084: Big In Ukraine

Camera. Gene, are you ready? Okay, that sounds ready. Unrelenting, Eddie, for the level of excitement in your voice is a bit concerning, as I do you up all night playing Starfield again, IMO. We just had a podcast yesterday. I don't know why we're doing. We're only two of them today. We do them daily so people get their fill it. It sure feels like it because I've barely gotten any progress through in this game. Well, we'll see.

That means it's a good game because you don't want a game that you can just blow right on through, right? Yeah, I know. Let's talk about the game. Yes. You know, here's the interesting thing. I don't play games and I in the past a little bit, especially after the I blew out, not much. So it's not something that I'm normally looking for. Information on. But my feed that both Apple and Google seem to think I want to read. Mm hmm. Starfield is everywhere.

What might this thing like taking over the world? I saw it is savage from the Mythbusters physically built a ship out of this. Yes. Uh huh. This is. This is insanity. Why is this game different than everything else? Why is this so much more popular now? Well, first of all, it comes from one of the major publishers. The company has been around forever. Bethesda Software. You even heard of them, I'm sure. Yes. Yeah. So that's a big thing, which means big money and good quality.

The marketing budget is substantial for this damn sandwich. Got paid to build that ship. Oh, so this is a marketing one on one more money into it? Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. So they're this, they are spending the bucks, but they also did a very good job, I think ahead of time, kind of priming the pump, getting people excited about it. But here's the coolest thing as far as I'm concerned.

After playing Star Citizen, which I was raving about, which still is not released right now, very Alpha Rocket, you know, and Star Citizen, is it truly is alpha because there's a bugs it crashes this thing. Holy shit I had like one crash in 40 hours of gameplay so it was ready to go when they actually shipped that. Totally done. Yeah. I mean, this is probably one of the least buggy game releases that I've played in years.

Well, that's interesting. Yeah. Which will keep people that jump on board early. It'll keep me on board rather than I can't put up. But there's a good part comes up, it crashes. Yeah, it's the one crash that did happen. Kind of saved my ass. Well, see, there you go. This is kind of like the kid turning over the monopoly board when they realize they've lost, like, I don't know. This is stupid, right? It's exactly Never did that. No. Would never do. No, no. I've seen cartoons do that. Yeah.

Mm hmm. But it's living up to the hype then. I think so. I think some people were. See, here's what happens with any software product, but especially with games, is that if the PR is good, if they're doing a good job teasing it, a lot of people start building up assumptions in their heads. And sometimes those assumptions are fully unjustified and are just shit people are creating out of thin air in their own heads.

And so there are certain groups of people that are disappointed with this game because they were assuming that certain things were going to happen, which no one ever said were going to happen. And so there is a small backlash of folks that are like, Oh, this is bullshit. This is not one word. Well, it is exactly what we were told in. And it's better, I think. Right? You don't want to overhype a game because if you overhype a game, that's just as bad.

If you set the expectations too high as with everything else, if your expectations going in, you know, if you go into a little hole in the wall restaurant, you're not expecting much from and you get a really good meal, you're like, Wow, yeah. There's a Chinese place that I found here recently called Asia, very original. I was like, What do they have? Asian Food Manager, Huh? Uh huh, yeah, exactly. And they seem to have gotten stuck in like 2005, which is incredible.

And what I mean by that is they're food taste exactly like Chinese food that I remember tastes like. And their prices are exactly what they were in 2005. Well, that part's interesting. Uh huh. So when when you get all, let's say General South Chicken there, just so much that cost 1299 995. No way. Yeah. And everybody you can check off on your bingo card talked about food. Uh huh doctor. Like video games and food versus jelly.

Did you take the course in in before you had the meals that we can now. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Did you. Oh, one more guess how much an egg grill is. Wow. If the meals are that price, they can't be a buck but 50 bucks. 50? Wow. Yeah. Your new favorite restaurant. No doubt. By the way, the my 95, uh, the General Tso's chicken had enough to take home. No, but it includes, uh, uh, a soup, either egg drop or a sweet and sour soup. Oh, I love what I love.

Not the sweet and sour, but it's the take off that is the hot and sour soup. Yeah, hot and sour. Sorry. That's at. Yeah. So that was the place that was next door to the Radio Shack that I worked at. The hot and sour soup was to die for. Mm hmm. And it was one of those things that was the place that I really started getting the the well, until I was in there every day, because it was literally next door. But, you know, the first time were like, oh, extra hot like Mr. Hot like, do you.

Sure. White devil, you want extra hot dip. So when you order when I ordered it again, it was like, okay, I guess you do like it hot. That's cool. But the yeah, yeah, hot and sour soup is excellent. It is. So I love going through a time warp to order food. It's, it makes it for a much cheaper expense. So what's the explanation here? Is this a money laundering operation where there's no other place? I've seen? Yeah, it probably is. There's no other place.

It's, it's, it's the, the Chinese Communist Party outlet. Oh, well, that's cool. But there's no other Chinese restaurant here in Austin that would match that. Yeah. In Austin. I'm guessing most of those are about double or triple the price. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're like under 20 bucks for General Tso's chicken is super rare. You're just not going to find it. And it's not like that's the only thing I give people. It's just that I'm using that as an example. Do you get the Mongolian beef?

I've had? I've gotten there, Mongolian. I've been there much times. Yeah, I've gotten there. Mongolian beef there. I've gotten like a stir fry kind of thing there. I mean, it's all good. It's. And the portions are pretty damn generous, given that they're so cheap right now. And I, like, wanted to do again the place that I was in all the time. You just start getting to the point was like, what do you recommend? Just give me whatever's good and then you get some really good stuff. Mm hmm.

It's like the not on the menu stuff. Yes. Yes. That's usually the best stuff. Like, Oh, we can make this for you. There was a a restaurant in Saint Paul, Minnesota, that I used to go to that was a Russian place, and it's called Moscow on the Hill. Was it on a hill? It was on the hill because otherwise it would be ironic. It. Yes. And it was on a hill overlooking the Capitol. And I was in there. I was pretty much a regular I was in there every Friday for weeks and week.

And we got to a point where I would stay till closing and then have a meal with the staff. Nothing untoward going about this either way in the back room, having the meal with the staff after a restaurant shuts down. Nothing whatsoever. Bunch of budget crazy Russians that that is not the way that mob usually operates at all. Who are there? Were there actually Russians making the food or just a bunch of Mexicans? Because that's usually the way it works in any kitchen in America.

Yeah. No, no, it's all Russian. See, Now, that also would send up red flags for me that this is some kind of different operation. Mm hmm. Yeah. Was. It was pretty good. Both Minneapolis had, well, Minneapolis St. Paul, that that whole area. I think there was a total of five different Russian restaurants. And so when I moved to Dallas and realized there's only two, I was like, Whoa, really? What the hell? It's a bigger city and there's less food options.

So I moved to us and there's one who and that one shut down in the first week of this, uh, special military operation. Oh, we're so right. It was kind of like, Oh, my God. That was one that rebranded as a Ukrainian restaurant very quickly. They literally saw that as soon as that started, they took down the word Russian. So it just used to be a Russian house. It just became house. And the way they then they come up with something else for home, just it just house.

And then it may have been the first month they may be exaggerating. And Ted, it was a week, but it was a very short amount of time after the name change, they they just closed down. They survived COVID. They could not survive the the liberal attitudes. Well, no, because liberals oh, if you're associated, which makes zero sense to me. But that's because the liberal attitude is to judge people upon their genetics, nothing more.

The recent news here I posted on May as the American Nazi Party has officially endorsed Joe Biden. Well, I mean, somebody had to. Yeah, I mean, sounds like a South Park joke or something, but. No. And they've put out a PR there's a statement. And it was for his proper handling of the Ukraine situation, the very proper handling, sending all the money to the people that they like. Do the Nazis. Exactly. Do the most corrupt country in that region and the largest, most corrupt country.

I think some of the smaller ones may be just as corrupt, but they're smaller and they're less consequential. That makes sense. But certainly the one that the majority of the Americans were using for money laundering. Yes, right. Because that was the country that was in the middle of all the Biden and Hillary stuff. I mean, if Hillary had to get a Raspberry Pi to put her messages through, it was sitting somewhere in Ukraine for some reason Funny. Funny how that works.

Yeah. It's like if it was if it was Cyprus that had a revolution, then it definitely be the Russians, because that's where they launder their money. Hey, everybody needs a good place to launder their money, and then they all have to be close to the Middle East. We don't do it here on the Unrelenting podcast. No, we just don't have money, so. Well, that takes care of them. Quandary. You don't have to clean it if you don't have it. Exactly. So what do you do now? Um, let's see.

I was diagnosed in issues with my modem. That your modem, the gateway, the cable modem or you have fiber now it's it's cable through Xfinity. Mm hmm. And it started doing something that I've read about for years. Other people having the similar issue that it's rebooting itself every morning between well, it's usually right around 4 a.m., but sometimes it's a little early for sometimes it's a little bit later, right? SAFER Yeah, much safer to reboot at that time because you shouldn't be online.

Right? But, you know, we're online all the time, 24 hours a day, seven days out. But you got to reboot. Got to reboot, baby. I mean, yeah, it's the issue I had, if you remember, which is much, much more cryptic and weirder, is that I actually had set up my mom to reboot. Reboot? Yeah. Which was triggering a reboot of my PC. That's the part I didn't understand. Why the hell is the PC rebooted every morning?

Russian hackers and it's it clearly couldn't be Microsoft updates being uploaded every night right No of course that should happen once a week. I mean, the Russian hackers, to be fair, give you updates way more than once a week. There are no Russian hackers. There are no they don't exist. It's a myth. It's a myth created by American parents to scare their children. Now, there's a nice cold open to right there.

There are no Russian hackers, but many of the you know, they claim that they never heard of this happening. Never, ever. And it's not something that used to happen because I'm one of the idiots that has come to use the little talking tube from Amazon as a white noise machine.

Yeah. So every morning, like right about 4:00 now that stops because I guess there's not enough memory in the, in the little talking tube to download the MP three of rain or whatever you got going on and it has to constantly stream that. Mm hmm. So when the connection drops, then that drops. So that's the only reason I noticed it. And then I went and looked in the logs of the router, and then I contacted extended tea and they did all their usual diagnostic stuff

and they're like, Well, we can send it back. And it's like, Well, why the signal levels on the modem? Everything are good, nothing is changed. And if it was dropping randomly throughout the day, that would be one thing. Now, when it's doing it with regularity at the same time each day, that seems like something more on their end. It seems like more like somebody set something up like me that they somebody set something up to for the middle of the night reboot and worn out.

Yeah. So probably just going to ask for a new gateway to see if that does anything new. Try in. But it could be on their end of the gateway. That's my belief. But then you looked at the logs on the moments of it. This is the horrible thing with the infinity modem gateway. Now they don't show you the real logs. There's a few things you can see. But unlike owning your own device, this is the one that you can buy. I used to have a cable modem. Yes. You buy your own cable modem?

Yeah, I did. For years. Yeah. Now I can buy one of these. Yeah, but then Comcast will charge me $50 more a month and I'm only pay and $50 a month. If I want unlimited data, they'll charge you more. Yeah. This is. This is the scam. This is let me tell you it's finicky I'm down to 50 bucks a month for gigabit internet as the people are mowing the lawn right outside if anybody hears that. But no, the mike is working. It's beautiful. The mike and the noise gate and everything else. All right.

By the way, we're checking off boxes on our bingo card. You have to. Did you see? But I'm just going to say the reason I'm only paying 50 bucks for this $130 normally like retail level of expensive, the service was for you get like $10 off if you set it up for them to take it right to your credit card every month automatically. But there was the thing I think we went over it where, oh, if you get here, we'll give you a free phone.

And if you take if you right, if you add a new line, we'll give you $30 a month off your Internet bill for two years. Yeah. So you wait. You give me a free phone. The new line, which costs zero because that's a shared thing. Mhm. So that's how we're down to 50 bucks which now I'm like well maybe you get what you pay for, but I guess we'll see how it goes. Interesting.

Yeah. So I was going to say that you mentioned the microphone or you, I mentioned the microphone that picking up the outside noise and did you see CSB was poking fun at the X-Box hostess making with the wrong spelling of Megan Kelly Mega. Yeah. Yeah. What's she have a problem because she's using though he was making fun of the fact that her microphone is like a foot away from her mouth and she's using the Rogen mic. Correct. She's using and some B seven.

Yeah. Yes. That's something Mia these Rogen Mike is everybody knows that as Yes the short be there was around for 50 years that's broken mostly three years old. Well no but this is not an uncommon thing people using that microphone in that way which you're not going to get the best sound in a lot of times. I wonder if they're miked elsewhere. That's what he asked. It's like, is it a boom? And then this is just there to make it look like a podcast. He may be right about that. I don't know, man.

I think it's just the the preempts turned up. That's all that could be. And she certainly has the money to have the audio equipment that can probably handle that. But you're still getting a lot of all have the money doesn't mean that there are audio files and understand or that they even know that that microphone is meant for close quarters talking not sitting far away. Although I mean, say the same thing about the microphones. We use the I have the Ari 20. You've got the Ari 320.

Yeah, but have you ever seen the video when the late great Rush Limbaugh was still around? Yeah, the video of him and he used in Ari 20. Yep. He was sitting like three feet away from it. Well, he was leaning in and out. I don't think he was consistently sitting three feet away from the mic, but he was a good foot away from the me. But I also have photos or I've seen photos of him right, where he's leaned in with his mouth right next to Mike.

You got to remember, one thing about Rush, though, is he was a very dynamic speaker. He was spent his entire life behind the microphone. I think his average level of decibel edge coming out of his mouth of dog biscuits was significantly higher than yours or mine. I would believe that although mine is fairly high, I have a decimal we could do. Yeah, yours is higher than mine. Absolutely. I mean that I'm probably near the conversational level of speech.

I mean, you're a little higher, but Rush was significantly higher. Yes, I've moved to about a foot away from this microphone now, and you can definitely hear a difference. Yeah. Oh, yeah. But also, I will say Rush had a studio that I'm better. You also don't have a Bo, Snerdley. Well, that's true. And he did a guy that in real time can tweak shit, writing the writing the faders, doing what you had to do. Yeah, that is big. And also he had a golden EIB microphone.

I know. And that was a beautiful microphone. Mm hmm. My buddy has a company that does coatings, and I've been tempted to just bring this one over there and go sell it. Yeah. Uh huh. I mean, you could probably. I think there are companies that do that you could make a lot of money for people. You're going to do actual gold. It's not cheap, dude. Well, not if it's real gold. No, no, I had the. Oh, boy.

This is going to really sound nerdy at this point, but this is not going to be the first time for Eugene. I know, right? It's a shocker there was a period in time where having gold accessories on your car was considered cool baller and so I had all the chrome done in 24 karat gold and then the car was stolen. No, it actually wasn't. I take a sip here, but it looks very cheesy now. I'm thinking back, but at the time.

But it was my favorite color combination, which people that have followed my video games know what that color combination is, which is white and gold, which is the typical set of everything I have in video games, whether it's armor or guns or, you know, spaceships, the way you do a white and gold spaceship flying by. And they hailed. Mm hmm. Say hello to you'll know.

Well, certainly in the in Star Citizen because in Starfield it's a single player game in-game so they're not too likely to see me flying by. Well not unless the Russian hackers but yeah hackers that have infiltrated the single player game, right? They're good, man. They're good that they're so good. They're mythical. How long do you think this game is going to engage you? Is this like one of these things that's like a two or three weeks to three months to three years more? Ah, for sure.

A couple of months. Now, how long beyond that? I don't know. But the closest example I can think of, of couple of kind of sucked me in like this was Red Dead redemption which is the probably still the, the best storyline driven game single player game ever made.

It's and by the way this one this got a very good storyline as well I'm I have now played this here let me check in real time you know scroll up and see how much time has been in while you're checking that servo in the troll rooms as a single player for now, I guess that is one of the ways they could eventually expand.

Yeah, I think this one was going to stay a single player because if you listen to some of the developer talks about technology that they're using and the way that the landscapes and the cities other than the main five are generated on the fly, I don't think they could do this in multiplayer without rewriting a substantial portion of the game. That's saying can't happen. That's just very unlikely to happen.

So what do you think the pluses for a single player game over multiplayer Now which one's more enjoyable? It came out a week ago on Friday, so in the last week I've played 95 hours, so that's an average of like 12 hours a day. Are you doing anything else, mate? 95 hours? Yeah, it's a it's an average of 13 over 16 hours a day. It's about 17 and a half hours a day. When do you sleep? Dream the wonder years. I don't. I get about 3 hours of sleep a night right now.

You're like, Hi. You know, under the shadow, under the shell. How I can podcast Ticking away from a video game playing God damn, I'm going home You know it would be wasn't for this podcast. Yeah, but it's the only thing keeping you from doing all these bad things. It really is a week, probably. As I know. It's crazy. It's crazy, crazy stuff. That's why it's during this show you're like, Oh yeah, I forgot. I need food, so I should order that. I know, right? I forgot. I need this. Like in food.

Well, it's mostly the drink that I'm ordering, not the food. Do you have an Asian girl come and bring it over and. Oh, yeah. Raise it up. So you can see the Uber drivers tend to be dudes, and no way. Well, because there's reasoning for that. So safety I don't blame. There are some safety. Come on. It's a liberal city. It's super safe here. So you step over the bumps, right, though I like that. The headline this morning was some politician from the Minneapolis area

that was big into defunding the cops. Hmm. I guess she was carjacked and beaten in front of her kids. Nice. Now she's all about finding these people and putting them in jail and prosecuting them. Like, really? No kidding. She can do that by herself. Them, I guess that's The police in Austin have started advising residents to use 311. Yes. Don't call us. Call somebody else. Yeah, which is interesting because that is literally the experience I have.

Because remember, when I when I had like, somebody steal money from me. Yes. Well, yeah, that was the scam right out of here. They stole your ATM card. Yeah, apparently so. I got the money back. So that's good news. So the banks took care of that, took them forever to do it, but they finally got around to it. But yeah, that was. I called the cops and they said, Yeah, call three, one, one. And then when you call 311, it says, Everybody's busy here. But go ahead and get them on our website.

And when you go to the website for Austin report crime dot com or something like that, go ahead and fill it out and then we'll we'll get back to you. So it's self-reporting you fill out this website about the incident it uses AA incidentally and they tell you that right on the website to figure out what the hell happened to you.

So you fill in all this information at the end of the the last question, which I love this question is, are you filling out this report for insurance reasons or do you actually need somebody to contact you? Is this just because you need a case number? Oh, yeah, exactly. Because it tells you that your case number will be auto generated When you hit submit on the form, make sure that you write that down for your insurance purposes.

And yeah, I mean, like they know that if they ask the question, they can probably avoid having to call back like 80% of the people write because they just want to send it to their insurance. Yeah. So this is police in a liberal city or lack thereof. They're trying to advise you to. Well, I don't know how many cops. Austin. I'm really rooting for the state to take over Austin.

They've threatened to do it at the last session, and they said that if Austin doesn't start acting like a responsible city and do things like approve a budget for its police, that the state will take care of paying for the police by incorporating the city of Austin, firing the city council and the mayor and having it become an administrative district, which is what Washington, D.C. is. It's where Nancy Pelosi's in charge of all the police. How did that work out? Again, that was the threat.

Well, we'll see if they do it in two years. You know, they basically have the votes to do it. So it's just a question of do they want the annoyance of having to administrate Austin? Well, it's just another case of the Justice Department in this country going downhill. And I can't blame cops.

Yeah, well, that's George Soros getting all the DA's and that is a big part of this $5 billion he spent on getting his days in office because if you are a cop on the street and you see that every time you bring somebody in for shoplifting, they're never prosecuted, why even bring them in? Your job is useless if you're the person on the streets that sees a person committing crime acts and bringing them in. Now, if you know that crime X is never going to get prosecuted, why bring those people in?

It's a waste of time. You know, it's so cute how you think that cops care about these things. I think some do. I think some don't know. They don't know. What they care about is having authority. I think that's an overgeneralization. I'm sure some do. I'm sure some are in their head. Cartman, long before Cartman even existed, all cops are Cartman. Well, it's back. My respect, my hands, our day you back And then me and him. That's exactly again am getting him to play video games.

I got the news. I said this in game. Come on. Exactly how it works. I mean, the cops can be playing the starfield right there on their laptop, in their car. They're better than going out and looking for criminals, that's for sure. But now that we have this stuff and I don't care whether this is true or not, these the Danny Masterson case really annoys me on so many different levels.

One, because it just shows that if you're a straight white guy and somebody claims you did something 20 years ago, you'll go to jail. Where if they have video of you today, if the color of your skin is right and they have video of you committing a violent crime, they don't really want to really want to prosecute that. Hmm. I don't understand how we have any, he said. She said crime from 20 years ago when somebody was doing the years that is made up shit, man. Guaranteed. Oh, yeah.

30 years in prison for alleged crime. Uh huh. Because somebody said you did something 20 years ago. And here's the other thing. Look at the way this dude looked back then is this little skinny shirt punk. Yeah. Incapable of raping anybody. This is because money and fame. Money and fame. Money and fame and any female or male that wants to claim rape then says, well, you know, I kept dating him. Of course, as we wait. No, you don't get to do that. You do not see his work ministry.

The the rape conviction is over half his paid. That's insane. Yeah. Yeah, it's. Yeah, but you don't get to say that somebody committed a violent act against me. But then we kept dating for another year, and now I'm saying this happened 20 years later. That is just I said and again, maybe he did it. I don't know whether either one of these. But I said what the Cosby thing was a really good litmus test for how far you could get away with a he said she said this far down the road.

I think that it's highly likely that the guy was a narcissist and that he was, in the conventional sense, is skeevy or sleazy. Yeah, that I would agree, but I really highly doubt that there was a what would traditionally back when you and I were learning these words meant the word rape. Right. Rape is not regret. Right afterwards.

Rape is not having sex with somebody and then realizing that he's slimy and therefore he must have rape because, oh, boy, if I actually agree to having sex with this dude, especially kinky sex repeatedly, it makes me look bad. Right? Therefore, he must have forced me without my consent. It is. This is bullshit. Yes. Here's. This is the kind of shit that leads to Islam. Oh yeah. Because, you know, it's the country is almost not worth saving at this point.

It's literally going down the toilet so fast that it's more practical to start looking for alternatives than it is trying to do something. But, you know, at this point, you ask the question, what is a defense for these kind of allegations? And the answer is there is none. There is none. No, no. The defense is being a black gay person, right. And then you're fine. You're perfectly good. We'll never put you on. The straight guy can still go to jail. Oh, yeah. Guys are in the crosshairs.

And I know, you know, I'm a guy, so I probably feel that way. Well, that's why you don't leave the house. That's a good defense, right? Well, sir, I never left my house. I was home. See? Right here. You were your. I mean, God knows, being a straight, tall, white dude, you'd just be out there raping nonstop, right? Exactly. It would be horrible. Yeah. Beyond the law, it's really for your own good that you're kept, you know, muzzled indoors because there is no defense for this.

And all three women were part of the church. Scientology, which I find also to be somewhat interesting. Okay. All that should have just been thrown right out the window because the Church of Scientology has a certain criteria of individual with a diminished mental capacity that joins it. God, the South Park did such a great episode on that and the Scientology one many years ago. So you're talking about people that are highly susceptible to external. Well, what's the phrase? Suggestions?

Yeah, basically mind fucking when somebody says, oh, you didn't you didn't really feel good about that relationship with him did you. No, no. It's like, well you know, that was nonconsensual. He technically he raped you, right? Yes. Yes, that's it. He raped me. You know, that's the kind of shit you end up with, because these people are and obviously I'm generalizing. There are people that are Scientologists that are born into it that I'm sure would love to get out of it if they knew better.

But people actually join Scientology here. You know they're not there. They're not all there. Yeah. No screw loose. Yeah. You're looking for something that is out there in the ether. Hmm? Mm hmm. It's a it's the same people that joined Amway. Well, there. There's a reason why the law has a statute of limitation, Right? So many things. Most crimes. Because the further away you get from something, the harder it is to have any kind of proof. Yeah, And things that happen behind closed doors.

These are the hardest things to try to prosecute because you have one person saying one thing. You have one person saying something totally different. And then the question becomes, who do you believe? And this is fine for civil stuff, but when it comes to doing hard time criminal cases, usually there's a reason why from even the most heinous murders you have the reasonable doubt part of the law that somebody did this beyond a reasonable doubt.

So if there's any reasonable doubt that somebody didn't kill, well, then you have to let him walk because you'd rather have people walk than put an innocent person behind bars. In this case, how do you have that? How do you not have, again, any kind of reasonable doubt then the stories these women are telling from 20 years ago is accurate now and not just. Well, we're trying to we're going after somebody.

It's not very hard to believe at this point that two or three people could get together and be like, you know, that dating, I'm going to get that son of a bitch will kill him. And that's what you have. There is no justice in this country anymore. There is no law. No, nope. Face the screen said, Tell Gene I said dobro, you know, whatever that means. That means good morning. Now, even in your horrible pronunciation, though, is neutral.

I mean, he's been trying to teach me how to say the Polish words, and I can barely get English out. Uh huh. But but I know that that's clever grammar. My dobro with I didn't know we were actually a Russian podcast. Wow. All right. We're big in Moscow. If you're listening from. The Moscow, we have zero zero. Look at the stats. Nobody from Moscow is listening. I haven't looked at a long time there. I mean, that's mean. We might find out things we don't want to know. Might you? We we might.

We might find out that we actually have a modern audience from nothing but an audience from Moscow. Uh huh, Yes. It's half the audience is Polish. That was Russian. It's weird how that works, isn't it? I mean, and they're not donating, so there's that. Well, there is that. Yeah, I'm sure AC SB is going to chime in with his usual promote his show kind of thing. Yeah, he sent a booster Graham There you go. We'll get to you get those out of the way.

You want to do that because I was going to get him out of the way. I was going to pull up the stuff out of the way that we did on the last show. I mean, we were so ingrained and engrossed in our own conversation. We didn't even mention that we had a couple of donations on the last show. I mean, now that's how crazy the last show was. It was like, Oh, we never got around to that. But on the last show, that would have been our buddy Sir truck driver coming in with 565.

And yeah, I got a I got to get some. Well it'll be a little while now we're going to do some streaming of me driving truck in Texas, so people will love that real trucks are virtual. Well, it's it's virtual, of course. Yes. You know. Yeah, that's mostly what I'm doing in this game as I'm mostly a space truck driver. I'm hauling cargo in space.

So your Han Solo. Okay, I might have a portion of the ship that's specifically meant for, you know, shielded cargo, freight sharing things that the police would not want military. Are the virtual police trying to take you down? Yeah, I've been to virtual jail multiple times already, so it's just like real life, just like Costa Rica all over again. Hey, now. Hey, now. Kevin Cipher coming in with his monthly $5. So that was from the last show. And we appreciate you folks.

And for this one, we have a executive producer, Travis Hawes, coming in with 2625. That's an interesting number. He said, speaking of radio, because we were you were saying you thought this show would be great until real radio. Oh, yeah, I did say that, that people could pop in and pop out and wonder what the hell's going on. Yeah, he said, There's a station. So my Smartkom, that is donation only and think would fit this. Another no agenda type shows it says might be a good splice. I found it.

The no agenda stream through a radio garden app which is interesting that that's the way he found out about no agenda and the the stream and everything else. Honestly the path I would just put up an antenna and do you megawatt that we should I mean he should really pump that show right into the Mexican border and rent one of those transmitters. Be a real pirate radio dude once again.

Yeah, but I mean, it's interesting because while it's really cool to be like, hey, I want to be on the big pumper out of Chicago, you can only get throughout the United States where right now, I mean, we're live in Moscow. We're live in, you know, wherever I go. Yeah. Krakow, we are live in Dublin. We are live in wherever the Internet can reach the show can reach. That's right. So it's nice to have the big there. What's the wattage? Nothin, man. I don't know.

There is something kind of neat about tuning in the radio and hearing your own voice. I've experienced that back when we used to run the ads for my other podcast, as you were driving down the street, you're like, Yeah, that's me. I'm radio. And as it was kind of neat, I don't know if it was worth the money. In fact, I know it wasn't worth the money, right? Because that podcast didn't make you $1,000,000, did it? Well, you remember that story. I am pretty sure I told it. Yes.

It was a business podcast. They do with a buddy of mine who no longer lives here. The totally crazy people that moved to California, where he moved to California moved the wrong direction. I know, right? Like, what are you doing? I Yeah, yeah. And he's not a liberal, but he is a little crazy. Yeah, well, wait, Now, here's the question. Has he been turned now that he went to California? Is he feeling more liberal?

I don't know that he is, but he was also one of those guys that, like, just kind of does go with the crowd. Like, he doesn't have a huge sense of fuck everybody. I'm right in something. Clearly I do right. Feel like, well, that's your whole thing. So that's my hobby, right? That's my whole that is like, Yeah, fuck everybody, I'm right.

And so to interrupt the story that I'm using therapy to interrupt the donations I with, there was a question on a psychological profile test that I remember taking when I was young, you know, when I was in college, because, you know, you everybody signs up for those. I bet you they gave you a lot of psych tests when you were, you know, a lot of experiments when you're in college to make some extra money. You were experimenting like Obama in college. Is that what you're saying?

Well, I don't know that Obama was getting paid for that. The but so yeah. So I did a lot of psych tests cause that was, you know, it's an easy way to make money. And I remember one question there stood out to me because it seemed absurd. And the question was, would you rather be late or would you rather be right? And your answer was, What do you think? Well, you don't really care about being liked. So there's that. I mean, it's an absurd question.

Who in their right mind would rather be wrong just to be like, I I'm with it. It's crazy that that is some crazy talk. And I remember pointing that out to the psychologists who was jotting down notes then in the like, Can you at least come up with decent questions here? And they said, you know, uh, no. She said, That's very interesting. It what did you say it in a very demeaning way, would you think? Yes, course. Let's see. Two naturally or fives there. We got to be good friends after that.

As far as amount of bandwidth. So that would lead you to believe how much the show is being consumed. Nobody on the list is the Russian. Really? Yeah. Well, this year we might have a lame dreamed 13 gig to the Russian Federation, huh? We've streamed 990 gig to the United States. What I would say Grandma is listening, but Grandma is dead, so that ain't her. Somebody is in Grandma's old house listening in probably 53. Oh, dude, I don't know what that is. That's just my VPN.

This one to Great Britain, 29 to Germany, 41 to the Netherlands. 16.8 Gig to India. Okay, well, that's just that. That's fake. There's nothing there. 14 gig to Norway. Okay, 52 gig to Australia. Thank you, Dale. Yeah, Dale. Thank you. That's literally. Dale right there. Right there. 52 gig. He listens all the time. Uh huh. Poland Only 3.41 gig. Oh, boy. Uh huh. Serbia three gig. Yeah. My Serbian boys, eight to Angola, eight to the Czech Republic, very into Angola. Who's listening in Angola?

I don't know if you're listening in Angola, let us know. Yeah, because that's enough. Only 3.4 to to Italy. That figures for gig. The Romania. Mm hmm. Six, about five and a half to Belgium, almost seven to Chile, 2.3 to Ukraine. 2.3. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. 1.7 to France. So we are bigger in Ukraine than we are in France, right? That right there. That's the total. Bigger in Ukraine than France. Yeah, and we are. It's all true. We are. I mean, that's it's all about the spin.

This show is so big, it's bigger in Ukraine even than France. Yes, that is absolutely true. The Ukraine at 2.3 gig beats France. It beats Mexico, only 1.2 gig. We not big in Mexico. We're not we're not ab learning espanol at all. So no, now, this is very, very concerning. We need to up our we need to up the queue and we need to I was talking to a guy that's from Where the hell is he from? He's from, uh, a Latin American country that I can't remember. Okay. It was Latin American country.

Yeah, it's not Mexico. It's one of the other ones. There are others. Believe it or not, it's pretty bad. I think he's. It's actually, I think South America. But I was talking to him about if it's worthwhile getting my book translated. And he said, well, why like, so people that don't speak English. But he's like, you want to make money? I was like, Well, I know. I just think I have really damn good ideas and, you know, how easy is this now with a I wouldn't it not be way easier for.

That's why I'm asking, you know to obviously I would do an Adrian's animation and then give it to an editor for maybe 500 bucks. 2000 bucks to just review the grammar. David Right. Yeah. But it doesn't like I don't need to hire frickin translator for 20 grand. No, Which is what you have to do in the old days, because now you have magical I mean, okay, sure. You just have a magical. But it's not magical. It's computer science. It is. It's soon it's going to be air.

He's going to be your girlfriend. Come on. Yeah. May have already been my girlfriend for quite a while. For all you know, you baby and I, I've sent you some photos of video, girlfriend. You send me a lot of stuff. To be fair, I do. You don't read all of it. I know I do. I look, I'm like, Oh, do you? I'm like you. Usually it's late at night and I'm like, jeans up to some no good early in the morning, which for me is late at night. Uh huh, uh huh. Did you see Dick's nuts? Yeah, I didn't.

I didn't see what that was, but I saw that was the last thing. Okay, on here. Yeah. The if really runs the world video is worth watching. That's my moon. It's quite good. Goes through all the evilness around. Uh, but we do. We do have a couple of booster Grahams. Okay, There was one, a 133 SATs, which is like half a penny from Aqua Lift. Who says, Jane, you have a star citizen account. I'm a golden ticket backer. Citizen ID one three, three seven.

So if he is like a life thing that he's listening and saying this, No, this came in a few days ago. So this isn't even lines. So he's probably not as well in case he's listening to this episode. I do indeed. I am a legate. This account. It's that better if that's the top tier, he said. 13337 Meridian. Despite being there from day one, I've only spent a couple hundred at most either on give copies or swag here and there in the morning, gents. Yeah, cool.

Well then that's more money then, because you're not doing it for the game. Well, go find Jean in the game and blow up his ship. That would be cool. Yeah. If you want to send me a friend. Request Atlas. Rand is the name Cotton Gin says that is $0.03. $0.03 a yes. Yes, $0.03. You can do better. You can definitely do better than $0.03. And then the only other booster, Graham I'm seeing is from the one. The only category. Yeah. Comic strip blogger. Uh huh.

Previous comrades, Jean, that they're a reason for on your pod listeners they can visit to buy cartoons that would see us beat that I don't know. Well follow me on Twitter at ten they'll see SB three letters. Yo, that's pretty good. Thank you. I've been practicing. I couldn't get no, I mean, three letters. I was telling him pretty good. Oh, I was thinking I could do it. It's pretty good. Yeah, because he probably could.

Yeah, because my short name and there was deleted a long time ago, and I never got it back because the Klamath Globe. You were threatened with this one. Uh huh. Isn't that just because he lives next door, it doesn't mean we're friends. You invite them over to play that game, Daddy. Cool. You guys get around, they get playing video games. Well, you can. You can make fun of that. But Ellen has played a game that I've spent a lot of hours playing, which is Kerbal. We've talked about it before.

So Ellen has played video games. I don't think he does on a regular basis by me. So you run into Ellen in town and you're like, Hey, dude, let me show you my virtual spaceships in Ellen's like, Dude, let me show you my real spaceship. Back then, I did do a full recreation of the first flight of the the first manned Dragon capsule flight I did in Kerbal using the audio track from the actual broadcast of Space X, where everything was timed to exactly the same. It was really cool. It was fun.

It was took a long time, but it was very enjoyable to put together and they had a whole contest of people sending shit like that. And to them, you are such a nerd. We just we just got 55,555 sets. That's a little more than that's more than three since like from Omega Project. Who says, No more Elmo, please. Okay. Every show at this point, you have to start doing Elmo. So we get these bigger donations and we're learning. Yea, thank you for training us. So mega project. Yeah, thank you.

Thanks for the donation that we to stop for this episode. But you know, if you'd like us not to do it next episode, we'll have to get another donation for you. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. And Servo came in with 23. 23 Says on a fluke. I'm up this early on a Friday and listening live, so I guess I have some value. Well, thank you, Servo. Yeah, Thank you. Indeed. It's amazing. People are listening to the show on the stream on Friday morning.

We do hear Gene. He is so excited to be up at this time on a Friday morning. We're excited. I just can't hide that. Jim The Pointer Sisters, man, they had some good hits in the eighties. The eighties were the best era for music. There was the best era, period. Yep. That was the pinnacle of American civilization. And we will see that as history goes down. We'll see that America has never been greater than it was in the eighties. And it was because we didn't have smartphones.

I don't know if that's why. And but and people weren't connected to the but I think the connection I think the Internet and the Internet necessarily the Internet for the the Internet is something that the globalists have wanted forever. Uh huh.

Well, yeah, because you get to spread this misinformation instantaneously and now added to it all, it when you think about it, it really did not take long a couple of decades to go from connecting everybody to the ability to completely fake video, audio and whatever else you want so that now that people rely on theirs because they know that oh wait, somebody sees something on social media, a video, somebody puts it up, Well, of course, that has to be real.

And then we're going to re boost it to everybody else and then they're going to think it's real. Speaking of real and real, might as well keep going down the bingo card here with Ukraine. Did you see that the articles coming out of Russia bombing a civilian marketplace? What I hear is that Ukraine is bombing a lot of places and pretending to be Russia. Well, that now you're clearly listening to actual news sources rather than the fake news that most people do.

But because Ukraine is so freakin corrupt that they will literally do anything to try to keep their mouth out of the teeth of the America who will keep sending money. Yeah, which America keeps sending money. I think we're at 200 billion in Overall, the number I've heard from combined with the EU and everybody else is almost not quite, but almost $300 billion, which is more money than Ukraine had in its entire budget, in its budget, its entire GDP. I think that's it's crazy.

So allegedly by the propagandists of there, they're saying that the Russia bombed a quaint little peaceful marketplace in 18 people died. Therefore, the US has decided to ship a whole bunch of depleted uranium shells to Ukraine as a result of that action. No, nothing wrong with that. Now, Russia has said before that if you if you use a depleted uranium shell on the territory of Russia, you have now opened the nuclear can and we will use nuclear weapons.

And clearly there are enough people in the United States pushing for this to happen. They're like, Oh yeah, we need this. Yeah. Because I don't know if they think that Russia is going to blink or these people are ready to commit suicide or what the deal is. But we are very clearly on the path to using nukes right now, and it's completely up to the United States. And whether this happens or not, and it sure seems like the US is pushing for it.

Well, because you've got mindless Joey in charge who doesn't know what he's doing. But you also have mindless turtle man and a whole bunch of politicians that are basically the facade of the lizards inside is starting to fall off. Yeah, well, that explains McConnell. Uh huh. Uh huh. 300 billion is just for the put it nerd money. That is 11,610,000 Bitcoin nerd money. That's how much that is. Yeah. Yeah. Isn't that exactly the number that was lost in Bitcoin when they shut down the

the Gox when it was at Mt. Gox. Probably right there. Yeah. Because they got to get that money somewhere right. Well yeah. I mean they're not going to actually work for it. It's all fake money anyway.

While money is fake money, it's money that gets pulled out of the American taxpayers is real money and gets, quote unquote, sent to Ukraine, where it is divvied up by the politicians and Congress and to pay for their retirements and then a whole bunch of different people, their finger in that part who says glitch? McConnell I like that glitch. McConnell That's yeah, that's exactly right. And he also sent in 3333 and said how about Elmo raping Xenu? I don't know what that would.

Who is Xenu and what would that sound like? I don't know, but I can't do any more Elmo on this show. Thanks. No, because. Yeah, you got paid not to do it about 15 bucks from a mega project to not do Elmo. If I knew I could get paid for people for not doing things. I have been doing this a long time ago. It's pretty good. Yeah, it's a much better gig. Like, you know. Do I love, you know, now here's here's money not to love me. Long time, huh? Huh? Uh huh.

I mean, that's this is the ultimate in capitalism being paid not to do something well. So you'd be joining the farmers, I guess, right? You sit there and we'll give you have been for a long time paid to not grow food because it's bad to use your land when we want to be reliant upon foreign countries. That's right.

I saw a video imported from Mexico the other day on the long history of Vladimir Putin and how for the pretty much since the moment he took office, much like Donald Trump, oh, the walls are closing in and his days are numbered. And why it's the beginning of the end. And it's interesting when you go and you'll hear and see the headlines over the past 20 years that you realize that reality is really never been in the news. No, no. And that's kind of sad.

But yeah, once you know that you pay a lot less attention to the news and you you consume it with a completely different viewpoint. It like my latest random thoughts that everybody should listen to which talks about the excess deaths in America from the start of 2020 until now. And they compare this to the three years prior, which the three years prior, of course, right before COVID.

Yeah, January 20, 20 forward with COVID and yeah, the under 64, the 64 and under age range in the US had like 17.8, I think it was percent higher excess deaths than the three years before. And a lot of people are covering that well. Well, obviously, boss, that's the vaccines. Yeah, but then you look at other civilized countries who also had vaccines and some of them are only up 5% at that time. So it's like where does that Obviously the lack of vaccine, huh?

It's like where's the where's the statistics on this? You got to look at everything because it was something like the UK was up 10% rather than the 80 we get here. Here's what I would say. There were no excess deaths. It was all just a what you would call a counting thing. There were no no, there were an appropriate number of deaths. Was it moving again? But you're comparing to the three years prior and you can't really I mean, I don't know what normal fluctuations are

because you can share. There were in anything. Yeah, there was fewer than necessary deaths previous. That's right. You know what? You look at places like Italy, which remember when COVID started, Italy was like, Oh my God, people are dying everywhere. And they were only like 4% more over the last three years. So, yeah.

And the interesting thing was the deaths for at least again on the record, if you believe the statistics in the United States for the 14 and under was down over the last three years as opposed to the three years prior, and I'm like, well, that makes perfect sense because the kids weren't leaving the house, right? You weren't getting hit by busses. Yeah. You weren't running into the street, weren't doing stupid shit. No, you should be doing when you were a kid.

And I think a lot of it in the United States that people just don't want to talk about is the fact that crime is running rampant. Also is people getting killed. So are people overdosing like that's where your excess deaths at least your again, maybe the right amount of deaths. But this is why it's up from the three years prior, because you have a fentanyl problem where people are dying left and right. Yeah. And the numbers, it's like when you hear like, oh my God, it's up 20%.

It's like, well, it's about the total number of people, you know, again, that they classified as extra over the three years was like 500 and something thousand, which when you do the math, okay, that's you know what, 180,000 per year. The average lifespan in the US has gone down. Yes. There's a it's a very unhealthy populace in the United States.

I don't I mean, I'm one of them and I'm trying to get in the right mindset as I've been talking about going on the bike 5 to 6 days a week for 45 minutes to an hour a day before. That wasn't really do it a lot. Why would you do less than an hour? An hour seems like the right number. It all depends on how early I had my coffee, because if I have to get off the bike and go take a pee, then I'm not going back. You're not going back. I think I might go back later the day.

Just take a ride before getting on the bike. I do mean that you can't hold it for 45 minutes these days. Now that if that Jesus, how do you do a podcast? You have a Bible. Oh, well, I, I do, but I'm drinking out of the bottle. But your name Ben Rose, Secretly? No, but I said that would be. I just need we need a signal. We're like, okay, I'm going to go, Oh, God, I'm going to go take a break. No, I have no problem with the podcasting.

It's just when I go on the bike in the morning, right after taking the bike right now. No, I should be. I thought you were. The new bike is much quieter. I had to get a new one because the old one finally broke. Really? Yeah. The magnetic thing or whatever. Yeah. Now the only thing that is annoying me about the new bike is that there is a where the display is and there's like two sets of handlebars, one like down by your side, one in front in case you want to like, lean up or whatever, I guess.

Okay, well, now is right where I would normally be watching the TV that I just had at the low stand. So now the thing is blocking the TV. So I that's like I know I've had to use the iPad to watch it. It's like the iPads. Fine to watch crap. But you know what's great about the TV? It's hooked up to a Roku that I've got a remote control in my head. Exactly. And I want to be able to flip through stuff and it's hard to forget to drop that iPad.

I need to drop the iPad, which means I need a new one anyway. But I mean, you you like to send your co-host. So I mean, you could just send me a new supply of. Yeah. Is that how that works? Yeah. The unlimited jean of iPad supply. So, I mean, now my question is, do I really want to buy a and it's not moneywise, but do I want to get a stand or a mounting Do you put the TV up on the wall and just get rid of the handlebars? Yeah. I thought about that. That was my question to the wife.

I'm like, can we just unhook this? Who really cares about the display of the bike? Nobody. Exactly. Nobody. So that may be the route to go as well. Yeah. Otherwise it's mount. The TV would be nice. I guess they have the TV a little bit higher there, but like, I really didn't want to have to mount the TV to the wall. But if I have to, that'll be okay. But it is. Well, you could get a standing desk for a couple of hundred bucks at the that story from Sweden. Right. IKEA, IKEA.

That would really help me while riding the bike. I mean, I guess you could put the TV on it and you raise it playing up. Yeah, Yeah. Lower it as appropriate. Yeah, well, that is the question they hire. I honestly, I don't know why no one's just made that product for televisions per say something that for people that want to watch a TV from a couch but then they also want to raise it up and watch it from the kitchen right.

I know there are some that the television will just come right out of the furniture so it's hidden when you're not using it. So there are mechanisms that vary ancient, like that's the kind of shit my parents would do. I know, but that was awesome. We'd like it there. And you'd be like, Look, there's no TV here. But I could. It's not awesome because all of those are made for TVs that are size too small. That's all you like. I need the 150 incher baby. Yeah. Do you like?

Well, of course, of course. Why not? Well, that maybe that's what I should just put in the. In the room where the bike is. I should just get a laser front projection thing, and then I could just fill the whole wall. The. Well, exactly. That's why I do. You like this is like being in a drive in movie theater while I get projectors, multiple ones in the house, riding on the recumbent bike or the bond riding on the car. And they're. They're much better than they used to be.

The front projectors, They're a lot smaller and a lot brighter. But the bigger thing is you can have them way closer now to the wall than you used to like, right? Yeah. A short throw a projector used to be like five or six feet. Now it's like an ant feet, you know, it's right there. That is literally right there, which is crazy because it seems like it shouldn't work that much. Did you? Gurus says get a microsoft surface, but what is that going to do that's literally achieving nothing?

You don't want to touch anything. Yeah, it does want to touch. You want to hold onto will grab the thing. I just want the remote. My Roku remote is great and if you've got an iPad, you don't go backwards. You don't get a surface. Ooh. You know, I have been thinking. I need a new iPad pro. They do nice tablets. They do great tablets. I I'm kind of at the point where I might need to replace multiple ones. Unfortunately, I'm trying to hold off as long as I can.

The I'm still using one that was the second iteration and it still works fine for what I do on it. I've got the entire pro line and I one of them is no longer I mean, it still works, but it's effectively needs to get replaced. Yeah I've got the pro nine, the pro ten, the pro 11, the pro 12. Well I think this was the first pro that came out. Hmm. So you got the 13 inch one. Yeah. It's 12.9 or whatever it is. Five. Whatever. Yeah. And that was great. I mean, before the eye blew out.

That was great for reading comic books, right? Perfect size for that. That's the main thing that you missed from the eye blowing out. And it really is good reading. It really is, because that was well, you know, it's it's different. It's very hard to, you know take everything in on a page is now the issue. Yeah. So it's a lot less fun. I believe it. I believe it. But would you rather lose eyesight or hearing? That is a tough one.

I mean, if you had to really go zero on one or the other, they would both be pretty bad. Yeah. So which I don't know I mean, I guess because I have the bad eye is it's like the year, like years, but I rely on those for so much. I mean the whole world of podcasting as far as doing a Yeah, yeah. It'd be done. Yeah. Couldn't do it. Well, I couldn't do it. Couldn't listen right. Yeah. You couldn't have a cause You went solo, huh? It's well, Rush, for a while I was pretty much deaf.

He was deaf? Yeah, it's still there. You know, they had the people just giving them the questions again. You need a Snerdley that can immediately transcribe. Yeah, but that is not good for a back and forth. Mm hmm. It is. Yeah, it's a it's a tough one, But I. I think that it'd be harder to live without hearing. It's probably close. I think that, uh, having vision at some point in your life. So you're not like, you know, blind from the birth or whatever, and you've lost.

That is a bigger thing. But never having it. I don't know about that. But. But I will say that at least you have a memory of what things look like when you physically touch them. Like the world still is the same way that you remember. Like if you go blind, for example, you'll still know what a coffee cup the supposed to feel like through and cause you can envision in your head and what it looks like.

The same thing with pretty much everything is like you have a visual concept of the world and you just happen to be in the dark, right? Whereas if you lose hearing, you're literally missing a sense of input that is always providing you with information, including emergency information. But once you lose vision, you're not playing your video games anymore. That's very true. So you'd actually be reading a lot more, I would imagine.

Yeah, you'd be learning rather than wasting your time, you'd be like, I'm going to learn how to program, like living in a virtual world, playing that virtual spaceship. That's right. That's right. That is a tough one. I've gone to this thing called this is like pre-COVID when, you know, people still went out. I want to get invited to a a they call it a black dinner or a blind dinner or I'll be like or blind. Yeah, like or pitch black. There was one of those things.

Yeah. So it's basically you go to a way overpriced event where they're going to serve interesting food, but The the crazy aspect of it is that everything will be in complete pitch black. So to heighten your senses, no sense of light coming in at all, and which really I feel so bad for the people having to serve here.

Or do they get to wear Nightcap Vision night, night vision Go Yeah, they they're doing that vision so they can see fine, because everything is illuminated with infra red light and so you don't see it. But all the night vision folks can see everything. Now that's probably where the entertainment comes, that's where the money comes from, I think, or where the money goes to. But either way, I didn't. I really did not have a problem with this whatsoever.

It's not like the first time I've eaten blind, so not a big deal. And I thought it was a I mean, you know, sometimes I may be just so tired that I just don't bother opening my eyes for a few hours while you're eating. Why? Well, walking around the house, eating, throwing a good omelet together, I don't put. Yeah, yeah. I'm not going to be frying blind. I'm sure it's not a good idea. People don't try this at home because certainly flying blind is fine.

Crying blind is not record blind is okay as well. But I've I've walked blind for quite an extended distance. It was a path that I'd done so many times. I'd pretty much memorized what it's supposed to be like, and I was curious to see how far I can get with my eyes closed. And you were assuming that nobody was going to be just standing there. There wasn't going to be a way to have a hearing.

So I can actually hear when there are other people around, you know, flying naked is even worse than frying blind. That is trying that. Yeah. Okay. Worse than all of those frying with a beard. Hey. Well, every now and then, it's okay if your beard goes up. That's. That's the last time my beard got lit on fire. Was probably eight years ago. Hey, is there a donation about Somebody could set your beard on fire if they come in with a high enough donation. Do you want to set James Beard on fire?

Just come in with the 3333. A lot more than that. I mean, you could put it out right away. I mean, we're not saying they have to burn it off. It is the the one of the worst feelings you can have is seeing a fire right in front of your face. And as you jerk your head back and away from the flames, the fire will move towards you. It is a it is a, you know, sub mouth subliminal, but like a you're not conscious really thinking about this.

You're just reacting like if you touch something hot, your hands jerks away, you don't think, oh, I should move my hand. Right? Right. It's that kind of thing. And so your head keeps moving away from the fire uncontrollably and the fire keeps moving with your head attached to it. And I think I think I ended up just like, pouring champagne to put it out of wood. I mean, it was the he had to use the caviar to know I was on the boat. It was on the boat landing into the ark.

Well, you could have just jumped into the water. Uh, didn't occur to me, but surrounded by water. But the champagne looked like a good. I have a champagne glass in my hand, so, you know, so that. That. Then there. But then I was pissed about having to clean that up because champagne is sticky. Oh, yeah, Well, it could have been 151 and then you would have had a different issue. Good point. Yes. If I was drinking vodka, using vodka to put out a fire may not have been the best move for me at all.

But you're not thinking. It's like when you have a grease man or a water. Is that celebrating girlfriend's birthday on the boat? And oh, she was finally 12 to 21 oh 21 Just say sorry. Yes, you are dyslexic and don't be implying anything about pedophilia here, but isn't that what we do to old white guys in America? Women, not girls? Yes. They have to be at least 18. Exactly. And once they're, 23, they're too old. Well, I'm not dating old hags, am I? I don't know if you're dating anybody. That's.

That's the video games for 18 hours a day. Yes. Yes. Well, yeah, but you know the story. So the reason I'm playing video games now is the guy is literally that actual chick. So she was a a twitch streamer playing video games on stream that got you into this. Well I thought video.

I mean, I kind of get drawn out of video games, get past them. And in a lot of ways she was the person responsible, like reintroducing me to playing computer games and why ended up getting my first gaming PC in decades throughout at least one decade, I think I pretty much stopped playing games around 2010 and then like 2017, 18, I happened to be dating a twitch streamer chick. And so yeah, that that's her fault. Got you right back into the video games. Yeah and she's not even on twitch anymore.

Made too much money Got something Yeah got old that's exactly right because Twitch is just like Genie. It's like, Whoa, whoa, whoa. You're how old? Yeah. Don't know. You can't be too old. Although there are quite a few dudes that look like me on twitch, which I find interesting. There's. There's a dude that looks like me that plays a world of warships quite a bit. There's dude that looks like me and like me.

Meaning, you know, 50 year old plus dude with a beard, another one that does truck driving videos. And there's another one does farming videos like Farm, some. So since all of those games are already taken by other dudes with beards, I can't do those anymore. So you have to come up with your own niche. Yeah, the space one. Space games don't have as many dudes with beards. So what do they normally play? Just a truck driving simulator. Mm hmm. Yeah, truck driving, farming. Mm hmm.

And they think this is interesting for people to watch. I mean, I do have a buddy that does play Star Citizen that it's got a big beard as well. But he's also Earl playing a sea captain. So that's another way of saying he bought a boat and that's going to take all his money. Yeah, that's what they are, pretty much. Yeah. So I don't know how much time he's going to be playing video games. He bought a boat Will GM do Kik dot com. What is Kik dot com.

You know I don't know dude I've looked at tic I I've not set up on there a streamer Kik is another streaming platform. How many do we be beyond. Well everybody hates Bezos right and Bezos obviously is the one that owns Twitch too. It's an Amazon property now. Yeah, it's an Amazon product. Yeah, I mean it, it is something they bought me and started. You probably remember back in the days. What Twitch is now is the same company that originally was Was it Ben TV or John TV? Jim Justin or somebody?

Justin TV Yeah, that's the guy that just start walking around. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Live streaming is like, yep. So Justin TV became Twitch. Yep. I didn't know they acquired by Amazon. Yeah. So I don't know. I don't know why people don't use mail. Maybe I'll check out some more. Maybe I will start doing something. But YouTube, I've had pretty good luck streaming. Um, and then, and yet I'm not doing this for money, obviously.

I'm just doing it for fun to have a little more interaction when I'm playing. Nobody's really sure what you do for money. Gene. The question that everybody always I'm a I'm a legitimate business man. It's just so my business card, everybody knows that. Yeah. You have to see Gene, though, to get one of those business cards. Yeah, I don't just send them up. We have to pick one up. Just show up at his house. They'll give you one. Mm hmm. I mean, you have to get through the security measures.

Well, yeah. I live in a gated community with Ellen on one side and Kristen Cavalieri on the other. You got a lot of stuff going on that I'm just talking about. We're. We're not about. Oh, I did that out. Don't worry. I forgot. There's. There's certain things Gene doesn't want people to know. So stream, just keep that to yourself. Yeah, that's right. So what should I get for dinner? You're ready. Ordering dinner or lunch? Dinner? Whatever you want to call it. Lunch, dinner.

Only once a day was a way. This is intentional. Or just because you have. I'm poor. Because I was just thinking. You have only so much time to play video games. Do you think? Well, if I only eat ones that I can play video games and play more? Well, I don't stop playing when I'm eating. So you will see that Why you need new gear all the time. You're cleaning things up. You want to get something clean that you don't want something greasy.

You don't want like a pizza where things are going to get all over with this new game, What kind of are you using a controller for? The keeps the game? Is it a mouse and keyboard or keyboard? Monkey? But I don't eat pizza anymore. Indeed. You know, that's like all carbs. I'm trying to eat healthy. You love a little bit of pizza, man. Now, what if there was a healthy pizza? You had a healthy pizza. There's no such thing. I know.

Well, I think good seems to be what is okay, Here's the closest thing to healthy pizza is tacos. What is the healthiest food that you think tastes good that you would be like? I would just pick this over other things. Chicken. But but how would you prepare that? Just a barbecue. And we can't barbecue because you can't have shish kebab. Oh, I do love a good kebab. There's a Greek.

Well, not fully Greek, but, you know, old by Greeks plays we go to all the time that has a delightful whole chicken, shish kebab, little bit of feta cheese. Yeah, they do it over a rice, though. And the summer ices are. No, no, no. You can't do rice. Rice is one of the most horrible things ever since I got that implanted meter. The the continuous blood glucose meter thingy. You can see them.

And that's the cool thing about it honestly, is just the ability to see what foods do what and rice and french fries are. I swear to God, to worse things, you can possibly you're better off eating dessert. You're better off eating ice cream than eating either rice or french fries. Yeah, get those some spike your sugar and then hold it high for hours before it drops back down. I had some Haagen-Dazs coffee ice cream last night. Do you like that? Good stuff. It is good.

And we also found a solid on sale at your store. Yeah, well, they. I just. Great. Yes, there was a coupon for. I got one of the in the set of the like one point whatever ounce this was the small four point whatever ounce that. Yeah. Then we split that in half. The wife had half, I had half. It was gone. Oh you didn't just get one each. No, no, that's too bad. But I did the we found a new I don't know if it's new but was new for us.

A Smucker's and cherry jam which is great for like Gourmet, P.B. and J. But I'm like, you know, I really like the cherry coffee. So I bought just like, a teaspoon of that in with chocolate ice cream. Yeah, I'll do that was so good. Chocolate and cherries. Absolutely. Mix. There is a, a limited run black cherry flavor that they do with chocolate. I've never had it with coffee though. Oh, the chocolate. This was what, the great expensive coffee. Right.

But, but like the bigger bitterness of the chocolate goes well with the the cherry sort of tartness flavor. So I could imagine that with coffee. I've never had it though. I'll have to try it. I was like, this was awesome. And I'm sure it just put the sugar level way up, but that's why you could have it. Like a week if that. Now, have you test your blood sugar or do they at least do it when you go to the doctor. Yeah, they do. I've never had and they it's always normal.

100 ish. Okay, that's good. We don't have that problem yet. Yeah, well, I mean, the you know, the giant men seem to have more medical issues in general, so. Figure I checked, which again, is something when you start talking about why more people are dying, it's like we talked about that when I said I saw that video of the Russian mall. And it's like everybody's lined up for fast food, but nobody's fat, so go from here. Yes. Yeah. I don't know what it is anymore.

I can tell you historically, and not just in Russia, but in Europe in general, people did not and it was not convenient to drive to places. There was not sufficient parking and you generally had on street parking for your car. So if you lose your spot, you may be walking a while when you park it, when you get back home.

So people tended to not use their cars if they could get to places using public transit, which inevitably means you walking to the public transit and you're walking from the public transit. So I think the average European and true of Russia as well, obviously as they tended to walk more than 10,000 steps a day from just general walking without trying to exercise. Interesting.

That would make sense. Yeah. And I think it plays out because there are fewer fat people in New York City and they have physical activity. You will lose the pounds because if you're sedentary, that doesn't even take a lot. That's the one thing that seems to be accurate. It's not like you need to do something for hours a day. It's like, yeah, it's a, you know, go for a walk every day. Yeah, go going for. And I am soon going to restart that. It is cooling off here.

Finally it's down to the nineties. Whew. So I mean guys I know right when I get to the eighties I'm going to resume walking. I was walking in the spring and I can't do it in the summer. It's too fucking hot. It's currently 67 here. Wow, that's like December or January though. I know we've got the seventies and sixties going on now for 67. You got to go for a walk, head out, get ready. Was out of the bike. So, I mean, maybe this afternoon. No, I mean you ought to go outside is when I go outside.

Yeah, but be careful. Don't rape any women when you're out there. I mean, I know it's one of those things where it's just. It's hard not to. Once here. I know, right? Me being a tall, you know, straight white dude, what else would you possibly be doing? Of course. But if careful, you could probably get away with going outside without raping anyone.

I could just throw on the headphones, listen to a good podcast like that's called Opener, by the way, as well, where so many this show is like a cornucopia, nonstop cold open turns, the whole show through. Well, there's no agenda did that as a special and people did not like it. I know people don't like weird things. Well, I think it was the anybody that's got any kind of a CD or whatever the bass. Yeah. Ozzy, the acid, it's like AC, DC, whatever. You got anyone who's got AC?

DC Yeah, if you got AC. DC It was not good to have that. It's like watching a concert from the eighties or nineties where they flipped the screen or they changed the view like every 4 seconds. Yeah, the cut. I hated that. Like, no, don't do that. Mm. Or you want to get the flashing lights so you can have a, I like the flashing light you know. Well not for people that will get with the seizures because, that makes it more fun. Oh really. You're like hey look, they're seizing. Yeah, exactly.

Give you something that gives you something new. Yeah, it gives you something to do. Yeah. Look At all the people that are affected by things. I'm not affected by it. Right. It's like the assholes that are like, that's G is good. And she's like it. The best Chinese food, Tons of amnesty. I'm sure it does. That's why I can't eat it. Uh huh. Messages. Great. Love that stuff. But yeah, with salt, I would rather not have the greatest damn near every single day you put it and everything.

No, it comes with everything I order cause I mostly Chinese food. Yeah, well, see, it was the sound effect that they left with every one of the openings. Cotton gin. Saying if that wouldn't have been in there, it might have been listenable or listenable. Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah, I could see that. You got to be a little too much. Yeah. What they should do is do like two hour episode of nothing but the fat lady singing The Fly of the Factory. That'd be good. I would enjoy it.

I could listen to 2 hours of that. I love Wagner. Bom, bom, bom, bom, bom, bom, bom, bom. I'm still curious which recording Adam is using to be out of copyright. It has to be over 30 or 40 years old. I can't remember. But quite an old recording. Yeah, but they could have good audio quality way back when they did. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. And now we have all the magical tools to clean everything up and we do. Yeah. Magic tools today.

Yeah. Yes. Well, that's what I've noticed with this one that they're going I mentioned it before the the grumpy show the other day and then forgot to talk about it. Still doing that thing. Yeah. I mean really I'm not sure why it was episode 233. Jesus, I that long and you still haven't figured it out. And the donations are not good. The donations and the live listening for Planet Rage Way up. Grumpy Old Ben's down a little bit. This show, it fluctuates.

It depends what mood people are in. I think for this show. Yeah, but this new plug in from my company, I think it's Goyo, Geo, Wyo and it is. And I think that is very simple and it'll be interesting to see if they add anything to this because they're just about to go paid where it's out of beta, but it has three dials on it and it lets you adjust. Voice, reverb and ambiance are the three things that it's trying to use the AI to separate.

And it doesn't sound perfect, but if you take this and turn on your favorite song with vocals, you can remove 90% or so of the background music. While the vocals are still understandable is pretty impressive. It's pretty good. So being able to do this for somebody that's doing a podcast like I had earlier, you know, somebody going by with a leaf.

Yeah, allegedly this would be able to, if that made it onto the recording, remove it, separate the leaf blower and maybe it was very subtle, but I didn't pick it up, which is good. I mean, it's a combination of the microphone and having to annoy an important question here that's on my mind. Uh, what the hell is a different thing? Chicken wings and drumsticks. The chicken wing would be the wing. The, you know, the little thing.

Like you'd get the buffalo wing where the drumming is would be like the little drumstick. But the wing isn't like the very tip of the wing when you order a wing, right, Because that's not edible. I don't know. I mean, because they look like little drumsticks. And I'm just trying to figure out if they're well, if they're little drumsticks, then they're drumming. They look like drumsticks, but they're referred to as wings. So what part of the wing looks like a drumstick?

The drumstick will be there, connected the wing would be connected to the little drum. So. So you get them all together? Yeah. They're all right there. No, they're not. Dude, that's hands and feet. Kind of different things versus chickens that are just totally deformed. That's what you get. No, no, I haven't seen chickens that are totally deformed. I've seen regular looking chickens. Even though they can't fly, they still have wings. I mean, this wants to know if there's an feet.

That would make me sound like a sexy lady. Do you mean me or you? Me? That's because it's way closer for you. And you could just. I mean, just raise the. The pitch. All you got to do. I mean, it's a lot more than that, But Meta says Drum, that's equal wings. What the hell's a drum EP? Little. They're like the little, like, drumsticks, but smaller. Oh, hey, we're talking chicken parts here on the Unrelenting podcast. I'm talking about, like, the leg, the thigh of the chicken, right?

Being the drumstick and then the the wing. I guess it'd be the biceps of the wing of the chicken is What is that the the drum. It I don't know. The wing stick we got when you see the kitchen and see I'm absolutely right here and anatomical guide to chicken wings. Somebody has done this, uh, that you have the little drum set which is attached to the wings at. And then the little bit that you don't eat is the tip. So I said, Yeah, you don't never do the tip.

So that just the tip after that is you have the wing, but then the drum at the little, the little drum drum that is attached, I can send you this link. Sure. Why don't you send me a link? That's great content for podcasts. I me the link, right? Yeah. And that we have we normally do the show. Don't share the link with anyone. Just send it to me. Oh, I can put it in the troll room as well. I'll put it in the show notes. I just want to know why me? This is looking to change his voice into a female.

You trying to catfish maybe this, maybe trying to accuse somebody of rape. Maybe. Right, Right. But easier that way. It's because all you got to do is. Sounds like the other podcasts make fun of rape for 2 hours. I don't that many that have listeners, but it's because it is gotten to the point where it is laughable that things, you know, not rape, but when you're still dating somebody for years after it's I believe you when you're like, well, he was raping me.

It all comes from the the feminist propaganda that the third way feminists basically saying that all sex is rape. Yeah the only sex that's not rape happens between two women. And if you believe you're listening to the wrong show. Mm hmm. Well, I mean, I'm trying to figure out what chicken parts are. Yeah, because they. They don't look like what they're labeled be like. This is what I should order.

I a generally, I go for breast, but, you know, there's your ISO kids that's not as good as some of the other ones we've you know but you have to think about it out of context. Uh, yeah. Well, so there's your chicken parts. Now you're thinking of ordering some chicken for your meal. Is that what you would with. Yeah, that's kind of what's a nice garlic hot sauce. Something good like that. Well, I was thinking more like cheap food. And Popeye's has a two for one on the wings right now?

Yeah. I can't do Popeye's are loaded with mzgee. Oh the KFC can't do Chick-Fil-A all most years. Yeah. Just a yes. Okay, here's a here's the question. Here's what people I'm sure want to know. Do you Well, I guess first the question is, do you do with the hot wings? Do you do a dipping sauce? You just straight eating the wings without a dip, mostly straight. Occasionally I'll dip, but I usually forget about the sauce and still in the bag. And then I realize, oh, yeah, they came with us.

I mean, she went through £4 of chicken wings and he's like, Oh, sure, I had the sauce, but are you a blue cheese or. I have been accused of eating fried chicken the way that Cartman does. I could see that make a video. Are you a blue cheese or a rancher? I Blue cheese. Oh, of course. Okay, I'll it with you. 100%. People that think ranch is better than blue cheese. Oh, God, no. They're scary. I do that either. Yeah, It's like I don't even want to be friends with you. That is wrong.

Yeah. Blue cheese is so much better than ranch. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Cotton gin. I agree. So. Okay. Cat, Ginger. Okay. Anybody? That's wrath to donate money now. Cotton gin. Oh, so you think ranch is better? You're wrong. Quite simply, you are going to donate to make Darren stop talking about Ranch Ranch Ranches. I mean, I don't know. And you know what's really disgusting? What's disgusting? The low ranch. I have never had that.

I mean, somebody that I generally don't get ranch even by accident. I'd rather have Thousand Island. Yes. Blue Cheese is not available. Totally. I mean, the reason you get a nice big what do you call my Reuben is the Thousand Island. Well, then you could dip your fries in all the reasons it's so good. Yeah. If fries with Thousand Island work, great, right? But I think they also have, like, double the calories of ketchup.

Yeah, which mean we're not saying fries are the worst thing for your blood sugar as they've come through right away. I didn't think you were that bad, but I'm like, Holy shit. It's. You know what it is? It's. It's like these foods that have a slow release carbohydrate, like potatoes and rice that doesn't just spike in and drop right back down. Like, if you eat ice cream, you can watch it on the graph. They'll go from 100 up to like 300.

And within about an hour, hour and a half, it'll be back down to about 125, 130. Right. The fries, you're like four, five, six fries to go from zero to about 250 and instead to 50 for five frickin hours. Yeah, your body's like, I got to work to break this stuff down. Well, it's. It's not that. It's. It's still very dense in terms of the calories, but it's a slower release of that, and it's just stays in your blood forever.

And so, you know, if you eat an ice cream, it's like getting the shot of heroin right in your arm. Good stuff, baby. But if you eat the French fries, that's you know, that that's like taking one of those synthetic drugs. It's like it's going to keep you up all night. It was designed to do exactly that. Well, I don't even know what's a drug that lasts a long time. Anything with an extended release. Thank you. That's it. Okay, Mr. Obvious? Yeah. That was a control room, y'all. No drugs.

You're all a bunch of druggies, and they are not donating because they're putting all their money to drugs. Into drugs. So now what's. What's a drug? Lasts a long time. The Reverend Dr. Fifer of the hours after that, for a long time. Oh, yeah. He LSD that was the first one that there you go. As well as mushrooms Yep. Oh, yeah. Mushrooms. That's right. Shrooms. Still never had those. Never done mushrooms. The magic mushrooms. You want to do magic mushrooms with Steve? Come on down.

Yeah, I do it with somebody. Sure. Yeah, Yeah. For the right amount. Oh, wow. Listen to this guy. He is barely awake. I'm. I'm. Yeah, like, dozing off. This is why I need to get food going pretty quick to get more tired. Did you have your coffee yet? Do you, do you do the caffeine thing? Ah, you know, I don't. I've been off coffee for two years. Wow. Coffee and booze. Yeah. So it's just tea and the tea you had your you had your morning tea yet. Is that enough now?

I've had a cup of tea or a cup of tea. So very civilized to find the cup. Is it like a six ounce thing. What's a cup of tea. Oh you 12. Okay, so that's, you know, that's a real mug of tea that like when you say I've had a cup of tea, I picture you with a soft serve, a little four inch, little £4. You know, you're like this thing. I've never understood those, I swear to God. And I had a mug when I was a kid at my parents house that was like a 16 ounce mug for tea.

And I never understood what the point was of people pouring in. Like, for a four ounce cups of tea every day. They drink it, refill it, drink it, refill it, drink it. I'm like, just give me 16 ounces. I'll once we get drunk, I how much I'm going to drink. Okay. I'm going to drink 16 ounces so or more. So don't don't do it four ounces at a time. It makes no sense. Face the screen says fentanyl was made for extended release. That's why it kills instantly. Which makes sense.

Wait. No. If it kills, then it's not really a drug that. I mean, it is a drug, I guess, but it'd be a poison that it all depends on. I would guess, the dosing of it and how it's supposed to be. It's one of those things where if you have a a pill like the one day we're at my parents and it's like, well pill chain kills too if you're a fat dude from Chicago. But well, let's remember, you can't, like, cut every pill in half just to take a half.

If it's not an A, if it is an extended release thing and you cut it in half, you might be odd because your you know, you're breaking down the mechanism which is in place to keep it from dissolving and getting into your blood vessels. Quick That's a good point, although it's not completely true, but it's it is nonetheless a good warning to people that the extended release doesn't generally on the coating. The coating, though, does protect the pill from being absorbed in your stomach.

So it's only absorbed in your gut the more you know this is an educational show. Well, I think we've hit I'll just put all the checkmarks there for the bingo card there. But every now and then when somebody doesn't have blue cheese and they give you a ranch, I mean, random regular ranch, I will kind of power through.

But like the fat free, sugar free, whatever it is that is like the that stuff is like drinking bile in a in a, you know, one dressing I used to enjoy occasionally was poppy seed the had or there was a poppy seed. I think that Olive Garden put out a dressing that was really good. Yeah. It's, it's like the poppy seeds incidental to it. It's not made of poppy seeds. They're just some insert in there. But that's generally what they were.

But it's sort of a it has the sweetness of a thousand islands, but not the ketchup either. So it's one of the sort of sweeter tartar dressings I think was be enjoyed. I don't I don't buy it anymore. I don't buy many dressings, but I do have blue cheese on a regular basis because what else do you use blue cheese dressing with steak. Yeah, well, you can do a nice coating on there. Blue cheese is good to get a little garlic dipping steak in them. What Blue cheese is good for everything.

Speaking of steaks. So I went to Fogo yesterday. Oh, lunch. And what you have to. Which is why I'm looking at chicken. They had steak just before. What didn't they have. Right. How much of it, how many pounds of blue cheese were consumed. Well, there's no blue cheese, but there was many pounds of meat, that's for sure. Yes. I was putting the meat away yesterday. The good stuff there, Is it better called above that meat.

So yeah, I just met up with a buddy that I hadn't seen in years and we, you know, well, we didn't decide to go there. I decided to go there because for me it was he was paying. No, and I was paying actually. Oh, well, that's a better way to go. I usually go to lunch with people that are paying, so I usually of work that in. But this time around it's been long enough and I kind of blew off the last time we were going to get together. So I said upfront, I'm like, Yeah, I'll take your lunch.

But yeah, Fogo is always, always good and I obviously, I like the filet there. It's not as good as filet in other places, obviously, but it's still a filet, you know, better cut meat than most of the other ones. But one of the other things I liked there, which some of my friends make fun of me for, that's how I believe I know I actually really liked their bacon wrapped chicken. So you go, Oh, yeah, well, that's not that you like to be like, Don't step on that shit. It's super cheap.

You're paying like 50 a head. Why would you eat chicken? It's going to a steakhouse in order to sell it. That's where you're going. Oh, it's. I get it, but it tastes really good. Well, anything taste good Wrapped in bacon? Yeah. Yeah. Well cooked and bake. Yeah, because you take the bacon off before you eat. But yeah, it's a they do a very good job of making things that aren't steak taste really good so you consume less steak. But they're like, we're famous for our steak.

Have you tried their salad bar? No, it's the best salad bar. You've never been to their salad bar? I've never been to the Volga. Oh, you've never been to Fargo? There's a Fargo in Chicago. Yeah, but that could probably do it because. It's a joke. Go, go do it. Is there one of those? Not. You can't not get to Fargo now. There's usually only one or two in the city, but there's salad bar. It's probably the best tasting salad bar you'll ever see in any restaurant.

I mean, better than what was it called? The old Country Buffet. Remember the host? Yeah. It's a better than old country buffet. We still have those. Really interesting. Yeah, it's. It is. It's excellent food. Exceptional food. But again, it's sort of like, what do you want to take away from eating the steak by eating salad? You're like, you know, if their salad is really good tasting and more people eat their salad, they're not going to eat as much steak and they're paying a flat price.

Yeah, we've got them in Oak Brook, Rosemount Chicago, and yeah, okay, good. So you got a few choices there. Yeah. Oak Brook would be the go go. We'll just put it on Gene's gold card, put it on whatever you want, but you should definitely go. It's, it's a place that if you've never experienced meat. I love unlimited meat. I know you do. That's why I'm telling you you should go. If anyone hasn't gone to a church, Korea, or a Brazilian steakhouse, you really should.

And Fogo is probably the biggest chain in the U.S. But there are others that Ned is throwing down. He says. Texas they Brazil's Steakhouse, Brazil salad bar. Yeah, we have those here as well. They're they're pretty comparable. I kind of feel like the the service at the pub was a little better as a see we'd want to start with the seafood tower for $109 for four. We don't want calories. That is interesting that you want to start with steak. So who was it who was that suggested to?

Has the Brazil net dead menu? So do they. I can't remember if that had to remain in the do the does that one also have the bread thingies, the little cheesy breads, little red veggies? They're so good there. It's it's bread. The like it's got cheese, but it has no actual cheese in it. Interesting. He does say that the service at Fogo is very much better. Yeah, well see, this is a tableside service. 6350 a person. Ask him where he lives.

He's out in or right around D fucking Troy in D fucking Troy. They have photo. Wow. I think that's very cool. You like surprises. It's still open. Yeah, I know, right? Yeah. The thing that's. That's crazy to me is how Fogo stayed open during COVID because I was literally the only guy in Austin still going to eat lunch there. Nobody else. Now, did you add indulgent cut? I mean, if you want to add the Y, you ancho ribeye, that's an extra 150.

Yeah. Size to share for four or more dudes like fuck you. That's. That's for me, baby. Yeah. No, I'm not a big ribeye guy, man. I I'll eat it if there's nothing else, and it's put in front of me, but it's too much work. Okay, Wait, what is a cauliflower steak? Is that actually a steak made of cauliflower? Yeah, for 39 bucks. Yeah, man. They say you come in if you get that one. Uh huh. A roasted power bowl. Did you? Looking at the menu, there is no menu there.

You just go there and you fucking give me what Gene eats. Yeah, yeah, sure why not? Brazilian lemonade. Oh, don't look at any of that shit. Just you go there, you just get the regular meal all fixed price. And believe me, a guy like you walks in, they're going to lose money. They're like, Oh, my God, you got a problem? Your fourth steak in, you'll be so far ahead of the curve that buy your 10th one, they will go bankrupt. When do I flatline? When do I go double? Yeah, well, you go die.

Bears, this is. You walk in and nobody will say anything because they're looking around going, What the fuck if they're not old enough to have seen that shit? Uh huh, uh huh. Krispy Kreme to people if you're not old enough to have seen that is a very old Saturday Night Live skit with Was it Chris Farley or who was doing that one? Yeah, I think that was Farley and Bud. Yeah. John Goodman. That's right. Back before he lost weight. And Chris Farley back before he died. Yeah. Warm pie all day, KC.

Oh, that's the cheesy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what it is. Yeah. Formalized bananas Now that's out. Oh, I love those things. They're so bad for you. Calorically, but they're so good. You're, like, caramelized bananas. I mean, yeah, they're fried bananas. They're fried bananas, they're Medeiros. So you freeze there, and then I know you don't eat it from very, very good. And I, I first started eating. They were actually Madeira plantains. They weren't bananas. They used bananas here.

But down in, in Brazil, they actually used my veins that Yeah, my safe word is banana, unless we're using actual bananas. And then it's plantation. I see. Okay. Yeah. Well, you're going to get both of those words into your mouth. Yes, I know how much you love having stuff like that in your mouth. So many cold open openers. The show is a cornucopia of great. Now they just came in the right order. It would be a great show, but sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.

And it's yeah, it's in Detroit. So the full go is in the Torrey on the border of Birmingham, Michigan. So I've never been to Detroit. The furthest south that I've ever been in Michigan is Charlevoix. God bless, you know that's the name of the city. It's a it's a cute, quaint little sailing village. Cotton gin says. Now you're just trying too hard for ISOs. If only that were true before, right? No one likes all this shit, man. There's nothing to try.

Hey, iso this shit all the time in the troll room. Now that there's a fire, they totally don't know. You can see them. There's a bot. No, I can't. I totally can't go into the troll room. And now I do. I can't. I'm perma banned for life. All you have to do is start a sentence with ISO and then give the keyword. So like right there if they go iso keyword that sentence be shown, they'll give you an MP three. You can download it right. The troll worm and now they though. Yeah, it's great.

You know, this is great technology. No, they putting it to good use. You go over to Fox. I think I'm done. I'm going to get some food. So enjoy yourself. Yeah. Don't too many video games take a little break. We don't want to see like one of these guys that goes 5 hours a week is just the right amount of video gaming, but don't do like a 72 hour bender. Just pounded the balls and not sleeping because your heart will eventually explode. Well, I'll leave that up to you.

Is that what you're hoping for? Pounding the balls though? Hey, if you can't pound some balls, what country are you living in?