The banjo. Hello, you're listening to Unrelenting episode 102. It's the podcast that takes about 100 episodes to grow on you, so you're right about where you need to be. He's Jean. He's having a locked bagel. I'm Darren. I'm not having anything right now. I just got not really covered with Gatorade, but I just got a Gatorade shower. Well, the wife went and picked up some groceries a couple of days ago, and then she was like, well, something's something's leaking here.
And I started doing something with like a Gatorade bottle. And I figured one of the bottles, maybe there was a pinhole or something to it. Doing that over by the sink, that's fine. But so I go to grab a Gatorade for the show, so I need to take my pills during the show. I'll have it. And I pull the first Gatorade out and I do it like a shake. And the next thing I know, there's Gatorade on me. And I notice that the cap is, like, crooked and knocked out.
And I'm like, Did you get right back in there? Yeah, Well, I know you say Gatorade. Are you referring to the Gatorade Zero? No, those are would be horrible. I mean, I know these things are they're awesome. You are. You're telling me you're drinking like basically sugar water, Gatorade? Yes. Well, this is terrible for you. This. Well, yes, it is. But they only drink it when under the weather and I had a bit of a stomach bug on it came on. And I'm guessing it maybe was a precursor.
Monday when I had a migraine right before doing Planet Rage. To go to bed Monday night, wake up Tuesday. It, like, raging out too much. Yes. I woke up at like one in the morning the first time, and my stomach was just a little off. And I'm like, wow, I feel a little bit nauseous. And then 330, man, I'm throwing up so much fun. And then it was just a day of sleeping and you had this low grade fever. But I didn't need anything for a day.
I'm like, How did Jean do this for ten, 12, whatever days you did it. And I was just pumping in the fluids and part of that and figured, well, when you're not eating any food, that maybe the sugar helps a little bit to sustain with a little, you know, that's the last thing you want. Probably horrible. Maybe that helped me sleep, though, for the whole day, because it was just it was like I like drink some Gatorade. And I went a whole day without caffeine.
And then that makes me paranoid because I'm like, Well, you can't do that. I know, But this is like, I couldn't really keep anything down. So then they the next day and literally the opposite of what you should have been doing is drinking black coffee, probably not Gatorade or sugar. When you eat nothing at all. The absorption rate of sugar is like soft drinks now is about 2 seconds. It's there.
I mean, it literally the minute it goes past your throat and hits your stomach, it's in your bloodstream and all of it. And then about 15, 20 minutes later, it's all gone. Gone. And then you just fall like a rock that I was sleeping. I was like, damn tired. Well, then with no caffeine. And then it was Wednesday.
I woke up, was still feeling like crap, but it was probably a combo platter of being a little bit dehydrated, having whatever the stomach bug is, then having no food and then having no caffeine. So then Wednesday was kind of like trying to get back to somewhat normal. Got to keep an emergency lax bagel in the fridge at all times. Obviously, that would seem to be very wise. Now we have guess omega three fats coming from the the salmon.
Was this one delivered to your home or was it delivered to a neighbors who had to bring it over? Yeah, it's the usual way I made it myself. Wow. Using bagels that my new York guy sent to, he got to get them from New York is where the is. That's about the only good thing coming out of New York now. Yeah, well, and I actually told you I went to see my heart guy. And as soon as I walk in and he's from New York, by the way, so he's a he's a Jewish doctor to them. Yeah. Yeah, he's just like me.
He brought the bagels and I'd like this guy. So you just show up to a cardiologist appointment. They're like, Well, you need some carbs on here. Have a bag of bagels. Exactly. He's getting himself some. This is like a dentist giving away extra candy when the kids getting out of the chair before he. Even so, the damn word about me or my heart. We spent about 20 minutes talking about guns. I like doctors like that. And the how fun they are. They are fun.
And how he bought his his nine year old son, like, snuck it past without telling his wife. He bought him a Red Ryder Bebe gun that takes you right. They just went right to Christmas movie. That was what Why didn't you try out? Yeah, I know how that goes. Well, they don't want to do that with the baby gun. Don't want to do it at all. But yeah, no guns are fun. You learn. So ability. It was pretty funny. And, and my appointment was his last one before lunch.
So we, we literally ended up sitting there clutching for like 45 minutes. And usually a doctor's appointment lasts about 3 to 5 minutes. yeah, that's what my cardiologist was. He would not shut up. But it's like we have a kindred spirit right here. he's no, he's a good guy. He's a good guy. And I wanted to get another CAT scan done. So I told them, I said, Yeah, I'll figure out a reason for it. We'll find out something.
Yeah. Hey, you know, I'll put down tell him all cancer here, and then we'll see. Yeah, exactly. I people give me shit for having doctors that actually listen to what I tell them, which I guess in this day and age is a rarity. But that's usually how my doctors, you know, work with me. It's like I figure out what based on the symptoms, I do my own analysis, figure out what the appropriate treatment is, then tell the doctor, and then he writes the script. That's how it should be.
He just confirms what you think you've got. But I told you, that's how our MD was. And the only reason he ever brought up the guns was we went in for a six month checkup and the wife and I both have the same doctor. So when it's nothing, no big deal. So we'll just go in both at the same time. That's even quicker that way. And she was wearing a Sig Sauer t shirt, and he looked at that and it's like, which one he got?
And then all of a sudden he's like, well, I've got this and I've got this and I've got this. And it's like, okay, it's gun talk at the doctor's office. Exactly. Because doctors know guns don't kill people. Psychotic people do exactly what we talk about, Like there's no gun impediment. There's a lack of mental institution epidemic. And if some crazy person who has that lack of a mental ability pulls out a gun, what do you want your choices to be?
Just stand there and get shot or be able to protect yourself. Exactly. That's never I can never understand the people on the other side of this who cannot comprehend. It's like, well, they believe there's a magical world. We'll be able to keep the guns out of the hands of the psychos. And it's like, Well, you do that and then talk to me about getting rid of my gun.
If you can go in and you can go sweep the city of Chicago and remove every gun from it, there's a sign on the side of the building that says gun free zone. That's enough. That's enough. Sure. It's the insanity of believing that you can do things that are un doable. You're never going to keep people from wanting to commit crimes.
And what we're seeing now with the lack of prosecution and the drop in the overall number of police and everything, is that when people realize the percentage that you're going to get away with the crime, it keeps growing higher and higher. The more crimes actually get committed. And nobody wants to admit that either on the left, which is if you have a higher enforcement in, people feel like they're going to get caught. Even the people that would otherwise.
Hey, I'd like to go rob this 7-Eleven, but I don't want to do time. Yep. When you take away that punishment aspect of it or make it like, well, you know what? There's only like a 5% chance the murders are in Chicago right now. I think it's well under 50% solved rate. Well, under I think in Chicago you have a better chance of getting murdered than you do of having the police apprehend you. If you did have you commit a murder. Yes. That would seem accurate.
Way better to be the murderer than the murderer. Whether you have a bagel or not. No, I'm almost done eating the bagel, but just had to. Well, you're getting ready. I have a long drive to death. Yeah. Going down to the border. I hear that you're going alone, though, now. Is that true? Yeah. Well, I'll meet many up with some folks down there. But the Klan. The Texas Klan, the stars hanging out with the Texas Klan boys yesterday. And they're a game plan, folks. They're not the Klan.
You're thinking that it's. Come on, people, I. I have a black friend that I do a podcast with, even tour. How could I possibly be in a anything other than the gaming Klan? If Jean were in that Klan, he would look like Cartman in the outfit. That's all I'm saying. my God. That's. yeah. And the CSB already told me that you did a episode of Cert. Jean Speaks with your black friend and you admitted that you were born in Mother Russia during that episode.
Correct. Which I think I admitted on every podcast there are done. This is heartbreaking. You know, this is heartbreaking news we're breaking this year. This is an exclusive that is exposing the exclusive that you put out, another show that you did for the 40th time. Very exclusive. Exactly. I'm pretty sure that I even told CSB once directly when he asked me. It's like, well, where were you? I was like, well, did I? In Russia? I wasn't born in the fucking U.S. That's pretty obvious.
Like I was born in a hospital there. Were you? I don't know. Maybe it was in the middle. I think I was. I'm married. Yeah, I know. It's out in the country, You know, picking, picking grain, picking rye and just dried out of my mom, and it'll happen. I was born in the hospital. See? Heartbreaking news right here on Unrelenting. The It's so intriguing show today.
Yeah. And I think that Did you listen for chance that searching speaks up so I have not as of yet I mean I was puking my guts out and then couldn't keep food down. It's a perfect time to listen. I know the exact way you want to list the same reaction regardless. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I thought it was pretty good. I actually enjoyed the conversation a lot because it did not. It wasn't a repeat of all the normal topics that like burnout or you and I talked about. Is this your MO facts?
I mean, I hear mo facts is winding down now. So is that you're going to try to fill that space? I have I know I never really get into listening to more facts. Was this podcast called Jeans One Black Friend? Something like that. Yes. be a great podcast. Like actually, I have a plenty of black friends. Not all of them want to do podcast, so in that many of them want to admit that they're your friend, so it all works out well. Fair. Fair enough.
I'm not sure this one with admitted either, but that they were listening. And so at the end of it, because we I think it went over 2 hours, frankly. And so we had to wrap up and then he says, man, we didn't even get to talk about prepper stuff that I want to talk about. I'm like, okay, that'll be next episode. We'll have to do another one. Then. Well, yeah, you are the prepper guy. Has he seen your garage? Has anybody seen my garage? No. No. I don't know how tightly guarded this is.
Yes, As a CSB likes to say, it's classified always. Yeah. You don't want to know what's in there. Lot of ponchos and boat shoes. I don't know how they go together. You're not. You're not wrong. Yes, I have anchors. I have probably 15 fishing rods in there. He's got a boat, but he's nowhere near the water. I used to have a boat. He no longer have a boat. And he had an alligator that he used to keep chained up on the boat named Elvis. Yeah. I wonder what ever happened to Elvis.
Now, the eighties, it's a reference to in the eighties TV show for all you youngsters out there, got Miami Vice and I don't see my buddy did you guru in the troll room but I know I was going to do a very long standing bed because it was brought up on this show and maybe to a lesser amount on Planet Rage or Grumpy Old bands, but everybody was like, You got to watch Idiocracy, man. He got watch this. Yeah, yeah. So while I was sick, I popped it up in That is 75 fucking minutes of my life.
I've never getting back. That was one of the great work we've done. You know, it's one of the worst movies ever made. And it wasn't even, like, so bad that it was good. It was just bad. It was not bad. It was great. What are you talking about? It was so bad coming after you. Did you, Guru? That was not nuts. Dude, I think you have to rewatch it when you're not sick because everybody knows it's an awesome movie. The opening sequence alone with another actor slowly becoming fuckers is perfect.
I mean, that explains the movie in a nutshell. And I only like the slapstick kind of humor when it's done. Well, I was thinking about that. It's not a comedy. wait, I'm totally misunderstanding. What did you watch? That's why I like No, because it clearly wasn't this documentary movie. I mean, I'm not saying that the performance is from some of the actors and actors. That's literally the Costco that I'm a member of now. That's that's the one I go to. It looks like that's in the movie.
It was shot right here. I mean, I can see Terry Crews as the president of the United States that I can see. Terry Crews is currently running for the president of the United States. I don't know if you saw. No, I did. He would work. Yes. Look it up. Google Terry Crews, president, United States, troll, lice, art, imitation, all of that. now did you Google shows up? See, now he heard us talking about him. And this horrendous movie.
And I mean, Maya Rudolph is funny, but couldn't you found a little bit better eye candy for that role? That would have been nice. I like Sara Rue. Is that her name? That She's also very funny, but I don't like the overall dumbed down stuff. I like stuff with a little more of an edge. A little more of an edge. Yeah. The whole point of the movie is that direction we're heading, that is the edge that we're going. Well, we're going over that edge now. But it was just too, too, too dumb.
Yeah, I. I don't know. See, man Speaking of Gatorade, the Terminator eight on the crops, it was like this was a perfect movie to be watching. Yeah, well and well in just capacitated, as you're sitting there drinking Gatorade with drool on your shirt and vomit, watching a movie about people that you know have a little bit of drool on their shirts. I don't know, man. I think you need to rewatch it when you're not inebriated by some kind of disease and then get a better take.
And I guess it is a great movie. It's I think it's won a couple of documentary awards for doing the best job, predicting the future of any movie ever made. I mean, it's no Blazing Saddles. It's certainly, certainly way better at predicting than 2001 a space Odyssey. But it was the it was just one long bit that never got funnier. Kind of like this show. I guess it's okay. I don't know. I honestly I just don't know. What does it say?
I mean, I like, like judge stuff, but no, this did this just didn't grab me. This on the list of Mike Judge still goes the Beavis and Butthead, King of the Hill all of the like music, actual documentary stuff that he did, the tales from the tour bus and then this this would go at the bottom of the list. I mean, I like DAX Shepard, I like Luke Wilson. I don't have a problem with anybody that was in the movie.
It was just it was just too dumb, which I get was kind of the point, but it was just too dumb to even be dumb. The office space. Now, that was a good movie. Jay Finlay We're talking about Idiocracy, office space now that see the jokes in office space? There were jokes and they landed. Yeah. You know, the main difference between office space and this movie Intelligence. Jennifer Aniston. That's why you like it. it's not. I'm not even a big Jennifer Aniston, Sam. okay. All right.
I mean, I was more of a Jennifer Aniston fan before the face morphed into what it is today. Well, yeah. I mean, she should have done the work. I think that a lot of these women, they get caught up and they you know, my collagen is all melting away from my face. I'm getting frown lines. What do I do? What I do, what you don't do is kill off all the nerve endings in your face and then put in plastic instead of cards.
And you then you look like a fucking plastic mannequin that somebody who doesn't know how to sculpt made. Yeah, That's not a girl. The amount. Yeah, the. The number of women who were attractive, like, naturally attractive. Not through makeup, but that had good bone structure. They had symmetric looking face. There's nothing wrong with aging. And you can you can do a you know, if you adjust to the age that your body actually is, you can make yourself look good at any age.
But they all seem to want to hearken back to their twenties was right. And I get it. I mean, that's clearly when they were getting the most attention from men and making the most money. If you're an actress and all that, I mean, I don't think they usually make the most until they're in their thirties, because if you look at the top paid actresses over the last 30 years, most of them certainly started acting when they were in their twenties, but they didn't get the big salaries till they hit 30.
So like Julia Roberts back when she peaked, that was in the early thirties. Yeah. Never got the Julia Roberts thing either. Okay, now you're starting to worry me. I totally forgot that a mike Judge also gets Silicon Valley, which that is right up there with Beavis and Butthead, which is Silicon Valley was great. I've got the whole set of their Funko Pop sitting behind me up on top of the cabinet and Nash and what was the skinny Coulter's name? He was hilarious.
yeah, Yeah. Well, he he, you know, he was in Freaks and Geeks. Yes. Teenager. Yes. I can't remember his actual name, though. The actor's name, but he always plays this deadpan like I'm way smarter than you character. Yes. Which he is. So, like, it's a very accurate job of that because I have one or two of those in my life. You may be one or two of those in your life. Well, if you met Ryan Bumrah's by any chance. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I might remember.
You may have said believe you get stats one one time. Yes, yes, I believe so. GUILFOYLE And they and the show foil is the character, but what's the actors name? He was also really good. MARTIN Stuff. MARTIN Sorry. Yeah, he was in that catering show. He was great in that. yes. Yeah. The were the were called with the guy from, yeah, the guy with the thing with the the Parks and rec, right? Yeah. That guy. Yeah. It was great. And they just threw up. That was very weird that they did was good.
I kind of Yeah. I, I'm pretty down. They the first two seasons were really good. That was from like 15, 16 years ago. Yeah. 2000. And then they decided to do a like one more season about two years ago or a year ago that was somebody and think was you. It was interesting. Yeah. It's probably just people wondering when I'm going to be on my trip here. The Klan is Texas literally the messages. Any idea what time you want to head out? Yeah. You're like, I'm doing a podcast. Yeah, I'm a professional.
Exactly. There you go. All right, so let me turn off the sound on this stuff. So it's not interruptus us any more. US. And, yes, silicon Valley Button did lose a little bit of the momentum that it had in the last one for too long. Yeah, I totally think so. Now, the guy who was the main character of Silicon Valley, the pervert, who I thought was a pretty crappy actor. The what? The pervert. Thomas Middleditch It shouldn't something come out of? Middlebrook Yeah, I don't know.
I thought something came anyway. Yeah. Weird about his personal life. What's interesting is he's now a video game streamer. Really? That's his is a Twitch guy now. I think he's made like 40 million off of that show and he doesn't have to work. I mean, he just plays video game streams now. So I just need to write a show and then be done with it. You need to do some work. Yes, that's correct. If you started doing work, you might be done with that. Yes. Damn it.
What I didn't know, Instead of playing at being a radio deejay, I know I had jobs. You know, it was it was a thing. We've all had jobs that done that. Yeah, I've done that. I was bad to to people. I know get laid off this week last week I believe it something in the water. There is a lot of weird stuff in the water right now. There's no question about that. But I had a I just did some custom framing, you know, before I was puking my guts out.
This is the first time ever ordered, you know, just the kit from an online thing. So it's like, okay, you guys cut the matting and everything else. And it was like, really, all you got to do is use a little bit of that linen tape to hold it. And then, you know, you put it in the frame. It's not that difficult. Yeah, but the photo, it was another one of these Peter Max photos of that one pop star.
And I'm like, you know, the one there was a kid when I first started doing the websites back in like 1995 or whatever that was. There was a kid that was like just coming out of high school that had like taken code off one of my things. And then we started talking back and forth. He was doing a Reba mcEntire website and I was doing another country artist website. Yeah. And he was like a week before and websites. Yeah, he was like a Reba. That was before that.
I mean, I realized there was a brief, you know, interlude there where I'm like, Well, who would I rather work with? Yeah, and I realize they're all a pain in the ass. Michael Jackson Yeah, it's kind of that this kid was the biggest Reba mcEntire fan in the world who it was kind of like it seemed a little weird.
And then it was a few years later, the this image of Taylor Swift, he was working for her record label that at the time and took the photo, which it's like I thought that was a little weird, but it's like, okay, there's a cool thing to put on your resumé. Yeah. So I was framing this thing up and I'm like, I wonder whatever happened to this kid? And I looked him up. It's like he's Reba mcEntire, his manager now. wow. But this is a weird world. Well, he's. I mean, she's like 70 now.
Yeah. Let's see. Managing. Well, she still has a she has a career, unlike a lot of people, does she? Well, she's still on now. She's on that television show, The Voice. She's really. yeah, it's she is still George. She is still going strong. Reba. I thought she was pretty good, but I thought she dragged on way longer than she ought to have. I think she was pretty good for about five years. And then every other song sounds like every other previous song.
There are a lot of countries that are like that. Yeah. And then, you know, let's move on. Let's just. It's fine. It's like we've heard what you can do. Yeah. Willie Nelson. I mean, do. Why are you still doing this at 90 or whatever he is? Well, I don't know that he's had any new songs for a while now. Do it. He still releases like two or three albums a year. Like, New Brand is not just he plays the classics yet.
Yeah, I mean, he doesn't it's he doesn't necessarily write all of the songs, but he still will record new songs. He just did his first bluegrass album within the last year. It was like a full year. It was like the first album that he didn't play his trigger guitar because, yeah, well, really. Wow. Yeah. So Willie's still trying new things, so I will give him credit for that. And Willie is an empowering example of how if this smoke enough pot, your cells will just, like, never die.
Yeah, basically. So there's. You know what? If you only smoke a little pot, it's going to kill you, and it's not going to be good. Yeah, well, I think he's unique in that like, he never gateway. That gateway. It like it wasn't the gateway drug for him. Now he did back in the early I'm assuming, you know I need to do more research on this but I haven't really done the deep dive like I did with the rat Pack back in the day.
But I know the Willie's and Whale and the Waylon and Johnny Cash and now Waylon Kristofferson was a total alcoholic and well, and cocaine. And there was all of that. Well, I mean, Willie Bear in the air in the eighties, every bit of cocaine. Nobody didn't do cocaine, man. Let's you know, I think Willie dabbled with all that. But that decided that, yes, I think Willie got to the point in the eighties where he's like, I'm just going to do weed. And he did a lot of it.
The only guy that didn't was Kris. Kris never he was a non drug using country musician. That is a rarity. Yeah. Which I guess means one of the other. He had a massive arguments with Waylon back in the day, which I can understand. I mean, especially when you're working together. They toured together with the Highwaymen and Keep it's like any of these rock and roll bands. There's a lot of stories of bands that break up because, you know, one of them's not showing up. That's a personality crap.
Yes, But also, I would say Wayland was a much better singer than Kris. Waylon was the man. Waylon's voice From the minute I first heard that, I gravitated towards Waylon and Johnny Cash more than any other singers, just because they were so unique with it all. Well, it was a it was a group of four successful musicians, three of whom had unique voices. Yeah. yeah. Willie, too. And Chris. Yeah, and Chris. Yeah. Who was a hell of a songwriter. So you need that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. And the story of Kris Kristofferson is just awesome that, you know, that Nashville and he's sweeping the floors at the recording studio and Johnny Cash is like, you know, maybe you should be doing something better than that. It's like, that's. Yeah, but, you know, you got to work your way up. I mean, that was the good old days when you had to work your way up rather than put yourself on YouTube. Yeah, working your way up is turning your phone on these days.
Well, that's. I mean, the intriguing thing. Did I wonder if there's been a settlement yet? Universal Music and Tick-Tock were going to war, which is quite, quite interesting. The new stories are like, Well, Taylor Swift. Then there was another artist. I forget whether it was Beyoncé or something like that or their music may soon be pulled from Tick-Tock and it's like it's universal fucking music. They owned like 60% of the music catalog of the world. So yeah, well, Taylor Swift is big.
This is like more than half of the world's music catalog is going to be pulled. It's way bigger than one or two artists. Yeah, you know, it's actually less than one year's payment for Elon Musk. Ellen's your buddy. Universal Music's only worth 39 billion. I know, but so, like, business is not what it used to be because piracy. Because there's so many other choices. Because anybody can just turn on a stream with all of that.
I mean, I don't even understand the concept anymore of how artists make the money when so many people listen to this YouTube music. For instance, you and I pay because we watch enough YouTube videos where we don't want to see ads. With that. You get YouTube music and they have the whole Taylor Swift collection. They have almost any artist you're going to want to listen to. They probably have the songs the whole albums that you want on YouTube, so you just fire that up.
You put it in what you want to listen to and you're listening to it. So how do you think that these artists are getting accurately paid? And in the old days, if you and I wanted to listen to an album, once you had to buy the fucking album and that was ten bucks or whatever it was for 2023, Tic TAC had a market cap of 200 billion. They could just buy Universal. They should. Well, I mean, it's cheaper for them to use it for free. But this is by Universal.
Well, I don't know how long this deal was, but they had made a deal, Rob. My guess would be five years ago, maybe four or five years ago, when Tick Tock was nothing, saying, hey, we'll get your ideas out there for free, you know, so that their music served by a lot more people. And you can report that as place, Correct. And Universal was like, well, we'll pay, you know, here's the licensing, you'll pay us and the traffic at that point was next to nothing.
So Universal was like, Well, we'd rather take 5 million from these idiots who are probably going to fail anyway. And now that Tik Tok is so big, Universal is like we wait, wait, wait, wait, give us the money. And they're very mad that companies like Tik Tok are going, Well, we could just institute a new Age thing that'll just create music on the fly for people so they don't have to use your music. Yeah, you know, it's like nobody really cares. You know, These things are interchangeable.
That's why it's interesting even watching some of these shows, schlocky Hallmark movies, when the music you're like, You know what? Let's either sound really like Taylor Swift or it really sounds like, you know, Tom Petty, whoever it is, your brain goes, This is a Tom Petty song, but it's not Tom Petty. It's just somebody trying really hard to do the style and sound of Tom Petty.
It's like, Well, this is how they save the money because it still adds the ambiance that they want without going straight out and paying the fees that they need to get the actual songs maybe that they would like. Yeah. And somebody asked Alvaro, asked X, Hey, how come you're not streaming the unrelenting plex? And so I had to explain that, that since I moved everything, the Mac, I still need to set up the software to be able to stream to X from the Mac. It's all doable.
I just haven't gotten around to it, you know? I could probably set that up. Then it'll go, I really should just pay the eight bucks a month so I can just add that stream to the. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. It's nice. It's hard. It got it to work. It's. Yeah, yeah, you got to do work. But I don't know, I've been, I've been gaining some more folks following an X which is good. I can't remember how many to get to. It's before you get the free lot.
5000 or something, you know, before you can set up monetization because right now there's no monetization available. So you have to get I think it's 5000 or something and then then you can turn on monetization. I've got only 3200 followers, man, that's nothing kind, nothing on the 50. But then that got all gagged and yanked. Well, I had to 22 or 2350 before this whole thing the shutdown happened. And I just, I, i it doesn't even matter how many people clicked on the button to file on the.
FETTY Realistically, the interaction, the comments, the questions and anything that came in was basically from the same 25 people every time. Yeah. So I like, like with Max, there are a lot of people that sign up for an account, they will follow you and then they never open up the app ever again. Exactly. And now I don't mind if they do that for following the actual podcast. I don't care if people listen as long as they're still signed up. Yes. Yes. Because you just want the numbers. Exactly.
It's the numbers, you know. So how is your phone is downloading it? Who cares if you're listening? Well, it depends on how it is. All depends how it's all monitored used. And it's interesting to me, the immediate switch that goes, at least in my mind when things like ads start showing up, because there was a guy I mentioned before doing videos about all the Lego shit and the wife loves the Lego.
Yeah. And he had a big city in his house and it was like, it was kind of cute that this was his, you know, gig, that he was building this stuff. And the guy goes by the name Bricks and it always annoys me. He like, comes on to the show and he's like, Hi, Jordan here. It's like, no, if you're fucking if you're fucking name for the show is Bricks, you then use that because it's branding moron. But the dude is going like all Marquez Brown even though he does not have that kind of a following.
Yeah, because he just went and bought a like 400,000. I don't know if that's Canadian or US money like studio space in a, you know, commercial park somewhere and he's moving his stuff out, which is fine, but all of a sudden the video's halfway through. Well, let me tell you all about Harry's razors, and it's like, Go fuck yourself where they suck, right? Well, that's like, why? You know what your your average audience.
Sorry that I'm included in this, but your average audience is probably like 15 year olds or something that are playing with Legos. What age plays with Lego normally now? I guess it's a it's a wider range than it maybe used to be, but it's like you're overall dealing with something. And the first ad that he did that was, you know, house where he's talking was for some mental health services and it's like, dude, what the fuck are you doing? I can't even imagine that.
I mean, can you imagine unrelenting just halfway through it, I'm like, Hey, everybody, let me start telling you. Do you ever feel like you're feeling down and out? You can go over to gene therapy dot com. Yeah, Yeah. Use the coupon code. You're nuts. Sure. That's yeah, exactly. An extra 30% off, Yeah, it's just three bucks a minute. The hell yeah, it is. It's I don't know if it's three bucks a minute, but I'm sure they charge you per medic as well. We can do phone calls.
We can do, you know, the video calls and all that? Get a therapist online, which I don't think I want to do that, but. this is too funny. Yes, totally unrelated. But I was just reading while you were talking about something. well, this is how this show works. You know, we say and then Gavin Newsom apparently was a target and was accused of shoplifting by an employee who did not recognize him. Well, was he I mean, he's the guy, you know, he has to pay for things when he goes to Target.
I'm not sure, man. I mean, he's seeing what's going on. I kind of feel like that every now and then. Why pay? It's. I haven't been to Target ever since they started promoting pedophilia, but I guess some people still go there. Like Gavin Newsom. It is a it is a wasteland. I mean, I only go for the Target exclusive Taylor Swift stuff. No, I'm sure. I'm sure. Yeah. Yeah. And Target like they've been a past customer of mine a number of times, but I don't think I could take them on again.
Well, it's interesting because they went from being the Hey, we're trying to help the little guy and I'm all for it. I'm all for the you know, we want to be able to cater to people that are gay or whatever it is that, you know, some people have a real problem with it, but then they want to start going in the exact opposite authoritarian direction, meaning, okay, let's say we want do we want to you know, people get mad, the crazy Christians or who whatever it is, come in.
If they're carrying a book that has gay themes, my God, how dare they carry that book? And it's one thing to stand up and say, you know what? We have customers of all sizes and shapes and stripes, whatever it is, But then they get to the point where they're like, Well, we're not going to carry that Mark Levin and Bill O'Reilly book because they're too much. It's like, Well, no, no, wait. Now you're doing the exact same thing. And just the opposite direction.
So the thing that you admitted was bad and you started out trying to help out and be like, we want to be inclusive, you very quickly become non-inclusive yeah, it's like, don't do that. Yeah, you got to get the bingo card out, Elvira. And you can, you can click Taylor Swift. Yeah. Tell us. Well, I'm sure you'll mention her again. So apparently Taylor Swift is the enemy number one of MAGA right now is what I keep reading in the magazines. Yes.
And I mean, I was outed as being a part of the of the of the Democratic machine out of Chicago. Yeah. Yeah. I know. Agenda. Yes. Well, we know that because that's where you live by choice, not by force. So I like the it was during the pre-show that somebody said I was a part of the Taylor Swift app that's been being talked about for a long time now and no agenda and it was Billy vote.
He's the only one that can see man and it scared me that he saw this He does the A walk through the main podcast and he said hey everybody what if Taylor Swift is a part of the Darren O'Neil up? You know, like, there you go, Think about that once. Extremely unlikely, but sure. Is it hard? All of these things are, you know, fairly unlikely.
Well, no. We look, we know from Taylor Swift's own mouth that she despises conservatives, which is why numerous times, which is why we hate her parents who made her what she is. I was very for woman, very surprised that yesterday's no agenda. John C Dvorak said I podcast so much to get Taylor Swift's attention because this is exactly the show she would be listening to. I would guess he started off by saying she has no talent.
As I recall in the podcast, she's listening is like nearly fake made up artists whose parents paid for her to get a music deal right as well. I seem to recall maybe I'm wrong. Exactly. Memories, certainly right. But and it has become a multibillion dollar industry. Yes. John Taylor had them both kind of making fun of how bad her singing was and how she's like this, you know, teenager, barely 20 something year old. And she's telling these professional musicians what they're not doing. Right.
And it's hilarious because, you know, she's a completely fabricated musician whose parents bought everything, which is technically all true. I mean, parents did make her. Yeah. Welcome to send her. They didn't send her off to Disney slave school like some parents do. True to that, you have to give them that. Which is why she hasn't crashed and burned yet, because Britney and the like, usually by the time you're hitting your mid thirties or long before that in some cases certainly, yeah.
By the time you're in your 30 year career is pretty much whining though the is true. Yeah and it's an interesting thing to me Nashville did it when she hit I was listening to a lot of country music and it was one of those things where it was like, okay, the music's good. It wasn't exactly what I was listening to at the time, but you can tell that she had talent because most people weren't breaking out at that point. Again, this was right before YouTube and social media became huge.
So you still had the gatekeepers. You still had a lot of people that were like, We don't want a child that we don't want. Yes, right. There were a few other ones at the time, Jessica Andrews and Lila McCann, who were okay, but none of them had staying power. So I think it was quickly becoming what the people at the labels are like.
We don't want to hire, you know, we don't want to sign somebody that's going to release an album or two and then die off because, you know, it's not that you want to make a longer term investment. I want to say, though, as far as actual musical talent, she has one of the most forgettable voices I've ever heard. Very generic, and it's hyper processed. yeah. I think the majority of her sort of growth or whatever you want to call it comes from the stage shows.
And she before a, you know, extra tall, not particularly skinny chick, she actually moves quite a bit. And I think that a lot of people really come to see a stage performance rather than listen to somebody singing, Well, she learned from the master, which was Garth Brooks, who self admittedly not a great songwriter. Yeah, not a great singer, not a great guitar player, but damn, he knew how to put on a show like I think Miley Cyrus has a much better voice. Well, my only complaint about country.
Yeah, when she sings country music, every time I've heard her on YouTube singing country, I was like, my God, she's wasted her talent and just this pop bullshit because of some self-destructive behavior, which means she may come around by the time she's mid thirties to 42, where she's a serious artist who is is going to make some really good music. Yeah, because she has talent. She does. She she has talent.
Even though she went through the Disney PR machine, which is probably what led her to all the self-destructive behavior like it does to everybody that goes through the Disney PR machine the way Cotton Gin did. You just call Billy Ray Cyrus, a formerly talented country singer? Because a lot of people would argue that he was never all that talented, ever. He again, he's I think, in the same way, in the same way.
I think he you know, he had some good music videos back in the day before he had kids. And, yeah, he was he certainly made enough as a performer to live a decent life. I don't think he was ever like the best country musician ever. No, it was it was Achy Breaky Heart. And then, like, what else did he sing? Everybody. Like, I don't know. He did that Achy Breaky song, though, which is all you need. It was very popular. A lot of it was a line dance.
It wasn't just as long as it kind of got the whole lot. You had to get line up and do a line dance when that song came on. Well, if you have one of those songs that can stand the test of time and you wrote that song, which is why said, Remember I was hates the copyright thing. I think I mentioned it on this show before, but it was that Kris Kristofferson, the guy we were just talking about not that long ago, great songwriter. Somebody asked him.
It was like ten, 15 years ago, I think, in an article, Hey, what does help me make it through the night mean to you today? And his answer without missing a beat was still about 100,000 a year. You know, is it funny how it's always people that have never actually done anything that I always hate? Copyright? Yeah, true. Because once you have a fix something down, you're like, Well Maybe I'd like that to be making me money since I created it.
I mean, for most other things, it's like, do you sit there? If you build yourself a chair, beam rose and it's a beautiful chair, Do you just sit on it for a year or two and then give it away because you no longer have the rights to that? Chair No, no, you don't. Yeah, or ponchos, but it's got a lot of bad jokes. It's going to give them away. Are you taking them down to the Texas border so you could give the ponchos away? Yeah. Yeah, I am. I am, yeah. Did you snap.
Did you print up like, a bunch of mailing stickers? It just say unrelenting, and you could just stick them on every poncho bag like this. Now, I kept waiting for I thought you were going to send me those. They haven't showed up, so I'm not going to end up taking any down there. I mean, I can do that. There are places that can easily do that. Just print up the unrelenting logo. Unrelenting? Well, yeah. And then you can give those originals away.
According to Alex Jones as of last night, that they're saying there's going to be a large.