083: Dutch Auctions

I just don't get it. You. It's unrelenting. Oh, yeah, it is unrelenting. Episode 83 Unrelenting. I'm Darren O'Neil. He's Geneva. That's correct. Could you spell that? No. No, sir, I cannot. That's why that would not be really good at stealing your identity. Because if I walked into a place and tried to, like, get a mortgage or something like. Can you spell your last name, sir? No. Yes. No, I can not. Is that bad? Is that a requirement of your bold enough to be able to steal my identity?

I need to shave the head and put on a fake beard. I get it. Yeah, exactly. Like the worst fake beard ever. And they're like, We'll just pull up a picture of this guy in the Internet. They're like, Oh, yeah, that's the same guy. That's how you do it. So what's going on with what's going on with the new machine? Old machine? Uh, nothing new. Like, I mean, I was a I had all these plans of doing shit, and then a new game came out, so there we go. A dude game. Do you have to play nude? Hello?

It's a new day. Hey, a nice game out. New. He w you know, it's called Starfield now. So another space game. What makes Starfield different than Star Citizen? The most hotly anticipated game of 2023. Hey, did you write that? Uh, no, but it actually is a it's from a big studio, so it actually has big marketing behind it. It's from the same studio that made a bunch of other games. See, now, I don't know what the hell I'm talking about.

They made all those better big games, you know, all the big games that come out from them, their studios. They made a lot of money. They did make a lot of money. But they're Bethesda. That's right. They've been around forever. And I know nothing about games. Exactly. They're one of the major studio. So this game's been, I guess, about six years in the works.

Damn. And unlike Star Citizen, which has been in the works for 11 years and still not released this, though, I mean, it's really, really bad. Anyway, Alpha. Alpha. Oh, it's released. Okay. It's still in is still in alpha. That means if they run with all of your money, they're like, yeah, no, that's exactly why it's still in Alpha, not out. Literally. The exact reason is that we're we're no problem. So the game will come out. The game you paid for, they'll come out, you know, eventually.

Yeah. We're still in Alpha here on Unrelenting as well. Yeah, well, we think we are gonna be poster out of Alpha. No, the Baron of Rotterdam is sending us boost. That's nice. 33, 33. Thank you. We try to get more boost than anybody else. That's right. And then given that Bitcoin's down, guys, you have to up the amount of your boost by at least 1.25. I know. And I should have gotten rid of all my SATs a few days ago when it was up. It was up again. I'm like, Oh shit, Right this way.

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Yeah, that's how we want to give it. That's right. Right. Because otherwise she might kill me. That's right. Cause that might just be worthless. Right? Exactly. Sorry. Pretty close, anyway. Yeah. Oh, yeah, we're teetering. Uh huh, we are teetering right there on the edge. Do not need any extra. No, no. Well, that's funny. So, is the game enjoyable? Is that good? Well, you know, I got so far as to creating my character. Well, how long did this take to create the 2 hours?

2 hours? Just to create a character? I can't remember the last game I played for 2 hours and you awake. And when you create your character, are you creating like Super Jean, like Barf full head of hair, kind of jean, or are you trying to get so realistic that if somebody sees your avatar in the game, they're like, Oh, it's Jean? Well, the general thought behind character creation is you want to create something that you're going to be enjoying looking out for the next, you know, 800 hours.

Okay. She made a woman. Well, everybody makes a woman. Wow. Quick for a gold opener that it's going to have to be. It's very early in the show. But everybody I don't know if everybody does that, although I sent you, I'm pretty sure I sent you a picture of my character in Cyberpunk. Maybe. Mm hmm. I don't see anything recently. No, no. This would have been months ago when that game came out. That when it came out, when I started playing it. Because I waited two years to play that one.

Well, yeah, you have to. So all the bugs get worked out. So at least to the point, I'm glad I haven't had any bugs in this game, but apparently some people are having some bugs, which is to be expected because no matter how much testing a game company does internally, there will be bugs that are discovered after its launch. That makes sense because you're really as the people that buy the game here are the beta testers, let's be honest.

Well, I wouldn't say it necessarily the by the game, but certainly the people that play the game immediately after it's released are still going to end up doing some testing, whether they want to do that. But you're having the most fun because you're the first one's in, right? Allegedly, or at least you're not. Well, I don't know. I still I don't know if there's any merit to that. I won't say. It kind of makes you think that because I did pay extra to be early.

See, this is always the way that you want to be the first one in. You want to get the best tickets. I know, I know. Well, it was a hundred bucks, so what the hell? Which isn't horrible for a game now, I guess. No, Back in the day, that was not anything. That was crazy bucks. And I was like, Whoa, this is so I remember in the mid eighties buying Coleco vision games for $30, and that was about as expensive as you would ever pay for a game.

So I'd say the they really aren't really ahead of inflation. They're pretty much rated with inflation. Yeah, that's about if you do the math that's about right. A decent title should cost you about 100 bucks, which means if a decent steak costs you 30 bucks in the eighties, which was probably about right now it's 100. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't remember if I had a decent steak in the eighties for over 30. I think they were right around 26, 28 because anything else would have been insane.

But now no, with like the extra $30, like that was a nice meal in the eighties. Yeah. Now $30 buys me some French fries with chicken on top. Yes, barely. And they want you to tip 45%. Well, that's of course, you wouldn't be a complete asshole if you didn't do that. Yes. Was everything to your liking, mister? Never live in your. Does that matter? You're not tipping because you like the door tipping because the person needs didn't deserves to get paid a living wage.

The equity right now I just think it's funny and I'm blanking on where the restaurant was. It was in one of the major cities in the U.S. that they made the change to. Well, we're not going to do tipping anymore. We're going to pay fairly. And the prices they were paying the waitstaff, I'm like, wait, in an expensive higher end restaurant? Yeah, if these people were good at their jobs, would be making way more than this.

Uh huh. But, you know, I guess maybe it's just it's the guarantee or I know we talked about the South Park restaurant. She knew a no, no, not that one. Although they may own Citywalk too, but Tray and the other guy bought that Mexican place. Was it called somebody or. No, that good old Mexican place? Yeah, it's a mexican restaurant from the cartoon. It's actually it's an actual restaurant in Colorado. So they they bought it right before COVID.

Basically shut it down during COVID and now they're reopening it. And their thing when they were hiring people was it's there's no tips, right? It's just a paid salary in India. And that's about Nita Ambani to the three thank you to the Reverend Dr. Phifer, who knows everything that you've done. I figured somebody down. It's been in the news, but they they are not doing tips. And the staff apparently now, who took the jobs? It's not like they changed it.

So who took the jobs that said they weren't paying tips? Right? They came in knowing the situation. Right now, they're all up in arms and threatening to walk out and boycott and protest and whatnot because they want tips. Well, okay. You think, well, well, how badly are they paying these people? Right? I guess 30 bucks an hour. Yeah, 30 bucks an hour. That's correct. And they think that's the and they want tips on top of that 30 bucks an hour now.

Well, naturally, they don't want to lose their salary, but they they see that as a inhumane wage for working in a restaurant because now it's not fair that they're not making more The Neverending Story. That's exactly right. This is the reason that you never give anybody the raise they ask for. You always give them less. Yeah, you have to, because otherwise if you give them the amount they ask for, they're going to very quickly, probably within a month, decide that that's not enough.

Well, it's the only more tactic in the world. Mm hmm. Always ask for more. You know, it's, you know, meet in the middle somewhere. Mm hmm. That's why I like these shows from porn stars on down or to the Kevin Smith one when they had his comic book store is one where people come in and it's like, Hey, how much do you want for this super duper thing that you're trying to get 2000? And then like, Oh man, I can't do that. I mean, let me punch it up here. Let me.

Right, Yeah, that's like 500 going for $5. It's going for $5 in the other side. Look, I want to take care of you, but I, you know, it's it's worth $5. I'll give you a thousand, right? They're like, okay, that sounds fair. It's like, wait, I know this is it's it is so contrived. And those shows, it's ridiculous. Well, they came out fairly early or maybe it was a couple of years in, but that's still fairly early. Now with how long porn stars has been on the air.

Yeah, they admitted that you're not seeing the actual negotiations. You're seeing a reenactment which just killed so much of that show. For me. I still enjoy it to see what people are bringing in and what the pricing ends up being. But knowing that whole part is contrived. Hmm. Or that that's already happened, it's like, okay, they had the negotiation, but there's that. You never see anybody really sweat because they know what the end result is going to be going in. Yeah.

So it's not like, Wow, I really need to get that extra $500 so I can go buy crap for my wife. No, no, they know what it's going to be and everybody asks for more. And that's why I think it's funny. There's a couple of these Facebook groups and it doesn't matter if it's for the rare Taylor Swift merchandise or autograph baseballs or for Michael Jordan rookie cards, which is another group I just got into. Oh, Jesus.

But all of them in these Facebook groups have the same thing, which is, well, if you're going to list something for sale, you have to put a price on it. You cannot do an auction. You cannot list your item and say, I'll take bids for the next day or whatever. Now, I don't know. I don't understand it because what they do allow you to do is put whatever you want as a price or best offer. But yeah, right. Seems kind of. Yeah. Which is basically doing an auction, right?

Because that's what most options are. So here's the buy it price, which is ridiculously high that no one's expecting you to actually pay. And then you can also will take offers. And I was thinking about that because originally eBay didn't have the buy it. Now or best offer. You could do a buy it now I think. But there was no offer.

And then they finally went to that because when you don't know what an item is worth, yeah, of course you're going to put it up for something stupid, like I want $1,000,000. And then after a month, when the best bid that came in was for $17, you're like,

Okay, I'll take that. Yeah. You know, so I don't know if you remember, there used to be another auction site that was called by Boy, was it by that time, maybe by I don't know if it was by auctions or I thought that may have just been like another retailer. Yeah, I remember Yahoo auctions was the big Yeah, this one was a site that I remember using in the nineties, quite a bit late nineties, and it was I bought a lot of shit there. What I liked is the format of the auction.

It's called I think it was called the Dutch auction. All right. Was this they're still around these things where you, you bid, you know, every time you bid you have to pay like a quarter, but you'll win like $1,000 item for like 100 bucks because that's definitely not it. They're making their money on The format of the Dutch auction was very interesting as it was for multiple items only. Right. So it's not like there's only one of these that's you would just do a normal auction for that.

But somebody has like a lot or a pallet of something. So let's say there's like ponchos per place. Let's say there's ten ponchos available, right? And then you put them up for auction and using this Dutch auction, which I hope I'm getting right. But the way it worked is the top ten bidders for those ten items. All right. Get the items for the lowest of the ten bid. Right. So the idea was you want it to be in the top ten, but you didn't want to be the guy pushing the price up right.

So it made for a lot of a lot of action right below the top price. And I think eBay may have done this for a while, too, because I remember this. It was it was a little closer gambling, let's be honest. Right. Because it's like where you want to be in the the range that's going to win. But you don't you want that lowest. You want to that guy that's coming in at ten, you want him to be at $5 where the next top nine are at a million, because. Exactly, exactly.

People are like, well, I'm not going to bid on that. That's crazy. But I don't know why people ever sold a half the way they did. But it was exciting. It was the Internet, it was new. I think that was the whole shtick is that they they determined that they would get more action, more people bidding if they did Dutch auctions than if they just do a regular style auctions where, you know, whatever you bid is the price you pay.

Because this way it always kind of seemed like, well, even if I raise my bid, I may not pay that much. Right? Until next thing you know, you're the bottom guy and then you're like, Damn, I'm paying that much. Yeah. And everybody else is paying, paying the same thing as you are. So it's not like anybody is getting penalized. So it was an interesting thing. I for a while there when I say like probably in the first half of 1999, I think I got about a delivery a day coming from that auction.

You weren't exaggerating. It was literally I was literally there every every day at lunch, at work. I would sit in my office, smoke a cigar and then buy something. This was your gig. This is what you were doing for fun. Well, I was. I was a yeah, it was during the dotcom boom and money was pouring like it was growing in threes. Woo! And you were like, buying a new Apple MacBook every day. I did. My office furniture was $16,000. Oh, you were one of those guys. And when the company went under,

what you sell that stuff for, the company did go under. Absolutely. As predicted, I jumped out of the company six months before it went under. Oh, you lost all my stock? Of course, but. Oh, you knew what was coming. It was so obvious, dude. We were sitting there mostly working for startups who were all going to go under. It's pretty evident you were hoping you would be the last one to go under. Uh huh. Uh huh. Well, that was the fun. I mean, I can't.

I am horrible telling you like what year anything happened. But when I finally went to being fully self-employed and by self-employed, you mean like, I kind of had checks about making that website. Well, that was. That was slightly after. Okay, well, that was part of that. That came in. But it was the in the early days of eBay, the ability to do the automated sniping thing. Oh, yeah. I remember. That was not a thing. I mean, it was early on. You didn't have a way to do it.

So I came up with a little script that would do it. But eBay would not allow you to sell the stuff unless you had a physical product. So that's how far back this was going. So I remember buying the three and a half inch disks in bulk, and the script was so small. I mean, literally probably took 5 seconds to write it to the floppy. People are like, What's a floppy, dude? And sold thousands of them for like you sold a script on eBay to snipe on eBay?

Yeah, for like 1299 apiece or something like that. Up. Yeah. And it was just because the only real programing knowledge I knew. Yeah. Was HTML. So what this would do would open up the eBay page that you wanted inside of a frame, and it sat there with a little JavaScript that would press the now button. So you had to leave your computer out. I mean, this wasn't magical, right? You had to leave your computer on and running with the little,

you know, countdown going down. You had to be connected to the Internet. But when the time came that you set it, do it place that bid for you. So it was counting down based on what it was reading from the from the page or just based on a clock you set they had. Yeah. You had to cut and paste the ending time and then decide how long before. So I mean, it was fairly easy, although it was not a completely so it wasn't like refreshing the page then reading how long is left

right off the page? Correct. It wasn't that complicated. No. Oh my God. I can't believe idiots paid 12 bucks for that. I know thousands of them. Jesus, I wish I had that ability to sell something like that. Now, all you do, you just say I need to slap a I on the name Drew. Hey, I eBay Sniper. Yeah. We'll just say it'll decide whether it's a good bid or not for you, Jack. It will prevent you from making bad bids. Or will it be? Obviously, you should sell it, huh? Maybe it would be the opposite.

Like, you know, you tell what you. That's an interesting thing. Like, you just tell it what you want and the I will then scour eBay and when the item you want comes up for the right price, you don't even have to see it. It'll find it in bid on it for you. Now, that's a deal. Yeah, I think that's a good deal. Yeah. The old blitz that he used to snipe at 7 seconds maybe still do. And doing it manually that back in the day that was always the. Yeah. The intriguing part and I never understood why.

I mean I kind of got it, but I never understood why eBay to this day doesn't extend auctions by even 5 minutes, don't they? I thought they had that rule that no bid increases by 2 minutes. eBay doesn't. Hmm. It was so the ending time is the ending time. It's almost like they're they're in cahoots with all the snipers. Maybe all the bids come in because that's the one thing when you sell on eBay, not as a buy it. Now, our best offer. Yeah. Usually you're going to see your auction.

If it's something people want, you're going to see it go way up in the last minute. Mm hmm. Because people go, wait, like, I'm not going to be dumb. I'm not going to bid early. They don't have the beautiful sniping tool anymore. They made it a lot harder to do that kind of stuff. And I was just always so pissed because I had to invest out of that. 1299 there was a decent amount of money invested in stamps, in bubble envelopes and floppy disks. Oh my God. Uh huh.

That we were keeping the post office in business. But yeah, now Amazon's not even doing that. Nope. now.And the post office is going to go out of business, although you know, there's a bunch of sniping tools online, so I don't know what you're talking about. There are now. Yes. Yeah. I mean, so you're not you don't have to buy an now for easy sniper. Oh, uh huh. Now it's all automated, but you have to probably give them your eBay log in, which is.

Yeah. Which is problematic for some Dickson It's free. It's a free eBay sniper. Just log into eBay here. Yes. We're not going to do anything nefarious. No. Yeah. For on your behalf. And that's why I'm worried. Like, my dad's got a couple of Jordan cards that we're looking to sell. And I'm worried about selling anything on eBay now because of the fact that even though these things are graded and encapsulated by the grading companies, we've talked about that scam in the past.

What's to stop somebody from saying, nope, I got the package, but it didn't contain that card? There's a lot of issues with eBay and with PayPal. I mean, I had that issue with the girl who just wouldn't even answer me when I'm like, Look, the tracking number shows it never got here. Yeah. And then we did get the money back from PayPal. So it's like, yeah, sorry, honey, you should have responded. But that's why I'm worried about anything that's like over a few hundred bucks.

I don't know if I would sell it on eBay just due to the fact that you have zero control over what happens when it leaves your hands. Even if you package it, great. You send it up. As you said, that signature confirmation, you send it insured, the package gets there, they open it up. They take a picture like this guy sent me a brick. Yeah. Which happens all the time. So we went to an auction site now.

So heritage auctions, which does a lot, which just is something I did not realize because I'm figuring on eBay, you know, they're going to take their fees and eBay takes a lot of fees. There are a lot these days. Yeah. Like 12% I think is kind of it feels like it's a lot more than that. Well, it is because I think there's an extra bump on like the payment and then you get their charge and it's it is at least 12% what I didn't realize or yeah on the and there's it's varying

depending on what you're selling too which is kind of bullshit to me. Hmm. Well if you're selling are to all that is less than if you're selling books. That's more than if you're selling, you know, sports cards and whatever, because they know where I guess they know where the money is. Yeah, but I didn't realize these sports auctions, and they're not just sports, but that's a majority of what like heritage and gold in.

And there's a few of these other big auction companies out there that I'm like, well, they're going to be charging me at least what eBay is going to charge. Yeah, and it's really not true because I'm like, Hey, I got these cards and heritage auctions said, Well, yeah, we'll we'll sell one in our I think it's the September auction and one in the October auction because these cards are worth about 4 to 5000 apiece and they're like, we won't charge you a seller's fee.

So they charge, I think it's a 15% buyer's fee. But if the auction sells for $5,000, the person selling it gets 5000, the auction place gets the 15% bump on that and the bidder gets it. And then they're responsible for shipping it and all of that. So you never have to worry about the oh no buy didn't get what was shipped. Yeah. So basically they're just saying how much do you want for it and then we'll figure out the price ourselves, right.

Yeah. You know, and they're like, well, you'll see what it sells for, you know, and you'll get that. But that. No, you don't. It's not like on eBay if you sell it for 5000 on eBay. Yeah. You get like 4000. Right. If it sells for 5000 on this site, you actually get five. I understand the better really is they're paying whatever 15% added over to 5000 is. Yeah. The repeat dealers bidders do but I'm sure there's plenty of people are you on for the first time? They're like, Oh, let's go.

Oh, wait, there's a lump. What does this bullshit be? Yeah, What is that what I do, huh? Yeah. Shipping is expensive tablets, especially if you want to ship the stuff. When we shipped the Jordan cards for my dad to get graded, the paying for the shipment was nice and easy. Paying for what you wanted to insure it for. And FedEx was hundreds of dollars. But why would you insert? Because the cards are worth about 5000 a piece. Oh, my God. They're. Yes, that's.

Yeah, I've shipped guns that are worth more than that without insurance. Well, that's you, man. You. You're one of these guys who had that dot com money flowing in, and then you banked it all and then let the company go bankrupt after you were already back in Costa Rica caring about Costa Rica. I heard I've heard. I've heard stories about every game. Are we not supposed to know these things? I keep forgetting I seem to know the timeline a little too well. They're my friend now.

The guy that I remember Jack shit about his own life. It's called Liberty. If you ever have any questions about what you did, just let me know. We've got a dossier here that I see. Yeah. You're looking shit up, aren't you? I'm like, Let's see. This thing is. This is a thick. This dossier is probably at least 150 pages at least. Yeah, I. Wait, this is just the nineties. Oh. Oh, that's good. That's good. I like that take you. Thank you very much.

People listening to this show are like, what are we listening to? What is reality? What is not? You don't know. That's the thing. I would do so much better on terrestrial radio because people will tune through channels looking for something. They don't do that with podcasts, but with radio they would actually be randomly hitting upon our show, enjoying it. What the hell right? Right.

Because they were listening to some Led Zeppelin song and then the ad came on and they're like, Let's see what else we can find. Yeah, yeah. Let's scan the dial for a little bit. Very wonder, I, you know, I should check in to that. How much would it cost to put our show on the radio? I mean, to buy a radio station or to put our show on the radio. Never put our show on a map and buy radio station. No, but like, you know, what would it cost to put our show on the radio?

I don't know if my buddy that well, not really my buddy, but he's in the area here. And the guy that I used to edit the No Agenda show for for his WC CG here in Chicago. I bet you as long as we made sure that we kept the ships and forks and guns and all that kind of stuff out, we never use bad language. No. And we can put that right on the air. People with love this show in Chicago. I think people would love the show in a lot of places. I think so.

I think we probably put out the whole episodes knowing that even though they're not brand new, they'd be like, Well, what's going on? Right? Because we are not very times and we're not Yeah, we're not a deep topical show. We're like, Let's tell you about the 1980s. We're very basically very specific. Tell you back in the Navy's when they did this and then I got into playing video games because I made $14 billion bilking these dot com companies.

I mean, we knew they were going to go bankrupt anyway. Why shouldn't I take their money? That's going to happen eventually, right? We just helped it along. That's right. We helped them see the error of their ways. It's the thing that says this show would kill in Antarctica. It probably would. I think it would, absolutely. Because again, it's timeless.

It makes people remember the good old times that they used to have themselves back when you could sell a three and a half inch floppy blossom on eBay. eBay? Yeah, for 12 bucks. Uh huh. I think it was 1299. Maybe we lowered it then at that this second level, when we got to the 1999. Yeah, we had to get rid of all those bubble envelopes and. Yes, I know. Well now it's like if you just even back then, even with the crappy internet, it could have been sold online without any of the shipping.

But that just showed eBay was so slow to catch up with the way digital goods. We don't understand how you would even do this. But to be fair, if you did that, the first person you sold it to would now be selling your script, I guarantee. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Well, I'm surprised you didn't already have that. Somebody buying your floppy and going, Well, shit, I can sell a copy. Yes.

I mean, I'm sure that ended up happening towards the end, but by that time I had made enough money and then was doing the websites for the Playmates until they turned out to be a little too high maintenance. Go figure. Hmm. Yeah, exactly. And now anybody can start a website for like $20 a month on Squarespace or something like that. Yeah, And then you use a bunch of air tools to create a playmate and make a website. Yeah. Oh, they're getting better.

I've been playing with the fusion stuff, and there's a few different Laura that you can add into it. And it's like most people would not understand or realize that it's a fake person. And there's, you know, all of this is the latest like in the get rich but quick witted, always been a fake person. You've seen what those models look like in reality when they're not in photographs. Yes. Yeah, they look like maybe some they don't even look like homecoming queens.

They look like just random cheerleaders from high school. Yeah, the only one I'm trying to remember her name. Lisa. Something that was married to Adrian Curry. No, that's the one you like. There was a Playboy Playmate back in the nineties that ended up being married to the White Sox. Scottie said Nick, who? So the World Series here.

And it was during the World Series because my parents had tickets up on the club level and we were up there and she walked right by and I was like, Damn looks just as good in person. That was like a rarity to me. You're like, Wow, that's not a good example in person. That's somebody that's dressed up to the nines. True. Go to be seen through. And then they got divorced. I was like, Damn poor, poor dude. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, you remember that chick that I sat next to on the flight to Mexico?

Yeah, The one that I. Kristen Cavalier. That she was married to a Chicago bear. She was all in on the dream train. Yeah. Yeah. There were definitely hotter girls in school that I remember. Not even in college. Like in high school that I remember them the way she looks. But if you look at her photos online or like when she was, you know, professionally made up and all of that show, she was on the hills. Yeah, that yeah, that looks amazing.

But yeah, but that's the thing is like I've always liked the no makeup look and hot chicks. Yeah. The natural look. Yeah. I really prefer that. Like when they're when their eyebrows are natural hair color instead of black, when there's no, there's no black smudge around their eyes, like that's more attractive I think. Now the thing is, you can only get away with that. You can only pull it off if you're naturally beautiful, which is a rarity.

Yeah, but if you're not, I don't really want to be looked at Anyway, in the net, Ned's riding on it. Lisa Durgin was her name. She's my age. Born in 1970 in Corpus Christi, Texas. Mm hmm. Five, eight and a half. Oh, When she was eight, I remember that It was one of the St Pauli girls when they released posters back in 2003. Oh, yeah, they they divorced in 2017, so Scotty made it nine years. That's all I am. Like, This is enough, huh? Nine years, Right? Right.

Like then you get to the next one or. Or the whole series of them. But that was the, the fake influencer is interesting to me because just like the eBay sniping tool had its day. Mm. All of these folks that are currently influencers on the Tic Tacs in the Instagrams. Yeah. That are real people. You're about to be steamrolled if you haven't been already. Yeah. By the air generated ones. Absolutely.

Yeah. Because you, they can fine tune and tweak and tune in to find that sweet spot of the most attractive. Because remember, like there is this uncanny what they call uncanny valley where if you make them too perfect, they they become unattractive. You have to make them attractive but realistic. Now a net says he waited in line behind Anna Kournikova at a concession stand at Joe Louis Arena in the nineties.

She turned around and said, I said hello and with a shocked look on my face, she was as good in person. Well, you could kind of tell that because when she was playing tennis, you're not really all made up. She's sweaty and shit. And she said, Look at those Russian girls. Well, European, Russian, I think Slavic in general just have really good genes flap like it's you're hard pressed to find an unattractive Russian or any Slavic country girl in her early twenties.

That's why you're like when guys are looking to bring in a wife, they're like, Yeah, I don't even have to see her. This is that's almost true. That's almost true. Like you, you'd be hard pressed to go wrong with getting somebody from there. I get a file and find that it's a there's a lot of Asian women that are very much in that category as well were like with no makeup and everything, they still look really hot and.

There's no question that there are so many of the I died Laura's and all these things in Asian women are really big and I oh, huge. And I think for a couple of reasons. One is because of the whole, you know, the nerds that are playing with the tools or watching oh, percent, they were the one watching anime cartoons when they were younger, like back when they were virgins, you know, a couple of years back. They were watching a lot of a lot of anime. Mm hmm. This is true. This is true.

But what I don't get, although if you have full control over what you're creating. Yeah, I don't understand yet the moneymaking opportunity of being an AI generated inflow once they're on these. Because a lot of the what you're getting is a brand will be like well hey, we'll send you a product. If you wear our dress, you'll get X amount of money.

You know, if you drink our energy, drink when it's usually not a dress or an energy drink, it's usually some innocuous product that has nothing to do with. But they'd like to get you advertising it like dog food right now. How do you get the dog food? I mean, that's that's the harder part into well, how do you work that into. I don't think that's that hard. Scott Photoshop I guess you know I put him there it is. Boom, boom.

This is right look in the background there's you know I the dog food you just take a picture it drew you just you mix that right on in. Yeah. It's all about just getting the eyeballs and then being able to do that. Do you have to fall? That's the other question. Yeah. Are people following obvious eyes on Instagram in the tiktoks in? I think some are, but some are probably just following heart and don't realize that what they're seeing, they don't care.

No. Real. Yeah, well it's great do because you know again you just go you type in what you want if it is really real. I mean we've been basically using Instagram filters for these in you know these people for a long time. Well, yeah, everything is softened. Yeah, well, except for you, because you want the harsh reality, right? They're up front and center. That's right. Which seems to be the hardest. Which is that's mostly what I do and my only fans.

So it is kind of funny though, because when real hard right up front and center creating, the using the AI is using the image generators to create people, it is very hard to get that really the reality look with skin and blemishes and it's all too perfect and that as you said, let's set something and people like, well no, that that doesn't look natural. That doesn't look right. It's true.

So there's a is it really is this the last step for creating things in AI is to have the ability to make it look natural and not perfect is the the teeth. I'll bet you there's going to be some type of a realism filter that's going to become available. Well, I'm surprised this doesn't exist yet because it's usually just in these skin tones in that in the eye for enhancing portraits already exists where you can go in.

There's a few different companies that make them, and one is one of them that I've been using for a long time on. One has been around for literally decades. Yeah, they're big in all this stuff. And when you pull up there and you can do a plug in, they have their own software, but I use it as a plug in on Photoshop. If you take a photo and you go to their portrait app, it's now portrait.

I of course, of course, it will automatically give you a little square around the face so it can see the different people in there. And if there's multiple people, you can do whatever you want differently paid to each person in the in the photo. And it will do things like it wants to remove blemishes and remove shine from the skin. I'm wondering how long until they realize there's money in going, Oh, this is obviously an AI. Yeah. Let's make the faceless skin on the face. Look more natural.

Let's add pause because we don't want to perfect this. We actually want to make this look real, right? But they're probably pretty close because they're already at the point where they can automatically figure out where the face is, where the skin is, and then it can't be that big of a jump to doing the well, let's just add some kind of texture. Yeah. Well, on the topic we started off with, when you're doing character creation in these latest generational games, this is in a bunch of them.

There is a layer, if you will. One of the steps is blemishes end up to see. Brooklyn says this is an AI podcast. No, no, this is not the AI podcast. No. Yeah. This is totally different. Yeah, this is this is a completely different podcast than I. But we talked about mostly. Yeah. Now you see you get textures when you're creating your character. Well, it's not textures of blemishes.

It's literally a like you've gone through and picking the eye color in the skin color and the different tonalities of the cheeks versus, you know, the chin and nose. And and I want to know, what does your character look like? I'll probably do some streaming. You know, everybody else seems to be streaming this game right now, so I might as well add it to my YouTube as well. I'll I'll do that. Well, yeah, you can grow an audience. Not really, but I'll go ahead and stream it.

No, the thing there's only one thing you need to do to grow. It's and I know exactly what it is. I've interviewed people that have millions of people that are subscribers on YouTube. I've taught other people do. This is very easy, but I can't do it. Okay. And that is consistency, right? You have to be on five days a week every week for six months or more. I can't do it.

I can't like I can do it for a week, maybe two, and then I'm going to start missing days and then I'm just going to drop up and I've done that like four or five times now where I start off, I'm like, okay, I'm going to do it again. The longest I've gone, I think, was a month and a half, and I just felt like it was a real job and I got sick of doing it. Well, it is a real job at that point. This show is on the border of me getting sick of doing it like this.

Luckily, it's only 2 hours long, but if it was any longer than 2 hours, I'd be like, Dude, how about we wrap this up? We're getting close to episode 100. I know, right? We like where people are going to want more than remember, we probably did 2030 episodes before you rebranded the show. I don't know if there was 20, but it was probably least ten. Yeah, somewhere in the 75. It was a long time. It was a few years, I think.

Yeah, well, quite a few felt like with that we went back to grumpy old bands and then nobody donated. And then. And then you told people not to donate to the show. Yeah. Well I think it's good advice, which is only helped Planet Rage, which seems to be getting the donors we'll get for Planet Rage as long as one show gets them. That's all I really need to be like. Yeah, just one show. That's all I care about. One of them is one of them. Pop. All we need is one of them to go viral. Mm.

Yeah. And I don't think people ought to be doing that show either. But when you think about the current state of economy, what are you guys thinking? What I want to know, what is somebody who is doing and I don't mean like 300 SATs or some other bullshit amount that people pretend their donations. I mean, like actual donations of 20 or 50 or $100. What where are you in your plan for the coming World War three? That you can just throw money around like that?

I think everybody has an entertainment budget, Mister. I just spent $100 on a game. Well, I also donate people money on YouTube, so now. Yeah, but not a game where you don't do well. Where's where's, where's the random thoughts, man? You've never came in to random thoughts like, we're here, here's $1,000. Give me a random thing. In the grand scheme of things is the amount of time that I listen to random thoughts versus watching YouTube.

Well, I've donated the appropriate amount of money because I'm not a hot air female. I get it. Yeah. Why? Why aren't you? I don't know. I don't know. I can make way more money. Yeah, man, If you were, I might be listening more. Yeah, that might. Consider your opinions to be more valuable. He's going to be like, Hey, I was watching this really hot chick talk about this. I thought this was great. I'll be like, Gene, that's me. What?

If you imagine how many people's brains would explode if they knew who's behind half of these things they watch? I it's I Yeah, I suppose some people don't. I kind of expect it to be guys that look like you. It's like, Oh, wow. Well, yeah, they're the ones who have enough time to perfect the eye. And the most interesting thing with all the A.I. image generators is that there has not yet been.

I think one of the big breakthroughs will be when you can create a character, a person, whether it's a photo or digital art, and you're like, Wait, this is it. This is the face, this is the body. To be able to then save that to whenever you wanted, to recreate that person, that character again, you can do it because right now with all of these A.I. image generators, every time you hit okay, more it's different. Let me ask you a question.

Should I keep paying Twitter ten bucks a month or an app for Twitter? I don't know. I don't know. I mean, I'm still I just see their invoice just showed up and I'm like, oh, should they cancel? I and it's interesting that one of the biggest perks that people seem to be using now, I don't know if you're seeing less ads. I don't know if your posts are actually getting it's never on there. That's a problem. So I really don't use it too. Like it's hard to just so I can understand that.

And what they're really selling is the most annoying part now, which is, well, you can post up to 5 million characters instead and there's nothing worse than going, Oh, you don't need to be short. No, no, no, not anymore. Twitter's letting you like it's crazy Now. Law that we got a boost. Gene said to donate 300 SATs. Right. So that that boosted 300 SATs. They all hear what they want to hear. Yeah, they clearly do. But, you know, that's 300 SATs you wouldn't have donated at all

had I not mentioned that. See, this is like undercover. This is like subterranean subliminal. Yeah, subliminal to be a better word. Although you actually said it. So, I mean, it was more like reverse psychology. It is subliminal, because a subliminal doesn't mean that you don't say it. It means that the person does something based on what you said. Interesting. May not coincide with what you said.

Oh, like whatever you do, it's kind of like showing a can of coke while talking about, you know, stray dogs. I see. Next thing you know, person wants the coke. Whatever you do to make it for lunch. Made a million satoshis for lunch. I go with some Tex-Mex. Really? Yeah. It's got a lot of carbs. A man. Yeah. I didn't say I for you I thought would be good. Okay, how about for me trying to cut down on carbs? Oh, you try to cut down on carbs.

So I'm attempting to, you know, I mean, I know you got a sushi gal, so I mean, you can have that delivered directly. I could have a sushi delivery. Yes. And then there's an Asian girl who feeds Gene have by hand. I have barbecue and Tuesday and I kind of feel like I got my fill of brisket. I mean, is. Wait, is there such a thing as getting your fill a brisket? That is I love Carr pounds of brisket but the sugar content on that is pretty high. No, there's no sugar in brisket.

So it wasn't lathered with barbecue sauce? No, it's Texas style. Oh, nice dry rub. Nice. Everybody likes a good dry rub. Except for the guy who's getting the dry rub. Well, I don't think many people like to dry around, but most guys tend to like something a little wetter. You got to. You got to have a little lots of sauce involved and lots of sauce. Net net boost at 8008 saying some boobs to go with the 300 SATs. Well, thank you. I'll look at that.

Yes. See, And nobody is we don't mention boobs and therefore we get the nations with boobs and we mention a lot of boobs. I think we did that. Okay. So just brisket. I can see that you don't want to start lathering in the barbecue sauce. Then it's start becoming a little more. Our healthy sauce has, I think, about a 2000 calories per spoon. Yeah, well, it tastes so good, though.

I mean, you start with molasses and then you add everything else and that the good dry rub that was nice and a nice slab of ribs. It's been a long time since I had a celebrity and I managed sniff the burnt ends because I was the first one walking through the the brisket line. What brisket line? Where was that brisket line? At work. That was the wait. There's like three brisket at the company you're doing work for. Well, I mean, yes, but it's.

Wow. But, you know, I don't I don't go to the office and you were well, how did you get the burnt ends? Well, because we had our quarterly meeting, so I had to come to the office. How many people did you knock over to be the first in line to get to the burn end? I it was easy. I just skipped the meeting right before lunch and I made sure I was the first one there. You're looking at the schedule. Let's see. Pre burnt ends and brisket, huh? Meeting about quarterly financials.

That's not important at all. I made the right choice. That's right. You got the brisket, you got the brisket. Said. Now, as far as quarterly meetings go, it's a good quarterly meeting. I didn't really present this one, so I was just chilling out. We had a few guys that wrote new books, so got copies of those. Uh, well, this is the whole book scam. This is the only way you move your books. I mean, books, scam book scam. It's book scam, but it's not a scam game. No, we got.

We got a new a new partner from Australia. Met him. That was always fun. Genes like, I will come in and speak to all of your employees for free as long as you buy them each a copy of my book at full price. I would never done that. But it is something that a lot of people do, and that's a pretty good way to move books. Yeah, Yeah. There you go. That is true. I'm going to be working on a new book. Oh, what's it going to be? I don't have a title yet, but.

Okay, but what's it going to be about? Business book. All my books are business, but none The erotic fiction coming out yet. I can't write that shit. Do. They've tried, you know. Seriously, I've tried to do that. No, I'm not. I'm only going to. And then the Russian operative Sergey. I think if you want to write erotic fiction, you have to basically be a woman. You may write. I think it may be.

I mean, you may have male genitals on the outside, but your brain has got to be female to write erotic fiction. You have to be able to have an imagination. Yeah, but you have to, like, take the time to describe and talk about stuff instead of just jumping right in there and not really talking. You have to say, I hate everybody that writes a book that actually describes and talks about stuff. Yeah. Neuro and comes to sex. Yes. Yes, I think so. I want to know if you could write neurotic fiction.

Yeah, I could do that. I've written some neurotic fiction. I used to write a lot of fiction when I was in college. I had a really, really hot English professor. What was his name? Her name? I don't remember her name, but she had just graduated college like two years earlier. Oh, and then she was a college professor now. So you're like, she was the freshman English professor. Oh, boy. I know, right? She's probably like 23, maybe. Were you were a young 18 year old.

And we all know that 23 is the right age for a woman. I mean, once you get any older, it's downhill. It's it's basically you start peak. And as you get to 23, you peak at 23 and then you go downhill. After that, you're like by 28. Wow. What happened? Yeah, honestly, I mean, you're kind of a has been at that point. If you want to write to Dream, you can find him at searching CNN.com at a podcast that's surging they come oh one that would do podcast Jean Dr. C Brooklyn with the 3333 boost.

Thank you. Yeah. Look at all these births. Now. How are you finding out about these in real time? They are popping up in the troll room. Oh, so there's some kind of script thingy. There is a boost by which we give 1% to. And when the boost comes in, what I never agreed to 1%, somebody else, one presentable dozen, is what's coming out of your deal, not mine. It's even worse. I think the your buddy curry. I think it's like a percent no matter what you have shown for everything.

I don't know how it all works out but the all the podcast scam is this is in on all of this man. The podcast index is making like a percent of every book is going anywhere. Well, that was the original plan. Yeah, that was the exit strategy. Yeah. If we get a little bit of every donation, you can keep up those servers and then maybe more money just came in. Woo. You mean SATs? Yeah, I mean theoretical money, right? I mean, I can turn it into real money, but I keep waiting.

I'm like, Wow, do I need to get this? I want to go up a little more, go up more, go up more. Don't go down, don't go down. So I'm getting ready to buy the new iPhone next week. What kind iPhone do? Well, there's a new one coming out, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So even though our show doesn't really talk about topical time related issues, we'll take the brand new iPhone, although we don't know what number as long as you don't say it. Yeah, exactly like, oh, it's going to be the newest best.

It's the new life of the new feature. One I'm giving. Yeah. The main new feature that I'm looking forward to is finally having a fricking USB b C plug on the phone. He has B loves the USB-C. Yeah, well, he's not wrong about that. That's. He did not donate to us today though. He was taking you. Don't mention them them don't, don't talk about somebody who's not doing anything. What are you thinking? Come on, don't even bring it up. But you told me nobody should donate. So nobody should donate.

Should we applaud you for not donating? Don't mention any names of non donators. How about C speak? We call her. No CBS. Can we just CBS? Yes, CBS, CBS. Going to sue him for using you? Just look, if you want to refer to somebody anonymously, you just call them the Pomeranian. Now you do that. We do not give that. I do not like. He is not good. He does not say good things. I'm pretty sure he just you more than me right now. That could be. Why? Why would that be, though?

Even though you're a fellow Polack, David Institute, working for me, did you guys just follow you? Now, I know a gender social. I follow him. You don't follow me, though. He was mad about that. I don't follow, you know. Didn't you, until you pissed me off. That's why this show is coming to an end. Yeah. You just said something that I didn't agree with too. I'm followed you and black people there. Did you meet me or did you? Did you up? I don't think you blocked. No, I didn't.

Black you know I'm telling he muted. No, I didn't. I never mute anybody. To me it's either black or nothing. It's all or nothing at all. Yeah. So what is the new feature that we're looking for on the new iPhone This is not sponsored by AC. Plug that beyond that's no longer going to have the stupid iPhone jacked, but no more lightning. Do you use for charging at this point? Are you a plug in charger or are you throwing it on one of I'm a plug and charger.

I, I don't like my phone healing up to 140 degrees. So I actually plug it in because I got one of the pads and it's like it seems way more convenient, but it's like is that it's so slow. It's slow and it heats up your phone. I don't know. It seems about the same rate, at least for my Android phone. I don't know. I don't have an Apple way slower and it's super inefficient and you're killing the planet weight. I like killing the planet and I like that I do have an apple phone. I just don't use it.

I had to have it, use it. I had to have it for the watch. But my main phone is still the Android phone. When I leave the house, I take the Android phone. How could you possibly like that over the iPhone? Because you can do whatever you want on it. You don't have to be all apple up and buy all you want is what would you what do you got on there that that you can't have an apple? Nothing exactly. I was just using it beforehand and it's the whole inertia thing.

Yeah. I don't want to go and change it, although I don't use the phone for nearly anything where I don't understand my wife. I mean, on so many things. I don't understand her. But that's because we've been together since 1988 and it's now it's now 2023. But she'll sit there when we're watching TV. And I don't mind the. Okay, whatever you watch. And maybe it's not all that exciting when you're watching a show that you like.

I don't understand having another screen in front of you because you can't really absorb what you're watching. And I know you're a multitasker kind of guy, but the more screens the better man. Even. I'm actually looking at a new laptop right now to the Wow, a new apple you get in the air. No, I already have that one. You want the pro? No, no different because you want to play games on it? Yeah. There's a cool gaming laptop. I've been keeping my I am so an alienware or it's now Alienware sucks.

Well that's because of Dell. You know it's it is a really cool thing. It's a well I'm not looking at it but I'm pretty sure this is what makes it. Yeah. Daisies net net. Yes. The unique characteristic is it has two screens. Okay. How are they? It has the normal screen the way you expected and then the keyboard is actually slid towards the very front of the laptop and behind the keyboard between the keyboard and the hinge is a second screen.

So very much like the apple that failed a very wide screen. Okay. Not a little bar then. No, it's a it's an actual screen, but it's very wide and it's the same size as the keyboard. So the keyboard and the screen are basically split down the middle of the laptop. That's weird. It's really cool looking. And it's I think it's the Zen something. It's like an Xs and something or other. I can't remember, but I've been seeing this thing for a really the last two years or so.

I've been kind of thinking, this be cool to have. I just can't just write because I don't travel enough. Did you really He says it's is it the Asus Rog gamer laptop? No indeed. He also says the only reason Planet Rage gets any money is because of Larry. I'm not denying that, Larry. I see. So I should have Larry as a co-host from the shows INAUDIBLE Yeah, I think so. So that's really what people are paying for is the instability portion. Yeah. They're like, well, I like this guy's voice.

He gets down, he gets low. Yeah. I guess if you're testing speakers or something that yes, you want to test your audio gear, it's, it's the Zenbook pro duo which makes sense because it's got two screens That's where you would name it that Now net net says tell Jean, don't get it. Our marketing guy has it and we've had all sorts of scaling issues with it. Scaling, we're kind of scaling, he says. Driver issues sometimes. Also, I'm sure he'll give you a little more details with the scaling.

Yeah, dude, send me an email. Let me jump on the call with you and talk me out of it because I'm pretty close to pulling the trigger and I wouldn't mind somebody talking me out of it because I'd be saving a few thousand bucks. You're like, Here, don't get it because this is what's going to happen.

I always appreciate people that have talked me out of spending money because, you know, I'm basically I'm making a decision to buy something based on the way it looks, in the way that well, the marketing press, which is marketing how to make your life. So my my and somebody has practical experience and says, yeah, don't, don't get that. Mike That's actually very useful because I'm going to assume they're going to be right.

But you know, it's better than buying it and then trying to return the thing, right? That's a pain in the ass. And then you're like, Here, I'll just keep at the top of the line version of it is the the Asus Rog Zephyrus duo XD 4080. Oh, that just rolled right off the tongue. I know it's a great name. It's only $3,800. Which, you know, when I think back to what the MacBook pros were ten years ago, that doesn't seem crazy. You could spend that much on the MacBook right now. Oh, easily saying it.

They were that much. They've come down. The MacBooks have actually come down. They're still more expensive. Mm hmm. But paying the Apple tax. Oh, wait, You want a slightly larger hard drive and slightly more memory limits, Charge you an extra 1500 dollars. That is very true. The parts are non replaceable, non serviceable. The the Apple tax is a very real thing. Oh, yeah. A lot of times it's worth it. But not. Not every time.

And that's where they scare you upfront like, well you know you can't upgrade it. So that's the whole hard sell. Now we're back in the day. There were some pasted a picture of this thing for you just so you can see what I'm talking about. I just heard tickle that old signal sound. But what I don't get was I take a look at this is the wife will sit there while we're watching TV and she'll do the doomscrolling on her phone, which is now the the current largest Apple phone.

So it's not a small device, but it's only like 14 inches. Right. But but like, you know, two feet away. Right. It's her Apple iPad Pro, right? It never gets used. And I'm like, that's to me like your voice. Get better taste And you probably I mean, I've got an iPad pro that I use all the time except it's older. I need to upgrade that. But I would never sit there. Now if I go out somewhere. Yeah, I'm not taking an iPad with I'm not taking a tablet with.

So if I need to go look something up, I'll do it on the phone. But if you're sitting in your house and you have the tablet two feet away, why use the phone? Because it's constantly on the phone. I'm like, is it's really that much more comfortable and stop getting the iPads because you're never going to use them, you know, if we'd much rather have that smaller screen. But for me, I mean, one, I always use the iPad. I do not like doing anything on the phone unless I'm in a location

where nothing else is around. Thank you. Exactly. Yeah, that's a weird looking device. Is that cool? That is. Okay. So now this is the concept is that the screen will continue on from the main screen, the down like just that's just okay. They're just doing the marketing guru stuff. You know, it's it shows up as two separate screens, one right below the other in your screen control panel. What do you think would be the use for this in real world? Well, there's tons of uses.

One is you could be playing a Netflix movie on the lower screen while doing something in the upper screen. You could always have a web browser open on the lower screen, even if you're playing a video game, an app or screen. It's like anything else like I have on my desktop. I've got a 47 inch monitor and 227 inch monitors. I don't want to on each side of it vertically, and that's not enough.

Now I need more room, a little more information says when you dock at the little screen, fucks up the resolution, somehow and fucks upscaling between multiple monitors. One monitor will have one scale and the other will have another scale. Now it's a question Do you normally dock these things or when you use a laptop you don't. So that means that was it. Does it do anything weird without the docking? So say jeans? One of these people who, like I never want to plug this in to nothing else.

Right. Does it work for that? Yeah, because I can see that would be confusing because you're basically what this laptop has dual monitors, one of which is a very widescreen half the size of the. Yep. It's actually 4K resolution left to right, but it's like half a 4K screen top to bottom. Interesting. Yeah. That keyboard. Now that the keyboard does not look comfy for some reason, it doesn't have a well, I don't think it is that great.

The trackpad on the right is a little strange to the trackpad on the right is a little weird, but it doubles as a numeric keypad, which I like. Well that's yeah, that's cool. And I would certainly I've got a, a portable mouse thing that I use. Okay. Well that would be also a, an answer to that because not really a problem. But the thing that I am most concerned about, you can see how the secondary screen tilts up, which is really neat.

Just double or no, no, it's it happens automatically when you open up. And that that actually opens up a much bigger area for hot air exhaust. Oh, well, I can see how this might be a huge running budget for gaming, right? I would say so. I think it's designed pretty well. But my my concern would be how many open and closed cycles is that thing going to last before something breaks? Right. Like the MacBooks that were starting to warp.

And if you had like something like a human hair fell in between the keyboard in the monitor and tried to close it, it was like, nope, nope, nope. So that's really the only concern. I think the it's an OLED screen in the back, 15 and a half inches. It's almost 16 inch screen. Yep. But how long do you normally keep your laptops? Like two years and then you're done? Yeah. So I mean, you probably don't have to worry about it holding up.

I probably don't, but it is definitely going to lose value a lot faster in the Mac by out. Yeah. Well yeah. Because people will still buy Mac laptops from ten years ago. Yeah. And my, my Mac laptops historically have about 30 hours of use on them. Oh yeah. Well this is me with the I bought an Asus XPS 15 laptop like. Yeah. Right around the time COVID started.

I don't think I've really ever used it because I hate it and I really should have just gotten rid of it immediately because it was, you know, not super expensive, but it wasn't super cheap. But I really should have gone. I mean, I went, well, you know, this is cheaper, the Mac, and I'm not really in the Mac ecosystem because I didn't have the Apple Watch in the phone then. Now they got you.

Yeah. Now I'm thinking if I go that would be although I'm I'm also coming around to if they have like they coming out finally with a 15 inch MacBook Air because Yeah yeah that's out because that might not be tough right now because the 15 inch seems like an okay size for me. It's yeah I mean I've got the 14 inch so I've got the one that came out right before they announced the 15 inch, the, uh, the M2, you know.

Yeah. Yeah. With the, but the MacBook Air not the pro because I actually, I traded in my original pro for the M1 and then I traded in my M1 for them to they definitely have you in the ecosystem. As far as the driver issues, no, it's like I'm going to trade in my current iPhone for the new iPhone. That's right. It's good and bad that Apple does the trade and stuff. It makes it kind of super easy to wear. You don't have to try and sell your old crap on eBay is trade in.

But of course, you don't get as much for the trade in as I could get on eBay because all my stuff is barely used. Right? I but the nice thing is to your phone, just kind of the new phone wakes up with pretty much set the way you want it. Yeah, that's always been the case. But you don't have to trade in to do that. It's you just have to buy a new one. I'm just saying, keeping you in the eco system and I've never done the phone, you know, over months thing.

I've always just bought phones outright, even back like when most people were buying them as part of the signing up for multiple months with a carrier. Right. Come to AT&T will give you the best deal. Yeah. And I use Ryan Reynolds phone service. Yeah. Mm. Is it good. I mean because I see they just lowered the prices. Yeah. It's really, Well you know they got bought by T-Mobile. Interesting.

So their use of people is now a like damn near billionaire smart guy and not because of being an actor. Hey, he was good. And did you see he's married in a pizza place? No. Who? Oh, what's her name? Right, girls. What's her name? Scarlett Johansson. No. Yeah, that would've been good. That Well, yeah, that would have been good. But this one looks even better. Blake Lively. Oh, yeah. Blake's cute. Yeah, that's his wife. And she is the natural look as well. She is totally the natural. What?

The cute little, flirty blond that if she was sitting next to Jean in first class, he'd be like that giggling. I don't do that Well, inside. You do. But she would totally be the one sitting next to me for sure. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And Ryan would be, like, two rows back, right? You'd be like, Yeah, yeah. You could drop your billionaire husband and then somebody says, Why? What is this dude doing in our plane? Why? Cause I'm on their private plane, See, Sitting next to her?

Yeah. Like, what are you in my fantasy? God, it. Yeah. Now, I've always liked Blake Lively. I always thought that the characters she I think she's a great actress or anything, but the characters she plays like, consistently have had that that smart ass kind of attitude like a women I, I do get that. Mm hmm. I don't know if she's kind of getting old, but. Well, I mean, you have your limits. She's 36 or already, so you're like, that's a little. I mean, Taylor Swift's 33, so, I mean, there you go.

Yeah, well, she's good. Looking good. I mean, I was going through a bunch of old photos and cleaning off the drive, and it's like Taylor Swift, when she was like 18, was not all that cute. It's still not like you. Well, she's cuter now. She was a more female looking body. Now she's than a sack of potatoes that she used to have the sack of potatoes pretty much. So. Now, were you a Gossip Girl watcher? I've never watched Gossip Girl.

No, but I mean, Blake Lively was in it, so I thought maybe it was. I've never seen that. No, I'm not a fan of Blake Lively. I'm just. It just came up because we were talking about her husband, because you're like, she's hot. Well, you're obviously. You're a fan. You know who she is and who she's married to. Yeah, I mean, I've like the stuff I've seen her in, but I have never really followed her. Wow. According to net Net, Ryan Reynolds was once engaged to Alanis Morissette.

Well, then he moved way up. Yeah. Yeah. Nothing rude about that. I think I'm honest. Morissette. I really liked her acting in weeds. Like, I think she did a great job there. What did she play in? Weeds? I don't remember. I remember she played one of the female characters, so she, she, me, she played the girlfriend of one of the main male characters in one of the sons or something like that. The brother's girlfriend? No, I'm not sons, but the uncles. The uncles girlfriend.

He did not remember. I don't remember that. Yeah. When they were I think it was right before they moved to Mexico. Let's series. That was pretty damn revolutionary time. Uh huh. Now you're, like, crushed. You mean that she used to be banned? Uh huh. Oh, what is. What's this all about? Yeah, this whole thing. I know I keep waiting for that day when I, when people will say the same thing about breaking bad's right. Everybody do this. Now, why would you ban meth? It's good for you.

Well, it calls the herd. It sure does, doesn't it? That's what they don't want to talk about, I guess. Mm. Yeah. They call it a meth epidemic. It's not an epidemic. It's a designed response. Uh, you know, birth prevention drug. Yeah. We're looking to get rid of some people, that's all. Some, you know, people. Yeah. You know, the kind that we're looking to get rid of if they fit a certain demographic where it works. Yeah. Uh huh. She was only in eight episodes a week, so that may be why.

Yeah, she was, you know, but I think she did a very good job. Like she did not come across as a Oh, look at this singer trying to pretend to be an actress. She actually I think she did a good job acting well. I mean, I don't know if the ever was as good as her performance in Jay and Silent Bob Strike. She was horrible. She was horrible in that movie. What about Dogma? Did you like her as God in Dogma? No. No. So she got better at the acting thing. I think that the role that she had in Weeds

was much easier for her to play them. God. Well, yeah. Okay. It's a little harder to play God. Yeah. And as far as the driver issues on that laptop, net Net says sometimes when they plug in different video or camera equipment, it locks the whole system up. Oh, well, that's not good. You know, can you find out what model? Because there's like 15 models of this thing that they make, we will find out which model you guys have. Yeah. And how old is it?

Is it like one of their first generation versions of this? Is this, like, brand new? And then if you tell Jean it was an old one, well, they had to fix that by now. Well, they may have. I don't know. I'm still very tempted. I mean it's it's just it's the most unique laptop that I've seen. Did you gurus says is there a No, not yet seen Idiocracy. What is Idiocracy? Is that a movie? I'm going to go and slap you right now. Well, you have to come to Chicago.

And that way we can go over to Gibson's, get some pizza first, now slap you. Right? Is. Yeah. Now do you go to, like, the pizza place and have some pizza and then go to Gibson's. Do you do a bang bang or do you separate those off by. I don't I don't go to a pizza place first of all because carbs. But but you want theoretically yeah I really enjoyed pizza the last time I was in Chicago I had pizza. Well, but people are like, well, you didn't approve of the pizza?

I had, but I thought it was good. That was Lubell. Nowadays, probably some of the those are name the another one Giordano's which are downs they're not bad Yeah because it was right next to my hotel so I could literally walk across and it was at night we're a couple of years back I was flying through Chicago. This is so stupid. I was flying my direct flight from Austin to Seattle got canceled.

So they rebooked me on a flight through Chicago to Seattle and we get to Chicago and our plane's late and I missed my connecting plane. They're like, we lied about that other flight. And and the next flight is the next day. Well, they had to put you up then. They didn't put me up. They didn't do Jack shift at the crappy airline You flying. That's why you only fly private, Gene. Yes, I know. And so I g there. Consequently, there would be a great airline.

I can only imagine the the the stewardess outfits and oh, you know exactly what they would look like. They would look like the Britney Spears video. Yeah. Okay, That's perfect. I like that. Yeah. I've always it's really the Pan Am color outfit. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, did you see the series Pan Am? I mean, it only made it like. Yeah, of course, but I watched it more than once. Well, yeah, Margot Robbie in that outfit was like, especially a young, fresh faced Margot. Robbie. Oh, yeah, Yeah.

Nothing. Nothing better. The fresh faced Margot Robbie That was, you know, and I know everybody with the other dark haired girl in that who was the big who was the actresses? Yeah, she was pretty good too. I mean, they're all girls, right? Well, yeah, but Margot Robbie was like, nobody knew who she was at the time. It was all the show was all being pushed. Yeah. For the other actress, that was like, No, no, that's not. That's not what people are tuning in for.

It's like, it's kind of a bummer that Christina Ricci, That's who it was. Yeah, she's hot, too. I always like her, but not in Margot. Robbie, Hot way. I think Christina Ricci in bed would be way more interesting than Margot Robbie in bed. Wow. Now, if Christina and Margot are listening and they want to test that. Yes. She's like, here's my here's my email. Okay. Yes, Yes. By email podcast. That's been weeks that they're like, well, you had us up until that point that we're out of here.

Uh huh, uh huh. I thought that was a great concept for a show, and I'm really kind of bummed that it didn't make it longer. Especially it was a very expensive show. Oh, it was good Look. Beautiful. Yeah, and it was very expensive, but Now, with a I think it's going to start getting a lot easier to recreate, You know, like this was based in what, the sixties. It had to be in the Mad Men era. Yeah. So it's a lot harder than just filming, you know, where you can go out and do stuff on the street.

Now you can't do that if it's supposed to be in the 1960s because you can't have a 2023 Tesla driving by. So I think it's going to get easier to do that with the technology they have out there. And while everything will be photography and coming we're entering the age of no reality. No I like it. Yeah this is why people have to leave their house every now and then to see what's actually going on because you'll be able to look at the internet.

Or they could just flip on their phone to see what's going on. I don't know, because you look on the phone and you're like, Oh my God, there's bombs falling everywhere in Moscow. And then you walk outside and you're like, Oh, is that what they are? It's not happening right now. Literally not right now. Bombs. Falling bombs. Yeah. Where The Moscow. Oh, sounds like a war. Sure it is, but I wish they'd bring Pan Am I like that concept? Somebody go back and do that. Now that we have the the air.

Because there were so many I don't remember that you could tell, you know, this was like the ultimate because this made perfect sense on why you could bring new people in because, you know, yeah, if it was just like the Love Boat, right in the end, it very much so. But it could have been so much more. Could have been so much more than than the Love Boat. I mean, I pretty much was asking for and it wasn't a perfect show, but I thought it was humorous. The superstore show. Oh, yeah.

Is that them too? I watched a few episodes of that. Yeah, that ended a couple of years ago. Now they had that Mexican chick there. America. America? Yes, they who hates America. It turns out that she really. Yeah, She's a well, she's a foaming at the mouth liberal but all for she has to respect that. Yeah, that's kind of a given assumption. I would think. But I worked for years at mainly Radio Shack in Circuit City and I always thought that would be a great setting for a sitcom.

They they did it fairly well. Yeah. Yeah. There I kind of felt like their characters were way too exaggerated. And you're using what, me journey or some stabled effusion now to put Britney Spears into these stewardess uniforms? No, that's literally from the video. That's an actual photo of Britney. Really interesting. Yeah. Did you not remember that video? I don't know. Jesus Christ, I thought you were taking Britney from the Hit me baby one more time.

And that would have been the idea for what Jennifer Stewardesses would look like would be the schoolgirl pleated skirt with the tied white shirt. I thought that would have been made. Maybe some male socks. I mean, okay, that that's like a little pedo of you, but. Okay. Things like this. Well, no, not if the girl in the uniform is 22 or whatever age you want the girl to be jeans like, okay, we have overridden the new outfit for Jean Air is now this.

No, this is this is the outfit from the video from Toxic. I don't think I've ever seen the video for Toxic. How do you not watch movies for sakes? You haven't seen Toxic. You haven't seen Idiocracy anything. Oh, Idiocracy is a movie. I'm like, No wonder I can't find it. What are you looking for a book? Yeah, exactly. Which I wasn't going to read anyway. Don't let I swear to God. But now, I mean, we're seeing this.

Maybe I should look it up because Britney is just the right amount of crazy for you too. I know. She's crazily my kind of crazy. I mean, you think Christina Ricci would be a little crazy, but totally my kind of crazy two. Britney would be the kind you'd probably want to fasten your seatbelt before starting anything. Yeah. Yeah. Now, there's a certain certain brand of crazy chicks there that are definitely my style of crazy. What do we need? A list now.

If anybody wants to start guessing, what would be on the list for Gene's style of crazy? Well, you've got two of them right there. So that's. That's a good indicator. Yeah. I'm with you. Mm hmm. I am with you. So somebody talked Jean out of buying a new laptop? Yeah. I mean, what I'm hearing so far is not bad, but it's also literally what you could say about any Windows laptop, true driver issues doesn't like when you change your USB connections or plug things in.

Why everybody should just stick with Apple. I mean, Apple laptops don't have that problem, but unfortunately, the Apple laptops don't have dual screen designs like either. I No, not yet anyway. Yeah, they probably won't because they tried the little mini screen and they're like, Well, no, people don't like extra screens. No, there is nothing wrong with the mini screen. They did something stupid which wasn't adding the screen, it was removing the keys. That's the part.

That's right. People were pissed like, we don't want to get these stupid, you know, touch screen buttons instead of real keys that we use for real ID. Here's some riveting information. The model number of the laptop that Ned's talking about. U X? Yeah, 48 to E as Ernie G. Are. Okay. And is he listening to us at work? Because how the hell did he just get this model number? This is what he does it work? This isn't even like, a real job.

And he probably just went to grab the guy's machine while the guy was right in the middle of a fap session like, Hey, I need this for a minute. Just for a minute. Yeah. Yep. Well, I'm listening to a podcast okay. Okay. Okay. You did not talk me out of it then. If that's the model number, that is literally the cheapest version of that laptop. It's only 1100 bucks. The way I'm with you is three and a half gram. So you're going to have three times the problems.

Well, or this is the version that's like clearly the one that doesn't have any could be problems because it's more expensive. But you got to agree, though, it looks cool and that works in it. So he's doing his job. He just wants to wipe somebody. You need to say that. Does anybody on that channel not working? IDC please. Did you go? Who wants to know? How about a young Thurman crazy? Is that in your head? She is not actually crazy enough. Oh yeah, not crazy enough.

I watched the number interviews with her where she's not in character, she plays crazy characters, but when you actually listen to her talking, she is super shy and definitely not crazy. She's a bookworm. She's just, you know, she's a very different chick than what she portrays on screen. And how about not in the least. I mean, she does have man hands and she's got a nose the size of Serena de Bergerac. But but otherwise. But she is she's had a pretty decent body, but not not great.

The most interesting thing about her, I think, is just that she's a genuine hippie. That's her mindset. Yeah. So. Oh, but I'll give you one. I just saw another one that I'm surprised people haven't come up with, and that is Winona Ryder. That's my kind of crazy. Oh, yeah, Yeah. That it's right in bits, right? And I mean, I'm pretty much sure any girl on Onlyfans probably fits into your.

No, definitely not in your category there. No. Did you said you should change the name of the show to laptops and titties? Well, interestingly enough, if you actually look at the list of the girls that I just rattled off, they're all B cups. Oh, well, Jean has a tape. I do have a tape. Well, he gets a little intimidated if they're larger than B cups, I guess. I mean, yeah, that's that's very intimidating. Which I mean you don't really the rush, do you.

They kind of have that more of a supermodel type frame to them usually. Yeah. More proportional. Yeah. Mm hmm. Seems like you can always buy those other things later. You can buy them later or you can just, you know, buy them for temporary. You can just rent. Rent to own. Never rent to own. No, I never rent on this rent. Exactly. So now Jean's going to have to buy a new laptop, which means what are you going to get rid of now? Am I getting rid of anything? Just keep adding more.

Well, I don't have a I mean, I do actually have a gaming laptop right now, but I don't like the way it's big noise, so it's too noisy with the fan or you don't like the sound on the fan. The fan is too noisy. Well, you don't want that. You want something nice and quiet. Like you have to put on headphones too, if you want to use it.

Really? Okay. It's that loud that if you want to drown out the the game, the fan, you're in the game, the fans just like the whole damn well, that just sounds like a laptop that was not created to actually play games. Hello. It was created to play games. It was the thinnest laptop ever made, which is why I bought it. And unfortunately, thin and gaming doesn't really go together. Well, you can always submerge it. What was that in like, oil of some sort. You could just. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

Mineral mineral spirits for that. It's a great way. Or don't you have like a third party pad you can put underneath. I do. It doesn't work. Really. Yeah. Mm. Yeah. It's, it gets pretty warm it like you if you touch the keyboard while it's running game, it pretty damn hot. Now come nobody's come up with a liquid cooling situation for like the outside of one of these cases that you could just snap on thing because the case isn't the part that needs to be cool through It's too far away and innards.

And this is where this particular laptop with the tilting screen actually makes quite a bit of sense because it's venting. It's venting a tremendous volume of air through that opening, through that slot. Well, we're most laptops are kind of constrained to these fairly small fans in the back. And Jean wants to be able to get on that laptop with the new female character he created for the new game star or something or other stars, something that's game star, something extra.

Something is an amazing game. So everybody should be playing, start something. Somebody should come out with that game star or something or other. Yeah, I would love for companies to get that creative in their naming. Be like, this is what? Yeah, this is what you need to do. Starfield Star feel like Wade That's nice. Yeah. So soon as we're done though, I'll get back to it cause I paid the extra money to play today. Wow. You are addicted to these things.

I'm not addicted. I'm just a good consumer. You're good. If you are decided what I'm going to have for lunch and come up with you didn't want it to be a lot of carbs, so I'm guessing a big pile trying to cut down the cabbage, you know, keep my my slim figure going, which is the problem in Chicago, because then you have a big Italian beef sandwich. If you get a big Chicago dog, both of those lots of carbs, pizza, lots of carbs.

The bears. The bears, Yeah. Then you get a big thing of a big order of fries. But you know that it's not enough because that's all carbs. The two worst things discovered. Because I think I told you I get one of those devices continuous glucose monitoring thing. So I'm a cyborg now who so many things do you have implanted in you right now. If I told you that, I have to tell you. Okay, But I'll just look at the dossier here. Yeah, exactly.

The cool thing about having something that sends your your instant continuous blood sugar levels to your phone is you can readily see what you just ate does to your blood sugar. Yes. And how quickly. Yeah. Like and there's two measurements here, right? There's the amplitude, which is how high your blood sugar goes right after eating it. And then there's the duration, which is how long that blood sugar stays in the high level. And the two worst things that I've discovered in terms of duration.

So maybe not necessarily, although it could be in the amplitude, but for sure and duration. The two worse things are potatoes like French fries and rice. As in any Asian food, they last for a good 4 to 6 hours of high blood sugar. So the ultimate in the starch category? Mm hmm. Yeah, like longer than pasta launder, than bread, you know, eating some sandwiches with just bread definitely spikes it, but it drops back down. You eat rice and it just stays high.

Now, what if you take the French fries and then you cover them with the nacho cheese? Almost Cheese sauce. Yeah. Bacon bits. Yeah, that's right. Okay, that's good. So that helps. You can't eat the French fries. You just have to eat just the bacon bits and the cheese sauce, which I do as well. Now, what are your thoughts on blue cheese on French fries? I love blue cheese. I just made a £1 burger yesterday with blue cheese on top. And how much of that £1 was blue cheese?

There was a pound before cooking, so it was probably about a half pound after cooking because, you know, a lot of that that water that comes out when you actually cook it. Yeah. Grease Boy is nice having a grill that cranks up over 500 degrees just to give you that really good, good, good crispy and outside juicy on the inside. Yeah. You want that caramelization on the air. And the way we're raising your meat, you're not doing it right. Exactly the way it works, is it?

It actually heats up a an iron grate inside of the grill. First, and then you put the meat on and you hear it sizzle just as you put it on there. And then you close it back up and let it do its thing. Very good. You got to do it. But then the blue cheese is the magic part. Yeah, the blue cheese you sprinkle on after it's done cooking and then you close the cover without it being turned down even for about a minute and it's all melted on top.

But There used to be an Italian beef place around here. I think there's still a few of them in Chicago. One of the originals ls Beef. Al's beef. No wonder. Italian. Yeah. El. And one of the ways they did the fries was Roberto. Everybody else had, you know, the cheese fries again, which use the barely real nacho cheese with no real cheese used it to cover the fries. Yeah, they had blue cheese fries, and it was the best stuff. Oh, that sounds very good.

There's a place here in Austin called Mighty Moe's. Hey, now, I know you got a lot of mighty Moe's in that area. They do. They do a mighty Philly Philly cheesesteak or Philly cheesesteak. They have a two for one on right now. God damn, I really shouldn't be ordering this one. Can you. Can you take the above the bread out. Yeah. Yeah, I know, but it's just wrap it in lettuce and make it healthy for me. I know, right?

It's a Philly cheesesteak with the green peppers, the mushrooms, the banana peppers, the onions. Oh, that's so big. Lots and lots of the steak. But then it is covered in Cheez Whiz. Well, that's the magic of, like, the Philly cheesesteak is the Cheez Whiz. It is. So they do. They do Cheez Whiz. And then top it off with provolone in American. The Cheez Whiz is a thing that gets into every last little nook and cranny. Absolutely. Every nook and cranny of the container.

It's in every nook and cranny of your teeth. Every nook and cranny of your hands. If touch it because it's cheese, it's plastic cheese. If you let it congeal again, you can, like, spackle your house. Hmm. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's actually it has multipurpose usage. I mean, that is the one downside of using a shredded cheddar on nachos is that it's good for, like, 30 seconds, and then it starts to harden up and the whole thing becomes like a brick. I actually like that because I like the.

I like when the cheese is a little drier on the nachos so that when you pick it up, it doesn't all just droop off and fall back down. I agree with you there. So, I mean, if I get nachos, which I almost never do because I don't like Mexican and I know I am racist, I just never like Mexican, man, I just don't get it. I know when I go to Mexico and I go pretty regularly, I never eat Mexican. But you're in Mexican, so it's kind of racist, isn't it? It's like not eating Mexican when I'm in Mexico.

That's racist. You're like, You go to France, but you're like, I'm not having any of that French food. Well, I don't know too many people that want to eat the French. Those girls don't don't like take showers surge in that surging bcom. Am I wrong? No, I don't know. They don't save their armpits. They don't take showers. You're like, What's that all about? That's why you need a French girl. Well, you can add in the little hash, hash shave. Uh huh. Shave your pants.

Yeah. Okay. This is why guys are just going to start creating artificial women. They're like and marrying them. I guarantee you we're going to start seeing more marriages to women because in most respects, you know, just wait for the divorces go, Oh, wow, where she gets all your stuff, huh? Uh huh. I'm thinking we're in the wrong business. We should be generating a women for men. And women are the future. Uh huh. No And it's totally true.

I, I know that it's funny to laugh about this stuff, but given the amount of content of videos that I've seen of bitching about men both being hard to find right, and complete assholes, it's I think I think the birthrate in this country is going to plummet to zero pretty quickly here, probably because once again, the I girlfriend man. Well, here's the thing.

We already talked about this in today's episode of Unrelenting the best podcast you're not listening to Unrelenting, that show, which is population control, population control. Exactly. And you know that I girlfriend can interact with all the wifey sex stories. Well, that's a plus. And so, you know, the guy doesn't need a check. There was a YouTube video that I saw. Now that you've got me on the YouTubes Oh, yes, Blame Me, which was talking about like these.

I don't know if these services exist already. I'm guessing they may, but it's like the girlfriend thing where it's like, well, the your girlfriend can send you any kind of photos or videos that you want. They can send you text messages throughout the day, leave you voicemails and much better ones. And then you're right. Well well, here's the intriguing thing.

I'm wondering who's going to use this if it's not already for the for the gals that are to make the guys commit or for the guys who are trying to make the gals commit a little this concept that, you know, you're out with somebody else in your phone buzzes and they can look down and then see there is a text or they can look down and see there's a message.

This, I think, could be some great warfare, guerrilla warfare for, you know, chicks trying to make the guys think that they've got other guys interested or vice versa. They the chicks don't need to make guys think that because it's just true right. Because chicks are like, what? We're chicks. The US. We're in demand. Yeah. And guys are morons. Yeah, exactly.

And I think that I mean, the reality is that right now we are in a very interesting period of time where you see a lot of resentment from the modern feminist American women of men going overseas and finding women who are feminine rather than feminist. Right. And and I think we're going to see even more of that happening.

And then once you throw in all the stuff, we're going to basically have a fairly slim percentage of men that are interested in having relationships with these feminist type women that exists in America and that it's going to be a real issue. It's going to it may be the silver lining may be that feminism is finally going to start dying off. Well, a lot of the stuff is just ignoring basic biology. It's all ignoring basic biology. Yeah. Which I don't see a long game for being successful anyway.

Mm hmm. And you're right. The result would be a birthrate that just keeps going down because people, I guess it's not really worth it. It's worth dealing with this. Although if you find out, then as long as guys find out early enough, like, wait, I can I can go somewhere else and find a a more traditional woman who might want to come to America. No, no, no. You can't move to America. No, you got to keep them where they are.

You got to move where they are. Yeah, well, now, when you could just take your job with you, why not? Exactly. Go to YouTube. There's a video I watched. I think it is very true that because this is, you know YouTube review are right it's what where where they talk about the what happens to these women when you move them to America from the Philippines, from Thailand, from Indonesia, from Eastern Europe, wherever where they realize there's a different way of life.

It's a process of about five years of brainwashing by American women, telling them how they need to behave. And over the course of those five years and I mean, I say five years, it's obviously different for everybody, but it's it's let's say an average of five years of basically being told that your feminine way of acting is bad for you. And you really acting be acting more feminist. And the end result obviously is endorse.

And so the idea being, hey, if you if you marry somebody, well, frankly, if you marry anybody, period, you ought to have a prenup. Do not get married. A prenup. You'd be an idiot to do that. If you just want to prove you're an idiot, then go ahead and get married without a prenup. Even if you have no money, do not get married in the prenup. The prenup can specify things like, you know, the fact that you have visitation rights to your kids when you get divorced.

You can specify that in the prenup because. If you don't do that, her lawyer is going to do everything they can because she's paying them to make your life hell after the divorce. So never get married without a prenup if you're going to get married at all. But if you get married to somebody from overseas and you bring them over, make sure that you realize that you will be getting divorced. Right? These marriages do not stay intact.

Now, Dame bullies Teach says that sword cuts both ways for men as well. A lot more information on that. What for bringing men over from. Did you bring that? I don't know. I would I would not. Yes, I have zero experience in that regard. So I'm I'm willing to hear what you have to say. And it may very well cut both ways. But but for sure, bringing somebody from, you know, Indonesia or someplace over the U.S. puts a timer and ticking time bomb on that marriage.

But if you marry them and stay over there in their culture, that marriage could last a lifetime. Now, she blitzed. I don't know if he's going to be getting divorced because he says, I have my wife trained pretty well. No phones at the table when going out to eat, for example. Hmm. Now, I'm just wondering, any wife that hears the husband say, I've got my wife trained pretty well, if that's going to lead to this is why people don't use the real name in the real world.

But there was also talk in there that, you know, he doesn't lock his phone in while the wife and I both have locks on the phones because you bring them out of the house and you don't want to not have a lock. But they are both the same just for ease of things if you need to do something because my wife did not very tech at all. So if she needs something done with the phone, like okay. And it's like that I think is that's a sign that people are, you know, not having affairs.

They're getting calls on their phones because if you have access, I mean, I know a lot of people, you know, in relationships that would never think of giving their significant other the ability to go into their phone anytime you want And it's like yeah that's well women have no business going into your phone, but you should have full control over their phones while Jean, where do you get this kind of thinking? Because men and women are different.

And to many people in this country don't recognize that fact, the up and up bully, Steve is absolutely right. She's talking about the fact that men are not very masculine overall anymore, not. Yeah, absolutely agree 100%. Yeah. Sorry, boys. This is this is a proven fact by the decline of our average testosterone in the US male population. Are you sure that's not just drinking too much Starbucks? I think it's all of those things, including drinking Starbucks.

It's all that combined results in men in the US that have less than half of the testosterone of men from other countries. Well, and it is weird, the whole concept, again, ignoring biology, ignoring the fact that men have masculine characteristics. It may be, you know, a little more of an aggressive personality, but no, no, that's bad. That's toxic. It's like, No, no, it's not. It's just the way the world is. It's only toxic if you're transsexual and then. Right.

It's empowering, huh? Right. That's that is the screwed up way stupid. Feminism failed. It's time to move on. Well, it doesn't make sense. I mean, and the whole trans thing, Bill O'Reilly, the night was interviewing somebody who's like, I just don't understand why the left what are they getting out of this? Because it's obviously one of their new not necessarily new, new, but it's one of their big now pet projects that's being pushed into everything. What are the trends for the left politically?

For the left, politically, trans is just the new gay, like they're done with gay because you know, there's no more place to go. Yeah, they're not progressive enough. Gay is not enough. We've got to push. Yeah yeah. And and there are a lot of a lot of gay people that are like, we want nothing to do with the trans because they don't understand it. There's a lot of the people that are straight don't understand.

Like, I think you have to be in a very specific mindset to understand how somebody can believe that their body should be so drastically different than the one they were born with. And I don't know about that. I mean, I can certainly believe Body had to be £180, but yeah, but no, that's, that's in better shape. I mean that, I think it's a different thing to be like, you know what I really think I should have been born a woman. Yeah. No, no. Most guys don't understand that.

Most white women don't understand. It's not. It doesn't even matter if you understand or not. I think it was correctly identified as a mental illness for the last, oh, at least a hundred years, possibly longer, which they can certainly with the gay condition as well, which I don't think was necessarily fair. But but I think there's a yeah, I mean, it's certainly it is it is true. I think an honest gay person would agree with this is that it that being homosexual is a deviation from the norm.

Right. But I believe no society, let's say there's nothing religiously bad being gay for the sake of argument. Right. Let's just say that there's no stigma on it. You have two groups of people. One group is gay, the other group is not. How long until the gay group dies out very quickly because they can't reproduce. But now, if it just again, the well, maybe not necessarily because it's not like just gay people are producing gay people.

No, no, no, no. It's not about gay people producing gay people, about the fact that the gay people, their politics do not go on because they don't get to draw. They don't have kids. Naturally, although you can adopt being gay is just a deviation from the norm. Right. Right. It's not a different type of person. Correct. So it's not like you see a gay person walking down the street. You're like, oh, gay. I mean, you could see that with that.

But, you know, that's usually depends where you live. Yeah, Yeah. And then how they're dressed and that. But I mean, if everybody's dressed the same way. Yeah. I can't really point out. Well you can really take away I have gaydar. A lot of people have gaydar. We need to test this. This could be a new game show. This is I. It works very well. I've known a lot of gay people over the years, and there are certain peculiarities that exist in their physiology, in their mannerisms and the mannerism.

Yeah, but now they're just standing there saying it was the walking. I can't tell a gay person from looking at a photo of somebody that I've never met. Okay. But I thought you are building your programs that Tim Interesting. So there is something that in the physiology. Yeah it's it's very controversial. You're not supposed to talk about it but is and it's funny too, because there's the whole argument about, well, you're born gay, you have choice about it.

And then there's in which case then you ought to be able to tell somebody if they're gay from physiology. And it shouldn't be considered a bad thing. Well, it's more what the physiology because that whole argument of was it nature or nurture? Right. I don't understand that. What is the why is it bad to say that you weren't born gay, You just decided to become gay? Because it's more interesting, like some people do, is just as legitimate as like, oh, well, he can't help it.

He was born to write, but who cares? What what difference does it make whether somebody was born with a preference for the color blue or they acquired the preference for the color blue later in life? Well, who cares? You know, it's not a good color, but so what? It's their color. They like it? Yeah. White is the obvious best color. Well, yeah, they not that the white is the absence of all color and black is the ever all color. Right. What is. Is it backwards. Yeah, exactly.

So white is actually no color or all colors. All colors and black is no color. Okay. Yeah. Yeah exactly. I mean, I get confused with all this scientific stuff. I know, I know they're there, but I do like coming to the game show network genes, gender, gene and yes, Bonanza. That's a that's a show we can put out there. As long shows we can put out there. Yeah, we can have our own get that. See, that might get us hits on YouTube. It could be a whole new thing. Weird.

I sent you, by the way, I don't know if you saw I sent you a link to somebody doing a podcast on YouTube that to me looked like one of the better visual. I've done podcasts where it's still a podcast recording, but it's it's done in a little more neat way. You have got to look at that because the other thing we should have been on the topic for today, but maybe next week. YouTube is about to incorporate podcasts and RSS feeds into Yes, YouTube.

And that I think is going to be that could be a game changer. Can I predict something? Right? Yes. Please. Let me go ahead and predicted in the last minute that we're recording here. Before I get back to video games, you have a fortune. It's back to star something or other. Yeah, Star something is. I am predicting that some number of I think it'll be longer than one year, but it's some number of years down the road.

YouTube will have a checkbox setting for in pure audio content that you are uploading to it or putting on YouTube that will generate a visual portion, right, based on the audio content. So effectively, we've all seen these things where people are like, it's an interview, somebody is doing it. Then the video on, the YouTube is like something somebody doodled or drew or a cartoon or or like animated no agenda, right?

One of those things that will simply be a free service that you just click a checkbox says, Generate my video for me right when you upload ideal content. Now if it's going to happen, if we could just take a, you know, ID style photo of me and of you and send it to YouTube and then it recognizes the voice and animates us, it makes us look like we're talking, That would be awesome. Yeah, except I don't see why it has to look like us, so we might as well make it look better.

We may still create characters and we can be 18 year old females in in schoolgirl outfits and whatever it is you got on your character, they're over. It's our whatever star with our character. Yes. I think my best looking character. I know I sent you an image of this is from Cyberpunk because she's wearing those hot, hot pants, those pink leather hot pants. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. You expected to describe her very slowly. If you can see she's riding a motorcycle.

Slower, Jean. Slower. I'm Not good at writing erotic fiction. So this is about as good as you're going to get. You're.