141: Hellfire Rants

Are you going to rip your knob off, Jean? Sure. Why not? Yeah. Do you? Yeah.

Hello, and welcome to episode number 141 of unrelenting, the show that nobody donates to but a few people listen to. I am Darren O'Neill. He is dean of. To live and welcome, welcome, welcome to another healthy dose of sanity. California. They are doing everything right, Jean. In order to be able to save the planet now.

Boy, they're burning it down. It's the only way they're they're contributing more to greenhouse gases than any other state in the country. I know this is what we're supposed to be doing, right? They wanted all the goal setting, setting the lead, and they're all applying for the $25,000 of FEMA aid. Exactly. That's what they want. They want it all to go get it. I'm all because Biden says, oh, no, we will be able to, pay for everything.

We have Democrat voters not getting their multimillion dollar homes rebuilt. Right. You got to be able to pay for everything. That's the only thing you got to do is the Joe Biden says we're going to pay for everything. That's the only way that it can go. You got to pay for everything because without Joe Biden paying for everything, I mean, it's only natural that the rest of the country should have to suffer because the idiots in California do not know how to run a freaking state. Yep.

You know, and I mean, I just I literally just get off of a rant replying to Cernovich, who basically told the rest of the country to fuck off because they're being mean to California. No, I said, you know what? If you're a Republican living in California right now and you're pissed off at the Republicans in the other 49 states because they're not saying, rah rah, let's save California.

Maybe you gotta look in the mirror and consider that you're not really a Republican because you can't live in California and be a Republican. You can be a Republican Californian, but that's called a liberal everywhere else. The it's it's not the same thing. And this is not the state that Reagan was the governor of. This is the state that Schwarzenegger's screw your freedoms was the governor of. And you know what? Fuck y'all. You get what you get.

Well, because it was done intentionally and you voted for it. So now don't fucking make me pay for it. That's the problem. This one ends. Don't think. Yeah, this isn't the case of like, while nobody saw this coming. Fuck you. Everybody saw it coming. And what California has done is everything that could have helped mitigate a fire. They got rid of it literally, four dams Newsom took down. So we don't have any water on the fucking mayor of L.A..

Oh, let's cut the budget for the fire department by 17 million. Even now, I like the that's how a fully female staffed fire department. Right? Because that makes for, you know, they should be female and LGBTQ. And that's way more important than actually being able to fight the fuck this year. Like you're the last guy standing inside them and trying to defend that. That's that's my opinion of these people that are like, well, I'm a Republican Californian.

And, you know, we have a rough, rougher you've been throwing your vote away. You're literally your entire life. So you're not impressing me a whole lot about being a Republican in California. And this whole argument that I've heard my entire life, from people that are wishy washy in their personal beliefs saying, well, but I can't afford to leave California. My jobs here. Oh, okay. So you were born with a silver spoon and that that silver spoon handed you a job at birth?

Is that the deal, or did you choose to get a slightly higher paying job in California than you would have gotten in a different state? And so you grabbed the money. You went for it. Little did you realize, you're going to lose it, all of it in taxes by living there. And given the complete socialist politics of the state, they can't manage their way out of paper bag. You have shit on the streets. Everywhere you walk in, your shoes are covered in shit.

You've got events like this where they can't deal with a natural disaster. And even if it's man made, right, I'm still going to call it natural disaster. Because a fire doesn't have a brain. It just sort of is, and certainly arson can start a fire, but it's still a natural disaster. But in those scenarios, they don't have the means to deal with it. In 2025, where they completely were dealing with this 20 years ago, 40 years ago, 80 years ago.

Well, that was the last fire that that burned down California. Was that the San Francisco fire? What is it, 1908 well, the concept of a controlled burn has been around for over a year. That homes the critters. You you can't kill the the foretold weeble the squirrel, but they get out of the way when the fire comes, you know, I mean, this is also the insanity, the accuracy. It's the state of accuracy.

And I like I expect the liberals to run on pure emotion and demand that everyone feel sorry for them, much like they demand that we use their pronouns. Yes, like that perplexity that I says it was in the 1920s. Herbert Stoddard documents the necessity of prescribed burning for maintaining, quail habitat, plantations in the southern U.S.. I mean, so we're going back over 100 years where they know what to do. The controlled burn area leaves. We do it here in Illinois, too.

It's a state that has earthquakes, that has power lines, big trees that are old, that burn really well, it has, you know, landslides because of rain. It it's just it's a state where people just sort of live in oblivion as to how to be safe. They don't care. And if they don't care, I don't care. And I'm sure so I'm not going to pay for it.

So I'm hoping everybody writes a letter to Trump saying no aid to California, or at least no more aid per inhabit per capita than what was given to, the states, like Kentucky and Tennessee in 1935, the Forest Service established the 10 a.m. policy, which aimed to suppress every fire by 10 a.m. the day following the initial report. How are they doing with that in California? Anyone anywhere they doing that, they getting those fires out. They're still saying 0% contained something I've been.

Yeah. Saying for for a long time. It's equally applicable here. And it turns out it's actually something that Mark Twain said, but I'm sure I knew that at some point that every people have the government they deserve because they either voted for it or failed to revolt against that. Yeah. And they keep voting for it in California because they're like, oh, we want to be woke. Like you said, we have to save the smelt or the four legged tawny toad. You got to do something.

And then your house burns down. I mean I have no sympathy and I'm okay with that. Look I'm all for people making choices right. It's just their bad choices should not turn into my financial burdens.

Like in the problem is all of this was able to be prevented and what have been probably 50 years ago because the state had not gone, woke, and had not gotten to the point where they didn't realize, well, we should really have some, water in reserve in case we need to fight a fire, which Adam Curry, God bless him. Every time one of these things starts, he pulls out that text that was written in the 1800s describing the fires across California.

For all the people who want to go, no, this is just global warming, man. This is just starting. It's like, fuck, you know, it's getting worse because you've decided to take away the things that would prevent fires from spreading. Yep. You've stopped doing it. Do we can't clear the brush underneath the electrical lines. Well, you know what that's going to do. You know that's going to cause a fire at some point. That's like saying, oh, well, okay.

You know, you have that you have that toaster in your kitchen, kids. Right. The old one you love. And it sparks every time it turns on. Well, you're going to put kindling right underneath where that sparks. You're going to just keep adding kindling until it finally catches fire and takes your whole house down. That's what California has been doing. So yeah, stop taking money from the rest. I mean, the federal government should just be like, well, you're on your own. See you later. You voted for.

Well, I yeah, I mean, again, given that their response to an actual natural disaster that was not at all made worse by the people living there on the East Coast, I just don't see how California should get any special treatment in this. Well, no, because they intentionally did things to get rid of these services that they had put into place to help with this type of an event. This isn't something that, hey, nobody saw this coming. We really need to help them. No, they saw it coming.

They knew it was coming and they decided. And they sent equipment. LA sent equipment, extra equipment into Ukraine to help. Like, what the fuck is the matter with you? Well, Ukraine clearly is a bigger concern to most Californians than, their own state. Right? Well, they should move their them. May I agree it's probably a nicer place to live right about now. Well, I don't know about that. California burning down probably has less shit on the ground truth.

More blood, but less shit, less drug addicts. I don't know about that. Given Zelensky's propensity, I, I don't, I don't know, maybe. I guess we don't know. We need boots on the ground in Ukraine. If you have people shitting, sleeping in the streets, shooting up heroin in public places, in a lot of countries, they frown upon that kind of behavior. In California, they say, hey, come on down. If you want to do that, this is the place. How many of those homeless people have this way?

More homeless people in California that, like, nobody gets home. There's always a ton of homeless. It's not fair for some people to have homes. We have to do whatever we can to burn them down. And it's just absolute insanity. The things that were done and the fact that was it was ten years ago, a law was passed that said, hey, we need to build these, retention areas because of not having enough water, and not one damn thing's been done.

So ten years ago, they're like, hey, we need to fix this problem. They got the law passed and that didn't do it. What's that all about. Governor Newsom oh that will take down the existing dams because well some people complained. It's like you know it's just it is Idiocracy. I mean I think it might even be worse than the accuracy. Yeah, yeah. It, it's giving it a run for its money in real life.

And the problem is, a vast majority of people in this country do not pay attention to what is going on and have zero clue. I would bet you 10% maybe understand that California asked for this. They changed all of their policies to push for this, and now we're going to. I have no clue that that is why California is in the state that it's in. People like, oh no, I mean, he's politicizing this right away.

He's like, well, you have to because it is political, because it is the morons in charge that made all of the decisions. And the fucking mayor of L.A., when she comes back from Africa and gets confronted by the press and won't say a fucking word, it's like, fuck you, lady. I mean, it's just absolute insanity that these people won't be held accountable for this.

And you gotta know, I think the interesting thing will be, is that there's a lot of people who think they're Democrats, the rich fucking actor types that live in these areas, that all the houses are burning down. Yeah. Who now are going to look at this in another way and go, wait, what? Oh, wow. The people we've been voting for a complete fucking moron. I know that that's your imagination, dude. They're not going to do that.

All they're going to do is that they have either already or are in the process of moving to their second, third or fourth or fifth home, which are located throughout the world. All these actor types have homes in other places. Does anybody actors that have never made any money and don't have the money for a house, they're all live in apartments. They were the first to leave anybody. I understand the mayor's a communist. I mean, literally a psycho.

Did you not think maybe they're doing this on purpose? Yeah. It's, It's insanity. Shut up. Moved to California. I think the latest number was over the last couple of years, 5 million people have exited California. That's a lot. That's not a small number, is there? Like. Well, everything around here is insane. And I don't blame Donald Trump for calling it out.

And I don't think that it was in bad taste, because if if you're somebody that waits like two weeks after all this is died down to make the comment that, hey, you know, the reason this happened was your politicians and here's the proof. Nobody's going to pay attention. Hardly anybody's paying any attention. Now. But this whole concept of like, oh no, people are dying. How dare he point out it's our fault? Yep. Fuck you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's all we got today, kids. Thanks for coming.

That's amazing. We're on the same page. I wasn't gonna open with this. I was going to mention it briefly and say, man, what is the deal with all these Californians being pissed off at the rest of us for not feeling so bad about them? You live in fucking Sodom, okay? You live in Sodom. You're dealing with the consequences of living inside of them. And I'm an atheist, and I'm still saying that's what it is. Okay. See you that you're like, wait a minute. It's literally Sodom, right?

So it's like, oh, man, but but it's not so bad here. You know, a lot of us live here. We don't we don't actually like the place that that we don't like the politicians that are here. If we could just replace the politicians, it'd be better. That's not how it works, dude. The way it works is you move. Yeah, leave. You get off your ass, you get a different job, you move somewhere else.

And then when the state is so low on people that you can start being able to buy land cheap, maybe you have a resurgence and you say you come back. This whole idea, I was like, well, I'm going to live in a place where my vote doesn't count for the rest of my life is insane. Shitty to me, it was. It shows your priority of freedom, liberty and other American values and how low they stack. And the totem pole. You know, I left Minnesota. I didn't keep living in Minnesota.

Minnesota is barely better than California. Arguably, this stage it may be worse than California. You know, certainly after the BLM events happened, but. And the ends after they changed their flag, the Minnesota flag that I grew up with to the Somali flag. Awesome. So, well, they want to be welcoming to the people that have it. They do want to be welcoming to the people of the group that is taking over. Yes, exactly.

Much like the UK wants to be welcoming to the people of the group that is taking over by providing them with a ready supply of virgins for sacrifice. And if you're living in California, you know the government you are living under. And I just thought it was hilarious how stupid people are, I wish I would have, it's probably not that hard to find.

There was probably more than one, but, James Woods, one of the few people in the LA area that are outspoken conservatives who still somehow work in the industry. Yeah, he showed a, video or photo of his deck right before they were evacuating, and some idiot responded back with some leftist lunatic who has no fucking brain, responded with that karma. And I'm like, well, what about the he's the 1%. The 99% of the people in that neighborhood are yours.

So when you're saying, Palmer, who do you think the fucking gods are going after? The one guy? Well, that's not what he means by karma. I mean, I can explain what he means there. I saw the post. What he's referring to as karma is James Woods, being in support of Israel and their ability for self-defense and essentially saying, until there are no hostages, you have to go after every single building and search every single basement, in the Gaza Strip.

And, so this this guy is a big supporter of terrorist networks like Hamas, clearly. And so he's telling James Woods that, well, you see, this is just karma. You were mean to the Gazans, and now you're home burned down. And to which I replied to that actually. And I said, if you're aware of which Hamas terrorists started the fire, please do let the rest of us know. Yeah. If that is, that would be the karma.

It's that he he went after Hamas verbally and Hamas came down and started a fire to burn his house down. That'd be about par for the course, except for the fact that 99% of the people in his neighborhood believe the other way. You know, that's what they do. So. But it doesn't matter. You see, it doesn't matter because there are plenty of Palestinians that would prefer not to support Hamas. But nonetheless, Hamas doesn't care about them.

They're gonna just move into their basement and operate a, explosives factory from there. And then if there's a an attack on that house, they're going to start pointing fingers that they'll see there's a family that lived here. See, this was not some crazy Hamas operation. Israel is bombing people. They're bombing families on purpose. They're trying to kill people. It's the same tactics. It's typical tactics utilized by, authoritarian regimes.

And, and in case of Hamas, it's a, well beyond the authoritarian. It's a regime that is, keeping its people at poverty and below poverty level, while the, the guys that actually run it are living in the Emirates as millionaires.

So you have to have human shields, Gene. They're the best kind of shields. The best kind of shields are human shields. I being being Russian I'm well aware of this. Oh right. This is where you learn that like birth, it's like, well, you know, you're you're initially a shield. And if you manage to survive long enough, then you become a gun, right? Yeah. Exactly. But just the, the somebody mentioned in the comments, it wasn't the words.

It was I think that was the one to Cernovich that, you know, the thing that that makes California be absolutely. A place that nobody feels sorry for, right? That there isn't this massive like, oh, we got to get together and save the Californians. It's the smugness. It's the attitude that they know better than everybody else, and they're going to enforce their laws and everybody else and are examples, which I've seen of companies that aren't in California. They have nothing to do with California.

But because California had now put, some, voted in some instructions that say this product can be carcinogenic to your health, right by the state of California. Now for the sake of compliance, most companies will comply with the harshest restrictions, or they just don't make the product. And so California by defacto gets decide an awful lot of what is complied with in the rest of the country. The alternative is they cannot make the product for California and not sell them in California.

And I think that's going to start happening a lot more. You know, if they're pissed off now that people aren't feeling sorry for them, look at all the closures of stores and restaurants and drug stores that are closing in California. I think California could easily get a lot closer to what was that movie, where like there's a big wall and all of all of New York was a prisoner escape from New York. There you go. So effectively be like, that will be what?

Californians. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You have those going in, rich people flying around in helicopters and on the ground level. It's basically just a prison population. Yeah, a bunch of morons who elected people that told them they were going to change the laws to make their life worse. This is the insanity of, oh yeah, we want more. We want more taxes. We want more money and L.A. more money goes to the homeless population then to the fire issues. It's like, that's insanity.

Yep. That is absolute insanity. And you say that as somebody from Illinois. Yeah. Who is, according to a Bill O'Riley behind. Yeah. According to Bill O'Reilly, the worst state is California. Then New York that Illinois. So we're right up there in the axis of evil of, yeah, yeah, of states that are mis run.

I mean, luckily we don't have wildfires overall, although, you know, even in the forest preserves here, they do little, controlled burns so they can make sure that if a fire does start in one of the forest preserves that they tried to mitigate that from, you know, taking the whole thing down in. Yeah. To make the laws to, you know, to elect people that make laws that tell you what they're going to do with, like, what we need to preserve the forest and tree frog.

That's way more important than, not having your house burned down, isn't it? Now, you put it on the ballot that way. But I think most people in York know the four legged tree frog. I want my house. Oh, you'd be shocked. Shocked? The people. A lot of people. Many people. Have you seen street interviews done in California? You would ask them that question point blank. They would say, well, obviously the tree frog, I mean that they're the indigenous species here.

We're just the invaders. We're the colonizers. We don't deserve any protection. Well, good. You got them. Congratulations. But where does people think that they should be living? Would be my question. Why aren't you moving back there? So if you're living in California and you feel like you're an invader, where do you think you should be living? I don't know, and this is this is the irony of it, right? Is that they are taught to feel bad but continue doing what they're doing. Well, yes of course.

So it's they're they're really they're kind of pushed into this like living with your guilt syndrome where you're, where, you know, you're a drug user, but you're not willing to do anything to actually stop being a drug user. So you just have to accept that you're a drug user and you will continue to do drugs, and you will do nothing whatsoever about it to change your position in life. Sorry, I was just taking my drugs. Oh yeah.

I gotta take some of that B12 right a little I'm doing the metoprolol, you're doing the B12, I'm doing the flick and I do that. I mean flick at night and caffeine makes everything better. I mean I would bring down a water too, but that would seem to be excessive for some water needs that the I'm just like, bring I've got the, Tavis cup and I, I mean, I'm just going to come in when you're doing caffeine and why don't you just drink coffee? This is coffee. Oh. You're drinking.

That's why I'm getting my caffeine. Oh, I thought you were taking caffeine pills. No, no, I was taking the metoprolol, and I'm taking it with coffee. That seems wrong, but freshly ground. We're totally down. That rabbit hole now. Which is instead of using the, courage machine, we have a little burr grinder getting a whole bean coffee, grinding it up, putting it into an old fashioned Mr. Coffee pot. Yeah. The dervish. I have one complaint for the service. The stainless steel cups.

It doesn't cool down at all. I have to, like, take the, cap off and let it cool enough. Because if you put your coffee directly in by the end of the show, two hours into it, it'll still be too hot to sip. That's how good the stainless steel Tavis is. Do keeping stuff warm. They're not sponsoring the show, but like, we've tried a bunch of these things and this is one of the absolute best if you want to keep something warm. It is amazing.

Which is pushing me to order the button coffee machine with the thermal carafe, because same kind of concept. And then your coffee doesn't cook, you know, at the bottom. And it's like the button. The way I see the bun is great because if you're against all of this green New Deal stuff, the bun sips electricity all damn day long. So when you want, you see the water is already hot. Not like, oh no, let's wait. So no, I want to run electricity all day long.

So when I decide I want a pot of coffee at 4 a.m., it's it's ready to go. Yeah, yeah. Unlike the people in California who are like, no, the four headed tree frog must be saved. You gotta do it. No, you don't. And there are easy ways to help prevent this. Which is why there's, Well, I mean, of course, you look at something and and probably maybe a bad example, but look at the Notre Dame in France. How many years did that exist before it burned down?

You know, I mean, there's I think they've had a couple of fires, but this last one is worse for sure. There are areas that have existed for millennia that are worried, that haven't burned down. Why? Because people have understood how to prevent the mass events like you're seeing in California. And the really looking at it from a nefarious point of view. One, you've got horrible politicians, but are they doing it on purpose?

The woman that runs LA is a communist, so you might ask the question, does she really think she's helping or are they trying? Victor Davis Hanson in a, YouTube video, I think it was from last night. Had to be was talking about how the politicians in California seemingly want it to revert back to its state, that it was like the 1800s. And it's like you have to understand what that means people. It's not good for humans. That is not really going to be depends.

They had pretty good gun laws back then. Yeah. Anybody could have one because you were just going to be like blow your store and you give them your buck 95 and you get yourself, six shooter. Right. Maybe a little gold pellet and you're trading in and boom. Any new weapons lately, gene, have you gotten any. I know you like to keep at least one new gun a week coming in. I tune that. Now that you're thinking of Ben, my job and my other bad death. Oh bad from dude named Ben.

Named Ben from the just too good old boys. That's right. That's right. He. I think he did get something, but, I'll let him talk about it. I want to talk on his behalf, but no, I swear out you should only you should only use a gun for a few weeks and then get rid of. That's true. Yeah, right. Exactly. You know, if you do that, the, ATF will consider you a gun dealer. Yes. And, an unlicensed one at that. Because you're buying and selling guns nonstop. You're like, no, I'm just an officiant.

Not oh, like a coffee. If there's been a couple of stories recently about a, a people that the ATF has come out to bust and have even done, like no-knock raids on because they've purchased several hundred guns in a short time period.

So they're assuming you all these are all for resale. That's illegal. Then they show up and they realize there's 175 guns in the house. I think I just is starting the militia, and now they're like, they gotta backpedal because, unless they find something that's, you know, short barrel license, right? Kind of bullshit or whatever, which, most people just don't bother with. I mean, what's the word? There's the shorter the your barrel, the less accurate your gun. Right.

There's not the idea of a short barreled shotgun. Their short barreled rifle makes no frickin sense at all, because you're you're trading in one of the most important differentiators between the pistol and the rifle, and that is accuracy. Accuracy at range gun control. Okay. Oh, I'll take my 16 inch barrel, air 15, and then I'll. I'll cut that down to less than half the length at like six inches. I'll show them.

Yeah. You're going to show them that you went from a gun that could hit something reasonably well at a couple of hundred yards to something that'll miss something at a couple hundred yards. What's the point? There's not a whole lot of reason for it. If you want to, shoot at closer distances, you have a slew of pistols that you can use for that, including pistols in rifle calibers which, you know, aren't gonna perform anywhere near as good as a rifle.

But also, they don't have the encumbrances of having a rifle, but with a short barrel. So the whole concept of a short barrel rifle or shotgun makes very little sense to me. Now I want to know if you would like me to, boot no beret from the trial room. He says it's another episode of He Knows Nothing About something. So now that is a good title, though for a podcast. Jim knows nothing about something he says. Short barrel shotgun, no close quarters use, I think.

Yeah. Well, yeah, clearly somebody's here. It's not me. It's showing their lack of knowledge. But spray? Maybe. Yeah, yeah, there's bottles for use. You know, just because the government bought it doesn't mean that it was the best solution for the job. And, and simply looking at what guns are used for, what purposes by governments is not a good indicator of whether they're actually good uses for that or not.

A prime example of that are the F-15s that we brought to Vietnam, where the first thing that all the Special Forces guys did, because they can choose the weapons they shoot, unlike the general grunts, is I'll pick up AK 47, which were a better weapon for the job.

Now somebody believes that whatever the military uses must be the best thing they're going to think that, well, clearly those Special Forces guys were idiots because the government issued them F-15s, which must have, by definition been the best guns to stack with this. And the same thing by SIG Sauer. P3 20 isn't the best sidearm ever. Well, I mean, it's a decent sidearm. I, I personally had a bad experience with sig, so I vowed never to buy another sig.

But plenty of people have good experiences with them. You go for the heckler and cock. I've always liked the H in case, but there there are large frame. Well, not all their guns, but their handguns are fairly large frames, like their model 23. I actually my my most comfortable gun, let's put it that way. Well, it was Glock for a long time, and then I moved to the Xdm line from Springfield. The Xdm have more customization features that you can do, unlike the Glock.

Doesn't sound like a Russian gun. I sure it's not a Russian gun. I said, I don't I don't think there's any good Russian handgun. See it? I've never shot the good Russian handgun. If you want to get a close look at Gene's guns, just break into his house when he's home. Yeah. Yes. Good. Good luck. Break the. That's all I'll say. You might accidentally wind up in the snakes room. Yeah. Yeah, if the if the snakes don't get you, there's plenty of other things that.

Well, you'll be instantaneously dizzy because of the high concentration of, CO2. Right? Yeah. We run the CO2 at over 1000 here in the house. Like, why do I feel fuzzy? Yeah, yeah. And, I've been experimenting with a cyanide spray, just like, to improve my health. And, I think a lot of people would not, would not do well in that environment. I'm going to say this is a sentence that has never been uttered before on a podcast. I do by the cyanide spray and proofing myself.

Oh, it's a long tradition. It's a people have been doing this for a long time. I mean, it sounds funny when you say it, but, much like caffeine is something that, is actually poisoning you. Yeah, I've got a tolerance level coming in. Yeah, you build a tolerance level up, and there are positive benefits from from that as well. Yeah, that would make sense. Like all the articles now coming out it seems to go in a cycle. But we're back to all alcohol is bad.

One drink. You know, all these concepts of one red wine a day is actually good for your heart. Now they're back to saying no, all alcohol is bad. Yeah, Joe Biden's trying to ban cigarets on his way out. It's like, well, why did you wait? If you were going to do that, why did you wait for four years? And I'm curious, because they don't want you to have any freedom whatsoever. That's kind of what it comes down to. Yeah, yeah. So you're spraying cyanide in the air. Okay. It it's not even.

It's not being sprayed, dude. It's just being evaporated. This is even better. So you have a, If you have out of apricots, it's totally natural. You have a humidifier that you fill up with cyanide juice rather than water, and it just brings it into the air. I really should pull my humidifier out. It has but it's time to get a little dry in here. Yeah, yeah I'll give you the formula and that's great. That's great. I mean that was that actually good for your heart. The everything is, isn't it?

Until it stops it, the heart stops completely. It's like the De Martin bit where he doesn't drink anymore. He just pour it into the humidifier and breathe deeply. Just pour the vodka right on it. Did you try the the stories from from like the early 2000s were in colleges at like fraternities. They were doing vodka shots up the. But I don't remember that this was a thing for probably 5 or 6 years in the news.

And it was just it was one of those head shaking moments that you realize that, oh my God, there is the black of of, brain cells that these kids have is over the top. And of course, it makes sense that the generation that was dosing themselves with alcohol through their anus is the same generation that was at the peak of, of woke political correctness. Yeah. I mean, it's something that I mean, I know you can't absorb, alcohol that way.

But the only thing I remember really is an episode of one of the, like, guys that they drop out in the middle of nowhere kind of a thing. Survival, man, those kind of things. And they're like, well, you know, if it's all if you're really, really, really desperate, you can put the hydration in that hole and it will not make you sick. So if you have like really horrible water that if you drank that you would get, you know, the, the bad disease because it's all just totally polluted water.

Like if you're really desperate, you can go up the back door and that will help hydrate you. But, never sounded like a fucking okay. I know Barry doesn't like me saying that short barreled guns are less accurate, and it's a stupid thing to do, but he's okay with you giving this advice to put dirty water up your ass. Are you insane, man? I remember somebody, giving that a lecture. Is this not true? Can we disprove the dirty water up the ass? Hydrate two times that.

How do you think that your gut is better able to prevent bacteria from going through it? Remember, your gut? I believe the question is, that was the whole thing. And I would also like to say to the I that is passing this transcript. Yeah. So very subtle. Oh, that's going to be a fun job for me. I yeah for sure, for sure. I mean, how do you. Yeah. Cause your search for the dirty water up the ass is that, probably dirty water up there. I mean, everybody's saying, well, sir, dirty, right?

So who cares? Like your shit are in there. So you're you must be safe, right? Well, that is the, in order to hydrate you. It is an interesting thing. Let's see. Bum bum bum. Oh, I know they can hydrate you with, say, clean up the. But I know that. But I don't think the dirty water bit is in there.

Your, your large intestine is not going to be a great filter for water. I'm just saying that was what the, the guy on TV said, which is why you should always double check. Yeah, I, I yeah. Is it safer to put water up the button down your throat? That's the question. I think that if, if you're putting water internally into your body in either direction and it has microbes and bacteria in there, they will find a nice cozy little fold the flesh to live in.

It's, you know, if if the, acid in your stomach isn't getting to them, what do you think is going to kill them in your butt? I don't know, I just dirty water is, there's so many ways to make it less dirty. You can boil it. You can kill stuff. Then you don't have to put it up. But you can, get some kind of like that. That South part cartoon where, the teacher, Mr.. His name, Mr. Wallace, says drugs are bad and gay. No, no, no, the gay teacher.

Oh, yeah, he he comes up with a brand new super form of, conveyance that is much better than cars, you remember, is like a single wheel that you sit inside the wheel. All right? And and then there's a a penis looking thing that sticks up from the seat that you need to insert in your ass. And then there's another penis looking thing upfront that you have to put in your mouth while you're driving this thing. Do you remember that upside down every day?

I don't think anybody that's so episode remember on. So everybody was like all into it is like this is such a great vehicle. And then the episode somebody, like a reporter or somebody asked Mr. Garrison that was his name as this year. So. Well, you know, that's so many questions. Like is there is there a way to not have to put those in a. It's as well, I suppose. Yeah. But why wouldn't you want it in there.

Yeah. His response was basically yeah, those are not really necessary to operation, but they just make it better. And I am just amazed that nobody has sponsored this episode yet by sending any of Satoshi's or so. I'm amazed that this episode is, is on YouTube. This is not yeah, I mean, it will be, but then it will be removed immediate. Lee. All right, we still on that thing? Even still, I haven't even look beyond the.

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So unfortunately we're going to refuse and send those back to sender. Is that, is that a new crypto coin there? We should start one positive vibe. I think it is. That's a great crypto name. Positive vibes. Would you like some positive vibes? Add to your credit card here. What is your mother's maiden name? Thank you. What was the name of your first pet? I am asking just because I do that. You know what I, I would they do the chatting with people are doing that.

Like I would like to get to know you better. What street did you grow up on. And I just repeat customer service, customer service, customer service, customer service. And eventually the I just send me the customer service. Yeah. Please help help help help if they want customer service. That's always good question. A lot of times there's just no buddy to help you out anyway it's getting worse. I mean even trying to call the local Walgreens for a thing a few months back, like a real person.

Just need a real fucking person. Need a real fucking person in the pharmacy. And they all want you to be like, well let me give you our complete hours d day. Let me tell you that there's a lunch break going on between. Okay. And then we select one of the following options. All right. Option one I would like to not talk to a human being because I prefer to I can take it beta. Yeah. Option two. I need to check out my prescription and have the computer tell me what it is. Right.

And it's like they're all there. There's no option that says you can't solve my problem without a human involved, right? Which there should be, because you launched it with something where there was a question about the prescription and the Walgreens website was like, oh, there is a problem, contact the pharmacy.

I mean, there was nothing that got you to a pharmacist, even though their fucking thing is like, well, call your pharmacy, then why don't you give me a direct line where somebody will answer and be like, okay, I need I know what you need because, you know, this is you have a question about your prescription. Like, no, that would be too easy. And all these eyes that are being employed now are just going to make things worse and worse.

I mean, I was going through this with Amazon, which overall Amazon's pretty good. But dude, I ordered, as I told you, my new little hub, which has the M2 slot in it for this little Mac mini. Yep. And sending the other one back that started the M2 drive that came with it, which was a one of the more inexpensive Western Digital black M2 drives. I ordered it new, and what came in the package was very clearly a Amazon refurbished. Oh, there's the three. You told me that.

So I had to go through the whole thing. And every time I start trying to go through something, it's like, well, well, okay, we'll start a return. I'm like, I don't want to return, dude, I want money back. Because I would like to try to keep this because otherwise I have to order a fucking another one of these and wait another day or two to fucking know. Well, okay, okay. You could just do the refund. You know, they have a 30 day overlap.

So from the moment you do the refund, you hold on to it until you get the new one right. And then you send back the old one. But I wasn't going to set something up with something that needed to be a drive that needed to be returned. And the beauty was, once I got them to finally got a person and they gave me a $20 credit, I plug the thing in and I went to and found the Am, the app for the Mac, which is disk dander or something like that.

Yeah, and it showed zero hours run, so I'm guessing since it was brand new, bought the drive return. I can tell you exactly what happened because I've had this happen. I ordered a drive or they shipped me the wrong size. So I just back to back up and, you know, give something back to them. And they sent me the right one. And then you got the one that was, So I spun and I got a nice little discount on it, and you got a nice little discount on it, and it's running cold, I like it.

I bought the two, which there's two little thermal pads. Okay. The good thing is the, the the cheaper the drive the cooler is going to run, which makes sense. But also there are thermal pads, which I bet you most people because the instructions for this thing. Yeah, you always put them on there. There were no instructions at all. So I bet you some people would get those and be like, I have no idea what to do, how to put this on.

It's like you want to be able to have the, the drive and the metal from the device to that so it can disperse the heat. It's not that hard of a concept, but yeah, this was the I think the cheaper to have this hub with a two terabyte drive. Right. Then the other one which didn't have a drive. And now the other one I know would have done like laptop charging in that shit which I didn't need. This one doesn't even need a power. This one just runs off the power.

Yeah. That's that is the impressive thing is that it doesn't even need power. So it's cool. And I guess technically it shouldn't because the Mac that the FireWire or the, the Thunderbolt is what I meant to say, the Thunderbolt. It's like, two decades back, but it's the same. I'm way behind. Yeah, it was an it. Yeah. So the Thunderbolt lets you have I think up to like 85 watt or something going through it. So there's no reason that you would need to have external power.

You could get all the power you need from the computer and everything that was able to provide it. Right. Everything that was plugged in is plugged in. It does both. But you mainly the thing was, if it would have just done the two monitors and had the M2 drive in and out of been happy with it. Still a couple more, USB slots. So it's like this works, like usb-C or the old school. The old school, there's one usb-C and there's a couple of the. Yeah, the old school ones.

Yeah, I know you sent me a link to it, and I think they also had a $25 discount if you got two. Right. There was no even if you just got one, there was a 25 discount. Now I'll probably want to get there is what this is. She's a T she's there's one of these. I'm just saying you may want to have two of these. Oh of course. So you can have two external access these and even more breakout boards for all your crap.

But my thinking is once the decent ones there, because there's a few cheap Chinese ones that I'm not really excited about, but they're I mean, this exact one.

Well, there are new hubs coming out that will actually fit. Oh, form factor of the Mac mini. Oh okay. Okay, okay. So it will look a little less janky rather than having a I think the cards on top, it'll just be called Otherworld computers or whatever. It has one like that. Yeah there are a few that Amazon has. They're like 600 bucks now. There's well there's there's ones that are like 100 bucks, but well this one's Thunderbolt 505. This is one's only four. Yeah. And it's all the fucking drive.

Space is just so expensive with Apple. It just makes you want to shoot them in the head. I'm so happy. That was. That was hyperbole, kids. That was an exaggeration. Apple's going to get mad at you for wanting to shoot them. They now I'm like, it just angers people like, what do you. Yeah. Wow. If you were going to shoot Apple in the head, would you use a rifle or a pistol? I mean, probably a sawed off shotgun. Well, obviously that would be the easiest choice right now.

Just using that as an example of anger, kids. Because the amount of money you have to spend just to get better, I know, I know, and I really if I, I mean, if I had a, well, if people were donating to this show, you wouldn't be angry. I'd be looking at, I don't think we have the kind of show that people donate to. I'd be looking at the network attached storage that fits, like 25 M2 drives and could run forever. Oh, yeah. Yeah, those are awesome. Like, all the stuff you want.

I've been wanting one of those for a while, but I. I can't justify pointing a trigger at it because even if the gizmo itself is like 400 bucks. The other thing you look at, the price of the drive, you're like, well, it's it's going to be like 300 bucks per drive. Yeah. And I it's got seven drives in there. Yeah. Going to be way over a thousand very quickly. It'll be like two grand pretty quickly will be five grand pretty quickly. By the time you're done and load it up. Yeah probably.

And for most things the old mechanical drives that I, you know, for all of the music in that they're fine as long as you have backups, you know, the speed is really all that important. But the size is in the quickness. Oh my goodness. It would be so bad. It's it's night and day. It's nightmare. The old drives aren't really much faster than, than the two and a half gig Ethernet that you got. Right, right. That's the other thing. I have to put it down.

I've got my two new two and a half gig Ethernet hubs, so I've got to run those one up here, one down in the basement so we can connect everything with higher bandwidth. Where does the, Wi-Fi just going to get ten times. What am I going to be able to get ten Wi-Fi? Is there any faster? Wi-Fi? My wife runs it about two and a half gigs right now. I just got to about with this one is I don't think that I don't have Wi-Fi.

That's ten gig, but I think they do have a ten gig version of Wi-Fi out there, I believe. Like, that would be the way to go. I mean, granted, I usually I usually wait for the Gen two of whatever the latest thing is. I don't like buying the gen ones. Got jet hates Wi-Fi. I'm with you. I wire everything that I can. Yeah, but, you know, it's so convenient to sit there with an iPad and surf the wind. Well, of course, I mean, my iPad is not wired up.

That's the, FireWire up everything, but it could be. You could plug it into an Ethernet. No. That's true. That would be awesome. Just be sitting there like I'm wired. What's that? It's ether. That baby. I've got it. Dongle off the Wi-Fi antenna. It's like, oh, what's your Wi-Fi? I don't have Wi-Fi. Like, I use your iPad every day. Just a month or two of wires coming out of the wall. Exactly. Boy, you're like, just hook it up right here. Yeah, it would work.

Well, and I, I've got my Mac and my PC, my gaming PC, and my gaming laptop and and an old gaming laptop. All four of those computers are all wired up with Wi-Fi turned off. So I do have a network only set of computers here. My Mac laptop is usually on Wi-Fi, and of course all the iPads around the house are Wi-Fi. Well, everything needs to have, the best speeds you can get. I suppose I should also stop just saying iPads, because now I have. I also have two Lenovo tablets that are running Android.

You got lots of tabs. I'm fully, fully, what's the word? None you're buying there. I get your multiple ambidextrous for my computers. You are. You are more than bi curious when it comes to your operating systems. Yes, yes. Yes. I'm by operating system. But, well, there are only two operating systems. You know, the way God intended. Apple and windows. Right? There's nothing in with male and female. Yeah, exactly. And then these, these trans Linux people always just kind of make me go here.

My favorite game to play is turning off the Wi-Fi. The, the the the gives you a whole list of everything that's on your network, and trying to figure out what they all are. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I haven't played that for a while. I have a gizmo. I have a hardware device that does that. It just sits on my network and constantly monitors it for changes. And if something goes on that it's never seen before, then it shuts it off. It's like whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa, yeah. I've got watching the lab.

Is this like, just is this a legit thing? Or that the, the thing that runs my lightning node I've got. Oh, now, the watch my, Well, you mean our lightning node, right? Yeah. This is where all of these go, where they live. There's not a lot of them, but there's a few that come in no matter few of them. I mean, we're not hooked up to get your ones from your other show. You're like, I don't even go with the other show. No, no, I, I, I probably should just pull the plug in that if I haven't.

Not the show. The, This is totally. People are great. Hey, the show's, gonna have a 100th episode, this weekend. No, that's not good. All good. All boys. Wow. Yeah. You believe that? Do you do more than one show a week? Is that how you're like? No, no, no. Been running for two years? That doesn't sound much.

Much like this show was actually started for quite a while, running under the banner of Grumpy old Ben's, the, Just the good old boys ran for quite a few episodes prior to this under their Gene speaks, but it is in its current form under the banner of Just the Good Old Boys. It's going to be the hunters show. It's got AI music. It's got a lot of. Yeah, I drink it, I, I music, I like the music. Did you ever get your, x post promoted with Ellen or. Nope, nope nope never did.

Is anybody ever came back with try a different card. Really? I'm like, I've tried three cards, guys. It's not on my end. It's on your fucking that. You tried different browser, right? Well I tried two different browsers. Neither one of them work.

It's on your end, which is getting really fucking tiring when you have an issue with the browser, because you a lot of times you don't know until it's caused a problem, like, I mean, I understand to a certain extent some of these browsers that rip things out of it to try to keep it all from falling home. But I did. But but it's a freaking website to pay them money. Oh, yeah. Like that is the number one most easy, least problem thing that should be available in your company. If that doesn't work.

And I've, I've been as a CEO in several different companies when the website, for whatever reason stopped working on the sales page, everything stops. Everybody has to go fix it. It's like, I don't care what your priorities are, what you're working on. If we can't have an order coming in due to a technical issue, nobody's going home until, in fact, we had no money coming in is a bad thing. That's a bad thing.

It's like this would have been the one day where I wanted to promote and actually pay for a post, because I had a song that was tied to a particular day. Now, if I was more organized, I would have done this a week earlier. I would have gotten set up, and if not, I would have had more time to pay them. But at this point I was like, okay, well, I don't really need to pay you anymore. I don't need to promote any more posts. Real money. Eugene Owens is on record label now.

He has an artist blind MAGA. That's right, which is totally doing a little collab local effort, right? Yeah, it's a little collab. I was so pissed off I ordered the groceries as I do, and it got to the final stage and it shot an error. So I went through but everything in the shopping cart. Yeah, put all of my notes of the things like, hey, you know, if you're here with the turkey breast, you know, thicker slices, all that, everything.

And then for every one of the ones that I really cared about, here's a backup item. And I went through, put the credit card in and the last possible button came back with error.

The shopping cart was empty. On the website I could still see the order, but it wasn't showing as received. So I called up the fucking store and they're like, well, we don't have it here. Well, I'm like, well, here's the order number. Can't you do anything? You no. So I had to go through and put the whole fucking order through again. Oh that's annoying. Yeah, yeah. Because it wasn't like a lunch order.

You know, there was like 80 items that you have to go and search for and hit add and have the right quantity. So yeah, that one, I wasn't real happy with it. Then one of the things that was on the order was a Lego set. I know, big surprise because the grocery store wow, Maya baby, they they have toys and that kind of a thing. And they were running their sandbox. So you get, you know, if you spent 100 bucks, you get 25 off or something like that.

So I put the one set, put a back up, and they didn't have either one of those. So they suggested another set that was like 100 bucks. Oh my gosh. And I click no, they put it in the wife's car. Anyway. Which leads okay. Do they have this leads to this is the same store that a week earlier. The whole grocery order as we talked about here never showed up. I called them and I'm like well no we picked it up and they were like okay we'll cancel it.

And then they never charged us for the whole thing and Pro Series. Otherwise I would have been like, well fuck. I felt this was kind of using the karma a little too much. And they called twice right after it was picked up that day, the next day, but never left a message so that this was the question that we thought, I'm asking if I'm a bit too old for Lego. I am in my I suck, but my wife, who's the same age as I am, is obviously not too old for Lego. For some reason. I don't know.

I don't quite understand it, but I told the wife because she's like, well, I'm just going to keep it. I'm like, but they called it, why else would they call? That's not they never call. Oh, I'm like, they have to know it like Little Jimmy or whoever put it in your car is going to get fucking fired because he put a, you know, $100 item in somebody's car that.

But it's like, why, you know, again, do your job, people, if you're going to call, if you realize this happened and leave a message, that would be the way to go. The don't just call it hang up and go away. That's that's more annoying than anything else because I'm never picking up that line. It's a Google voice. It doesn't ring anything 99.9% of the time. Right? So I'm like, I like again, I think it's the right thing. Like I said, I had to fucking call up and be like, we got this the last time.

We're coming for the new order today. Make sure your person comes and gets it, because otherwise you're not getting it back. You know, that was kind of the way to go. It's like the wife would like I would just keep it. I'm like, yeah, but don't you feel like it, dude? She's like, no. So you're you're you're the did something very similar to what I did with Amazon or. No. Yeah. It was it was an Amazon.

Yeah it was Amazon about a year ago maybe thereabouts maybe nine months ago where they were supposed to deliver something. I can't remember what. It's some kind of tech do that. It was like, hub and some other stuff or maybe, USB thing. I can't what it was, but the point is, the B12 is they didn't it didn't show up. It didn't show up. Right? So it's like, okay, I was supposed to get it this day, I'm going on a trip soon. I need this for my trip. So then, then the, the next day I call up Amazon.

I'm like, I still haven't got it. Do you have confirmation of when this is supposed to be delivered? And they're like, well, they should've been delivered yesterday. But if it wasn't, just give it a couple days. I'm like, well, I'm leaving on the trip, so I don't know if it's going to get please come Rob delivered when I'm gone and they're like, well do you want do you want a replacement? Like immediately I said, yes, I need the replacement to show up tomorrow.

That's the latest I'm going to be around. So they're like, okay, all right. Well just say the, you know, item was missing or whatever. So next day I get what I assume is the replacement in the morning. And then I get the actual replacement in the afternoon. Who they both showed up. So now I've got two of these things they've, you know, wrote up the first one as Lost in Transit or something. And I'm like, I know they're going to have a picture of the delivery guy, right?

It's a photo every delivery, and he's taking a picture. And it's like the other one. That's right. Right, exactly. It's exactly right. And it's late and I know it's late. That's their fault. But I'm like, fuck it. Okay, so I call up the EMS and I'm like, hey, so I got a a duplicate now because you guys said that, you know, you that we agreed this was lost. You didn't get it to me in time, the replacement showed up. Now, two of them showed up on the same day, and the guy's like, yes, sir.

And what can we do for you? I'm like, well, I mean, I guess you got to come by and pick one of the two up. And the guy was like, you're the first person to ever ask for that. I said, well, I mean, you know, I just wanted the one I paid for. I don't need two of them. I even if I did, I don't want to do it through a mistake like this that you made.

And he had to put me on hold for ten minutes to figure out what's the procedure for picking up something that is already been marked as lost in the mail? Right. Because you gotta you gotta remember for them to pick this up, not only are they paying for return shipping, but they're also, they, they have this item doesn't exist any longer in their system because it was shipped out so that it's gone. And then it was marked as lost.

There is no original order for them to refund it from or to not refund it, but to return it from because the order has effectively been refunded and a new order created to replace that old order. So now. So this is actually creating more of a headache for them, right, to get the item back. And I come to think of something that was over 100 bucks. It wasn't like a super cheap thing. I probably wouldn't have bothered it for a year. Like fuck, I'm I'm not. Who cares? They're not going to care.

They're not going to want it back anyway. And eventually the guy came out and he again, he, you know, said, thank you for being the only person that shops at Amazon and never, ever, ever. Exactly. And then said, yeah, that, you know, either I can drop it off or just, keep it outside. No, pick it up tomorrow when they swing by. But it's such a rare occurrence because, you know, like, stuff. I don't think anyone return stuff. People just keep it. Well, legally, if it comes in the mail, it's yours.

There's a question. Yeah, but if it's delivered by an Amazon delivery driver, that may be a little bit different. And it was definitely because I was curious what the law was. And well, it is it is absolutely yours. Doesn't mean that they're they're not entitled to charge you for it though, right. Or because it is yours and therefore they charge you for it. Right.

So it's like that could just show up on your credit card now, like, you know, the mirror that I still have sitting in the hallway in it's box. I have no idea where that came from. That was not Amazon. That was just showed up on my front porch like, but there's no place to send the best. No, that's. Well, yeah. I mean, I know it's like, clearly delivery to somebody. One of my neighbors, but I have no idea which. I left it there. And this was during the non rainy season.

Like it doesn't rain here for most of the summer. So you don't have to worry about stuff being outside. But I left it sitting out there, plainly visible next to the car for three days, hoping somebody driving by would see it and pick it up like, hey, there's my mirror. Yeah, exactly. Which I've had that happen. I've had deliveries to the wrong house, and I've driven around the neighborhood, and then I go knock on doors like, hey, I think you got my delivery.

Here's, here's, you know, it's got my name on the package that's sitting next to your door. Right? Cuz you can see it there. You got take a picture to go of the door. Yeah. Something like that is standing out. You'll know. And then that happens more with Uber deliveries for food than it does with Amazon deliveries. Oh yeah. Because the Uber drivers are high. They're like they're munching on you. Oh, it's a different driver every time.

At least Amazon people I assume, have a somewhat standard route. So he's been in this neighborhood before. He knows what my house looks like. They know but yet. Yeah, but the Uber guys are always different people. Dude. One time I had an ex-girlfriend that was new driver. That was hilarious for her. For you? Well, it was I don't know, I mean, I, I wish it was in hell. No, I didn't know I was standing on the inside of the door, looking through the door, peephole. And I recognized her.

I'm like, nope, I'm not. I'm not opening this door. She might be armed. You never know. She's been in this house with no clothes on before. There's no way I'm opening this door. What's what's that happens? You never let her back in. Oh, God. No. Hell, no. You never let them back in. But that was the one with this whole return thing. My wife. I'm glad she got her driver's license. Finally, though. Oh, bad. I'm just kidding. The. I was going to ask about.

Well, when she was 15, what was the, reason why, but no, I'm not. No, she wasn't 15. Please. Yeah, man. Oh, but do take me for it. I know, we celebrated her 21st birthday, though, though, and she still wasn't driving. She had a sugar deal. No, she was not driving. Because in Austin, Uber everywhere. That is, one way to go. But with the return, my wife was like, I'm not taking it inside because she had to go inside to return something that we bought that decided we didn't want.

Not that long ago. Jeez. Oh, it's a clusterfuck. I'm not bringing it inside. Yeah, you don't want to take your time for their mistake, right? Is that what you said? It's like if they come out and get it, that's fine. Yeah, yeah. Because otherwise, no. Otherwise it's free Lego. I've had it. Were they the food delivery service? Mrs.. Like a pipe of groceries. Like I've had them, like they brought everything else, but they forgot everything from the deli, right? Yeah. That's happened.

And and I call them up like, hey, okay, I'm missing this, this, this and this. They're like, Hey, and then they come back like, oh, yeah, it looks like one of your bags is still here. I'm like, well, just probe me. I don't really want to get stuff that's been sitting in a bag for an hour and a half. I mean, hopefully it's in the refrigerated section. I don't care, I just don't need that. You know, I don't know what happened to that bag. It's like either you deliver it on time or you get it back.

I don't like this. Like, well, we could get you scheduled like four hours from now. No, no, I don't want it right now either. I wanted it when I ordered it, and if you didn't have it, that's okay. I'll get it next time. But I don't, you know, I don't need a showing up when I'm not home. Now, I want to know who are the poor Amazon delivery drivers every now and then, the option it gives me, I hear they're super well paid. I don't want you talking about the time slot, though. Every now that I get.

Oh, we could deliver this tomorrow between 4 a.m. and 8 a.m.. I'm like, who the hell is that? Yes, they do 24 by seven deliveries. I would totally do that if I was an Amazon delivery guy. I would love that time slot. You know what? If you get paid, no fucking traffic, right? No fucking. And then you get paid what? You get paid. The pay doesn't matter. It's the fact that you don't have to deal with traffic. You have no crazy cars or people or bicycles getting out in front of you.

It's nice and quiet. The roads are clean. There's nobody that's going to be standing outside trying to talk to you when you don't need to be talking to them. Wait. They're people. I want to talk to their Amazon delivery there. Oh, yeah. People over 70. Absolutely. Oh, my dad does that all the time. Where's Membros? I want to know if anybody has ever tried to hit him up into a conversation with delivering a package. Yeah. Yeah, you should let us know. That would be great stories.

That would be a whole episode of a show. You can have a show right there. Amazon tales of Amazon delivery. Bye bye bye. How many housewives are like, can you bring that package in for Mason? Yeah, bring it in. And, Hell yeah. Let me just take a shower. Boom. Bob, you look a little bit dirty, too. Would you like to join me? Boat? Yeah. It's funny, there is a porn video category like that, but they're usually not for Amazon delivery guys. They're usually for pizza delivery guys.

Have you seen this? Yeah. I mean, I know you don't watch porn, but maybe your friends do and you may have heard about that. Now, there are videos there that people make of basically like, you know, inviting the, or opening a door for a pizza delivery wearing no clothes. Well, of course that's the way it goes. But I have heard stories in the only from not from. It's never from the, the hippie dippy, marijuana smoking carpet installers that I used to work with.

But there was one dude who that went off to on his start his own cleaning company, and he was the guy that would go out and do the carpet cleaning, and was a good looking dude. And he was buff, and he's the one that claimed that every now and then there was, there was a little activity besides cleaning the carpet. I buried me in the carpet. Right. And the drapes, I don't know.

He was very thorough. So very thorough, very thorough. It's like he's like, about nobody's going to pay any attention. I mean, that's, No. Well, yeah, I think the the pool boys have a reputation for that, right? Yeah, I think I in this case, honey, why are you getting the carpets cleaned every four months, every four months, every other week. Right. Well, you can only do a one room at a time. You squeeze out that much, much better way to go about it.

They can only fit me in for 30 minutes per every other week, right? Yeah. Never. Never heard that from the, the guys that were more like, you know, the George Carlin. Yeah, I did pizza delivery when I was in high school. I never had any hot chick open up the door without any clothes on. No, because they want to see you first. I guess they might invite you in. They're like, wait a minute, we don't know what. Also, it was snowy. Oh, I see, so so that's also.

Oh, well, it's not that hard if they're inside. But for you, I mean, you can't really you can't like they're there. Some people are. What's the opposite of over here? It's their exhibition. That's right. Some people are exhibitionist and, you know, they actually get a thrill. Old guys with, Santa Claus look, and, you know, they want to open the door with their gut hanging out and with their dick just swinging in the wind like, hey, dude, thanks. That's not really exhibitionist.

That's just normal. That's just a normal day for Jim there. There's a reason why it's getting harder for him to get his groceries delivered. The sushi guy's like, no more, Jean, no more. No more wear pants. Oh, I, I I've always thought that, Winnie the Pooh had the right idea. No pants, just up top, just no pants. Fridays all week long, no agenda. Millennial says hot chicks don't eat pizza. You are so wrong. In my dreams, they do. Sure. Hey, I think you want pizza.

I'm not saying they eat a lot of pizza. Yeah, dude, I did a photoshoot where I had. It was called Feed the Model, where I had who came up my concept, I did. I figured the original concept by me. Nobody had ever heard of this ever before. I know it's crazy, right? Because they look so skinny. They they're so damn skinny. So I did the shoot.

That was all nude, of course, but, it's basically, you know, we got like the, the triple bacon Burger Supreme from wherever and then have the, take, take, photos of the model eating this. And it was like, it was beautiful. Did you release a coffee table book that people could now go, yes, I have, I had about three coffee table books worth. I only did one, I released one, and then, most of my photos fell back when I used to. Actually, most of my photo sales were actually for the large format.

So like 3 to 4ft size, printed canvases. So they were going into people's homes, not so much, coffee table books. And that business is probably dead now thanks to technology. I would think so, yeah, I when I was doing it like, and I've said this before, that my best year was about $130,000 worth of sales, a lot of stuff. But now you could just go and take any image from the internet and blow it up and print it up on demand. And. Yeah, yeah.

And I. Yeah. Stops. Yep. That was the other so damn near all my photo gear in time I should come to the studio. What you have on your phone is probably 90% or if not more to what you were getting out of. Yeah, your phone has three lenses, a wide angle, a telephoto and a normal. The the sensor quality is very good. Yeah. The phone is improved. I mean, it's still like, I could still tell, but you'd be pixel peeping to be able to see a difference, and using raw files.

But back when I was doing, I mean, I had. Well, I sold my stuff. I don't even know how much I paid for it. When I sold my photo equipment, I got almost 20 grand for it, sold at the right time just for the cameras and lenses. Yeah, I sold it. Yeah. What? Probably seven years ago. Six years ago? Probably six years ago. Yeah, it was before Covid. And it was, I knew I saw the writing on the wall. I knew that this stuff was going to become greatly devalued.

Although the one piece that I never sold that I probably could have if I tried harder, but I ended up giving it away to charity was my, large format printer. And, that was a $6,000 printer, and I ended up basically trading it or giving it away as long as they pick it up. Yeah, you could probably still run a business with that because you could sell shit on the day. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go send us your photo and we'll send you a poster like the, the paper rolls for that printer were 2 to $300.

Oh yeah. But you could sell the individual, I mean, cause at the time was selling the prints for, I think 850. Yeah. Which meant it was probably costing about three bucks to print them up. And it cost me quite a bit more than that to print them. But, you know, obviously when I was doing it, I got the printer because I used two different printers initially to print these photos, and there was always issues, so they always had to be reprints.

I just got sick of having to quality check every single thing because nothing was ever perfect. And it's like, well, how much is damn? Because I'm spending like five grand and they're probably not that much, probably like two grand. I'm spending about two grand a month on, printing services because, again, the shops that do this charge a lot, and they did the I, I had to go with whatever one of 3 or 4 different papers or canvases they had.

You know, I eventually I said, fuck it, I'm just going to buy one of these myself, and I did. There's a little bit of a learning curve used to really figure out how to use it. Yeah. They're been you can't move them around. Do you have to make sure you know the ink level. You can move them there on wheels. But the the printer printed three feet wide and it the printer itself was about 4.5ft wide. So it's, you know, it's substantial.

And then that, that three feet wide was actually the narrow side of the print. So you'd print like a three foot by 4.5ft image usually. And then, and then I was taking those and for the canvases getting them racked. And I got tired of doing that. So I bought all the equipment to do my own racking. So I was actually stretching the canvases myself as well. So I, I did I did put quite a bit of money into that when I was doing it, but, you know, it was making me money. So it made sense.

Well, yeah, it's one of those things where you're still making, a product for somebody. And I think those you can start, I think for people that can print t shirts or brick mugs, all these things, you can always make money because nobody's buying a printer that size. Not professionally. You know, you're not going to have somebody that's like, I'm just going to put one in the garage because I might want to print up a poster now and then. Right, right. So you need that specialty.

And this is where, it's a cool device. The other problem with it is that because it's a commercial product, if you don't use it at least every three days, then you have a probability of getting clogged. Inkjet. Yeah. That's no bueno. That's okay. Because you it's you can wash them out like it's got the, you know, it's self cleaning. However, you end up spending as much ink

to clean the damn printer as I do actually printing with the damn printer. Oh, and by the way, each each color ink tank is 110 bucks and there's seven colors, so there's like a thousand bucks worth of ink in that thing. You better be doing a lot of business. And if you aren't doing a lot of business, it actually works out great. I actually went through about one thing of ink per year, which is not very much. Now you need to be doing business well.

I mean, I'd have to do way more business to do that. And that was I did some prints for, Adam's ex-wife there, back when she first got into, you know, a lot of a lot of her getting into photography, it was motivated by the camera that she got from her. I can't remember if it's her dad or her mom, but whoever. But, She was first learning photography back then, and I'd been doing photography for 15 years. There were more at that point.

And so she'd have all kinds of questions and stuff, and I, I have to figure out and then I watched her within a couple of years, start selling her prints that she was doing for, like 5 to 10 grand. I was like, Holy shit, that's like 100 by the thing. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. It's just like a Hunter Biden thing. And then, and I mean, I've got, I mean, to actually sell it this way.

You, I've got one of her paintings that she did when she first started doing painting and, she's like, you know, a well known artist in the Netherlands these days. So think I'll be worth something? I'll sell. Yeah. Cuz I think I paid her like five grand for it, and I think I could probably sell it for 15 or 20. Now that is a a profit. Now you could also take a photograph of the ship it to the Netherlands, and they'd be reproducing the prints that, an alarming rate.

I don't think you're allowed to do that with this copyright thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but somebody would have to catch you first. You. I mean, I guess I could take an image of a original, painting that I have in order to promote the painting, but I don't think I can just mass produce, images of the painting and sell them. Yeah. I mean, do you just want to be able. That's a good question.

Like, if you have a if you have a Rembrandt original, you didn't just own that Rembrandt for reproduction rights as well. That's a good question. I don't know. And it's obviously going to be different for a Rembrandt because he's no longer alive. Right? Well, there's a copyright amount of time that, eventually expires. So, yeah, that would be an interesting question on an individual piece that was only ever meant to be one piece. If you own that piece, you own the reproduction, right?

Right. I wonder that's a good question. I would guess. I don't know that anyone would pay any money for it. That's not very good. But, it was more the idea that, you know, I'm supporting a friend's wife and, and it is like one of her first three paintings that she's ever done. Well, that should definitely take the price up, I think. So I think that it does have that like that. Does the art world not go by like the, rookie card? Oh, they do they they're absolutely.

It's it is just like sports that they anything that is unusual like, you know, you have artist proofs which are, basically what the artist does before they do the final product, the kind of the lithograph is done. It's the one where just was the last look at it. And the the apps are usually priced lower because there's imperfections on them unless they're on draft of the artist as well. No, that they say this is worth more because it's rare.

Well, and that's the thing, it all depends on how many copies. So if you have an app where there was only 8 or 10 proofs done, but then the final finished version, there's thousands of those made, then the artist proofs would absolutely be worth more. If you have an artist proof like one of ten. And then they only did one final product, well, obviously the final product is going to be worth more. It's all about rarity. Yeah. What you can get crazy people to spend on things.

Yeah. That to just not ponchos apparently. Yeah. Unless you make him a that NFTs aren't your NFT right. There's an idea see. And then you could turn in the NFT at any time. I just call it an NFT and then, you know, hey, we're going to send you your token now. Exactly. Oh, great. So here's my email. No, no, no, we're going to send you your token. It's an actual it's it's a physical. It's a physical object. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's it's a he told you it was a it's non-fungible.

It's a token that looks a lot like a poncho that they're all different because they have a number. The program thinks the NFT poncho is brilliant to see. That would be the name. Yeah, this could be the exit. It's only the troll room. Ever spent any money on anything? I know, at least on the show. Well, I mean, we went through the whole thing on the last show where now we have unreal AI com slash donate and it's so much easier. We have for all of December.

For all of December, I get a look, just donate a measly 20 bucks and you get a free poncho. Yeah, the one guy who deleted over 20 bytes didn't want to punch no, dude, I thought I was crazy. I thought it was $20. So you won't send me a poncho? Oh, dude. It was. Yeah, that was, that was it. That was the deal. Somebody there, it was somebody out of the country, I think that.

Yeah. And where the cost of the shipping would be quite a bit more than the donation month, but yeah, it's like a, it's going to be interesting because I think once we add Mexico, Greenland and Panama and Canada as states, I think they'll be a lot more prosperity going in this country. But we need a lot more of those natural resources that we could bring in this areas. And that's kind of the deal.

As they've got them, we need them. That's a match made in heaven. We can get them as soon as they become state. Well, the whole Greenland thing is they're going to put it in the hands of the people that live in Greenland. Well, it's not up to them, though. They should be. They should know it's up to Denmark. Denmark owns it. I know, but they screwed the people of Greenland bad. But the people of Greenland originally were from Denmark. They just never got independence from their colony.

That's the colony. Look up the Greenland. What they did to the women in Greenland with the, like, implanting birth control devices without letting them know. There's a whole bizarre. I think you're thinking of a TV show, though. Yeah. This is, they'll just do a little. Do you look it up, man? It's like, it's like I. I found this randomly while looking for something else, so it was like, What the fuck?

Looks like it is a, you know, this is from the BBC from, late last year, October 2023, Greenland women seek compensation over involuntary birth control. A group of 67 women from Greenland are seeking compensation from the Danish government over a campaign of involuntary birth control. At least 4500 women, some teenagers who were fitted with coils to limit birth rates among the indigenous population. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think you're thinking of the the TV show silo, which is.

No, this is from the BBC. This is, exactly. It's probably Apple TV is what you're thinking, which is the BBC records from the National Archives show that between 1966 and 1970 alone, 4500 IUDs were fitted into women, some as young as 13, without their knowledge or consent. I want to know how this was all going on. Yeah, I'd like to know how that happened. Sue. Or they knocked out or what? I would guess the practices.

No, never continued until 1975, but the BBC has learned it lasted for many years after that, because we had a commission set up by the Danish and Greenlandic governments to investigate. The program is not due to to deliver its findings until May of 2025. So that's coming up. This is not coming up. But it's like the, the, this whole thing it was, it sounds just like the kind of thing that they a country that wants to take over the Greenland would put out there as news piece.

Well this was the BBC and it was last year. So maybe. Oh, oh, you know, what I don't understand is the women are seeking about $42,000 a piece. It's like, you should put a few more zeros on that. Doing it wrong. You're doing it wrong. So they're seeking money for the fact that they didn't have to spend money on a kid. Right. We're not given that opportunity. And again, I want to know more about how you do this involuntarily to a population.

I mean, being that the whole population of Greenland is like under 70,000, I think it's not. Yeah, I think it's 60. It is not a large. What's not actually green is the problem. You see that the Iceland and Greenland, they're backwards. True. Well, that was because it was, tricky naming. Yeah. Okay, let's just let Iceland. Nobody will show up. Whew. There's, another aspect there. Is that right around? I can't remember the exact year. It was either like 980 or 11 80 or 1080 or something.

But one of those years, there was a, ten year, a decade long warming spell. It happened where Europe experienced a extremely mild temperatures for about a decade, in the winter and nice, warm, long summers.

And so, there were areas that typically would be much colder, including in Norway and Sweden and, and Iceland, that, that were during that decade or so much warmer and and so that contributed, I think, to the settlements in Iceland and potentially Greenland by the Vikings that, would not have happened were the climate colder the way that it had been afterwards. Okay. I never been to Iceland, but I've always thought it looked very pretty.

Also, it says the, Last year, Denmark apologized and paid compensation to six Inuit who were taken from their families in the 1950s as part of an attempt to build a Danish speaking elite with the Greenland. But what the fuck are the Danish? Do it, man? Well, that's why I'm thinking that this whole like Greenland becomes a state is not as farfetched as some people think.

Well, it seems that the people that live there might be like, if we could switch to the U.S., this would be a much better way to go. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's like that's just some bizarre stuff. I mean, that I had never heard of anything. Just imagine the, the US Danish war over Greenland. Oh, yeah. That would be a big I don't know, what is the a Danish military looking like these days? Oh, I think they're all in Ukraine right now. Well, we could just walk right on it.

Then I'm like, oh, yeah, you guys are over here. Oh, don't worry, we'll be over here this a little while. I get imagine that with, with Denmark being part of NATO, that all the other European countries would have to come to the aid of Denmark in its fight against the radical, even the United States over Greenland, its territory. I think they'll just sell it. I think they'll rent it. I think they'll be like, oh, well, granted, what will they say for, 100 years? Right. Well why not?

And that would be like, well, let you send the military in and you can protect all the resources because they're obviously not you utilizing what Greenland has. So I don't know if they're just unable to do so or they will bear me to do so. I hear it's very tasty. It could be a whole new exit strategy there. Besides all of the minerals and, the earth metals and all the great things that they will end up finding.

I think the biggest strategic reason for Greenland is it's yet another location that the United States can put a military base. It's closer to Russia. Yeah, yeah, that's literally the main reason the do it. No, they're like, damn do. But you're literally just going over the North Pole and you're in Siberia. You know how much that would piss off Russia? Because the Greenland would be like, well, we're making this deal. We've given the US a 100 year lease.

They get the mineral rights and the U.S. goes, well, since we're here now, we really have to protect this and we're going to put a military base here. Yeah. I mean, with the amount of money that would bring into Denmark, I mean, this would be a, you know, even as a percentage there, it's like win win for everybody. Yeah, I think it's although I know Russia, I don't think you want to lease it. I think we want to buy it. But yeah. Yeah, I understand that. Maybe it's maybe it's like the old days.

Remember those companies? You could rent to own. Yeah. They were doing that. Was Greenland. Like rent to old Greenland. Rent to them. See, I mean, we'll just give us a lease and if we like it, we can keep it longer and it'll be dead before it's all over there. The other thing is, other day. Oh, I think this will happen quickly. The other thing, aside from being closer, is for a military base. Really? Not so much a military base, but more as a launching pad for, missiles.

Oh, we can send Elon over there. But other than that, the other thing that getting Greenland does is it it puts the U.S. into the northern passage. So that you basically have a split between Russia and the United States up north, and both countries can have ships sailing through there because, you know, with all the, global warming and whatnot, the, the passage is now open.

Like you can actually sail through the northern passage to deliver goods between China and Europe, which is what the Chinese are doing instead of sailing all the way around India and Africa to get there. Now, you could just go north. Convenience. Yeah. Yeah, I think so. So that's the thing. Now, Panama is interesting because in Panama, you have NordVPN. Do you. Yeah, that's where they're based in Panama. Yeah. Oh well that makes total sense. Bunch of trucks.

One of those, countries where they're like U.S. guy send all your DMCA notices, will shred about the demand. Exactly. Yeah. So they have a reputation for being the gateway to drugs and human trafficking, but somebody's got to do it. Well, and that's where all the ship to go. So you there? Of course. That's where it happens.

You unload all the Chinese out of the box containers down in Panama, and then you ship them up through all the Central American countries, and Mexico, up into the U.S. I mean, does anybody notice that the latest caravan that was going up of migrants through Mexico was dispersed by the Mexican Army? Oh, wow. Was it really? Yeah. Yeah, I didn't see that. Now it turns out that maybe all of this, Trump talk about tariffs has the Mexicans doing exactly what he wants them to do.

Yeah. Well, the Mexicans that threaten to tariff right back. So yeah. Hey. No. In the United States. What? Go ahead. There's really nothing made in Mexico that we can't get elsewhere. Yeah. Although I will say damn near 100% of my groceries come from Mexico. What the hell are you buying, Gene? Roots. That good for it? That battles for that sugar? No, not sugary fruits, just apricots. I can extract the substances. I don't know how, but I don't think any of my food comes from Mexico.

Your lettuce mate? Yeah. We don't do a lot of lettuce, though, because every time I get into a lettuce thing, you know, it's like, oh, E.coli. We're we're we're we were recall, recall, recall. Why? Oh, the snakes come from Brazil. Usually don't see those are better. You want a good meats? Country. That's very important. I mean, you get you're in Texas, you do not have a good meat sauce, and, you don't you don't butcher cows year round, you know, you do.

You have a freezer maybe that can put them in for. Oh, I don't like frozen meat and fresh meat. Eugene only likes fresh meat that goes along with, that that elitist attitude here. Oh, my God, I'm, like, the opposite of an elitist, which I'm a total proletariat, a commoner. I'm. I'm a complete, what you would call it. One of those people. Commoner. I am just a commoner who refuses to eat frozen meat. How about canned meat? Well, you eat canned meat. You have spam.

Do you have spam in your fridge? Spam. Spam? I've never had spam. Spam? He's never had. No, that's not true. I had spam in Hawaii. I had spam, spam. I was gonna say, you can't really call yourself a commoner if you like. I've never had the never have Mac and cheese, Jim. I have mac and cheese way too often. Is it? Was it like the was a Kellogg's? It makes it. Who's the one that makes nuts? It's truffle bacon, cheese. Of course.

I'm from the local, Cesare shop here with gold flakes sprinkled in just to. No. That's retarded. You don't want to be eating gold, you're just going to poop it out. Yeah, well, tell that to the Gold Slugger people. They just, you know, I deny that. You're like. You're making your poop worth the money. Little Kraft mac and cheese. It's the cheesiest, Kraft mac and cheese sucks. Yeah, the homemade cheese can be made very tasty. Now, do you have spaghetti with some cut up wieners in it? You know.

Is that a staple for your house? Yeah. You don't. You cut up hot dogs and spaghetti, while you eat hot dogs. You know? No. Never. Now. Well, baseball stadium. Well, that I, I think it's kind of a lot of you have to go to the baseball stadium. You gotta have a double dog hotdog. I saw a YouTube video of, like, some, restaurant in Chicago. Like, like had, like, a diner or something. Which, allegedly. Oh, it's the best burger in the world. I'm like, never fucking heard of it.

And lived here for 54 years. Yeah, I don't I don't believe it. Although they did start the video, with anybody that says Best Burger, I generally just dismiss anyway because it is a very individual thing for what a best burger is right there, as there is a place that you in Texas, here in Austin, I should say, where I have had the best burger that I've ever had, but they're closed now, like they shut down pre-COVID. It was the, what was the restaurant called?

It was a restaurant at the Marina Club, and they're gone. Well, the Marina is still there, but the restaurant, well, it didn't technically. I mean, they they they changed chefs. And I think they closed as a result of that because the new chef did not know how to make a good burger. Oh, was that bad to get rid of them. But that's the thing. It's like it's not a place that first of all, you would ever expect there to be a good burger, like at the Marina.

What? Why would you have a good burger there? But they absolutely have the best burger. And, you know, you have to be a club member to be there anyway. Well, of course, see, this is what you like. Then you're, you have to show your card. You have to, And it was all cheval caviar. It's like, never heard of the place. That doesn't sound like a burger place to me. I know, and I tried to go to the website, and it's like it doesn't open, so you were like, oh, best burger I've ever had.

Like, I don't buy it. 800 West Rudolf Street. I mean it's downtown. But they started the video at the A Billy goat. Now there's a burger. There's a burger of the people. The Billy go. You better the Billy goat up. Sure. Lower Wacker. Well you feel like you're going to get mugged or shot. Just going to it because it's underground. Yeah. Lower Wacker always feels like that scene in that movie where the. It's always nighttime. And the light yellow lights, that's the only source of light.

And there's guys walking around looking and they're left and right, left, right. And while you're driving the car. So yeah, that's that's my impression of Laura record. It's a very strange place to have a burger. I spent time in Lower Wacker. Of course. Why wouldn't you. That's right. I made a lot of deals down there. Subterranean people. I told you I used to stay at the Executive Plaza, which is on Upper Wacker, so that if you're on up a wacky maze, we'll go to Lower Wacker.

Well, not really, but sometimes you do Upper Wacker, Lower Wacker, sometimes you get lost and you're driving around and you're like, how the hell did I wind up underground? It is a bit of a weird entrance because you're just driving along and all of a sudden you're on the ground. What the hell happened is they do like, how do we get out of here? Yeah, like, I don't know. Nobody knows. It's it's, it's an interesting thing. And, I mean, I haven't been Chicago in many, many years.

Do you? Sounds like you haven't either. No, it's been a lot like now. I can't remember the last time that I went into, I mean, I, the probably the last time I went into Chicago proper, and it's not even a really Chicago proper would be going to a White Sox game a couple of years ago, but otherwise have not gone into the city, have not been downtown and, in a long time. And I don't miss it. Do not miss it. Really. What do you need? So yeah, the the play.

I was looking up the place that I had the best burger and it was the rough life. Yeah. Club and Marina, the rough life yacht club. This sounds like a place there would be t shirts for. Well, they. Yeah. Yeah, I know they when they had ads, all over the city. Oh, what a nice life. Welcome to the rough life. Yeah. That's. So they showing off, the the swimming pools and the boats and stuff. But that was the place there, and there was a, a surprisingly good quality burger.

And now I think they've changed the name. It's called Canyon Grill at Rough Hollow Canyon Grill at Rough Hollow Yacht Club. Cove. Let's ask perplexity. Dad, I where can I get the best hamburger in America? And thanks to extended for giving us for free. It's going to give you shit like that. It'll be very charred, though. In California, though, there's that sign out right there. What does? Well done, well done.

The, based on recent rankings, number one is the Habit Burger Grill's double char and then the our Cheval. Where are they based? You know, it doesn't say what that was. The other one. Cheval is Chicago a New York? Yeah, yeah. Look for the other one. Look at the number one and where they located the habit. Burger grills, double char. Let me see. It doesn't say. Is there a link? I've never heard of the Habit Burgers grill. Let's see, where is that, then? I don't know why. The other one.

This is the beauty of I. Why are you giving me the information on every everyone else? Like this is where you can get it with this one you like, I don't know. We have it. Burger grills, double char burgers recently gained significant recognition winning the best fast food burger in the USA today. Yeah, but where is it? I don't like the double char cheeseburgers. Okay, here they have a website. Name the place. I'll do a search. It is. There's a bunch of locations I guess. LOL. Mainly California.

What did they predict a new name? Did I literally just say there's no West? But there's. Yeah, that's because people that do reviews Arizona don't consider flyover country to be country. It looks like New York. Looks like Florida. Looks like you know where the Virginia is. And that's I remember this exact thing with states where every time you look for reviews, what's the best steak? It'd be places in New York City. It'd be places in California.

It'd be places, you know, in other cities in the East Coast. And then you you'd find occasionally a couple of places in Chicago. But that would be about it. The best steak I've ever had consistently year after year was in Kansas City. Kansas City. And it makes total sense because that's where the cows from Texas go. They'll they'll just wander right up to Kansas City, where they used to wander up there. That's what the old cattle drives used. Rawhide. They're all be shipped there.

I love them trains. Rawhide was great. Rollin rollin rollin. And we let, of course, the Blues Brothers doing the songs just made it even better. Yeah, yeah, but rowdy, I mean, Clint Eastwood still around. I've had good steak in Chicago, but the best steak I ever had was in Kansas City. Now the Gibsons in Chicago is hard to beat, but, yeah, yeah, yeah. And and I will tell you that all the considered best places in Austin. I've had steak in all of them. They're all pretty good.

None of them are great. You get the decent of that. I, I'm just I'm, I but I had a friend that used to live here that we hung out back when both of us were spending money like crazy. We would do things like, hey, let's let's spend the next two weeks going to every high priced steakhouse and then compare them. Did you record it, though? See if you would have been doing that. This would have been good for a podcast. Oh we did, we talked about it on our podcast.

I used to do a podcast with a just come out to Chicago, we'll do all the food places, will video it, and then we'll bring this there on YouTube and see if we can, you can, at least with some money off, you can write it off because you're like, well, why would you write it off? Yeah, you could totally write it off now. Yeah, for sure. You could just have our meal and be like, but it was for the video. As long as you had the intent of making money, that's the important part.

You can't you can't write off things. You had no intent to make money. And so I can write off all the punches because I had full intent of making money. We know you made money out of the ponchos, Gene. I mean, it was a big. I lost money in the big store. Even the ones you sold, you lost money. And that was the beauty of that I did. I lost money on every single one I sold. And I lost even more than the ones I didn't sell. Well, of course, because at least the ones you sold, somebody came in.

There just wasn't enough to cover the cost of the not anywhere near. This is what's so ridiculous is our our our sales price target when we decided to make these things. And that was a marketing do to me that we're doing this, oh, I don't really blame him because, I mean, you know, marketing is one thing. New product sales is a whole other thing. But we, we were targeting 1995 for the price for a three pack or a three pack. Our cost for the raw ponchos for a three pack was three bucks.

That seems like there's plenty of room in there with great surprise. It feels like it. From $3 to $20. It's like $17. You're like selling for what you. It's basically like A6X multiplier. But here's what happens. First of all, okay, so it's three bucks for three, ponchos. Right. And store and wants to buy. They're made in China. Yeah. Of course they're made in China. If I could find someplace cheaper than China, that's where they would be made. That doesn't include shipping.

Oh, oh, and and how much is shipping? Well, that's about three bucks. Okay. So shipping with shipping and with printing of the, the box that they come in with. Yeah. With your mistakes. Because your partner was. Which had mistakes because my partner was an idiot. Exactly. Yeah. Good call. Well, we both checked it, and neither one of us saw the mistake, so. Yeah. Good thing you had a Sharpie to fix every box.

Oh, my gosh, thousands, thousands and thousands of these things got fixed with a Sharpie. I had to buy the Sharpie. You know I'm right. Sharpies are not free then. Well, the fat ones. So this was a Sharpie. That was the fatness of the whole line there, right? Because you didn't want to have to scribble more than one. No, I didn't want to scribble. I just wanted one swipe and I'm dead.

Anyway, well, the alternative would have been to just buy the product that's listed in there and add it to every box, which was more expensive. So now we're at about six bucks cost. So it's like, okay, well six that's we're still like A3X 20 room but many plenty. We're going to make money okay. So you get to Amazon. Amazon takes about 28% off the top. So you're like, okay, well it is what it is. That's that's like five bucks off of that.

Now, you know, it's the difference between the six bucks that we're paying. And so Amazon would have taken up, five bucks off the top on the 15th. 6 to 15. Right? Right. Okay. They have to get shipped from I already paid for the shipping from China to my house. Now I have to pay for shipping from my house to Amazon. That's not free. Obviously we couldn't. You just get the, members to come pick it up? Yeah. Right now, I'm not. When you're selling only you.

Only when you're buying. That's different. Yeah, yeah, it could be. You think pays for that. Sorry. You so exactly what you do, boss, basically is what you're saying. Well, I technically not in the same state, but theoretically, if somebody ordered one up there, he'd probably deliver it. Yeah. Anyway, so now we're down to, like, very, very low profit margin, but with eight, $8 in profit right around the dollars once we ship them to Amazon.

Okay. So now we're looking at about eight bucks in profit per box. Oh, Amazon has a charge for any products that don't meet their estimated minimal sales volume quotient, which is they say that if you sell X many products per day, then you can keep your products at our warehouse for free. If your products sell at a lesser rate than that of slower sales, that's your problem, not ours. And we're going to charge you a fee every month for storage of your product.

But it's all very quick and the inside very quick. I mean, I think they were fine in the first month, but here's so an Amazon is charging another buck for storage, and we start seeing more people with similar but not identical products dropping their price from 19 bucks down to like 16, 15, 14, 13. I don't think I saw a whole lot lower than 13, but it got down to $13. It was probably including the nice people at the factory that made yours. Oh, guaranteed.

Guaranteed. Yeah. Because that's that's exactly right. And so there's like four factories that make these in China that get all the orders. Everybody else that can make them just would charge you more in China. So if you want to get the get them made cheaply, you go to the four factories that deal with the high volume mylar. So anything made out of mylar did. There's four factories that do it in China. It doesn't matter where the product end product is.

They're the ones that have the cheap mylar. So yeah, so it gets down to a point where you're basically making, you know, the equivalent of like a buck per sale. And that's where the Amazon lowers the price by two bucks, and they could sell them faster and. Well, and that's that didn't happen for, I think three months. But after three months, I noticed that Amazon was starting to lower our price, which is a deal that you sign when you sell your product to Amazon. Is that at their sole discretion?

They can decide that your product is mispriced and therefore they can lower the price of your product in order to get sales moving. That's exactly what happened. And then I when I realized that I was actually losing about a buck, every single product, I just said, okay, we're done. This experiment is over. It has provided data. We can stop the experiment.

And I will just hang on to the rest of these damn things because, it is pointless to pay somebody to sell the product that you have, but you're going to have a great garage sale at some point. I'm going to have Christmas gift for the rest of my life, is what I'm going to have. Hey, I didn't get a poncho for Christmas. You get a poncho, you get it. But you already bought a pi. I know I was a you get a pass, you get a poncho. I'm wonder how many people this is.

We're talking like art and, how, I know exactly how many. I'm so, so sold some. I ordered 3000 ponchos. I have about 2100 in the garage. Whoa. So what is that, like, 900 patches were sold? Yeah, yeah. Out of those three in a box. Right. So about. Yeah, that's a good point. So really, it's a thousand boxes. So then, sorry, not a thousand, but yeah, it's a thousand individual packages. And there's 40 of those that fit into a cardboard box shipped from China.

So the 120 ponchos per box basically for container.

So what you do is you give. Yeah, I do it again. And not on with ponchos, obviously. But I think look at some point you're given stumble on a product that actually surprises you by how well it sells. But I still maintain that a lot of this is just it's not really predictable. It's more of there's a large element of luck involved. There's also like if you do enough of these things, people that make good money on Amazon, they don't carry one product. They have dozens and dozens of products.

Some do poorly, some do well, and in the end, it balances out enough to support them being able to continue selling the product. But if you look, dude, try going through last year's, although we're in a brand new so let's say go look at your 2023 Amazon purchases, right? And then out of all the things you bought in 2023, see if you click on that link. How many of them are currently available. Yeah. Versus showing not available how almost nothing is available a year later.

Oh yeah. They disappear. How do we normally these shows we don't. Get. You.