Everything on Drudge is written with a dictum as well. So there will be aloe. And welcome to episode number 107 of Unrelenting March 8th, 2024, where we should scream it all just like just like jacked up Joey did last night. You did You watch that extravaganza. That was the you know, I planned on it and then I didn't. You were better off. I suspect that's true. Yeah. He's Jean. I'm Darren and one he was 20 minutes late.
And then I was first thinking that this was because they had to jack him up on so many drugs to keep him out. There is the over under, which I thought was quite high. The over under in the betting was an hour and 9 minutes for the speech and wow he went over. So I was that was amazing in itself. Although you have to add in all of the idiotic cheering and the people yelling for more years. And then you got the Marjorie Taylor GREENE yelling at them.
So there is disruptions going so, I mean, if if you actually just took the words Joe said, it would be a little bit different. But at first I thought, you know, this is why he's late, because they had to jack him up on something to get him out there to give the speech. But definitely my assumption, the news coverage on Fox, because where do you go if you want to get any kind of real time information from the mainstream? I mean, there's still I mean, I'm not going to MSNBC, I'm not going to CNN.
I don't really want to go to news Nation. Well, I would go to C-SPAN if they would have the best coverage over. I don't know if DeLay the C-SPAN. Still a guy, maybe a guy in a half sitting and working there. So like every it's like the guy in office space to the basement, like everybody forgot about me secret segment. We still have a network. It's still a thing, but it's mostly run on autopilot anyway, so that guy could die and nobody would even know according to him. With know who?
According to Fox News, there were protesters of the anti-Israel tape that we heard that blocking the exit of the White House. And that's why Joey was late, because they they I guess they didn't want to run these people down. Yeah, well, it's a good thing, though, and straighten and directory. But I know they're blocking the president's exit from the White House. Yeah. I mean, thank God they're not biking it or C or, you know, she'd be dead by now. I know. It's like this is okay.
This is absolutely fine. This is. Yeah, this is what was Tim waited. Wait till we get reports of protesters walking around inside a White House knocking on everybody's door. Is was because he was late, right? yeah. This is exactly the way the media gets skewed around the. The delivery was very Hitler s I mean beyond you know you didn't have the the Nazi uniforms or anything. You still had all sorts of people dressed weirdly.
But it was way to it was like somebody told Joey, what, you have to go out and appear vibrant. And what he took that is demeaning is I've got to yell a lot. Wow. Yeah, it was very weird. And of course, he's yelling at them in a lot of times. Not, you know, the words aren't coming out and I don't want to make fun of it. Old guy speech impediment. I just want to know if he has a mental impediment. Do you really want to know or D already know? I have my suspicions.
And it was interesting because you saw there was when he was walking and it took his 20 minutes of just saying hi to people coming out. It's like, what if you're already late? Maybe you want to speed that up a little because you know, everybody at home watching him and Marjorie Taylor GREENE got close to each other doing it when he was there giving the speech. What, He said something about the border. She yelled out. They say her name thing. And Joey right there had the button.
And I don't know if it was one because it seemed like she was trying to hand him one of these buttons when he walked in. And I don't know if he had one or if he took it from her. The cameras did not get this, clearly, but he had the the button. And when she yelled it out, he was already and picked it up and he said, yeah, Lincoln Riley. And it's like, dude, you get the name right? How often are we going to change the, say, her name thing because it is actually bad.
But it was well, no, before it was actually Babbitt, it was George Floyd and it was the woman, the woman that was killed as one of the police raids because, you know, there was a no knock war. And then they shot at the police. Her boyfriend shot at the police. I believe the police shot her. Yes. Well, they were they were aiming for the dog and they shot her instead. Right. So this was another one of the say their name, Ahmed Arbery down in Georgia.
The case. Yeah. This is where you see the liberal that was Trump's father. I remember. Right. Of course, that was just a black guy out jogging that was killed by white supremacists, obviously. Right. The that was the the the the mixed in white supremacist. Remember it? Well, it was a very white guys that were and then a white guy with a Hispanic name.
Well, it was a maybe, but he had the shotgun and they had the video here which showed enough that the guy that got shot, Amanda Berry, rushed the guy and tried to grab the gun, which to me adds a whole nother level of there's the story from the guys there that shot and were like, well, we thought he was robbing from an empty house or a construction house. So they just wanted to hold him, you know, because they want the police to come. And he attacked the guy with the gun and got killed.
And of course, this is why you can't do anything in this country anymore, because if something goes bad, you're going to be prosecuted for it If you're white. Yeah, Yeah. If it goes the other way around, well, then maybe not so much. But he got the name wrong. But it was all so very oddly planned. This was a, you know, one of those moments where, like, they're really different parties. Is this all just a big joke? Is this all a big A production?
Because he didn't have to stop and then he made some kind of comment. He went off script for a minute and said something about, you know, people being killed by illegals. And it's like, well, you do realize this is a greater problem when you let in more people. That that aren't supposed to be here. And I don't know, you're not vetting the people coming over the border. And the biggest lie was still, well I can't do anything about the border and it's like this is where that's bullshit. Right.
Because he started this with a bunch of presidential decrees, man. People call me during a show. I should really turn off the the ringer's on this, But you got the presidential decree.
That is what deals with the border is one of the few things we talked about today, I think in the last episode, the 1952 act that says when it comes to migration, the president has the ability to decide with the stroke of a pen whether he's going to stop certain people from coming in and stop all people from coming in and for whatever length of time that he wants you. This is right in the purview of the president. He does not need Congress.
He does not need anybody else to agree he gets to do it or she then you just get to do it. You make your presidential degree, you put it out there. It's all said and done. So the fact that any of the mainstream media are still going along with, well, you know, just the Republicans aren't playing along. It's like playing along with what it is. It's absolute bullshit. But people buy it because people believe what they want to believe. They don't know the facts of a situation.
We see that all across the board on a bunch of different things. People make up their mind because they want to make up their mind. Facts don't really matter anymore. facts totally don't matter. But one thing I will say is I was happy to see the tweet yesterday from my favorite rep in the house, Ana, Paulina Luna, the the highest rep in Congress. That's that's important, right? That's the hot it's the hottest representative in the House.
I mean, Katie, Brett wasn't bad for a senator and a Paulina Luna is by far the hottest. She's a cover model. Anyway, she texts it out. I'm not going to be at the thingamajig, the Biden speech, because it's a waste of time. And he's been perverting democracy. So I'm out, which is great. I'm kind of that. That was one of the things that led me to go, okay, well, I don't really have to watch that either then. Well, because, you know, going in, yeah, it's all going to be bullshit no matter what.
You knew what it was going to be. There are, you know, allegedly experts, former presidential speechwriters. I don't know if it was on both sides of the aisle or just one, because that makes a difference. But there were a lot that seemed somewhat offended that it was completely a campaign speech. Like usually in the State of the Union, there are portions at least where you tried to unite and that didn't really happen. As he mentioned, my predecessor.
Why I'm going Biden, his predecessor, know I need more coffee, multiple, multiple time need T type T would be better. That would be t's way better. Yeah. I got to move to the should it be green tea? Black tea. Is it racist tea? If it's not like I kind of just drink regular tea. But what this is what the regular tea. What do you put in them. I mean I guess it's black. I don't know. It's just it's not nonspecific tea.
Very nuts. Yeah. So if it doesn't say green tea, if it doesn't say oolong, if it doesn't say all those jazz things. Yeah. But he mentioned his predecessor multiple, multiple times and it's like this is three years it if you're still mentioning the last guys three years it I mean I understand we know kind of sad but you know their whole storyline is is that Trump inherited the best economy and the most successfully running country ever from Obama. And then he proceeded to ruin it for four years.
And now Joe has been trying to clean it back up for the last three. That's their storyline. It's amazing until you look at the facts, facts don't matter. It's the feelings that they're obviously right, too. If you're watching MSNBC, you know exactly what Joe he means. Your feelings don't care about the facts, I think is what conspiracy. He's correct. He is correct about that. So that's what you got was a campaign speech. Nothing new was learned.
It was more interesting just to see the reactions on the usual sites. Now, Drudge, as we've talked about, has gone completely anti-Trump. The headlines on Drudge were all like, Joe, forceful, great speech. Joe is back. And then you look at the more conservative versions of what the Drudge Report does, and it's Joe lied 50 times and, you know, and all of this, there's absolutely kind of became insignificant about a decade ago. I don't know why people are still looking at his website.
It's an interesting place to see what the hot topics are. For lack of a better word, it is the trending news because it's like you got to go somewhere. You're not going to go to every paper and go, I just don't want to have a dick in my mouth, that's all. Now there's the ice. So why would I go to Drudge? Why would you go anywhere? I mean, the Internet overall is that everything on Drudge is written with a dick in his mouth, so I don't need to go there.
Well, then you see what the other side is doing, and then you can kind of understand where you could see what the other side are doing on Twitter. You don't need to go to dredge. You can go, you know, Twitter is so great. Wait, does Eli get mad if you call it Twitter? Still? He's like, No, no, no. He picks up the phone. He's like, Jean, as we talked about this, we talked we were going to call it ex. Now you were? Yeah, I was temporarily banned for using the wrong name. That'll happen.
We unbanned you finally though when the troll room troll room today. 00i said Trump shut down enough it's getting there is it's getting there the we had O'Reilly who was acting during the thing which I didn't even look at until right now. He started out Biden looks frail. Well, that he always looks frail. That's not going to change any time soon. I don't think he attacks Trump over Naito. He tells Putin that we will not bow down, then tries to tie January six into Ukraine.
Threat to Democracy Blames Trump. So that was actually a pretty good summation of how he came out. He then says Catholic Joe Segways into reproductive freedom. 10:00 mass tomorrow. Question mark. I don't know. I don't think Joe is going to mass. But the interesting thing was the good Catholic is this part of his whole shtick? Yeah, well, that's part of it. Well, then he attacked the Supreme Court justices over the whole Roe versus Wade decision, and they did. No. Yeah, please.
Even his his buddy is the liberals which which is good people because they know that this is a losing issue. Yes. Yeah. But this is what the Democrats are running on right now is abortion. It is the one thing that they have that is an honest issue and an honest difference between the Republicans and the Democrats. Yeah, it's it's whether they want to keep the black people down or not. That's what it comes down to. And Democrats have always worn hoods. They always wanted a lot of black abortions.
When you go and they get the history of Planned Parenthood, 79% of abortions in this country are black. You wonder why people are fighting for that. And there's and the rest are, you know, young white women. But the mass majority, like Asians, don't have abortions. I've never looked at demographics, generally don't have abortions. What? Because very religious. It's mainly black women and the rest white women. Yes. And this is actually a difference.
The Republicans overall don't like to go around and yell, hey, let's kill more babies. That's not generally them. Not so that is one thing. The other things that they're trying to Joey in his speech and the Democrats overall are trying to run on are there's no problem at the border. The economy is good. You're hallucinating when you think you're not doing as well as you were three years ago.
That is the other things besides abortion that they've got, which is why if the Republicans can't be that hard to come up with a comprehensive plan on abortion where, you know, it's a states right rights issue anyway. So if you're the Republicans, why don't you stand up and just say, well, we're not going to try to you know, we don't believe in it, we don't agree with it as a moral thing, but, you know, we're not going to stop you from doing it.
You know, right there maybe is what you need to do, because that would take away, although, again, people believe what they want to believe. You could take away the fear that the Democrats are peddling. Like, no, they're going to take away all women's rights, they're going to all be dying. They're going to have to go to different countries to get an abortion or they're going to die because it's going to be done in a back alley. None of which appears to be true.
No. I think the art of of copying or abortions is pretty much a lost art. Well, now you could just pop a pill, man. Right? Right. Well, I mean, it's like that. The whole story of backroom, risky abortions where the women die every time it's it's just not the case because they're they don't exist. There aren't any of those.
And for the exact reason you just said is no one needs to have an abortion performed by someone who's not a doctor because all they need to do is get a pill from Mexico or California, which is the same thing. Pretty much. Yeah, well, they had the woman there that had to leave Texas to get the abortion that she wanted. Yeah. And the story that Joey told was that, you know, her life was in danger. And it's like, well, no, that's not true.
And they said the child had some kind of condition, but then that's allowed anyway, because you can abort, you know, partial humans. Maybe not in Texas. Yeah. In Texas and other. Yeah. No it totally in Texas law has exceptions for medical conditions. Well in this case, obviously not. If you had to leave Texas, nobody seems to be disappointed that choose to leave Texas, that that is possible. But if that is the case where she the story being told is that she couldn't get the abortion in Texas.
And I have not seen anybody argue that fact in the media, that doesn't mean that things like that it's right or wrong or that he just didn't go. I don't know what she said. She had to leave. I don't know. So I don't know. But it's a one half the population right off the bat. And I know this is being real sexist, but guys can't get pregnant. So you're the amount of people in the country, the percentage of people in the country that are female of childbearing age.
This should not be the massive issue that it is. Yeah, I just don't know how many people I got for abortions last year. I'm pretty damn happy about that. Yep, not sure, but that's one of their big things and that's one of their big things because again, it is one of the few areas where it's not a lie difference where, you know, they're like, Well, the economy's good, the Republicans are lying. Deal with that too. O'Reilly had on here 45 minutes into the speech.
Nothing new. He's like spoke too soon. The president now says he will give Americans 40 $800 a year if they buy a home vote buying. yeah, yeah, yeah. I read that, you know, and I didn't quite understand when he said it because again, Joey, not always easy to so yeah, but I'm like, is this everybody who currently has a mortgage or this is just for new homebuyers. Yeah. Is it? I should just tell you some buyers who have college loans like this, we're going to take those loans away anyway.
Otherwise, I guess I'll buy the other things. Speaking of homes, and as you saw is there's a a bill in California that is made for illegal immigrants. Sorry, I keep using that term. Criminals made for illegal aliens. That provides a guaranteed mortgage loan to illegal aliens with a, a deferment of all payments for 20 years. That's a balloon mortgage. So it's a balloon mortgage program specifically for illegal aliens that does a deferment of all payments for the balloon for 20 years.
And the interest rate for the first 20 years is zero. Wait a minute. It's a hell of a deal to get more voters, isn't it? So what you're saying is, what are you buying votes, One of years of free housing that nobody's ever going to buy. All of those loans are going to default in 20 years, Correct? When all the current politicians are out of office? Yes. Or dead. Yeah, It's a great system buying votes 1 to 1.
Yeah. And it ensures California that not only do they get more seats in the House because look because our population through the actually good. Yeah. They get more votes for everything than because they're they're actually importing you know because we're we need to go vote. You need an address. Well let's make it their own house then. There's nobody checks whether you're a citizen when you go vote, all they check for is do you live here right. Are you on the rolls?
Yeah. And if you're not on the rolls, what do you need? Are you need to have a either bank statement or a utility bill that shows your house that's within the district and you bring that with you and you're registered to vote right there. And even worse than when you go vote, you have to show nothing. Yeah, yeah, I know some states are different, but in Illinois, my wife works at Village Hall and they're doing the early voting there.
And legally they are not allowed to ask for a driver's license. You pull up the bus and sell it. Yes. That is literally insane. They're like the people can offer them. You know, when you ask them, you know, for your name, if they if they want to make it easy on them and just be like, here's my license, you can But the legally not allowed to ask. Yeah. No, that's not going to lead to any voter fraud whatsoever. No, it is it is absolutely insane. And then yeah, go ahead.
Say Joey was also all in on that corporations aren't paying their fair share. I mean, this is insane looking at the economic situation in a way that only an idiot would believe. I guess Democrat voters. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because there's nothing better than raising taxes on corporations at a point where your inflation is already in double digits. Well, he was more worried. Joey was that they're putting less snickers in the bar and less chips in a bag. You bet you these things.
And it was these evil corporations that are screwing the American people. It's like, why do you think the cost of all this stuff is going up? Joey They're putting less in a bag because they want to sell. I mean, if you want to sell a bag of chips for three bucks, well, you have to make that bag smaller or you have to raise the price in those choices. I bought a container of a dozen chocolate chip cookies the other day and then only had six cookies. So it's totally not right. Yeah. I mean, yeah.
No lie. Hey, Joe, it's. It's true. It's. It's like I was. I was like, hold up. How did this happen? This is a dozen cookies their sixth season. Well, that's. Yeah, that's. That does it right there, sir. Six. It's a doesn't, sir. Don't you understand? Sick, We're going to rename What it does. It is that's the way the Liberals were operate. They, they worked off of just renaming things. Well, see what I think would be even better.
I mean, it would be harder to do if they're the crunchy cookies, but if they're those delicious soft chocolate chip cookies, you know, cut them in half in the package and still call it a just exactly a dozen moons shaped cookies. yeah. That's exciting. Yeah, very special. I mean, I noticed that with I will I've gotten into hobbies, so. yeah. And that's the best thing you need was hobbies. I like pizza chips, you know, And the pong. So many calories. I know, I know.
That's. I'm trying to cut down on that. I mean, you know how it is there. There are some kind of protein chips I've seen. I haven't tried them, but I've seen them in the store like they're made of stuff that's mostly protein. That would be better. But I tell you, the other thing that will make me cut out of this was the family size bag of the salted pita chips. I know. 99. Wow. That's $9 for a bag of chips. Yeah. Yeah, that's a lot. Because that's that's stuff used to be just thrown out.
Well, they like the leftover pita pieces. You know, this are just big stuff that's like a few bucks if the chips, you know, you want a bag of chips, two bucks, three bucks. You like baby garnish? Yeah. Yeah. Little. I think that's better than the hummus. I like the barbecued douche. I like the. I mean, that's the the steak swarm of this guy makes in the place that we would be hungry. I'd have to order some food. I mean, it's just the most fresh vegetable bowls of.
It's like, Okay, the other day, for the first time, that was normally just do the first three things on the list, like the first time we ordered because we were like, Hey, I've never had this stuff you know, And the normal ingredients, the first three were onion, pickle and tomato. So that's what we were going with the steak schwalm or the steak shawarma wrapper, the bowl the other day I instead of tomato, I took banana peppers in like, dude, that's so good. Get a little extra kick to it.
And then I put the spicy hummus in there as well. And that's the spicy hummus is a gift from God. Like, that's why I don't want to know your politics, dude, because they just might hate it, but just. Just keep making the food because this is so good. People even talk. I mean, why don't you not want to know his politics? I'll be like, while you're a murderous son of a bitch. But that's okay, because you make really good food. Why do you assume that's very racist of you?
Hey, know, murder some of this? I don't want to know. Jesus Christ. The less I know, the better. I just want the yummy, yummy to warm and the spicy hummus. It is. It is very much in. The interesting thing is they're taking a lot of business away, at least ours, from Mexican, because this the what it really comes down to it especially when you get it in the wrap, when you get the steak shawarma wrap, like dude, it really is very akin to a burrito. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But better.
Isaac I don't know why. I mean, I still love Mexican food, but I don't. This is kind of move. Middle Eastern treat is way better than Mexican food. I mean, I agree. I mean, it was something where we would normally go, so how much are these wraps at your dude's place? So let me double check here. I know the bowls were 15 bucks, but the balls were almost enough food for two people. So it's one of them things.
The wraps, I believe, were a little bit less, maybe about ten bucks, but I'll double check. Yeah. So the chicken trauma wrap here is 16 bucks. Whoa. A beef one is 18. So you should move here. It's way better. It's I mean, Chicago is known for being a cheap town to live in. So in the suburbs, especially, they have a steak shawarma wrap is 1050. Jesus. Yeah. Chicken shawarma, ten bucks if you want fries and a drink, that's 60 bucks for the steak.
I don't know why anybody would want fries with it, though. Yeah, Fries is a traditional Middle Eastern food, is it? Yeah. I did not know that. Yeah, the. It's very, very common in almost every halal place that doesn't have fancy food. That just has regular food. They always serve fries. The We got a mix. The one time the wife went to go pick up the food and the the kid accidentally gave us somebody else's mixed grill meal, which was what, $85 meal? They're like that. You could keep it.
But it was one skewer of the tenderloin, one of the chicken and one of the kofta. I Yeah, after where that's what I like. Beef and lamb. I think together it's like a fake out all also delicious, man. I was like, I was hooked. But this was the best thing you could have possibly given somebody due to your type of cuisine, because this is kind of like a sampler plate of what they had going on of It's like so far it's like sample plate or like Gene's lunch. Like nothing has been bad. There is.
It is all just such a delight. I, I love halal food, man. I probably, you know, at least like two or three times a week. It is relative. I mean, either that or were lying to yourself, but it seems like it's relatively healthy compared to a burger and fries also. Yes. Yes. Compared to burger fries, Absolutely. Compared to salad, Not so much both. Yeah. This is through. They make the burgers. This is the most up to the yalla burger that they make is that combination of beef and lamb as well.
And the wife tried that the one day and was like, that's way better than a normal burger. Yeah. Yeah. Well, LAMB adds some flavor for sure. There you go. By not necessarily a flavor everybody likes. True, True. We went out to a Greek restaurant the other night, and that was some delicious food as well. yeah, Greek foods. Pretty good little soggy gnocchi performed at the tables. You say prepared, but it's kind of both. The woman we were having dinner with was. It was. He was behind her.
The waiter didn't realize until he lit that thing on fire. I was just like, it's like, Whoa. It's a tableside service, but it was so good. But a lot of people don't like it because they're afraid. Like, I don't know. What is that? What is Greek food? What is Middle Eastern food? It's like, just look at the ingredients. You can figure it out. Yeah. Are you ordering lunch right now? I can hear that. Good. I am. Yeah. You're hearing that The lack of attention to what you're saying there.
Yeah. You're like, I need a little bit. Yeah. Sounds good to be sure. Yeah, right. This is absolutely right. So the place I found the new place last week and it was pretty good. So I was looking it, but they, they stopped their sale so I'm not going out because it's more expensive now. They were getting. Yeah. They have at a lower price. They had a two for one deal. So you can get two of those $16 chicken things their shawarma wraps.
Yeah. Well that was exactly for the price which makes it a good deal because then they're like eight bucks apiece but at full price it's it's crispy some like. Yeah, not so much like a snake charmer wrap here for 1050 I'll just FedEx it right down. Deal. Yeah. You could probably FedEx it for the difference. That would be about the same price, I think. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. You got to get the BOGO when you can get it now you like but it this has happened. Those are great.
Well and I don't know like you don't really shop with Uber much but never. I looked at it a couple of times. You know, a lot of the deals that they get on Uber, they're not restaurant deals, they're Uber deals, and they're giving you offers to order through them. Yeah. So I think the way it works is there's got to be some kind of a something that at least they're going to lose money, right?
So maybe they they did a deal where they said, look, our restaurant, if you want us to promote, you just pay us like a flat 500 bucks and then you'll be promoted on our site or something. And then they take that money and turn it into a two for one deal for orders to increase their orders to the place. But I notice this happens a lot because I'm I'll put an order in that has a BOGO thing and, and then the receipt from the restaurant that stapled to the food just has all normal pricing.
Interesting you might Yeah you might be in the frequent eater club though. You might be. I know. I pay for that. It's extra because I say get the best deals. But once it's like 120 bucks a year there was. Yeah. You get free delivery that way right. And when I get bogus free delivery, the only thing I pay for is like a tip with restaurant. Dot com was really a thing. I think they're pretty I think you're still in business but they're almost gone.
This was three Groupon days when they would do things like you could get a $10 coupon for like two bucks you know something like that. And that's what we did with the one Mexican place here for years. I mean, it was probably a year or two. They ran that and then stopped it. You know, where we stopped going immediately because it's like, well, if it's another $8 every meal that brought it like this with your BOGO list stuff, you're like, Well, this now isn't a good deal.
Yeah. So you got to be very careful running those kind of things because then it's like, Well, I know you're willing to give them to me for this. Now it seems like it's a big price jump and I've got to try the if it's a big price jam. But basically you're, you're doubling the price or you're getting would to get used to that. Yes. Yeah. But you see a lot of times that's the beauty of BOGO is depending on what you were obviously.
But a lot of times you can order something that creates a meal for today and tomorrow. Right? Right. You have some leftovers and see, Brooklyn's like, Go who? It's baba ganoush, baby. You've never had Babagana. Yeah, it's. It's made of eggplant. Yeah. It's like we're bathing, Breathing in hummus, chickpeas, yes and no. Megaprojects suggest a cauliflower based low carb chip for others. I have to try that because that would be nice.
I get my hummus and then I don't have to get the massive carb load of AP that you. Yeah, we're just here to give you dietary You talk you and food talk food truck every week on Friday Jean orders lunch for 10 hours a week. Yeah it's the longest lunch order ever that there's a good show titled Friday Food talk that it's a good shot. Agree with that I mean we should probably just change the name from unrelenting to Friday.
I mean, so our Friday food truck would probably get a lot more random people listening in on the too. Nobody wants to do that. Who doesn't want to hear about food, man through every everybody eats otherwise you. That's the most it's the most published category of videos after cats. See I don't get that because if I'm sitting at home and poor and I'm eating ramen, I don't want to see somebody eating for Lebanon.
you totally do, because that's the only way you get to experience it is through somebody else. The nobody wants to know if the web porn chicks offer BOGO. I mean, that's I bet you're going for chicks. I think that's the standard model in them, I guess. I don't know. Yeah. Brigette Fred Yeah, yeah. I get one exactly Like what? Get whatever you like. Exactly and then you get the garlic man. Or should I skip the garlic then? No, I mean, if you're, if you're there, you may as well get it.
I mean since I'm there they have a two for one and tikka masala. This guy did you Guru. This is the same joke from Planet Rage. He's like, Tell my story. Years ago, I dated a girl. We went to a Japanese restaurant, made a flaming appetizer thing that got confused with sobbing Iraqi. She screamed, That's just like Nagasaki. And the Japanese guy was like, I kill you now. Yeah. What's the joke part? I don't know. It's the guru. I believe that actually happened.
I mean, I don't think it's a joke that it's not based on reality, but, you know, remember Dagger Saki. Joey does. Yeah. Is it garlic flavored? Not Yes, that would be what. Yeah. Garlic minus is naan with garlic bits in it and cilantro. Well let's see. Here's a thing. Garlic and cilantro. Totally healthy. Yeah. It's just non part that isn't. Yeah. Right. Well you avoid that. You're like, you know this was me back in the day when I was like, you know, I'll get healthy.
I'll just have a salad for lunch. And then I would, you know, like Mexican salad are right steak. And it didn't matter whether it was steak or chicken, where you got into it, that was Yeah. Cheese. Utah cheese, you know. Yeah. Blue cheese or some kind of dressing with that. You're basically just boring on a thousand calories, right? It's like, Yeah, that seems like you want to say it's healthy. I got to say that the automatic tip recommendation is 200. Hey, you know what I mean?
I know what you say. The recommended tip. Yeah, they like the minimum recommended tip. Your order here is like 15% tab just for delivery. For delivery. That's bizarre. I mean we. Yeah, it used to the whole thing with Uber there when they were first rolling out their whole thing was no tip, no tips. Like, you don't need to tip it off. We want to provide you with a great service. We'll make our money from the restaurant.
Well, whatever it is, the point was that there was no tips on Uber versus other services. The delivery expected the tip. So it was natural to sign up for Uber because, you know, who wants tip and I'll get somebody accept my order. Well, that may be that may be it. Who wants to tip? I thought it was intrigue. I mean, the Greek place we went was fairly nice. I mean, so it wasn't fast foods. It was a sit down, fairly nice place. Nobody had drinks. There were four of us and we had two appetizers.
Everybody had an entree and we had three desserts between the table. And we meandered for a while, wasn't it in and out? It was. We were in there for maybe two and a half hours, and it wasn't packed because it was a Wednesday night. So we weren't like holding up a table. But I knew we were there for a fairly long time and I kept the dude. 25% is I think 20% is normal, 25% was okay.
We we know we took up a little Yeah, that's crazy excessive but okay well I mean five extra percent for first some extra time. I don't know. Well normal is not 21st of all, but okay see, but it is I think normal is 20 now. It's what is normal now. Ten for a sit down. Yeah. Though. yeah. No because I've been you know, I'm like you, I watch a lot of zoomer content and the Zoomers are starting realize that tipping is optional through all this is the problem here. I remember seeing a video early on.
I mean, this was a probably like seven, eight years ago. Like, well, I don't have that kind of money. I'm not tipping. Yeah, yeah. And it's like, What the hell do you mean? It's there's a it's funny cause the ones that work at places where you would think you wouldn't tip like, say, a Baskin Robbins ice cream place or something where Joey might show up randomly where they have a couple of those places now spin around the iPad and default to a 20% tip for what, exactly?
You're literally pushing a thing to squeeze an ice cream onto a cone and you want to get 20% of the 12 bucks that those can cause. Yeah. So, yes, but then it is. But at the same time, it's all the rest of the. Yeah, but all the rest of the zoomers, the ones that don't work in the food industry, their general attitude is tips are bullshit. Right? Right. Except that their friends that work in the food industry should kick their ass. Expect big tip.
Well, it's going to come to a head at some point because as more and more people of that age just don't tip. Plus the black people that never tip and then you end up with a and that's not racist. That's just demographics, statistics. Then you end up with basically people no longer be willing to work for sub minimum wage in the food industry. Well, that's why we're which I always a different plan. I always said that was bullshit.
I mean like minimum wage in general is bullshit, but if you have a minimum wage carving out the exception for waiters, it's total bullshit. Well, they get to choose, you know, if they want to be a part of that. Because, I mean, I've thought about this. Yeah. No, it shouldn't be up to them. It's not a choice to they should be given. Well, it is because it depends on the restaurant as well.
Because every time you walk into a for good the chow and you see a table of four people that are ordering that. Also, y you know what? 15, 20% of that bill is going to be those guys not worrying one bit about what the minimum wage you know, they're like, I don't need a penny for a salary. I'm just going to work on tips. So it's very dependent upon the rest. Yeah, and it shouldn't be that way. The restaurants should get the tips and then just pay a regular salary.
Wow. I mean, I understand the concept, but I would also then make the case that perhaps the service would go down because people are like, well, I'm getting paid the same amount now, whether I'm a no weight person or a bad one.
Yeah, the the, the service quality would not go down because whipped in the back when you have a job that that pays a dependable sustained wage it's not going up and down and fluctuating all the time when you just get paid for basically putting in your time, you don't want to lose that job unlike a fly by night job where you may get paid like one night and they get paid hardly anything the next day. Hey, you mean podcasting? We don't have one donation today because our show sucks.
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Well, he's also I'm very curious, what is Tom's occupation and or Tom retired. He's over in the Netherlands so he's on a different Yeah, I, I know that. But I mean that's still like is he's quicker to the draw than even see us be is so big when I was on the other socials that is high praise Tom Tom Skeet you are quicker than CSB. Yeah if he could share with us if he'd like we'll just sit and wait here for a little while. One told Time answers.
According to the USA Today, the average tip percentage from Generation Z 17.88 Millennials 18.18. Generation X 17.53 Baby Boomers 17.9 do at least Silent Generation, which is a lot like really, really old. Yeah. 15.16. So everybody else is pretty close. They're between 17.53 and eight. Yeah, I, I'm not buying those stats. I don't know where they go. Yeah, that's made up bullshit. I mean, it's just like how articles like that are written. Every, everything in the media is just we just don't know.
It's just made up. No one's going to go to actually do a study and tips. Plus, who's going to tell the truth about tips since they don't declare them in their taxes? According to Cornell, I'm assuming that somebody named for some dude named Cornell lives on the street corner. According to their On Tuesdays, Cornell blacks and Asians tip on average less than whites do. Yeah, you are correct. We are trying to fact check it right here.
Lisa, I was this real time fact checking for Jackie, the food talk Friday. That's what we do. We talk finance and food type Fridays. A good show I like it. Got one sort of how do you even do that study. Well they call people and they're like, hey, you go out to restaurants and people like, are you a good tipper or bad tipper? Right? Because how many people could be like, fuck them? I don't tip at all.
I don't sleep at all fucking well, I like the videos that where the where the server that follows the people into the parking lot like, yeah, you forgot the tip. Is it the tip I literally had that happened years ago. I remember I went to a steakhouse in Minnesota with my then wife and it's a really nice steakhouse. We scored quite a bit and then walked out of the restaurant after the meal and that's the as I'm walking three or four rows of cars to get to my car. I hear those. Excuse me.
Excuse me. It's says somebody's running after us. And I'm like, what did they forget? They leave something there as the manager is the. Sir, sir, did you watch your meal? Was your meal bad? I said, No, it's very good. It's very tasty. well, was there a reason that you didn't leave a tip? Yes, I forgot. Yes. That was literally it was like, I'm sorry. I thought I put that in there. And it looked sure enough there was a no tip written down on thing. And I was like, well, thanks for reminding me.
So I put one in there, but it was, it was unintentional. Like I was fully happy. Ed Because the meals, great service, great, you know, everything was very good. But apparently I had I had I give them my credit card, right? They brought the thing back. I took my credit card and put it away and and left.
Now, most restaurants, when you do that, will run a standard 15 or 20% tip, even though you didn't sell anything in because they assume you meant to fill something in and then, you know, if you dispute it, you disputed. But they assume if you don't write anything at all on the thing and the the bill, that's what you meant to do this place did not do that. They they ran after me into the parking lot just to check.
I mean, it was interesting because I understand that if there there are people that will do that like I had a problem and I'm just going to leave no tip. If you're the restaurant manager, you're like, what? Okay, So in instances where I intend to leave no tip, I will put a zero in the tip. You're also the reason why I want them to know that I'm not leaving it to. If you might leave a note as to why no, I don't bother doing that, but I won't put a zero in. So it's very obvious.
Or if I want to be a dick about it, I'll just do the round up to the next round number and leave them a sub dollar tip. Right. That's another way to let you know and service somebody. Yeah. You got to get better, do your job better. But you're the reason why they started doing this. Click here for 15%, click here for 20%. I always click zero. And any time somebody hands me an iPad with a tip thing, it's always going to be zero because don't ever do that. Tab Thomas He gave you an answer.
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Yeah. And it automatically like, here we go. And you just put the same crap in there anyway, so that would make sense. But guess I'm kind of, I would say that these tipping numbers, this is why I guess and the guy was a very good waiter and even my mom, who was with us when we were ordering all this stuff. And I mean, that's not a completely simple order. Table of four. He was one of these dudes, and he was maybe, you know, around our age or so, but he was not writing anything down.
Yeah, it's just I'll remember. Yes. And he did. Which. Yeah. Was he good out of it? But after we left the tip, he did come back and then thank us again for the tip because I guess 25% maybe is way, way, way, way, way more generous then. It's a very generous tip. Yeah. It's like, damn, I will do that occasionally if the if you know, it's a really nice restaurant, the service quality is really good. Yes. And then for the round up amount is to the hundred instead of to the dollar. Right.
This is also the little which is exactly what this ended up being because it was just rounding it up to 200 bucks for. Yeah. For people to have dinner, which is really when you think about it, even with that. yeah, 50 bucks a person for lunch it was $38. That didn't say this seemed high, but it's like it's it's not something we do all the time. It's like this would not be a lightly. We're going out for dinner place. I had I had my last grocery order. I have two bags.
Two bags, and then a few things of iced tea, like, you know, these jugs, Right. So you like. I see. Yeah. And, and it was $105 for two bags of groceries and like six jugs of. I see that. That really wants to know how your lunch was. $38. He's is having five different entrees. I got tikka masala and I had some also and I got a garlic done and that was $32 total. And then there was a $6 delivery fee. Well, it's they call it a service.
Did they show a zero delivery fee, $6 service fee, whatever the fuck that is. Yeah. What kind of service are you providing after all? I don't know. Yeah, it's, it's really like, who cares what the titles are? The point is, it's the dollar amount. That's what matters. Because ultimately, whatever they paid to the restaurant, I have no idea. I don't know if they get half of the profits or what the how they break it down because obviously they're not surviving on the $6 service fee.
I know from what I know, drivers are going to get more than that for a plus plus a $3 tip. It's like 30%. It's around that 30% that they take from the restaurant. My standard tip amount for food orders, which is basically somebody driving with a little bag of food to my house, is three bucks. I feel that that's extremely appropriate.
I used to tip 2 to $3 for pizza delivery like years ago, back before, you know, we a back in the old days to prevent all food delivery when the only type of food you could get delivered was either Chinese or pizza. Everybody else did not have food delivery yet because they didn't have Uber. And yeah, so but the people that they usually did was all the pizza places and the Chinese places. So now they always figured out delivery was a good thing. Now you can get everything. So that's beautiful.
Yeah. So I think a $3 tip is fair for that. And I never understood. And they're literally driving like three miles. Well, it's not like they're driving for half an hour. Do you give them more or less if they have an electric car. I question. You're like, well, yeah, you well you don't know what kind of car they have until they're almost at your house, but it tells you what kind of car they have. That is, you should ask that.
If they tell you electric, just take like a dollar off the top and take it back. Yeah. Yeah. So how about cost less money to drive to my house from electric vehicles would actually make for very good delivery vehicles. I think Amazon runs electric man. Yeah. Short periods.
yeah, because you're more like it makes I think the guys that run electric there's a lot of Tesla Ubers here but I don't think they make as much sense because the Uber guys, almost all the guys driving humans for Uber are full timers.
Like there's virtually nobody that's doing what the whole concept was originally, which is, Hey, why don't you make a couple of bucks picking somebody up on your way to work in the morning and then you're drive home at night where you got an extra 20 minutes of your day, you could get out. Almost everybody that drive for Uber is driving 12 hour days every single day. And there's some kind of immigrant.
I mean, it's literally the same dudes that used to work for taxi companies are now driving Uber, and that's the majority of Uber. Drivers rarely, rarely do you get somebody in Austin that doesn't fit that particular mold. So it's a it's one of those things where you put a lot of miles out. I think the guys that drive every day, they're putting on, you know, at least a full gas tanks worth in a normal car.
So probably 300 miles plus per day and problem with the Tesla, with the electric cars is that that's a theoretical limit. The practical limit is going to be like 250 miles a day. So you're going to have to middle of your day, stop at a fast charger and, you know, sit there for an hour. Right. And wait and wait and which makes no sense. I guess you could eat your meal there if you have a meal that you need during the day. Well, you could have a different Uber.
I bring you your meal at two the charger. Yeah, you could do that. You could me have a different Uber did deliver that. Yeah. An Uber. Another benefit of Uber is they they actually will deliver from Costco. Yeah. Well that's here It's not Uber, it's the other one that they actually have the, the one they use for Aldi. I forget the name, there's so many different of these stupid little companies. It's like I just like Uber because it's the same.
Like everything's very set up for both food and people transport. So I don't have to do it separately. I've never used a DoorDash, never used a no Uber never used any of that stuff. I don't understand why, but because I would rather just go get my own damn food, make my own damn food here. I just don't think you ought to be driving, that's all. Well, this is also true. But do I hit something? I'm fine. I just get the thing in the mail till you hit something.
Jesus Christ, dude. It's a fatalistic attitude. You're literally like my dad. Yes, It's like I just because I'm 85 doesn't mean I shouldn't be driving around like, Yes, it does. It means you shouldn't be driving around. Then your vision sucks. That would be more interesting to drive by Braille. Would they have a stick out the window so you can touch the street that's you're driving? My wife was opening up the mail. The other end that you just, like starts laughing. I'm like, What?
She's like, You can. You can renew your license again. I lied. You don't even have to go with it. I'm like, my God, It's another four years of terror of the roads that is now. There's no way you would pass if you actually had to do a vision thing. I probably could. I don't think they let you wear glasses, right? Yes. yeah. Yeah. You know, and you only need one eye to drive. Yeah. You don't need both size.
Yeah, that's. Yeah. And it's weird, but with the, the way the vision is in the good eye with the floaters, I have a lot more problems like trying to read something off a computer screen or God forbid, I have learned to hate movies and television shows that fucking use text messages. That part is their plot and they don't have the voice reading it. They just put the fucking message on the screen. yeah, yeah.
Because I can have problems reading that because it'll take a minute for the floaters to move out of the way. By way more problems with close things like that in reading. And I find that when I'm in the car it feels a lot more normal. I notice a lot less that I'm down to one eye and the other, you know, the island there isn't 100%. It's actually better vision being outside now at night. I wouldn't want to be driving. No should do that. I don't like driving at night these days either.
My wife said to, I think once you get to like 50 years old, it's like, yeah, you know, Yeah. Because even if your focus works, your photo receptors are just not as good for nighttime. But luckily I don't have to worry about that because I have night vision and now I just get thermal vision. So you're driving with your lights off with your car. You like that? I like you. Honestly, the the thermal vision kicks ass. Do I really like thermal? I'm so happy. I mean, I it's a lot of money.
It's a lot of money, but it is so cool to be able to just see heat. Well, this is what is eventually going to be built into all of these vehicles as part of their auto drive that you're going to see built into our fake eyeballs those premium, those to it. I'm looking forward. I mean, I wish they could hurry the fake eyeballs up because I think the first one would be like, give me one, I'll try one. I always saw it when I was a kid watching Star Trek that Geordi La Forge was not handicapped.
He had a fucking benefit, right? I mean, you could actually see things that other people couldn't. Yeah, exactly. Like, how is that a negative that. he's got to wear sunglasses on his eyes all the time. Yeah, but he can see infrared and ultraviolet. Yes. I mean if they just like a mantis shrimp, if they would have showed what his vision looked like and it would have been like the early video games that were just basic like drawings, which is what some of these early red labs look like. Right.
You know, it's very basic where you can see a shape more than anything else. Well, that that would suck. But yes, I believe what they were going for that, you know, he could see different spectrums and different things. The where you seeing everything in a different way. But he's getting a much wider range of information coming out, although they really didn't play up that whole aspect.
Like I don't remember any apps or maybe there was one I don't remember, but I don't remember episodes where they actually like he has to save the day because. He can see ultraviolet kind of stuff, right? Well, he's like, Hey, nice panties, right? You can see through my clothes. They kind of, you know, I mean, technically, that is funny. Yeah, You bring it up. But yeah, he could probably see through clothes pretty well. He's like, he knows if that sweaters hide in a little lecture.
He knows he would not get tranny tripped Geordi La Forge would not get of no. Yeah. He basically gets the same view as the the machines at the airports. That said I thought Geordi had to get was that he was black. Well I didn't know that was that utopia by that point. Yeah. No, the star trek was always very socialist. There was not a it was all friendly and kumbaya. And remember the first entry Shall Kiss on American television was Star Trek. And they recreated that.
We talked about that on the Kevin Smith comic book shop show. yeah, yeah. When the cold came in and was like, I want a whatever the brand name the made the little figures at the time if you wanted the wonderful You mean Michelle. Michelle Yeah. What's that is Chell Nichols. Nichols. Yes. And she was already about 80 when she came in. Yeah. You know, she had one of those, I don't know if she did plastic surgery or not, but she definitely had one of those looks that looks great with white hair.
Yeah, like she. Because I hear that when you have these women that are in their, like, late sixties or seventies that color their hair and pretend like they're the same age that they were. And when they're 30, right. It's like, come on, you got to just age. Naturally. It looks it's good to transition through those phases of life because you start either looking like a horrible looking 30 year old great or a pretty damn good looking 60 year old. Which would you rather have?
And unfortunately, most women go for the horrible 30 year old. It will say it's only 30 years old that you're like, I don't want to see you at 60. I've always been a fan of of platinum hair, better of a weakness I have I've dated a few chicks with well, I've had blue hairs. I've had platinum hairs. But you mean the like the platinum blond That is so not real, that is so artificial that it just comes out, scare.
Well, it doesn't scream out, skank, but it sends out platinum, like, okay, but it's it's like Debbie Harry. I think she was a scary to those pretty good singer but she's not read about her personal life come out I said no I haven't because that that's not really interesting to me. But you just want to be called me. Call me musician lives don't really matter much to me. I agree. That's why people are always like, so very like, how do you not know what's going on with Taylor Swift?
I'm like, Because I only listen to music and I don't pay attention to anybody's personal life. I don't care if it's Ted Nugent. I don't care if it well, okay, yeah, but you're kind of lying about Taylor Swift. Obviously, you pay attention to everything we know. The music, not the personal life. The only artist. You don't know who she's dating. I did. Not until the Super Bowl thing. And then he was. So if he was on TV before that, I couldn't tell you anybody that she was dating.
But I will buy it. I will admit I own multiple books about Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and the Rat Pack. I read they were characters. They were interesting characters. Yes. I read Warren Zevon biography. I believe that his wife wrote this. He You don't know Warren Zevon, the guy that wrote Lawyers, Guns and Money, Werewolves of London, a spectacular singer. How do you not know Warren Zevon? I'm one of the greatest. What's he done? Well, he's dead now. He had cancer. What did you do?
Werewolves of London. That would be the song Everybody knows. Don't know that. You don't know how to do that. You can't go through life without knowing where wolves of London can know. You know what you did come out and dum dum, dum dum. Well, you probably have it. Just play it. They have it somewhere. It came out in the eighties. It was part of the Color of Money soundtrack. I remember. And back in like 1986 or so, I might have heard it, but they sure as hell can't remember it.
Everybody in the whole world, no one who played it, is calling you a troll that you have to know that song. Why? Because it's so very well known. Everybody knows Werewolves of London. I totally don't know the song. Okay, well, I mean, what you should do is be you should go out and listen to some Warren Zevon because he is one of the greatest artists. And I mean, you'd like him because he had this, whether he was from Chicago. Yeah, he had a great wit. And I did not know Warren Zevon.
That's just. How do you. Because you're the same age. You everybody has to know. Warren Zevon. Okay, I'm going to play the video here real quick and you'll see if you remember this, if it'll jog your memory or anything. And if anybody's listening, it's you'll actually hear the the audio from the video. CHOMSKY says, I didn't know Idiocracy. Well played. TomTom Ski. You're correct when you say I didn't know Idiocracy. Yeah, you're the idiot and not me.
And the jeans programing is faulty, says cotton gin. The digger is like, How do you not know the lyrics? I went home with the waitress the way I always do. I mean, that is okay. I just watch the video, not my style of music. Then it's that. But that was the sex, you know. That was probably why he's blocking it out.
Deji Because in the song that yeah, I don't do that sort of late seventies like we don't take baths kind of music that was that's okay the lyrics I mean this is why is it it's the guys with long hair and they have sweat on their faces and stuff in the videos like no, I don't do that shit. I went with the waitress the way I always do. How was I to know she was with the Russians too? I mean, come on. This is lyrics that are hitting a little too close to home for you. That must be what it is.
No, there must be no Steve Goodman have greatest folk song writer. No, he was absolutely fantastic. Who is on your list of top albums? What are you going to be shit from the seventies at all? Going to be shipped from the fifties and it's going to be shipped from. It will be shipped from the sixties and eighties. It's the seventies. While I was certainly alive in the seventies, musically speaking was a pretty decade jeans in the eighties. It's all Debbie Gibson, all Tiffany, all the time.
You're like those girls like the best musicians of the year with Okay, Do you think they were indeed in the eighties? Yes, Like Warren Zevon. Don't know. Tiffany and Debbie Gibson. All I know them. Everybody knows them. They were literally like the Taylor Swift of their day. True, they did not quite make it as Taylor Swift. Like early Taylor. Yeah. Drew will play it at the mall, baby. That's right. The mall tour. The Captain and Tennille that that is guessing might be on your list in love with.
I mean, I at least know who those are, but not my style of music. No. Think of me, babe. Whatever. When some sweet talk girl comes around. I mean, I just even like Sonny and Cher. I got you, babe. I've heard of, obviously, most of their music, babe. I enjoyed their comedy show because it was funny, but I don't like that style. It's just not something that I like at all. Do you like eighties? I don't like Neil Diamond. I don't like any of that shit from the seventies, man.
Well, Neil it into the eighties too, but so would you and like hair bands are you into like Ted Nugent or you know, like Poppy, Genesis Springsteen, Tom Petty Dire Straits. I did like Genesis. Yeah, Genesis. I always liked electronic music. Did. well, like you, it seems to be. That's why you get along. You like you got to have that beat, got to get that 190 beats per minute or whatever his name. You got to tune your heart to go at the exact pace of the music.
That's how it works, That's how it works. Yeah. That way you can code the very best. yeah. Charting music was there is techno. There's no two ways about it. When I coding music in hacker music was always techno. Like when I got into the zone give him a groove, crank up the speakers, get the three monitors pulsing in sync. You got to play. Pulsing in sync. Yeah, yeah. Now We're going to go dark, baby. Yeah, you two. I mean, you two had that brief kind of dance music, period. Cotton gin.
But I don't know who else is on. So that just techno. I mean, there it. So, I mean, besides Genesis. No, it's no I most pop music in the eighties I liked you like I just don't like hammer here's Young Hammer arm Hammer John Hammond piano. Yeah yeah I like that You know it's a if it's got a distorted guitar, I probably didn't like it. you Were more of a purist. Yeah. I just like music. So like Eddie Van Halen and the Eddie Van Halen band, you were like, You're not their teacher.
But about my band. Yeah. I mean, I heard the songs wouldn't be something I would tune into, you know? I didn't own that music, that's for sure. You don't have it on vinyl. You're not ready to spin it. I just. I have it on vinyl. Eddie Van Halen. No That Eddie Vedder. And look, I can appreciate that he was a talented musician in what he did. Doesn't necessarily mean I like the music. So it's Genesis yes, it was techno. Like, what do you listen to now when you go out jogging? ha ha. You podcasts.
well, there you go. Yeah. I mean, that if I, if I'm honestly between audio books and podcasts, it's rare that I'm listening to any music at all. I listen to music usually in the car because I have my entire music library, an SD card. So everything I've ever bought fits on one card. That's sad, which is very sad because I probably spent about $40,000 on CDs. Now you're driving around listening to play that funky music. White boy is it blares out the speakers. That was actually pretty good.
I like that. He figured there was some good music out the old days. Yeah, but I have Beastie Boys is the License to Ill. I remember when that album came out and that was one of the few that really was, Wow, I never heard anything like that before. And how do you know? When I first heard Beastie Boys at the strip club? You'll never get no NPR. Really, really. Doing interviews are. They really to interview with the Beastie Boys. They didn't read the Beastie Boys and played.
And I'm like, This is great. The Beastie Boys are the old days. Yes. I mean, half of them are dead now, aren't they there? Yeah, I think literally half of them are dead. Yeah. I mean, how do you not get was it the second half of that album that kicked? I mean, it was literally a ticket, you know, Let's talk about that. It's like that was and just beautiful music. People were getting along at that time. It was great. Yeah. yeah. Yeah, totally. The world was. It was different.
It was very different. It was good. I mean, I remember right now. Well, yeah. And I was there for Springsteen's heyday, and I know a lot of people hate the boss, but he had some good tunes. I mean, they got worse as he got older. And not just performance wise, but this happens with so many artists. Yeah, he had a few of them. You know, I listen to the Pogues. Well, The Pogues are probably my all time favorite band. Yeah, Irish punk.
I listen to the Chieftains, very classic Irish folk more than the Irish. So there's music I listen to that didn't involve, you know, a drum beat and synth. But I just as far as popular music goes, I'd say I definitely more towards the electronica and pop and then eventually techno or drums and bass versus the distorted guitar stuff. I've never been a heavy metal guy. I never, never watched Headbangers Ball. Whoa, Really? No, no, I just. No interest in that music, man. I like the Irish music.
I mean, I got started with the Pogues. Yeah but then even the and I know it's the least cool stuff out there, but the Celtic woman. The Celtic woman is, I always say, remember that they're still around now. Yeah. SB In that style of music, Lorien The Mechanic yeah, I remember her. yeah, I saw her live twice. The the Celtic women, you know, it just that sideline cafe that just the ones in the group, the the Irish women that can sing that type of music. yeah. Fantastic.
I mean that's not rock, you know, but it's, it, it's a whole different thing and it's like you have to appreciate that kind of ability when they can sing without music and stay on key. I mean, that's rare in You mean acapella but then yeah, like with you don't need any music and they can just bring the melody with their vocals. And so I've always listened to a wide Enya. You remember Enya? Yes, it was.
I always thought she was a little bit boring when she came out, but then I got more into the Celtic stuff and I'm like, that's not really bad. You have to be in the right kind of mood though, know? You have to be in the right kind of mood. Yeah, and of course I liked all the Swedish and that spans. Do you like Swedish bands? Dutch bands, Irish bands. But You were a Russian boy. You weren't out there like, singing.
Well, I did grow up in the Baltic, so, you know, you didn't start coming out with Russian heavy metal or anything. Not that far live, not that far from all of those. You know, Europe is smaller than you think. Yeah. Not America, baby. No, no, it's America's huge. It's absolutely. You know what the millennial says my brother like said Yeah. And then I wasn't surprised when he told us he was gay. So, yeah, actually, I can kind of see that.
Just, I mean, hey, I think it's a certain type of gay that would like you, but not every type of gay about. Yeah. Album was a great band. Yeah. Yeah. That's why I'm talking about like, Swedish bands. Yeah, I like Abba. I liked that was the other one. The There's It basically every decade has their own big Swedish band that all sound very similar and I like all of them. These are basically gay AC bass I like.
So all this time what did Yeah they do have that very just like the hot Swedish women too let's be honest. Yeah I always like the hot Swedish from it then I still do. You are usually the worst immersed myself out there. Yeah, there's fewer and fewer of them there. They're getting, they're losing their, their blond hair, blue eyed Gen-X up there. Surly Mofo wants to know if we can get. A video of you doing the Russian kick dance while wearing an Adidas tracksuit. I didn't have one of those
tracksuits. I have an Adidas. I have many adidas tracksuits. But no, the last time that I did the Russian chick dance, I was in my twenties. I have not done one since that. There's no way in hell I could do it right now. You're at a wedding. It's a very physically challenging, demanding activity because you're you're basically bouncing on one leg and it's it's not easy to do when you're overweight. And yeah, you'd be in traction and then it wouldn't be good.
I would. Yeah. I would like go down and then not get back up. Like, what happened to Jim? Yeah. You tried to dance? Yeah, exactly. I followed, but I didn't get up. I was watching a video on ex that has a a groom who is completely drunk at his own wedding, like, barely able to stand, not able to really say anything or do anything. The best way to be right after you get married. And then I know this the best is wearing a tracksuit top. I was like, it's got to be Russian.
So I turned on the audio and sure enough, the audio is in Russian. I'm like, That's a sure fire giveaway. Some dude in an Adidas tracksuit, you know, a wedding at a wedding. If you have a tracksuit at a wedding, there's like maybe five countries that could take place in Russia. That's probably the biggest one. But was it the was it the very formal tracksuit? At least it was the same one that was black and red, Very poor. Well, that sounds very formal. Did you put a bow tie out with.
That's really all you need to do to me. The best man was basically holding the groom so he wouldn't fall over. Well, see, that's good. Best man. That is a good investment. The amazing part is the the wife was just going through the wedding motions, like I think most American women would basically just do a divorce immediately after marriage just to get half the guys money as a way to fuck him for being drunk at his wedding and ruining her wedding, which is the important part. It's her winning.
So yeah. Yeah, it looks like my food is being delivered by a Buick Encore. Those are still around. What the hell's a Buick? Hardcore. I don't. Is that a minivan there? I mean, I don't know what an non-core is, but they stop making Buicks overall, and I never heard they did an encore. I don't know. Maybe it's some new fancy electric car. I don't know. Maybe our Buicks back in electric. I don't know. You know, they probably should have just done that.
Instead of creating electric Chevy, they should have just said, okay, let's take one of our dead brands and make them electric only. Yeah, they are still being made. That's a subcompact SUV. It's an SUV, right? Yeah. From $25,600. my God. So that's. That's the price of a uber cheap car, right? That was $25,000. I remember the good old days when they give me, like, 10,000 or less. So, dude, I remember the good old days when a luxury car was $10,000. Well, you are old now. I am old.
I remember a 1983 Toyota Cressida was just over 10,000. I remember when you could buy the used cars for like two grand. Blake. Yeah, I think my first. No, my. This was my third car. My third car was a used Plymouth that had I think it had about 40,000 miles on it made 45,000 and I bought it for two grand. Good deal. Is basically like a four year old car for $2,000. Back then we were like, I just don't want it anymore. And I drove that thing for like the next five years. Yeah, get the money out.
Yeah, five years for a $2,000 car. You're like, I mean, eventually a big it's going to blow up because it's not worth fixing. Well, it did blow up. I actually drove through a really deep puddle and blew a head gasket up That. That'll happen. I had a buddy of mine helped me get it fixed, but it was. I have bad luck with that, too. I actually had bad luck with my. So that was last used car that I got. I got a brand new, it was a 90. So the horizon, I think like an 80 something.
Didn't remember what. And then I, I got a new Saturn coupe and that was an awesome car. I have nothing but good memories of that thing. It had every option. You could order a sunroof leather seats if it was a white car with gold trim. So I had all the chrome bits, 24 carat, gold plated, and it was just it was a fun car. It was not particularly powerful. None of the Saturns were right. The engines were pretty anemic.
But the the fun aspect of having a fun little zippy car like that, it's a very light. I don't You ever been to Saturn? No, I'm okay. Well, they I think if I remember correctly I believe it only weighed like £2,000 which is now what a battery weighs in the electric car batteries are more than that. Yeah. No, no. I mean, I just covered this the other day at random. Thoughts? Yeah Yeah, the one the latest Tesla and the latest Ford pickup truck were both in the 1800 range, but still for the battery.
Just the battery. Yeah. Which is it? Save a lot of battery to drive Ram. I mean a full tank of gas is now £2,000 and sorry that. No, Well that's what I said because this is the biggest problem now and I had covered this at random thoughts as well. Maybe here we may have talked about it. The fact that they're now saying, well, the pollution coming off of the tires and brakes, what that is doing is now greater than what is coming out of the tailpipes of the gas powered cars and. yeah, yeah.
Guess what? The electric vehicles weigh so much more that the brakes and tires wear so much quicker that the end game right now is that the electric cars are actually doing more damage to the environment than gas powered cars. Yeah, but who cares? Nobody. Obviously, it's all a scam to get you to buy a fucking gas powered car for some reason. I don't know about that, but I think electric cars, they were never about the environment.
This is, I think, something the media created is this whole idea of. yeah, yeah. If you want to be green, drive an electric car because the reality emissions right everybody. Well, no wrong because the emissions just happen at a power plant burning coal right instead of your house or you know your car burning gasoline. Right. Well that's the fallacy is there somewhere. But the car itself, they're like, well, no, that's zero emissions at the car.
But you're right, it's definitely not zero emissions. You get the energy for the car. You're getting a lot of emissions, but they don't want to talk about that. Now, if you have a Tesla roof on your house and you just charge your car by plugging into your house, yeah, you could you could argue that zero emissions. I like that.
The California study that did this for the states understood that the battery weight and all that were going to cause issues but they're like well we can't assume that this isn't going to equalize that the battery won't get to the point of what a gas tank is. And I'm like, well, let's see what is what is 20 gallons of gas way and how long is it going to take until we can get a battery Now, £800 into that size, into that exact weight, It's like it's so just disingenuous and it's all a scam.
I was just looking at my first car, I believe, was either a 77 or 78 old Delta 88, which I can only imagine. We we talked about we have the same first car that got like probably ten miles to the gallon if you're like, yeah, if you were going to get around the city, it's probably more like seven. Yeah, yeah. I had a, I had the station wagon version of that. So the Estaban Cabin on Wheels, maybe a Delta 88, but it was the custom cruiser. You were still crow. Yeah, it was. It was red.
It was like dark red, blood red. Okay. Yeah. I want to know how many. What was the the high mark? How many friends did you fit in that car at one time? all of them also too. I don't know how many that is. Yeah. No, I think because it had they had the flip seat in the back, you could said yeah like comfortably you could fit six people in the front in the middle and another couple in the back. So eight people but I certainly did not have eight friends.
No, I wasn't the mother of the car that you had impounded. Partly I think mostly I certainly had six people in that car a number of times. But but it was a it was clearly a much bigger car with a lot more space for cargo that than I needed as a kid. But when I got into a car accident with that car, or I should say a car accident happened to me because I was stationary when it happened, I somebody that slipped down an icy road and hit me in the back of the car rear ended.
I was very happy that the car was, you know, big and place a lot of space between me and the guy hitting me in the back of the car with one of those station wagons. Hell, you could probably have somebody hit you and you're like, I'm okay. Yeah, I know about that. But it was definitely better to have more space in the heavier car. The car that had been was a Honda Civic and that car was just squished into almost nothingness. Nice. Yeah. Where I just basically got a little bit of whiplash.
That was it. He walked out the second time, so that car got totaled as a result and replaced by an identical car in Brown. nice. And a year newer station. The first one was a 79. The the new one was a an 80, I guess or no, the first one was a 78 and the second one was 79. That's what it was. And then that car I got rear ended in when I was stationary that I always seem to get into car accidents without moving. When you were sitting there doing absolutely nothing. I was waiting for a left turn.
The car was full of Domino's Pizza dough. I was making a dough pick up run. Yeah. While you were working for Domino's Pizza, Domino's got. Yeah, Yeah. Pizza Hut, guy rear, I let me crash in the back of my car. Yep. Exactly. Sounds like pizza. It sounds like a for a nice movie. Yes. Yeah, it does. Right with Ryan Reynolds. Well, but I don't know he he was more big time. He actually want to go that level right below that. Yeah maybe.
Well in the nineties he wasn't big time true these days he is but back when he was first getting into movies you that's the kind of movie he would be in. And we have like one of those the Van Wilder. Yeah. Yeah, he was one of those. Yeah, I vaguely remember that. I didn't know Idiocracy, but that was I saw it for some reason. Okay. Yeah, well, you know, we could just blame your upbringing for that, I guess. Yeah, because I was watching the Blues Brothers from age ten and learning all my power.
But the problem isn't that. You watch the Blues Brothers problem as you watch the Blues Brothers every year since. Every over and over. It's been a while. Yeah. I need if you've missed movies like Idiocracy. Yeah, I've watched war games multiple times and I was like, What's Idiocracy? Don't know that word games was good. The and then that car got totaled. That's when I got the plasma horizon, which was a tiny little car. So I was like, I better not get into any car accidents.
Well yeah, you don't want to you want, you want enough metal around. You have somebody going Yeah. Yeah. Like have you seen any of the photos of the Tesla truck in car accidents? No, I don't even want to. There's no damage on it. And the other cars, which is off base, everything just completely squishes in this car does not deform at all. I loved my they they had they showed the test of it getting hit by one of those side collision things. Yeah. And it just I don't think the door got dented.
Got some G-forces on the inside. That's it. yeah. Yeah. I mean, people were dead, but the as far as the car is concerned, totally sellable. my God. It was in perfect shape once you scooped out the dead people from the inside. Yeah. You were good to resell that vehicle. But you think about it like actually having your car crumple is not as much of a requirement these days because of all the airbags they have. Like 20 airbags and they're like, you'll be fine. We don't need you. You'll be fine.
You're going to, you know, bounce around a little bit, but you'll be cushioned by air. Now, back, looking at those cars that we were driving that had zero airbags, you were lucky to have a seatbelt. yeah, lucky. And not that anyone ever used one back then. That was silly. That was for crazy old people, right? What's the worst thing that could happen? yeah. I mean, in fact, I remember distinctly people talking about like, No, you definitely don't want to sit down, kiss an accent.
You want to be able to fly through that window so you don't get hurt. You want to easily be able to get out if your seatbelt gets, then you won't be able to get out. Yeah, you'll be stuck in the car. And you know as well as I do, based on every movie ever made, cars will blow up roughly 5 seconds after a car accident. Yeah. Always. You. Always, always. So you have very little time to crawl away from your car and then jump just as it's exploding.
And of course, so if you're going to go under the back of a semi truck, you don't want to be wearing your seatbelt because that you may be decapitated. That happens all the time as well. Exactly. It happens is upheaval, not me, but so some people. Definitely. So it's a this is one of the things I really liked about the first episode of Mad Men. You did watch Men. Men? Yeah, I saw that series. Yes. Okay.
So the first season opener, first episode ever, there's a scene in there where the wife, Betty Draper, said, Yeah, yeah, yeah. Draper where she's driving the kids in the family station wagon. And the kids are basically is bouncing around in the in the rear seat. And then she had the car accident, remember, she's like, has a panic attack or whatever, and then drives into somebody's yard and no one gives a shit. The kids are not strapped into anything.
They're just bouncing around in the backseat like that. All that be they don't matter. It's fun out there. Whatever. It's all good. It's a big budget. Did your head It's all right, but it's a big vehicle. It's fine. You're going to be safe. It's going to be totally fine. And that was a that actress looked hot in that series and progressively immediately thereafter became that hat. Yes. Jan Jones. Jan, that's right. Does he she had a goofy name, too.
She was in that End of the World show and it was like, yea, that was maybe right after, let's the last minute. Yeah, she was. She looked like she was a MILF in that show. Like she had looked like she had some mild put on her. Yeah. Like so you know, reasonably attractive but ridden hard. You like what happened since Mad Men which was until 2015 and that show started in 2015. It's like the good makeup people, I suppose, that amalgam. Yeah. Well she was hardly in Mad Men for the last five seasons.
True. Which is. But she was the ex-wife Tuesday. Ex-wife. But I think there's a lot of hard drugs and partying going on with Jan. Jan and she hates you dec a lot because otherwise not really have many things With the End of the World show, I thought they had a good premise. Yeah. Like the first year thought was great. Yeah. Yeah. But it just totally lost its way. Yes. Which is usually what happens when somebody has a great idea for a show and they've got it was a sitcom.
It was supposed to be like a one off sitcom joke thing. It was like a Saturday Night Live skit. What was it? Be funny if the last guy that was alive was this total stereotypical dude and it was great for one season? Yeah, there's a lot of shows like that that they, you know, they have the first season planned out, They have a nice story arc and then it's like, Wait, we got renewed? shit. Yeah. Now what? Yeah, exactly. Exactly what happened there.
But yeah, that's certainly what it felt like because it did not feel like they had planned this thing out whatsoever past season one. Well, this is and they got too many characters on there eventually. Did you watch season three? What is it called? The NEWSROOM? You know, the one with Reese Witherspoon? Because that was I mean, I barely watched it. But yeah, I thought season one was fantastic as it was. Three was okay. Mediocre. Yes. But now I hear season three is just probably horrible.
David Worth watching. Not worth it. Not worth it. Yeah, that's Again, this is a case of same people. I'm assuming it's the same writers, but it's like, well get we had an idea. It's just how many times can you repeat the same kind of issue. And and in the end I think what really makes it less interesting for everyone is you can only watch the lives of rich people misbehaving so many times before you start thinking, okay, I get it, they're rich, they can do whatever they want.
This is not interesting. That's why people tune out of this show. Well, we have no money because we have no relations. It's the opposite. This is this is for people doing this things every week. Our entire show is basically talking about, you know, we're a couple of has beens and when it comes down to our show is talking about the eighties and the new music the music, the movies, the cars, the food, the everything of the eighties, Friday food talk, everybody. Or is it food talk Friday?
And that's like that's the way people hear food talk Friday. When was the last time you had some eighties food? What do you consider eighties food? Well, what do you consider eighties food? Normal things like, you know, mac and cheese burgers, you know, I don't remember anything that was fashionable. Hot Pockets came out in the eighties, do they? I don't know. I haven't had the hot pocket a lot since the eighties. Probably. Probably. I know. Same here.
I think eighties was when a lot of food companies started discovering the processed. Make them a lot more money. yeah, it's cheaper to make They have a shelf life of like a billion years a year. Yeah. Yeah. What I look at that it's interesting when you at and everybody should do this when they shop is look at the expiration date on what you're buying and if it's something that's like five years from now, you have to ask yourself don't eat it, don't you?
Why, Yeah. Good. Says food talk Friday sounds way too much like fun fact Friday. I'm like well no. See people like fun fact Fridays we just piggyback on people knowing that show I don't know that show it's with a buddy me this and his daughter Lila. They do a great show. are you listening to one episode of that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's got the kid in there and me this. He just got a gig. Being a voice actor, I'm like one of these big universal audiobook things. One of these. really?
Poor hero thing. So it's like, now he's going to be famous. Well, as famous as an audiobook dude can be, but that's still pretty cool. It's. He's doing way better than we are. Screw you me that I mean I would love to do, like, a audiobook gig. Yeah. People. I mean, hey, you know, I really but well, it's because it's hard work. Although it is because the reality is I could do and that is a big gig right now for two different books that I've written you like
would you like for yourself? You're like, No. Can you just take my voice into the air? Yeah, Yeah, exactly is. And I have been very tempted to do exactly that because I don't want to pay somebody else to do it. And that at this point, back when I did my my first book came out, I was like, I want to have a in fact, I got the guy who was who is good at doing Trump's voice. And I talked to him and I he was going to do the the idea for my book. He was going to read it as Trump.
And this is this this was this was happening right before Trump announced he was running. And that route that and then and then Trump announced he was running and this guy got so busy and started making so much more money that the last thing he was going to do is my book. So I thought it was interesting. There's a dude booth junkie new to Yeah, yeah.
He talked about he interviewed a guy from a software company that came out with software now specifically for scripted voice actors because it's using it A.I. but what the main gist of what it was doing was taking the script and then trying to find where you messed up, which I thought was genius for saving people. Time to make sure when you're doing a word for word thing, it's way harder than the off the cuff podcast concept where you could say wherever you want, really?
And I thought we were doing the hardest version of everything. No, no, no. We're doing the easy thing. I thought it was quite interesting. You mean with no script, no notes. And any topic goes, but it would make it a lot easier to do your proofing if you could just be that your manuscript and say, Well, where did I get this? That if the tools that can fix that are also out there, I don't know if they were incorporating those. Yeah, they seemed like they were not quite up to that point.
But I wanted to ask you to because I knew I need to get back and get another trial for the script, because I did throw in our show. I was like, Well I'll try this in premiere, which now shows you filler words, but I didn't see any setting. On whether you could choose certain filler words because the first thing I noticed that it picked up from you was me saying something and you went and they picked that was a filler. It's like put it.
Was it because that was that was content that needed to stay. It wasn't an R or inform. It was, you know, in the affirmative. This is to say yes, you know, without using words. And I was like, well, you don't want to cut that out because they're right. That's true. And the script has you have to be in their most expensive level to be able to select your severe words. Okay. So they give you that, hey, well, this you've so you could do as the free level I think just has a on or off for filler.
The first level has like I think five or six words that you can remove and then there's nefarious. The top tier has a list of about 25 filler words that you can individually select and not, and you can type in your own filler word and then scan for that and remove it, too. That is so nefarious because, it's like, we'll show you how this works, but then you can't take out the ones you don't want to write, you don't want to edit. So you pay us more.
I mean, I think she probably did in the end, it's 240 bucks a year. And then that's for a limited amount of audio pressing. What they limit is the number of hours of transcription. So which obviously ought to be way cheaper now than it was when I started it like three or four years ago. Right, Because there are, but it's not. Can you do a transcription elsewhere then upload that and let it still do the thing that sounds like assholes.
Yeah. So what you have is and I like every month I have to write to them to get quotes because I'll put something in and then I'll, I'll do like the same thing twice. Well you know that that takes away double the amount of minutes that I have for transcription. So I'm like, okay, well this was, this was an error. This should not have been counted. And they're always good about it. They always give you the credits back, but it's it's I wish either the limit was just way higher.
So I just didn't think about it. Even if there are errors or just no limit at all. And I mean I know all the AI crap always seems to cost money no matter how you slice it. Right. They want to do processing every time. Yeah. Yeah. But I also feel like there ought to be a cost reduction over time. It costs increase right in things like the open a I checked GPT it's 20 bucks a month and they limit you per hour or per three. That reminds me, I got to cancel my pro LGBTQ as I don't use it.
But now here's the thing with the things like the script. If you're not in a hurry, you know I the chat up thing works much better If you get so many queries, so much CPU time that you're using per every 3 hours, well, that you could just have it wait for the next 3 hours. And you know, the fact that they're limiting on a per monthly basis or whatever they're doing, it's like, well, that doesn't really make much, except they're trying to get you to the higher level.
But yeah, when it comes to transcripts, I just read up on my Adobe for another year for 240 bucks for the whole year around the student thing again. Well I've always that was easy enough. I was just pissed off because the day I knew I needed to redo it, I just didn't know where I was going to get it because of the way they do the cards.
And I found that B and H online will just cancel the code via email where the Amazon, the way they do it now is they just want to get you into like Amazon subscriptions. And it's not they don't just send you the code. So it's like, Fuck, I don't want that. I already have an account I just need a code. But Amazon didn't do that and the day I saw that I needed it, it was at 179 99 on sale, but I didn't know if B and they just gave the code.
And by the time I figured out if they did, it was back up to 240, like, screw you. But I paid it because it's still better than the six whatever they charge, you know? Yeah. So now the thing is, I will just wait. They're always like, Well, do I need another year? Am I going to die? And if I guess or die, the money doesn't really matter. But you can add multiple years. So it's not like Adobe's going to go, you had a two year, You can't do that. No, they're going to happily take your money.
So I just need to watch it the next time it goes on sale at a second year, even though I'm not going to need it now for another year you probably around Black Friday. These kind of things, I'm sure. Yeah. Yeah. Black Friday that's where I usually get my of is. And by the way, this is so I bought a digital B thing for a discounted price. So it's like I'm basically paying what you're paying now. Yes. You can find some really good in the first place. That was that was what, November.
Yeah. So November, December, January, February. We're now in March 5th month. And how much have you used? I still haven't installed it, but that's okay because as long as it's a code, then it shouldn't start until the minute you put that code. It's not a code. I'm paying monthly. well, that's no good. So you didn't buy like one year, which when you buy it in eight, I bought a year. Paid a month at a time. Who did you buy it from? Adobe. directly. It wasn't through a third party.
They had a Black Friday deal. Now are you sure it's clicking time usually. Well, they were charging me. charging. They already charge you. Okay. It's a perfect. I'm pretty sure it's clicking time. Those bastards. I didn't want to blow the whole. This is my problem. This is my love hate with Adobe. I think they make great products. And even though I think they're overpriced at full price, at half price, they're not even a bad value.
Right. But I've gotten so many workaround products now that I don't need any of the Adobe products and I it's, I don't know. I wish maybe I would just do a monthly deal you know, like I'll pay this month because I'm going to use it here. You buy it a year at a time. It's a cheap one and then you're gold it. Well, did this solution because then I would have paid 280 bucks or whatever and then never install it. Yeah, I guess there's that.
My, my point is see, you're still in the frame of mind where you're always using it. You don't have any other alternatives, so you're just looking for the cheapest price. Yes. Because I to a point where I stopped using it, I used to pay for it every year forever. I like I literally started the first product ever bought from them was before it was named Photoshop. It was called I talked about this in the episode. It had a different name.
That was what I actually bought originally and it was in, I want to say, either 86 or 87, maybe because it was at the SIGGRAPH Show. I went to SIGGRAPH, I think it was SIGGRAPH 87, which is a computer graphics show, and they demo it there and I was like, Holy cow, this is awesome. And it was black and white at the time, by the way. Yeah, so racist because there were no colored mats out yet. The good old days didn't out until the following year. You do it to make it worthwhile.
That much is obvious. Yeah. And that's my problem is by by getting other products that I use like between I the audacity and the script that's like my audio shirt. And then for video because I didn't have Adobe at the time, I bought Da Vinci, which is actually a better product, I think. And Da Vinci was a one time by it's not a monthly thing so I just bought it It was 200 bucks right where Adobe gets you is since that was in the Photoshop ecosystem it's like, yeah, now they have audio programs.
Okay, I'll try that. They have video clips, the same bullshit as Amazon. You know, Amazon started off by having Prime just for shipping. I think the first time was 50 bucks thereabouts, 50 or 60. And then every year the price goes up and there, but every year added more services. So it's kind of like, well, now you get access to free music from Amazon. So that's built into play. Well, now you get prime video that's built in, you get to watch all these.
You want to pay for Hulu because you got Prime and now they've gotten to a point where Prime is 100 and bucks a year ish thereabouts and they and this is what really pissed me off. They changed in the middle of the year that I prepaid for in the middle of the year. They change how they deal with video. Here's some where video now has commercials. Yeah, it's like what bullshit is? did you. I'm sorry, did you want commercial free? That's an extra $20 a month.
Did you through has an article how Photoshop was first Barney's scan XP? That's a hell of a name for a software program. Photoshop is a little better than Barney scan XP, but. I mean, I just think of the purple dinosaur Now. Barney and Purple go together like. Like watermelons. Chicken. Wow. You must have food on the mind. Well, my food just got delivered, so. Yes, you know, it's almost like I'm waiting for the next 4 minutes before I can eat you sitting there like I'm waiting.
I'm like, man, come on, hurry up and get the show over with the times. I'm moving. Yeah, you got to use the good audio stuff together. What are you going to do other than feeding your wife? After the show, I got to call my buddy back, but that was calling here at the beginning of the show. yeah. But otherwise I'm pretty much open until we're going out to see my parents. Then after work, some pretty much from that in that 1 to 5 area, I'm pretty clear.
Why do you want to test out more of your audio gear? And that I mean, we can, but that today, South by Southwest starts today. no. Yeah I mean, this this clean feed. I mean this all. Goodness, I got to get to a party. yeah, that sounds horrible. You have to go to a party. I know you invited. To a party? Yeah. Now you finally have Fred. We heard back in the eighties you had no friends in a big vehicle. Now you have a small vehicle and lots of friends. Yeah, which is a bad system.
I'm. I mean, I'm sure it'll be fun, but. Yeah, I just. I hate South by now, but I live in the US and I used to love South by what was cool it first like the music and all of a sudden this turn is awesome. It was like a mega festival. So you have music, movies and technology and like it had a lot of cool shit there, video game stuff. It had cool gadgets and robotics and stuff. It had tons of movie premieres from unknown future famous movie people.
And it had, of course, tons and tons of music everywhere. So it was a resource I used to, but it was a real event which kind of now turned into a pretend event. I don't know. It's a real event. It's bigger than ever. I mean, there's COVID kind of fucked with them a little bit, but they were growing every year and getting bigger and bigger and more places were getting taken over. But the part that's grown the most is actually not even the music of the movies.
It's it's the tech, which includes a lot of startup stuff. You know, Twitter got launched at South by Yeah, I remember that's back one of my old account, my first signed up for it and it was literally 500,000 into it, you know, and it was literally people a lot of people did. Yeah, it was literally people just saying, and now I'm walking over to area, you know, like the tweets were so damn innocent back in the day. There's zero politics on Twitter.
When it started, I suppose it was just like people saying what they're doing. I saw a meme and I was in South by Southwest. It was something about 2009. Lily Allen, the singer, turning down 200 million in Bitcoin to do a performance now. And they're like, Well, it shows you singers aren't smart. And I'm like, But here's the thing. 200 trillion today, The World Today that it it was like 14 point something billion.
Yeah but you know if somebody took 200,000 in Bitcoin back then they would have just, Yeah, they would solve it. Yeah. So the concept like somebody was going to keep that and hold on to no one was going to hold on to that. The exact right. No. But if you did that, speaking of Bitcoin at 68. Yes. It's going up. Yeah. This is and my sheep coin 200 that no one's told us about that shit. I know.
I just I was going to lose 50 bucks and say I have like 5 million sheep, but now I've like quadrupled my money. Is that winning or should I just cash it out? You're not quadruple until you sell, right. That's it. And with my bitcoin, should I sell the bitcoin? This now is the time to sell the bitcoin. I don't know, dude. I thought I was going to go back down to like 30 right around Christmas, so I'm totally off on this shit. Should I turn? I've also never served bitcoin.
Yeah, I Yeah. So I think I needed to move. I did not know I need to do but now that I haven't bought them like three weeks has gone by and more money in the bitcoin is worth more, more money. I know. Like you want to hit it at the top, I could turn that in hell. I buy bitcoin right now. I can almost turn it on though I still don't have enough for a mac pro, which is sad. No, but I can buy a mac studio. Yeah, that's pretty good.
Yeah. Well, I still think that there's no point in buying the studio. Honestly, you're. You would be perfectly well suited with the mini. The mini get the mini with the maximum amount of memory that you can get versus a studio with less than that. A memory. The only thing I don't like the mini pro with the two pro will do the monitors. It'll do everything I need except it's only got eight getting the gig. Ram and it's only got a one. You get more ram. Well then you're paying more.
This is where it's going to change the difference. I also would like the ten gig Ethernet because I do pull down over a gig from the cable company, which isn't huge. I mean, I could live without that, but I've got it on my system. So yes, it's very close to having a maxed out. Everything on Drudge is written with a Dickens as well. So you're Ello and welcome to episode number 107 of Unrelenting March eight, 2024, where we should scream it.
I'll just like, just like, jacked up Joey did last night. Did you did you watch that extravaganza? That was the you know, I planned on it and then they didn't. You were better off, I suspect that's true. Yeah. He's Jean I'm there and and one he was 20 minutes late. And then I was first thinking that this was because they had to jack him up on so many drugs to keep them out. There is the over under, which I thought was quite high.
The over under in the betting was an hour and 9 minutes for the speech and wow, he went over. So I was that was amazing in itself. Although you have to add in all of the idiotic cheering and the people yelling for more years and then you got the Marjorie Taylor greens yelling at him. So there is disruptions going. So, I mean if you if you actually just took the words Jones Awesome. It would be a little bit different.
But at first I thought, you know, this is why he's late, because they had to jack him up on something to get him out there to give the speech. But definitely my assumption, the news coverage on Fox, because where do you go if you want to get any kind of real time information from the mainstream? I mean, there's still I mean, I'm not going MSNBC, I'm not going to CNN. I don't really want to go to News Nation. Well, I would go to C-SPAN if they would have the best coverage over.
I don't know if they the C-SPAN is still a guy, maybe a guy and a half sitting and working there. And so, like every it's like the guy in office base that did that basement, like everybody forgot about me. But we still have a network. It's still a thing. But I mean, it's mostly run on autopilot anyway, so that guy could die and nobody would even know, according to Adam would know who. According to Fox News, there were protesters of the anti-Israel tape that I heard that.