137: Sugar Rush

I don't like bones in my goat.

When do you. Yellow. And welcome to episode 137 of unrelenting. I'm Daren O'Neal. Is that your last name? And, Curry and the keeper, man, even though it's a hard name, even people that know you. The pronunciation. Yeah, because, you know, CCP's always sending in the boost to them and then saying, listen to Gene shows. I thought he hated you. He's like, go listen to Gene's good old boys. Listens to Gene's this. Listen to Gene's that. Gene knows what he's talking about. I know right.

Well, it's, it's a balmy 40°F here. Six degrees centigrade. You know, it's 7 p.m.. It's a weird thing. We're doing a show late. How is Moscow? I mean, you're there with Tucker. I don't know what you talked about, but, it is. It is cold, man. I'm not used to cold weather. 21°F. Here is. I have to take my watch off. It's at 1% battery life. Oh, that's. That's not a good battery life. Which on the I was on the Apple 1% battery could last like another three days.

I don't it's always like you're but you're running low. You're running low I think you should charge it. It does not go. You would think that if from between like 5% to 4% took like 20 minutes, that between 1 and 0 would know it. It's all just bad guesstimates like my dryer. That's like how your clothes will be dry in 15 minutes. You go down in 15 minutes, an hour chilling. They'll be dry in 25 minutes. It's like, why? What is it we're doing? Damn machines. It's fucking with you.

It's what it's doing with Tucker Carlson in Moscow. What? I mean, when you exit your post, you're like, we're back in Moscow. And I'm like, we're. What does that mean? Now that that's, very that's a royal. We very cryptic. What's going on? I mean, God bless Tucker Carlson trying to keep us out of nuclear war. Well, somebody should. You know, Joe, he's not. He's like, this was trying to wrap this up for this. They're they're trying to get into it before Trump gets into just to fuck with them.

I mean, the only good thing is obviously Trump and Putin have a rapport. So there may be well, that's what the Democrats have been saying for 25 years now. Yeah. I mean, there was Russian collusion gene that got Trump elected. There's no very little almost no question about that. It's unheard of for a president to be reelected. That had to be Russian collusion. If you're going to deny anything, you know we are a Russian collusion denier. Election denier.

I didn't I had to be there to not be a denier, denier. I always been I mean, I felt like, wow, I haven't talked to Jean in a while, you know? Yeah. Last week was Thanksgiving. Yeah. Black Friday, all sorts of fun stuff, man. Friday was a royal pain in the ass. My dad got a we fell on Thanksgiving, which was fun.

I always have the paramedics there and we had ordered him already a new one of these stand up chairs because the one that he had was a hand-me-down, and the back was already like at an angle that it should never have been. And two of the three packages arrived on Wednesday. Everybody's there on Thanksgiving. It would have been so nice to just have been able to put it together on Thanksgiving. But no, the main part didn't show up until Friday. And putting a round chair together.

Not a problem getting the old chair out of the house, trying to figure out how to disassemble. And it just wasn't disassembling. And, so, I mean, it took a lot of, what kind of chairs us, the, like, old folks. You know what the it's basically a recliner with a base that will lift so it can get you to the standing position. So the whole chair, like, rises from the ground. Oh, yeah. I've seen those TV commercials. Exactly. And they're fairly cheap, but there's a lot of battles.

Yeah. My dad uses them. I never understood why people didn't use the better solution, which is don't have a seat that's so damn low to the ground and so soft that you can't actually get out of it right? Oh my goodness. I've had a few couches like that where it's like, I can't get out of it exactly when you're not even 70 and you can't get out of it. It's crazy because I it is the weirdest thing. I've never understood this.

It's a very American thing that when you're sitting on a on a couch, the couch is about a foot off the ground.

You want to be low by, you know, if you go to European countries or certainly North European countries, they tend to have couches that are higher up and firmer. Well, that's like easier to get out of them. That's because there's three layers of, machine gun in the cushions just in case. Just in case shit goes down. Yeah, well, that rises everything up. It's it's it's almost like we're halfway through Asian couches, which are just basically pillows. Yeah. Just sit on the floor out on the floor.

Yeah. Way easier, way more minimalistic. Yeah. Less things to worry about. Well, and it's easier to get up off the floor of the damn couch. Probably true. Dude, you can. At least you more. Yeah, yeah, get on your knees and then be like, I can then stand up.

Yeah, yeah. But yeah, this old recliner was, As all things are in this world, about an inch, if that too wide to fit through the door frame, of course. Which means there was a just a lot of. Well, he eventually reached the point of kicking and hammers and I'm like, just get it out of here. Which we finally did. But it was a I hear lightsabers work. Well, that would be perfect. That's what we need. An energy weapon that can just slice part of the thing off.

Way. Well I do have experience with this. I remember when I was in high school I decided there would be cool to buy a, a leather sofa for money for my room. I thought you were going to say the back of your like cargo van that you know about our jeans tab and cabin van, but I don't know. There was no vans, but I bought this this couch with my own money, and, have delivered to the house. And then I had a friend come over, helped me bring it into my room.

And then as it was going through the door, the realization that, oh, this ain't gonna fit through the door came about like, I don't know why they don't put a tag on these things that say, careful will not fit through door. Right. You're going to have to. Well, usually they then come up and I was like, oh shit, what do we got? So it was literally sitting, you know, halfway through the door to my room and one morning my, my dad got home after work, you know, he surprised what happened.

And he he laughed a little bit. And they said, all right, well, let me think about it. And then he did something I never in a million years would have expected my dad to do the he brought a jigsaw or a it probably wasn't a jigsaw, but it was a, maybe it was a jigsaw, but anyway, he brought a saw and I'm thinking, oh shit, he's going to cut my couch there. And though he, he cut out about a foot more of the drywall above the door.

And that was sufficiently large enough that we could stand the couch kinda uneaten, not fully, but diagonally. And then. And it's when it was on its side like that, it would make the turn into my room, and then we got it in there. I don't think that couch ever left the room well after I moved out. But if you patch the wall, people like, how the hell was this in here? Yeah, exactly. It's it's. Well, they would be kicking and, hammering away, I'm sure. Exactly. Yeah. It's exactly how it happens.

So I don't know what the fate of the couch. I assume that either it got solved with the house or that, you know, somebody did have to take it apart because I doubt they. Anybody would have thought of putting the drywall above the doors. Nobody thinks about what they're like. The average person would see that couch and go, well, obviously it comes apart or there's some, you know, they got it in here somehow. So it can't be that hard, Yeah. They built a room around it. Right?

They cut the fucking roof off the helipad. You know, they got the thing, the helicopter then. Now, it did take my dad about a year to patch up the drywall, back into original shape. That was clearly not a priority project. I don't know, he was thinking I was gonna get rid of the more furniture, or I was going to replace the couch or something, but yeah, hey, whatever works. That is a very for people that are very logical. That's what it comes down to, not the most elegant solution. Always.

Whatever works well. And and I would have only thought about like, you know, trying to disassemble the couch, which would have been disaster because there's no way in hell you can restructure everything afterwards. But the idea that, oh, well, you know, we can make a bigger hole in the house, bigger opening, that was people's it was also the only bedrooms. He was also the only person that, you know, had the authority to make the right decision about that.

Yeah. You you didn't want the door frame cut open as a surprise? No, I wasn't, but wasn't going to do that on my own. Like, I just there's just a couch or something halfway going into the room. A young Gene inside trapped said. Yeah. You know, my beard is only about a foot long back then we, like. Serves you right, kid. Get yourself into trouble. Get yourself out. Yeah. So that was Friday. That was fun.

So rather than unreal I was really thinking I really should be relenting over dealing with that thing. We know that we stopped by a target on the way home and was like that. Was that help that the shit show. It was a shit show. I mean, what they had plenty of the Taylor Swift tour books. That was not a surprise. Oh my God, those things are going to be on sale for ten bucks within six months, I can tell you that.

Oh yeah, the vinyl was all gone, but yeah, that was dropped on the website that evening.

And it was to the point. I looked at the vinyl and I talked about this at random thought, but they still haven't figured out does they have vinyl at target from a variety of artists? Yeah. And they have never figured out how to put dividers in. So you have vinyl records all on one long shelf next to each other, which means the left side of one vinyl is hitting the right side of the other. Which means if you start trying to flip through any, you've got like 30 pieces of vinyl on the floor.

It isn't the worst display ever. Yeah, nobody's figured out you should have a little divider between the vinyl so people can flip through them like the good old days. Well, we used to have those. Yes. When people sold records or CDs, they always had the dividers. Yeah. I don't know why target doesn't believe in them. It would have made it a lot easier. Target sells vinyl. That's just dumb move on their part. They get more in. It's the holiday thing.

They're like, oh wow, we can sell it because people just pick up anything and they don't even have them. If it was kind of sorted out where here are the Elvis Presley's here's they had Peter Gabriel. So classic album. If they would all be separated by what they were dubbing. But it's like they get in a box of 20 and every album is different, and then that just keeps repeating on down. So it was completely random.

Not the best way to sell things for people who don't want to spend eight hours and then extra time picking up the vital, used schlock on the floor. Yeah, then I didn't want to walk to the other side of the store to pay for the, the book, because there was only like two lines open at that point. Late on Black Friday night. But they have like a hundred lanes. I don't know if that's exaggerating. I think target, like the whole front of the store is lanes.

I don't think it's 100, but yeah, they only had like 2 or 3 way over at the other end. And there was people that know lines. I'm like, nope, just not to wait for that. Nope. Not going to do it. Went home and now somebody like Ben Rose has to deliver it to my door. Woohoo with it. That's hilarious. It is winning the target. Still, I haven't been in the target years, so they still don't have self-checkout. They did, but it was close.

I think they were saying people are going to like rob them blind or something. I don't know, they closed self-checkout. Yeah, well that's smart because there was usually self-checkout on both sides of the store. And on the side where we went in where we had part. Yeah. All of those were blocked, which I don't know why.

Again unless they didn't have an employee to stand there because they have to have somebody standing there, which I understand because most people will screw up their order and then be like, hey, help, help me, I don't know what I did. I scare that twice. Her I got a coupon for $0.13 off the douches. Come on, help me. So they have to have somebody there with the like the master key to like punch in the code to toot toot toot toot I like it. Override anything. That's the code you need kids.

Although it's still stealing. It's technically you can't go in. But with a $500 item and go to toot toot toot toot, pick $3. All right, now, that's that's crazy that you like playing somebody else's music. Yeah, I know you don't want to do that. Completely. Yeah, I had them non legal and I'm still on the Mac mini. This is back. I have never gone back to the windows machine. Now, why would you do that? Well, there are still some pieces of software that are only available on windows.

And for that I will keep the windows box on the network that I can remote into. Yeah, I guess that's just as good. Yeah. There's, a few things that I have learned, and it's interesting just how adaptive you get or how quickly your brain rewires itself to do things in the new way, because everything is we talked about before is slightly different with the Mac. Yep.

Gotta use the command key instead of the control key, which is actually the windows key on this keyboard because it's a windows keyboard, which I'm putting a, a mac keyboard on my Christmas list. That'll be good. I'm in no rush to get it. One thing I did get yesterday haven't plugged it in yet. I got a monoprice cable. And you'll laugh at this. You'll tell me I'm nuts. That will let me plug in. I have, like, a 25 year old micron and a like a 25 year old IBM wired keyboard.

So I bought the cable that will allow me to plug that into the, us make it into USB so I can plug that into my Mac mini or not. I know, but it's like, damn, they're great mechanical keyboards. They're big, they're hefty. I like bends, bends by my keyboard that I, that I was telling you to buy, which was the Max Logitech. But like, g915, the g915. Is that the, Yeah. How is that? I mean, I know I saw the max, I was looking at all the keyboards, and I'm not.

I'm gonna buy one of them, put one of them on the list. So I'll take another look at the at the. I tell you, I'm really liking the one that I ended up with, though. I. This is by far my favorite keyboard now, which is which one? It's it's the steel series. You can check me a links.

I look them all up, man. I'm gonna be like, what is why you don't need this either. You really don't need. I know, but it's like, damn, is it cool? I like a big keyboard. I type a lot. It's it's a it's not for gaming, but I do type a lot. Yeah, it's a magneto something keyboard. Ooh. And yeah, there there are no actuators. There are just magnetic, measurements. So when you press a key, the magnetism of that, the changes. Oh, because it gets closer. Yeah. Exactly, exactly.

I think we talked about measuring that level. And so yeah, there is no switch. There's no switch to break. There's no switch that feels wrong. It will last forever. Now it less lines a new one comes out. No replace it. Well that's also true FOMO gene. But it is nice. And I told you the backstory on this keyboard. The reason I got is because a, a douchebag YouTuber said that this was an unfair advantage.

And it's like, yeah, I mean he banned me and I was like, well fuck you, I'm buying the keyboard now just because you said that it's not there and it was everything he said and more. I mean, it's great keyboard. I'm digging it. I love the manually customizing at which point in the press of the key, the key is actually registered. It's it's nice. Everything about it. It's been good so far. Knock on wood. It's even got a little display in it.

The display that shows me all the computer parameters, like the the seats get a little CPU temperature night. So it's a it's not an LCD. These. Right. So it's not a changeable plane. It's. Oh well no it's an OLED screen. Got to be right to the, the height of the technology. Yeah. Yep. And every key can be individually programed color wise and all that good stuff. So it's and it's actually more compact.

That's the one thing I didn't think I would like because it is, it is literally just the size of the keys themselves. There's no push on the keyboard that sticks out further left, right. The bottom will be a little no bezel at all. It's a bezel less keyboard. Where's all the Logitech ones? I've had huge bezels. Yeah. My my left hand has had to adjust to this keyboard. Right. Because normally, you know, kind of rest your hand on the keyboard.

And so I've, Well, it does come with a magnetically connected oh wrist rest. Oh, and I bet you it is made out of the finest Corinthian leather. It is one of those soft, plasticky feeling things that is actually rock hard, but your fingers feel like it's soft. Oh, you know what I mean? Yeah. So I'm not sure is beyond compare. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. It's it's baby plastic. It's made of baby plastic. And, it is really nice. I'm enjoying this keyboard. I never thought I would switch.

I've had Logitech keyboards. Probably had ten of them or less 30 years. And, amazingly, I switched. Thanks. That net for you suggesting a pink mechanical keyboard in the troll room just sent me a link. I'm sure I'll love. There. They're out there. I've seen, you know, chick streamers with pink keyboards, so I know they're out there, like, look good. Well, I wanted to test the, the old mechanical keyboards for one reason. Mainly what you get. The cable was ten bucks, so I figured why not?

There's no backlighting on these old keyboards, and I want to see how much I really want the backlighting and how much I really care because I'm never doing anything in the dark. But, no. Okay, so we'll see him. That's an example for, that I also learned again, there is a, this is all hypothetical, of course, but there is an amount in people's mind, for buying software, and there was a piece of software and what men should. Exactly which one.

There's a few of them out there, which make it easy to plug in windows, drives into a mac. And since I've got so many, I do need that software. And of course, I may or may not have tried to, you know, hey, maybe it and, and it didn't really work. And so after spending like, 5 or 10 minutes trying to get it to work from the, hey, maybe I went and looked at their website and it was 20 bucks, it was 29 bucks. And I'm like, sold. Yeah, exactly. Well, I'm glad you're acting like a mature adult now.

Now, if that was like $195. Well, sure sure sure sure sure. The difference it may have been a different story, but for people out there with program, I mean, I understand the big super sweet like Adobe and all that are always going to be more. Yeah, but you will definitely get more people to support what you're doing if it's a good product, if it is a reasonable amount. And for something that does one thing like this. Yeah. You know, hey, I saved, $700 in software this year.

You got rid of the Adobe. I did not buy the Adobe Black Friday deal like I usually do, like an idiot and never actually install the software. If you never install the software, though, isn't it still good because it doesn't start till you put in the. No, it starts the minute you buy it. Oh that's horrible. I thought it would be that when you use. No, because it's you're renting it by the month. Right. But usually it's you have a code that you could put in.

Did you check. Because it might be if you have a code in. Oh no, no, no. But believe me, they were billing me every month, regardless of whether the software is installed or not. Oh, every month. So you don't buy a 12 month at a time subscription? No, I don't pay $795 all at once. No, but you do that I pay monthly, I pay like two something a year, and it's 12 months of the Adobe. Yeah, that's because you're still a student. No, I'm a student. I see I'm paying the money again.

Yeah. I believe if they would charge everybody the student and teacher rate, they would make more money. I agree there is a balance there. And they had it for a while. Remember when they first went to this rental program? Because their products were being sold for $600 and people said, oh, I don't have to spend $600, and that's it. Now, Adobe's just going to be ten bucks a month. Well, that seems like a good deal.

And a lot of people that used to not pay because of how many have decided to start paying, and then they got greedy and they jacked it up and then jacked it up again, and then jacked it up again and like 60 bucks a month for they access to Adobe is retarded. Yeah. It it I mean they do offer lesser plans if you only want Photoshop or there's a couple of them for they do, but you don't need any of that crap anymore. That's the good thing.

It's like with AI, photo editing has become so much faster and easier and better that you don't need to learn archaic masking techniques to be able to edit your own photos anymore. That that says the keyboard you're talking about uses the Hall effect, which there are multiple manufacturers of now. So I mean, if you're looking for a keyboard like Jean's look for the Hall effect, I never even heard of that.

But yeah, it makes sense because you're just registering a different thing rather than which is yeah, yeah, there are several and I've got it. I've actually have another keyboard that has that effect, but I didn't like it and I, I should probably get rid of it on the eBay, because it was like 200 something bucks and I put it right here, put it up on, it was letting post. Oh, I don't want to take those post, put it on there and see if people buy it.

And I really should do this stuff because I've got. So I've got old routers, I've got an old audio interfaces. Oh this is a brand new keyboard. Never been used. I just didn't like I mean, it's been used for one hour and I didn't like it one hour. It takes a little longer to get it. Within an hour, the keyboard just felt mushy. And which keyboard is this one? It's the guys that had a Kickstarter to build this, this giant keyboard that measured different pressures on the keys.

And it does that like, I forget the name, the software. I'm. But it's not mathematically done. Like the oh, it is, it's the exact same way. But the difference is that the keys they used were very soft.

And the travel was fairly long. And they're, they're whole. I mean, like keyboard does what it was made to do, which is you can program a soft press or a key to be different than a long press for a key like that's that was its whole selling point is that since it doesn't have a switch, since they're measuring the magnetism, they're able to assign more than one function for three.

It totally does that, but then they can't have them after trying it, I was like, guys, your springs are really frickin soft. Is there a way to fix that? And they're like, well, we've talked about it, but you know, probably not going to do that for a while. Like, no. Yeah, I mean, here's the problem is whoever was working on this team clearly has no finger muscles. They're not a pro gamer like some of us are.

And so consequently, they made this default springs because you can pick, you know, like you can choose how much back pressure do you want on those keys. Right. They made them, the softest that I've ever seen on the keyboard. They're soft, they're mushy. I like the keys that are a little. And there's like, there's a like, if you're going to have soft pressure, then you should have very little travel. Kind of like the, Apple keyboard. Yeah. It's soft, but it has very little actual travel.

And it's only $285. I don't know what you're talking about, but this keyboard, has a long travel. I think it's over one centimeter worth or around there, maybe it's like 0.9, nine millimeters or something, but it feels like it's long travel soft keyboard. A lot of people love it. I mean, they've got a huge community of people that are really into this keyboard. And unfortunately, because, you know, I didn't buy on eBay, you have to buy it from their company, right?

There's no returns like no returns. But you can get it today from G here on unrelenting. Yeah. If I can remember what the hell it's called it actually put it somewhere, but it's like keyboard aficionados, we know what I'm talking about because there's only 1 or 2 companies that did Kickstarters for keyboards specifically to do, the Hall effect keyboards. So that shouldn't be that hard to look up. But yeah, this keyboard, the that I'm currently using is just feels way nicer.

And it has all the functionality and all the, I mean, it's just nice keyboard. I'm I'm a big fan though. I've never used this brand before, but I'm a big fan now. Was it a Keychron? No no no, they're all over the place now. They have a Kickstarter. The ultimate Keychron yeah. Keychron. No, no, it's the wireless magnetic, the Halifax. Oh, it's the woo woo King woo. That sounds exactly like something you'd buy from it is. It's, Sorry, Wu-Tang Nut King routing w o o t I n g routine.

So it's like the Wu-Tang clan, but it's with the team I know. Right? So they did a Kickstarter like two years ago, and, I actually didn't buy it on the Kickstarter. I bought it after they delivered the first shipments. And, that's why I was looking for this keyboard. No one's ever built the keyboard that I've wanted, and I tried to even work with an engineer to get it built.

I wanted the keyboard where the ESD keys would be pressure sensitive, but not pressure sensitive as in depth, like not measuring how deep I'm pressing the key. If I'm pressing it, you know, very lightly, it doesn't go down very much the way that all these Hall effect keyboards do. But I wanted to have a regular keyboard. But underneath the the key there would be a pressure sensor.

So if I press a key all the way down, then it would start measuring the pressure with which I'm pushing down, and that could change the speed of the measurement. So if I if I want to just go forward, I with press W, but if I want to run faster or not, not even just binary not go from walk to run but slowly, you know, increase the driving speed. Let's say I'm a car, I'm driving a car.

The more I press down on the T, the more it's staying as a, a joystick, an analog joystick result showing that I'm pressing higher into the forward or the, you know, maybe it'd be the the gas pedal, but whatever. It is basically an analog type component based on the pressure sensors. Super basic, simple idea. I don't understand why in the three years since I've wanted this, no one's made it. Do it. Do it yourself, man, I tried to. I worked with an engineer. Dude.

This shit. Apparently is hard to do. Yeah, like it's simple. The engineers like bullshit. It's super simple. Like, in my head. I know exactly how it's laid out. I've got the fucking CAD cam models in my head. I know exactly what goes where and how it all connects. And you could even with the Hall effect combining it, you can even make it easier. But nope, nope. Apparently it's difficult, I swear to God. I want to call Elon, be like, oh, you up? Yeah. Can you make a keyboard for me?

Elon? It's super simple. You'd be like, sure, I'm not busy right now. It doesn't even have keyboards in his spaceships. He he's a keyboard guy. He likes pressing touch sensitive iPad buttons. Was it the shooting 60 h e? That is what there is. The I think it's it's the 80 I think. Oh okay. That there is a couple of those on the, on the eBay for like 400 bucks. The 88 E that sounds about right. H e yeah. Fast shipping. I mean, I would hope so. For 400 bucks. Yeah.

And it's sitting right here on top of an old laptop and it looks very similar at least as far as the keys like to an Apple keyboard. Or am I just seeing this incorrectly on the pictures? That or maybe there's a little higher here. Okay, at first it looked like it was a very low, but it was just the angle. Oh, it's it's a pretty normal looking keyboard. Backlit logo, of course. Multiple black and backlit. Yeah, I forgot about it.

It's just I need to just kind of vacuum the desk, stuff it, because it's been sitting on top of the laptop here for about nine months. Let's see the, the throw of a key on the keyboard would make that difficult. According to net dead, if the digit guru said that Jean renamed it the podcaster Pro. What about see, that was a different name. A free pivot for every keyboard. Yeah, exactly. For podcast. That would probably do it. That would that would be the difference.

I think if you want an H 80 h e and you don't want to spend 400 bucks on it, let me know over on at X. Yeah, this could be a whole new this could be a whole segment here. I don't think I have a box for it anymore. I think I just have the keyboard. Oh, that's okay. That's down to like 300 bucks.

Then probably the I know everyone always wants the box I sold some boxes for, What was it, I think guns. I think I sold some guns like the box that again came in. We had the boxes, like with for, like, 100 bucks. Oh, totally. A lot of the old Lego sets. Yeah. People build them and then throw away the boxes. The boxes become worth more than the. Exactly the pieces. And the same thing for a Rolex. I had, I had sold a Rolex box that I forgot to when I got rid of my Rolex.

After I got divorced, I forgot to bring the box with me. So I had still had the box, and I sold on eBay for, like, 120 bucks. Strange. Always look on eBay before you throw anything out. Now, don't ever look on any eBay sites. The price is suck if you're selling. It also sucks. EBay is a shit pile of this point. Well, the only you're frankly better off just selling used products on Amazon to find out what things really sell for.

On eBay, you need an eBay account, but then you log in and you go to the research portion of the selling, and then it shows you what things actually have sold for. If I don't know why they hide, you know, when somebody puts $1,000, buy it now, and then somebody buys the product for an offer of $200. It doesn't show you that when you're just going page by page, it just shows you best offer accepted. Yeah, well, this will show you that it sold for 200 bucks.

I don't know why they want to put you through the extra step. I think now you realize if it sold for 200 bucks on eBay today, that means that the person got less than 100. Oh, yeah. EBay. Because of all the fees and shit that eBay has now, it may be a little more, but that's that's a decent chunk. Yeah, not much more. It is a decent chunk. You got to know what the fees are.

And the thing that is the most asinine to me, being that eBay is playing the same part, no matter whether you're selling a single 27 baseball card or a $20,000 car or something worth even more, their percentages change based upon the item, so they charge a higher percentage for things like it. I'm just examples. I don't know for sure because I haven't looked at a while, but they could charge you 10% for vinyl records, but 20% for baseball cards, or 30% for car parts. It's insane.

It used to be like 10% at most. Yes, everything. Back in the day, I, I sold thousands of CD's on eBay back in, oh, bootlegs 20, 20 plus years ago. No, not bootlegs CDs. Yeah, but bootleg CDs from Russia? No, not bootleg CDs from Russia. American CDs from America that I bought. Actually a lot of European CDs that were like $25 when I bought them. And I sold them for like ten bucks. I sold.

And I think we talked about this at one point, but not everybody listens to every unrelenting believe it or not, I know what I don't know how they don't. This is gold right here. And you need to work on, like, audio to have a, a little jingle like Darren and Jean sell shit they don't need. And then, we have a. Yeah, we should have jingles. Like, for every topic, given how easy it is to make it. I've got a commercial camera on there now. Well, there we go. Yeah, we'll come up with some ideas.

I can make all kinds of damn jingles and things. I've been making the video game jingles. The reason I ended up quitting my, retail job. Except, you know, besides the fact that it was an hour away from my house at that time, which, shoe salesman or something. That's how your wife Peg is, right? That was that.

That's how badly I worked at a carpet store, which was, even better, because less customers that you don't have to touch their feet normally, although some might want to take their shoes off and be like, yeah, how soft is that carpet, exactly? Let me walk on that sample. Let me get my toes into it. Yeah, yeah. This was that's the beginning of eBay. Where's the carpet? I know it was better than some carpet. Shit did sell a bit, but the lakes, area rugs and stuff like that.

But just holds the room together. I sold, I, I cobbled together because, as you know, I am not a coder in any way, shape or form, but I. I could do enough just to be dangerous. And when eBay back in the day had, their old web interface, they wouldn't have a filter. You're just stubborn. Yeah, something like that. Back in the day, there was little or no security, so I made a web page because I was doing a little bit with, web design.

But I made a web page that opened up eBay and an iframe, and used a little JavaScript timer there. Basically with the page that was opened in there, you could set the timer with that amount and have it bid for you. It was the first. That was you, you bastard. Yeah, the damn sniper. Yeah, yeah. So shit. The suspect before they were either. Now there's so many automated ways to do that. Oh, yeah? Yeah, but I put the the little sniping tool. This was on 3.5in discs, back in the day.

And I had to sell over a thousand of those at like 999. Oh, I bet I mean, it was it was a decent man. It was. So I mean, it was a pain in the ass to make them. Would you like to get this? Before anybody else use our sniping software? Only $0.99. Yeah, we got no, no bad reviews. That worked. It did what it was supposed to do. It was simplistic then, but they eventually, I think they put it in the entire sniping feature. Then they.

Yeah, they did all sorts of stuff to try to avoid that. I mean, there's, it's it's super easy. I didn't a lot of websites that were doing bidding had figured this out is if you want to prevent sniping, all you do is extend the bid time by one minute for every bid that comes in in the last minute. EBay doesn't do that. A lot of other ones do. Yeah, that's the easiest Santa sniping thing because like, no matter what, if someone's doing this last second bid, okay, well, you just reset the timer.

Congratulations. Yes. Or do it for more than a minute. A lot of them do it for, you know, an hour. So it's like you're just every time a bid comes in, it goes up. So as long as people are bidding, I don't want to go an hour because that that could actually be abused. Well, everything literally deepens running indefinitely. Yes. The bidding of about a buck more every hour. I mean, I have found it is so much easier as a seller to just put a or an ungodly price. And then put send me offers.

Your product will stay up once you know it, depending. Now if you're looking to move a thousand things now. Yeah. But if you have, you know, a Ted Williams print that's worth a $5,000 while you put it up for a lot of money and you wait for somebody to make you the offer because there's nothing worse. And I had played this game and I think I won more than lost. But the game of, you know, one item is worth, again, let's just say 500 bucks listed as a penny.

And you're like, well, I think usually, usually I think you get more that way. But it has to be something multiple people are willing to bet. Yeah, yeah, it can be super rare. And I've done the exact same thing. And for common things and in kind of computer doodads, these are do that because a lot of people like it. So the the reason for it is you want to get more people to be invested so that they start competing against each other. Right? Because you don't want that.

Like people looking at going, I kind of wanted but, you know, he's asking too much, but if it's only a buck or ten bucks or whatever, people will bet on it. Thank you. Oh, maybe he won't notice. But then when the price goes up to where it should be, there's they're already committed. Now they're like, oh, shit, I'm not going to get this. I thought, I already got it. Yeah, okay, I'll go a little higher. Right. And then you get these people all going a little higher against each other.

It's a it's a good, good way. And I think eBay gives you more priority screen time the more bids that there are. So it's like oh it's kind of like the algo. Yeah. This is a this is an exciting item. There's a lot of people they I mean they want that they make money when people buy and when somebody loses a bid like that, what's the first thing they do? They go look for another one. Exactly. If you just see something that's just priced too high and you skip over it, you're like, yeah, right.

Maybe I'll wait a month. And then for some reason, they feel the people that start them at lower amounts aren't scammers that are just trying to screw them on on their money. I don't know why, which is such a joke, because you can always been against yourself to jack the price up. Oh yeah, I mean, the concept is very simple to do better. You just have a friend or 12. Exactly. And this is why you have to be careful when looking. You have to do your homework.

And at first, I didn't understand why this kind of thing would be done. I remember looking up something wrong, and there was like, Jerry Seinfeld on the cover of Playboy. Sold for like $1,000. Yeah. This show. Right? I'm like, why would that be? But then I realized this was a scam. That if you think about it, all you have to do is make it look like you had one that sold for a thousand. Yeah. And then that's another, right. Because somebody is going to be like, well, what's that worth?

And then they're going to go search and go, oh, the last one sold for a thousand. It's only 500 now that's a three by. Yeah. Exactly. You can't necessarily go by. You have to look it. It's funny because most of the time what I would do that the person who sold it for the really, really high amount had another one for sale, of course. So it's they're not even that good at like, well, we should have five different accounts so people can't track this. Now people are scammers. People are scammers.

No whatever. Good for, Black Friday evening. What did we get for Black Friday? I mean, I've been doing all of the Christmas shopping online, so there has been some Lego purchased. I mentioned at Random Thoughts. Great episode this week, but a pair of shoes for my, nephew's wife, which he sent me the thing, and he's like, oh, here's a link. I think they're on sale through tonight. And that was, through Cyber Monday. But, you know, again, they've been running these sale.

So I went and I bought it was 55 bucks plus $5 shipping. I hate companies that charge shipping, but. Okay. And the next day woke up, went back to the same site, $98. I'm like, Holy crap, who buys this stuff at full price? You know, it's funny. I had a similar thing I noticed with some I bought some towels and apparently Egyptian curtains get up in price between, last month, this month. So they're raising the prices so they can put them on sale?

I think so, except that I didn't notice that I paid full price. Oh, but it was, I bought two towels for, like, 35 bucks, I think. And then I thought, oh, these are good. I think, like, their quality is good. Towel. So I'm buying a couple more and, and then they were like 45 bucks.

I was like, how do I go up ten bucks in one month? High quality. Man, apparently, I, I don't want that. And I suspect they probably are 45 because they objected to 45. You have a Black Friday back to 35 price, except that I bought them the day after yesterday. I bought them for 45. You're doing it wrong, that's why. Yeah. Do you. Damn it, if it's on Amazon, that's why. Camel camel, camel.com is your friend. It tracks right. So yeah. Tracks pricing on. That's a stupid name.

It's just a name like that. It is a horrible name. I don't understand it. I don't even get why that would be the name. If somebody can explain it to me and I'm just a moron, let me know. But I don't understand why. Camel camel camel.com would be a site that monitors the prices of Amazon items over years. It's a very useful site for me. Like if I'm going to go buy something and it has stopped me from buying things quite a few times and you're like, oh, what?

This keyboard that's on sale for 150 bucks, that's a good deal. And then I'm like, good deal. Let me go look. And it's like, what was on sale for 79 bucks six months ago. It's like, oh, well, I'll wait. It'll get back then. And they have, you know, it's easy. It's free if you if you really want to give them your email address, you can. And when the price drops or whatever you want it to drop, it will email you. So you don't have to monitor this.

Yeah, there's been a few price watch services over the years. I think my mom used to be called Price Watch. That would make way more sense. And Campbell Campbell campbell.com. But to be fair I remember Campbell Campbell campbell.com.

So there's maybe something to be said for just oh there's another thing I would recommend people do if you want to buy something and you don't immediately need it like it's a want rather than need, get a situation, stick it in your shopping cart and then move it into the Amazon later cart or whatever. Like, you know, right? You can move it out of your actual shopping cart into the maybe later category. And then every time you go back, it tells you what it's doing. Exactly.

So when you go back, it'll say, oh, this went up or this went down. And it's amazing because it's about 50, 50. Half the products I have in there go up. Yes, and half go down. Yes. And you're like, this is what it is. It's interesting to watch, but you realize, oh, all Amazon prices are like the stock market. They are either going up or down. And I understand why Amazon a few years ago decided to stop their price matching of their own price within 30 days.

Yeah. Yeah. Because it just moves around way too much. With that said, you know if it is a return within 30 days, right. We'll see. Which is I don't understand and I've gone through that with Amazon multiple times. I'm like, so if I return it buy it again. Yeah. We obviously you could do that. What you remember that story is my laptop. Yes. Oh yeah. Where I returned it and immediately right after hitting the return. Oh a refurbished one just popped up for $400 less. Great deal. Great deal.

Buy it now, I wonder if it's the same one I have. That's a great scam, I like it, I'm going to dig in, grow. You remember? What happened is because I like. I. You have 30 days to send it back, and I am going to. I'm going to not. So I bought the refurb right away and wait, but I, I waited to send mine and and then. Oh, unfortunately, your, your refurb laptop is delayed. Wait, wait. It's a different one though, right? It was a different one. That's the crazy part. It was a different one.

So my whole theory just flew out the window. But. But the whole time I, I thought, oh, this got to be mine. Just the way it happened and, and the fact that and the new one shipped literally 48 hours after I shipped mine back, right. Like we got magically turning it around. How, how. But it can't be the same one because mine actually had burned out light bulbs and the keyboard, the one that I shipped back to Amazon. So I knew that if this one did as well, that it was mine.

That's how I figured I could, you know, track it. But I didn't know the one that I got. I mean, it may have been a refurb, but it was spotless. You wonder how many of these screens they see, how many things get sent back? Yeah, more than one. I didn't find the metric that Amazon is including. Now. I do find it interesting that they have a tag on. I'm not sure if it's all product pages, but oh, how many bought in the last three days? Well, that but also this product is returned a lot.

A product is rarely return. Yeah, like it is. There's that information. That is because sometimes you see stuff and it's just looks too good to be true. And now, unless they're intentionally putting bad information there to sell certain products over another. But how how much would it suck that you've gone to all the trouble of creating a product with the ponchos? Yeah. Beautiful.

And then to find out wonderful plants, you find out that Amazon putting a this product is often returned labels on your product like okay just tell people not to buy it for pricing. Right. That's essentially what you're doing is oh this. No no no no, we have it on sale. But you don't want to buy this while it's ponchos. Manufactured in Leningrad by 12 year old students. Well, they would be much higher quality if that was true. True?

You don't you don't want the manufacture by Chinese Uyghur slaves more like it. But, you know, we don't talk about that. Every fifth order gets a little note begging for help from the Chinese. Made this. Please rescue me. And what is this doing in the box? Well, what the hell is this bullshit? Oh, what was that? Was. That was a Seinfeld episode like that?

There was a, Was there there was an episode of some. Did I think like that? Well. And why do you think I have to use a, black marker to stretch out a little bit on the box that somebody put in there, right. You're like, no, no, no, no, no. And I really I think the people that have stole your image for that burnt whiskey. What was Bubba? Oh, I know what the hell. I mean, that looks more like you than you. I mean, if anybody's ever seen me. Bubba's whiskey bottle.

Yeah, I was not familiar with these. My sister wants some, which tells me my sister maybe is way more of a drinker than I thought. Yeah, alcoholic. Much of it's Bubba's secret stills. Whiskey's, They're mine. Yeah. I've never I've never tried it, so I have no idea if it's any good. But generally, if you go by the image on the bottle, that's not the correct way to pick whiskey. It is. It is the picture. If you go look at the picture, kids, that is me. Bubba's whiskey, that top.

It's Gene with the fedora. And sunglasses. Well, if you always wear sunglasses, this is usually what I look like. Yeah. But don't know how. Don't know why you really. You should send these folks an email. Yeah, with the photo, photos, it's like, hey, y'all need to change the image you have on there because your AI generated art just ripped off my photo. Yeah, it's like it's just. Who did you base this off of? This is like, at the very least, could you send me a case to try your products?

You know, although you don't drink, so. No. Do they have a pancakes, a bacon whiskey? I didn't go through the whole list. There's, like, pancakes and bacon with. This is what. Okay. This shows you where the nondrinkers might be. Exactly. Yeah. It's whiskey that tastes like bacon and pancakes, which, I mean, I like bacon and pancakes. Never thought of putting it into an alcoholic form. Well, it's not that hard to make. Whiskey tastes like bacon. No, you just butt pancakes.

Yeah, that's that's really, Yeah. Yeah, it's that's that's artificial flavors with that is. Right. So some nice the artificial flavoring might actually be worked for you health wise then. Although there's some Bourbons I've had that of tastes like pancake sirup. Oh, yeah. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. Some Bourbons I was looking my nephew put bourbon on the list, which I'm saying maybe the whole family. Family much, maybe it's a thing. And I'm like, well, I could go buy a bottle of bourbon.

But I remembered being in Costco and I didn't even realize what year it was. But it was 2016. So what you have before my I blew out, I was in Costco. Yeah. And they used to carry maybe they still do Booker's Bourbon, which is a right out of the still it's very high proof. And I think it was 2016. That was the first time they started doing four bottlings a year. So rather than you know when you just go in you buy a bottle of Jack Daniels. You don't know when it was made.

Well Booker's started putting stickers on. So they have a batch you know, 2016 number one 2016. Number 220 I think there were for a year that they do and they're still doing that now, you know. And I went and looked up because I bought the 2016 number one bluegrass, which I think this was the first one. I believe it was maybe not either way, buying it online now, the cheapest I found it for was 399 bucks for it. Now I'm like, I know this is better than, crypto.

This is better than baseball cards. It might even be better than Taylor Swift vinyl, I wish I would have bought a thousand bottles of this, although it's much harder to sell than all of those other things. Yeah, I figured maybe I'll just use that as the gift and be like, okay, I know there's a $50 limit, but I think that's what I bought it for. Well, yeah, you could be that guy that just blows up the limits and. Right. Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't even realize I was listening.

I give you a $300 back. You could just say that preemptively. Say, like, I know you guys are going to say that I blew out the limit by giving this $300 bottle of bourbon that I'm giving right here, but just know that I didn't intend to blow out the limit. It's just the kind of guy I am. Right? When I bought it, it was different. Now, are you the asshole? If you go there, there's a few different people. They're the ones that are going to make sure they hit the limit. Exactly.

And not throw a penny over, not throw a penny below. There's going to be the ones that just get close but are below and they're probably, you know, the biggest assholes. But I don't know where you put the ones where it's like, okay, we've all decided to do $50 a person and then you're like, here's a brand new iPad. Yeah. That's me. Oh, God. Bobby, you do have my address, right? Gene? I'm waiting. Yeah, I'll be waiting at the mailbox every day. I'll tell you what. I'll spend as much money as is.

Can mint donations? That's my share of it. How's that? Wow. Yeah. For, like, what, the last year? This month? For this month. Wow. Okay. Teens, like, just don't send me this month. That's. Well, I know nothing's come in, so we're in good shape. Well, that's not true today. We have a few people. Thank. We may as well do it though. And I don't know if that's called a tier, by the way, but it is I mean you at just. Wow man. Look at that drive right down the fairway.

Although you can't do that now in Moscow it's a little cold. So no. Oh look at that damn extra blogger. That's it. And again here with his $0.05 I know that was what it said. Hey baby. That was comic strip blogger. I figured that would be funny to leave that up. But here on episode 137 we have a few people including Tom, Tom, ski. All right buddy, I saw him in the troll room. He came in last week where we didn't have a show 25 bucks says Happy Black Friday.

I know he's over in the, in the European area. I don't know, another Lindsey's there?

Yeah, he was trying to take advantage of the free poncho bit because you said it was over 20, so I don't know if if he wanted ponchos y'all to let us know. But he came in with 25 bucks saying happy black Friday and then broke it. Yeah. Scott Gorman came in with $25 and said happy belated gobble gobble day. Keep up the great show. So that's obviously going to the wrong show. But I mean we appreciate that Scott. And again $25 that is in the that is it poncho range.

Things like please just take the ponchos. Take them all. Yeah. Yeah. Well, did they provide addresses? No. Not yet. Okay. So then how to start? I will say the year one. I mean, it's going to cost $25 and shipping to send it over there. So that's not really going to work. But so close. So sorry Tom. He said, but if you know, how about one how about one poncho in a bubble envelope? What what could that possibly go for? $25 just to get it out? Like, see, I believe that which is actually reasonable.

So I just talked to a friend of mine, and they had to send some paperwork to Russia and, so this is all before my trip and stuff, but they needed to get it there like that week. And their U.S mail no longer goes to Russia, right? Because they're bad. They're evil. You can't do it. Oh my God. I mean, this is worse than you'd like. During the height of the Cold War, you could still send letters back and forth, but not anymore. Not today.

And so there's a service that does this, and, they charge them $160 for the envelope. Wow. And the way they do this is they just mail it, I think probably Fedex or UPS or something to Cyprus. And then they have a mule in Cyprus, and it may be literally a mule. You don't know? Well, the mule will cost more. No, it's a person. But they their job is to fly multiple times back and forth between Cyprus and Russia.

Ben have no luggage with them because their luggage is all the mail that they're bringing with them in both directions. So it's an old school solution to a artificially created bullshit problem that we have. You know that YouTube now will ban your channel. My channel. You have opinions that are contrary to the U.S position. Ukraine. So if you have a YouTube channel that says, you know, the Russians ought to be, killing more Ukrainians, wait, so what? They will ban your channel.

What you're telling me is not to put our RSS feed live. I totally forgot about that because it was taking days for that to go through it. And they wanted you to wait until the whole thing. That's right. I forgot about that too. You started that whole process. Yeah. And it literally what? You should still do it because I'm curious to see how long it takes them to ban it for 30 minutes and you are gone. Tomtom ski said he wasn't, aware of the free ponchos, and he's like, don't waste shipping.

Donate some ponchos to a homeless person. So there's your, oh, I can do that. Yeah. On behalf of. So I'll just. I'll just tell a homeless person that you've bought them a poncho. Tom, on behalf of Tom. Tom ski over in the Great Netherlands. Here's a free poncho. Is what? I don't know, yes. Yeah, yeah, I could do that speedy bubble. He came in with one, two, three, 4 or 5 satoshis twice, which right before the show, that was $24.45. Oh, wow. That's a nice amount.

We have to figure out what we're doing with your get Alby account. I guess I can pointed at my. It's all fake money, so we don't count those. Okay, he says, in regards to all the Apple stuff we were talking about. You're not imagining things, Darren, I do it. Support. Macs are less intuitive in many ways. Software support is nowhere near as good. Worse, there are things that go really bad. Unless you're a Unix, which is what Mac OS is based on.

Guru. You might as well just reinstall the operating system and start over. Half the people at my work want Macs but can't give you a legitimate reason why they don't work as well. With our print server, our file servers. People insist they're easier, but then don't know how to do even the most basic things without help. It's a cult. And then he sent in the second one because it came through his front server instead of print server. So he spent another 12 bucks just to, correct.

Well, that's amazing for a guy who totally wrong that he's sending us this much money. He says condolences on the Mac. Yeah, I saw that. Well, anyway, certainly. Thanks for the, for the funds there. We appreciate, speedy. He is completely wrong. The Macs are easier. Macs? Don't break nearly as much as PCs do. And if I break the. I mean, we talking about hardware? Software? The software, I'm guessing hardware is amazing. Even if you're running windows on the Mac, the hardware is really good.

But the the intuitiveness part isn't actually intuitive. It's the wrong word to use. It's more of what you're used to. So which is true, I think in nice privileged suburbs where everybody had Macs and nobody had PCs. The Mac is a completely intuitive device that it takes nothing at all for you to be able to use it. However, if you grew up in the inner city where you know that so many Macs and you, you're stuck, you think during the match in the inner city, I don't know.

I think there's a lot of I think there's a lot of Mac people. Dude, dude, please, please, let's, you know, if you're used to a PC, yes, a PC will seem comfortable.

And I say this, incidentally, as somebody who's absolutely and completely by system operational. Oh, yeah. So I have two Macs sitting to my right, and I have two PCs, a laptop and a desktop sitting to my left. They both have 47 inch screens in front of them. I use both of them every day. I'm recording this, on the Mac, but I'm looking at the PC screen when I'm looking up, articles, you know, about bourbon whiskey and whatnot.

So it and somebody who is fluent in both, I definitely say that to people that have not had to learn windows like somebody, which is harder and harder to get to this point. But 15, 20 years ago, you could still find people that had not learned windows, right?

Macs are intuitively easier for them because the Macs copied the original parts or arts program for gooey for graphical user interface, which was based on making it simple for people to be able to take real world objects and apply them to a computer usage. That's why you have a trash can for throwing things away, and you know it because a trash can, which became a recycle bin at some point, is it makes logical sense when you do things you don't need, you throw them in the garbage.

So in as much as windows has copied a lot of those elements, it's still clunky. And saying that you need to know Unix to use a mac command. There's very few people that actually know Unix. They notations. Macs are creative types. Oh yeah, they're not programmers. They're not techies, but people that don't have to learn those things. What he was saying was, I think if things get bad, they don't know how to fix it themselves. And a lot of those people are just going to walk into a store.

I totally agree with that. That's 100% true, but again, for a reason. Yeah, it's because you don't need to know how the damn thing works to use it where there's a lot of people, if you're more technically inclined. And this is so been my other partner in crime and, just do good ol boys, little boys. Dot com. That is a perfect example. So he, he was teaching in screaming to not have to use Mac because he's all about the Linux. He's a Linux guy who has been forced to use windows.

And then he can bitch about that. But then when he was given the Mac from work, it was like, Macs. These suck. These are horrible. Now he's that every day. But he can actually and I've told them there's a number of occasions when he was bitching about things not working, I was like, dude, just open up terminal, get into the shell. You know, Linux, you should be able to navigate that Mac without using the gooey.

It's it's close enough, especially if you if you like actual Unix, not just Linux flavors. Right? Then I play around with that just enough where if things go bad, I can follow instructions. And no, you know, there's a lot of people are like, what's terminal? Yeah, right. What do you mean what is a bash? What is zsh? What is idle. No, no. The basics. And you can go a lot further along. But most of the people.

Yeah, I think they're just taking it to the Apple Store and going like, I don't know, it doesn't work anymore. And that's because they haven't had to learn how to use, readline interface because they're more of the creative types. And that's generally what you find the Mac. Not exclusively. Certainly the performance of this thing is fairly impressive for the price.

The one thing I do the best, I mean, if you look at the test websites, the that, well, not the machine you got, you got the more expensive one. But if you get the the cheap one for 599, there's nothing that matches its performance that you can buy for that money. On the PC side though, and it's small and it doesn't make a lot of noise. And I was I was done a shot. I will tell you that there's a speaker inside this league.

So I was wondering, like, what's making noise is and you can just go through and choose the which audio output you want for different things. So it's it's really cool because you could just say, well for the system little beep. So I'll just put that through the Mac mini speaker itself. Yeah. And everything else go through. And I don't like having the headphone jack in the front because I'm running that to my speakers would be a little cleaner to have that.

Why are you running that to your speakers? Why not? I thought to do that. That had optical outs that you could connect. You know, I didn't buy the optical out thing yet. Now I might get this. I just plug the stereo output, the 3.5in into the headphones. It it works perfectly. So I don't have surround sound, but that's okay. At least I have the stereo with the subwoofer running that, which is what I use 99% of the time anyway. Yeah, and I'll probably say card.

I will say that I did have recently a support related issue on the Mac. Oh. And I'm, I'm happy enough to, you know, talk about it. I'm like, I'm not hiding shit. I have a piece of software that I bought about seven years ago that, for seven years and like 3 or 4 Macs earlier, a long, long time ago that I needed to install. And I started getting an installation there that that says that the the installer for that program does not have the rights to modify the applications directory.

Oh, well, turn it off, press the whole power button until it goes into no. And I used to know how to do this. There used to be a way to admin override it and I can't find it anymore.

So either they got rid of it or which they could have, frankly, because I wouldn't leave it past Apple to get rid of some more of the, power user type commands. Right? I couldn't frickin figure it out. I could, like, I can put things into that directory, and I, I even ran the installer as an administrator, and it still didn't let me put it in there. Right. But, like, what's the curity setting for the, NTFS program? Yeah. Yeah. You had to go in and lower the security setting.

And rather than being able to do it from the system settings, like everything else, you had to reboot the machine, hold the power button, let it go through its 5 or 10 minutes of checking your fucking file system. I don't know why it needs to do that first, but once it does that, it gives you a few more options. And one of those is security options. If you say yes, accept third party whatever. You're kidding. No. If you put you have to do it in this. That's the only place you could do it.

That used to be right in the control panel. I yeah, that sounds very familiar. And there wasn't any. I couldn't find it, so I didn't bother researching what you did, obviously. So I just kind of complained to the software company. I was like, what the hell your program sucks. But they were really appreciative at that point. And they said, well, you know, maybe you're doing it wrong. I said, how dare you? I've had a mac for longer than you've been alive. My first Mac was 1984, so fuck off.

And, because that's usually what I say to software support people, you know, always. Yeah. You're gonna start with the. I've been doing this longer than you've been alive. Because they love that. Yes. They understand immediately the importance of you as a customer when you start saying things like that. That's what they're like. Oh yeah, you'd better. We'll treat you much better now. Sir, before you told us this, we would have treated you worse. Grandpa, are you on your meds?

Did you take them this morning? Oh, B12 c b12. There you go. Speaker. They got to take the old B12. Yeah. With that, you got to get the B12 in, so. Oh, there we go. And that would be my first apple was the two E, which I believe was I think it was 85, 86. Somewhere in there. Right. The Apple 2EI remember getting it. Yeah. It was, it was fucking expensive. Jesus. It was expensive. Yeah. Compared to what this is. I remember a friend you didn't have a C. Was that before?

I mean, that was the little one. The. Was it after the 2EI remember seeing the c I yeah, the the well, the two e came out before the c I believe, but I think two e came out at like 83 because that's what I had. And then the but I mean they continued selling it for several. Oh yeah. It was around the C was a little compact all in one. And that came out I think in 84 that came out the same time as the Mac did.

But if I remember right, that was the apple because I had gotten a, great grandfather had passed away. There was little inheritance that my sister went to Lake Placid for, the Olympics with the money, and I waited until that was 80, I think, Lake Placid. But this was 80 Olympics. Yeah, they saved up that money until the two e. And then I was like, okay, parents remind me, like, okay, you can go spend. But I think it was nerd 2000 plus, I mean, and that money at that time, which. Yeah, yeah.

But that's like a thousand today. Literally. Yeah. I had a buddy in high school that had a Lisa and I'm like, dude, I wonder if he still has it. I wanted to track him down because that was those are now selling for big fucking bucks. I don't know why. I mean I get why. But again it's one of those things like and I would have never thought because I got rid of the two. We, I got rid of the old color computer wasn't using. I'm, I'm kind of wishing like that was the stuff I would have saved.

Yeah. I mean, they're not very useful. I mean, I guess they are just dust gatherers. My, my dad kept all the computers I got. I have no problem throwing them in the trash. My dad kept them all. And I think my niece ended up taking them. And I don't know, it's they may have some value, but not enough to keep them around. Yeah, you could still run that Commodore 64 blitz. You could make a lot of things out of it. I never had a second one of the new ones. I never had a Commodore 64.

I didn't either, but I remember always like programing programing them to say dirty stuff and store displays. Of course. Why not? Why wouldn't you do that? Yeah. I mean they had basic building, so you might as well. I mean, kids today will never understand 5.25in floppy drives. You know, the joy of a program that came on like 20 disks, a disk 19 was bad. The good old days, you remember that sound very rare. Yeah. It's like shit.

It's having readers, I don't know, or punching a hole in it and flipping the disk over to the other side. Yeah. Which was amazing. That like, it seemed like such a scam for them to not put that hole on there because they always were. Yes. There was always material on that side.

It was able to be used because it was cheaper for them to have one manufacturing process for both two sided and one sided discs, except that half those disks that were manufactured went into one sided and have one two sided surprise and all just depends. Where the extra hole gets punched. Exactly.

Oh man, there are people making money on special hole punchers. Oh yeah. If you if you didn't want to have a round hole, you buy the little special one to get a squirrel and to make sure you were always getting it the same for a place of the right place, how often you had to be. Oh, missed. Yeah, miss. Just a little bump. Exactly. But yeah, having two, 5.5in drives and having the monochrome monitor, which is why I still when I go into terminal, you're still monochrome, I still monochrome.

And usually that green color because I just it's what feels right. I did that. We're reminiscing. I had a website. I made one of the first, internet security websites back in the late 90s, probably 96, 97. And, and it's it was basically a website that you could go in and run, a bunch of security tests against yourself and see how insecure your, your computer is while you were really just stealing all their information.

Didn't say that, did not sound the and, so anyway that I did, I, I got hired, I got good jobs because that website. Oh yeah. Because at the time, the people hiring knew nothing about technology and they're like, wow, this guy's got a website. Well, he seems to be not only is a website, but it was a it was a self testing website. So and he seemed anyway, an expert. The point is I wasn't expert.

Point is, on that website, I had two color options that you could flip between and the color options were green and amber. And so the, the website was pure text, but it would you had the option of switching between green and amber. You were ab testing every person that came in. No, I just did it because I thought it was kind of cool because back in the old days, you had amber monitors and you had green monitors. So yeah, the amber ones I barely even remember seeing. Green was really compact.

Compact that amber, I mean, I still remember fondly and I think it was it what came right before the two must have just been an Apple two plus. Was it or just a for the. Yeah. Oh I think you're right. Yeah I think the E is still came out before the C I believe. But yeah the two plus would have been before both of those obviously because I think the two plus was the first one I used. My buddy had it lived up there at the other street, his had two brothers and the oldest brother had the two plus.

And I remember, oh my God, I was totally right. How how much do you enjoy seeing things like that rarely happens. So let's, stop. Everything I know is right. Apple TV, came out in January of 1983. We need a jingle for Gene was. And that was very sort of the Apple two plus. The two plus, though I remember the green monitor, my buddy's brother had it and it was great when the brother wasn't around, because then we'd go in and play games and I read the oh, I was right. Yeah, look at that.

All right, you see who Apple about who? Right after the launch of the Mac and the eighty-fourths. They both came out in 84. Yep. Playing the two D version of Castle Wolfenstein The Air. Steve. However you say it on a two plus Castle Wolfenstein with the green monochrome monitor, right? So that was green. Yeah, yeah. So you had green but not amber? Yeah. Dream was green. Color matter. Whoa. So I bought a new toy. Since we're doing all tech, all tech, all the time right here.

Oh, on my computer bloggers complaining that you haven't read here. Yeah, I know we haven't got to that point. We also got to get to the $10 and 87 monthly from weenie. Wow. Who thought, oh, hey, we need more power. Yeah. Thank you. Kevin Seibert with his $5 monthly. So yeah. Whoever something the, the 20 bucks or whatever it was. Send me your address if you want, ponchos. So that would be Speedy or Scott Gorman, if you want. Ponchos. Yeah. You got it.

You got to provide an address for those just to go to. You don't want the ponchos, don't provide an entrance, and you won't get any. It all works and you won't have to throw them away. It all works out. So, just leave the jeans garage. Well, that's where they are right now, though. Or if you happen to be in Gene's garage without him knowing, just take the ponchos. Oh, if you're here and, yeah, I don't know it, feel free. Either way. It will not. Yeah, it's like free up my garage space is a plus.

Anyway, so I picked up. I wasn't gonna buy one, but I bought a, Steam Deck. Oh, the gaming things I was every time I came in, I think stream the stream deck, I. No, no, no, the steam deck, which is the the the steam gaming hardware that runs most games on it. So it's interesting a couple of things. One is it's bigger than I thought it would be. Is it a hammer hold kind of a thing? It's a handheld.

It's kind of like the old, was it the Nintendo Switch maybe, where you got the screen in the middle and you got two hand things on the sides? Yeah, I think so. Left hand drawer, right hand controller. But this thing, I have a picture right next to my keyboard. It is literally the size of a keyboard. Like it is not a small device, which I guess is good because that means the screen can be bigger, which it the screen is.

I think it's a seven inch screen, I believe, which is pretty large for a handheld thing. Yeah, for a handheld, it's it it's pretty big. It it's also heavier than I thought it would be

because you're working out now. Well playing games, it's got. Well it's gotta have enough battery power in there to run several hours playing a 3D game. So it's got a GPU that it's got to keep running off battery juice. And my laptop runs about an hour on batteries. So the fact that this runs for like 3 or 4 hours really impressive. And if you're doing like low graphics quality stuff that isn't taxing the GPU, I think it'll run for eight. But I'm not counting on that.

I think 2 or 3 hours, but all it's going to do. But, they had it on Black Friday sale, and I was like, oh, God damn it, because I've been eyeing it. But also, I also thought I was just ridiculously too expensive. But with the Black Friday discount, all the sudden it was kind of like, maybe I can kind of be this something I use came with a very nice hard carrying case, something that is meant to prevent you from scorching it. When you're carrying it out of airplanes or.

Yeah, if it's juggling around the inside of an airplane or luggage or something, it's definitely not going to get squished. It probably would last a flight. I think it's got enough battery juice to last that long. If you're doing something. Even the flight has a fan. It has a fan in it. If you can believe that there's actually hot air coming out of it now keep your hot. Oh, they're coming out of it when you're playing games. Yeah. Maybe that for more of the immersive, aspect of it.

Oh, just like the laptops is bringing a lot of how they're right. Yeah. And but it's the screen raises really high. I played, my one of my favorite, spaceship games on it. Really dangerous. And it worked very good. I'm still not used to using the controller instead of joysticks, but, I'm sure it's just a matter of practice, so I'll get used to it. So. Yeah, I think it's, It's. So far it's been good.

I would recommend, anyone looking at getting one of those as a good alternative to buying a gaming laptop because, you're getting essentially, you're getting a computer that runs PC games as long as they're on steam and it'll fit if you're getting it small enough that it. Yeah, it's you're getting that computer, you're getting a controller, you're getting a screen and all that for under $700. In fact, you can get it for I mean, there's lower end models all the way down to 299. Now.

And if you run to and I explain this to a guy that was saying, oh, yeah, I don't have a computer to play this game, I'm like, well, you don't need to buy one of these. And then you can plug in the video, on this thing into a television, because you probably don't have a monitor if you don't have a computer, but do have a TV HDMI out. Yeah. Nice. So it's either HDMI or let me look at it. It's sitting right here. These HDMI or it's, USB three which can output HDMI.

But either way you can plug it into a television and then still use it as a controller when it's running remotely. Yeah, I think it's just USB three. No. Yeah, yeah, yeah USB three. Well, I had to flip around to look at it here. So you can get video out through USB three and then plug it into a TV. Obviously that also delivers the sound into the TV for it. So you could then just use that as a controller.

Or you can also use a Bluetooth keyboard and or Bluetooth joystick and or Bluetooth mouse, mouse with it. So you could theoretically wireless Bluetooth mouse. Is that what comes with the new port mouth? The Bluetooth mouse is pretty amazing. It's an amazing thing being a Bluetooth. What the hell is this? That is weird. I got a separate little pet. Oh, that's for the frickin power supply. Oh, that's kind of neat.

So they have, I just noticed they have a separate little bag for the power supply for it, which is just a USB, which is just USB, but it comes with its own charger thing. I want to play anyway. Mini review. It works good. I want you to go to your farming's. Your trucks, or your spaceships, anywhere you want. All the Sims I want to play. So, I guess, did you? Guru's ag says I remember my yellow monitor driven by a Hercules graphics card that I used to run AutoCAD for electronic schematic designs.

I think that's going way back in his age. He was born in 1967. Oh wow. Is that accurate. Did you go to 67 I think he's a little older. And we'll find out early and wait and find out. That's just what we do on the show. We now wait. Did you guru to confirm or to play guess your age? Yes. Your age. If you're in the draw room, it's a new feature. We have heard that we're going to have to go for it and everything. Yes, yes. Your age there.

And then next thing we're going to do is guess, guess your weight. Oh yeah. Yeah, we're going to guess weights remotely and we will send you a scale so we know you're not cheating, which will have to come right into the chat. You're not allowed to pretend like you're actually 10 pounds later. And, CSB was wrong. The one. Okay. Go ahead. What are he. See, like, I want to hear this. This was one of the issues I did. He says he's the same age as JCD.

Yeah, no, he said he told me before, but I didn't remember what year. Oh, so he's 101, 160. And I thought just maybe. Okay. The other one, the one issue I was having with the Mac mini was that the mode two was dropping off of it every now and then. No, it doesn't yet. I know it shouldn't. But here's the thing. I had. I was using Wonder Windows, a printer table that was probably ten feet long.

Because the mode two was originally way far away from my windows back, and now it's sitting right next to the Mac mini. Yeah, have a real table. I bought a and it's funny because it's the old, you know, the square, whatever. Let us what's it USB it's is it b d I think. Yeah. The big square looking thing, you know, not the rectangular square. And I just bought a monoprice cable that went from that to C, and TSB was like all about a no, that did not work.

I'm like, well, no, but it did. It's perfect. Now it works. I mean, the other thing I had that cable going into then an adapter to, you know, make it into usb-C. I'm like, well, one cables really long, two using an adapter. Yeah. Now that it's just a straight cable, man, it is working like butter. Yeah. Good. Yeah, it should work like butter. That's what's made for the CSB center. This 33 tab. And he's like, oh, is it me? Really?

Now that the Satoshis are going up in value, his, bounces this boosts are coming down. I don't like that. He's getting cheap. He's like, I only want only $3. That's all your shows worth. Garbage. Ooh, I know, and then he wants to tell people to subscribe to his podcast by searching for CSB field. Field? There's a field. I mean, you might find like Citi Field. That's where they're the people that play like football in Citi Field.

But if you search for CSB field and podcast app, next episode is 25 will feature Chainsaw Massacre. What kind of a podcast is that? What the hell kind of podcast is this? This is so he's he also direct messaged me and saying it's 330, not five seconds. Quora. Why does your not read my books to grab me at? No, I think he's doing this with the AI voices, which I'm interested in. He did how they told them to do that long time ago. I was shocked that he didn't.

He could have been on the forefront before all of these. Note whatever. No penalty of Q whatever they are, all of these concepts that I this is what podcast was, you know, I don't like the idea of, keeping anybody out of indexes, but I would love to see somebody figure out a way to mark the AI of the index, as there's at least mark them as AI podcast, because you're going to have a billion people can make money by just because. I guess the minute you hear it, you'll know.

So you can just block it yourself that you don't. I mean, usually it's it's just Chinese translated by Google. That's right. And then or Google Chinese translator and then into an AI native English speaker. The more that people are just going to like type into the AI box. Make me a 20 minute podcast about whatever. And then that's what they're going to put out. It's a great idea. I know you could put out five hour a minute for whatever, I don't know. I've been making songs left and right.

I might as well do podcasts format it. Adam, right into it. And as long as you're adding enough to the song, well, then you can have some copyright joy. Oh hell no. I'm doing it all in. I like everything I. Everything's good timing. Yeah, it's really simple. I well, there's a part that I do which is ask a question. I said, I tell me what's good about Texas. Nothing. And the AI spits out, like, 20 pages worth of text versus the old and say, okay, okay, that's just queers and steers.

Boy, I think that down to like a paragraph and then it'll do that. And I say, okay, now take that and rephrase it using rhyming words like a poem likes, and it'll do that. And then I say, okay, now take that and make a song out of it, and I take that and stick it into Suno and Suno makes all the musical arrangements for it. And then I have a track that it spits out that I now have a copyright to. Great. It's beautiful. And you can tell AI to write in different styles.

Oh hell yeah, I know agenda Adam and John were talking about. Oh, it always spits out this flowery stuff. No, it doesn't know. No. You could tell to can Smith. And I'm not saying it's good, but you can. I don't think either one of those guys is particularly a fan of I know probably not. But I mean, I like using it just for words for fun things like for, I didn't think it was pretty good.

I went and I usually I've been doing the AI creating chapters for my Random Thoughts podcast and for this one. Yeah. And I've been using it to create the little paragraph that you put in with the listing to tell people what's in there. Yeah. And the one that I did this week for Random Thoughts, I didn't really it didn't grab me. So I said, do that again in the style of Donald Trump, okay?

And it gave me the repeated everything three times that I read kind of like listen to Random Thoughts, the most incredible podcast out there, believe me. Hosted by Darren O'Neil, this show covers the biggest or most important topics in politics and society. It's great, it's great. I mean, it's like it's just was, and, let's see here, and then at the end, Random Thoughts is packed with sharp analysis, engaging discussion. Hungry man. Fantastic folks. Don't miss out.

Tune in. Now there's some food I think. Join the winning team. You're going to love it. Yeah. What should I get for food? What do you get for food? Burritos. Now you hate burritos? No, I gotta go with those. You hate Texas. I'm actually trying to. My frickin blood sugar has been too high lately. I'm trying to say some pie. Very. Yes. Pie. I would like to order. Give me punch in pie. The Costco 4 pound apple pie. They have a. Yeah, they brought it for my nephew. Brought that.

And like, the 4 pound pumpkin pie for. Yeah, Costco sent me a bill. I need to renew my membership. I'm trying to decide. Do you really need it? They do have all the Apple stuff, though. I mean, so you can continue buy your Apple stuff at a discount? Yeah, I don't know. I've never bought it at Costco's by direct from Apple. I get a special deal. Oh well you got it. Of course you got an Apple guy. Yeah, I got an Apple guy. I bought mine directly from Amazon.

No, I've had the same Apple guy for about 15 years. He actually moved. He moved to Austin when I moved to Austin. He's like, I have to follow Gene. He's the only way I make money. He actually moved here about two months before me, but we ended up both in Austin, which is pretty funny because he was my Apple guy in Dallas that needs his fried chicken and shepherd's pie together. Or is that like a one or whatever? I mean, I had shepherd's pie yesterday. Was it real Shepherd's pie, though?

Not brown, but I might have. Was it lamb? Oh, the real shepherd's pie has to be lamb. No, it was totally lamb. No Shepherd's pie. What? I mean, I know a lot of these places of these restaurants around here, they say shepherd's pie, and then it's like ground beef. I'm like, fuck, you know? I mean, do you not understand the shepherd's part? No. It's got to be smelly. Gotta have lamb. Yeah, well, I mean, you probably bake it.

I go to, which is, I mean, I didn't know, and I don't really care, because it was delicious. The, Berea, which I even, I don't know, there was we went to a new Mexican place, authentic, and had the birria tacos, which is they were delicious. And the wife was like, oh, it's like, you know, it's pot roast. You know, it has that kind of a taste to it. And that was good with the pineapple, though. I mean, next level.

And I was watching a video of, a guy, the same guy that did the pizzas with, a pizza shop that went with a, you know, Mexican dude who is a his family owns a Thai Korea. And they were going to all on that, all because there's like 5 billion taquerias in the Chirac area. But they went for the bread that's like, that's goat. And I'm like, oh, I didn't know it was delicious. Yeah. A lot of people would be like, oh, I don't know if I want to eat goat up.

Real thing about going the goat, it's tastes just fine. It's it's the way people cook it that is the problem because in India they leave the bones in, which is bullshit. I don't like bones in my goat. The, the other thing is, you can kick. You kick, you can cook goat in a lot of the same ways. You would cook a deer, and it tastes very good. It's all about the spices. It's just so delicious. I think you're right. I'm going to get a chicken kabob. I think, you see, you go for the kabobs.

I love the chicken five. The Greek. You like the Greek chicken kabobs? Those are, I got a place here. The Greek place? No cauliflower brothers. Oh, well, that's good too. But the Greek chicken kabobs are, a little fe. The cheese. I get $10 off when I spend 35 000. That's what meal? 35 bucks in Austin. Maybe it is. So. I mean, the all kidding aside, meals here are about 25 to 60 per person. You're like, would you like a bottle of a Mexican Coke on the side? That'll be $15.

I wish they don't offer or that the prices give it more. No, but I mean, it's I don't know if they have Mexico. It's a good question. Let me check. Are Costco still dead? When we went in, we hadn't met in like I had met at a Costco. I'm like, you know, but I can add a Mexican Coke for for for 20. See? There you go. They are delicious from a different restaurant. So I have my my runner run to two different restaurants. Mad person's going to be like what the fuck are you doing?

I mean, no out of delivery fee. It says right here. So he can stop by and pick up Mexican Coke on the way as well. They have regular bottles of Mexican Coke in the fridge. I just want to stop by Blitzen house. He has him in the fridge. Blitz. Yeah, really? In the drawing room, I. You all don't want to be drinking a Mexican Coke, because like I said, my freaking blood sugar has been hell. That's bad that you don't want to protein.

I know only I've been trying to stay away from all the sugary stuff. I used to have Mexican Coke fill in the fridge down in the basement. No. Well, I started feeling like tired. Okay, this is where we switch from the the IT portion of the show to the health board talking about health with Gene. Yeah, we should do those I songs. We talking about health that that likes the. So Taco I bet he does with the tongue taco lengua. No I'm not a fan of tongue at all.

I've never tried it, so I can't say one way or the other. But she said The, the one that they swore was like one of the best tacos was like the goat head meat. So I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. No, no you're doing it. Do you have, what do you have. The black and white pudding when you go to Ireland. I mean that's the question. Black pudding. So good. It's all right. It's not so good, but it's it's not as bad as people think it is. I thought it was delightful. Do you like the blood sausage?

Yeah. I mean, that was great.

There was a lot of. I was like, oh, this. The black pudding is awesome. And then people are finding out what's in it and they don't want to eat it. I'm like, I'm already hooked. I'm like, it is so damn good. It's like you get to be like, well, there's blood in it. Like if you ever had a burger or a steak, I mean, you're getting. No, never. You know, it's like, come on, you know, I think you're eating, you're consuming stuff.

It's, if you really think about it, you're going to be like, I really shouldn't eat anything. Well, that would be the best with wouldn't. Oh, yeah. All right, there we go. Ordered. Ordered. Okay. What's the time? Where you got a bottle? How many minutes until. Oh, they're ways out there. They're, up in, the U.T. campus. So it's a good, half hour minimum. You like if you can get here in 20 minutes. I got to wait for you. Yeah. No, that's not how that works.

No, no, I don't have a handy for anything. What about somebody? Oh, you did that shit. You got rid of the mirror. We had that on the last episode. Everybody was happy. The mirror had found a new home. I actually, I, I planned on getting rid of it, I still haven't. Oh, wow. But I, I need to probably reach out to the the gal that I'm gonna give it to and take care of that I haven't gotten around to it. You got a gal that you're going to give it to, James. Is that what you're saying?

The mirror? Yeah. Yeah, I found somebody that that is moving a block away from me. That doesn't have a mirror. I be like, there you go. Come on over. I'll give it to you. Go big. Come on over and I'll do it. Well, in fact, I said I'll. I'll even come and give it to you. Oh, that is a bonus. I figured you'd want the bonus there. The genes. Blood sugar too high. That means you need to cut down on all of the carbs.

Yeah. All right. So. And the way that I even thought about it is I just was really tired last week. Like on the weekend on Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. So I was really tired with this after a large, Thanksgiving. I tried to, I mean, not really. I didn't think it was. I mean, I need a couple of cans of cranberries, but I didn't think it was that much. I, I probably shouldn't have been eating the cranberries without the turkey. Right. But you wanted a little balance.

But I kind of like the way they say. So I always been a big fan of cranberries, but anyway, I was just super tired, so I was sleeping like 20 hours a day, and I'm thinking, what am I, a snake? Yes, in the snakes. Like, hey dude, wake up. Yeah, the snake's like, hey dude, you're supposed to be feeling me not sleeping. And, but does it your blood sugar? Me is it monitored like, minute by minute? Because you have it is if I plug myself in, it is. Yeah, but I hadn't done that for a while, so.

Okay. Who forgot to plug in? Come on. You got. No, you have to plug him in. That's right. The vital part of the system. So then, I think Wednesday, I was bitching about it to, the band dude named man named band dude named Bender, man. And I'm like that. I'm just, like, concerned. Like he's got a cold or something to waste. And I was trying to figure out because we were going to get together this week and get a dinner. And I'm like, you know what?

I'm just I'm not feeling it. So, plug myself in now I'm got my readings for all the the blood figure stuff and whatnot. But I was like, Holy shit, it's not coming down. That's not get. So I had to do a little bit of, reworking of the old diet to get that blood sugar back down. Yeah, that was really bummed the other day. Got a message, which I never do, although I figured maybe it. Because we have a doctor appointment next week on Tuesday. Just the normal six month checkup.

And I've told you, my doctor has had issues. He fell, almost died, that whole thing, and got a message. A few days ago that said he's stepping away from patient care as of January 1st. And I'm like, yeah, I need this guy doctor shop. Yeah. You know, and there's a guy in his practice who is fine, but who the office is 40, 45 minutes away from my house does, you know, it's it's a doctor I've had for, you know, 25 years or so. So I think it's 40 minutes of where you've always been.

Yeah, well, I used to live about 25 minutes north of where we are. So when it started, that was a quick 20 minute. My parents still go to the same doctor. It's 20 minutes. No big deal. Right across the street from beautiful Grace hospital where they bring all the gunshot victims if they can. But now it's like, yeah, I'm going to need the doctor shop because I would rather have something way closer. And so we'll ask for some recommendations.

But I know he was the one that, like, well, do this, do this, do this, go to a, you know, no carb diet. So when you said the sugar, that reminded me and my cholesterol was up the last time. So he was going to take the blood test again next week. But I guess, really, if he's retiring, who's going to force me to take a stat? No one's going to. No one. Yeah, who gives a shit? I'm also like, dude, don't take a same sentence. This is not medical advice, but stents suck there.

There's more and more literature coming out. In the medical journals showing that statins, screw up your imbalance of way too many hormones to be worthwhile just to reduce the cholesterol. And I saw there was some cholesterol lowering medication that's been around for a long time. That's not in base. Yeah. No, it was like it's also gross hair. And I'm like whoa. Yeah. Whoa.

It's a twofer. Yeah. Except the it's like one of the side effects was possibly your dick. Only hard. And then it's like, well, now you got the hair. Your heart works fine, but now you're not getting laid. So, I mean, you may as well be boiled. You may as well, though. Yeah. Oh, it's crazy either way. So who cares? Yeah, it's it's a, that there's statins were a marketing product, not a medical product. Yeah. So I know I've been back on the, doing the recumbent bike.

My doesn't go outside, so it's way cooler. But doing that while watching the YouTube videos one of us has a recumbent bike you know I know and they hate me. It's stationary baby. No it's stationary inside. I should get one for the outside. That would be way cooler. That would be funny. Yeah. Adam Curry and I should both get recumbent bikes and they'd be like, oh, you don't have one. We could join a biker gang. Yes, yes. The podcasters. The hell's podcasters?

That'd be the right name for a biker gang. And recumbent should be the podcasters. The hells podcasters. No, not Stroger Hospital, man. Christ Hospital. You. That's where. What do you get? Most of the people that get shot on the South side. I don't know, man. That doesn't sound like a good hospital to me. You want a good hospital or you know that that it wouldn't be criticized for your anti-religion or, it's just the big, big, big hospital. It has to have the highest ratings.

And, it mean it was for a long time. I think you want to get one. It should be called something like Mount Sinai Hospital. I mean, that's a good one. Now, the one suburban, the out in, the one suburb here was taken over by Northwestern Medicine. So they immediately went from, like, a little nobody really ever, you know, cared too much about them. They weren't really specialists of anything.

Now all of a sudden that's like flying up the charts and, and the one out by us, which is Silver Cross, there's a lot of religious things without. Yeah. What's the reverse? Where do you get a bunch of penguins up there? Maybe you got something. Need something to do? When we went to visit my father in law and they let him go last weekend, Sunday, I think it was that his wolves were bleeding. So he went back. And he's still there, which I mean, cancer. One sucks for cancer.

But then he had to have basically it was kind of a bypass with the leg. So they took some vein out of his arm and put it into his legs, going into the arteries. And it's like the wounds aren't healing. It's like, well, fucking no kidding. Did anybody not think of this? I mean, the cancer drugs they've got about I guess are like massive blood thinners. So having massive blood thinners and then having surgery. Yeah. Not great.

But the thing that surprised me was after going to visit my dad in two different hospitals in Christ about northwestern here when he was in this is the first hospital that's like, oh, you're visiting license please. And they scan the fucking license and then they take a picture of you. What's been printed? Yeah. I'm like, what the fuck? Who is like the Pope here is, yeah. Yeah. What's up with that?

And then there was a female deputy at the elevators, making sure people getting on the elevators have the little passes they give you at the front. So, like. Like what? I will give you massive props for security. But why do you need all the security? I, the other hospitals, it's like you just walk right on in. Well, Christ Hospital, there's probably 8000 entrances because it was a little hospital that continued to expand, expand, expand, expand. And it's like a maze on the inside.

Yeah, those are horrible. Oh, like getting from one side to the other. It's like, good luck with that. You're like a mouse in a maze. I'm trying to figure out. It's like the room numbers randomly change because you're really going from one building to another. And a lot of them you could see, you know, they have little walkways going over the roads where, you know, I'm like, damn, this place is big. Yeah. So that's, you know, at least the one with the high security, not like that.

Which I guess maybe they figured they could at least control it. But again, I kind of want to know why, because that still seems odd. If I haven't mentioned if you'd like to support the show planet Rage, dot show slash donate or just Planet Rage dot show support the damn show if you want to keep it around. It's the holiday season as part rage going out there.

No planet rage is still around now and Ben Rose is working so much like we should do a, a holiday episode of Grumpy Old Ben's with all this crazy tech stuff going on when the FBI puts out a directive and, yeah, we think everybody should stop using SMS and start using encrypted messaging. I'm like, wait, isn't this like the opposite of everything the FBI has been saying for like, the last ten years? Oh no, we don't like this encrypted stuff. We can't see it.

We don't like when people use Signal or Telegram or whatever else. And now they're like, well, China can see your best messages, like, well, fucking everybody can see your messages. That's because they're in the clear. Their voice right there. So maybe we should do a grumpy old bad or we can get a day off somewhere. I'm like that would be just a fun guy Christmas being on Wednesday. Yeah it was weird. One for Christmas I know it's grumpy old bad. That's normally what's up.

Would be a nice little Christmas Day surprise if people woke up on Wednesday. We're like, oh, it's not going to be a surprise now that you're yapping about it. What I'm talking about is here. Who? Listen to this show. Oh yeah. Right. You know, it's like just Blitzer I don't know. Are you listening? Blitz I think so. I Deji guru no beret. Tom. Tom. Ski make him keep secrets. Matt. That I'll wait that that he did that that is not good at keeping secrets.

We're fucked now. Yeah. I mean, like, members would still have to get a day off, so I don't know what that's not like. You're an Amazon delivery driver. I think his first day off is going to be in January 5th. Yeah. And they're like, you should just get KSP. That might be his permanent day off to be a coder because they don't really need drivers in January that that says I'm not even listening. That's good. Thank you. That that yeah yeah yeah. Now we've now that we did not talk about this.

No this did not happen. So I heard you read the promo from CSB for just the good old boys.

Oh I did, I love just two good old boys. Yeah. How'd that go? I don't know, did you read it word for word? Probably. Do I read anything word for word? No, that's what I'm asking. I don't think I did, okay, I don't think I disparaged anybody. Your ad lib it probably. Okay. Was it posted? So, like CSB good. The bad story. He writes me to say, I'm going to be making a donation and I'm going to have them, advertise. You're just the good old boys. So you wrote it.

Write me a 400 character, synopsis of just two good old boys. Okay. I'm like, fine. I can write in the. I just, well, you can run the I. So I said, okay, I need exactly, 400 characters for a promo for just two good old boys. But then I sent it to CSB. His reply right away is, cut this down. Has to be half this length. You're like, I'm like, no, you said 400 characters. That's literally exactly 400 characters. That's I think it was 399 plus a period. So it's like, nope, that's what you said.

And then he's like, well, I don't think they'll read it might. Okay. Well not I might problem though I don't. So he says, okay, well I'm going to tell him. I'm going to tell him that you wrote it then like, oh, you tell him whatever he makes you feel good. So he sends it in and Adam reads it and, and his show is this way, right? That was where they with the deliveries rather like. Yeah. And he said, well, how many shows does GM have?

And I was like, I could really only listen if they're live and even then. Yeah. Yeah. So basically just this one. Right. It's the only one worth listening to. Let's be honest, I can't believe they put him on the spot like that and asked him, where do you listen and what he's like. If I don't take it to be a test stuff? What are you listening to for the right need to know.

So it it it's always funny, but, But he then literally ignored the gene wrote this message and CSB, you just have to come down with this whole war thing. You know, you just you can't be thinking we're in the brink of World War three. And it was you that was all spun up. What was my I that wrote it? Yeah. So I thought that was pretty funny. Exact same message. I just pulled it up and I don't think I really went off script too much on that one. Okay.

But go ahead and read it. And I figured it was it. Because here's the thing is we got UK troops are heading to Ukraine to ensure Trump has NATO in country. Russia unveils a new 36 warhead ballistic missile capable of conventional bunker busting and nuclear warheads. Democrats vow to burn the white House down so Trump will never step foot in it. A perfect time to listen to just two good old boys.com, where Ben and Gene talk about Texas succession.

And I'm like, well, no, I think you met succession, but not succession. If I knew it wasn't, written by CSB because he didn't call you Texas Jew or, you know, whatever he calls bad, it's usually like Irish or Jew or something. And that was it in here. So that was the giveaway that it wasn't CSB yeah, that's too funny. That's that's kind of like his fingerprint. The I can never recreate the CSB. There's racism behind it all. Exactly. This is not even veiled racism. It's blatant racism.

Shining through just to good ol boys.com. Yeah. So I thought it was pretty good, but apparently CSB was afraid that that was way too long a message for anybody to read. But it's right. Yeah. It was written by. Yeah, it's it's exactly the specs provided. Yeah. The specs are the specs now the spectator specs. You can't you can't change the specs. You can't argue with the specs. Not at all. This show is like a fine tuned machine. It may not sound like it, but it is. Just works real.

Crucible is on this way in the Hyundai Accent. I'm glad they tell you food so you know what to shoot at when it's in the neighborhood. Yeah, I even know where he's from. Oh yeah, he's got a 4 to 4 area code. I know exactly where that is. Venezuela, West Hollywood. Oh, well, that's no good. Yeah, I have a phone there as well. How many phones do you have, Jean? I have a few. With Christmas on Wednesdays, a weird. I'm like, oh no, because normally we do a nice rock and roll pre-show for no agenda.

But Sunday is way too early to be celebrating Christmas on Wednesday and Thursday it's over. So. We'll see how that goes. I guess it is, isn't it? It's the rarity. No agenda gets the holiday off. It's Wednesday. Well, it should happen more often than that. Yeah. I always take a holiday when donations are down, take more days off. That's usually the best way that I found in the holidays. You need a chance to recharge. Get your cell back right.

Excited about what's going, jeans, blood sugar, way up. You got to get a good day. Bring it down. You don't know what else is way up. You. I, my earnings from, YouTube. Oh, really? How much money have you made on YouTube compared to yours? Tesla stock. Well, I mean, the Tesla stock is Tesla stock, but YouTube's definitely make it more than any podcast they do. How much you make in a day on YouTube like five bucks. Woo. How many videos a day are you putting out? One.

Is it really even buying you lunch? Oh, it's not about that, dude. It's just simply the fact that, YouTube still works as opposed to as opposed to a lot of things that used to work like eBay but don't work. YouTube. Gene is going to ride the YouTube rocket $5 a day. I mean, you can laugh about it, but this podcast makes way less than five bucks a day. Now, technically, we brought in like 100 bucks today, so that's like 50 for you. So that's like ten days of videos.

Yeah. We had nothing last week. Oh, you didn't do a show last week. Well, and we had nothing to show. Gene donate big for the next show, which is when we do a challenge off between YouTube and, the podcast. Yeah. Oh, sure. Okay. Pretty sure the YouTube would win. Okay, so if YouTube wins, what do I get? I'm betting on the podcasters. That's not much of a bat, isn't it? You're not.

You're not really that well, why would you get something if YouTube wins and be the loser in that scenario? Using YouTube? I'm choosing the podcast. I think we will get more in donations over the next week than your YouTube channel makes. I mean, I know what it what it's going to be. It's it's not really changing a whole lot about five bucks a day. So that would be 35 bucks. We need over 35 bucks on the next show. And then Gene, will that win? Oh, that's how we're going to play it.

Okay. Yeah. You win in. Your. Head. Ponchos for everyone.