148: Snow Fright

I made a lot of money during the fight. Going to war. And. Every year. Starting five minutes early just to anger CFB. That was everybody with, with OCD is going to be pissed. Like, why are you doing that? My clock doesn't say it's time. It's wrong. That's wrong. You started wrong. We're not doing the show. It's actually not part of the show. This is totally a different thing. Okay, well and unrelenting. 148 yes, this is the, unrelenting version, I guess. Yeah. The pre show. After the post show.

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No. We're good. Let's go. But we did. You don't want me to put this in? That's the part of the show we're in there. You want more? I didn't hear it. Let's play it again. Yeah. Help me. We're. Welcome to episode number 148 of unrelenting. We hope you enjoyed that bonus 100 and 20s of content. That was amazing. With that, I mean, where else in 20s of the whole show? Yes. Where else are you going to get that kind of content? No, really, not on the network that you're on?

No, that's I was amazed, though.

I saw and I don't believe anything that I see in the media, so. Okay, there's that. But there was a survey done where the younger folk claim that they much prefer audio podcasts to watching it on video, like on YouTube, but I don't know if I believe that at all. Yeah, sounds a little sus, as they would say. Yes, it does, because we have a lot of data which seems to show including your YouTube channel. You can quickly you saw the bar chart there then. Yeah. Going up.

I mean you're not to a million and a nice pace. Yes. Well this is it. If you can continue to steadily go up, you don't need to go from 0 to 1 million views or watchers or subscribers in a day on that, in a day now. But if you see that that trend continues to go up, right. It is a system that was built in order to increase your reach. Where, yeah, normal podcasts are not because everybody's out there on their own podcast Island.

Overall, I know there are shows like ours that talk about other shows, and there are networks where like, we're on the no agenda stream. So some people listen to the stream because they like, you know, bowls with buds or something like that, and they just run into this show or another show. I'm like, oh, I like that. I'll add that to my rotation, but it is nowhere near as effective.

Hey, I listen to one of those shows recently on purpose, or were you just like, oh, I see in your your other email host you listened to Larry? Yeah. Larry's to his solo show. That Larry show. Yeah. He had some good points in his website. You set it up the forex. His pitch went up a sufficient amount for. I could hear it. We hear it? Yeah.

I think he's absolutely right about what it takes. If people have lost their BBS meters, that they are too complacent with everything they're told and, you know, you just don't even understand that you have, lost all of the instincts that you were born with, and you're not protecting yourself. This this goes in line with what I've been saying for many, many years, decades.

And the fact is that, when people live in a too safe society, when they can just, you know, not leave the house and order all their food and everything else, right? You have a sushi guy? Wait a minute. Hold on, hold on. Let's get going with this. You're ordering your food, sushi guy. Actually. But, people got too soft and we were were evolutionary pushed to survival by avoiding things that are going to be, destructive for us. Right.

And when those skills are no longer used and no longer needed, frankly, we have a vacuum to fill, and that vacuum gets filled by things like burning Teslas. Right. Well, let's just take the whole world that. Well. Yeah, but I mean, if people were were genuinely in fear of their lives for not having enough food or safe water to drink or, you know, pick any melody out of Africa, no one would be burning Teslas right now.

Well, also, if they thought that the owner of said vehicle because they are doing property damage could come out and shoot them in the fucking ass, then, you know, this is all like there's we're never oh, they're going to or we're not going to get arrested. Nobody's going to do anything. There's not going to be any punishment. We could just do whatever we want. The lack of repercussion.

This is has led us down a road and I think a lot of these there was a, a wonderful piece from the Babylon Bee that I forwarded to you. Yeah I saw it right before the show but I didn't pull it off. Yeah right before the show. But the there's actually a couple of them that I sent, I think I also put one on X, but this one was just perfect. It's like with Passover coming up shortly, Tesla owners are painting rainbow flags on the sides of their cybertruck's to avoid getting their vehicles burned.

Well, here's the other thing. In the wacko leftist society that we have, that's the only way a leftist is going to understand it's a hate crime. What you're doing is if it has an LGBTQ sticker on the Tesla, it's like, no, no, they're all stickers. Not enough. It's the pictures. Literally, the whole door is painted in a rainbow flag. What does look like kind of a big blank slate Easter egg kind of thing. So it kind of does. But it's Yeah. I mean, you remember the story of Passover, right?

They called Passover because you got passed over so many times. Well, because God, was angry at the Egyptians and he was going to, let my people go. That whole thing kill all the male children, which kind of, you know, stops your blood. Likely called a genocide. Yes, but no, not if you're leaving the females. You're not. It's not a genocide. It is a religious side. And genocide. Yeah, exactly. And so, it's a genocide. Genocide?

Well, they it's it's also kind of ironic that, if you look back through the history of the Bible, at least you'll find that, God has committed genocides quite a number of times. Know what he would? If you're making a batch of cookies and they come out totally messed up. Yeah. You don't eat them, you throw them away, you go and try. You try again. Now you're calling God a, a turtle. He's a baker, a baker, cannibal. Right. And it say he was going to eat those cookies, but sure.

I mean, that's, Well, what's he going to do with them? Share them with his friends, I guess maybe, the baker cannibal God, you will only hear about him. And it is a he don't. Here's another woman with him right here. The unrelenting program. It's a very. It's an entertaining and enlightening show.

I think a lot of these folks, though, they're damaging the Teslas, are going to be very surprised when their picture shows up in the courtroom and they're being charged with a hate crime and going to do jail time.

Well, just to wrap up the Passover story, which we tangent into the off of the idea of Passover is that as part of the plagues that God is, going to put on the Egyptians for being mean to Israelites, the, the Israelites are instructed to sprinkle the blood of a lamb on their front door so God will know to pass them over upon his killing spree. Of all the male children of Egyptians. And this is well, of course, the Israelites were leaving in Egypt before they left.

So, you know, it's, I guess there's some historical context there for putting a rainbow flag on your Tesla, right? You have to have the, virtue said. Yeah, I have a Passover from the crazy lefties that are going to burn their vehicle, cotton gin points out. It's not even just a hate crime. It's domestic terrorism, which probably isn't much more severe punishment. Yeah. Well, you would think it would be, but I don't know. When is the last person that was actually

found guilty of terrorism within the United States? I mean, probably Timothy McVeigh. I mean, I don't know. Okay. 1990s. Fine. 1990. Let's go with that. I don't know if there's been other smaller cases that would just not have made the news, but I think this is something my point is, it's a super rare charge that no one ever up until that goes up. I mean, this is a whole different administration. This is a different playbook.

Look, all the judges in the whole country were elected or like, were put in place. They were appointed, not elected. Some judges, I guess, are like, but the ones that are appointed were all appointed by George Soros. So literally every judge in the country is, saying what Trump's doing is illegal right now. Of course. So I think I think that counting on the judicial system to put people away for a decade on domestic terrorism charges for burning a Tesla is just a, you know, it's a dream.

It ain't going to happen. I think it's moving in that direction. They're going to get that. I think what you're going to see is this is more probably about pulling those judges out and having these cases go immediately to a high court. Trump was told by the, the chief justice of the Supreme Court that he shouldn't be telling people to do that because judges are above the law. You see, they're not above the law. But you should see the Supreme Court. They're above the law. So there you go.

The exact was that the exact verbiage? They judges are above the law. That was the, certainly the implication of a judge who is not presiding over any case, but simply decided to tweet and say that Trump has no business telling people that judges need to be. Well, I think the point there I mean, again, this is a dick measuring contest. That, what you're seeing there is the Supreme Court justices are not above impeachment either.

No, but I think they're telling Trump, stay in your lane, let the whole system work the way that it should. And granted, sometimes it doesn't work. But that is why we have the checks and balances amongst the different parts of the government. The Trump for life. Yeah, Trump for life. I'm getting a tattoo. She wants a dictatorship. I would be I would vote for a Trump dictatorship. Dude, I totally vote for that. How long can he live though? He's already what, seven?

Doesn't matter at six five immortal. That's what happens when you're the king. God is this. You live forever out that, this world. Find out that Barron Trump is actually a clone of Donald Trump. So exactly. An improved clone who's a foot taller, very tall, very tall indeed. Said there's a video floating around that is very based of Barron just acting like he is the chosen one. It's great.

And I think it's, interesting. We have people like Bannon who's a little bit wacky now, but saying that, oh, well, after jail, that. Right. I mean, I don't want to know what happened to him in jail. Maybe we all know what happens in jail. So one too many times. But he's like, we are we do. We know we can find a way for Trump to have another term. And of course, this is where the, straight news folk like Bill O'Reilly are telling people, well, know that could never happen.

He read the part of the, Constitution which talks about how somebody can only be elected twice. And I'm thinking, well, yeah, but he doesn't realize the Constitution is is a living document and it's very flexible. Well, it's beyond that because I don't think there is anything.

And you can tell me, maybe if you're a better legal scholar than I, if somebody were to run in this upcoming election, whether it is JD Vance and I don't even think you have to burn JD Vance, could you be on the ticket, say, with Donald Trump as vice president and just say, oh, if we win, I'm going to serve one day and then step down?

I don't think there's anything in the Constitution that says, if you're a president who's already had two terms and you're now vice president and the president steps down, you're still next in line. You still get another four years without being elected. And I'm sure that would close the loopholes up. And there would probably be, uproar.

But I think legally, if Donald Trump were to run on the ticket as the vice president, with everybody knowing the whole point was the guy that wins is going to step down immediately after being sworn into office. I think that would be totally legal. I can't find any reason why that would. Well, there there is. It's again, it's subject to interpretation because the wording of no person shall be elected to the office of president.

Now, right back with you went first three presidencies, before Jefferson, the president and the vice president were elected separately. It was not a ticket. It was individuals running to. That's how you end up with a vice president that actually opposed the president. And they said, this is a problem. Yes, they're going to kill you because that's what this is the next in line because they're next in line. And they literally ran against you, and from a different party.

And so they decided to unify the ticket for the president, the vice president. And so, a vice president is elected on the same ticket as the president. So, technically speaking, I think the only way this works legally, constitutionally, is for Trump to become the speaker of the House and then the president and the vice president to both die. Or at which point, I don't think you have to tell them. I think because they succeed. Hey, I yeah, you know, I could step down.

I don't know if they could step down, but either way, the speaker's third line, the speaker does not need to be elected to the office of president. The speaker simply can kill the president, the vice president, and become the president. Not to give anybody any ideas. Right. You know, you know, you just don't do this at home. Don't do this exactly. When you're playing the, presidential game, don't do this at home. Kids know exactly. So that that is, I think, a totally legitimate way to do it.

He's a wee bit old to do that, but certainly somebody like a JD Vance, if he becomes president for two terms and then gets elected to the, Ohio Senate. No, I guess you have to be in, the, the House, not the Senate,

but he'd actually be going from the Senate to the presidency to the House. And then after being elected to the House, become the speaker of the House, and then the Republicans win the presidency as well. And they decide that for health reasons, both of them need to step down. Then Vance could become a legitimate legal third term president. Yeah, an interesting guy. I asked grok in that letter, coming up with similar things. Although the grok needs grok when you got me, I know what the grok says.

The 12th Amendment state's method said the 22nd. No person constitutionally ineligible to the office of president shall be eligible to that. A vice president of the United States. So. If you're not eligible, then yes, I guess you can't run as vice president. They saw that loophole coming I guess these yeah these motherfuckers that wrote this stuff were smart.

Not really know the that that wording is actually more written there to prevent people who were not born in this country from becoming a president. I know, but you can't have Eli Musk running for vice president, basically. But it kind of works, doesn't it? What do you mean? It's a farce? But I'm just saying that's not why they wrote nobody because there were no terms. They were so good that they put it in there without even knowing. Without knowing it. Yeah, well, there were no term limits.

Remember? Right. Yeah. Capital of the hour created the reason that there should be term limits. He screwed it up for everybody, man. Well, I am I do think I do believe that term limits are a good thing. In fact, dude named Ben named Ben. And my other podcast that I have talked a number of times, he was calling for term limits for that show, wasn't he was. Absolutely.

And, he believes that term limits should exist for every job in the government, regardless of whether it's an elected office or not. So, effectively, if you become a working bureaucrat in Washington, you would have a maximum of 12 years, at which point you would mandatorily have to be fired, because nobody should work for the government for longer than 12 years. I agree with that greatly.

I think that's a lot of the problems that we've seen with Doge now addressing are the net result of lifelong bureaucrats in power saying siphoning off funds out of the, the tax collection for nefarious purposes. And if people are not allowed to work for the U.S government more than the maximum number of years, and I think 12 is a good number, then, imagine imagine if we had a 12 year max limit on senators.

No. Nancy Pelosi's no. You know, and I don't want it to be the turtle head because it takes people a while to you know, probably a couple of years to figure out how the system works.

Yeah, it's kind of like a baseball player you're going to hit. I'm not sure that we want them to figure out how the system works either. Oh, I like them to have at least a basic idea. Perplexity is a slightly different, thing that that, you know, the Supreme Court would probably have to rule on it for the reasons you stated, which were the real things that were put into the 12th Amendment were not put in for those reasons. So the argument could be made that, well, I'm not being elected.

I'm succeeding into the office. Right? Yeah. And at the very least, like you said, speaker of the House. And then having that top ticket, just do the same thing like, oh, we're out. Yeah, they could do that. That would be legitimate. I don't think there's any any way that to push back against that, because even though the 22nd amendment, it explicitly says that only for a person that is served more than two term or more than two years, in an office where they were not elected so effectively.

So if if you were the VP, you could still run for two more terms as the president, but only if you were president by being elected as a VP for less than two years.

Right. And I think that's actually an argument for the speaker of the House, because you say, look, if the president was elected to be president for two years and then becomes the speaker of the House and is in a situation where the president and the vice president both abdicate, as it were, and then the speaker becomes president, that is still serving for less than the two years that's mentioned in the 22nd amendment. So there's there cannot be a, a preventive measure put in place against that.

And any interpretation of the Constitution that I can see, although, you know, I'm sure that there would be lawsuits regarding challenging this, but, the other president that I'm kind of liking Trump. Hey, he's really not the first to set it. I mean, honestly, Biden really laid into this heavily. It's just ignoring the Supreme Court, right? Whatever. Right. Doesn't matter what you say. You guys aren't in charge of the government.

And there's a quote from somebody and I can't remember who was, but it was maybe, I don't know, maybe it was Lyndon Johnson, or maybe it was, what's his name? He was the president. After World War Two, we had, Eisenhower, but essentially something to the effect of, okay, Supreme Court, you and which army are going to enforce this on the on the president like that? The Supreme Court of none of the courts have an enforcement arm. The enforcement arm is underneath the president. Right.

So which is we rely on the goodness in people's hearts to enforce what they say. Well, that's why they probably did so, so much fear. The what? That's why they tried to sow so much fear with, oh, he'd be in charge of the army, man. He'd be a judge in the military. Well, and that's the thing. It's like, You know, who is going to be more afraid of violating a judicial order or violating, the commander in chief? Right. I think defying the commander in chief could get you, hung.

Yeah. And then in the old days, it has. Yeah. Treason. Maybe they used to take it seriously. Not like today. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So I, I don't know, I think, what we're experiencing in a lot of ways as a result of doge, to a large extent and the, you know, the other executive orders coming out of Trump to some extent as well is the activist judges are all crawling out of the woodwork, trying to put in place

preventative measures for political reasons. This is what activist judge actually means. This is a a person motivated not to adjudicate right and wrong, fairly and equally, but to utilize their their position to effect political change and that is literally what they're saying. I mean, this is why the babble and that's the other thing I sent you is ten more judicial, was the judicial orders coming down and they were all, you know, joke ones, but it's kind of like, Trump ordered to what was it?

I'm blanking out on what they're. But they were pretty. You have your B12 today, Gene. I have not have any vitamins. Yeah, get that B12, everybody. We know that our buddy, the Dilbert guy, Scott Adams, he has the a simultaneous sip. Here on unrelated to the, the of the simultaneous. What if I tell you this? Is that a bad thing? Should I just double up on the B12, get, like, what is it? Got 12,000 micrograms of the B12 in here, so I'll take 24,000. I am not a medical doctor.

I'm not giving medical advice for medical advice. Everybody take your pills here on. It's way better than the simultaneous sip. Scott Adams, take that. We are popping pills. Pills? I had a little, CoQ10. Always good for the heart and the blood pressure you down? Had a little bit of flak, and I had a little bit of metoprolol. But I only get you take what your doctor gives you kids. G needs the B12 so he can remember what he sent me earlier. Exactly. It was damn funny. I just can't remember it.

Then get to the troll room. No agenda. That's right. I'm going to take, a side along with the B12. I'm going to think of hell. This take a little hit from the bong. Did you get the bong from black named woke up in Texas I glass? Nope. That's something different. Color my tongue blue. Oh, and see, USB boosted 19 minutes ago. He always waits to the show. Starts like he doesn't think the show still exists.

That's right. Which I understand. I understand to a certain extent, because some of my Kindle night. So do you get some of your methylene blue? I do, I've got I'm doing a little methylene blue, a little nicotine a little caffeine. Oh you're going to be bouncing things a little bit CBD all in one pill. That is absolutely not a pill. Technically an edible. I guess I was going to say.

Is this been proven by a, a third party like, how do you, Jean and Darren, I'd like to recommend the movie Snow White. Oh, no no no no. Where the. I'd like to recommend the movie Snow White. Yeah, he wants to recommend Snow White. Have you not heard anything about the Snow White movie in the. It's all it's woke. And they have. Well, there was Something about the Dwarfs is the worst Disney movie opening of any movie ever. It's the, the they did like 12 million.

He says the where the titular character is played by half Polish, half Latina, average looking girl and ugly evil Queen is played by Miss Israel. Yeah, exactly. That's exactly right. Now instead of us, UCSB. So I see I did not know the evil Queen was played by a miss Israel. That's interesting. You know, gal Gal Gadot was the Gal Gadot was playing okay. Yeah. You know, you you're.

That makes sense because I saw something where she's like, I came out for Israel and got a bunch of hate and didn't really understand it. And, the. Yeah, she was in the Israeli army. Well, I knew she was Wonder Woman, which I have not seen that movie either. Should I see wonder woman isn't worth. I think the first was pretty good. The second one, it kind of sucked. Yeah. Like the, the second one was like. The only good thing about the second one was about a three minute

portion in the shopping mall, which was in the 80s, and it was very reminiscent of the 80s. Back when you go back malls. Yeah, yeah, that was the only good part about like Jean watches lose brothers bump, bump, bump, bump out of a doll. The car going through the mall. Different mall, I know, but yeah, that was here. That was then. That was and it was closing. So they're just like, go at it, do whatever you want to. Yeah. Do whatever. That was the last mall that ever opened in Chicago, wasn't it?

Probably the they've only been closing ever since then. Actress that plays Snow White is. Yeah I mean granted I haven't seen the movies at most of the photos I see of her. She looks very nobody needs to see the movie trust me. No no I all if you want to see the movie, just go watch The Critical Drinker review of the movie on YouTube. Well, there's nothing wrong with the original animated. Delightful at the time was a, technological thing that just was not being done yet.

I mean, when you think about the technology, they had to make a full length animated movie at the time. It's almost crazy when you think about it. Like every cell hand-drawn. Yeah. Now it's all they still do that anatomy. Yeah. But now it's all computerized crap. And this, like, will remake everything. And I hear this Disney is trying to sell off star Wars, which how this is kind of like Playboy sucking up the concept of putting hot chicks in the magazine. Oh, yeah. Yeah they did.

Well, that happened after, Hugh's daughter inherited it right. And they had a trans model and the like. Oh, wait, people don't want to see that. Oh, there's a different magazine for that, I'm sure. Yes, exactly. And that's the whole concept with everything today, you can have a different magazine. You can have a different place for people to go. I want the, Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues of your. I don't want to see 400 pound women. I don't want to see women missing limbs.

I don't want to see trans women. I don't want to see women with skin conditions where their skin's two different colors. I just don't want to see any of that. They're all defective. Yeah. You want to see non defective women? Preferably. Yeah, preferably. You know why? Because biologically, over millions of years, we have evolved to cherish perfection. Because it means the genetics of that person are more likely to successfully be passed on.

And, all all the stuff you mentioned is, less likely to exhibit good genetic traits, but why pass it on? It's like we are just following the science. Can't you understand the evolution, man? And are you following the science? And, so, I mean, we all do it together. When you say science, do you mean Fauci? No, no, no, don't do it to cotton gin because he came through big on the last episode. But I mean, CSB with, for a thousand stats, I mean, is anybody going to come in higher than that?

Anybody today? Come on. It was very successful last time we got cotton gin. What other stats there like, 83,000 right now. So that's like what a buck 50 bucks somewhere in the ads. As I said, it's, it's getting close again to a dollar per, you know, a thousand stats is about a dollar. Let's see. I can tell you exactly. But it's nice when you get the big bad $0.83. And I got to figure out who owns the, is is Adam only pod father? The node, the node pod. Father is down.

I'm like, what's going on there? $0.84 per thousand right now. Yeah, that's what I thought. $0.84. Yeah, yeah. And says Kathy Ireland. Oh, yeah. If you want to go back to the 80s, Kathy Ireland was is a fine body. But man, she had a chin that was wider than Superman's. Yeah. Great eyes. Yeah. The eyes were pretty good. She got multi-colored eyes, if I remember right. Tweed, I don't know where you're supposed to look. Well, you're always look at the eyes first. Where else would you look?

I don't know, up, down, left, right. Yeah. What? Do you open it up, Jim? I'm, I'm actually putting away my, nice free delivery bag from yesterday. How'd you get something delivered? Because it was right by my foot. And I'm like, I keep kicking this thing and probably making the sound, so I should put it away with the, So now what happens to me? Although you're not the guy to ask when the, this lightning channel closed, it seems.

And I don't know if it's actually owned by Adam, but it was named Pod father. Now, if that goes offline, it's been offline for about a day. If I close that and that's offline, will I. That'll just. Well, it depends. If you had your money at the same place that I had it, at, you're never getting it back. Yeah. You're never getting it back. Because when they close the channel, you see that money's tied up permanently with them. Those bastards.

No, I'm all just, the, separate running my own own hub that was moving things off, trying to get liquidity. The other day, I was almost going to move your stuff over to a, Bitcoin as well, because, like, I need I need to move the SATs. They're just sitting there. They're. I need more channels. So if anybody can open up a channel to Darren. Oh no. Da. Oh you can open up a channel and just do a reverse though transaction and oddly, I did.

I opened up another, I opened up a million Satoshi channel to the pod father's actual logo. So then I just have to move those SATs out, like, put them into a gift card or something. Oh. You don't. All you got to do is just send them back to yourself on the other channel. Then you pay in great liquidity that way. Then you pay, man. Then you go low. They're very low at this point. You don't think you pay. When you cash them out, you always pay. Yeah, you're always paying.

And that's the hilarious thing about this whole network you pay for.

Are you paying every, every little transaction which you don't with your dollars. You got to pay, you got to pay, you got to pay. And I do want to point out I talked about it on random thoughts, but I wanted to pointed out here, just for anybody who doesn't know if you ever have a bill with a hospital. And I had two, one for me, one for my wife.

Luckily, our insurance is way better than it was in the past because the last time I was dealing with one of the hospitals, it was like 6500 I owed them. Yeah, this time it was, under just under a thought. It was like they were the lucky ones that got billed in until I hit my maximum. So it was like everything was paid except for, like a thousand on mine. And the wife was like 700, you know?

So I called up the hospital and I get the girl on the phone and I'm like, oh, I know the last time you offered a discount, you look like an offer. You 5%. And I'm like, can you do ten? And she's like, wow, I'll have to put you on hold one moment. Came back. Yeah, sure. Ten. No problem. Processed it out. So if I would have owned a lot more, I would have probably fought for a much bigger discount. Yeah, like 100%. Yes. That would always be better.

And like, she's like, well now we're going to put you through and you have to put your credit card number into the machine. So that's fine. Yes. So you're going to have to call back on your wife's account. So I called back and I got the same woman and I'm like, oh yeah, I was just talking to you. You know, I wanted to pay my wife's bill. And she's like, well, I have to offer you the 5%.

And she said it the way with the voice, like, you understand, that was kind of like the Beavis and Butthead pointing at the sign. You know, you got to be 18 to enter. She's like, well, I have to offer you the 5%. And I'm like, oh, and I have to ask for the 10%. She's like, exactly, hold, please. Like, you can't just be like that. We've already gone through this five minutes ago. Yeah. So I'm sure they were happy to get the bill paid but never pay full price on a hospital bill.

Yeah, or just don't pay it all that for a lot of people. They don't, because most hospitals are never going to put you through to collections in there. Well in it well, here's the thing. It's like I had a, you remember we talked about it. I had like one of those, nuclear, and things. Yeah. Right. No, not stress test, but the CT scan thing, with the nuclear with the stress test right there, wasn't it, like, viewed was hers with. Because mine was a it was.

No, it wasn't with the stress test because the whole the whole time they were trying to lower my, my blood pressure and my pulse interest, they needed to go. They needed the least amount of movement in order to measure any obstructions. They were trying to basically kill me by, by creating a condition at which my heart was pumping so little blood that it was likely that any areas that were going to jam up were going to jam up. But then you'll be there so they can save you.

Well, theoretically, I think it's just a game they play. Well, you're born, you know, you're like, right, we see how close we can get this guy to death, And and in that thing I was like, okay, well, this, you know, it's a $20,000 procedure. It's got to be pre authorized by insurance. They pre-op, they say, okay, here's how much insurance covers you. Much. You know. And by the way we need you to pay before we do it I'm like oh that sucks. All right fine. That's how I pay.

If you don't pay beforehand they may never know who the bill. Exactly. So so, you know, I paid like 2500 bucks out of that whatever it was, hit my limit on my insurance, and I didn't think twice about it afterwards. And then, like, two months later, I get a bill from them for, like, $3,000. I'm like, no. We went through the math. We got the off from the insurance. We knew how much the insurance was paying, we knew how much I was paying, and I. And you made me pay upfront.

So no, you're not getting another dime out of me. Not my problem. And I called my insurance company. I'm okay. Well, why are they trying to get money out of me? And they're like, oh, well, they submitted an invoice for something, but provided no proof. Like they build three doctors instead of one doctor on this. And, and we told them, you need to show why you had additional doctors involved and they never since anything I'm like, all right, well, my insurance doesn't want to pay it.

I sure as hell don't want to pay it price. Why would I accept the bill if the insurance company doesn't accept that? That would be illegitimate. Bill. Yeah. And you don't want your insurance company paying just. And their attitude is like, well, the insurance didn't pay it, so now it's on. You know, that no insurance didn't pay it because you failed to provide evidence that it it was a genuine bill.

So if you failed to provide evidence to the insurance, you sure as hell are failing to provide evidence to me. And I'm not going to pay for a phony bill. That's a lot of scams out there in the whole medical community. Yeah, it's called the medical system. Yes. Medical association. That's the biggest scam of them all. You wouldn't even know the limiting of the number of graduates with medical degrees for the last 100 years, specifically in order to increase the cost.

That is literally what they did. The American Medical Association, it started off as a trade union. A lot of people don't realize this. It was a trade union created to lobby Congress to limit the number of doctors in America. We cast this one back to the 1940s. I believe prices will go down. Yeah, and that's what they're against. Allowing people that have medical degrees from other countries from practicing, and they're against having a higher number of graduates of medical degree programs.

When I think of the stats now, I don't remember the exact numbers, but I but I can tell you the, the rough numbers. So in the, in the general vicinity of numbers and it was something like the number of colleges, universities offering medical degrees in the 1940s was something like 2300 colleges that you could graduate with the MD

from that, that had medical degrees. By the 1970s, that number shrank to like 120. Today, there are less than 20 colleges that you can get a medical degree from. And the only reason for that is to control the number of new doctors entering the workforce in order to maintain a higher salary. Think about that. Billy Bones wants to know, would you prefer the USA health care or Soviet health care? And I don't know if you've been Soviet so old or like I know, right?

Russian. Well, current Russian health care is actually pretty good. It's not. It's the same as the is the US though, is that they cover the small minor shit. But if you want some more expensive stuff, you to pay money. But, as far as Soviet health care, it was extremely split. So my mom had a friend that was a doctor I remember, and, they had good doctors. You just couldn't get in to see them because they were typically assigned to only work on party members. So political party members. Right.

So it wasn't even rich people per se. Like, if you if you were, you know, managed to somehow get relatively wealthy, you know, in any legitimate or illegitimate way, it doesn't mean diddly squat back in the Soviet Union days, because what was actually ahead of being more wealthy was being connected to the party. So if you were higher up in the party, that's how you got the best treatment.

But the average, you know, the average medical care was probably compared to the US, probably like 20 years behind. So there's still health care. It's just, you know, it wasn't great health care. But it certainly was still way ahead of, you know, most of the world, at least. Africa. Canada. China. Canada. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, this was just going back a decade or so where my dad's the company that bought the company that, my uncle owned, where my dad had worked was a Canadian firm, and they stayed on for a few years. And the people that were the higher ups in Canada when they needed things like, you know, a surgery for, you know, new hip, new knees, whatever it was, they came to the United States to have it done. Yeah, that's not surprising.

A no no, it's like, so it's like none of the socialist health care seems to work. Well, British health care, I mean, that's the best example ever since they got National Health Service. Yeah, they'll take care of the minor crap for you. But if you, if you need, like, cancer surgery, it's like a five year wait, right. And you're going to die in the meantime. So it's really the one that's literally the plan. And in Canada, they're officially offering people to, assist them with that.

On the living process, which, if you would, to be on a live. Yeah. You know, we can you have to use words like that on YouTube because they don't allow the other words. We would put you into a pod and you would then become an unaligned person. And plant food in the matter of removing your pain entirely, it's 100% effective. That's right. Yes. Well we're just going to run a car in a closed garage and we'll help you take care of things. But I'm not.

You know, I'm not complaining at all about our insurance coverage. It's, you know, much better. They have a I think it's a $250 deductible and a thousand max out of pocket. Yeah, we're expecting to have 2000 bucks to pay over a two week period. But still it could be a lot worse than the insurance companies have not said. No we're not going to cover something in the way I look at it, once you hit your maximum out of pocket in March, you're looking for things to get done.

I mean you got in December that that's the year you're going to make sure you get things done. But that's also the year the insurance company is going to be extra special, good at denying coverage like we need to get this done. We need to get this done. Normally we'd say okay to these pills, but, you know, maybe you shouldn't be taking them anymore.

Well, I couldn't I mean, again, I can believe because I know the way the system works, but they gave me for one month because of the a-fib, a blood thinner called zero two starts with an X, okay? And we picked it up at Walgreens and it was like 20 bucks. But then the Walgreens, things that, you know, like, oh, if you get this refilled, it's like $600 for 30 pills. Okay. So like, damn for a blood thinner, 20 bucks a pill. It's crazy.

It doesn't matter whether it's a blood thinner or something else.

I mean, no, it does it. I mean, it really doesn't. But just for the blood thinner. Maybe because I know there are other blood thinners and I don't know what the difference is with this one where my dad's on warfarin and has been for decades. And with that, they are very clear that they have to monitor it at least every few weeks. They make adjustments to it if your blood is too thin or not thin enough, where this one.

One of the things that it said was specifically, which is why my dad is taking it, which is having an artificial valve. This is like not for people with artificial valves, but it also doesn't have to be monitored. So I don't know when you think, you know, if it just does, it lasts or it's more self-regulating. Why? It's not for people with heart valves. What the difference is, I don't know it. It melts the heart valve, obviously, baby, which is great.

It's just going to take care of all the bad things. And I will say, know again, I'm not a doctor, but I do really. We're not giving medical advice. But I hear what happened last time as I talked to you, that script that you throw up for me, that's not legit. I mean, no, that's totally fine. That's from my, All right. Yeah, that's from the South African. Do your bill go through? That's all you need to know. Okay. Yeah. After a handwriting's messy, the tend to go through. Right.

But after taking the, antibiotic and again from day one. Right. The PA sees the premature atrial contractions completely slowed down and stopped within a couple of days. And starting the. Totally. Yeah. Well, and that's the thing that I'm, I'm totally not recommending that everybody should be doing is, getting an methylene blue because methylene blue has antibiotic properties but is not technically an antibiotic.

Now, do you, if you the longer you take that, like normal antibiotics, do you start working up a resistance? No, no, because it's not a normal antibiotic. It's just helping your body fight. No, it's actually a poison. Oh, actually kills the bacteria. Everybody drink poison. That's not medical advice. Drink poison. Well, I mean, I've often, you know, said that people ought to be increasing their CO2 levels in the house. Oh, yeah. You do. Kills all the bacteria. This is.

Gene is just afraid of having a really well-trained group of militias come in. You know, Navy Seals drop in, but since there's no oxygen in the environment, like dropping in boys genes, you slowly work it out as they're all falling down and see you still need oxygen to breathe. Well, too bad for you suckers. It's a whole different thing. That's right. Now, once you convert your body to stop using oxygen, all kinds of new possibilities open up. Just take it liquid form.

Well it's interesting, I just actually posted a review on Amazon. I just bought a, a hand-operated emergency portable. Breathable air tank let's say, which is we'll say it something I got on Amazon. Well we noticed this when picking up the prescriptions the other day from my dad in Walgreens. There were canisters of oxygen being sold. So there's a company now. We don't need any prescription or anything. You can just buy canisters of oxygen at the rack.

Like that could be kind of dangerous, couldn't it? Maybe. But I guess everything you could buy in the stores. I've got an oxygen generator at home as well, so I don't even need to buy that stuff. But how do you. What does that just. Do you have a CO2 generator and an oxygen generator in the same room, and they're fighting it out like Stephen. Right. So the humidifier has a humidifier? Yeah, exactly. I run both. Yes. It's so the only way to work. I mean, otherwise, it's, It's a beautiful thing.

No, I've I've got a, I bought one during Covid. I bought a pure oxygen generator, so I couldn't breathe. Pure oxygen whenever I want to. And, that in spit out. Well, it's not pure. Technically, it's 95% oxygen. It's pure enough. Right. And so if I take that and then use my portable compressor, it compresses up to 300 p.s.i or sorry, 3000 p.s.i. So basically scuba tank level compression.

And if you do pure oxygen 3000 psi into a cylinder like that, the explosion that it could create in your, let's say, lungs. Right. It's probably big enough to take the whole building with you. But yet it's all over the counter because, you know America, right?

Right. It's all that. No. Like, it doesn't seem right. I mean. Yep. Again, you have to use it in a very, You have to know what you're doing. Yeah, yeah. And I was actually, I, one time, this is years ago. I was on a brainstorming meeting board for a company that was trying to create a new product. And the product that we came up with was actually, to, to have. And the air from exotic locations on the Earth. I mean, you have canned water. So exotic locations. Why not? Exactly.

So our goal was like, well, what if we go to the Himalayas and then we create we we, you know, suck up a lot of the air out of there and then, compress it and sell it in bottles as bottle there so you can get all the health benefits of breathing Himalayan air. Like, that sounds like a perfect product to sell. That has very little cost. Well, yeah, definitely, it has its air. You're buying air in the cabin? Yes, but it's it's air that you normally wouldn't

have the opportunity to breathe because it's from the Himalayas. Right. Or alternatively, you can, you can go to the deep jungles of the Amazon and then get some compressed air in there and like, you know, that has all kinds of medicinal properties, I'm sure. In what size a package would you need for one, bro? It's like a shaving cream. Can size for one beer for one breath. Oh no, no, no, it's not one breath. Compressed rubber.

So you would basically it's like an aerosol can except that it doesn't have all the, aerosol happens in there. It's just the propellant. No propellant, no propellant. I mean, it's just there. Yeah, because that would burn your lungs right out or the propellant or the right amount there. No, the propellant most likely. Okay. Now, the funny thing about it, of course, is that, you know, in the Himalayas, your, your air is at a lower density because you're higher up. Right?

So if you compress it well, you're you're creating way more potentially beneficial, air, you know, when it's compressed because you're taking that already healthy mountain there and then you're compressing it through the levels of, well, much higher in the can. But by the time it comes out of the cannon, it's going to be at the sea level air. So you're you're like doubling and tripling the amount of health benefits. I'm sure that's probably what people say.

Where does the air just blow the can I it comes down to the, if it's canned at a high altitude and then you bring it down the house, just start exploding as you're going down. No, it wouldn't explode. But that's stupid. Why would explode? Because the air will be expanding inside the camp. Know the air will be compressing inside the cannon if you bring it down. Not that browning. No. Wouldn't it be expanding? No, no, it be expanding if you bring it up the mountain, not down the.

Oh it's imploding. Yes, that would be, that that size. That makes more sense, I guess. Yeah. Thinner as you go up. Yeah, but you're compressing it so that it's still always going to be more compressed inside the cannon, outside the can. No matter where you are, you're basically you want to take fresh mountain air and put it into a scuba type tank so people could then breathe it. But even I can also sell a scuba type tank.

You're going to sell an aerosol can size and well, you could make way more in smaller packages. Yeah. It's like artisanal. It is artisanal. Or you could put it into the big gun sized cylinders as compressed air. And then there'd be like a one off with the little pop valve where you could just kind of open it up and then quickly breathe it in as it's coming out for about one second. Right. Oh, that would be a whiff of mountain air from the Himalayas for five bucks.

Yeah, if you're just trying to get the sand. But no, you want like, the big mouth. Now, if you want the health benefits of breathing, you know, Himalayan air that is banked, whatever those are, I. I'm not a doctor. I don't know what the health benefits are, but I'm sure there's some health benefits. It must be right. And then how do you prove the Himalayan there? Well, you'd have to be, you'd have to be tested and registered with some kind of, let's see.

Air authority air testing, Association, which we also created. Well, that's very smart right there. Yes. Yeah, I it kind of made sense, right. Might as well do both at the same time. We have no one's going to need the tested and approved by the, the Natural Health Care Association of the world. It seems like something Ellen could get done for you. Yeah. I think we're looking at some investments for that.

Well, you take your Himalayan air, you put them in a bunch of cans and then you put them on one of Ellen's rockets and you fly them to space so they can get extra added space, extra health benefits, irradiated space.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's somebody who's actually done that right there. There were some, some products I believe it was food products. I don't remember what food products, but some kind of food products that were shot up on a low, trajectory orbit and then came back down with parachute, but then could be sold for crazy amounts of money because they were 3D space. A lot of people don't know when they look up in the sky and they see the little orange flecks at your ponchos.

Ellen took them up and just got rid of them for you. The ponchos are now they are going to help with global warming. They are blanketing the Earth's atmosphere. That's right. And doing exactly what they should, reflecting the harmful radiation from the sun. We come up with all these great. I mean, the life giving radiation. Yes. But. Okay. No, no, but that depends who you're talking to. They're like, not really. I mean, it's just literally, in fact, too much.

There's some people that have them, they have the facts backwards. But you don't want radiation without the sun and without the sun. We're in trouble, man. No, no, the sun is what's causing global warming. So if we get rid of it, we won't have global warming. I mean, it will instantly become too cold to actually go anywhere and do anything and then your house will explode. But okay.

But the only thing that's keeping this planet from freezing is carbon dioxide, which is why you're generating so much. Well, I try to keep my house from freezing. That's for sure. Especially in the winter time. Although since summer's coming back. Oh, yeah, it was already 91 here last week. Oh, there's currently 43 here. So yeah, a little more the other day. How do you figure 43 is more than 91. Well it's cooler. It's nicer. Oh yeah. Well it's 63 here.

It's actually nicer right now the other day. Well it depends who you consider nicer. But last week it was 91 which is a little, little bit on the warm plane the other day. Well I consider it nicer when I don't have to pay for air conditioning, though. That's nicer than being in that butter zone. For me, that's about 60 degrees outside. Once it gets to like 65 outside our house, it starts to warm. It gets over 70 something that I don't want there. But the wife and I went for a walk the other day.

I'm like, why do you go so far? Are you just walking for like 25 minutes? Oh yeah. I'm like, want to just walk up and down the street that way? Yeah. If you're tired, you're always close around. Come back. Right. So we walk the law. You can do like I used to do. Which is go for a walk. And they're all one way because I take an Uber back. She's like, I'm tired. They'll be able to take the phone.

Well, it's I think it's actually a more fun way to do it because you can walk further if you know you're only walking in one direction twice as far, you can get further away from your house through areas you don't normally would be walking in here, like the coffee shop, local coffee shops where I can walk. I can literally like I used to walk to downtown Austin and then you're like, how do I get back? And then I take a car back from downtown.

Now, for a while here, we haven't had these for years now, but back when I first moved here for about probably 5 or 6 years after that, we had Vertigo, which was a service where they just dropped a whole bunch of little cars everywhere around the city. Oh, right. And if you had an app on your phone, you just walk up, borrow it. You yeah, you use the app and you get the car and you drive it and then you leave it wherever you are and somebody else can take it from there. It was very handy.

I use it quite a bit. So I had two car sitting in the garage. They'd be driving this rental car and, doing my bit for global warming, obviously, cause we need more of it. And, it was super handy. And, they were they all used the little. Not the minis, they used the. What were those cars? The little tiny ones we compared to ours. The little. Yeah. The little. The little Mercedes thinking of them. So it wasn't like one of those little clown car.

I mean, they had like, the little you goes, you have the Mini Coopers. Sure. A little bigger than those Mini Cooper is that small dude. Mini Cooper is actually a decent sized vehicle inside. No, no, it was smaller. It was the little tiny ones. It was, What are they? The yachts, though? They were smaller than that. Wow. They were. It's the car that basically just has the door. Like, you have no idea where they have the like that opens on the front.

Yeah. What the hell was a no no, not that one of those little, like, crazy, what were those? Someone's gotta wonder what door would it be? One door. They were made by Mercedes, and they. They were basically just one that not the company, but that not the company. Mercedes. No. You're thinking of BMW. They'll say these Benz too. Well, BMW was pretty famous for making Nazi stuff. Was always Mercedes. I think. I don't know if they were. How dare you?

Are you, did I ever tell you that I accidentally dated, a Nazi? The great great great granddaughter of the guy who founded, Daimler? No. Yeah. Oh, look, he would have had money. He definitely had money. Yeah, yeah. I did not realize who she was until after I stopped dating her. Really? For myself, ever since he's like, I should have looked her up on Google. Yeah. So this girl's name and this is so stupid. This is this is pretty Google.

Well, it's on pretty Google. But you know, let's just say 1990s, mid 90s, early 90s. Her name was Mercedes. Maybach. Nice. Yeah. And I'm like, that's some crazy name. You're not even black belt. Wow. Would never kid Mercedes would name their kid Mercedes. That's insane.

And what kind of a last name is my back, anyway? And Bowen, you were saying smart car? Is that what this was called? Yeah. Smart cars. That's. That's exactly what the Austin had all over the place that you just take and borrow and drop off for smart cars. But, yeah. No, this she was very pretty. She had blond hair, wait times and rich. And you let her go? I know at about ten, I totally.

And, like, she was telling me about mania, too, about living in Switzerland and, and I, like I made zero connections to any of this stuff back then. I was. I don't know what the hell I was smoking. She's like is. Yeah, but do you play games with virtual spaceships? Yeah. She's looking at you like you're from a different planet. The, Mercedes Benz, according to, Perplexity has a significant relationship with the Nazi regime in the 30s and 40s.

Oh. Significant became closely associated with Hitler and Nazi leadership, who favored their vehicles as symbols of German prestige, parity and power. That says Hitler and his high ranking Nazi officials had an affinity for Mercedes vehicles. Hitler's choice was a Mercedes Benz 770, also known as the Global Mercedes, a luxury car built from 1930 to 43. Hermann Goering owned a massive six seater Mercedes touring car. Himmler, head of the SS, possessed a green, bulletproof Mercedes Benz.

They served as powerful symbols of the Third Reich's prosperity and were often used in Nazi campaigns. Well, that's a sure BMW. I always thought it was Mercedes. I don't remember. Ever hear it much about BMW with the Nazis, you may have just mixed those two up. I guess I can ask the same thing that BMW in Nazi regimes and see what that, would say and, did bam bam bam. Everybody, everything is always ask the eye.

But at least the one nice thing about perplexity is they give you, with every line, almost a, source for where it got the information. Yeah. That, that's good because it's otherwise you're like did you just make this shit up. Of course he could make up the sources. Do it also says that BMW had a significant involvement with the Nazi regime. Let's see. Hey, I know what you can look up next. Is he boss? They were manufacturing aircraft engines, okay?

They like the cars of the Mercedes, but BMW was actually making the war machine. Yeah, exactly, exactly. Mercedes just made cars. Van like. Fuck both of that, man. But they also BMW also manufactured the motorcycles that they, a lot of Nazis were using motorcycles, you know, with the sidecar. Yeah. So those were cool. You just remembering back to Hogan's Heroes? Yes, I remember those exactly. I know all would anybody know? Like. Yeah, that's exactly what you'd be imagining.

If you've never watched Hogan's Heroes, you owe it to yourself. One, it's a really well-done series. And two, the we watched it from a download, but, well, I watched it live. I don't know about you. The blue world. This is even better now because the Blu ray or DVD, whatever they made. Yeah, they were on film, they were on film, and they're all high res. Yeah, exactly. It's like it was like it was made. Now, I mean, this is not when you watch.

I would actually, I would, I would actually watch that. I wouldn't mind watching the entirety of Hogan's Heroes. We did that for a couple years ago and it was great. It's yeah, it's unfortunate that, that Bob, what's his name? Bob. The main guy. The pervert. Allegedly. Bob the pervert? Yes. Jim. Bob the pervert, unfortunately, is dead. Well, the very great, very interesting, story with that.

He was one of the early, adopters of, videoing, himself with women, and it seems like he, that got him killed. Yeah. What was his last name? Now? I can't remember. Right. I know Bob blade. Thank you. Did you know Bob Crane? Yes. That's right. Back in the day when you needed, like, a super you needed like a helped a video because you just put it on your phone. You never have a professional crew in there to help. Yeah. Because they also weren't quiet.

I mean, those old films rejected, you know, you hear me on this? It's like, how would you not notice? Yeah, yeah, it's, well, there might be other other things that are making noise in the room. Crew. You might have a little telephoto lens, too. You never know. Probably less like thing, but. But still a delightful show. And if you ever watched, it's a great show.

Family feud back in the day, you saw Richard Dawson. I think he was a buddy, a David Carradine was a good show. Yeah. Klaus, I know nothing. Yeah. That, what's his name? Schultz. Wilhelm. Linker. Wilhelm. Like he was an actual German. They used actual Germans, but none were harmed in the filming of, Well, we don't know about that. The rules were different back then in the film industry. There was. But, yeah, I heard back in the 60s that Jews were in Hollywood.

No way. I hear that today. Yeah, I heard that. It's probably just a rumor. You know, you would think that the whole place wouldn't have gone woke if that was the case. But, you know, I know. Okay, we don't use a lot of logic anymore. This all takes us back to Ksbw wanting people to see Snow White's like, no, no, no one's gonna want to see Snow White, that's for sure. He's just trying to, troll people as well. He's doing Snow White. No, you don't want to see Snow White.

Not even for Gal Gadot is the evil queen now, which is hilarious because he's way hotter than the little. Yes, sure. Check that some girl that's plays the snow that that is Snow White with her dark skin. Yes. Well yeah. Because you had to be very woke when casting it. This movie literally was filmed during Covid 19 wasn't it. Yeah, yeah yeah. It just now came out after they digitally took out all the actual dwarves. Weren't really dwarves. They were just, you know, like weird people.

Yeah, yeah. Weirdos. Weirdos. Snow white and 12 weird. It's more like a snow mulatto. And the 12 weirdos is more like what it actually is. It was like a very bad acid dream, I think. And then they they created the, the digital dwarves to put it in there, making sure that no real dwarves ever got to work. You know, Disney has to be very inclusive in its hiring practices. You look at movies like, that Judy Garland one.

Yeah, that was Judy Garland one that she did, you know, somewhere over the Rainbow one and and well, I don't know, I'm not gay. I don't know the wizard who. You don't know Wizard of Oz. Yeah, exactly. I mean, you guys know that shit somewhere over the rainbow? Oh, way like I said. So. Yeah. Why are you singing that in in the style of, Tiny Tim? No, that would be so blue to be exactly the same way, way, way, way, way up. I need a ukulele. Yeah. How you do now?

Didn't need die, I think recently. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the guy made a career out of that, which was a beautiful thing that shows that you can tell if he was a musician or a comedian, he wasn't very good at either. So that was it. It was just enough of both. Yeah. Oh Through the Tulips was great stuff. Pretty gay. Well, you like Lily? Oh, yeah. But he paid better than playing video games on YouTube. For now. Anyway, when Gene's a big YouTube video guy, then people be like, oh we knew him when.

That's right. Well hey I'm just saying that, if you look at that chart that I posted, you can see that straight vertical line in the number of subscriptions. When I got on YouTube's front page, which was I think they, we discussed this, this was like a typical bait and switch thing that YouTube does. They're like, take somebody that just starts and then give them an insane amount of free promotion, right?

Like I got something like 180,000 impressions in less than 24 hours on YouTube, which I've obviously never gotten since that dopamine hit. You're like, oh, I want this. They'll put me in here, and then you're going to be chasing that for the next decade. Just cranking out video after video after video going, oh, come on, I can do it again. I can do it again. I can make it happen. I can go viral. I can make it happen. What did I do? What did I miss? What am I not doing now? It's by design.

This is this is how it works. That you can only have this happen if you've not actually made any videos right? So I guess you could start a brand new channel every week. Maybe you did. Yeah, I did it a few times. How do you stack up that and let people know like, yeah, go see him. That's the point though. But but I will tell you right now for the game that I'm doing all these videos for, which is called Elite Dangerous. If I'm streaming, then I started not just making videos.

I've got about 150 videos up now, and I'm also streaming.

Not every day, but probably every other day. And, you know, streaming, just keeping the camera rolling while I'm playing a video game, basically. Yes. I mean, a lot of people can kind of get an idea of what that looks like in reality if they see the album art for our last show, although you were. Yeah. Is that totally realistic? Yeah, I thought that was great. Yeah, you're getting pretty good at making the album art, but unfortunately always with the same subject and every one of your album art.

Well, that's the guy I don't know what's up with that. He's like the, what's idol? At some point, he may sue you. You never know that guy. For that guy to show up financially benefiting from an unlicensed likeness. So very much likeness, it'd be like, let's see the real reality. And then the, artwork. Well, now, it looks just like it. I don't know, man. Never been closer, I don't know.

And then we sang simultaneously on the last show, so that was just kind of that was something special that never happened before. Probably will never happen afterwards. Was a great cold opening for everybody. Surely everybody should go. Listen it's probably the best show will ever have done. I think it's downhill from here. Yeah, yeah. I will say the beards are getting better from your eye than they have been in the past, and you're just.

Well, you have to tell the AI stuff like a beard down to his belt buckle. That way it tries to figure out, how high is the belt buckle, right? I mean, now, if it was the older you get, the shorter the beard is going to get because the belt buckles, like, up at your nipples. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. The. And I love the, the Russian flag in the socks. That was a get the. Yeah. That was, that was totally the I just said a Russian guy. Well, I guess they figure that the Russian guy must be very.

They wear socks like a Russian. Play on to play everybody. Everybody knows. Oh, I'm sure a lot of people don't really connect that. That's the Russian flag either. True. Now, Elite dangerous features 400 billion star systems, making it the largest design play space in video game history. Yep. That's true. So it is. It's gonna take you. It is. They get through that 400 to 1 to one copy of the Milky Way galaxy. That is bizarre. I mean, you know, I'll tell you what.

What's funny about that is when you have the entirety of the Milky Way, and then there are videos out where people have sort of plotted out like, here's a all of the places that Star Trek has visited, the enterprise has been during its show, and it's less than 1% of the Galaxy. You know, it's a little tiny little square, right? And it felt like, oh my God, they're going in space. They're all over the place.

They're going at, you know, five times the speed of light or how about Voyager when they got stuck multiple. Oh yeah. It's still tiny. Like I've been further out in this game than Voyager was stuck in the, whatever quadrant they were in. While you're experiencing the aftermath of the Thargoid War? That's correct. The aftermath of the. I made a lot of money during the fight. Good for the force, good for money. Oh, this is a bizarre game for business. And currently what I'm working on.

I learned what everybody in the game's working on this. They the latest addition to the game since we're in game talk now is colonization that they have after a decade now, just given us the ability to colonize new systems, new solar systems, technically star systems, because Sol is just our sun. It's not universal sun. But to to be able to build base stations and even planet based ground stations on systems that up until now have just been empty.

Because you can well imagine that in, even in a thousand years from now, the number of planetary systems that are, that have been built up is still fairly small. Well, now they've expanded that, and in the first week, the players of the game have colonized, what was that? 19,000 new systems. Now, if you colonize a planet, do you kind of own it at that point or. No, they make a distinction here, which is you're not the owner, you're the architect.

So you get to choose what kind of station do you want? You want to focus the economy on mining and refining, on, high technology, growing food. You know, there's a lot of choices to be made about what you build, but you don't technically own it.

It's all part of the computer simulation. So there are, you know, there are NPCs. It's it's all the game controls, everything, basically, once it's built. But it's really neat to see all these new stations popping up everywhere, because historically, what you had is what was called the bubble. And the bubble is essentially an area of about. I guess about 150 light years around Sol around our solar system. And that's where most of the life was within that 150 light year range.

Obviously, you have faster than light travel in this game. You have the equivalent of, you know, a quantum drive, so you're able to fly great distances. There are questions in the trial room, including how many people has been displaced or enslaved with this colonization. Well, luckily in the Empire, slavery is legal. Oh, well that's different. I'm not breaking any laws by having slaves aboard my ships. You're, like, totally legal.

If I went to the Federation, they might see things a little differently. But in the Empire, you know, it's just an old tradition. And, you know, slaves seem to enjoy being slaves, so it's all good. Of course it's what they know. What they're good for. It's what they're good at. Yeah, they know that that's the best they could do. So yeah, it's. I've built out one system very heavily. I my population is up to 63,000 people now. And that that system is right now generating as of last week.

It'll be even more next week. But last week it generated about, a little over half a million, about 600,000 credits, which is the money used in the game. And I just want to tell the trolls to be nice. This is what Gene has. He could have been married to a beautiful billionaire heiress. True, but now he has his video game. Yeah. I mean, if I would have played my cards differently.

I could have been vacationing in Switzerland right now, and, you know, hanging out with Charles with, what's his name? Schwab. The channel for Schwab. Wow. Schwab. Yeah. Thank you. Carl. Then you could have donated to this podcast. Dorable. Like, no, I wouldn't be listening to this drivel. No, no, you wouldn't have. Also wouldn't have a garage full of ponchos. That's also doable. I mean, doubtful, because, I don't know.

I think I probably would have still been to the garage full of ponchos thing, and what'd you think of Elon bringing the astronauts home? Well, that was bound to happen, because obviously, Boeing doesn't have any way to bring him home. What love they had to rely on Leland, one of the Russians. It was one of the other. Well, no. Did you hear the news story from the left that they had a way home. They just wanted to leave them there to do work. They weren't stranded at all.

That's the news story from the left. They weren't stranded now. Yeah. I mean, I just can't believe that the length of lies that they will go to that are obviously lies. Yeah, that they will try to sell. And the people, I guess, on MSNBC are going to buy it. They're not stranded. They just couldn't get home. That's right. I mean, there was a ship right there waiting to take them home, but they didn't want to use it because for some reason there was no ship.

What do you talk about that they're saying there was that was there was they were like saying that there was a ship that they could have taken, but they didn't because they didn't. So the way they were supposed to take, the one that they took up, they couldn't take back because it was showing errors and everybody was afraid that there's about a 50% chance it would burn up on reentry. Yeah. Which is not something you experience. You don't generally want to knowingly burn up astronauts.

It's bad for marketing. Very bad. Bad publicity for them back in the day. You don't want to blow them up while all the kids at school are watching on the TV. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that that and one of them was the teacher, right. That backfired. Man. That was a notable moment. All right, kids, the teachers going into space. Let's watch the launch. Everybody. Wait a minute. Wait. That's that doesn't look right. Yeah. Everything was glorious until it looked like it blew apart.

It blew? Yeah, because it blew up apart. Except now they're saying based on latest findings, they very likely we're all still alive right up to the moment where they touch the ground. Oh, that's even worse. Yeah. So when your ship blows apart, you're in the cockpit, which was meant to, you know, deep oxygen in in space.

Pretty well secured and sealed. Except there's no parachute, right. Because it was never meant to. Well, and it did have one like in the first, I want to say like the first 6 or 8 shuttle launches where they only had four people in the shuttle, they actually had, emergency parachutes in there. But once they started carrying a crew of seven, they scrapped all that. There was no backup anymore. Like, oh, this is totally safe. Yeah, it's totally safe. It's got wings. It land. Right?

Nothing wrong because it doesn't blow apart. Yeah. So yeah, that might have been a very real, not fun experience to, you know, get beaten up by the explosion first and then to have the cockpit fall to the ground as you're watching out the front windows with the earth approaching very quickly. Yeah, that has to take minutes. You're kind of like, man, I wish I had a parachute. When we take more ten minutes, I mean, I think by the time they were up there, probably took like five minutes.

Like it was not a quick, immediate kind of smack right away after the explosion. Like they would have watched this thing falling down to the, to the earth and, you know, like the ultimate power of terror of you. It wouldn't be fun. And I know, if you ask the guys and, one of them specifically worked on the, and the, the piece of blew up, it was like an O-ring or something that failed. It was. And he blames NASA squarely.

He doesn't blame the company that made it, because the company that made it told NASA that you're not cleared to launch your your outdoor temperatures out of spec, like rubber O-rings and freezing have a tendency not to be pliable. Yeah, rubber does not act as rubber when it's frozen. Exactly. And so without that sign off, like, you know, people should have known and a lot of them did know that it is extremely likely that an accident would happen, and sure enough, had happened.

But of course, in all the congressional hearings and everything, it's Martin Marietta gets blamed for all this stuff because they they made the bad O-rings. It's like, no, they didn't make battery. They made O-rings based on a spec, and your weather was out of spec. Yeah. Because nobody ever thought you'd be launching in freezing temperatures out of Florida. Well, you weren't supposed to, right? Did you? Wait, is that.

You know, if you wait a couple of days and it warms up, then the O-rings totally, thaw out. Everything's good. It's back to. It was a cold spell in Florida. Global warming, obviously. Obviously. Is, you know, global change. That's I think the new phrase now, global change is people's fault. But Elon got them home. Yeah. Which, it should be no surprise because, Elon's capsule was designed for seven people.

They generally only launch with four and then use the rest of the space to house three additional people or extra storage space to bring more stuff rather than people up there. But it's the original design spec with seven people. And, you know, all they did was basically launch one with two people instead of four, and then they had room for two more to come down.

The the fascinating thing to me is there was a shot of sunny, which is the female astronaut that went up there who was like, she'd been up in space a lot. Like, she is definitely one I should probably record holder. Or close to it. And in the amount of time she spent on the ice. And remember, this was they were a test crew and the Boeing test vehicle to go up to the ice and were meant to be there for one week.

They had one week's worth of supplies with them, and then they were supposed to come right back down on that same vehicle, except that it was determined that there were too many malfunctions on that vehicle and on the capsule, essentially, and that the risk of it not making a safe return journey to the Earth was ridiculously high. And so I think the proper choice was made to not have them return it and just to send it back down unmanned. That was the right move.

However, immediately thereafter there should have been a request put in to have an additional launch happen, of the Falcon nine to send in a faster way for them to return. That should have happened during Biden, probably within a couple of months of them being stranded. Right. NASA's should have got their people back.

Hey. And he. Yeah. And apparently somebody from Biden's administration that told NASA, not them. Don't worry about it. So I nothing to worry about. According to Elon, the reason is because they didn't like Elon's them just starting to get political on X and they thought, well we're not going to give that bozo any money because he clearly is trying to, you know, rile sentiment against Joe Biden. Right. Don't want to give him a win. We don't want to make him the hero.

No, no, no, don't want to make him a hero. So they just left him up there. But no, there was just shit. Now, the other ship, did that come down unmanned? Yeah. Did come back fine. Was that, I don't know if it was fine, but it didn't. It didn't blow up or burn up or anything. I don't believe so. Let me just do a quick Google. So that would be a passing, nobody trust Boeing at this point for just about any doubt. No no, no. Yeah. And there's a lot of reasons why.

And this has been happening for a while, is that apparently the big changes that happened in Boeing about 20 years ago now, maybe even a little more than 20 years ago, is that the company went from one of those old school companies, kind of like Bell and Howell and Hewlett-Packard, which always had a policy of spending 10% of its earnings on R&D, like it was all about research and development. That was a key part of the budget every year.

And, and they were less concerned with having large dividends going to stockholders. And about 20, 25 years ago, whatever it was, I don't remember the exact time period. Boeing essentially got bought, like there's major stock purchased by an investment firm who obviously is focused more on earnings and pulling money out of the company, giving it to the stockholders.

And one of the things they did when they came in is they canceled the R&D budget and they, they got rid of the, a lot of the benefits that the engineers in the company have, financial benefits, like, you know, bonuses for creating new ideas and all kinds of shit like that. Right? Because we don't want the really talented, people that know what they're doing. Other exactly.

And so at that point, a lot of the engineers, a lot of the people, not not necessarily the guys building the vehicles, but the guys designing the vehicles, whether it's airplanes or space related stuff. They left. They left the company. A lot of them retired.

A lot of them just, you know, that were younger, left to move on to other jobs and effectively, Boeing just became a production facility rather than what it used to be, which is a, world leader in aerospace engineering and just had a big, massive brain drain, I think is the term they use. And so ever since then, we're seeing the results of that, both on the airplane side and on the space side.

Like they're just not able to create high quality products that that don't break, like, everything, you know, you remember the how long it took them to get the 787 to be able to fly. They kept having to ground the thing because they kept finding more and more problems with it. Right. Something's going wrong. I don't we don't make it fun on that plane for at least ten years. Yeah, because people don't want to fall out of the sky.

It turns out. Yeah. And then now, of course, we realize it's not even the planes. It's the pilots. Well, that's also you like the female ones. You want to make sure that people flying the planes, know what they're doing. Because when something goes wrong, you want them to be able to handle the emergency because the technology is not foolproof. And in that same vein, I saw this popped up on my YouTube, so it probably popped up on yours.

I forget the guy's name, but some idiot made a video showing his Tesla going through a wall that was painted to look like a photograph of the road, or it was a big photograph. Whatever they used, you know, kind of do the Wiley Coyote thing, you know, where it looks like it's the road is continuing, but there's a big wall there.

And he did all these different tests and claimed that it was the Tesla on full driving, but there was, multiple, people on the and I know this is where it's a horrible place to get information, but it seemed that screen captures were showing that right before the car made contact. I guess if you're in full driving mode, it looks like a little like, Rainbow Road or something on the display.

And that disappeared. So it appears that the guy intentionally, you know, turned off the auto driving and ran it through a wall. But this was a guy that, had millions of followers. Obviously, he was making a full time living on YouTube. It's like, well, if this comes out, you kind of lose all of your credibility, don't you? I don't know, yeah, I mean, I guess he was hoping nobody would find out, but. Yeah. And I just, double checked, that the, the Boeing module, which was, what was the called?

It was the Starliner did return back, on back in September, back to Earth and landed safely in the, New Mexico. So they could have probably sent them down on that. But you never know. Like the it's a coin flip, right? It's a coin flip. Right. And generally they prefer not to flip coins with people's lives, though. Not unless you were going to do this. Testing here, since I looked it up, is to create that capsule.

The Starliner Boeing was paid 12.2 billion as a fixed price contract to develop and operate the Starliner base was paid 2.6 billion, so about half as much to create the Crew Dragon, which is what the US has been using now. For almost ten years, not quite ten years, but like eight years, I guess. And which is what was used to bring these astronauts home.

So the Crew Dragon was developed for half the budget in half the time and has been operating successfully compared to the Boeing version of the Starliner, which was cost twice as much as the space of twice as long to have their first flight. And in the the two attempts that they've had to actually send it up there the first time unmanned, they didn't want it touching the ISS because they were again having malfunctions and didn't want to have that module damaged.

I.s.s.. And then a supposedly after correcting those problems, they had this crewed flight which did connect with, ISIS and the crew got out and it was fine, brought them there. But it experienced enough malfunctions for them to not trust it on the way back down. So yeah, there you go. SpaceX versus, Boeing. Right. But the left is now telling the story. No, no, they had a vehicle there that they could have used, that they weren't stranded. It's like bullshit. It's amazing.

Yeah. I mean, the way it generally works is that the vehicle you go up there in does stay connected the entire time. And, consequently, you always have a vehicle, right? But in this case, their vehicle left without them, it wasn't safe or at least determined not to be safe. Right. Well, enough of a chance that it wasn't safe, that they would rather have somebody come up with a different vehicle and take them home.

The, the design life of that vehicle, like had it operated perfectly, was for up to a maximum of seven months docked. So even if they made a conscious decision to keep them up there to do work, they were already two months past the expiration date of the maximum lifetime design of the vehicle, which you do not want to do.

So no matter how you slice it, there is no legitimate way that these folks could have been out there for 11 months and one of the photos I saw next was of a photo of Sonny getting into the, the vehicle into the Starliner and, and, photo of her getting out of the space capsule. And her hair is all white now, and she had barely any weight when she was going up. We were up there a long time.

So you think a little bit of stress of being stuck up in space with no way to get back home might turn your hair weight or framing again. How much your hair would grow old. Being that a lot of women may color their hair, that they would also just start growing out. But, I don't know if she could. Sure. Nine months of of not putting on any, hair color in would probably do something.

Yeah, it your whole, appearance changes your whole like they said, they're going to take a long time, to recuperate from this because they weren't ready to be in, right. No gravity for that long. Yep. And speaking of how you cut it, did you see the new thing in the, Brian Ko burger, the, murder case out in

the, Roseland out there in I what's it. I don't know, I am not know his Amazon shopping has come to light where it says the prosecutors revealed in court filings this week he allegedly I don't know why it's allegedly if you have the records, bought a K bar, a sheath and a sharpener on Amazon in March of 2020, two months before the murderer is then in the weeks after the murders. This is the interesting part.

His Amazon app Click Activity allegedly shows he was browsing for a replacement, so the fact that anything you do on Amazon, even just things you're clicking through and looking at, yeah, if law enforcement goes to Amazon and says, hey, you know, we want to see what jeans man. Possibly just even shopping for not bought. Yeah. They have all of that information.

It is kept on file and they are more than happy to share that which for somebody that was allegedly a genius, that was putting the perfect crime into place. This is a really dumb move. So if you're going to do a perfect crime, then use your neighbor's Amazon account to write your things and they steal their packages. Everybody knows that you ordered. I mean, anybody probably not your exact neighbor, but yeah, pick somebody that lives within driving distance.

Yeah. Especially if you can find like a house that is abandoned. Probably you find one pretty much anywhere at this point. Somebody, you know, the grass is a little overgrown. Yeah. You order the package, you have it sent there, you make a purchase in cash somewhere for a credit card. You know, one of these visa cash cards. We're not really wanting people to do this, but. No, no, no, if you were trying to. It's not like we're saying anything. It's not obvious here, right?

If you're trying to cover those traps, you get a cash card and then you use that to order it and you send it to a different address. That way, you know, you know, you're pretty safe from having cameras picking you up like the Jesse Smollett thing. When you have the video of the guys buying the rope the night before, you know, it's like, well, then it's kind of a giveaway. Yeah, but maybe people don't know that your Amazon even just what you're looking at.

But if you bought the knife on Amazon too, that to me is so on the nose. If he bought that same sheath that was found at the murder scene right from Amazon, think they had it sent to us. It's like, well, once you're a suspect man, and they have that, it's like, if you don't buy your murder weapons on Amazon. Sorry, Jeff. If he's going gonna if you're going to buy those, you buy them at a gun show. But you go anywhere.

You go to a flea market, you go somewhere where people mark this gun show cash only sale, right. That kind of thing. Yeah. Like, how do you not understand that this information is going to be there? So maybe this is it's like, I know this is circumstance at first of all, the guy lives in Washington state, so he's not a genius to begin with. True. But yeah, he lives in Rhode Island. Maybe Ben Rose delivered the, the murder. Well, probably did, yeah, probably.

Bremmer was probably was being cooperating with the police to, make sure that they know what this guy's, shopping habits are like. Yeah. Well, that's the scary part is Ben Rose knows all that, too. Not just the press truth. It says his defense team has asked the court to keep his Amazon records out of the trial. But that ain't why. I mean, that's, you know, and this again. Well, they're gonna have to get circumstantial.

It's like, just because somebody bought a murder weapon doesn't mean that they are the murderer. That is true. Look how many of those knives Amazon is sold. They've sold 10,000 of those. What are you going to assume? Everyone who bought one is a murderer? Of course. That looks like it's the. That's the that's what their argument is going to be. It's like if the dude came home from the murders and was like, oh shit, I need a new knife. And you're immediately look at what I was on for.

Another nice look here, here's the thing you got to look at. Did he order that knife along with industrial strength cleaner and lots of, 15 mill clear plastic sheets? I'd like to know where else he lied. Right. And, about three rolls of duct tape like, if you if you have all the ingredients that were found either at the scene, the crime, or in the burial spot, and he ordered them all at the same time on Amazon, right. That might be a clue to a big shopping cart.

Yeah. So remember, if you're going to be doing this, not that we should recommend you do this, but just base this stuff out and buy as much as you can for cash at events that that are cash only deals.

Because the again, that the prosecutors revealed he brought a K bar a sheet and a sharpener in March of 2022. It doesn't. You're not sure if no one's going to buy a key bar without a fucking sheath. And all right, I'm curious because the sheets had a, was it a marine? They had one of the military logos on it. Insignia, as they usually do. Yeah. And I would like to know if that it doesn't mention that here. It's like drop did the, the sheath that he bought did it match a sheath.

There's billions of types of cheese. Yes. Now it was the exact size with the exact insignia that the one he ordered that adds, a lot more to the, the evidence that, you know, what are the odds that somebody that is the prime suspect for a murder you can prove bought the sheath exactly like the one that was found at the murder scene right before the murders? And that'd be like, okay, well, where's yours then, buddy? Where's the one you bought?

If it's not the one that they found at the murder scene, where's yours? Which would maybe explain why he was looking for a replacement, because maybe he knew they were. Although why would you do it on your own account? Because that. That just shows, you know, I know, but keep bar like. I think I used to have a k bar, like, I don't think I have one anymore because, I don't know, I must have lost or something, but.

Well, because you rarely do anything to procure your own food or anything, you just call your guy. Yeah, I he's like, I don't need a knife, but it's a it's a very old school knife. I mean, it's a 1940s design for a knife, wouldn't you? I think that's the actual the actual military, name for it is, it was, a, model 1219 two combat knife. Now, when you go out for a nice steak, a nice filet mignon, and bring your own life, do you have somebody that cuts it for you?

I mean, is that something you do usually? Yeah, do you not? Oh, I, I usually don't bring along the cutter. Well the I mean what are you going to leave them in the, in the car. Yes. I mean really he's got to do is killing me. Yeah. So the cutter has to go in with you always. You buy a meal too, or. No, he's just too busy preparing now. He's working. He can't eat while he's working. Make sense? Yeah. Yeah. No, I mean, it sounds funny, obviously, but I eat a lot of these steaks at, for good.

A chow where there's absolutely a cut of it. Well, yeah, they cut it right off the, Yeah. I'm here for you, right? Yeah, exactly. So do I. Yes, I do have a cutter. Thank you very much. He goes with the sushi guy. We haven't heard about the caviar guy in a while, though. Where are you bringing some bread? Yeah. We are. Prices are pretty damn high, given that the US doesn't like Iran or Russia, both of which are the only two countries making caviar.

You know, and this concept that, Russia is hurting when it comes to their economy and everything else, it's like, I don't know, I'm still not seeing it. This is all. Well, to be fair, the economy would obviously be better if there were no sanctions. Right. And if they, I guess, were part of the, what do you call it? The, the big the Swift network? Yes. Yeah. Of course.

So it is, no matter how good the economy is, you could always say it's hurting, because it would be better if none of those were in place. Sure. That's a given. Absolutely. But it's not crash. It's not like the Ukrainian economy, which is 100% reliant on US money and actually produces nothing. And what is going to happen is Linsky.

Well, Zelensky is pretty nervous, I think, at this point, because now I'm hearing rumors through the rumor mill of a lot of people in Ukraine have decided that he's sort of fizziest the ones now. Well, they're seeing him as an impedance to getting a deal done.

Yeah. Which the United States, whether that was what was meant to or not, the, the society that we have where people get their news on the internet, the internet existed Ukraine, they see the news coverage that they're like, oh, Zelensky went into the white House and, insulted the president. Like, well, this stuff everybody, likes, like you. We don't want that, but we don't have elections. And that's fair.

The left loves it when it's just hilarious that the lefty news media covers the lack of elections in Ukraine, like, well, you know, I don't like it, but that's just the way their system is. A wartime president. Well, okay, let's make Trump a wartime. Let's keep him in permanently. Right? I'm all for that, right? That's a no no, no, that that would be bad. It's like you fucking. Oh, no. Trump's evil. Yes. We can't possibly have him stay in the office, bro.

Even if if there's a war, we can't have it. Yeah. And incidentally, what do they think? We're going to have elections if we end up fighting Russia in Ukraine? You think we're going to have elections in this country? Hell no. It's going to be the same thing all over again. It's going to be a wartime presidency where elections are canceled now, is there? And there's nothing in the United States Constitution, though,

that says if it's a war time that elections are suspended where it does nothing, there's also nothing in the Constitution that says when we get bombed by terrorists, that we can suspend, all kinds of freedoms that Americans enjoy illegally. That's not the Patriot Act. We got that. Exactly. And the Supreme Court sure as hell hasn't thrown out the Patriot Act. They. No, I mean, it finally expired, right? I mean, that's, No, I thought that's I mean, you know, they keep renewing it every year.

I did think it was genius. And this was Bill O'Reilly's idea. I mean, maybe, he just told this to Trump years ago. The concept of declaring that the gangs from Mexico, Venezuela are terrorist organizations, declaring that was genius. Because the reality is at that point, oh, is he taking credit for that now? Yeah. Well, he declared them as terrorists. He was the one that did it. But me, he was the one that did it.

He was the one that declared these, the Venezuelan gangs and the Mexican gangs are terrorist organizations. He was the only one in the whole country that did that. Really interesting. The president needs to do that for it to be an, I guess, an official, no, I'm saying this is not a unique idea. This is something that's been going around for a long time. It's just make all Mexican gangs and not just Mexico, obviously, but label them as terrorists. I remember hearing this in the 90s.

Yeah, I'm sure, but this is his thing. And he knows Trump. So he was probably told them over and over and over again. It got it. But Trump did it. So I give Trump the credit for doing it. Yeah. And the funny thing now is the lefties are like, oh no, it's so unfair that you're deporting these people, are putting them in prison. It's like, listen, the minute they were declared a terrorist organization, if a team of Navy Seals plopped down and shot them all in the head, that's legal.

As long as they have a Bureau at sea, which all terrorists apparently have in their contract, you have to bury them at sea immediately within 24 hour period. As long as that happens, I think it's kosher. Just so you can't find the bodies. Well, I don't know why, but it's a part of the contract that currently is that if you if you kill a terrorist, you have to dispose of the body at sea within 24 hours. You know, am I wrong in saying everybody knows what I'm referring to, right?

Yeah. Bin laden, who was killed by a guy named O'Neill to save who is now dead as well? Well, yeah, which is why I'm saying that. Saying that wasn't, there weren't strings attached. In fact, I believe there's only one member of the team that went in to capture bin laden that is currently alive. All of them mysteriously have deaths. You don't want to ask questions? Nope. That's why we don't know.

Is it just that, or does it feel like what Donald Trump has done is immediately change the world to where there are finally repercussions again, and understands that the threat of the repercussions are just as powerful, if not more powerful, than actually doing it.

All you got to do is spread a news story that there was a, you know, Venezuelan gang somewhere that the military went in and just killed them, that that news story pops through the country and all these gang members go, we should leave, you know, again, because this could happen to it certainly adds a little more complexity to them because it's no longer just dealing with local police departments. Right.

Like, they have much better funded, much better armed American military who have the ability to kill them legally because they are now enemy combatants are going to kill them even if they're giving up, frankly. Right. Yeah. So, again, you're adding in we all know what happens. Oh, concept of terrorists is a it's it's an asterisk, right. Because the Geneva Convention applies to armed engagement with other nations, with other states. But we're not at war with Mexico yet or Venezuela yet.

Although Joy Reid said if there was a war with Canada, Canada would win. That's how nuts the lefties are. And what what you mean the the the 1 million population of Canada would take over the 350 million population of the US somehow. Yeah, they would, they would, well, they what they do all live

within 50 miles of the U.S. border. So it wouldn't be hard for them all to cross the border at the same time. Right. Just like all of the Ukrainians ran it. Well, not all, but a lot of Ukrainians ran into Russia to give them. That would be the Canadians help. Yes. We don't want to be a part of this. But yeah, we got to do is just put the border a little less.

So fuck, dude, if they don't have a complete bankruptcy of the government by summertime, it's going to be amazing because they keep doubling down on pushing back against Earth. Right. We're going to take all your whiskey off the shelf. We're not going to let them. We're not really like, you're hurting yourself. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I yeah, I'm taking a product that's already been paid for right off the shelf.

The people that own those stores are probably like, Excuse me, are you buying it from us? Well, even if they're buying it anyway. So that. Okay, they're buying it like. Like the U.S. has already been paid for. That shit doesn't matter. You're just shuffling things around inside the country at that point. It's whiskey. Enjoy it. It's insane. It is literally insane. And it's going to make whiskey, American whiskey anyway. More expensive because it's harder to get to even better.

It's like, bro, it's not right. Everybody wants the stuff they can't get. Yeah, it. I don't know, man. It's the whole thing. Just makes no sense. You can go. You can go play, chicken with another country. But you should not play chicken with an 18 Wheeler, right? You know, I mean, that's kind of what Canada is, is a is a you go the US is an 18 Wheeler and they decided to play chicken. How do you think this ends I think the the Yugo gets crushed.

Yeah. Yeah. And that's called bankruptcy of the country. And then we can buy Canada from the UK. And we said this is exactly the same in simpler terms. In economic terms, this is where you have a mom and pop coffee shop in an area and it's doing great. And then Starbucks puts in place right across the street and charges half the price until the mom and pop coffee shop goes out of business. And then they raise the question. The analogy do they have to say is no mom and shop?

Coffee shop charges, double of what? Starbucks charges? Because then you'd have $20 cups of coffee at your theoretical mind pot coffee. Nobody theoretical would be that a company like Starbucks would just come in and lower their prices until Starbucks comes in with higher prices than the competition was just bucks. Okay, but it's a bad analogy to what I'm saying. Let's just say that in virtual space. Give me a better. It's the virtual spaceship store at one quarter, right? Somebody more sun.

Somebody comes in with another virtual spaceship store. It doesn't mind if they lose money because they're just trying to hurt the their first. Okay, here's your analogy. So you have Amazon right. Which theoretically sells get it's a decent price. And all of a sudden you have Tamu that shows up and you start browsing and you're like, Holy shit, this is half the price of Amazon for everything. Literally a little different because of quality aspect. There's zero quality.

Everything's made in China anyway. There's no quality difference at all. It's all literally coming from the same factory. The only difference is on the Amazon. There's usually a dude that ordered a bunch of ponchos that are selling him, trying to make a profit on Tamu. It's the actual factory that ripped off dude's design after making his ponchos that is now selling them direct for half the price. There's your analogy. You sound bitter, Gene. No, that's not bitterness. That's just anger.

What is the difference? It's a different word. I like this exactly. There is a, an Irish comedian a bit. We pulled for the Saint Patrick's Day edition of Planet Rage. Of course, where he's like, oh, you know, the fucking Europeans, they they have wine and, you know, they're all snooty about it. And he's like, well, the Irish, we we the Scots, we invented whiskey. That's our drink. And he's like, you know what whiskey is? It's trapped in the glass now. Anger. Yeah. Yeah. Right.

Like it kind of true. But but also it kind of is just the cleaned up spoiled wine. It is much better. I mean, when I drank, I enjoyed a good whiskey. Much more than a wine. I mean, I had some really good wines. Yeah, but I always enjoyed the whiskey a little bit more. I, I don't think I did, I enjoyed whiskey, don't get me wrong. And I certainly have my preferences in that department.

However, there are some excellent wines I've had and I would actually pick port over both of those in terms of what I enjoy drinking back when I drink,

which has been like two years now, and go about the same here too. I it's longer than that, dude. I stopped drinking. My last drink I ever had was like six months into Covid. How long ago was that? Wow. Like three and a half years. I have to look up. Yeah. Covid, let me just say the, troll rum post of the show comes from Thorne. Yeah. Who says listening to Gene and Darren argue about business? Reminds me why they do a podcast. Because it's genius. Is that what you're saying? What he saw.

And I think, yeah, I think I think what he means is we've made so much money we can afford to podcast. Well, some people still have to work right now, right? I think that's what he means to bring our wisdom. Yeah. To bring our highly elevated humor to the masses. We're I to you. According to Wikipedia, Covid began in December of 2019, which means the last drink I had was sometime, let's say, mid to late 2020. That's been what, like five years? Yeah. Never going.

Yeah, I can I could get my $5 token now right. Or my friends a five year chip. I want to know five year chip. I don't even know what they're called. Chip how I think yeah I think they're called a chip or a shitty order. One of those on Amazon, I wonder. Yeah. Rosenberger I'll let you know. Is there, you know what? I know there is, but let me just ask for the quantity. I don't remember the brand, but there was some whiskey that was like $500 a bottle that you liked.

Yeah, but you were storing it's way more than that. That's 1800 a bottle. Well, yeah, because it's getting harder and harder and harder to find. What? They haven't made it for a damn long time, though. Yeah. How many of those bottles still exist in your house? Three. Who are you ever going to drink? Those by five grand at this point where you're like, I should sell them. You're thinking about selling up. I mean, I would be more inclined to just offer them to friends that still drink.

So if you drink, you know, Jim, you want a really good whiskey you can't legally ship without to, No. I mean, like, if they come to my house, perform a, glass of it as they pass out because of the lack of oxygen, and then they can rob them. Right. So there's a whole industry that you take, about half a glass roof. They'll just, pull your wallet out here. Yeah. Okay. We're good. The fair market. Yeah. I can buy for $20. I can buy a five year sobriety coin. Nice chip. Chip thing.

They come in all kinds of colors, and. Oh, there's one here with a, sort of a pyramid with an eye in it. That looks cool. Oh, wow. That was, Yeah. Very much like you're in the, Illuminati. Well, all of them have, some kind of a pyramid, and I'm in here. So if I take one of these, like, put it on the bar, theoretically, that gets me free soda, right? Probably. I think that's the way it's supposed to work.

You put that down, and then you kind of glance at it, and the bartender looks down and goes, I got you. Here's your free soda. This may be a worthwhile thing to spend 20 bucks on to get one of these, to get free drinks. What do you think it's like I feel bad for you. Let me give you a nice little pick me up here. Way. Swords. Like. I like how they know that's not what they do. I like how the topic went from business to drinking. Says way through thought.

If you've listened to the show before, you know we haven't stayed on any one topic at 148. I think you must be a new listener because it's like 15 seconds. Yeah, yeah. It's the I think, frankly, we've spoken about two feet epics. This particular show. Yeah. We never got around to 80s television, video games. Right. Yeah. Food. Very little food. Talk how how many like, what is Gene going to have for lunch. We didn't go through that yet. All things have to come back again and find out.

Yeah. Now this is kind of neat. Unity service and recovery doesn't one side what's the other say? I grant me the serenity to accept the things that I can, step by, but courage to change the things that I can. And the wisdom to know. I've heard that before. So I've seen that somewhere. But if you ever gone to a 12 step meeting. No AA. No. Jesus, I want the chip. I want the chips. I get free soda. Of course. Why else would they want ciphers like chips are for people actually working a program.

Now, this is like a woman. No, it's Amazon. Anybody can buy it. I'm pretty sure that's all requirements. Just like a woman putting on a wedding rings up. Guys don't hit. Oh, I did, I, I got so many dates. Wants to wear a wedding ring. See, like, before I got married, I used to wear a wedding, like, in my 20s. I'd wear a wedding ring. And, because every every chick wants a married guy. Let's face it, that's how they. Their brains operate.

They're like, ooh, some other chick decided this guy's worth keeping, right as a challenge because of. For guys, the challenge is just getting any at all. That's your story there. You know, it's. I don't think it's a challenge thing. I think it literally is a subconscious. Like, if he's good enough for some other chick, that means she's vetted him, right? And he must be good enough. And now I want that somebody else for the one tality, right? Yeah. Somebody else has done the work.

No. Like this is a sure fire sign. So these are the kind of tips, always the one you're going to get here and nowhere else. Go put a wedding ring on. I don't have one that says one day at a time. Is that a sign? Who's that song by? Well, it. One day at a time. Sweet Jesus. One toke over the line was Jeremiah. Somebody? No. Definitely not.

So I am thinking there's, One Day at a time was the theme song from the show One Day at a time with the guy, the Schneider, the, the Randy man and Valerie Bertinelli. And that's not the thing on there, Valerie. One day at the time. One day it was time to do it. Like tattoo tape one. Okay, I'm gonna look it up, because obviously, you don't know, but one day at a time. Yeah. We're wrong. We're gonna run long now. We better hurry up with your typing. We we might. That's all right.

This was signed by Brewer and Shipley, performed by Marilyn Sellers. Popular country and western Christian song. That's. No. Nobody's ever heard that then. Well, I don't know. I heard it playing it. Adam. So I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah. And I'm happy for you. And. Cut you off guard there, which was written by Kris Kristofferson. I was going to say, I can't believe you don't know that song. Brewer and Shipley, that were the ones that did one Toke over the line.

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