134: Politics, Ponchos & PCs

YouTube likes me. Yeah. Give me your. Hello and welcome to unrelenting 134 I am Darren on the alias Jean of Doom Living. Let's just say, Jean, your your mission that you were on for the last few weeks had very good results. I'm so tired. I mean, you should be. You've been working nonstop. I had to bring Trump Russia. You know how hard that is. Your how many time zones Russia has?

I mean, you have to really. The Russian vote just made it all happen. You had to canvas them. And for these, the Russians in the United States or the Russians in Russia that were voting, I mean, the United States, naturally. Of course, happy days are here again. Yeah, that should be playing in the background. I mean, it's to be out of copyright, right? You can play that. That's not a well, this wasn't even a thing.

This was, Glenn Beck's guy, and he did this, in election years ago, but it came back with the, the, second of all, you got no class. That's why don't Trump just kicked your ass, Jack, when you jump on Jimmy Wolf for battle and no balls. Oh, you're my inside. It's time to go. Wait. All this. You're lying. Call me. Show it. Sure is fine, but not real fun. Donald Trump has begun. Donald Trump just be done. Yeah, that's Pat gray from the Glenn Beck radio program.

He was doing that all day long, and I was just laughing every time he did it. And I don't know what kind of a voice he had by the end of the day. Yeah. That's, speaking of tumultuous balls there, Or lack thereof, kind of reminded me of, what's the guy's name? The the tiptoeing through the tulips. Okay. Oh, yeah. Tiny Foley. Yeah, 32 through the tubes. And he was about your height. Yes. You got to get that, vocal range, man. Yeah, I guess got to get the vocal range.

But you were one of the, the people that said we were so far gone that the cheating was never going to let a Trump victory happen, I think. Yes. Black pill they think is what they referred to as. And I saw you had like a special emergency episode of two good Ole boys was this was was bad making fun of you too for that there. I mean do we need them now? I know you're right. I mean, it wasn't an emergency episode. It was a special.

Because when we recorded the previous episode, we we decided, you know, there's going to be a need for a special no matter what, because either there's going to be writing in the suit because Ben Ben's in DC right now. What, was he insane? Why is he in for his, you know, pretend job? But, okay, so he's a spook. Well, fiercely like you couldn't pick that up from that episode. That's why the two year old boys is such a great inside joke.

I mean, there's one Russian spook, and then there's one American spook, and they get to know we're both Texans. They know they're Texans. They trade stories and tips and spook things. It's a great show. I mean, if you want great show, check it out. If you listen to it backwards, it's a completely different show. Ignoring the numbers you hear the randomly throughout the course of the show. I mean, nothing 47 six 3333 means nothing at all. No, it's, American football. That's all it is.

But yeah, it's, so we thought, well, if there's riots, let's get some clips of that. And so I'm talking to Ben on the especially. He's like, it's dead. It's nothing. It's nothing Johnny. Yeah. No the they called him off. I was like, well is there at least breaks on the corners? I mean, come on, man. I think the only place people went to the streets were here in Chirac. And I think in Pennsylvania, but they were also anti-Israel protesters.

So I don't know how, I think they just kind of wrote Trump where Israel was on the site and when I was in the streets. Yeah. And, and the thing that gets me to is the videos on an ex of these completely milquetoast men talking about how they just feel devastated about their daughters and their inabilities to have abortions. And I'm, I'm like, okay, so you're you're out there basically saying you're sad that your grandchildren are going to be killed. Yes. Exactly. What the fuck, man?

And that you have failed as a parent in that didn't teach your children not to get knocked up. Yes. They don't want to get knocked up or didn't teach him that. You know, maybe you don't want to be killing your grandchildren, right?

It's insane. It makes no sense. I look, I get a 20 year old woman feeling like some rights have been taken away from her. If she happens to be in a state that passed some legislation about abortion, because at 20 years old, you're dumb as a piece of, you know what? Yeah, it's like her worldview hasn't yet been built because she just moved out of a college dorm, and before that, she just moved out of her parents house. So she doesn't really have a worldview yet.

The as much as a Jimmy Kimmel is a crazy leftist and cried because of this, I think he did a man on the street thing the day after the election. Asking people who they were going to vote for in the amount of people who had no clue in the election that taken place. Oh my God, wait, they did it. They did a who are you going to vote. Yes after the election. Yes. And people didn't really not aware there was an election. No they were, but this I guess again, they wanted to go out.

Somebody had the idea it'd be a funny gag. Yeah, yeah. Wow. That's that's actually creative. Yeah. That people that answered not knowing like oh no come on lose guy. And it wasn't like they were doing it. For comedy or anything. A lot of people just were unaware that the. Yeah, I don't know. I understand most people now do not pay any attention to the mainstream media. I get that they don't watch good. They don't read newspapers, they don't tune in to the news.

But if you're on social media at all, how did you miss that. An election happened. Yeah. What kind of what kind of algorithm is Google feeding you where there's zero election is whatever it is. I like it because yeah, I know that you set up for that one. For me, the perfect one. Wow. Yeah. That's, That is insane, man. Well, and this was my question. There was a blond female reporter. I don't even know.

I'm guessing maybe she was from Fox News, because who else would ask the question of, for example? Yeah, after Joe Biden came out, you know, and Kamala came out and Joe Biden concession speech and both of them were like, well, everything's going to be okay, ma'am. And the question was asked, well, but like 24 hours ago, Joe Biden was saying Trump was a threat to democracy. And if he won, all these bad things were gonna happen. So what he saw he transitioning to the threat to democracy. Exactly.

Well, that was basically what Karine Jean-Pierre said. Like, what's going to be our it's going to be a peaceful transfer of power and stop twisting my words.

It's like there's no twisting anybody's words. Right? The folks on the left side of Donald Trump won. Democracy was going to fail. If you if you don't believe that the day after he won, then you didn't believe it when you were saying that. Because if you believed that then you would be panicked today. Yeah. But now that's not what they're, you know again I don't know. That's nuts man. How do you, how do you transition from that to. Oh no it's going to be fine.

I invite him to the white House and, yeah, I do believe Biden had it out for Kamala Harris. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I, I think Biden did, but more importantly, his wife did. Well, yeah. The red pantsuit to go vote. Doctor Jill does not like camel llama. I mean, I just can't believe she didn't put the MAGA cap on as well to, Yeah, to signal. What the hell does she look like? She came right out of a Trump rally. It's like. And that's you can say this was accidental,

but nothing is accidental at that level of politics. No, no, that's absolutely true. And who can blame her? No, but I think, honestly, I think this is this literally is best case scenario for Biden because he effectively gets to become the the sort of innocent but bumbling old man retiring and not the guy that lost the election in disgrace because his policies sucked it. He looks so happy giving those, words yesterday. It was kind of fun.

I gotta say, for a man of 160, Biden still has a perfect smile. Drops. Sure, there's a lot of dental work and that little liquid death grip. Very good dental work because when the guy lets, it's like, that's the one thing he had in every video I've seen of him for the last 50 years is that smile, the Biden smile. Yeah. It's the kind of thing that, you know, a conman really knows how to do.

Well. And it was interesting because there's some of the people, these, pundits on the left that are trying to make this out as Biden's failure. And it's like, I totally disagree. I think this is vindication for Biden that they thought they could just swap him out and somehow spending and I've heard numbers between them, 1,000,000,002 billion. Yeah, I think it's 2 billion is what I heard because that's it's definitely a record. They've never spent more.

And then somebody mentioned that she was like 20 billion in debt. Which my question is where's the grift. Where did all that money go I want to know is Hunter Biden an election consultant. How many millions did he. Ukraine. Yes.

Yeah. Vladimir Zelinsky give me this election. Yeah. Big winner. Big winner in the election. No doubt about it. And it was a an interesting thing. And people are going to be, you know, going through and trying to parse all of these numbers. But it seems like a majority and people are pointing to like hey man, we're like missing between 15 and 20 million votes from the last election towards the Democrats. Oh shocker, I would agree.

The interesting thing though, is they're mainly coming out of the big states. So like California, New York. So if you were to believe that there was massive amounts of cheating, those votes should have showed up in the swing state because the votes didn't mean anything in California or New York, right? Yeah, exactly. Now, remember, one of the potential series I had previous to the election because I, I wasn't saying this would happen, but I said it could happen.

Is that the the people in charge of the Democrats knowing that there's no way in hell that Camelot could win, that they would basically take the opportunity to not bolster and not have the cheating going on in order to be able to point at this election as proof that there was no cheating the previous election. Right.

And that people are just paranoid idiots because look fair and square this time she lost previous time, but, Trump lost toss there and then next election they're going to they they're really going to wind it up and cheat. But it'll be interesting. They always are. That is I also think they wanted to they wanted to burn Camilla because if Camilla's the vice president still in Biden's running and they get shellacked. Then she's still kind of next in line. Although you have to have the primary.

So I don't know if that really matters. It's not like yeah I think the primary would have taken her out easily enough. But they definitely burned her to the point here where she won't even be. I mean I don't think she could be a part of that primary in four years, but you never know. She may be one of those, delusional ones that are like, well, maybe I can beat somebody besides Trump.

I mean, if she spends four years trying really hard to speak coherently, then maybe she could, because she checks a lot of boxes. But, you know, she didn't answer any questions. Even people that were Democrats were like, she's not answering the questions, and that's not good. You have to answer the questions. You have to have some kind of policy. And she had to break from Joe Biden the whole, oh, no, I never noticed Joe was in decline.

Well, you knew that was a death knell because the reason he was pulled was because he was in decline. So you're still like denying the truth, which is right in front of you.

It's like people can see that. Yeah. And you know, the view the attorney has been in the interview that people are pointing to like, well, this is where it really turned for Kamala. Was that question of was there anything he would do differently? They were setting you up, and the answer they expected was, yeah, there are things I would do differently. So let's move on and do that. Not no, I can't think of a single thing.

Like, But yeah, that was surprising because it, it either show the lack of preparation and she told the truth or they had rehearsed it and they said, look, you cannot disagree with Joe. Because that'll, that'll, you know, show that there's there's always been a rift, right? Yeah. I mean, like, they had to make a choice. They had to make either a decision that either she throws Joe under the bus or she doesn't throw you under the bus. If she throws him under the bus. Here's the thing.

Once the Trump once he's actually in office in January, presumably, then they let him. I mean, we don't know yet. There might be an insurrection. You never know what happens on January 6th. Right there. There could be, though. All the Washington might burn. So I think they have some of those plans that there's no. Did you see the, Leticia Jackson?

Statement that she's like, I we've dealt with this before, and if the, the incoming administration thinks they're gonna, you know, kind of have a then the lawyer for Trump, man, I'm like, this is you could see the woke world crumbling because he's like, let me be clear. Let me say this to Big Tish James. You know, if you continue to be I'm cleaning up the language a little bit.

I don't think you said fuck around because, like, if you continue to mess around, I. We will throw your fat ass in jail. And he did say fat ass. And he said, sweetheart, you know, like, oh, this was like the most demeaning way that this guy could have put it. It's like the end of the woke world is coming, kids. Yep. Everybody should applaud that. Well, and we talked about this. Yeah. If we didn't doing this show like three years right. Wow. Yeah. And nobody listens. I can't get it.

It's the best show nobody's listening to. Yeah. It's crazy, but, No, what I was gonna say is the there's, we talked about this before. There's a book called pendulum. That a, a guy that I know wrote years ago, like, like about a decade ago where they went back, those two guys that I know that that work, that they went back in, history and, found a pattern and, between two extremes, the one extreme being, collectivism and the other extreme being individualism.

And the it's sort of like a pendulum is swinging between these two extremes of those positions and the the pinnacle of individualism was the last one was 1983, and the pinnacle of collectivism was in the future when they wrote the book. But it would have been in 2023. So after 2023, the pendulum starts swinging back towards individualism. But it's it's a 40 year end to end or 80 year round trip.

Has that been speeding up at all or. It's consistent. No, no, no, it's been consistent. And if you look back so the individualism was 83. So the other end would have been 40 years prior to that. So 1943 was there maybe extreme of collectivism there. No, not at all. And then if you go back another 80 years into 1863, was there an extreme collectivism there. No, not at all. Yeah. So basically that this pattern for the Western world, it doesn't fit Asia at all.

But for the, for Europe and the United States. It, it goes back about I think they went back about 400 years. So it's more places that have a little more say in how they are governed. Well, I think it's a cultural thing. It's, it's and there is they did said there is a pattern for Asia. It just doesn't follow the same pattern. But I think it is a result of mortality and generational desire to improve on what the parents were doing.

And so you're constantly wanting to make changes that are a little different from your parents or maybe quite different. Right. Oh, they they're dumb. Yeah. And so that continuous tweaking of predominant culture, ends up creating this sort of a swinging, you know, back and forth kind of scenario. Now, obviously, that's just one dimension is collectivism versus individualism. There are other dimensions.

So if you were to add another dimension to this, it wouldn't just be a line going back and forth. It would be more like a circle or whatever, or, you know, in three dimensions it'd be a wave. But either way, it is resonating back and forth and it is doing it with a certain amount of consistency.

So when we were in 2023, and which is probably the last time I mentioned that, good times, I was saying, well, if the book is right and if their predictions and pattern observations were correct, and we can extrapolate to the future, then 2024, we should start seeing signs of collectivism diminishing. It's not going to be a huge thing. We're 39 years away from the the 1983 like level of individualism that you and I remember and will be dead. Exactly.

We'll never get to experience that again, which is good. But it's only going to get better here. Don't. We're dead. Yeah, yeah, it's it's a little up, but hey, there's the good news, right? Every year that we're still alive is going to be better than the previous. And Ryan Beveridge says you just took four minutes to describe something called a cycle.

Well, and Ryan's absolutely right. And I took four minutes to describe a cycle, knowing the average IQ level of our listeners. But at least it wasn't a recumbent cycle. But you fuck you fuck Adam. Fuck all you people who don't understand the benefits of recumbent bicycle. You're welcome. You talk about throwing somebody under the bus right? Hey, come on, let's just. Here's the thing. Kamala threw Joe under the bus, but then the Trump train hit the bus. It certainly did. That is very true.

It's been it's been the pleasure I've been posting on that. It's the same thing to tons of different people, which is embrace the schadenfreude. Yeah. The reality. Don't steer away from it. It's beautiful to it. Yeah. Well it's interesting to see again because this is and no agenda has been fully in on this for more years than I remember the whole dimension A and dimension D thing.

And this was so clear going into this election that both sides truly believed that there was no way their guy or gal wasn't going to win.

Just like 2016. Yeah, this is true was very much like 2016. And the election night was very much like 2020 when it got to the point where Trump looked like he was doing good, but none of the swing states were really in. And they cut to, Wisconsin saying, oh, there was a problem with a few of the machines. We're probably not going to know until the morning. I'm like, wait a minute, we've seen this story, but we've heard this. But then it diverged.

It changed in the the votes came in for Trump not for Kamala. I like that period of about five minutes where Minnesota was red. Yes. Yeah that was hilarious. Poor Timmy had to be like what. Yeah. What happened. They haven't gotten they haven't been counting counted. Yeah. Let's hurry up and do that. Because honestly most of Minnesota outside of the Twin Cities is red. Historically there was blue up in Duluth

and Bob Dylan country. But, you know, that's, I think that even changed the in the, in the later years as well. But Hennepin County, which is where the Twin Cities are, Minneapolis, Saint Paul, which is where the Somali population is, which is where they think that California is the bright model for the nation. That is fairly similar to Austin. Austin voted 70% for Malama. I bet you they're horribly depressed now. Now everyone's walking around with their faces looking sour, and that's hilarious.

That is hilarious. But you watched you know I flipped between the different news coverage. You know I didn't really go into MSNBC until it was pretty clear that which way this was going and the, the one anchor on there, I don't even know what his name is, but it's the guy with the big glasses, just like, you know, Mark Cuban and, Rachel Maddow. Oh, yes, the smart Democrat glasses.

Right. Exactly, exactly. And he was going through this whole thing, and he was reading off all these stats and he's like, oh, this is because the United States is is still using an addict, antiquated system that no other country uses, called the Electoral College. That must be abolished. And I wonder if somebody spoke into his ear that because he went, oh, but it looks like Donald Trump is gonna have the popular vote. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Whoops.

So y'all tell us how bad the Electoral College is because, you know, not everybody like, immediately after Pennsylvania went and I became a monarchist tonight and I had the post long live the King, Trump forever. And, Oh, man, I don't think he should ever leave office as far as I'm concerned. You know, we're done. This is the last election ever get rid of term limits. I mean, it's I just don't think term limits applied to a king. Why would they? We need a decree from Moscow.

Moscow did it, a few years back. If you hadn't noticed, I liked the. It was in Georgia where there were the bomb threats in the polling places. Right? Yeah. And they're like, oh, no, this was Russian. And I'm like, you have no idea. Yeah. Where that was really coming in from. This is the only time I will ever give Joy Reed any credit whatsoever.

And, MSNBC, she's like, well, you know, Russia or somebody using a Russian VP. We don't know, she said. And I'm like, well, okay, this is it. We don't know. So anybody reporting this stuff like, well, this came, you know, the call came in from Russia. It's like, no, somebody got a VIP and they bounced it through a VPN. So you don't know where it's coming from? Yeah. To be coming from Iraq. Well, it could have been Kamala Harris calling it in. For all we know. You don't know.

So the whole thing trying to push. But really you're you're they're trying to push the Russian thing. But this is the issue with the, the leftist talking heads. And there's the one guy that we roast all the time on Planet Rage. His name is David Pacman. And I was trying to avoid anything he had said until, until Monday. So I can be surprised.

But somebody pointed me to a post of his that said I lost 10,000 subscribers overnight, that people are checking out of politics, and the response to him was great because people pointed out, well, you've been lying to them constantly and you were so wrong. Know this has been my question to this whole thing. If you know somebody is lying to you or somebody is completely inaccurate, reporting things over and over, why would you tune in. It's like it doesn't make any sense.

It's a waste of your time. If you know, you realize that the person on the other end is either an imbecile and can't get it right or is intentionally gaslighting it. Yeah. It's like that's why they went away. But these left this man. It's it's fun to watch the Keith Olbermann and the Mark Cuban. I'll give him credit. He was the first one on election night. I know he's not a true Democrat American. You're a baby.

But he was the first one on the socials on X to be like congratulations Donald Trump. You won fair and square once he said that I think he kind of took away a lot of the games that the other, more liberal Democrats might have done with the. Oh we need to look at how this happened. How could this even it's impossible, you know, which is why I feel bad for all of these younger children, all of these women who are just breaking down emotionally because they can't even believe it happened.

It's like, well, you're so I did. No, I swear, you you feel good. You're like, I will bathe in your tears. Yeah. No I, I see this is a mistake that I think a lot of people make. And Ben is one of the people that I consider making this mistake. And certainly is. They think that when you win a battle, it's time to stop attacking and celebrate. And that's not how we do things in the old country. When you win, the battle is when you push harder. It is when you make it time to open that.

Yeah, well, I'm saying reopen the asylums. We know who needs to go there. Little gloating and showboating right here. I don't be like you, showboat. And I'll reopen the asylums.

Well, we do need some mental health care, so I think the Markham's around the country, baby. There's. Wow. A, joker and, Harley Quinn reference. Nice. Gene going down for the geek. The nerd vote right here. Yeah. What a shocker. I know on this show. I know, I see you're on YouTube all over, man. Now all of a sudden I got Gene videos popping up in my YouTube feed them like I don't. I'm. You know what? You what? YouTube likes me. I've. I've damn near tripled my subscribers in one week.

What have you been doing? Playing games. I mean, I keep seeing it. Yeah, I started well, you know, I was on my trip to other places and, so I had my laptop, my gaming. I brought a PC instead of Mac. This time. So I have my gaming laptops, I play some games and then, some of the guys that I was playing games with were new and so started kind of asking the same questions. And me being lazy, I, you know what I'm going to record a video for you.

So the first video I put out for that game was literally, I'm making this for blah blah, blah, but if anybody else gets the benefit, great. So I put that out and, you know, nothing for a couple days now all of a sudden, like I started getting a bunch of comments from people on that thing and I'm thinking, oh, well, let me put a couple more training videos. And they did that.

And, I've been basically putting out like a video a day for the last week, including after they came back, we said consistency. Is it. Yeah. Consistency is it. And not not only so I'm still getting about the same rate that you're expect. I'm getting about 1.5% of the people that watched the video actually subscribing to the channel, but they're doing it consistently and and I've gotten at this point, I think, it's something like 6000 hours worth of views of about two hours worth of videos.

That's not bad. I mean, it's a crazy number, and I've shown up real or I actually one of the videos, I was looking at, the stats one of the videos has shown up in recommended from YouTube 70,000 times. Like, what the hell man? I tried doing this many times over the years. I never once had anything catch. You know, I get like five people watching video now. Every video I put out is like 10,000 people plus, you hit the right little demographic. I think because it hit me, it did pop up.

It wasn't just in my list of things that I'm subscribed to because, you know, you guilted everybody in, like, please subscribe to me. I know now it's showing up in like the top thing in the Roku app anyway, which is like what our recommendations for what you want to watch. And I'm like, there's Gene. Yeah. Wait, no, hey, no. It's like, come on. No bad algo, bad algo. Yeah. And I've seen stories that the YouTube premium is about to go up in price. I don't know if this is accurate.

If it does, though, they'll have a they'll have a, Hey, hey, for a year on Black Friday. Yeah, I think it was. It looks like there is a, there may be a light version, but I'm wondering if this is because I know, Patreon was all fucking over emailing because of the new rules with Apple that all of a sudden Apple has to take all of the, so I'm wondering if this is just a, a revenue thing within the Apple iPhone ecosystem, right. Because I haven't seen anything about a price increase,

but I didn't subscribe through Apple. Apple. Yeah, well, I know X charges more if you do it through Apple versus if you do it direct. So I'm wondering if that's what YouTube is doing in all of these places are just missing the fact that it's only going up. But I'm not sure I, you know, but I'll have to look more into that. I thought YouTube already went up like, 3 or 4 months ago, I thought, but not to the point where they're like, it's going up hugely. But if if Apple takes like 30%.

Yeah, that's what they do. You know, then that $20, they're like, well, if we need to add, the, you know, there you'd be six bucks off, then they're going to take money on the six. So you really have to add ten in order to get the 20 bucks that you want. Because Apple's going to take the you know third of that. And then it sends. Yeah. And that's a great deal for Apple because they're making more money off of that app tax than they are off selling products at this point.

Well yeah that's a goldmine really. Let other people did all the work. But they're all like that. Google does the exact same thing for YouTube Amazon. Jeff Bezos company does the exact same thing for Twitch. Like all these pass through is, hey, would you like to donate some money to this person? And we'll take a big chunk of it. It's all, I mean, that's a horrible percentage.

I, I'm fine with what YouTube takes for you to what your videos up there, because I think everybody's aware that videos are a lot of bandwidth. Yeah, yeah. And we keep a server up and running I get that. So take whatever percentage you need to on that. But yeah, I don't like when somebody wants to donate money directly. I don't understand why anybody on YouTube doesn't make sure that they point people to a PayPal or a Venmo when they know a lot of them do.

But I'd be like the at the very last resort, go to PayPal because we or to go to YouTube because we see only like 40% of that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. These bastards, these capitalist takes half which takes off. I mean, but again, I guess I understand that to a certain extent they're providing the bandwidth. They're going to figure it for you to get. So they used to take 60% I guess I think they're they're down to 50. But, hey, maybe Donald Trump can fix all of this. It's insane.

It's insane. Well, I don't know what X takes. That's a good question because I'm not I don't have the subscribers on ads to get monetized at all. But I know that there's quite a few people that have built up during the election, built up a very large audience. And they're they're getting money affects. I am hoping Donald Trump goes through with that. No taxes on tips. Every podcaster in the world would be like, oh yeah, that's a tip. That's not income. That's a tip, No doubt.

It's definitely tips. I think there'll be a ton of businesses built on that if that gets pushed through Congress. Trump has nothing to do with this. It's dangerous thing, right? But there's only chargeable taxation, right. But if the Republicans are no doubt there, are we forgetting about all the rhinos? I know there's something here. I know there are some. But I think yeah, like to have like half the Republicans in the House are rhinos. They have a couple of years of fun. I think,

I hope so. I hope they don't chicken out. But this is also where the difference comes in for the value for value model created by Adam Curry, The Godfather. Because if you're Bill O'Reilly and you're charging $50 a year to get your content, that's not a tip. That's a service because you have to pay to get it. The tips only exist if they are optional. You know, that's an interesting idea. So if we define the tip as something that is option based, right. Like it's a it's a true gratuity, right?

Not a oh well did you forget to tip. You're supposed to tip right. Because in restaurants, honestly tips are not tips. Tips are requirements. And so they should be taxed. I'm talking about us podcasters, not the restaurant industry. Right? Those people, they ought to pay taxes. We not so much that podcaster. This is 100% gratuity. We are offering a service. Yeah out of the goodness of our hearts.

I mean, we're just like a church, you know, you're you're fully able to just make a decision in your heart whether you're evil or good. And that will be determined by your donation. So really, I don't see why that would be. That's welcome to the Church of Unrelenting, where you get an eyepatch and a recumbent bike, and then you just go on your merry way and eyepatch I need one.

Are you wearing one? No, I should, but, I usually keep that I closed when trying to read the screen, so I should just write. I should just go the full pirate. Look. Yeah, yeah, but if. What? What's his face does it? I saw what I the guy I usually referred to as, Pirate John McCain. Right. The, representative, the representative for the actually lost the I physically. So that's okay. I don't care if he lost it. He he made a big thing about wearing the pirate patch.

So he's pirate John McCain, and he votes like McCain. He's one of the ultimate rhinos. And he was on, on that British guy show. What's his name? Piers Morgan. That's the guy. Yeah. So I love how, you know, a British guy that. Oh, that one. Piers Morgan's Morgan. Of course. That's the only brother's guy who has a show. Yeah. So, What? No. It's not. There's also the other guy that, Yeah, exactly. Him. This is the only way this show works. Guess who Jean is thinking of, right?

But luckily, you do a pretty good job of that guessing that 12. Everybody take a B12 break. It's that time of the show. If you got your B12, you pop them in your mouth. Yeah, step away, pop the B12. So he had them on and the it was a question of like, now that Trump selected that word and the expression, pirate McCain's face the whole time that he's not talking while he's sitting there looks like his his favorite dog just got killed. I mean, he looks miserable, absolutely miserable.

And then once he starts talking, of course, like, well, the Republicans, had a great, great election cycle. You know, we we're we're going to have looks like, all three branches. It'll be great. And then he shuts up again. He just looks miserable. So he's putting on a brave face, pretending to be an actual Republican because he knows that his ilk, the fake Republicans, the Rhinos, are no longer going to be leading the Republican Party, right? It's the majors, and you better fall into line.

Otherwise you may lose. Remember these are the people that, on her first term, wouldn't let Marjorie Taylor Greene serve on any committee. You can't impose that without Republican help. And Republicans like him helped. When you're favorite Luna's back. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Mike G is my favorite. Yeah, absolutely right about that. Make America great again. Well let's try. I thought it was funny. One of the leftist talking heads.

I don't remember which one was already warning, like, oh, well, everybody remember usually the, you know, at the midterms, the party that's really in power loses a lot of seats. So you better govern really carefully. Otherwise you'll lose all your seats in two years. It's like, fuck you. Well, that's actually true. I think that is a very important thing to remember. Is that people assume they're going to hold on to what they get all four years, and that's historically never the case now.

So you gotta, you know, you have to. Yeah. And that's why you can't wait for your last two years in office. Trump has to pardon every January 6th or the first day in office. You got to get the shit out of the way. Don't don't oh, I'm going to do that. My last day as president. No, you cannot do that. You have to make all the things that people actually elected you to do. You have to make them all happen in the first two years.

There is a strong push from what I'm reading, for Biden to pardon Trump on all federal crimes. Do you think there's any chance that's going to happen? I thought I was saying that probably six months ago. I think that would be something that would have helped Biden while he was still running. Yes, that he should have done. Yes, we talked about that. Does I fully agree that's like this would be I'm the adult in the room. I don't like what's going on.

So I am going to make sure that this election is not sullied by all of these lawsuits. And he would have been able to have Kathy Hochul over in New York do the same thing and be like, we need to clean this up. And they might have won. That's the hilarious part about it. Yeah. Well, and that's the thing, this is where I think, you know, there there is a different style that the liberals and the conservatives have. And the conservatives want to be magnanimous and gracious when they win.

The liberals never do that. They push harder when they win.

But the liberals, even when they lose, they're they're the embodiment of that drawing that I'm sure you've seen that's popular of the frog being eaten by the egret while its hands are trying to choke the egrets throat. It's like, dude, you're you're you lot like you're you've eaten, right? You're going to be dead shortly, and you're still acting as though you have some say in the matter by trying to choke the great angel happen. You dead.

So if we start seeing these, if we do start seeing bricks showing up on street corners, that's an example of what I'm talking about. It's that that whole idea of, like, instead of moving on and regrouping, they just keep using the same old tactics and they think they're going to work.

Right. And I know I have a certain bias, but what appeared to me at this point, the Republicans, even though, you know, the leftist media, who of course has their bias, want to tell you they're the horrific extremists. It's like, I see the Republican Party still as the Conservative Party. That would be more common sense that more middle America is going to agree with.

And the Democrats used to be the party of the people when it was we were protecting your rights as unions and all this when it was needed to protect them. And now the left has been swung into the likes of the squad with AOC and a lot of Omar, and they had so much influence, for whatever reason, over Joey. I don't know why, because Joey could have been a moderate, especially if they had. Yeah. Any clue that it was going to be a one term presidency at his age?

I don't know how you didn't assume that I know right. But going into that far left. But this is what happens because I view them as the extremists. And again, maybe this is just my bias. The extremists, when they see that the finish line is getting closer, they want to keep amping it up because they know if they let it go too long, it might be pulled out from under them like it just was.

And that's where the problems occur, because they know once that rug is pulled out from under them, it's not like they can win in four years and be where they are now. It's like, no, Trump's probably going to take that whole progressive left movement and kick it back four years, right? It's going to kick it back a lot. And if things get better and I think they will, you don't think they're going to run AOC in four years? I don't think they can.

I don't think she's, but I think it's the only chance they have of winning would be to do somebody that is somewhat sane. The name I'm hearing and of course, speculation. Well, would be Josh Shapiro, who should have probably been picked as the vice president to. To Kamala. Well I don't think I mean they, I don't think they're going to do that. Well we're never going to have a Jewish president.

Not going to happen. Yeah. But wouldn't you be out there celebrating with all your brothers and sisters that this is a country that does not know. I don't want the Jews blamed for more problems. No. Keep keep the Jews out of the white House. Thank you. Yeah. You don't want those issues? Don't want those problems. No, but I think it is going this is, And there will obviously be primaries, but I think if things go well for the next four years, JD Vance is going to have a huge advantage.

I agree, and I think JD Vance, the only question at this point would be, is the vice president, Nikki Haley or Tulsi? It's well, it's definitely not Nikki Haley because she's a can't it's it's either Tulsi or Vivek. Yeah. I think, because I think Nikki Haley is is the problem. Nikki Haley is what brought us Biden. She she she's a total rhino. Yeah. This is true. It just, you know, as long as if there is no correcting, of course, then it'll definitely JD Vance.

Huge advantage because I don't see. Yeah. Tulsi Haley's involved in anything very vague. That means we've been duped and lied to because she should not be anywhere near power when she certainly didn't seem to, hold much of this time around. Didn't have mate, you know, again, she didn't go out there. She was more like, I don't know if I want to endorse Trump for how long. And finally, did, I don't think that had I mean, although her, her swing had about as much as a Taylor Swift swing, obviously.

But none like people don't go to these people that I'd be in prison right now. So to be fair, absolutely. She's the only one keeping the economy going. I think she's a bigger business than Apple right now. Probably is. You know, this. That's sad. But it's a lot of money coming in from that. Although she's the tour's ending so that she could just go, she could put a team of three, move to Switzerland, be like, I'm out of here. That or Madonna.

True, they all end up moving over into Europe somewhere. Yeah, they all like, pay more taxes. It's amazing. Like, well, this is much better than being in that horrible countries. I loved that, the Google reported that How to Immigrate into Canada was one of the top searches, election night. That's great. And I think what would be great is if the Venezuelan gangs and the criminals that have crossed into our country all decide they need to keep moving north into Canada.

I think that would be great. I am fine with the law abiding citizens sticking around and trying to get their citizenship that I applaud because when I looked at the exit results from CNN, the two groups that swang swung big time from the last election. 18 to 30 year olds and Latino men and Latino women. It's like wow. Maybe the, the single biggest factor was men. Men voted for Trump about 2 to 1. But I think more was still voted which was a very interesting stat.

Well that's because they keep killing men. So there's fewer us. That may be true. That may be true. But the reality is this the Democrats at least the narrative seemed to believe that if they let a bunch of people come in from Cuba and Venezuela and Mexico, that they were all going to vote Democrat, and all of these countries are highly religious and do not fucking like, let's kill babies.

Well, there's a bigger issues. These countries have socialism and people have seen what socialism looks like, and that's not why they're moving to the United States. And this is it. This is it. They come to the United States in the hopes of making a better life, not to be on the dole, not to live just above the poverty line, not to just have enough food. They want to be successful. Yep. Which means they want to work. Unlike what the Democrats think, like, hey, come on in, I'm fine with that.

And that's. And anyone who's ever driven by a Home Depot is well aware of that. It's like, I can tell you, I know if you are a law abiding person and you cross the border legally or illegally, and you make a life and you create a business, or get a job and make money and buy a house, I say, stay, I don't care. That's fine. We need more people to do that. It's just the you can't have where this is where the Republicans always get pointed to like, oh, you're racist.

It's like, no, but we can't take people in if we have to be the nanny state to them, if we have to provide everything for them. It's like, I know which is which is what Europe does. Yeah. And this is why I think you're still going to see places like Ireland start getting a little bit more like they were in the troubles, like if the number of migrants coming in and disrupting things keeps rising because again, just bans all migrants.

I think that said, you know, everybody I have what, ban the migrants that are going to be a drain on your society. That's it. Yeah. It's called migrants. Yeah. Well, I mean, again, not all of them. Ellen was a migrant. All of them. No he wasn't. He came, we started. We was born in South Africa, correct? Yes. Then how did he get here if he didn't migrate? He wasn't a migrant. Well, he was his mom's Canadian. He moved to Canada and then snuck across the border. Well, that's.

That's the epitome of my idea. No, he didn't sneak. He he got a U. I didn't like the trunk of a car coming in or something. Yeah, exactly. He got a student visa to go to college in the United States. That is, I liked that this is how far down the rabbit hole some of these MSNBC folks. And maybe it was on some of the other networks as well, that we're like, we need to investigate what we can deport him. Yeah, well, you can't deport him, though. He's a citizen.

Technically, he did overstay his student visa. Oh, no. And they were like, we have to take away all of his government contracts. I'm like, really? Yeah, yeah. You know, you don't have the. Yeah, good luck with that. Now, looks like he's going to be running the government. Yeah. Well, he's going to be one of them that, ladies and gentlemen, you saw what Elon did to Twitter. How many millions of people did Twitter have working for them when the 80% were fired?

Which is not enough, you ask me, but but if you put that into perspective and go, I'm totally applying, dude, as soon as they get their actual community off the ground, I am so applying. This is my this is literally what I've got the most experience is firing people. That would be great. I'd love that. They would make the podcast even better. Oh totally. Now if I can get a job firing government workers dude she's like I'll work for free. I'm not going to say that. You know.

But it would be extremely enjoyable process. Yeah. And we know that there is so much that could be trimmed. RFK is saying there are a whole portions of government agencies that have to go. Yeah, like primary education, primary health. Yeah. The FBI, well, I think we need an FBI, but I think it needs no, we know that's never that was never part of the charter United States to have government police force. We absolutely do not. We have state police forces. Yeah, I understand that.

But I think there is some need in today's world where it is so easy to physically move around and to commit crimes. I mean, it's very easy for somebody in California to tell you being somebody's wife, you don't need a federal police force is the reason we didn't need one previously.

That was a good a good rationalization for having it was due to a lack of ability to communicate quickly. So when John Dillinger moved around, you're absolutely right. There's like, well, as of the Chicago police, it's chasing them. Is it the Cook County? Is it, you know, the Wisconsin? It's like, oh, oh, he's gone.

But now we have all these, what they called, synergy centers where the communication between a variety of different groups of law enforcement is all digitally tied together, where somebody in California can know literally within seconds, whether somebody in Massachusetts is looking for someone, you know, like, you no longer need a federal authority that kind of centralizes criminals because the local authorities can communicate with each other at the speed of light. Now.

But I still think you need this is for the investigation or was it just used to it? We like we didn't used to have a federal police force. Well, what if you you know, again, if there are crimes that move beyond one jurisdiction, it's hard to be like, well, let's just do this. Well, there's no crime that has no jurisdiction, but they can change, you know, they can they can change their. But but you can also move people through. And that happens right now.

Like if, if Trump is charged in New York and he's charged in Georgia and he's serving time in New York, they will move him to Georgia for his charges. They're like, that's not you don't need federal for that. And incidentally, Trump's not been charged on any federal charges. Well, then who would be able to investigate, say, a rogue police force, say the police force of Chicago went rogue. Then who gets to investigate that. Because they're not going to investigate themselves.

I mean there needs to be some. Well it's usually there's usually county. So it would be county sheriff's office would investigate the local police departments members. It's quite a stretch. Yeah. Cops going bad members. That's your bad. I can I can show you videos of, of county police shutting down a local police department that was, being, charged with some, corruption charges.

Now, I can see rather than having a, I, I can see where you can have raised the, amount or widen the amount of jurisdiction local can have or these things. So if something starts in Chicago, you know, you don't have to, you know, you don't have your jurisdiction as a Chicago cop. If you need to go into Indiana, Wisconsin, Florida, wherever it is, you know, instead of the FBI being a federal thing, that maybe it's just a combination of local authorities that work together.

And they do already infusion centers that like, this is a thing. It's already happening. The FBI is a large part of it, but they can also be removed and the fusion centers will still operate. And different police departments, different law enforcement in general can communicate very effectively today. I mean, this is this is not the 1930s where the fastest method of communication was having a, telephone operator girl connect you to a different city number, please. It's all instant.

Exactly. It's all instant communication right now. It's all encrypted. And and incidentally, if you remember the big failure of 911 was that half the government agencies had information that these guys were up to no good, and half of them didn't have information. And so the problem wasn't that we didn't have enough agencies, even though after that the, TSA was created, it the problem was that we had eight enough agencies who didn't want to share because they wanted the credit.

We also need massive amounts of transparency then as well. So you don't have exactly that, which is the, you know, whatever police department thinking they're going to crack a big case and not asking for any assistance because they believe they could do it on their own. You know, this is where there is sometimes I think a a need for something a little bit more. But I've never really thought about these structuring and what is, or is not needed.

But I know there's a lot of bloat in all of these governmental agencies. And at the very least, I think you need to, cut down. I mean, and if there are bad apples, I think there's like 10% bad apples in everything, whether that's, you know, the feds or the, police force or whatever, or popes, they don't like to do these no good. You see, you have to have a way to deal with that. I mean, I think we can get rid of the IRS. That would be a great idea.

Maybe Trump should work on getting rid of the income tax as a whole. There's some mention of that take. But while this was, what was his name out of New York. But I think you're gonna need to start gradually. Like it's not going to be a complete thing. Maybe you start with tips, right? Well, remember Forbes, didn't he want just, like, a 10% across the board flat tax? I mean, the flat tax concept has been around. There were there's really two ways to fund the government at this three ways.

But we're not going to talk about the third way, but just take over other countries and take their share the main two ways. Yeah. I mean, back in the in the good old days, that's how you did it is you funded the government by winning wars rather than by taxing your people. You just go nuke, you know, I ran and you take all their oil and you're like, haha, well, we were we are doing that in Syria. We're stealing oil from Syria now. Have been for years not paying for it.

But that's going into private pockets, not into the tax fund, but the, the two ways we, we have, we can have a flat tax, we can have, a value added tax like your pass or like Texas, for example, doesn't have a state income tax, but we have a, a slightly higher sales tax here, higher than some states, at least, but not as high as some other states that still have. Yeah. Like, no, I, I think Cook County fire 11% sales tax or something crazy like that. And our series 6.5% state tax.

And then because I live in Austin, I'm paying like 8.5%. Well, and for a pound of butter you're paying like $17.38. But that's normal price of butter. What are you talking about it exactly is I mean, I didn't see this, but I read that there was even a back and forth between Minka and Joe, Mika and Joe and that morning Joe. And he was making a comment about somebody saying butter was $3 a, you know, sticker, whatever. And he was saying how crazy that is.

And Mika is like, I know it's like seven here, but he's like, what? How can it be? It's like $7 for butter. Yeah. So there was a I didn't see this, but there was a comment, I think, I was watching, Daily Wire and they were, you know, celebrating and talking about the fact that, J.D. Vance passed the, the food shopping test. Apparently he was on some show, which I didn't see, but where they had quiz him about. Well, what what is the price of milk today?

And he he said, well, I think it's there's 349, for a, half gallon. And that's close enough. It depends on if you're buying generic milk or you're buying the, you know, the free range felt grass cows with massage milk. Right. That there is a range there, but he's in the right ballpark. He's pretty much where like cheap milk is right now. And, none of the other politicians have any clue why they think milk is like a $1 a gallon. Yeah, well, they don't go and do their own shopping.

Oh, though they don't want an order it online themselves. Right. Well, this is it. And nor do they care what the price was. They wouldn't even pay attention to the price. Now. No. And and I think I've, we've talked about this before too. My take on it is for anyone that is making some right now in, in the current economy, over 250,000 a year, it really doesn't matter.

Like inflation only matters in the sense that it means that your investments need to be working harder to outpace it. Right? But but inflation has no impact on your day to day life. If you don't care for the price of gas, your gas could be $10 a gallon. It really doesn't matter if you're making over 250 a year for food. Prices don't matter. Because honestly, when you go out to a restaurant, you're going to drop probably 2 or 300 bucks anyway. Oh yeah. So same. It is getting insane.

I was looking at the, menu for a, one of the pubs. That is by where my dad, in rehab right now for his, to get a little bit stronger and. Yeah, the thing I know is, one, the burgers were really expensive. I think maybe it was a 1999 or something like that, but yeah, I was going to say 17. That's that's what I've been seeing for burgers. These days. And the, the thing that really caught my eye was if you wanted to add a single fried egg to the top of the burger, oh, three bucks. Yep.

Used to be a buck everywhere. You want a fried rice here? About $3 for one egg. Yeah. One egg. Yeah. That's insane. Yeah, it is, it is crazy. But what I was going to finish with that thought of 250 today. You know, people might think, well, 250. That's a really high time. It's like that really close. 250 today is about $100,000 in the year 2000. Means that a lot of people boost, and a lot of people, including myself, were making a hundred thousand, 2000.

And now you can barely afford to keep your caviar guy. Dude, I haven't talked to my caviar guys. And since New Year's last year, that's how bad it is. You weren't throwing a big party for the, You know, once you had your mission completed in Moscow, you didn't have the didn't maybe use somebody else's caviar guy in champagne. Okay, well, I mean, if you want to go there. Well, sure, I've had caviar, I mean, salmon, I did have. Here's my guy. My guy's not been use. Happy days are here again.

The one thing in the world going to be, like in 2 to 4 years? Better than the South Fork. How quick everybody works. This is true. This is the interesting thing. Of course, Donald Trump coming in as a lame duck already, which means he can figure that. I mean, he can't be elected again. And you can, but he's not a lame duck dude. He's got the Senate, he's got the House, he's got himself thrush. Hey, baby, how do you do it? And most importantly of all, he has musk. Oh, yeah.

And I'm just saying he can not have to worry about reelection. Does not have to worry about anything, just the job. And that's a freedom he can actually, because he doesn't have to worry about reelection. He can do the things that he promised instead of being told that if you do that, you're really gonna hurt the party. Hey. What party? Party? You don't like them? MAGA elected him, which is literally his party. Yeah, like the Republicans need to take a step back.

The Republicans didn't do shit for Trump. I agree, MAGA is his party. The difference? Yeah, Elon's dark MAGA is the guy's funny, man. I'll give him that. And I he's on the spectrum. I think that and I've talked about this weeks and weeks ago, the fact that the last election you had Twitter in the hands of the left and you had Mark Zuckerberg putting $400 million when you flip that to this year and you have Elon in control of X, and no Zucker bots and Elon money going in.

It was close enough last time were yeah, I don't know how you wouldn't be like, well, this has to make a difference. Knowing where people get most of their news, which is social media, it's amazing. I mean Ben Rose was the first person I ever heard that. Like I get my news through memes. I'm like I don't pay any attention to memes.

But if there's a lot of people that do get their news through memes, then Elon owning X and letting the Republicans go crazy with all the memes, definitely, yeah, made an impact. Oh yeah. Yeah, I think so. Like go Elon. And I think he believed that. Yeah. Trump didn't win but pretty much he was screwed when it came to a whole bunch of different things anyway. So yeah. Well he's been extremely frustrated.

And I think this greatly contributed to him and the government interference with his progress of SpaceX. The, California has been their board of wetland birds or some bullshit basically is keeping him from doing more launches out in California, which out of Vandenberg, which is literally he is fulfilling government military spy satellite contracts.

Right. And the California is, you know, born of wild bird protection or whatever the fuck they are, is saying, no, no, no, it's more important to you not to not have the bird suffer any hearing loss. Okay. All right. Well, see that that's an issue of a state just fucking the country over right there. Yeah, because they're insane. Yeah, they are insane. And that's what live there. Well, that was the prediction. But from the.

So let me finish the his thought and so but so he's in Texas with the starship. But Texas is fine with it in terms of its regulation of, you know, deaf birds. We don't care. We'll eat them. But the federal oversight from the the FAA is still a problem for him for doing launches from Texas because they keep sticking their nose in where no one's asking him and wanting to, you know, for the good of Texas, who's not asking themselves, they're going to make sure that these launches don't happen.

It's insanity. And so I think he really felt like if he wants to get to Mars, he needs to get rid of the U.S government and put it in a different government. And he did it. And he did. He made it happen. Yeah, yeah. In a lot of ways. And it was the guys paying $1 million a day to people who are in the way that the left broke down on that, like oh votes. Oh yeah. But he's not. And again, this is where reality and your fantasy worlds, you know, do not go together.

It's like no, he's just saying sign this petition and I'll give you $1 million. You know you're not buying your vote. No, no. They have no idea the semantics on all these things. And it was amazing how quick a lot of these people in the media went from loving Elon Musk to making him public enemy number one. And and that's the thing is, Elon was never really a liberal. He was just a kind of a centrist techie dude who liked the idea of electric cars.

And if selling electric cars to Californians means talking about how they don't pollute, then that's what you say, right? It's not like he's for pollution, nobody's for pollution. But he's not one of the guys that's going to lay across the road to keep ice engined cars from driving. And that's how Elon and Trump got together, because Trump's like, I still like gas cars, but I think people should have a choice. It's like, well, yes, nobody.

It's a it's a question of whether you get to choose your destiny or whether it is forced upon you. Yeah. And the prediction from Bill O'Reilly was the next governor of California will be Kamala Harris. He believes that's where she's going to wind up. It would all make perfect sense, wouldn't it? You think Gavin's ready to move on? All right, well, I think he's going to try the, the big stage. So it's just a question of whether or not he, he expels himself from California.

I think he may have already done too much damage to California to even get on the big stage at this point, because the radical left has taken a hit, I think, for Democrats to come back, I don't think this is a case of keep pushing the same radical left agenda. Yeah, you're going to win the next time. I think the Democrats need to be more commonsense based, more what middle America might vote for. Yeah. And but I guess that'll be the question. Who they decide they're going to put up there.

Hey, get a note from, comic strip blogger. Oh. CSB not not trying to, peddle his channel, but saying tried looking for your channel. Jean can't find it. Oh, no, he's looking for your YouTube channel. Yes, my YouTube's I guess we talked about how it's growing and being a completely non marketing person. I failed to provide an address of where you should go because the first thing is seen it all. It's, it's not Sergey and all. It's it's Atlas Rand gaming.

But, we will certainly have a link that we I will I don't even actually need to send you a link because you already got the channel popping up on your YouTube link just copied from there. Do you really wanna put it in the notes for this show? So if you're listening, yes, there will be a link. And by the way, I've always said this and I mean it. I appreciate when people subscribe, even if they have no interest in gaming and no intention, they never watching a single video.

I don't care all I'm looking for is once I get over a thousand subscriptions, then I can start accepting money. And it's not going to be your money because you're not going there to watch the videos about video games. It's going to be money from people that are going there to watch the videos for video games. But until I get to a thousand subscribers, I literally can't even flip that option on.

I was like, I thought we had it in the show notes, but I guess we just have the buy dreams, spaceships, Play truck SIM with Gene all these good things. Yeah, there's some tricks and but all the latest stuff is a game called Elite Dangerous to somewhere elite. Surprise, surprise. You fly spaceships? Like what? I figured if there's anything space now, Gene, he's gotta be in space. Gene is flying high. It's all about the space, baby.

But, I actually, I'm too modest to say it, of course, but I actually managed to get to be in first place in a contest last week that ran the whole week. And I got the first place across, the whole game. You get that for a free recumbent bike for that? I did not get a free recumbent bike. I did get 1 billion in game money. It does look like as we were doing the show, was just there. Now, that was some that was saying November 6th, the Biden-Harris Dodge drops their case.

I don't think, no, Bray is posting that. I don't think that has happened as of yet.

So Ksbw has got, what looks like a computer generated cartoon of, two anime headed looking characters wearing tracksuits, Adidas tracksuits, and one of them's wearing a shorts version of the tracksuit, and the other one's wearing the pants version, and they're both wearing, socks with flip flops, which is great. Oh, yeah, I mean, I'm well, I'm actually, I'm not wearing flip flops right now. Right. You got some compression stockings on? I mean, these things are very, very sexy. Let me tell you.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. The ladies want to see that. I love that show. It's the legs, buddy boy. Yeah. Compression stockings. That's. It's good when a man describes what he's wearing as stockings. Well, that's what they call them. Compression socks. Now you buy them from the ladies section by chance. I bought them from Amazon, and I made somebody like Membros bring them to my doorstep. Nice. And they go up to your thighs together. They go up to the knees. I mean, he had that knee higher than that.

But I did order some Chinese, you know, off brand shorts because they're like five pairs of shorts for, like, 25 bucks. And, the wife looked at him. She's like, you really show off your junk. Like, see, these are good shorts. These are good. A lot of support. You gotta have it, gotta have it. Like, speaking of support, we are a value for value podcast. You see how quickly I went from talking about my job that was. That was great.

Until you started in breaking the fourth wall and talking about how great you went from one to the other, the great transition until it wasn't. Yeah, it was a segue, baby. Yeah. We got a few people to thank for today's show. That's the first one. And you make fun of recumbent bikes with your Segways. I know, I mean, together we got stuff. They only made the recumbent bike version of a Segway. That would have been cool. With Segway, you sit on it and lean.

Yeah, and then you go forward or backwards. It's a lot of fun. Yeah. Wheelie. Wow. I came in with his monthly $10.80. Yeah, we appreciate them. Probably wondering why he's forgotten about it. Well, that's the best part of the, renewing, constantly. I'll do that. And just good old boys that like renewing is how we get money. You like people? Just keep forgetting we're even the show who? Kevin Seyfried came in with his $5 monthly nice. No beret. And, he's really he's channeling his inner CSB.

Does he send in $2 through PayPal? And then he said, hey, listen there, check out Planet Rage, the best podcast duo on the internet most Mondays around 1 p.m. central time. Yeah, yeah. New rule. We don't read anything under $10, so also, you better go. Ukraine beat Russia. Well, there's none of that now. They're both. No, both I everybody's like what? Oh come on Trump, save us, save us save. There is no such country as Ukraine anymore.

Donald Trump is going to make sure that you fools, it's always been Russia. It's always going to be Russia. Who? A lazy boy with wheels. Now, that sounds like something you could have me. Yeah, that's right with me. I want a joystick. Right. I would go outside a lot more if I could just go up and down in a lazy boy when they're cartoon about that or something. That's up. Maybe like a family Guy thing of some.

No, no. Well, no. I thought it was like some, some futuristic kind of robot cartoon or something. Well, only you would know about that. Robots future. Sure. And I don't know if you got your half, but CSB did boost 4848. But I don't think that was working at the time for either of us. So I'm just like, I'm moving everything to my node, man. Fuck this. Get out big style. Fucking fuck this. Yeah. He says. Please subscribe to podcasts from Grumpy Old dames.com. Well, we like that.

That is, Lady Vox and Lady Black. They blow of the Texas hot glass. They're ambassadors of mature womanhood. I don't know if they want you to say that, though. Could be that they're mature. Woman ready. They're the moms you should have listened to when you were kids, but didn't. Yo, CSB. Interesting. Yeah, I like the room. They just started up there to know and they're really advertising. Well, CSB is for him. I helped him with the theme song and get them how you did with them.

Yeah. Do you use the, sauna the. So no, no, I, they was all, acapella and the Vox's a singer in her life, so, Oh. Okay. So they, they're okay on the music part, and she just sent me a, you know, a couple audio tracks, and one was her doing a lower voice, but got grabbed by the drop buddy. So I just did that part, and then that's a B. You do that and the with your hands tied behind your back, right? And you don't even need the big bottom. But the big bottom helps, man. Let me tell you.

I bet it does. But thanks for the boost TSB and no beret. Even two bucks really. Come on man that I this is now a trump. Is this the special thing that he kept yapping about for a week when we didn't do the show because we were off.

Probably he was like, oh, I sent a special donation. You guys make sure you read it. Yeah. Two bucks. Come on over. Okay. This is your one and only time that for two bucks you're going to get diddly squat red. Dude, it's ten bucks. We don't read it. It's same thing with for the, the, what you might call it for the, the boosts. The boosts. It's like the days of reading. No, Trump's now in charge, boys. We don't read that cheap shit. PA pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa!

But we like, our monthly subscribers that don't say a goddamn thing and just send this money back the straight. Welcome to unrelenting. Send us money and shut the fuck up. Pretty much. Yeah, exactly. We need all the boost, the boost, bringing all the boosts for the gotta be big boost. Now, I was looking at the the crypto because I mean, that's you're probably like finally the crypto is going up. The crypto is going the Chris the crypto isn't just going up. Bitcoin is up 10,000.

So here's a question for you. If I'm going to and I think am buy a new Mac mini. Holy shit. Sorry I just looked at Tesla. Holy fuck. How's your investment doing? I think I just made a shit ton of money. I will send me. So can you boost Tesla? Tesla is one of mine, and it went from 260 to 316 C. People like Elon. I think it's the market realizes that with Elon in charge, he's not going to be losing money.

Well here's because here's the whole thing Elon, a lot of his business, as you just said, had been hampered by red tape after what he just did with this red tape is going to be like this. Toot toot toot toot toot. Yeah. Donald, you have to do this. Okay, ma'am. Executive order your department no longer exists. Every other company that's not Elon's. Now must, make their all of their products from. I'm okay with that. I would like to see Tesla go to a thousand.

That would be nice to, It'll be an interesting thing to see how that all works out. But Elon knows business is going to be I mean, Trump's, which is almost unbelievable. It was the Trump. What's he on truth social. Is that it? Yeah. Went up and they put him over $1 billion. I mean it's like, damn people were making fun of when he started that thing, remember? Like, oh my God, he's so stupid he's going to lose all his money.

Turns out he did I think I think Elon might buy true social on merger with X. That would be interesting. If you want to help this show though go to unrelenting that show. Yeah. Instead of money. And don't leave a message unless you're unless you have I mean like Dale from Down Under. Man. That guy can send this a 35. They'll, they'll get special privileges that other people have not earned. You must earn your privilege in this Trumpian land.

But my question was, if I'm going to buy, a new computer. Yeah. Do I buy it with a Bitcoin? Is should I should I using it now? Should I know like it's going. That'd be silly. It's time to get rid of the bitcoin. No. God no. Then because it's it's at 75. It's at 76,000. Just shy of 76,000. And when it's back down to 3000 it's it's going to be a million per coin. Now this is a prediction. This is this addiction when only reason that I have Bitcoin is because it's going to be a billion.

When's it going to hit that number. When's it going to hit the after I die. That's fucked okay. I'm planning on living slightly longer than you. So just make sure you give me the wallet in your milk. Yeah, I could just, like, come down to Texas and then be a QR code, and I'll be like, all right. You're being awfully optimistic. I planning to live longer than you. All right, all right. I mean, really, I mean, come on. I I'm the epitome of health, I know. Right? Exactly, exactly.

I'm going to take off the both of us take, like 20 pills in the morning and the epitome of health, I know. And then you have to figure out how to like, space them out, which I'm 99% sure. I don't want to go back to the other way to test it out, but I, I don't bother, dude. I don't care what it says in the Bible. I take them all in same time. Well, see, when I was taking the quercetin and the taurine at the same time, there was a lot of stomach issues. And what I. To train your stomach, man.

Okay, if you just do it long enough, the body actually gives up, like, you know, the the new one that I, I just ordered up that I used to do when I was in my youth, but apparently now they're showing you has, good, positive impact on brain activity is creating. So add that to yours. Add more supplements. Yeah. Like, put the B12 down.

Yeah, but creatine I did back when I was doing weightlifting, and that was a, you wanted to stack creating in the morning before you work out so that you have more energy in your workouts. So no, no to selling the Bitcoin. You don't want to sell Bitcoin. Know, turn that into, I mean, if you're going to do day trading type stuff you want to sell it. Now you're going to pick it up for 72, sell it at 79. You know, pick it up back at 75. Yeah you can do that. I don't have the patience for that.

I'm a buying gold kind of guy. Even the, the other word I'm forgetting what it is. What the, xr p what is it? The other one I was buying, I'm like, is this was the crypto Dogecoin? No, no, not the Dogecoin. That's a little, that's a little bit different. But there was, one was the what?

Voit zero was like, oh, polka dot. And, and the other one was that why can't I see I need the B12. Sounds like it. I definitely need the B12. So the, the stock market, the Nasdaq, I should say composite index went from a little over 18,000 to, 19,269 nice days. That's actually not as big of a jump as I was thinking they would do. Cardano. That's one. Oh, Cardano. Yeah. You were big into that whole Cardano thing.

And I've still I've got, I think one thing here, about a thousand in Cardano, which I had, like, back in the day, donations had a thousand. I put another thousand in, and I'm down to a thousand. So I lost a thousand on the Cardano. Should I just get rid of that? Didn't make it into a, into an Apple machine or, yeah. We bullish on Cardano. Should I just move the car dollar, which I never bought or, like the, the other should should coins, and I should have.

I should have listened to CSB because he was always doubting all that alts besides Bitcoin. They said do not buy. Yeah. And as much as I don't admit this, he's absolutely right. Wow. That is a big admission here. I know thing now. And incidentally, go to, what is it CSB that oh well, there's a website. Yes. One of them. Yeah. Check out his cartoons. They're funny. He has no cartoons without baboons. I love those. Yeah, look at that. Yeah, yeah, we even mentioned that without him paying.

Yes he SBC, we like you rooting for Trump. Although Darren refuses to, to read messages on his other podcasts, he only reads them in this one. Apparently, I read messages everywhere. That's not what I heard. There's none where there's a, cut off line except this one. Yeah, this is a ten bucks, guys. Come on. Seriously, you want to message? It's going to be ten bucks or more. I mean, we have a very nice reach.

Unless you if you can prove that you have subscribed to Gene's YouTube page, there's a one time offer for $5. Oh, my God. Well, how bad? While we're talking Nasdaq just went up. $257. Damn. Yeah, well, that's good for everybody. That has was down in the market and you'll know now. Wow. Okay. So he's still on this down. It's it's funny how old these liberal companies are down and everybody else is way up. You still have the sir Gene icon though. That's how you know it's a gene for. That's right.

Atlas brand gay icon. That's a photograph, man. Sure it is. It's a drawing that was done by I. It looks like it was totally not done by. Subscribe today. What now? Let's see what you tell us. Like what? Your modded. Okay. See, here's my gear, man. I got an RTX 6950. Yeah, that's that's common in the, video games because it's a question everybody asks all the time. What do you of their dual 27 side monitors who, the Ryzen seven 5800. That's old now, isn't it? You can get a new one.

It is all that shit's old now, dude. It's. I'm running the same machine now for three years. Operating system windows, stream, deck plus. Yeah, it was every 320. How you do it? Oh, you got a Patreon? Do you can now money. Okay. Do we want to even look and tell people how many bits? Zero. Let's see what you got. I never log in there. Actually. I don't know what's on there. Maybe there are people that have to give me money. I assume it's zero. GM currently has 656 subscribers.

If that hits a thousand by the next show, Gene will, give a free poncho to all of the people that can prove they've subscribed. Anyone that donates $20 on the next show, send your address. I'll send you a poncho. One or a pack of three. I'll send you a pack of three. That is a bargain. It's the poncho episode. And basically what that. What that means is you're clearing out your carrot. Makes ten bucks. I make $0, and you clear?

I'm sending you a poncho. Yeah, and if you want to have me not make any money and dare and make ten bucks, send $20 for that show. I think that's what people like now, this Google, this is, the Subscribe Now link is that what is that would takes them to, yeah. The short link, the Google link it goes to I mean it doesn't subscribe them. It actually takes them to the page. Got it. They're asked if they want to subscribe. I'm subscribed kids. I'm one of those. I might have to unsubscribe though.

I mean that's and I was I was at, 201 subscribers a week ago. Damn. You're making ground. Quit, right? Help Jean make no money out of YouTube by subscribing today. You know, always feel like I just. I should be making something right? Yeah. And the new Mac mini. Man. It's been three weeks since we've talked. The new Mac mini has been, like, announced in. It's like, damn, the specs are. You should get it. So I, I watched the video that that Canadian guy that does a tech show did this.

I saw Marques Brownlee and somebody else talk about it. I don't know what I did. Well, he likes Marcus Brownlee. He's an Apple guy, so I trust him less. No, I'm thinking of, what's the guy that it is? Is this Canadian guy that's kind of nerdy. He's got the show. The guy with to show. I'm not sure. I don't watch that many tech channels. Oh. Yeah. What is his name? But he's super popular. It's, It'll come to me. I'm sure that's. So. That's what they all say.

I know, I it's I know I subscribe to him on YouTube, but I just can't think of his name. I've tap my head. Is it like this line? Oh, I do watch Linus. I think him. Yeah. So Linus is not a mac guy at all. He said this is the Mac mini to buy. It makes sense. It is. Let's see. Now I here was my thing. I was based upon the last version that was out. And I'm already doing the, editing in the, in the notes for the next show just to make sure that we get here, that we get your link in there.

So yeah, yeah. But the last round, it was only the mini bro doing the high end, you know, the $1,300 version or whatever it is that allowed you to do three monitors out of the gate. Yeah. Now all of them do. Yeah. I was kind of assuming like, well, gotta go pro because that would give me everything I need, but I'm not.

I'm still kind of like torn, like, we'll do I want the pro. I just think it's funny that you're so worried about having three monitors, but all you got to do is just buy a bigger monitor. The, Oh. I mean, you could. I mean, you can definitely go, because. What? This one that I just bought. What is this, like a 32 or something or 30? But more importantly, what's the resolution? Well, I don't need the super high resolution, so that's not even needed.

I just want the real that makes it even easier that, I mean, really like I want the resolution and right now, like for, for playing, Elite Dangerous. I have one, two, three, 4 or 5, six monitors hooked up that is called a sickness. You know, that is called a workstation for flying spaceship. There are no real spaceships in this game. No, they're better than real. The virtual. Just like they're spatially real. Shut up, shut up. They're real. Spaceships are a lot like women in Gene's world.

Completely. Oh. Believe me, they're a lot cheaper than one. The virtual spaceships are a lot cheaper. The Dell women, let me tell you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. But, no, that's one of the things that I actually like about the are the types of games I play generally have a very big modding and development community. And so this particular game has that as well.

And there are a bunch of different apps available that take the data from the game in real time and then pass it a variety of different ways to be useful to somebody playing the game. But they're running in their own screen. Which is cool. I mean, it's cool, like we talked about the guy that did the flight simulator stuff. Yeah, to be able to have the gauges in one screen and the. You know the outward looking at the other screens and you know it's yeah I get it, I get it.

The main difference between the M4 Pro and the regular one would be one, it comes with more memory right out of the box, which I don't know if that's needed at all. I do work with big ass files. The more the better. So that would take you from six there all at least a base now of 16 where they were eight. Yeah. Which people have been saying for years. It's retarded that they even sell the gig versions. So the 24 would be where you would go with the Pro. That's the minimum.

And it has a 12 core CPU rather than the base one comes with a ten, of course, not that big of a deal. I would just go with base one myself, but and that's a huge difference in price. Do you you're talking 600 bucks up to 14. The main thing would be that the admin life well beyond a couple of years, because the ports they upgrade you two are the Thunderbolt five rather than four. I'm kind of pissed that the Pro one doesn't come with the ten gig networking by default. Like come on.

Yeah, like, what does it fucking cost to change the the ether that in there? It's like that. That'll do it when you ordered if you're going to do it. I know because nothing the size of these things are hilarious at this point. Oh yeah. They're tiny real big now. I mean they can all run. But the three monitor I just wanted I mean one the storage they yank you on to the base. One comes with 256 which doesn't seem like you so don't need to worry about storage space dude because like the extras.

Yeah. And the and the, the external that you want to be plugging in is also an SD, so you gotta plug it in something that's really fast, going through a really fast port like Thunderbolt five or even just USB 3.2. I mean, that's fast enough as well. So none of this is stuff to worry about. You're like the slowest, cheapest version of the new Mac mini is probably 3 to 5 times faster than the one that I bought two years ago.

And I'm just curious if it would even be any with an M1 between the different versions. Even what the speed difference would be if anything, rendering out the podcast files from the big way. I mean, because they're huge files, very, very minimal difference, you know, and that would be the main thing because we're not doing the normal version can can render multiple 4K streams at the same time. And so you're going to go from like rendering four streams to rendering six streams on the pro.

Who cares? And then save you money, dude. Baron Spot the Mighty is ready. Since I've yet to see the user interface on a computer use 4K, well, most of them suffer from tiny print in the menus and windows in the ads. I'm already dealing with that with this, monitor, which is a real pain in the ass with a lot of those don't let you adjust the text size within a lot of the program, like, and all the Adobe shit. It's like there's no setting.

Like, well, the text is way too fucking small for somebody with shitty eyes, so make it bigger. No, it's not too small. Your mind is just too small. I just need a I need a wall of monitor. I mean, you know how this works, right? If you keep the resolution the same and you increase the size of the monitor, and every pixel is bigger and the text is no longer small, right?

So when I had, you know, young person, I'd say I could have a 17 inch 4K monitor because it had all the data in my eyes were perfectly fine looking at that with, you know, slightly older person eyes, slightly old versus nice. I've got a 47 inch monitor with 4K resolution and that works great. Give me a 47 monitor with the regular data if you. Yeah, yeah. For you probably. Yeah. Give me another five years.

I might be running a 52 inch monitor with the same resolution three inches away from Gene's eyes. Well, they've always been that close, but yeah. So it's, anyway, complaining about how things are too small. It just means your monitor is too small. That's the only thing it's like. Well, maybe the only thing that's useful, but that's the thing that's too small relating to your vision. They just have to get some nice, because I've got USB hubs. I mean, I've got so much.

You're talking about a laptop. Obviously, you can't really control the. Although my last laptop that I bought this, this last gaming one, and it's a gaming one because it has a 4080 video card in it. Well, now they've got 160°F, but you can have two monitors on the side of your main laptop monitor the things that just clip on. Now that's wild. They do that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it is pretty wild. I actually bought one of those portable monitors.

That's one of the six that I use for gaming is a, it's a single wire monitor. So all it has is, you know, Thunderbolt on it, that's all. Just one connector. And that carries the power and the video signal. You can order whatever you want, man. All that Tesla money rolling in. Yeah, all that Tesla money. Exactly. So I just need some, hubs and stuff. I mean, it's it's really it's like I look at what's.

I don't even know how, but I've got. Let's see. One, two, three, four five, six seven. I probably got like. And then there's the ports in the back. I probably got like 18 USB devices plugged into this current machine. You know, including the stream that's in all that. That's the one thing I hate with all the Apple devices, especially the mini, where it's like, well, we give you like two ports.

Well, like like you. Yeah. You know, like me, like me, me like, although I guess, again, the bandwidth is so big, the Thunderbolt ports that you're kind of go from that and then you plug a USB strip into that and. Yeah, like I have a 12 to 1 and that all just plugs in the USB devices into one Thunderbolt port. Yeah. Essentially I just break up that for into USB three for all the sort of, you know, devices that are quick speed but not they're not high bandwidth. Right.

And then for things like external SSD drives and things those like go direct Thunderbolt to Thunderbolt. Yeah, the drives of the monitors are going to take the most monitors don't take much dude. Monitors used to be considered a lot back ten years ago, for your bandwidth. But honestly, right now for the, like, even running a 4K screen, it's it's not anywhere near the bandwidth that my data storage that.

Now, the other thing would be I still get a there's no super way to do like all these stable diffusion of the stuff on Apple. It still seems like. Nope. You gotta have a Windows or Linux with a with a nice big Nvidia project. I don't know, because I don't run that stuff, but I would assume there's been people porting it all to Macs and and they all have, AI capability in their preprocessors. Now that's what spy on Me should I worry?

Because the singular I spy on me now, it'll just just picture the camera's facing the whole room, but, you know, it's never gonna spy on you. You're like, wait. No, I thought that was a headphone jack. That's a camera. Man. Yeah. Because I think you see a little red light coming out of it. 13 I will say this is the one thing that I miss the Mac minis, they used to all have combination audio ports which were a combo of one eight inch plugs, stereo and optical split of.

And they stopped doing that when they moved to the, their own architecture. So they're no longer they don't have built in speed of anymore like they used to, but they used to have fibers that are built in on all the Mac minis. Yeah, most people are. Alvaro is echoing what you said. Almost everybody, like, get the base unit of the head. The reality is it's cheap enough. Where if I'm like, I still need more, then I just move that one over to the wife's computer and buy another one.

The and the apple does, you know, they do trade ins because they're all like bright green and everything race day. So you'll be able to get at least a hundred bucks off the next computer when you trade this one. And six months later, we are not measuring our Mac's memories. But do you know the new Mac mini is five inches by five inches by two inches? It's like, how do you fit a whole fucking computer in there. But anybody want to guess I mean I mean the only one I'm going to hear is Eugene.

But anybody in the troll would want to guess if you go to the real Mac mini, M4 Pro and max it out. So get the step up processor. You step it up twice to the 64 gig of memory. You step it up to eight gig of storage and to the ten gig Ethernet. What do you think, a mac Mini Pro? I would say $1,800.46 99. No. Yes. No. Yes a mac mini M4 Pro. Oh, that's out is 5000 14I can't that's insane dude, because that line isn't supposed to go that high $4,700. Yeah, and I say that.

And I said, as a guy that bought the Trashcan Mac a decade ago. Right, right. $10,000, the pro that my my Mac was the most expensive computer I've ever bought. Still, is the robot anything that's that expensive? It was $9,999 plus tax, Marquez said the benchmarking on this M4, because, of course, that's what he got. The Mac mini M4 Pro. Yeah, outdid every other Apple machine he's ever had in the.

Yeah. So the reality is, yes, this is faster than all of the Mac pros, all of the MacBook pros, but still, I mean, it's because they gank you on the everything that they possibly can if you drop down to just the right. To put it this way, if you drop down to just the base storage, it's 22, 99, which is a horrible van. Okay. What's the cheapest price? What's it start at for this particular one is 13. So the overall the cheapest Mac mini 590.

Nobody in their right mind would buy anything other than the cheapest for 99 599. Unless you guys do guess what? You're a student. I don't have a edu email address, sadly. Oh, I thought you used to. I should get your wife's like fix that for you. Being a government employee, you would think so. Like come on. Well, the funny thing is, we are now subscribed to, various police publications because the union they put her in from village hall was for the police. It's part of the police union.

Oh, my God. I'm like, wait till I know that the police union gives the officers a certain amount of insurance if you're involved in a shooting. Oh, boy. I'm like, do we get that? This would be nice. That would be nice for you shooting insurance. Right. Like, if you if you're involved in a shooting and there's a problem, you get lawyers. You know that kind of a thing. It's a beautiful thing. But the cheapest Mac mini starts at 599. And let's see what we can. Let's see what we can do.

Yeah. I'm looking at their website right now. You literally don't need to buy anything other than that. The internet is this storage real? Irrelevant. Yeah, well, that's because you're going to be using ruining. All that's going to hold is the operating system and Adobe applications and the scratch space for those Adobe applications. That's it. Everything else will either be external or in the cloud. Now if you want.

I mean, really, again, it depends how much memory is actually needed coming from windows. It's still very weird to be like need any more in 16? I've always ordered the upgraded to 16 memory on all my Apple products you like. Now, I've never been in a situation where I felt like, damn, I wish I had more Ram.

So really, the apple is way better at memory management than windows is, and the only thing would be to go to the ten Gigabit Ethernet, but I think I'm still probably better off just doing that in the dongle if I really want to. Because this one, I've got 2.0. My machine now is 2.5. Yeah, most of them are two and a half. Is this one not two and a half. No. It's was it just one out of the box then. Right. These motherfuckers at Apple, it's one they want. Yeah they are 100 for ten.

I mean I would probably rather do that upgrade than any other of the upgrades, because the paying 200 bucks to go to 24 gigs not worth it.

No. If you're going to do it, go all the way to 32 and then that's 400 to double it. Yeah, it's like going to 512 SSD. While that would give you a little more extra breathing room, $200 is so not worth it because literally for $200 you could buy, but you can buy a two terabyte SSD, the regular mini Mac mini that this one maxes out the base unit, and 1900 if you max it out. Okay, well, that's close to what I was thinking. So, you know, I think I said, what, 1800 or 1700?

Right. For the regular. I said, yeah, yeah. So this maxes out at 1900. Really. So that's still a little more than they should. But I if I was buying one and I totally don't need one because my current this machine, you might want to sit there for a year and a half before you. I have the. Yeah. Yeah, I bought the M1 version and it sat in the box for a year until I plugged it in. But you're like, no problem, because I had the other and I still have.

I have two Mac mini sitting, one of them plugged in when I was up like them, but the new one just replace the old one. Basically like plug and play. But my old one that I have is an i7 Mac mini from ten years ago. Good time, which lasted ten years. Perfectly fine. And the only reason I got this one was because the software started getting updated to their own architecture. That otherwise much more happy with the old one, right? With the silicon.

Way more efficient. Well, that's what most people are saying. This is the first one to even this is still questionable if you have M1, whether this is even worth a, it's not for me because all I do with it is record this podcast. Well, hey, and this is the bandwidth from the, big bottom. And the oral exciter might need a little extra. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. This is the best sounding podcast you're going to hear today. Probably. And I here's this Thursday or Sunday.

Yeah. There is no podcast in 2.0 today that's oh really. What's Adam up to? I was he's around I think Dave is out in the world. According to us, he has the Dave's in the wilderness or something. Oh, okay. I don't know what that means. If maybe he's on a mission too much like yours. Although, I mean, the timing. Now, I don't know what kind of mission you'd go on. Yeah, I don't either. That's interesting timing. Interesting, indeed. So people want to go.

We'll have the link for Gene's YouTube page. Don't forget those. Subscribe. If Gene gets over a thousand, there will be a big celebration on the next show. Yeah, and that way you'll also know that this show has some $20 donation, gets you the, ponchos you get include your mailing address, $20 donation, and episode number 135 will get you poncho goodness, gene. I'll even sign them for you. Nope. Like, not for 20. But no, not for ten bucks. Nope.

I will not, I will not now if they buy a whole and basically break in the damn things that point. Don't you have a full book set like O'Reilly is selling, like all 13 of his books in one big package for Christmas, and you get a package up all the know the two books. I know I do want to move some of these branches because they're starting to break the desk. They're sitting on a lady, but you still got too many. I okay, were you home on Halloween?

No, because otherwise I was wondering if you was doing the on oh for Halloween treats. That would be a totally safe Halloween treat. That would be probably appreciated by parents and hated by the kids. Yeah. Here's a poncho. Here's a poncho. But it's also a Halloween costume, right? It's bright orange. Perfect. It almost looks like a garbage bag. Hey, now it's the. Hey, we got the picture of Vlad wearing it. That was great. Yeah, that's pretty good.

It was nice I was able to do that for you. Yep. Very, Yeah. I'm out of stock in Russia, amazingly, but I still have a stock here. Well, you need to. We need to redo that. Add that with Trump neo. Yeah. Orange. Oh, I told you at this time he likes wearing orange things. He said so. Oh, I need to mail him a poncho. The story about wearing the garbage collector vest. Yeah, it's a safety vest. Yeah, it was hilarious. It was great. The guy had a career in comedy if he wanted it. No two ways about it.

I mean, he knows how to tell the story. He's got the time, he's got the timing. He. That's the thing is, he knows timing it. He's also I mean, I guess I maybe I'm just not remembering it all. It does seem that he has gone a little bit more into the self-deprecation. Yes, I agree, which is I think really one of the things that has helped him, along with the McDonald's and the garbage truck thing. Yeah, of course they were publicity stunts. But they made him seem like more of a regular guy.

And it was certainly helped by the people at the McDonald's speaking highly of him, the guy that was driving the garbage truck like, wait, he actually sitting, you know, turning he was talking to me. This wasn't just like, oh yeah. Okay. You're that you're the driver. I just I, you know, don't don't look at me. Don't talk to me. And then, I mean, I guess Trump asked him like, hey, can we take this thing for a spin?

And he's like, I let the parking brake out, moved about two feet in the Secret Service are like, that truck just driving away with Trump. Can you imagine the Secret Service running behind the garbage truck like, no. Yeah, that'd be funny. Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, that's that's crazy. Yeah. I think a lot of those, government service agencies right now are in absolute panic mode, like, oh my God, this job is safe. None of them should be the great Susie Wiles becoming the first.

What's it the, Head of state, you know, the whatever the, the the one that, like, ran his campaign like the first woman ever. She. What did Rahm Emanuel do for, Obama? By votes? Yeah, I mean that, too. He was very good at that. The chief of staff. I'm sorry. There we go. Chief of staff. Oh, yeah. Yeah, she's there. But first woman ever that has will serve as the chief of staff, Susie Wiles.

And so much for the, case that, you know, again, the, Mark Cuban tried to make with Trump those, like, with strong women around him. Like, I think that may have backfired on them more than they realize as well. Although maybe Mark Cuban was just hopefully, trying to help Trump while pretending to know the Democrats. Now, Cuban's been a dick for a long time. I used to like him, I mean, but, not for a few years now. I never liked the dude. He's a fake billionaire.

I mean, he's a real billionaire, but he got there in a very lucky, lucky way that had little to do with actual business acumen. He bought Broadcast.com gene. Yeah, and then turned it into $1 billion and then became a dick. Yeah. Although he may have been a dick before that. I don't know. Yeah. Help me. You.