081: Three Wine Fridges

If you're not getting caviar wholesale, you're wasting money. Hello and welcome to episode number 81 of Unrelenting, and that's on the 18th. So there's a lot of ones and AIDS going on today. This month, it's the 18th day. It's the 81st show. Wow. Holy cow. That is quite the repertoire of kind of phenomenon. Numerology. Catch it. Mm hmm. And spoilers upfront. We do have a show donation, and it's not from Dale Down Under, so it's an interesting day. Wow. Somebody says, Listen to our show, I guess.

Did your says sir jeans on the big mike. Are you referring to the former first lady? No. These are the different Big Mike. Uh huh. Different. Big Mike. Former first lady. The former First lady. Women, gentlemen. Right. Wouldn't it be the former first gentleman that if you leave that one. People believe in conspiracy theories. They ban women who have penises superbly well in this brand new world order. Yeah. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. That's why I like the guy, and I forget his name.

But the NBA player that spoke out too much about stuff, and he doesn't have a job right now. He's like, Should I put on a wig and go play in the WNBA? Probably should. Yeah. You make some money, man. You dominate. Hey, don't even need a wig. That's true. Don't even say shave. Yeah, don't even need to shave. You just have to say you identify. That's the whole new world order is if you identify as it, people have to believe you. And and to really sell it, you should probably put a dress on.

Would that be better for the WNBA? Should they actually play in? So because I don't know if you noticed, but there are probably more transsexuals wearing dresses than women. I could see that. Mm hmm. Because that's the alleged symbol of the dress. So what would it mean for a dude to, you know, tell people that he's a lady if he doesn't like it? Well, this right dude looks like a lady That dress up, what sells? Nice. You got that, did you? Yeah. Dude. Looks like a lady, man. Uh huh.

I mean, the older Steven Taylor get played, the bootleg, the older Steven Tyler gets, though he does look like a lady. So it's a little weird. So likely even when he was a young. Except not a cute lady, but like a lady. Oh, and he screamed like one, too. Yeah, He got the lungs. Yeah, but he had a decent looking kid. Oh, yeah. I haven't seen her recently. She. She looks old. She looks like she's our age. Well, she probably is our age. Well, she's quite a little bit younger than that.

You know, we're pushing over 120, but she's not quite there. But she doesn't look like the way that she did in the Hobbit movie. Oh, yeah. And she was one of those that was going to be the next big thing was around four, it seems like four or five years and then disappeared. Yeah. Or days, maybe. But there's a reason. Pretty. Pretty. Pretty much. That's because it's a very superficial society back then where it mattered. What you look like now. Yeah, we're about that right now.

It matters who you support. Uh huh. Although the only fans, I bet you the women that make the most money and only fans and I'm sure there are guys that yell people, but mostly women, I'm sure it's because, see, women that are attractive and the guys that look like women. There you go. I mean, in the end, we all know who is funding Onlyfans. I mean, the women this is true. Guys are the ones that are like, okay, I mean, had strip clubs. If you go back and look at that, that's all it is.

It is a virtual strip club. It's a strip club where you don't even have to leave your house, which is way safer. I mean, not for your cholesterol and risk of heart attack probably. I don't know, you'd be eating wings or something if you were out. Well, you never know what you're eating. Wings right now. You never going to consume what you're going to get in the champagne room? No. Should I be eating wings while I'm doing the show in the morning? That wouldn't be a no, not this show.

But when you're on Onlyfans, you probably should be. Really? That's like, Oh, yeah, maybe you going to eat that hot pocket just a little bit slower for me? Mm hmm. And I was considering this in the onlyfans. Yeah. And eating Hot Pockets very slowly. Oh, yeah. And, you know, it'd be hilarious if while you're doing that. You said that bears some bears, and then they had a hard day, so, you know, that would be great theater once. Like, Wait, wait, that's not a bit.

It's only theater. Happens more than once, right? Is that is that those employees were seeing coming into the room number? Oh, man. You know, I'm into the good old days. Even when comedy was popping heart attacks. Yeah. Uh huh. When that was funny. It was funny. They would tell people tell the folks what the word referring to when you can poke fun at yourself. And that was an SNL bit, right? That was it wasn't a CTV show and it was SNL.

SNL, when it would be the Chicago fans back in the decade John. Candy, back in the day. And I mean, John Goodman did that as well. I think he was on some of the I mean, there were a few characters that came and went through that little group of guys with the big mustache on. Yeah. Just sitting around eating the most unhealthy food in the world. Yeah. Yeah. It's a, you know, drinking beer and eating, like, copious amounts of beer.

Yeah. Yeah. And going up and, like, eating sausages with cheese on top. Right, Right. Because, you know, if you're going to get a big Polish sausage, you got to put the cheese with on top, you got to cover it with Cheez Whiz and whatever unhealthy stuff you can throw on top of it. And then you go dump bears. Yeah, silly lies had a a quite a few funny fat dudes that have died. Well, there's not there's not a question that there's a reason, you know, these things are the reason.

We all know the reason. It's cocaine. Yeah, cocaine and overweight does not mix know it really. This they stay away from that shit, man. You know, you could just lose the weight. I stay away from the cult these days. No, no. But I was thinking about the affiliates, the lose the weight. All right, It'll start with your heart and work its way down. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's about, what, £12? What's a heart way? Oh, yeah, Probably. I mean, I've got a big heart, you know? I love everybody.

Hey, how you do it? Oh, but this whole concept of the I with the image creation where you can create people out of nowhere, and the fact now we're getting now to the point where it's not just photo generation, the video generation, which I have not played around with any of these, but I've read a few articles that the technology is zooming forward at a pace which tells me it will be here in in a pretty good way within the next year or two. Mm hmm.

And I'm thinking there does anybody not care about the porn stars? Because they're going to be the first ones to lose their jobs. Yeah. Why do you want to watch ugly people fucking. Yeah. When you can create your own, it's going to be. Although the category for people that like to watch ugly people fighting as well. Well, you can still create that. And that's going to be the whole thing. It'll be like you're going to log on and it'll be like, describe who you want to see.

Fucking. Yeah, I mean, let's put it this way. There's already way too much tentacle porn out there. I see. I'm not even familiar with what that is, so I'm glad that's a Japanese, particularly Nishi kind of thing. Japanese are sickos. They're. Well, they're one of the Germans, you know, they have peculiar tastes and certain things like starting wars. Oh, I see. Definitely. Somebody pointed this out to me the other day, which is I thought, hmm.

Is you realize that we are now the Axis powers, the being the United States. With who, though? Well, the axis being Germany and Japan are currently are currently fighting. Russia are. Yes. And the United States seems to be on that side. I have that whole board game, axis and allies. It was great if you didn't mind the 14 hours of setup.

It was one of those it was like it was a great concept because everybody, if you're in the age range, it I'm guessing at some point in your childhood you played the game risk shit. Well, I didn't play it. I won the game. Oh, you probably still do. And yeah, well, there's a lot of people that played risk that were like, Oh, this is just way too basic. This isn't right. Want like tanks and I want to be able to win and I want to be able to do all this. And that's what Axis and Allies was.

And the minute you start to play, you're like, Wow, this is way too complicated. Okay, So. David So it was the dice game. Yes. Yeah, it was a dice game. And it was one of these where you could buy you were depending on what which of the territories you had and everything else, you had a certain budget, whether you would put that into, you know, aircraft or tanks or more. Yeah. So you had to figure out how you were going to take over the world.

Yeah. Now you just have to spend a lot of money to Ukraine. What's funny, last. Yeah, exactly. The last time I played the game, very similar to that was about a week ago. Which game was there a new one or it was split up? It's. I mean, treason. It's not brand new. It was called, uh, Knights of Honor to Sovereign. I have not heard of this, but I'm guessing this is a computer game if you're pulling. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

It's computer game, but in a very high level, it's it's a similar concept to what you just described. Now, there's also the earth, which I'm sure some people have heard of, which has been around for many years. And still there is is a space version of that. It's essentially a board game esque type game on the computer. But instead of being set in like medieval Europe, it's set in outer space. They're expanding it through other solar systems, but it's all the same intrigue.

And, you know, outsmarting your opponents, creative like bribing them on the one hand and then stealing their secrets, like on the other hand, and then, you know, pretending like they're neutral on the third hand. And it's basically a game of China except in space that sounds interesting within the beauty of the games, if they're very complicated, those nice games with all of the charts, computers make those so much more fun because you just get the result.

Dude. Even online, which is a game I've played many years ago, like over a decade ago. In fact, I stopped playing it over a decade ago. I used to play it in the 2000 and I recently rejoined because it's all running and all my shit is still there. It's amazing. That's why. But yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not going to play it because it's a big time thing.

But their big announcement, while they had rejoined in the last couple of months was that they had finally partnered with Microsoft and Excel to be able to feed in the game data directly into Excel. So they're finally like, we're finally out of beta. Well, everybody always jokingly referred to that game as the game of spreadsheets. Yeah, because there's an awful lot of calculations that are helpful to do if you actually do them.

And of course, most people are using either Google spreadsheets or so, and they literally just have a direct connection to Excel now. So Microsoft after the Microsoft event was showing off, the connectivity to that is five. It's crazy, man. It's like it's using business tools to play a game. See, Brooklyn does sums up this show in one word nerds. Yeah, that's really pretty accurate. Well, that's the few owns the world at this point. So yeah I was always a me and Elon. Yeah exactly.

Nerds you would Elan Hey, I mean, you both live in the same general area, actually live right next to each other technically. Do you jump over the fence and see what's going on over there? He's never home. Did well in the restraining order. I checked every day your home went up. Here's where my truck. Elon Where's my goddamn truck that I paid for like four and a half years ago? GM bought a trampoline just so we could jump over the 18 foot fence and be like, you are allowed. You are. Uh huh.

I can see that you accidentally get his food delivery. He accidentally gets yours. Hilarity ensues. The whole thing. Yeah. You become best friends. That's right. You're like, we up, Put some gear. Yeah, some free samples. But I was always intrigued how they did with those dice games, with the simulations, especially with there were a bunch of them that were baseball simulations, and it started from the most simplistic.

I vaguely recall those. Yeah. Which had a spinning wheel on it that you just, you know, flicked the thing and wherever it landed, you know, it was a number from 1 to 10. And then they went to the cards with the dice, which as you know, with the whatever you can get up to, you know, 20 sided dice, you could do some crazy things. And it was a lot of fun, but it took forever. Now they're all online.

So you could just go in and and replay those games or the computer just figures out rather than like, Oh, I rolled a157. That means this. Oh, no, that means funny play. Go grab this chart. Oh, no. Throw, throw to dice. Okay, here's what happened. I mean, at the time, I mean, when you're, you know, before high school, that was kind of fun. Now you're just like, let let's just play the game. Come on. I want to get to the good stuff. No, for play.

Well, you know, there are still it's actually, I think the board games made a comeback because a lot of the the late millennials in the early zoomers do game they like um board games which is bizarre to me because it's so much more to me to do it on the computer. You're like, Yeah, let somebody else in. I have I have to go to your house and then you're going to eat my chips if you come here. Yeah, exactly. It's like, you know, if you're going to be playing a video game. I'm sorry.

I keep saying video game because the word game doesn't seem to exist in my world without the word video in front of it. But if you're playing a game like Monopoly, you can play it online. Even, you know, all the classic board games have been transitioned by their copyright holders to online right? Well, I remember was a big thing when Monopoly first came with electronic dice. I never saw that. Yeah, I do that. It was just like a button.

You pressed and it gave you a number between two and 12, which was like, Oh my gosh, like how fucking lazy they have to be if you can't even roll the dice. Although, to be fair, 90% of the people who played Monopoly with when they roll the dice, they knock every piece off the board with every roll. What is up with that? You don't know. How many times have you been like damn close to winning and somebody accidentally next to whole damn board over and you're like, Well, okay, I guess we're done.

It gets the game's over. Yeah, I remember a kid doing that in a maybe it was it was either a checkers or a chess tournament back in like grade school. And it's amazing when you know you're going to lose chess tournament. Yeah, you play chess is to I haven't played in a long time but it was always a lot of fun, you know, a game of skill. Yeah, it was fun. I mean, it wasn't fun as a kid, but it was fun. Like in college. It was definitely fun. You can drink and play chess at the same time.

Yeah, I play a lot of chess and cards instead of going to classes. Really? That was what you were doing while skipping class was playing there? Yes. Uh huh. We are different experiences. I skipped a lot of class, but never to play chess. Yeah, well, see, this is the bigger nerd. Get them there, you know, down, because I was either going down to Tower Records to look for music. Well, that's a shocker. I know. Or I was going. I can't. This is there in a Tower Records in 1989.

Man, I can't wait til Terry Fritz gets born right. That year, exactly 1989. That was in college. Why do you think I said that? I mean, you're right on. I'm I'm like magic. There were a bunch of other little record stores in the Lincoln Park area where DePaul University was Rose Records downtown. All that place was a mecca. But we would, you know, a couple buddies in class. We would usually wind up going downtown to Hooters, which was relatively new back then in the late eighties. Uh huh.

Or we would just grab a basketball that knew back then and then thing in Chicago. I think it was really yeah, they had a they put a Hooters in the Mall of America in 1988, 87 or 88, somewhere around the Mall of America was kind of like a family establishment, you know? But I have Hooters. Yeah, because Hooters is a family restaurant. Well, it kind of is, but back when you were a teenager, it seemed kind of risky. You were like girls in shorts. I like this. Yeah, I could eat here all the time.

Horrible food. Well, yeah, there was. To be fair, I believe there was a time the food was decent, Right? And it kind of went downhill. Maybe again within the first few years of when they were open and the wings were at least decent. And I remember, you know, a getting a decent ham and cheese because there was a Hooters like cheese about 5 minutes away from the Circuit City that I worked at.

Also in college there, same when I moved to Texas, I discovered that Texas has a bunch of restaurants and they're all way better than Hooters. Well, there's been a lot and they don't have a lot of them here. There was a Twin Peaks never went to it. It closed. There was a tilted kilt. I think that closed. Mm. I think a lot of people went, huh, Boobs and food. We could do that. Yeah, we could totally pull that off. And then they didn't. Yeah. The tilted tilt. We don't have those here.

I don't think I've been to one of those in Arizona. The rector had an employee take me out to one of those. They were kind of like, Really? This is where you're picking for us to go. You're like, You're fired. Yeah, I did fire me eventually, but. Oh, right. He was probably a bad tipper. Nothing's a nice guy. He just didn't really. You know, he talked the talk, but yeah, here we there was third base. There was a there's a really good barbecue place, I'm sure. Remember what the hell it was.

We don't have that in Austin. I think I've talked about this as an entire chain policy where they don't grant food permits to a lot of chains, and that's good. All kinds of rules. Well, it used to be back when they were the de Boston, the weird crowd. Now, I think that what they're mostly doing is giving giving the wives of tech company executives a chance to run an expensive, overpriced, not particularly tasty restaurant. So if you don't want competition, I have an opinion on this.

But yeah, the chains are very few and far apart here. Even Starbucks aren't that close there. We might be like five miles apart for Starbucks. Whereas when I was living in Dallas, it was like Chain City. It was it was the prototypical Starbucks and two different corners of the same intersection. Well, when people travel, a lot of them are just too afraid to go into something that they don't know. You want to just be like, oh, well, I know what Applebee's is, so I'll go in there.

Right? Right. So I get the concept behind it. But we have the Internet now, so do a little research and find the the good places. I found you'll be excited about this. I found the my current favorite packed area recently. And, you know, I don't need Mexican food. I thought you like Tex-Mex, just not Mexican. Straight out. I like Tex-Mex. I just don't like Mexican. But this is a genuine Mexican place and all they make is tacos. And I thought, you know, what the hell? Oh, I'll give it a shot here.

If I was really pleasantly surprised, it was frickin cheap. I mean, it's probably like, what do they pay? Like maybe three bucks a tackle? Not bad. What? I mean, you can get some very elevated tacos. I mean, it's hard to screw up a basic steak elevated, but it's been used interesting in unusual flavors. Like I had one of the tacos I have was sort of a chicken cilantro with pineapple thing. I'm told this traditional Mexican.

And then the other one was some kind of like buffalo chicken looking chicken that tasted nothing like buffalo chicken. And as these tacos were probably 65% meat and 35% or 45% like bridges, which normally if you go to attack a place, it's like 80% veggies and 20% meat there. Where's the beef? Yeah. So they're very generous with that, with the proteins because that's my, you know, very lot more protein, less carbs these days. But who am I getting? Always my whole life.

And this place was actually quite tasty enough that I even even like I had a couple of tacos left over in the fridge the next day and I for when they get up, I'm like, Where those tacos give me that. I'm talking breakfast tacos. You know, it's a good Taco Bell. Yeah. Which there are a lot of breakfast taco specific places here that do like bacon and egg tacos and stuff. Yeah, everybody wants to do, like, the breakfast case ideas and that kind of stuff. Yeah, but no, I was.

I'm like, Yeah, I'll have to hang on to that one. Maybe. It's certainly not every week, but if I need tacos, that's where I'm getting them because it ain't one of those chain them restaurants. This is clearly a food truck thing I'm describing. It's not an actual sit down place. Do you have to chase it? You get you actually much healthier because you have to chase the truck down the street? Well, no, I pay Uber to do that. I always have to have a guy. I'm like, I don't know. I go, I have a guy.

I mean, the on Wednesday, I heard from the fabulous Ryan Rhodes that he was out of coffee because his coffee girl only rose twice a month. So I'm like, Wait, you've got a coffee girl? Jean's got a sushi guy. I'm like, I need more guys and girls. I don't know. I just go to the fucking grocery store and get what I need. I mean, not me personally, I said my wife. Let's be fair about exactly. If I click a few buttons on the internet, then the shit's there for her to pick up. Uh huh, uh huh, exactly.

I mean, I am basically a hermit. I don't like to leave the house. Yeah. I mean, I think COVID created a lot of people that didn't realize that they were hermits until they tried it. And like the that was like that way before COVID, though. So there's that. I was a trendsetter.

I definitely was a lot more apt to be doing outdoorsy shit before COVID subdued, I probably would say in 2017, 18, thereabouts, as either on my boat or jet ski or, you know, doing something water related or going fishing down in the Gulf. Well, now I understand why before you had boats and jet skis, I am poor because you had boats and jet skis. Those I had to sell all this crap during COVID because I wasn't making any money. So now go buy a new boat. Pay last boat.

I mean, I know that it was it was what's his name from Amazon that bought your old one. Bezos But he said it was just a little too big for him. Yeah, he totally reworked it. Yeah. Mm hmm. Don't like that guy. Know what? You don't like bald people? I don't care if they're bald. I mean, I'm going in that direction. One weird size eyeball. Yeah, well, I've got that now. I didn't until more recent in life, but now I do, So I understand. Oh, really. And the.

Well, I mean, once you have somebody like, stick with equipment in your eye five times, then there are, there are slight issues. So I can't blame Bezos for the weird. I think there's I mean, it's a look, you know, it's a particular kind of look thing. The Reverend Dr. Phifer says the two best days in a man's life are the day he buys a boat. Yes, he sells them. That's very correct. I will attest to that. I was so damn happy getting that boat. And I was so damn happy. Sorry.

You know, why are you sending me artistic renderings of yourself? Look at the eyes. Now. What's the Bezos? I get it now. It was behind the microphone because I've got the big RV 20. Yeah. So you're on that screen behind the mic. I'm like, Oh, but that's some nice color there. I mean, the beard only partially being gray is nice and we need to update that fully being gray. Now, that's true that there is a photo back from seven years ago. Uh, time flies. If my head is no longer quite as blue.

It wasn't actually that blue then I thought that was maybe, in effect, that was put on. Well, it may have been. I can't remember anymore. But that is where the air stuff. It is the porn industry. If we can go back to that for a minute, it's that is where because there's still going to for a while we're going to still want real put that in air quotes actors and actresses and you know serious again put that in air quotes. Yeah nobody wants that. We just want stuff that looks good.

And I can guarantee you that directors want somebody that listens some and the producers want somebody that doesn't cost $1,000,000. Yeah, but all the directors are going to be fired too, because soon it's just going to be somebody that knows how to use the computer. Well, they trained the A.I., yes, but much like the current air, you have to be versed in the correct vocabulary to create pretty things.

This is anybody can create art with a Yeah, but only people that have the right vocabulary can create beautiful. Yeah, I've had a lot of fun playing with that and figuring it out. And, and I've run across a couple of sites because I have not tried my, my foray into mid journey yet. So I'm still just playing with stable diffusion and other things like that, which you still get really good results on old news ship. I know, but there are different models.

There's now the one point, you know, the latest model is stable diffusion, definitely a little better and there's a site I've been using tensor dot art which if anybody wants an invite thing you can get those although I don't think you really need one that you can play with all sorts of different models. It's a community where they allow people to upload their models so everybody that's working on their own little weird thing can upload it and it's there for you to play around with.

But that is where being able to just go in and describe what you want. You're right. I think this is eventually going to show up in regular television and movies. I think it totally will. You want the the new SD Excel stable diffusion, which you can install at home. Yeah, that's what I've been using on this site. Are you, have you been using the the X or one. Yes. That is on tensor dot art which again the realism of what this stuff pops out is wild. Yeah it is It is really good.

And I think to buy a new video carrier unfortunately though. Right well so this is why you have to send me your old one because I need a better one. Yeah, whatever I'm going to beat to. Oh, come on, get your own damn card. Send me some big video cards. Come on, man. Come on, Gene. Send me some video cards. I like people. And when it's like one, I guess they didn't hear the last episode where you said you got your payment from this show. From me? Where? Because I did.

Yes, Because they're like, Oh, it's elder abuse. I'm like, How old do they think Gene is? Yeah, yeah. Darren's like, older than me. So I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, I'm like 70 now. Yeah, I'm just 112. It gets elder abuse. It's, it's a yeah, it's, uh, the only thing is it's still not quite easy enough to install for the average person. Like, the script was broken when I tried to install it, and I have to deconstruct that and do it manually.

But, you know, I think within a year it'll literally be an app and app that you get and you run and it just works. They're getting closer to that because people are running mini scripts and Python stuff and but there are people that are putting the script that does everything automatically. But yes, there are still multiple points where it could possibly fail. And you got to run the refiner. And it's it's just there's too many like command lines should things to do right now.

Well, that's why when you're at the forefront it takes the people that understand that which is why I understand why the directors might be like, oh, this is the director's thinking leadership. It's hilarious that the writers are going to be replaced by A.I.. They actually already have. The writers are not going off the strike because they're unnecessary in the eyes, like we could do. There's no problem. I write better scripts than most of our writers in Hollywood.

Well, and let's be honest, if we still have the actors and actresses involved, which I think we are for a while, good actors and actresses elevate their parts by bringing ad libbing, doing things that wasn't exactly in the script. Yeah, and I can do that ten times better. Well, they I can do it. You can create ten versions at the same time and pick the one that you like the most.

Well, yeah, but I can give you a basic script, and then the actors and actresses can refine it with their performance. So, I mean, it's not like it's got to be everything perfect. You look at what constitutes entertainment today and it's like, okay, I think honestly, the better the sooner the better for this stuff because for whatever stupid reason, people have built up people in the entertainment world, and this includes actors, actresses, singers, songwriters, we're below that.

And if it's all professional sportspeople, these are all entertainers. They are completely unnecessary for society other than to provide enjoyment. And they're way, way, way, way, way overpaid. What they're contributing to society. And so the sooner we get rid of all of them, the better we're going to be, because then we can focus on important things like computer and science and developing tools. And the nerds will rule the world. Listen to the science. Hey, that's right.

Did you see the behind the scenes for the movie War Games? It popped up on my YouTube, so I'm assuming maybe a popped up on yours. It had not. Now, I don't know the behind the scenes of the original movie from what is it, 82? Yes. From you. I think it was 82. 82, 83 right around there. Mm. And I believe this might have just been the extras on one of the DVD releases. Mm hmm. But I had my mind completely blown.

I mean, I guess there was some turmoil that the guys that wrote it, the original, there was an original director that started filming for, like a week or so, and then really that fired. The writers didn't while they were too hard to work with. And then they the studio, which I guess was very rare at the time, was like, Yeah, we're going to have to fire the director.

Uber says 83 and okay, well, that's what I said to the most interesting thing for me was this was not originally conceived as a movie about nuclear war. It wasn't conceived about a movie that had anything to do with computers. Their original starting point was, Oh, Stephen Hawking. They were intrigued by Stephen Hawking, and they decided they wanted to write a movie about a young genius finding his way, interacting with an old genius. That was the whole concept.

And they're like, Well, how how could this may be come about? Not the movie that was made. I know. I mean, you do get the Professor Falcon, but it's a little bit I think later in the in the movie. But what really blew my mind was the original thought when David Lightman played by Matthew Broderick. Yeah. Gets to the island to find Professor Falcon.

The original idea was for him to see one of those like, hi fangled at the time wheelchairs out at the end of a pier with a guy fishing and he walks up to the wheelchair. And then you get the reveal of who? Professor Falcon is. John Lennon was who they wanted to play that. Really? Yeah. Jesus Christ. These writers really were smoking a lot of weed, weren't they? I know. Like, but can you imagine how much that would have changed that movie? I can't even imagine.

I mean, now, no pun intended with imagine, but I can't even see what you want. Yeah, well, there was a movie that was more of that script, which I thought was a wonderful movie, which was real genius. Oh, right, right. Well, I think 85. Yeah. Eighties and that movie, I think in a lot of ways, like, made it not just okay, but like, a cool thing to be a nerd, right? Is the nerds were winning well, and this was so new you don't think about it watching it now.

Yeah, well, Kilmer was really good in that. But even going back to war games, people did not, as a rule, have personal computers matter. Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, who are both in the yeah this behind the scenes are like well you never seen a personal computer before. Yeah. Ally Sheedy Yeah. And she really still didn't look bad. I don't know how long ago this was film, but even older, she didn't look bad.

The last movie I saw with her, like Brazil thing was probably a decade ago, and she obviously looks a lot older, but she doesn't look bad some age better than others. Yeah. So now from what I have heard, the old that there is, she's batshit crazy. Well, I mean, she is you know, you got Britney Spears. You got there's a lot of women that are better. I like Britney. There's a lot of guys that are batshit crazy, too, to be fair, differently.

Carly goes to the Barney Stinson for a, you know, hot and crazy scale. Yeah. Yeah. And Barney wasn't the guy who invented. But yes. No, of course not. But yeah, there's the new got your unicorns. Yes. The higher you are, the crazier you can be. It's yeah it was a it was a thing her. And then who's the other chick that's crazy by reputation is the blade Runner Chick. Yeah. Something young. Sean Young, right? Yeah, that is.

Yeah. I've never heard she was crazy, but I mean, I'm no disagree with that. Yeah, She got kicked out of Hollywood for being crazy. Well, that was how there's. That's a whole new level of crazy. Yeah. No, she's got a reputation where effectively, you know, she actually lives here in Austin. She's a. Is she your other neighbor? You got Ellen one side. She is one of my buddies. Friend. Actually, her husband is. But yeah, her. Her husband's like a carpenter. I think. Nothing wrong with that.

People need what, baby? No. Yeah, it's. But that's the thing is ideally actors and other entertainers, you know, like, you can pay them double, triple A average person salaries, right? Yeah. They could be making 400,000 a year, but they shouldn't be making 40 million a year. That is insane for something that is literally pretending to be somebody else or for having a genetic predisposition to bouncing and ball frickin insane.

Well, I understand both sides of this one being Michael Jordan, which is a good, I think example because he's is made more money than I think God yeah and I like in in the the way that the current system is built I certainly don't fault people for leveraging their talents and genetics and perseverance, frankly. You know, it's not like this shit happens in the vacuum. They all train actors, you know, musicians athletes, etc. But yes, they hone their craft. The system should not be like this.

The most revered people should not be frickin musicians. That is crazy. You want them to be computer programmers? Yes. And the computer programs should be the ones that are entertaining people. We are all in the simulation. Well, people I would say my neighbors would say that if we're all living in a simulation, then the computers created Taylor Swift. Yeah. Yeah. As an experiment, you can see just what an experiment is.

Yeah. Yeah, I. Taylor Swift is popular, but objectively speaking, her skillset isn't very high as a singer. I would agree, yes. As a songwriter, I think she is in the top 10%, probably of pop songwriters. Of all time, which means there are literally tens of thousands. They are better than her. Well, there's a lot. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's hard to put people above, you know, the things of the world to just say that about her.

I would say that about all these guys, like certainly Britney and everybody else that's made millions off of their music. They're not at the pinnacle of their craft. They're at the pinnacle of marketability. Right. And that's the bastardization of all of this stuff, the minimum salary, I believe in Major League Baseball at this point is closing in on three quarters of $1,000,000. I thought they were over. Really, if they're still under the. I think they are okay. But it wasn't that long ago.

It was 400 and something thousand. Yeah. So I think it's how much the group get paid. Almost nothing. I mean, going back, you heard those stories from Guys United, from guys that played for the White Sox back in the fifties and sixties, that they had to have a winter job because the salary wasn't enough. So this is a more but more current thing to make that kind of money. But I don't mind either. Okay. I just looked it up. He actually was making good money in 1919.

Yeah, in 1919 he was making 20,000 a year, which for then was pretty damn good. Yeah, like 20,000 back then. It's probably about 2 million right now, but I don't mind the top players making the money. It is the equity bullshit of the guy. Nobody knows. Nobody ever heard of that Plays once a week that's making a million bucks a year because. Oh yeah, no, it's it. We need equity. It's like, no, pay it because it is entertainment.

So if you're the New York Yankees and you're like, Well, without Aaron Judge, we sell 30,000 tickets to every game. Yes, Aaron Judge, we sell 50,000 tickets every game. Yeah. Yeah. That's the entertainment industry is an example of unbridled capitalism. It is literally give fans what they want, because that's the way that we make more money is by giving them what they want. It is now 720,000. Is the league minimum. Back in 2003, it was 300,000, which was still pretty damn good.

Hey, by 1930, so 21 years later, 21 years later, holy shit, Babe Ruth was getting paid $80,000. It's good work if you can get it. Still. I mean, that's a lot of money. Back in the day when I think the the average salary for a guy was $50 a week. Yeah. And I'm sure there was side money because again, you go out, you go to the car dealership, say hi to a few people, you know, you get paid for a lot of stuff. You have your own, you know, candy bar. There you go. The Reggie bar man back in 77.

You bet you you eight a few Reggie bars, man. They were good. Now I, I preferred Charleston chew Oh a can discern candy. It's just physically bigger sized. Oh, okay. Jesus. Like, give me more chocolate. Uh huh, I get it. All right, let's now, I'm curious what the Negro Baseball League, babe. Probably nowhere near well, obviously. But I'm curious, though, how much are actually worth. I'm just glad because that's where Jackie Robinson came out of. Of course, in the great many Minoso. Mm hmm.

Now, $100 a month, you're like, Wow, that's fine. That's fine. Literally, at the same time, at the same time that the the Bambino was getting better players. Yeah. 20, 20,000 a year. These guys are getting 100 a week. They work month to month and they were getting the crowd. So, you know, they were just being taken advantage. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Because everybody build the museum. I am not that place. I would love to go. Yeah, yeah Especially now that they've got the Buck O'Neil statue up.

Man, I like the O'neills. Yeah, I know you like them. The the Kansas City has some really cool sort of. How do we phrase it? Some African American related stuff. So they've got the Negro Baseball League Hall of Fame. They've got some really great old jazz places that literally been around for a hundred years and have just a tremendous amount of history there. They actually have at least I don't know if they still do back.

I remember going maybe 15, 20 years ago, there was a several really cool soul food restaurants out there that essentially, you know, still make stuff the old fashioned way with a lot of a lot of lard. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, that's exactly the magic ingredient is always lard. Uh huh, exactly. So it is a it's a neat city. I always like Kansas City. It's I think it's one of the more underrated cities in the US. Well, here they have good barbecue, so that's good. My favorite. I'm not.

I'm not even saying the best anymore because people instantly start arguing. But I will say it is my favorite of all the barbecue styles. How dare you pick them? Yeah. Don't you know you're in Texas? Don't you know? And I don't, you know, and it's it's like you can find good barbecue in Texas but but Texas really specializes in brisket and and I like the ribs from Kansas City. Well, you can find some good ribs here in Chicago. You find good ribs in most places.

But when you go to Kansas City, there's a bunch of places with really exceptional ribs. Now, the main difference is probably in Kansas City doesn't have the same collateral problem that we have in Chicago, which is to run the better, right? You have you have to go into an area where you're much more likely to get shot. Actually, you do. In Kansas City, I can safely say this same issue.

It's like the best area for that little shack where you see the smoke coming out and you smell it way before you see the building. And the parking lot has four spaces and you're like, This is what I want. This is this is the place. Yeah, this is definitely the Yeah, dude. And then after you get out of there, you go into the barber, or you're the only white dude in there. Like, what the hell happened to your beard? And then and they're like. Wow, that's an amazing beard. I touch it.

I think I've told this before to black women in particular, I'm really consistently, like, touching my beard. That's weird. It's a thing. I personally was like, Oh, that's weird. But then I realized it's like a cultural thing or something because most black guys don't have beards, but the ones that do have beards are like a hundred years old, like me. And so I think I have that kind of, you know, old Uncle Remus style kind of vibe going.

And I've had black women from college age to my age say, That's a really pretty beard. Can I touch it? Like, is it real? It's it's a magic beard to see. They want to touch the magic beard. You want to pull on the beard, see if it's really attached? Yeah. And I think about how much. I'm sorry. I'll get in touch, though. That does not work as well. And for some reason, I don't know. They usually say us like, okay, it's only fair. Yeah, it's totally fair. You know, I'm all about equity.

I mean, that would have to be the answer. If a woman comes up to you and says, Hey, can I touch your beard? You're just like, Can I touch your tits? Mm. Like, Yeah, it does. And it's like, if she says no, it's like, well, you were just asking for something very personal. Like, Yeah, why not? I totally don't care if they touch my beard, though. That's like, I wouldn't. Well, I'd care more about that. But they're like, What are these, a full female? Come on. Yeah. Cut down on the ice cream, Jean.

Oh, man, I. I do not eat ice cream these days. That are those on the list of foods. I don't have a whole lot of protein. Oh, no more coffee, ice cream? No, I tried to order again because that's how I do. My shopping is on the internet by pressing a few buttons. I'm going to do that in about 10 minutes. I think the the Maya here was once again doing their seven for seven, and the little Haagen-Dazs were on that, Oh, those are great.

So I tried to order seven of the coffee and they didn't have it, so I got the Carvel one instead. They have no coffee at all? No, I was like, Far is the last time I've gotten the a very popular flavor for them. They probably sell out because, I mean, I don't know the words still and I think I've I have first discovered. Sorry to interrupt you there. I think I first discovered the coffee Haagen-Dazs in like 1979. And how many have you eaten since? I would. Well, let's see.

How much do I weigh now? Yeah, we divide by two. We got a remainder. Ah, Here. You carry that a lot? Oh, yeah, Yeah. No, it's. But I noticed again they're back to the a lot of stuff is not fully in stock at the grocery store, which is still weird to me. Nobody's really explaining this and I'm not seeing any of goals. Yeah, nobody's like, well, here's why you can't get your Haagen-Dazs coffee ice cream. I know First world problems, but it's weird. It's like, Well, why isn't there enough supply?

Yeah, what's up with that? Where's all the coffee is? And it's it's only got five ingredients that, that is one thing I've always liked about that ice cream, even though there's plenty of sugar in it. But is it literally is the most, I don't want to say healthy, but it's the most natural of ice cream. It doesn't have any filler, it doesn't have any artificial crap. It doesn't have guar gum in it. It doesn't have anything that every other ice cream has. It is literally five ingredients.

There's milk, eggs, cream, sugar and coffee. That's a that's the entirety of its ingredient list. The less ingredients, the better. Yeah, that's true of most things we have, because otherwise the chemicals, when you start having things in the packaging and the creation of whatever you're reading that you can't describe or understand what it is or spell, you know, it's like there's a lot of chemicals that go into this stuff.

And I, I don't think that's a coincidence in why people have gotten way fatter than they were when we were kids. Because, well, again, we talked about this. We had McDonald's and KFC back then. Oh, yeah, totally. So the junk food stuff was real. But we also didn't eat their every day except for surgery at a time when I worked the McDonald's. But other than that, you didn't eat their every day. They pay me and food. They kind of did.

Because, you know, when you're closing the restaurant, you either throw the the leftovers that nobody bought away or you take them home and stick them in your fridge. Jean's like, Oh, no, I made five extra ribs. That's and you're kidding. But that is literally what people did because, you know, most of it back then, most of the workers at McDonald's were under 18 and the manager was probably like 24. You know, it was a very young operated crowd.

Right now, if I go to McDonald's, the average age is probably 40 and most of them are speaking Spanish. Yo, you're right about that. That's a weird also because it became a job. It used to be kind of like a where kids learn about what it means and it should work. We should have jobs like that. But raising the minimum wage constantly made it. So now we'll just I don't remember exactly, but I do remember that when I worked there, I think I was getting paid like 315 an hour. 2 a.m.

Yeah, it's about what, 86? Somewhere in there, 84. It was in the eighties for sure. I don't like what you're with. I've been there ever been. Yeah, probably like 83, 84 ish now if I want 1520 bucks an hour minimum. No, they want more than that. They want over 20 an hour. Really? That's a wow. Okay, well, consider 20 an hour to be minimum wage these days because it is in a lot of states.

I mean, like I remember in Washington State a couple of years ago, not even recently, but like during COVID in Washington state, there were there were hiring signs in McDonald's for $18 an hour. And they were low staffed. And I know because I went in there to buy some food and and ask them about it and, they said, yeah, we can't we can't get people you know, they everybody wants more money. They're like, You want a job? Yeah, right. Like, no, no, I'm not with my beard. No, no.

You imagine the grease via. Oh my God, there's only been two times my beard's ever caught on fire and it's not pleasant. And one of them was when I was lighting a cigar on my boat and. And all of a sudden, you know, wind, right? And my beard gets on fire, and my girlfriend's like, Oh, shit, What? You know, didn't know what to do, right? I would just ask if you were entertaining, but we're literally surrounded by water, right? I mean, how hard can it be here?

Jesus Christ, We're standing on a boat and. And you're like, I'm on fire. The vision of a And there was a still a small flame, but a flame climbing up the beard closer to my face that I'm trying to pull away. But, you know, pulling away a face that has a beard attached and the beards on fire is doesn't really help the face. It was, in retrospect, a very comedic occurrence. But in in the experience, it was not fun at all one bit. And I think I did end up like pouring to trim it.

No, no, I think it was she was holding a bottle of champagne, so I grabbed that out of her hands and then put it on the beard and then put out the fire. Oh, you're just lucky she wasn't holding a bottle of 151. I know, Right? Exactly. It's something that would have it burning. Better. Let me help Jamie. Yeah, And then. And then the only other time was when I was cooking and I hadn't put the beard away. Wait, wait, wait. What does this mean?

Put the beard away when you're cooking, what is the process to have the beard be exposed that I can understand? I understand the hairnet. You're at working at McDonald's. You put it over your hair. I have a photo I've actually posted. I'm pretty sure that photo to No Jenna social So government agent was going into inspect some meat? No, I was at home in my kitchen. What do you wear? And what is it? Where does the beard go? A chef's jacket. They just tuck it in it. Texan?

Yeah. Nice. Yeah. Yeah, that's the nice thing about having long hair. Having long beard is that it doesn't really like you don't need a beard net that isn't going to do shit for it because the hair is over a foot long. It's actually capable of being tucked in with nothing. No, nothing loose sticking out. You could tie it and a couple of pigtails throw it over your shoulders.

I, I yeah, I don't know about that, but I have only gotten that braided once again because it was a black woman that asked you if you could braid your beard. Well, no. Lots of black women have asked me that. I didn't trust most of them, and some of them have asked for a lot of money. And I was like, I really that much for braiding my beard. Really are they're professional beard Braiders There are. Yeah, there are. But where I did they get it braided? When I was in Rastafari?

Gene I was at a Renaissance fair with a check and she said, Wait, there's no other reason to be at a renaissance fair. I know you don't agree with that, but that would be I like brown fairs. I know I've always enjoyed them. Well, I guess there is meat. There's eggs. Yes. Ample amounts of meat and wenches. There's a lot of soup. There's that. It's just a merry old time for everyone. And plus, I kind of I enjoy being referred to as my Lord by everybody. You know,

No ego there at all? No. Just big enough for one person. That's that's all the ego that's necessary. Don't let it break up through to the other side. She is like, Oh, I'd be so cool if you get your beard braided. I'm like, It's going to take a while. And it's like, All right, well, you get your beard braided, I'll go shopping. I'm like, okay. So I did end up getting the beard braided and it was in the kind of a writing style to a very manly braid or like a Gimli style.

I guess it depends on what you're more familiar with, but it was no, I kind of liked it. The thing about it is what you quickly realize is, you know, when you braid here, because it's it's going back and forth and back and forth, the length essentially gets cut in half. Yeah, it shortens yeah, it shortens a lot. And so all of a sudden my foot beard, but not nearly as good.

And then it's like it needs to be twice as long in real life to look braided the way the braided beards look on TV or in movies. So then when people walk by, you feel like shrinkage. Shrinkage of shrinkage. Yes. Yes. I was George Costanza the whole time. Know it's really much longer than this. Yeah, it's cold. It's cold out. Very cold. Shrinkage. Yeah. You're listening to the Beard Braiding Talk podcast. We're glad you're with us.

Yeah. Please send your contributions to add relaunching that show. There we go. Perfect to where they show. Yeah. So it was. It was. It was worth doing. I have a couple of photos, but it's not something that I. It just shows you the fakeness of every time somebody has braided long hair in movies, it's a frickin wig or it's a fake beard because it literally you have a foot long braid means you have two feet of hair things you actually. Rough numbers.

Yeah. White Mike in the troll room says I'm riveted. It's a riveting conversation, I have to say. So this is one of the best shows we've ever done. Every show is the best show, turns out. Yeah, that is that gives it keeps rotating. Uh huh. The best show here. The best show there we are a Value for value podcast. Well, like I said, we do have a few people actually thank for today's show. So I guess before we get too far and then and start running out of time.

But the booster grams, of course, are always open once again. I think this may put him over the thousand dollar level. Oh my God. Now we all my steak dinner. Yeah, Dale from down under. But he's got to get from Australia to the United States. There we will be cooking and serving your dinner next week. We'll see here if you could be here. That's great. It's our guy. There was some a travel channel in Australian guy that's like our fancy traveler or something.

And he, well, he did the Quantas 24 hour flight from Australia to London area in one of the front of the little first class private first class cabin with the private shower, you know, damn, that's nice. What's the space. Did that my other co-host go do they better name better. Yeah. Yeah he did. He did a flight from the US to Europe, from Europe to Greece, from Greece to Qatar and from Qatar. Back to you.

So he he does he's makes his money outside of podcasting because these flights were not cheap. He noticed we don't collect money for the podcast because, you know, why would you I mean, I hear that half the shows that you do collect money, people don't send you the money anyway. That's true. But Dale came in with the 103 48 once again, got them there. He says, I hope all is well and the house is getting sorted. Yeah, I talked to the carpet guy the other day.

We're still getting the date set, although things are ready now. Everything's ready for the carpet. I would just like to get it in so then we can start out about not putting carpet in but doing like wood flooring. Well, you don't want to do wood flooring where it floods. Well, fake wood flooring. Yeah, we did. That was I suggested that that was poo pooed for some reason. The fake wood flooring looks great these days. I mean, it is it looks very realistic. Yes. And what's your advice?

Free for 20 years, you have the luxury vinyl, is it? We can look like wood. It can look like vinyl. Now they have better materials they make it out of and it's got a ceramic coat on top so you can scratch the ship. This is what you got all through the house? No, no, I have that in a in a house. I have the Minnesota. It is. I did that in the kitchen. Well, there's the laminate stuff. There's the. Yeah, I mean, my whole family is in the my dad was for years flooring industry.

Yeah. My brother in law that passed away was my wife worked in the floor covering industry until she got the job with the the local media and she wants carpet. Huh? But I mean, the guy that's putting it in I worked for that was my last real job, was managing his store for a few years. So we're we're getting a good deal I'm sure nobody's even given a price.

I'm though you are good at getting good deals on things where you pay way less than the average person, although it's either going to be a really good deal or a really bad deal. It depends. Nobody's talking a good deal. It may be bad. Carpet. Well, no, this is you know, it's the one of the nicer carries down carpets, which is the which is hoity toity, fancy really nice carpet.

But again, getting a good deal because the guy that I work for, I mean, a lot of people don't know with the carpeting, if they make one these any carpet, it doesn't have to be the high end. But if they make a roll of carpet and they look at it and go, Yeah, yeah, this is like a shade too light or a shade too dark from when the samples are right. We can't sell this as the full priced stuff. So they sell it for like 10% of the normal cost.

Wow. And the dealers just buy it up and they can't, you know, it's just like, hey, you could sell in once because once that color is gone, it's gone because it was kind of a mess. So you better get some extra. Yeah, you always got to get a little extra just in case you have to. And a bunch of the you know, it's funny because getting rid of the old carpet, there was a couple little rolls stash in the basement. I'm like, Well, we had this shit for like 15 years and nobody ever needed it.

Yeah, you'd never need it. If you do, you just not have to get it. But that is true. I like that. But I do like the deal. Let's see here now. But you can't do carpet down here. Too goddamn hot. Well, the. I can see you want to have the stone or you want to. There's a, I guess, a tile. I don't think it's actual stone, but it's pale. It looks like stone flooring. Let's see. It wants me to read this first paragraph in a Russian accent, which probably means you're going to do it in a CSP accent.

But go ahead. Isn't that isn't that Russian? Isn't CSB Russia? I know the French. Oh, CSB. Did you hear that? He just called you Russian. He's like, no doubt. Why you say that? No, I am not the Russian. Russian bad. Exactly. I have my got to get my inner Vlad going. It's the Russian accent, really just goes to Boris and Natasha. So that's it? Yeah, that's, that's a classic American Russian accent. You don't see The US paid 6 billion to Iran for five prisoners either.

And they're supposed to be getting jets and hypersonic missiles from Russia. They are maybe a payoff to stay quiet. Hmm. I ran in Turkey. Have been used to get around sanctions before. All very true. You know, you have to learn the club voice, and that would have made more sense. Would it have? Yeah, because he says just like that. Well, he's right most of the time was Alec is isn't it Me I think. I mean when is the SB been wrong. I mean he is right about Max. He does like the Mac.

I'm still considering. I'm considering maybe. Yeah. Yeah. Oh in fact if you looked at the the install code for the the thingamajig the what you record that we talked about the thingamajig what you might call it. We talk about the install code. Yeah. For the SD Excel. Oh right right for the stable decision model that it has now an option for using the the Mac processor. The Mac silicon. Yeah. Mm hmm. It's quick it's super quick. Add on. Maybe it's a thing. It is the thing.

I mean, I was just hoping that you were going to send me one of the M2 pro units for Christmas. I thought that's usually. What? Is that what you were thinking? Wow. Your podcasting co-host usually gets showered, and. And I tell you, only done that once, and I ain't doing it again. Damn. Come on, Jean. Love you. Long time. Well, and Get My slave was my co-host for about nine months I think. Yeah we've made it longer than that. We have. We have. And he got he got a mac mini.

How dare he for his birthday. Yeah. Dale continues. I was listening to an interview with Garrett Ziglar, who is with an outfit called Marco Polo. It's a dot org and on Twitter, it's repository of Biden documents. Apparently Hunter was number three or something on Amtrak board under Bush Junior. Who knew? Well, that's not a surprise. These kids being on boards.

The the big news out this morning was there's a bunch of emails have surfaced that show allegedly Joe Biden from his personal email sending government information to Hunter to help him with said businesses. Wow. That if proven that's big. That's really big. I would, Dale says. Do you think, though, I think it's just a slap on the wrist big well with this DOJ. Yeah. Mm With an honest DOJ may be a little bit more.

It'd be kind of like maybe Joe should be doing a hard time, but I know he's been there. The one of the evilest men in the world is putting out a year. No, Elon Musk come my. Oh, no. Oh, really? Yeah. He's announced that the they're pulling out of Europe, so I think they're getting ready for the fall of the collapse of Europe, of complete collapse of Europe, which is imminent. And they're making sure that they stay in the country. That'll have a softer landing. I can see that.

Wouldn't you think Bitcoin would be just skyrocketing up with all of this turmoil? No, it's not. It's going down 26,000. I know. I'm like, I should have I should have dumped everything when it was at 30 overnight at 24. Yeah. Uh huh. Well, is it time to get rid of it or time to hold on? I'm keeping them forever. I don't really for I don't even have such a nice day. I've always said when a Bitcoin hits a million, then I'll start going, Oh, yeah, Bitcoin hits a million. You're in good shape.

Yeah, my fraction of a bitcoin and then give me work debt until it's a million. Yeah, I got I got like $35. Now if it's worth a million. Woo! Uh huh, exactly. There's also a YouTube channel people. Pundit Richard Bear is very solid, independent pollster quite totally not, you know, Oh boy, you're telling daily smoke and crap.

Well you can tell they'll they'll they'll they'll, they'll you got to you got to Google this dude and get some other opinions I do like the guy who he does the show with interesting what he does for the show might appeal more to you or to the dude named Ben named Ben. So he he might be the one person listening to the Good old Boys podcast? Oh, he might be the others.

There's definitely at least one of those listening, but since we're a private with no funding girls, we, we keep our stats private for reasons of anonymity and really no stats of We don't bother logging in. That's the main reason you're like, we don't know who's listening. We don't want to know the only podcast who tells you not to listen Well, okay, we don't go that far. But we do say don't, don't send money because everybody needs their own money right now, except for Dale.

They'll feel free to keep sending money. You know? Yeah, Good, good, dude. But yeah, so embarrassed. I don't dislike him, but the guy's been wrong more than you admit that he's been wrong. And he has a pretty big mouth when it comes to being, you know, talking about himself. Now, his co-host is that lawyer guy. What's his name? Ba ba ba ba ba. Robert. Robert. Something good old Bob. It's the same guy that does this show with Viva Free Guy, Robert Barnes. Robert Barnes is the co host. So?

So I definitely watch them. I like Robert Burns. He is a little bit also of a self-promoter, but he's also you know, he's also done Jason from Supreme Court. So he's got, I think, kind of a right to be doing some self-promotion. Plus, I like his background and he was the guy that represented Wesley Snipes against the F. Well, it's nice when you have people that have actual real world experience commenting on things. Yeah. Yeah. And and I work with a lot of lawyers.

And one of the characteristics that I look for and this represents a minority of lawyers is a desire to litigate my good beard. Now, now most lawyers do everything they can to avoid litigation because litigation, you want an opportunity to show them losing. Exactly. Don't they don't want to go there? And so consequently, they you know, they will try and talk clients into things that may not be optimal for the client, but it'll be a way to avoid litigation.

So I actually look for a lawyer says, yeah, let's things right, so let's let's go to court. And when you have that attitude, I think you tend to do better. Now it's always, you know, it's always statistics, so it varies. But I like a lawyer who's not afraid of going to trial. MALLABY Scratch off the idea of Sue Jean, emotional distress for all of these shows. If you're not going to just settle, then I'm not going to play around with that bail settlements.

If not seen Master and Commander Far Side of the World worth the watch, not because Crowe is in it, but it was beautifully shot. Anyway, it is a great movie. I totally agree with that. It was a very beautifully done movie. I don't remember if I've seen that one or not. I have to look it up. And then he says, Ha! I hear candidate cosmonaut Conrad saw Jean of talk about Lemon drink must have an upcoming weigh in or perhaps a hot date, huh? Maybe.

No, the lemon drinks, you know, we've been talking about I it's not just me. It's both of us for a long time. Ever since I first introduced the concept to you. And you stuck to it longer than I did, frankly. Yeah. I need to get another bag of lemon. I've got one in the fridge, and I've got all the other ingredients. The cayenne pepper, the honey. And here's the thing. There's a big difference between adding a lemon to your day and removing other food because you're drinking the lemon.

I don't think either one of us is like, Well, if I have the lemon, I can stop Everyone take the lemon and use make a smoothie the way you like out of it with some ice and I just water like good luck eating something immediately right after that. Like that's a meal right there. You know, you can drop a meal. Yeah, you could drop in a little bit of honey. Like we said, you know, you can even drop in the the little tablets that I throw in the water when going on the bike.

The little electrolyte thing you could actually toss those in as well and have a nice to sit there on the bike for an hour and just sip on that nice cold, icy lemon drink in our head. Do an hour on the bike. Oh, my God, You've got to weigh like £10 by now. I wish. I wish I did. You do an hour on the bike? Do you go, like, five miles an hour? No. I mean, I want I don't go full out the whole time, but I don't go like I'm on a, you know, lazy Sunday drive either.

So it that's where the YouTube comes in. Lazy Sunday drive. Yeah. That's where the YouTubes come. Talking about my recumbent bike. Goddammit, you need another one man. But that's yeah probably do the I like the indoor recumbent bikes again because that way you don't have to leave the house when it's like 95 degrees out. It's, you know, when it's nice and we're Chicago like you know from living in the great north of Minnesota. I want to get one of those electric and their bikes.

What is the electric indoor bike do Does it feel like an outlet for? You like that pedal for you? It doesn't that ruin the idea of. Well, no, because you're so on the bike and you're still watching YouTube. That's is true. I don't think you get the exercise. Do you have one of those things? What do they used to call them? The Vibram Madix, where you just put everything around that awesome featherweight that way and that vibrates the weight right off view.

Well, we had the Vibram Alex, which were the the big belts, and then we have that roller that looked like a bunch of rowing pins, right? You sit on right like rotates your ass away and no weight. Mike I'm not eating tacos while riding the bike. I've got a stack stacked up. I mean, really, that's not a bad idea. I am a bit addicted to drugs, though. So do you like the trees? Although, yeah, I am a big fan of the cherries. Those Dale also says keep an eye on Cuba, Sir.

Gene could be a direct Russian market connection. Virgin thigh, rolled cigars and rum to you. What do you mean? Explain. He thinks you got a guy that you have a connection. Direct Cuba. Yeah, I wish I did. I do not have a guy in Cuba. You like the only one or a gal of my friends and family who has not gone to Cuba. Really? Everybody else I know, including my my immediate family, is going to be.

But the guy that did the framing of the Ted Williams prints we got for my dad and the one the autographed Taylor Swift print, we had the Peter Max thing. Oh, yeah. He was talking about going to Cuba, which he did very recently. And it's like, well, you have to get over the fact that the country is dirt poor and there are literally people dying on the street as you enjoy your great meal at the whatever the bad, they're not dying in the street.

They're damn poor and they look poor. Yeah, dying on the street may be just elevating the story. I think so, yeah. Elevating the story. But as soon as we started talking about Cuba, this. This pop up from Ubereats came up for Cuba. Five one, two. Oh, it's listening, man. Cuban food you will enjoy eating. Yeah. Cubano sandwich air above the air and let on the sorrow. And they got a lot of like a mystic. The boyo. Oh, good stuff.

Well, that's what he was talking about at the whatever the big hotel is there. And I think it's maybe the president. I don't remember that. That would be the El prison El presidente that, you know, they're having lobster and they're having steaks in their drive to find those. And he's like, the bill comes in, it's like 35 bucks. Know, It's like, Oh, really? Oh, my God. I remember those days ends. Like, let's go back to Cuba. I know. I've never been to Cuba. Well, that's all right for you.

I've been to Cuba. I mean, not officially. Never. Not a not out a black oppression ever, ever, ever been to Cuba. Never even close. No, nothing. I don't even know where it is. It's just south of Miami. Okay. So I was halfway to Cuba and they turned you around. What? No, nothing. Then. So I was windsurfing out of Key West. Oh, I think we can hear this story. I wanted to hear the story. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And by the time I got, quote unquote, rescued, I was. I was about halfway to Cuba.

They thought you were defecting, which that would be so ironic. There would be literally the first person that coming from the US right to Cuba. You're the one guy going that way. There's like a thousand people go, Oh, it's full of three people going the other way and they see going south, Crazy Gringo Round Boy. And they they're like, That's another CIA dude, obviously. Yeah, that's the only people coming south to Cuba. But yeah, no, I got, I got rescued. But I won't tell you this.

Even though you're surrounded by water in the hot sun with no water, with no salt drink on you and like, no land visible is Key West has become a little dot in the horizon. It does make you wonder a little bit, but I've done stupid shit like that when I was. You know, I told you about the time I swam in a between two islands where I was bleeding while I'm swimming, and I forgot that there was sharks. See, that's not something you should forget.

Well, no, I mean, you know, that's how you see what the people do this through shark infested water. They're swimming in a huge cage and have five boats at my side. Right. And I was doing the same thing. Put up the cage and with blood coming out of my foot like I'm a bad ass. What? What could go wrong? Who needs an extra foot? Yeah, well, I wasn't going to miss dinner, I'll tell you that. But this is what it was all about, huh? Yeah, pretty much.

I'm going to have some good, good plantains that were freed up. You always got to get back for dinner. And I was in Costa Rica. The note is closed out from a deal from down under, just as day unrelenting move. And we will. And thank you. Yeah, we got to get you up here one of these days, because seriously, if you're over a thousand bucks, we will totally buy you a steak dinner. But it's got to be at a restaurant of our choice. Yeah, It's like it cannot be in Sydney where they're from.

By the way, do you remember if she's Sydney? Melbourne. What do not from Australia. Although something I saw the other day, there's only like three little areas in Australia where people live. So yeah, that's pretty much it. Otherwise, I mean you never know. He could be like one of these guys out in the outback can be undercut, he could have one of these like underground used to be here in Alice, although I highly doubt it. You do not know. Do not know. But this next donation here.

Now, this came from a joke that I made when Brian, who's genetic, he sent in a donation not too long ago. That was the show number. Donation for Planet Rage, which is about the same amount of shows as this. And the show number donation for Grumpy Old Beds, which is a little more than this to whatever and I made the joke. I'm like, Well, I guess he likes every show I do with a co-host except Gene. No, of course. And in the mailbox there the other day, a show number donation for Unrelenting.

Wow. 81. That's a trend that we need to keep going. I like the show number donation. People should be more like Bryan generic and go, Hey, have you been listening to this podcast? 81 episodes? Yeah. Have you not shown any value back is obviously it is so damn cheap right now. I mean, look at shows like No Agenda. Try making a show donation to that fifth leg ever. We're a frickin bargain, man. You get it. Now you have that for the rest of your life. Like I made a show.

Only got, like, 460 more shows to go before he gets on. Really? He says he is soon to be a third lab rat, so he's close to getting his no agenda props. They're getting the short by three show donations. Right. You'll get there. Just don't worry. And he says haven't forgotten about you been going through some health problems also a slow summer for Uber now. We appreciate that, Brian.

But for anybody like yeah, if Brian, if you move to Austin I guarantee you the uber tip for me alone will let you make more show donations. Well, only if he brings you food. Yeah. Well, yeah, obviously, like, you got to bring me my sushi. You're very specific about it. You got it. You got to drive up to the guy and pick up the sushi in. The little package. It's. It's drugs or sushi we're talking about. Please, Truck. No, I'm talking about the expensive stuff. Oh, the good stuff.

Okay, The sushi, huh? But for me, it's like we understand we push the donations, but we understand the Biden economy. So, yeah, never, never donate money that you have forgotten. You know, right now what the US prime rate is, which is a good indicator of where the government thinks the inflation is. I don't know. But I know American Express again, this morning's like, hey, the rates on our savings accounts are going up again. So do I. 2%? No, they're like five or something. So yeah, Yeah.

So the prime rate right now is 8.5. Wow. Wow. It hung out at like under 3% for a damn long time. I think pretty much up until Biden got elected, but then went to war with these files. So think about this industry, 8.5 is what banks charge each other. So anybody that borrows money from banks is paying that. Plus whatever money the band the bank makes, right? Which is why these savings accounts are making like 5% because they're still making money. Yeah, Yeah, of course.

But the important thing here is if you're not getting a minimum of ten per year increase in wages, you're literally making less than you were last year. Right. And it doesn't matter what they say. The official inflation numbers go shadow stats and look up what inflation is using. The original 1980s formula or just look at your grocery bill. Well, okay. Okay. Perfect example. Good segue way.

So I always measure the not just inflation, but sort of buying power at the rate of how much per bag of groceries. So if I go to the grocery store or rent, doesn't matter whether I have it delivered or if I go there myself, I'm like, what is the average price per bag? And it's pre-COVID. It was typically between 30 and 50, depending on the store I went to. And if I if I happened to have bought a tenderloin, it'd be more like if I didn't, it'd be more like 30.

Well, don't forget the £5 tins of caviar. Yeah, I wish. No, my sushi guy also handles caviar. Oh, well, that's good. You got that double bang for your buck? Yeah. If you're not getting caviar wholesale, you're wasting money. So, anyway, there's a gold. But for four decades, I think the show is this. It's a show run by two people that barely survive on minimum wages. And then they talk about caviar, wholesale also.

Well, you can't afford the retail Now came, you know, and if you're not buying it in bulk, at least £20 at a time, you're you're just not doing it right there. You're smoking some kind of weird shit that is that's it's way more expensive than that. Yeah, I know it's a joke. This is basically an improv class, don't you know? It's like you guys all realize nothing we talk about is real, right? It's fake. All my stories are fake. All their illnesses are fake. All this exercise bullshit.

Say it all intertwines. And the. You're the one that sent me the clip of Gilbert Gottfried on the the the Hollywood Squares, right? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That was one of the funniest things I have seen. It's not amazing in forever. Yeah, it's like. But it shows you how easy, like, people are led down the path and explain to people what the clip is. Well, when the I don't think the show still had, I would hope. No, it's now the Hollywood Squares. They would get nine celebrities.

Well, it's like blisters. Blisters. Yeah. In this case, Whoopi was there. Penn and B Lister. Gilbert Gottfried. Yeah. And he was the last loser. So whoever gets Gilbert wins. Yeah. And they went through at least, what, seven or eight different questions where they guessed. Really, the only thing is for the players. There's two players, right? And they turns just like in tic tac toe.

And the way the tic tac toe works, as you ask a celebrity, or rather the celebrity is asked a question, and then they're answer the question and you have to either agree or disagree with them. If the answer was correct from them and you agreed with them, then you get your point. If the answer was incorrect by them and you agreed, then you don't. But if the answer was incorrect, incorrect and you disagree with them, then you still get your point, right? So it's a 5050 shot? Mm hmm.

Yeah, pretty much. And it went on like eight different. Now, Gilbert was the one that started with there was one and he was. So I think it was something about a bikini and it was the question was so far off that Yeah, it was, it was the answer was bikini. But this is a bathing suit that was designed to be so that it was called the bomb. And he's like tube top. And the woman agrees. And immediately he's like, You fool. Yeah, yeah. Gilbert Immediately yelled, Oh, there you go.

So he like, he knows his answer is the wrong answer. It's beautiful. And that when he had them, that was right and they disagreed with them. You said that it got so bad. I mean, my favorite was towards the end when. When Penn from Penn and Teller yelled, Get this over with them. You all like out. It's like it just the show was never going to end. No. And they basically said, yeah, if we if nobody wins, we're we're just going to go take this down to the bar.

You go out for drinks. That's what you should do. Uh huh. But it's it's alcohol jokes on primetime TV. Very well. You can't do all this stuff anymore now. You can't do most of it. Yeah. No, you can't. Gilbert was really the king of the inappropriate. Have incredibly funny humor. Yes. And he was a really shy guy, I guess otherwise, which is interesting. Yeah. I saw his when he was on the cribs. You know, they're showing off his house. Yeah. So. Yeah, Yeah. What was that show called?

Cribs. Crib Life Cribs. It was MTV. It was just Cribs and MTV Cribs. And you look at it, it's like, Huh? Really? And it's just like this very small, you know, not at all. Impressive little apartment in New York. And and he's got his small miniature wife there. And and it's just ball and. Sure, that's.

Yeah, well, she's, you know, I think Gilbert's like by five and she was about five but it's, you know I mean it needed much, much smaller apartment that way, but it's like a guy that's been around forever, been in a bunch of shows, has done the Aflac commercials. Oh, yeah. He was the Aflac duck. Yeah. And he's done a number of voice parts aside from his comedy. But he was really the king of roasts like he was on all the big roasts back in the day. And you don't like any of those anymore.

Do you notice this lives? I know, right? He lived in the Cribs episode, kind of. I think what all these guys, including Joe Rogan and, you know, the other three guys did when they were in New York in the first couple of years of their life or in comedy like P is seemingly like I wouldn't say he made it big, but he definitely was a match nationally known comedian. But he was he looked like he was living like he's just trying to make it by, you know, the open mikes.

Well, there's a lot of people that once they hit the big time, he didn't have a driver's license. He never got a driver's license. I mean, why would you get that? Could drive one thing. Yeah. People do stuff for you, but do you not want to have a driver's license just in case your limo driver has a heart attack or something? I mean, I guess you really need a license at that point. Yeah, well, you need to learn how to drive them car.

Well, I mean, really, I think most people, even if you don't have a license, understand how to drive. I would beg to differ. A lot of people with licenses don't really understand. According to celebrity Net worth, Gilbert passed away with a net worth of $8 million. Not at all surprising. He probably spent like 80 grand a year. He was frugal. Alec, living in New York, spent probably that much because, well, if you're Gilbert and you walk into a place, you're probably getting some free drinks.

I don't believe you drink. Well, the interesting, too, that that you save a lot of money if you don't drink. If you don't drink right. You're allowed to spend, what, a year now or so since you've had that. He's like, Oh, it's been way longer than that. We're approaching two years now and this is somebody that loves those good, good whiskeys.

Not only that, it's somebody that still has probably, without exaggerating, probably about five grand worth of, uh, really old bottles of impossible to get stuff sitting in the south. Oh, well, now, no, I'm not saying anything. I'm just saying I'm saying as well. No, Dean's like, come on down. And that happened. Then come on down to have a drink. I probably should at some point figure out what to do with that stuff because I can't exactly sell it on eBay.

Well, yeah, well, you're not on eBay, but you can absolutely sell it. I mean, there's auctions happening all the time for collectible alcoholic beverages. True. It's like the new baseball card. I would say it's been the old baseball card since it was around before baseball. But sure, Uh, auction for booze like wine cellar auctions have absolutely been around longer than baseball. Now, how do you keep them at the proper temperature in a I have three wine refrigerators. It's three.

Yeah. You couldn't have just bought one big one. Or are they different temperatures for different types of why they're different temperatures. Those three and I haven't opened any of the three in over well, probably actually over two years. Well, do you have sensors in there so that make sense of there's no right now they they're also on backup and power. The gene has a gene of three. I have wine refrigerators.

My wife should really add that to your no agenda social profile gene of three wine fridges. Sounds like a DNA. I mean, look, I. I don't drink, though. That's the thing. It's even when I did drink, I really didn't drink much. So it's not like you look at people like Adam and Tina, who are drinking like fish. Yeah. You know, like all of that nonstop. Just. And not that it's a bad thing. It's a bit life choice, but, you know, they're going through an awful lot of bottles of wine and.

And some other things. Possibly when you don't drink much, Like if you buy a really nice bottle of I mean, I was always into port so I don't have a lot of vintage port and you get that and then you're like, okay, this is great. This will be ready to drink in seven or eight years. What are you going to do? You know, of course you got to put it into your, your wine fridge, right? And then, you know, you got to wait until the time is perfect to drink it, which is usually at about 30 to 30 years.

That's a long wait. But you don't by the year it's released. I know. I mean, you know, a lot of it isn't even released that year. I mean, I only have one wine fridge. Yeah, Yeah. But you keep in there, it's like I'll close the wine from an ex White Sox player is pretty much what it was, right? Yeah. George Thomas Seaver. Yeah. God rest his soul. And I'm glad because they're very limited. Release cab sav from California. He's known for his Japanese.

Well he was a he passed away but the wine if you look him up online it's GTC vineyards that the bottles from previous years are selling for three four $600. So we're on the list one on the waiting list. That's the way they sell them. It's direct. Yeah. Yeah. You're on the list. The seller by the by. Oh, so we buy and there's usually we just started buying them for you. It's usually the I know, but this is mainly because my mom likes wine and this was an easy gift.

And Tom Seaver was your favorite player, so it worked out. But now we started buying more. Now we have an overstock of the wine and you're buying $600 bottles of wine? Yes. This is the podcast that you're doing through the I buy them though, at one I think they're 125 when they when they come out which isn't cheap for wine this day I'm sure, but they're not. I mean I'd like if I could find somebody that wants to pay me five or 600 for the they are the vintages that we've still got.

I'd be more than happy to to move those white mikes as if Taylor Swift starts making wine there and I was going to go broke. Oh, he is going to go bankrupt, I guarantee you that. Maybe I'd have to go work on her vineyard That's out of dirty or that I meant to do. Or maybe I did not know you meant every bit of that I did. We do have a booster, Graham from the one and only CSB, who I guess likes you again. Now, what do you say?

He has 10,015 satoshis with the message in there a reprieve yet to which I'm assuming is a Russian like private means. Hello. Yes. So previous comrades, please tell your oligarchs to visit w w w that CSB dot lol to browse my cartoons without spoons. Yo csb. Okay, explain the spoons. But I've never heard of this. I don't know why. Why do you not do Not without spoons. Does he not draw spoons? Is it just because it's why I maybe.

Maybe it was an AA that suggested he said that way we browse the cartoons without spoons. He could. Yeah. No, that's. And he does have free cartoons. I mean I, I've like you've got plenty of ones that I don't think are funny to, but if you go on there he has a quite a few that are actually very witty. And I will say it is not easy to be witty in a language that is not your native language. Yeah, the subtleties are hard to pick up on. I would agree.

So maybe he needs some people to write the here. I thought he was going to send another courier much. He didn't do that this time. I didn't know I think because I was getting closer to saying it correctly. So more of a much, much, much, much, much. I think it's like match like match. But with it's a it's a some clever match. Mm. See then it's about the most polish I know. All I remember growing up was like Sidney I think, which is like sit down or something like that. Shouldn't, should be.

Yeah. Something like that. Hmm. Okay. That, that sounds vaguely like that. Maybe. And a white mike came in with 3333 says Dara. No, makes me dance my SATs all over the floor. That was before when we were playing. Some played. Some Debbie Gibson before the show. Yeah, that was awesome. And taking you right back to the eighties, it was the best decade ever, you know, civilization. Looking back, the music was good.

And the artists that let's forget Milli Vanilli for a and those were still real people singing. It just wasn't the people you thought were singing, but they still had people that were playing instruments. Yeah, that's the other very worrying thing now, because I was just religions don't play it well.

The there's a I used now and Google has one, there's others where it's like you can go and give it a little, you know, a little melody that you can, you know, program in, you know, you could just give it a little bit and be like, well, expand this into a full song. And it will I mean, there's going to be You don't have to Really? Yeah. Oh, that sounds cool. Actually, I have not played around with that one. I haven't either.

But just think about for like podcast themes and all this stuff for people. Well, yeah, I mean, I like the fact that we know people that have the musical talent like John Fletcher, but, you know, it's hard to get home. I just have to ask. We have to ask nicely. Okay. But if you could just in you need something quick. You just go tell the I. Hey, I want something that sounds, you know, like a hair band song from the eighties. Hmm. Okay. You know, then it just makes it up.

But the even the bands that I was like, back in the eighties, including Duran Duran, was one of them where it was like, well, it's just kind of a just kind of a girl thing that, you know, that it's not really good, you know, I don't they're now listening to the music. It's like, Wow, this was a lot more innovative. That is so much better. Yeah. Yeah. Like for seagulls. Oh, I ran. I ran so far away. That was a good track. There. There. Their multitude of good track.

You know what I do when I want to just kind of chill is I get in my virtual track and I turn on station and I just start falling. Do you start hauling ass? Well, I f and cargo, yes. Now, sir. Bummer. So relaxing posted the Great Fabulist. Ryan Ambrose. Hmm. In the trial room. Trial room date. When we do these shows live on Fridays at 10 a.m. Central, you should be there. Jean is wrong. He agrees with me discussing. It's a screenshot from X where Tesla owner Silicon Valley says.

Is there ever a reason to block versus mute? Someone give me your reasons, Elon answered BLOCK is going to be deleted as a feature except for direct messages. That's interesting, Elon. Skip Yeah I'm going to stop paying for it when that happens. Whoa. Yeah, that's big words. If they might just run out of money you like. But I don't see I don't understand why that you want to take that feature away. Now he's talked about in the past. I definitely disagree with them on this comp.

It's the whole point of blocking is essentially saying, look, it is a privilege to be able to consume things that I produce well and as they move because this is something that has changed, I believe. Yeah, since Elon got there, you now have to be logged in to Twitter to read post where that used to be. The big thing, like it doesn't really matter if you block somebody because all they have to do is log out and they'll see all your stuff anyway, right? Without that, you have to be long.

The last point, I mean, this was the exact same thing as the explaining that I did with CSB when I blocked them for a year. And it's like, Well, I can go in and answer, Yeah, but that means you have to do effort, right? You have to work to see my post, you have to work and nobody else has to work. Everybody else can just see it because. You were a dick. So it was a it was they. And I think that that's a legitimate thing. And I've been a big proponent of the the the ban tag podcasting.

So you should be able to exclude people or even countries for that matter from being able to consume your podcast by always understanding that there's going to be loopholes. It's not about the loopholes, it's about the work. It's about the work. Yeah, exactly. It's about show it. I mean, it's really just a big way to say fuck you without saying fuck you, isn't it? Oh, it's absolutely fucked you like I've blocked to no other way about it.

But I think as the context and this is another, this is the crew and we're disagreeing all over the place. Another disagreement with Ben Rhodes, who doesn't believe in copyright. Yes, I do believe in copyright because I think intellectual property, like real property, is still property. So if I create something original and it could be something as stupid as this podcast, it is still an original creation. And by creating it, I get to control it.

And that means if I don't want you listening to it, then I should be able to prevent you from listening to it. That, I mean, that's always been hard to do. I mean, you can't be. Again, it's not. Yes. Doing it for proof. I mean, there's a very easy way to do it. And that is just to not put out episodes. Right. That nobody gets it and then nobody can hear it. But that now.

So the trade off is do you deny everybody the opportunity to hear something magical by wanting to block a single person from having any possible way of circumventing it? And it's to me, it's sufficient enough to make it more difficult for them. Yes. Which again, it's just it's a right that you have for anything that you create. And I had a wish that there should be a source code or about that. I agree that there should be protect should not, that the five year thing is way too short.

That was the argument we had over I grumpy old bads way back when was okay. When you talk about this kind of stuff, if somebody writes a book, can you hear. This happens more than most people would think. Somebody writes a book that languishes at nothing. And then like 20 years later, somebody decides to make a major motion picture about it. And that is it's like you can't be like, well, you only get it for two years. And then that's public domain.

I think that there is definitely abuse of the current system. Right. Disney has been at the forefront of the abuse and pushing to extend the copyrights longer and longer. I do. I do think that a remake probably would be closer together than apart when it came to durations. I think for a lot of things it shouldn't be. Seven years is long enough. Yes. For a lot of lot of things, there might be some types of things that you could argue would be much better served with a longer term.

But for the majority of copyright. Like if even a book if that book came out and the copyright for that seven years should start upon the first public publication that the creation. That's the other difference right is that it's not when you create the thing it's the first time people have an opportunity to see it. Right. From that point on, starting like seven years goes by, then, yeah, I think it ought to be public domain thereafter.

Well, I mean, interesting there comes in the cases and there's been a lot of these. Most of them were slammed down where people get sued for that are like, well, no, this is copying off my song. Even though my song was never released. Somehow Taylor Swift heard it and then she made this song When I Can. That's when they go back to the Oh, well, see the different tie everything back to Taylor Swift. Everything does go back to Taylor Swift. She is the whole U.S. economy at this point, I think.

I heard that that the money that comes in for every city she goes into, they're saying now this tour, just the United States portion of this, might end up bringing in $2 billion, which is you realize that means taking $2 billion into entertain them. Right. From a country that is on the verge of collapse. Oh, yeah. You know, there's there are people that own tangible production. There are people that are more than willing. I am not one of them. I did not go to any of the shows.

I refuse to go out to shows where people are just holding up their phones and screaming that my that my bit. If if history is has taught me anything. Every time Taylor Swift does a tour, once the tour is over, it's available on Blu ray. So, I mean, if you really want to hear the music and you want to see the sets and everything going to be there, I don't like going out into concerts now, but there are people that are paying thousands of dollars for tickets and it's like, Oh, no big deal.

It's like, that's a fucking crazy thing to do. I don't understand it. I mean, but there are literally people do you know, I also don't understand that some of the vinyl records of hers are actually insane. The amount of money that people pay for space, I mean, for spaceships is absolutely crazy. It is. But you have to, I guess, figure out where your expendable income is. And I think that's one thing. This newer generations of low income. Yes. You know, hey, that was the same thing, right? Huh?

That people are willing to speed themselves into oblivion. They're like, Oh, I really want to cozy Taylor Swift. I'll pay $10,000, you know? And then a day I'm like, You're getting to bang her right? Then ten grand. You. I might. Ten grand? Yeah. They'll be like, I don't even like her. I'd probably go for ten grand. But that's because you don't like her.

That's why you're like, Oh, I could see that she might even come here For all the more you see the photos in the videos from this tour, you know, you always complain she didn't have it in working out. I will say that she's definitely worked it out. Their ass has gotten bigger, and I think she has to to do the three hour show as night after night. You know, that is not easy work. I know a lot of people are like, no, you just out there singing.

It's like, no, the stage on this thing is when you go to a football stadium and the stage is almost the whole length of the field and you're covering it like. That's a lot of work. That's why a lot of these artists, you know, like the Rolling Stones, they used to do that. Now they're like, Mick doesn't want to move beyond those like ten foot period, get back, though. He's going to work geriatric at this point, so. Yeah, Yeah, it is.

It's yeah, but they're still doing their thing and they're still making their money. So that's good. But Taylor Swift is saving the economy. I just don't get I mean, I could only imagine saving me especially. But I think we talked about the phenomenon where people were having Taylor Swift amnesia, that they go to the concerts and then they were so hyped up that they don't remember the concert like the next day that, oh my God. And what can you imagine?

You're like, I paid $10,000 to go see a show. How depressing would that be? Well, okay, I will say there are certain things that you might pay that kind of money for that you can expect not to remember. Like really good drugs. I mean, it usually starts with this one time in Vegas, right? Right. And then I have no idea. All I know is $10,000 poorer. And you don't remember how. I know 30 days later, when you go for your checkup, you find out you got gonorrhea and. You're like, Holy shit.

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