086: Taylor Tea

The bottom line is I sell spaceships. Oh, yeah. This is episode number 86. You know what show it is? It's unrelenting. That's right. Unrelenting. The one and only unrelenting. Show back. The rumors of her demise have been greatly exaggerated. Yeah. Happy birthday, man. Having a lot of birthdays, people all over the Internet, they buy anything you tell them. I'm like. This seems like an episode of MASH. We need to raise everybody's morale. What should we have? A birthday party? It'll be.

We'll be announcing your mother's maiden name in the next episode. Yes. And by social, you can just do the Social Security number today and get all the rest of it right out of the. With no need for the rest. How was your trip to Mexico? They let you back out? I guess they did. They believe they barely left me, so I got a story on the leaving Mexico. It's actually kind of interesting, both leaving and coming into the US.

So there I am, sitting right in the handicapped spot right next to the entrance to the boarding area, because I didn't want to, you know, be further away and so finally they call up the executive premier traveler. So, you know, walk Guy nods me in. I walk in, flash my phone. I'm the first guy coming out of the plane and then right is about to walk into the SkyBridge. This about four foot one Mexican TSA equivalent woman flags me over and says, Can you take out all the electronics from your bag?

You have no idea how many electronics I have. And I'm like, this is going to take a while and I'm first in line. I don't really want to not be first in line. I like being first in line. So I start unloading my bag with, you know, the laptop and 20 other electronics things. They have in there. How much? You only have all these people that were behind me all sudden become ahead of me. And I'm thinking, you've got laptop, you've at least one phone, if not multiple phones.

Then you get the Mexico phones and you get the earphones and you get the cell phone. I mean, it's just that maybe what set off their radar that they want to look at, you know, because I travel all time. I mean, I never travel these days. I used to travel all the time. It was never an issue. And anyway, and she's not particularly fast straight. They might I'm like, I'm going to up from an agent. Of course. And she's going through and then she starts swabbing everything for fucking nitrates.

It's like, What do I look like? I'm I'm a farmer and I have nitrates all over my stuff. Come on. Not a farmer, Gene. You know what you look like with that long beard? This. This goddamn suitcase weighs more than her salary. This. Come on. This is not something that could even have a bomb in it. So when you get lucky and above, it won't even allow the bombs inside in bombs like that to happen. So they're the finally get on the plane after the entirety. First class is full.

Oh, I'm like, what am I going to put my fucking bag now? So now, luckily I was able to squish some other people's bags and fit mine right above me so that luckily everything in your bag had been swabbed for your safety. I know for my safety is for somebody's safety. So finally got in, had a fairly nondescript flight. No, you know, no, no, no issues, nothing. Just listen to Somalia. But then finally get to the airport and asked. And that was direct flight.

And so this wasn't even the flight out of the country. This was a no. This is a flight from Mexico through this was out okay. This was coming out of leaving Mexico. You know, this is leaving Mexico. Really? And then yeah, yeah, I get swabbed leaving Mexico after TSA. Like they couldn't swab me during TSA as I'm crossing through. They had to wait until I'm at the fucking gate. So, like, this seems like a rush to bring something that needs to get swabbed or something.

Come on. Maybe. Did I walk through? Did you go to the Jamba Juice? Did you pick up maybe a nice, you know, sticky bun or something? No, I went to the Margaritaville. I don't I know the late, great Jimmy Buffett because we only talk about dead people on the show. People about to be dead. Yeah, Or people that I might as well be dead because they will soon. Yes, exactly. So Landing asked them first out of the plane that was like, you know, walked in in front of everybody.

I don't know what it's some kind of psychological thing, I guess, because you were so mad that you didn't get to be Sino, right? The plane, I'm like, Fuck this. So I get in my secret elevator that nobody knows about. So I was the head of everybody going out B towards the, the customs area. And how many federal agents were waiting Customs yet? The customs, they waved me in without showing my passport but. Well you fuck. Did you get pre swabbed.

What I did, I was swabbed in Mexico and I was waved in in the US like, you look like one of us. Yeah. I mean it was literally the fastest going through customs I've ever had in my life. It was like, walk up, say the word hi to the guy here back. Welcome to the It said Sir. And then a hand wave to go on my way up there. So that's usually where the bed and the over giving you the anal cavity search. I mean I don't know about that, but it usually they do have a few more questions.

What your way to say, sir? It was a weird, weird kind of travel experience now on the way to Mexico, as you saw, because I sent some pictures, I did not sit next to a chick that was on TV, but I did sit next to a model and we chatted the entire time we were in Mexico. And I got a number. Was it the real number? Have you tried? Were you like, Oh damn, he replied, Yeah, okay. SILVEIRA Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it didn't take could be one of those Google Voice numbers, you know?

Yeah, or it could be mine's Google voice number course. Never give you a real number. Kids don't have a real number. You feel you have to have a real number, just never use it just changes all the time. So why would I true the real number changes every other week. The Google Voice one stays the same. That's how the TSA knows who you are. Exactly. Exactly. So that was the TSA. Would they phone ahead?

Would they let people know on the other side that you were already past 312 and swabbed and everything else or. It was the weirdest thing. I mean, I'm kind of used to them not bothering to stamp the passport these days, but I'm not used to them not looking at it like just come right out and say, well, that's how bad it is on our southern border. Now. They're like, We're not checking anybody else.

I think, look, they're just trying to maintain a certain level of consistency between the southern border and Austin Airport. Were you ten on your way back at all? Not really, because I was mostly sitting underneath things like umbrellas. And so they would not have mistaken you for somebody from Honduras or someplace like that. They're like, Oh, you got to let them in. No, the only thing I'm usually mistaken for is a guy from the Middle East, right?

With the last name is I'm wearing a robe usually when I travel, but I don't know. It's I don't think our concern, our government security used to be worried about people that sounded like maybe they were Afghani Muslim kind of, but they're not now. They're like, oh, Russian sounding. Got to swap that guy. Oh, yeah, I know. Exactly. I think that's the weird thing. It was it was on the Mexican side. It wasn't on the U.S. side. And this was now our Mexican TSA.

Does that their version or are there United States TSA agents checking people going to the United States? No, she barely spoke English. Dude, this is definitely a mexican TSA. So there's like, don't know. It could just been some random chick at the airport. Didn't want to fuck around with me. Okay. This could be true. I know, right? I mean, what kind of outfit was she wearing? Would you know? Would you know the dress were in the same.

Yeah. Same kind of outfit as every other person walking around the airport. Could have been a janitor. Could have been a TSA agent. Who knows? Somebody was just looking to roll, you know, potentially. I mean, actually, it's a good point. I need to check my cash bag, see how much is in there, because, well, that was this big. So I think it was. Was it in Chicago?

There was one of these TSA that there was a round up of a few different agents that were working together to rob people going through, which is genius, really, because you've got access to their bags. You can if you're good at what you're doing, if you're good at the sleight of hand and you know where to look for cash or jewelry or whatever, and these bags and you can I guess you kind of get a hint as it going through the X-ray machine reach and get it very quickly.

And then in that pocket, it most people aren't going to go through every belonging that quickly went through. But eventually they got nailed. Because here's the thing. Most people will then report stuff missing and go, Well, what did we all have in common? And it's like the TSA, like number three at O'Hare, huh? Go figure. Exactly. Yeah, it's it's a thing. Did you enjoy Mexico? Do you get your book written? Is it When will it be published by. I got it started.

I did not get the huge amount of work done down there, unfortunately. And what was the impetus to the work? Too much fun. The weather was too good. Weather was pretty good, but it was a great it was very nice and sunny every morning. And then right around 3 p.m. it started getting cloudy. No, I mean by 3 p.m.. People are usually drunk and under the table in Mexico aren't they. Well they're in casting. Yes. The estimate. Yeah. You don't need sun for siesta.

It's also the off season so there's a lot fewer people. One other bit of info about Mexico that I just kind of realized or noticed is Holy shit, everything's expensive. Welcome to Mexico or the United States. Yeah, so they're calling it Biden nomics. So that's the question. I think so, because it's actually a good thing for them. Because here's here's what I what I checked is I looked at the 44 and the exchange rate chart between the U.S. dollar and the Mexican peso.

And if you look at the exchange rate, about five years ago, it was 25 to 1. So $25, you give them a dollar, you get $25, and you don't want to do it right now. Now you would get 15. Okay. That's about what I would have guessed having. Yeah, close to half. It's it's more than half, but it's, it's a loss of $10. So ten out of 25 or a little over a third of the value. So the U.S. dollar is basically gunned down by a third versus the fucking Mexican peso winning.

Somebody is winning. Yes. Well, the US, we understand and I love how the Europeans always have to chime in said, you know, but the euro and the dollar exchange rate is about the same. What are you talking about? Yeah, you guys are down to a lot compared to the rest of the world. Well, and this is it. What a lot of people miss out on is the way to bring in equaling to the world.

Your two choices are to raise up to shithole countries, as Donald Trump called them, or to bring the countries that are succeeding down. And that's what they're doing. Well, ultimately, it's the same thing. There's no real difference there. No, no, it's it's it's optics, though. But the point is that Mexico used to be a cheap vacation spot and a nice vacation spot.

I don't want to, you know, make them sound bad, but I've been going to Mexico at least once a year for, I don't know, 15 years more than that. In fact, this time around, I stayed in the same hotel that I stay there and same in the hotel, but same same place that I stayed in with my ex-wife back when I was married like 15 years ago. Wow. I mean, you're in a mexican safe house. Is that where you are now? It's not a safe house. No, it's a resort or whatever. I don't know.

But sure, I can call it the resort. Yes. Of the state. No, no, because I guess the state get get brick and search to the airport. Probably they're about to board. Probably they were looking for towels. I bet you feel like we're missing a couple of ashtrays from the Naftali of Suites. Can you can you take a look for those? See if you find them? Exactly. So, yeah, it was. It was a decent trip. I'm not I'm. I'm not a good vacationer, I'll tell you that.

Because if I'm on vacation more than about five days and they're getting antsy like a start thinking about shit I want to do at home or work or clients or stuff like that. Well, here's the thing. How many days did you go without playing a space based video game? Five C and you got the shakes, right? You're like, Oh, man, no, no, I really didn't. I wonder what's going on with my ship. I hope it's okay.

No, And in fact, when I came back, I didn't even play the spaceship game because the the new DLC for Cyberpunk 2077 was sitting there, downloaded and waiting for me. Oh, so you leave everything still humping and pump it at home? All of your machines are running, they're downloading, they're doing their thing and downloading stuff all the time. You got to use that bandwidth up. Well, yeah, well, I'm also a VPN ing back home from Mexico the whole time.

Well, of course. Yeah. That's why it makes it look like he never left the house. Exactly. Can you feed your snake light on and off? You know, snakes just, you know, they just sleep. You don't get them while you can. But five. I mean, I didn't even know what was going on with space video games for two weeks now. I'm like, Wow, I wonder what's going on with with Starfield and Star Crasher and Star Fucker and Star fucker, whatever these games are called.

Exactly. Starstruck Area sounds like a great name for a video game. You're like, No, that's a that's an exit strategy right there. Oh, combined space video games with pornography are okay. So in the light, just when I like it here All right thing. Yeah in in Starcraft you actually do have relationships with the NPCs and if you get along really well, let's see with them then. The flirt option appears.

And if you're successful at the flirt stuff and the NPC likes what you're doing, then they'll, they'll be interested in having a relationship with you. And if that relationship goes well for a while, well then they want to have a long term permanent thing happen. That's known as a way fu to the video gaming crowd. There. And that's what all these guys are hoping for. Like, I only hope I'm going to work hard and make sure that this video game character really likes me.

I got to get the flirt option, the pop up, come on one step. Apparently I'm not very good at that because it took me well over 100 hours to see that option. You're not properly trained. Yeah, I think part of the people are supposed to get it within a few hours of playing. I'm like, Oh, well, I'm doing wrong, you know, I don't care if she doesn't like that. I should in and face the world. It's not my problem. Hey, why not? That's reality. Yeah, it's kind of reality.

So you just have to keep, you know, keep doing what you're doing until you run across somebody that doesn't mind so much what you're doing and is willing to say, Yeah, you can. You can live in the basement, which is what all guys are really hoping for today. Pretty much. I need a chick that will let me live in her basement. Uh huh. That's precisely high praise right there. Yeah. So that's my weekend update. Their week update. The weather report, The Mexico report.

Gene was swabbed coming out of Mexico. I know, right? That's weird, because usually it does not happen at that point. Not at the gate. I've never been swabbed at the gate like somebody shows up and I like that Maybe they were just going to pick the first person that was getting on the plane, no matter what.

That could be over, I mean, just to get out of this place. So, yeah, I was just mentally thinking, if not seeing so long suckers, and then it's like, Oh, excuse me, sir, do you mind stepping over here? And when there's the language barrier, that's even more fun. Yes, yes. Yep. That's adds a certain layer of what the factness to it when you're trying to explain what all those electronic gadgets are. Hmm. That's not a vibrator. That's a microphone. Sure it is. That's the one animal we mentioned.

The microphone described that is undercover as a vibrator disguised right there. No. See, now, there are women everywhere. They're like, can I just get are3 20 shell to put around those three twenties? I prefer those over this and B size ones. Yeah, much better. Much better sized, much longer, better microphone. And if you could just have that shell to go around your toy that way it looks like a microphone, you look like a podcaster. I think you just got a cool idea for a product.

The hijra vibrator in a microphone case. Yeah. Which you know is perfect not only for traveling, but also for those sneaky and pesky neighbors that come over and look at your stuff. It's really the insides of a microphone would look about the same as the insides of a vibrator. There's big magnets in both of them, probably about the same size, same weight. Mm hmm. This is a genius opportunity right here. Kind of. Yeah. You already have the Amazon store all set up to go.

I do. That's true. Maybe I should pivot. We call it, like, hide your vibe. You know, it's. God, it's too funny. These are the kind of things that make people rich. Mm hmm. The last thing you would think of these ideas about is the last thing. Exactly. Which is pop out of vibrator. Like, ladies need to have the opposite direction and make vibrator looking cases for microphones. Oh, for there to be podcasters. Kind of a gag gift for podcasts.

There's like, Hey, when you travel, make sure you hide your microphone inside one of our cases, it'll be great. Comes with a free bottle of super lube. Uh huh, exactly. Everything you need right here in one nipple kit. And I just got a text message. My two drivers going to be here soon. Oh, I'm getting food. Oh, my God. Yeah, It was supposed to be here. Now, to be fair, it was supposed to be here before we started. They're running a little late, apparently. Oh, well, in Austin, that'll happen.

That. That is three. Surprised that unrelenting is still a show. So my. Well, it will always be a show because I thought Darren, like, took it off the air and said screw them, it's my birthday. I'm not doing it anymore. My birthday it's my. And it was a bummer as this anniversary and his birthday. Yes. That's why you had to take the show off. And he was willing to do the show. That makes perfect sense. And then I told him it was at 9 a.m. and he didn't like that. You lied to him. You made it.

Made it sound like it's too early. He's like, yeah, no, it's early in the morning, but that's okay. I was a little under the weather anyway, so the way I get it, I get it. Well, here's the thing. I realized after the problem became immense, which for me is it felt like somebody was sticking an ice pack in my ear. I was like, Well, maybe I should go. And I need them to go check that tooth, because that was assuming the tooth was just going to where I needed the root canal.

Yeah, and he does the X-rays and he's like, No, it looks okay. But he gave me Amoxicillin Day, okay. To clear up any kind of bacterial infections. That's okay. Sure. And then sure enough, within about 48 hours that was going away. Within about 72 hours, my whole mouth was sore meltdown. And so I'm and believe it or not, now, the sensitivity to cold that the one tooth has had for the last year is gone. Gone. Oh, shit. So it was a sinus infection for like a year.

And again, for whatever reason, just decided to start getting really bad. Mm. And so that this last week has been three antibiotics a day, two super big Mucinex a day just trying to get everything cleared out, started taking antihistamines every day. So what are you thinking those for. Just trying to dry everything out. So basically, you know, again, just a allergy pill, which I normally don't take.

Yeah, but I figured that could help Try to just dry everything out so this thing doesn't come back with a raging vengeance. But I think all of that, the fact that that getting rid of the infection. Yeah. Make sure you do the full course of the antibiotic. Yeah. Ten days. It's a lot of fun, but you have to finish all of them. So. So it doesn't come typically not medical advice because we don't give that in the show, but technically you don't really need to do ten days.

You just double up and do more than five. This Woo. I didn't know that. Get rid of everything. You still don't know that technically, right? Exactly. This is not medical advice, but I mean, it just kicked my ass. And the other day, Wednesday, I was running a, like, low fever and just was so freaking tired. So today's about the first day in two weeks that I felt like I wanted to do a podcast. So. So you didn't do a I did a Planet Rage? Yeah, because I was feeling halfway. All right.

But I started losing my voice halfway through and. Mm hmm. And was just not feeling great. But I made it through it. And then just when I'm going back to bed, which is the beauty of podcasting, too, the bed is very close to the podcasting rig. You could do the thing and just drift off, but just be like, done. I got a I got to clean my guest bedroom because I visited the Australian girls coming over. Yeah, yeah, that's true. Oh yeah, yeah. You remember the model was Australian.

That's right. Right. Yeah. I mean that was well that was really the high point. The because the accent for me adds like three points. Yeah. Yeah. Well we were both there wearing our earpods when we started talking so I couldn't even tell she had an accent until like 5 minutes into the conversation when she mentioned Australia. I'm like, Oh, let me pop these AirPods out. Just this I'm going to appreciate. I'm becoming more interested in talking, interact and can you talk slowly?

I said, Yeah, I just went through and like told her all about how I was a photographer for 20 years and you know, all this stuff and did you get the you don't look that old? Oh yeah, yeah, I know. I look that old boy. Well, yeah, but did she give you that? I mean is that, you know, there's a little more interested where she's like, Oh yeah, you know, And she was just like, No, I believe that. Yeah. Yeah. She's like, I would have guessed at least 40 years, but that's fine.

Yeah. 40 years of her experience I might be in, you know, at this point, that might as well we get up a little bit from 20 to 40 and she was scouting locations for something. Yeah, she was doing location scouting stuff. Yeah, sure. They still do that. Oh, you mean that just greenscreen? Yes. Yeah, I know. You know, Or just look at pictures online. They actually send somebody someplace. Like, we need to find the perfect location. You're right. I create.

I think it's a great way to do a tax write off. Oh, that could be. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. That's still available, so. That's nice. Hey, one last thing about Max. You know, we'll get off. The topic is I just also just found out while I was there, they're building a new airport in Tulum, which means that if you're flying to Tulum, which is the southern portion of that peninsula, you don't need to fly into Cancun and then drive for an hour, which is good. You able to fly by Banditos?

Well, Matt, they're not really. It's all you know, you might get stopped by the police and then you have to pay them a bribe. But you're in Mexico. The police may be the banditos there. You never know. Technically, they're kind of one and the same down there, But no. All super safe. Only heard gunshots once. Not a big deal. I hear more frequently here in Austin. Only heard gunshots once.

Was that in the resort or I mean, I don't know if it was in the resort or maybe it was just outside the resort. I it's hard to say where it was, but it was it was horrible. But it wasn't like next door. So it felt way safer. Just like going to a White Sox game. I mean, I always still relatively safe, not really worried about stuff. And it was the place that was that if anybody wants to look it up, it's in Cancun. It was right next to the island.

And the island is a shopping center for high end stores. So they like they got the I didn't I didn't go into any of those stores. I just I walked around just to get some exercise down there. But I, I don't like going into foreign stores because all the clothing sizes are small. They're like, where are you from? Yeah. They're like, Yeah, we don't sell anything above like a large it's like, well, that means the entirety of American men cannot shop there and they're fine with that.

Oh, yeah, yeah. No, they're fine now. They had like the Bulgari store and they had the Armani and they had a bunch of other stores down there, you know, in, in Mexico. I didn't see you start there. I did stop at the Starbucks. That was the other thing that confirmed that the prices are high because a my usual Starbucks drink, which normally seven bucks here in the U.S. was 11 bucks down there, $11 us translated into whatever pesos it was. And what is your usual drink?

Something with like 14 extra shots or what? No, no. I'd say get at something fairly basic. I usually get a venti, a latte, decaf or half gallon. Have decaf depending on what mood I mean, depending how much caffeine you need. Yeah, exactly. Because I don't do much caffeine. He says We don't do that. You don't drink. You just eat a lot of meat. Yeah. Yeah, I guess you could say that. I mean, I eat a lot of I really, I think mostly chicken these days.

I eat a lot of chicken Little bit of beef, which is I like good quality beef, so I don't eat it all that often. Lemony on. Yeah. And then. Oh shit. It reminds me. Oh, did you forget to order your lobster? Oh, no, no, no. I love caviar. Your caviar. Our guy didn't drop off when you were gone, but you know, my. I still remember what day I set up a lunch meeting with somebody, and I can't remember who it was and what day it was.

Well, that's just want to make sure she was there for a sure sign that you are going into Alzheimer's. Oh, no. I've been doing this for many years. Dementia. Uh huh. Okay. I had a lunch date with somebody. Somebody had some. They seemed for a while. Well, I. Yeah, well, you remind me. Me, as you said, with caviar like beef, because I. I said, Hey, let's go to forget the chow. Forgot that chow. Yeah. Which you still haven't been to.

No, I think they are on the if I'm not mistaken, after double check I could have sworn I saw them on coin Cars.com. The one place I can go and convert your lightning into gift cards. I think they were on that so I could just start getting free meal, not free. But I can turn my lightning. I could turn all the boost right into me. That would be kind of cool if you could pee with lightning. Oh, yeah. Uh huh. We like playing with Mommy. Mommy, I'm playing with lightning. Uh huh, That's cool.

New podcast app scam. Yes. For sending you money to go to meet with. Yes. I need I'm thinking this is this is the brand new way to panhandle in the street is Please, please. I mean, see, Brooklyn just came in with 3333. The sizes too small or Jean too big. That's the question. See Brooklyn. Oh, yeah. I think we know the answer to that. Yeah. I don't think we need the detail. Clearly, the sizes are wrong out there. Oh, hey, my friend just showed up. It's. It's really more drink.

It's not so much food as it is drink. So, Marguerita, you didn't want to know tot0, that's right. But you can't make your own because you're special. No, I make my own. But, you know, I enjoyed this particular D quite a bit, so I am really sold on the PG tips either for hot or cold. It's delicious. PG Yeah, yeah, that's pretty good. Have you tried any other English? These? Uh, and not that I know of. I mean, I may have.

I mean, I've tried, but what do you want to talk about for about 4 minutes as I get my groceries? Well, feel free to knock your groceries right out. And I will. But I figured. I mean, I don't want to try and pretend to hide it here. And I know you can talk for at least three or 4 minutes without needing me in there. So I want to know. That's that's fine. I set it up by asking you a question. Now, would you have questions? Should I ask you? I think it doesn't matter.

I'm now looking at the photograph of your order that you just said. It's like it's mostly T Yeah, I mean, small bags of groceries. It's 15 bottles of bottles of tea. Yeah. This is the stuff that has to stay refrigerated, Correct? This is the refrigerator. So how big is your refrigerator, Jean, that you order? 15. What are these gallon sized little of these maybe small a gallon? No, they're not them. They're like 64 or something. Um, they're one of the 1.6 quarts.

He's got two and a half bags of groceries that don't even look half full and just t lots of d lots of t Exactly. So it's very. And I see the ring doorbell So you're tied into the ring system. So my ring doorbell seemed to have stopped working on October 4th of last time at work. Amazon and they were just saying no communication loud. Did you make Bezos mad or something? Didn't do diddly squat, although I did forget to renew it.

So then I thought those bastards probably cut me off because I didn't renew. Well, that would make sense. So I reviewed and it still doesn't work. And so now I have a new one coming to replace the old one. That's more. To be fair, this is the original ring since before Amazon even bought the company. So this thing is like ten years old. Eight years old.

I remember I got it back when Adam still lived in town here because you wanted to make sure to not accidentally come to the door when he showed up. Well, yeah, I remember him giving me shit about participating in the government snooping program. I'm like, Dude, I'm. I just want to be the first one to have it. But I know every one of my neighbors is going to have one of these, though it's really not an issue this way. We can all share data will help protect you against the crime wave going on.

Yeah, I know, right? We want to get that. And I can read KSP as a booster grab and if anything comes in, now's a great food right now. Enjoy that. CSB Of course, coming in with 10,000 satoshis before the show, he's always like you guys doing the data and are you guys doing the show? It's like, I don't really haven't been paying attention to X or No Agenda social and with unrelenting. Sometimes we relent. You never know.

But he says rivet com rat gene for data on what sees C I like that CSB puts words in that I'm going to have no idea how to pronounce them. Please tell your audience to visit w w w dot csb dot lol yo csb yeah CSB dot alo. Well, that's all you need to know. Just go there, punch it into your browser, enjoy yourself. You'll find some doodles, some about Gene. Now if you could do something about Gene being swabbed at the airport, that would be a I think it'd be a good idea.

And C Brooklyn just booked a table for the child tonight. This is interesting. When do the Russians and the Iraqi take over the stream as Billy Bones? That never happens. Never. The same time, almost every Friday for weeks and weeks and weeks, 10 a.m. time, just go to trial room, Daddy-O and you can tune in by going to no agenda stream dot com or using it podcasting 2.0 app that's the way you want to do it. You'll get the little bat signal if your app is working correctly.

When we go live, you get a little alert that says, Hey, it's way better than the alert that the government just sent out. Gene was out of the country. I think when that alert came in that something maybe that was why he left the country couldn't be in there for when the country like no, no is a test of the emergency alert. There was nothing more annoying than that because I knew it was coming. I should have just turned the phones off. I was tired, wanted to drift off to sleep.

And that's why it's very important for the government to send an alert to your phone. No, it's some kind of tracking thing. It's got to be. It's about all that makes sense in the eye. If you can help and support the show, then Gene will be able to buy more. T We did have a few people that came in as well via the old fashioned way. We made will do that as well via the PayPal's.

Josh Mandel came in with his $12.34 and says for the unrelenting, of course and stress very specifically, he said do not share with Gene as all of these. They do not share with Gene. Sir, truck driver coming in with the 565 and Kevin Seaford coming in with $5. It's always appreciated for the show about everything and nothing. It is not medical advice. If you want to keep unrelenting on the air and on the bit streams, just go to unrelenting dot show. All of the information is there.

And if you're on a podcasting 2.0 app, feel free to boast or boost a gram any time, day or night. It just comes through magically. At least that's how it's supposed to work. Now, I don't know what Gene needs to buy all that tea for 16 bottles. And how often does he order food? I mean, if you order food once a week, that's I mean, a little over a but yes, it's only over a little over a bottle a day. I'm guessing he may order food like every other day, though. That's a lot of tea.

It's a lot of caffeine. He's got to stay up to play them video games. Obviously, it doesn't help write the book, though, because he is not getting the book done. So he's going to need a little help there, little extra time, maybe a little something extra in the tea. That is the way it goes in here. Something. Is he reconnecting? I'm back. Our buddy Josh, who sent in $12.34 today, also because of unrelenting in our talk. Hmm. Was like, you know,

I think I have a couple Michael Jordan rookie cards laying around. Wow. I know. And so we emailed back and forth a little bit. I gave him some advice. He's sending them into PSA. And if they if they rate high enough, he actually said he might be going for the instant oligarch. Holy cow. So let's go. PSA gives them some high numbers. High shit, man. But this is it. People hear stuff like the same card you have or not know it.

He has the fleer cards, which are much more prevalent, but also much more expensive in the in the high end. If you get a PSA ten on those, I mean, you could be in the quarter of a million bucks. Holy cow. Does that to Michael Jordan, baby. Yeah. Oh, is that what it is? Oh, yeah. Yeah. No, I've got one. If anybody wants to buy one of the the Boy Scout interlake ones I can put a link in the, in the show notes. We have one of my dad's going up on heritage auctions, which is just starting today.

So if you want to be able to bid on it and get one, damn it, it'll be fun. I mean, really, if you want one, let me know because we can do it without the auction stuff. But how much is the auction side take now? This was the beauty of heritage. They offered to do two of them, one in this auction and one in next month's and not charge me a seller's fee. So they'll take the 10% or whatever. They take big on the buyer. But if it sells for 5000 on their site, we get 5000.

That's. Wow. Which is way better than eBay. Yeah, no shit. And you, you know, they send it out. There's no worries with as with eBay that you're going to send something to somebody and they'll be like, nope, wasn't as described. Right. You know, they can because you could take one of those card, just snap it in half and be like, No came damage, which is why anything over three, if you have one, that that's a really snap and a half and bigger one. Yeah. And then send that back.

But this is why anything on eBay there is there is a sweet spot on eBay and I don't like to sell anything on eBay that is worth under and it's probably gone up now. But it used to be if it's not under 20, you know, if you're not getting at least 20 bucks, it's not worth it. That may be up to about 50 now with the hassles.

But there's also a high end because on eBay, the other thing is you have to kind of play into that figure, into that, that there's about a 10% chance you're going to lose everything and not be able to recoup it. So you have to be willing to do that. Knock on wood. I've not had that happen for a very long time. I think once, maybe 12 years ago. You know, it depends how many non reputable people there are in the ecosystem. And I'm guessing that may have increased.

But for me, it's like if it's if you're not getting at least, you know, somewhere in that 20 to 50 bucks clear range. Right. It's not worth the hassle of putting something in the mail and then having somebody go, no, didn't come through. It wasn't right. Speaking of. So I guess I think our first or second donation and just a good old boys way people actually pay for that show. And we don't we don't even ask for donations. But I get a $3 and three sub donation from three Hello books.

He says, This is my new favorite podcast. Damn. Now that the dude that makes the really high quality, they buy safes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, three bucks is not quite a free and safe, but I know you're like, if you said one of those, we'll talk way more about it. That hell yeah. Well, and the fact that I'm talking about donation made to a different podcast and this podcast probably means you won't even hear it. Well, I don't think I really listen to this show.

You think he just doesn't like it as much as just to get over this? It's possible. I guess maybe he likes it. There's two Texas people in the other one, and I'm one of them Yankee boys or something. Yeah, one of them Yankee boys. But you probably, you know, you probably get an accent within about 5 hours of being in Texas. Yeah, I could pull. Well, I think it's the I listen to enough country music to know that I could probably pull that off without a problem.

Yeah, Just don't do what John John Sidewalk thinks is a Texas accent because every time he does this, it's cringes very cringing. He's a little over the top Cooper parties together when you talk and talk like there's this odd section for all time watch like dude after you watched Dallas back in the eighties when it was on live and you've decided that that's how Texans talk okay yeah he probably thinks he you he likens himself to J.R. Ewing. You never know.

No it's I don't know how much time John spent in but it's got to be countable on on one, one hand. Now, I know there's nothing down there in Texas but a bunch of steers. He steers Which one you buy. Exactly. But there's also a high end on the eBay. I have. Right. There's well, there's a high end where twins are expensive. Dude, I've had a couple of friends that have had some steers, and that should be cheap. We're talking like 16, $18,000. You want a full on premium cattle? Yeah, that's.

Yeah, but they make that money back by selling their jizz. Yeah. Well that's it. Jeans like. I only wish I could be in that category. Uh, no, definitely not. But there is never been to a sperm bank. Don't intend to give away any of these premium jeans right here in premium jeans. Oh, I like the premium jeans. Get them while they're cold, huh? Yeah. There's 8000 little jeans running around. Yeah, that's right. You give people nightmares and they're all first in line.

Got them. It. They all want to be first down that jetway and they're all getting scrubbed down and they're all getting so dirty. But that's damn. How did this conversation get to where there's got to be? There's got to be a low at the high end for the eBay, I think. And I'm not sure what that amount is on eBay at this point, Maybe $1,000, maybe 2000 that I don't think I sold anything over about 900 bucks on eBay. And that's it.

If it's over that thousand dollar range, I start getting nervous that, yeah, it's too much to risk, right? Yeah. Which is why the auction house is the way to go for the sports cards and stuff like that. Because if it's over a thousand bucks, then you're like, I did buy a spaceship there for $900 virtual, of course. Well, this isn't something that's in your backyard at this particular package. Be sure. No, this one is sitting in the bits on my drive. That was it backed up multiple places, is it?

Well, it's actually it's it's in the cloud so at all. It's not Yeah. You can't lose it unless the company goes out of business and which they probably will at some point. They probably will. I mean you got to imagine because they're insane. So this is we haven't talked about this. I'll just mention briefly, we don't need to spend a whole lot of time either. So the other Star game star citizen, the company that makes the game Cloud Imperium, which was about 900 people.

Now, granted, this is a prerelease game that the company has never released a single game yet. They've been working on the one game for the last decade. Right? Oh, so this is the one that's still in Alpha? That was my It's an alpha. It's an alpha. They they've received now about $600 million from people stupid enough to give them money and they're having a game. Yep.

Including me. Absolutely. And, and you know, they have hired up to 900 people, which a lot of us were, especially those of us in the actual real world business consulting side are like, Dude, there's no way you guys got to have that many people for where you're at with this game and how big this game is. That's just a crazy number because I think a lot of those people are not developers, they're actually marketing people. So well. They just bought another software company.

Now that they're at like 1150, almost 1200 people for a company that started off by putting up a Kickstarter says We don't want to be like all these other video game publishers that suck because they're way too big with their bureaucratic bullshit. And now they're going to focus on just making the game that you want and that we want that still hasn't been released over a decade later. They're now the size of all these companies, except they haven't released the game yet.

Well, how are they still bringing a the money flow really pretty videos that show off things that you can't do in the game being done. And so if anyone wants to buy any spaceships you know I've got a store right next to jeans prime just right jeans, jeans. Get them while they're hot. Yeah. And that's the what are what was the store name? I think it was the the origin emporium of slightly used chips. Something like that that just rolls right off the ton.

I know. Right. And I can't even remember my own store name. But the bottom line is I sell spaceships, so there's a cold opener. I sell spaceships. The bottom line is. I said so. Yeah, exactly. But people like what kind of a show is this? Oh, it's a show about stuff about the thing it really is. And nothing. Well, this is what people like about the show. The ones that do listen is that it is unpredictable. Yeah, And I think we've given some decent information. I mean, right.

Just with Josh alone, if we would have never talked about the stupid Michael Jordan cards, he might be like never would have never unearth them in order to send them in, in order to get some cash for them. Yeah. So that's it. We're trying to help you buy just random things. Exactly. No, no. You're thinking of random thoughts. Oh, that's a great show. Do random thoughts haven't done that in two weeks. So that maybe I was going to ask you if you did that with your whole cold.

No, I mean, I've just been out and I'm like, maybe this afternoon is a good possibility or just blow it all off until next week. Yeah. Is it really has been a week plus. I mean, we didn't even go. We were supposed to go out to dinner for my wife's birthday last Wednesday with my parents. Happy birthday. Yeah, So it was her birthday. Oh, that's the day I knew there was a birthday in there somewhere.

And then the mail, of course, a few years ago on her birthday was the day that I got my gallbladder out. Was the day before. But that's a nice birthday present, right? Because then I got the A-fib, so I stayed overnight. So we spent the morning of her birthday still in the hospital. You're just trying to avoid your mother in law that, huh? No, no, it was my mother. We were going up. Okay. Okay. And then she that was it. And then her family was on Thursday.

And of course, didn't go to that either. She did. I mean, she went with the dinner with my mom and then went with her parents. And it was great to where I just stayed home. Go in there. Mm hmm. I mean, it was was way better for a while. I was like, really not having any fun with the earache that there's a lot of things you could deal with. Suck, man. And this was not fun because it was not just on and off, it was just there.

And it really I thought it was the tooth, but I mean, I guess it kind of was. But you have to, I guess, understand how all these things interconnect with the sinuses, because I am still stunned. I tell you that that cold sensitivity went away, which leads me to believe now I'm not going to need to rush anytime soon to get a root canal on that tooth. Well, I was clearly inflammation in the sinus area that was close to where the root comes in. Yes. So it must've been an upper tooth. Yes.

Look at that. I'm not even a dentist. But you've had enough experience in your hundred and 20 years to. No, that's true. I've had teeth replaced three or four times now. So with all of that, it's like, yeah, I've pretty much done nothing. And, you know, for me to be like, okay, it's time to go to the dentist. It was getting bad.

And I called Thursday morning, did the rock and roll preshow, went to the dentist right after word, and it was probably sometime Saturday night that the pain started easing. So there was a good two, two and a half days that was was not a whole lot of fun. And then the the oddity after that was the fact that the whole upper mouth was sore for about 24 hours once that broke.

So obviously the pressure that was in the sinuses and the fact that that all started to drain was, you know, enough to cause that which I was not really expecting that. But now here we are about a week later and things are getting back to, well, better than normal, I guess, because this the normal I think we're going back to when I didn't have the cold sensitivity has been over a year now. Well, you know, it's interesting because you do sound a little higher pitched now. Could be.

It could definitely be because there was something in there when the sinuses are dealing with that that has some kind of an effect on your the way you would sound, what you see now going through your nose. That's why I think it's a Willie Nelson cycle. How you sound good. And I'm not changing nothing on this. Yeah, I'll have to go listen and see how different the Yeah to like in this episode versus one from a couple of weeks back be like can you hear the sinus infection.

Yeah because I think it sounds pretty good. You may want to be interested in getting it again, right? Right. It sounded better the other way. Yeah. All right. You know, I could just figure out how to exit to that place instead of actually getting the sinus infection again. Mm hmm. But I was not. I mean, I knew that sinus infections could cause pain. I know.

I mean, I remember going to a dentist years ago with front teeth pain, and he's like, well, it's probably just, you know, allergies, sinus pressure. And after taking the the allergy pills, the that went away. But I was not aware that it could cause something like the cold sensitivity because I would just assume it's either going to hurt or it's not.

Not that it would cause something like that, which usually points right to, yeah, you're going to need a root canal because the cavity was too deep that you had. So it's one of these things where it could just be a cascading thing. The older you get, the the worse things go. I thought you were going to say. The more you don't know. Well, we may know more, but I don't know if that's good or bad. I am not sure. Well, the one thing we do know is the human body. Definitely has an end date.

Yes, there is an expiration date. And it's not it's not like you're in perfect shape until that day. And that day is the average of the failure of all the systems. Everything is going in the wrong direction. Why you enjoy it while you got it? Yeah. If you don't, then I guess you just don't enjoy life for all the people that are like, You know what? I'm going to work hard, I'm going to get to 70 and then I'm going to go see the world. It's like, No, Mm hmm. That's a bad bet.

And once you get to be our age, you know, if you win the lotto, I mean, you just take the one lump sum, That's what you do. Oh, Elliot. Yeah. No, none. There is no payout schedule for at this age, that's for sure. Like, I wanted all it was just pay all those taxes. Well, and I think you're better off anyway because that the lump sum you can invest if you take out the overtime bullshit, the rate of return you're going to get on that is worse than what you could do on your own. Yes.

It's just that you can't blow it all if you're a total lunatic. But would you rather blow it all or would you rather just have a, you know, a drug habit that doesn't kill you? Right. No. I'd rather go out in a blaze of glory. I mean, I don't have Taylor Swift money. You know, it's funny you say that, cause that's. That's a line from that. I mean, the line's actually a little longer than.

But from Cyberpunk 2077, one of the questions one of the characters in the game asks the main characters, you know, do you want to just live out of a life of quiet desperation where you're an unknown? Or do you want to go out in a blaze of glory? That's some foreshadowing for the future. Yeah, I think I think that's more realistic than fiction at this point. Yeah, video games are definitely more real.

And I liked because it and I just wanted people to be able to check off the Taylor Swift box on the, you know, card on the video card. Yeah yeah. With her alleged new boyfriend, the NFL's guy somebody did the Mets his name NFL guy is in her song Kelsey's trapped here with the NFL. Yeah yeah Which is why I thought this was funny because John C Dvorak was like, Dad, this is all a scam. The NFL's just paying her. It's like the NFL can't afford to pay enough to pay her.

I don't think that he understands the amount of money she's making, too. There's no amount of money the NFL could throw at you. That would probably be enough at this point in her career because somebody did the math. The guy she's allegedly dating is like 50 on the NFL list. So he's a nobody. So he's right. He's down. You're saying you still have a chance, right? I think I do. But somebody did the math and said, well, with everything considered, she makes one day his yearly salary in one day.

I believe it. Damn It's like so that's that's got to be I mean, he's got to be very secure in his masculinity at that point. Oh dude, he's he's going to be the best bitch. Hey I would, I'd be signing up for that. Like really? That girl makes, what, 20 million bucks a day on average? I'm like, I. I could live in that lifestyle. Yeah, You, you like set up photos, video and take pictures of models from Playboy, which doesn't exist anymore and stuff. Right.

Well, see, now, you don't have to set up the photo studio. You just need a really big machine with a lot of video cards. And that's the generate and generate the girl set models and release that. That's how big her basement is that you'd live in. Probably. I mean, probably bigger than my house. Pretty good size. I don't see a lot of cats in there though, right? Yeah, she does have a few cats and I'm not a big cat fan. Kind of scary that I know this, but do you know their names?

That's the question. Well, I've seen a video of her talking to her death. I am not a cat person, but I could be convince just for Taylor Swift people. You know John Seed of our guy there's one. It was funny because Adam's like, I don't want to talk about Taylor Swift again. I had a audio clip on Planet Rage from what's his name, the actor slash comedian from New York. Why can't I think of his name now? He was in unjustified Michael Rapaport. You know, Michael was either dead or he will be sued.

Right? Michael Rapaport You know, Michael, the Red. Yeah, I'm not anymore. But he was and he did a whole like four minute video on how he's not saying anything about Taylor Swift. He is not getting into a beef because once upon a time he got into a beef with Ariana Grande and it made his life miserable. Yeah, Yeah. He's like, You do not want to fuck with the Swifties. They will come for you. He does rants. Yes. On topics he has no business doing ransom. Yes. Which is I mean, I don't.

I think it's funny. I think he's a douchebag at times, but I think some of the stuff he does is funny. And but the the hilarity was you do not want to mess with the Swifties because they will make your life miserable. Yeah. And I believe when they're like a de class celebrity now this is. Yeah, it doesn't matter. You are. They will come after you. This is like the new mob People used to be afraid of Al Capone. Now they're like, Do not fuck with this. With these men. They will come for you.

Net net came in with five, four, three, two. Satoshi says. Will this boost stop the this week in Taylor Swift segment? No, no. You've got to add a few zeros to that to stop the this week in Taylor Swift's segment or send the baseball card and yeah, true. That's true. There's a lot of cards. Well, what else about her? Are we done with that? Yeah, I think so.

I mean, I think pretty much I thought it was funny, just that there are people, including Adam Curry, who's like people we talked about her on the last show and people got mad. So I wonder how many emails are generated because these I will say I've seen enough of the Taylor Swift community to tell you that a lot of her fans absolutely crazy out. Not in reality at all will do nothing but spend 24 hours a day going after people because they're nuts.

I just think she's hot. Okay. And think she can write a decent song, that's all. And people, you know, they pit. They get pissed off when I play Springsteen or Neil Young and I'm like, Dude, if I got rid of all artists who were liberal douchebags, the pool would be very, very empty. Yeah, I'm okay with that. Which, I mean, that's fine. I mean, I can listen to Ted Nugent all day. Yeah, I couldn't.

Who's your go to and who's your go to when you go in and you open up one of those 3000 bottles of iced tea and you light some candles and light some incense and get into a big bathtub. Who are you listening to? Well, it probably was be a shock to everybody or rather nobody at this point. No, I listen to it. Really. You and CSB, you get the same kind of. You're a transfer shocker. Yes or no. I've got. And then, you know, which leads me to the next question as exactly.

That's a do you hear in the background? That's it. That's all you get. That's what you heard that was doing in Mexico Pretty much. So the other thing that this reminded me of is I sent and posted a note on the social. I think they picked a link to a YouTube video of a blue haired chick wearing fetish bondage clothing. And I said, Holy shit, This is just like what my character looks like in Cyberpunk. Oh, that was your character. I thought that was just a rendering. That's a real chick.

You're like, This is what I'm looking for. Yeah, No, she exists. So now I have to track her down. But I've always I'm always coming out with the, you know, the EDM crowd, always. Mm hmm. Now, you wouldn't see SB run in the same circles then. Do you think CSB Sports Club in Europe, you mean maybe see? SB Are you clubbing out wherever you are? Is that it? You go out for the trans get to get this freak on.

He doesn't like the fact that he can't pay euros in the UK anymore when he goes clubbing there. Now CSB are you are you imbibing in anything when you go out for these? Are you just I mean I can see him in some club where maybe some tight bicycle shorts, little bangs top ripped just out there throwing it all in the air. Roller skates. Yes, yes. On roller skates with neon neon glow in the dark sticks. That's just the world I live in. That's what I imagine.

Yeah. Yeah. It's a little different, but it helps It. You need to have the correct pharmaceuticals to increase the. Oh, yeah. The experience stuff. Exact, right? Yeah. I don't understand why ecstasy is banned because it seriously has no side effects except that you're dehydrated. But other than that, yeah. Drink? None. Yeah. There was one other thing we were wondering. While you were putting your groceries away. The 16 bottles, is that a week's supply or is that less than a week?

I'm about five days. Five days supply. So you have to order reorder every five days. You just go grab some of your on yourself or. Hmm. Yeah. You know how much money you could save if you just put a few bags into a pot yourself? Not that much, because if you combine the cost of distilled water with the cost of tea bags getting shipped from Africa, it's the same. Why are your tea bags being shipped from Africa, not from the UK.

Yeah, well, technically they're shipped from Dubai, but the is a British tea that is sold in Dubai, but it's actually manufactured in Africa because they use their grow fields are in Africa and East Africa. And what's the name of this to you Again, this is the Yorkshire tea at the turn around. Look at the box. Yes, it's Yorkshire Gold. Look in this up now so I can order me some. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can order it. It's Yorkshire gold right on Amazon. You can get it for $10 for 160 tea bags.

Boom. It could be here today. I mean this is how quick you can get it. Really. Yeah. $0.06 of that same day delivery on the tea. Yeah. We can be here between shredded. I would recommend trying it. It's a very good tea. I preferred over other brands. There's only one of their brand of tea that I think is a very close competitor to it. Now do you. This is the tail as he's called Akhbar Akhbar. This is the bar, the Taylors. That was the one, oddly enough, that you want me to drink tailored tea.

That's all I want you to drink Yorkshire tea. Right. But it it's Taylors brand, it says it's Taylors of Harrogate Yorkshire Gold that. There we go. Yes, correct. I will try that and see how it re it goes up against PG tips. Oh, it's way better. Way. Is it good for the iced tea as well. Yeah. Yeah. I mean I've made like you know, Southern style iced tea with it. Meaning you put some bags into water and then you put them in your fridge.

Well the southern isn't that, you fill up the thing with sugar and then you put three drops of water and then that's what they call tea In this. You're not for you're not for. Yes. The I have noticed, even in the time that I've lived in Texas, that the assumption that you want 50% sugar in your tea is almost gone like it's it was it it happened about half the time 15 years ago when I moved here. It's happening maybe 10% of the time.

That's their assumption. Now. Well, I remember the first time I remember having these southern sweet tea was going down to Nashville for a songwriters thing, and it was out in the middle of like nowhere was just outside of Nashville in like some kind of park preserve, a forest kind of a thing. And that's what they had was the sweet tea. And it was like, Woo, that's sugar, nothing but sugar. I had never had it. I mean, I had a sweetened iced tea before, but nothing with that level

of sugar in it. And damn, I mean, you. You think that Coca-Cola has a lot of sugar? No, not compared to salt. Sweet tea has more. Yeah, for sure. But, you know, Coca-Cola is a product that was created in Atlanta and so that I think, contributed to the level of sugar it had balanced by the mighty. Here's a PG Tips man who somebody is. Maybe it was net net. Somebody was the one that said, Hey, try PG tips in the troll room. That's why I tried it. And I was like, Damn, that's good stuff.

PG Tips is not bad at all. It's good. It's better than most American brands, but I don't know. I prefer a Yorkshire welcome to Tea Talk right here on Unrelenting Green prefers Yorkshire. I prefer the PG tips. Why? I can't say. I prefer we're going to have to do a head to head taste test. You can do it at home as well. That let us know by boosting. Yeah. The good news is they're both easily, readily sellable to anybody in the US, so the Amazon just brings them right to I'm out.

But yeah, it was longer than I first run into this tea. I think it was only maybe some eight years ago. And before that I was drinking mostly Russian tea. Oh, well, what now? What is the difference between the Russian tea and the British tea if there is much of one at all? Yeah, the Russian tea is, I think, a little more basic. It's basically tea that grows in China, Mongolia or Russia. And then it's black tea for the most parts of it's kind of strong black tea.

There's a number of different brands, but they're all fairly similar tasting in my opinion. But English tea, they tend to put more flowery crap into their teas. Not not the not so much with the Yorkshire. Yorkshire is a good black tea with just a hint of other tea flowers in there. So not it's not too polluted. It is more of a basic tea. Yeah. I like more of a basic tea. I also like green tea.

They don't generally make green tea, but I will drink them in restaurants and have a you know, there's I'll have jasmine tea sometimes, but for day to day, just everyday drinking then I probably drink about a gallon a day. I just prefer a nice basic black tea that's probably healthier for you than coffee. Mm hmm. A little less caffeine, I'm guessing. A little bit. Yeah. There's still caffeine in there, but it's definitely less caffeine. There's a lot less. A lot less of the other.

I'm not even sure what they are, but, you know, coffee is a complex mix of ingredients. Caffeine itself doesn't have any taste. And so coffee is a it's a lot of different oils basically that come out of that being the trade, the coffee taste. You you know, it's a fairly complex profile and I'll only have coffee very, very rarely. I typically like when I'm on this trip, I probably had twice, but usually I'll have it maybe once a month, which is a long way from what I used to.

I used to be drinking coffee, like every day I have a really nice espresso machine. Oh, nice. You get your froth milk right out there. Mm. Yeah. I mean, if you're drinking coffee, you don't just want that plain old cup. You're like, No, I have to be. I have to be refined. Oh, no, this is the real deal. This is, in fact, the I think it was should how long, You know, probably over. Yeah, for sure. Over a decade. Like the back to back in a whole other life when Adam had a different wife.

You see, we go by the world way back when when her and Adam married to somebody else. But I remember he stopped by the house. He's like, and this is really good coffee. And then next time I was at their house, he's bought one of these machines. So I was like, yeah, it's tough. You got to have the professional especially to see this. He'd like my recommendations and microphones, but he likes my recommendation of espresso. Yeah. Now, this is genius. CSP just came in with 5000 satoshis in.

Says Taylor Swift started dating a Jets player to change the search result for, quote, Taylor Swift private jets on Google. Yeah nice he has B interests creative. Yeah and I could totally see her. That makes more sense than the NFL paying her to show up because again right when she's making in one day with one of their players it a year. I don't know if the NFL wants to she'd be like, well, okay, I'll come, I'll come to a game that's going to cost you.

How much is she worth these days? You should know this. I thought it was closing on a billion plus. And that's a very vague statement. Closing in something over a billion so that she is she a billionaire. The Internet. I don't know. They were saying that she might bring in clear $1,000,000,000 on this tour alone. I understand there's a lot of money going out. You have taxes, you have all the that. But yeah, it's very close to being a billion.

If she's not billionaire, it will probably come at some point the near future. Yeah. Pretty good for for a chick that I remember hearing on no agenda. Yeah. 33 years old now to 30. Yeah. 30 being talked about like this is what, 15 years ago when she was 20 when they're like, Oh, but now it's all a scam. Yeah. This is like a creation of her parents. There's no actual talent there. This is just purely a something that the parents are doing to sell albums or something.

I can't remember what they I wish I could. I had those kind of parents because damn, I could eat your billion dollars. To be fair, her parents were very wealthy, first of all, and then they actually moved cities from where she was born to Nashville. Right. Which a lot of people do career and never make it. Not a whole lot of people move there for their kid. A lot of people move there for themselves. Right? You're right. Usually at the turn 18, they're out the door. Yeah, exactly.

I recently downloaded the original demo CD that she would sell and give, you know, give out way, way, way when And I have to admit, I mean, I blast a lot. Not very good. Yeah. You know, I blast a lot of the people because you hear the same stories with the Beatles and in country music you hear the same story with Toby Keith. Although with Toby, the Beatles sucked until they got better, until they got really their groove on. They were not very good.

Now, the Toby Keith one I don't get because I think five of the songs on the tape became number one hits. So then you're missing something. The Taylor Swift demos and somebody that likes Taylor Swift. It was painful to listen to the demo. It was not just like, This isn't good. This was like, This is scary ously bad. So I will say she either got better or the Illuminati or whatever happen. Whatever magic is going on in the universe. It was not there yet.

But then again, when you're 15 or 16 years old, everybody sucks it. Everything. Usually by that, you know, at that point. Yeah. And I think that what triggered the comments from the No Agenda guys was that in the little clip that they played, there was a little bit of a verse singing in there what I sounded like a recording still. And then she said, Yeah, but can we do it this way instead? Little sound a little better.

And then, then it's like the, you know, like at that stage in her life and career, both, she had not seemingly earned the right to tell people that have been producing music for a long time how to do their jobs better. Now, if Phifer points out she's dating a Chiefs player. So there you go. So you're wrong. That's how much I know about the NFL or its Oh my God, you're going to get kicked out of the club. I don't I don't follow that. Okay. I went to

I think I did not check your Taylor Swift news this morning. No. And I've only been to NFL games in my life. One was a bears washing bowl. I've been to more NFL games than you. Holy shit. Yeah, I've only met the two. I don't watch the NFL at all. I probably I probably watched a few of them when the Bears won back in 85. Was that. Mm. But not football fan at all. So I know nothing about the NFL, I don't watch college football. I find football to be an overall waste of time.

Now I know it's for some people it's life and everything I one the worst is when you get somebody that watches all the college football and watches all the basketball, it's like, Dude, pick one. You got to stay in the lane. Yeah, I did watch. I think it was too much sports. Two or three years ago, the high school, which I did not go to because I didn't live here and I went to an all boys Catholic high school.

But the high school right down the street in our town here didn't win the state championship a few years ago, and they were streaming that on TV. And I thought that was interesting, but otherwise not, really a big football fan. See, Brooklyn says he was awesome at 15. So I mean, he was the only one somebody had to be. And it's all been downhill since there. No question about it. Yeah, I can't even remember being 15. Well, that was 100 years ago. Now I may have skipped that year.

You didn't have an iPhone, did you get the new iPhone yet? I'm still waiting for it. It out. It is out. Well, I'm reaching. Where do you getting this black market iPhone? I'm I'm damn pissed because my apple dude I thought came through by calling me and the release date announcement date to get it ordered and then apparently they were missing some info or something. Long story short, they didn't get the order put in the system until later, which is why I'm still waiting.

But then there's they're available at the store for walking. I'm like, What the hell? Just give me one of the ones from your stories. Like, Yeah, well, we can't during I love that we have your name on this one. So some options up which No, but I'm like, Oh, I'm half tempted to cancel my fucking order and then just walk in and buy one. But I'd have to walk in and to your apple guy's a dick. And Ned points out, there's something else you and CSB have in common. Apple fanboys. Yes, Apple fanboys.

And Eddie, I mean, you literally could just shortcut it all and just say Eastern Europe. But Okay, you two should be doing a podcast together. I tried that. One of us doesn't talk. So there you go. Well, that's the best partner for a podcast. Doesn't say a damn thing. It's Penn and Teller, but. Audio four Oh my God, Penn and Teller in audio form. Now that that is a catch phrase for a talk show. All right, There you go. It's one guy. Oh, he should.

I could probably just do that on my own and still have CSB in in the course. So that's it. He doesn't have to say anything. You could just call him the co-host and then you can tell me I'm him. That means I'm the fat guy, though, right? Well, he lost. He did lose weight. There's that. He lost a lot of weight. But he had one of those buried bypass things. And he also did the all potato diet or something, too.

He did some schmaltzy thing as an advertisement, but it's all nonsense because he had surgery. Now, if you've seen the picture of Penn and I, we look enough alike where I could be Penn's long lost kid. Oh, maybe cousin. No, no kid. He's that much older than you. Well, let's just pretend that. I mean, that would be. Yeah, I think he's 60 now. Now, see, that's old enough. I think he's over. So. Used to be his kid. New. I think he's over 60. I really. I didn't think he was everybody.

How old is Penn Jillette? Here's the story. Here's the name and Google. I'm sure we'll know the answer to that. I'm sure. And he was born yes, in 1985. He is 78, 68. This is barely not even old enough to be heard that he was 15. That's enough. You can get that. You can get the ball in the hole when you're 15. You can get the pole in the hole. You he he's about the same weight, it looks like, as he was in the mid eighties. I like that.

His education on Wikipedia is listed as Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Clown College. It's technically true. Yeah. The six foot seven. Yeah that's the tall one. He is. He is. Yeah. I told you about how I walked into Tyler's dressing room accidentally. I don't know if I remember that story. As in Vegas. This at the Rio? Yeah, Yeah, at the Rio. And I was actually there to watch their show because Brian Brushwood was performing. All right. Yeah. Yeah, that's right.

And it was the voodoo thing. Yeah. And I happened to have been dressed in all black as one would be. I'm no reason not to be. Well, it turns out that the stagehand uniforms looked surprisingly similar to what I was wearing. Enough that you could just walk wherever you wanted to. Yeah. And so when I walked just outside the theater and asked somebody else that was similarly dressed to me where the nearest bathroom was, she told me straight through those doors on your left.

And so that's where I went. And as I walked in there, the first door on my left was tellers dressing room. So you drive around just to watch. And then I took a leak in the corner exactly where he was talking, because you don't normally hear him talk. I mean, I've heard him talk before, but you talk to after the show is. Yes. Yeah, yeah And and, you know, I took a little turn around the whoops and then keep going to the to the actual bathroom.

But apparently this this person, this gal thought I was like, you know, some stagehand that didn't know or damn bathrooms were. There was something to the roadie bathroom, right? Yeah, it's basically yeah, exactly right. Then it's basically to the left of the stage and make two left and there's a bathroom there in case anybody wants to use the bathroom. Next time they go to Penn and Teller show you, feel free to use that one.

It's A lot less crowded for performers and and backstage crew on me They put on a good show. I've mentioned before that I get to go up on stage. When we went to the Rio that was fun. I got to have the big bag is as Teller disappears in the bag. Yeah, you got to hold them. Yeah, the bag like a big hefty bag kind of a thing, you know, you hold on to that and then, boom, stuff happens. Did they pick you because he could stand behind you and nobody would see him?

Probably. That would be exactly. Exactly the reason why it all worked out. It's a good show. The Rio is, you know, it's on the wrong side of the highway, but it's not a bad place. I was at the Rio, you know, there they have a sky deck on their top floor. And I mean, if you put it on the lower floors, that wouldn't be as exciting of a sky. Right. And I think the Rio is about 35 floors, something like that. So it's decently high enough.

But up there they've got a little little bar and VIP area and stuff. Oh, a little dancing and emo music. Oh, they have techno when I was there. So that's around an idea. I'm sorry I said emo, but I meant emo. I met your EDM to keep you in CSB. This. It's been a few years since I've since I've been there. I think I was there on the top floor there like 15 years ago with Sinatra playing there at the time, no, I was not playing that. Dinah Shore was. Yeah, definitely that.

No, no, I'm trying to think, what's the oldest place I've been to? The dunes. That's probably the the oldest of the old places that I that I've actually been through before. They took it out. Yeah. Old Vegas is very quickly disappearing. Yeah. Yeah. If it hasn't already. And then I've been to Binion's. I mean, that's a really old place. It's around steak houses at Binion's in the know it's downtown Vegas. It's where they, it's and the downtown strip.

What's that street called with the if it's closed off to traffic. Used to be open to traffic but now there's the place you'll see all the videos of people just now. Yeah. Because it's turned into a melee. I forget the name of it but yeah, it's a Binion's there and then the well. So I've been to the circus. Circus, which I think no longer exists. I'm pretty sure that yeah, that was one of those ideas that was like bring the kids. Yeah Bad idea, very bad idea. Do not bring your kids to Vegas.

Well, I mean, if you bring them to Vegas, then you're going to Vegas pretty much, cause they're going to get ideas that the boys will be like, I like this place. And the girls would be like, I like money. Yeah Yeah. And you can get it in alternative ways. Yeah, that's kind of what I like. If you like girls and you're a guy, Vegas is a pretty good place and the fair girl. And you're like, Money, Vegas is a pretty good place. Yeah, there are. There are some females in Las Vegas. There's a couple.

And the thing about Vegas is that it's it's got more. More How do I phrase this without sounding very sexist. Oh, you already do what's good for better bodies. It's got a higher percentage of better female bodies than most places in the country. That's probably a good way to phrase it. Well, that's because most of the women that are working there. Yeah, their job is to get the money from the men right. Exactly. And the most attractive women are not in the entertainment business.

They're in the hospitality business. That would make sense. And you're like, what's the difference? What do you know? Because the entertainment I mean, this is it. If you've ever seen a showgirl up close, 90% of them not cute faces. No, not their horse faces, Exactly. And because they're kind of hoarse sighs, you know, they're all six feet tall with long legs, which is useful if you're a horse. Wow. But, Gene, add sir. Gene dot com. Well, it kind of is. I mean, that six feet of the hip.

Sure. Yeah. That I mean I'm not I'm not disagreeing and occasionally they'll be a cute one but it's not it's not all that common but man sometimes you have the cutest dealer at poker and it's like, holy shit, why is this chick dealing? She had to be doing something else because she's making way more money. Making way more money. Exactly right. Because she's making 300 grand a year being a poker dealer. That's right. And people are happy to tip her.

And she's not sleeping with men she doesn't want to sleep with while making 300 grand. And when she lose it, when you lose your money, you're happy because she's cute and you're like, I don't want to look like. And then you're smiling because you don't want to look like the asshole in front of the pretty girl. Uh huh. Yeah. They know the secret. They do. They do. That's the real dangerous ones that the smart, pretty girls are the most dangerous. This is true. Yeah.

Cause they see said in 33, 33 and said, just testing. Ignore this, okay? I don't live nor don't understand. Yes. I mean, beware. And yeah, I guess you do. And should I check to see if she has bees? Many came into my town? Maybe. And in Vegas. That's the whole thing is that they know you're going to lose your money. They just want you to have a good time while you're losing your money. They do? Oh, I haven't gotten anything today. Nobody wants to walk in. They really it's nice like the lotto.

And I know this is like the third largest lotto jackpot. Come in tomorrow and maybe we'll throw ten bucks at it. But it's like people that think they're going to go and win. I to open up a new channel to my channels or offline. And the ones that are online, there's no available bits to send, no bits, no bytes. You got to bring them in. So I need to open up anyone. Crap. I've been emptying out my get Alby wallet. Just buy an Amazon gift cards. It's a beautiful way to do it.

And then what is the charge for that was like 4% or That's not bad. That's not unreasonable. It's it's basically twice what a credit card company with charge for the editor. Well, then you're paying it rather than the people on the other end. But you're converting that from your wallet, your bitcoin to cash. You know, that's. Well, yeah, you're always paying it. That's true. Although I'm pissed at American Express, I like when they send an American Express.

The old let us know how we did because I bought the wife some Lego, her birthday and all and I wanted my 5% off. And you don't get that at Lego. So I figured out what you do is you buy the Amazon Lego gift card. You buy a Lego gift card through Amazon. They're digital. You could get them in any amount you want. So it's not like you have to buy 20, 50, 100. So I go to the Lego store, I get the amount. Yeah, I get the gift card for the exact amount. Put that in which I have done before.

And for some reason it comes up after I put that gift card in, oh, you know, amount due $0.14. And I'm like, What? Mike, you really want a credit card for $0.14? Which we know what a credit card transaction costs, which is a minimum of like 25, $0.35 plus a percentage. So I was kind of surprised, but I'm like, if you really want my American Express card to charge me, $0.14, which is going to charge you way more, fine. Wow. But what they did was they charged me $0.14 and then like another $3.20.

Oh, my God, I know. And I'm like, Fuck you. I went to American Express and said, I didn't authorize it. And like a week later, American Express, like, well, we looked into it, but you owed it. It was the taxes. And that is what Lego told me as well. In an email. I guess there's some new Illinois law that means tax now in Illinois is based on where it ships out of rather than where it's going because I really Yeah. Which is like, fuck that.

But that's Illinois for you because I'm in Will County, not in Cook County, where Cook County taxes are higher than Will County, but it was shipping out of Cook County. But I'm like, you didn't tell me that you might end up charging me more on the back end once it ships now for three bucks. If that's it, I wouldn't care. I would have ordered it anyway. But the point was, you didn't tell me. And then you went and charged my credit card for something

that I didn't authorize. And I'm like, Fuck you, American Express. If you're just going to let companies do this, this is going get dangerous. If the company on the other end just goes, Nope, they owed it. And you're like, Well, I'm not going to believe the people that are buying our cards. It's like, Well, then I'll get rid of the fucking card because that's not protection at all.

Yeah. And it's like, this is the first time this has ever happened where a company is charged more and then just went, No, it was just the taxes and then the credit card companies like, oh, that's fine. Like really how do you back the company on that? It's like, why you know, again you tell people upfront what you're going to charge them and how do you not know upfront or you have something that says the price will be determined at this point, which they didn't.

And I did this and I looked at the order before that because I ordered some Lego for my mom to give the wife. Yeah, And luckily the gift card amounts were perfect and the invoice that they sent afterwards, she owed a $10 and something due which they couldn't get because didn't have a credit card associated with that only gift cards which were wiped. But it's like, what the fuck? Yeah. CSB says Jane's note is fucked up. Not working via podcast index. Yeah, whatever.

Yeah. So he's just going to be one of these one of these.