Which would be good. I don't have any plans yet. Yellow. And welcome to episode number 93 of Unrelenting and the Most Racist Holiday in America, Black Friday. I can't believe they still haven't renamed that I know. They're like, how? How do you not exactly. I mean, just imagine all the shoplifting that's going to be going on today, the looting called African-American Friday. Yeah, I'll be much more much more politically correct. And it's like it doesn't exist anymore.
We started off on racist issues. No one talked about that. Yeah, we're talking shopping, but that's different. I watched the newscast. where the news anchor was interviewing somebody from Israel. And here's what she said. She said, Now it looks like that Israel is treating 150 Palestinians for 50 Israeli hostages. it doesn't. Doesn't that just indicate how low Israel places the worth of a Palestinian life? Because three Palestinians, 3 to 1 swap out for one Israeli. I mean, how racist is Israel?
It's a third of a person that. Yes. Yes, exactly. And let's remember, that was the value that the people that were antislavery, she tried to put on these slaves or did put on the slaves in the United States back in the day. Well, no, it it was 3/5. It was. And third, you're right. And that was everybody was all up in the hubbub like, they didn't value them. It's like, well, no, this was to give the racist people less say. Yeah. Don't you don't want to look into facts.
You don't want to look into logic. That is a very good point. The same line of thinking that says you only value blacks as 3/5. No, you guys didn't want to give them the full rights. Amazing. Yeah, it is amazing. But Black Friday, as it existed when I worked retail from when I was a kid. You were a kid? It was actual retail. Right. Wasn't Internet. It was not Internet. It was standing in line to buy a shitty TV for half price. And there was always like, what?
We have a minimum of three at every store. Yeah, exactly. So you better be there at like, midnight. If you're like, eighth in line, just go home. You're not going to get what you want. But this is now, I mean, well, before Thanksgiving. I mean, hell, I think it was around the time of Halloween. Black Friday starts now. Yeah, No, it doesn't. It's one day there was a lot of pre Black Friday events and I suspect there's going to be a few.
We've extended Black Friday until next Friday on Friday as well That and then the Friday after that we see Christmas. Right. We sell all the gear that we want to sell. It's there are some good deals. I will say that Palmetto State Armory has a very nice 300 blackout rifle with a seven and a half. While it's not a rifle, technically it's a pistol with a seven and a half inch barrel going for 599 instead of nine. Only nine right now. Will that go with your white out pistol and rifle?
I really have that gun. So it's like I mean, it's way less than I paid for it. But it's a great deal. But I don't need another one. Everybody should buy guns for the holidays. Well, yeah, this is this is we will not give medical advice. We will not get financial advice. Gift giving advice worth shopping advises basically plenty of guns for your friends. Just make sure you do it legally. Guns and blankets. That's really actually guns and butter.
That's the two main things you guys need to worry about buying. They were a hell of a man back in the day. Guns and butter. But yeah, Axl Petunia and the band, they were. They just rocked. Yeah. yeah. But there was actually Black Friday back in the day as it is. You said people lined up. It was one day. Then when the internet became the thing, it became then you had Cyber Monday. And then the question was, well, what's the difference between the deals on Black Friday and Cyber Monday?
Now it's all just a scam. I think Amazon invented cyber when they. Well, they would want to. Yeah, because they want to sell, sell, sell so much stuff. Yeah, they're like, you know, if you have any money left over in your wallet i.e. credit cards on Monday, we got some stuff for you. I mean, I do another show, we can take it with an Amazon delivery driver. really? I didn't know that. It's called Grumpy Old Benz. You do it while he's delivering. That would be fun.
Like one of those live drive long shows where you have a podcast with a delivery driver as he's dropping off presents for the boys and the girl. That might be better if we can figure that one out. That would be entertaining. He would just be out of breath a lot. I think the old Santa is running back and forth. We did a show for the first time, like in a month this week. okay. And I'm like, Are we doing a show next week? And he's like, Well, you know, it's the week after Thanksgiving.
It's not like a lot of a lot of people will be buying things, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I wonder, does it really go up? Because the deals don't change on Amazon. It's just it's like Prime Day back, like the first prime day Amazon had there was like, you know, a lot of people worked for Amazon delivery drivers. I was just talking to a guy in the U.K. yesterday who is starting his new job in January, which is the best time to be a delivery driver and stuff to avoid. Well, he's he's starting.
No, no, no, no. Let me finish this. He's starting his new job in January as like a program director is with a company car and everything else. And, until then, he's decided to make some extra money by driving for Amazon. So he's having the fun of Christmas, so. Yeah, so. Well, he's also playing a lot of video games, but while driving. Yeah. Yeah. Get your little Nintendo switch. No problem. These cars, they drive themselves.
They mostly you know, you just get automatic lane change thingy whatever. But yeah, from talking to him it's I think so you know what's the deal like you go like you have a real job or you used to have a real job, you're between jobs, you're going to have the real job that you know you're going to have in January. And instead of taking just some fucking around time, you're, you're out there on the roads. And let me tell you, the UK has shit traffic, man.
This is not a place that you want to be A delivery driver. Yes. And by ship traffic, you mean it's horrible. Not that there's not a lot of traffic. Yeah, that's exactly right. It like the road systems effectively were built to accommodate half as many people. And then the roundabout like faster than fact. Yeah. Well if there were less people in both you'd be in good shape. Yeah. Why did my computer just restart? That was weird, because it wanted to reboot. It was like, Do you have to go to hell?
How many different computers do you have working for you because you're still talking. So yeah, the one I'm talking, I'm just rebooted. That's weird. But the weirder part is that we can still hear you. I know. Well, it's. Here's what happened, dude. I'm not making this up. It's a true story. It's. It just ran through the cycle that it normally does of loading the startup applications that you load when you first start up, right? Yeah, it just did that. You're like, but you didn't just reload.
I didn't tell it to restart and the screen was already turned down. So it's working. But yeah, it made a little chirpy noise and then it launched all the programs that it does every time it reboots. Yeah. Slowly churning its way back to life. Well, back to life is a worry because at this point I'm not sure that it's not sentient. It could be. Yeah, get rid of it quick. I should get an apple machine. I have one sitting right next to it, which is good.
And that still comes down to Apple's better for audio. Yeah, totally. But I really need to just move them up to the apple. I'm not good for gaming overall for a long time but yeah it will be though then they're both of the new or both of the big gaming engine companies have said that they're moving their products to native these chips. Yeah. They like, they're quitting virtually all the cores, which should make it be a lot more competitive because it'll be nice and zippy. Well, they're ready.
The place to go for everything but the gaming and the AI stuff. The image generation for that hasn't been ported yet either. Once that is. Yeah, then. But although when you see the amount of hardware that is being required and it's sad when you look at the top of the line in video cards, which I'm sure you'd love, one that you know what, 2000, $3,000 on the price.
Yeah it's yeah two grand this well a little under that and Black Friday sales but still it's the cards came out the top line generation the 49 it came out two years ago and then when they came out they were cheaper. Well because now they're like wait people need them for image generation. This is a whole new thing. It's like, well, the whole thing killed it exactly like they used. That used to be the issues that people were using for crypto.
People are no longer using them for crypto because crypto mining only works if you have completely free infrastructure like China and North Korea. They can mine crypto just fine. But for everybody else, you're going to spend more money than you're going to make doing crypto. Yeah, unless you can plug into your neighbors with a really long extension cord. Well, yeah, that's kind of what North Korea is doing, right? They're smart. It's a great idea. Long extension, just going off into Mongolia.
Thank you for the power. Yeah, I exactly. But then you look at how many images using stable diffusion that even this top of the line behemoth can go and create. And you're like, Well, that's not all that impressive. Yeah, yeah, that's true. But it does suck because the in videos business plan actually calls for them to focus more on the AI shit and less on gaming. That was like, well I bad, bad, bad. Hold up. That's their gamer. Wrong direction.
They're like, But wait, this is a whole new bunch of people. We can build your company, you bitches. Yeah, but then now you're betraying us. Well, let's see how that works. It leveled off like everything else. It's like, all of a sudden, everybody had the card that they wanted, and they're like, Well, now who do we sell to? Now, that's bullshit. It never leveled off. It was. It got outpaced because people are using it for crypto.
True. Then you had to look for a used one on the secondary market and you didn't know if the thing was going to blow up 13 minutes after you put it in your machine. Yeah. You can't trust these cards. No, because you know they've been road hard and put away somewhat. What. Yeah. Very well. And that's not good for cards. Electronics do not want to be wet. They don't like to be with them but that's it. That's the marketplace right now. It is. But do your American duty and go spend some money.
Go do your Black Friday duty. Go to a store, take everything you can and run, run out the front. Did you have a nice Thanksgiving meal? We did. Went over to the parents. So some of the family had a turkey that somebody else made, which we just it's the I mentioned. I discount the grocery store. It's a small little chain, like 3 to 5 locations in the area. And they do really good catering and you just pick it up.
We picked it up, put it in the trunk, brought it over to my mom's house, and that was the turkey and three sides and everybody else just brought a couple of sides. I made a key lime pie wall to key lime pies and some ooh, those are good hints of White Castle stuffing. Because my dad likes the White Castle stuffing. I don't know. That is. You've never heard of White Castle? Well, you know, castles are.
Yes. White Castle stuffing is basically white castles mixed with some poultry seasoning and then baked. And it kind of turns into a stuffing type of consistency. And the more every year it seems that goes by the buns on the White Castle. Does he get them fresh. They're like air. They really condense into nothing.
That's Yeah. If you squeeze them there's, they turn into a two dimensional object which is exactly what you're doing when you're tearing these things up and then mixing them in with the little bit of it's like a half cup of chicken broth just to make everything so it doesn't completely dry out when you're when you bake it. But that's basically 12 white Castles almost wasn't enough for like seven people.
So it's like you probably have to double that and then you realize how many white castles you're eating as part of stuffing. But it's delicious. I mean, you just take your white castles, you rip them up and all you mix in is that broth with some poultry seasoning. And then you could do celery. I've done celery in the past. The recipe that everybody pushes on, like the White Castle website says, cut up some celery. But I'm like, Really? What's the point? Nobody really cares about the celery part.
It's just for a little crunch and you don't really need that if you have to put it in. It's just to add a little bit of bitterness as a historical flavoring. So if you have it, great. And then again, I was like, Well, I don't normally use these spices and this is capitalism at its best. Would you want to buy like the poultry? Some of these was like, 1/10 of an ounce for like four bucks. I'd like Really? I found one that wasn't bad.
That was a mixture of everything and then a few other things that weren't normally in the stuffing recipe, you know, your time and sage and whatever else was in there and just use that and it was fine. You don't have to be too exact with cooking a lot of unless you're baking, baking, you have to be very exact a lot of the time for the things to turn out. But when you're cooking is the science of baking is in there. Yes. You know, that's it.
I think it's the other way around where you want to be very exact with your bake, do not give people bad advice. They'll be like, why did my goodness come out? We did not provide food advice here on this. He'd said, Listen to our food. It's no problem. We know how to eat it, but make it well. That's a different story. But when you're cooking, you can throw different things in there. That's the beauty of making. Yeah, you can totally egg stocking up on cranberries. well, yeah, they had that.
We had two different types doing my Mary shopping right now as we're on the air. Well you have to it's the holidays are probably very cheap today for anything Thanksgiving related that's still in the store. Well two bucks a bag now. Well, there you go. How much is in a bag of cranberries, though, in Austin? One ounces low. That's not bad. In Austin, it's like, let's one out. That's a one ounce fresh cranberries. These are so I love cranberries. I like making sheets out of them and stuff.
Well, there's a lot of antioxidants in there. Yeah, they're about as much lemons. And so still doing the garlic thing. So I was up until Wednesday and then I kind of forgot and I haven't since. And then it just stopped. Well, it's if you forget it for a couple of days, I have like five garlic things left, so I probably should finish them off. Do you feel like it made any difference whatsoever? I mean, you do all the data points you're testing, I feel.
Yeah. I'll tell you what, I feel like the thing that garlic I think does is it it it's an anti microbial. Yes. So I think I probably am less microbes. Do you have less disease going on. Yeah I don't know. I don't know if it's disease but I'll tell you I have this is one of the nice things about getting older. I'll start with that. Besides getting hurtling towards death. Yeah. Yeah. Is you heal the way slower.
Correct. And you're a kid. Yeah. Scratch up the skin on your knee because you did something, you know, And it's red that day. It's crusted over that night and it's fully healed. Within 48 hours I had a in bites like some ants bit my feet. We have ants in Texas that bite people and if you're aware of this. Yeah, I've heard of them. They're like firearms in them. Yeah, they exactly. So they, they like to actually like if you step on them, they like to bite you.
Well, they're kind of that you're stepping on them. Well, let's put it this way. If you step on one of them, like 100,000 will bite you. Yeah, They show up like, Hey, we're going to take you out of somewhere magically. And I didn't realize I was standing on a bunch of ants. And so they climbed up my feet and started chewing them. And it's annoying, but it's, you know, you kind of shake them off. You you rub them off or whatever, and just, you know, think about it. Shake it off.
Yeah, of course you would think of that. And, and so, you know, back again in the yurts in Utah times you'd like to two days, three days later, like you wouldn't even have any you wouldn't notice that there were any bites there. Right. You're back in the game. You're perfect. It's been a week and a half and my invites on my feet are scabbed up that like there's actual dried blood, little tiny dots where that can't be fun. And it's like, Well, yeah, because that shit itches, right?
And it's like, you want to scratch it. Which I can actually see how many bites I've had almost two weeks ago by looking at my feet. And there's probably like 30. That's like, Jesus Christ, it sucks getting old, man, because the and bites should not be that big deal and you certainly should not have to still see relics of an them by two weeks later. I mean, don't you still soak daily in a pool of Perry A No and then consume the blood of children? Is that part of the deal?
And your healing should be. I'm trying to I'm trying to get a new supply of dream from. But I don't have any period left. that's a shame. Yeah, you put that. Actually, something in here is not good for your skin. It dries, you know, We'll see that you don't not recommend that to people. Jeans like I've tried it. It doesn't work, but you're not try do not actually take baths and Dom Pérignon. It is also not good for your skin. I mean, it's better than Perrier, but.
Well, does that anti make Would you recommend it? Honestly, if you want to take a bath and something the milk now of course yeah. Directly. I mean goat milk though. I like goat milk I always like not some people can't drink goat milk I guess, but people have weird sorts of allergies. Yeah it does. It always taste a little bit like cheese. You got to make it into a nice fator. That's what they do. Cheese. Peter Fator. They made the cheese better.
Better. Feeling better later, I mean, I don't speak very well. Ask that guy in Poland. I don't know what you're talking about. I mean, there's so sure in Poland that there might be people in Poland or Germany or Switzerland or like Switzerland. They make some good Swiss miss chocolate. Hey, what's the deal with, like, Sweden and Switzerland having this whole thing about how we're not the other have, you know, So people because they're like we don't want to be them.
Yeah. And like they both have TV ads talking about how to make sure you know the difference between them. Do not get confused between the Swiss and the Swedes. Yeah, the Swiss have Rolex watches. Swedes have IKEA. I'm going with the Swiss vote with who you'd like to go with. Just boost to Graham right now. It is a Black Friday. I will say that the the Swedish bikini team looks a little better than the Swiss marketing team. Yeah, that's true. In the lederhosen. Yeah, that is true.
Back in the day when advertising and marketing were real. Did I mention that just because I have a bunch of links that I never get rid of and I'm like, the Victoria's Secret for marketing only they have a site that's they're not the store site, but it's a site for the media. Yeah. Like you and I hadn't clicked on it exactly. I'm a podcaster, I'm media, I'm just as much media as anybody else. I guess that's true.
And I clicked on it for like the first time in a month or two, and the first thing I saw was a chick with one arm. yeah. I'm like, Why? Why are you doing that? Yeah, I mean, there's inclusion and then there's like, inclusion on steroids. Like, well, you know, people with no arms and no legs still need our product. No, they don't. That Victoria's Secret product, they don't. It all depends on which product it is, I guess. Underwear. Yeah. You still got to wear.
It's not from Victoria's Secret deal. It's true. That is true. There are plenty of other places you can go. Like we're just kind of pushing this to the extreme. I thought they were saying that they were going to go back to having hot chick. No, I think that was all a lie. They're going back.
They're going to try to go back to doing, I believe and I don't know if anybody has been dumb enough to give them money to televise it because it was CBS for years that did the Victoria's Secret fashion show when you had the real models. Adriana Lima You know, back before now, Candice won a back when she didn't look the way she does now, right? It's like, okay, you realize this is what happens when you get old and start having kids, right?
People think that she's going to look the way she did 20 years ago when she's 50. It wouldn't look that different if she didn't have kids. Well, that's a true part. But once you do that, that just sets off a whole nother explosion of things going on genetically. Yeah. Who do I see that looks horrible now. Shelly. Shelly Long. You remember her? Yeah. From Cheers. No. That's Shelly Long. Shelley Duvall. That's who is? Yes. Okay. I remember her. She's from, like, Arthur or.
Yeah, Popeye too, right? Yeah. Skinny. Tall, Right. I mean, olive oils now, right? Yeah. Olive oil. About £300, that's a big bottle of olive oil. Somebody caught up with her and, you know, she was in a in a horror movie with Jack Nicholson. yeah. The like. She's a good actress. That was the one. The Shining at some point, I guess, you know, you turned 35 and Hollywood stopped buying and she got a job working in Wal-Mart or something.
The family story is that my wife's brother was one of the finalists to get the job of the kid in The Shining. Really? Yeah. They never went into acting. I mean, luckily, maybe for him, you know, maybe, like, that's a pretty big movie that is pretty iconic. I mean, that's actually a movie I've seen. So, I mean, what does that say? I now write compared to every other movie ever made. Exactly. I try to avoid most. Yeah. But I don't know if somebody's giving them money.
Well, it's the the thing with just like you, really which part? I was talking to a couple of people online and they tell me that goes without saying otherwise. And they were there and they were talking about what they were in in the UK, they were talking about movies. And I had not heard of a single movie they mentioned. They certainly hadn't seen any of the movies they mentioned and they mentioned about ten different movies that apparently came out in the last two or three years.
Like, well, of course you've seen them. That's right. I know that. I never heard of it was. well, you've seen this, of course, right? Yeah. So they told me, okay, well, here's what you need to do. You need to go to movies. One, two, three. That's a website, which apparently is a website that lets you steal movies. well, there you go. That's called torrenting. That's why I said I felt like you all of a sudden and it's. I mean, I still haven't actually watched anything, but.
But now at least you know where you can get it. But I know where I can watch it. Let me just pick one of the movies. It movies or it may be films one, the movies. I like Torrent Galaxy that. I think it is now. They move around a lot. This is not a porn thing. It's an actual is is it a pay service that is not free, Totally free. It's a free, free, free for all. I wouldn't say it's legit. I would definitely say that it's free. Well, that was the interesting thing with the technology.
Once it got there, I'm guessing it needs enough people that are seething. A torrent. But on some of these torrent sites now, you don't have to download it and watch it. You can just hit play and it will stream it, which is maybe it's doing the same thing then. It's kind of bizarre when you think about what it's doing. You'll just stream it from other people's computers. It's fine.
But I don't know if anybody is paying to televise this, but the Victoria's Secret thing is I remember reading was they were going to do a fashion show again and they were going to bring back like one or two of the attractive women that they had modeling. But then they were also going to let all the other non attractive ones and the big 400 pounders do walk the catwalk as well, which I mean, you don't want to be in the front row. Somebody may have a heel blow out trip and fall.
Exactly. Which that's a dangerous man. Yeah. That's what happened to Taylor Swift the other day. One of her heels on her very expensive Louboutins. The boots blew out in Rio and she didn't miss a beat. She still did like the whole dance routine with one boot without a heel, which, just like that takes some practice. she's a robot. Drew. A very good robot. Yes, I keep saying that. And she won't tell you. Right? Exactly. It's the banality banal event.
We are about to beat an elephant, so it's one, two, three movies. Go. That's. Sorry, I totally butchered that. I just looked it up. It's one, two, three movies Go that AC for Adam Curry. Well, of course it's it's got to make money somehow, right? You got to have an exit strategy. Air conditioning, too. That's is a lot of people don't know that. Yeah, that's true. And you need it in Texas. It's true. It's true. True. And then he I went back and listen at the family.
I was not listening to no agenda live Thanksgiving festivities and every cent everybody's like, you get much. Did you get insulted? Listen, I know, but you wouldn't tell me. What was that? Just like, how do you know I want it to be a for you to find out in your own almost word for word. That is what JC said about the Taylor Swift song I played a couple episodes ago. Just like not a lot. Not melodic. Not musical at all? No. But you had to listen because JT is the expert.
Well, he likes Jimi Hendrix, and I played a Hendrix song and I didn't realize how horrible the Hendrix song was because it was a it was like a bonus track that was thrown onto an official release. And it's like it was a live track. And I'm like, Well, if somebody's putting it out on an official release, then, you know, it had to be a decent recording, right? No, not so much. I guess I should always listen when I'm playing before I play it. But it was very non melodic.
It was very sounds to me like you're just phoning your job and I know. Well this is the beauty of it. I don't want to know what's coming up. I want it to be exciting for me too. Isn't that the whole point of live music? the ball that I'm. I mean, in there is a lot of that for playing. There is a lot of live music that you can, like check in and you kind of like scan through. And it sounds good in most parts, but then some part is going to be totally horrible. The JCT likes to complain.
He keeps telling me he's going to send me a list of the music he would like to hear, but I haven't seen that list yet. I think it'd be an interesting show. Do an all jazz CD program director. He provided the artist and songs. You could delve deep into the mind of Jonsi. The voice cracked. It's not scary at all. Do you want to? Yes, I think that'd be fun. Okay. I think that would be fun. I don't. I've already seen something like that. I think it was the the mind of,
the one who went elkabetz. Yeah. I was going to do that. Fairly similar is my guess. I knew exactly where you were going with that, which scares me. The show should end right now and never come back on the air. I know Jean too well. The show has to end. I can crystallize your thoughts for you quite eloquently. Why would the show end it? Well, because I don't need you anymore. I know exactly what you're thinking. I see.
is you're saying you finally arrived at the point of being able to replace me with in the air, Right? Well, I can replace you with me. Which that. That's even better. Yeah. Yeah. But for anyone that hasn't seen that movie, I would certainly recommend watching it. It's a, it's a very wild, a crazy ride of a film. Yes. Being John Malkovich. Right. Is that was John Malkovich. And it's a it has people playing characters they don't typically play. John Cusack was in that, right?
Yeah. Cusack plays like a super nerdy kind of a very insecure guy that was a little bit before he went all liberal, woke crazy and they all were crazy. And then in the movie, his wife actually is what's her name, the good old what's her name? The the something about Mary Chick. Cameron Diaz. Yeah. Cameron Diaz plays his wife plays a super nerdy, kind of a not hot chick, which is not in her wheelhouse. Not like everybody's playing off character.
And then she has a lesbian relationship, which is great. That's right in her wheelhouse. It's totally in her real house. John Malkovich plays himself, which is amazing. I mean, who else would you get to play that role? Well, I, you know, maybe kind of to live it. Yes. They look exactly alike. It's amazing the way he looks now. It probably isn't that far, but know you're now there's yeah, he's got to be the last four roles he's had. He's playing a Russian guy.
woman He's kind of coming in in that your terms branched out into just exclusively playing Russians now they're all evil do Yes of course The only way to play a Russian. Yes. With this horrible fake Russian accent that he completely just does not know what a relaxing is. I do not know why. What is a real like that would be a more relaxed. It's better. It's I see that I could see that he is somebody decided that that now he looks like a Russian.
So let's let's only give him parts that where he's playing a Russian like Yeah I it's it's a hard one. I mean I still remember him from back when he had hair, when he was in, was that movie Dangerous Liaisons. It is weird when you see actors like that that look in the mirror since we are the Seinfeld of podcasts. The Jeremy Piven. yeah. In Seinfeld, like, pretty much bald. And then all of a sudden he pops out and makes it big and it's like, not your real hair. We all know.
it is his hair. It's just from his. But. well, yeah, it just see, he had it migrated up to one of those transfers. I mean, yeah, you got to take it from somewhere. A lot of friends that have done that. Yeah. They got to take it from somewhere. Usually it's like you think by their head. Yeah, but hair. I didn't know that. That's. Yeah. By the hair apparently has the closest consistency to the hair on your head of all body hair and it grows just as fast. It grows super fast.
So that's what they like to do is just go right to the butt. So transplanting is just another one of these businesses that you've invested heavily in, like ponchos. Hi. Wish. No, no, no. This. This would have been a lucrative business. Like, I wish I could have got into that. But hair back when it was at the ground floor. Let me ask you, do you wash? Tempur No, I do not.
Okay. So there was a an article that he pulled up and I don't know where the articles from which otherwise that would have just gotten directly the article. But it's, it was pretty interesting. And the article was the results of a survey in the survey asked people how much money would you need to make you feel like you could live comfortably. Yeah, it was. I saw this somewhere else. So that's going around. Yeah. Yeah. And the results were very interesting.
The results were that for all the boomer group, they said something like $120,000. Right now, the Gen Xers, our group, said 131,000. The Zoomers, the kids of the Gen Xers said 135,000. And the Millennials, the kids of the Boomers said 189,000. Wow, that's a jump. Do you see a pattern here or do you see a lack of about. Right. I think it's a lack of a pattern because it goes up slightly until it hits that last group and then all of a sudden it's insane.
Yeah, it's basically you have three generations out of four that have a similar mindset of what, like maybe not super rich, but certainly, like decently off means. And and then you have one generation that is absolutely clueless about what living comfortably means. This is a generation they grew up with helicopter parents and that had basically had mom taking care of them until they're 30 or 40 then or 40. And it's just insane.
You know this for that number to be that high, it probably means some people answered $1,000,000. Well, at least, yeah. Is these the end result of the entirety of the millennials in this poll was almost half a million. Well, you do a lot more working with companies. The salaries that are going to the children right out of college. yeah. Yeah. But same now. It is insane. However there's an asterisk on that is these are salaries that people that actually do work that results in big sales. Yep.
Meaning if you're working in the company building our next overlords, that'll kill all of humanity. You deserve to be making $500,000 a year because you're doing God's work and you're gonna be dead in two years. So it really doesn't matter. So it's really not going to matter.
But that's not to say that the average salary is six figures of somebody coming out of college, but yeah, in Austin, if you're coming out of college with an 80 degree, you have zero experience in coding, you're just taking the college classes, do it. Your starting salary is like $132,000, that is. And it used to be you wouldn't start by me is a comfortable salary, right. Well it allows you to have yeah, it allows you to have a condo and a Tesla in the garage.
Well you have to when you're 21, you have to have at least one Tesla. You got to get back and forth to that job. Now, you still haven't taken your driver's license exam because your mom drove you everywhere. So, you know, the Tesla just kind of sits there for the most part. And you use Ubers for everything, but you do want to fit in with your friends group, and they all have Teslas. We have to. Yeah. Got to have that Tesla. You got to make that green.
And then everybody doesn't understand why the prices on everything goes sky high. Yeah. Yeah, like $260 frickin oil change. What you're saying is we just need to get rid of that youngest generation. Honestly, I said this in the gender social. I'm going to be interested to see what kind of replies I get this because I think I'm going to trigger some folks. No, you. It's never happens. I know.
It's literally you click on my picture and description says Professional troll, but nobody ever clicks on my image. Nobody ever goes to my profile to to read that. Yeah. No, I said it's it's obvious we we clearly need a war. I'm starting to get on board with the with all the the rhinos out there because for a totally different reason mind you. But the end result is the same. We need to get rid of a generation. Well, how are we getting rid of them? That's the question.
In war, of course, now, or I mean, you could have just taught them better. But it's too late for that. This is this is true. They're doing more harm, more severe measures. They're too far gone because the mentality is there. And a big part of that was, well, don't believe your elders don't believe your parents. You know, they're the bad ones. We're telling you what you should think. And that really, I think, is the bottom line that nobody's being taught to think.
I think that it's that they're were never taught to think and that's a big problem. Well, of course they're not taught to think because colleges are built to keep people from thinking. That's literally the purpose of college. Now, that wasn't the way it was fully, anyway. I mean, there were some of the some of the professors that were a little bit going down that path back in the late eighties and early nineties when I was in college.
But it was they were breaking the law back, breaking the law, but there were still some that were like the original, the original college, of course, in Greece was created to cause people to think and to make the thinkers come up with new and creative solutions. But in the United States, you know, there's plenty of documentaries about this. You look at at the American college system and the the Carnegie and the other American oligarchs that invested into it.
They really set the tone and they created a system that is built to pump out happy little slaves. Well, yeah, make it $480,000 a year. Exactly. Exactly. And it's a it's been doing that for many, many years. As people enter the collegiate system at our high school. And high school isn't great either, but they enter that system with a lot more potential for. But then they leave that system.
By the time they leave, they they think that they know everything because that's what their professors told them, is we're going to tell you everything you need to know about every issue. And so these very self-assured and almost entirely incorrect children leaving the college system, they think that they know best. So when is it going to flip where the companies go, you went to college? No, we don't want to this because you talked about that several times.
Musk sees a college degree is a negative, not an essay, because you're not learning anything. It was because you wasted four years and you probably stunted your growth. Right, Because you haven't learned that you've been you spent four years of a learning being brainwashed into certain things where you pass tests that you're never going to use it Now. I mean, if you were a computer coder, obviously maybe you're being taught how to code that would be important and you would actually use that.
But most people around my age that I've run into, if you were to pose that question again, unless they are a doctor or a lawyer or in a very specialized field, the question of do you use anything that you learned in college? No, no, but I got the degree. I got that piece of paper. Yeah. And that's assuming you had a useful degree like journalism or English major.
If you have the modern degrees, like underwater lesbian basket weaving in Africa, you know, you're you're less likely to actually use your degree even. That is probably true. Yeah, but you're the expert on that particular topic because you know who else would bother? Well, you could write a coffee table book. You probably. Yeah, you probably will. And so really I think for parents, college is the way to get rid of the kids so they're not around anymore, but still keep them under supervision.
That would make sense. Yeah, that would make so, you know, all the problems that we have in the West are the creation of the West. There's no two ways about it. These are all selfish of these. We're we're at a point that we are the masters of. We created the situation we're in and I don't know, man. I mean, in as much as I hate to ever agree with the rain, I was out there because really all they're trying to do is line their own pockets.
But without a generation of war, I just think things are going to keep getting worse. Well, because that's the mentality. And why wouldn't we know? Why wouldn't it keep getting worse? It's going to breed upon itself. Yeah. Yeah. There'll be a point at which people that seemed extremely socialist to us are going to seem like extremely conservative a couple of generations down the line. Well, it's the Overton Window yet again.
Yet again. Exactly. And I think that the like right now it is absolutely empirically the fact that if you compare equal statistics that Russia is a more conservative country than the United States, I think within the next 10 to 15 years, China will be a more conservative country than the United States. The United States will be the ultimate socialist experiment. And it's unless something happens to change that we are well on their way.
And it doesn't matter what people you know, what the newspapers call somebody a Nazi or they they call it communist China. These are words that have no meaning anymore. What actually matters is what people are doing.
And what people are doing in the United States is a lot closer to actual socialism than what people are doing in what historically was socialist country like Russia, that we're also paying the price of socialism because when countries become socialist, they start going down the path of bankruptcy. And that's exactly what the states is doing. Well, because they are intentionally trying to do that.
Do you believe that route, that everything that has been taught in these universities that is pushing the more socialist communist type bent, it is being done intentionally because they know what's going to end up happening is that everything will, in fact, fall apart and fail? I don't think they think it's going to fail.
I think there's a lot of unintended consequences going on because I think a lot of these people just simply aren't intelligent enough to understand the problem with socialism, like they think they can figure it out because they're smarter than the Chinese and the Russians, and they can have a version of socialism that actually worked. Socialism cannot work because of one simple thing human nature.
Human nature has not changed. Human nature means that in a vacuum the average human will respond the same way today as they did 100 years ago or 500 years ago, or probably a thousand years ago. They will respond out of self-interest.