094: Tooting My Own Corn

La la. The is it a show about everything or a show about nothing? Unrelenting Episode 94 Hey, we're into December now, Jean. my goodness. This whole year just flew right by. Let's because unrelenting it makes everything just go by faster. You enjoy it so much. It's like a savory little treat. Yeah, it feels like it now. I'm Darren O'Neil. He's in in the. Exactly. And how are you today there, Darren? The beautiful day here in the city of Chicago. It's raining nonstop, but it's about 40 degrees.

So, I mean, that's like a heatwave. That's beautiful. Day 40 and raining. Welcome to Chicago. It's raining bullets. Do how you do it, everybody. Yeah, it is raining both out there. That's true. I'm always joking with your staff. That's right. True, true. It's true. I was listening to Unrelenting yesterday. I didn't mean to do that, but it was on the no agenda stream after no agenda.

And I'm like, Jean always sounds like he's somewhat under water and you shouldn't because that's a very bright Mike Yeah, and it's probably just because my signal is so hot, for lack of a better term, or I always tell people that you're always pushing me down and it's the sizzle, man. It's this is love, right? I'm like, Hey, Jean. And then just totally muffle it up. So it sounds like the teacher from the Peanuts cartoons. So I sound nice and crystal clear.

And then Jean says something as I leave the way this there's a there's a way to fix that in post is there to totally cut your section out. That's not the way but that can be one way now. But we could just split the show into two shows. Could, could do them, could do that. You can actually produce that would be something kind of like two monologues. I produce baby, I have a audio channel. And it's changed that just goes through. Fortunately, it's all mono and set to you.

Yes, we know how that works. Well, I mean, what do you need stereo for in podcast? What do you want to do? Like a Beatles thing where I could be in the left channel and you could be in the right channel? No, I did that in 2011 and everybody hated it. Yeah, well, especially when I had done it with five people that were placed in stereo all over the place. Let's see what you could have done if you had five people.

Is you going to take in full as of the whole surround sound bit and then like this, this podcast, that's what I did. The podcast was in surround sound and people hated it. I don't understand why they thought it was really cool. You're like, You can sit right in the middle of this and it would be like everybody's coming from a different direction. You're a microphone on a table surrounded by people. Exactly. And you would get there. No one wants to be a microphone.

No, that directionality is weird, I think, although I noticed this this morning. I mean, I'm sure I've noticed it before, But this morning, the wife there was something going on. We're both sitting in the office and she's getting ready to go to work. And all of a sudden they hear like bloop. And I'm like, what is that the signal thing? Is Jean sending me a message? Is he is he off with Ellen blasting rockets or something?

And there was one of the tones on her phone that I swore was coming from right in front of me, from my speaker. And I'm like, I'm thinking about this. Then like, ooh, is this done intentionally with with certain tones? Because some of them, like a ding, is very directional. It's like I can tell you exactly where that's coming from. But some were very it's like, well, this is weird. It feels like it's coming from a different direction.

You can totally mess with somebody's mind where they think the sounds are coming from. What do you think it is on purpose or not? I think it maybe because think about it, then everybody is looking at their phone because it's like, was that my phone? You can't tell which phone it's coming from. If there's multiple phones around where the ones that are very specific, very directional, well, you're not looking at your phone because, you know, it's coming from like 15 feet away to your left.

Yeah, but the ones that sound like it's coming from right in front of you, you're like, what was this my phone? No. no. Okay. What? You're picking up the sound you're looking to do. Like, I don't want FOMO. You got that fear of missing out somebody maybe sending me a message or something like my tweets might be going viral. Well, just look at your watch, dude. That was the first time in a while this morning, my watch started vibrating. It was like potential spam.

Like, this is the reason why I don't use the Apple phone for anything at all. I've never given the phone number to anybody. And it's like I know there has to be a way on the watch itself just to earn the phone itself, to block anything that's not in the contacts list. Which would that mean it would never ring? Yeah, because that's the annoyance. Once you get the thing on your wrist is you don't necessarily want those kind of distractions like, well I don't want I don't care.

I don't have never given anybody their phone number. I don't want it to buzz my wrist. Yeah. Especially client yo, definitely not. Yeah. Now I'll, you give that number to like day off and down under that way, if there's something important going on that he needs to interrupt during the show. That would be the way to go. But there you go. Yeah, Like we got to liven up Jean's audio a little bit. Yeah, man, because it's noticeable.

I told you this, and this is why we should do another recording test. Probably in separate tracks that when people listen to me on my other podcast world, you have myself way better than I do, and yours does. Like, why is that? I don't even know you're claiming to be some kind of audio engineer, dude. No, I don't. I just claim to have the right little tools which normally fix the stuff in mono for yourself. Yes, right. Why? I would. I'm not going into surround sound.

Bumrah's just doesn't care what he sounds like. So that's not an issue. Well, he has that. He has that. Hi. Yeah. And then Larry is subsonic, so nothing actually affect his voice. I mean, you have to really go into the Q on Larry and just like totally remove all bass frequencies just goes up. Yeah. Otherwise it's like the voice of God. So I'm like the only normal voice you speak to. And lo and behold, you don't make it sound good. I'm tweaking you as we speak right now, man.

Yeah, I can feel you tweaking what's going on out there in that you wouldn't ask me to week or in Mexico, that would be Austin, Texas. Thank you very much. You working on an arms deal in Ukraine? You have a Vladimir VI Zelinski out or Putin this week. I know anything I'm working on as a grocery order. How are you doing that? You got to get your food ready, man. Yeah, it's ready. How many bottles are you getting? I just get 15. I ordered a freezer. I think I mentioned that on the last episode.

Or I did I the the dishwasher died. The dishwasher died. Therefore you got a freezer? Yeah. Isn't this how it works? I mean, I got a freezer, like, a month ago. I told you about that. Yeah, maybe I didn't. I mean, all these shows just melt into each other. I know, right? The dishwasher died, and we went with Lowe's because I had all those cards there first.

Normally they give you 5% off if you don't want to take their stupid 0% for 12 months and 5% when you're dealing with a few hundred bucks, well, it adds up enough to be like, okay, I'll do that. And so we went in and it was like a Black Friday sales and one of the things was, well, if you buy $800 plus of appliances, you get $100 off on the dishwasher, the Frigidaire, that's the same one.

I'm like, I know there's there's some insane dishwashers out there now my with the embossed multiple compartments, stainless steel shit. Yeah. Yeah. And it's like we're dishwashers. Some of them are like 1500, $2,000 them. Like they're just washing dishes. Yeah. And not even very well most of the time, usually. But I went with the same one that we had the lab because it was kind of like the top of the line of this Frigidaire line. So it was like 650 bucks. And I'm going through like that.

And the wife's like, Well, I thought you wanted a freezer. I'm like, yeah, that would be an appliance. So we had a like a $250 freezer, which was $100 less. It was like $150 freeze. So that would go in the back of a freezer to get it. Seven cubic foot so that we get the same one. Really. Is it a Hisense? I know it's a weird brand, you know, I don't know it. Maybe I didn't really pay attention. I know you're just looking. It's a freezer. I wanted something that was over five and cheap. Exactly.

That was my only concern. That was my criteria as well. And free delivery was. I was just trying to get the discount. Yeah, And that was the same here. Yeah, it could very well be. I know it was not like a fancy brand name. I know that for a fact, but it doesn't matter because sitting in the garage. Right. We could be putting our meat in the same freezer dream. boy. Well, actually, my meat is made of rabbits mostly, so I'm about Earth. Well, it's not yours, then. It's for your little friend.

Yeah, Yeah, but that means I don't need raw rabbits in my freezer in my house, though. That would be bad. Well, it wouldn't be bad. I mean, I've been doing that for years, but it's nice to have actual freezer space for, like, other things now. It like freaks people out when they open up. Like, remembers a rabbit carcass. Okay, So this is this happened about two years ago. I had I had a power outage for like 24 hours.

And in the winter, which is stupid Austin bullshit, where they can't figure out to give you a power. Well, yeah, yeah, exactly. And so the the the freezer thawed, Right? And the only thing that I had in the freezer at the time, which is pretty close to what I have right now, was rabbits and cranberries. Or they could just go well together.

And when, when the freezer thawed the frozen cranberries melted, and the rabbits that were sitting on top of the cranberry bags were apparently heavy enough to crush the cranberries. So when I opened the freezer door, it was a picture out of a in fact, I took a photo of it because it was like, I have to have this photo because it looked like something out of a Hitchcock. One picture and Kerry, the movie. You know, there was a lot about dripping down.

It is because it's like The Cranberries were no longer frozen, but they were still cold to make this the the liquid kind of ghoulish. So it looked a lot like blood. And it was just like blood and dead small animals and that's the only thing in the refrigerator in the freezer. So I was like, Jesus Christ, this would be a perfect time for somebody to look through the window in the wall. Just I can imagine the original thought when you opened up that door, like, what the fuck happened?

I'm like, They're supposed to be dead. Or How are they still alive? Yeah, they're scratching, trying to get their way out. Exactly. Never put live rabbits in your freezer. No, no, that's. Although, technically, that's kind of how they kill them. Well, you don't have to do it yourself, though. No, no. Well, not anymore. wow. I have a freezer. Okay, that's a little bit concerning there. Is that what you used to do? Just have a few rabbit traps in the back.

Well, I mean, you can't feed a live rabbit to a snake, so something has to go in the wild. They have to eat. They don't get frozen rabbit. I know, but I have a, you know, a domestic snake. So he doesn't really know how to kill things. He's lazy. Well, he's not even lazy. He just doesn't know how to kill things. Well, you should teach him. He's never learned. Isn't that probably gives observing either, I'll tell you that. But what have you tried to teach him that It's like, Nope.

You know, I mean, see, he's got a bicycle. He never fucking rides it. Wow, what a horrible. He's got like a little wheel to it. The training wheels on, I'm thinking even. Yeah. Wow. I mean, you were trying to take him out on the recumbent bike. You on your. His. Yes. Yes. The snake was going to ride the recumbent bike, each with a big flag coming off the back so that we vehicles can see you as only you would do because it's safe. Safety first.

Yeah you get you and carry through it again It's not bad company to be in well for me and and maybe it's smart answers. Yeah he's they I don't want to be associated with that guy. Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah. So what's going on on your end. Have getting a new freezer. really. Tell me. Tell me all about it. Why? Why? How much were you giving it going to be? Hopefully by like mid-December. Jesus. I know. And the dishwasher is supposed to be in maybe this weekend or Monday.

Then they'll call to schedule the the install. Yeah. So you got installed as well. You're not doing it yourself. You know, I could, but it's like I'd rather not. Well it comes down to if something is done wrong then you know for the fault 150 bucks or whatever it is for the install. Yeah. That way if the a wooden floor in the kitchen gets ruined, you go, Hey, Lowes, you want me a new floor rather than me being responsible for it?

Because I know it's not that hard of a deal when you're replacing a dishwasher. Now, if you're doing it for the first time, you have to run electrical perhaps, and you're running some lines, of course, for the water. You're running the the exit line for the water. Yeah. So that would be a little bit more difficult. But yeah, I don't want to deal with that. I'm a podcaster who doesn't see very well, so. That's right. You don't want to play with water and electricity.

is the breaker off? I think so. That's famous final words right there. But otherwise it's just just, you know, hey, we're getting ready for the holidays. Nothing all that exciting. You the switch topics. You watch the news and debates. I did not. I watched just a couple of clips. I could not stand watching the whole goddamn thing because because it's a million was, you know, every time one guy opens his mouth, it's a lie. In the meantime, the other guy opens his mouth. It's a different light.

It's like, well, it's not so much light, but I know that is just he's not presidential material. That's the problem. It's like he's got presidential ambitions and he's actually a very good governor. But he doesn't he doesn't have the self-confidence. I think He doesn't control the army. Yeah, he doesn't have the sizzle. No, no. He just he looks like just your average dude who found himself in front of a camera and he's like, Yeah, so what are you talking about? He's not very eloquent.

Yeah, eloquent. But I think it just comes down to self-confidence. You know, there's he looks literally every time he's in front of a camera, he looks like it's his first time from a camera. And that does not make people want to vote for him. Well, the US presidency is a popularity contest, much like in high school. You know, the US president is really the homecoming king.

So you have to and this, you know, this this is what we learned about John Kennedy and why a much less talented, less qualified person won versus Nixon. Well, that was the original television debate causing people being able to see the president rather than just hear or read his words. So this opened up a whole brand new style of politics. Because image all of a sudden mattered a lot when you go back in history. This is what happens when you give women the vote Gene at sur gene dot com.

And still nobody emails. But now, if it was a woman running, then you would have totally genes like that. I'm going for the hot one. Totally for president. No, I don't really need nuclear warfare every every 28 days or so. Well, you think that would just be at that time of the month? You think it wouldn't be. It hit that button? I don't know. I don't know. But Putin told me I was fat. But you are fat. Mom. Nuclear war.

Hey, I have seen weirder things happen, so if you finally get to that point, so I don't know. So Newsom claims he's not running, and Santos is running, but not on the ballot. So it's an interesting debate, right? These two guys who have no chance are arguing with each other because, yeah, the scientists, unless Donald Trump is gone from this planet. Yeah. Because I don't even think going to jail would stop the. Well, no, I don't think it would. And here's the interesting thing.

I don't think there's anything in the Constitution that says somebody that is currently incarcerated cannot be elected. Totally. Yeah. Which means instantaneous. And here's the thing. If they put Donald Trump in jail because of the fact that there's nothing in the Constitution that says if you're incarcerated, you it doesn't keep you from running, then people will surely vote for him. So he could in the middle of his elected, he gives himself a pardon and walks right on the part of himself.

But he could hand over his presidency, as they usually do when they get medical things done to the VP who could immediately pardon him and then give him his presidency back. Yeah. Yeah. I think there's there was some debate on whether a president could in fact, pardon himself or herself. I don't think this is a clear cut and dry thing that they cannot it's never been done because it's never been done.

And I think it won't ever be done for a reason, which is if you do that, it immediately becomes a court case and no court will want to touch it. So it's going to go to the Supreme Court who also will not want to touch it and they will not want to touch it and nobody wants to touch it. It's I don't know. It's it wouldn't that be a smart thing?

And I think it's much cleaner just to to come in for a word removal procedure, hand over in jail, hand over your presidency to the VP who instantly pardons you. And then you get to be president an hour later and you go, no, no, I didn't want them to do that. But since you did, you have to really try. But also, I, I mean, how much temptation would there be to really have fun with executive orders if he ends up in jail? This is true. I would like the the FBI and the U.S.

Army to surround this jail and take every single person in for sedition. I mean, it's like you're you can't you can't do that. Like, if there isn't a law, it should exist that basically says if you are in jail for anybody who's in jail and you win a national election, you get out of jail because the will of the people always needs to supersede law. Now, do those laws are only meant to enforce the will of the people, and if the will of the people has changed, then the laws have to as well.

Do you go right back to jail after your terms over? Well, see, that's where. Yeah, I think that might be an issue because you're you may have a that would make for a hell of a presidency, wouldn't it. You're the most powerful leader in the world. Theoretically, after Putin. And then you're you're going to have to go back to prison to read your stuff. And, you know, unless you have somebody that will then give you a pardon because you can't do it yourself. Right.

I mean, why don't we just do that for all presidents? I'm up for that. I'm totally for that. That's part of the deal of being is just you become president, you can have up to two terms and you live out the rest of your life in prison. Yeah. As they all should. Because they're because we know George Bush definitely should have the original George Bush that Billy Bob Clinton definitely should have that the second George Bush absolutely should have. Barack Obama's not even the real person.

So he definitely should have. And then, you know, Trump, they're working on the current guy. I mean, there's nothing there. I think it might he should be in an insane asylum, not prison. Yeah, but Bill married to Hillary. Isn't that kind of worse than prison? It is. I mean, that's that's the one thing that really makes me pretty much forgive everything about Billy Bob is that would you not do worse if you were married to her? Probably, yeah. I mean, you're like me.

You'd be liable to kill multiple people as a result of that. It could lead you to that. He tried to eat his feelings, You know, he went to the all the way to Burger King and. Yeah. Yeah. Bill O'Reilly told a story last night that he went to a Yankee game once sitting in the owner's box. They had. He had Bill Clinton on one side of them and Henry Kissinger on the other. And he's like, I wish I could have recorded that conversation. I can only imagine that would have been interesting.

I had a conversation with a friend of mine that was in town for Thanksgiving. We went and had some coffee and he really had a story to me, which I can't I sort of heard before, but with more details about how he had ended up meaning Larry King. And, who's the other guy? It's a good, quite fascinating story. Yeah, Larry was. And Ross Perot. Ross Perot. Ross, you're the boss. And he was at the time a young man smitten with a young woman.

Girl. And of course, the Mormon girl was trying to tell him, well, you know, you can have me since you become a mormon. That's how it works. And so f part of his whole like pre conversion therapy or whatever they call that he was going through this like you have. You asked a lot of questions of the leaders in the religion, blah, blah, blah. The long story short is from the local Mormon temple there, the whoever the head of it is.

I'm not sure what the Mormon levels are not familiar, but that dude says, hey, you know, the the head of the Mormon Church was not the head anymore. This is like 25 years ago. He's going to be in town. And would you like to come by and and listen to him? And my buddy goes, Well, yeah, I mean, that would be interesting. But really, I'd love to ask him a couple of questions. And so the local Mormon diocese, let me see what I can do.

So he he ends up going to the event where this guy is speaking and he says it wasn't very big. It was maybe there's maybe only, you know, 70, 80 people there and pretty much like high ups in the Mormon Church. And then a bunch of people that he later found out there were going up in the line to speak with him. And then he was waved over to go speak to this guy. And he was in the line of about five or six people. So one of the people in the line was Larry King.

The another person in the line was Ross Perot. And then he had the the I'm not even sure what his title is, I guess the the Emirati king of Emirates. I don't know what he is being a follower of Emirates. Yeah yeah. A the head of the and and then the.

Yeah And so basically my buddy in his twenties total nobody even line of a handful of people to talk to the head of the Mormon religion with all these dignitaries and he said that Ross Perot asked Larry King you know what what he's going to talk to him about. And Larry said that apparently his is like daughter or somebody is dating a mormon. And she insisted that he come to this thing. So he wasn't even aware of that, interested in it, didn't want to be there.

No. And Ross Perot, if you remember, Larry King kind of brought him. Larry King said, hey, well, what do you think about running for president? Which kind of was the moment that Ross said, That's a good idea, Larry. I'm going to do that. Get some more money. I can do that. Yeah, I could. I have a chart and then I prepared. Let me show you the ones that are dating. Let me tell you, he was a great guy. I like him. Yeah. He built a hell of a company with ideas. Later he bought them, but.

So anyway, so my my buddy ends up, like, over hearing those two guys, and then, you know, I said a few things soon, but obviously you can get too into any deep conversations with them because they're all standing in line for somebody else. But he just found it fascinating that he somehow managed to wrangle himself into a line of people that clearly he was not in the same league as guys like Who are you?

Yeah, it's like you're being received by royalty and everybody else is a mate and you're you're an American. You're like, What's going on here? Now, did he ask a question? Do you get all of the lives answers he did. He did. He said, I have to paraphrase because I don't remember the exact question, but it's something that the dude didn't like answering something to the effect of, you know, how do you know that? That you're really the true prophet of the religion?

Like you know, the obvious answer, Lord God told you so. Well, how do you know it was God talking to you and not Satan? Adjectives Zaydi. Yeah, right. I mean, that would be the kind of thing you and I would say. But yeah, so he, he this time was not very long in speaking with the head of the church, got ushered right out. Yeah. And I think he got I should right out of any possibility of marrying that Mormon. Yeah. Relationship was on as well like.

Yeah. Yeah. Well you just go on ahead and don't worry about, you know. So I'm guessing then he went and found a nice Latvian Orthodox girl. that would have been a smart thing for him to do. But no, he ended up marrying a, a California gold digger that divorced him and took his kids. Yeah. Not as good as Latvian Orthodox. No, definitely not. What draws you to the religion? That's mainly stuff that's. Hey, you got to have a Seinfeld reference for your bingo card. There it is.

Yeah. Yeah, that's right. That's a very good point. We can't neglect the bingo card holders and that says the Mormon levels are degrees of glory. That seems a little weird. Isn't really what they call them. That's a weird thing. Yeah, they. I'm not a mormon, so I can't judge. Well, you know, the head of the Republican Party is Mormon. Mitt. But Mitt. No, not limit the remarks. Mitt's niece, right? Ronna McDaniel Yeah. A lot of Mormons out there. There are a lot of Mormons.

And I generally like Mormons because they're polite and they don't drink your booze. well, I don't either. So we have that in common. Hey, would you like to get together and not drink? Yeah. Yeah, I guess maybe we're. The more you know that, you know, Larry King had a flask in him, offered the head of the Mormon religion. Hey, one little snort. That would be pretty funny. And then I had to relay my story about how one of my shared stories was when Seinfeld came on.

Larry King. You remember that kind of. Yeah. So it was right when Seinfeld wrapped. It was immediately post his last episode. The guy had been basically sitting on, you know, seven years of winning Emmys and like, Best show ever, biggest audience of any TV network goes on. Larry King. Larry King, King famously, I guess he's famous for not reading any notes about the people he was interviewing. He like to go off the cuff. He like, yeah, he'd like to just riff and not reading anybody's books

straight. Well, yeah, takes time. It does. Wisdom about Larry King. Yeah, that was funny enough. That was Marjorie Taylor GREENE was on O'Reilly yesterday pumping her new book, Pimping the new book. Now she's on everybody doing that, you know, And he's like, yeah, your people didn't even see write a book. And he's like, Yeah, your people wouldn't even send me the book. So it's like, that's maybe that's a whole new level. Well, what?

Like he'd pretend to read it, He'd have somebody read it for him, Right? Let's be real. Well, of course. Anyway, so he was Seinfeld's on Larry King. Larry starts the interview with something like, I'm paraphrasing, I'm going off memory, but it's something like. So you you had to know when you started the show that, you know, eventually all things come to an end. So, you know, were you anticipating they would cancel you and the look on and Jerry's eyes was like, the fuck up.

What They didn't it's like, well, and we actually, you know, we decided to end the show with we're at the height of popularity and every question that that just dug Larry deeper into the deeper hole because it demonstrated that he has no idea who Jerry is. He's never heard of them. He's never seen them. He clearly doesn't watch television in general. Right. And and it's like somebody said, we're going to book a fluffy for you after this next interview.

You know, we're going to have this comedian who had a television show. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So he's like, so, you know, you got to go back to doing stand up now that you don't have a day job, you know, stuff like that. It was like it was painful but hilarious. It was watching a car crash in real time and Jerry actually lost it. I mean, Jerry's like I. I don't know why I'm here. I know that they clearly didn't tell you anything about me, so I'm really not sure why I'm here.

This interview, this whole thing, was it a bit because that sounds like it would have been a great bet. It would have been. If it would have been a bet, I think they would have made it go a little over the top like most bits end up doing, because they want to push it beyond the edge. This was right at the edge and it looked extremely realistic. And I don't think Larry is that good of an actor to do. The straight man is basically bore adding this in it. Right, right, right.

He's like are not a Borat. He's like Ali. Gene, this interview, you remember Ali G, right? That character. Yes. They got to talk to a lot of politicians and somehow got through booking and then he would ask absolutely retarded questions from one of the politicians or not, you know, mispronounce something, but then not just mispronounce it, but use it in the wrong context. Well, you're trying to trigger the other side. Well, yeah, yeah. It's it's an interesting comedy. It's not a bad idea.

Yeah, I mean it it's, it's the just an evolution of the, you know, jerky boys. I mean, to be generally playing a prank call, right? It's a prank call. It's like, hey, let's get a rise out of somebody by pretending something stupid and then it'll be funny. Well, it is is the most base of funny. And I don't mean based in the modern sense of the kids use the word. I mean, in the just slightly above, not funny. It's the base level of funny. Everything else is funnier than that level.

And it takes very little skill and it's done at the expense of the other person because you're literally laughing at them that with them. But you could do it non-scripted. You could do it with super cheap camera equipment. And this is why YouTube is chock full of pranks. Now, the ones that I really enjoy and you've seen these, I'm sure, is when they do a prank and it feels like they do something that is like race baiting in a Wal-Mart to a black dude.

And the black dude either punches them in the face first, immediately, or pulls out a gun and says, Say that again. And then immediately, like I was doing a pretty decent prank, just a prank just spring. And the those are actually funny because in that situation, the the comedian is the one that we're laughing at, not the bystander. It Yeah. When things go horribly wrong people like when things go horribly wrong it makes it more fun.

I mean I tried calling the president once but then I got and hung up. This was this was back in the day, though. This sounds like a stupid rape joke. No, I wish it was. This is probably total deadpan expression. That's great. The calling the president won. It was like 13, 13, 14 years old. So this is going back to the Reagan years 83. Yeah. And this was when bulletin boards were starting to come into fruition. And you can find a lot of weird stuff on bulletin boards.

Sure. You could be on all the lists of the sprint and like what those other phone companies that were around at the time, the calling card numbers, which were plentiful. Then you had the things like the anarchist. That's where you're talking cannabis started. I see. Probably, yeah. Yeah. The all those text files that nobody wanted. You have the anarchist cookbooks, you figuring out how to make bombs and all that kind of stuff.

But there was also a lot of other weird information, including there was a phone number that was posted that was allegedly this, this again, going way back. Technology was not where it was today. There was a phone number that was allegedly a hotline. Yeah. To get through to the president. It could have been total bullshit. I don't know. But sure enough, the red phone probably this is the red phone, but somebody else answers because, you know, he has secretaries, but call this number.

And as described, the voice on the end of the phone said signal. Hello. Not how are you doing. Signal Yeah. And it said to say I would like to speak to the president. So I did. Who was calling? I don't know. I'm. I'm thinking about everything I've learned, reading the papers and all this. And I'm like George Shultz. One moment Mr. Schulz went on hold, hung up the phone, never called back. Don't know. I mean, the founders in the days before color.

Yes. Stayed on of the phone, maybe 30 seconds longer. Might have had Romney be like, hey, what's going on? No, it'd be more like, hey, George, you know, like the not the pretend voice of the nice old man, Right? But the actual voice of Ronald Reagan. What's going on? Did we buy home yet? George? Did you pull that trigger? Do we motherfuckers? Did we kill him? God, tell me, George, did we kill him? That was one of the best bits.

And Saturday night Live that I remember Phil Hartman as Ronald Reagan doing the switcheroo where when he's got a guest in his office, is it doing well? You know, the whole Romney nice old man thing, right? And then the door closes, he straightens up and starts talking fast. Smoking a cigaret and, you know, yelling out till orders into the phone. It was great. This is very good. That guy was such a good actor. He was Phil Hartman was a genius. And he's such a bad at choosing women.

Well well, there's a lot of us that have that as well because. Kill them, right? Well, this is the rarity. It's a very bad choice. That's only like 1/10 of 1%, if not less than that. That woman gets probably more like 30% deals. Really? You think so? I saw Seems like a lot of my friends, a lot of serial killing women. Wait, you have how many friends who have been killed by their wife? Well, I used to have a third more than I do today. Okay, so one, there's.

Yes, statistically speaking, artistically speaking, that's one third and but that was the other back in the day. No caller I.D. Now, none of these security measures that they have now. Yeah. And I wish I would have still had that phone number, although it would probably be no way to look at them. You don't think they changed that deal? no, I'm sure they would have. But it's like you would wonder if there was like a record somewhere in history.

I mean, I guess I could look that up if they're because really just actually a clip of your voice from 45 years ago at the FBI. Yeah. At 13, I sounded exactly the way I do now. So, I mean, it's totally believable that I wasn't like, I'd like to speak to the president, please. Yeah. I wonder if that's why both you got taken off the air, Maybe took them out. Yeah. They're like, Hey, did you call the president? Could have been a deer on the other voice. No, I didn't.

That's him back in the day when the reason you're going to have to find a new bozo, you need a new clown. That was back in the day when there were nine, seven, six numbers like call up for $0.39 a minute. You can talk to a girl who you know that still exists. They just called only fans is it? That's different, right? And that's literally the same thing, making a lot more money. And the only thing to have you not touch the girl in, like, ever. Would you like to bring us some money? Right.

We're still not going to let you touch a girl that's way off the table. Exactly. Yes. Yeah, that was the whole breakdown of an article. Somebody sent me on Taylor Swift that it was all like the female version of Incel that the girls don't want. I'm like. Like I don't buy that. But I do. But I watch all the videos about Taylor Swift that I know I saw them. I have never I didn't get around to watching those. I mean, it's all garbage.

And that's I don't like watching any of the personal The next Taylor Swift video. I won't tell garbage. Yeah. No idea what's in there. It's all I think the thing about Taylor Swift is usually garbage. no, no, no. This is not garbage. No, it's good stuff. Yeah, it's really good stuff. High quality stuff. Yeah, it's. It's talking about the cult and the witchcraft practices that they have. I like witchcraft. That's fun. They're trying to censor Bill O'Reilly's videos.

If I tag you in the video, I upload about 500 a day. I like tag you. It means it's relevant to you. okay. You are curating the videos that I need to watch. Correct. And instead of just them, which I like, I'm happy to start just putting all those into direct messages for you instead of online. Is this part of Bill O'Reilly selling his Killing the Witches book? Is this the Taylor Swift thing? Part of that? You should watch and find out. Okay. Will it be this witchcraft?

I do still find it funny that people are like, no, she's only going out with the football player for money. It's like they don't have enough money to pay her. Come on, now. She's only going out for songs. Yeah, that's the reality. It's for a lot of things, but not money. It's like to be taking Taylor Swift is doing something for money is like seeing Elon Musk at the dealership and slipping them a hundred to get a better car. Yeah he's like, What the fuck is this? Yeah.

So did you at least see the Babylon Bee article about it? Yes. Yeah, I didn't think that was either. So dumps Travis Kelsey for face paint boy. Yeah. And this, this stuff with the It's racist to paint your face is bullshit. I mean, yeah, the audacity of the skinny white dude that wrote the article about how this this super racist boy, not just a regular is a super easy boy, right? Is wearing Indian hemp garb and painted his face black to insult black people. You know, half red and half.

As it turns out. The reality is this is a Native American boy who is at the Chiefs game and painted his face red and black. Yeah. And by the way, it is historically traditional for a lot of Native American tribes to paint their faces, black racists, all of them racists, these fucking idiots, man. It's like just regurgitating pablum that they were fed in college. Yeah, as though it were fact. Well, and you know, the kid is a huge fan, so he's doing it to honor the team.

So it is great with any intent of like these native fucking Americans can wear any hat he wants, including that one does. Otherwise you are culturally appropriate. My God. Yeah, well, luckily I also am Native American. What the. What percentage? It's. It's actually coming through my Polynesian DNA percentages because we're technically you can't tell the difference between Polynesian DNA and Native American DNA of the Western tribes.

Mahalo. So. Exactly. So consequently, I was able to go to a Native Americans only piece by ceremony in Pipestone, which is done once a year. And how do they check you whether you have the right lineage? Do I look like I'm on something? You so authentic? It is scary. Exactly. And so I still have that pipe somewhere. I kept it in the car for a long time because that pipe is actually designated as a religious religious artifact implement. So I don't know what you call it.

It's part of the religion that you can't discriminate against regardless of what's in the pipe. I gotcha. So this is part of your religion. So if you were smoking adrina chrome, they're like, okay, exactly. It's like, look, my people have been smoking in front of Chrome for millennia. Okay? So you can't you can't be going after me for that. You can't stop me. Well, they can stop me, but they can't. They have to let me go eventually. But the whole concept of the face painting thing is ridiculous.

And this, again, just brings you down to the slippery slope that we've been on by when the microaggressions, when that whole kind of talk started. You knew you were done, you knew you were done. It was like, Well, no. He looked at me with his eyebrow. One quarter raised, Well, what's your micro penis away? And don't let the microaggressions bother you. It's like, Well, you're also not being prepared for life. I talked about a random thoughts R&D, beef outcome.

The high school here in the Chicago area, Evanston. Yeah. Yeah. That is allowing the Hispanic and black students to decide if they want to be in other classes with only black or Hispanic students. Go racism, Now, they don't. They don't allow this for the Asians, who are 5% of that community know the case could be made that they are the biggest minority here, so maybe they would benefit the most.

Yeah, but you also, if you're a white student, you can't say, Hey, wait, I don't want to be with the black kids and Hispanic kids. I want to be in an all white class. No, because that's racist. But the black and matter, that's bullshit. If I'm the white student, I would not want to be in a class with Asian kids. I definitely want to be in the class with the Hispanic in the black kids. They're ruining the curve there, too. Exactly. You got it.

It's like Joe Biden with his one of his famous fibs is like, don't don't call the poor people stupid. Referring to blacks. Yeah. I mean, it's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. No, we weren't doing that, Mr. President.

But you are. Yeah, you just said it, but I want them like, Well, okay, you know that this is going to follow through into college campuses, but I want to know what then these kids do when they hit real life, when they get to a company like, well, we don't want to show you exactly what they do. They get a black uniform and they go on the street and yell at the cops and they become like TFA, right? That is the only thing that happens. I'm like these people that think this is a good idea.

Do they think having like three Burger King next to each other are good for one, for white ones, for black, one for Hispanic. Because that's what it sounds like to me. Now hold up. That means everybody gets served faster. I don't see where the problem is. Like more Burger King's are good. I mean, don't let racism get in the way of practical. Yeah, don't. Right. Don't let racism get in the way of me getting my quarter pounder with cheese faster better curve of grades. This is exactly it.

But this does not really go along the lines of everybody should be able to live in harmony together. The separate concept just doesn't work. You're not preparing people for the real world and it is not living up to the ideals that everybody should be treated equally because you can't be treated equally if you're especially like, Well, no, no, the color of your skin is this, that you can have this class if you want. your color of skin is different. Well, you could have that class if you want.

It's insane that racism is now the answer for while. Racism. Yeah, it's I don't think they know what the word means exactly because of Joe Biden's racism. Did you watch that little video that Babylon B did? And it basically took a lot of the nonsense gibberish that Joe Biden speaks and made a movie out of it. No, that's like a cowboy movie, like a 1950s cowboy action flick where the main character only speaks in Joe Biden idioms. That's scary. It was hilarious, man.

It was hilarious because it had the a, you know, a black cowboy in there that Joe Biden was constantly managing to be racist, too, even though they're like, he's supporting him and he's buddy and everything. I saw a fantastic episode of The Rifleman last night, Sammy Davis Jr. A black gun black cowboy. Yes. How fortuitous. And the guy I'm guessing because I know he'd done other Westerns with the Rat Pack in that him. He was the sharpshooting work with Buffalo Bill.

He was doing things like fast draw, spinning the gun, doing all the crazy gun shit you've ever seen, like one of these trained cowboys do. And he was doing that and we know at the time there was no CGI. There was no no. So he was doing this stuff and it was like, Damn, this guy could handle a gun like a professor. No, no wonder if he was completely drunk or he decided to not drink for a day. I know it was one of the other. I know Dean didn't drink nearly as much as everybody thought they did.

Sinatra probably drank more. Yes, that's true. Absolutely. Drink more. And I know I heard there was ham in Sammy's memoirs. He's actually complained about how the the other guys were constantly pressuring him to drink, even though he weighed half as much as they did, right? yeah. He was a small dude. Yeah, he's a little a little tiny Ethiopian.

Yeah. In this in the show, you could really see that when the sun in the show and The Rifleman stands next to Sammy Davis Jr and it's like, Wow, you are so little guy. Yeah, yeah. Sammy was very little. Well, just like his son Prince, right? It was actually kind of a similar look. They were both musical geniuses. Yeah. Sammy was really beyond a lot of what he was. Let's see, since he was the most actually talented of the Brat Pack.

yeah? Yeah. Not to say the other guys weren't, like, good, but Sammy actually was talented. I mean, he could dance, he could do impressions, he can sing, run whiteface. Well, right now, that this again is where Megan Kelley lost her job. Yeah, Talking about the blackface. Now, if somebody as a kid growing up was like, wow, I love Sammy Davis Jr. Man, I want to be just like a little white kid.

And then Don does a costume and it wants to darken this get a little bit because he loves Sammy Davis Jr. That's right. Well, you are a racist kid. Well, either that or you become the president of Canada. Yeah. Yeah, that poor Canadians man, Justin Trudeau. I mean, they deserve it. They're too nice. They deserve that. Would you trade Joe Biden for Justin Trudeau? No. God, no. No, You would not. So you're looking at this like, No, still wouldn't do that. Now I would trade.

I mean, people are going to hate this, at least a few of that listening. But when we I would totally trade Biden for a button. no, no brainer on that one. I mean, because we have someone who is running this country. Yeah. Our economy would be up 5% instead of down 20%. We would have great religious protections. We wouldn't have pedophilia. We would have a military that is the best in the world. I mean, it's like there's so many pros to him running the country. It's crazy.

He's like pedophile. You're going to the front lines. See you later, dude. There's nobody tougher on socialists than him. You know, he has to deal with those people. His whole life, and he wouldn't put up with all the woke nonsense that's going on. Well, it is nonsense. And you're seeing that the Israeli thing is making for some interesting revelations for people. Julianne, Marcus, be nice to sit on the sidelines. Right. It always is.

And Julianna margulies, you know, the Royals, the Irish have had their own issues in that. God bless. Shane MacGowan finally went to heaven at age 65. That guy was a poet. He said he was afraid to join the IRA. That's why he went in the music. The happy you did, because he made some good music. But Julianna margulies talking to one of these woke crowds was basically I mean, you want to talk Seinfeld losing it.

She's like, Hey, all you these members go to Gaza, they will fucking cut your head off. Know what you're supporting? Why are you supporting this live? Yeah, Like people are morons. They are morons. And unfortunately, there's quite a few of my knowledge in the social. They are. They're everywhere. They're everywhere. I mean, that's not unique, but. But what the hell I'd like. Why would you listen to no agenda if you're a moron? Well, maybe you. You're looking for very certain things, I guess.

I don't know. And I think this is why their show did very well under COVID, because it was a very clear thing. They were telling you that the virus was not crazy dangerous to most people. To some, yeah, they died, but they also do in bad flu seasons. Grandma and grandpa in the nursing homes are not safe from that. Yeah, they talked about alternate treatments. A lot of people were pro that. They talked about how the vaccines are in fact dangerous to a lot of people.

And it is a case of people want to tune in to have their feelings and their ideas echoed back to them. Yeah, well, sure, I'm sure you run into the same thing on your show when you say things that people disagree with, then they get very mad like, why are you why are you giving us liberal talking points? I wouldn't know because I never get feedback. Nobody ever talks. Maybe don't elicit new money. I want to listen to a few shows to give you feedback.

If they should come up with some feedback, that would be that would be helpful. Plus you can hear what my voice is supposed to sound like. Okay, maybe we'll hear. What I'll do is I'll take one of your When you do a new episode, I'll take that episode and then I will into splice my own voice and it'll be called Surging Speaks. And then I disagree. They go, Yeah, that would be good.

So that's actually touching on the idea of serving here the other day, which is the most popular format on YouTube videos is reaction video. yeah. How well do you think reaction videos to podcast would go? Well, it would like to pick a podcast and then the video on YouTube is just me reacting to the podcast. Are you familiar with podcast Sir Carl from Who are these podcasts? No, he is a long time no agenda guy.

You had him on talked one a few different shows and they do a show called Who are these Podcasts? Audio only. Yeah, but they take clips from podcasts and rip them. So I mean, kind of what you're talking about here. Yeah, except without the ad and advertising revenue. Well, they were value for value for a long time that he did do. And it was funny because the first two ads who are these podcasts and Ben Rhodes love that show with the no agenda stream even though it was Sarah Karl.

The minute you have advertising that can't run because we don't do shows on the series, I've heard lots of ads on the agenda stream. There are now it's the people in the show reading from a legit people that listen to the show rather than hey, because the first ads that who are these podcast gotten were from one of these ball shaving companies like yeah man ball shavers Yeah so that's an obvious that's not like hi you know I am a net that I have a company that I will shave your balls.

No it was there is a man's net net and you never told us that. Hey, things are bad in Detroit. He's got to make a little bit of extra cash for the holidays. You never know what's going on as a ball shaver. So there is yes, there are some loopholes, which is if you get a donation, is nicknamed Sling Blade. Somebody mentioned something, then, yes, you can hear that. But there are interesting concepts. It's funny.

I mean, it's always you're making a reaction to a podcast going like, well, this is good. Well, that's no fun. No, it has to be a podcast that you're going to rip on and make fun of, of course. But I think that totally works either for and that's what they're doing on YouTube for YouTube videos. A ton of people do that. I don't know if I've ever seen. Here's what I was thinking.

And you know, I'm lazy, so I may not do it, but here's my thought It was you basically pick a podcast rip, I mean, to, you know, study and analyze and write and talk about and, and then you create an air art of a podcaster and you use that as though that's what that person actually looked like because you got to have something visual on YouTube, right?

So you not only hear you ripping on the podcast, but you're, you're using a cartoon image that you pulled out of thin air to describe this person talking. It's not going to be a flattering image, is it? Well, is art ever? I'm yes, every now and then. Okay. For I guess it would be for you because you only put one single thing into the our generator, which is Taylor Swift, and you've got about 400 words to fine tune it.

So you actually get stuff to come out that looks like it's not on the album cover in that way. You've got your own little personal, you know, it creates nice photos on air. I'm sure you could make them seem horrible. I think that's the default. I don't know. Maybe you're using the wrong thing. I just. Stable diffusion, maybe. Yeah. Anyway, I'm using Q Ooh. So you're going to take the audio, then you're going to have a represent nation of the podcaster or broadcasters, right?

And then you're going to have yourself in while you're going to be the main one, because then a reaction video, the main videos you not the. Yeah. So you just have a little screen and then you're like, whoa! And you're going to pretend that you're surprised because like, you haven't heard it before. I heard it before. It's all just coming from submissions that I've never heard these podcasts, which is true because I don't listen to. But this maybe that would work. Yeah, I don't know.

It just sure, somebody has to be doing it, trying to come up with things to do on YouTube because YouTube like throws you way faster and generates way more money than guess, but it doesn't have the same panache. Yeah, when you say I'm a YouTuber versus I'm a podcaster, people know that if you're a two bear, you can afford both. The other is you've taken a vow of poverty and the other one just wears a bathrobe all day long. Yes, that's. Well, you do that for an Adidas tracksuit. Hey, hey, hey.

I'm wearing Venus tracksuit. It's not a bathrobe. Is that kind of from a certain cultural aspect? Isn't that it's a sporting uniform. I'm a sportsman. I am. I do sports of all things. I could see that working in small little clips of. Yeah. I mean, you'd have to. These would be YouTube shorts, like 30 seconds, 60 seconds, not any longer to 60 seconds, because that's more like a tiktoker, though. Exactly. That's where the money is. are you going to do Tik tok?

You really are tik tok paying out on people. Yes. And they must be. I'm saying YouTube shorts is a rip off of Tik tok. Right. But YouTube shorts pays. That would make sense. And it's amazing how many views these little short, little trippy things get. You look at some of them and you're like 36 million views. I'm like, well, this little bitch, that guy just made $36, right? Is that's about what you're getting. Yeah, but they make 20 clips day, right? That's real money, man.

That's more than most people make. But I can't stand watching short clips. I mean, if there will dumb I don't mind them because you have to do it to really truly encapsulate the full story arc into 60 seconds, which is it is a skill. I will it's a skill. It's definitely a skill. It's a it's like the editor is the one to give praise to that point, not the actual person in the video.

Because you know, somebody who is in the video that whose channel it is generally lacks the skills to edit their own videos. Well, and for the love of God, if you run a channel that has full length content. Do not put the shorts on the same channel. I don't know how else you're supposed to get rich, man. Come on. That's how. That's why I unsubscribed. There is nothing worse than, like, the one race car driver, Kenny Wallace. I enjoy watching his shows.

He, you know, gives his viewpoints on the racing scene. And he has an interview show, which is very interesting. But if he does an hour interview with somebody, I want to watch the whole hour. That's fine. What I don't want to see is that broken up into 75 different one minute clips and intersperse because then I can't find the main content easily. Yeah, it's like separate those out there. YouTube.

There definitely should be a way to do something where at the very least I could go into YouTube and be like filter out anything under 4 minutes because I don't want to watch it. I just want the length, I want the good stuff. They're making the full length a lot harder to find. Yes, it's because they're making less money on the full length, I guess. I don't know. I suppose that's what it is. Did you? Gurus says all it takes is a fistful of Adderall and you're going to love the shorts.

Maybe. True. Well, I can focus. I can focus and I can absorb all of this stuff. No, it's not. It's it's not that you can focus that you won't be able to focus for a half hour show. You can only watch them in 60 seconds from. It's that point. Now, that may be kill the attention span. Yeah, I mean, that's I think this is the thing that people don't understand about Adderall and similar drugs is that they say, yeah, it improves my focus. I can focus really well.

Yeah, What it does is it it shifts you from being able to focus on things that are normal, like hour long episodes, but not focus very well, like an average person, you know, like you're going to be distracted over the course. That hour never lets you focus on 62nd little clips really well, but try watching an hour long video on that or on see how you like it going. Can be flying at your scalp. We do not give medical advice. I've never done Adderall. I have no idea what I'm talking about.

If you've tried every drug on the face of the earth, just professionally. No, that's true. Have you tried any new supplements lately? Is the garlic working out? my God. A lemon? Yes. We need to go. Do you go through a supplement update? I started doing it. Did Certified supplement. Four, five, five, five, five. Is this a new thing? p5p It's the latest one. I probably add like one a month at least. What is ad5p? You need to start doing P 50. I need to start doing p5p Yeah. By your act.

So phosphate, explain that. I mean, I don't know. I've never heard of p5b Yeah, I know most people haven't. That's why you start doing it but now makes it so, I mean they make everything else you like now the brand. I mean that's one of my go tos. It's always seemed decent. Do you know anything about now Supplements? they're all the same. They're all the same, pretty much. You remember I used to run a supplement company. Well, that's why I'm asking you. Because you bring actual knowledge about.

Finally, there's something you bring back you Now I know right? It took a long time. We finally tracked down something. I actually know a little bit about it. It's like. Jane, could you give us the skinny on this? You're like, They're all the same. Well, I'll tell you, you need to take this stuff because it's good for lipid metabolism, It's good for hormone modulation, and it's good for gene expression. I like Jean. So, I mean, who doesn't want Jean to express everybody?

That's machine and it's vital and gluconeogenesis. So I don't understand why you're not taking it. It is a ul dietary supplement. I take one capsule daily with a meal. Yeah. so this is coenzyme B6? So it's like instead of coenzyme Q10. So is this is this a relative to co Q10? Is there no. What is then. It's okay. So it's vitamin B6, So it's mainly a vitamin B supplement. Is that what we got here? Well, it's not really.

I mean, we categorize a bunch of stuff as part of the B family back in the fifties. And what we're finding out these days is that there's a lot more to that family than we're aware of in terms of where it's utilized. And we also called a bunch of things vitamins which aren't really vitamins, you know, that we've got some language to fix. I think on the supplement front, I feel more energetic and my mood has definitely improved while listening to Unrelenting. I'll do that as well.

Yeah, well, that's true. We are very upbeat, certainly. Yeah, I am. I mean, I don't know about you. You're often like, now my my spaceship crashed and I have to get insurance for it. yeah, The show's over. I'm done buying spaceships for a while. Really? Yeah. No new spaceships. Wow. Well, they. They're not selling them anymore in the. Let's see here the p5b 90 days supply for under ten bucks. So it's not expensive.

Pick it up and then see if you have a you have a different modulating your hormones better immediately in your mood. We're not giving medical advice. Nope. Unlike unlike the Amazon review. That is all caps. This works. Exclamation. Exclamation. What do you mean by though? It works. Yeah. There are a lot of supplements out there. You can go crazy. There are a lot. And that's what happens when anybody can create a supplement. Write an exit strategy.

Unreserved supplements. It's a Yeah, I only sell my supplements in the Asian market, though. well, that's good. That way. It seems way more legit. It's totally set up. Yeah. Got to be legit. To get to quit. So that's my. That's not advice. That's my story time venture for you personally. Just you to learn about a new supplement that I'm taking that you may want to look at. Yes. If anybody listening decides they'd like to take it, that's of their own accord. Absolutely not.

We have nothing to do with it. Will it make me a bigger Taylor Swift fan? Is that possible? Probably. Probably. I mean, I'm still when it comes down to the music, a bigger Pogues fan base. I mean, people don't give me crap about that. I listen to all sorts of music. It's it's interesting because I would actually say while I enjoy folk music, I think Taylor Swift has much better lyrics. I don't Here's the thing. Like poetically, her music is actually better than the Pogues now.

But but the Pogues, I think, are good at conveying emotion. True better than she is because all her songs are about their last breakup. And within there have been a lot of them. Yeah, with kind of a bit of a whole. A lot of times you just can't understand the lyrics because that was always Shane restriction. Rodriguez I mean, God, God, I'm proud drunk. You got the tone fairly good there for Shane to understand ability about the song and that mean it really adds to the credence.

It adds to the reality of Irish thing. Yeah, I can completely imitate his voice because your teeth have to grow at 90 degree angles to each other and then lose them because of mouth. Yeah. So I mean, a lot of people were surprised. I remember when he turned 50, which had been 15 years ago, the world was like, my God, Shane lived off 50. Yeah. So the fact that he made it to 65, I mean, he a pretty good run and he was somebody that was rising on his body that most.

Yeah. And I think he ate once a week or something probably either potato week. All you need is whiskey is all these Irish diets the Irish diet and a potato mass. One potato and all the whiskey you can drink. Did you watch the Irish cartoon that I tagged you with? The Irish cartoon? Yeah. It was done by Seamus. And it was about the Irish riots. No, no, I didn't. my God. You need to catch up. You need to seriously get up. Yeah, I'm doing too many things at once.

Well, maybe consider doing less podcasts. Okay, we'll drop the one on one. Drop the one that has the least money coming in. Nobody listens. Well, that's this one. Because you like it. Don't send us any money. Yeah. Remember, kids, don't send this any money to people. Didn't listen to it today. Travis Hawes. And think that's the first time we've heard that name. Year 565. Yeah. He said, I always thought that Mama got a squeezebox was about a nympho Who knew?

GIGGLES Well, that's why Papa never got any sleep. Yeah, You were talking about possibly getting your accordion. Yeah, I'm. Yeah. Any steps closer to getting that accordion? Yeah. I talked to my dad about thinking about getting an accordion, and he's like, Son, what's wrong? He's like, You know, he's actually too old to learn it because it's a cry for help. Well, my dad's 144, so he has to know what it's like being old.

I mean, nobody wants their son to come to them and be like, Dad, I'm thinking of getting an accordion. Yeah, I'm like, Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. No son of mine's going to get one of them squeeze boxes, and. Yeah, well, he's. And I want to get a button accordion. He's got a key accordion. And I used to have, you know, I mean, I played accordion, like, traditional keyboard accordion when my youth back when it was popular, Back when famous accordion players like breaking into Yankovic. yeah.

I mean, there they're more famous than Frankie Yankovic when it comes. Probably not. Probably not. Certainly not in the Midwest. You know, there's weird Al, but he is not related to Frank. He well, he is. He didn't think he was, but it turns out that he actually is. Really? Yeah, well, we talked about it. The DNA, like one of these three and me things speed it through and is like, no, apparently they come from the same family that came across the boat.

Interesting. Yeah. It's just like four generations and they've got the same accordion accordion thing going on. Yeah. I mean, one made a little bit more, although back in his day, Frankie Yankovic was pretty big. He was. He was up to his teeth. And ladies, let's just say that. And we still know. We still know who he is today. So. Well, we're the only two, but maybe, you know, we're old.

We are old. Yeah. Every time I we start talking about these types of topics that are very Midwestern type, I just start thinking back to the old SC TV skits with John, Candy and Mary. And I'm like, Yeah, that's us right now. Pretty much, Yeah. And then Charmaine brothers. yeah, they, they got some what's, what's your style Blatz your Blatz beer. Was that what they had. What do they.

Blatz Yeah. Blatz Yeah, you know, I actually interviewed for a job at that Schlitz or Schmaltz or something like that. Little beer. Yeah, yeah, maybe was Schlitz, It was in Wisconsin and I interviewed for a CEO position out there like years and years ago and apparently I failed the personalities. Who is the CEO really like? Me.

The the guy that wanted to replace himself. And, you know, I basically got like went through three layers of interviews and and then they said, yeah, I just have one more thing. And then we, you know, have that was a personality test for you to fill out. I'm like, okay, cool. I like tests. And until this one, I've always liked tests and so I got it. And it I don't know if you've taken these I think most of us have at some point in our lives.

But it's it's a test that combines a lot of different things from spatial awareness to math to philosophical situations like the trolley problem. Everyone thought of that to management styles. It's a fairly well rounded type of test. And one of the things that I thought was interesting is, you know, they said I would probably, you know, they said, you know, you can have up to an hour to take this if you want, and then just let us know when you're done.

And I went literally, it took me a whole damn hour because it was I think it was about 30 questions, but they were all questions you really have to think about. Otherwise you get them wrong. They were trying to fool you. Well, maybe, maybe not just the one where the questions are like, if you see a fellow employee stealing from the cash register, would you turn them in? No, those are easy.

You know, I would shoot them except that turn them in and then bury them underneath the parking lot where nobody will ever find them. Like Jimmy Hoffa. You have to take care of your own problems, too. Yeah. So, no, it Was it? Boy, it's been so many years, but it had some interesting questions. But some of these things, like you really have to work out like what they were trying to get at or the answer. And I went through and I finally finished. And then it was like, now.

And then the secretary came by back and is like, so, you know, you're I was wondering if you were going to call me up tonight. Is it like already been an hour? So I said, Yeah, yeah. Well, you know, a lot of, a lot of tough questions there that I want to make sure I feel I'm the best answer for. But I got it done. And it's like with you answered all the questions. Why? I'm like, Well, yeah. And she's like, well, is it? I've never had anybody answer all the questions.

And how was anybody finished? Quicker than an hour then, because the questions are meant to not be answerable. So it's just like a trick than a trick. It's, it's to gauge how you handle stress. My solution was to answer everything regardless and yeah, I mean, just because a question asks, what do you do? Well, kind of like your example of, you know, if you have to kill an employee in order for profits to go up, I guess some people just don't answer it. I don't know. What would you do?

You're like Kobayashi Maru, baby. Yeah, exactly. Well, are you not familiar with? Not because I didn't get hired. Right. So I was looking forward to bringing in a beer company. That would have been a fun experience. Jean, we really like you. Your personality's great. But this test says you're a raving psychopath that we had. It's literally what it says that. That is correct. The test apparently said extreme psychopath. So they did not hire me fatally. I don't think that was accurate.

Don't understand why. But they I mean, like I would have told them if they would have asked. It's not a you know, I love taking tests. I've taken all the psych profile tests out there. This is not a secret you're using on my LinkedIn site. And I literally list my personality profile results on their political psychopath. Totally legitimate business man. Yeah. And on LinkedIn, that's a plus. But that's what people that's for, right? Not for everybody, apparently.

Dude, Speaking of test, and this is not me doing my own porn. I still think it's a funny story. Don't make me look good. Did you just say tooting your own corn? Porn. Porn. That's a C-H sound. You mis misheard it. It's a it's pronounced corn, but it's spelled corn. I said I'm toot my own corn. My own corn. So there was a there was a some kind of weird ass consulting job that I was applying for that was supposed to be lucrative.

And part of their test was like, we're going to have you do an intelligence test. And I'm like, Great. I love taking tests. And so they send you to this website that has an app that is like mental stimulation and test app, like whatever, and what they've got a bunch of different little puzzles to solve. And a lot of the puzzles have primers on it, right? So, so you have a limited amount of time to answer correctly. And I think there's five different puzzles on there.

So anyway, I did the thing, the results were, you know what, 95%, something like that, when I was like, there was something to this thing and I this is not a job I didn't get because apparently I, I answered everything because, well, that story interesting. So I'm going to talk about the job I didn't get. But after using this little app, I thought, well, this is actually kind of fun. You know it's you like little mental challenge apps, right? Just something to keep your head going.

Kind of like Sudoku for some people. If people want to be a big fan of Sudoku. But a lot of people enjoy that. But I don't mind the little the little word games or like you're looking for the specific right word that's being used that changes something. Yeah. Or like one of the things in this game was we're going to show you two images and you have to identify the number of differences between the two images. We're the inventors of Taylor Swift.

Sure. There are pictures of Taylor Swift and there there might be nothing different or they might be one thing or two things are three or four things different. And in between the two images. And you have to identify how many differences there are. Like, you've probably seen those stats before. They're fairly common. Yeah. In this app, the differences, they give you less and less time as you progress through the level.

And and so you get to a point where they flash the two images for half a second and. Based on that half a second, you have to identify how many differences there were between. That's hard core for people with bad eyes. Well, yeah, it is hardcore for people with good eyes, too, because you're supposed to memorize both images and then compare them in your head because they don't exist in front of your face anymore. Right. And then answer properly.

So this then it had like five different sections like that. One of the sections was it was similar Alarm. Kevin Cipher just came in with $5. Thank you. Hey, we're good. We're good. It's all good work. Wait, this isn't. The nukes are going. He's like, We've got this. We've got at least another 10 minutes. Sorry, This is my alarm. Your sugar Level two, low electromagnetic. Wait, there's a pulse. There's an electromagnetic pulse. Yeah, it's actually hit night, but there's still some.

Apparently things are affecting. All communications have been knocked out. All good? Well, this one hasn't got good, so there's five different little mini games in this app. So I got through and I beat four of them. Like I got to the top possible score, and I'm kind of a completionist, right? Little OCD. And so I was doing the last one and the last one again, it was one of those things that like flashes on your screen and I could not for the life of me beat this thing.

And it was just like, I swear to God, I'm doing the right thing in the right amount time. And it's just not working. So I thought, Well, there's got to be something wrong here. So I took a high speed camera and I shot the lens and sure enough, I was pressing the right thing. But the game was marked and the app was marking it as incorrect. So I shot a video of me doing this and sent it to the company that made the app.

And I'm like, by the way, I've beat the other four games, but I can't beat this one. And I now figure it out because you guys fucked up the development on it. Was that part of it? And then yeah, and then the aliens come down, scoop me up so I can shoot the tie fighter. Exactly. No. So I sentence them and their support's like, well, I'm, you know, I'll pass it on. Wink, wink. Yeah, right. You're full of shit. They're like, why you bother?

And then like three days later I get a reply back saying, Hey, So yeah, we apparently had a bug and a glitch. You'll be happy to know that we are in the process of fixing that so you can try again and we'd like to send you a T-shirt that says I beat blah blah blah because no one's ever brought this to our attention before. You are hard core. You don't want to be on the wrong side of a gun with me. No, no, they do not. Guns are dangerous. Yes, they guns are responsible for killing people.

Yeah, I keep waiting. I mean, I've got three, four sitting in the office here. Keep waiting for him to shoot me. I know. Right? Like this time, in a matter of time that. But that when the guns go, I. Yeah, but my, my lesson learned from that is that like look how far it is guys. Don't assume that the app you're using is correct. Yeah. Don't assume anything is correct. Well, don't assume anything in general is a good advice.

But in particular, just because somebody made a piece of software, don't assume that what you're getting is the correct response there because it was a human that wrote that software and humans are stupid. yeah. Which now I'm sure it still happens. I haven't played the game Trivial Pursuit in a long time. If you're a kid of the eighties, you remember I haven't played that for ages. It was fun back in the eighties. I mean, yes, because all the questions were about like the sixties.

Now it's like they try to update it, but there were cards that were then proven to be wrong. So, I mean, I'm sure there were games that were contested greatly. The little cards did the wrong thing. So I just watched the video on Very Tiresome. Do you ever watch that Channel Veritas seem very sassy and very toxic? I have not heard of it, no. Yeah, it's it's the well, I mean, it's a play on the words.

It's basically the truth element, but it's a dude that's been making science related videos for a decade or so, and they're usually very good. And he kind of looks into sciencey or math related things like there's another one that's like, I think three brownies, one blue or something like that.

There's another Matthew that does a lot of the videos that are pretty good, but this video from Tarsem, it had talked about a fat question that the is was wrong, that everybody answered incorrectly until like a few kids that were taking the test probably back in the late eighties had reported it as a you don't have a correct answer option like this is a bad question and sure enough they were able to prove and they said you had to give that question to everybody that the test

because they had failed to put in as one of the options the actual correct answer there. Remember, here's the here's the question that that everybody always gets wrong. You have to circle one of these circles has a radius of one. The other circle has a radius of three. These circles are tangential to each other, meaning they're touching each other. How many are in? Let me see this way.

If you pick a spot that is currently touching large circle and then spirals in the smaller circle and you rotate the smaller circle around the large circle, knowing what the radius of each of how many times does that spot go around? If you do a full 360 degree movement around a large circle. So you're basically have two bicycle wheels, three times bigger than another one, and you're making the smaller one turn around the bigger one. You do like test. Well yeah.

And the, the, the, the obvious answer that everybody comes up with as well freak is it's, it's a one and a33. Right. Yeah. Because you know, you know that the circumference of the circle is two pi and the circumference of the bigger one would be three times two by those six pi. So you can cross out the PI's and reduce the denominator and you get three.

And if you unwrap the circles, if you take the circumference of each, the two circles, both the, the radius of one and also the radius of three, then that is the correct answer. You get three of those straightened out circle conferences of the smaller one to equal exactly the length. The bigger one. But as the problem was stated, where these circles are rotating around each other, that is not the correct answer. Even though it's counterintuitive.

And I'll just say the correct answer is actually four. And and I will let people figure out if they're curious at all, which probably nobody is for me. Why Answer is four. Yeah. Yeah. So it's it's I'm just having flashbacks. I know you're you're like I want my blanket. I think you know what to do list anymore. I don't want to do this Why are we doing math problems on the podcast? What is this? What's going on? Unrelenting. That's what it is now.

I did well and I always tested well, but I was always really not interested in classes for most things. Yeah, me too, brother. I never enjoyed the class. I always just enjoyed what was right, because that's the best part. Well, then you're done with it. Yeah, and I did. I was like in the top five or 10% of both the act and that sat and acting did you do both? Yeah, unfortunately. And it was since a early age.

I mean I know that's the teachers already knew it was going to be a problem because I was the kid in, you know, first grade, second grade, third grade who? Six foot tall. All right. Of course, if you're 80 foot tall. But I would be the one, you know, if that was. Hey, we're we're taking a test today and you've got your 45 minutes to do the test. I was done like 12 minutes and then going, Now what? Now? Yeah. It's like none of this is hard. None of this is difficult.

And, I mean, that kind of screwed me in the long run, because then by the time you do get to college, I didn't have the really the now it didn't have the. You never had to study, right. Yeah. Yeah. So as the stuff got harder and harder, then it became harder to play this game your way through. Although I believe I had at least one class at DePaul where I showed up on the first day, got the syllabus, showed up for the midterm, did the paper, showed up for the final.

So I only showed up for three days and got to be tough because really, why would you show up to class? What? Yeah, I, I would agree with you. You if I ask the test. Hey, I took Russian in college. I cause that's hard to believe so. Very hard to believe. I'm just guessing. I mean, how many degrees do you have? Because if you like test, I mean, then, yeah, you may hold multiple degrees in different zero degrees. Really? Yeah. So I went to college for nine years.

Well, that's an interesting plan, Yeah. Parents Love that. Once they were really, you know, that would have been for mine. It would have been after like, year five. If they're not paying, believe me, they still love that they just do shows. Hey, we haven't seen you in a while. Has Jeannie graduated, right? Sure. It's. Yeah, no, I. I think in their minds, philosophy broke me. That would be that could be quite good.

When I took my first philosophy class as a freshman in college, like, my eyes just opened up and my brain said, This is what you need to do. This explains your podcasting. Now. Does it? Did? Yeager also says, If I was on Adderall right now, I would have totally understood your math problem may be the case. I remember taking a philosophy course and it was something like the first paper was, you know, give us, you know, something on the meaning of life or the meaning of something.

And I handed it a blank paper and the teacher's like, okay B, don't ever do it again, because it was like, okay, I get it, but you can't use this for every favor. But hey, just for one, that's still a get out of paper free. Yeah, no, totally. And there was the rule in the in my first philosophy class I took from Professor was really good is that if you can justify it, then I will market as correct. And this is where you turned into the master debater. That's right. Exactly.

Yeah. And so I was like, shit, that's an A-plus guarantee for me, baby, is I will just five both sides same time if you want me to. I can talk with the best of them, Yeah. And it was great. And like, I think a lot of people thought the grading was really hard, because when you did multiple choice tests, if you if you didn't answer, then you got it wrong. If you answered incorrectly, you got too wrong. And of course, if you answered correctly, you got one right.

But you could end up with a negative score on a test if you answering correctly. Yeah. That's not a passing grade then. Well no, no. And a lot of people didn't like that that like. So I could have 80% of my tests be correct, get 20% wrong and them get a D So what you're saying in this class you were the Asian kid. I was so totally the Asian kid. Yeah, let me rephrase that. But yeah, sure. Let's go with Asian. Yeah, I was going to make another racist comment, but I'm going to skip it for now.

Yeah, let's go with the Asians. This one racist comment per quarter on the show. That's four for quarter hour. Yeah, Yeah, we're 50 minutes. Yeah. We don't want to overdo that to the point where people get tired. We don't want Apple to drop the podcast, right. They're like, wait, what are these guys talking about? no, but I know that. I don't know. I really enjoy, you know, I took a year of art classes. It was a lot of fun. I did. I did three semesters of in Taglio in Taglio.

Yeah. What is that? Sounds Italian. It is. It is the original Copperplate printing method one color or is this like a one color? So you're basically doing a like a sketch and etching. So I would say you want to come over and check out my etchings. Hey, you want me to at you, baby? Yeah. Just come back three months. You could be a long etching.

And boy, do you really learn the benefits of, both having a reproducible medium and you learn just how much of a pain in the ass it is to use a 500 year old method to print things. Well, and that's the interesting thing with the etchings, too, is that you get about a few hundred. That are good and then that's crap. Yeah. Or one, right? While everyone is doing wear and tear on. Yeah. The plate.

Which is why you see the is to some extent, I mean it's the biggest thing is that the is what we were using how many papers. Well well of course I mean I what did I mention. I took these classes back in the 1600s. I don't know. Yeah. I mean make your own paper with 13 people are signing it up left and right. It was, it was classic the instructor in the first they said, you know, some people will tell you that turpentine is not good for you. I have never had any issues with it.

And I'm 45 years old. And he looked like he was 80, which I thought, Yeah, but man, the chemical we had open vats of acid. We had mineral oil, turpentine, everything just sitting there. That was the best smelling class of all my class. And I literally took it for three semesters. I mean, there are people out there now since history really isn't taught that.

Yeah, if they hear the term mad as a hatter, they don't realize that it came from the fact that the people that made hats back in the day use chemicals that were so harsh that they went insane. Yeah, it's the the the the beavers didn't like it too much either. Net net gov was 5555 satoshis that is the first and only booster grant for the show as of yet. No I love. That's right. We'll have to see is the boosting anymore because he's studying. Yeah. He's off studying.

Yeah. He, he totally emptied his wallet for grumpy old Ben so Yeah. Did he. Although MRO has an issue where he doesn't get his half of the satoshis anyway so it's just I call this a gene issue that's called the common denominator issue. And you, you would be the common denominator to me. I love unshaven, sir, giant Bush and Harry O'Neil. That's a great show in that area. Neal Yeah, I had to empty out a bunch of satoshis from the get lrb wallet because.

first of all, around my now I got a couple of emails from them like we have a million Satoshi limit if you want. So it's like, get it out. They do. Yeah I didn't know that that maybe it's do and there they had the thing where you could sign up on a mailing list if you want to be a part of like get Albee plus where for a small monthly fee they'll be be able to do some other things I'm up to 69,000 Satoshis. wow. You are really really getting up there.

69,000. I know, right? Yeah. They only allow to a million. So you want to keep a very close eye. I better be careful. And I never know when I might hit a million and I don't even know when they added five years from now because I was asking people, I'm like, How do you what's the easiest way? What's the best way to get that on, to undo the chain? So convert that into actual bitcoin or whatever, you get any streaming some. Yeah. And for this show. Okay. Okay, good.

Because I was going to say I see zero streaming fast for this show. Yeah, for this one. Nothing. Now I do get them on the nobody this other show this show using podcasting to point out it seems that way or they're not they're not giving funds or you're just have you checked the we having zero listener issues we get the actual boost but we don't get anything streaming.

So I'm assuming that would be the only issue there are I get them for the only way we wouldn't get anything streaming is if nobody listens period or if the people that do listen all use apps other than podcasting 2.0 because I think I've got a default rate now. I mean, anybody that's listening right now, a lot of podcasting, two point app, if you can stream a few stats then we'll at least see them or yeah, just turn on streaming.

You could turn off in like 3 minutes if you want, but it seems to me this may be an undiagnosed technical issue that you're just assuming no one gives a shit for what's possible. Because I will tell you on my I get them on all the other shows. Well, but here's the thing on before I switched to get I'll be I wouldn't get the the boost donations coming in on my old the thing I was using which I'm still paying for I need stop paying for. Yeah get rid of that.

Yeah. It's like 20 bucks a month for nothing. But you see the streaming stuff. But I would see the streaming stuff very regularly like all the time. I would see that, you know, it's coming in like $0.10 or $0.15 because that was interviewing everybody involved with podcasting 2.0. So if they were listening years ago. Yes. Yeah. But still, they're the ones that are boosted. Yeah. They're the ones that are streaming stats. No, no. Because you have it set up in this show.

You're using the address for that node. True. And I stopped doing sort of Jean like a year ago and I was getting streaming stats coming in. You should go back to doing search. Jean I am doing search. Jean There's been three episodes now since I restarted. Really? Yeah. And an excellent guess when that next one is coming up today. Wow. Two episodes in one day. Well, I left that I did three last week. How do you handle that workload, all three episodes in one day?

Well, it's easier at live the rest of the week free. well, that's at work one day. I don't understand why you're working like five days a week. You're crazy. You ought to be working one day a week and then same number of shows got too many shows do. That's the big one. You should do them all in one day the way I do them. It's a Friday extravaganza. Yeah. I don't mean seriously. It's like.

You could literally be working one day a week and getting the exact same number of shows out and getting the exact thing. The license of there was nice. And by the way, let's face it, your pre stream show does not need to be live. It does because I have to interact and and anger the trolls but you just need to pretend like you're interacting with the trolls. No one's going to notice if they're not the one being interacted with maybe blooper of noses just gave a thousand stats, just came in.

I don't know. But that's like 1000 sounds depreciated and everything. But what we need is for people to turn on the little every minute thingy, not the unless you're doing a thousand a minute I guess that which is possible. That would be a very you got to wait for at least like 100 minutes to verify that one. I mean that's happened with other people like Quick Tom Tom Ski 50 SATs just came in some assuming it's all working.

Well, if we see duplicates coming in, then we'll know it's working because you never know if these are just trying to be funny. These like, yeah, I'll do a one time 50. Seth Ah ha ha. These people. Tom. Tom Ski pooper of noses. Thank you. Yeah. Tom is the dude that is constantly re re posting my shit on Twitter or re Yeah. Boosting whatever fuck you call it and yet and Mastodon and and X. Yeah yeah yeah. Nobody can repost everything they put on Mastodon.

It's literally physically impossible to do it. Well if he had a bot maybe you could do it well, but I'm already posting. I don't need to re and there's another 50. So yes, the streaming stats are working. Thank you. Tom Chomsky. Okay. I don't see I don't know. Wait, you got 50? I got 24. Well, that's 25. I'm looking at the total. yeah. So you got 24 as well. Yes. Okay. Yeah. So that we have two of those, let's just,

you know, make sure that we get at least a few more coming in. But so that literally that would indicate that not a single person that listens to unrelenting a normal week not podcasting two point hours uses podcasting 2.0 apps yeah maybe we recommend going over to new or they all have empty walls, which is a lot. Yeah. Yeah. Because I've already empty them on all the other platforms and it's possible. It is possible. I forgot my log in and to get LP.

No the other one, the, the one that you're paying for. That's always. well no. The podcast app. The pod. well to listen to listen. Which one are you using. The one with the stats though. It's a lot with this at zip timers. Is it safe for others? I need to figure out a way to get in there because I know I put some money in there as I haven't listened to it because.

I only use well, I almost don't want to say it, but I use nonpartisan 2.0 app as my main podcast that I mean, I don't see you when you listen to random thoughts every week. I'm not seeing any streaming stats from in fact, not only that, you actually comment on your show with Ryan, probably like how Jean doesn't listen to any of the shit I want to call you out in real time on this show, which I thought was funny. I mentioned it.

Yeah. No, I thought that was hilarious because that literally the minute you say I don't listen, I have to text you and say, you fucker. And then I knew you didn't listen to the end of the show, though. No, I know I better things to do because at the end of the show I told everybody to buy your ponchos and return them in January. You bastard. Let me get you like I got to test. Yeah, they do have the extended return policy and operation. Now right? Yeah. You have until January 31st to return.

Actually, I don't even care. Yeah, go buy them. Do a return. Whatever. I don't get them back. So, you know, you might as well keep them. You, you should keep them. They are beautiful. I've got a pack right here. I mean, I may order another, I may throw in a poncho to everybody that's getting a present. I've said this on my other. I might as well do it on this show. I'm sure Darren will be up for half the cost.

But yeah, anybody that does a donation of $50 or greater, I'm happy to send you a three pack of punches for free. But why don't we make it 100 bucks and we'll add a mug? I just made up mugs for the rock and roll pre-show. Yeah, You want to grab? That's cool. Whatever. I just. I think it's hard enough getting people to do 50, but if you want the 100, that's fine. We'll see. But the mug, the poncho together, that could be like you're getting something back for your

for your time. You're getting something. We're turning into NPR here. Yeah, kind of. Just for a $50 donation, you'll get. You'll get this beautiful tote bag. Yeah, the unrelenting tote bag, right? Yes. I wonder how much those costs. If we if it's like a buck, we should do one with artwork by Celgene. Yeah, well, let's face it. So jeans a when you were an artist, dude, you don't need the air to do it. I am an artist and I know how much it actually takes to do real artwork.

I have paintings that I've done all over the house. It's this shit is very time consuming. Of course that's why you're an artist. Why do you think I did photography? Because that was a faster way to do art. The if you want to buy tote bags from Shutterfly, they are probably 50 bucks. No, I mean, they're probably shitty bags, but they're $5.50 a piece. That's not bad. So do those for a $50 donation. Yeah, just put the unrelenting. It's a 12 by 12 design on the front of the bag.

You just put the on like it was so back. Yeah, it is. And like, the free bag, you get the grocery store and you're kind of it's a 15 by 18 100% cotton canvas spot, clean only cotton canvas. It's not bad. Yeah. And if you wash it in dishwasher, dishwasher in the washing machine, it'll be a six by six tote bag. Yeah. With with clean though. And the unrelenting glow going to six by six tote bag for. Yeah. I guess if you have kids you could just buy an extra one and wash it.

Do people really want tote bags. I mean that's the question. Nobody wants tote bags, but it is a typical NPR gift that the $50 level you get an umbrella at $100 level or $100 supporters. I make playing cards for some of the winners over on the planet Rage contest and the playing cards were actually really nice and I'm like with that, do people still play cards? Yeah, Yeah, definitely do that. Really? You mean playing cards? Yeah. And they came out very nice. Really?

Well, what did they have a picture of Taylor Swift on every single card. Well, you just bring it up on the back. I mean, it's not like you're doing the faces of each card. but you're just doing the so with the custom back. You can have the unrelenting logo on the back of all the cards. Okay, So you basically they're normal cards, but the back is your custom. You know what I would want to do? I would want to do like a different card in the back. Well, that's like a magician's trick.

totally could do that. I totally could do that. That wasn't all that expensive either. So, I mean, it was. The mugs weren't bad for the 15 ounce mugs. They were under $10 shipped, and they're pretty nice mug. So. Really? Yeah, that's teams. I'm reasonably cheap. Yeah. From what I recall, these places charging like coffee breaths. Yeah. This is what, Because you're not selling it to the public. This is just, you know, selling them directly to you on Shutterfly.

They have, like, minimum orders of 1000. I mean, you'll pay for shipping if it's under a thing, But if you have a Costco member, this is where Costco started sending everybody. Once they decided they didn't want to do this, they made a deal with them. SHUTTER Yeah, So it's 51% off anything plus free shipping if your orders over like 49 ban No. Yeah. Like I said, I bought a few of them. Well, you think about it. I'm happy to actually do that.

So if you get actual, actual elections anytime donation in cash money now Bitcoin. What do you don't like bitcoin? It's no you steal it. You always steal my bitcoin. So I'm sticking to just regular money. But if somebody sends a donation over $50 to the show to here's the funny money, I will be happy to send you a three pack of punch. You. The funny thing, anything that comes in via PayPal or the P.O. Box, I can steal anything that comes in via the Bitcoin.

I have no choice but to have it go to you. Yeah, well, I just don't trust yourself. Well, there you go. You're backwards. This test. You have failed this test. Not really, because I would have to see half of that $50 in my PayPal before I should be anything up. No. Got to get into the PayPal baby. You wait. They're evil. PayPal could shut you down. I don't care if it's PayPal, it's something else. It doesn't really matter. There's 20 different ways to send money. Can you Venmo me, baby?

That's on by PayPal. damn. Ahead, cash in the mail. The only way to go, cash in the mail. Check, check works. You know, check in the mail. Send your checks. Don't send your water. Yeah, we don't want water. No blankets. We do have a P.O. box. Just go to Unrelenting that, you know, if you send us the cash, we will send you the blanket we can send. Well, no, they have those, too. And the price of that wasn't bad either, right?

Give me like, sleep with Jean. Get a get a jean blanket on the people would take these things. I was curious to order one of those I have or rents demanding people's interest. I know well for this show. I mean I don't know otherwise depending what it is, but you can get a blanket made up with your own design on it. It's 35 bucks, so half of that, which isn't bad. I know. 18, 17, 18 bucks for a custom blanket. I mean, what would you want it for? Well, I don't know.

Now, the ones that look like the the woven ones, those are like 70 bucks. So those obviously are way more expensive. Yeah. The other ones are more like I have the the White Sox had a giveaway that I hung on the basement wall, which is cool. You know, they say it's a blanket, but it you know, it really it's not going to keep you warm. My Geiger counter just showed up. I mean, wait, you're. Let me rephrase now.

Did did one just show up that you ordered or is your Geiger counter all of a sudden you like pegging and you're like, got to go? No, no, I am I my new Geiger counter that I ordered set up. I mean, that was the old one where out no one saw how many how many Geiger counters do you have, Mr. Testing? How many do you have? No degree. You're the only person without a degree that has multiple Geiger counters. No. Elon Musk also has no degree in the multiple Geiger counters. Yeah, but he's rich.

Yes. You buy and he lives next door. Yes, he does. You got to go find out when the next launch is going to be. Yeah, Maybe one will actually make it to Spain. Well, I can't believe they launched on fucking Saturday. They've never done that before. That totally tricked me up. I was literally ready to go there Monday and. Nope, they launched on Saturday. They messed with. Yeah they did. But it was a good launch. I mean I watched it obviously. Video And how did they describe what happened?

It was beautiful. I mean you know they had a plan. You know it's like well this was an unexpected, unplanned, unplanned rapid. The construction. You mean it blew up? Yeah. And as soon as I heard from Adam on that, it's like, Yeah, bounced off the what do you call it, The dome. Yeah. Yeah, he is. He's got a name for it. The Ash. What does he call it. Jorge Santos at F Expelled. Yeah. I thought first time firmament. So four months off the firmament.

Yeah. In the world is flat firmament he has bullets came in with that just is you did yeah yeah that's that's Adam ism we'd like to say you want a free tote bag blitz but you haven't as of yet. Maybe soon. Yeah. I like the idea of prizes. If they're deflating cheap. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think the prize shouldn't really cost more than, like, 20% of the thing you get. exactly. I mean, you can't be like, Hey, me a $20 donation, and I'll send you a $50 mug with $5 shipping. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

Like I'm losing money with every poncho. I am losing money with everybody. So which is why everybody should buy them up. How many more do you have? Do you still have a bunch of your graduate? Those with you with the three crates of shoes that you have it open? Literally, yeah I have like eight crates of ponchos and three crates of shoes. Yeah. You could just open up a goodwill. Fuck that. These are expensive shoes and ponchos. I really. I was hoping you would just stop with.

Those are expensive shoes, because then we would know everything we need to know. Imelda marcos. Yeah. About the ponchos. Do you have a poncho for every pair of shoes? No. I have way more ponchos in that way. Still buy the damn ponchos. You were supposed to have a new product that never came to fruition. Yeah, it never came to fruition because I realized that I don't want to lose money on every new product. Yeah, selling on Amazon is not for the faint hearted. And here's the short version of it.

I'll tell people what happened. So while the product that somebody was selling a similar product on, Amazon checked how much my guy in China would be able to get it for. You got a guy in China? Of course you do. You and Europe. Of course you do. Anyway. So find out that, we could do 80% profit margins. This is great. That is a good profit margin. Let's do it. Okay. Hey, we need our custom artwork on there. Okay. There's a charge for that, right?

we need to have like, we can't sell these one piece. That doesn't work. Let's do it like a three. Okay, so we need packaging. Great. Let's do that. we don't want to wait for six months until they make them. Let's pay for expedited manufacturing. Great. looks like there's a strike in California for the longshoremen. So if it's on the boat, it'll be like six before you get them and you can sell them terms. I'm like that ship airship the bitches to me.

So I had, like, thousand pounds airship and, you know, next thing you do is you add up all these cars and then Amazon gives you a fuck you fees for not having things in the format they would prefer them in. And basically I'm losing money in every goddamn item because whatever money profit is there and it's certainly not like Amazon's making money. It's just I'm losing money because Amazon takes their cut out of your cut and you know, like remember because there's one more thing that happened.

So there was an error on the box, not the printer's fault. It was my partner in this business is fault because he was the one supposed to be proofreading, which he didn't. So there isn't a couple of words that showed up that shouldn't have been there. So every single box had to be scanned, touched up. You imagine how many thousands of boxes this was? Yeah. Before you know, any over the Amazon. You have to do that before sending them to Amazon. So that means guess what?

now I have to pay for shipping to Amazon. and by the way, since Amazon has free shipping to you as the consumer, you know what that means, right? Yeah. Let's say I'm paying for the shipping to you. Yeah, that's the way that Amazon Prime works is brilliant. You as a consumer, pay money to get free shipping and Amazon in turn so tells its retail partners. If you would like to be part of the prime program you will be paying shipping for all those up going orders.

Hey your business card says you're a totally legitimate business man. It doesn't say you make a profit. Exactly. And so consequently, what ends up happening is everybody from the airline company, the shipping company, the manufacturer, the print company, Amazon. Sure, everybody is making profit except for me. You're we could be putting our meat in the same freezer.