That's wishful thinking. Yes. You. It's Friday morning once again. Time for unrelenting. Episode number 110. I am Darren, he's Gene. What is this show all about? People have been asking Gene on the X. What's the show all about? Yeah, Seinfeld. There's no good answer. I felt you describe the show. Yeah. Seinfeld is the show I describe when I said Seinfeld, the shorthand version.
What you that I had to put the disclaimer for Jerry that we're not claiming that we are related to Seinfeld, have ever seen Seinfeld, that he's ever seen our show, heard our show, knows of our show. He might like it because it is his show. It's a show about nothing. It's a show about everything as I described it. Then it's kind of like, just you and I talking on the phone, which is literally how this started. And then people are listening. Yeah. Isn't that kind of creepy, isn't it?
Yeah. Why are you fuckers listening? Well, well, thankfully, I don't think they are. No, nobody at all. Makes it a lot easier to talk about those tough subjects. Health. Speaking of subjects, I had some, events that were somewhat similar to your events. Who? Yeah. Which events? It was. I didn't have water in the house for a couple days. The water went out, like, entire. How does that even happen? Well, it's where I go out to the water. Me and shut it off.
Were you doing work or you just wanted to see if you could live in an apocalyptic, society? Well, of all the people that I know, I am probably the most prepared to live apocalyptically without water. Yeah. You've got what's 8000 gallons in the basement store? Yeah, exactly. So, but they're all in, like, eight ounce containers. So that was. Makes it more difficult to take a shower, right? Yeah. It's hard. I got to just. It's like using a Dixie cup.
And you, like, put that over your heads in another Dixie cup. Yeah, that's exactly right. Luckily, you don't have any hair, though, so it's, you don't worry about having the shampoo out of there. Yeah, I think I have more hair in my beard than most. Most men have in their whole body through. So. Yeah, I was taking a shower a few days ago, and then I turn the knob to turn the water off. Nothing happened, so I push a little harder than the knob. When did a full 360? The water was still on.
Then I realized, oh, it broke. Yeah, that's not good with the water. Won't stop. so. And it wasn't, you know, just cold water, obviously. I was thinking shower. So it was hot water emptying out when you don't have those brand new fangled, not brand new binding, not to have a continuous hot water heater, you know, and, so I saw my neighbor was getting some air conditioning that worked in. So I went over and snagged one of his air conditioning guys, too. Hey, you got tools, right? Allegedly.
you know anything about plumbing? He's like, no, we we it's like, you know, a whole different thing. we don't do plumbing. They don't do AC, which is. I mean, that's I would think most of them are like that. But the other day I saw a truck that was doing that. Doing both. Yes, but it was a company that did both. And I was like, that's really weird. That is extra weird.
I remember a whole series of episodes, a wonderful show called Community that dealt with, one of the characters trying to make a decision whether he's going to go to plumbing school or conditioning school. And so he is getting recruited by both schools, and they're talking about all the nasty shit of the other school. So they were shit talking each other. Oh yeah. Absolutely. But because they're trying to it's like recruiting, you know, major college athletes can think, right? Right.
this is they're trying to show how much better their school and their profession was compared to the other one. Like, you don't want to be wearing pants where you can see the crack of your ass, do you? Why would you want to be a plumber? You know, that kind of thing. Sounds like an interesting show. Well worth it. Oh my God, you've never watched community? Never heard of it. Holy shit. Wow. Okay, add that to your list of things that you haven't done but should have.
Not a big fan of, Joel McHale. Now, what else is he done, though? That's a good question, isn't it? He's you know, he's in something now called like, animal control or something like that. He was in a show briefly, the where he was working for some kind of online outdoorsy magazine, kind of. Oh, that was a good show. I like that one, because while that show was, I literally had his job in a group that, I mean, it was that shows based around me. Except you weren't as, tall as Joel McHale.
Well, the high has nothing to do with character. Drew. Yeah, drew and I, I may not be as tall, but I'm certainly as good looking. Yeah, sure. Yeah. I'm not going to burst your bubble. It's too early in the morning for that. Yeah. Let me just pop open a can of coffee. Here I am. Yeah, I know nothing about the nice can of coffee. That's interesting. Yeah, well, why do you drink coffee? Well, you don't have water, so I guess the only way you can get to know you getting cans from Starbucks.
The, the girl in Britta was a strange looking chick. This is like Danny. I love Britta. Really? You were over Britta? Over Annie? I don't know, and he's way hotter. But Britta has those big, doughy eyes, and she's, like, doughy. As in the animal dude. Yeah, the animal your man eats with just big doe eyes and and, she was extremely stereotypical of the Austin college girls that I've dated. did see that, Abed was the best character, though. Abed was a weird character.
You know, it was the best character, man. Chevy Chase stole anything that he ever was around. So, yeah, he's just a good grumpy old man. And yes, I've seen the series multiple times. Well, you should definitely start watching it. Yes I'll, I'll watch it for a third time or fourth time or whatever it is. But it's you do remember them. The episodes that I'm referring to. Yeah. It was John Goodman that came in. He was the one running the, the air conditioning school.
And I love that they they walk into an empty room and, and Goodman says, you know how they say, room temperature when referring to room temperature? Well, this is the room. So living. It's very illuminating. Yeah, totally. Good coffee. What? What brand do we exist? Another one where you're going to give a link and you're like, well, Starbucks espresso. How can Starbucks espresso in a can? Yeah, there's no X in espresso. But yeah, espresso coffee got the espresso.
Love. it's a great song by Dire Straits. Espresso love. Yeah. I'm not going to be a happy camper tomorrow. When I started having caffeine withdrawal, though, because I'd been pounding these things down lately since my water stopped working. So, okay, I get this. It's kind of like in the olden days, you know, they couldn't drink water, so they drank beer and they were drunk all the time. So they drink whiskey more than beer.
Your thing is you're drinking caffeinated beverages when you're thirsty now. Which actually makes you more thirsty. See. Then you have another one. I think I'm, I mean I'm kind of trying to minimize it. I think I'm doing an eight pack a day of these things of espressos though. Yeah. Which there is, how many milligrams of caffeine in one of those little cans. Three times more in the cup of coffee. Yeah. That's true. I was guessing, like 150 or somewhere in there.
They're not quite as bad as pounding monster energy drinks. No, but no, no, I got, like, an eight pack of monster kill you. Yes. Literally. Don't do that, kids. Caffeine in massive amounts is bad for you. That's why it's always interesting when things. Well, I can tell you exactly how much of it will kill you. Because I watched a TV episode on this or, YouTube. I was going to say this was a television. This was, you know, guaranteed, five grams of caffeine will literally kill you.
It will, it will cut off the blood supply to your brain. Five grams. And how many? So I'm at, it's what, a milligram is a thousandth of a gram. So 1000mg is a gram. Yeah. So 5000mg, which is not impossible to think somebody. Well, you can buy caffeine right now on eBay. Yeah. Sorry. eBay and, Amazon. Yes. In, in, powdered form I remember with. No those was a not caffeine kids. I know it it works. But don't do it. It cocaine is way safer. This is not medical advice.
Both will probably make your heart explode. I don't know which one will do it first. Well, the. Yeah, the the the cocaine may make your heart explode, especially if you're a fat comedian. the, the caffeine will just cut off the blood supply to your brain for everyone. Neither way. Not a good idea either way. Not a good idea. Not a good thing. So. Yeah. So then, you know, I have turned the water main off the whole house. when the air conditioning guys basically said.
Yeah, it looks like it's broken. We can't turn this off like. Yep. Well, how do we stop the water? I mean, sometimes you have a secondary stop inside going to, you know, if you have multiple levels, sometimes you have the ability to shut that off, so you can't. Well, if I have one of those I didn't find it. So I know it was my house. Yeah. Yeah. Usually I have them right by, you know, you have shut off by your toilets, you have shut off by your sinks, but really not for your shower, not for
the shower. Sorry. which also means it could be a, I mean, I guess you could most likely replace the defective part without having to, you know, break any tile or destroy the whole bathroom, but who knows? I mean, you might get unlucky. Yeah. No, I had a I had a plumber come out yesterday and he couldn't just swap something in there. He did? Yeah. That's exactly what he took. Apparently you can take the faucet thing or the knob thingy apart from the front.
And then when the water's off you can pull out. They call it a cartridge. It's basically the valve. And, you can yank it out and replace it with a new one without having to even solder anything. Well, that's a beautiful thing. And then you have water. Yeah. Exactly. So and he also did it proactively for the other shower just in case. Did you like these are both the same age. Yeah. They all at a certain point 13 years old. So yeah. You know all this stuff is now built to fail. Thank you.
well, and certainly the last of the warranty is expired at ten years, so everything now is prone to start failing. Gotta start replacing everything, and nobody stays ahead of this stuff. and when it happens, you're like, what do I do now? Yeah. Although you have to know the difference between what's going on and what part you need to replace and understand which most people don't. When the shower here started, you know, when you went in, it was a bathtub slash shower.
and more of the water was coming out of the spigot rather than through the shower head. and the wife originally thought you had to replace the thing where you adjust the water, you know, where you turn it on and off, and I'm like, right. No, no, no, it's very simple for I think all of them. If not. Yeah. The vast majority. Is that the little spigot thing? Yeah. When you pull that up it just literally blocks the water and then sends it back up and that's.
Yeah. So it's yeah, the shower is always open, but gravity works to keep the water flowing out of the main spigot unless you block it right. It's like, no, no, you just need to replace this little like I was surprised those things are now like 50 bucks just for the little cheap screw on. Oh my God. It's horrible what everything's costing now, but it was a much easier fix. It just. Yeah. It's like you just twist it off. Twist the new one out. Everything's good.
Unless you have other problems like you did. Where? It's the water phone shut off. Did you have the water to good use? Did you just, like, start taking the buckets and filling them up and same. You know, they say apocalypse. Well, I usually have one bathtub full of water for emergencies. you know, in the north wing and then, keep the rest of them empty for other purposes. How many wings are in the, the, homestead there? If it doesn't matter.
I don't want to talk about my house, but the, the bottom line is, you know, I had to, deal with a apocalyptic situation, and, it was pretty good. I was very touched with, Well, I did switch from drinking, you know, water to drinking and coffee. When did you run out of the iced tea? This was probably the really darkest hour. Yeah, I ran and I. I ran out of the. Well, no, I have, I had, I still have iced tea. It's just I felt my obligation to drink caffeine for some reason.
Well, you should have at least a little caffeine every day. not really. If I do, I usually don't, I don't sleep, I only buy caffeine, randomly and. Well, except for the iced tea. Well, that's part of the emergency supply. Okay. Oh, no. No, no. I'm sorry. Iced tea. I drink all the time. The glass of coffee, the supply. Right. But the thing is, I think I drank, a month's worth of, and coffee in three days, which can't be good. also ate all the, all of the, desert food rations that I have.
This is where you started with the food rations? Yeah. It seemed like dessert was going to be the most tasty portion. Right? You want to keep your shirt? Well, you want keep your sugar level sky high when having massive amounts of caffeine, right? It's the only safe way to balance those things out. I know it's almost like doing coke at that point, but just be calming. Yes, but don't do coke, kids. I don't do coke and any regular basis. It's that good for you. Like show you.
I want to say I want to hear you walk into your doctor's office and go, should I? I'm going to do one or the other. Sugar and caffeine in massive quantities or just a little Coke, you know, which which which do you recommend? Yeah. Which one is like, well, how pure is the coke? Right. That's very important. It is because usually it's not the coke that kills you. It's all the additives. Well, let's we can't get good organic cocaine these days. It's really hard to get.
Well, any drugs that you're getting from questionable sources are very likely to be laced with something, which is why the death numbers have gone up. It's not because people are necessarily doing more drugs now, but the stuff that they're buying, you know, I think I'm just buying me some oxy, man, or I'm buying some Vicodin. And it turns out it's got a little bit of, you know, fentanyl or something mixed into it.
Yeah. And fentanyl is a legitimate drug, that, that, you know, prescribed to people, but it's, it's extremely addictive. And it's a dosage issue again, too. Yeah, dosage. But also the purity is that that's that's a big problem with it because the, like, fentanyl in small quantities is still addictive, even if it's, it's just being used to treat, depression and stuff. But in, you know, quantities where the person doing the drug is also measuring it.
that's where you're asking to get to get, fucked over. Yeah. You don't want to be in an intoxicated state when you're deciding the dose that you need. You know, it's kind of like when people do the gummies, you know, and take one and like, yeah, we find that kids don't feel anything at taking either. Wait five seconds, not feel anything yet. No idea. By the time they all hit together, they're like, oh, and no, Jesus water is on. Now he's just waiting for a replacement part.
But of course, when doing the replacement part, no break. Then you've got to turn the water off again. People are worried that you don't have water now. Well, I have like 8000 gallons of water, but it's part of the root supply. Yeah, he does not want to dip into the emergency supply much better. That's why I've been drinking coffee instead. And where did you get all of the Starbucks coffee? Did somebody accidentally deliver them to your house?
Like they usually deliver your groceries to somebody else's house? No, I have a, this is part of my, prepper stockpile is, Starbucks cans. A lot of people don't know that. You once did some work for Starbucks, and they paid you in cans. So I wish, friend, I've actually never had Starbucks as a client. I've had a lot of other companies, but, never, never have been hired by Starbucks. And I had the wildest dream this morning. I dreamt that I was working for Elon Musk.
Oh, now this is more than a dream you have. This is a dream you've had for a long time. It is a dream for a long time. That's true. And, I was working, like, in a very special secret group for Elon Musk. And, it was very vivid dream like, you know, even after waking up, I can visualize it and describe all details. But one of the things I did have a chance to ask him is how much time does he still find for video games? And he said, 28 hours a day.
No, no, no, no, he said three hours a week, which I think is an interesting answer because I suspect that's probably true. You do realize from where you live that it's quite possible you are doing. I may have been sleepwalk getting into Elon's house and, you know, dreaming while I was walking around. That's true. We don't live that far apart. I mean, Jesus Christ, I'm I'm I can walk through the Tesla factory from here while I'm sleeping as well, but, Oh. Maybe that's where it was.
They could be wiping your memory after your day of work. I know. Right? You know, you show, man, do I even work? I don't know, it feels like I just kind of wake up every morning, and then it's about 5 p.m.. It's a little weird. Nobody was supposed to mention that part two. You got, Oops. Musk team X, if you can, we can get to Gene's house. He's going to need a double dose of memory research. Yeah, the caffeine's interfering. It's helping him, remember? Yeah, but, yeah, it was wild.
you know, I remember the the the projects were working, and, the building was kind of a warehouse with a nother building inside the warehouse. Oh, like double secret protection kind of thing. Yeah. And there was, electromagnetic and audio noise being projected between the two buildings to completely isolate the, internal structure. that's where all the really interesting stuff was going on. The double top secret stuff, which I can't talk about because I signed an NDA in my dreams.
Right. It's very. Yeah. You don't want to accidentally know. Leaks some of Elon Musk's secrets. Even if it was in a dream. Yes. I don't think the playing video games for three hours a week is necessarily covered by the NDA, but, some of the details of what actually I was working on probably are. So I think going through it, I think you need more caffeine, gene gist. Is that what you think is right? Exactly what you need. You've had a traumatic experience. Your shower. Stop working it.
Stop working by refusing to stop working. Which is right. So I had to turn it off manually. Yeah. Because any other kind of problem you're like, well, I'll just work around it for a while. I'll eventually fix it if the water is running right. I give. Yeah. And it's not. If it was cold water, then I could kind of do what you described, which is, oh, I'll go water the plants. I'll go use it for other purposes. Right. I'll recycle it. I mean, I'm like, what are you going to do with hot water?
Because that uses not just water, it uses natural gas does. It's heating the water. Oh, you are one of those evil people using gas to heat your water. Oh, I wouldn't be caught dead with an electric stove, man. That's that. That's where they're going to start forcing people into that much less obvious. sabemos says you can do lots of dishes with hot water, but, I mean, you'd have to have party after party after party to make that many dishes.
I could or I could just push a button on my dishwasher. Do that. Yeah, mine's running right now. Jean really doesn't. To let people into his home, though. It's not. I mean, something weird, but. Yeah, never seen again. There's really no reason to go into the home. Yeah, I've kind of realized that JCD had the right idea all along. Never leave the house. Well, never leave the house and never let anybody in the house. Yeah, everybody. Even Adam. I want to see your studio. Nope. Not going to happen.
Where the magic happens once the Chase lounge is positioned correctly with a mic, boom in front of it. That's all. That's all she wrote. You don't get to see anymore. You do not want to let out the magic. So, yeah. That's cool. I've got a buddy in town right now that came in to watch the The End of the world special, right when the lights go out of my bed, when the lights go out. exactly. And, so he he flew in last night. How many people are coming in? I know, even my mom's.
Yeah. Best friend who lives across the street. Her and her son, who also is born on April 8th. So. But he's in his, you know, way younger than I am. But they're flying into Texas, and there's, like, how many people are coming into Texas? Just. Well, I can tell you that Fredericksburg, where Adam lives, which is a city of, I think around 40,000 people or something. Yeah. I don't even think it's that big. Yeah, there's 100,000 people coming there specifically.
This is a perfectly in the line of what is going to be, yeah. That's not right. That's it's right in that line. Which is why I made my reservation at Adam's house, six months ago. Now, when the eclipse hits, is at the exact time that all of the cicadas are going to start emerging, and the birds will start falling out of the sky, the the cicadas will be, a foot deep in the streets. the tidal noise will cover most of the planet. It's going to be an interesting experience.
I don't remember exactly what happened during the last cicada thing. I remember hearing about cicadas. I remember hearing the noise. Yeah, because, my parents, it had at the time, there were like, woods, right, right behind them that were eventually knocked down, of course, because you had to build things. So it was quite loud. But I don't remember, you know, like the house being covered with them. I don't remember, like walking outside and all of a sudden having five cicadas on.
Yeah. I don't remember that the not going to be on you. They're going to be either on the trees or on the ground. So they're going to be like just minding their own business. They're just they're mostly looking for somebody to fuck. Well, what aren't we all. Well, they just have a much they have a much bigger time. They've been waiting for a while, so they're waiting a while. Eight years and they got like two weeks or something to be like exactly two weeks and you're dead. Can you imagine that?
Because I think they stop eating it soon as they climb out or something. It's like, here you go. You haven't gotten laid in 16 years, and now you have two weeks to get it out of your system, and then you're dead. Luckily, everybody's up for it. No. Yes. Because everybody's in the same exact situation. Yeah, I don't know. I think they're kind of cool. I mean, they're basically just, a different relative of a, grasshopper. Yeah, they do have that look.
Yeah, it's just weird for any species that goes that long just in hibernation. only to then somehow all extract themselves at the same time, I think is probably through natural selection in forest fires. They like only the lazy versions of them that were asleep underground, got to survive the forest fire, and, everybody else gets wiped out. And so after a while, the only, the only version of that animal you have left is one that sleeps all the time.
True. Or plays video games in their home and refuses to come out for three hours a week. Right. That's kind of like the doing the same thing you just did minding your own business. Yeah, yeah, yeah, get their food delivered. But I didn't realize that there were some very mad. I mean, I guess it makes sense. It's where the earth is positioned and right at the right time. Yeah. The moon is exactly between the Earth and the sun. Like, you could draw a straight line through them.
And for a beautiful amount of how many minutes is this thing going to last? I think it's 20 minutes I could see back in olden days. Especially if you were one of these smart folks who was able to study this and understand the astronomy. You could. Can you imagine me telling people like I am going to get you in three days, the sun will be extinguished. You know, I've been saying that for a while and then it happened. Oh. See now people understand why it's happening.
Back then they just thought it was some kind of black magic going on. It is black magic controlling the heavens and the earth. Well it's black magic because it doesn't happen every month. Because you think it should. You're like, how does this not just like, cause the moon goes around the Earth. Earth goes around the sun. So therefore, once a month, the moon had to be between the Earth and the sun. Not a perfect circle. No, definitely not. A lot of weird things happen. Lots of black magic.
People don't want to understand that when the sun is more active, it gets warmer. Here. When the sun is closer to the earth, it gets warmer here. That's why you find a halogen bulb if you can. Kids, I know it's getting harder. If not just using old incandescent 100 water although that's getting hard to find. Yeah. Then you just hold somebody's hand and you continue to move it closer to the bulb. Now if it's 100 watt bulb, you could get to within like a millimeter and they're not going to scream.
It'll just be really warm. No, you'd scream it a millimeter. If it's a 100 watt halogen. No, not the halogen. I'm just like the regular regular bulb. I'd say you can get to about maybe, half an inch. Now, the halogens, you're within an inch and you're like, dude, you're within the foot of a halogen and your hand is sweating like it's. I know, you know, cooking. I used to love the halogen lamp I had in the home office, because in the wind mine was 600 watt miles.
Yeah. 3 or 6 is what the one on the head was. Yeah. It's crazy. And even the three hundreds put off more heat than you can imagine. Yeah, they're like half heat, half light. Which in the winter it was great because I didn't need to heat the rest of the house when, you know, the when I had one of those that was a halogen bulb like that, that was in a, a lamp that stood on the floor and it like, faced up. Yeah. That's what I had. The torch lamp. Yeah. The torch lamp.
Yeah. And it like when you crank that to full brightness, the room was like bright white. I still have that in the basement with you. That takes the need for having a heater down there with probably a buck an hour to keep that running at full power. Yeah, probably 300. Well, 300W. It's not that much, but not 300. It's not that much. My computer power supplies the thousand. the troll room's like light bulb talk. It's like this is what the show's all about, man. Are you not paying attention?
This is literally what the show's about. Light bulb talk to talk about light bulbs again. and and plumbing, light bulbs, plumbing. The essentials of life. It was great when you needed the heat, not when you didn't need the heat. When the summer is around. Yeah, I became a bigger fan of darker in the office because that is heated it up way too much.
But that's. Yeah, I mean, I, I hate the compact fluorescent was never using those have never put a compact fluorescent bulb in once I took those I know you're welcome. Well they're they just never die. Those are the longest lit. Like they outlive LED bulbs. They're the longest running bulbs out there. They're 100 year lifespan, but there's mercury inside them. So when they break. What, you poisoning the whole world? Gene? Dude, I'm a I'm a kid of the 70s. I was drinking mercury.
You break apart a thermometer and you play with it and then lick your fingers and then you like. Yeah, you clean your fingers by licking them. It's like, I swear to God, the evolution has been running backwards. People are getting progressively weaker, not stronger. Ryan Memory says he has a box of dead compact fluorescent he needs to send you. This adds a lot more questions to take him at. Why are you saving dad compact fluorescent bulbs?
I guess maybe in the Washington state area they were probably banned, right? What? You can't just throw those out. If you throw them out your garbage, they probably put you in jail. I, I could see that you get your go. No, no. Yeah. I like the LEDs. Although they do not last forever. Like they promise to data. Data definitely out. Yeah, well, and they can't they can't promise it because LEDs, they, they utilize a, chemical.
It's not phosphor anymore, but it used to be phosphor to have, to convert the, the actual whatever light frequency was being generated to visible white light because they're not generating white light, they're generating, I can't remember if it's infrared or ultraviolet. It's probably ultraviolet. That's my guess is what they're generating. And, that has to be converted. And it used to be with phosphor. Now it's probably some other chemical to visible light.
And that process slowly eats up the phosphorus or it eats up whatever the medium is for doing the frequency conversion. So they do eventually burn out, quote unquote. but the CF ones never do because that is the natural color of the gas inside just goes on forever. Yeah. The only thing that you could lose in the CF bulb is the ballast. Like that can eventually go out. But you just replace those screw because you need the power. And that's with a lot of the. And I'll tell you why.
I think I probably like him more than you. And some other people is because I used to have, a lot of aquariums, and, aquariums were both at, well, actually both aquariums and, reptile enclosures that use ultraviolet light tubes, which give a similar vibe off. Well, there, I mean, they look the same. It's just, they go they have, think of that as just a different gas inside to provide a different frequency of light, but it's basically the same process.
And so I've, I'm like used to looking at that. Those types of bulbs or, you know, trying not to look at them because UV light directly in your eyeball is not a good thing. Right. That can't be healthy. Just like don't stare at the eclipse, kids. Do not stare I robot glasses. I just got to remember to bring them. Do not stare at the bulbs with. Yeah, I got the, eclipse glasses so you can look directly at the sun.
That's why the when I was looking for a space heater, a lot of people were espousing the greatness. the ultra, will be infrared, not ultraviolet. The infrared heaters. Yeah. And when you start reading, like, well, it doesn't heat up the air, it just heats up. What? The light hits. I'm like, that seems weird. I mean, I get it, but it's like, that would also be something that I know it's a lot more efficient. I don't think you'd want to look into that light emanating from it. You can.
It's not a big deal like it's not the, it's infrared. It doesn't have any of the UV attached to it. I would guess that, no, it's on the other side of the spectrum. So you've got the concept being, well, it heats the same way the sun does. That doesn't really heat the air. It just heats things. And then that's how the well, that's not quite true. The sun doesn't actually heat with infrared. it, it, it heats with ultraviolet, which is converted by the molecules in the atmosphere to infrared.
And the infrared then bounces around the planet, which is why it's so damn cold. When you get up 30, 40,000ft. because otherwise people would be like, well, why isn't it warmer, closer to the sun? We don't understand it. Well, it's. Yeah, I mean, there's multiple reasons for why it's colder up there, but yes, being closer to the surface where the gases are a lot more dense, it's a lot warmer. And that's not just true here. It's true of other planets like
like Venus, our future home, for example. Ooh, we have an excursion. I wasn't supposed to talk about that. Yeah. Elon, was very clear about not wanting to do that. I just thought the concept of having a heater that didn't heat the air, but it heats using waves that people, they're like, so is this kind of just like a human microwave? No. I knew you were going to say that. No, no, no, I mean, that's the first place anybody I think would go, like, how are you heating up the molecules?
And there's a big difference. I understand the microwaves are penetrating into right where these do not. So it's a surface thing. Yep. Exactly. it's a little less dangerous. Yeah. Microwaves basically work by, by sending radio waves at the frequency. The resonant frequency of water molecules. And what happens when you do that is the water molecules, but nothing else or mostly nothing else to say that that's what everything but.
But it's really the frequent, the resonant frequency of the water molecules that they work out. That's the basic principle. and when they get bombarded with all that energy, they start vibrating. And that vibration, is what's generating the heat internally. That's why when you cook something in the microwave, it's hot inside, not just outside. Well, that's why you put your prior, right? But like, whether it's just a stove or an air fryer, it's heating it from the outside. Yes.
In. And you have to cook it long enough for the middle to get warm to the temperature you want with a microwave. It it literally cooks it at the exact same temperature outside and inside. I know I was trying to figure out the exact proper way to cook the. And it turns a lot of foods mushy. Yeah. You don't like mushy? yeah, that's what we got. It's been a while, probably like 3 or 4 years since I bought the Aldi calzones, which for what they are, they are delicious. Never have them.
Oh they are, they're delicious. I mean, they besides being the, like, pepperoni or I think they do a sausage, which would be normal. They also had things like buffalo chicken. There's a few different things they make, but cooking it in the airfryer, there is an art to that and to understanding. You can't cook it as high of a temperature because you're totally going to make the outside hard. Yeah. So you kind of got to go low and cook it a little bit longer. Instead.
Yeah. Cooking any kind of breads in an air fryer you have to limit your temperature under 400 degrees. Otherwise it's going to become a brick. Yeah. It's going to it's going to be turned brown and, lose all its taste. Whereas on the other hand, if you're cooking meat, you can cook it up to 500 degrees. It's the best way to do it. And here's the letter. Yeah. It'll it'll sear it very nicely. We bought a bunch of T-Bones that were on sale for like, 799
a pound at the local place. Wow. That's super cheap. They're actually really good. I think in Austin you can get just the bone part for that much. Yeah. This is, the reason why you should go get your meat somewhere else. I mean, I wasn't really expecting much, but the nice thing was they were also in the, in the vacuum pack.
So it was like when you buy them at the grocery store, normally they're just in the little styrofoam thing and wrapped up and it's like, well those aren't going to last a long time, right? These lasted a few weeks. And even, you know, a week after the date, they're not changing color or anything because, well, it's vacuum packed in our freezers more. Just refrigerate them. Refrigerate. But I mean, I'm what do you keep your fridge at?
Because I'm the kind of guy that keeps the refrigerator at like 34 to 35°F. Yeah, just above freezing, because if it's too warm and a lot of people think, oh, it should be around, you know, 40 or 45, it's like, no, no, you wanted things to last longer. I don't want them to freeze. This is where you have to be careful because there are spots in the refrigerator that right, that are extra cold. Yeah. my wife put the I bought a, around Christmas.
The local Meijer had an Italian, soda, which ended up being really good, but it was in a glass bottle. And just where she put it in the back of the refrigerator, turned the whole thing to ice and like, I'm guess, I mean, happy that the glass bottle didn't, explode or anything. Yeah, probably too much sugar for it to explode. That would be probably the case.
Yeah, that's because I remember remember this very vividly from, being in high school, living in Minnesota and then leaving a 12 pack of Coca-Cola in the car in the winter, those will eventually explode. They will absolutely explode. But the difference between the, the Diet Coke exploding and, the full sugar Coke exploding is massive. The diet forced the diets way worse. Yeah, the full sugar Coke. If it explodes, it tends to be just kind of like a pop, or it starts to drip into the, container.
like, it'll blow steel and then slide to drip out. The Diet Coke goes off like a bomb. I want to try this massive explosion, man. Now, this is something to do next. Well, it's the same idea as the Mentos, right? You don't write Mentos into full sugar Coke you put into Diet Coke. Does it really make a difference? I didn't realize it was up. Absolutely. It's the reaction with whatever chemicals are in the diet soda, it's not really even the reaction.
It's just that the the sugared version is saturated. It's a saturated solution. Almost not quite, but you know, there's a shit ton of sugar in there. Yeah, man, that he got an Italian soda two weeks ago. I didn't realize it was sugar free. You got to avoid the sugar free stuff. Yeah, they taste like shit if they're sugar free, that's not good. And that. That was on bowl with Bud's bowls with Bud's with, Sir Spencer and Dame Delorean. You know, he's an AAP member. I mean, how cool is that?
AAP? You mean, like he's old? Yeah, that's how that's not cool at all. Actually, I do not know. It's like then he was so proud to get your discount. The AAP discount. No no no no. Fuck that. First of all, AAP is an evil organization. I knows the meaning of the Democrat Party. Yeah, yeah. You want to go with the. If you're going gonna go with one, it's the other. Better your amnesty I guess is kind of like all right. But it's the conservative side or the NRA, right? Aren't they?
Actually, these days the NRA is kind of got a bad rep. a lot of the younger kids, the millennials and the younger don't like the NRA. They're all much more into the, the, what's the other one? The American something. Firearms. It's another. I don't do that. I'm a member of opened it up like I've got I think I've got four different gun groups I'm a member of. You got every car just in case. And I have every card and. Well, not it's not just in our case, but it I have every card.
So there are four different lawsuits protecting me from, enforcement of the, the ban on, firearms of all sorts. Not. Well, no, the, the most recent thing that the ATF illegally did, the, the ban on the pistol, pistol braces. And as a member of four different lawsuits, I've got four different, protections on that. So, yeah, they're all giving you some kind of insurance. well, they all through the government. I mean, that's the main thing there for.
And of course, you're a member of the Texas clan, so that really protects you from most things. I, I am a member of the Texas clan. That is true story. In fact, my buddy that's in town here, he he's a member of the Texas clan. He just learned. Is there a big convention coming up? what the the, you know, the, the eclipse? Yeah. A lot of people are going to be outside dressed in, funny clothes, I guess.
I don't know, it's just, you know, you got an eclipse coming up, so you got, you got to provide some lighting for the time when it's dark out, right? And you want. You want to have sex. This clan has decided to volunteer to go around and make sure that they're sufficient light during the eclipse. And you have to use torches because it's really the only the only way to go. You don't want anything that's battery operated that could be glitchy.
You don't know when the lamp goes, if all the battery operated stuff stops working. So torches are much better. Yeah, they work really well. Yeah. And when it gets chilly, when the sun goes behind the moon, it'll help keep you warm. Yeah, you should definitely have a torch and then have an appropriate hat for the eclipse. Which the best? You know, when you've got all that radiation coming down, the best the hat you can have has very sharp, pointy end. Go. Yeah, that is true.
It disperses the radiation. That's the main reason Adam Curry did say you were bringing your night vision with. So, you'll be the only one able to see what's going on. That's. Well, it's. Yeah, it's kind of a mandate for the for all the Texas clan members to have that.
Yeah. Now, am I the only person throughout my whole life who has never understood why people get excited about eclipses, why I want to know why people care that this is because it's kind of neat and I mean, and like, you're you're going through essentially a night cycle in the matter of less than an hour, but it's we understand why now, yet again, hundreds of years ago when people didn't understand what was going on, I get it.
Yeah. But now that you realize and it's predicted and everybody knows exactly when it's going to hit, it's a rare event, though. You know, the next one will happen for 80 years. It will all be dead. Well, some of you, some of us right. The guy who just never found them to be all that were interesting. I remember watching one when I was a kid, and it was pretty fun. I mean, I will give you that. The solar eclipses are a little bit more dynamic than, hey, watch the moon.
Yeah. And wait, let's see now it's less and now it's, you know, who cares? You know, it's like just never. Did you ever read, Mark Twain's book A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court? I do not recall if I did. It was like high school. Kind of. Yeah, it would have been probably high school if you read it. But in that book, the central character wakes up and he is in King Arthur's court.
And, you know, we seem to have time traveled and this place traveled, and, of course, he's wearing the wrong clothes. His language is weird, and he's clearly a witch. Yes, he knows things, and he knows things, and they're they're going to, you know, kill him, because that's what you do with hours. Yeah. This is what they were want to do. And, he amazingly clearly had a hobby of these things.
Remembered that in the, you know, whatever, whatever the year was that he ended up in, I don't remember what year he went back to in King Arthur's court. So it would have been around the thousand, A.D. or so or C.E., I guess is the proper term these days. And, he somehow miraculously remembered that in that part of England there was going to be a full eclipse on a particular day. And then he started leveraging that and saying, oh, if you if you've been trying to harm me, I will blot out the sun.
And, sure enough, as they got to the, murder ceremony for him, the just happened to be right about the right time.