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Yellow. And welcome to unrelenting. And just for weeks to come out a palooza. Woohoo! I'm Darren on looking forward. Yeah, he's jetting off to live. This is unrelenting. Oh, it's going to be. It's interesting when you watch the polling. This is the first day when you go over to look at the Real Clear Politics. Average Trump is losing points.

But according to Rasmussen, I think it was who's usually pretty accurate. Trump has tied it at 4949 at this point. So it's going to be it's a ridiculous state. Well yeah. Nobody can really tell you how this is going to go. There was a guy, I forget the name of the outfit O'Reilly had him on, but it was an outfit out of Brazil who was like, the only one last time that was accurate. And they're still kind of like it's too close to call. But Trump is doing pretty well. It's all a farce.

Anyway. The what you're measuring when you're doing polling is a metric that should not matter in the least. You're basically looking for people who are willing to waste the time to talk to you, right. Or online. This is a lot of them are. And then, oh, that's even worse because it's online. It's it's literally just bots, or your and on top of that. So first of all, willing to talk to you.

And then on top of that you're asking them for an opinion, which they have a, no way to correlate with reality until after the fact. And it's something that they can say because they feel like that's the answer that they want to give without having, like, first of all, these people may now actually vote. We don't know whether anybody that's in there a survey other than an exit poll, actually votes, which is they always say these are likely voters.

Well, they're likely voters because they voted at least once in the past. Well, it's a such a multiple pronged thing because, one, you have to have the people who are planning to vote. So that's the first one, whether people I mean, remember, Gregory House tells us everybody lies, everybody does lie. But you have to figure out, okay, who are the likely voters? And that if you're a polling organization, you then have to go, well, how do we get the exact amount of people in the right demographic?

So you need to have the right amount of black, Hispanic, Caucasian. You need to have the right amount of men and women to represent the overall population. And that is not an easy thing to put together. And this is very split. Women overall going for Kamala.

It again according to polling where men are trending towards Trump. I don't think that's a surprise. But it's going to really depend because women it's great. You can say these things. You can be like, oh yeah, go Kamala, we love killing babies. But usually it's the women that are doing the grocery shopping and they're going, you know, I, I either afford food for my kids now or I go get my nails done in my hair done and go and buy a new dress or whatever it is.

So you can say a lot, but but I think the bottom line is people usually will vote based upon their wallet and how much money in their bank account, although we don't know if anything is fair when it comes to the voting system at this point. Right. So that so the first reasons the polls are relevant is because, like I said, these are people that actually are willing to take the time to answer poll, which is a probably less than 1% of the people in general.

Most people don't have time to screw around for free. Answering some of these questions. Secondly, so these are people that are already have free time and are motivated. I'm unemployed people. On top of that, I'm voting for the, the other guy. They're not voting. That's my point. They're not fucking voting.

We have, well, I shouldn't say we many people have fallen into this, this completely ridiculous belief that the number of voters that were counted or the number of votes, I should say, that were counted the last election somehow has anything whatsoever to do with the number of people who voted. Those two numbers are completely unrelated. The the number of people that take the time to actually go and vote.

We can look at the historical trends by and unless you think Biden was the most popular president in the history of America, more popular than George Washington, then you cannot possibly think that the votes have anything to do with the number of voters. Most of those votes I I'm going to say it, most of them over half are manufactured. And you can't you can't get a poll of fake votes. What? That be nice. Hey, are you a fake voter? Come on, join our poll.

There's also the fact that there is a way to do it. That means just people aren't going to like it. But there are also hundreds of thousands of people who should not be on the voting rolls that are which this is a big, millions. There's actually millions. There were 2 million in Texas that were should not have been, and what it was in, was in Arizona, that was they just found another 200,000 plus in one county. They found 200,000 there. But no, it can't be done.

Illegals can't even register to vote. They can and they do. It may be a felony if they vote, but nobody's arrested. A felony if you cross the border to. So there you go. So they're not a threat when you when they get a felony while we give them a visa card. The free phone ain't no good regulation. That is why the, black gang members in Chicago are mad. They're like, hey, wait a minute. So they. Well, they should be. Why are they arresting these Venezuelan gang members?

Yeah. Because, you know, if you want to stoke racism, that's exactly what you do. You import a bunch of people, and then make different rules for them. That worse rules, right? Better rules. Right. Like, well, you just got here. We are going to treat you better than the people that have been sitting here. That's like the ultimate cutting the line. And there's been so many, you know, in movies and television shows, it's always cutting the line and then telling him, oh, you're the one.

And first in line. You get a free popcorn and drink. Congratulations. Right? So not only any news you like. Wait a minute. I was here for like weeks, years, decades. Somebody walked right in like, oh, yes, you are the surprise winner. And that's the main thing. Which is why interesting. Again, polling always flawed, but polling coming out, that seems like Trump is raised 17% with the Hispanics since the last election is very interesting to me. Yeah, none of this shit matters, dude.

No fake numbers. But if there's more people that are and it would make sense, though when you think about it. Because if you are when I go live with those Hispanics, dude, you're like, well, I don't want people coming in illegally. Occasionally I will be on

the place to be in the Rasmussen poll all the fucking time. Like every month, because it's convenient for them to ask the same people because, you know, they already know you're going to answer. And which is interesting because that was the I was in Brazil. I was always a upper class black woman. But you are, of course. Yep. So I was part of the investor class as a black female surging underneath tulip poles are great, man.

Yeah, well, that was the one thing I thought was interesting with the guy from Brazil. And they have been shown to be more accurate than most of the polling, if not all. And he said one of the main things they do is try not to use the same people over and over again, which makes it even harder to do the whole, the thing to do. Right. Rasmussen's sure. So I'll use the same exact people. They're like, it's easier, way easier, costing a lot less money when I can.

We know somebody will answer this, but obviously they didn't verify your demographic information. Well, how are they going to do that? I don't know, ask for identification, but for sure, that's illegal only for certain things. Not for a woman. I think it's pretty illegal if you want to buy cigarets, which I don't. But if you want to, you got to show an I.D.. You want to buy booze, you got to show an I.D.. You want to get it? You like something when you're being, pulled?

Probably a bunch of bullshit is what you're buying. Now you're selling all again. What about when you're voting, man? You're doing your civic duty in California. Want what you get? Hard shit thing. There is no fucking civic duty. The there is. That is such a ridiculous say. It's literally that phrase is meant to get uneducated voters to the polling backs. Well, everybody's uneducated. That's the bragging new way. No, that's not true.

There's certain there's certain people granted fewer in our audience than somebody other podcast audiences, but there's certain people that do actually spend a good chunk of the day following politics. Right. But how do you know what is true and what is bullshit? That is the biggest issue at this point. Oh, you don't need to know what's true and bullshit. You start off with a very simple thing. I've been saying this for two elections now there there is a solution. It's a very simple solution.

And even Tim Poole has latched on to this. Of course, just recently, after all these years, it's all that Russian money. Yeah, it's all the Russian money that he got. He finally got the message to latch on to the ideas.

Yeah. For simple. Here's the idea. A blank sheet of paper. All it has is the, like, what the office is. And you write in who you would like to have in there. Oh, can you imagine, sures, that only people that understand who's running and who they are supporting actually vote? With it? You have no idea who the hell you should vote for. Then you shouldn't be voting. That is that simple.

Well, the intriguing thing there is, while I believe most people would know who they're voting for in, you know, in the presidential election, I think they know the main ticket. If they're going in to vote, they know who the man. Not if you watch some of these videos of people on the street, real, they're still like, well, who are who's running for president? And they're like, Obama. You know, people don't think Obama is running. They do. They do really well. It's a black person, right?

Just barely. Yeah, barely is. Right. Because I don't know if you've been following what Candace Owens has been cooking. Now what? She is an actual black woman. Far as we know. We don't know for sure. But compared to me, when you compared to Kamala, you compared to Kamala. I'm a black woman, but I'm pumped. Where's your damn sound effects? I don't have to do those things here. We should, we really should. The, Yeah. So she's been digging through her ancestry.

She's been, doing kind of the, the old Obama truth sort of thing. And, it appears there is zero African blood in Kamala. Because her grandmother, who she keeps pointing to, right, is Indian, that are pictures of, very black looking woman was actually the house housemaid. No. Yeah. Well, the, the, the grandmother was an Indian, right. I mean that was. No the grandmother is the only one who's black because she was the maid. Literally everybody else is Indian or white. Interesting.

But he owns a plantation and Jamaica. Well I mean getting the cheap labor is, it's hard to find. So the you can't get much more racist than literally somebody that had slaves 100 years ago. And this, according to the left, would make her cancelable. Of course, the people on the right, they're like, well, that wasn't you. You're not responsible. But that's not the way you people run your business. You say, hey, something out about owning slaves. Nothing wrong with that.

There's plenty of slaves in Africa right now. Of course. Certainly that's a normal thing. And I pointed that out for years for all the people that like, oh, we need reparations. I'm like, well, why don't you go stop the slavery around the world before you start looking for a paycheck, Because it shows you don't really believe reparations. Did you see what came out yesterday? I don't think that's happened.

Mexico is requesting reparations from Spain. Interesting. Well, they have more mistreatment. Mistreatment of the, the Mexican population by the Spanish conquistadors. Good luck with that. Because that makes total sense, right? Because a country that's, part of the EU now, that really its own country a whole lot. Well, we know that they should be paying reparations for, for the discovery of the new world. That makes no sense. Being a slave has nothing to do with the color of skin.

This is also something that a lot of people don't understand. Which is why when Saint Patrick's Day rolls around and like to do those special episodes over on Random Thoughts to point out that Saint Patrick was captured. Just evil man in the world. Yeah, sure was captured. Use means the snakes and made into a slave. Yeah, that's all right. But he was nonetheless. You mean to the snakes? Which makes them evil? That there were no snakes in Ireland? Well, they were back then. No. There were.

That's the beauty of the story. I know there were, but, I mean, he drove them out, though there was no such thing. It's all people believe what they want to believe. That's not true. Okay, okay. All right. Sure. Let's. Let's pretend this is not true. Look it up. Do your own homework. See, this is why we have a problem with heat. There is no single parent, right? No. There was no thing with the snakes being driven out. That was all a, an old wives tale, if you will. But getting back to the vote.

Hold up, hold up. So that's the old wives tale. But Saint Patrick, being a saint, does not know. That's actually, had back. Well, I would say he would been canonized officially, but he wasn't, which is something that a lot of people don't realize as well. So he's there's no such thing as Saint Patrick. No, I mean, there is, but there isn't because he was never canonized by a pope. Well, that makes him not a saint, and I would think so. I don't know how that whole thing works in the UK.

You gotta send me the book you've been reading. Because clearly this is a whole other thing. Where there are no saints in Ireland and Saint Patrick's like Annalize. Because this is the truth. This is the way the world works. The truth book. Yeah. Send me a copy that this is this is a way to find out the truth. Most people have such misconceptions about such things. They will. Next thing to tell me is that he didn't drink green beer. I don't think they had green beer back then. Unless it's.

Oh, here we go, here we go. People bless it with their hands on the banner. They didn't have. They didn't have, food coloring back in Saint Patrick's Day. They were just happy to have food. Yeah. And with Saint Patrick's eating mostly potatoes down there. What? I don't think so. He was actually. Oh, no potatoes in Ireland. Okay. You do. You do know that Saint Patrick is English, right? He was not Irish, but he was in Ireland. Oh, he went to Ireland as a missionary. Right. But he was English.

A lot of people think he was an Irish dude. No, he was English. British? No, it's. It's an English name. Yeah. Patrick. Well, Saint he took the name. Last name Patrick. And he took the name Patrick, though it wasn't his actual name. You understand what this is? Actually, I forgot to go back to listen to the random thoughts from, this past Saint Patrick's Day. It is some just riveting stuff. Oh, you delve into the fake history of Saint Patrick? Yeah. I did a whole episode on Saint Patrick.

Wow. Okay. All right, I'll do that, I will I, I didn't, you know, I, I listen to random thoughts kind of randomly. It is a great show. It is a good show, I like it I the episodes that I listen to tend to be pretty good. Sometimes you get a little bit in the rut, but, you know, it's solo shows. It's hard man. I well, I tell me about it. When was the last time I did mine? Like a year ago. You like? I'm going to have an idea and I'm paying for the hosting. But, you know, sir Gene speaks.

Although just all you have to do is change your icon to avatar of you with duct tape over your mouth and say you will not do another show until Ukraine is free. You just make it. Oh, that's a good idea that you're taking a stance. You are right. You're not doing the shows to stand with, whatever. What the cost of Crimea, right? Yeah. This is exactly the way it works out. But most people, I think. Okay, if they if somebody out there still thinks Obama's running, I'm kind of worried.

But I think most people know Kamala. Joe Biden's running into a lot of people I could that I can see more than anything else, which would be very interesting for the right hand votes of Biden. Like, no, he's not. I guarantee you running that. If it was a write in vote only, there's no way that any Democrat would win any election. What do you think the odds are that we're going to have a story in the next few weeks?

A deep fake Joe Biden voice calling people the, you know, the whole doing, the whole telephones scam thing and telling them he really is not backed out. He needs your support. Write him in as a candidate, that if somebody isn't doing this right now, I know it's illegal, but if somebody isn't doing this right now for funsies. Oh man. And remember, there's a guy for funsies that made a meme, during the Hillary versus Trump era and then wound up sick and then no, didn't end up dead.

Ended up in prison for a year for a meme, for literally a meme on, I was going to say X, but back then it was Twitter. Yes, Twitter. And there was a meme of remember, folks, you vote for Hillary on November 9th. And he he was sentenced to a year in prison for that, for, election interference. Yeah, yeah. So if you're going to do the whole Joe Biden fake voice thing, make sure you do it from, like, Panama, or someplace where there's no extradition. Yeah, that would be the way Russia. That.

Right? Right. They were where they laugh at your extradition request. Yeah. And and if you're doing it from Russia by some Facebook ads. Yeah. You gotta have Facebook. Yeah. That's the only way to win an election. No. Yeah. It's, It's absolutely. And I love how Zuck now is saying that the, the FBI pressured Facebook to remove any posts dealing with, Biden's kid. Oh, yeah. Oh. So for years they were denying that. Yeah. But we were literally there. Yeah. Order up. And now it's like, well, yeah.

You know, I was kind of mean of them to do that to us. We're the victims as Facebook. We're a little Facebook okay.

But I think most people would get the I mean, I think at least a majority, maybe only 51% would understand, the presidential candidates. But beyond that, man, I don't know how many I could list for this election. I don't know who's they shouldn't be voting for him. Of course not. But there's no way you're voting for you. Shouldn't be voting no. I can go and do the research before I walk into the polling place. I doubt most people do.

I think it is a, just a commonality now, and I think it's a bad thing, but I don't think it's going to change anytime soon that most people go in and they vote a ticket. It's either I'm a Democrat and I'm a or exactly. You don't need to have the way voting in America works right now. Is. Well, first of all, it doesn't really matter because the votes don't actually do anything. But the way it works in this country right now is you have a ballot.

And this is for our international listeners, which is a generally a piece of paper. Sometimes it can be on a computer screen as well. But it has the office on the left, and then the names of the people who are running for that office, just the right of that. And then right next to each name is a little D Democrat and R next to Republican in L for loser. I mean libertarian, or I if they're an unaffiliated and they're independent. And basically that's your choice. Now you're absolutely right.

What most people do is they just go look for their party of choice like the D, and they go through and just mark all the names that have a little D next to them. Those votes, in my opinion, should not count real well. Of course you don't know who you're voting for. You have no business voting. California took the hours and DS off the ballots, but they're all D. So I mean there's makes it like I mean in any other state except California and New York.

That would actually make some difference, right? Because people would just get confused. So what do you do if you have like for offices that don't have a, a single person winning? Like if you've got an office, you a vote, you know, list of seven people pick three to be on the, city Board of Parks, right. What do you do? You look at the Irish names. Okay? Okay. Good, good. So I look for the men first. What a sexist. And then I make sure that, the last names are not too weird. Enough to leave.

I don't want anything left to whatever's in there. Okay? Nobody with a weird, unusual name. I want Johnson's. I want Smiths, I want Anderson's, I want Washington's, you know, just regular names, not weird ass Rama swamy type names. Okay, I just have to make a mark there. I want Johnson's. What a opening line. That is. It just the way you hear thing. Give me all the Johnson's. Yeah. Those guys, they are the best. The best candidates. Give me a Smith. Give me anybody.

That's a regular one of them. Regular names. I don't want none of them foreigners. No foreign sounding names allowed. Right. But that's the thing. Like, I shouldn't be voting for any of those. Real, right? And with this, I know it's ridiculous when it gets down to things like what? Judges should keep their job. It's like I have no one who knows anything about the judges. Right? And usually it's like unopposed. Well, do you vote for the blank, right? Or do you vote for the judge?

I always if if anybody's running our polls, I always vote for the other for the good of anybody but this guy. Anybody but that guy. Yeah, because nobody should be running unopposed. So if they're running unopposed, they're probably crooked. It is a very weird. And there's that word again. But it isn't very weird. What do you, Vance. Maybe very weird. Very weird. Completely, broken.

And, now the fact that you can take in and I, I don't know if this is good or bad, that you can take your cell phone in to the voting booth and be like, well, who should I? You know, it's you can have your whole list down like somebody could tell you grade. That'll make the lines even long. I know, let's let's have people spend five minutes left flipping through TikToks in there. Let me see who I'm supposed to vote for. I forgot. Let's see for who. Whatever. Who are we voting for? For this one?

I don't know now. Well, I don't care about that. I mean, you could always bring a piece of paper with you as a shorthand as well. Yes. To remember who you're supposed to vote for. Unless somebody else gave you at least that's one step removed. Like that's at least better. At least you took the time to write shit down to me, because the idea of you

just checking a box with a D or an R or whatever on there is it just it makes the whole damn system ridiculous. There's no point in voting. It's it's, it's essentially a bunch of uninformed morons as the, the, great Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh would say, you remember that quote, right? I do not buy from the bag one tree. Is this the the greatest, spiritual leader of the 1980s? Could you spell that bag? One bag. Okay. You in bag one? Probably the largest search for for something fanatic, like bag one.

Stream. Shree Rajneesh. RJ and I, S.H.. So you don't want any Rama Swami's to win, but you're taking your information from. No, I can barely. You don't remember the bag one? He was awesome. He had a town in Oregon. A whole city. And there's a video of him back from the 80s where somebody asks him, what do you what do you think of, democracy in America? And I did my 80s reporting voice there, and, he said that, Democracy is a system of government by the people, for the people and of the people.

But the people are retarded. Cannot make sense. Actual quote from him. You should look it up real. The big one was hilarious. He was awesome. The guy's got just a deadpan delivery and very funny things. He also had a Rolls Royce for every year his life. Oh, that's a way to go. Yeah. And, you know, eventually they they broke up his cult. I mean, his, his town that they have, and he was forced to go back to India, but, he was a very colorful character, a very funny guy.

And, was making headlines back in the 80s quite a bit. I remember seeing him pretty regularly. Well, in the uninformed thing is getting worse because one people don't think they need to be engaged.

And I think this is the other reason, when you get to why the children are in such bad shape, or because parents, I don't think, take the responsibility of parenting the way they used to, they think that, you know, the school will take care of it or the church will take care of it, and all they have to do is send their kids off to school.

Yeah. Back in the 1800s, the people that lived in the United States were much more engaged, especially because one, it was a new country and they knew they were the ones in control. This was a whole new thing.

How did we lose that, where people are now so apathetic that they can sit and play on TikTok for hours a day and then don't know who's even running for president, who is president, who is in charge of their lives because they know that doesn't matter what matters, but maybe they have zero control. You could be saying, but it matters who's in charge. Well, who's in charge? You don't actually elect. You got the shadow government.

You got the state. Yeah. Where the president continues to come and go. But there's we have we have the perfect proof of that. Who's the president right now? Anybody? Barack Obama well, I mean, it's you might as well say that because it's serious. Certainly no decisions have been made by anybody as president that was elected to be president for years now. Yeah. Biden is using old Joe's and they're getting, a bunch of, you know, people coming in with, whoa, what should we do here, Joe?

What do you think? No, of course, that he barely keep his diapers from spilling over. Oh. Oh. It's the final countdown. Yeah, exactly. We may not hear that. The final? Yeah, this normally is unmute this time of day. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness I know right is. And now it's on mute. You need to take the call that Moscow. It's well it's a good question. I should probably check to see if that was. Yes. Could be a very important communique coming in over the.

You never know unless you never know, do you? One of these criminals who use encrypted web apps to talk to people? Don't. Yes. Yes. Only criminals would ever use an encrypted app on your phone. Because why would you want to have something that's encrypted on your phone and when it should be clear and available for, monitoring? Recording everything you say and do in your private life should be public. That is the, That's what the left wants right now.

So if you're going to vote for the left, that's what they want. I wish that was that's the other thing. I mean, I like my first suggestion of just a blank slate, I think is at least theoretically possible. The other way is to make voting not anonymous. Oh, are you happy with the voting? Be public? I agree with that, but I don't. You know, I'm not saying be stamped on your house. Your house should have your voting record on the outside seats that I disagree with.

Why? But we have the ability now to give people, I mean, the computerized voting. You should have a barcode on your forehead that anybody can scan with their phone to look at your voting record as I remember, I remember dark Angel with Jessica Alba had the barcode on her neck. Oh, I love dark Angel. I know Greg back when she was hot. Yes, well, she was in the right age range for you at that point with like 19. That's why I said I literally said back when she was hot.

It's like, there you go, the barcode. But I think we have the technology now. But yeah, there's a lot of people who push for the paper voting. And I understand the end reason for that, because they feel like that is going to be less apt to have chicanery around it.

I disagree, I don't have a problem with computerized counting, but with the computerized counting, there should be a receipt on the ballot that you get with the matching number that you can then go in afterwards and verify that what you voted for is in the system, because that is a very important check and balance. I think, you know, and if you don't have to tie that number to somebody, you don't have to do this publicly.

But everybody adds, yeah, it's like you walk into a DMV, you get a four digit number, and you sit down for five days and wait for your number to come up. Right. But you can look up for somebody, but you can. Yeah. You can only see, well, what are they on the UK? Right. That would make sense to me. It's I don't know why we don't have that. We have the ability with the blockchain and all this, that things can be stored where they can't be screwed with.

And I think people I think it's more, you know, if you if you can get past the whole adopting technology bit. Here's another suggestion. Make people use their phone to vote. And your phone has a security way better than the election system, right? Oh, I agree, requires either a fingerprint or your your facial ID. Yeah, I would have no problem if you if you did that, then it's super easy. You can only submit one set of voting records per phone if you don't care.

If I do it a few days early or whatever. Yeah, but the people that could buy 100,000 phones, this is where you get into. So they have to be registered to an individual person. So there's still the whole registering as an individual to vote. But I would have zero problem. I'm not saying you make the phones vote, I'm just saying that the phone provides its security to the, voting. That could make sense. This could make sense. Just like you get the little, authenticator apps.

Where do you get a pin number to throw in? It changes all the time. So if you go to vote, only the person with your phone could be the one voting. Because here's the crazy thing here. Like in Texas, and I think a few other states, they passed rules. Now that porn websites are right wired to know who is actually registering them, right?

So if you want to watch porn in Texas, you have to provide a scan of your driver's license to the porn website and trust them enough to be able to do that in order to get access. So if the rules for watching porn on your own computer in Texas are more strict than the rules to go vote, right, we got a problem in society. It's for the children to install, to protect the children, for the children, because, you know, children have never heard of a VPN before. Well, I mean, where are you going?

To VPN out to Mexico or something, and then come in through the open border, any country or other state? I tried this when, this whole thing started, I went through it was probably NordVPN, maybe Mullvad, but I chose a endpoint in Texas and then went to Pornhub and got the whole you enter your information into your information, it's like, okay. And then you change that to any other state and it's like, oh, you're right on here. No problem.

Well, I think more and more states are going to go that route because this was a very simple thing for them to do. And then basically places of the burden of proof on the porn sites and some sites just pulled out of Texas altogether. If you have a Texas IP address, they don't service you, which would make sense. Other websites this to me, this would say all of the porn websites are going to wind up offshore or Nevada and Panama.

Any right places where it's never yeah, it's like this doesn't make sense because again, you have you have, ways around it and you can very easily move. It's like, well, somebody just has to move their server to a different country. Yeah. You know, I think that the selling of the VPNs is almost tipping the boat at this point. So I am fully expecting in the next year or two, legislation, federal legislation banning the use of VPNs. I don't doubt that the left wants to do that.

They want to make the right things as well. The right for different but similar reasons. I don't think they would go to the same extent could be wrong. I think they would support a bill called the Keep Porn Away from Children amendment, of course, but they have no idea how the technology works, which again, is part of the problem. Like what we do, we want to know. And the way it's going to work is they will simply mandate that all VPN providers have to have a filter based on geographic location.

You won't be able to get a VPN without providing copy. Your driver's license, and the VPN will be required to add your location to anybody that you're connecting to. And how is the United States going to force a VPN that is based in a country that does not abide by any of the same laws to do this? Well, the same way the U.S does that right now by taxing them to. And then if they don't pay taxes, that's an international thing. Plenty of international companies. Yeah. But how do they the U.S.

Oh that's the interesting thing when it comes to oh yeah. Well you see a small player you're probably going to be able to fly right. But well think about before I tell you what, you're not going to be able to do advertising every other YouTube channel possibly. But Mullvad is pretty big and they're one of them. I don't know how many other ones do. So don't ask.

But Mullvad will allow you to take any kind of currency, put it in an envelope, and mail it to them in order to get the access to the VPN. So it's completely anonymous because they don't know where you live. They don't know what country you're from. I mean, they absolutely know where you're connecting from. Well they do yes. Yeah, yeah. But why? They're not going to care. It's like they're like I'm they're outside of the jurisdiction of the United States.

Boom. Oh they're not going to have them talk to Artie and see if the US government can remove an organization from doing anything in the country. But that is a different thing. No, not at all. Because the IP change, it's much harder to block a VPN service than it is to block a new service, which they don't need to block it. This is my point. They don't need to block them. All they have to do is levy fines on them. Still won't work. Don't we have a one world government?

Which I mean, we have a one world government. If you didn't realize this. No, no, there are still some outliers. Yeah. If you're going to be using the, Chinese or Russian VPN services, those are the best. I mean, these are the best ones. But again, keep in mind we are currently blocking, access to a whole bunch of IPS from countries that are hostile to United States. And the backbone, you have no control over that? I have no control over that.

The U.S. government has control over that because they own the backbone. So they own the country. They run the country that the companies that run the back, backbones actually operate from. But again, this is where the VPN now, depending on what they can actually do, if I connect to a VPN in Moscow, well then anything they're not blocking, I get to see. Yes. Correct. So I mean, this is the oddity of all of this. Trying to play Whac-A-Mole. And it's to it's a numbers game.

It's the same exact reason that right now in Texas, you can't watch porn without breaking your ID. Oh, let's use because some people just voluntarily not service Texans anymore and other people decided to comply. That's exactly what's going to happen with the VPNs. And I was just going to say we don't offer our VPN, the United States, we don't want trouble from the US government. But the reality of that is you can still just pay otherwise and continue using it.

I mean, you may be a criminal, but they're never going to be able to shut down the access to it in the same way because they have so many different connection points. That would be interesting that they might have to get rid of all of their servers within the United States, and which would mean it would be very right up the Canadian border. There's going to be a lot of a lot of, NordVPN. Right?

You understand, like getting rid of your servers in the States is basically going to mean that you're coming in from Canada at that point, right? You're not going to be able to pretend like you're in Texas like you just described that I'll be able to pretend I'm in Canada, so I'll be able to watch the porn even if I'm in Texas. Yes, yes, exactly. You'll be able to watch the porn and you'll have your language monitored.

And you can't say things that imply that you don't believe in 127 different genders.

Yeah, hey, if you can, but you can watch the porn. But you got to be very you got to be very warm. Yeah, you had to be porn. Oh my God, what a oh, how cringe would that be? Vogue porn only. Which means that any porn you click on has to be transgender and you can't misgender somebody. You can't, you have to be very careful with the language. Yeah. No, you have you literally click on, you know, men, women, whatever the topic, whatever kind of daddy issues, porn bullshit you want to watch.

But all of it is transgender. That is. That's a very good point. That'd be a good way to get get kids off the porn. Yeah, but maybe not. Maybe that. Hey, guys. Why no, no, we don't want the tranny trick. Boy, Alvaro says, remember, not all porn sources of porn are born websites. See Twitter slash X. And this is true, and this is an interesting part of this whole thing where people keep saying that I have never found porn on X, it's there. I've looked, I have not found some.

Somebody said me keywords at certain gene X, send me links to Twitter porn because I have never seen any porn on Twitter and I've been on it for, well, on and off. I mean, I got, I got banned once, but on and off I've been, it's it's literally the day it started, when it launched, here at South by Southwest. I signed up the first day. And, I mean, there's a lot of I never seen porn on there. It's about the only thing left. It seems, the, the metaverse is poor. It's not good.

The of you left it the right time. It has turned. It did. Eight now zero traffic. Is, it's kind of sad, but we figured that the only way that was going to work was for these smaller groups. In the case of the No Agenda program, who just went to 1700 episodes. Yes. It's very impressive. Hyatt raid sent in a donation. I know unrelenting didn't because we don't make any money. So I mean that was the main reason there.

But no agenda had a large enough audience where if you run they ran or had somebody run an instance, it brought those people in because they thought it was going to be a small community. And it kind of was if you didn't pay any attention to what was outside of that server on the server said, yeah. Then it was it was kind of a private little community that I believe can work, but otherwise, yeah. You know, that is that's called a bulletin board. Yeah. We should put one of those right back up.

Well, he's got the IRC thing he's promoting right now. Might as well put a VBS. A VBS is awesome, man. I'm good old days running 102 E with a with a, 96 baud modem and, all the fun stuff. Exactly. Yeah. Like, yeah, that's. I remember the good old days. Still live in them right now, man. Yeah, I, I had a courier 14 four. But before that I had the what was arguably the most advanced modem for its time, which was the Tesla bit, which was the 19 K modem.

And that came out when everybody else is running at like 2400 board and you're like, I'm gonna really blow your doors off. Yeah. Because what it did is it, it had I don't know how many of them, but it split the signal into a whole bunch of, and I don't know how many, probably at least 64 different channels that were based on different frequencies. Right.

And so it was able to maximize the amount of data sent by instead of just sending something really fast through one channel, it had a whole bunch of basically slow sending channels. And once they realized how to stacked the channels, it was on, I remember my first modem was a 300 baud acoustic coupler modem. I never had one that was my slowest one was 1200. But if you were advanced and it was the the first Apple modem, it was the one that you plugged right in the wall, like, all right.

But the little dongle outlet thing, and it just had a line going back to your, computer. So that was magical because I really that was how many years has it been since the War Games came out? That is the one thing that still annoys me is that he takes the picks up the phone, puts the handset into the acoustic modem. Yeah, but somehow it is able to hang up and dial over and over again. It's like, that's not how it worked. No, no. Yeah. They're kind of, conflating two different styles of modems.

Yeah. They played a little fast and loose. You had to be directly connected before it could hang up and dial on its own. Yeah, because I understand this made it. And people were like, oh, I get it. He's connecting to the phone line where if you didn't do that, you would. They had to add some dialog in, like, what is it doing? It's going up to the phone line. So I get why they did the show, not tell, but still it wasn't accurate. It annoyed me. Yeah, yeah, I get you.

Alvaro says there is Reddit porn and discord porn. I mean, there's porn everywhere. There's discord porn. I've never seen porn on discord either. What the hell, man? Did you just take it out the wrong places? I guess, apparently, like I've got teams looking for it all over the place. I'm. I'm totally looking for it, and I'm not finding it. What the hell? Where's all the porn on the discords?

But the social media makes these porn laws very intriguing, because people are going to start pointing those fingers and be like, well, you can get it here too, if it's really for the children, that should be the main sources. I really it's not enough because the kids aren't going to get it. Just like the vast majority of criminals seem to get their guns illegally. Well, yeah, the kids mean they're not going to the legal place to get porn. So going after like the porn.

And here's the scary thing, right? So you prevent the kids from getting professionally produced porn and they make it themselves. Yeah they do. We have a whole bunch of cases out there of children basically losing their futures because, you know, now they're they're child predators at 12. Right. Terrorists, which they should tell you something about these laws. Yeah. They're the. Yeah. A girl takes a picture of herself, sends it to a guy. She, of course, shares it with his friends.

Now he's got a distribution of child pornography charge. Right. Even though he's 12 and he. And he's 12. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Now you could argue while the parents have no business giving phones to any of these kids. Yes. I actually kind of agree with that. I think that should be the whatever land. Yeah. Never not have phones. Kids have been showing each other their sexual organs for literally as long as humans have been alive.

But they were doing it in private, where the pervert, you know, 20,000 miles away, couldn't see them. So we're allowing the pervert 20,000 miles away to ruin these kids lives. Yes we are. And this is again, kids should not at fault. I, I do have a carve out that says okay but let the kids have the phones.

But if they do commit an offense like you're talking about a 12 year old having child porn on their record that should be on their parent's record then rather than theirs, I believe that is the way to fix this. Yes, yes. Now, I happen to agree with that. Dude named Ben vehemently disagrees with Ben and said why you don't have kids? How would you know? Because he really likes the kids to make their own child porn. Is that oh, he listens to the show.

I do bad name. Ben. I'm just asking the question. I'm not casting aspersions. That's right, that's right. But his point is, you can't make the parents be liable for what the kids do. The kids are independent agents. Well, here's the thing. And my argument is, well, you make the dog responsible for the dog and the cat on the responsible for the cat and the snake owner responsible for the actions of the snake. Why?

Because none of those entities are smart enough to make intelligent decisions on their own. Yes. And therefore the owner is liable. And it's the same damn thing with kids, frankly. And if you think your kids are fully capable of making intelligent decisions to the degree where you're not responsible as their parent, then I don't think you have kids. I think you are probably, living with a bunch of roommates. We're seeing now parents being charged if they have kids access to guns.

Yeah. Same thing if you gave them access to the cell phone, that was your choice. But now with little Jimmy posts on to TikTok or Snapchat, he's going to blow up a school. Now, you as the parent, have a terrorism charge on you. Yeah, yeah. And it's called responsibility. Yes, it's what it's called.

And I know that, Ben, I think mainly objections because the gun thing, it's like, well it's a great way to make sure that the parents get charged with gun charges by just having stuff that the kid does, that all of a sudden the parents have nothing to do with. That nonetheless makes the parents lose their ability to have guns. Well, I think it's got to be a full package, like just because you like guns and your guns, which I am. And remind me to tell you about the fun, weekend of shooting.

We have, then, it doesn't mean that you get to remove yourself from any responsibility for your children's. And it. To me, it's not about the guy buying his kid again. Like plenty of parents buy their kids guns and nobody gets shot up, right? The problem here is that you have a parent with a child who is mentally deficient. Like he's crazy. Clearly, because anybody who goes off and shoots up, either school or the president of the United States, it's crazy right? There is.

There's only two reasons for doing it. One, you're getting paid by somebody like you're on or two, you're not right in the head. No. Because, you know, I don't think there's a third choice here. There's a really good choice if you're going to go out and try to do harm to the president, that you are going to die in the process. Yeah. Yeah. So consequently, I don't think you can take the responsibility away from the parent, nor should you. The parent is responsible for their child.

If if you, if you give your kid alcohol and then he gets in the car and drives and kill somebody, you should be going to jail along with him. You know, there are not not in the same jail. But you know what I mean? I'm like, you both ought to be charged. It's not like, well, the kid's got gotta have the parent there when they're in prison. No, no, no, you're you're both getting raped. Now, there's a beautiful way to put it. But what do you think prison is?

The prison sentence is just a rape sentence. That's all it is. Now, the intriguing thing would be in this country. Just like we have laws on buying guns and how old you have to be. I believe unless I'm wrong, in order to sign a cell phone contract, I believe all of the major carriers in the United States require you to be 18 or older. I don't know, I don't recall any questions on the contract about age. Well, that's because you were well over the age at the time you were doing the contract.

No, I just did it. No, I just recently well, a couple of years ago changed my phone system. Right. But it's like they know if you walk into a store and you're like 12, I don't think they're allowing you to walk into a store. That's not how you do phones. There are some people that still do. They still exist. You know, you call your Apple guy and you tell them you need a new phone.

You got, well, you have the Apple guy a lot of people walk into Costco because you can buy them right there at the little cell phone kiosk. You can get them at Best Buy. You can get them wherever else they sell them. I don't you know, again if the child has a job that they actually get approved to get a cell phone because they're giving you credit. That's the other part of this thing.

Most people you're when you get that phone, it's $1,000 phone that you're going to pay off over like three years. Well if you're 12, they're they're probably not going to think you're a good, risk of actually paying that off. So you probably would have to pay it off in cash upfront, even if you could get a pay as you go kind of a plan. But overall, I think it's hard. Just like I don't think if you're under 21, can you even rent a car yet?

You know, if you go someplace, you know, it's harder or they charge you more is definitely harder. Yeah. So all of these things are put into place I don't understand because this I don't think it's hard to get a phone. I mean you get a burner phone for 29 bucks at Walmart and then pay another 29 bucks for a month of usage. What do you think the kids would be able to do that on their own? Yeah. How many? Absolutely. Then I guess they're okay because it's not on the parent's contract.

Because I don't think the parents can stop you from doing that. I mean, that's one thing there. Yeah, but it would stop the parents from, like, here's your other limited, access. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, and that's the thing is, ultimately, what it comes down to isn't the parents being able to push a button and limit you? It's raise your damn kids when your parents raised you. What the hell's wrong with you? Right. Exactly.

You need to be involved in your child's life to the degree where they're not making child porn and they're not going off assassinating presidents. How hard is it to do those two things? Yeah, you wouldn't think it would be. But if you can, you can still you could still talk poorly about the president. You can say, oh, he's an idiot, right? It's fine. Just don't don't go killing them. Don't show up at the golf course with a gun. No, no, that's a bad idea. Don't don't do that.

Golf course, water tower, roof, whatever. You know, even the slanted roof that the FBI can't possibly get on top of. I mean, I remember our Secret Service back in our day. People went back out of their way to buy the Polaroid cameras if they wanted to do the little nudie shots. Oh, yeah, because they were so embarrassed at somebody at the photo height. Absolutely. Yeah. But now people are doing this. Are they a phone which is connected to the internet that everybody accesses?

Yeah, it's very straight. Yeah. And kids don't see that as being any big deal. Is it. Because. Well they're not taught in this when, oh. Which there was one of these legal cases which talked about child porn over the age of 18. So I think there are some states that have changed the laws that have different bars, that have different punishments. If somebody is under the age of 18 and do the child porn thing again, probably do try to mitigate this.

It's like, but I think you should be just as tough on anybody of any age, because otherwise you're giving them carte blanche. To do what they want. Yeah. You know, but I also I would lean more into the current bondage category there. I think that it is fully appropriate to have and I don't feel like laws where you have actual adults that are preying on actual children.

Yes. Which you're talking about an 18 year old dating a 17 year old and getting nude photos of his girlfriend? No, that's a gray area, man. I can't abide and say that the exact same rules apply to that 18 year old that applied to a 40 year old and a 12 year old. That's those are not the same issue, unless you release those photos to the world, and that it is, because now you're making them public. Well, and you can yeah. It's a it's a tough one. It's tough. It's tough to say.

And I think part of the problem is because it is such an abrupt switch from, oh, now you're a child, you're you're 17, years and 358 days old, your child and and 24 hours passes, and now you're an adult, and now you can be charged for, you know, somebody else that it's like. Maybe we just need a third category called teenager or something. Maybe because I like you, like the laws for a for any kind of pedophilia related to prepubescent children.

Yeah. Should should just be death penalty should not be related to the 17 year old. And incidentally I posted a video I know you don't follow me. You the video I don't know. I posted a video on X. I saw people sleep in Minnesota. Oh, why did they mention Arizona stuff? People in Minnesota that catch a a? I don't know if he's illegal or not, but clearly a man with an accent that shows up to meet a 13 year old girl that can't go well. And they're like, hey, what are you doing here?

Are you here to meet that 13 year old? And then they proceed to beat him up. And since the police have been canceled, there's no more police in Minneapolis, right? The the guy, the pedophile is like, I'm calling the cops. I'm coming. And they're like, go ahead. They won't show up. Yes. Go ahead, call them. Well, God, they're beating the crap out of them. They're chasing him around the area. I'm like, yes, this is what the future of America looks like.

Frontier justice. Yep. That's exactly what it is. Men doing things that men should be doing and not being pussies. Police is reserved for murder. Somebody murder somebody. Then you call the cops. Everything else. Yeah. Handle the way that your grandparents used to. And their parents and their parents. You know, you wake up and some perverts breaking into your 12 year old daughter's room. That guy's probably not walk into the hospital. No, no, he's not exactly.

So it's a, Yeah. I like your phrasing of frontier justice. It's a different frontier. Right. But I think it's coming. And I think this is why I've been, you know, as much as I don't support Black Lives Matter way I can see you with the t shirt, man. You got the t shirt? You are. Yeah, I got the t shirt. Yeah, exactly. I'm representing, but I do support the defund the police because the police state cannot exist without funding. And there's no police state without the police.

So if we defund the police, de facto, we make the police state, a thing of the past. So in the interesting thing about that is it existed in this country not that long ago. When you look at history, where people were responsible for themselves, communities were responsible. Okay, maybe they had a sheriff, you know, but yeah, otherwise the people took it upon themselves to take care of whatever was going on. Absolutely. Somebody somebody is a criminal.

You don't have to wait for the police to show up. You can take care of that criminal. With that said, you have to get rid of or take care of the laws. I was always most amused by the states that have an age of consent for sexual activity of 17, because that meant a dude can be, you know, a 30 year old dude can be fucking a 17 year old. That's legal. But if he takes a picture of her nude, that's a felony. Well, one state, one federal. True. Interesting. Ma'am. Yeah. And I mean, I'm not Ben.

If he was sitting here, he would just argue there ought to be no federal laws, period. All laws should only be state laws. You know, I understand that in concept, but there needs to be a few things that, I think are constants. Now, I don't know what those things necessarily are. I mean, yeah, I don't, I, I don't know, it's a tough one. I do think that the federal government has become, oh, bloated, absurdly bloated, and not at all what the intention was of the original founders.

The idea of a federal government duplicating state government functions is ridiculous. The federal government ought to be doing the thing that it's currently not, which is protecting the goddamn border. That is the main function of the government, or draining central government funds for people that are in the country illegally. I don't think female exist. I am sorry, but that's just not a function of the federal government or any government.

If the state wants to have a fund to help people in case of natural disasters, that's fine. But you should not have a federal agency who employs hundreds of thousands of people whose job it is to take your tax dollars and then decide whatever they want to do with them, because what they want to do with them clearly is not. We've seen what they want to do in Tennessee or North Carolina. What they want to do with them is spend them on, letting people cross over the border and vote Democrat.

Right. You need to get in here. You're in the country. I we're going to give you a plane ticket to Wisconsin. So now, now, the only good thing about this, the suffering is we now found out where they were getting the money to do all these things. Where where are they getting the money to give people phones? Really? Getting the money to give people visa cards. Oh, it's all coming from FEMA.

Well, we noticed this years ago with the photos, one of these early caravans that was coming through Mexico. And it's like you notice in the picture, everybody has nice shoes and cell phones. How does that work? Yep. If you're so poor that you have to leave your home country, how'd you get that iPhone and what service are you using? The interesting questions that need to be asked.

I mean, I'm all for the states rights thing, and this is one of the biggest bullshit things, especially with the abortion issue, because the people that are bitching about the abortion issue, all live in New York, Illinois, California, where abortion is plentiful. You have no problem getting it. But they're mad. Yeah. That somebody and you know, Wyoming's not going to be able to get an abortion as easily as they do. It's like but then don't live there. Yeah, exactly.

But, you know, the one of the last things was the drinking age, too, if you remember where it was. Oh, yeah. Wisconsin. What was Minnesota at the time? Because it was interesting. When Minnesota was 18 until I think I was about 16 to, 21, you know, that was it in Illinois was 21, but Wisconsin was 18. So I don't remember if Wisconsin was lower than Wisconsin was one of the last holdouts, I think at 18. So everybody from Chicago has high schoolers at 18.

Like, let's go to his gods, man. We could River raise your. You know, this is one area where I think the, the Europeans actually have it right, which is drinking age is 16, but driving age is 18 or 21. Well, now everybody will just get into an Uber. Yeah, yeah. But to what I mean, I have no problem with that. The only reason that I don't want teenagers drinking is because they're going to drive right? I don't care if they drink. That's up to their parents. Oh, look at that.

Amazingly more responsibility on the parents that goes to the parents. And again, it's not about like limiting and putting a lock on your cabinet to keep your kids from drinking. It's about raising your damn kids to not be alcoholics, right? Yeah. You have to. Instead, you have to actually parent. You have to instill in them the idea that, look, there are certain things in life that you can do as an adult, which you're actually going to hurt you. Smoking is one of them drinking as well.

These are legal things. As an adult, you'll be able to do, you know, a variety of sexual things as well. These are things you can do, but they're actually not good for you. So when you do them and I know you're going to do them, do them in moderation. Don't go overboard. You don't go to more than one Disney party a year. God. Oh like that. Just saying. Yeah, don't don't go to any party where a requirement is that you're completely covered in Vaseline, right?

Did you bring your bottles of don't baby oil? Yeah, yeah. This was I was like, baby, now I could be wrong on this. But I don't think baby heating oil is actually good for your skin. Probably because it's a it's, it's it's, you know, it's made from petroleum. Now, there was a story. I thought this was intriguing. It was kind of like the Disney story that was out not that long ago. This from, and both of them had it wrong. Just the news who I find to be very reliable.

And, NBC news, who I find to be very not reliable. The story is couple can't sue Uber after daughter clicked away trial rights on UberEats. And I'm like, oh, well, GM orders all these things I do. And then it said a couple that was hurt badly in an Uber crash. Can't sue the company because their daughter once waived their trial rights while using Uber Eats. And, so they were in the car. They were in an Uber.

The guy ran a red light and got hit, caused them a bunch of pain and suffering and injuries. Yeah. According to NBC, the court ruled the couple cannot sue the tech giant because their daughter, a minor, once check the box while using her mother's phone to order a pizza on Uber Eats, agreeing to waive trial rights. Well, it's like one. Here's another very interesting thing.

It's like, well, so the app and the phone belonged to an adult mother, but now they're going to say, oh, but the daughter ordered the food, not so it's like, well, how do you know? Now, here's the thing. Yeah. Believe it or not, I'm actually on the side of Uber on this one because the, giving your phone to your kid to click on random things is not an excuse. No. And it said even before that pizza order, this is all the shit that gets buried. It was the same thing with the Disney one.

This is NBC news down towards the bottom. Even before that pizza order, the company said Georgia McGinty had previously clicked through Uber's fine print, agreeing to waive a jury trial. And I'm sure she did, in this concept, what had happened to the guy with Disney? They're like, well, because he signed up for Disney Plus, you know, two years earlier, it's like, well, that was that may have been true. But he also agreed to it when he ordered his fucking vacation like two weeks before.

And it's like, well, that's the difference. It wasn't that he did it two years ago. It's like, if you're going to want to go to Disney so fucking bad that you're just going to click the fine print that you're not going to read, that says, if something bad happens, we have to go to arbitration rather than a jury trial, then it's on. You don't fucking go to Disney. All these companies have it in there.

If you missed it, if you agreed to it when you got to the Uber app, well then after something bad happens, you can't be like, oh, but now I want to sue. Fuck you. Be responsible. It's unbelievable. But this is buried in all of these terms of service because the companies like we don't want to go to court that cost too much. We'll pay for an arbiter. Yep. And you can't get back to you like well I don't want that.

Here's the funny bit that you probably unaware of because you don't play video games. So steam, which you probably have heard of. Yes. Which is the largest distributor of video games. It was the early the first company that created a a gaming directory slash catalog. You buy stuff from it and it manages all the updates. It's very convenient. Everybody uses it, right? It's always this is the first thing once people stop buying actual physical media, this is where they went, right?

Like there were a lot of benefits. You get your game instantly. You don't have to drive to the store, you don't have to install it off CDs or do these or anything else. It's just downloaded for you and the speeds are fast enough that, you know, usually it's 20 minutes or less to get a new game.

Anyways, steam just updated their language in the user agreement and what I found very interesting when I clicked on the update because I read through the changes, is they have now removed all the arbitration clauses and now the the the text says that any disputes will be settled in court. Interesting. So they went the other way.

They went the other way because the they thought arbitration was quicker, cheaper, etc., etc. what they found was they were getting brought into arbitration hundreds of thousands of times. Okay, maybe, maybe not that many, but certainly thousands of times for the end user. Just kind of like you complain, you don't have to get a lawyer, you don't have to pony. Yeah, yeah you don't. I mean, you could get a lawyer, you don't have to get a lawyer.

But the thing about arbitration is that, you know, the costs are quite a bit higher than what the courts like. Court costs are very, very small, plus legal fees, which are the big part of court costs. Right? It's not really the court that's charging it to your lawyer with arbitration. It's actually both because arbitration is a for profit system and it's usually retired judges or lawyers that, that, are the arbiters and, they charge a lot of money, a lot more than the court system with.

And so when you're dealing with a whole bunch of small claims, you're actually spending more money with arbitration. So. Oh, that than you would. Yeah. Yeah. So, they've now reverted back to the like, if you don't like us, you got to sue us right? It's another great show, but if you don't like us, we got to sue us. That is pretty good. Yeah, but it's true, I, I, I found it fascinating. It's like all these things come full circle eventually.

Yeah, well, it makes it mean that people just don't take the responsibility. And I understand why. Don't get me wrong, because when you go to download a piece of software or an application on your phone and you're presented with 30 pages of legalese, you're just like, okay, I'm not going to read who reads it. No. Maybe Adam Curry and you are the people that read it. Everybody else just goes, okay.

And then they wait for something to go bad, to find out that they click their rights away and and now, you know, I had I had something go bad with, Uber food, Uber Eats the other day. Oh, I saw this. I followed the view that this was the greatest scam I've ever heard of. To do a buy one, get one free, not give you the one free, and then say I have to refund you because it was free. Yeah. I mean, it's like clearly somebody was using logic. It's just the wrong kind of logic. It was great logic.

They're like, we will we will find you. What you paid for that, right? You paid zero. There's your refund. This is what we would do.

This is like this is the genius move. It's it's crazy. And it's definitely a genius move. But, you know, and I tried to reason with I'm like, yes, but, you know, I did pay for two expecting to get four, and I got three, so wait, wait, wait was three okay. So instead of it wasn't one, are you. Oh yeah. So so I ordered, you know, four sandwiches or four whatever the how you were really on sandwiches. Well, no, I usually look you're going to pay for delivery.

You might as well get something to eat and something to put in the fridge. That's standard practice. When you get food delivery, you order more than you need. What you're supposed to eat, and then you can have it for later. And then you got to say, yeah, there's no point in getting a small portion delivered to you, because then the delivery fee is going to be a disproportionately high amount of that. And they had they happened to have a Bogo deal, from this one Middle-Eastern place.

And it's pretty good. It's I think it's a Lebanese place. It doesn't say that anywhere, but by the taste of the food, I would say it's probably Lebanese. You can tell by the taste of the chicken, I can tell, yeah, I can usually tell. And, and, you know, I mean, they've never had any issues in the past. The same. They have this this and they've had the Bogo deal for a while. I've used it before. And this time they, they have that and say I'm, I'm trying to explain.

It's like like, I don't know if they provided the right number and your driver ate one. I don't know if they provided the wrong number. All I know is I didn't get what was what the receipt that I have is, which is for these things. For the price of two, I got three for the price of two. That's not the same deal. They'll call you guys. Sorry we can't make a refund because the one that's missing is the one that you didn't pay for.

Which I guess I could have argued and said, well, no, the one that's missing is the one I paid for the free one. I got. I would love to hear that argument. I know I didn't even think of it until after the fact, but nothing, nothing happened. So I'm like, okay.

And I even replied my last reply back to I'm like, okay, if you guys want me to just deal with my credit card company and reverse the charge on the entire order, because you didn't actually fulfill your end and post on social, I can do that. Just keep in mind you are choosing for me to do that. That's your choice right now. By not refunding me. And then I post it on X and, you know, just so one very brief couple sentence description of what happened.

And I mentioned both X and I have at FTC in there, which is a federal thing. Michelle, who's responsible for truth and advertising stuff. Because that's really the core issue here is truth in advertising. When they tell you one thing and that's actually something else, then their ads are deceptive. And those are big fines, man. Yeah, I'm surprised that they have still got radio silence from my dentist. Just on a side note, I really don't care that it's surprising.

Yeah. So about an hour or less, maybe 45 minutes after I posted. They don't contact me back on Twitter on X, they I get a message from Uber all of a sudden, even though, you know, they were done with that conversation that says, yeah, this is, Uber support, I'll be happy to credit you the $50 for that, missing. And we're really sorry you had a bad experience. And, you know, we want to make sure that you have good experiences, blah, blah, blah. Well that's okay. Good job.

And then I posted that message on there as an image to the follow up. Like see what it takes to get your, stuff done. And it's like everybody that deals with things like that, those there are going to be problems I've mentioned before, we do weekly shopping with Maya, the grocery chain. Yeah. And we've had some issues. I'm sure every time I go in, generate the email and every time within like an hour or two, there's a credit for that amount with an apology.

Never even questions everything. Yeah. No. So I feel good every week. I'm like, I'll order because if something goes wrong, they'll take care. It's not a big deal. And I've had the exact same thing with the local H-e-b here as well. If there's something missing or they charged me for something that didn't get delivered or whatever, I just make a note on there within 24 hours. There's a credit and, a letter saying, hey, we apologize for that. Hopefully next time we'll do better.

That and customers. That's all you got to do. Yeah. And it's like like guys, whoever screwed up. And I know that Uber for any time that there's a complaint on food that Uber gives you something for, they ding the store for the full amount if they screw up by not giving you forks and you complain to Uber about forks and Uber says you five bucks for your convenience, they'll then go back to the store, says, yeah, this one was free. You guys didn't actually do what you promised.

Yeah. It's horrible. Uber does what I'm doing with Uber. Uber does to the actual food places all the time. Yeah, I could never understand why have these food places that have. Now if you don't have your own delivery guy? I kind of get it. You're adding something that you would know. It's advertising. You're thinking of it from the wrong bucket. Uber using Uber when you're a restaurant isn't about delivery, it's about advertising. Because he puts their place you in front of customers.

You cannot reach. It's about the only reason to do it, because it's the same reason back like you remember back when, that company did the half off where they call the restaurant.com, Groupon and Groupon right there for triple, became big. It was like, hey, you could get a deal, just come and get an ice cream for half or, you know, $0.25 for your first ice cream or some bullshit. It's the same reason, like, these are all loss leaders.

These are all things you're not going to make money on or off. At best, you're going to break even. Then what they do is they get new faces that you wouldn't otherwise get. And that's always, I find, to be kind of funny when somebody orders on the Uber Eats and then complains directly to the restaurant or the restaurant. Yeah, yeah, I tell you, there's the restaurant like that, but we didn't make any money on you, so we it's the wrong way to go about it again, because they entered into it.

But they take 30% or so from, the restaurants if they, if you order $100 worth of pizzas and have them delivered via Uber, like the restaurant is taking a $30 hit, but they're not. Because as far as pizza, at least because I did check on this, the Uber prices on pizza, are basically retail price.

The price that you get if you're direct at four bucks or five bucks a pizza, whatever the current discount levels are, you can't get through Uber, which is interesting because when they first started, they were like, you can't change the prices for Uber things. And then they realized, well, you kind of have to do if the whole system's going to work well, you can't. Yeah, you can't give Uber your sale price that you yourself are barely making any money on. Like, yeah, I'm sure. What?

You know what? Like you said, 3% or more that Uber gets from those pizzas. They're not making any more on the Uber pizzas than they are on pizzas that you yourself order direct for five bucks a pizza. But then Uber is billing the customer a higher price for those pizzas. It's a great scam. If we could have gotten involved in it. Who thought this is one of these things that's like, I would have never thought it could even be possible to work delivery.

Yeah. Food delivery where you're taking 30% of the the bill in order to do that. Plus expecting people then to tip. Yeah. What people tip like this is some do some doubt this was I was looking at now that we had the what do they call me, Amazon Fresh stores. It's not the whole thing. I think it is the fresh store that just opened up here within within, delivery distance because they were pushing the if you pay an extra $10 a month and a $35

order is free, very nice delivery. But that is good. I'm not an asshole, so I'm still wondering, you know, it's like, well, what do people tip on a food delivery? And it's like, are you really going by a centage? It said, most people do five bucks. Well, I guess that's what they said. I don't know if, if this is I don't think most people tip, period. But they're just like, screw you. You said it. First of all, no one has money to tip. I agree. Okay, that's the first thing.

So the question is, do you just not order anything delivered because you don't have money tip yes. That or you still have to deliver it I think would be the proper thing would be not to order delivery. If you know delivery, why would that be the proper thing? Not at all. You if you know, the delivery driver was working on tips because otherwise the way this would go. And here's the really the pisser of it all.

I hate the fucking pizza joints that are charging 3 or $5, for delivery and then expecting you to tip. It's like really? That money should be going directly to your driver. It is. You know, I know I don't think it is, which is for, some of these it was oh, it is for jobs, $14 minimum wage now. So they are totally going to the driver. I don't back with minimum wage with three bucks. That would be a different issue. Yeah. Although I think minimum wage is odd.

Again maybe it's state by state for its service over 20 bucks in California. Minimum wage right now. Nice. Nice. And interesting. Watch the video. The longshoreman dudes. Oh, yeah. That was good. Paved as quick as, can be. Why didn't they just postpone that until until after the elections? Like, why is that election? Who did they want to hurt? And I guarantee you that wasn't the rank and file that made that decision. It was the guys that actually are in cahoots with the Democrats.

But, the interesting thing there is one of the guys was talking about and complaining about it, the, the, the starting salary for union guys. The union regulated starting salary for longshoremen is $95,000 a year, and the average long German makes $150,000 a year. It's not horrible. And what they're asking for is an 11% increase per year for five years. It's a lot of money.

So that's going to push them towards 200 K. But in California you can barely afford foods that barely live on that in California. And it's exactly right. And so and where the most of them located California or on the East coast. I mean, they're coastal, right? Well, there's some here in in the Gulf of Mexico as well. Yeah. The wherever the ships can get. Yeah. But generally it's more expensive localities. But my point with that is simply that it's not to say, oh my God,

they make too much money. It's say that. Look, guys, we're at a point, if you haven't noticed, where blue collar wages are over $100,000 a year. So if you're not making at least a quarter million a year, you're actually poor. They don't don't call anybody rich until they're over $250,000 a year in income. Which is because notice, wasn't that the middle class is 100,000 right now. Like barely. Wasn't that like the baseline for the latest, tax thing with, Biden?

Like, well, if you make under 400 and something as a couple, you are. Yeah. So it's like they're kind of looking at that exactly that same way. Like, well, yep. You're you're poor if you don't make at least this much. It's true. And I think that the poverty line wage that was is pushing 50,000. Which is just unfathomable except for the fact. Do you see what the pricing and everything has gone up to? Yeah. And the who this hurts the most are people on fixed incomes? Of course.

Yeah. You're not going up. Well you can't go and ask for a raise. No, you better make sure you get means you have to reduce your cost of living. Well, yeah. You got to stop buying things. You got to stop tipping. You got to stop tipping. That's exactly it. And and I think we will get to that point, because I don't think anything changing for a while. I don't care who the president. The economy is going to suck for the next four years.

There's like Trump magically changing the economy ain't going to happen. He can certainly make a push in the right direction. We can make sure we're still going to be high. Well, inflation is not the change is not going to be instantaneous. He can make a fairly instantaneous change, I believe, on the energy prices. But the question comes down then to how quickly are people going to bring down the cost of goods? A lot of the goods have already been delivered at the higher price.

So if they're sitting in a store, you know, if you got that, television or speakers sitting in the store, well, if you paid more, that's not magically bringing them down. So it's going to take a little bit of time. I can see some relief in the food. I can see relief immediately at the gas pump. Not going to happen. But neither that would happen. Either one is going to happen.

I think the only thing that will happen is we'll see like oil futures for 12 for 12 month contracts start to dip down because they know they're going to be. If Trump wins that, he's going to open up the pipelines that Biden shut down. So the rail maybe drill the sources. But that's not instant. It's not like Trump's elected the next day. Gas prices are back cheaper.

Did you like that going to happen to Marla Harris in response to a commercial that said that had her saying she was definitely in favor of banning fracking? In her response to that was, that's just to scare people from voting for me. It's like, but did you say that? Did you mean it? Would we talk about that part of this? Of course, it's meant to scare people from voting for you, but that's the whole point of showing your words right? I was just talking to somebody. And the other day.

Yeah, they're asking for an 11, percent increase per year right now. Looking at shadows. That's the only true source of inflation information. We are currently at 12% inflation. Now, that is down from a high of 17%, which is where we were in the first two years of Biden. So we are actually better today than we were. Two years ago, but not four years ago. But no, four years ago, the rate of inflation, was about 9%.

We've never been at the phony baloney rates they keep trying to push, which is, oh, inflation is 2% a year. No, it's not 2% a year is a subset of products that you all came up with that have been decreasing in price due to improvements in manufacturing. But if you look at across the board the formulas that were utilized to calculate inflation back in the 80s when we started trending, all this stuff, the highest inflation rate that that we had under Carter was 15%.

And that was absolutely horrendous. It was the worst the country has ever seen since the Great Depression. Biden beat that by three points using the same formula. Well, this is it. It's all. That's how Biden became the worst president of the country. Even though Jimmy Carter used to be the perspective on these things, just like Kamala pointing at, oh, no, look, they, they wrote made the prices of eggs go up. Like, who cares? It's one very small product in one big grocery bill.

I mean, this is to me, it's just ludicrous because if somebody that does the grocery shopping, well, the eggs used to be $3.39. Yeah, well, it was through all I remember. I bought eggs, a dozen was $0.39. Eggs were always under a buck. Yeah, most of my life they were under a buck and even fewer. And I was always surprised at how they can be that cheap. But nonetheless, the cost of a dozen eggs for the majority of my life was under $1.

And even over the last 4 or 5 years ago, during the Covid, that was, I was paying $3 and like $0.40 for two dozen. So, I mean, okay, it was up to a 50. Yeah. It's like, which is nothing. How many dozen eggs you have to buy to make this

something like, wow, this is going to cost me a lot this week. You know this concept the cost of eggs really matters. It's like it doesn't real well, it does, because in Austin, a dozen eggs is about 450 right now. Well, let's. Austin, those are pampered, very pampered chickens. They might be pampered, but you can't get them cheaper in that, which is sad. These eggs are good for you. Do you see the guy that ain't nothing but eggs for a month?

No. While this story was all over the place because he thought the whole thing did about. No, that's just the beautiful thing about it. I mean, what? He was healthy. Okay, so I mean, maybe that's the difference, but he had a cholesterol test done. That ain't nothing but eggs. I think they said he had like 24 eggs a day. That's a lot of eggs for a month. Yeah. And his cholesterol numbers got better at the end of that month. Yeah. The cholesterol has nothing to do with.

Well I shouldn't say nothing. He has very little to do with what you eat. The cholesterol has a lot more to do with what your body thinks it needs. Makes it like if if your hormones, like disaster on are low, your body is going to produce more cholesterol. You got to. Because, after all, is the building block of testosterone along with a bunch of other hormones? Get a raise that. So if your low your body's trying to at least be. Make sure that it's producing the things that that is comprised of.

Now it's not just cholesterol, it's the mix of up, but cholesterol is one of the base products of hormones. And and so an imbalance in the body's, hormone production, is very likely to result in a high cholesterol accumulation because your body thinks you need it, not that you're eating cholesterol. And you could be.

I mean, I don't know, most people tend to limit their cholesterol intake, but taking the drugs that reduce cholesterol is not breaking the reason that your body thinks you need cholesterol. Like if you if you want to get your hormones to levels where your body thinks they're normal, you won't need to take anything for cholesterol. Is it? Your body will stop trying to produce more of it now we'll make a project in the trial room. Trial room, DiDio says. Kroger cage free large white eggs 599.

Well, you can't have those cage free. I mean that you put them in cages way cheaper. Yeah, cage free eggs are, I think, advanced. Austin that all the other kind of eggs are banned. I'm not even sure if the if there's. I thought cage free is kind of like the lowest of the runs now and then. Yeah, I think it is a. Yeah. Yeah. So it's very interesting to see that concept as well. There was a dude on YouTube who tested all the different levels of eggs and whether he could tell a difference.

And here's the bottom line. He couldn't. Yeah yeah yeah. So all of this I mean oh you want to be nice to the chickens. Well you know what would people's wallets are empty. They tend to care less about being nice to the chickens. Yeah. They start eating cats and dogs right. And snakes and ducks and geese and things. Yeah. Whatever else they can forage around for. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

To go, we're we're, you know, letting in 25 million undocumented people from countries with very different standards of living and expectation for what normality is, countries where rape is not a crime. It's going to be a problem for the United States for many years. This is this is created by one president, but it's going to be a problem for the next ten because they'll be whole generations of sort of hidden underclass. Yeah. That operates under very different rules.

And, that man in the debate with the little snippy bitch that was doing the moderation, like, how you going to get rid of those people? Yeah. I mean, van's made a good point. Well, you originally you go after the people that have committed crimes, but beyond that, nobody has a good answer for how are you rounding these people up? And they know you. You. Yeah. I mean, you know exactly how you need to round these people up.

You know this concept though, it's not going to stand for them in the land of everybody in to see the camps. And then you check their background and see if their fingerprints match their birth certificate. Well, you're going to have to are you going to be like, again, it's not going to be pretty. If you get to the point to where you're going to have checkpoints on the expressway, you're going to have checkpoints.

You're guaranteed you're more likely to have checkpoints in cities than you are on the border. Oh yeah, because we want the border still to be open. That's fine. Nothing to worry about. Yeah it's and this is all assuming Trump wins if, if the Democrats manage to pull off another election like the last one they did and we have four years of time. Well that's it I think at that point you are we screwed our time. And money is better spent on trying to find ways to leave the country. Well, that.

Okay, so you're agreeing with our buddy comic strip blogger who did come in with the boost today? 4848. He wanted us to visit Bixby that lol. And he says Glory to Ukraine. But he told me the other day down there and you're reading any Glory to Ukraine messages on here buddy? He says go get go get EU passport to either Saint Paul or you get you got two chances, get red passport. Yeah, but maybe that's not such a bad idea at this point to oh no, they're worse off than we are, you know.

Well, Ireland is a beautiful country, which means they're also super small, which means it's easy enough to get over. And all it would take is for the the current generation of, the friends, the the UK to just migrate over one country to Ireland and that's it. Ireland's done. The only thing in the pocket of the Irish is they know guerrilla warfare. The I.R.A. is a serious organized crime. I'm pleased that it's not. It's a joke that if the whole thing's a whole damn country's a joke.

Hey, I take your range for your Russian army any day, man. Okay? Okay. They are the stealth face. They will blow up your car. Yes. They'll blow. And how many blowing up cars did the Irish IRA do in the course of its entire existence? I don't know any cars. They blow up lots like 2030. Probably a lot more than that. I don't think so. I don't think you know. No, I don't think so. Then, it's a it's a joke. Yeah.

Any time you're comparing, places with a super low population, as Ireland has, you have to take that into account for any kind of conflict in comparison. There's probably more people that the IDF kills in one day than the IRA did in years. Let's see. See, jet ships. He knows all. Oh, yeah. The IRA in various forms. The 1960s to the 1990s during the troubles, there were over 16,000 bombings in Northern Ireland, though not all of these were car bombings.

The responsible for the majority of these tax was the IRA. So about 16,000 bombings. It's a little more than 20 or 30. How many deaths. I said not bombings. Deaths. How many deaths. Yeah. Does it say here. Let's see. It's a different question I suppose to well you keep looking for ChatGPT. I've got the answer in front of me. How many deaths were caused. So total deaths 2000, 58 over the course of how many years?

From 1969 until 2000, something, approximately 3500 people were killed during the troubles. The IRA is responsible for about 2000 of these deaths.

That's why I just said, if you think of that percentage, they are not going to sit around and have their country overtaken. Unlike most of these, there's a big difference in the mental attitude in Ireland. And then there is, okay, should we look up how many people are killed in Chicago over there? Right. That's people like oh, oh that's different. Okay. That's people they like. That's the interesting thing. People they like, okay.

It's people of their own heritage is and the deaths in Chicago are not people of their own heritage. They are. That's it. That's why it's okay. I see, and the Irish black crime men. Yeah. And the black Irish versus Black Irish prime example, this was Irish versus English. That's a difference. No no no no no no. Yeah. People living in Northern Ireland are predominantly not English. Other English men, they are they're they're British. Man. You have no idea what you're talking about.

They are absolutely British. Yes, but not problem ethnically. It's the problem. The British, politically, they don't believe it. And they believe in a different God. That's right. They believe in the same God, but a different version of their God that pisses people off are because that's the thing that you want to tell people for is belief in the same God, but with a different set of importance. They people kill each other for less in the United States. But we do.

That's why I'm saying it's a tiny little country with a tiny little death rate. Yeah, but they're not going to allow to be. You'll see the migrants. The migrants will be. I mean, I would love for you to be right. And for the IRA to go on a killing spree. How about their opening right there? However, I don't think you are right. Thanks to Willy Wawa to Freaky, he came in with $10.80. That's a monthly donation. Nice. Nice. And, Kevin Seyfried came in with five bucks. We were off last week.

It was my wife's birthday. Jean had the gout. How is the gout? Oh, it was gone within four days. Oh, well, so the drugs do make a difference. They're not instant for sure. But what normally would be a week long process with a very painful middle portion turned out to be four days and never got as bad as it sometimes gets. It was kind of like I still had the first two days, I still had the last two days, but that super painful in-between three day period was gone. So that's a plus.

And then you went out shooting drugs, work. Yeah. So last, I guess it was on Monday, but felt like the weekend. I, a friend of mine who I've played video games for a decade but only met once before, was in town for a wedding. And so he and his wife, you know, wanted to meet up and do something. And they wanted to make sure you were actually a real person, or they and we'd met before, but it turned not a middle aged black woman, I might be a middle aged black woman.

And, I may identify as a village like one. And so we went to the gun range. Now, to preface this, my buddy is a and by the way, he listens to the podcast. Well, hello. Yeah. Friend of is, although he may no longer be a friend after he listens to some the things I've said about him on the podcast, but yeah, he's pretty Jewish, pretty liberal, pretty East Coast. So, you know, East Coast liberal Jew. So I can see he really would get along with you. Oh, totally.

No, we actually are I and we get along great because the thing that he does that I also do is can always just make fun of my friend. Just always throw some zingers in there, at people that I'm friends with. I know you've been on the receiving end of a few those. And so, yeah, I know that's what makes it funny. And so, you know, we're giving each other shit all the time. But I will say that he is he does fit some of the stereotypes, but not all the stereotypes.

And so he you want wanted to go or I guess his wife actually was the one he wanted to go shoot because she'd never shot a gun in their life. And she's to the killer range, right? I took him to the range. Another mutual friend also showed up. First time I ever met him. Been playing video games with him for six years. He came down from, Missouri, and, these guys came down from the East Coast and so went to the gun range. It's a beautiful gun range out here.

And then I brought, I think, 5 or 6 guns. The other buddy brought like another 5 or 6 guns. So we, we basically provided a, it was about a two hour long session in the range, shooting a large variety of weapons. How many rounds of ammo were expelled? You know, boy, it's a good question. I don't know exactly, but I'd be surprised if it was probably less than 500 rounds. Oh, you had to. You have to. I mean, that's the fun right there. And that's where the cops keep in mind.

The more guns you shoot, the less rounds you actually use, because more time is spent on, like shuffling between weapons and loading different types of ammo in and all kinds of things like that. Whereas if you just bring one gun, you're probably going to use a lot more ammo because you're not switching out. And what makes it range beautiful. They have like cutouts of, like for you, it's. Yeah, it's like, 440,000ft². Nice. It's huge. They've got everything super clean.

They've got a lot of different shooting lanes. You know, a lot of a lot of good stuff. So I think they thoroughly enjoyed it. We we before going to the range, we stopped at one of my favorite barbecue places and, loaded up, each of us ordered several pounds of real of meat. I got mostly brisket. They. Well, this will also slow you down at the gun range if you've just consumed multiple brisket. And we have. There's so much meat that I literally left some. I couldn't finish eating it.

And, my buddy, and his wife got, a cow rib, which probably weighed several pounds, and it looked like a Flintstones rib. I haven't seen one of those in a long time. Really? Oh, yeah. Yeah, they're they're fairly popular here. I'm more partial to less bone and more meat. The ribs style. Well, that's what I actually like more is, Kansas City style rib barbecue, where the the meat is super tender, falls off the bone, and slathered in sauce. They don't do it usually that way. Here, it's more.

But the brisket here is pretty good. Yeah. More rib usually. But yeah, once the, the range then kind of topped it all off by going to the oldest Mexican restaurant in Austin, which is actually, wait, so I'm just trying to get this straight. You have went to the barbecue place. Yeah. Eight more brisket that you could barely move. Yeah. Went and shot a few rounds and then went for Mexican food. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Well, forget the amount of, bullets that were used.

How many calories were consumed during this? Not more than 10,000 a person. Well, that's got to have a limit. Yeah. And the thing I like about the fact I'm not a fan of Mexican food, you know, that the thing I like about this restaurant, which. And unfortunately, I can't even drink anymore, is, is alcohol. It is. They have a super tasty avocado margarita. That would be interesting. I don't think I've ever seen one of those either. Although avocados are awesome. Very very tasty.

It it's super smooth. It it kind of feels like mouth. Feel like you're eating ice cream. But yeah, because you're breakfast. It's very fatty. Yeah. It's very fatty. So having a fatty drink makes it feel a lot more. Even though it's not sweet, it nonetheless makes it feel more like, you know, ice cream, drink. But it was very tasty from memory. And, they enjoyed it as well.

So it was a good time. Oh, it's it was fun just hanging out with, you know, guys, I spent plenty of time playing video games with and, yappin about all kinds of topics, and, yeah, we'll have to say, you know, for how anti Trump used to be, I actually have a picture of him, holding a Trump gun, you know, again, with Trump's face up, nice people coming right now. I have blackmail material to send to all his liberal friends. Nice. Okay, here's the here's the other question on the, on the fees.

Who grabbed for the check first? As always, somebody. Oh, I let them. Hey, of course, I mean, you've already gotten on the other side of that. So the barbecue for for sorry. The barbecue for five people was over $300. Oh, I easily when you say how much. Yeah, yeah. The price of, of barbecue has gone up like every year I've been in Austin. It goes up.

And I remember going to that place like in the first couple of years I moved here and I think it was around, I want to say maybe 11 bucks a pound now. It's like 40 something a pound. It's insane. It's insane, I know. And again, this isn't the the quality of the beef tenderloin that you like, but we had talked about the beef tenderloin at the grocery store here. The little local boys. And they're what used to be a 599, 699 on sale. You know, that was their big thing. Yeah. Is up to 1299 now.

So that's doubled over the last since we start doing the show. It's doubled. Yeah. It's insane. Well, you remember I sent you, a comparison of a grocery bill from 18 months ago? Yes. Yeah, I still got mine, too. Yeah, it was like a couple couple months ago. I did that, and there was only one item on the entire receipt that went down a few cents. Everything else was up either 20, 30% or some items like 200 or 300%. It's interesting to watch of where you're being pushed.

Then. Whether it's into store brands, whether you know it's why it's quite interesting to try to decipher how everything is going up and down and why I use never buy store brands, but I don't know if it's just purely the financial pushing, like you said, or if I just care less or if the taste is identical. But whatever the cause, I find that probably half my grocery shopping now is store brand. Yeah, same here. And a lot of times it was just because they were better.

There's a Fredricks brand that Meyer has out. And they have and I don't eat a lot of potato chips but these are smaller bags and they've got like rosemary and fat sweet Maui onion. They're actually good. And none of them use at least I don't. None of the ones that I've purchased have that MSG. There may be other ones that have it. So me finding a any kind of flavored potato chip that doesn't have MSG is a win, and the quality of this stuff is just better.

We bought a bunch of K-Cups with that with the Meyer brand the other day. They had them on sale for 120 of the Columbian, or 120 of the breakfast blend for 25 bucks, which is fantastic to get a K-Cup for like $0.20 vs rather than like 50 to a dollar a piece, and the quality seems to be there. What are you eating cheap. And I'm not eating anything. I'm just actually I looked around, trying to. I can't find my iced tea. I must drink away. But where's the cup that?

Have you had any iced teas this whole show, or did you go down? You pour the iced tea. I did this, like a few weeks ago, where I went to make a coffee and then realized they didn't put a cup of coffee maker. Oh, no. And luckily, the, catch tray is big enough to handle like 11oz. And I made a 12 ounce, so it really didn't make a huge mess. But man, that tray was filled. Yeah, I mean, it's a good thing the tray had was big enough to this hot water. Yeah, it have been all over the place.

Yeah, absolutely. I guess they probably make those trays to a certain size. They want them to make a whole. Yeah. One full cup should fit in there without, right. Without problems. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know, man. I, I just, I sold by the Starbucks, double shots for the cans in the cans because I found them to be super consistent and taste. And that is about as much caffeine as I want. And out they like any more than that, and I start getting headaches.

How many grams of caffeine are in each one? Do you know? I have no idea, but it's like, six ounce cans or it's, you know, it's a little tiny. Can get your buzz on with the tea. I'll still give you a little jolt of caffeine, right? The tea will give you some jolt, but I think the tea I'm drinking is not a particularly, strong tea. Like when I was drinking a lot more home made me putting teabags into hot water. Tea, which I typically do in the winter.

But last winter I didn't really do much of that. But historically, like I'll switch between cold iced tea in the summer and then I'll go to have tea in the winter. There is clearly way more caffeine in the hot tea. The, if you brew it hot rather than brewing a cold. Well, I just think Gold Peak, which is the brand of pre-made iced tea they drink a lot of it. It certainly has some caffeine, but it's not a particularly dark tea.

Whereas the tea that I brew, is Yorkshire tea, which I get imported from either South Africa or United Arab Emirates. And so it an impossibility. It is British tea, but I get it direct off the plantation. Day. When? You when you. Send. If you don't like us, you gotta sue us.