072: Pet Bear

Fuckable people. That's why I say you're yellow. And welcome to episode number 72 of Unrelenting June nine, 2023. I'm Darren O'Neil. He is Jim Dooley, duly of the spirit of Ask your question. Who lives? Yeah. You can't even let me say hello before you're interrupting. What kind of man? You're kind of dragging a little bit here. But what's the point of announcing the episode number in the episode? Because people are listening live. And that way, if they get confused, why does Adam Curry do it?

Ask him. I mean, well, I know there's a purpose for commercial shows, right? Because you're selling ads, but we don't sell ads. Don't sell ads and no agenda.

Well, I think he does have and that would have movement, but I'd be happy to ask him the same exact question I'm asking you right now, which is if I'm a listener to this show or any other show, and the first thing they do is say, Hey, welcome to the thing you just clicked them, which, you know, you clicked on because you wouldn't have clicked on it if you didn't know what it was. Sure, Members brings up a good point. I mean, people may be catching up on a show.

You know, they may be listening to this episode in November. This will give them context about when this was recorded. So if we talk about things that are maybe topical to the day, they know, do we announce the day of the recording or just announce the number of the show? We do both. Well, most people do both. We don't have to. I mean, do we say this is what, June 19th, 2000, 26th, ninth and the 23rd? But you're you're close. I'm close. The lack of sleep may be catching up to you.

I mean, I might have slept for a couple of years. I guess you could have Van Winkle yourself. You never know. Yeah, there was a while looking for things to watch, as I do, I'm always looking for new shows. And there was one. I forget where I think it was on one of these streaming services that are so, so popular today with the kids. Hmm. That the concept is a airline flight leaves the. Yeah. For everybody on board. It seems like a fairly normal flight. There's a little turbulence.

They land, and when they land, they find out that they're actually five years later. Somehow the plane has gone in through some. Do I like stories like this? You what? I like stories like that. And it's an interesting concept because you're like, okay, how are you going to take it? And the reviews I saw, people were like, Oh, well, we were hoping it would be more of like personal stories. This is more like Lost in Reverse.

But it's an interesting concept because you're putting people into weird areas. He's talking about Twilight Zone. Well, The Twilight Zone is another show. You know, I like Rod Serling. You're familiar with Lost, right? That was big. Like, what, 15 years? Never watched that. I'm familiar with that. But I it was another one of those shows, sort of like House where I thought I don't like ads. I'm going to wait till this thing's done over with, and then I can just watch the whole.

But you're also like, way too many people are talking about it, so it probably sucks, but may be the case. But either way, it seemed like the subject matter was interesting, but I didn't want to get in the habit of watching something that has ads in it on a weekly basis. Well, you know, there were DVRs even back then. I had those, but there's just too much work pressing the button to skip the 32nd or now don't get. No, you can't be asking me to push no buttons.

I'm Gene. I like the way I watch house is I push one button and then 4 hours later I push another button. Turn off right after five episodes have completed. Yeah, exactly. Is going and going and going. I never made it to the end of last. I don't remember if I only made it through one season. Yeah, it was purgatory that would make sense to me for a while. As you watch the thing, I just give you a big old spoiler for it. Like spoilers, everybody.

If you wanted to watch that show, if you've been waiting to watch Lost for the last 50 years that I know just well, I've also been on the. The balloon And the balloon. Yeah, from life. Oh, I don't remember a balloon. Yeah, there was a balloon that was that landed on the island. That was a it seemed like it was Gilligan's Island. Just brought into a different time, a little bit little build with a little bit of magic thrown in. But I thought that was an interesting concept.

Whether I watch the series or not, it's it's the most interesting because you realize everybody, anybody that was traveling without their spouse, you know, they've all moved on after five years. Well, that that's the lesson. Certainly that castaway taught us. Yeah, well, there is no there is nothing movie ever made, which is why we have air now writing everything, because there's nothing new. They're all just regurgitated ideas. Or we've kind of had manatees writing things for a long time.

So I can't imagine that air is going to be any worse. It could just put the manatees in a room. I thought it was a bunch of monkeys. They say if you let them pound on enough keyboards, sooner or later they'll write some Shakespeare. They'll haven't gotten to that yet, apparently. No, No way. You still have to teach them in talking. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. But yeah, yeah. You saw that South Park episode where they don't know Hollywood and they they see that The Simpsons is written by manatees.

I believe so. South Park fan, Another one. And that was the family guy was written by manatees. South Park. Yeah. And South Park. They had a series of episodes dealing with the boys, going through Hollywood and finding out that the show Family Guy is written by Manatee. I don't know if you're just continually fucking with me because you continually seem to get quieter now. As we've talked for the last few nights, I think maybe your system is just cooling off. Are you falling, you say? Could be.

I just I just update the video driver so that could have a good grave effect on video. Build the audience there. So that's true. But the South Park, aren't they only on like Paramount Plus or something? Now these days, they're well, they're still on HBO for the next six months ish. And then they'll be like, all their new shit is on Paramount, all the options on HBO for now. But that's leaving.

But it's another one of those shows where after like I think 12 or 13, 14, 15 years, I was like, I've seen it. It's all I mean, it's still entertaining, but the park. Yeah, no, it when, when they come out with Napster, it literally deals with the topic from the previous week. I know. But you know, it's been there, done that. I mean it's a show that's gone on, although the it's the animated shows that go on forever. And I get it because the actor stays Right. Right on this.

I was just watching talking about her director with a I now the characters never have to age. I'm waiting for an air that will do that with real life characters that will just lock them in down the very first season. And then, you know, no matter how long the seasons go, they just never changes his whole image to the Tom Hanks. There's somebody else. We have Tom Hanks that he's going to definitely be in movies after he dies, which is weird, right? He's the hardest working man.

He's been working in Hollywood for 60 years, though. I don't blame him. I don't blame him for taking over watching all that so-called bosom buddies. That's the one. Yeah. About the gay pretending to be gay. Go right. See the. I can't make that today to you guys can tell on the whatever it. Uh huh that was groundbreaking at the time It really was. Yeah. And you're like, are they really gay or can they kind of look like they might be? And the hilarity ensued as they pretended to be women.

Yeah, Kind of like Forrest Company. Yeah. Love those shows that pretended to be gay. Yeah, well, in because it was looked at, you know, being looked at as a negative thing. Mm hmm. And I was having that conversation the other day just thinking back to junior high, which for me was like 1983, 1984. And that was the biggest cut down that I can remember at that time was, Oh, you're gay or you're a fag. Mm hmm. And that was the I can guarantee you that 99% of the kids

using those terms had no idea what they meant. Hmm. But that was the main thing at that point. And I would have to go along and blame. That was because of a lot of the entertainment. There is something to be said for how entertainment without a doubt has an effect. The society that watches it or consumes it in whatever way. Well, the irony is a lot of the Hollywood male actors actually were right.

Oh, that I was brought that up on a recent episode of Random Thoughts, how somebody was going back on all of the sitcoms that were problematic now. And one of them was Frasier because of a lot of latent homosexual jokes. And I'm like, Well, half the cast of Frasier was gay, so yeah, if you're going to blame anybody in there that really late in the day. No, I don't. Well, it seems John Mahoney was, from what I understand, I don't follow people's personal lives. No, almost at all. Right.

But it was after he died that, you know, everybody seemed to know there were stories, but it seemed while he was alive, it wasn't a well-known thing. Oh, yeah. But it's a lot laden. I mean, or maybe there is this another gene doesn't know what a word means. My understanding of latent homosexual meant that it was something where they didn't participate in that type of activity in their youth, in their in their youth.

And then as they get older, they they decided that the job boy, I guess I'm going to be one of these people. I guess I'm going to be one of these people that I mean, it's weird because you you know, you you've certainly being our age, you've heard plenty of people over the years saying, you know, homosexuality is not a choice. It's something you're born into, kind of like being a circus performer. And other people certainly seem to make a choice

out of it, though. I nothing that I pay too much attention to. What was Rock Hudson? Was he a latent homosexual or a regular homosexual? Well, I would say a latent cause that would, isn't it? Here, let me look it up here. Yes, that's the topic for the show, guys. Welcome to the unrelenting latent as defined of a quality or a state existing but not yet developed or manifest or hidden or concealed. So if you're gay. Oh, so he was a latent homosexual? Yes.

And you're not concealing it? Yes. If you're not out there telling everybody you are, then you are latent. Aha. Like sabemos a latent podcast. Or he almost tells nobody about his show. Right. Well, he's a smart man and at once, because why do you want more people to come listen? Then they'll only tell you who you're using words incorrectly. Whereas where CSB is is telling everybody that. Tom possibly here? Yes. My brother Gene, my Slovak brother.

Come listen to see, I speak about Miles that all of that llull's. Let's see, SB Dot Lowell. It's his website with all of his very Randy cartoons that you can now I've seen and I've seen some cartoons in there. I'm down there with them now. You could just create them though, by telling Adobe what you want and it just pops up. I've been playing with that thing. It is. It is the most bizarre bit of technology that's come out in a long time. Uh huh. For a variety of different reasons.

The just I just saw an ad from Adobe that started it up there, but it looked like they have a new app that basically creates 32nd videos almost automatically for you out of what the what is the bienstock and voiceover. And it is basically a little meme video videos. Interesting what you want to see. I can believe that because they're pushing their AI product. Mm hmm. And the A.I. product, which I think online, if you want to try it out, there's something called Firefly. Mm hmm.

And that is the technology that is now where that's fairly limited. The the full Monty version of that has been thrown into Adobe Photoshop, at least the beta version as of now. And you can go in and just select, you know, you can create a, you know, square if you want to do your little beams or album artwork for podcasts in that, or you can do a widescreen whatever you want, start out with the canvas you want.

You can select like the bottom half and be like, Oh, grassy area, and then select the top half and say, you know, mountains with snow and it just creates the stuff out of nothing. Well, I'm sure copyright holders will they? It's like, well out of nothing. We'll see. That's where Photoshop in their versions a little bit different because according to Adobe, whether this is true or not, I don't know.

But Adobe is saying everything that they've used to teach their system has been open, source has been no copyright has been completely royalty free, not royalty free, but completely copyright free in the public domain.

So they are standing behind it for people that are paying for their service or they can't reproduce anything that looks newer than they've been fifties AD I think there's a lot out there that is newer than 1950 because there are photographers in that that will take photographs and release them in the to the public domain. Not not really not as many as you'd think because just because you put a photo up online doesn't make it public domain.

No, but there are people that will say I, I don't want any rights to this. I don't know why. But there's a tiny percentage of people that do that. Most people just say nothing. It's also possible that Adobe has enough people working for them and photographers working for them that are part of their deal that they have the rights to use that stuff. Yeah, I mean, they don't need them working for them. They just need to get licenses.

The concept, though, is they're so sure of this that if you're on their business plan, there was an article today where if you get sued for copyright infringement after using this, Adobe will pay for your legal they will have something so then they can offer that knowing full well that companies that would sue an individual would never sue Adobe right that are going like okay, I don't want to because the first thing that happens when you sue Adobe is you lose all your adobe licenses.

Well even with even without that you know it's not going to be a I'm going to roll over and just pay you because this is like the RIAA stuff in the past where it's like, yeah well we have a fine here of $10 million for you, but if you give us 36 bucks today. Yeah, right, exactly. We'll call it even. Exactly. And most people without, you know, not doing well. I don't want to get a lawyer all that they just doing. But you're right if you have adobe behind you yet that keeps that from happening.

Yeah but it's very weird. It's not like having divorce insurance is see this is something you might have needed in the past though. I have. The reverse is true. Okay. Who do you buy this from? It's not State Farm. Is there a You know, I'm not even sure. I can't remember. I've stopped my head because this was a benefit of the company that I was employed by.

So this is a perk of going to work for a company like, Hey, well, you know, you're going to be out, you're going to be out a lot with the guys at the strip clubs and that you're one I'm going to line there. And when I when I was getting divorced, I had three other guys that were working for me, getting divorced at the same time. So that work that this company may have had some bearing on that are totally random.

It just so happens to be the case that everybody seems to be getting divorced at the same time. I guess it's well, it's one of those things where you're like, Oh, he's getting divorced. Why can't I get divorced? Yeah, Yeah. There you go. Exactly. He looks like he's having a lot of fun. Uh huh, uh huh. Yeah. It's a I talk about this in my book. It's a very interesting benefit that it seems like it's not really all that useful until it is.

Which book do you talk about? This. And you have multiple books? I do. I think I talked about it in my latest book with the cover. This latest book with the whole cover. People are going to go they're going to find that quite easily on Amazon by typing in search this book with the yellow cover.

Hey, when we get that book to start paying us to promote it on the podcast, then we'll mention that I SVM Well, technically they can just does it look for the yellow book time somebody by the book pay you so is it wouldn't that be kind of the concept of writing a book? You know not right now. Amazon gets 100% of the money, so I really get them anymore. Yeah, I've got the book right now on the set.

Normally I have it for 20 bucks where I would totally make money, but right now, because of a deal I made with another organization, I'm actually selling the book for the cheapest price that you can sell it to on Amazon. And at that price I make zero. So it's kind of like the ponchos where you're losing money. Well, as you mentioned, it's better than the ponchos because I'm not actually losing money. I'm just giving them away for free. Apparently, I've learned my lesson a little bit.

They don't go upside down anymore. You're moving in the right direction. You're breaking even. So some day I'll actually make it. But why would you want to do that? Ruin. Oh, God, Yeah. You're going to ruin your whole system. I know, I know. So I had the air conditioning guy out there yesterday. Well, how much? How hard can that be? Only leave it at 80 degrees. I know, right? So it was a pro proactive call. Well, that's good. You want to get the condenser coils?

I've had a couple times where, you know, like it's the middle of summer and the alarm and it's not 80 anymore. It's like 85 degrees in the house. And you notice that and you notice that. And no thanks. Happy. I'm not. And so this year I thought, okay, I'm going to call them ahead of time before it's actually that hot outside and make sure everything's pathetic. And that's a fancy word for all your kids.

And yeah, so the guy came out and, you know, I it's funny, too, because, like, he was trying to adjust the thermostat, it was like, hey, this thing doesn't seem to be. It's like going back to a different setting. Like, yeah, they're all computer controlled. What do you want? The temperature. They'll sort of let me know what you want. Like just because there's a thermostat in the wall doesn't mean you can start pushing buttons. Fancy. Yeah. No, the big brother. The cloud tells you what it can be.

The awesome energy tells you what do mostly, though, that's our local power company here. So they went and checked everything. And I told them, you know, it kind of seems to me like you might need to replace capacitor on this thing based on the way that it's running. And sure enough turned out to be the case that he said, Yep, you're it, you've got the cap really well, the minute you tell them anything, even if they don't have to do it, they're going to be like, He's going to do it.

It's like, Oh God, just authorized me to replace the cap. You don't even need tested at this point. No. Yeah. Bad cap. Good call. Good call. Sir, You're you're really smart there. You just figured it out all by yourself, man. I mean, I just. I didn't have to do much. I just. Tell me, what else is wrong, Right? Exactly. I want you to replace three. Tell me what you did tell you versus my bubble here, man. I was thinking that I was like, Hey, I know something about air conditioning.

And it turns out, no, I'm just gullible. Maybe. Or maybe both. You don't know. It's hard to find a good guy. That's not going to take advantage of you when it comes down to a lot of these, you know, cars and all the mechanical stuff, if you don't know about it. Right. So that would be the either way. Just like start by replacing the the headlight word, because I know it's the feels like the lights are a little dimmer. The reason you want to be brighter. And then they go from there.

They're like, maybe you should just clean your head lights off. They're they're a little muddy. Oh, no, they don't do that, though. They replace the headlight face. Got to be you got to keep that stuff top right up. Yep. Got to keep it topped up. I know they've started closing the road filters and the headlights. Uh huh. They started closing the roads for the big NASCAR race here. See how that's cool? That's right. When does that start?

Officially, the the dates are July 1st and second for the two races. What channel is that going to be broadcasted over ESPN or something else? I think it by that point they're switching over. Now it's NASCAR's weird because Fox owns the first half of the season and NBC owns the second. I think it's an NBC race. They switched. So it'll be I'm sure Eclipse will be popping up for free on YouTube.

Oh, no doubt about it. Yeah. We'll see how many people NASCAR has all the people running across the track during the race like, well, yeah, I got to get over there. What are these barriers here for? I'm looking forward to that. And I'm telling you, I don't know if the idea of them muffling the cars is a good idea because you may want people to be able to hear you from like five miles away if they're going to start running on the track.

Oh, they they haven't started allowing electric delivery. No, no. But they're saying they want to get to that by like, Yeah, I saw a blurb about that very I mean, sooner than you would think humanly possible. I thought it was already like this year, but apparently not. No. I mean, they want to start testing some of that stuff. Yeah. And I'm sure they'll give you that. Yeah, I think they totally will.

Because, like, that's actually electric is a much better application for this type of racing because the cars are really light, which means that the batteries don't need to be heavy or big at all either. Well, for the for the open wheel stuff, the cars can be fairly like the NASCAR vehicles are not light. I thought they just had the fake bodies on them. Now these things are still like £3,000. No. Are they really? I thought they were like 5000 pounds. They're heavy.

They are heavy, especially with this new generation seven, which is the concept that nobody has different stuff. You have to buy all the parts from NASCAR. Well, that's not really NASCAR than is it? It's a lot different than it used to be. I mean, wasn't the definition of NASCAR is that it's a production vehicle from a a real car company? Well, that was gone a long time ago. They moved into okay, we have to kind of have a body that looks like the the car that's being produced.

I mean, they started out as literally taking the stock cars. Yeah. Putting some safety there in eggs. It was a stock car with the roll cage. Right. A new engine and exhaust. That was basically a not after a while. And now basically they're giving you most of the parts and all you can really do is, you know, make minor adjustments, which puts the competition at a much closer clip. You know, it's not like somebody is in a car that's going to go 200 miles an hour

and somebody in one that's going to go 100. Mm. So for that part, I get it. You know, I get it for keeping the costs down because part of what really made NASCAR expensive was the innovation, because these teams, in order to win and they could dominate. Well if they came up with a better way to make whatever part, then they were going to have an advantage. I honestly I haven't really watched NASCAR since the old days.

I remember watching Richard Petty and Jeff Gordon, you know, the guys back then, Dale Earnhardt, obviously the current, the current wait without driver or fuel, 30 £200. And that is double the way that I would have expected. Uh huh. Now, for the electric vehicles, you're right. You're going to got to have to make those. It's going to be a car with a very thin roll cage around the, you know, where you'll be able to throw a spin around it.

And the electric is working really well for some open wheel series. Yeah. And they'll get to it with NASCAR. But it's going to be a big question and how the fans react because it's going to be a massive of change because a big part of the fun of going to a NASCAR race was being able to be anywhere near one of these cars when they went by or fired up. Yeah. Yeah.

I think the electric one somewhat more like NASCAR or sorry, like go Formula One Gloria it's like you lose it's like an electric razor going by. Yeah well yeah because those motors are running at over 10,000 rpm. So you're you're up there. So same thing with the electric motors. So it'll be, it'll be a change. I don't know if they're going to get to it as quickly as they want to just because of the length of the races and how far the batteries can actually take you.

It was very weird watching an electric open wheel race a few weeks ago and all the stuff that they were keeping track of on screen, because the nice thing with these cars are the horrible thing depending how you look at it, is everything that happens in the car. Now they have a sensor and the television people have access to a bunch of that. And with the electric ones they had for the race, however long the race was, they have three like super boots. Like imagine you're playing a video game.

Oh, I can imagine that. You know, you can hit the super boost and you get like a super boost for 30 seconds. You only have three of those for the whole race and everybody only gets three. But that's part of the strategy is having a super boost. And I'm like, oh, that's just weird. Now, is that a nitrous injection or what? Well, I wouldn't think so because it's electric. I bet you it's just unleashed like the, you know, just unleashing more of the power right now.

How long until the fans get the control, the Super boost? That would be great if you could just be like, okay, this guy's being an asshole on the track. I'm going to turn his super boost right off. It's like the story when the White Sox back way back in the fifties, where the manager was just so pissed off, he decided to let the people in the stands still manage the game. Hmm. I can see that. Hey, dude, did they do NASCAR? Laguna Seca? I don't believe so, but okay, that's just Formula one.

So they're doing more and more road courses, which some people love. Some people hate. Yeah, I, I think they're pretty good to look. Yeah, they are a different type of racing race as you know from turns from both directions which is good that I don't mind. But as you know from COTA out there by you, that's like a three mile track.

It's like, yeah, for most people that are showing up to watch, you're going to see the cars for like 3 seconds as they go by and then you won't see the rest of the track. Although it was COTA, the one that has a they have like a tower you can go up on that's high enough to see the whole thing. It's like that would I don't like heights so I probably wouldn't like that They're like heights. No. Oh, you're tall. Yeah. I mean, six six is the perfect height to be looking down at the ground.

You start getting much higher than that. I don't know about it, but I do. The road courses are definitely more entertaining. There's usually better racing, but it's a different experience. It's much better. Although a lot of sports are moving this way where it's a television sport, it's not a show up in person sport. Yeah, exactly.

And I've always been a fan of I mean, I like our sports in general, but I always like the rallies, rallies, sports, though, watching the videos from inside the cars or cameras, just them outside the cars as well as helicopter is obviously. Now, that to me is the best way to watch race. Well, yeah. Now they have the drones, which you can get all sorts of different angles. The drones can get a hell of a lot closer than the helicopters.

That's true. Yeah. The helicopters used to be a you know, away from you don't want to fly over a bunch of people and but yeah, rally rally races are always fun to watch because again, the locations are beautiful and they're getting dirty. They're getting some air time. Yeah. You got thousands of horsepower for real drive and you know you're going sideways most of the time, which is, I mean, if you ever watch a dirt race now, those folks, they know how to control the car.

When you hear the people that are professional dirt racers and a majority of the car control, they will tell you, is not from steering, but from using the accelerator. Mm hmm. Yeah, well, that's what I'm talking about, dude. You have thrown it, throwing it in the corner and going. Yeah. WRC, rally racing. You need a car. You need a sponsor to put your book on there. That way you'll get a lot more people to buy it. I had a car. I had a double w, right?

Yeah, That I had a a guy that was actually a mechanic for one of the pro teams that worked on my car. Beat that. And when you, when you showed up and you're like I think that needs a new muffler, I was like, yeah, totally genial. I'll do that next. But you it's yeah, I had a, I have a lot of fun that car. I only did a few rallies myself. I was also a co-driver in the rally, but I, I sold that car because I knew if I didn't sell it, I would die in it. They are not for the meek of heart.

They that car enables you to do things that should not be possible in the car and to become comfortable doing those things. And I remember one of the you know, it was one of the events that kind of led up to me thinking that there was I found myself from a making a a right turn and passing a guy in the right lane while drifting because I still had the momentum from the the right turn. But I was already ignoring the look.

I could see the look on this guy's face as there's a car that is passing him in the left lane that is actually pointing at his car. This doesn't that was not a look. That was a look of what the fuck? Holy shit. I'm dead. Yeah. And, you know, if he would have acted slightly unpredictably, we both could have been dead. Well, this is it. Yeah, that's just one of many. You know, such similar events. You know, that you have the control, but you don't know what somebody else is going to do.

And that's the X Factor there. Yeah. I mean, we went out to dinner with my brother in law a couple of years ago and he was driving and we pulled into this parking lot and there were a couple different like areas that were connected. And the one it was full and he saw a spot and he just like pops this thing in reverse and like goes full bore all the way, way further in reverse.

And I would have wanted to go into the parking space and it's like, Yeah, well he's been driving a UPS truck for like 30 years. Yeah. So I'm like, I guess driving a car is like, you know, you know what you're doing or you're it's mainly, I think, being comfortable with it. As you just said, maybe that's the dangerous part. You put a lot of you put a lot of faith into the fact that you know what you're doing. Mm hmm. And that's always great until something goes poorly. Mm hmm.

That's like, it's all depends what you're used to. If you're used to going balls to the wall through a corner drifting, then, you know, you have control of the car. Now, somebody that's never been in a car that's drifted before, that starts happening. And they go, whoa! And they take their foot off the gas and that's when they die. Yeah, I agree with that. But it makes the racing part fun, that's for sure.

That's not 100% a fan of when they take these big 30 £200 stock cars and put them on dirt like they do in Bristol now for NASCAR, but it definitely makes for some entertaining watching. Yeah, I don't know if it's great racing, but it's entertaining watching. I think it's what everybody loved watching Top Gear's completely crazy races. Yeah. Go try to do something that nobody else has ever done. Go to the I mean, one of the most dangerous races.

I remember hearing about this when we were in Colorado when I was like ten, the Pikes Peak climb. Yeah, Yeah. I think they still do it. They do it. Yeah. And I remember Audi if you do very well in that and a lot of people die when you're racing up a mountain because you got to stay on the track you got to stay out the road. A lot is a relative term but yeah, more than more than other races. We shall see some people die for sure. Pikes Peak, what's it called? Climb Race Dead is at it.

Probably just do Pikes Peak dead. Well, there's a lot of people that probably die for various reasons up there. Uh, let's see here. Oh, I guess seventh death, the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb associated with the Broadmoor. Yeah, that's where I was staying when I was ten. Uh, so, yeah, I mean, maybe a few deaths there. Yeah, not too bad. Maybe only seven overall. I mean, it seems like it should be more as a 20.

I think there's more after that, but yeah, it's, that's the thing is I think there's a lot more accidents than people die. Not every accidents is a death. True. You could just roll your car down and watch that race, especially from a drone. It is insane because there's about nine feet of road with a steep drop off ledge and no guard on it. And if you just miscalculate your car's momentum a little bit, at least one of your wheels is going to be in the air. Yes.

And it's also obviously the race is uphill. So that that adds to the I mean, in some ways it's great because it slows down the speeds. Imagine doing that race downhill. You'd have a lot more deaths. Oh, yeah. The heat, it's uphill. And so it's the serious work out on the cars. Yeah, you got to make those things. So they last. That's the hard part now. And you got to have a turbo. Otherwise you're not breathing enough oxygen. I have no name in the program using Brave.

I says as of June 9th, 2023, there have been six recorded deaths at Pikes Peak, including two drivers, three motorcyclists and one race official. Oh, official that last year you had to be in a very unlucky place at a very unlucky time or something for that to happen. Yeah. Yeah. The altitude that gets. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't even notice. But you're right. Brave inserted an eye into their thing, too. This is hilarious. And I have not even.

I have not tried that I've been using brave have not even noticed that I've been using Nivea. And, you know, they're shutting down. Yeah, but the Adobe thing, I'm telling you, that is really bizarre technology. It it just blows my mind. It's one of those things where it used to be, you know, back in the day you get like a new computer game or something and time would just fly by. You're like, Holy shit, was I doing that for 4 hours?

I'm just messing around with this is the same kind of a thing for me because you could just select random things in a picture. You can tell it to put different things there, and it does it in a way that most of the time right off the bat just works. And for the times that it doesn't, you know, you generated a few more times than it does. And it's weird because sometimes it tells me I can't do things because it violates their terms of service and other times it just kind of ignores it.

Yeah. Yeah. Pork chops. Do you want to get pork chops? Are you ordering your flour? I'm just doing my shopping. It's been a while since I've had pork chops. Hmm. I had some air fryer chicken yesterday. Delicious. That's always good, though. You can't screw that up. It's hard to. I mean, now that you. What, you throw a breading on the chicken, and I like just taking it. Some people like I just put it through a little bit of egg.

I like to just take a little bit of mayo lightly, coat the chicken breast, put it into the to the breading, and then you throw that into the air fryer. And once the outside starts getting a little bit crispy, you know that the inside they'll be more than done. The pork chops. That sounds good. I could do a pork chop. I like the really super thin one. Well, they cook quicker. They cook quicker. So I and, you know, I kind of make a hybrid the a schnitzel of them for

a good old pork schnitzel. Mm. I've been addicted to some shawarma lately. I've never had shawarma in my life. Trump is pretty good. I like chicken more than beef, though. I really haven't tried the chicken yet. Hmm. I've tried the beef with pickles. Pickles? The pickles make it. I like the beef with the pickles and the rice. We get them in a bowl. I mean, you can also do it wrapped up in the pita, but they make it good. You warm a bowl? Mm hmm.

Was not something I was all that familiar with, but delicious. But have you noticed taurine is everywhere in the news now? Oh, yeah. I have, like, Holy crap. I just. I start taking the stuff like, two or three months ago, all of a sudden. Oh, you probably noticed it more since you started thinking. And I would imagine, of course, because it's like, otherwise I was like, Wow, that's always in the article because the media sucks like a, well, a well known energy drink ingredient.

And it's like, well, it may be that I don't drink energy drink, so I would have never paid any attention to that. Yeah, that's I think that's kind of the whole point of, of the thing there with that drink called Red Bull. Red Bull. It gives you wings. Uh huh, Mm hmm. Such a stupid do. And yet we both remember it. Yeah. And they're keeping it. I mean, they've kept it for years. I mean, it's very insensitive to people that don't have wings.

Well, and it's also for the people that their hearts explode because they drink too much of it. I mean, taurine to do that, they don't want to give you the the tagline of red Bull. It'll give you cardiac arrest. That's less of a selling tagline. Uh, yeah, I can see that being not a horribly popular tagline for buyers, but the at least the taurine is not the part that makes your heart go nuts. No, in the energy drinks. And I was lucky.

And because like the United States I like always they are behind on looking into any of these things they just put every yeah you're on your own. If you want to take a supplement, you're on your own. But it looked like the European Union, they were like, Oh yeah, between four and six grams a day of taurine are safe, which I've been taking like four grams. Yeah, well, I don't even take one gram. What's a thousand milligrams tablets?

I pop two of those babies in the morning, one sometimes during the day and one at night before gone to bed. Wow. The palpitations have disappeared though. So there's that. Oh, that's got to be it then. That was where I was doing the research. That's where I found the taurine was like, Well, in a study. Yeah, but do you not eat any foods at all that have brain? Um, well, I'm sure I do. I mean, there's, it's in meat and seafood, so. Yeah, cause I like, usually like the salmon fillet every day.

I eat salmon. I would like that. You know, I haven't tried that in a while. I have it. It's been a while because everybody's like, Oh, it's salmon is great. A grilled salmon. You can't beat it. I'm like the best fish I would have. I'm not really a big fish fan. That maybe is the problem. You could get it smoked digging, get it blade so you can cook it on your grill. You can do all kinds of stuff as I like. Yesterday I was replaced by a ton of raw salmon. And you stayed up all night.

You see, Maybe that's the reason I don't like. That's why I probably drink too much tea, is probably why that could do it, I would imagine. But it's. Yeah. Went to the only f the surprising. That's the only one but the only sushi place in Austin that has a pretty cool thing is if they run an escalator if they conveyor belt. Oh you want the one where the the food just comes to you automagically. Yeah. Yeah exactly.

So the food all just kind of drives by you on the conveyor and you grab whatever you want and then the drinks are brought to you by a robot. Now somebody's just watching you very carefully that though, what you have to be charge at the end of this meal, kind of. So you, you know, all the food is on little plates and there's a slot on the end of your table and then there's your booth where you put in the plate when they're when you're done with them. And each plate is a chart. Yeah, yeah.

So if you just get rid of the plates, you're good shape. Yeah. If you take the plates with you then three you like. I didn't have anything. Mm. We used to have a place like that here. Now it's a mexican joint, but it used to be a kids kind of restaurant that had a train that delivered your food. That was the big thing. Kind of the. Oh, you could have your, you could have your hotdog and fries delivered by a train. Kids. It just went around the table. Simpler times, I guess.

You see, we that has a lot of to worry about. The another thing that I don't eat would be seaweed. I mean eat them and there's a lot of things I'm okay with that either. Yeah. So sushi has 1.3 grams of taurine per 100 grams, you see. So it's no big deal to be taken three or four grams a day. I probably had like half a pound of it last night. Then a few plates of sushi. The ice cube soup says he takes 1 to 10 grams of during the day and he uses it in his sleeping potion. Wow.

What is what's in that potion? Okay, now we need to hear about that because at least one of us wasn't sleeping last night. Could use something. Yeah, you need that. The wife has the same problem. I rarely have trouble getting to sleep. I mean, that's almost never When I run into problems every now and then is, you know, getting up to, like, four in the morning. And then it's like, Yeah, you're not falling back asleep. Mm hmm. That's more of an issue.

Otherwise, I'm the guy, you know, especially now that one. It's getting warmer, too. Been doing at least an hour on the bike every day. I'm the guy now that, like, 930 is like, Jesus. I know it's helping, old man. Now, that's. That's good. I, I mean, I might do that, like, immediately after dinner time and then take a nap for a couple hours. Then I'm back a week after that. Uh Yeah. These.

So this guy had sushi with the guy I used to work for me back in the nineties, Believe it or not, back when I had my software company and so he ended up moving to Austin like five years after I did, I think. And so we try to catch up like once or twice a year we'll get together for lunch. Yet most of Gene's friends, they like to catch up at least once every year or two. Yeah, exact. That's exactly right.

Now, what you and I haven't gotten to the point where we would refer to each other as friends yet, so we haven't really gotten together for lunch yet, I'm understanding. Is that too much Gene is way more dangerous than too much. Taurean Gene has a lot of friends, so Gene's got a moderate, is meeting up with them. Gene's got to go, he's got to slice himself a little thinner. Yes. That there's a joke in there or something. Yeah. You could it yourself. I don't get it.

We don't, we don't do everything for you here. I unrelenting in there. No. Yes, exactly. You want to laugh during the show? Make a joke. But I'm funny. But I'm putting exactly though. Oh, it was pretty good stuff though. I. I enjoy it. I don't think the sushi is as good. Obviously in the conveyor belt sushi place as it is in the sit down sushi places. And I usually like that right at the sushi bar and tell the guy what you want.

Yeah, tell him how to make it and stuff, you know, because that sushi staff, while sushi they love they love when you're done with the Yeah yeah I'll share with you tell them the fact this this same dude that we get together for sushi now about nine months ago per year we got together at a different sushi place and I happened to that particular time. I know you're going to be shocked. I had ordered all the sushi that I had ordered was off the menu. Oh, they knew that too.

It wasn't at all on the menu. Every single bit of sushi was a custom order and yeah, they really enjoy that. I mean, like, I know the waiter said, No, I'm sorry, we can't do that. Well, let's let's go talk to the head, the head chef, like I bet you he knows how to make this. And I. Yeah. And I said, No, This waiter tells me you don't know how to make sushi that I would like. Well, I like that. I like that. The waiter says you're not really good at your job, so. Huh. Uh huh.

So how about I give you his tip instead? And you, you prove to him that you're capable of making custom sushi, as per my request. And then when he was totally up for it. And so he, I think, very, very happily picked the challenge up to make sushi that he'd never before it. Nice now Ryan Beemer is does want some clarification if everybody that has sushi with you is your friend. Oh yes absolutely. I would only have sushi with somebody who's a friend because and I can tell you why.

Sushi is one of the easiest foods to get poisons from. And so if you happen to be on the list of people who I have partaken sushi with, that means there's a certain level of trust that exists. You guys are having like a death. Yeah, exactly. We go out, we're going out together and. Well, you know why Bryan's asking? Oh, yeah, Because you've just got to sit with him. Yeah, Yeah, Actually. But to be fair, neither one of you paid for it. That's true. We both.

We both managed not to pay you to our podcast is totally true. Well, and I didn't really pay for the sushi yesterday either. See? There you go. So I guess that's my other rule is going to sushi and having other people pay for. Well, especially when you're going for the off the menu. Expensive stuff. Uh, yeah, nothing better, but I didn't necessarily think so. I just said off the menu. Now, Ice Cube Soup has his sleeping potion listed, which is one milligram of melatonin.

Okay, 500 milligrams of Niacinamide don't know. That is Niacinamide. Yeah, that's in my. Yeah It's a big 100 milligrams of L-Theanine Oh, yeah, I got that stuff too. I think 750 milligrams of GABA GABA Yeah, a thousand milligrams of glycine and generally a scoop of orange powder about 2000 milligrams use as much scoring as you want and you don't have valerian root in there with the help of sleeping potions that you guys should get together and come up with that I do that. I love wearing it.

Now. Ambrose says his sleeping potion is just an ethanol in barley solution. Yeah, I don't do those anymore. GM is on the no drink November for like two and a half November years. It's been a while I could tell you exactly. Are inspired, Ben. Not quite 18 months and no drinking nights. It's probably been about close to that for me too, although I've never been a well, I want say never been a big drinker because I worked retail and those are the two seem to go together.

But after quitting working retail now that was yeah, that was the night before we went to pick up I think, the engagement ring for the wife and went out with a buddy after work and we had a drink at Circuit City. Now, it should have been though, because we couldn't even finish what we were just trying to guess how many drinks had we went to a bar, like a sports bar after the shift and we're which I really I don't think I've ever drank since. Which would be SOCO and orange juice. Mm hmm.

I mean, I think probably had like 15 of those. Hmm. Yeah. I mean, it was a lot. It was. Are you a fan of the Southern Comfort? Probably not. Since then, I haven't had much, but, I mean, I don't mind one of my. One of my favorite drinks that I drink a lot after I went to bartender school was Alabama Slammers. Now? Yeah. What's in that? Oh, yeah. The Alabama slammer is. I'm it up. Yeah. No, I'm not liking that. I don't see that slogan. It's got Southern Comfort and it's got something.

It starts with an A. I don't think it's amaretto. Maybe is or it could be amaretto if it's sweet, but I remember the hint for is for an Alabama slammer with s. There you go. Did you want to slam that ass? That's right. As one does. But pretty much since the you know, especially since the arrhythmia started last year, and that's when they, you know, the cardiologist are just like the kid. You were like, oh, you shouldn't even be drinking any caffeine.

And he's like, yeah, I don't care about the caffeine. But the booze. No, don't don't do alcohol. That's way worse. I mean, I would not fully agree with that assessment. I think I think the alcohol is worse in the long run since like it's it has both effects on your brain and on your heart. Right. But caffeine has an immediate effect on your brain controlling your heart. And the cessation of caffeine is a very quick and easy way to determine the impact.

Where eating, drinking of alcohol is not going to give you an immediate result. So I think I mean, you know, I said it back then, I'm I'm sticking to it is sticking with your theory. I'm sticking to it that I think that if if you're experiencing negative effects, something's changed for the worse and that you're concerned about removing caffeine for a couple of week period to see what effect that has. Seems like a no brainer. Oh, that makes sense. And I have cut down.

I'm down to like two or three a day, two or three shots for what do you drink caffeine in with coffee. So, I mean, it's just, you know, your little literally coming out of the Keurig now. Yeah. And so I remember a time when I used to buy caffeine in powdered form. Oh, yeah. Well, I remember when balls came out the first that was the first energy drink. It was totally gamer. So they weren't referred to as energy drinks now, but it was a precursor of them.

No, but I'm going back further here to the eighties. Uh, we had that thing called. It was. I'm picturing a jolt. Oh, right. Jolt Cola, baby. Where they were twice the caffeine, all the sugar and twice the caffeine. That was their their tagline. Uh huh. Imagine getting away with a tagline like that today. Be a lot harder now. You'd have to say jolt energy, drink all the cola twice the caffeine. Right? And actually, I think it was the other way around.

I think it was twice the sugar and all the caffeine allowed by law. Yeah, it was a lot of I think that's what it was, is it was more than double the caffeine of regular COLAs. And it was it was the double sugar and all the caffeine. And it's not something you would drink every day. But I certainly bought plenty of jolt. Thanks, Joe. Now I have fucking diabetes because of you, right? It's their fault. And you were a little giddy, too, obviously. Uh, I'm probably more fidgety.

But see, back when we were you, being fidgety was not considered a sign of mental retardation the way it is. They. Well, they. Yeah, they definitely look at things a lot differently. Yeah. Like, you know, being fidgety just means you're bored. Where now, if you have a kid that's fidgety, you got to put them on some heavy duty narcotic type drugs. Well, well, they. Yeah, that's what they want, because that's where the big money is. Yeah. Put five year olds on Ritalin these days.

Well, yeah, because they need to be. I mean, that's it. That's the theory as you possibly deal with the five year old, unless they're really. Uh huh. Well, disgusting. And then if you're if you're, you know, a six year old boy gets up one day and puts on your earrings, mom, then of course, he's trans. Oh, yeah, that's a girl for sure. He got to try putting earrings on. It's got to be a girl. Yeah. You got to medically handle these things as quick as you possibly can.

Yeah. If you don't castrate your kids, then you're a bad parent. Yeah. You are not trying to. You're not trying to even be a good parent to that point. Oh, shit. I think it just over tip. But wait, what do you mean? I took the default tip. I forgot, but it's zero. I've got the wait. What? Okay, so what is the now? This is ordering from a grocery stores. Are you ordering lunch? Yeah, Grocery store. And what is this? Because the tipping culture has gotten out of control.

Oh, it's reported yesterday. This is a perfect example. Yesterday, after the sushi stop at a a boba place, a couple of white chicks working there, hardly working as usual. And the girl comes over the register and I give her my order, pushes three buttons on the machine. My buddy gives his orders another button because he just basically duplicated my order. So there's the quantity of to hit the button to do the the pricing, which was 12 bucks for two broken drinks.

And then she asked me with a straight face, and would you like to include a $3 tip on this? I was like, No tip for what? I gave you the ingredients that I want in there. Some you know, somebody else is making it. Why the fuck it to her? The it's totally out of control, man. People are expecting tips for things they shouldn't be getting tips for, like food vary in the amount keeps getting raised.

Well it's the default definitely is the defaults went from like an ubereats they went from no tip was the default so you got to punch in a manual tip to like having a 10% tip as default and then it went to like 15% as the default and now you're seeing 20% as a default. Yeah. If you don't offer 30, they're not even taking your order. Now that's bullshit because I've done these tests and I find that the only difference between putting in a default tip and no tip at all is a 15 minutes on delivery.

Interesting. The fact that it's no different is is a no. It's definitely different. It's not the same for sure. But you can actually you can you can beat that with the system though. Instead of a tip, you can do a pay for accelerated delivery anywhere. I gotcha. And then you get as fast delivery as if you gave a good tip. But for only three bucks, they're not calling you the tip, though it's expressed deliver is express delivery. Exactly. That's exactly right. Then the interesting interesting.

Yeah. So, you know, I like I did my stint working as a pizza delivery guy when I was in high school. And you. I mean, you believe that the pizza guy should get something, But I've always given the pizza guy two bucks no matter what. Zero. Well, not always, because it's a it's a smaller sampling from the last few years. I'm up to five bucks no matter what for a pizza. Now, I don't care how much you're paying for a pizza. Let's start with that. Well, most of the time, I mean.

Exactly. Yeah. I mean, an order could be anywhere between on average, I would say 30 to 50 bucks. Oh, well, yeah, you should. Yeah. I was talking about like Domino's where the pizza is like six bucks, right? Yeah. If the pizza is five bucks, you tipping eight bucks, you should be ordering from a better pizza place. Uh huh, yeah. That's why to do bikes for three bucks there. But there's been that argument going forever between delivery versus a waiter slash waitress in.

When you go and have a sit down meal. Yeah, I will. I can see the case being made for both. People want to say that the waitress in the restaurant is doing more work. That is usually true, I think because you're coming back and forth a few times and if you're paying for different things, I think for pizza delivery, what your what I've always paid for and what I think most people have is as quick a delivery as you can get away with.

If I still don't break laws, but get here as soon as you can because the pizzas have get me a hot, crispy pizza. So you're not the car is doing the work right now, the driver, but your driver is in charge of how quick he gets there. So if I'm the first stop, you get a bigger tip than if if it shows up an hour later and it's not part of you more, then you get a very small tip. Now, with the restaurants, I think it's not I don't really pay for fast delivery of food at the restaurant.

What will affect the size of the tip is how attentive they are and notice things like, Oh, I'm almost out of my feet, maybe that should get refilled. Oh, yeah. The you know, I just go down the menu, so maybe you should come over now and ask me if I'm ready to order and not interrupt me while I'm talking with other people. You know, it's basically. How good are you at your job of noticing things as a waitress? Yes. Oh, yeah, I, I only tip women. So that's why I'm saying waiters.

If it's a waiter, you're like, Fuck you. I'll. Yeah, I'm sorry. If you're a waiter, you're in the wrong profession. Jean's just writing a tip. In this case, get a new job is his tip. That's right. Yes. Yeah, there's a there's a line for that tip. I just want to get a new job. May I learn to code? I mean, I thought it was hilarious when we were going into the wife and I, a little restaurant here weekly. Of course, that all stopped around COVID, and then everything got crazy out of it.

But there was a waitress, a very cute waitress in there that we got a tip for you. Yeah, well, you definitely tip for cute and, you know, it was one of those things where was our waitress? Quite a bit. Now, there was one day. I mean, I was just laughing hysterically on this one because she comes in. Oh, hey, guys, how you doing? And she says to me, Oh, iced tea, right, Mike? Yeah, because I was ordered an iced tea. Wife always ordered a Diet Coke, so she knew I wanted iced tea.

Had no idea what the wife wanted. Oh, was there somebody there with you? Right, Exactly. Like who sits with you and then it came back. I mean, it was like a wife's drink or something was forgotten. And I'm like, I think she's just fucking with you or something. That's a bigger tip, man, Right? This. Yeah, just. Just keeps going up and up and up. Uh huh. I remember my.

My ex-wife used to give me shit like that. If. If we ended up getting a really pretty waitress, she'd be like, So she's getting the 20, right? I'm like, At the very least, I think she is. Yeah, you're right. Does it matter what we order? It's, uh huh, well, it's. It's whatever the excessive tip amount would be. It's like when you're well above 20% for a tip. That's. That's called a tip.

I remember one time I had a manager run after me out of a restaurant because we didn't leave at the and, you know, he got is like, oh, what? Was there something wrong with the meal? You know, that was the issue. You So what do you mean? It's like, well, you just noticed, you know, you guys didn't leave a tip. I'm like, Oh yeah, yeah. Okay. So the wife was supposed to leave a cash tip and I was I was I just paid for the meal, so I blame it on her, which is very funny.

That's one thing you don't have when you're not married. It is you don't have that immediate person to blame. Right. That's one of the negatives of being single. But yeah, it's I don't know. I would not say I'm a ridiculous, outrageous stripper by any stretch. I think I'm probably average, but I don't tip everybody the same. I definitely tip some people more than others. And I did tip certain experiences or services more than others. So I'm I kind of spread it.

It's a bigger range where some people are always like exactly 15 or 20%. I would be more than that for some and less than that brothers. And I think that's perfectly fine then where they probably make up on this in the long run. I do have a bit of a disdain for the restaurants that come out with, and the latest one was a the Mexican restaurant here that the new company just bought the place. We had been going into for years out and the food actually better. It's great.

But when they come into, they give you your check and when you want to pay it, they just bring the little computer thing right to your table. Mm. And part of that is, you know, one the waitresses standing there because you've got their expensive little device. Mhm. And it's like well you sign it and then it has the little things that pop up, you know. Do you want a tip. 15%, 18%, 20%. And one the waitress are waiters standing right there. So you feel like a dick.

But I feel like as somebody who normally figured it out by it's easy enough to do the math in my head to figure out 20%. I would always round up, you know, most of the time, unless the service was bad. Like I think you're leaving shit on the table because if I'm, you know, just say a 50, you know, if it's a $55 thing, I'm like, Oh, well, that's like, okay, I'll leave 12. You know, it's like if you give me the exact 20%, it's probably going to be less than it would have been.

Yeah, because, you know, when you're writing it, you know, you feel like idiotic. You want to run, but it's easier. Yeah, right. I totally get that. I don't know. I mean, I don't really care whether they bring the thing to me or not. I don't mind saying in front of them, they're not getting it. So what are they going to do? I'm done with my food. That's not the annoyance. That's just the extra added bonus of this new Oh, here's 15%, here's 18%, here's 20%.

And I'm like, what's going is 20% is the lowest that they show. Okay. Yeah, that's well, that may be the new thing as well. Would you like to do 20 or 30 or 50% that or if you like to leave 100% tip, you can just press this. But you know it's it's all these damn YouTubers that are making content by giving money away. I just watched on video the other night when I couldn't fall asleep. It was Mr. Beast giving away a car. It would tip after meal and so he had his food or whatever afterwards.

So what's the biggest tip you ever get? An inch does eight inches $50 and? Yeah. Amazingly, she didn't crack a sex joke. I think that's where I would have gone. Oh, I know. That's totally where you would have gone. So does, oh, $50. And he says you never get in the car tip. It's like, no. So he gives her a set of keys and it's like. But that these are car keys, not a car.

Yeah. When you go outside your car in the parking lot and, and then you know, walks over to her new car as blatantly pointing out there are taxes involved or did he cover those as well. So that's a very good question. I don't know the answer to, I would imagine. Yes, because otherwise a lot of people would simply turn around and sell the car immediately just to pay the taxes. But now, here's the thing with the car, there is taxes.

But now if you if you also pay the taxes, is you paying the taxes also more of a gift, which means you now have to pay taxes on the taxes you do. Absolutely. Well, you know, I don't know. You have to pay income tax on the value of, the car or. No, I guess I should. Yeah, you would. You would have to pay both income tax and sales tax on the car and the income tax and the additional cash that covers tax the the sales tax on the car.

So they get your man now we pay at least 40% of our income is tax. That's kind of the way the system set up we are that's why we're selling anything now. PayPal once you're up to the point to where PayPal is going to generate a tax form for you, you can no longer sell anything on eBay. You know, most people, if you're under that threshold, you're not going to get the tax. I think it's $600. They would try. That was it was up last year. They they threatened the 600 and then they they got scared.

It was back up to like $20,000 or something. They probably at some point we'll get to that 600. I'm pretty sure I go up to 29 from from PayPal. And I, I thought wasn't less than 2000 bucks. Well, they may have screwed you because I tried to get a tax form and I couldn't. But you tried to get yeah PayPal was like you don't you know, it didn't qualify, which I don't know. I was like, I figured I'd qualify. I figured at that point, as long as they're not sending it to the IRS, I'm probably okay.

But I yeah, I unfortunately, I don't want those kind of hassles. And my tax guy's like, Well, how much did you do? So I gave them the information and I was selling your dad's used stuff. Well, between that had all of the fucking podcasting donations that come in. But yeah, we're getting donations though. We're not. You're getting the. Yeah, I get way more donations than that. This show, I was like, Wait a minute, What are you talking about? Donations? I don't.

I mean, I don't want to sound like the guy that's complaining that nobody donates because our Buddy Dale in Australia has been doing a great job and came in last show. But it was to the point before the show began today, I was like 5 minutes before the show. I'm like, Oh, I should probably look and see if we got any donations. This is oh, for every other show I'm looking at. I know because there's got to be a few of them for this show.

The the default is now like, well, nobody's it's GM, so nobody's going to be exactly in nobody's going to be doing that. But I mean, I just pulled up the get Albi account and of course our buddy comic strip blogger is going to be our one and only donor today at like a dollar, you know, it's like a dollar split between two of us that might get to 5015 Satoshis $1 buys three words. Yeah, that's pretty much which is all he wants because it's just visit air dot cooking. That's words.

Son of a bitch. She didn't buy three words. That's all he wanted. Air dot cooking. Uh huh. Air news and prompt engineering tips. See, that's what I need, though, because I want to know how to make these things do what I wanted to do. And do you really. You just need to hire somebody to do the premise for you. Yeah, that's true. That. Well, that's why there are a better way to do it.

You know, the thing you needed to do, there's already people when it comes to the the writing there are very specialized and and and those people don't actually do it.

They just use another guy that's meant specifically for generating programs for other is right that they all get that through generated the I think it's generated that is the air that makes creates prompts the adobe stuff is very easy to do once you realize that you can throw you know extra things in there like I made one up the CSB likes to think he's a Pomeranian dog and I wanted to do a quick little drawing. Oh, I'm pretty sure he doesn't think he's a Pomeranian.

He is a Pomeranian. No, I'm really sure he doesn't think he's a dog. He's one of them little puppies things. The little boy. They're very cute, very furry. They're little puff balls. And but I added that into Pomerania is a place. You know that, right? Really? Like Poland is at a place. Well, I mean, you could be sure you can make the argument for at least it's been around long time. Yes.

Unlike Ukraine. But yeah so he I think he is from that region in Poland of Pomerania but I typed in poorly draw an oh, I'm Iranian typing on keyboard and it just spit it out like that and it's shot you got a photo of CSB pretty much. And I used it for my random episode this week and the CSB liked it because he tweeted that over I no you know agenda social.

But the reality is when you look at what no agenda has been doing for artwork and for anybody that has their own podcast, if you have Adobe, it's very easy now to generate your own. Now it is as long as you have an idea because all you have to do is type a few words in and maybe it takes a couple of button presses, but you'll get something usable.

I've never been a fan of the style of a lot of the artwork for No Agenda, like having having had a lot of photos that I've shot over the years, you know, end up and free photo searches and stuff. I was always very conscious of copyright. And so I think that show up about five years ago. I think that no agenda, you know, John, that I made a significant increase in the level of expectation that they had.

But if you look at the a lot of the covers from the first seven years, it was it was like 90% stuff that somebody else clearly had done with about 10% of tweaking on top of it. To me, agonize it a little bit, right? Slight change by putting it on there and like that. To me, that's not credit worthy of artwork. That's not artwork. That's the tweaking that they it's the kind of shit that I don't think would stand up in the quarter walls put it that way.

Now, when CSB took a picture of Melania Trump and just added two lines to it to show a accentuated birtherism line. Mm hmm. I thought that was genius, and I thought that was more of a I don't know if you could say parody, but it was, you know, it was enough. And it's hard to say what is enough of a change to it. It's I don't think it's that hard to say. Mean has transformed the image from what it was through something different.

Well, that's where I think Melania's biggest features are her breath to begin with. That's hard to say that highlighting them with significantly changed the nature of the image itself. Well, and that percentage of what is being changed is what's going to make this Adobe stuff so very interesting. Yeah, yeah.

Because you can easily make small changes to things Well and but Adobe if they're using licensed images as their base models they said they're making three but they have the ability don't have the same level of standard. So This this level of standard is only like it only matters if you're using somebody else's material copyrighted material against their will.

But if you take somebody's photo and just add something to it and they don't want you using it, well, there is a certain amount of fair use, but it's all depending on, again transformative. Has to be transformative. Yeah. Or, you know, for if it's usually for text rather than photo other than transfer of it could also be a parody is a legitimate you know use of stuff like it same night live using actual names or places or events rather than creating fake names for everything.

Well, anyway, there's a a song called My Stick. Are you familiar with my stick? I'm not. I don't have kids. There is. Well, there's just I forget even what it was set to the Amazon device was set to another song and for to wake me up Alexa I mean yeah and shut everything down. Shut everything off and like, stop this song played after it. And I'm like, That's a little weird. And I looked it up. It seems if, if it's a song that was aimed at kids, it's a song about my stick.

If you, if you get now if you go to YouTube there's a very funny video my stick bad lip reading and it's Yoda and the bad The Bad Lip Reading Channel has great video. I agree. But they're taking obviously, video footage that's parody that completely falls into parody. Does it, though? Yeah. Is it They're not doing none of their lip readings are serious. They're all funny. That makes them parody. Yeah. Absurd memories. Just iso the. Are you familiar with my stick?

Yeah, that's that's going to show up on the store. There's great there's the show. You know, speaking of speaking of your other shows, I listen to a little bit of your other co-host. They're on purpose by accident. Okay. I clicked on something accidentally and and all I heard was, is. Oh, you mean Larry? Yeah. Yeah. And I was like, God damn, I wish I understood what you were saying, because then, you know, I could appreciate it, but I just. I don't know how you people can hear that lower pitch.

That's all I'm saying. If you try to EQM, you try to bring them up, it's it's just that natural. It's hard to beat that. Well, I mean, you might need some hearing aids if you're going for it, I suppose. I probably do need a hearing aids. I'm getting up there and I know the highest pitch that I can hear right now. I did a test recently is just under 10,000 hertz. Really? Yeah. That's crazy. That's the highest I can hear here.

That would that because I took one of these online tests and I was way higher than that were. Yeah. Yeah, I think I was way higher than that. Like a years ago because I, I did a bunch of the hearing tests when Adam first got his hearing aids is he was like, oh, you got to check out what you're hearing is like and and mine was better than they expected. I don't think it is anymore. I think it's exactly where I expected now, though. It's just screwed.

Well, I mean, really, is there anything that's relevant that's under 60 hertz or above 2000 hertz? No. I mean, you should be able to you should be able to hear speech. Speech is not above 2000 hurt. I'm just saying, if you're in that range, you should be fine, too. To understand that I was looking I thought there was a hearing test somewhere. And I have really good hearing in terms of sensitivity. It's just that the frequency range is going down, right, Because the higher it gets.

Yeah. Cause those little tiny hairs inside of your ears are the first ones to fall out. Then you can no longer here. Yeah, but I don't think that again, it's like that frequency can reduced a lot without any major negative side effects I think.

I think the problem like for what Adam's got and other people that were exposed to loud music isn't that they're losing their high range which they are as well but that they they lose whole bands of frequencies inside the the good hearing range, you know, like between 60 hertz and 2000 hertz. Let's see here. I've got that being missing a bunch of those. Yeah. Then you're going to have trouble hearing there's one that just keeps going up and up and up.

Let's see, 4000 hertz can definitely hear 5000 hertz. When will this stop? Wouldn't go that. That's a painful 7000 hertz. Yeah, 8000 can hear it. You really are better off doing it through headphones. So I am got those phones out. Okay. 10,000. That's still painful. 11,000? Yeah. Okay. Maybe about 12 five. It goes away. I think that's about where I was like, a year ago. Dammit. No wonder I keep jacking up the high end. Where does that open air frequency that I want to hear so much?

Yeah. I mean, really, when you get to be your age, you shouldn't be using your ears for doing. You should using a in looking at the drill here. Yeah, exactly. Spectral analysis. Yep. Yep. Use your eyeballs. Oh, shit. You don't have those, right? The problem is, what do you. What are you down to? Up, down. Get easier, fingers up. But. Yeah, but you figure everybody listening to these shows are as old as we are, so they should hear exactly the same way.

No, because that's the problem is they're all as old as we are. They're hearing is way worse. So you combine bad hearing with your lack of ability to hear when you're doing it, queuing, combined their bad hearing and the final product, then we're in trouble. You are listening to the On Religion program here on NPR. You do what everybody. Well, the NPR isn't going to be that muted. They've got a very, very dry, clean sound. Yeah, with their no human mikes.

Hello NEWMAN Yeah, Yeah, I have one of those at one. Oh, yeah. You you were trying to I was trying to buy one of those and then somebody. Yeah. Well you were hemming and hawing and so I saw on eBay, but you were like, I was like, Hey, you want it? I'm going to get rid of it on eBay as a guide. No, that's too much money. 400 bucks. That's a lot of money for a mike. I didn't breathe. I know. I didn't need it, though. That's the problem. No, I didn't either. That's why you got rid of it.

I wouldn't know. Even they make good gear. They do make good. And I think for virtually everybody needing to record speech, that is complete overkill. Oh, well, as are most of the dynamic microphones. I mean, you can get away with a lot less. Mm hmm. They certainly add to it and they bring other things, as we've talked about, not picking up as much room noise being very good with plosives. That's why I like the RC 20. It's very good with plosives.

Yeah. Even with the false recording, I think it's better. Well yeah, but the c the 320 it's more plosives, although you don't have that issue because obviously you understand mike placement. Yeah. My mike just touching my nose. That's my placement now. Yeah. To speak right in and give me a please bring pizza pronto. Please bring. Pizza pronto. That's not a problem. That's not a problem. You got it at the right angle. You're not speaking right into the capsule. There's no doubt about it.

I'm. I'm five degrees angle. But how far away, how many inches My nose is touching the mike. How do you do that? That doesn't make sense. How does it look? I might have eye noses touching the mike. This is very uncomfortable. It's. No, it's not, because the kitchen's soft. Oh, so you got the ball on it again? I put the ball back on. Yeah, I had just had to wash it from get all the food off of it and stuff. See, I got no ball.

Oh well big balls would have some problem but it's going to be iso too. This is an ISO fest today. If anyone cares, I'm unrelenting. The Yes I know it's it is literally. I mean, I'm not physically touching it, but let me just touch you right now. Right now I'm actually touching it. I'd say I'm probably less than one centimeter my nose away from the mike like most of the this podcast right? You get the proximity effect. Yeah, it's a good effect. I get that.

And you can't be too much off angle because then it starts sounding like this. So if I can go off angle and I sound like this you don't want to sound like that, no, that would be bad. But that's one of the cool things about this, Mike, is that it's very consistent. They are professional broadcast microphones for a reason. The r e 20 is the most standard, I would believe, still in radio stations. Absolutely.

In my experience being in radio stations, it is the number one mike used by radio stations. I think some do use the 320 now. I think some use there's another one besides those, the 320 of the 320 that electro voice makes that similar. Mm. The Joe Rogan of course Mike. Sure. ESP seven be as popular now as whatever.

But if I can has I actually have I don't have the clips I was going to say I have I've heard now two different podcasts of size including the the like I watch talking about how they bought that Mike knowing nothing about Mike whatsoever purely based on it seems to be what all the YouTubers seem to be using. The people have been buying that. Mike Because people that they watch use that. Mike And so they're automatically saying, well, if I want to sound as good as this person, I need to buy this.

Mike And they're not wrong. But it's that Mike I think is it's well, first of all it's more expensive. But aside from the cost factor, I think it's a lot more finicky than the lecture voice. Oh, it's harder to drive at the very least. Like you need a sound lifter, you need cloud lift lifter, sorry, you need the, you know, you just, I don't know, okay with all of them. I run them through the cloud lifter, even with the RS 320 because I'm lazy and I don't take it out.

But that means my, the gain that's coming from my channels drift is almost nothing. Yeah, but they all run into, I run the microphone into a cloud lifter into my channel strip which then goes off the channels, strip to the apex, big bottom and oral exciter, and then back into my original channel strip and then into the mode to. Yeah, yeah, I used to. I won those, uh, I'm the exact opposite. I want the least possible analog at all. And so my mike is directly plugged into the multi.

You want to be full digital baby if I could if somebody made a digital mike from I don't mean a USB, I don't I'm not like any of it here but I mean Well you're if there is a way the sounds are analog so there's no way to be there to be converted to digital as quickly as possible. I want if, if Yeah. If like with a, with a DAC or with an HD. Yeah. Analog converter DAC. Yeah. The analog digital converter.

Yeah. I'd add the analog to digital converter ADC but if somebody came comes out with a truly new method where the microphone itself without using that converter is outputting digital, I'd be the first guy standing there in line to buy it. Yeah, Jean does just want to be digital himself, but I pretty much live digitally more than I live in analog. So you're going to live for years, you're dead. People aren't going to know because you're still going to be active in the In the Matrix.

Oh, I'm going to be in movies after I'm done doing Tom Hanks. They're going to start all of them together. Uh huh, yeah. Yeah. We're going to do a remake of Bosom Buddies. See, I would pay to see that one. That would be that would be quality entertainment. Uh huh, Yeah. And it's the concept. They weren't they had to because they were living with the budget in the dorm. They were living in the girls dorm and they had to pretend to be college girls. They had to pretend to be college girls.

And I think the deal was that they were like the dorms were oversold or overbooked or something, and there was no space in the men's dorm. And so they, like they didn't have the money to get an apartment. And so the only way they could do it is if they could pay dorm rates. But the only dorm that had openings was a women's dorm. Tom Hanks was not a pretty girl. Spoilers? No, no, he definitely it's probably make a better girl now. It was not a that's what made it comedy.

They were not really passable as a no. But I do think the other actor was a little more gay. Not that that's wrong. Nothing wrong that if we're going right back into the Seinfeld got Seinfeld reference and nothing wrong with that, would you leave? Okay. Yes. Okay. The city of Chicago here is the Taylor Swift effect for the weekend. Last week or last weekend when Taylor Swift had her three concerts here. Oh, yeah. You told me about that.

The city of Chicago reports the largest occupancy rate ever in the history of the city of Chicago, at least, However, they've been keeping track of these things. There have never been a higher percentage of hotel rooms sold at one time than during this past weekend. That's insane. Uh huh. So people actually came to the city. Oh, yeah. To go to a concert? Yeah. There was like 55,000 hotel rooms booked in Chicago for the weekend. And each day.

Well, what I'm interested in is how was the crime rate during those three days? There was a lot of people shot. I mean, not downtown, I guess. So Like at the event? No. Now that I haven't heard of the drive bys in the stadium, I could see that, you know, drones again, if drone buys. Yeah. If you were going to call them again, those kinds of problems, those are the kind of events I think you had. I think you're thinking of Russia maybe where they are. The Ukrainian Nazis are droning civilians.

Well, it sounds like there's a legitimate evidence now that the Bidens took, you know, millions of dollars from. Yeah. How is that new news like? That was obviously happening when it was happening. Yeah, when he was vice president. But no, no, no. We got to cover it up. Got to cover it up with Donald Trump. Oh, no. He took stuff out of the office. Oh, no, no, no, no. Donald Trump. We got indictments.

Well, that we're going to have to indict everybody else that did it, including Joe Biden, who said he took all these documents there by his court, voted in. Neither is Biden going to this. Is this is that a selective process? Well, obviously, Trump has been indicted. Yeah. And this is why I said from the get go that Trump running as the nominee is just opening the door to Democrats winning the election because they they have so much that they can pull with him. They can't with other candidate.

Oh, they're trying, though. The DeSantis Desantis's already there. And I know he's not a perfect candidate, but he's already been made a do Trump And you watch. They're already going after Tim Scott. How dare you say that your life is normal? Do you think of the Indian guy? The Indian guy, Rush Swamy, what's his name I think something like that. I don't know which of those is better. Just saying the Indian guy or completely butchering his name. I I'm closer at least knowing. Are you though?

I think I'm pretty sure he's Indian. Right. But isn't the name like Russia me or something like that? Isn't that what? I don't know. I thought that was his name. I've heard it. I've been. I'm not again, I'm. I'm not on Planet Rage. Larry had a clip and somebody said, I think it was Biden. I'm sure probably said something wrong. And Larry wanted me to go all in and thrashing them. And I'm like, Dude, I'm the inauguration guy.

So I, I was staying as far away from, Oh, you got to do I just type them into Google. It's the Indian guy running for president. Google's like, we know who that is and they knows exactly who are. And it shows me all his length and his name. Vivek. Last name. Ramaswamy. Right. See, I was close. Not even close. Sounds close. Now cut yourself like in racist. I was close. That's not close. I was close. That's like saying Gene that forever. Well, that's how I used to say it. I know, I know.

That's not cool, Gene. They're losing the Uh huh, uh huh. Come read. I just. Comrade, that offers up all things. That's right. Well, comrade, shall we wrap things up? You get more topic. I think the Indian guy. I wouldn't mind voting for that guy. I like what he says. I think he's a wee bit too young at 37. That is. That is a little.

But you know people are keeping you know you there is anti guy I mean instead of the 82 to 79 year old buck old people man fuck old people that's why I say okay now they're okay. I thought there were a lot of good ISOs for this particular episode. I don't think anything beats that. You like that for a cold open there. Yeah. And you'll get some email on that one. I never get email. I live. I'm like Dworak, I get no email. Not only do I not get spam, I literally just get no email.

Well, that's that's helpful. When you turn it on, send it, you take it, you put a filter on and you say, send it into the deep holy night of genius or gene. That com is been on the entire time. I keep paying for that account. I get no emails. Zero. Well, folks, that's something you have to do this week for us. Go instead of an email. Don't matter what it is. Set it to gene at sir income test out that email system.

You want to do that over under on that and how many emails I get if it's one or more. Oh wow. Okay I did somebody just to prove you wrong will do it. So I'm guessing two to people. Two. Okay. Okay, we'll see. We'll see. I think it'll be less than two. This account, if said one. Yes, that disqualifies you. Okay. That I get out. I mean, I can anyway, Ramaswamy. I think that everything that I've heard him say is on point. I would totally vote for him. But he's an Indian guy.

Well, okay, there's another I so I would vote three is that there's so many fucking racist Americans that won't vote for him that my casting, my vote for him the way I would love to would make no sense. Well, Barack Obama got elected that he wasn't Indian, was he? No. I guess it is a different type of race. He was from Nigeria. It is not a strong field. That is the issue. Yeah, They didn't feel.

No, the Republican National Committee is a pool of people that could possibly be a presidential candidate and. I just don't see any way that they could win. Going to be Donald Trump. I well, if he's in jail, it's not going to be Donald Trump going to be in jail by then. Okay. And people have said that about he's not going to get indicted. Okay. Well, the indictments kind of irrelevant.

And do you think that people that would convict him and he'd send them to jail would be living somewhere other than the same place that the people that indicted him? No, probably not. Okay. Then again, I don't think it's ever going to get to that point because, you know, you've the Supreme Court and all that. They're not going to do jack shit. They've washed their hands of him now. They do not. You watch. You'll see. I don't think there's any chance.

I mean, I believe all of this stuff and we've talked about this concept before. I think there's something to be said that this is all being done to Donald Trump in order to guarantee he is the one that gets the nomination. I think the Democrats on some level believe that Donald Trump is the most beatable candidate, but they can't make it look like they want him to be the candidate.

So all of this could just make him into a huge martyr and that we're assuming that, you know, the voting machines are to count the way they're supposed to count and all of that. It's going to be interesting no matter what the next presidential election. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I, I would love to be wrong, but I'm still maintaining thing that if Trump is the guy on the ballot that the Democrats will have another W but who the Democrats going to run probably Newsom better than Biden. Right.

But I don't know. It depends. I mean, he's probably worse than Biden on the local front. He's probably better than Biden on the international front. Why are you sending the Ukraine news and private? Why wouldn't they send you Ukraine news in private, cultivating sabotage agents inside Russia? Well, that's is that really a surprise? Well, no, the surprise is where the articles from from CNN. Uh huh. Well, Chris, not a Nazi article. It sounds like an art article, isn't it?

Well, I mean, they got rid of that Chris Licht guy. Now there's a new Democrat. I'm starting to believe this whole line about how the the parties change sides during some point in history, because I'm seeing CNN and Fox doing the same thing. Fox is going to be the most liberal of all channels before too long. And CNN keeps pushing their way to the other side. Yeah, well, Fox's paranoid now that Tucker has got a Twitter account, you know, so. Yeah. Did you watch that, by the way?

I caught parts of it. I mean, he needs this 65 million viewers on that episode. No, the last I looked yesterday, it was over 110 million. Shit. Yeah. Wow. Look at the video now. It was 65 when I heard. Oh, my God. But somebody needs to send. How do you fire somebody that gets a 100 million views?

Because you totally are doing it from a standpoint that you don't like his dangerous political point of view and his influence that he can have on the next election, which obviously he's still got the influence. They're trying to sue him because him saying anything is going to be dangerous for Fox, who totally doesn't want Donald Trump, it appears that's their whole reason for existing that yeah, I think between the sheep fuckers at Fox and the pig fuckers at Project, it definitely feels like

this is a coordinated attempt to stifle journalists. Yes. Now I will say, as you and I, who have also been talking a little bit about audio today, Tucker Carlson. What the fuck, dude? Get better audio. I mean, there's no reason for you to sound that bad when you use our who's our microphone expert there? You had them CURRY We can add one now. The other one. Oh, boy. Andrew. Andrew Scott. Andrew Badru. What's the deal, dude? Come on, reach out. Tucker. Yeah, Get over it. Get over.

You've got a legitimate channel with a legitimate operation that that makes it seem like, you know something you would easily pass through filters of messages being sent to him. Yeah, big if you stay on topic and you know, he was just talking about started is to make money and not be a sell out. Tell Tucker you want a million bucks you'll get him a really good sounding microphone one here's what you need I don't even think you would need to do that.

I think you can get a reasonable amount of money from Tucker to set him up like, you know, 15 grand or something. Yeah, here's what. And then and then you slap on your website that you're the guy that this is audio and that we will now see people there's a lot of people that then turn against you because Tucker is are they really viewers of Andrew's show, though? Probably not. Now. Probably not. Most, I think, are a little more rational.

Yeah. And give them something other than the some sense upset that some of them be. Yeah yeah because that's way to over use let's get something cool there with Tucker all you need is even a good laugh. Mike As most of these guys seem to want to use the lav. Yeah, yeah, I'm a fan of laugh mates. The problem with Laugh, Mike, is that I don't generally wear a suit these days. And so what you buy in the nude, a lot of people don't know that.

Well, I'm I'm a bathrobe and the bathrobe and you and that bro is almost always I'm in a bathrobe when I'm recording the show. But would you say you and what you're membros What do you like to do? The bathrobe thing. Okay, well, you're the one in the nude, apparently, because you're not wearing a bathrobe. Yeah, I like it. Cool. Uh huh. Bathrobes are way too stifling. They're soft, man. A bathrobe is the perfect outfit. The Adidas. Adidas a bathrobe is the way I do.

I, I do not have an Adidas bathrobe. So the Adidas track suits are great when I'm on video, because visually, they're very representative. Oh, yeah, Very stimulating. Yeah, but the problem with Adidas tracksuits, just wearing them around the house is they're fucking hot. So Rob a bathrobe is not hot. It's cotton. The Adidas tracksuits are not cotton. What are they making them out of? Lycra plastic? Yeah, Plastic wrap, black strap. No, they're. They're a synthetic material because they're.

What they're meant for is to wick away moisture as you're exercising. And to provide a protection against the cold elements, hence tracksuit pants to be worn when you're not engaged in running when you're between runs on the track. Which is why they're my you see, that's true. The professionals take the suits off when they're they do the thing. Yes. Because you would overheat if you ran in the suit as you would run to get a bathrobe. How I. No, no, no at all.

Bathrobe is the preferred clothing for most runners, I understand, because it is so light and fluffy. You see, here's the beautiful thing. I'm going to find an image of, somebody running. I'm going to put it into this dopey thing and select them and put bathrobe. And that could be the that could be the album art. If we actually changed album art. If you actually did some work. Yes. Yeah. Why would I want to do more work than I have to?

Nobody donated today except CSB, and that was just so we could talk about his website and well, that's the only reason he's at the end. He listens, though. He hate listens to this show, no question about it. I, I don't see a problem with what are we talking about? CSB, listening, donating. No, you know, you must have a lot of free time because he does tend to consume a lot of these shows. He does have an extensive marketing budget.

Well, no, but remember actually talked about how on my other podcast but he's not even listening. You just paying money to have ads run and well, that's not a bad way to go. And then he chimed in saying, No, I totally listen. He might listen at five times speed. I mean, that would be the preference for me if I was listening. I don't really listen to my podcast, just like plug it right into the matrix. That's what you want to do. Mm hmm. Run in the bathroom.

That's why you want to check it out here every week. Would we come? Okay. This guy running in a bathrobe? Mm hmm. It doesn't look like professional runner, and it definitely doesn't look like you, but. What do you mean? That's literally me right there. What, 1963. So he was just a wee lad back then. Half the days of the year, there was a point in time where the bathrobe fit nicely without a a long sash. If I need. You know, I don't even know if I have a bathrobe right now. Really? I have three.

Oh, wow. But you can't wear the same one every day. You would have to go, right? He would have to launder it. Yeah. So you have three of them, and you got to keep them big and soft and fluffy, which means you got to take extra care when you don't want to use the secret to having a good big, fluffy bathrobe is to only get white ones that the dye is. I could see that would affect the cotton in a negative.

Well, no, it's just that if you want that kind of like if you're going to be watching him with chlorine and then using the high temperature dryer to get the fluff perfectly fluffed up, the color is going to be in a fade. Yeah, it's going to start. And that all at once. And I've done that and it doesn't look good. You end up throwing it away looks like you're hiding stuff. Just buying. Yeah, exactly. Your best stuff. Just buying only white Egyptian cotton white bathrobe.

That's the only way to go. White is the only way to go. You heard it first. Here is its price tag, Of course. Luckily, you just said it. So. Yes is indeed a good clip of Darren BLEEP shoes and his belief system. I think I was literally repeating what you just said. That's not what I heard. We Do not see color. Hell, I could barely see like the times you just said. We do not see what color. All I heard was Nazi. Why are you trying to promote Nazis? No, no, that's in Ukraine.

This show went off the rails a lot, but it came. You're just, you know, you've seen, I'm sure, clips of this latest thing where there was a black young boy, well, teenage boy black into what appears to be a teenage white girl. And like Omega or one of stupid apps that just have random people talking to each other, which seems like such a dangerous thing to do, Right? Uh huh. I mean, this back in the day, what was it called? Like chat party lines?

You know what the first video one that was though went, Oh, yeah, yeah. I think they have What is it, the masturbate roulette kind of but it was more like it was that wasn't what they were billing it as originally it was like talk to people from around the world be chosen at random. Yeah, like nine out of ten with some guy playing with himself. Uh huh, uh huh. Like, uh, who saw that coming? Yeah, everybody. Right.

Just like as soon as you put together a, a website that lets you post content for people that support you, it turns into a porn site. Well, anytime people can post anything, it turns into a porn site. Pretty much it's the the easiest thing to post generally is why is it easier than anything else? Because it requires literally nothing except for your possess which loads of porn doesn't even require a bathrobe for pricey. Yeah. You don't even need a damn bathrobe. It wasn't. It was.

It was not meant to be a dirty thing where you just connected to it. Mm hmm. Yeah. I don't remember the name, though. I hate that we're getting old. That roulette. You're thinking chat roulette? Probably. Maybe it was Chat Roulette? Yeah. Yeah, maybe it was. I have no name. Had that in the troll room. That might have been it. I it sounds right, and that's basically what it was like.

But anyway, so this, this, this segment or this, this like, that's like, you know, it's like, well, what's the, what are your pronouns? You know, asking the girl and the girl saying, oh well I'm, she her and I go by my problem and the guy's like, oh, that's, that's, that's good. And, you know, I kind of thought about it and like, I actually picked some different pronouns.

They, they use my, my first name as, as one of my pronouns and that, and, and I use her as my, you know, pronoun and the girl being what you would expect the teenager, she's like, Oh, that's, that's great. That's great. So this is well, here, let me throw let's do a little exercise where we going to repeat each other's pronouns. And you can see this is going in a bad direction already. And so the the guy says, okay, so I'll say yours. Is she her?

She her your Oh no, that's your she her your she her Yorkshire. Okay. And this is that. Well I'll do mine. And then the girl says, Oh the guy's name is Nick. So the girl says your and then his first name which is Nick and then his other pronoun which is her. And then she does that the second time and realizes what she's saying. And the guy's holding a camera in his hand, pointed the computer screen with this expression of total, like, how dare you on this face?

So if you still haven't gotten it, His name is Nick. His pronoun is her. See those two just like you would see her and do it correctly and see what you get. And then you'll get fired and never hold a job for the rest of your life. Yeah, probably. You know, because words are violence. Well, I still thought it was hilarious. The black guy was doing this because this. That just makes it super funny. It's the perfect setup.

Yeah. I mean, it'd be if it still be funny if it was like a white person doing it. But it's extra funny because it's not an Indian. And douches says I'm trying my hardest to get fired. So I try that also. But you're not trying hard enough, apparently, right? He boosted 3333 which is appreciated. Says can a ginger. I don't know. Yeah you know gingers are seriously getting attacked by the woke police. Almost every ginger character in a cartoon is now being replaced.

Really? Yes, almost every single one. But that's two Irish. What? No, they're just replacing them. So a little mermaid redhead. Now you more. There's a video I watched. That's the only one I remember. But there's a video I watched where they went through and listed like five different redheaded characters that have all been replaced by blank now. Well, that just sounds like equity to me, Jean. Well, no, because there's fewer gingers in the world than there are black people, right?

They're the ultimate or they're super minority there. There are fewer probably, I would guess. I don't know, but I would guess there's fewer gingers in the United States than white people in the states. And the interesting about gingers is that eventually most of them will no longer be, well, yes, statistically, they say that although I don't think that's the case.

What what you have when you have red hair and white skin is you have a recessive genes from Neanderthals because all Neanderthals have red hair. So. Well, now that we've done the genetic analysis on the the fossil. Yeah, but the gingers will eventually go gray for most. No, no, that's not true. Most of them don't make it to that. They Larry's a ginger, but most of them don't make it that age. Most die out before they're like, 40. Yeah, exactly I did not know that.

Redheads hunted earlier. Hunted illegally. Really? Yes. There's a whole trade in ginger pelt and so most gingers don't ever make it through a natural, you know, natural age of death. We need to do something about that. Then they're endangered, but not because they're going to die out. Naturally. It's being hunted down. We started. Go fund me for Ginger. Yeah. Okay, so there's a South Park episode, which was hilarious. Where? Where Cartman woke up one day and he had red hair. Okay, wait.

And so he used to have to interject here. And the troll, remember? Says, How long until Darren figures out that Gene is fucking with him? It's like, how long until Ben Rose realizes that I'm playing along with Gene? Yes. Ben Rose did learn a thing or two about how the theater of the mind works. They think, Oh, yeah, you're right. Because it's like I really think the gingers are being hunted for their pelts. Yes, Mama. You realize you do a show with this guy, right? It is way more coffee.

Get some coffee. Uh, and how is he? Awake. 2 hours ago. That's what I'd like to know. Oh, I was going to tell you this, like, 2 hours ago when we started the show. There is construction going on on his block that's been starting at, like seven in the morning. Oh, God. And you can't do anything about it. No, no. You know, you could probably order earplugs from Amazon to have them delivered to your house. Maybe, But it wakes his wife up and she'll wake him up. You know how it goes.

That's one of the other reasons you're not married anymore. That is absolutely one of the reasons. There's nobody to wake me up that's safe. But, you know, since I don't sleep, right, it's no, there is that there's nobody to clean your house or make you a sandwich. Well, no. There are people who clean my house and me sandwiches. Obviously, I pay for that and I pay a lot less than I did when I was married. I'll tell you that much. But I'm pump. And then what? You fire them.

They don't take half your stuff. They Exactly. Except they just steal a few things here and there. Right. You got Well, that's why you have the snake. You look dangerous. If you have all the guns up on the wall, they're less likely I won't get a bear. I think that's my new goal. Alive Bear. Well, obviously have this wanting to make sure what we were talking about here. No, I've been watching a lot of bear videos, and I really think that that's what's missing from my life right now.

I know a lot of stuff is allowed in Texas that isn't allowed elsewhere. We can have bears here. It's no problem. Honestly, it's perfect. Just the pet in the backyard. That way. Yeah, it comes up. Yeah. Now, I can't have my gated community here, but as soon as I move out of here and get myself a double wide, I'm absolutely going to get a pet there. So donate to the show to help Gene reach his goal. Yeah, Help me move out of my community into Doublewide and have a pet bear. A pet bear?

Just think of the content. I spent a lot of bears over the years. Yeah.