151: Uncommon Long Cold

You hear me now? No. You and you. Hello and welcome to episode number 151 of unrelenting. The rumors of our demise has been through lightly exaggerated. I'm dared on the air due to. Yeah, so we're not dead. I said let me check here. I mean, to be fair, I just did this pill time, I think. So let me we have Scott Adams has the simultaneous sip we go and it's mine some way, some yours.

You must have what might sound like horse pills. Yeah. Those are way bigger. The biggest thing I got in here is a Coke Q10. So, there's that a and then a bunch of small pills. So I mean, Scott Adams I don't, I don't think that one he can eat his heart out. He's got this simultaneous. If we got the simultaneous pill taking. Which means you better listen to the show at the time you're supposed to take your pill. Otherwise, just take extra is not medical advice.

Not medical advice is all with do the show really should be called not medical advice would be great book. Well, what is it? Well, it's a lot of medical and no, it's a lot of not medical advice. Medical. Not advice or not medical advice. Exactly. I'm kind of mixing in the compressor today for the stream to see if that makes things sound any better. It's a very. Yes after three years. Let's try changing something. It's a very basic compressor.

But that way, instead of trying to ride the knobs, the whole show

everything looks good down here. Looking at the recording, I see my recording. I see you're recording, so it's all good, you know? And, you broke some scientific news that I guess a lot of people had forgotten, which is busting your friend's balls is healthy.

Yeah. It's amazing. Right. Because this is how we grew up is it. There were no safe spaces. There was no. Oh no. He said something to make me mad. Like we've looked scientifically at people who, take part in this and they are much more well adjusted. Yeah. Yeah. Who knew me. Well I mean everyone up until the 1990s. Yeah. Being mean to your friends is healthy. I mean I can't even imagine high school taking that out of the equation. I don't know what you would ever talk about.

Well I think you just all sit and stare at phones and not talk. Well this is probably true too. But now you could be mean to people all the way around the world instantaneously. It's great as long as you're, you know, friends with them, right? If you're not friends, it's called war. I guess it's called war. Well, it I don't know if it goes quite that far, but certainly,

there's another video I posted which was pretty damn funny. I mean, you usually get one funny one a month. Is that what it is? Yeah. Yeah, I think that's about the ratio. Guy talking about, how the internet is great for sucking energy out of people and that it is mean, literally and figuratively. Oh, all you gotta do is just, he's got in the video. He's got some, some PhD person talking about some topic and, and, you know, just post a short response like, that's not how gravity works.

Go read a book. That's so true. That's so true, man. Well, it's it's nothing like putting a short little message that just sort of triggers the, a whole. But not just that one person, but a whole bunch of people to jump on both sides. And, half of them will start defending the person, saying, oh, you're a moron.

I can't believe you would tell that somebody that's got a degree in gravity and then you have half of the other people would be like, yeah, this guy's an idiot. I PhD, you know, that stands for Piled higher, deeper. And then you, you can walk away like you don't have to do anything other than smile at the, chaos that you've created. Yeah. The anger machine is not difficult to start new. And that's the beauty of social media. And they realized that a long time ago.

And it's been discussed ad nauseum that if you make somebody mad, they're way more likely to stay on your platform and engage than if you post something that makes myself doing this to I have a message somebody left on my my videos recently because obviously I had way more people watching my YouTube than the show.

We atlas Rand gaming. Everybody should get on the tubes. Yeah. It's it's it's there. It's the happening channel out there for, you know, gaming. And that's where Gene takes Sudafed games all night and falls asleep. I do not take Sudafed. That's illegal. But really, what did you say become illegal mayonnaise. Oh, because you can make up the bad stuff with it. Yeah, you can absolutely. No meth lab in Gene's basement. Bad. No. No bad.

Flips it all the way back to the good old days when, when you can buy a veteran over the counter. Oh, boy. Yeah, they wouldn't even ask for your license or anything. How? It was great, man. Oh, I bought so much, etc. and just load up the whole grocery store. Have some in the garage. Anyway. Hey. That's right. Are they under the ponchos to keep them safe? That would be good, I know right? I'm like, hey, I had this great idea for making custom etc. and maybe, so somebody posted like that.

You're you're a shitty small YouTuber. You're always going to be a shitty small YouTuber because you have stupid titles and you don't know what you're doing. And I'm thinking of your knee jerk reactions, replying, well, you're a moron. And then and then I click on the guy's name to see with this is that. That's such an asshole. Look at it.

It's a it's his YouTube profile is he's been around since 2006. He's got six subscribed. Ooh. That's good. But he never posted a video. I'm like, oh my God. Yes, yes, I know exactly the person that this is. I like I know the character. I don't need to know the individual. But yes, this is the person who gets off. I'm getting responses to these kinds of messages. So I did the only checkmate movie you can do at that point. You shot him I yeah, he's actually I blocked him.

So no comments from him will ever be on my YouTube channel. And that's why blocking people is a good thing. I keep explaining this and so many people keep arguing that no, you should not block is freedom of speech. Like, no, dumbass, it's there's no freedom of speech. First of all, that's only with government. And secondly, it's not speech. And it's I need to bring the other platforms, it's interaction, and I don't need to interact with somebody who is a, energy vampire, which is what that is.

It was probably the same person. That message, I forget what platform it was on. It was either X or, the metaverse. And the comment was something like, hey, you're a good third tier podcaster. Stay in your lane. Exactly. Something like that.

Yeah, I was thinking I finally made it up to the third tier. Who? Yeah. You didn't realize that he actually gave you a compliment? I am moving on up, but I've been, Yeah, man. Engaging the block feature on X so much. My theory now is basically, if I block every account, I don't want to see the right X will finally be better. And here's what happened. It took about a week, and I'm not kidding about this.

Yeah, every time I went on the X, it was trying to throw me something that obviously was going viral. Almost always somebody with millions, if not probably the minimum was like 500,000 followers. These are the accounts that are pushing him. And for a week, every time I went on and that was the first thing on my timeline, I hit block, block by block, block by block. This morning I got up, I went on to X the first thing on my timeline, sir Gene. I'm like, finally it's working.

Yeah. And I didn't block you though is well that's good. It's, there's definitely something going on with the algorithm because I noticed one thing I noticed is my engagement way the hell off. A lot of people are. While they're at that. Yeah. For a while there, it picked up to where, you know, when I post something, it was getting seen hundreds of times and or commented on or thumbs up or whatever, you know, little hearts, whatever point it is, there's some kind of engagement happening.

And, that is completely gone. Now. I might log on once in 24 hours and I'll see two engagements, and I posted like 30 posts is a way of getting everybody off the internet. Maybe. Maybe. Yeah. And that's the thing. Like, I have nothing monetarily tied to X, which unlike a lot of people who actually make money off of it. And so I don't really care. It is a pure 100% vanity thing and nothing more.

Honestly, YouTube is kind of in the same boat, but it's I don't have to do things to try and get more engagement. If I do, that's cool. I mean, I'm certainly going to be, you know, smiling about it, but it's not it doesn't really affect me right now. I'm curious. It's a lot of these things that have been pushed out of my timeline are these things people are paying to promote. You know, I'm never really sure it could be.

Yeah. But I think the the bigger issue for me isn't that are these things people are paying for it. It's are the posts that I'm making and the replies I'm making are being not seen at all. In fact, this was the biggest complaint about Facebook about 15 years ago, I remember, is that back in the day when Facebook was still being utilized by people, who aren't geriatric, what started it? When it started, you had a timeline that consisted of 100% posts by people you follow, right?

And then it started having ads inserted, and then it started having people you don't follow showing up on your timeline, and you had no control over any of this. It was just sort of like, this is what we give you. And, that did two things for Facebook. One is, it allowed them to sell advertising

that doesn't look like advertising. And two, is that it made people start looking for alternatives to Facebook. Right. And look for things like Twitter, because when you lose control of what is presented to you, you're no longer the customer. You're the product, right? Which they all went to the algo method of what they wanted to show you. Yeah. Now. Yeah. And this is because because well, sorry to interrupt you there, but all these. Why not?

I am, it's been it's been like a month, you know, take a lot to see. You gotta. It'll go away soon. But remember, all these things started off as basically public Logan boards, right? Oh, yeah. And there were public that were they whatever. And and public works boards. Words were threaded chronologically. Yeah. Exactly. And well, either chronological or threaded. I mean, the fancier ones were threaded. The, the simpler ones were just pure chronological with no threading.

But the idea is that you're following a story in real time, right? People are complaining, they're talking, they're agreeing, they're disagreeing. But whatever is happening, you're following the narrative of what's going on there. And, and then when you have threading, you've got different topics that you can follow, what you see, all the messages related to that particular topic.

Right, which is an even more, you know, condensed version, if you will, what they're doing on the X and what they were doing on Facebook, I assume they still are, having logged into Facebook in 20 years now. But, what they were doing is taking that model, which people like apart and replacing it with the newspaper model, with occasional articles written by your friend. It's like, I don't have any interest in reading a newspaper

with a bunch of random people. That has a few things that my friends wrote as well. And that's that evening into I want the options. Absolutely, yes. And I'm paying and I don't, you know, even I don't think that should be a requirement for this.

But the technology, the only reason I'm paying is for grok, honestly, and not for really X. But give us the I mean, if they if they decouple those, if they could just say, here's what you pay and you just get grok and it doesn't include an upgraded X account, I would happily do it because I post on X more than I actually read on X. Yeah, well, because it's impossible now to find anything interesting because I am not somebody that I mean every now and then.

Okay, if an interesting video pops up there, but yeah, but I mainly want the text based back and forth. And when everything you're throwing to the top of my timeline are photos and get to memes, it's like, I have no interest in that. No, but give me option like the interaction portion was the interesting bit. I don't know how many messages I posted with Adam Curry on them now. I haven't seen a single reply. Well, yeah, and I don't think it's because he doesn't like me.

I think it's because he doesn't see them at all.

Because they're not showing up in his timeline. He's too busy having a war with Adam Horowitz, who's Adam Hunter at the Horowitz and, drum plug that. Adam, whether I said that, I'm sorry. Adam Horowitz. What's his name? It's not Adam. No, that you don't know, but it's not Adam. No, it's not Adam. I can't remember his name or where John Horowitz, the Jake Horowitz, Fred Horowitz, Andrew Horowitz. Thank you, Billy bones. Andrew. There you go.

See, it started with him. Hey, that's what my brain works. I guess just having the first letter is close enough. Drew Horowitz. Yes. Yeah, he's having a battle on there. I. I don't even know about this. I know they're they've just been going back and forth. And Horowitz is trying to get his liberal and the people to pay attention to his show intro. It's the bit, I don't know, I should listen to a drum plug, but I don't really have money to put into the stock market. So what's the point?

I'm a podcaster. Yeah, yeah. Could be Nancy Liebowitz. That's right. Oh that's good. Yeah. We got I mean, I will say this, I think I'm almost back in the in the green on my positions. What do you mean, in the green? Oh. And everything. Man, I'm not in the red. So you're not losing anymore. They're not upside down. Yeah. You like finally. It's what's going up. I think. I think Tesla is slowly edging its way back up board, which was my sort of,

you know, bet for putting money in for, tariffs is finally getting to that point where they're starting to realize, oh, wait a minute, we're going to have an advantage with American made cars. So that's going in the right direction. The only one that's still flopping around is Nvidia, which I'm surprised by because I don't know, maybe I'm not I it's hard to say, man.

Well, the interesting thing within video is for they went from being the company that was doing okay because people were using it to play computer games, and that was kind of a dying market. Then they went into the AI space. Yeah. Well first they went into the Bitcoin. Well right. They went into that which is also not dying. But for normal people to do any kind of bitcoin mining that has died off because of the way we've got towards the end of that electricity.

Yeah. And the rates of electricity and all that. So they pivoted into the AI and that was great for them. And I've seen just a little bit of coverage on this, and maybe I'm reading all of this completely incorrectly, but I think Apple really kicked in, vedere in the balls by releasing a computer that could have 512 gig of memory. Because it immediately became something that, for eyes is a go to. And it's crazy as it is, because if you max this thing out, okay, it's a, what, $15,000 computer?

But what does it cost to put 4 or 5 video cards into a machine? Yeah, it's really not price prohibitive compared to what you would need to get lesser power. And it's most of these things are geared towards Nvidia.

So right now they still have an advantage. But it doesn't take a whole lot to port these things away into a different system. If the hardware ends up being better. Yeah, yeah. It's I think they've been dominating for a long time. Their problem is, they have shitty software, at least as far as their, gaming side of their products go. It's like they're they're acting like what you would expect, which is gaming is taking a backseat, to all the other utilities for their cards.

And I think the problem there is, even though they're still very much the 800 pound gorilla, they're they're the big guys, in gaming and every other thing that they're in, they they've just burned so many bridges and they have a bad reputation that it's costing them their stock price. They're they're a 108 right now.

They should be at over 200 right now, given where they are financially, given where they've got investments, the only thing that logically should be pushing their price down a little bit is the unpredictability of the market. As far as tariffs go, because they're a Taiwanese company that does most of its manufacturing in China. And I don't know if you saw one of my other posts. Is that what you still post? I thought you totally left social media. No, you left social media.

I've been look, I just because I don't read messages doesn't mean I don't post. Oh okay. You're about oh I get a windows update notification here. The device will restart. Okay. Let's go ahead and do it. Yeah I don't miss that. That is one thing I do not miss is windows updates. Yeah. Get update to windows which means restart clean boot.

I think it's been, if I'm not mistaken, twice that the Apple operating system has updated since I've been running this device since November when I've been windows updates. Ever been on the same time? Well, one the week probably. Yeah, right about there. It seems like that anyway. And then you add in things like your video card drivers. Nvidia what? Your video really pissed me off and maybe I'm missing something here again.

But when they started forcing you to fucking sign in before you updated your drivers. Okay, why do I need to sign in? Why do I need an account? I've got the hardware. You can see I got the hardware. Just give me the fucking driver. That's true. I don't like it anyway. So what I was saying about the. Oh, Gina. You okay? Oh, that cold was that. Damn it. Was it Covid? Have you been, healed? Have you been hydrating and taking your back? Covid? I actually posted a Covid test.

I thought it might be Covid just because it was lasting, so I'm wrong, but I had the, what's known as the long cold. No, the long cold?

Yeah. Is that a thing? I've never heard of the long, cold? Yeah. So I just created it. So it's, Yeah. Yeah, I have a lab in China working on these things. Yeah. So basically, it's the common cold. It's not the flu, it's just the viral infection. It's coronavirus. Technically, but, it's the spike protein. What happens is, well, that's why it's a coronavirus. They all have spike. Exactly. But the point is fear. Fear monger manga. This thing. Unlike the normal common common cold.

This is the uncommon common long cold. Oh, the uncommon long cold. Yeah, that's the technical name for it in Latin. It's, It is exactly what you've had for the last 50 years. When you get a cold, except it lasts for two weeks. You need to flush that out with so much vitamin C, you're peeing orange. Yeah, I am, and it's like, make no difference. It's the last thing I did.

I'm taking, I've been taking about 10,000% zinc and about 15,000% vitamin C, 5000 to 10,000% vitamin D. Yeah, but this is this the normal level of those? Shouldn't you like, triple that if you're sick? Yeah. Yeah yeah. Wait, wait a better. Yeah. Well it's, you know, it's more than triple point is it's, it is making a difference. But I took a test for, all kinds of other things. I did one of these multi like, tests. What kind of disease you have.

If you're a person who thinks they have a disease. What's this? It's what's the internet or is this the what? Medical profession. The whole. No, this is through a, a DNA test. Oh, yeah. We would be interested in that. And. Yeah, yeah, I bet he would. But it's not DNA. It's way, you know, PCR test and and the results are it's not the it's not the flu. It's not any of the flu variants. It's not Covid or any of its variants. It's not malaria. It's not a whole bunch of different diseases.

Is it. Dengue fever. Yeah.

It's essentially doing me a negative to all the cool diseases that are available out there. It's like you are perfectly healthy. You have no and it's it's basically saying, yeah, this is you're a control. You're like clearly not sick with evening. Meanwhile, coughing and sneezing and whizzing and yeah, but I think it's only downslope because I, I haven't had fever for a couple of days now which is good.

Well, in this style it seems like when you're, when you dread to go on the dreaded travel expedition. So was it up on the plane. You were probably right. Started on a flight back. There was somebody I was like fine. Oh yeah. They had something for sure. That the, I was fine the entire time I was on my trip and and incidentally the weather was rotten in New York. It was like in the 30s. And then, when I flew back, I was perfectly fine.

The day I flew back, I was even fine, I would say. Didn't really notice anything the next day until the very evening of the day after the flight. And that day I haven't left the the house at all. So it's like it had to be on the flight that I got, in fact, that we need plenty of chicken broth. Oh, I've been drinking, dude, they just drank two of those last night. I've been drinking chicken noodle soups. Two more left and right. Yeah. You got your, horse today? I take 18,000% turmeric right now.

What? Are you okay? If you're not being orange, you're being bright yellow. Neon is the, Oh. I'm being blue because I take methylene blue every day. Your doctors must have so much fun with you. He wants nothing to do with me. You're being fact checked with a blue light when I call the doctor, and then I talk to him, says, yeah, you got this, right? Right. I'm like, you know what to do. Okay. Yeah, yeah. He's like, yeah, you got it. You know what you're doing. All right. Call me when you're back.

Yeah. Or dead that way. We can, we'll take you after all, right? Make sure you pay your bill. Plenty of liquid. I mean, that's it. It was just like with Covid. They still, like, do the supplements and plenty of liquids. Just like when you think you've drank enough, drink more.

That was the only advice I got for my doctor. But CSB says you lied. Nvidia is an American company, not Taiwanese sound. But I did hear Americans in the USA in Nvidia is American, not Taiwanese. I mean, they don't make it easy in America. Everything I make is they make in Taiwan. Doesn't matter who the company. I said, you know, if you look at who owns, who owns things versus where they're made, I guess maybe. But it Trump doesn't give a shit who owns what he cares about. Where it's made.

As far as we're concerned, in the US, it's a Taiwanese company. Yeah, that makes sense. Make it him. Like, we have to make the drugs here. That is the first step on anything. Is the pharmaceutical I. There was a company out of. Yeah. We should stop importing them from Afghanistan, Mexico and China and start manufacturing our own meth. I just yeah, our own meds and meth, which I guess is part of it. That's why I said meds. Meds.

I said the, I thought there's a was there the Swiss company, there's somebody who just said they're putting billions of dollars into bringing pharmaceutical here, which would be really nice. We need that because you can't I mean, really, at this point, they say there was another world war. Well then where all the meds are going to come from, you think your enemies that you're fighting are going to be like, oh no, we'll still send you all your blood pressure and heart medication.

Oh that'll be great. No. They'll start sending your stuff that'll kill you maybe.

Yeah. Yeah, totally. You want to talk about how to win a war? Like, We're fighting China, but they're still providing all of our medications. Yeah. That boner pill is going to do more than give you a boner. It'll give you a grabber. They're providing all the medications not just the prescription ones. Oh true. When you look at all of these, supplements, it's why it is such. And I have bitched about this here before, but it is such a waste land. If you're like, oh, this is interest me.

I was listening to the unrelenting show. It was talking about this supplement. Can you go punch that into Amazon? There's like 8000 different manufacturers. It's like, how do I know what's good? I know it's hard because I remember when the last batch of methylene blue I ordered, it was literally labeled as no brand name. You're like, oh, it's up to no brand name.

And I found, I found the business register for the company is out of Florida, right? Oh, yeah. That was one, like, out of the, like, ring by that big old folks. Yeah. Yeah, it was one for the eye pills. That wasn't that. Yeah. Yeah. So it's it's litter. And it started off a month ago. Right. The company was founded a month ago. Right. Brand new American car company. Yeah. Good company. And, so I looked it up, and then I remembered that that held up.

This seems to be located right next to where I know that there's a drug manufacturer, because I've used them before when I was running that supplement company years ago. And look those guys up. And sure enough, these guys have their headquarters fake address where they're warehousing the drugs that they're getting manufactured. And so I actually knew who was making the drugs. They're they're doing for them, in the sense

I know I can trust the manufacturer because I've dealt with them before, then it doesn't really matter what it says on the brand name. Right? That's irrelevant to the manufacturer that matters if people don't know the how this works in the supplement industry, the name on the company has nothing to do with who actually manufactured the product. No. Who's selling the it's who's selling it. That's what you see. That's the only thing that you're legally required to put on there is who's selling it.

What you have are contract manufacturers that there's the biggest ones in the US are actually out in, Utah. And then there's, a couple of decent sized ones in Florida as well. There's a few others, but they manufacture any kind of drugs for anyone because you can imagine it's it's a hard road to get all the licensing and maintain all the quality certifications for drug manufacturing processes in the US and so generally these companies, they don't want to just make one drug.

So it makes no sense for a a drug seller to have their own manufacturing facility with as much effort as it is.

Unless you're just like huge if you're, you know, bare aspirin, you can have your own facility making the aspirin, but generally they don't even do that. And so your choices are you can use an offshore manufacturing. India and China have the largest numbers of contract drug manufacture plants. There's issues there aside from the trust factor, because those plants don't have to adhere to the same standards as American ones do. Right?

And so if you want to have good clean drugs, they really should be made in America. And, and all those, manufacturers, you can go through all the certifications they have, yada, yada, yada. So if you really want to know whether a product is decent quality or not, you have to find out in whatever means you have. And a lot of times it's almost impossible to figure this out, but, you know, try and contact them and sometimes you can actually get to the truth.

But to find out who is doing their contract manufacturing for this particular drug or medicine or, or supplement, and the supplements are made in the same exact places that prescription drugs are. It's the same companies. Make them. And we go through, Express Scripts. And it was kind of, interesting when I got the last refill on the one pill I take in, the pill looked completely different. Yeah. Different markings. I'm like, wait, did they send the wrong thing? So I start looking it up.

No different manufacturer. And the other thing that was concerning to me was you would think that that little indentation on the pill that usually has a either,

leather and some numbers, you would think that would be registered to wear. There's only one drug that could have that leather and number combination. But no, that's not even the case. It's not it's not. Yeah. It was it was rough. Right? They hope you don't get repeats unless you take like, 20 pills like I do, you know, and this was, the one that I had gotten, which was the blood pressure or the, I'm sorry, not the blood pressure. It was the, the metoprolol and the menopause pills.

Yes. The number and, and the letter that it matched. And it was also a round white pill was an opioid. And you're like, wait, this could be very dangerous. Yes. Confusion. Yeah. And I also hated that. Now all my pills are little white pills. I'm like, it was way easier when some were different colors. You know, I remember I'm taking this. I'm taking this when they all look alike. That is also I concerning. Although I get it, it's all just fake bad dyes that they're using to add color to it.

Yeah. Which you know, they're well by they, I mean, our government style tried to prohibit. Yeah. RFK Jr. You don't want your pills to be pretty colors. Do you want them all to be little white bills that you can't tell the difference in the white pills. Yeah. And where the numbers can match to the same pill could be two different things. So here's a guy who wants to get rid of the, food colorings out of everything. It takes the blood to die for health reasons. Yeah, that seems strange.

It all depends what I mean. You know, mescaline blues history is it started off as a dye when you got, like, blueberry, a cereal. That's the, that the blue stuff in there was after they made it blue, you know, I don't think so. When you get the blueberry, Frosted Mini Wheats. Is that what they used to make it? Blue? I thought it was, mushrooms. That's where I like the, option, anyway, which is, Aldi.

When you buy the Frosted Mini Wheats in the different flavors, there are no colorings, so you can't tell what they are. When you compare that to the Kellogg's. Are you eating Chinese food? Man, that's just crazy. Oh, a little pregnant. Ding ding dong. Diet's great. Don't you like Chinese? As long as I can get, I like. I like American Chinese.

I don't like, like Chinese cereal. Chinese cereal? No, it's Kellogg's. It's right here. Yeah. It's Aldi. Aldi is Chinese food. No, it's not, it's not, Chinese, you can see. Oh, it is labeled. It really is. Yeah. You can look at it again. They're good stuff, man. They do not while they're not. So they're horrible stuff. There is a German company that sells Chinese food. The Germans are good. We like them. Except for that one. Either the Chinese nor the Germans are good. Polish.

How about them? Are they okay? Well, hey, the Polish were on the right side of the World War two, unlike some countries. Where are they now? That's the question. Well, right now they're pushing back against, wokeness. So they're still on the right side. Well, that's true until they get their little. You're a little too socialist for my taste. But that aside, there are they are most of Europe. Hopefully they'll take in the new missiles. That would be good though.

The, what are they called, the Dark Eagles? I mean, that looks like it's going to be awesome. Have you heard about the Dark Eagles? No, I haven't, it is the Army's latest long range hypersonic weapon. Oh yeah. The boondoggle. That's right. They just had a successful flight. Yeah, yeah. It's amazing. It is a truck launch system with hypersonic missiles that travel at 3800 miles an hour. Yep. With a range of 1725 miles.

And they can reach the top of the Earth atmosphere and remain just beyond the range of air and missile defense systems until they are ready to strike. And by then, it's too late. According to Army statements. They're they're, ballistic missiles, which with that kind of range,

I'm like, hey, perplexity. Where do we need to put these? Then? You know, if we're going after, Russia and, Iran? Well, I don't know. I mean, that's they get a long range from anywhere. Loads. That is 4500 kilometer range if you keep going after Russia. I mean, you know, if you're going after Russia, well, Poland is the place to put them. You definitely not on this really close to Russia. You want them a little further away. Well, do you want all your missiles blown up in the first few minutes?

You want to get them way up into the atmosphere, then they kind of go where they're going, then they come flying on down. Yeah. All right. I'm reading the article about them. Yeah. The, you know, this is the common misconception is you want shit on the on the border. Let's look at the the old previous border of Ukraine with Russia shelling. Well, it doesn't say that to be right on the border in Poland. Poland's a fairly large country. Don't forget Romania.

We're very near Ukraine. Come on, come on. Then we have Lithuania. We have Latvia. Oh, God, that's not him. Yeah, Lithuania is not even in the apostrophe in, in the size of Europe. So you can put them in Syria as well. Yeah. Let's give them to the, jihadists. That makes perfect sense. What we did, all that. We make them happy. Oh, that's what that's what we do. Yeah, that's what it's about.

Trump is having to deal with the, you know, the the 12 years of satiating all these countries, because, the end result is, they're warmed. Yeah. That as much is true. I mean, you know how much just came out of, Ukraine that they didn't actually use fighting the war against Russia and sold off a lot of it's been sold off. Yeah, that is one of the biggest problems with this whole situation is there is a much more danger in that whole region in Europe because of all of that.

Yeah. And I don't think it's really a danger in Europe. That's where all the bad weapons are. All the bad weapons are in Europe. Why do they make no sense? They all went through with the beauty of, Ukraine. Yeah they did. They got Ukraine to countries that actually use them. And no European countries using weapons probably brought them down. Somebody you do, you don't think you've got them in like in your basement there in Mexico?

Dude, that's where we're finding a lot of the weapons that were shipped to Ukraine is in Mexico, in the drug cartels. So when you write about China, the, the all these cereals mainly made in Minnesota, in Utah. Yeah. China. Right up there. I mean, I'm sure they bought most of these companies by now. No, it's, they're made by Minnesota on Minnesota is a part of China. Don't know how it is. Yeah, I thought it was part of Somalia. Well, it it Somalia is a part of China.

Oh, look at the Belt and Road Initiative. Somalia technically does belong to China. How did they defaulted on their payments? People should really be in control room during the show. Dude, no one gives a shit. This is the best show on the internet. It may be the best show on the internet, but your persistence on looking at this has been technology of the troll room is just hilarious. I'm now looking at helipad where it says Jean light. Again, Poland is not socialist.

Economic data shows Poland's GDP is driven by private sectors like manufacturing, services and tech, with state owned enterprises is playing a smaller role. Yo CSP and how much money did he send with that? A buck Hammond? Yeah, a buck, yeah. And you're going to reach it for a buck. Okay, now, I, Steve Bear sent two bucks. It says I love unrelenting, and I swear I don't have a Ukrainian. God. What? You should get a Ukrainian god. Yeah, they're they're cheap these days.

And the best part about Ukrainian guns made in America? See, that is quality stuff. Yeah. You used to. It used to be the case that you get East European weaponry and,

the stuff from Ukraine. It was actually pretty good quality. But now you can get actual American made guns from Ukraine. Yeah. And now Ben Rose is, is throwing shade at you. Man, I wouldn't even read that. Actually. I he was know we could be gone for another three weeks if this keeps up. True. Although that would give me a lot of time to produce the first full issue of little Comrade Gene. A lot of people enjoyed that. Like, Well, you just better be careful about not getting sued for likeness.

Oh, I guess that would be a great court case. Like, that's obviously me. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Hey, I don't know how it got your, slippers right either. That is the. I just that was crazy, dude. So I sent you the actual photo of my slippers. To Darren after he did the little comic thing. And I had nothing to do with this. Nearly the same color, same exact. Look. The slipper. I had nothing to do with that. It's all the brain of the eye, which is like, oh, we're making Jean.

Let's see what kind of slippers he. Oh, he's just bought these. Cool. The eye. Exactly. The eye is clearly looking at my Amazon purchase history. Which is going to make it a lot more fun when he got that kind of information hidden in there somewhere. I mean, this is you can say what you want, and it's taking a long time for the AI to produce photorealistic images of what people will believe are human beings that, is getting closer and closer.

But the comic stuff, man, I would be so depressed if I were somebody who actually was good at drawing because this is just making that irrelevant at this point. Oh yeah. Completely. Yeah. I mean, for comics, it's like, why would you do anything other than eye point? Yeah. I mean, all you have to do, I mean, you might have to draw the character originally if you want to really have the mind control over it. But then you go, hey, here's this character, use it. And he goes, oh, okay.

The Captain Sweatpants says, we all give a shit.

Sometimes we just like to be something. Go podcasting. It's a, it's an emoji. The screen is too small to see emojis. Oh, okay. All right. Maybe it says quiet. Maybe it's the little things saying quiet. I see bad eyes. It's. Although I went to see the retina guy and, he is one of five, I think he said four other doctors in the country that are starting in June or July, the stem cell treatments for people with macular degeneration generation.

And he's like, of course, I mean, this is a much smaller area. The macula is my nudes compared to the rest of the retina. Yeah, but it's a very similar technology. So he's like, yeah, we're not too far away. I mean, once he's like, this already has been proven, people are getting he said, somebody with this treatment got seven lines better on the eye chart, which is crazy because the macula was the one thing, two ones that went like you were kind of fucked. There was no coming back from that.

So the technology is definitely improving. They're just gone now. You saw Geordi La Forge, right? Well, I mean, that's the question. Somebody was like, what would you rather have the bionic eye or, you know, the effects?

I'm like, I really don't care. The results are what I care about. I don't really care how you get the results. And it will be interesting to see which of those becomes, the front runner, which one? Where the technology will mature faster. And it all will depend on the reason why somebody has lost the vision for in my case, it's a very simple thing. It's not easy to fix, but everybody understands that it's the retina has scar tissue on it. Thus it is not getting the signal.

Thus you're not seeing anything. So yeah, you should just quit scratching your retina. I know that was after 4 or 5, surgeries where the surgeon was obviously inept and not able to keep the retina up and what they do with this in order to spot, well, the retina to the back of your eye is they use lasers. Of course they do. And when you use lasers, then that causes scar tissue, which the, the last surgery, which is probably what should have been done. The first or second one at the least.

Was the scleral buckle, which is kind of like taking an O ring and, sewing that to your eyes so that your retina has, you know, less chance of coming off the back of your eyeball. But that wasn't super glue. That would be better, right? Just get it in there, open up the eye, empty it out. Which is always a fun stuff, but at least there's, some kind of sign that maybe they'll figure this out before I die. Maybe right before I die. But, now that it's been eight years of this kind of fun,

time flies. And I know. Right? I just need some retina juice. Where's that gene? What do I have to eat to get retina? Pineapple? Pineapple? Yeah, I do that. I told you this long time ago. Pineapple juice that legit loins drives. Yeah, well, that's part of the course of that. You know, you got the bromelain from Molino, and, Desi has been telling me to sign up for medical trials at Elon's neuro link company. They will bring back your eyesight. They can take your eyes out. They could.

Right? Right. Or that. See you. The eye is still functioning. See, that's. My problem is there's only one small part of the eye that's not functioning. I mean it keeps you from seeing. So it's not just a small part in that respect. Do you think that the real problem that you had was actually getting surgery in the first place. No, no, because there was a large tear in the retina and it was already starting to cause a, hole in the vision. So that needed to be fixed.

The problem was because of and it's just insane, but because of the insurance, it's like, oh, well, we need to get your primaries, okay, to fix this before we can do this, where if that the best that would not have caused the delay of like a day or two, whatever that was, it would probably not happen. Other health deteriorating. It just happens. I mean, it's my eyeball. Is me a smoker for 25 years? No. But my eyes, because I was a preemie, very nearsighted.

The eyeballs are more football shape that round. There is kind of figured your head looked more like a football like Stewie, right? Yeah. Let's do this. How you doing? I gotta take over the world. Yes. Yeah. Yes. Brian, we will. Do you. Can you do a Seth MacFarlane? No, no, I've. I've never really tried that. Would have to listen more. I like that like Stewie without the British accent. Yeah. That is, I like more of that. Watch a documentary on him the other day.

I didn't realize how hated he is. Stewie or Seth MacFarlane. Seth MacFarlane. Well, apparently everybody in the, in the cartoon industry absolutely hates him. Why? Because he attacked everybody in the world with his show. Because he he's it's like the successful of all the shows. And it made a lot more money than any of their shows. Yeah, yeah, it was just basically just copying other cartoons in a shitty way of making money. Yeah, but what about South Park? Because that is like the.

Yeah, that is kind of like a four year old drew it. What's that kind of like? It is. Is it again? I he's going to be able to create that. Yeah. I mean there's been a bunch of Chinese people. But now with the tariffs and everything, the cartoon tariffs are going to drive them out of business. CityWalk, thank you for your work. Yeah. And so yeah, they, they had the, Simpsons hate them.

The I mean, all of the different cartoon brands hate them and, make fun of them and things and, part of that is because apparently he went to college for cartoon animation. Well, it seems like he put it to good use. Finally, somebody he was one of those guys. I think he worked for Disney originally, or, like the Bugs Bunny or something.

Like, he, like, his first couple jobs were in real cartoon companies, and then he he decided that, he was gonna, like, he had the formula down. He knew what to do for cartoons, which was basically just do Fred Flintstone, but with a different, same voice, even just a different, you know, timeline job of busting balls. Yeah. And and this. Do you remember that one time when, when I stubbed my toe? No. Okay. Well, that's that's an example of where his cartoons are.

They're non-sequiturs that have nothing to do with the progressing, the storyline, the line. But they do take up time, and they're little, tiny little elements within the every cartoon. Everybody hates us. I guess I should mention, too, that since we mentioned all the other boos that Ksbw came in with 3500, which was like 333 before the show. He nice. He said, howdy Gina. Darren, tell your listeners to visit dot CSB dot lol. This weekend I resume daily drawings. Yo. Nice. So we got some of that.

And also Marco Jr came in with $3.33. Have you heard that name? He comes in with 333 every show over on Planet Raid. So maybe he's found unrelenting maybe. Well thank you Mark. And that's you know the Bitcoin is up to 95,000 right now. It's got 80,000 with $10. So we'll thank you Scott. And like real money $10 a click. That's PayPal. Oh that's kind of money actually.

Yeah cool I like that. No. Well actually the PayPal you never get, it's only the stats that go into your wallet. No, no no that's not how that works. I thought it was the other way around. No no no no the PayPal is the one that that we actually split. Is it. Yeah. And again another year I'll tell you folks another year. PayPal did not send me any tax documents. So that shows you just how good good the donations are. Yeah. You're under the, fly under the radar. We are so far under the radar.

Amazing. Because you're you're obviously getting thousands of dollars from your other shows. I wish taxes, no taxes on tips. And it's the satoshis that have been probably the most successful. And there's not real money. That's not even real money if there's no taxes on tips going to be hilarious. Hearing Adam Curry asking for tips. Yeah, it's going to change right away. It's going to be like, we take tips. We do. Yeah. Just give us a tip. You got to, have a tip of the day.

You need to know what the guidelines are. Now, the only way that we could be screwed would be if they put something into the law that says it has to be a job where you're making a base. Maybe we are making minimum wage plus tips. We have no base pay. I don't know why you would do that, because we're just saying, hey, it's just a tip. You don't have to pay it. Yeah. If you like a voluntary it's a voluntary tip like that.

I don't think there's any debate about the fact that if somebody doesn't have to pay it, obviously it's a tip value for value overall is tipping. You are deciding that you've gotten value out of the service. Yeah, I think the the thing that Adam obviously didn't like about the word tip is that it implies a small number. Yes. Although value for value implies like, well, what do you think it's worth? Will you give him a thousand? Right.

But there's always been stories of people that have been immensely big tippers, you know, that'll stop and have a, you know, a cup of coffee somewhere and they'll leave $1,000 because that. Yeah, but that that is just mental derangement. I mean, that has nothing. Yeah. From the guy that the person is only $3.33 for a $500 grocery order. Yeah. No, it has to do with a person who has to get their personal or get their feeling of worth out of,

being perceived as somebody who can throw money at anything. It really is a mental disease. What is your opinion of the people that do this on YouTube now that because there's a bunch of people that made this, it's well, it's slightly better than the mental disease because as you're getting when you're doing it on YouTube, you're you're actually generating the funds to pay that back. Like, what do you think the people leaving big tips or giving away stacks of money are doing it at a loss?

Hell no. It's because after you know that those videos generate enough revenue for them to more than pay for the money they're spending. Now, what if you're just, you know, an Elon Musk type who's made way too much money and just likes if he likes you and you're a server, that and he's going to give you a huge tip. He doesn't do that. Why? How do you know you how many times if you had sushi with Elon Musk? I've had sushi next to Elon Musk, not with Elon Musk. Just the same restaurant.

How far was like next you are you saying like he was three rooms over his bodyguards or what? Like he was at the table? That's like 15 tables, dude. Only 50. That was that's how close you got to greatness. Yep. Did you ask him to sign your Tesla t shirt. No. Like Mr. Musk I'm a Tesla fan. Did you send me up in your rocket. Come on. Would you do a flight. Be like the Blue Origin stuff. Would you do that to you? God I got to jump in one with you in your white tracksuit.

Yeah, I would actually, but the issue with that flight isn't the flight. The issue with a fourth one is the penis rocket. Well, yeah, you have to get into a about it. Do that flight. No, but aside from that, the other issue is with the pretending that you're doing anything related to being an astronaut. That was the most an amusing part, right? Yeah. Just call it what it is. Yes.

It's a really expensive amusement park ride that when it gets way to the top, you can actually see the curvature of there. Like, that's a cool thing. There's nothing wrong with that. The minute they start pretending like they're actually astronauts. Okay, I agree, I'm totally with people like William Shatner who went up and said, hey, this changed my perspective. That's fine. That's great. It's yeah. His, his back of his eyeball popped off. Oh my God, that guy, he's going to live to a thousand.

I don't know what what supplements is he on? We need to get him of the show. Like what? Yeah. We never make them. We don't care about Captain Kirk. We don't care about anything and your life. Except what do you take it? Yeah, exactly. Do you look good? Your brain is still functioning, and he's, like, a hundred years old. And what do you got. What is the secret. He'll be like yeah. Whatever you do don't take methylene blue and that's not good advice.

It's it's you know be like what I like methylene blue. You could go back into a little comrade Gene. No. Methylene blue in your Cheerios. How else are you going to get them to be blue? True. You got to have all those, all those things. Speaking of the, blast from the past, I was looking up, various things and noticed, the pricing. Were you a I think you were a AWS fan back in the day. Well, I don't know how big of a fan I was. I was certainly aware of it. Aware of the.

But you never attended an event? I've never been to an event live. No, cuz I had a couple, that I went to either WWF or WWE. Yeah, that was a, a it was a, awf back when they were WWF before they got sued. But there was one. I see them, the World Wildlife Federation, because, you know, it was really so confusing. Wildlife fund, world Wildlife Fund. Yeah. That's crazy. I thought they were, before them. Well, I would have thought so, too. They were definitely better than competing.

It shouldn't make no difference. It made no sense. It's like, why would you even care? Yeah, but that was allegedly the reason why they had to go to WWE rather than stuff. Wow. But the, the Hulk Hogan rookie card know. Is there a difference with the oak trees? The, the double checkers is all look the same. The Hulk Hogan graded ten PSA ten for the trading card. Okay, one sold in February on eBay. 34 bids, $20,000. All right.

So I'm like, hey, dad, I think I had some, wrestling cards as a kid, right. Where are they? Does he has baseball cards everywhere? I'm sure enough, I got four of these Hulk Hogan's. I got to send them in and get them graded. Man, this is great. No. Wouldn't it be great if you got, like, a PSA ten? You get $20,000. Spend your money on useful things instead of stupid shit like records and baseball cards, because they're all worth money now, man. Yeah. Yeah, they're worth less than inflation.

If you would have spent your money on more intelligent things like, say, buying Apple stock, that would have been worth it. Not any more. Well, it would have multiplied much more. But I mean this is what a 25 cent, 50 cent pack of cards turned into a $20,000 card. That's a little more than inflation. Yeah. It's more than inflation is less than Apple. Miliband. You don't need a card appraiser. You need a PSA. They're the ones. They're the only ones. It makes zero sense.

Except that people are fucked in the head that a perfect grading from other companies will still not get you as much as a perfect grade from PSA. They are the long standing stalwart in the card grading field. And yeah, they were the smart ones. They were the ones that figured out how to make a ton of money without providing anything but time. And little plastic things that they put your cards at do. That's it. Yeah. Yeah. Like damn this, there's a lot of businesses now that's what I'm like.

Damn why didn't I think of that. Yeah. People send in their cards and you go tonight. It's cost them a lot of money to get that point. Yeah this is true. But basically the same thing. I mean, when you follow some of these threads, again, it's the internet. But how often people get something very close to a perfect hour past,

and then they just break the card out and send it in again, and it gets a perfect grade because it all depends who you get, what kind of day they're having, of course. Yeah. This is not AI driven yet, which it should be. It should be a computer. Now that you put it, it should be a computer now. Yeah. Well that would be consistent at that point and not be like, oh, the guy got his dick sucked the night before. That's grading it so that nine becomes a ten. He feels good.

But why not make you feel good. And most people can't really you know physically looking at the card you can't tell the difference between the ten or a nine or an eight. So if you know your buddies are sending in cards that would be the other scam. Because for whatever reason, a PSA ten in the world of sports collecting goes for way more money than a nine or anything below. And I'm not talking like 5% more. A lot of times a nine to a ten is a, you know, 20, 40, 50% jump.

And it's all just based on somebody on it looks good. Yep. Very weird. I don't understand collecting. I don't understand people who collect anything. Makes no sense. So how about that whiskey you got that's gotta collect. It's not meant for hoarding. It's meant for drinking. So that wouldn't you only have one bottle at a time? Well, no, because you can't get it. See, if if you were to actually use your baseball cards. Yeah. To sell and make money. Fire starter for a fireplace.

Then you would have a purpose. But without that purpose. Collecting is idiotic. There's nothing that you collect it all. Oh, it's so pungent. No, I'd love to get rid of it, but right now you have a collection. I mean, you can call it that if you'd like. I call it taking up space in my garage. Hey, if you want some of that, you're taking up space in, Jean's garage. Make a big donation here. Or to just do good old boys or the surgeon speaks it just right.

Poncho. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Speaking of, the only poncho's I've gotten rid of was I got rid of a pack to give to a homeless person for donation. That, what's his face made? Tomtom. Ski. Tom Steyer. Yeah. So it literally took me months to even find a homeless person in Austin, which is amazing these days. Well, you haven't been down too much. I guess. Chock full of them. No, there aren't any really. They run them all off. What happened? Trump came into office, and then they all went. Gotta go.

There are no homeless people in Austin like it was when I saw one, at a left turn I was making. I was like, Holy shit, this is my opportunity here.

He's not gonna know what the hell I'm throwing out. I'm either. Did you. Did you at least slow down, gene, when you were good at him, she came circle back around, saw the guy cuz it's drive by donation. You're like poncho. It's. I'm going head, When you wake up, they'll love that. Hey, summer's coming up. Here's your hot poncho. Yeah, that says he has a bottle of old Rip Van Winkle from 2018 that he could sell for $3,000. He paid 150 for it.

I see again, I'm not sure that I have a hard time imagining anybody buying Rip Van Winkle for only 150. I think he's bullshit. No, I mean, again, some of the stuff I bought the bookers for 50 bucks at Tesco when they came was the first. And I don't know what after this, if they go for anything or if this was just because it the first one they did as a limited edition, they start making for their own that pretty much for bottlings per year.

And this was the first bottling for the first year that they did that. That was just sitting in my bar. Yeah. And I never opened it. And my nephew asked for some bourbon for Christmas, and I'm like, I could go buy bourbon. I'll just give him this because Booker's it's good stuff. I haven't drank it in a long time because it will. It will give you heart palpitations. Trust me, it is strong enough where if you have problems, you probably don't want to drink Booker's.

But I looked it up and that stuff was going for like 500 bucks a bottle. Now, because people like, I want it and I can't get it just like you. You got to get that whiskey. If you can't get it, you want to drink it, be like, what will I pay? Well, I that's I don't I mean stuff that I like doesn't exist anymore. So in town whiskey's like, if that guy only knew getting a homeless guy getting a poncho from a Russian dude paid for it by a Dutch guy's donation. The world works in weird ways.

So what I like is all about. Yeah, I know right. It is what unrelenting is all about.

So if you want to help support the show unrelenting dot show slash donate. Yeah like PayPal. That's what that will take you to. Yeah. We made it easy to do your monthly donation through PayPal to do a single donation through PayPal. This is episode 151 to it, right? Instead of some realm, I guess. I don't know, at least enough for a bottle there. Oh, boys catching up. Well, that's because a dude named Ben named Ben is an overage heaver back zips buying more guns. He does.

Can we send in baseball cards for support? Yes, as long as they're graded PSA tens and worth at least $500, we will accept your baseball cards with you. But if it's worth $500, if it's a PSA ten, just accept it. Okay? We'll take all PSA tabs. We've lowered the bar immediately. One day only. P.O box 358 Milky Way, Illinois 60448. Perfect. Yeah, yeah. I mean, if it's a rated PSA ten, then it's just a matter of time, right?

It's one of those things I've had this conversation a few times when it comes to things like if you go to a garage sale and you find an item at the garage sale that your knowledge is, and you understand that it is worth $5,000 and it is priced for like $0.50, what do you do? Do you just take it and laugh? Or to be like, dude, that's you. You should be getting a lot more for that. Is there a moral compass? Where do most people do you thing come down on that?

Do you just kind of go, hey, I'm getting the best deal ever, and I'm going to be happy about it. Or do you kind of like, is it to depend on the people? Like, if it's in a rich neighborhood, you're kind of like, fuck them. Yes. But if it is in a poor neighborhood, you're kind of like, wow, I'm going to feel bad for them that, you know, they really need the money. They're having a garage sale, but they got this thing that's worth way more money and they're not priced it at all.

What it's worth, what do you do? Nobody thinks like that. What do you what what's your thought process? Just. It's all about you. And you get it, and you laugh and you run. Well, what do you mean, run? What are you talking? What? You run? Literally. You don't have to run. I'm just saying you that if someone doesn't know the value of something they have, you ask them if they have any more to go. Do you have like, it's more than what's wrong with you? I'll buy them all. That would be great.

Yeah. I mean, this was like the few that you never walked into a pawnshop in your life. Oh, every now and then. And we went to a it was just a nothing good at all. But, for the first time, went to an estate sale. And that was, again, like, people had no idea how to price things that like, if it was a CD player or VCR or whatever, they were all like 50, 50 bucks.

And the one thing we saw in the, in the preview was a nice pioneer cassette deck, which I know most people won't use cassettes anymore, but this thing, still sells for on the secondary market, about 600 bucks. And I'm sure they only priced it for 50 bucks. Yeah, no they don't. Yeah. No, if it was no they don't. They've never sold for that much do dude. They do. You can look like right now. Yeah they are.

This is something that the people who trade baseball cards also do because it's all about, you know, the value. They just like some was worth. It was worth barely 300 bucks brand new in the 80s. Might be worth double that. Every model that's gone. There was no $600 tape decks in the 80s selling guns. That's near it. Go for it. You can look it up on eBay or elsewhere. Insane. Yeah, eBay's where stupid people go the part with their money. Oh, I have no doubt about that. I have no doubt about that.

Plenty of things to those people. And I would be happy to sell more. I the only reason I am very reluctant to sell things on eBay now is that we live in the age of liars and scammers. Yeah, why don't you start selling like renting stuff on eBay? Renting like. Well, it's it's $250 per year for as long as you'd like to keep it. Right now, eBay has figured this out with sports cards and that's about it. And if it's a sports card that sells for over, I think it was 200 or $250.

Okay, you then ship that card directly to eBay, who is working with the aforementioned PSA that does all the grading. And the people at PSA will verify that the item is legit and then ship it out to the final person, which the person then on the other end can't go there. You didn't send me what I thought I thought I was getting. That's actually a good idea. Yes, it. Well worth the money. Has to get paid, It's well worth the whatever fee they're paying. Once you get over 250 bucks.

If you're a seller, I'd be more than happy to pay PSA 20 bucks just to confirm that it's legit, and make sure that the person on the other end can't say no. You set me off. The PSA is having a bad day and somebody broke up with him, right? That he's like, not real. This is not a ten. This is barely a six. Well, it's not the grading. It's just a it's legit. It's not it's not a forgery. You know that. It's not a reprint. Now, what you do is you get the card graded.

So if you're selling a graded card, it's already graded. They don't have to open it up. They just have to verify that it's authentic. That's all it is. Is it authentic plasticity guarantee. Well how do they know if it's authentic unless they open it up. Well what's in the plastic casing. You can still see the card. It doesn't even matter if it was granted by another company. So you're telling me how long? Oh, yeah. Come on. Oh man. That's folks. G needs to get some more methylene blue.

Make sure I don't drink some more of that. Exactly. Need some ginger. You're telling me that with these baseball card things, they can authenticate them as being real without taking them out of plastic? That's insanity. Well, if they've been graded by a reputable company, that would be. But yeah, I mean, if you're good at faking these things, it's the whole point of faking it.

I don't know if anybody's ever gotten to the point where they were good at, faking it. And also, the one thing these companies do well is they all have a serial number. So if I give you one of my PSA graded cards, if I send you a picture of it, there's a serial number that if you type that serial number into PSA, you will see the card. You will see when they the picture that they took when they graded the card.

So it's and then of course you could still if you know how you could maybe why don't you just reproduce the eBay post the serial number so that anybody knows exactly that's going to match? And if you see that, maybe you could just print up another one matching the serial number. I mean, you don't need to see it. You just put the number in card number, blah blah blah. You could, but it doesn't cost you anything to put a photo in. It's all marketing now and I know it's marketing.

Well, it's marketing, I don't. I don't I do not understand why people would buy shit like that, but I just wish eBay would allow for anything that's over a certain amount of money. And together I would be able to have virtual spaceships. And I still don't understand why somebody would buy a baseball. That's the same thing. You would just have virtual collectible. No, because I can use the virtual spaceships. You can't use a baseball card.

So you you understand people that that, collect Playboy magazines. I threw away so many Playboy magazines. I had stacks and stacks of them that were so shrink wrap, never opened. Ever taking up space in my garage to to sell those thousands. You know what? I they weren't worth anything. Well, the Playboys, no, but you know what I found are worth, like, ten,

10 to 25 bucks a piece on average. Victoria's Secret catalogs from the 80s and 90s. Oh, well, that's because they've all been used so much. Thing is an unused Victoria's Secret catalog. You like? It's free. It's the ultimate collectible. Yeah. Right. That's like, Holy crap, people will pay that for that. But yeah, the the people are like, oh, I've got the Maxim magazines or Playboy. I've got these, you know, I got PC world where JCD nobody wants that. Yeah. It's amazing.

Yeah. They get the things that are the things that were never meant to be collectible. Somehow, are the ones that rise to people spending crazy amounts of money for. Yeah, but if eBay would offer this for selling, you know, even things like video cards, if you had a video card now that you were trying to get rid of that, you're like, well, I could still get, you know, 500 bucks out of this. Why would you sell it on eBay?

There's a 90% video card right now is worth more use than it was ever worth. You, you know? So the thing is, you could send that video card to somebody if there is nothing in between you and the guy on the other end, I'm the guy on the other end. I open up the box and I go to eBay and like, no, he sent me a video card that was eight years old. You know what? There's no way to prove anything. People are always like, oh, there's a way to prove it.

It's like, no, it's going to come down to whoever is in control of the transaction, who are they going to believe? There is no guarantee? No. You got like a 5050 shot that that thousand dollar video card that you sent out, the guy's going to say you set up a brick and eBay or whoever in the interim, you know, the whoever's controlling the money is going to go, oh, yeah, this guy's a scammer. I'm giving him his money back. Well, eBay, you really for anything?

Over a couple hundred bucks, they should have a place to verify that it's real and that at least the auction happened. The good old days when I can sell a $2,000 against somebody and ship it to them, and they're just happy. I know, and didn't complain and didn't try to, like, screw you out of the money. I think they were a lot more afraid back then, especially if you're, my God, is that the guy on the other end has a gun and he knows where you live? So that's true.

Everybody's much more polite in those situations as they should be, but we need some kind of intermediary because otherwise this is a bunch of stuff that I would sell on eBay. But you can't sell it on shop. Well, yeah, but they give you 50%, which I get it is because that they have to go and resell it.

But you know, the reality again is if you're seeing somebody that's that is constantly selling an item, you know, on eBay for say, $10,000, why would you walk into a pawn shop and say, give me five? I mean, I get it, that's guaranteed. But do you really want to leave half your money on the table? You want to lose half your money? No. Well, that's okay, I get it. That's the other question there.

Just like, what if you walk into some of these garage sale and you're like, oh yeah, I don't know, cards because I won't buy any to begin with. But if you're looking at like jewelry or watches or anything like that, having physical inspection of the item is worth a lot. Yeah, because otherwise you're literally just gambling. You're just throwing money and hoping to get lucky. Getting lucky in Kentucky, I don't. Sure. Why not? But if you find something, you know, I see I would.

I don't know if I were to find myself in that situation, I might feel bad. It would probably go something like this. Oh, here. Here's this item that I know I could sell for $1,000. You're selling it for a buck. I would buy it for a buck, and that'd be, hey, I know I can sell this for a thousand. Here's another 200 bucks. But then the people would probably try to kill you to get the object back. It's kind of a no win situation, but are you talking about is it going to kill you?

Anybody? Man, you don't live in Chicago? Yeah, you're in Chicago. Yeah, that makes sense, I guess. But that was the I always thought it was interesting and it only happened a couple of times on American Pickers. If you ever watch that show back in the day, where they bought something from somebody and then realized it was worth way more money, and then they went back and gave them more money because they felt bad that they got. No, that's called making a TV show. I can understand that.

We're making a TV show right here. We just don't have cameras. Well, speak for yourself. That's right. Members have only been killed a couple of times so far in Chicago. But that's okay.

I'm amazed Rose hasn't gotten killed in Portland. Oh, I know he's out there delivering the packages, wearing his MAGA hat, working for his evil company. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, there are people that just hate Amazon, including my daughter who work for Amazon, but I mean the least you probably have good money. Most people that hate Amazon actually work for them.

It is. Yeah. It's like once you see how the sausage is made, once you see the sausage coming down the driveway, you're like, oh yeah, one, one piece of break for eight hours. Yeah. I mean, it took my brother in law working for UPS. He is has been there almost I think almost 30 years. Yeah. That was just last year that he was finally mauled by a dog. I mean. Oh, really? Yeah. Where he had to be off for a few weeks because he had some decent injuries on his leg.

And, I mean, it's why would you not carry mace with you if you work for one? Those places? I don't know, I'd be carrying a nine millimeter. I'd say, bye bye, doggie. I'd be. Well, no, that's only if you're in ATF. But I would be, for sure carrying mace, expecting a dog anywhere, I would deliver. Yeah, you should always have that with you knowing that, yeah, it is a possibility, but I can't. I mean, that's that's out there, been browsing me.

Does that come into your mind as you're walking down the door? You know, after that, somebody starts opening the door and all of a sudden, here comes the dog and there's like a, you know, I think maybe all of the joggers in Portland are actually gay, or they all might be high. The, the high, you know, the, the one of them prominent smells when you land in New York is marriage. You want to. Yeah. People like to smoke the weed. I guess it is just pervasive. The whole city smells like marijuana.

Oh, members had a dog take a chunk out of the heel of his shoe. A couple of weeks, I. What happened to the dog? Holy shit. Yeah. We'd like. The thing is, at that moment that the dog bit me, another dog bit him. So this is a whole kind of wildlife thing going on when he's delivering? Yeah, that's what people say in New York. Everything smells like weed. Now. Yeah. You can't go anywhere. That was the, original thing people said about the casino. Anywhere you want. That's not a problem.

No, the casino just opened up the street. People. Look, everybody smells like weed. Yeah, that's a good combination. Being high and putting your money into machines. What could go wrong? Nothing. Yeah. He said all he had was a flimsy envelope. If you have the big package, you drop it on the dog that's trying to bite you. That's when you hope you're getting that. Oh, no. The serious question, though, is are you forbidden by Amazon to carry mace?

Because it would seem if you're in any kind of delivery position, you might be attacked by wild animals and you got to have protection. Yeah, you got to have protection. You want to have protection. He doesn't directly work for the big bad AMA. He works for a third party that works. Doesn't matter who you work for. The point is, are you allowed to carry mace? I mean, I think so. Is it legal? You are, and you don't. Then why the fuck not?

Is it legal in Seattle to carry mace now, if you can't carry mace, can you carry a mace? I mean, that would be another way that maybe that's more membros. Do they carry an actual mace and just swing that son of a bitch? He says we get in a major trouble if we do anything to harm a customer's property, including their animals. Well, that mace doesn't harm their animals. Just think, you bastards. Them. Yeah. Just makes them very, very, docile for a little while.

Just a little, bring a little hot sauce with you in a little spray bottle. That literally mace. Y'all see a 16 inch a flashlight? That'll do it, cause it's not gonna. That's not gonna hurt the customer's property. But, mates. Well, are you insane? Just. I'm just there to get a better light. When Bevmo says it's 16in, it's like three inches, you know? Let's see the conversion rate version, right? Yeah, it's it's just like it's a common universal male conversion rate. No money.

That's a 16 inch mag light right there. You're talking about fish rate. Yeah. The fish. Now you were talking about eating sushi next to Elon. Yeah. That he to pick up everybody's bill was like hey everybody. Woo. Yeah I don't know I left before they were done. That was there was a story out of maybe it was LA, but it was Shaquille O'Neal I guess that, paid that big tall dude. Yeah. Brother Shaquille. Let me do. I'm over here. Come on. Don't forget me on Christmas or my birthday.

That, you know, you're both on deals. It's right there. Yeah, the the sushi place, and, he paid for everybody's bill and then left before everybody realized that he paid for everybody's bill. But, like, that was a nice thing. That's a nice thing. Gene's like sucker. What are you doing? You probably tipped well to that son of a bitch. The only reason that he left without saying anything is he didn't want people ordering extra food. Cheap fucker.

The Mercedes never used the flashlight on a dog yet, but almost had to use it on a solo driver. In the throes of passion? Or, was there a fight let's go with? Like, you're on my territory, Matt. Was it like a Fedex guy? These guys you always imagined, like they're going to, like, pull up each other at a light and be like, what, a race. There's like motorcycle, gangs. Except they're trading trucks, right? Except they're really big slow trucks with the side doors usually open.

Wow. Try to start a fight. Usually beamers just ends the fight. Boom. Gone.

CSB bedroom. And he ends the fight with his wit. Yes. Of course. Well, he's a lover, not a fighter. And it's been 38 minutes and CSB as fact checked us. So we're not doing a good show today. Say. You should do a podcast. I mean, I hear Grumpy Old Benz is ready for a resurgence. There's a lot of tech stuff going on, if you don't mind talking about. I know tech stuff all that time. Have you noticed? Yeah. It's like nothing. No, nothing. There's there's no tech that's going to get worse.

So this is where I was going with the the video card. Right. So the top of the line is Nvidia cards. I came out a few months back. People were up in arms at the fact that they had a $2,000 suggested retail price. There's the 5090. Yeah. Do you know what a 5090 is going for right now? Well, Linus was just over in Malaysia, and they were on sale for, like, 1500. No, no, they're going for just over $4,000, not Malaysia. Maybe Malaysia doesn't care for their country. Oh, okay.

$4,000 now with 100% there. Who wants that? Nobody. Well, nobody will, because that's a crazy price. A 2000 was already crazy, but like 4000 and this is this is why we have the iPhone exception, right? You know that, right? Well, the iPhone exemption is mainly because crazy tariffs except for the iPhone. Well this is because of fallout. Correct me if I'm wrong but Apple went oh Donald Trump. Oh yeah. Yeah we got 500 billion that we're going to invest in building things here. How's that?

And then he went, okay, well we'll take your tariffs off 500 billion. That's good. That's huge. Yeah that's huge. We'll never see the light of day. But that's huge. That's a nice story I guess it's a sure I guess. But the point is if that didn't happen, if there was no carve out for iPhone, then what would happen very realistically is the next iPhone, the iPhone 17 would not be sold in the United States. It would only be sold in other countries because it's already an overpriced phone at $1,500.

But you imagine paying over $3,000 for an iPhone? No, I wouldn't know. Nobody would. Then this is this was a very good documentary that's up right now, done by, the guy from, Gamer's Nexus who is a hardware software tester guy. He's known as Tech Jesus. And, it's like a 2.5 hour documentary where he goes around interviewing different tech companies in the US. These are all American companies, that are in the computer area.

They make either fully all computers or parts for computers or whatever, and talking about tariffs and what, what that's going to do, what it's already doing, etc.. And the net effect is that a lot of these companies, American companies, are shifting their sales to other countries. They're shifting their sales to Mexico, to Canada, Latin America, in Europe, meaning you have computers that are going to be sold by American businesses but not available in the United States.

Why are they not available? Because the market for hugely overpriced computers is very small. And so they are preemptively, as a result of the tariffs, just stopping taking orders. This is also true of, joysticks. I just had one buddy that just ordered some nice, you know, sort of mid price joysticks. Around 400 bucks. Yeah. That was right on the cover of the unrelenting magazine.

Yeah, exactly. And, when he got his joysticks, he posted yesterday that he went to the website to download the drivers. And right on the website it says we are no longer accepting orders from the United States due to tariffs. Yeah. It'll blow. So he got he got the last batch of, the problem is it's having impact today already. The like it doesn't matter if it's going to blow over. It's the where we started down the path that already has consequences. The end result will make it all worthwhile.

Well, I think so. I think people won't be sitting on their phones because they won't be able to buy phones anymore. Nobody needs to buy a phone. I mean, nobody's like, really? Like I need a phone. I don't have a phone. It's always a phone for a year. I need to upgrade. Right. Exactly. So I think it's like buying a car. It is. And there was a point in time in the 90s. I remember, I remember going to Japan and seeing all kinds of technology that was not available in the United States.

This is going to make tourism to places like, China and Malaysia really popular because you go and you buy the stuff and. Yep. Exactly. But you don't have any. You get things for half the price that you can in the US. Then you smuggle it all in and say, no, no. In a lot of ways this is the same thing. It's happening with medical tourism to Mexico. People are getting their teeth done in Mexico. They're getting their drugs in Mexico, like prescription drugs.

They have a script for their you buy those same drugs in Mexico and pay about a quarter. As much as the US people are doing surgery in Mexico for the same price, because you could do a full surgery for five grand, whereas your your insurance co-payment is going to be ten grand. If you do it in the US. We got to keep them. It's we're going to be bracing ourselves out of a competitive model.

Now. I don't think this is this is avoidable unfortunately, because the we are recovering from poor choices of 20 years, more than 2030, probably poor choices of 30 years where American businesses realized that it's supremely more profitable to not have employees in America. And so all these companies like Nvidia, you see, USB thinks this is an American company. They have 95% of their employees, not in America. Right. But they can save their American company. Remember the, the short?

Oh, they're an American company because they're listed on the New York Stock Exchange. They have a headquarters in the United States, but they employ very few Americans, and their products are created in Taiwan. It's like that sitcom where the guy was working for some novelty company, and then they just sent him over to India to run the call center. And there was like, one guy in the left of the United States is the, like, the owner of the company. That was the only person still American, maybe.

But the, information out of it seems this was kind of interesting. This Swiss Confederation president, Karen Keller Sutter, on Thursday said that the United States is planning what she called privileged trade negotiations with 15 countries as Trump's tariff agenda threatens to rattle the global marketplace.

But I think this is, a lot of people were questioning like, why did he do it in such a way that it seemed like it was, you know, way too much at once, rather than kind of methodically going through. Yeah, I think it was because, of the eBay effect, really, where you're. Oh, I've got 15 of this item and that. Who's going to be the first 15 to get it? You know, you'll see how quickly people are snapping them off. I think this comes down to, a bit of FOMO where the.

Yeah, I think it is FOMO and this either. You're absolutely right. I think what it came down to. But the Chinese know this as well as this is all just, you know it, pretend this is all like hype. It's it's this idea that, well, you're going to terrify us. We're going to terrify you back, and then we'll tear a you back and then we'll tear off you back.

All this stuff, is going to crash both countries economies with China and the U.S. if they don't, yeah, they present mutually assured economic destruction. It is. It's great chicken. But the U.S. is going to be a lot more herd out of this than China because China, like the US, is the biggest, customer of China. But China is almost the sole supplier of the US. The very few products that are made that don't involve Chinese parts, virtually none.

And so if there's a whole thing and I've said this for many years, if there's a halting for whatever reason, whether it's created by America, created by China, of trade between China and the US, the end result for this is going to be devastating for both countries, but one of the countries will simply make less sales. The other country will have food shortages because Aldi won't have the Chinese cereal available anymore. Do I love the Chinese cereal? One time no you do one on slates.

Everybody wants on like little soy milk. Right on top. It's gonna get bad man. And I, I like I've tried to stock up on a lot of products in the last month that I knew, including joysticks that I knew was going to be impossible to get any joysticks. If you picked up Jean, I few the garages can't even sit the car. And I'll tell you what, one of them is already double the price since I got it. We'll see. This is just like, buying baseball cards.

They're collectible. Completely. Not like buying baseball cards. They're all collectible. Completely wrong. I'm not collecting joysticks. I'm buying them so that I can resell them for more money. That would be collecting. That's not collecting. It would be. It's collecting. No, that's not arbitrage. Yeah, flipping is not collecting. Flipping joy. If you flipped 100% of all the cards you ever bought and you flip those within one year, then I would agree with you.

You're not a collector, you're actually a trader. But if you're sitting on a whole shit ton of cards and you have 1 or 2 that are worth something, you're a collector. You're not a trader. New fact check coming in memory. How much money is involved with this one? My memory is now in management. No longer delivery driver. Kura, I remember I was. Did you know that? And he said I also just napped. Hence the fact checking. Some were glad you could nap to our show CSB.

That's the main advantage of this show for him is he can map to it. It's a very complex using voice. You know, just he likes the combination of your soothing voice and my shouty voice. Yeah, you have a shouty voice. I have a soothing with some people who think it is right now with my gold. Whatever the hell I have, I'll make you sound even better, though I don't know about that. Gives you that little bit of, nasal range that you've been missing. I'll incorporate that into a little camaraderie.

Not based on anybody in reality or any, any likeness is strictly coincidental. It's, it's all the air South Park. Yeah. We need a big hearing from Gene's lawyers. That's right. Gene's lawyer be like, that was the funniest comic I've ever fucking seen, man. Did you actually use photos of Gene? How did the. I know. That's right. It just knows the recumbent bike. Not just for pansies anymore. No, it's all you. It's it's never been for pansies.

They only been for rich people because normal people can't afford them. Or rich pansies. See so few of them. True. You don't see it. We saw one of them on the street the other day for like, the first time in forever. Boy. Yeah, yeah, they're very rare and without you. Think about it. You know, you go buy a bike at Walmart for $300. Your come starts at about 1800 and goes up from there without missing a beat. My wife was like a relative of Gene's. We probably probably.

There's no Russian flag on the back, though, you know, you should you should donate one to them because like you did the poncho just drive by and just whip it out the window is throw it out there. Yeah, it's a new way to do things. It's like we donate, man. It's it's brand new. Poncho. He got one. Yeah. I'm sorry about the delivery method. Really worried about how you donate food to the homeless now, gene,

Canopy's out the window and have some chili. Wu. Oh, fuck that shit, man. That's my reserve food supply. I really not to anybody I gotta make. I've never made fresh chili. I really, I just it's horrible even admit that, dude named Ben named Ben made John's chili, apparently. I mean, I gotta find something because they can. Chili. I used to like the Wolf brand. There were a few, and they seem to have just disappeared. And, does anybody have a good rabbit people collecting them?

I right, probably anybody have a good recommendation on the canned? The chili that doesn't taste like ass. I mean, that's really mean. You did say the word ten. So I know, I know, this is now the, I had some of the store brand. It's there, fancy brand, but ordered some of the best thrown soup that was in a jar instead. And I'm like, well, they just think putting it in a jar makes it fancier. That's like twice the price. But it's in the jar. Like the, the best sloppy Joe sauce I've ever had.

It is in the jar. It's like Del Grosso or something like that, but it's in the jar, so. Okay. Rather than in a, in a can, a Jeff member says, look for the one that doesn't say ass on the label. Well, they all do. I mean, that's a good that's a good recommendation right there. Hey, it's some fine ass chili right here. The unrelenting. That's why we need your donation. So I don't have to buy canned chili anymore.

Unrelenting. That show slash donate. Yeah, but, you know, all the money is going to go to baseball cards anyway. I don't have baseball cards. My dad has baseball cards. I had a set of Hooters cards back in the day when they came out, and I'm sure those are worth a lot. Probably more than some of the baseball cards. Yeah, you'd be surprised. Some of the, Playboy actually had cards. I never had any, but I've seen a few of those cards sell for a lot of money.

I don't think I ever seen Playboy cards there is out there, man. You got to get out more out of the recumbent bike. Get out there, drive around the neighborhood when the weather's getting a little nicer. I mean, this has to be the time people are having some garage or yard sales in your area when the weather before it gets to be, like 150 degrees. Yeah, yeah, it's 77 outside. See? That's beautiful. You can go out at 67 here, but you can go out and find some deals.

Yeah I think your your perception of Austin is pretty funny. You think people don't do any garage sales? I mean, maybe it's a city that he was to average age of 27. Wow. So you're totally fucked. If you left, it'd be like 12, Yeah. You're screwing up the average jean. Yeah. Most people, once they hit me in my Nelson with two guys screwing up the average. Yeah, Willie, man, I'm glad that guy's still alive, but he. He just released this week his 77th solo album. Pretty good.

It was like 150 something total for his career. 77 solo albums. Yep. Like, this guy is a machine. Yep. You do it down, buy pot. Whatever it is, it has worked for him. Yeah. I mean, that's more than like we do podcasts in a week. This guy just keeps going and going and going and going. He's done more albums and we done podcasts. What seems like it anyway, for Total albums? That is still true. He's definitely done more songs than we've done. Podcast. Yeah, that's true.

It's written some great ones as interpreted, some great ones. The latest album is him doing a bunch of Rodney Crowell songs, which once you get this far into your career, like, what have they done yet? Any other songwriters I can cover? You know, I can't just keep writing stuff. But yeah, Willie is a national treasure, and once he had you leave from Boston, then the average age was like five. It's going to go down a lot.

Most people, though, they get smart, like about the time they hit 30 and realize they're paying ten times more for everything that they're like, maybe I should just move with that dream. Oh, yeah. I mean, Adam did that, but you're telling me that you don't have anybody that does garage sales or yard sales in Austin? That's. I've never seen a garage sale in Austin. Okay, anybody have a website where they list garage sales in Austin? Maybe Craigslist for an ass flavored chili?

Try the skyline. Chili says. Did you? I've tried that. And it definitely has the, the wrong texture. It's a very weird watery texture and it's like five something to can, which is like, you got to be crazy just saying. You're bitching about chili here. This is why people never know what they're going to get here. But their bingo cards, I don't think we even filled them up today. We I don't know. Well, I guess you mentioned space video games, I guess. Yeah, briefly.

Just that you have virtual spaceships where you're selling any of those right now. Where you having a sale? Is that what your yard sale is? It's a virtual yard sale, but I don't think they're selling very well. Is that because have money? Nobody has cash. But crypto's going up, so people should have more liquid. The stock market seems to be correcting itself. It's going up and down.

It really depends on which like you look at another dollar from CSB and he says tell Adam Curry to stop shilling for Putin. Yo, you tell him you said that directly to him CSB and he will. He will. That's what he does. We love CSB yeah, we're going to set the new minimum set level to, 5000. And that'll make CSB mad. They'll never talk to us ever again. That's probably true. Now that's too much. Now we need to monetize the show. Let's call it inflation, you know. Right. It's all it is.

Yeah. Inflation. CSB just because you're out in Euro trash land doesn't mean that you can't pay American prices. We're putting a tariff on your CSB and we get it. So terrifying the donation I love that concept. Let's do it. Yeah we're going to need to. So we see here you you want to donate a thousand SATs. So but don't remember. Don't forget there's, 100% tariff on that right now. Right. So we need some way to automatically double that without the masking.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, it's kind of like your your donation as well. Like, there's a easy way to do it. The tariff exists. You can't do anything about it. It's there. We have 100% tariff on all donation. So when your donation comes in you'll be credited for half the amount that's received because the other half is a tariff. Oh, that makes sense. So yeah. And of course we do still have that minimum cut off of 5000 sats.

Which means if you're a donate and I have something mentioned, you need to send 10,000 South. Which half of that is a tariff. That is that is our 5000 minimum. Yeah. That's simple. If people could figure that out. This is why I make the big bucks. This is how you run those companies directly into the ground? That's right. Without me, you know, without any waste. Yeah. How this all works out. Thanks to Donald J. Trump and his vision for America. Yeah, that's the only way it'll work.

So you got these things fun coming up this week besides just getting rid of your really long term cold? Yeah, I'm trying to get rid of my long term cold. This is really annoying to have had something last this long. You've been drinking a lot of tea. I, you know, I end up buying a new thermometer. Why rectal as a result? It's the only way. You know, it's really cool. It looks like a remote control. It is black aluminum with a, for whatever reason, a shiny plastic bit on the front.

It looks just like a remote control. Except there's one button kill. And you, you aim it at yourself instead of aiming at a TV, set it. Where? Where exactly are you aiming this? And so it's a, usually the forehead to those I don't like. You could you could do it through the back of the neck, even through an ear shot. But, you know, generally you aim for the forehead, remember? Is is, postulating.

You have a vaccine related injury, and and getting a vaccine related injury, having not had any vaccines is. How's that possible? Yeah. See, now you're thinking. Now you're thinking maybe you got the vaccine without even knowing it. Highly unlikely. Old recumbent bike injury that. That's silly thing. Could be. Could be. What does that mean? People are smoking way too much pot that listen to this show, because that doesn't even make sense.

Yeah, but the more pot they smoke, the more money they might send them. Probably not really. And how much was that coming from then that generating the. Nothing. It was in the, troll room. Yeah. So quit reading the trolling for free. You want to have a message on the show? You pay good money. We will now be turning off the troll room. Okay, good. We are only accepting they're getting a free ride. Man. The trolls out there, they're stealing our money is what they're doing.

They have rights, especially Rose. Oh, God. Yeah. Is stealing our money and our souls. You want like, you want to, have an opinion on something, members. And then do an episode of your own damn show. He did one. Well, there you go.

That's how he gets the better to say what in schedule is surging. Speaks like one every 3 or 4 months. Now, whether people are clamoring for him or not, I moved. Sir Jean speaks to a maintenance plan. You paying somebody else to maintain it? Well, I'm always paying somebody else, but, no, I'm now paying only five bucks a month, and I'm. I can't put up any new episodes. It's strictly just to maintain the old ones. Oh, I get it in cotton gin. Sent in $0.42 and said it's a weed boost.

Shouldn't that be 420 cents that he can't even do math? Yeah, it should be at least 420 cents. Yeah, with yellow. Come on. An acceptable donation. Come on, man, what? Just you sense. I know, and then I make I make more than that. In the first three seconds of a YouTube video, he's like, it was 420 SATs. That's not the same real us dollar money as that is not even the currency. I think with, helipad now, I think it's more like a baseball card collectible. Yeah. With helipad. I should do this.

And this will just piss everybody off, too. I think the helipad will do it. Eric Pepe has made some nice updates, too. Yeah, I think there's a setting in here where you can have it. Just show you the current value in USD real time. Oh, perfect. I you like. That's what we need. We want to have always been. The problem with that see is see knows. And the other casino like companies like to use their own currencies so that people don't notice how much money they're actually throwing away. Right.

It's only 6000 bucks in, in this person. In this particular case, using SATs went the wrong direction. And I blame Adam Curry fully for this. Oh. Yeah. Because what he should have done is used Bitcoin that's sat. And then all the donations are like 0.0002. And then it'd be very easy to kind of guilt people into like really that's that's really all you got. Instead you go to this thing where it's like 10 trillion of something per dollar.

Hey, like, oh, I set this up for like $0.50 for every minute of listening. I'm a big spender. He went to 42. Less than a penny. Yeah. He said, now it's 42 SATs. Take that is $0.42. That said it, a thousand say gay recumbent bike boost. I will say that's worth way more than a thousand. Yeah. That's why I mean, I was like, you got a bunch of cheapskates listening to us. Let's just get rid of the whole chat room thing and stick it purely Amex, where people know how much money cost.

Right. You can do the show on X. Yeah. YouTube grumble. We can be rumble. Well, rumble. You got to. You got to be well-known before you can make any money on Rumble. Now you got to be like a Tim Kass tape on Rumble. That guy. But all you got to do on X is just sign up for their paid platform, and you're good to go. I'm on there, man. We've tried it. Nobody ever listens because they don't like us. No, you just haven't paid enough to promote it. That's all right.

The promotions are like, would you like to spend $800 so that 35 people can see them? So Ben did this the other day, and it works tremendously well. Yeah, but did you actually get any more of an audience? Yes. Get a huge boost. That paid well, no, because we're not asking for money. You do ask for money now. We don't ask for money. We just have people that donate money on a monthly basis. So we don't even have to ask. But you have a button. No, we don't have a button.

We literally say, if you ever listen to the podcast, it says, the thing we asked for is for you to spread the word and let others know about the show. It's way easier just to give money and that's what people decide on their own. We don't ask for it. They just oh man, that was professional. Why did you screw that up? Oh, let's rerun it. Okay. You know, that's, When did you get it? I don't remember what they said.

This is why nobody. No. And and and no. And this is, this is why it's easier to do that. And we don't ask for it, so don't send us money. Well, I've been saying don't send this money for this show for three years, and you keep changing the message. So don't send us money. You know what you're saying exactly. Oh, and contingent then 10 to 40, 200. What? You is more than CSB. He says. Oh well yeah. He gets to say whatever you want. He says, is this enough to satisfy Eugene?

I mean, 4200 is you're getting to get a point. I mean, 4200 is what, $0.42? Well, that's about four bucks. Okay. Four bucks. I mean, that's worth about two minutes of parking in Austin. It is exactly $4 right now. Yeah, it's better than a stick in the eye. You don't want. It gets to 100,000, and the math will be really easy to do. If you.