124: Wife Curling

But I had a great laugh as a result of it and I got no sex. When they helped me. Hello and welcome to unrelenting. I am Darren on alias. Give Natalie Evans the show about everything and nothing and everything in between. Let me ask you a question. If somebody tells you you should be a name. Radio. Is that a compliment or an insult? You know, it can go either way. Much like net net and the troll room. He says urine, urine, urine. Yeah. That's what we're doing here.

The show you're in unrelenting am. When somebody says to me, you should be an Am radio, that is still the home overall for talk radio. I know there are some talk radio channels on that FM, but it's mainly the place that you go for an overall conservative based talk show. That says you have the face for Am radio. Now that's a different thing. If they say you've got the face for radio then you should be on like, well because it could be a compliment or something.

It's like damn your show so good, it should be on the radio. Well, that could be a compliment. Am isn't really a diss because that's where people go for talk shows, right? But if it's somebody in their 20s saying no, then they're like, fuck you, I don't want to hear you. That's kind of what I thought. So I'm surprised somebody in their 20s knows what they know so well. I think that's the kind of the point is that it's bad enough that old people listen to FM radio. But you're so bad.

Yeah, you should be on that old Am thing that the people in the war used to listen to because kids are like, I don't want radio, I just want to go right to Spotify and tell it what I want to hear.

Yeah. Why would you want to listen to something? Somebody else is listening to you. It's weird. Now if I had the technology back in the day I'm sure I would have hardly ever listened to radio which I was missed out on a lot because a lot of what radio was, was performance. I mean sure they played music, but you had the even in the pop stations here it was beat 96. I mean, you had the disc jockeys that always interjected their personality.

How would I even do the rock n roll pre-show if I never heard people doing the spinning the platters? I never heard Biondi. Right. Let's do it. The the whole patter thing. No crap. Right. Well, WKRp is one of the places I picked up a lot of the stuff. It's like Doctor Johnny Fever. Who wouldn't want to be Doctor Johnny Fever? Booger. Yeah. Loni. Loni Anderson well, of course there was.

Although Bailey Waters, you know, the, I don't remember the actress's name, but she from Noah Bailey, the secretary, the, not the secretary. Loni Anderson played the secretary. Yeah, but Bailey Quarters was the little bit more nerdy girl. Oh, right. Right, right, right. Okay, that played the news. What was the chick's, name from Mash? The actresses name something like that to her. A sweat, was it? Yeah, that was Hot Lips Houlihan. Was Loretta Swit. Yeah. Okay.

Oh, that's Alan, all right. Just Hawkeye Pierce. Henry Morgan as the, the old and beautiful Colonel air we had, McLean was, the, other colonel that, So, I mean, there was, Henry Linville, of course, played, the, Frank Burns. Then we had the Maxwell Klinger is played by Jamie Farr. I watched a lot of Mash back in the day. Now where's he from. You know the character or Jamie Farr the actor. The actor I don't know where he's from. I know the character was from Lebanese to me.

Well, he was I mean, I think, but I don't know if he was actually born in Lebanon or, I mean, the character was Lebanese and from Toledo because he always wear the Toledo Mud Hens jersey, which is a minor league. Wait, the character is Lebanese? Yeah. Believe it or not, I didn't know that. I just thought he looked Lebanese. I thought it was just the thing. No, because he thought about a pretty good sausage is. Yeah, I mean, this is it.

it it was okay to have different, you know, nationalities back in the day. You didn't have to hide from it. Yeah, you didn't have to pretend you were. Say, Indian when you were really black. I mean, it was just a thing. Oh. Just saying. See what you did there. Hey, if you if you didn't see what I did there, you're probably listening to the wrong show. Probably. You might be thinking you're listening to Am radio. Right? Right. But yeah, I listen. That was, back in the day.

Jonathan Brand Meyer, my favorite. I guess you like him. Yeah. You can't even call him a disc jockey because he was, You know, he wasn't just spinning music. He didn't really play a lot of music. It was a lot more bet it was a lot more comedy. But he was so big back in the day he was on Am and that's at the same time. So like Howard Stern they know like this is the bet.

That's how you know you're making them Howard Stern I sent you a thing and if I didn't send it to you I definitely posted an X that, I was watching, the podcast of, I'm blanking out. Oh, let me get that vitamin B12. B12. the, who's the bald guy that doesn't like people? Touch them. Howie Mandel, that's the guy. So he's got a podcast. This is a hold up in the B12 right now. This is a whole new podcast we're going to have is Dean just puts out very basic descriptions of people.

And I guess who he's talking it's not it's it's based not basically you're giving the terminology wrong. Oh sorry. My mistake. I can't keep coming up with new slang. I don't get it. Oh, I just sent you a video on the kids coming up with new slang dropped. You know, I saw it, Papa, I, I sent it four months ago, and I should have listened. It says eight minutes now, but it's only a half hour video, right? I was, watching that really fast speed. Okay, good.

It's really good because the guy is a Ph.D. of linguistics, and, he goes through all the current Gen Z slang and shows that half of it is from the 1940s and half it is from Jay Black culture. Interesting. It is here to see on the way they think they try to like change the stuff. Like I noticed this because I barely consume anything. You don't raises Riz no. Yeah. So apparently the kids use the term all the time. And when they talk about how smooth somebody is, like, oh, he's got Riz.

Yeah. You know that. You know what that is though? Charisma from the games, from Dungeons and Dragons. You got some Riz baby. I guarantee you they 99% of the people saying Riz have no idea. It's from the nerdiest thing you can come up with the indie. I played DLR last time I played Dungeons and Dragons was probably 1980. My point? Yeah, 1986 though we're going back ironically somewhere I think I still have the say, although before dating began. Yeah, exactly. Before sex was a thing, right?

Yes. There was a thing called Gender Aid and Aid indie came out in the 80s. D&D came out, I think, in the late 70s. but, yeah, I still have my original Dungeon Master's manual from the 80s somewhere. Some of those are might say, but it's now. None of my shit's ever worth big bucks. You don't.

How that goes, it's always the stuff you're like, I remember I could have bought that, but I didn't because I didn't think, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, but I know this was in an ad for something that the, Olivia Dunn, the gymnast chick was down, did the commercial for some kind of clothing. I don't that wasn't a great commercial because I don't remember the branding. Right, right. But she said that she wore them on the Daily.

And, like, when did the language change so much to just rather than saying, I wear those every day. I wear them every day. I, you know, them. Nothing comes between me and my calvins to be on the daily. Like, why do we need to change that to, the daily and the daily? Yeah. Instead of yeah, why? It's longer actually. So I get it when you're shortening things, but if you're like, hey, I wear these, I wear these jeans every day. Well, that's a lot quicker than I wear these jeans.

the daily, I don't the Daily Show. Maybe. Maybe it's this whole thing to promote Jon Stewart. Yeah. How they've pretty much at this point didn't in Gen Z, I don't use terms like boyfriend, husband. Yeah. Hurtful and gendered. What they say partner because those other words are, you know, they hate women clearly. So when you say things like boyfriend, that's implies that you're a misogynist. Of course. so even if you're a great guy with a boyfriend, you're obviously a misogynist.

It's a whole different thing there, I guess. But anyway, so they they've been saying partner, which is annoying, I think, because partner already had a meaning. Yeah. It's somebody that you work with that owns part of your business. That's a partner. And so, or, you know, if you're breaking out of prison, that's a partner. But the new word that is now gaining popularity is unit. Hey, if you want to talk about my unit, that's going to be a whole only thing to say.

well, you know, they they are certain they all have units now, regardless of sex. And, so it's you and your unit. how many should I put down on their SVP? well, my unit, they will be coming. So. I mean, I know it's big, but that's that's kind of having to have its own chair. I don't know its own zip code. Thank you very much. How you doing, everybody? Welcome to unrelenting. So anyway, so I started talking about signing, a signing. Signing mandate. Oh, yeah. Signing Mandel, Howie Mandel.

And, so he does a podcast with his daughter, which is another thing you sent me. I didn't know that was his deal with him. Yeah, which is fucking hilarious. It is. It is literally like the early, early, early days of The Howard Stern Show. So it's funny. It's actually funny without having to have strippers taking their clothes off.

I mean, that always adds to the well, I don't get me wrong, you know, I mean, there is the element of Howard Stern, but but you know, who's getting the pleasure out of that other than Howard? Because those of us driving the car listening to Howard aren't seeing any of that. No. Back then you were like, God, I wish they had video. Now you're like, God, I don't want to see Howard. He's old. No video and and an idiot. Yeah, well, this is 20th cringeworthy, frankly.

Well, he's afraid to leave the house now. The guy that was lying to you, he pretended to have the biggest swinging dick in the business. And now he's afraid that, somebody is going to give him a cold tonight. Somebody pointed out there, and he should be. So that was, somebody that just placed in one of these Olympic things has Covid. It's like they knew they had Covid and they let them go out and they don't give a shit. Right? It's like but, well, so how did this go so quickly?

From now we are still afraid. We can't leave the house too. Well, it's fine. Yeah, that. It seems like maybe the whole thing was overblown.

Maybe not the, not the the symptoms from the, vaccines, wasn't there? No. Well, this is so hard to pull these things apart, which is what they're hoping for, because I know science enough to understand that something could be caused by easily. Oh, you know, Fauci personally. No, that's not science at all. Oh. I'm sorry, I thought you said you knew science. Well, I know he thought he was science. He said he was science. You know, we could make a lot of people think their science.

He said it right. He was like, I have the science. How dare you question the science? but I understand now that almost everybody on the face of the earth has come in contact with the virus that was called Covid. Yeah. So you can say a lot of the things are the vaccine and I believe you because it makes sense. But unless you can get a very strong sample of people that you know, were never vaccinated or, you know, they didn't, you know, it becomes very hard to say.

It was definitely, this one thing because the people on the other side that don't believe that go well, yeah, but everybody has had Covid, so they could have also been that you can't separate them. You could say, I think, yeah. Except that no one's that said miles of filaments pulled out of their blood vessels. None of those people didn't get a vaccine. Well, that would be the thing. If you could start putting the data together. That proves we have the data we have that we don't have the data.

You have it. Who has the DNA of the seeds like we see here? nobody will hear that because it'll all get taken right out. But no, it's coming from an age theta. It's I mean, that's literally there's hard data here that that the people that have had the, the the bizarre and I'm not using my word, I'm using the word that was described, medical literature, these, bizarre polymer strings pulled out of them were all in the database.

People that got vaccinated probably, probably contacted Covid as well. And they could have eaten McDonald's stew for all we know. So who knows? That will do other bad things to you. So who knows. All I'm saying is that if you look at the stats, not getting the vaccine seems to have been the best move. Yes. Yeah, well, the mRNA bad. there were side effects with the JNJ, the one that I took, but they were seemingly the. If you didn't die within two weeks, you're fine.

Well, my dad took that niece, having some lung issues right now. Well, there are a variety of reasons to have issues. Once you hit a, hit a certain age. We are not young. Oh, sure. Blame it on age, right. I know, well, because I have, parents that are in their 80s. My dad just went for his a follow up with his doctor after this latest. Yeah. How's he done? He got out the other day. They released him because he's able to walk and his mental acuity.

I flipping a switch, leaving a facility like that and getting home. It really is bizarre stuff. And I know if anybody's ever dealt with this, you understand what I'm talking about when people, they call it hospital delirium, and sometimes it's caused by drugs, and sometimes it just cause being in the hospital in the same place, not getting, you know, good sleep. Because who can sleep in a hospital because they come and they're like, freaking. Yeah, I can sleep with an IV.

And well, I actually I fell asleep just the other day with Nova in my arm. Well, it was probably, generally speaking, who can sleep with an IV? Yes. And all those alarms going off every time your breathing stops the noise. Well, this is they wanted to know. That's seriously annoying breathing stuff. I just trying to get a good night's sleep, and I'm like, burp, burp, burp, burp. Oh, hold on, let me turn your alarm off. It's like a Jesus Christ. And you do this for a turn off?

Yeah. You do this for like, a few days to a few weeks and like, it will drive anybody insane. It will completely drive anybody insane. That's that's a horrible thing. Unless you happen to be watching House, right? In which case it's actually interesting. Which is why I love this. Is Gene going into his past. He's like messaging me. Yeah, I really wish I didn't watch out. I know I like self-diagnose, say things like, this.

And by the time you by the time you filled out the paperwork for insurance, which is 26 pages, you're, you're developing diseases he didn't even have before you walked in. you missed a. Come on, page 47. Sorry. We're not gonna be able to cover this test. but even up to the day that they let him out of the rehab facility. And it was a nice place. It was with built within the last couple of years within walking distance to their house. It was about house, though.

My dad rehabbing from I call the rehabbing from the hospital. They sent him into a rehab facility, relaxer size and it was attached to a nursing home, which was horrible as all nursing homes are. But this place was actually nice. Big room. His own room. He had a fridge additive. He had a desk. You know, it was a nice little, you know, if it was a hotel room more or less. Except they had therapy there, but he still wasn't comfortable. Wouldn't sleep. He was getting confused.

He called at, 22, seven the day they were letting them out in the morning. And I pick up the phone because I was sleeping well. Then I picked up the phone because I was awake and I'm like, what's going on? And he's like, well, your mother was supposed to come pick me up, and I've been sitting here all day. I'm like, it's 22 seven. He's like, I know my in the morning. It's my.

And it's just it's very concerning it when somebody that you love is like that out of it, where you don't know whether it's day or night. So it, it happened the last time as well, I remember. And it's just, you know, his there's something in the whole thing. It's like you get home and your DNA resets or something like, okay, now, now I understand overall what's going on. And they said it could still take a few weeks to be 100% normal, but it's a mixture of one.

You had an infection and that can make people go loopy. And then they give you a bunch of drugs which, you know, antibiotics can make you go loopy, and then anesthesia for going under a 4 or 5 whatever hour surgery that'll make you go loopy. And that stuff sticks with you for a while. Yeah, none of it's good, frankly. Well, and just to finish clarifying, in case people were wondering why I was not breathing and then, I just went in for a routine heart, CT scan.

There is nothing routine about one of those rare nuclear medical scan. Not a big deal. They inject nuclear waste into your bloodstream. Yes, so they can light it up and watch as your blood pumps through your right. When everybody leaves the room. It's. It's a fun thing. This is nothing to worry about it all, sir. but we're going to be three rooms over. That's fine. Perfect. Though.

The worst part of it was, the three hours in just trying to surf the web slash sleep, waiting for the drugs to kick in, and, the actual process, the procedure only probably took about ten minutes, right? Because once the machine comes out, it's like a mini MRI kind of thing, right? That moves. And nothing mini about it whatsoever. It is a big mess. Well, compared to an MRI, it's a little swell. It's no, it's about the same size. The machines are, roughly the same size.

They operate on different principles. The MRI is magnetic. This is actually radiation, so it's radiological, but the size is about the same for the machines. Did you feel like you were turning into spider man as you were being bathed in the radio? I tell you the weirdest thing that I never really thought about because I it's been a damn long time since I ever had an IV installed. But, when they inject something to. I've. I could smell and taste it. Ooh.

Yeah. Because it's it's coming through blood in the exact same places that you have your sensory organs, like your tongue and your, you know, the whole area in your nose, whatever the hell that's called. factory senses that. Yeah. All those things, it just comes through your blood instead of through the air. And you think about it like if something's in your blood, it's a lot more concentrated than it is in the air. And so you could actually taste and smell the saline solution being injected.

That's weird. And then, of course, that's just the saline. But when they inject radioactive iodine into you, which is what it is, not only can you taste and smell it, but you feel a, a heat sensation. You may feel like you're urinating yourself in. Don't worry. Yeah. You really you really don't feel like urinating, but you do feel like you just drink a few shots of vodka. That's the closest analogy that I can. No, no, it's the people don't drink because it feels good to drink.

They drink because of the effect that alcohol has on your brain. The the actual consumption of the alcohol portion, especially straight, high. high, concentration, high proof, high proof that at first there were. I was looking for. Yeah. High proof. alcohol. That is not. This is a pleasurable dude. You know, it's like you you want to have the effect, but, man, you.

I don't think anyone would drink alcohol if there was no residual effect from drinking alcohol whatsoever. But you still had that kind of burning flavor to it that you do with the, if you're drinking something straight. No. A quality whiskey maybe. No. No way. Man. whiskey has a flavor that certainly has a taste. I remember I'm a level two whiskey smell. You here. but, you still drink it for the effect it has? Well, of course, yeah, it's part of the deal.

No. Says the radioactive stuff tastes metallic to him. Well, it is, yes, it does absolutely. Yeah. Metallic is the flavor. But, like, heat is a sensation because, you know, you can only taste with your taste cells. but you can feel warmth in your entire body. And the other part that was surprising to me is Chris has, you know, fully conscious throughout this whole thing as much as you ever. and, yes, I was that lost for words, I'll tell you that, you were you chatty during the tests?

I took my Vitamin B's man. and, Oh, and by the way, they told me I need to increase my potassium uptake. Some more bananas. I don't need this, but, yeah, you pop the pills. Bananas are pure sugar, man. I mean, I love the taste of bananas. I do, you know, I'm fucking diabetic. I'm trying not to do that stuff. That kind of stuff. I know that. Yeah, I can't, but I'm going to have to bump up the, oh amounts.

I think, which is, it's partly, I think, because I, I take, quite a bit of vitamin D, usually around 10,000. I use, I probably should have bumped up my potassium myself anyway, without waiting for them to tell me that. Yeah, I was just told, give up the vitamin D, I'm like I did. I saw the results. I bumped them up. Everybody should be taking at least 5000, and most people should be taking 10 to 15,000. And then it's like, go on the no sugar and, no carb diet. That's what the doctor recommended.

But good luck with that. I know it's very hard. He told my dad, yesterday, go home and eat a couple of big steaks. So obviously it's he's on a different diet. Yeah, but. Hey, doc, how about no more alcohol for you? Let's. Let's see who who sticks to their diet first. No more alcohol. Gee, I haven't had a drink in years that you the doctor? Oh, well, sure. Doctors are alcoholics. Like, there you go. How are you doing? Everybody in the, But, yeah, trying to do the grocery shop.

Even the, I took a look at how many carbs are in the bottle of the Shwarma marinade, and it's like, are you kidding me? That's sugar. Yeah. Are you kidding? So it's like, yeah, you just got to go. And I've done the worst as you know, how many calories are in a in a lox bagel? No, probably a lot though because like 700 it's huge. It's. You might as well eat a Big Mac, you know? I mean, no likes big lobbies again. Tastes much better. But in terms of caloric intake, it's it's surprisingly high.

And the other ones for me that I noticed ever since I got plugged into the continuous blood sugar monitoring thing. Right. Which is awesome. Rice. Yeah. You said white rice is like the worst. Oh my God. Well, I don't care if it's right. White rice or fried rice, all this. I mean, I'm like, wild rice probably would be better because it's not real rice, but holy shit, the body converts rice into sugar in about ten minutes and then it sits there. Your sugar? Yeah, it just sits there. Exactly.

It's like that's, you know, you could eat ice cream. You said in the spike is there. It's gone in like 20 minutes. This. Right. That is one thing. If you if you eat now I don't I would not say that generically. Ice cream I say about Haagen-Dazs. Ooh I like specifically coffee Haagen-Dazs. That's what I got in the freezer. I know, I know, that's why I'm saying it. But if you look at the ingredients list on your coffee Haagen-Dazs, there are only five ingredients in that point.

And those five ingredients are coffee, sugar, milk, cream. And what's the last one? I don't know, try to remember the fact that fact that you're like, I memorized there are five ingredients in there. Yeah. That's coffee, cream, milk, sugar, sugar. And a fifth one. Anyway, might be vanilla or something. I don't know, I can't remember, but the point is, they use, real sugar and high fructose corn. Exactly, exactly. And so the real sugar seems to spike up fast and then drop right back down.

the corn sirup stuff spikes up almost as fast, but it stays high for hours. So, definitely take if you if you're gonna eat anything at all with sugar. Fine. Things that actually have real sugar. real, you know, either sucrose or have, you know, fructose, like you would have in fruits and vegetables. but don't don't eat anything if you can help it. That has, like, corn sweetener in there.

The coffee ice cream, according to the latest Haagen-Dazs, is cream, concentrated skim milk, sugar, liquid egg yolk and instant Brazilian coffee. Real egg yolk. That's what an egg. So there you go. Yep. It it says it may contain people. No whites. Yeah it doesn't but yeah, yeah. We say it because maybe you'll die if you eat them accidentally. Yeah. Exactly. Cause and then usually they'll say process in the same factory that also processes that.

But we're on the same clip and the process is nuts and but yeah, obviously the ice cream factory makes a lot of flavors at the same time. Or maybe they make one at a time in batches and then switch flavors, make another batch. But certainly I can see them having their is a pretty good nut flavor they have. They both have pistachio, which is pretty good. And I've had that Haagen-Dazs. Sasha, we are not sponsored by Haagen-Dazs, but we should know. But we should be. We really should be. Mint.

I've spent way too much money and Haagen-Dazs over the years. mega-projects has. Try a lung scan nuclear test. It uses a special camera to take pictures of the lungs after a radioactive trace dust is inhaled. So is this like, you know, you're being a Hunter Biden? Do you, like, do you snort that stuff up or, It's interesting. Yeah. And could you taste it? That's the real question. like, what is nuclear trace dust taste like? Exactly.

How do they pump that into your lungs safely and then get it out well, safely? Say, well, yeah, you're asking for way through. But, sir, safely. No, we haven't figured that part out yet. Now, remember, you signed that away on page 14. Yes. We are not using these things for medical science at all. Absolutely. You're not a guinea pig. I had a full body. CT scan two years ago, and, and that's also, when I had a, MRI, done of my head. And then, what were the results of that? just very boring.

I mean, it just says, yes, sir, you have an extremely high IQ, but that's about it. And then also interesting that I know. Right. Like, look at his beard. What else do you tell? And then, same time I had a, an ultrasound done of my heart and, prostate. So I was like, you know, preventative, kind of like, let's do everything all at once kind of thing, like, well, the just flip them over, take both sides. It's fine. Pretty much. Same machine. Yeah, yeah. All does the same.

Well, they did the heart scan from inside. You know, I've got the, to the echo coming up. Another one and a couple. Okay. Yeah. Always fun stuff. Cost way too much money. Well, it beats the alternative of dying. If they can find a problem early. What? Depends on what kind of insurance you have. Which in this case, too. All of a sudden, my dad's back pain is gone. I'm like, because it wasn't back pain, it was gallbladder pain. everybody asked the same question.

Like you didn't notice anything like flaring up after you would eat or, you know, all of these other symptoms and allegedly not. Yeah. Like so it was just progressively goes wrong, says grandpa. The Well, what I'm guessing it ended up as mine having, the gallstones to the point to where it gets blocked up, which will cause the blockage. and, I don't know how long it had been. I'm guessing probably a few weeks.

It was to the point to where it had then gotten infected because it was so long where it probably should have been out, that it got infected. So, yeah, that was for the emergency, where I may have mentioned the last time because of his having heart surgery 30 years ago. 29 years ago. He has blood thinner. So when you have to get any kind of surgery, they go through the whole process, which usually takes a couple of days to get right, to get your blood at the right level was the blood.

Day two in the hospital was still not at the right level. And they're like, we don't want to wait another day. Yeah. So that's why it took a hour to 90 minute surgery and took more like a little over four hours. Yeah. Some fine. I'm going to need to get my gallbladder removed as well. It's a fun time. I mean, it's either that or I keep hoping they'll get a process working where you don't have to. Yeah, but. Well, I got a golf ball in there. Well, that's.

I don't know how the hell I swallowed it, but apparently I have a golf ball in my gallbladder. Slightly larger than a chicken egg was. What the the surgeon told me. I love when you're on one of these lists where he's like, not the biggest one I've ever seen. But yeah, it's close. Like, congratulations to me. but for me, I mean, this is the weird thing with the human body. Yeah, I had the gallbladder out, and it seems my dad's the same way for, like, a day. He had pain, and then it was it.

Now I understand. Male, female, I get that, but I don't think it's necessarily just because of that. My wife, when she had the gallbladder out like two, three, four weeks after, was still getting a lot of pain in the side and to the point where she was just like, complain, man, I had to just. This is true too. But we're starting to get concerned. Like, why did something not go right? yeah, yeah, yeah.

Hypochondria is, probably the most common female disease, though of course, this is why, not medical advice when we talk about for medical advice, we don't and we may talk about medical issues, but we don't offer medical advice. You may not wonder anymore why Gene is not married. I know I do. After my wife saw your picture of your, going out some barbecue outfit. and she's like, well, how does he even get women at all? yeah. I said, I think he's got money.

And she's like, okay, that makes sense. That's really the only thing that would explain the whole, my dad, but it wasn't great. Sure. I mean, going out with the Black Lives Matter shirt with. Yeah. Wasn't that great for your barbecue? I mean, you were. And the fact I was safe, man, I was safe in the barbecue joint, I'll tell you that much. Nobody knew you were doing it ironically, except your buddy. Well, and and I was very disappointed that he didn't wear his, his, MAGA hat.

Oh, see, that would have been awesome, because that would have been the odd couple mix up, for sure. That would have been a great picture. Do, man. do you like, do it where you Trump stuff? That'll be great. And then. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. But, there was a guy just as an off note, and I don't even know if this was legit or not, because you can never tell with these videos anymore. But there was like a hippie dude, white guy, maybe in his mid to late 20s, that there was, dueling rallies going on.

So there was a Trump, you know, he had his people that the Kamala Harris had her people. Yeah. And he brought two t shirts, one Harris and one Trump, and then went to the other side with that shirt on. And I watched that video. Yeah. Right. And the Trump people were like, hey, what's going on? Cool. Fine. Yeah. You go to Harris. The Democrats were like, oh, they were home. Yeah, absolutely.

I'm like, this is seriously, if that is the case, this says everything you need to know about the state of this country right now. Yeah, it tells you that the Trump people are pussies and they're going to lose another election if they don't get it off their ass and start pushing back until they start trying to kill people with a differing opinions, until you start meeting the enemy with like force, you will lose. Well, there, that much is true. That much is true.

Although it seems that Donald Trump has been given the message from those you know, it's hard to say anybody is higher up than him in the Republican Party, in the hierarchy right now. But the people with the money told him, cut it out, cut the personal stuff out. Go policy. And he had an hour press conference yesterday, the day before, whatever it was. And he seemed to stay on topic which was very interesting. It shows he wants that really shows he could do it. They were trying to bait him in.

The only thing that really got him a little bit annoyed was somebody said that Kamala Harris is, rallies were gaining so many people and he's just like, yeah. You know, he wanted to say how his his were much bigger. Yeah. Greatest rallies. The country ever seen it. Beautiful rallies, beautiful people. They come out and they just. They that love the love. I can feel the love. Nobody. I don't understand why he didn't take the opportunity. Just say, yeah, I'm on here.

I mean, she's just weird. Weird? Very weird. It's the word of the day. Weird. I would have done that in his. In his shoes. I would just do a 180 on that term and. Yeah. What's what's going on there? He's just weird. She's all that to freak them out so much. They would stop using the word weird overnight, because he's only talked to the press for two minutes. And that was she was like baited into tackling the whole time. I know. Well, she can't be serious.

This is I said this maybe was to my wife. I'm like, you know what? If Kamala Harris can talk for five minutes about brutally killing babies and not laugh, I will vote for her because I don't think she can. No she can't. I mean, I think within 30s would be like, you know, statistically speaking, the higher chance that you said that on the podcast than with your voice, it's probably true.

although, I mean, my wife kind of seems to think that when I talk to her, it's kind of like me doing a podcast. Just nobody's recording it. They should be. It should be all the time like that. Just on TV back in the day. It should be all day or no, all day, all night. Well, I it's like I said in the last episode of, just to get old boys and like, well, when we wrap what we wrap up podcast, what that ran after no agenda, I did it.

Yeah. I said, you know, when we wrap up the podcast, Ben goes takes a leak as per normal, and, he calls me back and we talked for another 45 minutes. I'm like, man, I wish there's a way to monetize that and, you know, get some real money coming off the after call. Why would he call you back? Because we don't finish the conversation in two hours. Once you hang up this, it's over. Dude named bad name bad. Don't call him back. Well, he doesn't have six podcasts to work on.

Like you said, he's got to get his podcast in when he damn well this is it. You do the after show and I as much. This is one place I will disagree with the concepts of Adam Curry and John C Dvorak. I think that smaller podcasts that are below the level of no agenda as most are. Yeah, a lot of them can benefit monetarily by the Patreon walled garden model. I yeah, I think there's a few people that would actually pay to get that level of access, you know?

Well, I mean, you don't have to call it the Patreon model. You can call it the Daily Wire model work. Well, the there's a variety of people who do shows, and it drives me nuts because I and I usually stop listening to them because that's my mentality. But the shows that are like, well, here Gene and I are going to do the first hour, but if you want the next two hours, then you got to subscribe for 1499. Look, everybody does that.

So Daily Wire, arguably the largest, podcasting organization out there, if you call Video Stuff podcast, which frankly, Adam does these days and I'm not so sure myself, it's getting there because soon there will be RSS feeds for the event. That was the biggest thing. Yeah. and then, of course, Tim cast Tim, but he does the same exact thing. They do two, 2.5 hours with the guests, and then they go to their, only for patrons. Model, which is through their website.

It's not on, on Patreon, but it's essentially the same model where you're paying for members only for access. Yeah. And I've been paying him for years now, and I maybe watch one episode a month. Maybe this is the kind of stuff that these kind of models really catches somebody that's interested in it, but then totally forgets that they've subscribed. They don't even think about it like, well, I'm still paying and this is me with, Yeah. Well, I keep forgetting to cancel.

This is how far back this goes. Yeah, but it's only 99 bucks a year, so when it goes out of my credit card, I'm like, fuck, I forgot. Yeah, I just wait till the next year and I forget again. What are you talking about? Amazon Prime Klose new, newsgroup access, through Giga News or one of those? I don't think it's Giga News anymore. I went to a different. But to get access to all of the Usenet newsgroups or Usenet. Yeah. Wait, they're charging now? They used to be free.

Well, there used to be a certain amount free, like 15 years ago. and I'm thinking, like, 30 years ago myself. It might be, I might be, but now for like, unlimited access that and they also have access to, you know, the software because every all the DMCA stuff that if you want the thing that kind of shows you what the files are, the little X549219 1012 music, movies. Oh yeah, that's what I meant. Yeah, it's what I meant. Yeah. You know, it's got everything. I mean, it's less though.

I mean, because people are less than I didn't want to. Didn't realize. Anybody still subscribe to alt. That sucks. That pictures. It's still around. I'm wild. I I'm sure it is still around. The newsgroups are all there, but it's one of those things where I forget and I never really realize. It's all like 60 year old guys probably this demographic. Oh hey, it worked fine 30 years ago. Why would I change it? You know, there are different ways to get music now.

There's different ways to get movies and television. That's all torrenting and things like that. But the news groups are great because it's so fast. you had a lot less. You gotta like The Howie Mandel Show because it's about old people that are like, it's got music. Well, this is good. Yeah, you're gonna like it. You like music, right? They've always like, it's actually a tremendous production. I tweeted with apologies to Adam Curry.

I'm like, I think this is the best podcast show I've ever seen. Wow. Yeah. I mean, it literally reminded me of very early Howard Stern, except he's got more producers. All I do other than that one, it's amazing. Needle drop into the episode you said, and they were talking about how he. Mendel's, pubic hair. So, I mean, I know where this is going to be a fantastic show. they were. Yeah, they were asking, you know, because he's like, you used to have, whatever the dude was that was in charge.

You know, there's always a oh, the, the, the comedian guy. And he's like the one, the ringleader. And he's like, oh, you know, you used to have a really. No, no, he's the head of hair is against me. Interviewed the guy that was like talking to Howie. And it's completely different location. Oh no, that's the production staff. Yeah. So he was asking. He's like used to have really? Oh, he was asking about him.

Oh you know that he was somehow the guest was making fun of the fact that how he used to have a great set of hair. Well, this is what they were talking back on the day. And I know he did. Well. Yeah. And then Howard. Yeah. So. So not Howard Stern, Howard Mandel. Howie. Yeah. He, he made a joke about his hair on its head. It's like the, you know, I, I have a great set of pubic hair, too. Not just on my head. Right. That's what I saw. Yeah. Okay. Got it. That's in there. Yeah. It's Howie Mandel.

Back in the day, kids was known for blowing up a glove. He was known as a pot smoker. I'm pretty sure he did that little bit of, side entertainment by putting a rubber glove over his head and exhaling into it to blow it up like a chicken head. And he did the voice of, was it? What was the the kid's name? But there was a that went over like Roger or something like that. I encourage everybody, right?

Yeah. Yeah, I think that's a big I just can't help but think that sounds awfully pedophilic right there. Wrong. Howie. There was a band they used to do a whole thing, like, are you by the white guy? Champion by the cow for real? You have to ask Howie. That was comedy back in the day. And then he became the Deal or No Deal guy. Many years went in between where he just kind of didn't do diddly squat. He's like I need to make money again.

And then he decided that I might just go ahead and go to college. I need to make money. Yeah I can see that. Oh I would have been like you're on your fucking own man. you know she seems like this girl, he's like okay I like my kid Joe Biden's not going to really pay for the college. So you had to get out there. I mean yeah she was a kid like 12 years ago. But yeah. Well, you're always just worried as long as they're past 18. Yeah, it's way past 18. Married for long years.

Oh, she's like way too old now. yeah. I mean, I don't know where are you going with this, but the, the point is that there was a span of time in between when Howie was popular in the 80s. Right. And the comics started seeing him bald, and he was seen those two. He was on the television show years. He was at a medical show, wasn't he? I don't think so. What was he on? He was in some kind of show. Howie Mandel, it's easy to find out. We just go to IMDb. It was all we did.

Like the Deal or No Deal thing. I mean, it was nothing to do with the models that were holding the, the cases at all. It was a stupid show, but, I'm sure it paid well, I what I want to know here first, IMDb folks. Anybody listening? it lists Howie Mandel. Mandel. And then they had to put right underneath, aka Howie Mandel, but with two L's right. Because we might have been confused elsewhere. See? That's right. No, but he was on same elsewhere. Was he really. I didn't know that.

Yeah, he was a television star, man. No, he made a few bucks. He's got a really long, IMDb sheet, I can tell you that. Oh, is that where you were going to say? Okay. Yeah. I mean, I don't know what the pubic hair. I it's hard to tell it could. He was on my babies. Yeah. I mean, I'm like, I'm going to exit here. Right here. He was in 137 episodes of same elsewhere as Doctor Wayne Fiscus. But did he do any TV though? He was insane elsewhere. Was that a TV show?

Yeah, 137 episodes. Wow. Yeah, I missed that. But apparently he disappeared for about 20 years and then came back with the 89. He might have been doing that TV show while he disappeared, though. Well, that was 82 to 88. Then he did something called Little Monsters. Then one episode. Yeah, I like 90 onwards. You never really saw Howie Mandel. He was in Gremlins two. He was the voice of gizmo in 1990.

I mean, he was in 13 episodes of Good Grief in 92, 91 when he watched that there was a TV movie called Howie and Rose that he was in. Nobody watched that. The amazing live sea monkeys he was in. Definitely nobody watched that. Now. He kind of disappeared for a while. I think he was the voice of things. Yeah, he was he I think he started going to the voice acting at that point. It looks like it was pulling a Bob Goldthwait maneuver. Bobcat awesome, baby. The bunny in that show, the bobcat show.

the total rip off of, you know, Peg Bundy and the married with children. What was that? I don't remember what that was called, but it was the one with Nikki Cox as the daughter rather than, All right, well, then, what's your name? That was in the good and the woods. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Some the Ben Stiller Show. He did one episode in 95. Lois, are you talking about one episode? Howie Goldthwait hours? I'm still looking at. How are you, man? I'm just like, what happened to Howie?

He was like, yeah, one episode. I think he looks pretty good for a 60 year old dude. He went in, he did one episode of goatee. That's big time. The nanny. yeah. Okay. Sure. Yeah. Did they play a rabbi or what was his space on that one? Oh, I scrolled about this. he was in one episode of My Name Is Earl Wu. Two episodes, a monk. I do not remember him in. Earl and I watched all those episodes. I did two, and I don't remember him. Man, that was a wonderful show. Yeah, I do, I like My Name is Earl.

It was. It had such, you know, Genesis quite, yes. It was all about karma. And it was. Cameron's a bitch, old lady karma. Old lady karma is a bitch. He was in one episode of The Big Bang Theory. I don't remember that. Definitely don't remember that. He probably play a scientist, and, now he's the voice that he was the voice of Howie Mandel in the TV series Harley Quinn. So you played yourself. Okay? In a TV? In a cartoon? Yeah. Okay. When was. Because I don't see you on here at all in the IMDb.

I'm kind of surprised when they last the, the show with the money, the deal or no deal. That's kind of weird. I don't see them listed at all. Unless you have to be, like, as himself or something. What do we. What do we do with the credits? I guess he's not really an actor on that show. No, he's the the paid talent. Just some talent. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know, but either way, none of that shit matters. The important thing is go check out his podcast and it's did it.

Does that link I sent you have a title on it by chance because I'm trying, right. It's like Howie stuff or something like that. It says Howie Mandel does stuff. Maybe. There you go. That's his. That's the name of his podcast. Howie Mandel Does Stuff. Dumb name, but good show he is. He's fairly quick with it. He's like, unfortunately, like all comedians in the United States, he is Canadian. That's, the Canadian mafia up there cranks out comedians left and right.

He is 68 years old. Wow. Yeah, yeah, he looks pretty good for 68, man. At least five nine. So he's a little, He does look that little. Except when Gene Simmons was on. Then he definitely looks a little like you're like, dude, you're big. You being. Simmons was giving his daughter shit until. I mean, you didn't realize that was his daughter. Nice. That's pretty funny. What are you doing? Oh, he's like, okay, Jew girl. Whoa. That's when people used to say things and not worry about it.

Things were better at that point though. People were way less offended. I think I've heard this story before, but Simmons told the story of how he met Sharon Shannon Tweed. Yeah. Sharon Lavery, model extraordinaire, a Canadian and really another Canadian. Another Canadian. They seem to be a lot of them, I mean, Pamela oh, migrate south, you know, they all migrate Salford winter. Yeah. Pamela Anderson back in the day. Oh, man.

He never had what Playboy Mansion, when she was hanging out there with her sister while he was living with, who's the black check that that sang that song? Whitney Houston back in the 80s. I'm still going with Whitney Houston, late 70s, Diana Ross. Yeah, he was living with Diana Ross. Oh, you think you can get this? Yeah. He was. He was dating Diana Ross. He was living with her. really? When Simmons was dating Diana Ross. Now he was, Wilson.

Yeah, they were a couple. So, and that's when he met Shannon Tweed. And, though, head over heels in love. and, it didn't stop them from having lots of sex with other women afterwards. You know, when you're a super big rock star and women are throwing themselves at you? Yeah. So he he's tells the story of how he met Shannon and and then finds out that Shannon Tweed is Diana Ross is, what would it be? What was the relationship? Diana Ross is brother married Shannon Tweed's brother. Sister?

That's to say, this was a whole different thing. I. No, no, no, Shannon Tweed sister is married. Diana Ross, his brother Russell. So they were actually related through marriage and he didn't realize that. And the way that he ended up meeting and, you know, living with, they in a Ross was because he was at the time living with them and, you know, dating, share. And he was going to go to New York. Well, I was like, Diana Ross, big upgrade over Cher.

And Cher said, hey, when you're in New York, once you meet up with my best friend Diana. And, who do you say? Meet up? I know what you're saying to me. That's exactly what it's like to. Is that I was like, yeah, I'll meet up. And then, so he ends up meeting with Diana to go find the a gift for Cher. and, they end up, you know, he ends up staying at her place, basically. So. So anyway, the guy it's it's interesting when he tells these stories. It's all very rational. Like it totally.

Everything always makes sense when he gets up with somebody. Well, of course it's not random. All we know, it's just that he clearly can't say no. And all week, well, neither can you. So it might be something in the gene. Gene. We know gene. Gene has had a lot more fun than you. Rock and roll lifestyle. It's something that you can't. He's also like that taller than me. But yeah. Well that helps women like tall I can tell you that right now. Yeah. Tom Jewish. Well I hope I've got 50% there.

I'm okay with that. yeah. Well just imagine if you had the whole hundred. It's. It's hard to even put yourself into somebody's shoes like that. Who had become that popular, that successful, that rich to where things are just easy. You know, it's oh, it's never easy. Well, I mean, there's going to be, there going to be problems afterwards, but getting women seems to be I mean, Tiger Woods, man. Although that guy, he paid a price. Yeah he did. Michael Jordan.

It's like just having that kind of cash. How do you put yourself into the position I don't get it. Where you know when you sit there and you're like wow, should I get this whatever item that costs, you know 100 bucks. You know, it's interesting, I was discussing this very topic with, at, at barbecue with your buddy. What was his name? My token black friend. Yes. You only have. Oh, doubt if he is the only black friend you have, then yes, he is a token. No, I all my black friends are tokens there.

Believe me, you can't. Black. I'm not going to see. I'm not going a single. Any one of them out. They're all tokens in my eyes. Gene is going to. If it wasn't for the Black Lives Matter shirt, people will be like, he's racist. Yeah, I know, right? But hey, I can't be because I'm wearing a Black Lives Matter shirt, right? That was you. It's really, really pisses all of them off. Which is funny. Like, why are you wearing that? Because I can't piss them off mainly. Yeah.

now, see, the interesting thing would be wearing the Black Lives Matter shirt with the MAGA hat. Now, I also have another shirt that I'm more careful in wearing, which says tokens life matters. But token was a great character in South Park. especially when he found out his real name was token. Token? Yeah, because his his dad really enjoyed the fiction. yeah. That's why I named my son token. They're all looking around each other, like, like harmony on that show is another level. Next level.

One can almost argue that they kept that joke running for about a decade before the big reveal. Well, the question is, did they realize there was the big reveal? Obviously. Now, if you just ran into that like, hey, dude, one day, you know, they were high, you know, they were smoking. Scott just sent us some money and stuff on purpose. I don't know, it's fake money so probably it's fake money. Oh, I guess so. Did comic strip drug broker also some some.

You know I don't have the pupusas on so Oh good. Think that's so comic strip burger sent 1650. Probably double that amounts my guess. Yeah 3333 total. And yeah that he probably and somebody steals the other three them it and that's the that's those podcast index people man. Oh see everybody wants to cut it just says congrats. CSB says oh it's Irish. Oh we're supposed to pronounce Irish. That's, you them not me. Yeah. That's Pokemon. Oh my Pokemon, that means kiss my ass. An Irish. Oh, is that.

And it says Cuervo. But yeah, but that says thank you in Polish. But I know Pokemon is, he says go to that CSB that l-o-l. And that's where the name the Pogues came from. Oh, is it really? Which is why we have heard that it's spelled differently. It's not so Pogues. It's plugs. Yes, but that's the origin. Interesting. Pogues from Pokemon, which means kiss my ass in Gaelic. That of course it does. And then have a great weekend from Dred Scott, the one and only Dred Scott.

He's the Chinese sentence quadruple sevens for good luck and, you know, and they I already replaced that job. Dred Scott you get can do the chapters you no longer. I would be curious. I should run a no agenda episode three. The strip does a great job doing the chapters. Oh, he is I, I, I think he was the original. I keep doing it longer than I exist. not technically true, but. Okay, well, easily accessible. I exist. Sure. Yeah. Free.

Now, and I it's interesting that even the, llama, which I was first, I was like, well, the llamas better with time. It still gets very confused when you hand it a transcript and asked for chapters. It wants to make the show either half as long or twice as long, which I'm like. You would think the one thing that I would be able to do is just process that data. You would think and understand.

Dude, I've been very happy now for two episodes, just to get old boys, I've just been having Buzzsprout, the hosting company, do everything, and the Dred guy just says with another 777 thank you sir. No, I hear for chapters he is on. No. Hey, what do you think? You may want to think about it. Yeah, you may want to start doing music. You can save yours. All the cool kids are doing it, man. You may want to check it out. No, seriously. Do a comparison.

Like do your own thing first, then run it through the AI and see what it spits out.

And you may be surprised because with the AI it does it. Now the timing thing is still goofy getting the times right, but the understanding when a topic changes and coming up with a pithy title, it does that really well. but I don't know why the time swap thing doesn't really work. Like I said, it's only because you're using a bunch of disparate tools. If you used one once. Integrated tool or company.

I doubt in here because I'm feeding it a transcript and I've tried different, but you're doing it each piece on a different software. Does it matter because I'm seething at work together? The transcript matters because it's not one software. Why would it have to be one software? It's doing the same thing. One software knows what it did, but it doesn't because it's an AI. It's bizarre. Some do it better. You're you're understanding of what AI means and how it works. It's magic.

That's just. Yeah, exactly. It's magic. I like open, I like open router that I because you can pay as you go and it takes crypto. I think we may have mentioned that before, but it gives you access. You're drowning in crypto because of all the donations. I got some lots of donations. This is true. And the this is the bit where you're supposed to say, well, you know, the donations are down. We could really use some help. Instead, you say, I'm drowning in donations, but you said it.

I didn't want to disagree, but you agreed with it. What the hell, man? I set you up. I told you up right there. I mean, literally your opportunity to beg for money and you didn't take it. The show is making nothing except from Dred Scott and com. Literally nothing. Literally enough. I haven't gotten the PayPal in years. Well, it wasn't years, but, the PayPal that was like over 100 bucks probably.

It's been years because And we've looked at the the data, I sent it to you, the, we made more money when I used to say don't send this money, I know. Well I sent this to you the other day. This was overall for for this show our buddy Dale. And I think this is correct. I would have to double check, but because again. Our buddy Dale is at $1,791, which means he is more than deserving of,

praise and a big steak dinner. But he would have to get to the United States, which would cost him more than that. The next person on that list, Josh McClain 152. So we go for lifetime lifetime donations? Yeah, we go from 1800 about to 152. And I think this has to be net because otherwise I don't think Dale would be a partial of it. maybe he held up. Maybe it was. It's hard to say why.

I don't remember if Dale was sending based on round numbers of Australian dollars, or he was converting at first U.S. dollars and then sending the appropriate Australian. Yeah. And I think there was something that was like upping for the PayPal fees. So that could be, because that's usually how I go through it, because I want to credit what you send. And it's not your fault that PayPal is going to take some money out of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But that's the big difference.

Dale, you are the man. You own the show. You are the executive producer, and everybody else goes down. Kevin Stafford, who comes in with I think is still five bucks a month. Well, I mean, we definitely we definitely owe him something unique. And I know in the early days we were talking about, hey, let's do Chicago steak dinner. If anyone does over a thousand bucks. So since you spend the seven grand to fly to the US, will will buy you $100 steak dinner.

Jean and I are going to have that steak dinner for you. How about that on your behalf? Yes. And not even together in different restaurants, mind you. But we will definitely have that steak dinner. That's the way it works. But we appreciate the the people that support. Yeah. No, no, that definitely paid for the audio gear. There was yeah. No, I assume I looked and there was no, PayPal for this week.

There were a couple last week because it was the beginning of the month, and I didn't see any booster grams after the show. And I did see a frothy mix was streaming the show. So that was nice. But I don't pull those out as of yet. And that, that just starts getting to be a little bit harder to do the accounting. Oh yeah. And the people are streaming per minute. But we appreciate the people that listen. And if you can both that's great. We are podcasting 2.0 compliant show.

And if you want to go the old fashioned route man you just go to unrelenting that show. Click that button. And if there is like a crypto you want to use will let me know. You know, it's the beautiful thing. We'll hook it up. How is crypto doing better back recovering back not quite to about in the middle. About in the middle of where it was. yeah. And this is again, I laugh every time this happens. Every time the stock market takes a total dump. Crypto takes a total dump right with it.

This concept that, oh, no crypto, it's going to be where you want to be. Because when the stock market crashes, the crypto will be good. This has nothing to do with the stock market like bullshit.

It's got something to do with it, because the minute the money starts dying from the stock market, all of a sudden the crypto goes boom by the thing that I find is interesting is all these tank boys out there, you know, you are, they, the since crypto started going down, the messages of don't sell, hold, hold, don't don't sell just started overwhelming the network. And the amount of like number of people that felt like, oh my God, everybody around me is selling. I have to stop them from selling.

Just went through the roof. It's like, dude, people that want to hold like me, they're going to hold for years and years, don't give a shit what the current stock prices, because we're going to keep holding it, saying, don't sell, just hold it. It's not going to affect people that need the money. They're always going to sell no matter what. True. So so why is there a tremendous uptick and everybody's saying, oh, don't sell.

Don't sell because people are afraid, they're panicking, they're thinking about selling themselves. And I guarantee you, for every message that went up there, it says don't sell. There was somebody that was deep down thinking, man, should I sell now before it drops even further? Or should I hold it? Oh yeah, that makes sense. Like you said, if you need the money, you pull it out.

Yeah, but if you are in the other mentality where it's just like I'm letting it ride no matter what, I don't care what it does. Then you are well, one way more relaxed because you're not worried about watching the things go up and down. Like my dad loves watching, like on a daily basis, what the stocks are doing and looking at their 401 K and I'm like, it's that's just depressing. You don't want to do that. That's depressing. Most of the time.

If you know it's great for the days that it goes up, it's like you check on it once a month or every six months. It's not even great for the days it goes up, because you're not actually taking advantage of any that. Now for people that are trying to play the game, and this is something that still seems fairly consistent. The crypto is constantly moving. If you think you're good, you buy it. It goes up to the point where you're like, oh, I think it's going to drop.

And then you get rid of it and then you let it drop, and then you buy it again, and you keep building and you keep stacking. And that's just like trading. Yes. And it's not predictable, of course, because otherwise it I would have made Scott very rich already. Well yeah. Or see Brooklyn 12 who says his new mining rig is on its way from China. Oh you know it's going to take some of that Bitcoin and send it right back to China every time. It doesn't. You know that right? China.

Well that's the whole thing. The whole thing will go to China. That's the beauty of these rigs. They just show you the data like oh yeah yeah, you're making you're making a lot of money. Like keep pulling me wrong. Let me run. Let me let you go. Look at the B. blockchain. You're like, there's nobody in this account. Real China. So, Yeah. So, speaking of just to wrap up the crypto thing. So the, the voltage people have closed my support ticket.

I just want to add, see, Brooklyn says Fiat is not money. Yeah, and that's totally the case. But guess what? Bitcoin is not money. Yeah. It's not. What is voltage duty. How bad did you get your money. Oh you remember. No I didn't. That's my point. They're like oh they just they said yeah that's nothing we can do. This is the greatest support ever. It's it's like two months in support. They wouldn't credit me even a month's worth of service. Wow.

And in the end, after, like two months of trying to figure out why it stole my money, they just, said, yeah, we've tried everything we could on our end. So, yes, it didn't work. So I am, at the point of closing the account finally, after paying them, over $1,000 for their great service. And, there is about, I think 650 700 bucks sitting in their account, depending on what they you check and what crypto trading. And that's all going to disappear. Where is it? Where are they saying that is.

What do you mean where is that money? When you say you can see it, is that still like in channels that are told you. Yeah, yeah, that's exactly what it is. Unless that the, it just does not close channels that failed to open. So what does say like let me get this straight. Yeah. Your problem like a month and a half ago. Yeah. Was there was one channel that refused to close. Yes. One channel that sat there for like three months and they fight this. I opened up the sport ticket.

They said, oh well, the fix is you need to upgrade your account to a higher level account. because the account you currently have, we no longer support it, even though we've been doing it for months, that we don't support. Okay, so I upgraded my account and the problem was indeed fixed it. It closed that channel money went into my account and immediately disappeared out of my account by opening new channels. remember I even called? It was like, hey, are you opening blazing with this?

What the hell is going on? And then I asked the support guys like, oh yeah, it looks like you set up a thing to help. I don't, I'm like, I didn't subject shit, dude, I haven't logged in to this account in years. You set it up. I didn't set it up that it's out. And I was like, oh, well, we'll turn it off. Well, I don't know whether they turned it off or not. I assumed they did, but either way, it sucked literally all the money out of my account and opened like eight channels.

What happens if you open? None of which were actually opened? If you go to Manila local small claims court against voltage, they probably will just pay you because otherwise I think they have to show up. I don't think they can just be like, nope, not going to deal with it. You open up something in the small claims court and be like, they took my money, which is, well, they would argue that they didn't take anything, that it's just I'm using their service and their service involves risk.

But once they admitted it was their service that automatically set this, but they're saying it was my actions that caused it to do that. But I think you can prove that wasn't true. Well, not really. I mean, they're like, I can prove that I haven't logged in, but if I, I mean, look, it's their fault. The bottom line is it's absolutely their fault. Nobody should ever use voltage.

The, the little the little blurb that's attached to, satoshis that if you look at any of the software is in there, it says this is a a beta network. It is not intended for real transactions for a bunch of betas is absolutely true. If you want to use something that actually works, use Bitcoin and the chain.

If you want to use something that is a bunch of developers playing around with stuff, some which work, some which doesn't work, sure, use this, but don't expect it to have any any recourse if you lose money. That's the bottom line, is that the fine print always says that for all software, including all the podcasting apps that have to that use, Satoshi's, that this is a test service, not a live, fully reliable network because it's not. But you can buy gift cards with it.

You could do a whole bunch of stuff with it until you can't. Until you can't. Yeah, yeah, but guess what does work? Credit card billing from companies that have services that utilize this phony baloney network. Sad but true. That works. They don't. I mean, I guess some of them do charging in, Bitcoin and stuff, but but the bottom line is, I'm just sick and tired of paying monthly fees for something. It's not getting resolved. Yeah. No, it's I would have literally I would have been.

If not I had I would have certainly been on par had I just stopped paying for this a year ago. Right. Because I in a year I pay $300. Right. So I well, I wouldn't have been on par, I would have been a loss. But I lost smaller loss than having paid for a year. And now I'm going to close it with somewhere between 5 and $600 in there. That's 300 points. On the losing thing, really, 300 more than they would over a year ago. You've told it to close the channels and that's ignoring it again.

What's the yeah, yeah. You can't close channels until they're opened. Oh right. Because that's the that's always been the problem is that it doesn't seem to have a timeout or at least not a reliable one. Oh wait wait wait, you do have I know you, you go into the, terminal. You can make that command. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you're right, you're right. You can go into the terminal and make amends. Yes. If you have a terminal. But they said you said the upgrade. You gave you the terminal.

It didn't give me the terminal. It when I did the upgrade, it did something that that basically re synchronized the chain. I thought you said with the upgrade part of it was terminal access. We got to look at that because I could get you the terminal man. We'll get that Satoshi's will go. Right. I'm fucking done, dude, I'm. I don't need this on my plate. I'm I, I don't need to have this sitting on my plate, so I'm just going to call it a $500 amount. It's more than that.

But somewhere between 5 and $700 loss. You are a Satoshi evangelist. It's, it's a, All the money that came in for, for surging speaks and a good chunk of just to grow boys in the form of Satoshis was in that account. You hear that CSP, all of your satoshis went into the ether. Not all of them. Because remember when you set me up with, Balbi? You know I'll be. How long ago was that? Like nine months ago. Yeah. They're legit and they don't lose all your now. For now.

I mean, I don't know, I've never taken anything out of there. At some point I'll be going down and I will be bitching equally as badly. Well, I've got like 700 bucks sitting and I'll be that I can't get out because they're going down there. Open source software. And it'll be available for the umbral soon.

Yeah. Which is well they're also doing the voltage thing and I that maybe that's rude to compare them in that way because it may be they're a much better service, but they're also allowing you now if you want to do what we have, what you and I both have, if you want that now, you can't get it. You have to pay, right? You want them to host your thing for you. And now they're charging like 15. I think it was 15,000 satoshis a month, which isn't bad. But yeah, it is.

It's something. And I've been, I've been once I got it to work, which it wasn't that hard. It was mainly something weird in the network. But the little Raspberry Pi, I have not really thought about it except to look and go, wow, I'm down to only 500,000 satoshis as far as incoming, which means I need to move some outgoing to get some of that back, or I need some people to open channels and that. Right, right. We know how that all goes, but otherwise it has been working. Yeah we do.

It's been working. Okay. To be fair, the shit seemed like it was working. I was opening channels and closing channels, lightning for the first couple of years just fine. It's just when I basically stopped when I switched to Alby and there was no nothing incoming anymore. the one channel that I tried to open was stuck in an open, but never completed mode for months. But, you know, according to them, that was because they had changed their software.

They weren't supporting my account anymore and that I as soon as I upgraded them, it magically worked. But the problem was then it literally the aftermath of it working recreated the problem that I had, but made it more difficult on multiple channels, right? Yeah, it went from one stuck channel to like 7 or 8 stuck channels. And these are not small channels like channels. So Deutsche Bank channel, Sue, you know what would seem like legitimate organizations, right.

That just never finished the confirmation process. And so they had taken the money out of my account in order to secure that channel, but they're unable to release it because they're still waiting on the other side to confirm the receipt, which the other side's not confirming because obviously nothing ever went that voltage is is taking your sats is. But but I don't even think they're taking my side. It's not like when I close my account they're going to be able to point anything out of there.

It's no, I think that's just going to be gone. It's just going to be adding to the amount of bitcoin, because ultimately it's all Bitcoin. That's how it starts off life, right? It's not that you convert Bitcoin to SATs, but when the SATs disappear Bitcoin is what's left. So what's backed by the bitcoin. Right. That's kind of the idea that you put bitcoin in the account. And then it takes the amount of bitcoin that you have in there.

And to them create this channel by it's essentially putting into a which is how everything happens. That's quick rapid growth right. Because Bitcoin transactions typically take at least an hour and usually more like four hours. Yeah. That's not cool when you're trying to make it go quick during a live show. When people want to get their fund to, you immediately have to do the donation four hours beforehand, right?

But the opening channels thing right now, most of these entities that you can connect to are setting minimums of 500,000 or 1 million satoshis. Yeah. Which in real money is three and $600. Most people that are like, I'm just trying to play around with this, don't want to go where they need to put no, like a grand into this so I can open up three. But it's worse than that because you're opening up that channel only lets money flow one direction.

So you need somebody to open the channel back to you, which means you need to really pay for two channels, one incoming, one outgoing, or you go in and you put in $300, and then you pay for that something with that $300. And then you have that is incoming. Which you can also do is you can, you know, technically, you could load up your wallet and then buy a Amazon gift card for yourself and then boom, you got a lot of incoming liquidity. But most people don't understand that.

Yeah, it's kind of confusing. Like, well, you have to spend the money to get the money, right? Yeah. It is. It is not an easy concept to understand because it's not meant to be easy to understand. It's again, this is like in development, there's a reason this is an adopted mass market because it hasn't achieved that level of development yet. Did you see the new ledger wallets yet? They're like full on LED screens, touch screens. And I'll let him go. I need one of those.

My wallet has a touch screen. Do.

What do you guys have? I have a, And there's the microphone. Jim. it says resilience by design. It's a oh, it's ledger. Yeah, I got a ledger. It's a ledger, Roger. It's a very little mine. Looks like a USB stick. The new one. It's like. Exactly. It looks just like is the new ones look like an iPod. They're like that size with the. Yeah. Too big. It was true. I mean, that looks good. Smaller form factor.

Not as convenient, but it's, I mean, although probably more convenient in some ways less than the others, but it depends how many times I would be deploying. I'd rather just have it be on the on the ledger wallet and be done with it. But you know, it doesn't do sense does this Bitcoin. Yeah it's it's cool I mean you can do with some of these. They have the you know debit card credit card that ties right into it which is nice as well.

But again I think my my goal with the the SATs is just to hold for however long. But miners keep turning them into Amazon gift card buying a gift card by me and well, you actually you get free SATs or bitcoin ultimately and I I'm paying for it. So that's the problem. Yeah. You mind if I buy it and then turn to Amazon gift card. And if it's you want people to enjoy your show enough to where they will actually send in some, thanks. Some value.

I mean, honestly, I'm happy the way that we're doing it and, and, just do good old boys where the good old people are paying for the infrastructure. That is a big part of it. So at least because you're not losing money like we're not getting any money to go spend and buy things, but, buzzsprout, which is the hosting company and now the production company, they're getting the money. They're taking care of all the fees. They're doing everything.

And it's just like, shows us how much is sitting in our account. Basically of money that came in. It's always $0.08. And so far that's one that. And so far, you know, the the number of monthly supporters is just going up. you up to three now for, nine, I think nine. Whoa. Nine recurring monthlies. I did notice that, dude named Ben named Ben. He was on our top ten list, but he stopped. He stopped at $78.24. I mean, what kind of a cheap son of a bitch? He got his own show. That's why he stopped.

Yeah, dude. Ben, come on, promote that show. You think cheap promotes that enough? No. You come in with, like, 25 bucks, be like, come over to just the good old boys. We'll leave it. Well, I'll tell you, the best promotion for that show is actually Ksby, who donates to other shows and does ads for just the good ol boys that you should listen to donate. But that bad guy with his Texan buddy. I don't know what he's doing. He has a real job. Yeah, he.

Unlike you, his wife does not know what's happening. Like asshole in the. He does say that. Yeah. You always get the straight dope from CSB. He does not hold back. Oh he doesn't mince words. No. Never. Which we appreciate. And he'll tell you why crypto is great. Still hasn't cooked up me hooked me up with me. Any of the writing this poem contestants for some reason though, Polish chicks are hot and well. And. Yeah. Norway. My God, you see the, track and field girl from Norway that is gone viral.

No, I need to watch that. That's, I've really been that watching the Olympics because of all the French crap. Oh, yeah. The. I have not watched it at all. I just saw this as it went viral. And honestly, I'm more fan of Winter Olympics. I like those sports a lot more.

I agree, like hockey, hockey's good, but all the exotic ones that you just can't do in the summer, like luge and skeleton and real, biathlon, you know, sports that are interesting and things that I kind of, I mean, I didn't really do any of them, so I can't say I grew up with them, but I certainly grew up watching them a lot more than Summer Olympics is running okay. What do you do? You can run fast. What does I get? Nothing.

But when you can ice skate and then grab a gun and shoot accurately, like, that's cool. You're like, that's awesome. I mean, you were you were big into luge that weren't your professional. I'm sorry. Yes. That's not the no. The lose. You would be dead by now. Yeah. The the curling. You're the curling guy. Oh, I love curling. Yeah. Curling is a great sport, I think, yeah. Curling is like, combining elements of a bunch of other sports, like bowling, with, hockey and, you know, sweeping.

It's it's actually, it's a sport. it's like going out in the shuffle. Yeah. And, bocce, I mean, like all these sports, it's the there's similarities. But curling is interesting because it is a sport that fat dudes can do and and that's and well, yeah, hopefully. Although you can slip and fall nice. True. Dangerous. But it's a it's fun to watch because the most subtle of movements can really affect the sport tremendously. It's not it is on the some hand in some way.

It's, it is absolutely a team sport because without the, the sweepers, you're not going to get that shot to land perfectly. And you're like, what are they really doing? That's the oddity for most people. Watch them. They're like, oh, they're melting ice. They're putting a layer of water on top of the ice. Is that what the sweeping does is it changes a little bit into, oh yeah, you're melting ice through friction. There's not. So you're creating a more wet. It's not that much friction.

I mean, isn't it just like a cleaning it to make it easier for it to go. Oh I mean it's very it's like cleaning it now. It's, it's literally building up a very thin layer of super slick water on top of ice, ice by itself. it's, I mean, it's fairly slippery, but wet ice is insane. Slippery. And so that that's what you want is you want to have that path. Imagine if you could do this with bowling. You have somebody out on the lanes, Yeah.

Like you would have a strike every time, because it's allowing you to change the, trajectory, of the stone and or bowling ball and bowling after you've let it go. Well, you know what? ChatGPT agrees. Sweeping heats up the ice, slightly reducing friction and helping the stone trap. Oh my God, what do you need ChatGPT for? You got me right here watching GPT. I would totally subscribe to GPT. I'll only pay you though, in, crypto to your voltage account. So everything works out.

Sounds perfect. Yes. This guy came in with another 777. Thank you. And he says, what are you using to turn your SATs and the gift cards? I've been stacking the SATs up my node and leaving him alone. Some gift cards might be nice to pick up. You must have a shit ton. That's a really cool. That's a shit ton that's actually publicly visible of Satoshi from. Yeah, from looking at the money coming into no agenda through SATs.

So we can actually tell how much money he's got then, you know, if he does great work obviously for the money that he's making, but he has a shit ton of assets. Now, what I would recommend my favorite right now is bit refill, bit refill.com. The nice thing about bit refill is they ask you for a email address, but you don't really need one because it processes in the same browser window.

So if you go buy a $500 Amazon gift card, you don't even have to give it a legit even show does not offer money laundering advice. So no, not at all. Now just saying what works and what doesn't. And coin cards, coin cards, dot com. Both of those. You want to, to check out. But lately I've been using a bit refill. because it's nice and easy. They have things like Amazon and Apple, which both, well, Amazon. It will let you buy up to a $2,000 gift card, 2000 Apple up to 500.

And of course you could stack those really apples. Just 500. That's it. You can't buy a single apple price by $3, so you'd have to get like five of a multiple gift cards just to buy one. And like, even I found you over a thousand bucks. you can get. That's ridiculous, man. You can get a door. I got a card. I got the cheapest iPad I have ever gotten. Instacart. So this can help dream buyers food. best buy, Hotels.com, prepaid Mastercard, prepaid visa, all of these things.

Although those usually only work on, things within your country and not anything with a subscription. And, but otherwise they got Kroger and Safeway and Walmart and Sam's Club. So if you need to turn them into gift cards, that's the way to do it. Yeah, yeah, we're just leave them in there and wait till the company that's handling them crashes. Burns. Yeah. You don't want to wrap. Scott's got his own. No, he said so. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, so did I, man.

That's what I was paying for is my own though. Allegedly. Well, yours was in the cloud. Mine's in my basement. Yeah. It's a yeah. Yeah that's I mine was originally right here next to me until the device crashed. And then I thought, yeah, screw this. Running your own bullshit. I'm gonna I'm gonna outsource it to professionals. Right? That's what professionals make sure that it's working perfectly. so upgrade. They'll take care of the maintenance, they'll do all that stuff.

But I'm going to pay 25 bucks a month for for the rest of my life. And, then I don't have to worry about anything happen to that money, because imagine if my node that crashed would have actually had any money. Luckily, it crashed before it had any money up. It was much easier. Another shit for I mean I run my dryer, clothes dryer wasn't drying. So I'm like what the hell. Yeah. The first like it's always like well check your lint trap, make sure that's not crashing and goes all looked up with.

There's stuff in there. And then drip Scott says thanks for the tip with another 777. Yeah he's got his own no thank you drip. So I took one of the, guys. I got tired of paying for canned air, which most people who ever buy canned air, you get tired. So I finally bought, like, one of the little $2,030 cheap Chinese compressors that just blows air.

so I put that in the shot it down into where the filter goes in the dryer filter didn't show in the well, a lot of shit came out, I'll tell you that much, I bet. And then the dryer still wasn't working, and I looked it up, and it's like there is a sensor right by where the filter goes in. Right in the front of that. the great. That keeps the big stuff from getting in there. there's two little metallic things that are the sensor for moisture.

And I took a little, microfiber cloth along with some isopropyl alcohol. Rub that for about 20s now. It's fine. Okay. And now it looks good. Which it is. But I'm thinking, how many people like my parents? How many people would just call somebody, have to get a service because, like, what the fuck is going on with this? We don't use any of the crazy shit in the dryer.

So we're not using, you know, the snuggle fabric softener that might coat it with a bunch of garbage to where the sensors can't work? I mean, I guess eventually it could just get dirty, but, the dryer is only a couple of years old. I think. And, ready needed to have that little thing cleaned off. I'm glad it worked. Interesting. I've been using my dryer, and I shouldn't even talk about it. Knock on wood. Right. Gonna start using my dryer for I bought it. Yeah, in probably 14 years ago.

It was still 14, 13 years ago. I've literally never done anything to it. Just keep working. Yeah. So this is the problem with these, with these newer system. We got the front load washer, which I didn't really care about, but that's what everybody was selling. and the, the matching dryer, LG and of course their Wi-Fi.

So you could, you could put whatever you want and it'll tell you that how much electricity you're using and all the good stuff, if you hook it up to the Wi-Fi, I mean, you can also just disconnected from the Hi-Fi Wi-Fi Hi-Fi as well. But this adding all this crap and it never worked, which is one of the first things I wanted to complain about because there's nothing more infuriating. Although I guess, you know, you just wait till it's done. But I'd go down.

It'd be like, well, how much time is left of the dryer? I want to know. I'm trying to figure out when do I need to go fold the clothes right. And it would say like, okay, 12 minutes. So I go back down in 12 minutes. And now the little reading says 24 minutes. And I'm like, wait, fuck you. It should never do that. Yeah. it should never do that. That it's like it's guessing. It's like it should never go down and then go back up. I'd rather have it take longer for it to move down.

Yeah, but it tries to guess and then it's wrong and it's like, well, that's infuriating. But this was even worse cause I had to keep doing it for some reason. I guess. You know what? I could have programed it. I think I could have downloaded my own program, but their manual brand is this thing. LG okay, same as mine. A the manual Dry is only a 25 minute setting, so if you had enough clothes in, there were 25 minutes wasn't enough. It's just going to go 25 and then you had to start it again.

The mine has a sensor where it automatically figures all that stuff I know and that's what got dirty. It's right in front of the little, right in front of the little lint trap. And that's what I rubbed with the Ikea isopropyl alcohol and microfiber cloth and magically made it start working again. Okay, now I wonder the only thing that we have in the dryer is I bought a set of those six wool dryer balls that look like tennis balls. no, I don't know if that would leave any kind of residue.

I don't think it should. Yeah, because it's just a wool ball. It's not like it's coated with fabric softener or anything. And you notice if you use fabric softener, which I made the mistake of doing for years before I knew using fabric softener on towels. It's great because then you're like, get out after a shower and you like rub yourself. And it's like, why isn't the towel wet at all? Because it doesn't absorb any more. That's why it's magic.

You don't want to use the fabric softener on things that you want to be absorbent. They do bad things but it was just pissing me off. Like I can tell it's heating up. So I knew it wasn't the heating element which did you go through. Had to replace is igniter element in the gas dryer. We'll see though. Yeah. Mine's electric. You know he did that himself because he's brave and he didn't care if he blew up his house. I would not want to work with anything. Gas that's up.

Yeah. Mine's electric as well. Yeah. You want to blow up your electrics. Got other issues. Why. There's nothing wrong with gas. It's just I wouldn't use it for a dryer. I would be afraid that the length catches on fire. Electric feels like it's a little more isolated, a little more theoretically safer. Although, practically speaking, maybe it's not. It all depends. If you want to make sure you're not loading up the lint somewhere, that's going to ignite in the, in the line.

Burning your whole house down the line. But they can't get it's not that hard. People say that that's like well how would that lint get that hot. It doesn't make sense. You're just blowing air out of the machine. You're not blowing a butane. You know. You're not blowing a big flamethrower out. Yeah. Tom, Tom says use vinegar as a softer. Yes, that does work as a fabric softener. Yeah. Why do you.

Okay, so now that we're on this topic, we don't provide any, you know, advice on, doing clothes here, apparently. But, what's the deal with fabric softener? Like, why do people use it at all? What? What's that? Soft? Is cotton too harsh for you? Yes. Is that the problem? I think so what? What how many people actually use linen? Because that is a harsher sort of a fabric. Like, it's not as naturally as soft as cotton, but is cotton two goddamn not soft enough for people?

I am replaying the whole Seinfeld New York Yankees using polyester uniforms to cotton, and I might, try to. Legitimate question. I don't understand this. I don't use I've never used fabric softener. I don't certainly use it on anything. I don't think my bed sheets are, like, hard or, you know, they're not soft enough. They're plenty soft. And, I don't know that

I can even tell if they weren't. Did you ever toss a broad wearing a silk negligee on the silk sheets and watch it fly right to the land work? Yes. That is hilarious. Did that with my ex-wife. That was actually funny, man. This is where you learn physics and friction and all sorts of things. It's like a slip and slide. That was a good lesson to learn in thinking that like, yes, like she should love that. Then you realize she she does like silk and she's wearing it at the same time.

And then the silicon silk acts and, you know, it just like goes. Yep. There is nothing to stop you from flying. Now, luckily, the bed wasn't very high up, but I had a great laugh as a result of it and I got no sex ever again. That was what? No, not not ever. But certainly that night I have a laugh instead of a sex. Yeah, it's like the Sam Kinison thing. You know, the idea that you hear that wife's voice like, oh, you think that's funny? Yeah. Yeah. I thought that was funny. That was hilarious.

But that was in like the first year of marriage. So you know. Oh we're still the honeymoon period. Oh very much so. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah I don't I think most people use the fabric softener because they back in the day the commercials were nonstop. That god damn snuggle bear was everywhere. And I think people just thought, well, you're supposed to just like with no you're not. You use detergent when you wash. Are you supposed to have fabrics?

You're supposed to put a dryer sheet in because you know, it'll control static cling. Yeah, but no, you'd never do that either. You don't need any of that crap, and you don't need the fake smells and anything like clean clothes don't require an artificial smell, like the clean smell is just there from them being clean. It's the clean in that you don't you don't need to artificially make it smell. It's like new car smell in a bottle. And did you know what the hell?

We've created a new sport in bedroom curling. Bedroom curling. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, but boy, was she surprised when she saw the guys with the brooms up. This is absolutely a sport that I would watch. Wife curling. Like what? Curling sounds like a sport out of context. And so I know I don't know why people use fabric softener. I don't they're idiots, I do. It's, you know, if you're it, you know, you would have to have a very particular reason.

Now, I understand, like some towels and that little vinegar can help, but at the end, you know, trying to. So you relax. So here's fibers, right? You're not you're not. That's the thing is the fibers don't need any relaxing. Here's what I think. Very tense fibers.

Jean I think the fabric softener originated and I don't know this, but you can probably Google it probably originated to help fight hard water that would make not hard clothes but in if you and you know that's from like taking a shower. If you're traveling in a hotel that has really hard water or something, it it leaves your hair feeling less soft than normal. Soft water, like soft water, doesn't have any minerals in it. Hard water has a ton of minerals in it.

Those minerals stay on your hair when your hair dries. they stay on your skin. They say everywhere, but you just don't know. It's like because you got, you know, oils on your skin and stuff that make it irrelevant if you have, any minerals on you. But I suspect that those same minerals would probably stay, whatever you're washing on the clothes or sheets or whatever.

And then if that's the case, your sheets may feel like they're not as soft as they were when they were new or before you wash them in hard water. So the issue here, I think, is the water hardness, not the clothing hardness. However, the marketing folks that have the magic bear that you put in the stomach, was it the bounty that did that snuggle was was snug on the bounty one or the snuggle? Is the company intense?

Whatever. Yeah. The fabrics point is, bear, they realize that a lot fewer people have hard water than wash their clothes. And so what if you could sell this crap to everybody and make them think that their clothes are not going to be soft without it? And not just the people that have hard water according to us, make way more money.

The early washing machines and detergents, combined with the high heat of drying off and left clothes feeling harsh and uncomfortable to wear, In the mid 20th century, as synthetic fibers like nylon and polyester became common, it became evident that these materials often felt rougher after washing, so these fabric softener were designed to coat the fiber with a thin layer of chemicals, making them feel softer to the touch. Well, vinegar isn't going to do that. It reduces static cling.

It enhances the fragrance. Yeah, two things that have nothing to do with softness and reducing the wear and tear by lubricating the fibers. Fabric softener can reduce friction during the wash cycle potentially. So it's oil life of the it's actually oil. Then you're putting oil in there. Yeah dabbing something onto the because if it's I mean what it this is just stupid. This makes zero sense whatsoever I think in this case ChatGPT just picked up shit from Wikipedia, which is written by morons.

And that's all that vinegar can make clothes after. It's a natural alternative. Them because it breaks down residue, it neutralizes those alkalinity and softens hard water. See, now that maybe is where you're onto something with the hard water. That's that would be the only thing that it does. You add it during the rinse cycle for about a half to a cup of white vinegar into the fabric softener compartment of your washing machine.

If it doesn't have a dispenser, you cheap son of a bitch, you can add it directly to the drum during the rinse cycle. You don't want to use too much or your clothes will smell like vinegar. It's not a bad smell. Honestly, I was just using vinegar just recently to clean my knives. This one will do. Yeah, it takes the rust off when my, air conditioning unit decided to start, spewing water all over the place. You said. Yeah, yeah, I went in, wanted to make sure that the drain was clear there.

So I poured a, container of vinegar right down into the sewer, and that all went down fine. But it turned out I don't know what exactly happened, but something happened in the PVC pipe that the unit uses to discharge that was not letting the water drain out. So it was coming out at the top of the furnace where the coil is and getting all over the place and the furnace, the air conditioner, because the air conditioner

is connected to the furnace blowing off. I'm saying and I know the pipe was it was I stuck with some chemicals. I don't know what was in the pipe or why. I think this all began because I had a real cheap ass furnace filter, that got sucked into the furnace. That hasn't happened in a long time. Oh, wow. So I think the whole thing got froze. Now, I don't know if that guy got something stuck in the lines. I let it sit overnight, let it defrost, everything was good.

And then the next morning it start happening again. The only reason I notice this is when I went to make sure that drain was clear because I'm like, well, if the floor drain is starting to back up, well then no more water can come out. So let me see if that's where the problem is. I move the PVC pipe, of course, out of the little drain hole in the floor, and it jostled around enough when I put it back in. Then all of a sudden I'm hearing like good looking shit start coming out.

I'm like, so what was blocking it up? I don't know, there was like an airlock or something, in the pipe itself that wasn't letting this stuff drain out. But now, now it's working. Which is good, because I didn't really want to have to, worry about working on the the air conditioner that was only put in a year ago. Interesting. Yeah. These things happen. You don't know why it seems to break for you very quickly. Your air conditioning shouldn't really need anything.

That whole Hvac system for a decade. I know. So this, I think, was just because I put a cheap filter in, and I'm when I say when I had to, like, pull it out, it was like going in, you know, sucking it into the furnace. So I'm guessing the air flow was horrible. I didn't really feel like the air flow in the house was all that bad. but I am pretty much certain that it did freeze up the coil where once the coils freeze, you got to let them totally thaw out or.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, or it's never going to work right again. And whatever happened at that point, but a new escalation there like that or a new furnace should have, sensors that automatically turn it off if it starts actually freezing. You would think the furnace itself, the blower is not new. We didn't replace that. I just replaced the outdoor because the these. Oh, you just the they were on different cycles, which is a little bizarre.

but here's I mean, the thing was, right, when we got into this, how was not right, but a few years after we were in this, I seem to remember. Right, you had some back of the car, brother in law kind of deal with your air conditioner. Yeah. What's this guy who's a professional? He's a retired. That's what they all say. No. On the back of the car, guys say, you know, I'm a professional. I just happened to have this unit for 80% off. That wasn't that. We paid 100%, let me tell you.

And I know you didn't, because I know how much these things cost. I got the well, for what, years? I got a decent deal. Yeah. It's a warranty through a company shut off. That's a great deal. Just fell right off the truck. Didn't even have to get a permit. Nothing to see here. Yeah, it's a friend of a cousin of a neighbor. Mine. Yeah, but he didn't redo the family, friends and family discount. The drain was already in there.

That drain pipe was already existing, which I think that I do want to redo that because this is kind of a, an annoyance that I don't want to have to deal with. Again, all you got to do is just get a long drill and just drill straight through your, your foundation and drag it to go. Go right down in. Yeah. Well, I mean, that's your house is, you know, it works perfect, I think. So this was all because they wanted to drain the whole house humidifier, which.

Anybody out there? Yeah. What do you think about these? Because I don't think they do decal inspection. Do they. Totally. Do they make they use water and do nothing. Humidifier. Dehumidifier. Depends where you live my friends. Right. It's a this is the whole house humidifier. But here is the problem. you use it in the winter. I run the dehumidifier to night. At the same time, I guess that's a Stephen right? Bit the, where it is placed. And I've read the instructions on these.

They say you can do either where the whole house humidifier is installed is in the return duct so that moisture is being thrown into the system. Yeah. Right before it goes into the fire of the furnace. Right now, wouldn't that immediately dry all that up? No, no it doesn't know wouldn't it. On the other end actually provide more humidity. No I don't believe that. That's physics. Because no, physics is exactly right. Because cold air will hold less humidity than high than hot air.

But it is like fire. Yeah, yeah. When you say, isn't it going to dry it up, what do you think happens to the liquid? when something dries, what do you think happens to that liquid. It goes into zero. Nice. It goes. It goes into the air. It goes into slash Devin, slash. No, no, it does not. Your house does not have a death. No. Okay. That's not a feature of your house. I know that. It might be. It should be. That's that's like saying when you boil water, the water disappears.

It doesn't disappear. Humidify is your damn air. It's your midsize. It's the the the cheapest form of a humidifier you can have in the winter is just boiling water in your stove. And I suppose it just seems like it would do less. No, because again, what you're thinking of is like, well, when it's cooler air, it feels more clammy when it's humid, right? This is true. Right? What? Why does it feel clammy? Because the colder the air, the less moisture it can hold and more of that moisture ends up.

Actually, you know, being what? What's the word? not for sprayed, but, it's coming out of the air and onto your skin. It's like condensing. Condensing is the word. It's like that morning dew, right? What is morning dew now? This. It's it's when the that's get is, Mountain Dew. No more do. It's even better. Yeah. It's when when the air cools off at night and it you get condensation on all the windows, like your car window and stuff that's sitting outside and not really on any kind of surface.

You get condensation that doesn't absorb it. because as the air cools, it'll reemerge. It can't hold as much moisture in it, so it makes up some of that moisture. I've just literally the same reason we have rain. Rain is simply air that is humid and hot, getting cooled off. And when it gets cooled off you have rain that I really have never noticed any different. If you have, if you go from in the winter without having this thing on, and then turn it on and let it run for hours.

Don't really see a difference. I like if you put a put a if you stand on and seen if there's a difference. Right. Yeah. Well that's exactly what I'm doing now. The only way I see that now if you put a little cheap Chinese two gallon humidifier in the same room and turn that on for an hour, well, then it goes up five, right? You know, 5% and it's there. This may just be so little of what it's actually doing. And this is the reason they wanted this to drain.

This is why the air conditioner thing comes out of the air conditioner coil makes a right angle and goes past the front of the furnace. Makes another right angle going towards the drain, makes another right angle going straight down, and that makes another right angle going towards the drain. Because this is where the, okay. The humidifier is where it would have been way easier because there's a sink right behind the furnace.

They should have just take, you know, you should just dump that in there. Yeah. You didn't have to drain both of these these these things together. So the, air conditioning is interesting too, because they they've had, coolers, you know, chillers, whatever.

You only call them in the past, before there was air conditioning. That's why the coolers and those. Yes. Yeah, but the interesting thing about the air conditioner was the, the guy that is credited with inventing it. I'm sure there's more than one person, but is that the discovery that what makes people feel cooler is not just cooling off the air? Because as the as we just discussed, right.

What happens when they are cools, humidity gets more humid because it can't hold as much humidity, as much, liquid in it at lower temperatures. And so you go from hot air to cold, clammy air. And that's not pleasant either way.

But if you combine that chiller with and dissimilar air, something that actually takes the moisture out of the air, and you can do that, you know, with having, a combination of basically, metal coils that, that are so cold that you've got bits of water running down them and then, which is why it needs a drain in the first place. Right? It's basically an air conditioner in reverse, like an air like an actual air conditioner. Yeah.

Then it feels great because it feels more like dry, cool air, rather than cold, clammy, cool air. Oh, yeah. We have the old fashioned dehumidifier, and that thing still pulls out probably a gallon plus in the basement every day. I believe it. Yeah, I had one. That's great. Do you have a you have a carpet down there don't you. Yeah. Well half of it's carpet half of its time which I'm glad. Half, half. That's tile which was what was under water when the air conditioner spewed out the water.

Yep. It's I remember those days living in Minnesota where you had dehumidifiers. it's. The basements were notorious for always having a lot of moisture. Yeah. Which is why the dehumidifier the summer, you kind of need to run them down there. And we had one that just drained right into the same, you know, drain with the, with the air conditioner. but it was recalled after like 2 or 3 years because of a fire. So I'm like, well, that's always good to know.

Two was is also made back to sorry by then it might have been, it should have been. Maybe Cosori would have been better. That's an inside joke there, folks. Get the old air fryer people, but they know what they're doing, and I need to get another one that I don't understand why they stopped making my model. I think it was the best one of the bunch. Yeah, well, yours got hotter. It did more things. You had more room? Yeah, of all of those. And and the top opened up, which is the best part.

So you didn't need to slide something out of it is like magic. You didn't need anything else ever to cook. Yeah, I was my dad was asking me about it. I was like, here, I'll show you the my light. But I'm like, discontinued. And yours didn't even light up on fire. That was just the other unit. Oh, no, that was the other unit they wanted. Obviously, this company is trying to burn down America one air fryer at a time. but they work really well. The air fryers, the air fryers are the bomb.

They do what you need them to do. In a good sense, right? Yeah. Not in the bad sense. if you're not cooking with an air fryer, you're not cooking at all. And, you know, you can't boost the show even during the week when we're not live. All right? Just saying. You can do that. You can boost us. And if you boost enough, we might even come back next week to do the show again. And if you really boost a lot, we won't. Get anything healthy you. Can. We are such professionals. That timing was perfect.