargo, they have one of my favorite things. They do a bacon wrap chicken thing. A in the chicken. Chicken and chicken breast maybe. I don't know. I would hope so. Unless I'm just like. Something. Chicken parts like they use for McNugget.

It could be also chicken wrap the like leg or something drumstick or necessarily bacon wrapped drumstick but I think it is a it's a chicken breast but the thing is when you and I know it's different recipe so I'm generalizing here but generally speaking when you bacon wrap something it isn't to have edible bacon on the outside. No it is to seal in the juices with a nice fatty outer layer. Right. Like you were just saying, with the butter, with the fillet.

This keeps fat around the meat the whole time. It's cooking. Yeah. And so what I do is always the first thing is first step is to cut off the bacon discarded and then eat the actual meat that was inside the bacon is the bacon's like bacon wrapped around something does not make the bacon. No. Yeah it's well on the one side and crispy on the outside and it's it's just it's not a good flavor so people I think sometimes assume that if it's brought to you in a combined way, you should eat the combo.

And it's like, no, I mean, not really. You shouldn't, shouldn't be eating that combo. You can take the, the outside layer off and an inside layer. But even bad bacon is pretty good. Bacon. I don't know. I like, but crispy bacon. Oh yeah, well, I do And I've come to grow. I've grown to be like anything that's thin cut. I can't do it well especially cooking it in the air fryer because then it just, like, disappears. Yeah, you can. I like the stuff that takes. About you get pork rinds and yeah.

You know, if it doesn't take like 15 minutes at 350 degrees, the cook is probably not thick enough. Yeah, although you could make it at a higher temperature. I usually do it above 400. Yeah. I have played around with a bunch of different settings and if you have the time to do so, this is a case where lower heat actually I think produces a better texture, but it does take a lot longer. And usually. When you're making breakfast, it's not like, Well, I've got an hour to burn before I want to eat.

Yeah, right. Yeah, I like the bacon. Better be done by the time the eggs are. Yeah, I, I think that the this is why I use the thick cut bacon. This is the, the whole point is just to melt the fat away. And then what's left and still very fatty, but what's left shrinks down. And if it was thick cut to begin with, then it turns into, you know, a normal slice of bacon. If I was thinking that it disappears, right? This guy and I like the texture and I, I don't hit this every time.

But when you hit the texture where the bacon is between being a solid and a liquid basically is the magic. When you put it in your mouth and you can't even chew it because it just like dissolves. That's the magical place for that. Now, for me, that's why you cook at a lower temperature. I like the bacon to be crispy yolks. You want it to break a little. Hard Touches my teeth. Got it? Yeah. Not my teeth To break the bacon. To break it would be a bad one.

I want it to basically go from a strip to bacon bits instantly in my mouth. Making bacon bits in your mouth. There's a. Yeah. Bacon bits in my mouth. Or if I make them baked potato then I'll take that the bacon and use my fingers to make bacon bits right into it. You don't want to find the baco is where it's like it's bacon flavored product with no real bacon in it. Yeah, there's, it's, it's not bacon. It's basically like corn chips that are bacon flavored and colored.

I made basically my version of an Egg McMuffin today because I bought a pan a couple of weeks ago that has the little inserts to make the eggs rather because that would normally just make it a frying pan. Then they go all over the place. And I had seen these things for years. I'm like, do I really have? Okay. So I tried one of those and it makes the eggs perfectly. And then I read somewhere I might have been a no agenda social.

Somebody saying that the way they made eggs was they threw some cheese in a pan and then cooked the eggs on top of the cheese. And I'm like, Oh, that's an interesting choice. So I did that with this pan, and it comes out and it's basically a cheese crust on the bottom of the egg. Yeah, which. Is perfect to just stack two of those between the pieces of an English muffin and you are good to go. Yeah. You don't need the bread, you don't need the carbs. So you just use the cheese.

You can actually do and I've done this before. If you just put it, it works best with what's called Mexican cheese in the grocery store. Okay, So that you're not rolling cheddar. You want the mix. That's like a mix of a white cheese. Yeah. Mix of yellow, orange, you know, mix of different colors, food, colors. But it's you can't do it with just mozzarella because mozzarella cheese stringy and melty. You have to have some harder cheese in there, like cheddar and some other stuff.

But anyway, you get the Mexican cheese, makes you put it in on a hot, probably like a seven out of ten temperature pan. And then you want to shuffle the pan around a little bit like back and forth. As the cheese melts, it starts sliding around a little bit on the pan. You don't want to this and what you'll get is a cheesy, gooey upper side and a crispy bottom side. Yes. And you can literally use that as a taco.

So you put anything else on top of the cheese and then you fold it over in half and you basically get the cheese taco. Yes, they sell those. I've tried those. They're basic. We've never seen one sold, but I do make them at home. Yeah. I mean if you really if you don't want to go through that hassle, they do sell them and you put them in the microwave enough just to barely melt them and then you, they basically harden at that point.

It's awesome. Yeah. But this was great because it takes the eggs like for the English muffins with the sour dough. So a little less as a of a calm hit than the You've got to be careful with the the white or the wheat ones but a little sour there. My friends are not white. They're sour dough, baby. Sour dough, English muffins. That's crazy. They can't be thorough, though, because muffins don't use any yeast. And they're sour. Don't use mustard. Powder. They're not English muffins.

Well, they're sour dough flavored with an artificial flavor. They're an English muffin. From what are they made by? I'll tell you, they're probably fake flavor bars. Baz makes them and I think get Millie's makes them as well. Sour dough English muffins. Look those up at your at your local grocery store. I mean, they may be a bastardized version of an English muffin, but they they appear to be English muffins. They have that kind of a texture.

Oh, if they have that texture, too. And that's our dough. I'm telling you, English muffins. As it's a little softer. But in that vein. The English muffins. My. And why I don't like them is because they don't use yeast. They use baking powder. You have a very particular palate. I do. And I'm surprised more people don't like. No, we've tried this here. People will eat anything. I mean, the people have grown up on fast food, which is. No. Bueno. This is sour dough based sour dough.

English muffins come pre-sliced in the tangy flavor in the tradition of classic sour dough. Yeah, in the tradition. Let's see. Total carbohydrates. Yeah. 26 grams. So, yeah, that's about probably right. Look at if they have a. So sour, though. The definition of Sardo is cornstarch, ferments lactic acid vinegar and cornflour. That is what they're calling sour dough. It is literally sour dough. Sour because the vinegar in it. Yes. And of course, this does have yeast.

That's not that's not sour dough. It's sour dough like in rich bleach, white wheat flour. That sounds good, huh? Uh huh. Riboflavin, vitamin B two, Folic acid water. Yeast, cornmeal. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Keep going. Where defines what Sardo is. And I don't know, what can a crazy person can redefine a term that already has a definition like Cerrado, which is a natural out of the thin air yeast that is prevalent just floating around where you live.

It's what sabado actually is, and they're defining Sabado is cornstarch, fermented lactic acid, which is basically fermented milk, vinegar and cornflour. None of those things are cerrado. We have the minute you have in the tradition of classic sour dough, then you know. Yes. That's not actually made out of sour. It is sour dough flavored. That's what they're doing is they're trying to recreate the flavor of sour though before the sour dough so that soured. Give me some southdale, baby.

That's right. Now, that's nuts. I love Sardo. I just, you know, I'm trying to avoid carbs right now. I'm trying to. Sell sour a little better for you than the any other type of bread. I believe it's a lower. I don't think it's any better for you. It's just got more gluten that's on. The lower hit and your glycemic index. Now. You sure about that? That's what I've read. I mean, it could all be lies. I don't know. It was probably on the Internet. Yeah. I mean, yeah, I think it's probably life.

Yeah, Well, I'm going to go. I'm going to go with Liz's default answer. Thank you. It's. Hey, we've been. I was sad. I heard from a buddy of mine who for the first time listened to about death. But why? Yeah, well, and that's I think because another buddy of mine kind of told them, Oh, hey, check this out. Listen to. And he called unrelenting, a.k.a. the No Fat Checked podcast. No, no fact right. Well, we are fact check free. Yeah, exactly. And then I didn't deny that at all. I said, Yeah, yeah.

Once it's a podcast about nothing and everything. Yes. It's just an off the cuff conversation. You never know what you're going to get. Might hear about food. I'm here about Jordan Peterson versus Canada. Yeah, well, that's the stuff going on here is crazy. In the United States. What's going on in Canada is multiplied. Or they're the canary man. They want to send him over to be reprogramed, which is that should scare the hell out of everybody.

The probably the most famous Canadian of all time they want to send to get reprogramed. Because he's saying things they don't like. Yes. Because he's doing things like retweeting a tweet from the conservative Party in Canada. Not that there's really one. Let's see what we would call a Democrat party down here they refer to as the Conservative Party because the country is run by literal socialists. So they're conservative is like the Democrats.

They pretend they're giving you a choice and they're really the. Choice is choice. We let it roll it really, really liberal. Yeah, well, kind of like here. The choice is between the unit party and the in the party. Yeah. You all end up with the same thing. There's no fricking difference. Well, the there's 20 people in Congress in the House side that are actually in a different party. Literally everybody else is in the same party.

They do seem to go in lockstep, although there's been some just bizarre stuff with what the house has already been done and the Democrats having no problem coming out with. No, no, we hate we hate babies. This law, I've. Always hated babies. I know. But they're making it more and more clear when they voted against the law that said, well, if they're trying to abort a baby, but it's not working and the baby's born. Uh huh. That you have to give it medical care.

That was the bill Every Democrat in the House voted against that. Yeah, well, I'm not from advocated for abortion up through the 36th month. So I'm really I guess I'm on the other extreme that. You're moving towards like the 18th year. Somewhere. Well, I just I don't like annoying children, you know? I like children that are that that have the grasp of the language and you can communicate with them and then they're becoming a little more interesting.

But the ones that just don't speak in full sentences, I just heard Wow. You know, I just I don't I have nothing there. Nothing at all. No, no, nothing. Just a weird thing to hang your head up. That is the way I look at it. Of all the things that I hand my hand on, You think that's the weirdest? No, no. I mean, for the Democrats, for you. I know there's way of stuff going on. Yeah, exactly.

Exactly. Way weirder stuff. I found out in Canada, they're actually boarding adults now because they're encouraging people to commit suicide. Yeah, they're encouraging and automatically encouraging that. Yes. Yes. The country that they encourages and offers the services of suicide has problems with Jordan Peterson calling tweets. Well, it shows you where the mentality in those countries are. I don't know.

I would much rather live in a country that respects life rather than, you know, you're a little depressed. We'll just let you die. We'll help you die. Hmm. I don't understand that. Yeah. Yeah. Because I fully think that a person should always have the choice of whether or not they want to continue running. It's. If you're not allowed to come in suicide, then you're not really. You don't own your own body like somebody else does. Like the government.

However, I don't have a problem with the government using suicide as a form of medical treatment. Yes. Oh, you've got a fever. Okay, Come on and we'll put you to sleep. Mm hmm. Hmm. Hmm hmm. And the reality is, suicide's always been there for people that want to do it. Everybody. Yeah, I think so. What do you watch it in the background? I was. I was trying to flip through a different tab in my browser saying. Oh, that's always a problem.

Any website that automatically plays audio, I want to kill that. God damn Tim Kast. Now I hate that guy. And oh, either. Tell him to take that beanie and shove it right up his arms. I'm curious what what is it about Tim that that seems to turn so many people off in with the demographics of knowledge and the social because you know, I ran a poll recently I think you probably saw about political affiliation and I believe so. I don't know if I saw the results, though. Yeah.

So the results are zero Democrats of yes, I got 80 people that survey. There's a lot of independents. There's a few Republicans. And then libertarians are the smallest. Well, the libertarians are bigger than Democrats, but definitely it's first Republicans, second independents and then third libertarians and then fourth zero Democrat. That's I mean, ideally, I would have loved to see like 300 people replying, but that's still a pretty good number.

180 replies for statistics and I don't think Adam realized that that no Democrats at all listen to their show. But not just you can't go by that one again. That's not a politician either. Yeah, absolutely you can. Well, that's what they do. But that doesn't mean it's reality. It is reality. What do you mean but reality? What are you talking about? It's showing it's a very small percentage, most likely. Percentage of zero.

That well, there's a margin of error in all polls, which even on yours is probably a good 3 to 4%. So there could still be three or 4% of even though you're at zero, there's always that margin of error. But it does show an interesting thing either one, people don't want to admit to it. Which is not. A rarity at this point. Like, oh, now, especially once you realize like you're in the minority, you know, people get to be dicks on the Internet.

So a lot of times if you are outed as something, all of a sudden people are going to go all hog wild over it. I saw that when I was like, Hey, fuck you, I'm getting the Johnson Johnson vaccine. You're an idiot. That, you know, a lot of people just don't want to deal with that. For me, it's good content and I can go, No, no, fuck you. You're an idiot too. Everybody's an idiot. That's the whole world. Nobody knows anything. Yeah, it's. But. But it's interesting.

I mean, how I would have expected at least, like, 5%. It's just. It was very strange. Well, we. Know there are Democrats that have been active on no agenda social. Like the guy Magnus. Mm hmm. So they're out there. I mean, they may just not follow you. The Democrats may just hate you so they won't see your post. All the Democrats might have you blocked in saying. That's that's a good point. So, yeah, you actually came up with something useful here.

So if all the Democrats I'm out of that a poll have me blocked, then they would not see the poll. That's a good point. So you have to go by the the the survey size. Yeah. 100. And 80. Is bigger than most the most survey is actually except for the you know the big survey companies usually they do about 3000 people but. And they know how to get the answer that they want That's the exit. Polls are usually under 180. You usually see these things.

You know, if they're a couple of thousand and it's one, it's usually very hard to get what people identify as. And it's always fun when you see that and it's like, well, out of the how, it doesn't really matter how many people that you surveyed when you see well, it was 50% Democrats, 20% Republican and 30% independent. It's like, well, you know, it's a skewed poll. So it's it's hard to get accurate information.

And that's why I mean, polls are interesting for their entertainment value, but rarely for predicting anything. It's all a scam. It all depends who you're asking. And how you're asking the question. That's another very important thing are the the verbiage being used, the words that you use in your questions. Right, Right, right. Well, anyway, the reason I brought it up is because the reason I ran the poll is because Tim, around poll, same exact one for his show. So I wanted to compare.

That's listening to the audience. No, but it was like 25% Democrats. It was definitely a lot more Democrats than zero. Yeah. So, yeah, I guess you're probably right. It would have been better if, well, what I should have done was just ask Adam to retweet it, then that would have probably gotten the way bigger response. And we know, like with Rush Limbaugh, there were a lot of Democrats who were hate listening or they were trying to, you know, tear up everything he said apart.

So that's why they were listening. But it's good to hear the other side. I just don't like Tim Poole's delivery. And for that, it makes it harder. And there's everybody I think got somebody that's. Kind of like, Yeah, and I'm trying to understand why because this is something that is. But you're not the only one. Like a lot of people. I know you're on social, but neither are most people. A lot of people know it in social, just really.

And whenever I mentioned Tim Paul, it it always has to go to some insult that has nothing to do with information. Oh, the poor boy or the beaten guy. Oh, the skateboard dude. It's like, oh, he's a multimillionaire who is self-made, unlike the rest of you fuckers. And he is doing good by talking about and bringing guests and that nobody else's except maybe Joe Rogan. He's the new. But at this point, jeroboam's a sellout. Temple's the actual guy doing the work. During the day.

Oh, did I offended somebody by calling Roland a sellout? Oh, my God. Got me. By the way, it's. Nothing new, but I know some people will be offended because he is. And I don't blame the guy. I mean, did for that much money. I fucking sell out in a heartbeat. Yeah, but. But you can't also take the money and deny that you're so up. Then. If anybody thinks his show hasn't changed, you're not listening. Because if you listen to the last, let's say.

Well, they were in negotiations for the last like 50 episodes before he switched. But go back a year, a year before he went to Spotify and compare a random three or four shows from that year with a random three or four shows from Spotify. I if you don't see or hear a difference, you're not listening. And I haven't listened or watched enough to tell you, but it was obvious by the amount of episodes that disappeared that there was a change. You can't deny that.

And I don't know if any of those people have ever been allowed back on like I think he did. Did was there a Rogan with Alex Jones recently? Did he have him back on? I don't think so. I don't know. Maybe. Maybe there was time. It's but I don't recall Alex talking about that. Because a bunch of these things that just disappeared shows you. That. And they've both been on Temple show. Ah, the. The pool boy. The baby. Boy. Yeah, that's right. I just don't see.

I just don't understand what like where's the knee jerk reaction coming from. Because at first I thought while they probably cause everybody saying that is in their fifties and sixties and he's younger and he talks about skating, Tim is going to be 40 in just a few years. I think a big part of it is he makes it way too obvious, at least from what I've seen.

You've seen more so correct me if I'm wrong, but he makes it way too obvious that he's getting his information just by reading news sites on the Internet, which is how we all which is free. But he does exactly, you know. But that's to me, this is why it makes it very much worthless. And it and it's it's actually not even true saying that. It's true. It seems that way. But here's the thing.

Tim started his own news company, which employs actual reporters that do investigative reporting so that he can just simply use them as a source. But I want to know what they're actually doing. Nobody reporting that. Field. What is he brought out that has been breaking news? That's an overused term. But what is he wrote. That. Nobody else has? What is he had at his news organization? First that wasn't taken from another news organization? Oh, there's a ton there's a ton of stuff.

What's what's the name of their site? It's, uh, I don't go to on their news site because I just enjoy the the, you know, you just. Want to hear the dulcet tones of the pool boy talking to you for our. Son, him dulcet tones. He's got certainly some things he can improve. But in general, the content of what he says is spot on. And that's the part that I understand people are like they don't like. It's like saying, I don't like the package that food comes in.

Yeah, but it's really good food. Yeah, but I just don't like the package. Okay, I understand that. But it's the mentality. There was a guy on Twitter that responded to my reposting of the latest No Agenda episode who said that out of a job are low info, not spending enough time on Twitter before hopping on the air. And I'm like, you idiot hopping on Twitter like you think Twitter is where you're going to get accurate information about what's going on in the world.

I mean, that's hilarious, but that's the mentality of a lot of people. And whether I mean, maybe wrong, but I feel like watching Tim Pool is like watching somebody who is just commenting on what they've read on Twitter or Fox News or Breitbart or whatever. But that's what it should be. It's literally Rush Limbaugh. Yeah, but Rush was actually interesting. Maybe, maybe that's the difference. Maybe it is just the way the whole thing was, the personality. Maybe it may be as simple as that.

Rush I liked the humor, and I didn't listen to Rush nonstop either, because anybody that has a life, it's hard to listen to somebody that's on 3 hours a day, which was Limbaugh in Tim. I don't know what is Tim do a day now because he's got so many different things. Probably about 5 hours. So it's like I just I can't I need to have my news. But you don't need to listen to all of Tim, you know? I mean, that's that's the other thing is. But I know I can't see I'm OCD. I think in that time. Maybe.

It's like if I'm I feel like I'm missing something other, it's, it's hard because if it's alive and it's not available anywhere else that you catch it with John, but you've got to be like you're missing it. If it's something that is put out there. You know, Tim can stay calm. It has different news categories up top that you can click on and it'll show you stories by reporters on those topics. Now, what Jenna millennial says, it's in Tim Poole's presentation. He comes off as a douche.

What does that mean? I have no name as Tim. Paul doesn't have much sarcasm or humor that Ned says he got his fame from the Occupy movement, which makes him forever a douchebag. Why is that a douchebag bag? Occupy was exactly right. The corporations did steal a bunch of money and are running this country into the ground. How's that a douche bag? The Occupy position is literally the position of the 20 members in Congress that actually are doing something. I don't know.

I'm just reporting to you guys. And I agree. I appreciate your reporting live. But that's what I'm trying to understand is what's going on here. Why are people like how did they end up being no agenda listeners when their status. Occupy was a front says net net, I have no name says, I. Just I was a friend. Occupy was stoned. Occupy started off as absolutely the real deal and then the Woke came in and took it over. I had that was about a week afterwards.

Too much of the same story, and I think that is what I've heard too from people, even in regards to no agenda, especially when the covered stuff was and still is a pretty big part of it. I think there's a certain point where people, if they're checking out on a subject, and I think that happened to people on the Democrat side as well. There was only a small amount of the people that followed politics on the Democrat side.

As far as just your average citizen that really wanted to hear the negative Trump stuff all the time, you know, and that to be tiresome. And I think that's a big. Part that gets old. It's why we don't talk about Ukraine all the time, right? Because there's you can't keep beating the same dead horse over. No, no, it over. No. But again, so here's maybe this will tell you I, I do like what I'm doing. You like to be the. Item I grew up watching the. The What was the guy's name? Oh, God, dammit.

I can see his picture or I can what he looks like, but I can't remember his name. But it was a political talk show where the guy said, You're wrong. You know how I'm talking about no guys down there. Oh, yes, yes, yes. It was a political show in real time. That was just like a multiple people on the show. What was this? Where was it on. Yeah. This is a CNN show. Was it like 60 Minutes? You know it. No. PBS. Was it the guy that was just fired due to the MeToo movement?

Was it the old guy? Charlie Rose wasn't him. No way before that. This is this is like in the eighties. And was it Downey Jr? Was there? No, it wasn't Morton Downey Jr. I did watch him. That's not a political show. Martin Downey Jr was a precursor of of all the talk shows. It was that I keep thinking it was like the. The McLaughlin Group. Yes, that's the one. Did you get in the draw of is very. Good So do we know his age? We know his age. Yeah. Did you say 4000 years old? Yeah, clearly.

Because he. Okay, so he knows what I'm talking about. That's the McMartin group was a political show where they would typically have a couple of reporters and then occasionally some actual politicians come in and McLaughlin will ask questions to people on different topics. And what I love about it is after getting their answers, after they've had their speaking, if he disagreed with them, he to preface his comments, which would be the last word with you're wrong, then provide his answer.

And that was that was awesome. So I like heated debates in in watching pundits which really I mean that's it's what it is temples of pundits show. Oh, yeah it's it's like Tim and Lou and Ian's an idiot. But other than Ian, everybody else, I mean, they're basically pundits, political pundits, and then they have a different guest every time. And sometimes those guests are actual politicians and sometimes they're not politicians. But there's that deep into politics.

So it's fun seeing what different people will say. But like they had just the other day, they have the the gal that started gays against drummers or gays against grooming or gays against drummers, probably drummers. Yeah, something like that. Then the the leftists like that. Oh, no, of course not. But the like I had to comment and there's like, this is a perfect example of a strong independent woman. This is what Hollywood's been trying to get us to actually follow.

She's gay and she's not a man hater. And she and she is a pedophile hater. Amazing. Amazing. Can gay people have opinions that gay has allowed? Is it allowed for gay people to hate pedophiles and not hate men? You know, the concept of having a good debate on a show used to be the norm. And I think that was one thing back when he was on Fox that Bill O'Reilly did very well, which is now nearly impossible, because when he runs his own network, his own show, you can't get the same guess.

It used to be because Fox had so many viewers. Now that the people on the other side would come on to argue their point in just the hopes that they would reach somebody. Now, nobody seemingly wants to talk to anybody on the other side, so it's great when that can happen, no matter where it is. It's getting it's getting way more rare than it should be because there's no way you're going to get to an answer or a country that can actually function.

If you can't sit down and have the arguments and say, well, here's what we want to do, here's what we want to do explain why and come to a consensus, because that's how it used to be. Right? But not anymore. No. Everybody pretty much down the line votes in a party line and that's bad for everybody. Mhm. Yeah. Well the party line is still by somebody and you have to look at who that is.

That's why I called the inner party what we have right now because there's no real difference between Democrats and Republicans, There's a, a arbitrary pretend difference. But if you look at what actually gets passed, 90% of it are things not good for the American people, aside from the 100 billion going to Ukraine out of U.S. taxpayers money and not even going to Ukraine, it's basically going to US military manufacturers. This is the wealth transfer from the regular working man.

Yes, I'll use that word to the companies that make weapons of destruction. That's the transfer that the Biden administration is going to be famous for. That's their biggest accomplishment. And it can't happen without the cooperation of Congress and Congress and both sides have been cooperating greatly on this.

But aside from that, you look at everything in past, what the fuck the how many billions of dollars going to the IRS to hire more people to do more investigations into the lower middle class taxpayer? Well, the house. What the fuck? Yeah, that was one of the first things they did was come out against that because they wanted to hire 87,000 new. Yeah. Oh, and they did hire 87,000 new agents. There's no one or two. They that passed. I think they're trying to pull that.

They can't, they can't pull it. It's impossible. I wrote about this. You can this is this is purely a are you pulling? What? Can you pull it? I'm sorry. I was making a really, really immature joke. About pulling it. Yeah. I don't know what you're talking about. So the point of the funding is it passed. And right now it's purely virtue signaling, saying we're going to we're going to have a bill that pulls the funding out of there.

Okay, well, that's great, but that's literally a one minority or three slim majority in the House. Senate already passed the other one. They're not going to agree to limit it. The president already signed the other one. He's going to sign the pulling bill. So it's a joke. It nothing is going to change. That money has already been approved. It already went there.

This is this is a waste of their time to put legislation that they know isn't going to get signed and isn't even going to get a comparable package passed in the Senate. It is literally a waste of their time to do other than the first four virtues signaling, which is what they're using it for. While is it pure virtue signaling? Is it virtue signaling or is it trying to get votes in the next election? You know, that's you look at the House, that's.

All that is literally the definition of virtue signaling. The House coming out. You saw the House passed a bill to abolish the IRS entirely. Yeah. And again, virtue signaling this. This is a waste of time. This accomplishes nothing. Oh, but it does. It does. Not. It's not a single thing. It it doesn't accomplish anything at the government level, but it's an interesting thing to be able to put in your ads the next time something rolls. In there and elect.

That is literally what virtue signaling is. That's what everybody does to get votes. This is the I don't think this virtue signal, because they're not like we're doing it because we're virtuous. They're doing it with like, well, here's our idea. And if it was up to us, we wouldn't even have the IRS. The Democrats would love to kill virtue. Signaling Virtue signaling doesn't mean Democrats only doing it. Virtue signaling, doing. It to be virtuous.

They know you are doing it to be virtuous because the virtues that appeal to your and your constituents. That is what being virtuous means. Leaving the. Democrats. No, it is. That is that is the same definition. You think the Democrats actually are being virtuous when they do the shit they do. When they're like, Oh, we're helping Ukraine and we're helping the poor unemployed, and that's pretending to be virtuous. Saying we're getting rid of the IRS is not a verb.

It is saying, no, it is. It's the exact same thing. It's just from the other side, buddy. No, but it's totally different. It's not. It is identical. It is doing something that doesn't result in the thing that you're pretending to be doing. That's not. What. Virtue signaling means. It is. That's not pandering to your base. It's a different thing. And I. Think your. Big hair is. Well, I mean, that is what virtue signaling is. It is pandering to your base for politicians.

If you're not a politician, then virtue signaling is pandering to your friends. It is literally pandering, pandering by saying, Oh, look at this great thing I did. How awesome am I? Virtue signaling, though, is limited scope to things that are racial justice. No, no, it's not. Not at all. It's not. Now. I would that's the way I would see the. Definition that's that is okay, that's fine. But that's like the Republican definition of virtuous like line.

It's not the real definition IT virtue signaling. But having a different just having a different point of view is not. Because. Certainly here's. The thing, the point of view. Here's the difference, right? So virtue signaling is doing something to demonstrate how good and right you are to the people that you're targeting, which to the Democrats are The Democrats.

The Republicans. The Republicans actually doing something good is different from virtuous signaling from virtuous signaling because you're actually accomplishing things that are good for that group. When the Democrats do virtue signaling, signaling they're not actually helping all these minorities that they're pretending to help, are they. Unrelenting semantics, as the Reverend Dr. Phifer in the trouble room?

Yes, it is semantics, but semantics matter because we're living in an age of invented definitions. On a daily basis, just having your party platform and being virtue signaling. So if your party platform. Party platform is not abolished. Cyrus The party platform does matter for a while. The Republicans for a while have wanted to gut the IRS. It's not something new. It's not something new. But wasting time in Congress on something like that is virtue signaling. I don't buy that.

It's virtue signaling either. That's here. You're wrong. Luckily, I get to edit the episodes. Oh, luckily you're too lazy to actually edit anything and you just want to post it. Well, that's better. It's way better way. I could just. I should just. I just to be up. You're wrong now. I just take that clip and I can put that after everything you said in the episode. Yeah. Yeah, you could. If you were lazy. I might be able to be automated because I could just search for your voice.

I can definitely do it in the software I use. I can totally automatically replace the script. And yeah, the script will totally let you that. Yeah. What you saw, you could. Do a search and replace and just replace that. Right. You're wrong. You're wrong. You're wrong. I mean, fantastic. The like I do want to clip the McLaughlin You're wrong because it's very powerful. So I've actually pulled up a one of his episodes and I think I'll that after the end of our night.

And so I'll go through and try make a clip of his You're wrong, which is just great. And I need to send you a copy that as well. So I mean, you can do it for yourself. And then that agenda talked about it yesterday. The fact that Microsoft is now claiming and we've talked about this because of the descriptor, because of the deepfakes and that that they're now claiming all it takes is 3 seconds of somebody's voice for them to be able to recreate with inflections and everything else.

I think that's. Both. I'd love to is yeah, I'd love to see it, to believe it. Yeah. You know, you'd have to hear it to know if it sounds legit. With all of these A.I. things that are coming out. All I'll say is that there's a lot of voice actors who are probably shitting themselves at this moment. If the technology is there. Voice, actors and musicians, artists, anybody doesn't do a real job. All these people are shitting themselves. Well, they're for voice actors, especially.

There is a lot of work out there. If you've ever wondered how all of these audio books are made and a lot of these books barely sell in a physical form, they barely sell at the paper form, it's like, Well, you go. How can you tell me about. It? Right? If you're going to write a book like Sir Jean's books and you have multiple books. I do. If you wanted them turned into audio books, it takes a lot of time.

So I've looked at this and the estimates I've got were that it's probably somewhere between 1000 and Cheapside and 5000 on their March offensive side to have a voice dude read my book. And then I talked to another buddy of mine, just get his done and apparently he bid it out on one of those sites that lets you bid stuff out. And he's got his whole book done for about 200 bucks. How? Because desperate. Desperate people will read the whole thing for 200 bucks.

Yeah, pretty much. It's like you're down to. Bidding each other, right? They're fighting against each other. They provide a sample, they read like a paragraph, and then they give you the price per hour that they're willing to do it. And it's down to 20 bucks an hour days. Well, I mean, nicer. It's turning people into basically minimum income, three slave wage earners that used to be a much better paying job. They used to be over a hundred bucks an hour. Yeah.

So unless you want that better voice, if you want that. Well, this is I. Was shocked at how good the voice was, man. I was shocked. I was like, So this has got to be some college student or some shit. Knew. This is a guy that's done multiple books. Sounds really good. A little bit. The only Dylan my only complaint, the speed was a little slow. I was accelerated up by 150%. You got speeds it Other than that.

Yeah, I should get that that speed reader guy you remember from the ads in the eighties, the guy that used to. Like especially the end of the drug had three other really bad. Related. Yeah. Get one of those guys to just read the whole book. That'd be great. But if they people take someone the voice and get to the point that it is completely non distinguishable for the average person to hear that it's a computerized thing. I don't think they're there. I don't really know.

The the AI in this case that would be interesting would be able to understand where the emphasis and where the emotion needs to come in more than anything else. Now, the the eyes that are controlling those voices do a much better job when they know what they're talking about. If it's just a voice reading text, it's a lot harder for that voice to do it. Now, I've bought a number of voices, I think about 7004, you know, computer text to speech stuff.

And there are some that sound better than others. My favorites two are actually. One of them is a Scottish. Male voice. Nice. Yeah. And then the other one is a British female nurse. You are probably the most realistic sounding that I've got that I've bought. I mean, and I've listened to hundreds of these voices, but but also I'm trying to do it locally and not just Google Voice and Microsoft Voice and whatever the hell they're called. They're actual brand names. But yeah, there's a bunch of.

Everybody wants you to just do it through online. Now. It's like, No, dude, I want to be able to have voices when I'm not plugged in like it, doesn't it? This is not a benefit that you are required to be connected to the internet just to use a frickin voice product that's cleaner. No, I would agree. So you have you have the the charity I write you about and then you have an artificial voice read. Well, that's even better because. I draw some pictures for a draw.

Your if all I have to do is talk for like 5 seconds at Microsoft and recreate that. They can't, they can't agree, not realistically. I agree. But it's basically showing us that it's getting the bar is getting small. It's it is. It is. So like a year ago, I made the Adam Curry interview episode for Sir Gene Spitz, and that took me 40 hours to make. That was a lot more editing. There's a ton of editing every word, basically, or at least every sentence was edited.

And so is pointing out the McLaughlin Group was only wrong. There was no you're in front of wrong. It was just. Wrong. Wrong. Yes, he's correct. Yes. It's been years since I've seen it. But yet now that I'm thinking about it, it was just wrong. It wasn't. You're wrong. Yeah, we could use that after every sentence of this show. Yeah, right. Well, the thing is, our show isn't even a talk show. Our show is just a. We're not. Talking about nothing, but it's not a commentary.

We don't do political commentary show. I mean, we do sometimes. We do a food commentary. We do? Yeah, we do a food. Commentary show Material is a commentary. Yeah. Yeah. Semantics commentary show. We do. We do a variety of topics, but it's not, you know, we're not just like there should. There's zero expectations or should be from that's. The name of the show zero zero stations.

I think there's a few of those out there. Yeah, yeah. I'm pretty sure anything that ends with podcasts usually should have the zero expectations in front of it. But should be in parentheses. Parentheses. You know, one thing I've been doing is I've been like cross brining other podcasts and people that listen to Stream Speaks will have heard a number of things pop up in the middle of the show that's basically commercial, but it's commercial for another podcast.

And it used to be a few months ago when I started doing this that it was podcasts that that were on the same, you know, hosts as me. And they're basically they're established rate lately I've noticed that most of these podcasts when they're little little blurb they're a little ad for themselves is like listen for blah blah blah. Starting a podcast about yada yada. Yeah, that's like what? You guys haven't even done a podcast and you're with ads. What the hell? That's just that seems wrong.

You to be doing one at some point. Yeah, well, presumably soon, but still it's kind of like, well, no one's going to want to listen to a show that's not available yet. Well, that's the ultimate. I mean, our show's about nothing. That's a show that doesn't even exist. Death is. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So it's. It's like, whoa, it's a you're it's.

I don't understand how that works because with something on podcasting, if I, if I hear an ad for another podcast and it sounds interesting, the topic is interesting, I'm going to right away go into my podcast app, type in the search string and if nothing comes up, that'll be the last opportunity that they have to give me is yeah, that ad is not going to be in the next episode and if it's that show's not actually uploaded available by the time the ad is running for the show, what the hell?

I don't know. I don't know. I got a weird email. What's that. From a guy. That will write me to ask you about Seth. Oh, streaming satoshis by friend. This came through at the grumpy old Benz email from a guy named Raj who claims to be the president of the Open Community Foundation. The Who and I this is also a thing.

It's like, well, if you do a search for the guy's name, there's some information that he's worked for Reddit and started a couple other companies, but he says, I'm a founder of a new nonprofit called the Open Community Foundation. Well, building tools and services to make life easier for podcasters. I'm conducting market research to better understand existing pain points. I came across your podcast on the podcast index, and I see you're using some of their tools, including value for value.

If you're available for a quick call, I would love to hear about your experience as a podcaster. Well, that sounds cool. I'm like, But what what do you what are you going to be able to do? Like I can get a message to Adam Curry and Dave Jones that I know they'll read. So if I want something done in the podcasting world, who do you think is going to do a better job at fixing what I need done than Apple? Apple? Yeah, they're always right on the cards getting everything done.

There is this. Podcast index, guys. That I. Want to call up. Apple will call up Apple, Apple. I have a problem with my podcast. I need you to fix. The put me through to the voicemail for Steve Jobs and then we'll get right back to me, I'm. Sure. Yeah, exactly. I'm sure Steve will. What did you want to know about them streaming stats though? So yeah, so apparently, I don't know. I don't have like a that much. It's not working right, apparently. And it shit's fucked up as Warren Zevon was saying.

Well, it's done well, so Adam text me is like, Hey, I think your things are not working because I just tried to send you some stats and it didn't go through. And I'm like, Uh oh, yeah, I forgot about Seth, so I don't know, rebooted my server. I don't know if it's still working or not, but more importantly, the frickin math, how much money do I to have a server running versus how much money is come in? Probably more.

I've paid more than the amount of money that has come in through streaming sites. Now that you could say, ha ha, nobody listens to your podcast, Fuck you. Ha ha. And there's there's something to be said for that. You know, certainly I think the podcast has been slow and growing, but also like last month I did one episode in December. So yeah, that's not really great. And people like a little more consistency and I'm going to attempt to do that this year.

But I'm seriously thinking I just shouldn't the whole damn thing down, not the podcast but the whole lights out thing. Well, there are three solutions to getting stats, which is while I've used. I've have nothing for Siri, it's just when you pay in something monthly. They take. Yeah, they. Take a percentage. Yeah, percentage. Well, so far I've been paying 112%. See, that's not good. I like it. 2% or 3% or whatever it is. Not bad. I think I was I think I was calling you sucker paying 3%.

One kind of. And it was more than three. By the way. I think it's ten you should check on your I. With I'll. I'm pretty sure that's what it was. The reason I didn't go with them from the get go is because I'm am I going to lose 10% That's for suckers. Well, I've moved on. I'm going. To have my own server. A lot of it over to get Alby rather than. So that's one random three. That's the to me he's like, Hey, it's a wall, you know, why don't you just switch over to Alby? Yes.

And that's I looked that up and that seemed like there was just a, a GitHub project. It's a wallet. Yeah. Yes. But it's a where does it live? Where does it live there. Yes. In the browser. That's, it's a. It lives in the browser. It's a browser wall crashes. You lose everything. If you're well, you can then recreate. It's very much like a crypto any other crypto wallet, which is you have a phrase that will be able to recreate that. So if you do have a Yeah, but.

That's the thing I like about having a server running somewhere else other than the cost of it, but if. Your server then crashes that you get no support. The server can't crash, just run on Amazon. So I ain't going anywhere. Oh, it's Amazon. It can crash. Trust me. No they can't. Get it'll be works just fine. Uh huh. I mean, again, for the amount of money that's being brought in. Well, that's the thing is, is it even worth it. Right now in my get I'll be wallet.

I need to convert this to to an Amazon start. No. No. Right now I've got well with the bitcoin rate right now I just pulled it up I have 437 bucks worth of lightning. Okay. So I've got about 250 bucks worth of lightning. Ha. In a year. Yeah, well, this is. The total over the course of a year. Yes. And I've paid over $300 for having the server. Well so you're, you're in the wrong side of that one. That I am. I am. But I'm also like, okay, so I've learned a little bit about it.

They've set up this server. I've never understood how it works. I've shuffled money back and forth. You pay transaction fees every time you do that. I don't ask for donations. Is it even worth it? Should I just shut it down? Just go back to being podcasting 1.0. Well, having it there. Adam would be pissed, obviously, but not, you know, You know, he wouldn't. He doesn't give a shit. He doesn't give a shit what I do going. It's. I don't think there's anybody.

Well the quick answer to this is I don't think there is anybody who would want to donate money to you that would be like, Exactly. You don't have that right? So I'm not doing it. Yeah, exactly right. And the whole, you know, like streaming thing, I think only one person on my podcast that listens to my podcast actually uses a podcasting 2.0 app. Because is the. Problem. Every episode that I have, I see a what appears to be $0.08 per minute. That's much like a penny a minute, right?

It's way less than a penny. It's about a 32nd of a penny per minute. And and that comes in for the duration of about 2 hours and then stops. And so there's literally one person that's using a podcasting to put on an hour and like 700 people that are using regular apps that don't do streaming sets or they've turned it off, which is actually harder to do. So I would assume that if if they're using the podcasting 2.0 apps, that it's more of a pain turn off the default streaming sites than that.

That's what I found anyway. So a says he would donate to surging Speaks but he's saving up for an air fryer. But a perfect I would highly recommend an air fryer over donation for everybody that's a much better use of your money. But yeah I mean really what the lightning I have just set most of it back to. Yeah. Adam and Dave over at podcast in their Daily Show. So, you know, there's a very easy way to do that, which is just simply to do a split that gives them 90% and you 10%.

Yeah, that would also be. Mm hmm. That would be one way to go. But the fact that I mean. Well, it would the proper way to do it if you want to avoid IRS fees because right now you're going to be paying IRS fees and all those donations to them. IRS fees, meaning taxes. Nobody is seeing the lightning stuff that how the interesting thing. Okay. Yeah, Well, okay. How is this being tracked by the IRS? Let us. Know.

Well, there's about 89,000 new IRS agents that are being trained in the forensics of exactly what to tell people to get them to pay for things like this. Yeah, but there's no way to the like, the. MONTANARO. I mean, if you have. So it looks like you have some accounts that you have not listed on your IRS Form 36, that. The accounts are attached to your name. I mean, that's the other oddity with. But you don't. Go to jail for having an account attached or an attached.

You go to jail for lying to the government. But they have to to prove that you don't have what you got. They do have to be able to prove it and you're not providing the data they're requesting is actually enough to arrest you. Well, and being the amounts are so low at this point. How do they know they're going to assume you're doing millions? Right, Because you're. Supposed to get a hold on your full time podcaster. You've got to be doing at least 50 grand a year.

You would think. But now. Oh, wow. Prove it. I think you'll have to you'll have to show me your accounts to prove it. If I'm not wrong, like last year, among all the shows was like ten grand. Well, you don't have to publicly see now you're going to be on the hook for that ten grand. No, I am. Because I have to pay, because it all is through PayPal. So I have people. On. That ship. Yes. So anyway, bottom line with all this stuff is I think podcasting 2.0 is awesome. I love the idea.

I love having the streaming concepts. But why not have what if you just pay a small percentage to have a reliable company? Just host the wallet? The reliable is part of the issue though, is I just seems legit. The guys have been on podcasting 2.0 without a Dave. Well, what does that mean? Legit? I mean it still relies on your browser. You said the browser is hosting the what? The browser gets up there. That's how you get access to the wallet. I mean, it is the.

Wallet living in the cloud or is the wallet on your browser? No, no, the wallet exists in the cloud. So I mean, you don't have to be on to get. Okay, okay. So the was in the cloud then. That's better. I'm more in. I mean, I know. That they trust it with millions of dollars or anything, but I don't trust PayPal with millions of dollars either. No, definitely not. Although PayPal is you know, they're probably more likely to not lose $1,000,000. The other thing with well, be. Coin people.

The other thing with lightning is there are still times that things don't go. For instance, see, Brooklyn just sent us 5555 SATs, which will make him the sole executive producer of today's show with the comments that said this is a boost about nothing. But it's very possible that. That's funny, but. You didn't get the half that should be going to you, because if your thing is not on. Then, you know, if you're hosting your own.

Everybody that sends you money and puts a note in there that this is not meant for surging. Right? This is but it's like but the half goes to search. So it should all be it should all be messages for you is what it should be. I don't get messages. So we'll see. You got. Something wrong there? You got to get your booster grab so you can see all that. Oh, I don't know, man. I don't know. I'm just. Maybe I'm just disillusioned or whatever it is. I'm just starting to just simplify.

Well, it needs you. And you're right with that. I just have a $5 PayPal command to surging yesterday. So people are at least they're figuring out that they can use paper. And this could be the show that we could try this concept again, although we didn't tried in this way. I was thinking about this the other day, which one? The locals concept and it maybe. Nobody wants to join locals.

That's I think that was my lesson is nobody wants to join yet another thing that requires a log in just to support somebody like they want to use tools that they already have. See, But this is also why I think so few people are running podcasting 2.0 apps because you know, they're just use the built in Apple or Google one. They don't want to mix they or they want to try something new. Well, I think the concept of it is this just something that can't be done anymore.

The concept of a podcast such as ours only having one inlet for donations because once you start what I have been doing, which is, well, we'll take your check in the mail, we'll take PayPal. Yeah, we'll continue though. It becomes a nightmare for accounting. Right. And I would like to be able to get this down into which I think is one of the reasons why no agenda for the longest time didn't want to do crypto. Like, yeah, you need to limit the way you're taking money

and just because otherwise it's going to drive you insane. Hmm. But you're right, people don't if you the way we're going with Patron out of we're going with locals but people don't want to do that. And then there are people like, well, I fuck PayPal, I don't want to use PayPal to. Go get fuck paper off like Patron. And I agree with all of those. Fuck all those guys. Which is why. And ultimately I've always just said don't donate though. Donate it. All right. I mean, that's simpler.

It's simpler for everybody. It's simpler for you to not have to do anything. It's simpler for the hosts to not get anything. It's just simpler. No, it may not be preferable, Right. But it is simpler and nothing's going through. Now, the only part of it that that I'm grousing about here and I'm definitely doing my my best to being the Jon mode here is the fact that that I've spent $300 to to demonstrate that it's not worth it. Right? So it's like, what the hell do I need my own goddamn server?

Well, maybe I never did. Maybe I just needed a wallet that I need, you know, the whole server thing. But it seemed like the whole server thing was the only bit that was worth actually learning how to do. Whereas, and incidentally, I've, I've mentioned this idea to my other co host to did the email. I said, Hey, you're a techie, dude if you want to set up your own set server and I'm the connection thing, deal or whatever, fuck, go for it, do it.

I just I don't want to have wasting time doing it myself. And so far now we're ten episodes in and he still hasn't done so. Well because there's not enough coming in via that route to make. Yeah, I mean, I think again, the idea is neat, but you need one of two things. You need either a massive, massive audience of a million people plus or you need to have your entire audience be on the bleeding edge of people that always listens. With podcasting point, oh, amps.

And they're interested in this being the only method they're going to support you with, Right? I would agree. It's not something that is. It sounds like I got a lot in the satoshis, but it's because it has been. I have to look when this was set up. I mean, it's been a long time now since we've been accepting the streaming set. So it's probably is like four or 500 bucks in a year's time plus. So if you're paying a monthly not to take that in, it's like that's, that's right.

Yeah. So I see somebody just sent 2750 sets to make out. So that came in that was see Brooklyn that was. Headed for that. So apparently my thing is still working. Yeah, your things working. But before that I have a I'll tell you like yesterday I got 20 sets one January 5th I got $0.80. Yeah. That's not worthy of paying. January they got 60 sets. January 4th I got 3180 cents. That's because I closed a channel. That's not real sets coming in.

That's just sets that were already in becoming my sense. Right. And then before that, there's a 2 hours worth of $0.10 per hour per minute, 2 hours, whatever that comes out to before that, 160 $0.05 on the hour all in this is going back to November. I didn't get any sense all through December, but maybe my server was online. But anyway, I'm not bitching about people not doing anything. I'm just bitching about how much it's costing me to. To run the serology to keep it up and running.

And I'm. Intrigued. I'm waiting for this to open up. And I don't know if this will be any different than any other bank out there, but there's a new bank. My Old. Glory Bank, John Rich, the country music singer, and a couple of these other far right wing privacy orientated political kind of people are starting this and it's allegedly going to be a bank. That's kind of the the First Amendment important. You know, we you're not going to get canceled and all this free speech.

Whether this will work or not, I don't know. Or is it a big honeypot? I don't know. It probably I thought it was an interesting concept to be able to have a bank to where you're not have to be worried like what? You said something bad on your podcast so all your funds are going to be. Yeah, it's if the bank isn't going to cancel the people, the banking industry will cancel the bank. Right? That's what I'm wondering will happen.

To have a bank that nobody actually will let you send money to or get money from. Jabu Dash asked the question, Why not just use a crypto wallet for donations? That's the problem with so. The problem with the wallets originally, and this may not be the case right now, but the problem with the wallets is that the only wallets that would work versus running your own server were wallets that were third party wallets.

And and and I'm along with a bunch of other people bumrah's all against third party wallets. Because the way it works. Yes, this isn't the same as Bitcoin where it's very passive. And. Lightning does not work that way, which is one of the reasons why it's so fast. You have to trust the person that's hosting your wallet because that it's really their money with promise to give it to you. That's what it comes down to. Depending on how it's being held.

But yes, that is the if they go away, your money goes away. Oh, yeah. And you don't have any recourse. Right. You don't even if somebody sends you a million SATs, there's no guarantee it's going to get there. If it's if it's if a million SATs up to my server, that's my million SATs. They're not going anywhere. Today. I'm seeing the. Server and your server is not there. Well, that may well bounces back.

I mean, they get a transaction decline it never they don't lose their money is what I'm saying. But if it's, if it's a hosted third party wallet and they could send their money so they've already they're out the money but you may never actually be able to do anything with it. But the lightning wallets are a little than all of the other crypto because yeah, when I take De Niro, all I have to do is load up the Monero app every month in. The money, I'll be there or not.

It's it doesn't matter if it's online the same thing. Because it's on the chain and if it's on the chain it's just a matter of re Oh, looks like somebody sent me something two weeks ago. It's, it's part of that chain back and now it's mine. Right. Where lightning you need to have a node. It's a live connection has to have a live connection up 24 seven. And that's the that's the rub. Yeah. Which again this is why and I didn't mind it. Look, I'm just grousing, right? I don't learned a lot. Right.

You'll understand how the system works. I, i, I understand much better. Still not perfect, I don't think. But I certainly understand much better how the system works. And I like the idea of what lightning accomplishes. But there's also a lot of people that will point out that lightning is a scam. Like the whole thing basically rests on the promises of people that are not legally enforceable. Which is both great and horrifying for people depending on did you want do it.

So it's all like theoretical until you put your money back on the chain. Or you pull your money out into someone else. Whether it is putting it back in the chain. Because I have to admit it's a little concerning. It's like I trust the get will be guys, but the amount of SATs is getting to such a point where I'm like, Oh, I don't know if I want to. You want to? Well, once you going to buy something? What we talking about? You buying something recently the. Amazon gift card because they're.

Earthquake in they stream they had streamed that thing you were talking about buying. Yeah that way I can have a knobs right. You're like knobs and. Knobs. I can turn. You here. Yeah we get. Maybe, maybe because that's that's the only thing keeping us from doing video fairly clearly. Yes it's and that the lack thereof. The lack of donations and.

I guess in the end you get for been confused now it bends like well I was thinking getting one of those stream decks for, you know maybe I could bring that instead of the just like dude this thing. Unlike the other stream decks does not have a removable stand. It is a six inch by six inch by six inch triangle. It is not suitcase friendly at all the mode too. Even though it's physically bigger, it's wider, but at least it's flat.

It's like you can you can put it into you could put it into your suitcase. This thing is a triangle that is twice as tall as the multi and it does not have a removable stand. This is not a portable device for anybody other than the band that are thinking of using this as a portable device.

But it does come with the mixer app that essentially creates virtual channels that that show up in your microphone and speaker outputs in your computer that it can then route appropriately and mix, you know, within the stream deck software. Which is fantastic really for what that is doing. It's really cool because it addresses the problem. I think that most of these YouTubers and streamers have, which is they're mostly focused on the video.

So now instead of having to buy some $100 MOTU to do multichannel stuff, they could just do it all inside a stream deck. Which is nice. Hmm. The technology's getting there. It's getting there. Whether more and more people are ever going to jump on the streaming Satoshi bandwagon, I don't know because there's the way people want to donate is also very interesting. We've talked about that with no agenda. Most people, they want their moment of glory.

They want no agenda to be able to acknowledge them and get their notes read, which means people don't to send you a penny or $0.20 or a bucket the time they want to send you the 500,000 bucks and then and get their, you know, value for value back by. Getting $500,000 is a perfect amount. Send 500,000 right there. I mean, unrelenting will shut down. If we get a $500,000 donation. We're going to run of a skip down. Man, Show's done. We we took the money and ran.

We're going to go try every steak house in the country until the money runs out. Well, that wouldn't take that long. You. No, that's true. Not is for having, like, a nice bottle of wine. $500,000. Two years. Well, that's still a pretty good two years. If we don't die of whatever would happen to have that much meat. Yeah. Yeah. But it would be a nice way to go.

But I think that there's a lot of people who don't like, you know, that concept I'm giving you a little bit at a time, but I'm not getting acknowledge. Exactly. And that's the thing is the way that this system is built with the using and by the way once. So $0.52 is one penny. I just looked it up. So think about that. 52. So 520 cents is ten is $0.10 and I was seeing $0.08 per minute. So it's like. Every, every what sir Gene speaks is worth. Every 10 minutes I would get a penny.

Oh don't go spending that all in one place, my friend. Definitely not. And so it all gets it's it gets spent and the hosting service. So it is all one place. There you go. The hosting service made out nicely last year. You know the question with like the crypto also is you know from a legal tax situation. Yeah. If it's never converted into fiat currency, is it actually income. So I believe it be the same laws as other investment income.

So if your stock goes up, you only pay when you sell it, right? You just keep sitting and accruing and accruing and accruing that it's not. But that's certainly the hope for Bitcoin, right? I mean, that's the only reason I've been buying. Bitcoin is the hope that eventually, someday, 20 years from now, somebody will be collecting it. I thought you wanted to go for it. That was why you were buying it. To do it. Slowly. Go broke. Go broke. Yeah, that's right. Well, you know what's up? It's 19,000.

They. I don't know if that's up. Is that. Up? Yeah, because it 60. Not too long. Oh, fuck. Jesus. I didn't even realize it went to 16. So there you go. Well, that's the thing, right? Is so at where bitcoin was when we started doing this big experiment with podcasting 2.0, which is $50,000 right. There was about that. I guess that's one way to look at it is that. Well, if it was still in 50,000 then my, you know, 203 hundred bucks or whatever the hell I had in there would be worth 6 to 900 bucks.

So that'd be much better, I suppose. Let's see, this week Bitcoin has been as low as is really did jump to. It was as low as at the start of this week 16,800 got them. So it was a nice job. It's been it's up almost 14.9% this week. This week. Yeah That's the stablecoins right. Yeah. So those satoshis man, I'm like well is it, is it time now to turn those. Yeah, I think so. I think need to do the gift card, buy out instantly like right now or while we're talking. Did that card order.

Or get it ordered like within the last month that like started at like 18 and then really dropped but now it's. Coming back. But yes, not stable at all in any imagination. But again, it's it's all sort of interesting, but I think that it's fair to say that people that want to have something read and people that have really appreciate whatever shows that we do, they tend to just send a PayPal donation. Yeah. So there's a lot of people who like I don't know how to boost.

It's like it's it's gotten a lot easier, but it is still somewhat convoluted because you kinda for most people, you're going to need the cash app, right Because that will allow you to convert Fiat into crypto and it'll pay the lightning invoice. So if you get a podcasting 2.0 app like pod verse or there's a bunch of them, you could be like, Oh, create an invoice because I want to collect some satoshis from my other account.

And it's fairly easy to do now, but it's still a two step process with two different programs and that's where the breakdown comes. People get the podcast. I bet you a lot go and they get pod verse or whatever and then go, Well, now how do we get money? Yeah. And then when they realize that there's a process to put money in, think a lot of people just stop and a fee. Yeah, well, not only is there a process, but there's a fee. So if I put $50 in, I'm going to get $45 out or whatever at.

Year and end. Now it's just sitting there in this app. So, you know, it's like, well, what the hell? It needs to get to the point where if we when you could just get your podcasting app, given your checking account or whatever account information and say, you know, top it up every time. Well I'm still waiting for the obvious solution here is fucking PayPal. And I know people hate PayPal and I hate PayPal as well, but if you want mass market adoption, there's nothing that could do it faster.

And then if PayPal announces and and we will now let you pay invoices in SAS right out of PayPal. Yes. Which you can imagine that happened because because PayPal is tied into everything. So now it'd be like every app that that has a wallet that it wants to fill can just generate invoice goes directly PayPal gets translated to the current value of a Bitcoin at that time. And PayPal gets pulled out of. Your account. Yeah, but you can't do anything with it. That's the super thing, right?

It lets you afford it, but that's it. You can't send it to anybody. I think they haven't figured out how to track where you're sending them to. Right. They don't want people using it for nefarious reasons. Clearly, the only reason people would ever use a cryptocurrency is for nefarious reasons. I agree. I definitely agree. I mean, what's the main aim? Paying a fucking server that's about as nefarious a reason as you can get? Well, I mean, it tries to remove.

The. Ability to track who is doing things, so I get it. I think we talked about at one point. Yeah. And SATs absolutely do that. Yeah. Coin does not Bitcoin fucking tracks where everything goes. I mean bitcoins, Ledger is perfect for Iris. Yeah, it's like we can see exactly what went. Huh? You spent it on a Wait a minute. It looks like you got more money than you claimed you did. Oops. Which is why I don't recommend anybody screw the IRS. Pay your taxes. Mm hmm. It's a pain in the ass. I get it.

But I would rather pay more accidentally and not go to jail than that. That happens in an audit. Or if you. I have a good accountant, dude. So, I mean, that's. Yeah, that's the main thing you need. If you especially if you're a podcaster, make sure you understand. Yes. Yes. Good accountant. It helps to have a big bank. Good bank, good employer, Good. Basically, you need to be making six figures to be a podcaster. Otherwise just don't start being a podcast.

Yeah, I know I went the wrong way with that. I went the wrong way. But what I do need is a new barber. I just. My mom. I was talking to her this morning in the barber shop that you go and do for like 30 years. Closed. Yeah. Oh, permanently. Yeah. Wow. I have the guy that cuts my hair. I have his email address, so. Well, there you go. You can have him show up to your. House, be like, he's not working somewhere. Did I guarantee you?

Look, everybody known that has been in the barber trade still has all their tools. Oh, yeah. Razor. They're they're scissors. It's kind of like anybody that's ever worked as a chef you like. You still have your knives, right? You're not going to get rid of your knives. So you're you're probably it's worth finding out. You probably would be able to get the guy to just show up and do it at your house, which do better. It is the ultimate inconvenience as you're having your lunch delivered and your.

Yeah, exactly. Your groceries. Why ever leave the house now? What do you all you leave the house like? I mean, you know, you got to leave the house once a month, but other than that. Stuff like otherwise, where do you go? It's like, I don't want to go to one of these, like, you know, honey cots or super cots or it's like. Yeah Nah, it's not worth it. You can just do it yourself. You get a floppy. I mean, I cut my own hair. I've been cutting my own hair for 30 years. Okay.

This is a story that I want to hear. How? What? Why? Because I. It's really easy. It's not worth paying. Anybody did. Good. You got nothing left up there. Is that the. No. Because what I do is I just get a razor and shave my head. We'll see. There you go. And then I give it. Then a month to grow, and then I do it all over again. So you're like, Well, this is way too long now. It is 12 times a year. I come on here. I mean, imagine how much that is saving.

And then when I was married, my my ex-wife a couple times did it, offered to do it. Till you got to read that. Twice as long for her to do it as though for me to do it. Well, that's because she was considering using that straight razor in a different way. Uh huh. Uh huh. Like, yeah, slip this for me. It's that's like I'm so used to just doing it by feel. It's really easy. Just, you know. Yeah, I get your fingers can feel whether you have a hair in the back.

No different than shaving your face Really. I that you could do blindfolded. Like you don't even need to look at all. Yeah, totally. So it's, uh. But you've got a full head of hair. You got more hair to deal with? I wouldn't say full, but full ish. Yes. There's a little. There's still summary. I've always said there's the Darren's absolutely got a foolish head. Yeah, foolish hair. I got so foolish. Foolish head of hair. That's what I says. I don't need.

I don't need the hair I've been in a relationship now for. Yeah, you don't need hair. Tomorrow is actually today. I like to say is is my personal holiday called Freedom Day. Oh. To get divorced. Because. No, it was okay. January 14th. Tomorrow is tomorrow. The No, that's February 14th. The our first date was January 14th, 1988. How do you remember shit like this? I Because the Freedom Day. Because, you. Know, I mean, I don't know it's there are certain dangers just get ingrained into your mind.

But yeah, 35 years. Oh, wow. Congratulations are in order for her. The wife. Yeah, Yeah, definitely for her. Take them out for good yet. Look, she gets trained in good. And I'm congratulating her. That's exactly it. She has a personal chef. I do a majority of the laundry. Yes, Yes. When everyone wants. It. Pretty much. Mm hmm. I think. I think. I think I've undervalued my services. I need to. Restitution. Uh huh. Once you get some of those sat screaming from your wife, right.

She's like, No, I don't think so. People ask her if she to my podcast. She's like, No, I get the 24 seven stream. I yeah, that's. That's more than enough. Well I, I mean honestly is it any worse than a husband that plays video games? Probably not. No, no, probably no. You know, you're playing there in front of your microphone with your little friends. I have no name. Says my last day of radiation treatment for cancer was on 11, 12, 13.

And I wouldn't remember if it if it wasn't harder than counting reps where you'd remember that. And congratulations. Yeah, that's good. That's good. Nobody likes the cancer. Presumably survived the cancer. Presumably since he's in the troll room or she's. I don't know. I don't know. And you never know with people. Some people might be dead and still texting. You see, now that would if you're if you were dead and you still had the ability to go into the troll room, would you?

Well, I've been perma ban so I wouldn't know about that. You're not banned at all. You just I'm the troll. I was perma banned years ago by these evil Nazis that run the troll room. Was it membros. That was you? Oh, well, then it was probably with good reason. Yeah, exactly. So you. I did nothing though. He's. He's worse because I asked him, did. Can you understand me? He's like, No, it's like. You said. No, because you're not actually bad. He's like, There is no bad, Jim.

But not. Not says it here. I don't. Know. It says I had a screenshot that says that was banned. So that's, you know, I'm not going to waste my time trying to get in some place where I'm banned. There's no point. I do find it interesting every now and then when somebody will comment on something, we like, they believe it was accurate or the truth. Like they totally missed the the sarcasm or the comedy behind it, like CSB. He is very literal. He does. Oh, he's super literal.

He's on the on the scale for sure. Yeah, he does not. He didn't. By the way. Didn't he break his elbow or shoulder. Yeah. You said he was getting better though so that's good. I know. It. He was injured in some way, shape or form. Yeah. I mean, I may hate all Polish people, but I don't hate him. Hey, I'm part Polish, I believe. I mean, I'm not. I hate to said I may. I may, I may not. Yeah, I might, but no, I actually like I like all Slavic people. I mean, that's the bottom line.

This is why this whole Ukraine situation's so fucked up. It's basically a war that is being fueled by non Slavs to get the Slavs to fight each other. Yeah, it is. Welcome to the United States going. Hey, hey. You don't like those people, too? Yeah, we'll send you some weapons. Don't worry about. It. I didn't. Didn't. At some point the United States, like give a bunch of weapons and money to Iraq to fight Iran. Don't they give weapons right now to Israel to fight Palestinians?

Yeah. You go back further. They gave all that to Afghanistan to fight the Russians. Well, that's those are totally different cultures. But I'm talking about like literally neighbors fighting each other fueled by the US money. Fueling a near civil war. Yeah, it's, you know, incidentally, So it appears that the Russian military has now gotten more people in, some voluntarily and some not so voluntarily, and that right now they're looking out 750,000 strong force

now. Interesting little, little note here. Do you know how big the US armed forces are? The amount of people in the US armed forces. The people, not the ships or the planes, The number of people currently serving in the not in the reserves, but in the active military force of the. Russia, all active branches. That may. Just be a. Pure guess, but Maybe, but 2 million. Million and a half. Yeah. 472,000. Wow. That's not a lot. No. The biggest, biggest navy in the world.

Biggest Air Force in the world. Not a particularly large number of people. China's got more Russia's got more help. There are India has got more. And I believe Pakistan has more that are in active service. Because we have the tech now. It has that gone down because of the tech? It's gone down mostly because of woke go up, go broke. What was the how far is it gone down? Just about. Yeah. So it was And so two years ago it at 500,000.

So it has come down a little what was it you know in the eighties at the Reagan is there a is there a chart here that we could the. I don't have that number so I don't want to make up a number this is this is for the I just happened to have seen recently is for the current levels. And where were you reading this was in the classified document in a garage next to a Corvette. Y A Corvette? Is that what Biden said? His attack was in the garage or by his Corvette?

Oh, by his Corvette. That's he's. He likes his breath. Can you imagine Joey driving Corvette at high speeds at this point? I see a parody of him driving a Corvette on Saturday Night Live at high speeds of the sport. He is. He actually drove just recently, I think within the last year I saw a video of him driving a some other car when he was in Detroit. And I don't know, he didn't seem like he was driving worse than Trump is. I am looking at I was looking for that information.

But yet what I found was military personnel in 21 by Service Branch and reserve. So I don't know how many of these are Army shows active duty for 82. But then you also have Navy then at 343. Yeah, that's combined. 337 All of those stats combined numbers. Right. That I was right about right. If they're all combined. Yeah. So if but that includes the reservists as well. I mean so if you look at the. The. Number of. Active duty, it could be wrong with it.

Showing the Army Reserve is 184 for active duty. They're showing 328 337 343 and 482. So I think I was right about right of the million and a half. Well, it's my number is 476 as of right now. Well, they were showing last year Army active duty is 482. So again, I don't know where this is, where this comes. From, where you looking? And I found this on the star dot com. Oh, yeah. I wouldn't trust us. Well, I don't trust anything out of the Internet. Yeah, I definitely would not trust.

And now mine came from a general. But sure, that wasn't just strictly the army, because that would probably make more sense. I'll, I'll. Okay, I'll send the message. I'll ask but I'm I'm pretty sure you said combined. Which would be scary if so, because that's like nothing. Well, I think a lot fewer people are active than reserves. I think most people are in reserves. When there's a nice amount, according to the stats here.

And I love that this is one of the things you have to pay at the site for, which is the link that says show your source. Now one of the things you have to be a paid member to see. So anyway so so they just put whatever numbers up there they want and then for the paid members then say where they got them. Yeah. Okay. Right. But they show army active duty at 482 with the reserve of 184, which is about what they're 35, 40% of what the total would be.

Navy active duty 343 Navy Reserve is only 57,000. So I guess that kind of makes sense. Okay, so do you know what I just did a quick Google here. The number of active military personnel in 1945. 5 million. Eight and a half million in the Army, three and a half million in the Navy and half a million Marines. That says a lot of things have changed. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That is true. And the interesting thing would be the reasons why, you know, is it just because there's no funding.

Is it because that the whole thing's been pared down? Is it because you're fighting more wars now with drones. And. Equipment rather than people. And I think that's a big problem when it comes to war, because it's way easier when you're not losing people to go out. And. Yeah. And then use the technology. So China has 2.2 million active with another one and a half million in reserve. Well, and I'm assuming their military is not by choice. It is not something that you have to. I don't know.

That's a good question. I would assume so. But I don't know that in my head. If you're in China, let us know for sure. You don't think anybody's listening in China to this podcast? I think there may be people that are listening to the podcast, but I don't think that they're going to let us know by then that so. Well know that that's the episode. They can always reach out to us. They know where to find us. Now, what. The social United States is in seventh place, according to this.

And the size of the military. Says the military and the US has one of the smallest per capita active militaries. The USA Today, who has the biggest military? China. They list them as 2000. India 1.4 or five. United million. 1,009,000. Well, bright million. Yeah. China 2 million. India 1,450,000. The United 1,390,000. So I was right at North Korea, which is such a small country. 1 million, 1,200,000. Mm. Russia only 850,000. Those poor Russians that need some help.

So turning to this chart, I'm looking at 3.5 million in Russia, but that's definitely not correct. That's way too many. Which is why you can't believe any of that. Yeah. Yeah. And this is from the USA Today, which of course I don't trust, but this. Okay, that's interesting. So this is a page that lists every different pages, numbers, and they're all over the place. So this one, like one of those find me the answer to this question. Pages. And it's all one big top ten chart.

It shows 10 million in Vietnam. Yeah, well, this one shows. 7 million in North Korea. Yeah. This one in the USA Today is 5.4 million with Vietnam with active and it's like it's. Just Vietnam have that many active. They have a population of like a million. Well they're showing it's weird because they're showing active 470,000 but active and reserve they have like so they have 5 billion in reserve and 470. And so yeah, Vietnam has a total population or a population now of about 100 million.

So 10% of the population is the military. Jesus Now a few. But again, according to Statista and this is what the USA Today is using for their article, the top ten military budgets, the United States at 801 billion. Then China at to 93. Yeah, exactly. Russia 65. Those poor Russia. Somebody sent them some cash. I know, right? That's barely enough. On some blankets. Don't send water. Just some cash. Yes. And they say the most powerful military in the world. Now, this is also bullshit. I don't know.

They're using 50 different factors, such as military might, the budget, the score there. According to that, the top eight most powerful militaries as of January of last year, North Korea, the United States, number two, Russia. But they can't even beat Ukraine. So it's the second most powerful military in the world. You're telling. Me that Ukraine keeps winning over and over and they know winning and winning and winning and winning, But we're.

Going to be told that Russia is such a big bad, but somehow they haven't been able to squash that country. Next storm. No, that's crazy that. China that any event Japan I'm kind of surprised Japan coming in at number five. Yeah I hope Japan didn't have a military I don't know we have some kind of Japanese constitution thing that prohibited them from having one or something. Their military. I'm sure. 54 billion for a little island. That's a lot of money.

So they're not even listed on all these lists that I have. See, this is where the misinformation comes from. I'm telling you, the. This is why people listen to this conversation about. Nothing. Cuba has 1.1 million. Well, 1.1 billion is that people are there, but. People people, people. Well, that's a pretty large army by comparison. If that's active military. That's not active, that's that's passive. Which reads there's probably people that I can believe that are in reserve.

Yeah. You Cuba has doubled the number of military that Russia does. That doesn't make any sense. Okay. Since I'm telling you, the more you look these lists, the more you realize this data is fake. It's all fake. Everything's fake. It's all a scam. Oh, bullshit. I do buy that. China probably does have the biggest active. I mean, that would seem to make sense given their total population of whatever it is. What are they at? How many billions? Now that China? I don't know.

They got to be like 2 billion or something. Chinese population. Now. In 2022. Let's see the US is what, 340 million. I believe. And then you have to pull in the the people that are here illegally. China one point. Four 1.4 billion. Okay so India is pretty close that to them. It's a lot of folk. It's well it did not that many I thought there were over 2 billion. Okay. Russia is 144,000 people. The whole country. They're poor Russians send them hell now. So Iran is 610,000 active.

It's pretty good. DWYER They're rarely getting screwed with, I guess. I guess you know what? I think you're right, though, about the number that I have. That must be army only. That must be not including the Navy and the Air Force. That would be because. It's too much difference between those numbers. Yes. So even though. Yeah, he said combined but I don't know what, what other combined is there other than the Air Force. The Navy.

I guess I just pulled those two in thinking that's what combined means. But maybe not. Unless they meant combined with the reservists. But that still does that number doesn't. Know now for 476 hours, like you said. All right. Anyway, that's. That's a spicy meatball. That's the spicier meatball. Now, that's a horrible Italian accent. I could do much better than that. Well, you have to practice. I Yeah, I have to be not reading numbers while I'm saying it. Yeah. Don't take too much data. It.

How about Iceland? How big is the ice? I don't know it. Anybody ever tried to attack Iceland? Is anybody? Yeah, Iceland. Yeah, I think the Vikings went there and attacked the. Oh, yeah, I do have the numbers for Iceland. They have zero active military. So we could just take a few guns in a boat. Oh, they according to this, they have 250 people in the Icelandic reserves. Well, the reserves are pretty high. We may want they are very high. They're also like six feet tall.

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But he said that part is a serious problem and is absolutely a gateway drug. Interesting, because that is not the take. And this is that a 20 year old in college saying this, which is everybody. I know that and generally most people I know are in libertarian minded. They're like, yeah, pot to be totally illegal. That's just totally not addictive. Not a big deal. It's it's better for you and drinking and there's no reason the pot shouldn't be like available at a vending machine in a high school.

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