150: Gakteria

You've got me pissed off now, Jim. Yeah, me. You. Hello, and welcome to episode number 152 of unreal. Game 150, who won five? Oh, I'm Darren O'Neil. You never, never have. You've never had a podcasting partner make it past 20 episodes. Well, now you're at 150. Well, I mean, the excitement is palpable. I can tell you, we're like, 115 with Ben, but. Okay. Yeah, but up to nothing. This is 151 150 150. The donation should be coming in. Boom. It's a number that nobody knows about for sure.

I know they'll laugh, cry when the show goes away. So I'll be like, what am I going to do on Friday morning? Now you guys are there anymore? Oh no. You there. Oh, are you still pretending like we're doing the show for the livestream break? Yeah. That way they feel like they're a part of it. Okay. Okay. Thank Mike. No, he'll feel like he's a part of it. Tom, Tom, skeet, Billy Bones, Barons. But the mighty. They're all in the troll room. You know, it's a universal thing.

It's, I've had the exact same kind of deal happening with my, YouTube channel. Where you play video games. Yeah, where I have, like, almost 3000 people watching me. Nerds. And usually guys in their 50s make it 200 grand a year or more. Yeah. Nerds. Exactly. So, see, Brooklyn sent me a link to a channel of a Star Citizen guy that he said sounded like me, but I don't think he sounds like me.

But he said, if it sounds enough, like me, just tell Gene that you started long before he did. Yeah. With a channel like surprise. Gene, I'm really a really popular YouTuber that you listen to. But you didn't know. Oh, yeah, because I was doing a different voice that was close to mine. Yeah. I think the guy that he thinks sounds like you was actually.

I know who it is. It's, the guy named Ray. Good old Ray. Yeah. He does. Ray's something is the name of the YouTube channel Cobra is. He said, this is Cobra TV. Cobra sounds nothing like I agree, but for some reason, nothing to do with me. He's also a dick. We'll see that. I know it works out.

That much? I think we haven't covered then. Well, I didn't hear, but I never. I mean, people say that all the time and say, I don't know, I think I sound like me. I think, yeah, it does. If somebody asked me like, what? What is the most radio voice sounding dude in Star Citizen? It's definitely Roy's good. Yeah. That's who I want to be. I should do the guy, but I've lost a guy. Is done professional voice work.

I mean, I've long past the jumping on any training because I will make everything about Roy. What? He is ruining everything now for voice people. It's just like now. You don't need us. Don't need it all. We ever though really.

You know, I think it was needed, but I'm not saying that it wasn't, well, overpriced for what it was. But just a minute. Yeah. Did you write five bucks a minute? It's not bad to read something like, hey, $5 a minute. Would you sit down and read this script? Oh, yeah. Sure. And then all the updates. So I just you do it just wrong enough. So you have to redo it, then you double your you double your money or more or more.

Yeah. But Rick Beato, I don't know how if you follow his channel as closely as I do, but he did a video yesterday on AI music again. Okay. And he agreed that these pseudo is getting so much better.

Oh yeah. With the vocals. No, I don't know if it's still the instrumentations are still it's weird because it seems like they figured out how to. Okay, okay, let me just chime in here. Why would you want to do that? It's like it's your podcast or something. That kind of opinion is stereotypical of people that don't use, you know, or don't really understand how to use it.

Because what you are seeing, let me just finish what you're seeing is the vast majority of super users, including the paid to users like you, have no idea what commands they can actually use when creating music, and so all they do is they dump the text into into the text box that says put layers here, right? And then they hit the button to create and then all that music.

As Adam says, it all sounds the same. It's all, you know, watch trash or whatever he calls it. Well, he had recycled trash that was on one of the, you know, top lists or whatever pseudo calls it. Again, does not matter. It's based on popularity. I understand. Like, but he had one that had a prompt that was very specific, like female voice, your minor chord here.

And it was quite unique. The voice sounded very Tori Amos like. Yeah. And it was believable to me, which he had another one, which was a weird name. I had not heard of it. It wasn't Super Audio, it was a third one and it was horrible.

I mean, yeah, but for some reason, even with Sunil, yeah, the acoustic guitar seems to be harder to get right than voice, and I think it's probably because the sampling of so many of them, you know, have that little bit of reverb or they have some kind of an effect on it. So getting a straight acoustic guitar still seems harder for the AI, which is weird. You would think voice would be harder to replicate than a stringed instrument, but maybe not as of yet.

There again, I would don't think the issue was easier or harder. The issue was with the fact that no one actually uses the capabilities of, you know, to its full extent, partly because, you know, sucks its user interface and it sucks as educating people.

We they just kind of throw you into a screen like they do. Okay. Here. Yeah. Go. You don't know lyrics. That's fine. Just give us a general idea. We'll do the lyrics, will do the song. It'll sound great when the lyrics are horrible. If that's what the AI is doing. Music itself way better than the lyric. So the instrumentation is still always better than the lyrics.

It's not going to write a song that's going to make you laugh or cry. It's going to write a song that you're like, wow, when I wrote this, because the lyrics don't make any sense most of the time. Maybe it gets lucky every now and then, but now if you can get it. I know what you mean. I know what you mean. But I will also say that very generically crass top 40 hit music over the last 100 years sucks. Oh yeah? Well, yeah. Country music. So what do you expect?

Country music over the last decade has pretty much been. I'm a dude guy, the truck guy, the dog having a beer. Yeah. And I've heard somebody saying that about country music for, oh, about 60 years now. I mean, the it's 20 years, maybe it's all resected.

Here's the thing. Well, you can no, no, no, see, if you go back to Hank. No, you don't generally explain why you're wrong because. Oh, please do good bits of country music is what you remember from 50 years ago. Oh, yeah. The shitty ones that were around just as much back then as they are now. You forget about. They're forgettable.

And so the 1 or 2 good ones that are around today, 50 years from now, people will be saying, oh no, no, no. It used to be good back in the 20s. No, that was pretty good. No, it sucks. Now in the 60s. There's a tear in my beer there. Yeah. And I'm crying for you, dear. I mean some classic it's classic. But a lot of that would suck even back then. I see that.

But my point is, while that song came out, there were probably a thousand other country songs that were being played, which we don't remember anymore because they sucked. They didn't last through history. History always has. That perspective was like, man, how come it used to be great?

Now it sucks. There was a time in the history of music where there's nothing redeeming now. The music that was the grunge era should only be trained on good music, whatever that means to you. Yeah, there's an argument for that, and I think we're going to start seeing eyes that are not general in general trained, but very specifically trained, coming out soon for that exact reasons, because I think the goal previously is like, man, to make something sound like it's human.

We have to give it everything that humans have ever done, right? Well, there is an argument to be said, hey, you know, most things humans have done suck. Yeah, you know, other people at it. Those and only have an AI trained on the good bit. So that was the reason in the video that you sent me, but it popped up in my timeline anyway.

The Linus tech tips. Yeah. You know. Oh my God, Ricky forced me to buy the $10,000. Yeah. Mac studio M3 ultra. With 512GB of Ram. I mean, the Ram just gives you a what doesn't space Ram 512 gig of Ram. It's like damn. Yeah. So you can run these large language models directly in memory which makes them exponentially faster. Insanely faster. Yeah. There's no offloading. This is the and what they're doing with it is training it on all of their company coding and policies.

And everything else is going to be able to fire everybody, right? I mean, it'll be great when it's trained. But the reality is my wife complains about this. She got a government job. There's no set handbook instructions for job by job, how people should do things.

And she does things now like with permitting. So if you want to put a pool in or build a shed, you know the permit goes off through her desk most likely. And when she wasn't there people were like oh what people if you don't do it every day you're not really sure. Now if you could program, if you could train the AI.

And how to do every last little bit of minutia in a job. Well somebody can fill in for a day and go wow I don't know how to fill in this form. Tell me how to fill in this form. Yeah. And that is going to help businesses. And for that I think Linus was right for $10,000 for most businesses that could be a bargain.

Yeah. Do you have something locally that if you know what you're doing, you know for podcasting. Well each of the businesses and I said or podcast. Right. Well you talk to grok all day now. So I mean it was I just the graphic on it. I did tune in. One of them was late Night a few nights ago.

You were streaming with your thing on the YouTubes. Yes. And of course, YouTube knows I love whatever that game is you're doing from Atlas Gaming and whatever. Yeah, YouTube thing it knows. And you were talking to somebody and I'm like, is that me? I am, because like, you was another voice. You were like responding. I'm like, well, no. Who else would be talking to Gene? It has to be an eye point. Yeah. About your four different eyes running, in the game, and they talk to each other.

They. Well, they did. They tell me things. Usually they're updating me on chip stats. Yeah. I'm, you know, I'm in charge, obviously. Oh, there you are. I mean, they put you in the brig there, like. Gene, there is a problem in this area of the ship. Oh, I'm saying you're under no damn teleporter. I don't trust that shit. That was. Deal with them that there will be two of you. That was zero. How do we know what's right, though? This a dude now you are only in the matrix.

Now, the concept of that teleporter has always been quite interesting. Because if that technology could exist. Yeah, and they could keep your body in a buffer. Although, to be fair, I'm thinking if that technology exists, that we've reached a point where humanity is pretty much going to live forever because you have that kind of technology, because otherwise you'd be like, hey, let's just put Gene in the buffer. And then this is a joke.

Let's just release him a hundred years later, let's set the timer, and then you come out of the teleporter and everybody in that was dead. Yay. But if that if you can do that, if you could actually take somebody's form and put it into whatever it is in the interim to make it go from spot A, this part B to that would be possible. You would think who wants to put Gene in the buffer? Anyone. How long can you stay in the buffer I don't know.

That was always there was a at least one Star Trek episode, if I'm remembering correctly, where that was an issue, like, oh no, we have to, we have to get them out because, you know, they went into the teleport and they never come back out. Oh no, I believe it was either that or it was fanfiction. I should be writing more. It's sometimes it's hard to tell. It is because these things collide. And with things like the Star Wars universe, it only had three movies.

You start thinking that all this stuff. You're hallucinating. Yeah. Could be a buffer overflow Omega project. Oh, wow. There's a boost from CSB 5150. Is that a Van Halen boost DSP? Do CSB even know what Van Halen is, or is that is it what the 5150 is like? The insanity call in the police lingo, isn't it 5150? Isn't that what it stands for? I know, no, you got me curious. You have to look it up. Says howdy, Gina.

Darren, tell your listeners to visit my blog that KSP that lol you don't need the buddy for lewd and funny cartoons. Yo, I guess you could set it that way so know that's a crazy person. Call 5150 because I remember looking that up at some more hearing about it, because it was a Van Halen album title. 5150 the Van Halen album, titled after the California statute. Yeah for nuts. Those and Eddie's home studio is name 5150. Studio makes a lot of crazy things were going on there.

Yeah, the CSB that L-o-l you get lewd and funny cartoons and he says harass. 150 I've seen funny ones. Well, thank you CSB for wishing us a happy 150th episode. Why do you two Cuervo. Yeah, crank that guy.

It's, How many? How many years is that? I don't even know. How many years is three years, isn't it 52 weeks a year? 150? Yeah. We skipped the few. Two over three years. Over three years? Damn. I mean, I can't believe I haven't even still talking to Gene after three years. Whoa. I mean, yeah, sure, we talk, but, like, we've never seen each other. Well, this is how it. Right? This is how it all works out, I'm still waiting to get that free sushi lunch. Like membros guy. You like Bambi?

I was better than me. Do you do? Yeah. You son of a bitch. Believe me, that was not a plan. Free lunch. That was a rose. Oh. Did I need to bring your card with me?

Oh, sorry, I didn't. No, no cash. Episode number one called Big Eyed Girl, happened on October 29th, 2021. And, of course, there were episodes. Yeah. Before that, before we made the official switch to. Oh, this is that's true. That's still it's, it's well over three years then, because we were around for probably 6 or 7 months with the old show title to 2021. So it's almost four years you hold, you held on to it so tightly and you wouldn't let it go.

And I kept trying to get a different damn name. I know we did the Christmas episode memories. Since then, he's been kind of radio silent. He doesn't like doing podcasts anymore. Okay. I don't know why. Well, he doesn't like humans. Well, for one, that could be it. That could be it. He's out there. Let's listen. I know that he loves the show. He gets it up in the morning and he's like gotta listen to Darren and Gene. Yeah that's the scary part. Well I guess he's working now.

But back when he wasn't working, you still getting up in the morning and listening to Darren and Jean out unrelenting. The only reason I get up in the morning is do the show. Otherwise you'd sleep till, like, sleeping till noon and then getting up and playing video games until all hours every day and night. I had that, I had a stream go till 5 a.m. the other day. Wow. You really had to pee again. Yeah. What time did you start.

I mean you're like wow, that just keeps coming. I think my longest one was ten hours. Oh, that's, not quite Cory Booker length, but I don't know what that is. Was the guy that just did the 24 hour plus, speech on the Senate floor. He had a 24 hour speech that. Yeah. Does he go protesting Donald Trump because he's trying to make more money for this country. How dare he?

Oh, yeah. We used to have more filibuster stuff back in the day. And they think, Randy's do it. Yeah, this wasn't even a filibuster. So it's like, it's just really idiotic. How was it just you was just talking to for that long? So then, the real questions were, and, no agenda breaking down the hard news and looking at the dirty deeds. How did he do it? Was he wearing a catheter? Was he wearing a diaper? Because against ransomware for 24 hours and never leave that post? I'm sure he took break.

I don't know, he didn't. I don't believe in he have those. No, I don't think he did any stand for ten hours, 24 hours. So I don't know ever.

He must be in better shape than us. I'll give him that. No no, no, he took breaks. Do you guarantee it? I don't think he did. Well, why? Why do you not think that? Did you stay up in the washroom for 24 hours? No, because I think he didn't listen to no agenda. I believe what they tell you. You think nobody understood and watched for 24 hours? Yes, that's for sure. They have nothing better to do. They're like, this is amazing. You can just play him upset.

You can actually play it back on ten times speed and see if he ever leaves. Oh no, Adam would never do that. Well, just turn the audio off. Nobody really wants that the way it was recorded. Remember, you're not allowed to. You're not allowed to mess with speed. It's like a good pass. Good podcaster with no way. You just have a urinal right there so you never have to leave your desk. That way you do a multi hour show and be like, we're never taking a break. That's right, that's right.

Now, luckily for Spaceship Games, it's very easy to just put cruise control on and then walk over to the bathroom and then come back five minutes later and you're in a whole different sector. You're like, why do I get I talking to each other all day long? Where the captain go? I think he's dropping a deuce. Okay. That's definitely not what they're going to be talking about. I get a little down and dirty in your spaceship, dude. No. Not really. Now they, they generally the generally

going to be very excited about bacterial growth. Oh,

yeah. This this video game is sounding more and more exciting every day. I, I think I recruited the guy for it yesterday. I spent about an hour walk them through all kinds of things and he's like, this looks pretty good. And I'm like, yeah, you should join them. You have a cult, don't you, Jim? Not yet. You work. You got the beard, though. I mean, you look like you could leave a cult. Yeah. Look like it. Thank you, CSP, for that. Now, I see that's why the 150, 5150.

That was why it was up for episode 150. Now it makes sense. Numerology. He probably didn't even know it meant crazy call for the California statute. That's probably true. It's amazing. Yeah. How many other people have since $950? Might as well get through it right now. Oh, all of the people that sent in 150 for the show today? Yeah. Can you tell me all that up? Yeah. The list is a pretty impressive. Nobody. Oh, no. Oh, no. Nobody did. Oh, I haven't heard from nobody for a while.

They're a bunch of cheap bastards. That's what they are. They are, they are. I agree, we need you know, this show is not marketed at all, so it's probably the same cheap bastards thing we market every day on. Got an ax, do we? Yeah. Oh my posting. Listen, unrelenting bitches. And what do people do? They follow those instructions. No, no, I mean weenie. Why, what did come in with his 1080 monthly. So thank you. Weenie. Wow. Wow. I think a good news. You muse.

I think a good use for some of that monthly money is to pay for, some advertising. And like Kevin Cipher came in with his monthly $5. Yeah. With that $15, we could buy at least three ads on that for people monthly. I think for $15 you get somewhere around 3000 impressions of very impressionable people, impressionable people that will want to listen to a cult. Well, it would certainly be 15 or 3000 more impressions than we get today. True. We just it's on YouTube.

I mean, did you think YouTube was going to bring us in all the eyeballs? Yes. I mean, they did they did with my gaming, that's for sure.

Because people are nerds and they're like, tell us about your spaceship dream. And you're like I can do that. I, I'm really working hard to not get a, a complex from that channel of you know superiority because well over half the comments on all my videos are people thanking me. And how many of those did you pay for? Zero. Is there any money in that stuff? Love. Are you like, you could say, well, you paid in your time. Yeah. Yeah, time.

Talent and treasure is what I pay to create videos which other people find very useful. Do they? Well, that's what they tell me. People playing a space video game that came out, what, a decade ago?

Yeah. They're like I finally know how to play this game thanks to me. Yeah. It's funny when I do a search for unrelenting on YouTube and it doesn't come up. Shocker. Yeah. Let's see, let's unrelenting response on YouTube. You know, I wouldn't doubt it. I don't I'm, I mean, I, I probably wouldn't have seen any mail anyway.

No, no, but I don't see, anything coming up as far as unrelenting. I mean, it popped up in my timeline the other night on the Roku YouTube app, so I thought it was still around, but, you never know as I subscribe. So, let's see here. I get unrelenting. Kevin MacLeod. You're like, that's not our show. It's a whole different show. Yeah. And why doesn't on YouTube, on the web interface? And why doesn't it list your subscriptions alphabetically or give you a chance to change the way that they are?

It lists them on, random order that they decided on. I know, and it's like, it makes no sense because some of the times the things you did the most recently don't show up until the bottom. I mean, for some reason Atlas Rand Gaming is still on the list that hasn't been canceled. Or Nick the rat. If Nick the rat hasn't been canceled, why are we getting rats on like every single day for four hours. So would you expect these, Wednesday nights for four hours?

I got the Harry hamster channel every time I've sent them money. He's completely ignored me. Well, just like if you ever want to be ignored by him, send them some money. Oh. Here's unrelenting. Okay, we have 58 whole subscribers. That's 58 more than I expected. 145 videos. Which means that there were, this is this is episode 150. That means there were four videos that have gotten the boot only hits. Wait, that's nearly impossible. That's under 5% ad man. No. Yeah.

You have to search for unrelenting podcast. Unrelenting show. The last week's episode. 149 apnea ablation. Gotta go to episode 62 and hit play well in episode 149. I just want to point out there have been two views in the last week. In the one before that, 12 views.

Yeah. You did was bringing them in. Yeah they love that. So go to episode 62 and hit play at 62. Let's see. So I got hit videos. Then scroll down to episode number 62. Bom bom bom. Back before we started changing the the album art covers the pot of gold. It's titled eight Hole views. See, that was a great opening. Right? And that thing's still up. Yeah, yeah. And I've got people left to go listen to episode 62 because it didn't come from the stream, obviously.

No, but that these courses if those. Well, this is like, for advertising, they're like, you can't say anything offensive in like the first 30 minutes. Yeah, yeah. We break that rule quite often. I was like the ad revenue coming from the YouTube channel. I'm guessing they're asking us for money. They're like, okay, we'll keep this up, but you're gonna have to give us some cash. Yeah. And of course, episode 51 was called Sexist Rants. Well, that sounds like exactly what you would get.

And I'd. Unrelenting. That's hilarious. I mean, really, like you said, I'm kind of surprised that a majority of the shows haven't been touched and the channel still exists as shocking. But I mean, we are comedy. We are. You know, something that is hard to explain. Yeah. And I CSB, 1515 says, of course I of course, I didn't know that.

5150, a studio album by Van Halen. 150 was to celebrate episode number cruiser. Corvette. Corvette. Hooray. Right. You had three of them in there. So, I mean, he was, you know, that's when he gets this big riled up. He's always like, oh, for fuck's sake, but we're just having fun. So have you been seeing my posts on acts about the, what's that movie called? The snow off white. The snow off white? No, I didn't see snow off white.

I'm gonna know, you know, I'm certainly. No. Anybody else got the liquid empty yet? You liquid death. Good for you. I got my my icy. But, yeah, it seems like everyone who's ever done a movie critique, ever on YouTube, came out of the woodwork to do a critique of this movie.

Well, because it's hot and it's following the the trend. It is kind of a pathetic thing that social media is basically a following of trends trying to do the SEO, trying to grab a topic that's going to get people noticed the minute something hits the trending area, it's like, oh, we gotta we have to post about it, you know, because I'll be exciting them. Well, it's a it's a hot piece of shit.

Obviously. And I feel like I've seen the movie at this point because I've seen like 8 or 9 different people do reviews of it that. Do you get clips with most of these reviews? Yeah. Some of the clips are hilarious because they were obviously shot with the phone in the theater. Well, yeah. I mean, that's, the way people do things in the theaters. Empty. I guess people feel like it's okay to do a review during the movie of the movie that.

Okay, see, I've never seen that. If somebody was doing that, you were actually in the theater, like, try that movie. Yeah. So somebody is going to get a bowl of popcorn over their head or something. The kick that theater for doing that. Right. Yeah. You could sit there. And I mean, one of the reasons why and again, I think we talked about this the last year you had girl answer that question. If you're a hot girl that knew you could probably do away with more. Yeah. Everything.

But the last movie we went to the theater to see was, I think, the original Suicide Squad with Margot Robbie.

And remember the last time I went to the theater, I want to say like a decade ago. So that's probably right for me because I still have both eyes working and that it's been nine years now. So it's been about a decade. Yeah. And one of the reasons was the sound sucked. It was way too loud. And I've seen Ted Nugent without earplugs, so that tells you I didn't leave that. But I left this movie.

And the people that even at that point were taking their phones out to look at it mid movie, there's nothing worse than seeing little bits of light popping up in the theater while you're trying to watch a movie. Yeah, like way too distracting. Not going to do it. Stop doing it. We have our 60 or 65 inch TV which it's old now which I didn't realize and I didn't get my eyes suck.

But we have a DLP machine rear projection that tells you how old it is. I think we got it in like 2009. So this thing has done its diligent duty. You basically bought the last of the rear projections before they stopped making them. Yeah, yeah. Love the set. Didn't have any problem with it. Still looks decent. But my parents had a similar set to ours and theirs instead of the LED light. It was an actual ball but we replaced the bulb like three times.

And I'm guessing now finally because it stopped turning on, I'm guessing the capacitors finally got it. Which is usually what happens which could have still been like fixed for like five bucks, but it's like it's time for a new TV. Yeah, they're super cheap now. They are.

And I'm the my dad has a chair that he likes to sit on. That's over to the side. So I'm like, look, you could get a 60 65 inch TV for under 500 bucks, but sitting on the side, you're not going to like it. So me, because the off access is no good. But they got a whole load off axis.

Dude, they're they're is organic quality these exact same. No not these weren't LEDs. These were the older still panels. Which are you talking like ten years ago. Well, the older panel, the cheap TVs now were like the panels that they came out about ten years ago. Yes. Oily. These are cheap now. Yeah, well, they got a the only these are not super cheap, but they got a I think it was a Q led.

Which day which is an LG that Costco had a special on it. Yeah. And beautiful picture. I noticed that because the problem I'm guessing with all these things, reading the little text on the screen is really hard for me. Like watching a NASCAR race, because they want to put the leaderboard and there's the, oh, 20 names on there going down the side and at home. I really can't read it. It's not clear enough there. It was like, bam! Well, I could read that.

Yeah. So I'm like, shit, I'm getting need a new TV. Oh, it's been 15 years. So I mean, it's probably time anyway. Yeah. Yeah, I so you going to get like, any inch. No, no I don't. The larger is not always better unless you have the room for it.

And now if I wasn't mainly an audio guy, only a man would say that. But. Yeah, well, the, big speakers, baby, the 75 pound LG, JBL speakers that I have, there and so you have the speakers and then you have the audio cabinet with the receiver and the other things in there. It's a lot less now.

Now it's mainly computers and stuff where it used to be CD players and DVD players and Blu ray players, but you have the audio gear there and then the TV. I don't really have any more room because it's right at right now where the right speaker is, is right where you walk in the hallway for when you come in from the garage.

The hallway comes in and then comes right into the room where the TV is. So I really can't get any larger than the 60 or 65 whatever we got there now, that little or no braces, just move the finger. You know, obviously you get a bigger TV. You know, I would you know, the the eight keys are starting to come out right, which is, really not something that I need.

Well, I mean, 4k, they can they can help. You see what you can't. You can just. They do Braille yet. You can just touch the TV. They do breathy. That's what you need to do. I mean, we originally thought of doing the TV in the basement, which is still. Oh, I don't think we could really get much larger with the way the basement is situated.

Broken into two parts with a wall because of having the laundry room and the server room where all the Nazis are on the other side. So I don't really think we can go bigger.

And then we never really decided to put anything permanent down there because, well, we flooded twice, but now we've got the the backup sump pump, which with the rain we got the other day again, the only happened a few times, but the alarm starts going off because the amount of water coming in the main sump pump couldn't handle, and the backup had to be engaged to, take care of it.

But at least it worked. That's not good. No, I yeah, I guess it is good that it worked, but, so I may have to just. Yeah. Well, that's not good. Yeah. I need to go and, probably get a upgrade if we continue having the massive flooding. And I was like, yeah, it's maybe we should do that. And the wife's like, she came home for lunch.

Was like, you know, the streets on the sidewalks are all flooded too, with the rain came down so hard, so if it only happens once or twice a year, it's not a big deal. But you certainly don't want the main one to fail on those days, because the backup obviously is probably not going to do the job.

Yeah, I think the main one is like a quarter horsepower, and I think the back up like 77 inch. Oh 77 I think I'm going to have to stick to the 65. I don't think the 77 would fit you know, LG 6077 and eight K for just $5,000. Oh oh. Just 5000. Okay. We're going to need a lot more boost.

I move somewhere bigger. That doesn't flood. See, that would be the answer to everything. Yeah like Florida. You know it's great because they never flood there. That's right. We go to no agenda that stream. And you two can get into the troll worm when we do these shows live. Okay. How about a TLC 98 inch? I know I've saw some of those and I'm like, it's amazing what the pricing is on them. For 12 bucks. $12, you can have it. It's one.

Oh, no. You go to that website that they auction things off, but it's all about the same. Yeah. Oh yeah. It's like I, I got this two $4,000 camera for $38. Well, you get a Sony 85 inch 4000. My bad. Yeah. The cheap panels again if you want, if you're going to sit right in front of the TV and are okay with the older technology for the screen, you can get a 65 inch TV for three, 400 bucks.

I've got a, old Samsung 47 inch as my monitor on my Mac. That looks pretty sure I would think. Yeah. The new Mac studios can run eight. Yeah. Eight. Cable toasters at the same. That's why you got to get an ATV 8 or 8 Armadas. Yeah. At the same time. So I don't know if there's any room left to do anything else when sending all of the, bandwidth for that.

But no, no, I think the cheapest thing right now is like 1500 bucks. They don't need that, which is not bad at all, because I think my gaming monitor was like 1200. You know, for this, I just keep thinking, well, sooner or later this TV's gonna die and it doesn't. They they do eventually. Yeah. We got our use out of it.

I can't complain, but I knew the new TV was going to look better, but it was like, wow, it was really good. And then we watched, the NASCAR race because they, we went over to help them hook things up. The in the end, the NASCAR race branded okay then that it was like, watch the whole thing.

It was like, everything looks great. And then I realized the big piece of plastic screen saver over it was still on. Oh man. They pulled that off. And I'm like, wow, that even looks better. Amazing, If you want your TV to look like an old TV though, just go grab one of those little screen things and put it over it and be like, oh yeah, I remember how that looks.

And you could get an Amazon Fire TV 43 inch for $360. I know they're dirt cheap. We bought so cheap. I think it was about a 35. And for my parent's bedroom we bought a couple of years ago at the local grocery store at our major, during the Santa Bucks in sale, I think we ended up paying like 250 bucks or 225 bucks for a 35 inch TV.

It was like so cheap. It was crazy. The soundbar was almost as much as the TV. But again technology. It's moving. It's moving fast in the Army. Yeah man I order our groceries and we do the pickup. We don't have them delivered like you do. We're not fancy like you. We don't have a delivery guy. But we ordered it and I'm like I ordered my 2 pounds of turkey and I ordered the gourmet like Dietz and Watson.

And I'm like, man, I gotta order food. Gotta order you food. You're getting hungry now. It's food talk. Everybody got your bingo cards. Check off food today. Yeah, yeah. So I put the note in there. I'm like, hey, if you have it, I'd prefer the no salt version because the no salt version while actually being slightly better for you. I'm guessing if you have. Yeah, yeah. Also tastes more like regular turkey. It's not processed. It doesn't have the slimy ness that a lot of the lunch meats do.

So they did that as a, you know, getting it from the deli department. Well, that's who it's from. Yes. But fresh slice. Yes. Now this is where they this is where it ran and do a problem because for some reason, they tried to do the, substitution of my order of 2 pounds of turkey breast. Make sense with that? Showed up as 4 pounds of turkey breast. That's a good substitution for them. I know, I'm like, wait, no, it's what I called up. And I got the people at the store.

Yeah, the girl went to check it and she's like, well, there's actually three packs of the no salt, all just over 2 pounds.

And I'm like, so it's 6 pounds and they're trying to get three of dirt. I'm like, I eat turkey, I eat a lot of turkey, don't eat that much turkey. So I'm like a turkey aficionado. It sounds like. Right. And I'm like, because that pops up in the order they want you to approve or not approve the substitution. I'm like, yeah, well, I don't want to approve it online because that you're going to give me 4 pounds, but I don't want to not approve it because then you're going to give me nothing.

I'm like, I only need the 2 pounds. And she was very confused and that's fine. And I guessed beforehand what was going to happen. So I told my wife, who was picking up, I'm like one, make sure they got the turkey for you. So you got a delivery pick up person with you. Thank you. That's true. I just married her. It's part of the deal. And so the turkey was in the order, but they didn't charge for it because they must have been so confused on how to.

Yeah, like bonus, like $25 worth of turkey. Wow. They just didn't charge for it because they're like, we don't know how to fix this. Which is sad, but I mean, not for us, because whole free turkey. Yeah. It's not sad for you at all. I'm like, I'm just wondering now what they did with the other two packs that they had already sliced and put in packages for us? If the other 4 pounds just went in the garbage or they took it back for the deli, who knows?

Yeah. Garbage probably, But yeah, we'll just get rid of this system first and nobody will know. They'll know just like the, the Lego. No that they gave us free. You don't need to write this. You just say customer. She's true. That's true. That's it away and nobody cares. Like the Lego set though that they called out but didn't leave a message. And I'm like you got to return it. The wife didn't want to. She loves the Lego. No, Mickey got her because they called.

I'm like, otherwise called. The store called, but they didn't leave a message because I'm sure it's millennial. Why would they? I don't understand, why is it dark on your wife? We picked up the order and this was a few months back. And there were the they had a huge sale on Lego, right? So I put in the Lego set that she really wanted that they had. That was on a great price. I put a back up to the Lego set that was also on a great price.

Well, they didn't have what is what is the back up to the Lego set? Was that mean? There was another Lego set there. So if they didn't have, like I said, if they didn't have the main one, then go to this one. When you do the backup item, like on your groceries, don't you do that like, hey, give me Fuji apples.

But if they don't, then give me a Red delicious and you can choose your backup because they know that there won't be a tip if they don't deliver my order as ordered. Jeez. Like they will kill people to make sure everything is exactly as it was supposed to be. Well, yeah. So there was a backup one that was the main one.

And what they tried to do then, for some reason, like they did with the 4 pounds of turkey, it was like we're giving you this one, which was a little some kind of car or something Lego that like, no, we declined it, didn't want that. So we declined it. But because the I guess the time was so quick, between the time of declining it and picking it up, the person putting all the groceries in the car, put it in the car. So what she got?

So what you're saying is you figured out a way how to scam your grocery store. This is not the truth. Because we returned it. I mean, there's a for $20 in Turkey. Yeah. I'm not going to be like, hey, dude, you gave me, but I'm in this one again after, and the store doesn't call here ever.

You know, it's the, it's all texting when the stuff is ready. But that number that we have for texting after that order was picked up, they called twice that day and I think the next day, but didn't leave a message. So I guess I don't understand it because if somebody would have picked up the phone, I'm sure you were going to have to say, yeah, we think we gave you an item that you didn't pay for that's worth, you know, a hundred and something bucks.

Can you maybe, maybe bring that back, if that would be. That would be good. You think? But they didn't leave a message, so the wife's like, fuck, they didn't leave a message. But I'm like, no, but they know. They obviously know. So if you don't bring it back, then you're that asshole. And we do. We do get the groceries every week there. So it's not I mean, for your food items, I wouldn't worry about it simply because they can't resell something that they brought to another person's house.

Right. Well, yeah. This thing, they never pick it up. It will go in the trash. Right? Oh, yeah. If the food that they're for food. Right. But non-food they could certainly resell. Yes. And I looked up the law at that point too, just because I was curious.

I'm like, you got to take it back. They know they professional thief. Of course you got another one. Yeah. That's right. You know, this is kind of like you gotta know what is within the law. Like if Amazon drops off a TV at your house stream that you didn't order, technically it was delivered to you.

How about a mirror that I didn't order and have no idea what to do with deliveries? For some reason the law is you get to keep it, but if some schmo at a store when you go to pick something up, put something in your car that doesn't get covered in the same way. For some reason, I don't know why I had stuff that I didn't order or show up. I usually just throw it away from Amazon. Well, yeah, there's a lot of them that are scams now from the grocery store. What? What extra caviar?

Yeah. Extra cash. No shit that I don't eat that all of a sudden ends up in my extra bacon. I would eat that. No, this would be the best. Never be useful. Like, you know, salad or something, which is.

Yeah, yeah. Why would I want any salad? That would be the world. No, I do not want salad. No. Good. But so again, that was the reason why, we took care of that. But it's like we've been doing ever since the Covid started. We realized what kind of inconvenience it was to place the order and just pick it up.

It's way better than getting your ass out of the car, going into the grocery store, and then searching for everything that you want, because they provide this as the grocery store for free. So they're like, hey, we'll just do your grocery shopping. You come out, wait, it's free. I'm paying for mine. Yeah. No, this is free. When you go pick it up.

Oh, the stream drop. This is what's going on, man. These streams are. Sorry about it, dude. No, no, it's like, what's going on? It's been going on for the last few days, so the, the void zeros of the world have some work to do. I think the whole stream thing is kind of over. It's going away. No, it may not ever go away. It just has zero impact. It doesn't matter without, the show. It's just fun to have people saying things at the same time, and we just don't.

We think so. It's fun having a third party, making comments when you're talking to your wife always that way. So why is I'm never getting any backup? I'm always losing if there's no third party. You wait. You're saying you sometimes win every now and then? Yeah. Wow. Holy cow. That is a hell of a marriage. You keep that one around, right? Because what I cook. So that's always. Yeah. So she has no choice. Yeah. It's like, oh, you want Brexit starve to death, right?

This is exactly it. Drop kicked you. So you figured something out?

Most men don't be useful. Useful to your wife? Yeah, exactly. Right. It's definitely a helpful thing. I remember, I think for most men, it's kind of like. Well, I don't know, she just. I don't understand what she wants. Well, yeah. You do something useful to have some BLT e and for you to shut the hell up. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I think since we got the new also since we got the. And it's understandable again because, you know, I'm, I'm at home.

I'm doing my podcast thing, doing the other stuff I got going on. So probably 4 or 5 years ago whenever we got the new washer and dryer, I don't think she's used it once.

Are you take care of that. Yeah. So again I am in demand making making it tough for other guys. I know I'm setting the bar higher than you are setting the bar. Well you're setting it somewhere where most guys don't. You know this is true. I'm just taking it in a completely different direction. What do you think of, blackberries, the fruit or the,

I know that that is just that. Well, no, I know the blackberries, oddly enough, the last time the wife had a major diverticulitis episode, in the last time my mom had a major diverticulitis episode. They were caused by blackberries. So I know if you have a baby regularly, just in case, then, like, if, you know, diverticulitis. If you have that, don't eat blackberries. Otherwise, I think they're tasty and fine and full of antioxidants. I don't like them as much as raspberries.

I think they have less flavor. I would guess that may be possible. I mean, they're just a different type of berry. You eat them with your yogurt, you get with your well, you don't do the Greek yogurt, you do some magical Himalayan yogurt or something.

Bulgarian? Yes. Bulgarian. I don't know if I've ever found Bulgarian, but he does. Bulgarian yogurt. Everybody I don't think probably carries it. I don't know, where would I get Bulgarian yogurt in the yogurt section. Thank you. Okay. You think my, grocery store is gorgeous? Not every yogurt section. Are you kidding me? Well, I do, but what is Bulgarian yogurt?

It's white. Thank you. All white peak. All yogurt is white. To nothing for at least a Bulgarian. It's called white peak. Yeah, peak. You know, like a mountain peak. Okay. White peak, limited result itself. Okay, maybe we got. We have a peak now. They want that's they're selling like socks of their peak there. And there's gold peak TLG like that too.

Let's see though I don't think we have Bulgarian yogurt at our store there. Obviously you have it there. Obviously. Luddites. I don't think they do. I don't think they have to have it. I don't they're not very Bulgarian yogurt. I mean, we are not you. You are aware we're not in Bulgaria because it has Bacillus Bulgaria case in it. Oh well, that must make perfect sense.

It's the best kind of yogurt. That means you don't have to do a separate, your yogurt. Yogurt in Bulgarian, I guess not. What the hell is that, man? I don't know what's the worst link. You know what it looks like? You know, white peat yogurt. There might be a mix up in the query.

Does not directly correspond. It's not actually called white white yogurt. And then there's peak yogurt. White mountain to white mountain yogurt. Gene is, skiing out of the White Mountain. Let me see that one. Now that we know what the actual name hell do you not get? Bulgarian yogurt? That's crazy, isn't it crazy? I think so, I although I usually get the blue one.

This is the red one. It's same concept that we have for White Mountain. They try to give me ice mountain water, Starbucks, mountain blend, a White Mountain puzzle. Like, thanks for that. And then Mountain Dew. Okay, here I found the one that I actually buy when I get. I sent you a link. By the way, I don't know if you have, but I heard it go.

Yeah. You should. So the blue one's the one I usually buy. It's organic Bulgarian probiotic yogurt. Well, it's at Whole Foods. See, that's where I'm going wrong. I don't. Are you not going there? No, that's not your food place. No, we go to my major. We like the Dutch. Let me. We have a Whole Foods, I'm sure.

And we have a Amazon Fresh. I mean, if they have it at Whole Foods, they probably have it at Amazon Fresh, too, right now. You sure you know what? You know, this is the scary part about it. You're like, nope, they don't have enough, thankfully, because they would bring it to my door if they did. But my my local HEB has it as well. Now we do have at the, Whole Foods markets.

They have the traditional foods organic, plain, Bulgarian A2, A2 and then you can get a like a cough yogurt starter makes eight gallons. Whew. You could do that as well. Make your own yogurt, kids. Here's the same thing, but slightly cheaper at the local H-e-b. Yeah, yogurt starter cultures.

Oh, this is a 32 ounce jar, which is just right for breakfast. You do it a lot of yogurt, but how do you how do you lift to 150 if you don't do yogurt? Okay, you have a point. Because that was the woman that just died. That was like 120. Do you remember where she what country she was in?

But her Bulgaria was? It is because a whole thing where you're making that up. But her whole thing was eating three yogurts a day or something. I mean, it was solutely was something crazy in there, like, everybody knows this. They did the autopsy on there and they're like her gut health was like that of a 20 year old. Yeah.

I'm like, well, this may show that your healthy gut is good for living a long, long life. Absolutely. So you prefer getting your probiotics directly from the Bulgarian yogurt as opposed to, yeah. I don't like the term probiotic consuming them in a, the stupid term doesn't mean anything. There's a prebiotic, there's a probiotic. You got to do something to your biotic.

It's literally bacteria. That's all that means. The taste just means bacterial tribe. Mono foods, organic plain Bulgarian yogurt, 32oz for 750 an hour. There you go. Foods. Yeah, for 995. I can have it delivered today between 1 and 3. So if you buy that, you have a thing. Just if you found the yogurt guy, right. That that little guy would show up.

Come from the whole food story store with 132 pounds of yogurt. Yeah. Here's your yogurt, sir. Thank you. Here's your fresh yogurt made from Bulgaria. They also have vanilla. They have plain and vanilla. Don't get vanilla, but it gets higher ratings, although less of them. You know how good the plain plan is. Really good. It's got a certain tartness to it, and it's fairly firm.

So you could pick it up with a spoon. You don't need to drink it. It's not like I never drink yogurt. It's more, well, I drink plenty of yogurt now. Is this good? Do you take this and like, put it in your blender with some of the blackberries and some banana or something, then make sure. Yeah, you can totally do that. Yeah.

I got to get back to the lemon thing, man. I spent way too long. Have you had a lemon thing? Yeah. I haven't done it for a long time either. Gotta get back on it, man. It was really good. And it's good for you, too. Like getting all the skin just chopped up in the blender is perfect. We do not give health advice. We are not doctors. We are not medical professionals. No, but we probably handle more, supplements than most people do. True. We are unrelenting.

I got some neck and neck the other day that was like half price on Amazon. Really? Yeah, they I think I have that, but I don't believe I'm currently taking it. The, the allegedly that's another thing that's a similar to a, antibiotic kind of that a thing. The probiotics antibiotics you take. Well, you gotta have some kind of biotic. Well, the biotic literally means bacteria. You got taurine. I take the taurine. What a bunch of that Polish cookies. Why am I ordering that?

Oh, what kind of polish cookies? Oatmeal ones. Speaking of Polish cookies, CSB says Corvette Bulgaria is nice. I was once there, I vacay and there was an earthquake. Well, it's fun. I bet you he had some yogurt there. That's what I think. He says the other earthquake equals free fun, by the way. Ask Gene why probiotics are healthy. He doesn't even believe they exist.

He doesn't believe they exist. You. It's me. You. You like probiotics. You don't believe in them. It's a stupid word I said. Oh, it just means bacteria. Okay, why is it healthy? CSB wants to know. What will that do for you? What is the health? Because you would die without the bacteria, I guess. I love the little bacteria that is the best.

You would die without bacteria in your gut because you can't digest most foods as a person. What you need is bacteria to actually break down those foods by eating them and then pooping. And then we as humans will actually absorb the poop that comes out of the bacteria. And that is what we actually consider digestion. The more you though, it's the same thing with cows. You know, cows ferment the grass that they they like. They don't get any energy out of grass.

They get energy from the bacteria that eats the grass. And then the cow eats the bacteria. And I think it's great that Ksbw is such a big donor for today's show. I think it's horrible that you consider that a large donation. I see Brooklyn just came in with a thousand satay that's less than a buck. That's not even a donation. That's not worth mentioning. See, Brooklyn, it's episode number 150, buddy. You know, my, grocery shopping bill is going to be exactly $150 in honor of our show.

Wow. You're doing that purposefully. Yeah, I'm checking on little things to make it.

Exactly. I mean, our whole grocery bill with the free turkey was only like $168 for two people. I'll go. This is still the turkey. Yeah, that's still turkey. They gave it to me. Free. Free turkey beef, no salt. Added deets and lots of the deets and lots and stuff. It's really good. I mean, I've had the Boar's head before too, which was pretty good, but their grocery store doesn't carry that one.

There's so many different things I don't. I know how much do tip, but the deets and lots of is good for me. It's usually 20 bucks no matter what. For the home delivery, you tip 20 bucks for home delivery. Yeah, well, it's usually a stain. It's like a full week's worth of groceries. Are you insane? Why would you do that?

What do you tip? Three bucks. $3? Oh my God. See, Brooklyn just came in with $3. Three, three, three, three says better. Yes, but not perfect. No one's with you, tip. No more than. That's insanity. Dude. You're crazy like this whole tipping has gotten out of control in the US. Well, I think we need to take a model that European countries have, which is don't tip. Don't tip at all. Say, screw you. It's a fucking job. Do you get paid tips? Well, okay. You do get paid tips. Yeah, I do tips.

Do know do work on tips. Normal jobs get tips. No. Hell no. Somebody gets hired to drive to pick up pre-loaded groceries. But that's not true. Put them in their car and drop them off at my house one and a half miles away.

See, now that is not the truth with the way they do it here. Now, my mom, when she orders from her grocery store, which is Jewel-osco. That's the truth. They pick the order and somebody just comes up and picks it up with yes. Yeah. The person that delivers it is also doing the shopping and they text you while they're shopping.

So if there's any substitutions doing the shopping for you I know they're getting I don't, I don't know what their hourly rate is, but they can be sure that no, they can't be making even 20 bucks an hour. They are. Now what is the what are they called? Shipt? I can I'll ask, should I ask grok or should I ask perplexity about you? Ask the person delivering the paper. See how much they make. Like they tell you. Like, what do you make, bitches?

Yeah. And they'll tell you that I make about 20 bucks an hour and then, another 20 on top of that with tips. And you're like, I don't make that much. It all depends how, hookers work. Just the tip sometimes thinks of Billy Barnes. That is, it's one cheap hooker. He's going to get some kind of disease, I'll tell you that, Billy Bones. All right. Order place. It says ship drivers usually earn between 16 and $20 an hour before tip.

That depends on factors such as location, demand and complexity of orders. So now when you have a company like ship the they're paying the drivers okay. But now are they getting paid by the grocery store to offer this. It's, it's a very interesting thing because this person's coming in and doing your shopping. You have the opportunity. Do not tip it all as you said because it's nice. Do not say do not tip it off, but you have the opportunity are insane

for doing any more than that. You have the the $3.

I'm sure they're like big difference 0 to 3. But you have the opportunity to say, no, I don't want to tip it all. Sure. Which means these folks have to be making enough money even without tips. Well, then who's paying it? Because why would the delivery company pay them? So the grocery store has to be paying them to offer the service.

The delivery company is the grocery store, but they do it for different things. So ship works with Meyer, but they also do the target here, and they do other businesses. Okay, so they're more like an Uber it sounds like. Correct. So but who that. Oh okay okay okay. Because Uber will do grocery shopping too. It is very weird.

Here's how they make money at Uber. All their prices are about $0.50 more than the store actually charges. Yes. In this case that's not the true. That's exactly sure about that. Yes. Because you're ordering directly from the grocery store. Well, if you're ordering from the grocery store, then the grocery store is the one paying the company to deliver it.

So they're paying ships to do it. So it's like, wait a minute, now you're you've got me pissed off now, Jean, because if my grocery store is willing to pay some person to come in and your wife doesn't get a discount, right, why? Where's the if we should be getting a discount? I'm picking it up.

Absolutely. You should be getting free food, motherfucker. Is that really? Wait. If I can get to the store and pick it up myself. Wait, I'm paying more. I'm a sucker. If I go in, she does it very straightforwardly. My. My delivery fee is seven bucks a tip. Yeah, which is ten bucks over the cost of what it would cost me if I walked in the store.

There's no upcharge if I use Uber for shopping, there's, like a zero delivery fee, but there is a about a 50 cent per item increase in the cost. So everything goes way up. Well, it goes up by about 50. Yeah, depending how many items that that you order. I mean, not really. It's still $0.50 an item, right? But if you order a lot, you may go up more than, you know, say 5 or 10%. It depends on, if you're ordering we have more or something. That's $0.50, as I'm sure you're a buck for it.

That's crazy man. Yeah, that's why I don't. Zuber seems like don't tip don't tip them. So you know what Uber does Uber will deliver your Domino's pizza. That's that's and they'll give you a free pizza. Free things. But it's Domino's I mean is it really pizza if it's Domino's. Domino's is actually better than it used to be. But they'll give you a Domino's like give you a free pizza if you order another pizza. But the pizza prices like starts at ten bucks and goes up.

Okay. Where Domino's dot com your pizza starts at five bucks. Now see that there's the same here because I've switched between delivery and pickup. And the the pricing is the same. But I wanted to wait. Soren, where you at? What country. Because he's like on the card machines. Now when you buy the restaurant. Yeah. Tip suggestions are 18, 25 and 33%. My grocery store, the tip suggest is 25%. Wait, there's a why would you tip at the grocery store?

You mean when you go to delivery or delivery? Delivery. Okay. It's the suggestion is 25% of the $150 order. So that's what's insanity. Yeah. Give him three bucks. That's enough. They spit in your food. I mean, this is why you constantly, having issues with your own. No, no, because most people don't tip at all in Austin.

Really? You're living in a rich ass area. You're in the gated community. No one has money to tip your tail for. That does not make any difference if it's gated or not. People don't have money. The guy is doing that. Okay, now who's the I average routinely have drivers thanking me for a $3 tip. The are you sure they really thank you.

They're they're like, oh, they give me a smiley face. That means a thank you. Right. Thanks, sir. This is really going to help out. My kids need some dental work. Well, you know, what can I say? Maybe next time you could do a better job. How's that? But slam the door. Yeah, I got a tip for you. Work harder. The old El buddy thing. I got a tip. Doors are hard. But the, That's why I figured that show was ahead of its time. It was. Al Bundy is the cult leader we all need.

We got a shoe salesman that we all don't know, right? The 20, the delivery was like $200 of groceries, so I figured, you know, that's 10%. Okay, maybe it's a little high. I think my parents probably do 10% always, but $10. But there's also at the grocery store where the person's not doing the shopping. So, I mean, it's a little bit different. It all depends. Hold up. Hold up. Your grandma, your grandparents, your parents tip when they shop at the grocery store when they get delivered.

But their grocery store is different because the store does the shopping and then somebody just picks it up. That's just the last mile. The person bringing it to your door did not do the shopping for you. They're, We're here. The person that brings it to your door with love, loving care. Are you sure it's the same person? How do you know?

Because they text you through the whole thing. They're like, hi, I'm Katherine, your shopper. I'm starting your order now, and you can see as every item gets added to the cart and you can text them and be like, hey, oh, I forgot this. Go get this too. Okay. That's fine. Back when things were really out of, stock, they would do things like, okay, I ordered peanut butter. Well, they don't have the Jif peanut butter you ordered, so they would take a picture of the shelf.

Like, which one do you want? Like integrity. I mean, it's a full service kind of a thing. So I think you give a little more when somebody is doing the shopping for you. Now, assuming that they actually do the, do the right thing and follow your instructions. I don't like what they're like before the order, before you get the order, when you're just checking out, you know, before you even know who's picking up the order and what job they're going to do. Hey, would you like to add a tip? Now.

Because then, you know, least although you can always change it, which I can only assume would cause people to like come by your house and throw a brick through your window if they picked up the order and it's like oh, $20 tip. Then they dropped the food off and that tip drops to the GM $3 level. Then you're like bait and switch at them. Yeah. You could yeah, you could change it up until I think like ten months after $3 tip. I mean, that just seems seems low.

When I used to deliver pizza, that was 1947. It doesn't matter if I get a $3 tip, I'd be skipping back to my car because I was happy.

It was good enough for me. It's good enough for them. It is one of the reasons we stopped ordering from the one pizza place was that they started putting out a $5 delivery charge, and they weren't giving it to their fucking drivers. So it's like, look, if I give the driver five bucks in, you're already taking five bucks. Well, now it's a $10 fucking delivery and you're literally five minutes away. So for ten bucks, I'll jump in the fucking car, go pick it up and bring it home to get them to.

Not worth it. Let's see what you have a it's H-e-b that delivers to you. Yeah. What is the average tip for. How the hell is that. Even though they don't I don't know I'm going to make up a number of course. So this is why I use great. Don't you like that. It just makes up things you love the I you talk to it all day. Yeah. But let's see here finding the average tip for an H-e-b delivery driver at Austin Texas. It's looking it ready to valet maybe three balls right.

Yeah. The average tip for an H-e-b delivery driver varies based on order, size, effort required and individual tipping preferences. Oh yeah. Common tipping practices include flat tips. Many customers tip a flat amount, such as 5 to 10 per delivery. Some tip 15 to 20% of the grocery bill, although higher percentages are less common for large orders.

And then there are effort based tips where they could be calculated on factors like the weight or bulkiness of the items, with some suggesting a dollar or two per bag or $2 per mile driven.

Who cares about $3? Three bucks is about a dollar per bag. While tips can range vary wildly, drivers report that $10 is a typical amount for most deliveries in the area that they gave me well, here as well. This this was two years ago in an Austin subreddit. How much do you tip for H-e-b delivery? There's a there's a Reddit thread for everything, but there's a Reddit thread for everything. And this one creepy chef says I do their deliveries for a favor. Sometimes it most tip the bare minimum $5.

No, no no three is the bare minimum for what would be the bare minimum. $0.50. Here kid. Go buy yourself a gumball. He does deliveries. What now. He just said I do their deliveries for favors sometimes. So obviously English isn't good with him.

No favors. Name of a company for. Oh I didn't know that was lowercase f. Yeah. Then, most people are super. Is owned by H-e-b, favors a delivery company. They were used to be really good back in the day. So in the good old days, when favor with good old boy company, like, when they first started, I use favor all the frickin time because they would do anything you wanted. So I remember one time they announced that a a wine and painting class.

Well, of course, you would be with a female friend of mine. Oh, okay. That makes sense. And, the, these these people have plastic wine glasses. Can you believe that? Yes. Oh, yeah, I've seen those. Were they the ones without the stems even today?

Making me know the answer for them. But they were I mean, it was ridiculous. So I'm like, this is retarded. I'm not drinking from a plastic wine glass. So I pulled out my phone and went to favor. And then said, yes, you worry me. Two wine glasses made of glass. And then, Favre went and bought a couple wine glasses and delivered them to the class and, you know, then that could look down on everybody else drinking their plastic wine glasses.

Like, I cannot drink my Pino through a plastic glass. It's the who must drink out of plastic. Please. Well, they figured that the type of people who come in for a painted glass are just going to either break or steal the glasses, and it was probably. I'm sure they are people provided. Where was the what was the location?

Was it at a restaurant or. No. Well that's why and obviously it wasn't in the restaurant. It was at a, painting studio. What do you mean, where it was? Oh, location? No, because these happen at restaurants now, like Paint Night. You have not heard of this? Really? Yeah. The restaurants, they try to bring in business, you know, quiet nights and they have, you know, whatever they bring in, they set up a little area and they do the paint. And,

so they I guess they also assume maybe people will eat before or after do to, yeah. Yeah, to make up the difference. But the, it's it's weird. I always thought that was kind of weird anyway. And it's, you're right in the, the customer service is good. There was a, Well there is, it's still there. It's a Italian beef place that we go to every day. I don't want them. And the sign on the door because they do, you know, the food there. They also do catering.

And the sign says, let us cater all your needs. And I'm like, that's a really open sign for a lot of people. What kind of needs you got? Well catered to them. Like, well, you seem to be a very, high level. Then, I got a lot of crazy thinking. I'm going to go with the. I'll send you a list of what I might need. CSB got the crazy needs. I'm sure he does. But now you you didn't see Snow White, but you've read a lot of reviews.

Feel like I saw it because I've seen all these reviews. This is called the we've that we do. I'm unrelenting. You think Donald Trump could do the. We've unrelenting starts with, hey, I mean let's talk about Snow White. And then an hour and 20 minutes later you're finally off the side. Tangents. Did you order your food? By the way, I did get my liquid bath. I took my pills. Did you take your B12? I did not, oh. This explains it.

Like I may not need it today because we're not talking about any substantive issues. Everything is substantive. That's what the show's about. It's talk radio for those kind of people who want to listen to something. And there's nothing else I can. I feel like today's episode is mostly fluff.

Isn't that every episode we've had zero politics. We have zero talk about you being in the hospital we've had, which I've avoided for the last week. We don't know kind of guns and ammo talk. We've had nothing relating to any kind of, news that's out there. We I think the whole episode, we talk about food and, tipping people. Okay. Tip now give us some supplements. We guess we talked about we mentioned a few things here and there. Do I can get a $10,000 Apple machine to run AIS locally.

Okay. We did talk about that, which was a funny video. I sent it to you because the video was funny. And then your take on the video is this makes total sense.

It does too sad. It was also funny. I mean, I like like this is stuff. It's, hitting me. It's like the Lionesses managed to make a shit ton of money and become a multi-millionaire and basically having a, you know, a wimpy nerd image. Yeah. And the YouTube channel. YouTube channel. Yeah. That's all you need. I've never been in a fight that I've won.

Here, let me show you how to build a computer. Right. Land. It's, I mean, the crazy stuff that once you. This is why it is really hard to compete at this point on the level with YouTube. But I think you're finding it out as well. Okay. You're going up, you're going up, you're going up to hit the plateau. I guess I'm not plateauing at all. The people that have been around a lot longer, like Linus and Marquez.

One, they have so much recognition that companies no one actually likes them, though neither one of those companies like Tesla are like, hey, come drive our car for free for a month. It was advertising and like nothing to do with whether people like them or not. Right.

But you, you can't call up fucking Elon and say, let me drive this car for a month so I can review, like not getting a new car to drive anymore because there's a video of him hitting a person in a car that's while you got it, and then driving off while he's talking on the phone and ignoring because he's rich. It's really not the point. It's the main point like this. You know, if he calls up Apple, they'll give him a client that was for sexual harassment.

Oh boy, he's a bad guy with by an employee, isn't everybody though? I mean, there's like the Russell Brand stuff coming out again. It's like, oh, there's a bunch of accusations from 2005 or before.

It's like, yeah, 98 to 25. It's like, you can't prove any fucking thing from that long ago. He's probably guilty, probably. But you can't prove it. You need to. Yes, I think you do need to, because otherwise I'm just going to go find five women that say, Yes. I didn't have to worry about sexually assaulted you. And then you'll make big money. You say you did it ten years ago. 20 years ago. It'll be great to see. That would never work. Because I have videos of your whole life. Yeah. Wow.

You must have mass backups. We had backups. I it's all on them. That exactly. It's stored off like a lot of people don't know where wears a police body cam 24/7 on the front and back. Just so everything gets covered up. The guys who you got to have. Oh, actually be hilarious. Wouldn't it be facing body cam? But you gotta have both just say you like the car, car cam things. The dash cam, the in the back of the front. Yeah, right.

You got to just so you know what, you can prove anything that goes on the. Yeah. Like 90% of the footage of the back body cam is sitting on a chair that's just right up against the chair. That's it. A really nice fabric, though, you can tell. But when these people get big enough on YouTube and the companies are more than willing to send them whatever product, and they're making enough money to buy, you know, this, it's like, oh, we'll buy a $20,000 computer just to make a funny video.

That's fine. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like damn. Well, how do you know? Okay, okay, okay. So yes, I'm sure they could. However, when Linus says, let's buy a $20,000 computer and make a funny video, one of his employees gets on the phone and says, hey, Apple marketing department, right? We've got an idea for using one of your products. You want to just send it to us? Or what do you want to do, right? You want to give us a discount? You want to say, I've never seen the video or love me?

Well, maybe not never. But I've not seen a video in a decade of Linus walking into a store to buy something. He used to do those. If you watch Linus, as long as I have, there were videos where Linus would go into a store and say like a micro center. He's like, okay, we've got $190 and we're going to build a computer. We're going to buy the parts here. Let's see how good or shitty a job we can do. Like those were his content from years ago. Yeah, he did that. I think it was about a year ago now.

That was at, one of these markets. That was it. It must have been in China. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah, he did one in China, but he used to do them like in Canada where he's from all the time. But I doubt it.

Most people that have a substantial size do not pay for any of the products they review now, because you can get them for free, literally, like the marketing departments will just send them to you because you you'll for guys like Marquez, whose whole channel from day one was built around product reviews, right. Mainly cell phones and Apple laptops. And incidentally, I've never seen a bad review from him. So yeah, that that should tell you how much you should trust them.

I have there was one personal assistant, and there was also the, was it a Dyson thing that you like wore that were like headphones and an air filter for you to breathe in?

But there was a he didn't like it. He hated it. And there was one that was a personal assistant, like a little dongle, you know, like microphone type thing that you wore. And it was like your personal assistant for the whole day. All right, well, he ripped that well, he ripped that thing to shreds. And it was like six months later the company went bankrupt. So I mean, go figure. Well, there you go. If he would have only said it was great. They probably.

Yeah, but he said a lot of complete shit is great. Oh yeah. There's a lot, including the Apple vision glasses, which no one thinks are great. They're pieces of shit. Yeah. I can't really comment on those because, you know, only one I know and it's not great.

So not only that, but they're like five grand. Yes. No. Yeah. So you and my dad, you both said the same thing today. Wow. Yeah. Which was he. He texted me something about, is there software though, that let you do 3D in the VR glasses? I'm like, well, yeah, I have that. And, you know, it's available. And then he replies with, well, of course, wouldn't do me any good because I could only see with one I know.

Right? So why did you ask them? What was the point of asking, can you do 3D? And what I know and I, I don't know what you need. Three good eyes right to do 3D. Hey, I contend and I don't know, you know why? What the, the deal is, but I've never had, even with two eyes what I would consider good depth perception. Because losing the one eye, there's a lot of things that were like well don't that you should be really hard. You're going to be grabbing, you know, things and they're not there.

It's like no, never had any it was like, you know, besides not having one eye. It's like never had that issue. Like, oh, no, I can't tell how far away something is. So I mean, even the early which the playing around with the early 3D stuff, you know, with the cardboard type thing, you put your iPhone in do, it's like was never all that impressed with it because I think my eyes were probably fucked up. There probably was more has to be more of a neurological thing.

But like mixing the signals together or something, it's like I'm getting was getting mono, you know, my whole vision rather than the two eyes, which should give you the depth perception, really never. Maybe a little, but never a whole lot. I didn't notice about you. So you you've never had that? I don't think so. I mean, it was that and I really didn't know.

Again, this is kind of, I guess like being colorblind until somebody finally points out to you something where you're like, oh, those aren't the same color. You don't know.

So how would you know whether we had good depth perception or not? Unless, you know, I just figured losing the one eye, that would be like, wow, this is a big difference. And it's like, I don't know, I don't really not really notice anything different. Yeah, we're all wired a little bit differently, I guess. I mean, do you, do you like, brush your teeth and your teeth brushes on the outside of your teeth? Yeah. It's like every day it's like, this is just horrible. I don't know how to do this.

It's an electric toothbrush too, so it just does some damage. I go back and forth. I mean, I know they do a better job, but I don't like the, it is a, ultrasonic. Yeah, the I like those. I was like this. I mean, it's does a better job. I just don't really like the feeling of them. But tingly. Yeah. You got to be careful. Maybe you could just zap yourself.

Bless the, I maybe just need a slightly softer brush head because we've got some, I mean, the wife, of course, got the cheap Chinese knockoffs, and the bristles are a little bit stronger, which is probably better, but, it sends those vibrations right into your skull, ma'am. So I had to go back and forth between that. Just a regular toothbrush we feel like you're doing. Doing yeoman. Well, all I know is that ultrasonic toothbrushes tend to end up being dual purpose devices for women.

Oh, well, that's where the batteries always out was waiting for the rimshot. We don't have that sound effect. Sorry.

Yeah. What's up with that? I don't know, see, Brooklyn comic strip blogger and of course wheelie. Wow. Kevin Cipher, the only people that have, give it a little bit of love today. And episode number 150 of unrelenting. It's got to be called bacteria. I think. Okay, we'll make a beautiful piece of album art with I no doubt the new. I have tried the new ChatGPT image creation. I don't use that. Whoa. You sure that's the best? No. The best thing was.

What are you using for image creation now, Brock? Oh, no secrets. No good. Brock is, like, far and behind is way to. Here's you say that. Sorry, I didn't mean do. Don't send the, space access acids or the lasers from outer space are going to come and get me. They are the ChatGPT. Which is weird because they have Dall-E, which was always a part of that. When I have to go back in and try Dall-E again. But that was Dall-E pronounced Dali, but okay.

Sure. And much more like Dali, like Dolly Parton, Dalai Lama, Dalai Lama that the text you would give it to. I could do with doing the show artwork for this.

I could say unrelenting and then put Darren O'Neil and the and then it would do it right most of the time, put text on top of your stuff. Do they often? I mean, it was a little that would spell things wrong. Yeah. In general text with AI has such but not with the new chat GPT image creation tool.

Now if you look at like the latest random thoughts. All right. Random thoughts.com aria DMV thoughts dot a podcast. Yeah. It's a pug that you occasionally are in. Yes occasionally. Yeah I did the album art for that. And I'm like, I want a comic book type image of a blond woman and throwing a cell phone with Apple Card on the cell phone with random thoughts as the title at the top, hosted by Aaron O'Neill at the bottom. And it got an Apple Card. Apple. Well, that Apple Card that was right.

Apple card. You know your credit card for Apple? Oh, I thought you meant an Apple Card. And, it wrote Apple Card on the phone. It was in the air and the only thing it missed was the last Ellen O'Neill, which was very easy to add. Yeah, but everything else was absolutely correct,

which is amazing from the AI standpoint. Yeah. If this was all based on our experience, the whole episode of trying to get an Apple Card and dealing with the Goldman Sachs folks who are trying to fix the problem I gave up in that long time ago. Yeah, yeah. You had an issue trying to get that card, too, because, I, I got yeah, denied like twice.

And one of those times was when I had to really get credit and you're like, what the fuck, dude? Well, this. And then they realized that my other credit card actually gives me just as much discount on anything I buy as the Apple One did on the Apple product. So I'm like, okay, it's all whether you want the the 0% for a year is nice. If you're going to buy a computer, every card does that. Yeah, but not necessarily on the Apple stuff. Not every credit card does 0% either. Offers them their own.

Now, if you get the brand new, they may have a 0% what I mean, but the Apple Card, any time you buy, even if you've had the card for five years, you go buy an Apple product 0%. So it's a slightly different thing. And the one thing they do better, I'll give them this. There is no late fee, so if you accidentally pay your bill a day or too late. Yeah. You never getting a late season ticket like a year late.

Well that you're just going to have interest continue to pile up so there's no late fees in quotes, just interest in quote. Correct? Believe it or not, I mean, allegedly, I will tell you how that actually works out. All right. But I remember back when interest on credit cards used to be like 8%, 5%. No, like 150. Yeah, yeah. It's unbelievable. Now, that's the one thing when the Biden administration and Joey.

What happened to Joey? Where is anybody seeing Joey when they came out with the big thing like, hey, we're we're making the credit cards cap their fees at X amount, so your late fees will be capped at $25. Isn't that great? No. Fuck you cap the interest rates. Know the interest. Used to have a limit. They couldn't go more than it was X amount of, percent above the prime. And that was removed I think during Obama. And they when a sudden they could just pay 35% a year going up. They don't care.

And as long as you pay off your card every month, the interest level literally does not matter. So the offer we got with the Apple Card was sent to one of our catch all email accounts that the wife and I both used. And it was, hey, if you sign up by the 31st and spend, I think it was like $1,500, you got to buy a mac studio, man, see if you get the that's what it says.

That stuff should have you get a card by Amex Studio. Man. As long as you spend $1,500 in the first 60 days. Yeah, they will give you $300 credit, on the account. So, I mean, that's better than zero. But in the poker eye it is the fist. So she went through and it didn't come back. You know, they're always like, hey, we'll be able to tell you within seconds. Yeah. So we did that like six, 7:00 and nothing until the following morning that sent an email. We were unable to verify your identity.

And so we went in and it's like oh well having a last name like O'Neill, there's also times people will put the oh is like the middle of this show. Oh, Neil, her name is Kimberly, legally, but she just goes by Kim.

Kim in their Apple account, which pulled right in. They pull in Kim somewhere. Like, maybe that's the thing of the like. Upload your take a picture of your license it on the driver's license. Yes. And so I did. We did that for our security card. Right. And I did. We give all the information that still just comes back with we're unable to verify your identity. And it's like she called you. She's like, what the fuck do you mean? You're unable to verify the identity?

It's like you have my driver's license. And they're like, well, we can't really, comment, except we can't verify your identity. So I finally just went in and did it under my name, you know? And again, I ain't got a real job.

I'm a podcaster. No. Yeah. And within five seconds. Hey, you're approved for $8,500 by and by Apple. Yeah. No wonder you're just itching to get that next video. Now, the problem here was not that they couldn't verify her identity. It was a very targeted offer set to me. Like. So I called up fucking Goldman Sachs and I'm like, well, we would have had this done. I'm like, I'm getting the $300 back, right? No, no, we can't give that to you. It was by yesterday. So I got a supervisor who escalated.

He's like I think you'll get it. But because it really it wasn't our fault. It's like the your fucking error message was we can't verify your identity. What it really was was the identity doesn't match. What the link we sent out to was like there's very vastly different things. So we'll see how that goes. And I don't know. And the other thing that kind of pissed me off, although we have an Apple Store here in our local mall 20 minutes away or so. Yeah. Do you know you cannot split your purchase.

So if you have say, you know, a $1,000 in Apple gift cards and you want to buy a mac studio online, you can't pay $1,000 on the gift cards and then the rest with your 0% credit card offer or any credit card that sounds fishy. Yeah, I looked it up because I'm like, this can't be anybody can do even, you know. Yeah. This is not something that should be hard. But yeah, there's only one way to pay when you buy from Apple online and that is to use one source.

You cannot split. It's like but it's fucking gift cards. So if I want to turn some crypto into gift cards and, you know, put the rest on the credit card, I gotta go into a store. But they can do it. Yeah, but they won't do it. I mean, it'll do it. Yeah, but they won't do it online. It's like why there's a lot of things they won't do online because they can't verify your identity. Right? It's always the problem. We cannot verify who you are. So sorry.

I mean, who would you like them to not verify your any first? You don't want that? No, of course not. They verified it very, very, very much. And oh my God. Oystein Berry is streaming sat six satoshis a minute, which I know is nothing but, but the but the last streamed Satoshi before that was January 14th, so. Wow. Oystein, those are big. Big just shows us people are listening. He's out in the lowlands too. He's out in zero land in the Netherlands. That is. Voice zero. No.

Now, is this a new thing? No, it's where he's always been. Where do you think void is a void? Zero. I thought he's okay. Yeah, yeah. Void is another of the lands. The nether of the lands in Oystein Bastion. Mutton, meat, music that comes up later on today on the string.

It's going to crash on you, though, Oystein. Don't you worry that things have been going down. I'm trying to remember where he used to live, though. Who? Where? Zero was it? He always said the Netherlands running, crying, some calling him him. I think that's in the Netherlands. Yeah, that's where I used to live. Did you? You're as like Darren.

I won't even go to the store to buy groceries so Apple can forget about that. That's true. You want me to leave the house? I gotta go into a mall. And you know the worst part about it is. And now it because it's like I went to the mall. If we have to go into the mall. Here's the worst thing though. If I actually go to the mall I don't really drive because, you know, not seeing it all, that's a good thing. Yeah. The I mean, legally I can drive. So there's that, but it shouldn't be.

But yeah, it would mean the wife would take me to the mall and of course the mall where there's an apple Store, there's a Lego store. You know, I'm getting fucked if I have to go to the ball to buy a car, to buy a mac, because it could be like, oh, we need some Legos. How that works. You only get fucked when you get a Lego, I think. So that's not usually the way it works. But I mean, hey, it's Lego so you can get some cheap sets. Hey, you just leaving right in there?

Yeah, just walking right into it. Yeah. Well, somebody posted a meme about, like, oh, when she, you know, invites you over to play Lego. But when you get there, she's taking her bra off. And TSB was like, oh, that's Darren's wife. I'm like, fuck you. It's not. She wants to play Lego like that. Yeah, it's more like, that's not there, right? That's the problem. That's there. That would be great if the Lego meant Lego. But no, no, it does not. The Lego doesn't mean etchings, right?

Hey, the Reverend Doctor Fifer, he's in the troll room. Are you going to boost us for episode 150? This could be the whole new show concept. We just for boost. We. I think it's a great idea. Just sit there and ask for money and then, call the show, like, grift, cast rift gas. Yeah, I think that's a brilliant idea. We should do that. That's, No one's ever done that before. So you feel like you've seen Snow White? You said I. I feel like it.

If only we got some money coming in from A-listers. And I can tell you all about it. You can, do fifers, like boosting Jean? Well, no. I mean, if he goes through, like, pod verse, every bit of the split they make, they ask you if you want to do it. So you can say no to any one of the splits. That goes against the terms of service, of the, the that network of the DC Adam Curry. Right. You could decide which part of the split, which I always thought was kind of funny.

Yeah, that's literally legal, but okay. I don't know if you know what illegal means. It means that Adam is going to come and tell you how you land, that you can send Jean $3, but send me $33.

He likes a $3. You have to get delisted. Go ahead and do that. I don't have a little that app. Jean does have one thing though. That's true. He's got it sitting right here on my note. He's got like 400 bucks or something. Something like that. Yeah. Which you can't even buy. Jean. Like a thing of Bulgarian yogurt.

It's sad. No, no not even I mean the good stuff class. At least that the Bulgarian yogurt. Yeah, well, it comes in large size, barrels. You know, we ordered some Greek pasta salad, and it was, like, five bucks. I'm remembering, like, back in the olden days. What is it, two ounces? Kind of. Yeah, it was like four ounces, I think.

I didn't notice the fine print, like, damn, this shit's expensive. And they keep saying eggs are coming down. Eggs are coming down. Not at our grocery store yet. No. They're like, I saw the article today. I don't think it was fox like. Eggs are down to $3. Doesn't like fuck you. Yeah. That's bullshit. First of all. The second thing is, not only is it bullshit, but chickens are up.

You know, the the roast rotisserie chicken was always a lost leader in every store, right? Bring them in, bring them in. They were always like, four bucks. Five bucks at most. Usually four bucks. They're up to seven bucks now. You like. And the bread and they are smaller. You're absolutely right. The size has gotten smaller. Like, maybe if we can make the chickens a little smaller, the price a little higher. Yeah, nobody'll notice it back.

Back in the day, you get a large pizza, you got a 16 answer. Now a large is 14. Oh, yeah. I meant they're putting less, cheese on it and barely any cheese. It's like, don't do it, just charge me more. Although that I would stop because I got they stuff. When we were at my parents the day we were doing the TV, they ordered a pizza made, like chicken and green pepper. And in the old days, or which one that was. Oh, really?

I was, which is here in Chicago and then like Florida and a few other places. But I'm like just sausage for me. Just get a small.

So they got a small sausage pizza and it was the worst pizza I've had. I'm like literally the homerun in frozen pizza was better than that and probably a third of the price. So I'll believe it. I don't know how they think they're competing. I mean, as far as frozen pizzas go, for me the home run is the best. If anybody else thinks anything is better, let me know. I'll try it. But the home run in one is really good. This, So the trick? The pizza is having a hot enough oven we have.

Mine goes up to 550 or something, which isn't nearly enough for, making your own, but the, it seems to do okay for one of those pizza oven things that I thought of that I would love to put one of those out back. You know, one, you could go the wood fired one like our buddy Craig up in that candidate has the big top of it where it's like, do. Yeah, that'd be great. I would love to have one of those. It would be the most ultimate things. You could make full chickens in there. You can make roast.

Your dog says, yeah, yeah, and a pizza is making like, cooking like two minutes or less.

You get them up to like 1500 degrees. Yeah. I don't know about two minutes, but yeah, pretty quick. You just have to turn them three minutes. You got to turn them so they don't, burn. You know, close is turning your pizza into one of those ovens, having somebody to do it for you. I haven't a pizza guy. No, it is to make sure you put the pizza in exactly the same spot that you picked it up from. Yeah. Was. Yes. That's why you just kind of turn. You turn, you turn, you turn,

or you can just turn. Yeah. And they're coming it again. CSB with 1515 wants to know. He says Corvette as GM how will Russia and Ukraine war end?

According to him what is your prediction? He wants a Redbook prediction. How will the Russian Ukraine war come to an end? It's a tough question because I don't think it ever will. I think it's going to keep going. Well, the reality is, it will probably cease fire, but I don't think we're going to have an end. Well, I think we will have a cease fire.

I think you'll have a deal. But I don't think it's going to be a deal that's going to last any longer, that the Republicans being in charge. Well, yeah, that's for one. The other thing that's not going to last is you're I think you're going to have continuous drone attacks on Moscow indefinitely.

Now, I think no matter what kind of a deal exists there, there are plenty of people in Ukraine that are going to keep sending drones, into Russia because they're cheap, but they are exactly because they're cheap and they're unregulated, literally.

So it's not hard for people to do that. And this is this underlines the whole reason that Russia didn't want Ukraine in NATO is because Moscow's not that far away. They're like, this is too close. We don't want Western weapons sitting this close to us. And of course, how better to demonstrate that with what Ukraine's been able to do with really cheap drones is literally just time to Moscow.

We have. Warfare is completely different now than it was even 5 or 10 years ago because of the drones. Yeah, it's trench warfare. Randy black comes in with 1321. Says Russia will own Ukraine wholly again soon. I wouldn't go that far. I think that's going to happen. Yeah. I don't think that's going to happen. But after Ukrainian people vote for that, they're not gonna they won't let them.

I think all the ones that would have voted for that left Ukraine and went to Russia. Well, not even necessarily Russia. A lot of them just moved to Europe. But they're not I don't the population of Ukraine is right now is two thirds or even less than it was really a half years ago. So it is a much smaller population in a smaller chunk of land.

But as far as all of it being absorbed into Russia like it used to be for most of its history, I don't think that'll happen now. I heard Snow White is playing in Ukraine. Is that true? I'm sure it is. Record record numbers. Record numbers in Ukraine? Yes. Yeah. That's the best. And, Randy black also says they won't let the people in Ukraine vote.

Now, Zelensky is a dictator. He's been dictator for several years now, I believe, because they turned off elections, basically because, you know, our Constitution says that we can't have elections that more time. It's like you're in war all the time and then you shut down. I mean, that's the thing the a lot of people ignore the half of the story that they don't like things like, you know, he went after his opponent, he shut down television and radio stations and all this stuff.

This is it's it is very, very much what the blinders on for sure. Well, yeah. You got to do that. I mean, it's like the story here of, oh, they deported some guy to El Salvador and he's got a wife and kid. Yeah, well, according to the reports from the white House spokesperson, Catherine Leavitt and J.D. Vance, and I know they could lie to. But they're reporting that they found that this guy was a Ms13 gang member who was involved in human trafficking.

So obviously, these are the kind of people the left are fighting for. We don't want the child rapist taken from our cities. No, we love the child rapist. Left. Is a pro rape. Pretty. What do you expect? It does seem to me, because they think they want the abortion, right? We have pro rape, lots of abortions. You know, this is the thing with rational people. Things like Planned Parenthood.

I've heard from a decent amount of people on the right that said, hey, I wouldn't mind that they were being funded if they gave people a choice and at least said, hey, you know, adoption is a, something you could do as well.

I mean, we still do abortions, but we know adoption is great. If you would at least offer this, you know, and say the council people are that, but they refuse to. It's like that didn't exist. It's just evil. Yeah. They shouldn't exist. Well, you certainly shouldn't be paying for them. Let George Soros foot the bill if they didn't exist, you wouldn't have to pay for them.

Well, this is true. You know, like Bulgarian yogurt that exists. I'm going to have to go to a Whole Foods. I've never stepped foot, as far as I can remember, into a Whole Foods, but they get of the trader. So you don't have over there. Oh well that's good. Not like Aldi which every now on that cheaper trip for you.

I like Aldi though. I mean yeah that's the Aldi's horrible. That's great. All these awesome like four people store right. That's what part of podcaster didn't you understand. We got nothing. Give me some give me some of that store brand. Like I said, place. I can go get Pringles that are flavored because they're not actually Pringle

brand. They are the Aldi brand, but they don't have that MSG. Were all of the flavored Pringles were? What kind of a cheap ass manufacturer doesn't put MSG in their Pringles? The kind that cares about the people that are consuming their food. It's not that expensive. They need to start doing it. Just how do you make better food and flavorful food? Rather than putting the don't poison of MSG? MSG is essential to the body. It is a poison. Now it's essential to do the same ways not to have them.

It is a neurological toxin. It's not a neurological toxin. It's it's a neurological. What's the word for it? Toxin? No, it's not a toxin. For some people, it is. Well, I guess peanut butter is toxic for some people. Oh, my God, that. You know, this is why society has collapsed. Frankly, I guess we we stopped letting people die from eating peanut butter. Yeah. Like, if you get. Hey, here's the test. If you can't eat a peanut butter jelly sandwich, you live, you die.

Basically. Yes. We had that back in the 80s. No one, no one in my school had a peanut butter allergy. No one right now is saying that buddy of mine, he's got like a 90 year old, 75% of the students have a peanut butter allergy. But do they really? Or is this just local parents or is it. Oh yeah. Oh, they're not allowed to eat peanut butter. True. Because they die. Maybe they do. Maybe they don't. Yeah. I believe like I've said this before, I believe in eugenics.

I think we've letting the human race go to shit because we're not allowing nature to take its course and make the sick, not procreate the way that they used to. I mean, there's nothing worse than getting out of an airplane and be like, yeah, thank you for flying.

Unrelenting. Yeah. We do have somebody with a peanut allergy on board, so we won't be giving anybody peanuts at all. We don't have anything to replace it with. I guess I've never liked peanuts, but that's a preference, not a allergy thing. And then you could be charged with murder. You know, if you open up your own bag of peanuts and shake it in the air.

I mean, it's great. It's just insanity. The pacification of this country to the point where people can't even eat peanuts is insane. Hey, that's exactly right. Back in my day, you'd be eating cyanide with both fists and showing that you're not gonna get sick from that. Now, you can't have a peanut aboard an airplane. This is how bad it's gone.

Yeah, that's what's got liberals says to it is the Pacific nation of a nation. Oh he's great, I love him. He's fun. We always tried to bring a Scott clip to Planet Rage the most though. It like show out there. Shit that. Yeah, it's a clip show. Yeah. He says shit that everybody else is singing. Yes, he's got style. It's amazing how he's managed to pay for, you know, bills, given his views. Yes. And I mean, I'm all for it, but like, it's crazy. The guy lives in New York.

You would think somebody would have assassinated him. Do all the government there don't like him? But he became what? He's a Trump he's leaning into. Yeah. Now he's made it because he got a buddy in Donald Trump. Does he. Yeah. He's he's been on stage with him a few times and Oh really? Yeah. You know that. Yeah. Where you know, I don't remember when Trump was running. He was I. Yeah. Doing like one of his a speed paintings and stuff.

But him and Trump got together, so, obviously Trump watches the same kind of YouTube and, x, videos that are playing the same video game soon.

Probably. That's all he does all night. He plays, you know, that's what Elon's doing, that's for sure. Elon's okay. Could you just imagine that Elon Donald Trump it's midnight in the Oval Office. And they're just kicking back playing a little Star Citizen or something eating pizza drinking diet. So imagine that that's what they do. Like oh look they're probably just blowing your spaceships right out of the air because he can, peanuts are not nuts.

They're legumes. Well thank you. Did you, guru, for that little tidbit of. That's why they're called peanuts. Little bit of information people don't know. They're like, they look like not. You got nuts. They're nuts. Don't touch my nuts. Thanks to everybody who has donated generously. I mean, still, you can get in on the fun even if you're listening to the recorded podcast episode 150. And don't forget my birthday at on Tuesday. Oh it is. Yeah, a big six. Oh, Yeah, the big five. Five.

JC well, he's 73 on tomorrow, right. And I realized that Larry true reminding everyone of that so they will pay him instead of, you know, don't pay JC he's got more than enough money. That's true. But, Larry is about the same amount younger than JC as I am to Adam. So we are kind of the the carbon clone of the no agenda thing except for Larry is not technical at all. And he has a much lower voice of the JC, the. But he's a lot of fun to listen to and a lot of fun to do a show with.

Always brings it. I mean we're, you're a little you know tired at times Larry always brings it. Well I, I'm like a mirror you know I mean you're better than them rose. I mean we can go that far, Mike. That is. Not only am I better than memories, I'm better than that guy that you do. The other show with them, rose, the other show is. That would be Larry. Now, the other show. I do another show. Oh, the solo show. Oh, yeah. Just just my split personalities.

We really should do another grumpy old Ben's at some point. Ben Rose, I'm telling you, you can compete again in the market. He would be the one that really hated my water order. The other day, though, through Amazon.

It's the first time we have ever gotten an Amazon package. And it was for water. Yeah, for six packs of it was some flavored water. The wife wanted, but it was in like the really cheap water bottles. You know, like when you buy the $5 big pallet full where the even touch the bottle. If you look at the bottle, the clink, you know, makes a crinkling noise. Okay. But there were 4 or 6 packs in one box. It was the first time I've ever seen an Amazon delivery with heavy stickers.

I'm like, every side is a box. Damn. Wait, what? Are you getting weak? I mean, it was okay. It wasn't a light box, but 24 things of water. How much does that way, I don't know, memories is buff now, does he?

Probably. I don't believe it. All in all those packages that are mostly air. All of the mail. Right. All in the mail. So the mail he doesn't all mail does it. Well the deliveries, they're not some of the USPS within sight mail. So I see if you saw Snow White let me know what you thought of it.

I mean the whole show Snow White from plenty of people I don't need to hear from anymore. Take him to see. Snow white is somebody in the Austin area. Wants to take Jean to see Snow White. And for sushi, let them know. Do you have anything else fun and exciting coming up this week? Yeah. We're probably not going to do a show next week because I'll be traveling. Oh, back to Mexico, New York, whole New York, the Big Apple. Yeah, the big, the big, big, big apple.

What are you going there for? Business. For pleasure. There is no such thing as pleasure in New York, is there? At this point? No. Gene's got some business. I don't think it's been any pleasure in New York for ever. No, especially not over the last 8 to 10 years or so. I mean, now it's migrant central. Eric Adams might run as an independent because that's going to be totally different. Yeah. So no show next week, everybody. Maybe we'll find out.

Oh, you like to be might be able to do it live from the Trump Tower. Exactly. And I can do it. I'll do it. But I'm just giving you a heads up that I may not be able to do any. Of course. And you would be like an hour later there too. So you'd be totally raring to go with Showtime. Oh, yeah. That would be an hour later on that. Yeah. Okay. Kiwi bone, Billy Bone says, tip your NYC hookers at probably more than $3. Otherwise you will get stabbed. Let's see David tell the story.

I mean, I can't now because we're out of time, but. But getting stabbed by a hooker. My high school, I didn't have him as a teacher, but he taught at my all boys Catholic high school when I was there and ended up being murdered in his own home by a prostitute. And the reason was she stabbed him, like, 48 times or something. He argued about the price after. Okay, never argue about the price after what must not have been very good. Then. Yeah, me with you. Yeah.

Deal's a deal. Tip those hookers well.