I have no problem with sitting there broadcasting live internationally and beyond. It's the unrelenting show. Episode 98 The first show of 2020 for a Happy New Year. Happy New Year, Jean. I'm Darren. We are here again because we name the show Unreal. Last episode of last year, though, was it? Well, you missed the last episode of last year. You got sick or something. Yeah. The thing that everybody likes to get, I guess. the common cold. Exactly. I mean, it was a little more in, but not much.
It's nothing more than a flu. I mean, because I've always figured the common cold is you never really get a fever. It's just a mild little thing you can power through, as people should wear. Where this was more sleep for about four days straight. Yep. Yep. And I remember having sleep for four days straight in the past and not all the time, not every year, but certainly a number of times over the last 100 years or so. Yes, very flu like.
I mean, if you were to ask me the difference between this and a flu from ten years ago, I'm not really seeing anything. Yeah, no different. I think COVID really showed the Pacific nation of America. Of the world in general. Yes. But I consider the rest of the world to be pussies to begin to write by default. Okay, well, I forgot. If you're listening from outside of the United States by default, jeans like total pussy. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, unless proven otherwise, right? Drew, we can be swayed.
Yeah, we can be swayed. So how is my sound this year? Sounded good. I mean, that sounds like the last time we sounded. Yeah, it should. I haven't changed anything. Well, see, that's why. Yes, but sometimes not changing things still seems to magically change. Right. Sound true? I'm still on the FM seven B, I will go back to the electric voice probably for the next show. Just didn't feel like unhooking this.
And I'm still on the PC even though I've been threatening to move the the multi to the Mac for about, seven months or so. And it should just work I think, except for maybe all of the external channeling. I don't know how that works on the Mac. I think it should deep literally every single setting because the last time I used that on the Mac which was probably five years ago, it's you know I'm mostly used to the Mac back then so yeah by default.
Did the Mac let you do all of the separate channels? Do the math. Tonight's just default to that. Yeah. Or you need the little registry hack or for windows Mac in audio just seem to work well they've always done very well with audio and I think a a vast majority of audio production facilities feature Macs. Yeah for a reason they don't crash as much but at least that was the thing back in the day because they controlled the hardware, right? No blue screen.
They never had the issues with USB time out are your cue bullshit and windows. When you start adding all the different manufacturers, making all the different stuff, I get it. Every now and then things are going to fail. It was just you would hope that if they're going to fail, they would do so without taking your whole machine down. Yeah. Or interrupting audio. Yeah. I no know, there's, there's still a thing with that. I will say one of my joysticks here, the throttle that I have
for your spaceships. Of course. Yeah. For the spaceships. it when, when I reboot the computer, it have a tendency to not turn on after the reboot, which is obviously not what it's supposed to do. It should be on It doesn't even have a power switch, so it should be on any time it's plugged in and I have to move it to a different USB port to get it to stay turned down. So there's still some legacy bullshit happening with PCs and the USB. USB does weird things.
I've got a couple of different USB, you know, one of these things where you can plug like 20 things into it, you know, these nice big hubs, although it's a nice one because you can turn them on and off individually, which is nice if you're trying to like rejigger something back to life, you can just turn that board off for a minute and back on. But I notice every now and then my keyboard will just go through it's reboot mode.
So for some reason that the USB just perhaps out for no apparent reason, it's weird. Windows keyboard would be even worse than the joystick. Yeah. Did you like why it can't do anything? Yeah, this is why I have a a spare mouse always plugged in. Yeah, well, of course you should have at least three or four mice plugged in at any given time. I've got two and maybe try one then.
When you're flying those multimillion dollar virtual spaceships, you want to have at least a they sure feel like they're a backup bridge and then the backup to the backup bridge. We do have to wear different uniforms. And each of those bridges, I mean, that's the real question. Well, naturally, I mean, I've got my star citizen clothes, and I know you think I'm just kidding, but but I'm I, I actually do have physical products I've bought from that company as well.
There's a special outfit to wear while playing the game. yeah. Yeah, it is. There's a lot of experience. There's a there are glasses as in for drinking. there are. What else they have? They have a briefcase. They have sort of a I mean, they get a lot of stuff in the physical product line as well. Well, they need to make the money for the product. That's never going to be out of Alpha. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. Well, they made a hundred million last year, so you know better than this podcast.
Yeah. I mean, we just made a small fraction of that. Yeah, I sent you your part already, so that was nice. I Yeah, I saw that little message from PayPal's. Now, have you noticed that the all the physical products are getting smaller and smaller and smaller? Like the wife bought me a jacket. Like, I need another jacket. Like I need a hole in the head because you're walking around all the time. I was like, Hey, no. It's like I never leave the house. What do I need a jacket for?
But most of the jackets that I wear is a six foot six, and I'm not a small guy right? And most everything a two XL is fine. You know, every now and then, maybe a two Excel could be slightly, depending how they run slightly tight in certain areas. Yeah. She got me a Black Hawk jacket. Really nice looking jacket. And a three XL. Yeah. Way too small. really? Yeah. Like, what the hell? I mean, this is this maybe shrinkflation like. Well, you know, this way we can start saving on material.
We'll just make everything a little bit smaller. I think it makes total sense, though, because with the price of food going up effectively doubling, I mean, I don't know anybody whose bills haven't doubled for food. You know, people are shrinking their waistlines. So they figured, well, you know what size you are, we might as well just adjust the size, your new size, without you having to change the size. Exactly. So that under Biden inflation, we know you're going to be eating less.
Yeah, that's you will be able to fit into this size a little bit smaller than you were used to. And speaking of eating less, I haven't eaten for four days. Wow. So you must be in full ketosis then? I you know, I should probably check. I've got it somewhere. I've got a test kit, but yeah, I. I would hope so. Otherwise, I'm starving. Are you on a hunger strike or what? Is. Yes, I've decided to strike until it's not your friend. that. I thought it was something important like starts.
It is another thing that would literally never happen. So there's no chance you've got to have priority. I guess. Strike until it starts as well. That would be an interesting one. Yeah. We like please years later. didn't make it. Sorry for days though. That has to be an interesting. Are you hallucinating yet or. no, no, that's not happening until quite a while. It's so it's a ten day past and people say, well what kind of fest?
Which I think is a bullshit question because really if you call something a fast it should be No, should be a fast, which means no caloric intake period. It's not a fast if you don't eat anything and then you inject sugar water into your vein. Right. What if I just What if I just some fast frosties from Wendy's. That's a totally. Yeah. Like Frosty first. Yeah. A four. I think that's a best spelled fiesta that's AFC That may be Yeah I think you're confusing that.
Yeah. So the only thing that I drink is water empty. Well you have the tea doesn't have any sugar in it. Well no, cause sugar's bad. Yeah, sure. Well that's the whole point at 11 or anything are just strict. No, no, no. I'm a no garlic either. I'm just Garlic is food, man. I don't want those garlic calories. Then it's a horrible $10 that comes from a clove of garlic. It's at least five calories in there. And I just don't need that shit bleeding me. So, yeah. Get down into the Adidas outfit.
You had 10 minutes. Exactly. I'm trying to get into the three X, these outfit that I got and the damn thing. I swear to God, they retroactively made it smaller. That'll do it. That will do it. Yeah. So it's really I mean, there will be weight loss as a result of this, but I'm not doing this to lose weight. Fasting, I don't think is a great way to lose weight. But what fasting is good for is just doing a nice reset of the body in the brain.
Because when your body goes into full ketosis and it's literally only dumping as much energy into your bloodstream as is necessary, whereas when you eat, it dumps whatever you eat into your bloodstream, and then your body has to figure out, well, are you actually going to go for a run now or are you going to just sit on your ass? And I have to stress this fat, you're like, Yeah. So I actually uploaded a, yesterday a 24 hour chunk of my blood sugar monitor.
I've got one of those continuous jobs plugged in right now, and it's pretty cool, man. You can see it sitting right around plus or minus ten of 100. So it's it's kind of going a little lower now that it's going from a low of about 85 to a high of about 110 with no food and no insulin and no other drugs related to diabetes. So it's it's basically where my blood sugar was before I had diabetes.
And when I was a kid, when I could eat normally, which was so long ago, which I think actually, to be fair, it's not like diabetes starts overnight either, you know, I mean, I've had it for, what, 13, 14 years, I think, since I was diagnosed. But sorry, 13, 14. One of my thing about 23 years since I was diagnosed as the years fly by now they really do. But it's a it's a gradual process. That's why they have a thing I know people like and I'm always joke about it.
It's like, well, they got to put you into something. So now you people are told you have pre-diabetes. Yes. yeah, I've heard that. Now, the reality of it, it's it's always a continuum and it's based on exactly that. How much sugar gets dumped into your blood and how quickly is that sugar utilized and pulled out of your blood and done something with and then something could be converted into fat or it could be used as energy for physical activity.
But the point is, how quickly does your blood return back down to the around 100 level or so? And I mean, there are people that I genetically and physically are in good shape and I anybody that is never having issues with diabetes, but I do include some it'd be fun to test his blood sugar and see what happens to it because he's never done that before. And, you know, like he we eat a meal together. Both of blood sugar goes to over 200, which is normal to 50 ish right around there.
And then mine takes about 8 hours. This is like none of the fast obviously takes about 8 hours to go from 250 back down to about 100 and 2030 is took all of about 20 minutes to go back down to 95. I was like, holy shit, that's how it's supposed to work, right? That's the way the body is supposed to work. Wow. God damn. Because that's all diabetes is, is really the the fact that it takes forever to bring your blood sugar back down because you have an insufficient mechanism of regulation.
And that's for type two. It's basically your body's just used to having a lot of sugar in your blood. And so it just doesn't care. It's just like, yeah, whatever. We don't care about insulin. This is the cell thing. We're not getting any of that sugar through our cell wall. And the type one people are really screwed because they have a lack of production of insulin, which means that even if their body wants those energy cells, those muscle cells are starving for energy.
They can't get it without the insulin because that's the key that opens up the the barrier. And and so you've got a lot of sugar in your blood and cells that are starving for sugar. That's type one diabetes. That's a nasty, nasty kind. I can tell everybody is sitting around right now think of they'd like to attend a party at your house. I know, right? It's super cool. But that's why we don't talk about diabetes. And this show is like, you want to come over and eat and test our sugar.
yeah. Yeah. That'll be a fun time. I'm going to have pizza. They'll be great. Well, you know, it's especially fun talking about food when you haven't eaten for four days. That's. That's the best part. Yeah, I can imagine. That's kind of like really having to pee and then talking about waterfalls. It's like just going to bed and then thinking of nothing but water. Exactly like that dam. Do I get up or do I just fuck it? Where is the where is the level?
Because I'm guessing that kind of goes something like this. You start out the first time you get hungry, you kind of ride it through and then you're fine for a while. But there's got to become a point where it's horrible and there's nothing you can think of except eating. And then you get to another point, I would guess, where it's just like, okay, this idiot's never going to eat. So I maze will start turning these signals off. Yeah, exactly. That totally does happen.
And historically and by the way, this is not the first time I've been fasting for shit since my late teens, early twenties. I've done fasts so way before the beard, then before the beard. And, you know, back. Back when I was under £200. Yeah. So it's something that I've historically done for this to sort of, you know, refresh, reset, cleansing, whatever the hell you want to call it. But the point is, I always feel way better after the pass than I did before.
And the longest fest I did was, I think, 18 days. Damn. So this time I'm only going for ten days, which is, you know, reasonable. I think anybody can do ten days. If you're at four, that means ten. So the next time we talk to you, you will be in a food coma because you're probably going to eat for 24 hours straight. Well, you can't because your stomach is the size of like your fist. That's not eating for a while.
So literally and this is again, I remember this from the last few fasts is I'll eat like an eight ounce yogurt. You're like, man, I'm full. Which is I guess technically another good side benefit is that it takes a good week for your stomach to get to, quote unquote, normal size of eating a full meal. So it's almost like, you know, it's elastic, but it's not immediately elastic. Right. It's it's a shrink. And it does get bigger over time.
But but you ask an important question, which is what is sort of the worst day historically from doing these fast? I think the end of day to the beginning of day three are usually the ones where you feel the most hunger pains and the most the wanting to just fuck this whole fast thing. I'm just going to eat something. I don't care. Right? I think a lot of people go through that.
Yeah, and that's why I think most people are trying to do it fast, like they get to the end of day two and they're like, Yeah, I don't have the willpower. I'm not going to do it. It ain't going to happen. You know, you can tell because when you have to do things like the colonoscopy where it's one day, although that's a whole different animal because you're loading yourself up on all the laxatives, But beyond that part, it's like it is just a miserable experience.
I'm assuming like at the end of day one or so, you know, you have to have at least some kind of headache from, you know, the whole note, the quick change. No, you don't get that. No, no, no. You just you you get a stomachache. And then they to begin day three usually. And it's it's the very stereotypical, like I haven't eaten for a while. It's the same kind of hunger feeling you get, you know, when you normally eat and then you happen to have gotten up late and you're like, Man, I am hungry.
Where's that breakfast? Except multiplied by like ten, right? But it's the same type of feeling. And I'm not really prone to headaches in general. I don't get migraines. I don't I mean, I think last like I had was probably a year ago. So I don't really it's not a standard part of my life dealing with that shit. But I will say that it is very much a the only physical aspect is just the gurgling stomach and the feeling that you really want to eat.
Yes. However, having said that, that's normal this time around. And the last time I did this was two years ago. I skipped last year. I can't remember why, but I was decided not to fast. But last time I did this two years ago and I have stoically have done it the beginning of the year was more normal this time around. It's it's a little more unusual because I haven't been hungry once. I've just skipped over the whole hunger thing.
I was expecting it to hit, you know, like not even taking those drugs that I'll try to fool you and not being hungry. I'm no, I've stopped doing it. All the drugs related to, to which we got the diabetes. Yes. So, because, you know, I don't want to. I don't wanna have my blood sugar dropped to a crazy low level that puts me in a coma. That would not be fun.
No, it would definitely lower the enjoyment of the show if I was in the coma right now, that'd be the only reason I would ever miss the show. Because I'm not a pussy. Anyway, I thought we. We could just turn on the the microphone in here. As long as the your medical health professionals will leave the monitor on, we can just get beep beep and just to. Yeah, I wish my heart rate was like 60 like that. It's more like 80. It goes up a little bit.
When it does it continue to raise without food or does that do anything to the. There's no difference, honestly, cause I think generally my resting is like 72 and my active well, Semi-Active is about 8082. So that hasn't really changed at all. You know, the only thing that really changes well, this is one thing I have to force myself to do is keep drinking because I think it's this is more related to stomach size is when I'm not eating, my stomach does get smaller.
And like for the last couple of days I've I've drunk less than 1.1 and a half liters of water, and I typically will drink four liters of water day and I think that has more to do with just stomach shrinking. So now it feels like even when I drink a little bit of water, it feels like, okay, well, I don't really want to drink any more so full. I've had two ounces. And I will say the producers of this show are so good.
Yeah. The Reverend Dr. Fifer in the room pulled out the ISO of you, saying it does shrink and it does get bigger. Now, that can be used and that makes it so. That's right. We're talking about the brain, obviously. What else? When we talk about you add that. Well, you add that to the the clip from Seinfeld, you just get George yelling shrinkage, shrinkage. Yeah, exactly. Yes, I'm experiencing shrinkage. Exactly. There you go. There's your clip. So I don't know.
But overall, this time around, it's been surprisingly non like I barely notice that I'm that I'm not eating. I guess that's a good thing. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you think you're saving money on food? Well, yeah, but again, like you said, everything's up. Yeah. The latest I mean, groceries percent. Yeah. My, my typical food bill is about 28 bucks a day I think is what it averaged. Two. Which know that means you're eating like three crackers and I'm eating one meal a day.
So we're glad this is a tie into the final point on this whole issue, which is I've been eating mostly, which means not exclusively, but most of the time, one meal a day. And so I think this is why this fasts actually is almost like there's no hunger pangs at all. It's because I've gotten used to over the last three years, which is I started this during COVID because I was getting all my meals to be, you know, delivery out of my front door.
And it seems weird to have multiple meals delivered to your house while at the same time anyway. Well, yeah, although I've done that as well. Got three lunches coming right now I've had. Well, but sometimes you just feel like getting a Dairy Queen aside from the lunch group through. Yeah, different aspects. Yeah. So they get to get both.
It's always funny when the drivers show up at the same time and you got the Amazon guys stopping by and just as the the fast food delivery guy shows up, just as the grocery delivery guy shows up and all three of them are in my driveway, it's like, okay, people move on, move along. Dean has no guests, but the people delivering things to the front door. Yeah, yeah. I don't know why people think like, you can totally be an extrovert without leaving your house.
True. Just get a bunch of deliveries coming in and then, yeah, you can. You can mingle with people and say, Hey, how you doing? How you doing? I'm Jean. Do you like my Adidas tracksuit? That's right. Do you play star citizen? Tiffany. So anyway, I think because I have done the whole intermittent fasting thing, which is what eating once a day means, I think my body's just kind of like, Yeah, well, he's just, you know, he's a schmuck. He's taken longer between the next meal. Yes, a lot longer.
Yeah. But, like, your body can't count beyond one. That's probably true. And again, as long as you have it in reserve. exactly. Like I would not suggest some skinny £130 fuck doing this. No, that could be dangerous. Yeah, because this is £30 woman. You probably should consider doing this because you really ought to be like 110. The height might matter, right? Or No, it doesn't matter at all. Really? Not really. Wow. But yeah, it's an interesting concept.
Just because of the way dietary habits have changed over the years, the amount of garbage people are putting into their system has gone up exponentially. I mean, again, I know we're old, but I hear stories from my parents. You know, growing up, they didn't have all of these multiprocessor. You mean you didn't have Cheetos and Doritos and. Yeah, I mean, you had potato chips. Sure, stuff like that. But there was mostly only since the fifties, you know, minimally processed.
Yeah. When you hear, like, you have to you have to go to the soda fountain. You know, if you wanted a carbonated beverage, I mean, there was a time you couldn't just load up. Yeah. Your favorite colas. Now, that's true. And when you made dinner, you know, you made meat and potatoes and vegetables, and you had one ingredient things rather than, you know, everything now packaged for convenience.
Yeah, I mean, there may be carrots and potatoes and steak in that little stew you bought from Dinty Moore, but Salisbury steak, all that to me. Some of those are so good, but so bad for you. yeah, yeah, yeah. And the one that I haven't had for a long time, I probably haven't had it for six months, but I still just love the flavor of and I love the reaction from an amount which is the, the mac and cheese from that orange box. What's the company name. Was it Kraft, Is it.
It probably is, but that's the main one. I mean then there are other people see like kind of reddish orange box stouffer's. It's stouffer's mac, frozen mac and cheese all over the frozen food section and it's like, you know exactly what's in there, you know, plastic and fake pasta, but it just tastes so good, like it's nothing in there is nutritionally good for you. That was good calories. It just didn't have anything else. Yeah, this is I think a box of that is about a thousand calories.
You know, like, how does that even happen? Yeah, well, it's it's, you know, salt and fat. That's what makes food taste good. True. People like salt. People like fat. Yeah. And it's like, no, I'll just have this. I'll have soup because they're both supposed to be rare. You know, back in the olden times, it's like you go to a store and buy salt or fat. Like if you get fat, it's because you killed an animal That happened to be fat because skinny animals don't have any fat.
That was the only time you ever get fat. And the only time you ever get salt is if you, you know, you were eating something that that was salty, I guess. I don't know. But if people get salt back like 10,000 years ago and. Well, no, I don't either. I went to the Great Salt Lake, the one through a salt lake out in the desert. Like some salt, I guess.
But it's funny because people, you know, when I mentioned I'm going to be fasting, everyone's like, you go make sure you get plenty of electrolytes if you salt. And I'm like, Dude, you know that that's way overhyped. You're you're saying that because you've been watching ads for drinks with electrolytes forever because realistically speaking, you're going to die from a lack of electrolytes in the course of ten, ten days. It's going to happen.
And every every fast I've done in the past, I have not done any salt water or anything with electrolytes. I just didn't water. And here I am still here. Well, I'm assuming they're not running marathons. Exactly. Yeah, that's that. That's exactly right. And the key is either fast or do strenuous physical activity. Don't do both. you don't do both. I've done both. When I was in high school, I started fasting when I was in high school.
And so I said I was in a still teenager and, and I remember passing out while lifting weights. That's not a healthy or, you know, that like a fucking dangerous thing. Frankly, we, I could just see, you know, depending on where you but when you're, when you're hungry and yeah, you're holding, a, a bar on a bench above your right, and all of a sudden you start seeing your vision start to tunnel. that's, that's a bad sign. You're like spot. Yeah. Yeah, exactly like.
And hope to hell you don't end up crashing down on your head. Yeah. So don't recommend doing that. Not the least. Not even to enemies. but if you're basically sitting in a computer or at a computer, I should say, and you're working and especially working from fricking home, so you don't have to drive anywhere, do you? Not endangering anybody else if you pass out. There's really nothing wrong with just doing a, you know, a week long, fast. I honestly I think anybody can do it easy.
If you want to do more than the week, it may take you a few different fast to kind of feel your way up to that point. But you definitely I will say back from memory again that by about day eight or nine is when your body is completely adjusted to not eating. And eating is not something you even think about anymore. You just kind of go about your days and like eating is not something you think of the way you do in the first few days. It's something he used to do way back in a different lifetime.
They're just like sitting. It's like a habit. Well, yeah, you're like, that's the other part of this is, Hey, you save time, man. I'm telling you, you save time. Your whole system just shutting down like nothing. Did you ever go into high efficiency mode mode where you produce no waste products? Interesting. If you want to do a fast, but you're missing out to ketones and stuff. But yeah, yeah, just hit gene up. Send him a big boost while he's fasting.
Yeah. And I think there is a group of folks that were going to there's like at least four people that replied say yeah I'll do it fast sometimes you but I don't think anyone actually is and nobody on the social. Well it's very hard to start I think on New Year's Day for most people. That's right Sorry on the second. Okay. Well that makes more. It's hard on the first. I totally agree with that. Everybody's out partying. Yeah. Don't start a fast when you're having a hangover.
No, that's not the time to not get advice. You want to start in a good place? Yeah. Yeah. You, you just want to be ready for it. And the only other inconvenience factor is, like, for business lunches and stuff. I have to shift those the second half of the month, so, you know, because you don't just want to show up and watch people eat. That's very weird. It's weird for both people.
Nor do I want to do this immediately after anything and fast, because there again, I'm like, well, I'm going to go to restaurants. I can pay 50 bucks to eat a piece of broccoli. You're going to tell you your caviar. Our guy's going to be busy and maybe be another another delivery. Yeah, maybe. But that's another thing. It's like, you know, I love sushi. I would certainly enjoy going out for sushi, but even just eating sashimi, I just don't think I could it like it'd be a very cheap sushi visit,
you know, because I wouldn't get all my usual stuff that normally. Yet you're like, I'm full and ready. Yeah, it's like I got my energy, my suck, my toro, what else am my matchy? and yeah, like, I don't know that I could even eat just those for my to the beat go. I like sushi, man. I always enjoyed sushi. Never had it. You're one of those. Never had it. I mean, I won't say that. I never will. I'm not like one of these.
Like I'd avoided at all cost, but not something that I have searched out and been all that interesting because I've never really been, which is why I'll die by probably by the age of 53. wait, that's soon. That's last year. Yeah. But you know, fish of all sorts are not good. I don't like, like red meat. We don't like salmon. Now I've tried, you know, like, you know, really mean I should try salmon again. It's been a while, I think.
I think it's worthwhile for you to try some don't do like grocery store, but go to a sushi restaurant once and just try stuff because I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. Sushi doesn't generally have a fish taste and it it's texture is very much like filet mignon. Yeah, that works. It's very soft. So you don't like lox either, You know, I don't know if I've ever actually had, like, smoked salmon on a bagel. I don't think I've ever had it. Wow. Okay.
Because I love that I could eat me a pound of that. You're like, this is a breakfast, lunch and dinner right there. I did. When I order a lox bagel, I usually get two of them. I do like bagels. That good? Yeah. Yeah. And bagels. You know, I generally have, like, bagels. That the problem with bagels is that they are both tasty and super dense. Right? So like, a normal slice of bread might be a hundred calories. The bagel is like 400 calories, but it's so good. It is really good.
There's something magical that happens. Dough when you boil it or not boil it, but, you know, put it in the hot water. The beauty of cooking, maybe you do boil it. I don't know. I've never made a bagel at home. Yeah, I don't know. But to get that that nice outer crust texture, you got to put it to boil either hot or boiling one or the other water for a little bit before you bake it. I did not know that. That's. That's how bagels are different from other breads.
You throw some nice cream cheese on it. Yeah. All sorts of different flavors. I mean that was the whole the capers and I'm fine with onions. Plain bagels. yeah. Yeah. Onions and the bagel that works. But then once I, you know, there was a company that made all these, you know, specialized ones like chocolate chip bagels. It's like, that's so wrong. Yeah, that's right. I agree with that. You can make donuts like that, but not bagels.
It's like, not that they taste bad, but it's just like you're you're bastardized in something. Yeah. Yeah, I, I totally agree with that. It's all bagel talk right here and unrelenting bagel talk. Yeah. And I don't know, I actually, I did have a bagel, like two weeks ago. I guess I had a I got some lox bagels delivered in from one of the little stores that makes them here.
Of course, then you can definitely tell that there is a constriction of the food industry happening because back in the olden days, let's covered or pre-COVID for sure, but even during COVID where I ordered bagels they would always come had side up. So effectively you take one bagel, you split and a half, you put cream cheese on both halves, you put the locks on both halves, of course, the onions on both halves. You put the capers in both halves, everything's on both halves.
And then yes, sell the bagel that way. So it's like two small, open faced half bagels. And just right now, nobody is doing that. Nobody is splitting it like that and using, you know, double the cream cheese and lox. Now you get a lox bagel. It's always closed bagel with one frickin layer of the locks on there. Very thin layer, I'm guessing. Yeah, like a single layer, You know, like the kind that you get 30 cuts per package at Costco, that kind of layer. And everybody is really skimping on it.
The prices either went up or stayed the same. The amount of food that you're getting other than the bagel itself has literally been cut in half. I mean, at least they could have been nice and shrunk the bagel to make it seem like they're giving you more. Well, I mean, I don't know. I guess the whole cream cheese thing, I just think if you it's hard to stuff a full bagel that's been cut in half and stuff. Put it into your mouth. I've always found. Yeah.
So I've always preferred the two split bagel halves independently. Yeah. I mean, who eats a bagel without splitting it? That's. That's how they serve them now. I mean, it's like if you take it just like getting fast food sandwiches, you know, if you if you take the top off these days, there's nothing on it. There's like no magic sauce. There's nothing on the top. We're back to where's the beef? It kind of is. And I haven't really noticed this, too.
I try to avoid fast food because it's really the worst food for you. But occasionally I'll have a hankering for a burger thing or something. Or generally Wendy's, Wendy's is more of my sort of if I have to have fast food now, I'll try and go for Wendy's because they have better quality. You know, they get a better taste. But they do have better burgers.
Yeah. And I usually get their, their chicken and I found like unlike most places like McDonald's and Burger King, if you get chicken, it is processed chicken that's in a shape in the same exact shape on every sandwich. The Wendy's chicken is just breaded chicken breast and it's always a different shape. Yes, it's nowaday mold. Yeah, I want to try. There's a middle Eastern place here. Yeah. And I, I want to try the burger because it sounds great.
They have their own custom burger which is half lamb and half ground beef. Which is with their special sauce. But I keep getting the steak shawarma instead because it's that it's pretty good. The steak shawarma bowl. It's like I am addicted to this. I like how they never had this before. It's a new place in town and they'll put spicy rice in there, a little bit of spicy hummus with the pinto in the onion and the. it's so good. Yeah. Yeah, it sounds very good.
And I mean, a lot of the Middle Eastern places here, a lot of all places I've gotten to, in fact, my default recommendation and you where is Hello. The people know you. They. Well, yeah, they think I'm a muslim. Yes, we had a long beard. They're like, all right. Guy looks a little shifty. She looks like the Muslim.
it's always funny is when one of these delivery dudes that delivers the halal food is also Muslim is then they see me and they're like, Yeah, okay, brother, until they see the Adidas tracksuits. No, that's funny of Muslims wearing these tracksuits. Okay, I didn't know it's the women that have to cover up the man. They can wear all the Adidas they want. Yeah, I'll. I'll. Nathan on Unzipped with the big chains going on. yeah. Well, that's how I. That's how I do. Yeah, it is.
It's such good to get the wife beta underneath the Adidas tracksuit. Of course. Ding. Just so that way, when you're eating something sloppy, you can take the Adidas tracksuit off and. yeah, yeah, you do it. Exactly. So, yeah, I know. I'm sure I'll have a black bag on the next few days. Once the the fastest completed included I do find it to be an interesting topic for today's show as you're fasting. Talking about food.
I know, right? But. But it doesn't really bother me, which I can make a joke of it and say, I guess great, you just doing this on purpose. But realistically, I'm just not hungry. I don't know. What the hell, man. Well, that's the magic man that people have been trying to figure this out for years. And that's why this new, you know, relatively new round of drugs is causing such. Yeah, I, I think the drugs are probably helping people. But how much of it is in your head?
How much like this drug you will make? You not hungry? Here, take this. You take. You're like, Boy, I don't feel hungry a lot. You don't? Possible. In fact, I Exactly. I think a lot of it is just in people's heads because realistically speaking, you know, there there's I'm sure the drugs do stuff. I'm sure. But in fact, I've we've talked about plenty of drugs over the the last few years of the show that we take or that we want to take or don't take that you believe do something.
When you take something, you never know, but at least seem to do something. Yeah. I hate relief. Yeah. I mean there's a lot of that. There's, there's definitely something to be said for if you're taking a pill or you put on some kind of salve that you think is going to relieve the pain, that even if there does nothing. Yeah, you believe that it does. And that's enough. Exactly. Although sometimes you hope it doesn't and it turns out not to.
And I tell you, I was pretty disappointed with this whole thing, which. Yeah. yeah, that was our last ago episode. You had the full sense that I had gout. Yeah. And of course, I go through gout without taking anything for it. Although I think for me, I may change that in the future. But I've always thought that, like, if you can deal with the pain, it's better just to do nothing and deal with the pain mentally than to take drugs that they're going to numb it.
Right. But I thought, okay, well, let's see if at least topical it'll work. So I get some of these. CB You know, like, like cocaine derived drugs, not the CBD stuff. No, no, I did. That's not legal. Texas. Do they think of that here We're like really Even the Yeah. The non THC you can't get. no. What's the THC that makes it good man. Now it's the CBD overall. That's what they tell you. Just the it. Well you can get both from our buddy Cal over at Lavender Blossom. I'm I'm sure Exactly exactly.
But yeah they're I mean you can obviously get anything you want in Texas, especially in Austin. But yeah I don't go out of my way for that stuff. But I tried the. It's not. No it can't. What does it called. It's something came. I guess I could look at my Amazon log and see what the hell I bought something. Cane. Yeah, something Cane lamp, lantern. Valentine That sound right out of cane and stuff like that. And it's supposed to be topical for arthritis, so I think that's close enough.
My dad has tried that. Put that on my my toe. So if it penetrates in my skin, gotten them, that was about it. My pain did not at all go away. The muscle pain is still there. Okay. Numb skin joints still fucked. Yeah. You know, so I guess I'd have to stick a needle in between my toes and joint. Inject some in the middle there for it to go away, which I kind of feel is probably not worth the price of admission. No doubt is not fun. No, no. And then after all this, I did some research. Apparently.
Now there's an actual gout drug that I've never seen before. there's a drug you haven't even tried. And you're like, man, this a mess. This drug will take uric acid out of your system. It's exactly what you need when you, according to the findings and the first sign of a tingling in your toe, you take this drug and it never progresses to go, I'm like, did you know about this? How did I not know about this trouble? It it's not a pain thing, right? Normally what I've seen in the past for.