135: As The Kremlin Turns

This is actually brilliant of me. Yeah. I'm happy for you. Hello and welcome to episode number 135 of unrelenting. I'm Darren O'Neill. He's jetting off to deliver because, Elon's Department of Government Efficiency. We can no longer do that show here now. So we are going to just sign off. Thank you. Sir. Thanks for coming along on the ride. Thanks for all the fish. We've been redundant, seized. We're gone. Did you like the graphics on the last unrelenting.

I thought that was a perfect game of album art. It was good. I didn't like the graphics that you sent to me, though.

Well, that's why I didn't post it. I was like, okay, like, with the little bit UCSB on the nose. Me kind of. It was hilarious. I was like, okay. Yeah, I actually, I it was, it was in the crappy style on purpose. But yeah, the skylight in the Boston was pretty damn accurate. Really. Yeah. That I didn't catch. Yeah. Because I'm not that familiar with it. I mean, I literally knew the bridge that was on and the skyline is that skyline.

I actually have a photo somewhere where I shot that's very similar to that. That's hilarious. It's life imitating art. Maybe that's where I picked it up. Yeah. Maybe that. Exactly. Oh, it scared it. Oh, it was. I had Adobe installed, so it scanned, my collection of 80,000 photos that I've shot and decided to use them to fit the algorithm. And with this is something I can use the I go, where is it being sourced?

The next time somebody asked for a caricature of this guy, I have the perfect setup for it. But the album art we used was great. It was like you in a little space, little, thing with, like I said, an orange poncho. But obviously it gave you, like, an orange sweater, hoodie, kind of a thing. It was a hoodie, I think. Yeah, but it was orange. And the beard didn't have any gray in it, so that wasn't, completely realistic. Yeah, yeah, but then I put the. I have none of these.

I can actually make a beard as long as my beard is in real life. I noticed that no matter how many times I tell it longer, a longer beard, longer beard, they can't do it. It does. Well, this was a pretty close. Although the, this is there is a filter, just the belly button. Then, like the top filter, just go. Oh, please. Those guys are amateurs. Yeah, but they make more money at their craft. Well, that's. Yes, but in terms of building and one of them dead now with the beard.

So I mean, there's that there's only the one guy with the beard left now. So it's kind of now it's just kind of sad. It's that it's just a guy with the beard rather than which one died. The bass player. Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. That's fine, because the drummer never had the beard even though his name. No, he had the mustache. Yeah. You should have been named mustache. But his last name was beard. No. Yeah. The guy, the drummer for TikTok. I didn't know that. His last name. No way.

And he didn't have a beard. Well, doofus. Well, we get probably stuck up the drumsticks, you know what I'm saying? No, it wouldn't get stuck in drumsticks. That's bullshit. You have to put one of those little, really douchey. You ever see the guys with the really long beard? And then they put it into, like, a, braided pigtail looking thing? Have I seen those guys? Please. I was the World beard competition couple of years back. Like I was that guy.

It is full of those guys like, oh, there's there's the award for creative beards where the guys have, like, a whole scene sculpted out of their beards. There's a beard competition. I mean, it's not one year. There's a world beard competition. Yes. To see who could be the best pairing for somebody that's gay, that doesn't want to be known as gays. And you get to go to the beard competition. Well, people that that's the one in Chicago.

You're thinking, oh, no, I'm talking about the one that's an international world beard competition. Totally. That happens in in Zurich, Switzerland and Austin, Texas. Really? So your coach sponsor on that? Of course I watched it. Dude. I my beard being down to my navel was, one of the Putin's beard at this camp. There, there was a guy there whose beard went down to his shoes. Now that you could trip over. I mean, that could be a good trip over it. Yeah.

I mean, you'd probably want to wrap it around your head like a turban, but that's what happens for guys like us who are losing their hair on the top of their head. It's grow the beard so long, you can pull it back up.

Yeah, exactly. It's it's, That's how that works. This is a really a fantastic show. And we weren't even supposed to have started yet. For the people that are tuning in. Well, too bad you snooze, you lose. That's right. Yeah. Try. You got to get here early. If you're listening to the live show. Yeah. I mean, I don't understand why anybody would ever listen to the live show. And you can just listen to it on and download, but okay, Elon enhanced our productivity. So we started the show early.

Yeah. He got rid of all the, the group called the Inspec. Yeah. It's amazing how efficient this government's going to be. It hasn't even started. And it's already further along than it was under Biden. Well, this is really I was up 100, but I don't remember going up, 25,000. It's great. I don't remember this from any other president. And Donald Trump with the video. I'm not even sure what you call it.

It's like a video diary because everything he wants to do, they're doing like a 2 to 10 minute video of him and posting it, which is something unique, I believe. I've never seen this one. You know, maybe I just never paid attention, but I don't think any presidents ever done anything even close to this. Like, well, here's here's what we're going to do and here's why it's awesome. It's very upfront. The pics that he's making are definitely the drain, the swamp. We are not doing business as usual.

Pics. There's a lot of people like, well, maybe a lot of them won't get through. It's like, I don't know, it's going to be up to some Republican senators. I mean, I know what little rough they if they if the Republican senators decide to be Democrat. It's there's a lot of things Trump can do with executive order to make their lives absolutely help. This is true. And he should and he should like redistricting them. Yeah. Well, you know, I mean, yes, I know the states do that.

But there's ways, believe me. The thing is generally there's a sense of tit for tat in Congress from the Republicans and Democrats. That's why we call them the unit party is that they are senators and Congress critters. First real and in their party second. And so you you can do things for your party, but only if it doesn't piss off the guy that you're having lunch with every other Thursday because you work with them and he happens to be in the other party. And that's one of the problems.

That's why it's the swamp. That's why America isn't actually represented by these people, because they make all these promises for election that they never actually do. And, I think that having people that have no interest in being there, like Musk and at this point, Trump, because it's his last term,

it is a great opportunity to really drain the swamp because as far as I'm concerned, it is MAGA versus everybody else. And magazine charts. Well, they have the wave behind them. Yeah, exactly. And if somebody wants to have an R behind their name but act like a D, I think they need to get called out. Shamed, protested. Their house should have a 24 by seven protest with signs in front of it.

Their lives need to be made such that they are reminded that they are not doing what they were elected to do. I'm not saying anybody should do anything illegal, but there are plenty of annoying, perfectly legal things that can be done. Yeah, we want the will of the people to be put into action. Yeah, yeah. And if you have publicans standing in the way like Paul Ryan in the first term, those people need to be made aware that there's a cost for doing so.

Yeah. I'm not calling for anything illegal, but like I said, you can be annoying. That is perfectly legal in a lot of different ways that these people are not used to because they're used to having, you know, people just ignore them. Well, not the case right now. In fact, with Trump, you fucked with 52% of America. And if you really want to mess with your Democrat friends, if you have any. I was looking at this the, the map for the nice folks that are behind the national Popular Vote bill.

Now here's the funny thing for the states that have already enacted it, of course, I mean, I didn't realize I thought this was something that was already in play. But the way that this whole thing is structured is that these states are not actually in where they have to give their electoral votes until they have a majority. So they need 270 votes worth of states to get together.

And then once that happens, it would, because otherwise I'm looking at the electoral map here and the states that come out of one or all of those states. Washington is in on that. Yep. Oregon in on that. California in on the road with the popular vote no matter what. Yeah. New Mexico should have no states left. That would have come down to Colorado, Minnesota, Illinois I think Virginia I think I don't think Virginia is in. Oh should still have Virginia. They would still have 38 electoral votes.

But we know that York is in on this. Yeah, yeah. But if this would have to pass the Democrats pass this in the guise of like, oh, no, the Republicans can never win the popular vote. Kamala would have literally under 33 electoral votes maybe like even under 20 depending on the I saw that map the first day somebody made one of those and it's amazing. Let's do it man. Let's do it.

I mean every state, if you have a cutoff besides the, eastern little portion there except for the northeast, forget the northeast. Everybody else in the country that is signed up to do this is where Kamala won. And there are none of the states that Trump won that are signed up for this. Yeah, yeah. So Democrats make any difference anyway. Even if they were it's still goes to him, right? No, I'm just saying though, it's hilarious that the people that voted this in are the ones it would have hurt.

So I mean this again, can you imagine if this was in play for those states, what this would have looked like the map on election night, it would be Kamala Gore, like didn't get anything. Yeah. It's like, why would you ever want to give your rights away? People? This is the dumbest concept in the history of politics. I think.

Oh, the, the National right to vote. Yeah, yeah, I know, like we're going to go by the popular vote, not by what the people in our state voted. It's like, well, then the people in those state. That's the irony, though. If you lived in one of those states, it's like, well, then why even vote? I mean, I guess except to, you know, take part in the popular voting. Yeah. People just don't understand politics and clean politicians.

The funny here's here's the funny part about it to me, because doing what you just said, which is the state, just goes for whatever the popular vote nationally is, right, is no difference in terms of removing direct voting. Then having in the Electoral College, which the same exact people always bitch about how the Electoral College is totally wrong and unfair, right?

Well, the Electoral College does the same thing that that this national popular vote that it it takes the vote away from you and says, well, we're going to make that decision based, and another group of people. It's it's ridiculous. It's the but again, people that are into this shit,

they, they're cognitive facilities are such that they don't see problems when there are two completely opposing thoughts and they're told by the media that both of them are correct.

Yes. It's like, yay, go trans rights and Palestine. Because, you know, Muslims totally are in line with trans rights. What? What the fuck, man? This is insane. You're you want to support a totalitarian regime that throws homosexuals off the top of buildings? Literally. Not figuratively. Literally. Does that. And, women get, if they're lucky, beaten? Well, if they're lucky beaten, but if they're not like the killed for not wearing clothes that cover their entire bodies.

Yeah. Or for it to be or for so many things. Well, like and I can and I, I'm totally on board. Like I can see somebody wanting that. It's like women are in control. Let's get them covering their bodies. Okay, fine. But at the same time then you want to support the pride festivals in San Francisco, where there's little fucking going out on the streets. No, you can't do both, Ram, pick one. I mean, they're opposite ends of each other.

Common sense is not the strong suit of the left. No, no. Which is one of the issues there. But yeah, this whole concept of trying to re imagine the game to make your candidate win when you realize that's not going to work, then what happens?

It's like, oh no, but we did the thing where the popular vote was good. So I mean, can you imagine if all of these states let's just pretend for a minute that they got enough people involved? And this was a much closer election. And it ended up taking the electoral votes from the three largest states. Right. And putting them in the other in the other, you know, category in the other pocket. But it would be, It's like because you just have a revolution in those states. That's what you'd have.

Yeah. Well, let's just understand people that voted this in the fuck tards. Yes. And I'm in Illinois. The fuck tards in California, the fuck tards in New York voting this in. You do realize what happens them when the Republican wins the popular vote, then your vote is the one that doesn't count. Yeah, so you just voted for your totally for your vote not to count. I mean, I would hope that these states would go, let's just get rid of this. Let's let's get out of this. Let's back out.

It's going to be interesting to see how states like mine are going to go, because JB Pritzker is acting all big balls, that he's not going to give in to this president, blah, blah, blah. But we all know what happens when you have a president that has cronies in the state, says we're a sanctuary state, or a city says we're a sanctuary city, the president goes up. Well, I guess you don't need federal funds anymore. Bye bye. Well, it's beyond that.

I mean, it's really vivek's one of his big platforms when he was running for president, and now he's in a position to execute on that platform was to change the US government or whatever, you know, federal aspect of it to a, what do they call it? They

zero something budgeting zero. I can't remember the term, but basically it's where you don't start with last year's budget and then ask for more money. You start with a zero budget every year, and you have to justify where every penny is going to get spent. You don't automatically get last year's budget as a starting point. And he did that in his billion dollar company, multi-billion dollar company.

And Musk has done that as well. And both of these guys are now in charge of doing that for the government. We'll see how that pans out. I've got my application sent in like so. Hopefully I'll be a part of that as well. But if you want to be like, oh, your yeah, I want to be a dozer. I so want to have the uniform with a doge dog at it. Yes. That would be the great. That would the greatest military outfit ever.

And now of course the left would see that as an s even worse, more, maybe more terrifying inducing. Yeah, they'd be like this little furry I was going with, this is, you know, all the federal money that states get back from the federal government for a variety of reasons. Now, it shouldn't be that way. The state should be self funding and then get nothing from the federal government. And as a result, the federal government

should have a much lower tax rate for us. But right now, that's not the way it works. And, you know, all those states that are used to getting hundreds of millions of dollars from the federal government are going to have to start at zero and actually justify why they ought to be getting any money from the federal government. Oh, I thought that was going to be a huge savings. And the states that vote Democrat the most that relied the most on the federal government, are going to be fucked.

And I know there's there they're Democrats out there. Yeah, but Texas gets more money than most states out of the federal government. Well, yeah. Right now Texas does. But Texas doesn't need to. The reason Texas does is just be stupid to not get money back that your citizens paid in. Well, Texas could just sell all that meth coming over the border. They can just grab that. That's so we have methane. We don't need the meth. Methane, baby. Well, we all know it's, these.

And then, frankly, Texas had to send the bill to the federal government for our National Guard guarding the border instead of the federal government with whose job it is. Absolutely. But every year, I mean, Covid, it was very obvious. But every year things go on like, well, the news stories hit schools, get money for all these different, institutions get money that they're like, well, we need to spend this money before the end of the year. Otherwise, yeah, we're not going to get it next year.

And it's like, this is the problem with efficiency. It's like, well, if you are, all your bills are paid and whatever it is, whatever federal or state agency is sitting there like, we still got $5 million to spend it, only like two weeks to spend it. And the concept being we need to spend it rather that, hey, we saved money. Exactly. It's insane. And so I'm going to break the rule that I just put up about 20 minutes ago. You know, when you have rules. But yeah, just so junior rule.

No, don't talk to you about people that sending a couple pennies. Yeah. Well Penny we don't. So I'm going to treat this not as a donation but as just general advice for CSB. And frankly, he should have sent more sets. But as general advice. CSB yes, the new card is supposed to come out now, supposed to may mean it does or doesn't. It depends on if they're ready for shipments, but that it's supposed to be coming out before Christmas.

However, that card, is going to come out first in the most expensive version, which is going to be pushing $2,000, and then after they sell some of those, probably in February or March, they'll come out with cheaper versions of the five series as well. So I don't think this affects your purchase, other than the price of the four series cards should be a little bit cheaper by that. So there you go.

There's your message for season. He's looking to spend some money on a graphics card, so I'm giving him some advice. A podcast is never switched from politics to tech. So probably ever in the history of podcasts, this is history. And I think Elon is a guy who straddles both, so I don't see why we shouldn't. I understand that's a better format for shows I've done for a long time, and I'm fully convinced that is what causes nobody to listen. But I still enjoy both. So it's okay.

But it's like people political technology or technical politics, exactly. Like, say they either want to hear about tech or they want to hear about politics, but a lot don't want to hear about both. But they do overlap so much at this point. And I didn't buy the the Mac mini yet because it's a good way I have to get, do it. How do I run my sisters?

I know, and I know I don't what I don't want to do is buy another windows machine, because if I end up buying another windows machine, yeah, you're fucked, right?

Because I, I don't do gaming because, you know, no AI is really hurts. No. Yeah. So I don't do any of that. And, and Windows 11 is a lot more restrictive than the Windows 10. I know, but I'm like, well, I like doing the art generating and stuff like that with AI. And then you need the big beefy card like CSB ones. And that means if I build to do I mean I don't think you do and I'm certainly not for Photoshop because Photoshop Adobe, Adobe Acrobat is native on the Mac platform and force is it.

I don't know what problem they fusion more than anything else. Yeah. But again the all that shit's going to come out native. And the reality is the hardware that Apple's putting in that computer which is bug tastic, which everybody is I just me everybody saying get the cheap version, I know. Which is very annoying. But if you wanted to have equivalent processing power other than the Mac, you're spending at least 1800 bucks.

Now, here's the other thing that I was then considering because it's like one, there's only so many ports. I understand that you get a a dock or something like that. Yeah, but I'm also now looking at the well, you know, if I get one of these, what do they go up to like 53 inch monitors? I mean, if I get one of these, well, that would kind of be about the same amount of screen real estate that I have right now with the three different monitors, this would only be one cable.

And it's way easier because, let's be honest, the Mac mini is so small, tiny. I could run the windows machine and the Mac mini on the same monitor at the same desktop. I could I don't know what you wanted, but you could.

Sure, you could run other things in the background, do their thing. You know, if you want to do the things that are better at windows, it would just be nice. Easy transition, I think, to make between, but that's it. It's like, what? Wait, I like listening to the music, so I need to have something I can plug my speakers in. Otherwise I need a new speaker. What is your issue with speakers? Are your speakers digital? Are they digital? Yeah. Well, all speakers are they.

Do they have optical connector on them? What's what's the deal with the speakers? Well, there is an optical connector. It's a 5.1 that Creative lab set from way back with the subwoofer. Yeah. My point is do they have five wires that you have to plug into your computer in order to get 5.13? They have one three and one of the three bass back left and right, center back in front. There is no subwoofer output on the sound card okay. So center back and front. Yeah.

And you have these five speakers positioned around your head. Yes. Okay. I mean, all right, now I put them in the other room. I can't even hear them, but I want to run them. I mean, it's so 1990s, man. I know nobody does this shit. I'm old. I was using the 1980s 5.1 that doesn't exist anymore. But you said, Well, it exists, but it's just for watching me. And I don't watch movies in here. It's just for the 5.1. The music. What's recorded in 5.1? Send me one album that's recorded in 5.1. Okay.

They have released nothing is recorded in 5.1. It's all fake. Look, I'm listening to fake music. Look up Dolby Atmos 5.1. There's a ton of things that have been released in 5.1. I'm not saying I even listen to it a lot, but it's like I have the speaker system. I'm like, wait, I can't even I can't even plug this directly in now because it's crap. If you if you just go a little to go Bluetooth, it's the only way. Yeah. Another Bluetooth crap as well.

No, but you can buy a very cheap optical dongle so it'll plug into USB. And then we'll have an optical out that if these have an optical input, they just need one optical wire and you're done. Yeah. There's the the yeah. The optical the light. Yeah. Because the optical consensus channels in one wire. Yeah. Spirit. Right. That's the spirit. Yeah. It's better. Exactly. Because these great names are so easy to remember. I know. Right. It's just a bit of your tongue. Right.

Automatically the spin offs right on into the system. Then it plays. It's just amazing. It's technology I've got I've got one of these dongles on my PC for talking to the multi. Oh yeah. I guess because here's what I figured out. This is actually brilliant of me. I figured out that I have a two with an expensive microphone that's plugged into the Mac, and I was trying to think of, oh man, I can't believe I need to buy another multi for the PC.

Oh yeah, it occurred to me I would never use both of them at the same time because my my headset on the PC sounds like crap because, you know, gave me a headset. So I was like, fuck this shit. I'm going to use a real microphone. And it occurred to me I only use one at a time where I would use if I had two of them. Oh wait, I can just have the signal from the max mode to going optically from the back of the mount to optically into the PC.

And there's my mic on both computers, literally at the same time in high quality. It's like magic. Wow. Holy cow. This is, I go to the shop, probably run the second line back, and even figure out a way to get the audio out of the back into the machine, allowing me to only have one set of headphones instead of two, which is what I do right now. I have the PC headphones and the Mac headphones sharing an audio signal beyond two different computers from two different manufacturers.

Yeah, it's kind of like, it's it's very transitional of me. That is the beauty of the mode two is the fact that it has so many inputs that you can just pop things and, and move them around with the way it can break things out. You can even do if you were doing a multi-channel podcast, you can have it go to individual physical channels on a mixing board if you really wanted to. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the guy that I used to do the, oh what was that podcast called?

It was, I can't remember the, recumbent bike, Hells Angels. No, no, no, it was the business podcast that I did like five years ago. 5 or 6 years ago, maybe now, but, failing at business by surgery. Yeah, yeah. Hahaha. I can't remember what I was. I'd have to look it up. I'm sure I got it on my phone. Hold on. I'm going to look it up on my phone, see what it is. But that podcast, well, I was telling him what to buy for podcast gear. You know, I wasn't concerned about him spending his money.

Well, now it's challenging assumptions. Podcast. That's what it was called. And still up there, far as I can tell, why you saw that domain. That's a good one. Challenging assumptions. That should be like an RFC Jr podcast though I know right. And so he sold this company. So he had a few bucks in the bank. And you're thinking, how can I get the bucks in his bank into my bank. No no no no no I'm the no, not at all.

I'm just thinking in terms of, what can if I was to build this and I have to spend my own money, what do I get? So I have him by the eight microphone version of demo two. So it's the same motif that I have, which is two minutes, except it has eight. Mike and a Excel reports. That is a lot of reports. Yeah. And but it's the same guts but with more I think it's got more you know deep breath thing so you can do more effects and more mics at the same time. But you know, like mine was 700 bucks ish.

It was 7.99. His was like 1700, but. Well, yeah, because you're adding a lot of preamps. But and it was just the two of us doing a podcast, which is great. So, so there were another six microphones just sitting there to make it look like this was a more impressive. Yeah. Well, and then he bought, I think he bought I don't think. Yeah. About six. I think he bought, four A320s for it. Didn't want to go for the big boy. The 20 that the big boys. You know, I told them there 20 sounds better.

So it's got the big bottom. The 320 does not have the big bottom. The the RG 320 actually sounds better if you don't do any processing because the are 20. Purpose is meant to be a very flat mic, whereas the 320 actually contours the sound a little bit in such another salacious way. I did not. That was all. Little Andrew does know this. I'm saying you should know us, but I just one is an extremely slap mike.

I was like, I can either use the microphone that sir Jean is using or the one that Rush Limbaugh use, and I'm like, Which one had a more successful broadcast career? Yeah. Which one had a producer? Let's think it's that what you did. You just need a most nerdy. Yeah, yeah, you need a guy, and you also need a, big bottom in there. We need a big for us. She uses the big bottom. I don't know, that would be interesting. Pretty sure he did.

Of, I'm pretty sure signal processing that they did certainly might. No, I mean, I certainly would totally. No, absolutely. It might be a secret that that, you know, he's going to hold on to his stuff. I guess you look at the Rush Limbaugh sound, there's no rush. Used to talk like this whole time he was in person. This is it's. I'd like the guy from, family Guy that, the pervert or Herbert the pervert. That's it. Herbert. Yeah. You know, I looked I had to look him up recently, for a meme?

Yeah, for a meme. Did you look me up, Gene? Did you like what I look? I look them up. Exactly. Yes, I there was a meme that I was trying to recreate, and he would be the perfect, you know, character for it. And I couldn't remember his name. And I was like, oh, shit, what is that character? So I just put pedophile. Family Guy or no, just. Yeah, family Guy pedophile. And, and then it returned a different character. I was like, wait, did I miss a pedophile and family guy?

That I was not the old man? What is the deal? And then it was Meg. It was. No, no, it was, one of the other minor characters that it brought back. Apparently there's two pedophiles in that show. Well, pedophiles get lonely. I bet if you really think about it, Herbert the pervert kind of sounds like Bill Clinton. Just a couple octaves higher. I don't know, I always just thought of him as, Seth MacFarlane alter ego. Could be no no no no way.

He's ever. Yeah. Like no one's ever been sure where exactly Seth is with his preferential. Yeah. If you know what I'm talking about. Would rather not know. Wink wink nudge nudge nudge. He got a wink. He got a nudge there. I mean, run that right through. That's been, you know, he likes a lot of showtunes things. Showtunes. Never been married. Not that that's wrong. Nothing wrong with that. Show tunes like show tunes or otherwise, or disliking show tunes. I guess there's nothing wrong with either.

Limbaugh must have had a pretty nicely treated room, though. If you ever see photos or the videos, he's speaking quite far away from the microphone. Yeah, and especially back when he used to smoke. Yeah. Yeah. You imagine sitting in a room that smells like an ashtray for, three hours every day. A very small room, usually at the time. I mean, he probably got bigger there at the end when he built his own. Hey, now, don't don't be talking about his waist size is on studio.

Well, lower the, for the drug use early, but rush was always right. Yes, yes, they were good drugs. So in my formerly nicotine stained hands. Oh, that was a good impression. I like that you even have paper. Where the hell do you find paper? I have no paper at home. Just sitting right up the desk here. It's actually a, It was a $5 a check donation that came in for the Rock and roll pre-show. Oh, wow. You actually get those for the rock and roll pre-show from, memoir? Yeah. I see the way it goes.

Some people like to donate to support the shows. Well, I mean, and then there's a kind of surprise you're talking about it publicly going building the case for. All right by talking about it. But no, this is for the entertainment portion that I put out there. And I do my taxes, I am less afraid of the RIAA that I am the, I don't think anyone's afraid of the RIAA. No, no it's like the Internal Revenue Service. Yes. But here I got a check for a dollar. How much would you like?

You know, I used to I did a project for the SBA once, years and years ago. What is the SBA? That's the software publishing association. That's the equivalent of the RIAA, except for software. And there never been as much in the news as no, no, no, because they were smart. They only went after fortune 500 companies. Right. Like we bet you have a copy of Microsoft Office that's unlicensed, right? Like if you would you like to write us a check for $100,000 so we don't have to check, right?

Because they don't care. They don't want to see my one computer. They walk into you like the, you know, you walk into the Venetian in Vegas and you're like, oh, those 8000 computers you have all have this piece of software is your where's your license? Yeah, exactly the right guy. Hey, I mean, we thought we thought everything was legit. We paid the I.T. guy. Yeah, we throw the guy under the bus. That's the plan. Always. So the IT guy under the bus, that's what you have the ikigai for it?

Yeah. Pretty much. So when somebody comes in, you're like, oh, no, we didn't know. Oh, that's a bus storage thing. Yeah. How would we know it was it was licensed officially or not. Got engines. Amazed that I t guys get paid well in Vegas. It's all just hookers and blow. I mean, I guess I don't know how you put that on your taxes. I don't know, man. I guess that's true. Hookers and blow. Now, are the prices of the high quality hookers going up or down?

Now that we're moving into the Trump economy? I haven't heard. JCD yeah, that's a good question. I think I should check on that one, do some research for research purposes only. So what you get when you get cuffed in like, no, no, no, I was doing research right. This wasn't a pleasure cruise. We all work for tips are beepers. That's right. It's the when that goes through real when that. Oh, yeah. Oh, man. It's only when that bag dream about.

It's going to be a completely different world for podcasters. Yep. Because I think tips are going to be legally quantified as something that you get that you are not guaranteed to get from somebody. You know, it's a, that's, you know, again, just like when you go and even though it is the accepted thing, when you go into a restaurant that you're going to tip. No, I mean, it's moved up to, what, 18%, kind of the minimum. 15 used to be $3. Most people do 15 to 20% or $3 or $3.

No jeans like it's $3. Whether it was a donut and coffee or whether it was 14 prime ribs. And, and a bottle of, whatever kind of champagne you might want to, but it's like you're not guaranteed that. So if it's not something that legally that somebody has to pay you, it's not, hey, give me $20 a month and you got my service. You got the sir Gene podcast service? No. You get to use the product. You get to use the service. You get to decide what it's worth.

Very much like, you know, when we go visiting my dad in the hospital, they have a free valet. It's like, that is a service that's being offered. If you decide to give that guy money, you're not obligated in any way. That's obviously a tip. It's not like, here's your car keys, but here. Worst you have to give me ten bucks. Nope. Yeah. So anything that comes into a podcast that isn't a taboo, you really is good.

But you do end up tipping like ten bucks, of course, because you don't want to be a douche. Yeah, or you do like some people do. Not me. It's oh, man, I'm I'm totally out of cash. I, I guess next time. See, now, these guys are all smart. I think they're all like, Venmo, bitch. I know they do that. You're totally right. Damn it. Like you got your. Oh, no. Yeah. I'm good. They can just send that, swipe here or, it most people. I'm there for you, pal.

Or you tell me whatever you know guys, anyway, I told you, have their phone in their hand. It's not like usually they're hidden in a pocket where women. There is a bag. Guys, the phones are always visible. There's a, something I've always thought would be funny to do, but never actually did, which was starting even years ago. Like when I first moved to Austin 15 years ago.

This idea that, I that Austin was the first place in Texas that I ever saw a person standing on the corner by the stoplight asking for money. Really? Just don't see that in Texas. Normally. But I guess that makes sense. We get it all the time here and then Austin in a while, and we had it bad for a while, like right after Covid, I guess, or right before Covid. I can't remember anymore.

Yeah, right after Covid is I remember back when, Chris still lived here, because that was one of the reasons they moved out of Austin was that they started that there was like a homeless camp that that was living right next to their, fence in the back. But, I thought they were being hassled by a recumbent bike gang. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. You make fun of this, but ever coming bike is like $6,000. Beat it. Because it costs a lot. Doesn't mean it's cool. It's so cool and so unique and so awesome.

Well, I bet I bet I could ride one of those. I bet I can, I bet you can. Hey little boy, with the price I drive down from Dallas to buy it when I sold them. Right y'all tricycle over here. Gene. It's I had a very, very special model. I check. Yeah, yeah, it was imported from Australia. You have air bags on it? Oh, no, I didn't have every right to make sure you wear that really nice Adidas tracksuit. Yeah, yeah, I always wear that. Distractive. Not some good gene. Looking good.

You know, he sound very natural doing that. I wonder how much practice you've had. All the pads. Like, I don't want to know about what you're wearing. I'm just talking about the voice. You're doing gigs. Why? You keep that muscle. Do not give me no key. No, I don't do. Do not touch me there. No. Yeah, and clearly, you've had a lot of practice living in a garbage can as well. That's Elmo guy. Oscar's harder because he's he's a lower kind of a growl like I. You done that? That's not us. No.

I thought that was. Oh, yeah. Yes, it is the Elmo. Yeah. What? How are those things related at all or not? Well, I mean, they're all in the both. Henson's. Right. Yeah. The Henson crew, they were both on the same show, but not, they weren't like cousins or anything as far as, like, that was something. If they want to fool around, they looked like they that and then like the Cookie Monster thing had a big mouth too. Yeah. Jim Henson liked furry things with big mouths.

He's. Hey, let's not go to the 70s. Why do why you think that is? Gene? Murray. Things with big mouths. He was, Yeah, he was big in the 70s when the Henson. Oh, yeah. Before computers were able to do everything and reproduce everything magically with AI. Yeah. I always liked the, one of those little critters called that lived underneath the house. Mice. No, the Henson one Henson show. Oh. Was like Fraggle Rock or something. Mega rock? Yeah, the whole Fraggle.

They were cool because they were like, basically rat size little people that were, that, frankly, I think it was kind of a takeoff on The Hobbit, but they they lived in a cave and, they the central storyline was this main character's uncle was this big explorer that went and did massive exploration trips, meaning he got out of their little cave and he he went to the house. That was the the cave. Kind of like to. And he had all these stories of, of crazy, wild happenings, in the, the outer world.

And I remember another character was a, trash heap character that was a trash. There was a character that was the magic trash heap or the great trash heap or something like that. And it was a, it was a wise it was kind of the Gandalf character.

It was like this wise old character, the Fraggle would go ask questions when they couldn't figure out an answer to themselves, they would go to the great trash heap and, ask their query, well, net nets pulling this stuff out one he said dozers, which I had no idea where little. Oh yeah, there they were. And and Fraggle Rock. The dozers were like builder little tiny little builder guys that were even smaller than the Fraggle. So they were like, tiny, tiny. Yeah, I remember that.

I don't think I have a TV show, the Fraggle Rock show. No, no, it's I think the users were only there was a Doozer show. It looks like from 2012 to 2018. Two. So. Well, I mean, I guess the people that, like, never saw that we the maybe that's the probably. Yeah. I never saw the Doozer show, but the, Yeah, they were like these little tiny miniature people that were building stuff all the time.

And I think the Fraggle were like eating stuff they were building or something, or they were just breaking in. I can't remember exactly, but I know the Fraggle was didn't really see them as intelligent people. They're just kind of there. But the designers actually looked like people and they need to a fact checking that that who did boost. Yeah. Three things in Texas steers, queers and poncho profiteers.

Well, that last one's wrong. He would have actually had to make money on the project to be a poncho profiteer. What do you call a guy who has a garage full of ponchos that have been unsold? Lucky you, lucky you. You have some. I mean, you didn't even. You weren't even home for Halloween to give them away for Christmas. Give them to everybody. I thought. Yeah, that would have been a great Christmas gift to me.

It's an expensive Christmas. Yes. You don't usually give, like, you know, ten bucks worth of candy to somebody, but, for Christmas, I mean, yeah, the guy, your mailman, your, gardener, your, sushi guy, your, everyone, everybody gets a, everybody gets a poncho. It might rain. The weather might be the least. How much snow in Texas? You. My ponchos are great. We better not get much snow. Oh, it's global warming. It up. Yeah. Better me. Ellen's going to fix it.

I mean, all he has to do is send up one of those, rockets, and then it comes back down. It's just like a big hairdryer. Oh, yeah. Warm up the whole area. I think that's exactly how it works. He's going to change the the whole of our world for the better. Yeah. Ellen is a visionary. Yeah, yeah, I think you're right. And now he's been put in charge of the government.

And he can envision the way the only thing that that I'm going to predict with Ellen is any statements he makes about what they're doing are visionary statements. They're not actually statements meaning, we're making a car that is, that is going to have unbreakable windows. You'll be able to order it right now, and you'll have it in about two years. And, seven years later, we're still working on it. It's all the windows break, and, we still don't have your car ready. So he's really a good,

addition to the Donald Trump thing because he says crazy stuff every now. Oh. He does. Yeah, but I think that's where they get along is they both talk about that. Now, the flip side is he does eventually have shit done. It just always, always, always takes way longer than what he predicted. But if we put him in charge of the efficiency area. Right. So that's yeah. Just want to say the guy who's full time Trump is out of office, we should see some efficiencies happening.

Yeah, like 4 or 5 years after Trump is out of office. Yeah. Yeah. The efficiencies will start really hitting home. Man, I really hope that J.D. Vance becomes an activist. ACP. I like I can't remember I was watching a, YouTube video on this, but apparently back like in the 18 somethings, there was one VP that actually do that.

And so there's a precedent for this meaning generally, you know, the VP as the head of the House of Representatives, the VP is the Senate. Senate. Sorry. Right. As the head of the Senate. Yeah, it's a tie breaker. That's really the only thing you have to show. Well, and that's what they've been doing, however, and I can't remember which guy this is, maybe somebody on that same video, remember. But it was it was well over 100 years ago. But they but he was active.

So he was the acting as the president of the Senate the whole session, like every session. And, he is the, the according to the rules, if the VP is there as the presence of the Senate, he is the one that is dabbling first. So he effectively could take over the list of priorities in the Senate, like.

And this is what I'm saying, like there are options they can do if these Republican these so-called Republican rhinos that are in the Senate decide to impeach Trump, they could simply come in and have him run the Senate instead of the majority leader. They can sideline the majority, and he effectively would be the president of the Senate. The. Yeah, because the vice president normally does. Ditto. I mean he that's exactly, exactly. So that that is an option.

There'll be a lot of bitching if that happens. But there is actual precedent for it. And I think that's the key thing here is that, if it's been done in the past, it's hard for them to push back. I mean, they're going to try, obviously, but it's harder for them to push back out of it because, You know, it's not like they're doing something that's never been done. They're just doing what, frankly.

And I think their argument would be, well, every vice president could have and probably should have been doing this. Yes. As the presiding officer of the Senate, you really don't do anything unless there's a tie vote. So there's that. Well, no, that's just historically. But again, there was one instance of a VP that actually did all that and that was active as the, as far as what's in the constitutional letter is, all that there is, is to be the presiding officer of the Senate.

And of course, if the, president dies, man, they're they're well, obviously, and they can use that 25th amendment. So there's the silver bullet. Make sure you put somebody you trust is your VP. They didn't do the first time. They, of course, certify the Electoral College results. Congratulations, Kabila. Get ready for that. Yeah, yeah.

And, something about how less like Democrats passed something in the last four years that basically removes the, the VP's ability to challenge the certification or anything. So she has to certify it now. Okay. They didn't like what happened with Trump that one time. That's a beautiful thing. It's that'll never happen again. It's it's not up to them. It's like it's up to the people. It's up to the majority of the people that vote. Right.

And for a Democrat, it's a we're going to go with the majority vote. That's what we're going to do. We're going to give away our rights. It's just such short sighted stuff that these people come up with, their political responsibilities to be advisor to the president. Well, I don't know how much, public advocate, modern expansions of the role. The vice president frequently leads initiatives or task forces.

Yeah. Joe Biden, his vice president, oversaw the implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. All of that. Good and good. Yeah, I did, I go catch up. GPD says Kamala Harris is focused on issues like immigration and voting rights. Bullshit. She's done anything. Yeah. What has she done? So I don't know if the eye is correct on this or that could be wrong, but it's saying that John Calhoun, she was the VP under Andrew Jackson, was, very active in the Senate during his term.

That's how they've gone on as the time has passed, too. I mean, because you think about it, the vice president, which is kind of just the person sitting there in case the president dies. Yeah. So let's give them something to do while that is happening. And it was like, well, you could preside over the Senate. That had to mean a lot more at some point. Let's just go sit here and watch whatever they're doing and and not even talk unless there is a tie vote. Yeah, yeah.

I mean, I think that that that probably came out of convenience of the VP basically not wanting to be there. And let's remember, originally the vice president was the person who got the second most votes for president, which leads to a whole bunch of other different conversations when it's like, if the president dies. In your badgered, can you imagine that now, you know, Donald Trump wins, but Kamala Harris is the vice president. How long before Trump's dead.

Or vice versa you know oh Kamala won but Trump's vice president. Oh. Wonder how long. Yep. Like you don't want to do that. That muddied the waters. With the vice presidential roll I mean come on who can I mean who can even name most of the vice presidents throughout history? Oh, nobody. Except for the one who became relevant. You know that. Well, yeah. I guess if they became presidents like Papa Bush. Oh, like, let's let's not forget Dick Cheney.

He didn't become president, but he just went on to endorse a freaking lunatic from the other party. That's your legacy, Dick. You and your daughter. He was not a Viper. Vice President Cheney was. Under Bush, the. Oh, wait. No. Yeah. Well, no Bush the younger two. Oh, yeah. 21 to 2009. Yes. He was younger. Yeah. He was the vice president under Bush. Yes. Dick Cheney, you're right. No, you're right. I totally I mean, you said who can remember vice presidents?

Clearly not me, because I, I thought Cheney was an advisor of some type. I didn't realize he was the fucking veep vice president. Dick. Wow. Yeah. No, I totally did not like that at all. And that al Gore, I mean, he came so close to winning the presidency. Oh, some. Some would say he won the lot would. That's. But I think that's where the whole thing started with. Oh, no, we get this electoral college. We have to go with the popular vote because al Gore won the popular vote.

Very important popular vote. Except you're changing the game so you don't know it with all of the,

talk for these, where did the 1012 million Democrat votes come from? Yeah, as far as I can tell, they are equally dispersed across all 50 states, which is interesting. I was thinking you would find some kind of a pattern where you'd be like in a few key areas that this is where they drop, but it really seems to have dropped equally everywhere. So my if you want to conspiracy theory, the Republicans now have a way to rig the election.

And the only way to get the Democrats not to cry foul when it happened. Was to do what they did four years ago, which is to make it toxic for anybody to publicly be like that was the election wasn't fair. I mean this is genius when you think about it. If you have a way to fix an election, what you do is you then throw an election, you lose and then make all the hubbub. That's like, oh no, that wasn't fair. That wasn't fair. Because then the other side's like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then the next election comes in. They're now like, well, shit, now we can't because we just spent four years belittling these people that we can't we can't do that. I also feel like it was a Republican up to start going on social media and have women shave off their hair if they're Democrats. Oh my God, that's just so, so hilarious. I mean, I think that's where it started, because this is great. This is a bit and somebody did this as you know, a Republican.

It's probably for channel four channel probably made the first video getting women to do this. And now we know who that was into the, this is a concentration camp. Yeah, exactly. The FEMA camps. Exactly. Oh, you shaved your head. Oh, good. It's actually.

No, that that's it's that's mean to say that now we now know who to put into the insane asylums, because to make a person that shaves their head for no good reason, like they're not bald because the person that they didn't want to win the election won. Yeah. And that's a reason to shave your head. I would say that you, at the very minimum, should have a check up and an insane asylum and probably kept their.

Yeah. But as you pointed out, I keep saying bring back the asylum for like ten years, man. Bring back the asylums. Bring back my films. What do we want? Silence. What do we want them? No, no. It's a whole different. Showed the. I'm. I'm telling you, this is going to be one of those shows. I'm going to feed it through the eye to get the transcript and everything. It's going to be like, no, no, I am not giving you charity, not giving it, not for this hate filled show. It's like, they.

Yeah. Comedy's fan though. Yes. Comedy is no longer a until. Yeah. Until January of January 6th. Yeah. Is it the same date. Is it I don't know, it's inauguration Day, so I think that's, I believe that's a prescribed date. It's not like the first Monday in January or something. No, because then every president will have a variable length term. No. Yeah. That's true. That would you got two extra days, man. Yeah. You could fuck something with that. Well they're trying to they're trying desperately.

New York is like wait, wait, we gotta get this, tax on cars coming into the city in, this is the kind of shit that is just going to, I mean, hopefully drive the people in New York so insane that they finally jettison the Democrat leadership, the concept of, oh, you want to come into New York between, you know, 7 a.m. and 5 p.m.? Well, let's get the cost you $20 to bring your car into the city at that point, every day.

So people that work there, I'd be like, give them a big middle finger because we know your fucking subways aren't safe. We know public transport's not safe, and they're going to try to bleed you fucking dry with, you know, an extra 100 bucks. I mean, maybe in New York, that's no big deal. You know, 20, 25 bucks a day, whatever. They're, want to have the tax be. Maybe it was 18. It was something worth close to 20 bucks, if I remember. Right? Right. Okay. It's insane.

And it was all scrapped because of political reasons. And now they're like, oh, no, we better try to get this done before Donald Trump takes office. I don't necessarily know why being it's a state thing, unless they figure he's going to have some kind of, strike down power. I mean, it's I think they do it in London. I think there are some cities in Europe that do this kind of thing because they don't want cars in the city. They don't want it to be overrun.

So then they just create ways to make it very inconvenient for you to bring your car in. And it's like, well, that's not the way America works. This, again, is one of these big things where they don't want you to live in the suburbs and come work in the city. They're like, well, if you're going to work in the city, you should live here, too. Yeah. They they say that that's what all the fucking businesses go by by getting a move somewhere else.

You move out into the middle of a fucking cornfield in Iowa. Yeah, but safer that way. You know, that's where the, the World's Fair is going to be at the the 250th anniversary of America. I didn't see Trump when he gave that speech. You know, I didn't really pay much attention. I saw the what's like a World's Fair kind of thing. It'll be a year long state fair next year, a year long state fair in Iowa. You realize most of the time these things take like a decade to plan. And he's just a guy.

We have Trump. Let's ratchet up. Maybe it's going to happen just like the fence on the southern border. I didn't even realize that the big, I think it was the World's Fair that was in New York, like in the 50s. Yeah, was the impetus for a lot of the technology that became Disneyland to Disney World. I think it was earlier than the 50s. But yeah, but some of those rides, they came like 1938 World's Fair or something, and it's like, oh, let's do that. The world of tomorrow is what it was called.

And, some of those things are still existing in Disney, which means they're a little bit outdated. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Doesn't mean they're no longer a nice attraction to go see. Yeah. So here's the thing. While we were talking, I looked this up. Actually, I found the paper on this doing read. So apparently the the, president of the Senate has what's called the right of recognition. Well, hello there, except you don't remember them. So the right of recognition for Cheney.

I mean, I wouldn't I wouldn't be getting this job, that's for sure. So we can't fire anybody as vice president. So the Senate's formal rules state that the presiding officer might be recognized first, and then he will be in charge of recognizing people thereafter, which makes sense, because you got to have somebody who's leading, the, Senate or in any committee.

And that person is the first person to be recognized between they're the first ones left to speak, and they're the ones that choose who they recognize to speak. Well, if the, the pretender Republicans, the rhinos want to play against Trump, I think that will be a perfect opportunity for JD Vance to come in there, assert his right, and not recognize anybody that he doesn't want to recognize. Political gamesmanship. And he was a senator, remember. He knows these rules use the rules that you have.

That's the way the world. Yeah. That's how you win. Right. Well that's there's a lot of people by knowing the rules and how to use them, I'm sure most of our listeners don't watch NASCAR. But that was the big hubbub this time around. Is the guy that won if you went just by the regular season points was like 17th. But because he won at the right time, played the game. Right. And a lot of people are upset about that. And it's like you can't be it's like the electoral college thing.

It's like if you're if the rules say one thing, that's how you build your strategy. That's how you build your team. That's how you whatever. So you can't be like, well wait, there's this person shouldn't have won. It's like no that's not the way it is. You play by the rules that you have. And if you could win within the rules that are on the books, that means you're legitimate. Whether it's a president or in a sport.

But if you change the rules of course the game is different, but you have to change them first to know this concept that we can put different rules on previous elections, which is what these people that want the Electoral College to be gone and the popular vote to be used, they are officiating previous elections and not understanding that if you change the rules, like I've said all along, these people in California, Illinois, New York,

that would never go out to the Republicans because they're like, well, I'm never going to get my vote to count in my state. Once that popular vote actually counts, you don't know how many people are vote. I believe without much data in front of me. I believe that there are more people in this country who are conservative.

When you add all of those together than there are that are liberal, which means if everybody's vote actually counts for the same, those liberals are just signing their own, death warrant, which would be great. I guess. I don't know if I necessarily have that much against the concept right now on its face of the every vote counts. Use the popular vote. But I understand that the Electoral College is there in order to provide some checks and balances.

Like everything else of the politics in the United States. And it gives smaller states. I mean, the reality, though, did anybody go to Hawaii or Alaska to, you know, to campaign now? Maybe they did, but you're not putting a lot of money into it, you know? So why bother? Yeah. You got small population states that don't really matter. So it's like, okay, I understand you want them to have a voice, but the reality is they're kind of off the table.

I don't even know who Alaska and Hawaii voted for because they're both, well, Hawaii is usually Democrat, but Alaska is a flip flop state. So Alaska where I'm trying to look it up now. Yeah, Alaska went Trump. I think Hawaii did go. Harris. So I feel warm and paying way too much for things. Y'all go Democrat if you're cold and paying way too much for things, you go Trump. That's kind of what both of those states are very isolated. Yeah. Bro says Alaska was red. Hawaii was blue. Yeah okay.

But Alaska has flip flop. They have done live in the past as well. Well they could be part of Russia at any time. Well are they technically are you see, because, that sale was never actually, finalized. We did cover that at one point. Putin actually owns Alaska. Maybe Trump won't give it back to him. Well, I don't know. Maybe maybe they'll traded for Ukraine or something. That'll be great. You know, we have a few listeners that are in Alaska.

So I mean, it's like you could be Russian by the end of this term. I mean, I just want to warn you of that. Yeah. And if you become Russian, let me know. As a Russian billionaire, I, I may have some pull on that. Yeah. Jean can help you out. Then he can get you in and out. He can get you the caviar guy's number. He will provide you with the yes deputy against number. Yeah, exactly. That's all you need to know. Exactly. Part of being in the Russian club. So I do think it is hilarious.

The more people push Karine Jean-Pierre with the, all the rhetoric about him being a threat to democracy. That Trump guy. Whoa, whoa. What happened? That's really what she really lost, I guess. I don't know, I do I'm surprised they haven't gone that route. Well, I did hear a reporter asking Biden if he thought that Trump was still a threat to democracy after meeting with them. The. But as usual, Biden didn't say anything. Did you just give you that shit eating grin that he's been wearing lately?

Yeah, yeah. Exactly right. My wife, my wife told me to vote for Trump. Now. Yeah, my words are Biden. It's it's the kind of grin where you can't tell if he's currently pissing, right. Or if there's some kind of inside joke that you're not party to, or both. Or both. Yeah, could be both. Yeah, yeah. Same time. I hear Jill ordered some red ponchos, so I don't know what that hat. Yeah, well, I don't sell the red ones. Unfortunately, I didn't get any of that. Got to get some red.

I did see her wearing red on election day. Yeah, that wasn't the sign at all. No. And that at the Veterans Day ceremony this week that she was sitting next to Kamala and the camera.

At least when the cameras were on them, when Kamala was showing up, they did not good at each other or even look at each other. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, can you wonder why I to come on. This was why women shouldn't be in politics. I know this was vicious politics. This was one on one Nancy Pelosi's pissed that Biden didn't leave soon enough. And it's like, you know what? He's with your fucking guy. I mean, this is it. You know, she's older than him.

I know, and she's running against the fucking two years. He already went in for her, you know, and whatever it is to be on the ballot for her next election. Insanity, man, it is insanity. I think. I think we have to have age limits. I've been saying that for a long time to you. I think there should we have a minimum age? There's no reason not to have a maximum age.

I think there should be a cognitive thing attached to it. 35 minimum, because I think Donald Trump, that's probably 45 maximum 60 year olds looks younger. Some you know, he looks like he's healthier than Cher. Dude, it's no if I if I could get a maximum age passed and have to train in Trump to do it, I'd do it morally. What? I'd rather take the long game here. But but that's a difference. Again. I mean, you want the people with the DNA. That's good. They are long.

Trump could have run 30 years ago. Yeah. And even talked about running 30 years ago. But he didn't run well. He was too busy marrying a supermodel. I love that. Which one. Which one I though did I love the three of them there that he married. Keith Olbermann is like a Russian state TV show. Donald Trump, who's in charge by putting nude photos of Melania on the Soviet television, Russian television. And it's like, clearly fake news. Russian television does not allow nudity.

And it was maybe it was even blurred out because it was the cover of GQ from the UK. GQ, I guess, where they have nudity, but they do have it. The in the UK from I think it was 2000, 2001, she was on the cover sans clothing, as they would say, and that was what they were showing this up, I think. So it's like, do you really think Donald Trump was unaware that she was on the cover of a magazine? I mean, it's like this was not salacious. This was not some hidden porn from, on Earth.

This was nothing untoward. It was a human. Whatever. You can't see. Shit, man. I'm looking at the magazine, right? And you're pissed because you're like, you can't even see anything. Yeah, yeah. I mean, we're just Keith over. It's obviously just pissed that Donald Trump gets really hot. Women.

Yeah, she's she's, you know, in the classic pose which you've seen in Playboy's back in the olden days since the fifth of, of a beautiful nude woman lying on a bearskin rug or a ship's sheepskin rug, maybe, but some kind of a fur thing. But, like, you can't see anything. Yes, you can see she's naked. But you know when when you're face down on the rug. What? An image shot from the the head side. Like there's nothing you can see.

This is very common in any model that does high end fashion or not even high end. Robbie. Okay, there are a lot to do the low end, but, dude, when I used to be a photographer, like, this was sort of the test. The camera shot they have. All the girls do. Well, I mean, I've seen, you know, it's usable. I've seen Adriana Lima, I've seen Candice want to. Well, everybody that has made millions of dollars in modeling has these images out there and most that haven't as well. Yes.

And the ones that you never heard of as well. But this is a very common thing. And it's like if you think that's embarrassing, Donald Trump is like, do you not think he merits this way? So not embarrassing. I think Donald Trump, they said when the, they did a story the GQ did because they wanted to sell papers or the magazine rather back in 2016. So they're, you know, put this photoshoot in and he ordered a bunch of the copies to be sent to the white House. You know, it's like, come on.

But, when, when did this come out? What year? The originally, I think it was 2001, 2001 because the, the cover says as far as stories in the magazine, sex at 30,000ft. You want to be an Air Force One now? The GQ bitch list. This tells you the time has changed a little bit.

Yeah, yeah, because this is all just GQ cover. You know, we could probably do a nice segment every show by pulling. Oh. So, the cosmopolitan kind of make 160,000 pounds in five days and two nights. Well, I have to be, really. I mean, the hooker price has to be way up. Way up. But I think looking at, you know, Playboy maxim that the other, you know, GQ on the other side of that cosmopolitan that stock from Jamie Oliver, Tony Personnes and Jason Barlow. I don't know who those people are.

You want to pull out all the headlines and you can get a good idea of what was going on in the world at the time. But yeah, I think we talked about this on one show. It's like I was kind of, you know, mentally going through the, maybe it was on the planet rage. That show I do on Mondays. Yes. You probably have me mixed up with somebody. Could be my you might not. It might be. You might have been talking to Larry. But I'm like, okay.

In my lifetime, the, there's never been a, a level of a fluff, you know, a first lady. I'd like to until Melania. I mean, that's it. I mean, you go back and you, you never have the thing for Barbara Bush. No, that's what the. That was exactly the question that, the other show. And somebody was like, oh, you don't like her? Cankles.

That was probably that that, you know, it's like, you don't like Barbara's Cankles I'm like, no, I didn't do Barbara didn't do want to do Laura did Hillary Clinton oh my God, I have nightmares about, you know, Hillary. Yeah. Everybody has nightmares. They usually have castration involved. But like, nobody wants that new. Yeah. No secret crush on Hillary Rose. Now that's just that's just terrifying. That's what you wake up is all right. How about Jackie?

Jackie who? Jackie. Oh, definitely. But that was before my time. Okay. All right, so, I mean, in my time. Jackie, you weren't around for the Jackie O presidency, so I'm thinking so.

Yeah, like I see video. I know who I, who I have seen with, with, Kennedy. Oh, Marilyn. No. Well, yes, obviously, but no other than Maryland. Marilyn is what you said, Marilyn. The whole state. Oh, Marilyn. Marilyn. Marilyn. Other than Marilyn. No. What's her name? The chick we just talked about in the house. Chick. What's her name? Old lady in the house. Old running house for you. Oh, Nancy Pelosi. Nancy. Yeah. There's a photo of a 16 year old Nancy. No. Yes, yes, yes, it's out there.

Google it. 16 year old Nancy. I've got to 16 year old Nancy. I'm not doing, sir. Just do it. Do it now. 16 year old Nancy meeting JFK. Man, this is why does he have a big grin on his face. And and six year old Nancy did not look like 85 year old Nancy. No, that's a real surprise. I'm just saying, you say back in the day, you're like, I could have been a Democrat. Yeah, I could have been a Democrat. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But the, as I actually put this into a search engine, that's not a good idea, but before the 2016, when they were walking the when they got out of the car, walking down to the inauguration, where Melania was definitely sporting a outfit that would have been perfect for, for Mrs. Kennedy. Yeah. Now, I think Melania has been dressing very well. I, I'm not a fan of that type of face. Like, it is a very stereotypical East European kind of face and, you know, with the high cheekbones and everything.

And it was a 17 year old Nancy, according to her. Oh, very different. Oh. Oh, yes. Back when the US had a 16 year, age of consent. They keep raising that like the old one. They still do, because I would just look at that because of the Matt Gates story coming out. Yes. In Florida I mean, they do have it's 18 in Florida. All states are different. But the, yeah, Nancy really looks like one of the girls that was, like, no, be jealous or something. Yeah, totally.

Totally back. So you did look up the front. Yeah, but you told me to. I mean, I thought I had to do what you said. Well, that's true, you keep thinking that the the, But you see it. I mean, like, Nancy was looking right at JFK s eyes. They're like, hey, he wasn't even president back then. What do you think the, the betting ads on that, Nancy and JFK had a moment later on and somebody stole them. I think anything's possible. I think it's about 99.99% the age of consent thing.

There are still I think it's 31 states where it's 60. Yeah, yeah, it's a lot of change. In Afghanistan this month, they they brought it down, didn't they? It is now down to nine. Oh yeah. Yes, it was at 12. It is now down to nine. I want to know if this is a doubting it's a typo in this, world population. Yeah. World population preview.com where the age of consent thing is listed. They have acceptable age differences which makes a certain amount of sense.

So again, if it's true, if you're in Alabama and it's 16, there's an acceptable age difference of two. Meaning if the girls 15 and the guy 17 it girl he ain't going to jail. Yeah. In Utah that difference is listed as ten. So it's an 18 age of consent, but an acceptable age difference of ten, which means if if the girl is nine and the guy is 18 it's cool. Yeah. Not too sure what you're fucking doing Utah I don't, I don't think anyone's looking for nine year olds in Utah.

Dude I think they're kind of reading. They're a little extreme though. The reality is this is there's, it's really more of a 26 year old guy who has already two lives looking to add a third who's 16 for life. You're 16 to get a ten different. So if you're 25, you can go 16. Yeah, that's, all. But it is not a big deal. I mean, it is definitely stranger in the areas and I don't see, yeah, well I would I is 17, not 18. Okay. But there is no acceptable age difference on some of these.

But when it comes down to no acceptable age difference, you're going to have a great Google history today though, right? The 17 year old Nancy, what is the age of consent in American states? What's the lowest state of all the states of consent? Just curious, but what do you see? Some of these cases where like. Oh, well, the girl was 17, but it was a teacher, you know? Okay, there.

I understand there's rules built in, but you see some of these where it's like the girl seen in the guy's 23 and you're like, I don't think that should qualify. There's a funny video like one of those short videos I saw yesterday. I remember the day before it was, a newspaper, you know, headline thing, clipping, whatever of, two teachers investigated for having a threesome with the student. And then they've got the picture of the students and two teachers on their.

And, about three seconds later, you have a guy that looks exactly like the student just kind of come out the side of the screen and with a big grin on his face, starts to slowly nodding his head. This is not a crime, people. Okay, a teenage boy fucking two teachers should not ever be a crime. Now there's a nice out. What if the teachers were burly man and he wasn't? Okay, well, that's different, but you know what I'm saying. If they're hot, hot chicks, teachers look, teachers quite often.

I mean, these days, they're out of blue hair and they're gross and disgusting looking. But back in the day, you had teachers that just came out of college teaching junior high school.

I mean, let's remember that Van Halen song. Got it, got it made. Yeah, I the teacher. Yeah. Because, yeah. If your teacher is like 24 years old and you're a red blooded 15 year old, what, are you kidding me? They call the kid the victim at that point, and you're like, yeah, victim, my ass. Was it was it really the victim? And even the thing was, they to get a two for one general South chicken thing. Oh, well, yeah, I like a little as long as there's no MSG.

I like a little gel. I love me some moments. Jesus. Best thing just makes. Just makes me breathe deep. And I'm sure it does. It doesn't give you a nice, I, I, you know, the, or the aura where the whole lights, the fire. I mean, it's fun to see fireworks, but, you know, as you pointed out, it is causing brain damage every time it happens. There's some kind of neurologic for certain people. Not for not for people that don't have that gene like me.

So you don't have the gene. Gene? You know, I'm missing the gene. Missing the gene of the gene. We got to use that. We can use that recumbent bike. Artwork for today's show. Or maybe I should just auction that off there like that, show it to anybody. Oh. Then then off like CSB do you want to. There's an NFT. Do that. I'll put in a copyright strike. That's me. Doesn't prove it. I've got it. Prove it I say did it first and you're copying me using my. You got the original photo.

Clearly your copying me. Yes. It was a derivative work of, Not derivative enough. No, it looks just like the photo. I didn't even change down to the track suit. Down to the fucking tracks, down to the Russian flag flying off the bus. Oh, well, I always fly Russian flag when I'm biking. Like I said, that go over well in Austin. The people this like let's this guy. It does, it does. People are like, yeah we miss communism. We're trying to get it back.

Yeah. I think Austin, incidentally, was one of the highest voting cities for, Colin Harris. That said, we had an 87% vote for Camelot here. That is sad that it's, it's par for the course, dude. Well, what do you expect the Californians to be voting for when they move out of California? I guess I was watching, Candace Owens last night. She's been on a tear. I mean, she is a, a vindictive woman, I believe, which is, she's a woman. You can stop there, but. Yes. Oh.

But she has been, in Fuego lately. Oh, totally. And she pointed out that when you look at again, these are exit polling and all that. So the accuracy may be a little off, but the results look like 92% of black women voted for Kamala. And it just to be in that she's like either black women are geniuses or it's a very homogenous thing where you're, you nobody needs to even take you seriously because your vote is so far down that, yeah. You know, I think that's something that they just don't read.

Some do, some don't know. I'm pretty sure they don't because I politics. Exactly. It's it's literally disregarding absolutely everything about General Harris and simply looking at doctored photographs of her where she looks dark. That's all it is. Because if you look at normal photographs or her, like outdoors with other people in sunlight, she is basic, one shade lighter than I am. After you're out on the bike and getting some tan. Well, wearing my tracksuit. Yeah, right.

Well, the white suit makes you look much darker. I think it's slimming, you know? I mean, that's orange. My shows are definitely slimming. There's no two ways about that. Well, Donald Trump did that many times. Well, he showed you that with the orange vest. He's like orange is good. Yeah. Orange Slims. Yeah. Yeah. But what you said about it, what if 92% of white men voted for Trump? What would the leftist media be telling you? Wow, that they've room. They've been right all along.

And that 92% of Americans are racist Nazi homophobes, right? Support Israel. Yeah, but it's okay. That's the one thing I would never understand. It's like it's okay for somebody like Joy Reid to go out and say, well, I'm just going to focus on black man. Black business is black this, black that. And we don't even invite your black joy Reid. She's on MSNBC who, I believe in a black network thing that I'm not aware of.

MSNBC, I think before, I mean, I don't know how quickly these things, take place, but MSNBC is on. It's NBC for the state of Mississippi. Kind of. Well, it started out, remember, it was Microsoft, NBC. It was a partnership between Microsoft. Oh my God, I do remember that. You're right. It was a Microsoft product. That's right. Ship still around now. It is the most leftist network that is on cable television. Comcast owns them and it is doing so poorly that it is up for sale.

And I've heard both Ellen float. Should I buy it. And Jack Posobiec is like should he buy so. Well and Jeremy Boring said that as well. So now it's like, am I going to have to buy this thing now? Yeah. Well, imagine if this goes conservative then that would be hilarious. Doesn't want to buy it. But he pointed out that their ratings for the entire they are lower than his ratings for a two hour show there. I believe there's temple have enough money to buy it yet, though I'm not sure.

I mean, he's doing well, has an exaggerated view of how much money he's worth because, the rushes I give him. Look, here's the thing. He finally got a bit of the reality check pointing out that he's a shitty manager, which he is, but, yeah, from everything that he's talked about, everything as far as the show and and funding and everything else, he thinks that they're worth about 50 to 60 million. They don't do anywhere near that in terms of revenue. They're closer to about 6 million in revenue.

So it's liberal math where it's like, I just came out with a new product. It hasn't. So it's what I said here's is and this happens a lot. I see this all the time with business owners where they their value of the business in their heads is more directly associated with how much time they think they're putting into it and how much their personal involvement is in the business. Then it has anything to do with the actual moneymaking ability of the business.

Like like nobody gives a shit if you work, you know, 60 hours a week, every single week, which is what Tim claims to be doing. Nobody gives a shit about that. What they care about is how many ads are you selling right? Yeah. What what that's gonna be. So he he just turned down, an offer. What was that? He just did this literally last week. I want to say it was in the neighborhood of 6 million. No, that wasn't that much. It was. It's probably about $3 million or 10% of the company.

And he thought that was a too low offer. So that was way too low. It was insulting. It was insulting. Yeah. It's like okay. But then what you're saying is you think your company is worth 60 million. It's that they just believe that his he could make it on his own better and more than. I mean, why would he even need the funding is the other question. Why would you need to tell somebody when when your whole thing is built out of a garage?

I mean, you're he's the one when it comes down to it, podcasters do not have to spend a whole lot of money to be in the business of pot. No, no, no, they they really don't. But he again, I think like he's made good money as an individual, but he's making the money as individual. It's not the same thing as making good money as a company. Those are two different things, you know.

And he did this thing that I hate, which is the I rarely watch, but I saw him do a clip that we also brought into Planet Rage of David Pacman, the liberal guy who was complaining about losing subscribers in the poll thing. That thousand subscribers. If I lost 5000 subscribers, like, we have 2.5 million. So five. Yeah, you lost a quarter of 1%. What do you do? But why can't Tim Poole and one guy or maybe two guys talk about this? Why are there like 18 people on the show real?

And that's a slight exaggeration. I think it was 6 or 8, though. It was four and it seemed like eight. It's like it's too much. Yeah, I don't think it's too much. I think, it's about the right crowd. Sometimes the guests are really crappy and they'll never have them back again. Other guests are very entertaining and he should have more often. But the but it's like you don't need this kind of like, you don't. There's nothing there's no formula for that show that somebody couldn't duplicate.

Oh, exactly. It's all it is, is AA4 to five person. Let's give you the benefit of the doubt. Yeah. Let's say to be five people. Depends on whether he has one guest or two guests, but it's a it's it literally is just a recorded podcast. Now, Tim is better than some people at not having to speak like some people. If it's their show, they feel they have to speak 51% of the time. Tim is not like that. There are quite a few episodes where Tim probably speaks about 10%.

Well, is that really working then? That's only 10%. You can't say you're working 60 hours if you're just sitting there. Well, okay. Okay, I'm sure you know all about working, don't you? I do, yeah. So one circuit City. I work at Circuit City making carpets, man, I did, I made the most sold carpets. I never actually made up one thing you didn't want because that would take skill. Yeah, you did that. You did not want me doing the binding or anything like that.

That takes, you know, I've cleaned a few in my day. You know, where I actually do the physical labor I carry the big rolls. You ever see the big rolls of padding? Yeah. I used to be in good enough shape to carry those things up, like 30 or 40 years. Whatever. It was crazy up into the, up into the loft. If the, the machine, you know, the forklift was out. I hear when you do that, your blood pressure should so high up, it just fucks your eyes up. It could. I mean, that is very possible.

It is very. Well, that was just being a preemie and having very badly shaped eyes which did that. My eyes are really. It's like Stewie's head, you know. Think Stewie's head. Oh like more like a football than it is the round eye that a child senior head I know. And that is a problem for the for the retina. But I saw the retina guy. The the good idea. Stable. Good good good.

The the bad I he's like, well, that's within a couple of months the, the cornea is going to be completely clouded over because we never did remove the oil. And he's like, we, you know, if you really want. I mean, I guess it's a slightly cosmetic thing, although I think it's cool if the eye is going to look fucked them. But it's strictly a paramedic thing. He's like, they're working on still the stem cell for the retina. He's like an if that comes here.

And when it does, you can inject that in the eyeball. Well you could do a corneal transplant at the same time. Oh okay. So you can replace the cornea. It's like it's not like what do you what he's like yeah. We could do another surgery and go in and take part as a cornea I can't remember. The cornea is then it's up in front of the lens or behind the lens. I know you can scratch it. So maybe it's, This is. I got to be in the front. Then that's how you do it, everybody.

Where is the cornea? In the eye. The cornea. Oh yes. It's a common it's like the right in the front then before the lens, it's that little bit. All right. It's the protective layer of the eye. And I get you know you can see that is one thing they can do the transplants on. Yeah. Can't they just stick some plastic on there and just be better.

Hey I'm just like do these like, they're doing the, stem cell and they're getting, you know, really good results, I think over in Europe, of course, because that's where it's all quick. Mexico. There's a lot of stem cells in Mexico. And I said, well, what's going to be first, the, that or is Elon's be bionic I get a win. I mean probably you're still better off going the if you can regrow the retinal cells on your own.

Although the bionic guy, there's something to be said because then you've got great vision no matter what. Yeah. Exactly. And you got better vision because you got infrared and but your eye will do it. It would be so. Okay. I know you're of the same age grade. You watch the Bionic Man, right? So, I mean, yeah, this is kind of like, can you imagine him in the eye and there's, like, a really hot chick. See, you're, like, going to be more like Geordi

the Forge, though, than the bionic can do. Like Tutu. Tutu? No, no, it's going to be a bionic guy, man. It's going to be great. It'll be a visor to shoot. You know, they're doing I not a visor. I mean, the visor would be cool, too. Yeah, but I think they are actually doing this in an individual eye. For what? They don't need it to be an eye. It really does not need to be. You. Do you want it to be an eye? It's really better that way, Bionic man. Really?

That visor would be better like Bionic Man. It's going to be great. You'll be able to see. Then you'll be able to do the X-ray and be like, hey, I know what you're wearing, baby. The totally not X-ray, but okay, that's what everybody thought back in the day. Remember, in those magazines, you could see through clothes what they didn't realize that was just millimeter wave. Get that X rays, backs. Yeah. Tall. You don't get to get the. This is what TSA uses. This is how they hire people.

But, hey, do you want to work the, millimeter wave machine? Yeah. You want to work? You can probably make that happen in a couple years. Yeah, you can see everything. Oh, yeah. There's nothing hidden on one of those things.

It's. In fact, it's so good. It's almost as good as the old Sony camcorders from about 20 years ago. It had the infrared filter removed that you remember that you were saying I. That was awesome. They'd be more like, wow, this is a revolutionary. How could they do that? Oh, it's totally is goes right to clothes. Yeah. It's amazing. Don't believe everything you hear, people. It was pretty amazing though. I mean, you could totally, like, see what somebody's not wearing underneath their skirt,

but the, Yeah. The. So the cornea probably within a couple of months will be, you know, completely clouded over because a lot of the oil leaked up in front of the front of the lens. So you gotta get another replacement and we'll see. The oil was never it. It was one of the ways to keeping that in would keep it stable. And it's fine in the eye. Yeah. But because the oil is in there, then, it's going to get places they don't want it to be.

I remember my dad talking about this, and then he said that it looked like the ducts that circulate the inner. I fluid get clogged up, and when they get clogged up, then there's no more circulation or filtering or cleaning of your eyeball fluid. I don't know what the technical term for that is. Well, then it's all those small floaters and stuff that might otherwise. Well, everyone's got small floaters, but you start getting like, blockage. Yeah, it's not good.

Parts of your retina are literally blocked off from seeing shit, and you start getting a darker, more fuzzy picture and stuff. Yeah, that's kind of what we have in the good eye. A lot of good that floaters going on. Yeah, but I'm just taking it one step at a time, hoping that technology gets it to the point where there's a, where there's a fix for it. It's been eight fucking years, man. I can't even believe it's been eight years with, the way this is, you know?

Because really, nothing is ever super clear, you know? So you can't just, like, watch TV and forget because the, you know, the bad eye is always. Especially if you're opening that eye. Yeah. You're always seeing a little bit of a haze over stuff. So we're hoping for technology, man. Yeah, we're all hoping Elon. I mean, I may be dead first, but that's there's that. There's that picture of Nancy Reagan.

She looks very, very excited in her white gloves, going just past her elbows and a little tight white, dark dress. And, hey, now that I'm that, you're right. The look from JFK is. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Look, I'm telling you, I was like, yep, that's how Nancy got to power. Look on her knees. Oh yeah, I just saw I thought that was Kamala. Oh I'm sorry. Well, Kamala. Nancy. Same difference. Just 50 years in. Did you hear any thing that, Joe Judge Joe Brown had a video? I haven't had a chance to watch it.

That saying the Biden administration, they passed a bunch of laws that it was like using the military on citizens. That was all, like, based upon the fact that they thought Trump was going to lose that. Yeah. What was that all about? You know, I, I don't think these are laws. I think these are just actions they've taken that they're, you know, any president can. But basically, getting getting the National Guard ready to be, it's the same shit that happens when there's a natural disaster, right?

They can call in the National Guard to come in and you remember when we had this in New Orleans years ago, where they call in the National Guard to basically go house to house and arrest people? Well, because things were going insane for no good reason, pretty much totally didn't need to be there. But yeah, I mean, that happened. And that's what they were getting ready for. They're going to arrest and round up all the conservatives. So many.

And, the fed averse Patrick get no authority that socials like responded to the let's get unrelenting which has a link to no agenda that stream and there's no chat room for the show, but just go to no agenda. Not so he he asks them on the chat room. Are he in the metaverse? Oh, are you still on that thing? Okay, right. This was closing windows and I got into the metaverse, and, we borrow the no agenda chat room because we don't really feel the need with no agenda is not on at this time.

Why? People would want to log in and then change to a different substance. Rooms. Why would you? I don't know, all these shows do that. I think it's a narcissistic thing. I mean, that's why, you know, you got bowl after bowl abs in a six pack. You got, hogs talking nonsense. There's no this affair. I mean, they're all, they all got their own podcasting 2.0. They got their own channels. Why? I don't know, makes no sense. Why would we want an unrelenting channel?

We suck. Yeah. Screw that. That's more work than we have to, right? I mean, that's all I know. I mean, it would take 13 seconds to set up a room, but zactly, that's 13 seconds that you don't need to do. Now, I know, and I just I need time to figure out which machine I'm going to buy. Yeah, exactly. I know you don't need time for that because you know what's going to be. Yeah, you're just wasting time right now. Just click the button. It's gonna be the Big apple.com. Click the button.

Do I have the coupon code gene. Sir, you have to get go get you some money off. Not anymore. Doesn't use you. But I can't even plug my speakers in. I'm, like, sucked into my dude. You know, in my in my peak years, I was buying about $35,000 of Mac gear per year. Oh, well, if you get a discount, then I did get a discount I mean, now oh no, I because I don't buy any apple shit anymore. Oh, last thing, I think the only thing I bought this year was one iPad. That's it. Was it an iPad Pro?

Yeah, that's the other thing I'm considering. It's like, okay, I'm still running. That's more expensive than the mini, which is, I know I do. I that's exactly why I'm like, you know, you're an idiot. You should have bought a mini like when we first talked about it. Just do it. I know what you bought one, like, two years ago. Well, no, because then you'd be kicking yourself right now. But right now for something. Yeah. It's out I. The next one is not going to be a big leap forward.

It'll be a marginal incremental step. Well because they're magically and they can and they quite possibly may decide that 599 is just too low a starting price. And then just get rid of that. Well, they're just trying to get everybody into the ecosystem, which I understand because that makes them more money. Yeah. Up and down with the software. And at 599, it's literally as cheap as what I paid for a steering wheel to drive trucks, because that's not even for spaceships.

No, you could probably use it with your spaceships, too. I mean, I guess, but it's it's a truck driving because I have to figure out. I'm like, okay, then the and you can get a whole high and faster the previous machine, Apple computer for that. And the crazy the hubs for these things are fast enough because I'm I'm again I'm old school. I'm coming from a windows ecosystem where like with the mode two, I don't want anything else plugged into that port.

I'm going to have to really double up on the mode to use. Uses so little of the USB 3.2 port that it's inconsequential. You got that plugged into the front of the Mac mini? No, I haven't plugged into a hub that sits on the back. So do you use your front, ports or. No, I don't have front ports. I have the old one. Oh, the they didn't have the ports. They only have the back ports.

Yeah. Interesting. So what I really need is a hub, although I guess the mode two then could go and probably get a couple hubs because the front one is, USB.

Yeah. You're going to want to get 2 to 3 hubs and plug those in, because one of the hubs you're going to get is a USBc to USB old school 3.2 for all the shit that still came with the like the multi that so came with the old cable, then you're going to want to have another hub for all the stuff that is newer and came with a usb-C cable, and you're probably going to want a third hub that has the video.

I was like, oh no, no, no, no, not that they can all have a video, but no, the, I'm thinking FireWire, but since I work at Thunderbolt, do you want another one that is only for your Thunderbolt devices? The high speed devices? Because Southern Bolt is usually not something that the cheap hubs have. No. And the newest, the the Pro, gives you a Thunderbolt five man, not just for five. So the Thunderbolt Hubs are like 150 bucks. The, the regular USB ones are like 25.

And then if I need the monitor, I mean, that's just the other. I know it's old. Yeah. I wish you lived closer. I would just give you one. It's the antiquated. I've got a I've got a 47 inch just sitting here doing nothing nice. 97. I'm waiting until the garbage guys can take it away. I mean, what was it, one of the Samsung or the LG's? No, it was a monitor. It wasn't a TV. I can't remember the brand. What? They make it works fine. It works fine. I just it was, 60Hz.

Well, you don't like that. You want one? No, I, I try I swapped it out for 144Hz. Yeah, I was trying to figure out what monitor size would be equal to what I have now, and I don't think any of them quite get there, but it's within. Oh, no. There's monitors bigger than what you got now available. If you go to the C Samsung Odyssey. Yeah, the 57 is what that one was. Still is in the width wise.

Just measuring left to right. Yeah. It was about eight inches overall shorter than what I have now with the three monitors. But it's close. I mean that I don't know if I would even complain about losing it. It might be, but that monitor is eight. I mean, it's it's literally the resolution of two 4K screens right next to each other, one right next to each other. Yeah. And I, I would, I wouldn't mind getting that thing. It's obviously it's an expensive monitor.

But one of the reasons that I don't is because it would force me to also upgrade my video card, because if you have double the pixels of a 4K screen and you're trying to use it with video game, well, you have to be running twice as fast just to have the same level of performance. And it's it's probably even nonlinear. So it's probably even more than twice as fast to have that. So there's kind of an argument against it frankly for for gaming.

We have really that's what I've looked at it because I don't want the gaming performance. I want just plain old looking at text on a screen, web pages, that kind of thing. So I don't I would just get the biggest 4K monitor that you have seen, the biggest 4K, I k you like a monitor or a television because it's televisions. You know, it doesn't really matter if you get in like, I am my Mac right now. I have a 47 inch OLED, Samsung and, but that's for the screen. Are you actually using all of it?

But how many of you take a screenshot? I can show you a screenshot of what I have. I have pictures of Melania's gathered. Oh, what's for the year now? 47 right. How that works, we had today was boost from comic strip blogger and that now this is not a well-funded show. Now, nobody can complain when the show doesn't. Except for Dale from Down Under. He's the only one. We skip a show. Good bye guys. Yeah, I mean, Dell's definitely the only guy in the does that. But yeah. And if, Get the shot.

Yeah. It's. I'll let you take. I'm trying to remember how much I paid for this Samsung. It wasn't it wasn't expensive at all. I want to say it was under 400 bucks. Wow. That's crazy cheap. And it it looks very good. Like I said, the only real reason I'm not. And it's very thin. It's super thin. It's probably half an inch thick. 47in diagonal.

But the only thing about it that makes it worse than my monitor on the PC is the PC monitor, which is, not a no, that it's an LCD, but it's a gaming monitor, and it goes to 144Hz. Which that one doesn't, but but yeah, for normal computing, getting a 47 inch TV instead of a 47 inch monitor makes no difference. If you go much higher than that, then, I mean, honestly, with your vision, you can probably get a 60 inch TV just around here. Yeah, and it'd be just fine. That's big. It's at 60in.

I might start seeing the pixels, but with your eyeballs, you're not going to notice Gottingen, said my mother to my monitor just broke via falling off the stand. How does that happen? That could happen. I mean, if it was one of these that you were like, the laser, you know, where you got it screwed into something? Yeah. That's why is it just the all the monitors are on, movable movable arms? That would be the nice thing about having one big monitor rather than three.

It would also make it nice and easy if you wanted to, flip back and forth. Honestly, I kind of prefer three. It's not a total requirement, because now I have the software to do this as well. But I always like just maximizing a window to take up the whole screen. Yeah, well, that's what I do. And I know you can set zones now. You can? Yeah. But this was just old school. Yeah. Yeah, old school is just. That's why I have six monitors right now for for what I'm doing. Running a, Russian scam empire.

Yeah, I'm playing video game. What are you talking about? Hello. Welcome, sir. Would you like to buy some very good ponchos? Yes, please. Would you like to buy some ponchos? Buy some ponchos, please. We should get a call. That's from the Poncho King. You know, you want to pick that call up. I think she's got a lot of ponchos. Absolutely. Christmas gift ponchos are great. Don't forget, if you give a $20 donation that was for this week.

I guess nobody came in and wanted to figure out how to disable the screensaver on my Android device. I don't know if anybody knows if there's anybody that's not a Apple person. What Android device are you running? It's, Android iPad. I don't know what they're called. Oh. So, okay, so a tablet. Yeah. That the slave, a screensaver that comes up? Yeah. On a tablet instead of just, like, going out, turning it goes out. I don't want it to ever go up. I want to stay on all of time.

Oh, well, there's got to be power settings. Oh, there's a screen timeout setting. Let me just never sleep. There we go. Just like never sleep. And then it does have a screensaver which is a clock by the way. Well is that technically a screensaver. Well it's called a screensaver on the device I don't know. What do you want to call it. I mean my Android phone does have the always on.

I mean, you almost forget that there were times that the screen couldn't stay on and, like, just show the time and date. So rather than, being totally on or totally off. Well, it's using a battery. If it's on all the time, then I know, but I don't care. It last days so it's because nobody ever calls you, I think works. Why would I give anybody? My number has nothing to do. No, I don't even have your number. Totally. Right. It's like I don't want my number.

Like. No. Do. No. Did you not give that up? I mean, I can't even get my Apple Watch, which is old now. It still can go for, 36 hours plus, we must have everything turned off then. No, I mean, it's doing all of the, I mean, it's one it's even got the Mickey Mouse, which is moving. Oh, I'm. Oh my God. So. And it's not. It doesn't even fully go dark. It stays your 14 year old girl on you. You been filming me with a voice changer the whole time? Mickey Mouse. Listen, it's a. It's hard to hide.

It was telling you what time it is. You just touch it and it tells you what time it is in Mickey's voice. Oh, it's a blind people watch. Okay, exactly. So you don't have to be able to see it, but everybody. Oh. Y'all do what? Everybody. It's a that sounds like a mouse with a cigaret in his mouth. I didn't I didn't say she was crazy. She's fucking goofy. Oh, that was pretty good, actually. Do. Thank you. Yeah. My number, in case there isn't a folk hour is message me in the troll room.

Pfeiffer. I'm always in the troll room. Yeah. Yes. And there's a few people. I mean, your buddy dude named bad name bad. He, like, kind of scammed me into adding gum on, on signal. So. I mean, there's that. Did he really? Well, that's right. He's never on Sycamore himself, so he's nothing to worry about. So, like, you just start sending him things over, you know? Oh, he'll love that. He share everything in everything you send me, I'll just be like, oh, I bet you bet. Needs to see this, too.

You keep sending it to me, too. Exactly, exactly. But I have it now because they, signal they let you do the, They let you choose a name now so you don't have to give out your. Oh. Do they? I didn't know that changed mine to the searching. Yeah, you can get. Well, it's you you can put in that and then it like, adds a number. But yeah. So I don't want to be sir. Gene number 27. Yeah. I think it has to be. They added number. They added number to it. Dum dum dum dum dum dum dum.

Notifications. No, chats. Appearance. General. Where is it? It shows the phone number, which is a Google number. My device name. Why do you show my device name? Don't you fancy device name? Where the hell. Oh, there. Yeah, I do have a device name, Mr. General. Where? Yeah, I see that, but I don't see where you put in the name. Where was it? Here. Hey. We're just. We're going. I like that you can disable access to the camera. That's good.

Well, especially for me, because I don't even have a camera on the machine. Oh, well, then you don't have to disable it. It makes it, maybe. Maybe you're, Yeah. You're, in the bottom left. A little picture of sir Gene. Yeah. And then when that comes up, there should be no where I read it changed to sir Gene. Apparently. Do you have know? Maybe you were the first one.

If you're the first time, sir. Gene 33, I'm Daryn. Oh, that 33. Oh, damn. Damn. We're like brothers. Brothers from a different mother. Now people can find us on signal. Oh, geez, I know right? That's crap. Shit. I can't believe you just. You just outed both of our signals. You better edit this shit up and let me think anybody's going to be like, oh, could you add me real, back and start getting spam from. Oh, yes, we have a new podcast that is Shared Signals. Would you like to listen?

Spamming him to the Beamer. Oh, is our love that I know. Are you doing okay today? Bam! Rosie was recovering from a fall. Oh. Oh, no. Very dangerous job. Now. Yeah, yeah, he's still doing the, the grumpy news or whatever he was doing, I think so, is he okay? I got a message request from Eric. There you go. Perfect. Which is? I don't know which. Eric. Is it Eric? Pepe? No, I don't think that's Eric with a c. But now people know. They know where to find you on signal.

Yeah. Oh, cotton gin, that's Eric. Okay, see, I didn't even know. That's how you learn. You send a message request. Now, that isn't a like where you add me request. I don't think. Then you're like, would I like to block, report or accept? Well, I mean, I guess I'd say report probably. I mean, it's good to keep in touch with cotton gin. I mean, he has the, the ability to play with the magical things in the background.

Gin doesn't realize now you're going to send them a message every week asking for money. Yeah. It's like this old part of the deal. You sign up, you get the spam you like. That's right. If you're in the signal, that means it's like, have you donated to unrelenting today? And then on Mondays, as have you donated to Planet Rage yet today? Yeah. On Wednesdays. Have you donated to Random Thoughts yet today? Oh, God. Yeah, yeah. Now can we change?

Because, like, I don't, I'm going to forget, like, whoever the hell Eric is now, can I put, like, instead of Erica? You should be able to change his name. I've done that before where you can just, like, go and tweak their name into something else. Into something a lot more fun. I think if you click on there, like, click on the conversation and click on their little icon up top, then you can go and get that thing and you can you can do the thing with the thing hack. I'll look at that.

Oh. I know there's a way to do it somehow. You can have, right? You can have Marcus on Red chat settings, all media, disappearing messages. Yeah, I always have that on oh here nickname. So there we go. First name, last name or note. So now if we just go cotton gin, we'll be like, oh yeah, of course. Yeah. Now it shows up properly in cotton as we speak. Cotton gin is changing mine to big fucking asshole. And I mean that way. Nobody would be confused. Two story man. Thank you.

What's your safety number. What. What's the safety number. You click on my name and then you'll get a safety number. And then you read that back to me and I will verify that it's a safety connection. Is it. See this safety number ensures that nobody can be a man in the middle. And, it's an encrypted connection directly between two people. Is that in the chat settings? And. No. If you click on you safety number. Yeah. Safety number. Just read that back to me, sir.

Gene will compare the numbers with their device. Yep. It ends 72972. But yeah but you have to read the whole number now. Yeah it's kind of boring isn't it. No. People like that. This is the number station 69322346901233941061757596868770766713523946117931. Day 041272972. I'd say they match marked it as verified that we're clear verification to generate a new random number. We are so verified. This is a great content. I don't think there's any this way.

So nobody knows what the secret number between us, and they can't possibly fake the connection between the man in the middle now that they have the number. Exactly gotten in the last 60s. So he's like, I'm thinking to write that number down, I'll show these sons of bitches. Yep. Totally screw with their communication system. Though we can always do it again. That's the beauty of it. That's right.

Probably verifying these all day long stick deliver thought that somebody might go on a public channel and read the words. Yeah, well, the way you actually verify this is you compare that number to, I'll give you the frequency later, and then, make sure that it it's the same number and you do it every Thursday. It's the frequency, Kenneth. It's a beautiful thing. It's all about the frequencies I like signal that I do. It's one of the I do too, I think it's one of the best spy apps out there.

I mean of course is it Russian. Is that the idea? No, not at all. No proof real, no signals. Israeli. Oh. Well, then it's completely safe. Yeah, as long as you don't attach it to your pager real? Yeah. Be wary of pagers. That's that's a good point. Gottingen says telegram is the Russian one. Well, I have that one, too. That's where I talk to voice zero. Exactly. You know, what I love is all the people using telegram that are not, let's say, for Russia winning the war. It's that idea.

Well, they're sharing all these, like, maps and pictures and insights and telegram, I mean, okay, you don't think that, Vlad is picking all them up? Well, I think Vlad is pretty busy, but he's not personally picking them up. Yeah, somebody is picking them up. Now, if there's nude photos of Melania going around, Vlad probably has those being forwarded right to his account just to make sure. Verify. Just to make sure. Yeah, probably. Does Vlad have a hot wife? I've never seen Mrs. Putin.

He divorced Mrs. Putin back, about six, seven years ago. Now, has anybody seen or heard from her since or. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's all good. Totally nice guy that now. Yeah. Yeah. I, you know, his his daughters were reasonably attractive back in the day that was there a new, is there a new love interest as the, as the Kremlin turns? I think there were some photos, like immediately after the divorce with some other women that were never confirmed. Whether or not there was something going on.

But I don't think anything's officially been put out there. So if you want to date Vlad, do you have a chance? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, richest man in the world got that going for him. It was? Yeah. You. I think it's slimming.