Rooster Teeth Podcast - Unlimited Pasta Pass Challenge - #563

Episode Date: September 24, 2019

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Which I had to point out. No singing. I wasn't a ploy. I was clapping the tune. I know. They didn't know Don't tell them because then they're gonna have to cut it Do you have to cut claps They're gonna you two were just got a season to say it's in me not really

We have a lawyer a lawyer pops out from inside the couch I represent friends So Eric just said claps are fine. Is that mean we could clap the whole theme song? This is the worst so Chris I saw Chris walking around right before we started the podcast I Run into him in the kitchen. I asked him to step over here. He was going through the trash. He might, he met it. Yes, that's a really good way to put it.

You're saying that as a joke, but it's real. He, uh, so I, I, I'm in talking to Chris for the past couple of weeks. He got one of those olive garden unlimited pasta passes. Oh my God. I knew this would come. And today was the first day where you today was the first day you could use it, right? Today it started. Yes. I'll be going to Olive Garden today. No, I'm on my way after this you haven't gone yet. Well, okay

Here's the deal it it Opens at 11 so I couldn't go for breakfast and then Would you have also for breakfast? Yeah, yeah Yeah, and then and then lunch during lunch. I had a thing from 12 to 2 and then lunch during lunch, I had a thing from 12 to 2, and then I had, there was catered lunch here. I have a whole, so I'm, the way it works. So please, it goes up on sale, there's like a wait list and stuff, and then it sold out in less than one second.

So what you bought this thing? Yes, it was $100. No, this is unlimited. For six weeks. No, nine weeks. Five weeks? Yes. But you wouldn't eat more than $100 worth

of pasta in nine weeks, surely. From all the things I wouldn't. But if he's already prepaid a hundred bucks, he'll eat more than a hundred bucks worth of pasta in nine weeks. Let's face it, he won't be alive for nine weeks. If he eats that much pasta. I, yeah, well, we'll see. Um, so I can, it starts today and I can eat as much as I want.

Anytime I want. I mean, when they're working hours, 11 a.m. It's really heavy food. It's like, oh, you go. There's a lot of salad, one bowl of. A limited soup salad. You don't win French or salad. It's not just pasta.

But it's unlimited pasta pass. It's only. But it's also salad and soup. Yeah, unlimited. Unlimited. I guess because the restaurant has a limit. And bread sticks. Yeah.

How often are you planning on going Chris? Well, I'm going to go, as well. So here's the deal. He's like a man It sounds like a deal. Keep going. Found out Zach and her also got one. And so he texted me. He was like, oh, look what I got.

And then that turned into a competition. So now we have a competition to see who can eat the most olive garden during the span of the unlimited possible. You guys are gonna get huge. You're gonna have a heart attack. Can we weigh you? Yeah. Yeah, I was actually gonna weigh myself.

Is that okay? We can weigh you. We have a weight thing. What do you call this? Oh, wait. It's called a scale. That thing that definitely has a name. Aren't you a writer?

I, okay. Look, there's like the SARS and dictionary for a reason. Oh, wait, things. Early interior, morning. It's okay. It just gets out of bed and goes into the bathroom. He steps on the wait thing. Yeah. And so, the way that we kind of came up with some rules for it, I can't, let me, let me

read them. Well, one, the base thing is whoever can eat the most meals that all of Garden. But then there's like bonus categories. Like, well, one, it has to include salad, soup, and breadsticks. That's true. Yes. All three every time.

All three every time. Yeah, or super, super. You can do salad, because it's breadsticks, super salad. So you don't have to do soup and salad. You can do one or the other. And then a wait thing. Oh, there's a wait thing the wait thing broke. Is it a phone? And then so then there's also There's bonus categories. It was number of meals you eat But you also have to eat everything you get so so you can't waste food, you can't go

and then just throw it away. Can you get it delivered? No, you have to go to store and eat it. You have to suffer the indignity of walking into an all-guard, showing your unlimited pasta pass and your face. Oh, they'll know me by name. Is it like, can you say pre-check like you walk up

with your card and they're like, oh, right, this way I'm in the middle. They have a special section of the restaurant for you. I think there's bonus for whoever eats the most breadsticks. Oh, can we, we should start a bit. How many breadsticks do we think Chris can eat in nine weeks? Well, it also kind of depends, I'm also gonna eat the rest of the pasta.

So it's like, that's like, that's like, I'm gonna start eating a lot of carbs. No. And then there's most, most weight gained is also a category. And then we also have most number of people you can get to go with you to Olive Garden. So you're gonna bring all of Rucity to Olive Garden.

Well, I mean, so otherwise I'm gonna eat alone. Do we, do we don't count towards your numbers though? No, no, no. And the past doesn't cover you. So I have to convince you to go and pay. And then here's $6 for pasta at Olive Garden or her. Here's the other thing though. You get penalized for every meal you eat that isn't Olive Garden unless unless it's free. So like today,

like today's free lunch. Today we have catered lunch. So I could eat that. No problem. But if I had gone to say McDonald's, I would have been penalized negative one meal or if you had gone to a grocery store and made yourself a meal like a responsible adult. Yeah, I would have been penalized for that. What if you get penalized for making? You get penalized for making your own food at home. If I bought it, yes, what if you bought it before and it's already at home? I don't think that counts because I mean, no, I mean, I think that counts as that's a pill. Okay. It's penalty.

Uh, it's penalty. Now, can you loophole this and start shoplifting and again? It's free. Yeah, it's free. I mean, and the thing is it's like, so if one of y'all want to, if y'all want to, like, hey, let's go get lunch, I can go get lunch with you, but you're gonna have to buy my food. Only if we don't want you to get penalized,

which we don't give a fuck about. So... The stakes could not be lower, bro. No, you're still lose points by not eating all of God. Well, I just won't lose point. I'm just not gonna gain. Chris. There's no penalty if it's free.

There's no penalty if it's free. But the fact that you didn't eat there that day... Well, then, yeah, we'll still have a lot of night. Or,'s free, but the fact that you didn't eat that that day Well, then yeah, yeah, you did it all have a lot of night or you know Can you go twice in the same day? Yeah, it's unlimited, dude No, I mean for like the game just that help you yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Really hope that you're getting someone new right now Then I'm what dating someone new? Because if you have to be like hey, you want to go get dinner?

I mean at all of garden. She'll be the every night for nine weeks. You could date a different woman every night because if you have to be like, hey, you wanna go get dinner? I mean, at Olive Garden. She'll be the every night for nine weeks. You could date a different woman every night. And you're paying. The last thing is I couldn't, yeah. No matter what, I can't buy, well, I guess I could buy someone else food.

I guess that works. She's gonna be with him through thick and thick. Just gonna be. For a love, my God. What about the health ramifications of this challenge? That's why there's salad, Gab. He said that. That doesn't dig you out of the cop hole.

In chat, Samuel Aubrah says, isn't nine weeks from now Thanksgiving? Yeah, it ends on the 24th. Amazing. I don't know what the Thanksgiving is around then, right? It ends on the 24th of November. You're gonna turn it. Oh my God. Thanksgiving is a 28th. Amazing. I don't know what the Thanksgiving is around then right? It ends on the 24th of November. You're gonna turn. Oh my God. Thanksgiving is a 28th. Yeah. Right before Thanksgiving. You're gonna turn into one of those kids that has like they refuse to eat

anything other than all of Garden after that. I don't know. I think after that I'll probably have had my full. Your full had your full. I'll be as full as a rider. I'm getting I'm getting chess fans thinking about this. Yeah, this is like oh There's so much grease. I mean, I like all of God. It's not bad food. I mean it's terrible food But it's not it doesn't taste terrible. Would you want to go? Yeah, so someone in chat you got a stagger as far the closest one is To the Rochita office. Yeah, it's about 15 minutes. 19 minutes right now.

We're trying to do 15 minutes. Yeah, about 15 minutes. Yeah, it's about 50. It's, I love close to one. Which is the benefit to the benefit of me, because Zach, he doesn't live near an all garden. He also doesn't have a car. He's also in a wheelchair, yeah.

Yeah, he also in a wheelchair. So I have a huge advantage. That being said, that being said, he had an unlimited pasta pasta a couple of years back. Oh, so he knows the game. He knows, he is experienced. He knows these at house. Yes.

Mostly outs. No. Well, Chris, I'm excited that we are the start of your journey. Are you going to weigh you? Yeah, we're going to weigh you. Yeah, so can you bring stuff back because I want some stuff that you can do? I don't know, you're not speaking.

You might not let him. To go orders, but I think if I got a meal and I'm like, oh, I'm not done with this, he might let me take it. Yeah. Which I need to do because I have to finish it. I want you to take photos of every single thing you eat. I want to see every single meal you have at Olive Garden.

And every person you go with. And I want a montage. At the, in nine weeks, I want to see a montage of all of the pasta you ate using your pasta past. I'd like to green days time of your life. I'd like to be scattered in so one of the sessions. Absolutely, yeah.

Absolutely, y'all are all invited. Because you know when you're there, your family. Oh, God. Is that the name of your challenge, Zach? You guys have to give it a title. Where's the unlimited POSSIPS challenge? I know, we have team names. How are you a team?

It's one on one. No, it's like, you know, hashtag team Zacharoni. And then hashtag team DeMeraNera. That's pretty good, Iara. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Pretty good. Is this a video? Is this hot sea life?

I mean, it can be. It should be. Yeah, film it. Well, you're going to be gone from work 40 minutes a day and travel back and forth from all of God. I'm going to start taking meetings. Yeah. Lunch meeting.

Down the window. All right. It's going to cost the company so much money for you to accept. All right, Chris. Starting cost the company so much money All right Chris starting date September 23rd. It's a 5 11 p.m It's have to be off it when you start He's never used a wait thing before That's right move it the gym wasn't set specifically to where you were or anything. For crying out loud. There we go.

Okay. Chris is never what kind of Philips that. Oh yeah, pull out that one. Yeah, you don't want that to weigh you down. Yeah, don't want that extra 0.003. 100. One. One for seven.

One for seven. One for seven. One for seven. Good place to start. It's about 10 stone. Seven. 10, 10, 10 and a half stone. There you go.

Or 147 pounds. You're, why are you stretching? He's like, you got off the scale and he's like stretching. I gotta go. I'm going. He's got a stretches stomach out. All right. Well, thanks for keeping us informed Chris.

Thanks for a humor in it. Check the calories for a total. Yeah, feel it. Yeah. The chicken alfredo has 4,500 calories. No. So, yes. Is it a family size chicken?

Nope, it's an individual dish. What? The chicken alfredo there has 4,500 calories. So, she days what the food? Yep. We're gonna cast my metabolism. Yeah. But tablet?

Just go. I was gonna let him slide away. Did it? 4,500 calories. Yeah. That's too much. Can we really try to get him on like every week? I just want, I need to like keep hearing him.

I need to know. I need to know. I just want to watch that number go up. That should be an RT life. Oh, 100%. I mean, now we have to go to Olive Garden with Chris to film it. I'm excited about the time that I go with him. Do you want to just have like you and him?

Yeah, I want one on one. Okay. I'll have a hang out with Chris on his own before. I don't think I have either. Well, that's the reason that we don't do that. But now we have a reason to actually go with him. When you're here, your family, as he said. So I'm looking at the nutrition information on their website.

Why do they make this self? I know why they make this so difficult to read. Why am I asking it? Because the one with Kevin Good. Yeah. A finger comes on this screen just going, shh, you don't want to know. Just be quiet.

The Lasagna Frittata 3200 calories. God, that's like, how could anyone finish that? They do. A lot. Very often. In the crisis case, several times a week for many weeks. Yeah, let's check out that metabolism metabolism till he's bearing on a piano crate That's crazy. Should we predict now how much weight he's gonna gain after nine weeks?

I mean he goes to 40 pounds 40 pounds I give it if he if he eats the amount of pasta he is like setting out to eat. I yeah, that's not that crazy. That's one of like four and a half pounds a week. Yeah, and if you're eating 4,500 calorie to like even like 3,000 calorie dishes several times a week plus any other normal food, absolutely he could put on 40 pounds in 90. Especially because he's penalized for eating anything else.

That's not Olive Garden. Yeah, it's a pound every day and a half or something. What's the mess with that? Something like that. And considering how high all that food is in sodium, he's gonna be retaining a lot of water. So that will boost, it will be water and the fat and the calories. This is not price is right, rules, right?

We don't, like if we go over, we can still. I think it's just the closest to it. Oh yeah, I'm gonna, I'm, I think 40's plausible, but I'm gonna say 30. I'm gonna say 20 because I think Chris is gonna get scared around 15. And he's gonna just cut back. He's gonna be like, oh, I'm gonna be healthy.

I'm gonna say he's gonna gain 25 pins. And chat, Dubsie, Wubzy says he's gonna be as jacked as Blaine. When he just starts really hitting the gym and converts in all the muscle, how did he do it? How did he do it? Olive Garden. Or he has super ripped arms and legs,

but a fucking huge gut. It's just all carbs and fat. That's a great idea. That should definitely be filmed. Yeah, it should be. Well, especially because he's gonna be missing so much work to have to go to Olive Garden for two times. You can make it work.

Right, like it's part of work. Like it'll be his job. Exactly. It's like, I'm making content. I'm filming that RT life for nine weeks. I mean, if he wanted to make it work, he could have just expensed the meals to Rucity that if it was a video,

I wouldn't have to spend a hundred bucks on this pot. I tried to buy the past too. I did. A lot of people in our office are trying to, yeah, you didn't blame too. Yeah, I did not get it. Oh, no. Because I do.

There was an option where if you bought it, you had the chance to buy a lifetime pass. How much was that? Like a bow? No, no, no. I think I want to say was like 500 bucks, but they only had like 500 of them or something small. God damn, dude.

I don't even like Olive Garden. I just want to get the lifetime pass, just so I can always have free food at one. I'm not gonna lie, all this talk about Olive Garden is making me hardcore crave Olive Garden. But even fucking pay us. I know. Man.

Has the same effect when I watched Super Size Me had a huge pain for McDonald's after that. Isn't that fucked up? Yeah. Just like, St. Mad Men, they're just talking about how bad smoking is, and I'm like, that looks pretty good. Yeah, I don't know, it was pretty good.

Oh, it's delicious. Yeah. How do you feel about breaking bad? We like mad, I'm not stressed about that. Give me some of that, mad. They made it. They made it look very pretty. Not that I, is there anything to do with that?

My, my, my designer smoke things is definitely how pretty they look. A nice color. Were you a smokeer at one point? Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's probably why. Cause I, I watch people smoke and I'm like, I have no desire to do that with some of it.

Yeah, no, it's, it's completely like the, the, like the memory coming back and being like, swimming, yeah, a newspaper, crossword. What did you start smoking? Like what was that moment? Was it like peer pressure? I'm always curious to find out how people start. You will not believe how I had my very first cigarette

and what got me smoking. Will you fresh out the womb? I was in an anti-smoking PSA in San Antonio and they gave us real cigarette. Wow. I was playing a 50s greaser type and it was like this flashback sequence and I was like 15 or 16 and they were like, okay, well here, just like pretend to smoke these in the scene. And I was like, oh, these are like real cigarettes.

And so I was like, okay. I'm just like immediately got that like nicotine light headed feeling. And so, it was like, okay. Ooh. And it was like immediately got that like nicotine light headed feel, you know, I wasn't on drugs, but it was kind of like, oh my God. That was it. I got, that was the first cigarette I had. It was an anti-smoking PSA.

That anti-smoking PSA was actually funded by Marlboro of course, so like, yeah, we gotta get, we gotta get to teens somehow. We can't use Joe Campbell anymore. Let's make anti-smoking PSAs and give them real cigarettes. And cost everyone in the country. Part of me feels like you should find that company and sue them. Ah, they're, I guarantee you they're out of business.

Yeah, I don't want you to smoke for after that. A handful of years kind of like. Oh my God, so the money that you must have made making that, you must have spent like 25 times in cigarettes. I mean, undoubtedly, it's not even close. It's like the ratio is upsettingly not in my favor. There reminds me of when we filmed that CBD Sami short, and we had kids, we cast kids in it, and obviously everything we were using was fake.

Like we had little corona bottles that was filled with apple juice. We had these like gum sticks that looked like cigarettes. And then obviously the CBD was just like water, I think. Yeah. And Chris was directing it. And like during one of the scenes, when the kids had like both the fake beer and fake cigarettes, Chris was like, yeah, dance, all right.

Now, Chuck some of that beer. All right, now take a hit off your sick. And I'm just like, stop, stop. No. We are going to jick. So now those kids all smoke. It's bad news, don't do it. I'm here to tell you right now.

I never do it. I tried to smoke once. When I first moved to Austin, I felt like everybody in Austin smoked. And it was like just to try to fit in, I was like, all right, I'ma try it. So I went down to like a convenience store and I bought a pack of cigarettes.

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Yeah, I mean, you get people like vaping, but even that's like not nearly as prevalent as it used to be. Also, a lot of vape smells real good. Yeah, but like before there was a smoking ban, it's like anytime you went out downtown, it's like everyone was smoking in bars. So it's like, it was just part of things like, oh, you're gonna stink like smoke when you go home after. I mean, a lot of the reason my friends in England stopped smoking was because they had to suddenly go outside to smoke. And it's freezing. And I just, I don't want to be cold.

It's gonna not smoke. They just quit a lot of them. Yeah, I remember back, you know, I came, I moved Austin in 2003 and you know, you could smoke in bars and everything like that. And when they like passed the smoking ban, there was like, all this uproar and businesses were like, oh, this is gonna like kill our business and people come to bars to drink and smoke and everything.

And there was an uproar for about three months. And then nobody gave a shit anymore. And it was like, just stop smoking in bars. And it was like, oh, this is like way more pleasant. I can, this is totally fine. And you know, we have, it's not cold here outside, you know, 10 months out of the year. So patios are, it's mostly patio weather all the time. So yeah, isn't that a big bruja offer?

Nothing. A glitose to put on like pictures of lungs hanging off and like cancer and stuff all over the packets, which I think put people off as well. Yeah. You ever see those? I have, yeah, they're very gruesome a lot of them, like very graphic. Yeah, I don't know. Which I think, you know, kind of need to be in person people.

I don't know if it's the same way in the UK, but I know in Australia when we've been there, it's like they don't have them out, like they keep them behind the counter in a closed cabinet. And you have to tell them specifically what kind you want. They grab it for you and it's covered in like graphic images of some cancerous organ. It's like, here you go. And you're paying like $25 for it. Here's a picture of a man who used to have a throat. Enjoy.

If you present it, if you present it sounds it sounds like the talking throat radio is like, I don't know. And here's now do this. You want to sing, but? I'm sorry, I remember. I was saying that when I was younger in elementary school, our teacher made each person in the class do a project on a different type of like cancer or symptom of smoking. And the one that I got was lip cancer.

So like some people just like lip. So that's apparently like something that could be caused by smoking over time. It's not as common as things like lung cancer or of things of that nature, but I as part of the project had to look at photos and make a whole poster board about it, and everything like that. And the photos that I found for lip cancer were like, so insanely damaging that any time cigarettes were anywhere close to me as a kid, even with peer pressure, I had zero desire for it.

So it works. It works. Just for yeah, just force your kids to do projects on different types of cancers you get with smoking. Well, because that's like visible. It's on your face. It's like right there, you see like the effects

like right on the face that it has. It's like, that's a long, I don't know what that looks like. Is that how would that effect be? Inside me, no one could see that. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, you see that, you see that right on the face, chilling stuff. It's very chilling. Speaking of right on the face, I've been in hell

the past week or so. Oh. So I've got. You have some makeup on, actually. I've got some makeup on right now. But I've got a mole at the top of the bridge of my nose. It's like a little bump and people sometimes see it in the last week, like, oh, did you break your nose

or something? It's just a mole. But I had to start using a CPAP a few months ago. People sometimes see it in the last few, like, oh, did you break your nose or something? It's like, no, it's just a mole. But I had to start using a CPAP a few months ago. And whenever I put the mask on, sometimes I put it on a little too tight, and it irritates the mole, and it gets super red. So it looks like Bob raps me today.

It's like, if I had burned my nose, I can go with my fucking CPAP on my face. And it's just fucking awful. And I'm super self-conscious about it. Is it, huh? Now I feel bad for pointing at it. No, it's fine. I know it's there. awful and I'm super self-conscious about it. Is it, huh? Now I feel bad for pointing at you. No, it's fine. I know it's there.

It doesn't really hurt, but I went to see my dermatologist about it. I was like, hey, you know, I've got this thing. I put my CPAP mask on and it really irritates it. It's like, does there anything you can do about it? He's like, well, you know, we really can't remove it. He said, what we could do is like try to grind it down, but then that'll leave like a long scar where it is. I'm like, yeah, that's not that great.

And he was like, can you like put the mask on a different way or wear it somewhere else? It's like, well, I mean, no, we're on my back. It's on the mask. I kind of designed to go right there. Sit on it. No, I don't think you're bleeding with ink. I think your best option is just to put a bandaid

right across your nose. That would be something. Or like one of those breathing strips, but just wear it high. Yeah, I think I'm with a very tall. They can't remove it and put some different skin on it. That sounds like a graft. Like from like my arm or something.

Oh, like round the back of your head or something? It sounds like a lot of... Yeah, because that won't be obvious. It's just as a different color skin on his nose. It's got back hair growing out of the head. Just right there, the bridge of my nose. Just find the piece of dick skin that comes out through a different position and then get past there.

I can get circumcised now. Oh right, you're not circumcised. And then use the force kind of there. Hold it poshly sack, precise. Fortunately, you got it convertible. All right, time to put the top down. We didn't need the whole false kid. I'm going to have to be massive when they were.

I'm going to have to be like, He's still not going to have half a small skin on it. Just a little curve. Just got like a small square up the whole. Looks like a half open bottle of makers mark. It's a little light. Sometimes it likes to get some sun. Square looks like a half open bottle of makers mark To get some You could be through it sometimes No, oh, man, I really would really look like a turtleneck sweater at that point

Doctor's best skin I was to say I love how doctors will suggest things like that completely casually as if any reasonable person would have like it's like, oh yeah, we can grind it down. I mean, you will have a seven inch scar from the like middle of your forehead down to below your nose. And you know, we can set that up this afternoon if you want to talk to the nurse outside. Like, what the fuck? Yeah.

You want to do that, sure. But it's the like casualness with which they imagine it's like, okay, well, here are your options. We can, you know, graft your foreskin onto your nose and then you totally take care of the care of the problem. I mean, you will, yeah. It sounds like an insult that kids would use in like an elementary school.

You are calling it to their dick nose. Yeah. You'll be noticed that convertible. It'd be great. Yeah. You want to see my party trick? I just put some padding on the mosque. It has padding already. I think it's just like it's the pressure. Yeah, having it up against there. So I'll try a band-aid or something. Yeah, I feel like that might help a little bit. But who knows? Are

user-copsized? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And you guys are not. We are not. Halena. Team 4 skin over. Is it a religious thing or just because you grew up in America? I think it's just a, I mean, it definitely wasn't a religious thing. I think it was just like an American thing like, would you like this option? When I was born and they were like, yeah, go ahead. Would you would you take the salmon or the circumcision? Yeah, it's just like a little check box on the thing, like, you know, before the baby comes out there, like, yeah, you wanna do this?

And yeah, you just check that. And they just do it there. Yeah, I mean, it definitely wasn't like, religious or anything. I think it was just like, yeah, go ahead. I guess I just don't know what's, like, are people still doing that now? Or is that now not? I feel like, hey there, yeah. I think, like, are people still doing that now? Or is that now not?

I feel like here they are. I think, yeah, it's still a thing here. Cause Americans are told that it's like a hygiene reasons. Right, cause of the smegma. Yeah, when that's, there's no, there's no real scientific basis behind that. Yeah, you know, you know what helps with that? Baving.

Yeah. Just have a shower. Have a shower and washing your body. And it doesn't happen. Yeah, I feel like that. The argument like, well, it's a cleanliness issue. It's like only if the rest of you

is also equally unclean. So I can size the anus as well, then that's also. You don't wash your anus, though. I've lost it with karate chops. You karate chock the water. I was just thinking about the see of the day because we talked about someone who I knew

through a friend who had grogans, I guess it's what they're called, or dingleberries. And then Gavin was talking about how that was gross and all that stuff, but it's just like, you don't technically wash your anus either. I do, I've got like wet wipes. I just put my fingertips in my anus when I'm in the shower. I don't have to stick them in the hole. It's like playing a wine glass. You just got to...

What's your anus' homie? You know that's clean, baby. Would you hit that brown note? Oh, God. You're good, you're sad. I would much rather use bits of my hands that I don't do other stuff with than fiddle about. But you're gonna wash your fingertips afterwards. Get some latex gloves. Oh my god. Put them on. I get it clean.

It just probably takes me a bit longer because I'm not delving. Delving. You should get a separate, um, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna bit longer because I'm not delving. Delving. You should get a separate, what is this called? Loofa. Separate Loofa just for your inus. To butt Loofa. Yeah. Probably make it like by it brown.

Right brown. Yeah. So if you do have any coloring on it, it doesn't show up. Nasty. Yeah. Well, that's how do you segue away from that? I don't know. Do you think we cut the ad read right into the middle of that conversation? Eric, make it happen. That's an error question. For the first time ever, I had a pumpkin spy drink at Starbucks today.

You know, where it's today's the first day of autumn. So I went and. Is it? Yeah. How's that work? The way it works is four times a year. The seasons change and this happens to be day of autumn. So I went and... Is it? Yeah, how's that work? That's what the way it works is four times a year. The seasons change and this happens to be one of them. Eh, it's not much cooler outside. It's not much cooler, but I went in, I was just gonna get like a coffee,

a plain coffee like I normally do, but they have like that TV television menu where it's like the display changes all the time. It was like pumpkin cream iced coffee. I was like, oh, that looks good. And the person went and was like, it's really good. I was like, oh, that looks good. And the person kind of was like, it's really good. I was like, okay, I'll try it. I'm convinced while wearing your orange shirt.

Oh, wearing my orange shirt. So celebrating the autumn season. What do you think? It was really good. Yeah, are you a basic bitch now? I guess I'm the most basic of bitches. Fuck yeah. It was good.

It's just nutmeg, right? I think so. I think so. It's like a dash of cinnamon to does. Nutmeg, it's instantly a full drink. Yeah, I I think so. It's like sent like a dash of cinnamon, too, that's nutmeg. It's instantly a foul drink. Yeah, I was drinking it. It doesn't taste like pumpkin to me,

but I don't know whatever. It was good. Pumpkin spice, which I don't know the difference. Or what's in there. It's like cinnamon nutmeg. Well, cause nothing like pumpkin flavored actually tastes like, but have you ever had an actual like from scratch from the gourd pumpkin pie?

Yuck. Garbage. Yeah. File. Throw it in the trash. You want that can like just cheap ass like 48 cent can of pumpkin pie filling the only way to. It should not be eaten in any form. They're not food. Pumpkin spice is generally a blend of ground cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves and sometimes

all spice. Oh, today I learned. There you go. I love pumpkin stuff. I think it's just because my favorite season is fall. So like anything that reminds me of fall makes me happy. Oh yeah, Halloween. Why is it your favorite season?

Because I like everything that comes with it, like Halloween is my favorite holiday, but then also the weather is my favorite weather. I was like, cool, not cold. You could layer where boots and jackets and scarves and hats if you want. I, I, I can, I'm saying about like, I love it. I love fall and spring. I like transitional seasons when things are like changing. And so you get that like light jacket weather.

It's all I want. All I want in this world is light jacket. Well, you'll get it in about two and a half months for three days. November, probably. Yeah. Yeah, usually early November's when it starts, right? Yeah. All right. Someone, I think it was Jack Patilla who told me that in Austin,

the transitions for when it goes from hot to not hot anymore is right after Halloween. And then from not hot to hot is after South by Southwest. He used to be right on the Halloween thing, but I feel like last year it was really hot into November. Yes. Global warming. Climate change. Yeah.

Climate change. What was it? There was that thing that, oh yeah, this September so far in Austin has been hotter than July. Are you fucking what? Yeah. Obviously it was the hottest month. Okay, the local NBC affiliate had a piece about it.

It's been the hottest September on record. The average hourly average temperature in September so far has been 88 degrees versus 86.5 in July. We are doomed folks. That is grim. We've seen more 100 degrees days this September than ever before. There was 17 this month. folks that is grim. We've seen more 100 degrees days this September than ever before. There was 17 this month.

There were 14 and 2011. That was the year where it was like 100 days over 100 degrees. Yeah. I remember that that was the year I think before I moved to Austin. We've only had 5500 degrees this year. I've started wearing my Apple watch again. It has all the temperature stuff like that gauge where it's like the lowest to the highest. I just put my bins out because I always forget to put them out. So it was probably like 11 PM. I was like, oh that gauge where it's like the lowest to the highest. And I just put my bins out,

because I always forget to put them out. So it was probably like 11 p.m. I said, oh, I didn't. And it was like 30 degrees Celsius. Pitch black. I can't believe how hot it is at night. It retains the heat. I like that part though.

I like the warm nights because coming from Canada once it is dark outside, it's like it dips below 65, no matter how warm it was. I sleep in when it's cold. I sleep the rest cold. I do too. So it's annoying. It's annoying. Have you got a lost AC all night just so you can sleep? Yeah, because who the, man, that window's open when it gets cool enough to do like windows open.

Yeah. A little breeze blowing through. It's good. Oh, the best. I mean, the climate change is real because I remember, my birthday is on Friday. And I remember growing up, like, needing a jacket on my birthday. And like, it being much cooler at the end of September.

But you probably had less skin. This is also true. A lot less everything, frankly. Less layers internally. Many fewer internal layers, certainly. But yeah, I just like, just, and just tracking, like, you know, now I, it's like bathing shirt, bathing suit, bathing shirt. It's kind of long sleeve shirts. One of those like turn to the century, like bathing suits. Right. Yeah. Like the stripes. Yeah, exactly. Tanked up. Yep, precisely. Yeah, and now it's, oh,

chilling, but in not that way. Yeah, I, I, I'm so baffled by the fact that like, you could wear anything you want for Halloween in Austin. And it's fine. Like every costume I would ever do when I was younger would have to incorporate a winter jacket. I finally saw speaking of Halloween costumes. I saw, that's it. That's how the final sexy Halloween costume

that I didn't think was possible. Should we guess? You want to take a guess at the last frontier of sexy Halloween costume. Could we give like a context? Like is it from a movie, from a TV show? TV show. Oh, I think I saw it. I think I know what it is sexy Chernobyl.

No, but that's a good one. That's a really good novel. Sexy Friends couch. You know what it is, Andrew? Is it sexy Mr. Rogers? It was sexy Mr. Rogers. No. For $60, you can buy a sexy Mr. Rogers Halloween costume. No. Except they call it nicest neighbor costume. Oh, wow. It was even nicest person who was ever born, do you think? You probably 100%.

I was watching clips of him, because I didn't really grow up with that. But what an amazing bloke. Oh yeah, he's just the best. I'm excited to see Tom Hanks' rendition of him in Won't You Be My Name or Set the Name of the Movie. That was the one that came out. No, there was a documentary about Mr. Rogers.

Wasn't that one called Won't You Be My Neighbor? Oh, maybe this one's a beautiful day in the neighborhood. It's one of the two. Oh, look at him. Oh my God, that's... That's garing for life. That's one of the two. Oh, look at them. Oh my God, that's that garring for life. If I see anybody wearing that, I'm gonna be so angry. Throw up pumpkin spice latte. I'm gonna be so horngry. That's how like Horton, yeah, it does. Let's see, where is it? Tom H, acting. A beautiful day in the neighborhood.

Beautiful day in the neighborhood. I wonder if I don't get a haircut into Halloween. Could I pull off like a Steve Harrington from Stranger Things? Oh, absolutely. You already kind of have his hair go on. With the ice cream. Scoops. Yeah.

Might try for that. Nice. I don't know what we're going to do this year for Halloween, for costumes. Are you going to do like a matching thing? Me and Trevor were weighing in Garth from Wayne's World last year and that was like the easiest costume in the world. So I'd like to find something like that that we could do or ideally we don't have to wear a wig but it's okay if we do. So I don't know. Are you calling the audience for suggestions? Yes. So if you have any ideas, podcast listeners, please help us out.

I did a question with Meg once where she was the lamp, the leg lamp from Christmas story. Oh, yeah, yeah. And I was the box that it came in. But I'd never seen it and I didn't understand the reference. So you were just like, people asked me what I was. I was like, I think I'm the box that her thing came in.

I don't know what I am. You should see the other way around. Fried y'all on it. Fried y'all on it. Hey! That was all right. That was just pretty good. Have you seen it since then?

Yep. And good box? That is not a movie I would watch again. I think it's like the kind of thing you get to, like, you grow up watching it, yeah. I grew up watching it and you know, I rewatched it, I guess a couple of years ago. Terrible.

Christmas story. Never seen this. Thanks. No good. But people love it. Like on TVS, they show it like 24 hours and on stop on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Oh my God.

It's very American too. Like I couldn't relate to any of the shit that they were talking about or aspiring to. It was always very strange, Phil. Have we talked about it on the podcast before the debate of whether or not the nightmare before Christmas is a Halloween movie or a Christmas movie? Cause it literally keeps me up at night. I feel like we have talked about it's been many years maybe. Yeah, or like at some point we must have. We're not in person. We can talk about it. It's definitely on the podcast. But I don't know which one is it? Not on camera. It's a Christmas movie. You think so? I think it is. I got it. Yeah. I always call

it a Christmas movie. I think it is. Yeah. Because it's about him discovering Christmas. The lesson, the lesson is like very Christmasy, like, you know, what he learns and what everyone learns. Like it is in the spirit of, you know, a Christmas, like all like Christmas movies and tales, like a character has changed and a town has changed and that's a very like Christmassy, like, you know, thing, like people's hearts are softened, um, and people come around on things. Then that's a very Christmas type thing.

So I'd say Christmas movie for sure. Okay. Okay. I think so. I don't know. It's a total of that. That's it. No dissenting opinion. No, I'm first on the podcast. So refreshing. We actually agreed on something. You're much better than Bernie was. I read a story the other day about this guy. You know how like before college football games they'll have like the reporters out in a crowd of people and people always like hold signs up like stupid signs or whatever.

There was a guy who held up a sign that said, I need beer money, Venmo me and put his Venmo ID on it. And he got on television like they showed him and he said within 30 minutes he got $400 Oh my god, what's going to that with a Bitcoin wallet? Ronsden. Yeah, I heard that one too But he decided that what he would do is he would you know take out I think he said like he wanted a case of natty light. So he's like he would take out like Minus the cost of case cat natty light. He would donate the rest of the money to charity and

Like people got wind of it and people donated a million dollars. Whoa to him that he then ended up turning around and donating to charity. I want to say it was like a children's hospital. I gotta look it up here. Wow. Let's see. Beer, beer money. Here's the text book. He was bush light that he was buying. So it wasn't even that much. If you immediately give it away, do you have to what happens with tax? Yeah, I was gonna ask for a tax. Or does a donation have tax? I think you said like a tax write off, but it was to the University of Iowa, stead family, children's hospital. But if you get money sent to you via Venmo, and that kind of quantity, do you have to pay taxes? I think Venmo also got wind

of it. So I'm sure that they helped figure out that kind of stuff. Because apparently like Venmo did a match and Bush beer also decided to do like a fun match as well. So awesome. Very nice. And yeah, and Bush beer is going to put his picture of his face and his name on a run of cans that they're going to sell. They said that they're going to give him a year supply of Bush beer. Wow.

Which runs you like 35 bucks. By the way, that's like, it's no laughing matter. Yeah. But it's like super cool that someone puts up a sign just like as a joke and now like a children's hospital is gonna get a million bucks out of it. It's crazy that people would see that and send money. I would never see like some idiot holding a sign

on like a college pregame show and be like, you know what, yeah, I'm gonna send that guy money. I would never see like some idiot holding a sign on like a college pregame show and be like, you know what? Yeah, I'm gonna send that guy money. Why not? Can you imagine the look on that like the instant flop sweat you would get like checking your, like someone vend me one million dot, you think it was like, okay, I'm like something's around

this, this is a mistake. There couldn't be like this. Should I send it back? Yeah, decline. Do I accept or decline? Well, the thing is it's already, this is something I don't like about Venmo, it accepts it back. Yeah, decline. Like, do I accept or to just like, the thing is it's already, this is something I don't like about Venmo,

it accepts it already. Like someone just sends you money and now it's your responsibility if it was a mistake to send it back. That's right, that's why you don't even have to accept it, just go straight in there. Which is really knowing because once some person, I guess,

maybe they clicked the wrong person in their friends list or something, but they sent me like 25 bucks for something and I was like, hey, I think you have the wrong person and they're like, oh, could you send it back? And I'm like, now I feel weird sending money to this person I don't know. Like, why did you even bother telling him?

Well, because it's, I don't know. Like, they would feel bad. No, I have no idea what you're talking about. I had an annoying interaction with Blaine the other day. We were over in the other office over there across the parking lot. And I asked him to go. He said he was going to go out and get lunch. I was like, oh, while you're out getting lunch, can you buy a case of white cloth?

And I was like, here, and I reached out my wallet and I gave him a 20. I was like, here, here's 20 bucks, you know, get a case of white cloth. He was like, nah, nah, nah, just Venmo me. And I was like, but I'm literally heading to the money right here. And he was, yeah, but then I got to get you changed. I was like, don't worry about the change. Just keep the change. Just get a case white clock.

He's like, nah, just Venmo me. I was like, what the fuck? I'm literally handing you money. There's real money. Some people prefer to deal all digitally with that stuff. Like no physical cash right? With 20 bucks for a favor? I'm just saying some people people I personally don't care,

but I think like people like Blaine just don't have cash on that. Yeah, but I'm an old man. I don't use Venmo's. Like how far? Alright, fine. I said to like fucking fire up Venmo and figure that shit out. Yeah, just so you could pay him for like, but also you both go and I find why you just do the Apple pay cash thing. He said Venmo and then I got pissed and then I stopped thinking.

I was like, motherfucker, now I gotta, I gotta fucking use this stupid ass app. These glorified PayPal to send this shit to him. Your money's literally no good here. Right, it's like, Cash, take it off, take it out of my hand. So fucking scary. Right in front of you.

Yeah, I did that to Mike the White Clause. He did get the White Clause. Okay, good. What, I think it was the day that Apple pay cash went on. And I was like, I wonder how much people are going to use this. And Michael said something funny to me in a text. And I just sent him one dollar. Is there a fuck? And he was like, did you?

You just send me a dollar? I was like, good joke. You're paying joke riders. I'm going to start doing that to people. Send like 25 cents a day. Make me laugh. Get expensive. I think you can only that to people, send like 25 cents if they make me laugh. Get expensive. I think you can only send a dollar if it's not. Oh really? No, you can send any amount I think.

Can you? One cent? Test it, send me 20. I guess the plus was, you see if I get it. The plus was just going up in dollars. Maybe you can type it. I just did plus and it went to one.

Okay, I'm gonna text you. Send me a book. Someone called me back, and my phone didn't ring, I'm gonna text you. A little book. Someone called me back, so my phone didn't ring. I'm gonna text you, Gavin. Gavin, free. I'm gonna type $20, let's see what it, $20. There's all the employees, it's just so I could.

Andrew, I'm gonna send you money. Okay. Oh, but then I can click it. You guys can send me money. And then nothing happens. What were you trying to do? I typed $20, but then I can click it. You guys can send me money. And then nothing happens. What were you trying to do? I typed $20 and then it's clickable. Oh, there.

My balance is 50 cents, but I can't. I just asked you for 50 bucks or 20 bucks. You know what? I took great terms of conditions. You're weight your balance, your Venmo balance is 50 cents. Yeah, but you know, my Apple pay thing somehow is 50 cents, but I you could only send dollars So I'm very confused with how I have to what if you do a decimal let me overdraft this Apple pay

But I can't even do it. What do they take what Apple take off those? They take a fee. I assume so. Oh, yeah, they have to, right? Because if I pay a buck, well pay me the 20 bucks and tell me it will see how much comes through. It's not letting me do 50 cents. This is very entertaining podcast material. In this time, we could have just passed around. See, that's why I was annoyed. You could have just pulled it out of your wallet and handed it to someone. So stupid. Sickening. Awful. Here's a very inconvenient amount of money for you. Ooh, am I about to get an inconvenient amount of money? What's an inconvenient amount of money? No amount of money's inconvenient. Yeah, that's true. Not enough to really buy anything with,

but now it's just in your Apple pay balance. That's fine You can't have a I got sent a $2.50 cents. It's not inconvenient a I guess you could buy like a some gum or just buy will you tell you don't use that money to it just goes in your in your shit in your account Then how do I have a balance? Does someone send you money can't you click on like a history? What do you think? Do you hold up your balance to a to a store and make the duct? Of course not, but maybe it works like a Venmo balance where people send you.

And just like collected in there. Yeah. Can you send me 20 bucks if you've requested 20 bucks? Why don't you try that? Well, once you send it to me, we'll figure it out. This episode of the receipt podcast is brought to you by Magic the Gathering, their new card set, Throne of Eldrain is out starting September 26th,

and they asked us to write our own take on some of these fairy tales. So we're gonna read one of those for you right now. That's what this is. Yay! Highly. Hello. I'm gonna read to you,

I'm gonna be the part of narrator in the three small boars written by Andrew Roses, based on the fairy tale. If you can open your scripts to page one. Yes, sir. Once upon a time, in the shadow of a tall mountain lived three small boars. The first small boar, the eldest, was wise and firm, and didn't abide the foolhardery fancish of his younger brothers who would roll in the mud. Fancy!

Fancy! Can we start over? Fancy's of his younger brothers who would roll in the mud of the hot springs near their home after dark. Brothers, come inside. It's not safe after dark. The night is home to unholy creatures that will lick your bones clean. So we're doing an accent, cool.

Yeah, I'm doing an accent. You're wearing too much. The knight is young and the knight keeps us warm from the keel off the mountain. The second small bore was brash and bold and didn't heed his brother's words. Yes brother, can't we stay out a small longer? The third small bore was me, and fragile. Oh, the fragile oops. But loved to wallow in the bubbling earth every night.

Get inside this instant, the forest of the mountain cloaks our fiercest enemies. The two youngest boars trudged inside the stone home. The first bore kept his gaze on the forest beyond the water. Just to look upon the trees drew the warmth out of his first small bore's breath, the wet wood of the pines became to look upon the trees, drew the warmth out of his first small boars breath. The wet wood of the pines became a black curtain of sorrow, unpearsed by the strong light of the moon overhead. Whatever evil lurked there, called him. The primal desire for

annihilation was soothed by looking at it. As if the death drive was locked away in the deepest part of the boar's heart was coaxed out of his hiding and given free reign of his most immediate thoughts. Bridal, are you coming in? Yes, of course, it's not safe out here. The three small Boer sat and ate it that are modestyble, the wood and the fire crackled and the cold wind whistled through the tiny cracks and the thick stone of the house,

which produced a dissonant line. That's what you think. Suddenly, above the plaintive piping of the stones, cut an angry and heart-stopping howl. The light from the fire crackled in the house as if a specter had quickly passed by the mantle. The boars were frozen in their seats. Well, what kind of creature could make such a noise?

He's got a breathing problem. He's very serious. The forest knows the darkness below the tree tops bus all the manner of horse. It feeds the creatures less for blood and shopens their claws and teeth for the getting. The boars moved delicately to the tiny window of the house and looked out into the night. There, at the edge of the woods, glinting the tindrals of moonlight, the boars stared at the eyes of an immense wolf. Its body was obscured by the cloak of trees, but the boars could estimate its size by the height of its eyes from the ground. The beast

must have been massive. And at the very contemplation of what abomination lay beyond the eyes, the boars were chilled to the bone. Brother, are we safe? Surely the creature would swallow us whole. We're safe, the stones that make this house are from high on the mountain and the door is made of the mightiest wood from deep in that dark forest. You'll never get in here, wolf! This is the safest place in the Dail! Being quiet, brother.

Don't tempt the creatures of the woods. The younger boys looked to their brother with shame on their faces, and then turned back to the forest, the wolf was gone. Bam! The thunderous forest struck the door, which shook the house, dust rained from the hinges, and the stately entrance. Bam! Another brute strike reverberated through the floor, but the door didn't budge, a murderous growl rumbled from outside. A river of

fetid viscous saliva ran under the door and pooled around the second small boar's hoof. Don't fear, brothers. Our home is our salvation. Stand strong! The boar's huddled together by the fire. The banging stopped and the growl was snuffed out, reclaimed by the tenebrose forest. Is it over? Brother, it's over. That wolf is no match for our stronghold. The boars began to chortle in snort. The chorus of laughter was joined by a fourth diabolical harmony which tampered the levity back down to the Bore's throats.

The wolf stood at the edge of the woods, cackling a blasphemous laugh. Its eyes had become green embers, suddenly from behind the wolf, and even deeper sound rush forth. In earth-rinding roar thrashed the trees and split the timber into jagged fragments, the wolf summoned a deep magic from the very heart of the mountain, as if the bones of the gods were being broken, releasing a marrow of wind and terror. The Gus pummeled the Bores's house into oblivion. The one strong stones became as fragile as ash, and the mighty door burned where it stood without a flame. Brother, help! Yes, brother, help us!

The first small bore couldn't answer. The walls of the house burned and took flight into a tornado frenzy. The boars were ripped from each other's arms and violently tossed to the air. Their cries cannot be heard above the din as one by one their plump bodies were impaled on the jagged timber surrounding the house. The boars twitched and spluttered blood and looked down at their skewered bodies with cold eyes. The wind eyed as quickly as it began. The first small boar looked over at his muleing brothers and cried as the wolf began stripling the flesh from their bones. The end. Did not see that ending coming? So the third small

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I can fucking hate the future. I hate my face. I hate the phone. This is just terrible. The worst thing ever. I ordered one of those stupid professional phones. I don't have it yet, I'm going to get it next week. Is this it? That's a professional telephone.

After all these years of using a phone, you're finally a professional. You finally graduate. Oh, hey, look at the professional phone. Can I try your camera? Yeah, the camera's cool actually Yeah, so he's like the same Throw to the trash you can slow my ones right whoa Slow fees I thought you're tweet about it. When did you invent that?

Oh, damn my hands in it. I feel like Apple make They make a I guess, well-designed stuff. They are such an uncool company. How so? Like the way they announce products and they got all these like rich farts up on stage like practicing and doing all these demos and it's like, hey, try, try slow fees. It's like, why Apple? No one wants to do that.

That's just not cool. I think not cool. And I shouldn't have that opinion on what's cool. Apple has over the years become, like when the first iPod came out, it was like, oh, this is like really awesome and it seemed like a pretty hip, cool company. And over time, I get what you mean.

They've become like the mom clapping on the one and three beats at a basketball game. Companies just. Yeah. Like it's it's it's it is the like presentations where they get up there like yeah are you guys excited? It yeah I know exactly what you mean. It's become very square company on an exercise bike while

making an appointment and like organizing brunch and it's like no one uses to find like that But when the people tweet memes each other and like go on what's that when they when they announced like the app a few years ago And they announced like the Apple watch had to tell either capability in it They did it with that woman who was out like on a paddle board in the middle of the waters like yep I'm taking a phone call on my watch out here. It's like who does that? You're a fucking douchebag. I was like, yeah, I'm gonna go paddleboard and answer my phone calls in my watch like Dick Tracy. It's like, it was uncool news. It made fun of for so long, but now it's just like an accepted thing, I guess. It's not accepted. We're making fun of it.

Be taken out of the moment at any moment. Apple. Why did they do this? They can hire you. How many people watch that damn presentation? There were a lot of people watching that YouTube live stream. I want to say it was over a million. I think there was like almost like coming up on two million, like 1.8. There's so many. So yeah, there are a lot of people who watch that.

But how many phones did they sell? Hundreds of millions. I don't know. Yes. Is it good? Moxins have that? Why don't they just be like, Hey't follow it. Is it good marketing to have that? Why don't they just be like, Hey, has the phone just installed now? It's so people still buy it. It's so people will start talking about the features on social media.

People want to know. So we're talking about it here on the podcast. Yeah, but everyone has to sit through this two-hour presentation where you've got to like pick out all the actual relevant information. Yeah, that is annoying. Just read a post about it. Why not have like different presentations? Like there'll be parts where I don't care about any of this.

I don't want to hear about any of these products. They said that they're gonna build the new Mac Pro here in Austin. I built the old one in Austin. Right, that was a piece of shit. That was a piece of shit. You were very worried about the new one. The last one's stuck. The garbage can one.

It was the worst Mac I've ever had. And not because it just didn't work right. Like it would just hang and it would get too hot. I guess the way it was designed meant that thermal throttling was huge on it. And it just sucked. I just hated it. I'd rather use a laptop than that thing.

I had one and I- It's anonymous. And I would edit slow-mo stuff on my MacBook Air over the actual professional computer. Yeah, MacBook Air is pretty capable. What if you had like an iPhone Air? And you were like, my iPhone Pro is a piece of shit. I'll do it. professional computer. That's what I think. That's what I think. That's what I think. That's what I think. That's what I think.

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The headphone jack is coming back. At the top of the phone. Did he hit her? He used to be in the top? It was on top for a while. Yeah. It was like when they first made it. Oh, like the iPod.

Yeah. Okay. Cool. Yeah. I didn't like Samsung. Didn't they pull all of their videos offline? Like they had all those videos being in front of Apple, removing the headphone port. And then when they removed the headphone port, like they just took all their videos down. They're all videos when they made fun of the camera.

Redacted, completely redacted. We never did that. They're finally gonna release that folding phone. This week, I think. Yeah, later this week, it's delayed by like five months. Really? Because all of the demo models were like creased and like breaking in half.

Right, right. They realized it didn't work. They also had this this protective film on them that people were pulling off. Right. And they were like, no, no, that's the part of the fuck. Well, hopefully they say that they figured out all the problems. And but it's like, do you want a phone that goes in?

Do you have some dollars? No. No. You had that one that, I remember you using it. I think. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, that's awesome. Hell yeah, sidekick.

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Oh, no, I did not have a sidekick, but my buddy had a sidekick and would not put the thing away. I guess it was just the coolest shit. What did you have? I had the unbreakable Nokia. would not put the thing away. Because it was just the coolest shit. What did you have? I had the unbreakable Nokia. I think that was my first phone was the unbreakable Nokia. Kicked it, dropped it, dropped it in water, could not kill that thing.

I had a razor, a motor oil razor, which was honestly probably one of the best sounds I ever had, that thing. I think they're gonna, they said they're gonna relaunch that, like this year. They're bringing back the flip, they're bringing back flip. I missed the sound it would make when it would turn on. That was had, that thing. I think they're gonna, they said they're gonna relaunch that late in this year. They're bringing back, they're bringing back the flip. They're bringing back flip. I missed the sound it would make when it would turn on.

That was always my favorite thing. The little song. A little boot up, no one. Yeah. Yeah, no key flip. I had a piece of shit, Ericsson for a long time. That was like only good for snake and calculations. And then I got, I didn't get an iPhone though

until way late, like it was several generations long before I got my iPhone. I had a blackberry pearl up until I got the iPhone. I think that was like in 2012, I got an iPhone, just in 2013. Yeah, I was somewhere around there. Michael Jones had an LG chocolate. Didn't you have that when you first moved here?

Yeah, for like a couple, maybe like a year after he moved to Austin, I wanna say. I forgot about that. He didn't use like predictive text either. He would, you know, hit two twice to get a B. Yeah. And he would, yeah, he would do this. He would go, he blinded his shit.

He'd be like, there's like texting like that. And whenever he would yell at me over text, he would write these like massive all caps paragraphs. And I'd be like over text, he would write these massive all caps paragraphs and I'd be like, man, he pressed every button to get these letters several times. He really must be. Also, do you not have to put on the caps lock every time or the shift every time? No, I think you can set it. Okay.

That would be it. It was funny. It was even more funny. That's how you know he really meant it. That's commitment to that. I have to double click to get the B and then hold it down so it capitalizes. Yeah. I love passionate in those old texts.

Oh God. Man, how shitty. I do not miss that. No, no, I remember the first time I went to Australia, I was like, oh, four. Yeah. And I was amazed because everyone down there was like texting and it was like barely in the infancy in the United States. It was like it was just starting to take off and they were like, if people kept asking

me, like, oh, you all don't text. I was like, no, I don't think I know anybody who texts. Wow. And here we are just like a few years later. It's like, I can't imagine ever calling anybody. They never, I also never used the thing that I think that a new iPhone has, which is that like swipe text. Oh, I don that like swipe text.

Oh, I don't like that. Do you use it? No. It's like you basically, you don't look to finger off the keyboard when you're typing. You just basically- Do you play connect the dots to make words? Yeah. I've seen people do that and it makes no sense.

I don't understand how it works. No, it's like watching people use like the computers in Star Trek. Man, in like there's a... I can't wait to see the flashback in seven years from now when people cut this conversation. I like occasionally having conversations like this because you just sound like such an ancient idiot. Even like five years from now.

They actually took out a feature that I didn't realize how often I used it from this new phone. Did you ever went in your typing on the keyboard, you wanna move the cursor, so you just like 3D touch the keyboard keyboard and then you can drag the cursor around oh You could do that. Yeah, that's gone now you have to Press down on the space because they removed the 3d touch. Yeah, just

four touch touch Four touch is left but not 3d touch. Yeah, so now So now you have to hold down the space bar and then you can move the cursor around But I must have used that every time I do a text because I see annoyed when we need to go back and change something and the You can't put the cursor where you want because it flips all around so you just so your finger covers the entirety of the sentence so you can actually see where you are yeah, and now I don't know I don't know as you could have done that yeah, I used to do all the time But now when you hold down it's boring. It it like does the secondary function of that key like it used to But try not to try it on you guys. You can do it on the space bar though.

Well, that's how you what do you mean? That's how you said now you have to do it on the space bar. Yeah, but I was just doing it on any key. Well, that's better than what I had. I was like a caveman fucking getting mad at the sentence of my finger was blocking. Yes, nice trying to kind of put a punch it. Oh, this is cool. I've never done that before.

I apparently use it almost every time. I use my phone. Trying to buy something for $2.50 on Amazon. So you don't have to find. Keep a sub date. They probably wouldn't even take Apple cash. Jerks, I'm not the ticker. A lot of stores now, like those stores that like the airports are

community stores in general take Apple pay. So you could buy like a soda or something like that. Keep the change. And I woke up this morning, I have the New York Times app on my phone. So like when I wake up, like I'll see like some headlines that I missed while I was asleep. And there was one like when I first woke up, I was kind of groggy and it didn't really register with me. And it was like Thomas Cook files for bankruptcy, you know, stranding thousands of travelers. And I was like, no, I don't know what that is. Oh, well, no big deal.

And then like I'm like slowly starting to wake up and I'm like, Thomas Cook isn't it that airline and travel agency in the UK? So then like, you know, I finished walking my dogs and I got a TV in my bathroom, I turned the TV and it's like, it's like the story they're covering at that time. And I guess like they went out of business. Today was their last day.

They announced, they announced last night today would be their last day operating and they have 150,000 travelers overseas currently. Why is that? Then have no way to get back. Whenever an airline goes out business, they never prepare for it in any way. They're never like, hey, we're gonna get people back,

but we're not doing any new flight. We need to get everyone home, because on this day, we're gonna stop flying. They're always just like, we don't exist anymore. Yeah, just like, grabby happened to be. Good luck by a different airline. So how does that work? Can these customers and suit,

but they're out of business? Because they didn't sue this company. They're gone. I guess it's the risk you take when you fly on any airline. If they filed for bankruptcy, I don't think you can sue them for that. Because technically, they have no assets or like you. It's all protected.

It's all protected. Also, yeah, you're absolutely right. It's like, when an airline goes out of business, it's like they threw a big switch. Like they were just like, sorry. Now I can't see. We could have no way predicted this.

It's just offline forever now. So there's this quote, I guess there was this interview with a guy named Tim Johnson, who's the head of policy at the UK Civil Aviation Authority. And he said, where is it? When people get to the end of their holiday, they will be brought back to the UK. We've charted 40 planes and we're going to be running

over a thousand flights over the next two weeks. So it's like, it's the Civil Aviation Authority. It's like, okay, I guess we just got to get all these people back. It's crazy. And it happened really recently with... Was it Monarch? Oh yeah, it was Monarch, yeah. When I used to fly them as well.

Is that another UK based? Yeah, mm-hmm. Damn. That was not that long ago either Yeah, there's gone I mean, I mean, that's just a testament like that company. I forgot the exact age But they said that company had been around like something like 170 or 180 years and it's just a lack of Being able to keep up with the way that travel changes, right? Like people don't use travel agents, people don't do that kind of stuff.

Like now you've got your phone, you can like search every airline and do it all yourself. I grew up in, it's like a old market town. So it was like tons of charity shops and loads of pubs, loads of hairdresses and loads of travel agents. And that's what it was. It was like four of them. And now it's like you would never see one. Why would you ever walk into a travel agent?

Yeah, like if you told me right now, I had to find, like I couldn't grab my phone, I had to drive to a travel agent. I'd be like, I have no idea if I had to drive to a travel agent right from here. Yeah, as someone is going probably like 500 times, I would be completely lost going into a travel agent. I'd be like, I'd like to book a flight.

But I mean, you've had people book your travel before. Right, but I didn't like go somewhere. Especially the same. Oh, you mean you just wouldn't know where to go. Right. Oh, I thought you meant you wouldn't know what to ask them. And I know where I want to go, but I just be like the whole process of walking into a physical building in a book of flight would be really weird. It's like, I'm gonna give this person my credit card so they can pay someone else to give them the ticket to give to me.

Yeah, my parents still use a travel agent. But it is like, the woman they use is one of their lifelong best friends, so they just like keep talking to each other. I didn't like Thomas Cook. Michael flew Thomas Cook like a week ago. Really? Yeah.

Got in under the wire, yeah. Because he was asking me, because he was, I hope he saved like all the member of Helia, like all the inflite stuff. He was asking me like, what the, because he was on a bunch of airlines that he'd never flown before.

He was like, yeah, one of the Thomas Cook, and I was like, Thomas Cook still around. That's not gonna be a good flight. And then they went out business a week later. So it was a such a pink Floyd 95. That's not gonna be a good flight. And then they went out business a week later. So when it was a set, Pink Floyd 95, they were around 178 years. That's crazy. Just gone.

And they couldn't adapt. To all of the other successful airline models. Well, I think it's different. It's like they were the travel agent and also the airline and they owned like hotel properties. I feel like you make a really good travel agent, Gus. I think I would.

Many would drive I would. Many would drive me crazy. And 78 years, were they packaging vacations to like the Oklahoma land grabs? Yeah, that's like, I just came in years ago. That was 1841. Yeah, they probably got a lot of people here who started businesses and families. Yeah, what vacations were they planning? You know, to have your gangrenous limbs sawn off, to have leeches put on you, you know,

a nice leech packet. Alcohol is included. That's nice. Yeah, I'll company is old. Yeah, if all your country is old. Yeah. I'm trying to see like how they got started. But it's like, it's one of those things where the company

looks like it's emerged and changed names so many times. I was very confused reading the headline about this today by the way because I didn't realize that Tom Cook was the name of the company. I thought it was the name of a CEO or some person. Tom Cook's headlines. Well, I mean, it was named off to Tom Cook. Yeah, why? I gathered. But it was just like, all right, so this guy's gone. Now all these travelers are stranded. What's going on here? So he has a keys to all the play. All the play.

All the play. The company was founded, where they started in 1841, and it was founded to carry temperance supporters by railway between the cities of Leicester, Noughtinham, Derby, and Birmingham. Dobby. Garby. And then in 1851, they arranged transport to the Great Exhibition of 1851.

Oh, yeah, you don't know about that. No, it's great. Organized tours to Europe in 1855 and then to the United States in 1866. Wow. They weren't bad with this. Back when the United States, 1866, back when the US was just doing its best. A real great time in the United States. It's 1866

War just ended right? Yeah, yeah some Versa Prix anti-Bellum America for a perfect time to visit Yeah, it's just crazy It's sad, isn't it really? Yeah, I think a company had been around through all of that. Yeah, and it's like it's just gone Uh all the wars that happened since that company started and they made it through all of that. Yeah, I think what I read was, I don't have the article in front of me anymore, but I think what I read was in the six months, like in the past six months, they had lost like $1.9 billion.

So that's why they probably just disappeared. It's like that'll do it. Yeah, it's a lot of money. Isn't Netflix like real in the whole? I all live of the like S Vod's except HBO lose money. Yeah, that's me is just very strange because it's just how is that a sustainable business? You've got to have growth. Yeah, like eventually if Netflix is just Netflix originals and people are subscribing to see all this stuff that they've already spent the money on years ago, eventually they'll make their money back.

True. It's like a ton of investment upfront. A lot of venture capitalists get that VC money, baby. Same thing with like Uber and lift. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, that's like, that's gonna be the shitty thing where eventually Uber and Lyft exist because people hate cabs, right?

It's like, oh, I could take an Uber, I could take a Lyft and it's cheaper than taking a cab and it's not a shitty. Every car ride you take on one of those ride sharing platforms is being subsidized by a venture capital list. It's like, eventually you get to a point where Uber and Lyft could theoretically muscle out the cab business. They're gone.

And then it's like, oh, now Uber and Lyft, they have to make money now because there's no competition. So they're going to raise all their prices and your rides aren't subsidized anymore. And now you're left with a shittier version of the cab company you got rid of. But that's the only thing that's valuable in the end is that you just spend all your money and get the giant user base. And then that's the most valuable thing you possibly have is people who use your service and then you sell it. That's why the messaging client sell for so much.

It's so ridiculous. It doesn't make any sense. They don't have to pay for a ton of cars or a buildings or shit. It's just like, made an app. Yeah, you get people know, hey, I made an app so they can download it. Yeah, Instagram made the iPhone camera look funny.

Yeah. And then sold it for billions of dollars. Just make a really good game in an app and have it have ads on it and then charge for the ad free version and your set for life. These companies make so much fucking money off of that. And like the simplest games too. Like there's this game that I love playing called balls B-A-L-L-Z. The Z makes it cool.

It does. It's the most simple game ever, but it's so addictive. And there's numbers on the squares. Yeah, numbers on the squares that you basically, it's like, it's a fucking game with the fucking balls. The fucking game with the fucking ball. We have to break out. That's the one.

It's like break out, but every block has a certain amount of hits it needs to break. It's very fun. Every time someone says break out, I imagine you saying in the switchhead. Thank you. No, I'm just making a reference. This episode of receive podcast is brought to my audible. Audible has the world's largest selection of audio books and audio entertainment, including audible originals.

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to knock it ads in. Yeah, I was playing that around the time we were filming Haunter when we were in England in the Hellfire caves and Ryan tried to summon Satan in the middle of the cave. And after that, my phone started glitching out and it was just like, type shit on it, and I couldn't play balls. That's why I was the most annoyed about it. It's like, balls doesn't work. Has that episode come out yet? Yeah.

That's really fucking crazy. I mean, the bit where my phone breaks isn't in the episode because it happened like after we wrapped. Yeah, but the fact that that happened, the first place, that's creepy as fuck. But I got a video of my phone typing stuff on it's own. Oh, first, it was like, don't sleep. I think it was like the capacitive field

was further out than it usually is, so I would put my hand near it, and it would type the key. And then after that, it would just type stuff on it's own. So it's like, this is for, I need a new phone. God, I don't like that. Dunk that thing in holy water. There's no sense.

I've still got it. I'm thinking grains of rice with the Lord's Prayer written very small on the ice in the rice. We had to be blessed with holy water when we did that anabell thing. Before going into the room with all those like cursed and haunted objects, there was a priest there who had to bless me

and blame with holy water. What are you talking about? Anybody act like it burned? Afterwards. had to bless me and blame with holy water. What are you talking about? Anybody act like it burned? Afterwork. Hahaha. Me. Um, no, we didn't, they're very much like, you know, this, this is this family's life work and like,

they take it very seriously. So be respectful and all, all that stuff. But, um, it was hard not to make a joke about being a Jew and being blessed by a priest with holy water. Sssss. Ah! Ah, get it off, get it off. You can make them, you can make all the jokes now. make a joke about being a Jew and being blessed by a priest with holy water. Get it off, get it off. You can make all the jokes now.

Little more. The video's already up. Get that new testament off of me. Yeah. No, mean play. Mean play would see the actual animal doll in Connecticut where it is. And it's in a room that basically is filled with all these objects that this family has gathered over the couple of years that are apparently like the most haunted or cursed objects in existence.

Could you refuse the Holy Water? I didn't wanna, I was like, listen man, any protection I could get right now would be great. So how was it applied to you? Just like right on the floor. So you can have dodged it. He wasn't like playing man. Whoa, that was close

Well, what happens if you spill beer on the friends couch? Do they get mad? Oh man? Yeah, don't do that. Yeah, let me go back in time and undo that Just say nice. Sorry. No one told you life was gonna be this way Don't spit beer on the friends. So I feel like I'm absolutely need to mention that we announced RTX states. We did.

Yeah. We're excited about July 3rd to 5th, 2020. Some people were curious, like, oh, that's weird that it's on July 4th weekend. When they all angelized both? There've been a couple that haven't been But like the idea has always been for it to be like July 4th weekend Just like sometimes because the calendar moves. Yeah, it's not always on the week I feel like it's actually it's absolutely the week like six out of eight have been that weekend most have been that

Yeah, or that week sometimes it's like oh, July 4th Wednesday, so you have it Yeah, there's a ton of VIP parties where we're also watching fireworks at the same time. It happens a lot. Yeah. So I'm happy that it's July 4th is actually that weekend again. I think it's hopefully easier. People say like, oh, you know, what if people have travel plans? Like, well, that's what we announced at date now. Mm-hmm. 10 months in advance. So you can make those travel plans. Also, your travel plan should be, Austin Texas. To come to Austin, to come hang out with us.

July 30th. We could have an American day. I mean, celebrate it was it in the Simpsons, celebrate the freedom, celebrate it, by blowing up a small part of it. Yeah, I would better way to celebrate the independent sort of country by then blowing up a small part of it. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Maybe in 320. Could sponsor RTX this year. What's left of it? I don't think that's possible. They'll fly everyone out Name to someone then buy that name. That's probably part of the bankruptcy right like it's got some kind of value It'll get auctioned off to a I think we paid their credit. I don't think we could do it They lost 1.9 billion dollars in six months. They're gonna be asking for more than

We can we can we can Apple cash them can Apple pay them $1.9 billion in six months. They're gonna be asking for more than. We can, we can, we can, we can Apple cash them. We can Apple pay them $2.50 for, uh, for it. What are you gonna do with the $2.50? I'm just gonna, I'm gonna buck wild with this money. Y'all, you should invest it or gamble with it and see how far they're going. Just me $2.50 and a whole lot of Moxie, just an option. I read a, speaking of the start of an airline, I read a fucking crazy story last, again,

on the New York Times, this podcast brought to mind, New York Times, I read a crazy ass story on the New York Times last week. They were talking about the, the, the, the cracks of the story is about the 737 Max and the crash you said it's had. Yeah. But it was a really long piece.

And as part of it, they talked about Lacks, Airlines, Safety, and Indonesia. And they talked about the origin of the airline that had one of those crashes, Lion Air. And they talked about how the guy who started it when he was younger, he used to sell type riders. And then like as the airline industry started taking off in Indonesia, what he would do is he would go to the airport and buy like it was before Digital tickets like he would go to the counters and buy physical paper tickets and then go outside of the airport and then try to resell those tickets for that for more money Then he paid for right he was scalping airline tickets and

Like that's how we started then you realize that the airline industry was huge and he can make a lot of money So he started an airline. Wow. With the money he made from other people's airlines. Right. And it's like this crazy story, like he went from selling type riders to scalping airline tickets to starting an airline.

It's like the weirdest career patch. Rejectory. I think it's like, that is wild shit. That's awesome. Yeah, but I can't imagine the thought of, like yeah, I'm gonna go buy all these plane tickets and then I'm gonna go outside To people at the airport already and hopefully I can still be What a China it was all like in like in tri-Island like around Indonesia. So much shows up the airport They're just like I don't have a ticket yet

You know of a taxi with your bag or whatever you like all right time to go in and buy a ticket, yeah. I think you're cute. You know how to have a taxi with your bag or whatever? You're like, all right, time to go in and buy a ticket. Yeah. So I can't be about, well, there's a little boy selling one right here. I can't be bothered to walk inside. It's like less. $400 more. I'll take it. A little boy.

I met with this story started. I really did imagine like a young boy, like lemonade on one side. And I would take it with the cute backwards boy, like lemonade on one side. And then you're with the cute backwards like R like on the sun. Two for one deal. But yeah, if you're really interesting story, if you want us to get people off the street further out who weren't planning on flying that day to fly,

that'd be that'd be a pretty sweet. They're being a baller move. Yeah. Hey, you want to go to a different island? Yeah, I don't know. Better run. I'd take a baller than 20. I do a to go to a different island? You better run. I'm not taking balls in 20 minutes. I do a really good deal because it's about to take off.

I packed a bag for you. Come on down. Yeah, that's a strange way to get into that business. Yeah, but I guess if you found someone set something you're passionate about. Would you be affected by the price between tickets? Because surely as he's buying all the tickets, the price of the remaining seats will fluctuate.

Well, the price probably going up. Yeah, so does it. So he's driving the price up. Yeah, so if he's like, I'll have 10 tickets, actually I'll have 100, does the price go like? Probably. With the, that's weird, unless they didn't do that by then. But then that incents him to do that,

because he's paying a certain price, but then the tickets have become more valuable because they're more scarce. Yeah. Yeah. Mm, genius. And I look like, I can also imagine him breaking into the Apple and like slashing the ties of the other flights

that he doesn't have. He's like, oh, you better get on mine. Mine's still, mine's still going. If you want something, what's still going? Some really like catch me if you can, shit. Like just incredibly, like unscrupulous and like, in genius way, but going from like typewriters to airlock, like I wanna know more about that little like section

of like, well I made all this money from this airline tickets. Give me an airlock, give me a plane. What if I remember right, he, he leased a plane that was practically falling apart. Like he leased one plane that was practically falling apart. Like he leased one plane that was like, in terrible repair, it was like, I'm going to start an airline with that one plane that I'm leasing. And it was like that kind of thing. Where it's like, he just had enough money for that.

And then like, he just kept rolling it forward. Like, okay, now I'm making money on this. I'm going to get another plane. I'll send it to article. It's a super long way, but not really interesting. You should make a video series about all of your favorite articles that you just liked that. Will you just present the information in a way that we don't have to read a ton of stuff? Right.

They do well. I think maybe I'll just take other people's content and repackage it. Because typically, if I go in there, I want to take it and read stuff. I feel like every time you come up to me and you like check this show, even if it's off the podcast, I'm always like, that's the one of the most amazing stories ever. And you somehow find them.

You probably just unread it. It's because I'm always reading shit to get ready for the podcast. I've got like a million different stories ready. And that guy's name was Bill Delta. Bill Delta. One of my favorite jokes, just whatever the company's name is, it being the last name.

Bill something. Yeah, exactly. Or John something. What do you prefer? What's it? What's a good generic first name? Bill is always my favorite. Bill, John, Steve. Steve, I can't go as Steve a lot. Steve's classic. Just a time test. Good to. Well, Dave podcast started this R2 podcast 10 years ago. I used to use this piece of software, like back in my IT days, you know, before we started Ristart Heath, I used to use this piece of software that allowed you to network Max and PCs together.

And the name of the software was Dave. And I was like, what did they call it? Anything? I was like, no, I got to pay my license fee to Dave. Like, they work my PCs and max to get there. Was it an acronym? No, it's just called Dave. I mean, that was a time where computer-ish it would just be someone's name though. I'm sure it was a developer. Yeah. I'm sure it was like some guy named Dave was like, oh, I wrote this piece of software. What am I going to call it? I'll call it Dave. It's perfect. You see how much you remember it?

It's great. It's working out good for you. Maybe I'll get 2001 thing. Yes, I'm sorry, I can't do that, Dave. Let's see, Dave Mac Networking. I used it back around 2001. Why am I looking at I'm curious. We talked about the guy who was hired at Microsoft, right?

His name is Mac Book. Oh, he was in the commercial. Yeah, wait, that was his real name? MacKenzie Book. Mac Book. I just thought that was like a dumb ad-chess. I mean, it could be. That could be very well-being engineered, but.

That's a great idea. I mean, yeah. Chef Kis. So yeah, they don't make Dave anymore. Go figure. You don't say really find that hard to believe. Also going back to the generic, like a generic first name, you know, to name a company. It also depends on like how old I want that company to be. Cause it's like an old, it's like, you're like, Reginald Q.

Yeah, Reginald Q Delta, who started the first airplane. He was there at Kitty Hawk, but doing sketches. Yeah, really adds the cherry to that. I don't know why Reginald Cue Thomas Cook That's like too many names. I feel like now in 2019 it would be Chad Yeah, we're like Chad or Q cook You mean like so like a hundred years from now and they look back like to this time they're in the middle. Chad Delta. Yeah.

Chad. Chad. I'm so happy I know a Chad. Yeah. Yeah. Before Chad, before I knew Chad, Chad was this comedy name for me. It's like, my name is someone called Chad. Is.

I love Chad. Is Chad short for something? Not this one at least. Chadwick. Chadwick maybe. I mean. I'm Chad. Is Chad short for something? Not this one at least. Chadwick. Chadwick maybe? I mean. I'm not Chadious. Chad.

I know isn't correct, but still humorous. Chadwreck me, Chad. What is Chad short for? Chad is the modernized form of the old English given name. I have no idea how to say that. Seattle, influenced by the Welsh word, cad, meaning battle. It is also a short form of Charles and Chadwick. Barbara means the bearded one. Charles has a ton of names that you can use, like, I guess, Chad and Chuck. You already miss a lot. That's what it means because Baal is a beard in French.

What does Gavin mean? What's meaning of your name? What does Gavin mean? I think it's Scottish for nose. That's not right. No, I made it up. Oh, thank God. The uncertain etymology, some believe Gavin to be from Gualchmy, I have no idea.

It's a gaelic name derived from the elements Gualch meaning a hawk and made meaning a blow or battle Hawks on a blowhawk What's we would have gone with battle hawk but Which is actually another name for nose Oh, no, I got blow my hawk. It's running like before like you're going to the back got me blow hawk Like I linger in around the bathroom real blowhawk. Real blowhawk. Yeah. Shothered the blowhawk. I'm changing my name on steam to blowhole.

I read the story the other day about, you know, there's always these stories about like these ridiculously expensive cars. And like the amount of maintenance and upkeep that it takes to own one of these cars. It's like a real which car you told me right now I'm going to talk about the Bugatti Veyron, which is like I think like a 1.5 to $3 million car. Yeah, 1000 horsepower. Something like that. And it's like you have to change, like you have to change the tires constantly because it goes so fast. The tires, the tires disintegrate.

As a car almost completely used. But as a piece of year. I looked up, well, I read how much it costs to have an oil change for one of those cars. But just getting to the oil costs, right? First of all, it takes 27 hours of labor to change the oil in one of these cars. And it costs $21,000 to have an oil change in your car.

Can you imagine rolling into a fucking jiffy lube? What are those drive-draight places? They're still like, yeah, your vehicle is really dirty. We should probably replace that. I got a coupon for 50% on oil change Yeah, I pull it in pull it in the bay play where do you go to get that done? I can't get to go to the mechanic the probably the dealership I'll do it. Yeah, sail. Let's sells it to you. How many you got your dealership's you know? Is it one done? Is it one in Austin? I don't think so.

Not a big enough market. Gotty dealership. And they have the deal one now. It's Kiron. 21,000 brand new car that you could buy. Oh, look at that money. A brand new like Honda Civic. Honda Civic, you could buy a Honda Civic.

It's a Honda Civic. It's a Honda Civic. Can you drive up with a Honda Civic. Honda Civic, you could buy a Honda Civic and the extra power of that. The Honda Civic. Can you drive up with a Honda Civic and be like, there you go. I'll trade you. I'll trade you this new car for a normal change. I tell you what happened to me recently when I went to get my car inspected. A very annoying situation. Your favor?

What? When you went and got your Bugatti inspected. Yeah, my car inspected. What do you think I said? No, I was making a show that you have a Bugatti Vera. Oh, yes, exactly. I was gonna say that I recently had to get my battery replaced in my car, because it's a little bit older.

And went nearby to get a new battery, had it replaced. And then I was like, oh, I need to get my car inspection done since my registration is expiring, blah, blah. I go to the inspection place and they're like, oh, it's going to be about an hour away. We have a couple of people ahead of you. So that's fine. So I'm sitting in the waiting room.

They finally get to my car and it turns out to be like an hour and a half before it's over. And then the guy comes in, he goes, did you recently get some work done in your car? And I was like, yeah, I had the battery replaced and he goes, okay, because it failed one of these tests on your inspections. And part of the reason is if it's a brand new battery,

it hasn't had time to... Mr. Reset the sensor. Yeah. You have to drive like a hundred miles. Yeah, and so he's like, yeah, just drive around, a hundred miles or so, and then come back, we'll give you a free inspection and we're just like cool So I just wasted my entire afternoon. It's also so weird to me that like I have a brand new battery

That those guys could have replaced themselves and it would have failed that test. I just like was very frustrated You didn't just wait until you had a hundred miles. I didn't know that was the thing. I thought it was like oh I have a brand new battery. You didn't then go out and just drive around aimlessly, did you? Thought it was like oh have a brand new back. You didn't then go out and just drive around aimlessly did you? Just angrily driving for a hundred miles goes to San Antonio comes back here Oh, that's so shitty. Yeah, I just didn't I didn't really suppose it's thing. I think there's a Ferrari this like $40 million or something what get out? Well like 30 there. There's something, this one card is objistum noxiously expensive. Like, oh like a $3 million car, is that objistly expensive?

Yeah, but there's tons of it. Like a Rolls Royce, you can easily spend that. Most expensive car. You get the cup holders, that knocks it up into the $3 million. But I'm actually like, what are the like upgrades from like a $1 million version to like the LX $3 million version. Like what are they adding? What are the bells and whistles they're adding

onto that to push it over the top? Let me check CEO World magazine to see what the most expensive cars in the world are. People are bored. So the most expensive car is like $400,000. There's like a car that's like four or five hundred thousand dollars. Is that sure? Yeah. Well, I've been a big guy more than that. Is it really? Yeah, three million. The Bugatti Rolls Royce. I can print it out of $8 million.

Levoix Noir, $19 million. You can get a Rolls Royce sweep tail for $13 million. And then it goes down from there. Oh my God. But we saw a pretty expensive comments, do we? We did. It was a, where was that? Was that in Baltimore?

I think so. Yeah, we saw a mybach in Baltimore all of the years ago. How much money do you have to have where buying one of those cars is like not a big deal? I see me have too much. Well, yeah, it needs to spend it. It's also to the point where you buy that car and then you probably don't drive it.

True. Oh, yeah, no chance. Yeah, it's like a huge ride off. It's in your like 20 car garage you have and your Tony Stark mansion down there. At that, if you have enough money to buy like that kind of car, cash, because that's the thing is like to, if you're buying that car, you have significantly,

many, many, many times that money, because no one's like, I got to work really hard. I'm saving out for a $13 million car. I have $14 million. I have $21,000 oil change. Exactly. So you are had to have more money than you know it to do it. So at that point, I feel like you're just like

doing demolition derby on some like, you're just crashing. Like that's just an obscene amount of wealth that leads to like distraction. I guess I just never understood the concept of owning something but not wanting to be able to use it to its full extent. Like having one of the like a 19 or $13 million car and not wanting to drive it.

Also, what makes it that much better? Right, also that. Right, it's like, so what's like, we said $21,000? One, two, three, two, three, two, one, one, two. You could buy 904 Honda Civics. For $19 million. I don't know. Billionaires, they think differently, I assume.

Yeah. Because a few tens of millions isn't anything to them. It's nothing. It's like buying an expensive meal to a... I just don't know how anybody spend that much money. There's a great comedian Gary Goldman who's fantastic. He has a he has a long bit about like the difference between Bill Gates and his billions and like us and he has this like bit talking about like he found a

$20 bill in an old coat and how like that much how much it meant to him. He's like Bill Gates would have to find a $13 million bill in an old coat to have the same feeling the idea. He'd have a 20 rolls Royce that just happened to be in his name just sat in an alley. Yeah. It doesn't came in fact. Wasn't there like some reference if like if Bill Gates was walking and dropped a $100 bill, he would like, it doesn't make sense for him to turn around and go pick it up

because he's already made more money. Not in fact when he was the wealthiest person. Yeah. Yeah. That's intense. He's going to weigh a lot of that money. So he's not who's wealthiest now, Jeff Bezos? Probably.

I think JK Rowling was one of the first people to lose billion estateists due to charitable donations. Oh, really? Yeah. Which is cool. I mean, if you're going to lose it, that's a great way to. Mm-hmm. There was a legacy then. Not by being Tomas Cook. Not to have you're like airline. What would the most there would be like if it banned billionaires?

Interesting question. So that leads me actually to the synology I read a few months ago. Maybe a month or two ago. I forget it was it might have been like a Bernie Sanders analogy that they made, that he made, but they said like if you thought, like to try to put into perspective how rich a billionaire is. So if you imagine a staircase and to step up every step on the staircase represents $100,000 of net worth, that's like if you get up under the first step, you have $100,000 of net worth. That's like if you get up under the first step, you have $100,000 of net worth. Half of the people in the United States are on the base of the very first step. Those households in the 80th percentile, rich of the four out of five Americans,

are on the fifth step. A billionaire is 10,000 steps up the stairs. Oh my God. And I am locked out of the house on the front yard. Right. Not anywhere near that, the steps. It's like, it's like such a crazy scale to think about, if you think about it that way. God has. Yeah, and most people are on a step

that they could jump down onto the floor and be perfectly fine. Right, the billionaire's built a fucking elevator who doesn't have to walk 10,000 steps up to get there anymore. Steps for you for the Hoy Palloy for the leaves taking the lips. Why isn't it being a billionaire more frowned upon?

It's definitely making that turn, I think. Yeah. I think you're starting to find people are starting to find it realize, maybe that's not such a good thing after all. Maybe that's an exposure of a failure in the system. Yeah. Is it like something about Jeff Bezos Maybe that's not such a good thing after all. Maybe that's an exposure of a failure in the system. Yeah.

Is it like something about Jeff Bezos, if you like sold off all his assets, he could be close to being the world's first trillionaire, or is that just like the way I don't know about. I mean, he was registering on the like point one of a trillionaire, at some points. Something I don't understand is like cool feet. Honestly, I don't know why billionaires aren't

racing to solve climate change issues and like some of them are, but like in like a really like jet-bus is for example, like in a hugely spectacular way, like people will sing songs about you 200 years right? I think what they're doing is thinking way beyond Displanet they're like okay, well this this one's done. We'll do space stuff. We'll move you might need to a different planet And they're planning for that like so many billionaires are doing space programs Do something that is more of a tangible benefit?

Yeah, yeah Why not? Do something that is more of a tangible benefit? Yeah. A shrug. A shrug. So I looked up the wealthiest historic figures, like wealthiest people of all time. This list is adjusted for $20, $10 USD. So was there a Trillita? No. The highest one on this list is Jacob Fuguer, who's $400 billion. He did.

He did. He's a German merchant, mining entrepreneur, and banker. He lived between 1459 and 1525. Wow. He could have bought the planet. Yeah. That's an equivalent wealth. Equivalent would be $400 billion in $20, $10.

How much was Louisiana? Not nearly that. Cheaper than that. Number two on the list is John D. Rockefeller. It was $336 billion. He was the first person ever to reach a nominal personal fortune of $1 billion US dollars. And that was in the early 1900s. And that was $335 billion before.

Right. Oh my God. You would have no comprehension about any of the way the world works in terms of normal people. How can you relate to anyone? It would completely, and it would be on it. I feel like it would lonely existence. Because it would completely, and you morally become questioned

if it was like, oh, this money here will cause all of this badness. You just be like, buy, I don't know, fix it with money somehow, you know, like not worrying about any of how people are feeling. And just try to throw money at everything. You just be like, Dr. Manhattan, but with money. Like you get this, just like, make people explode into hundreds.

Good time to plug our short Bezoson space that we did, which is about this exact thing. Yeah, Bezoson space, just like Amazon, like the, you know, tech moguls, increasing interest in outer space. And it being like, painfully clear that they really intend to get off this planet before This shit really hits the fan Yeah, exactly just like yeah watching earth like inflames in the in the spaceships review mirror as they escape I don't think I'd ever want to go live in space. No one can use cream Do you think you guys will experience space travel

in your life? No, I don't think so. No. You know, app, no, but I really, I really wish. I think, yeah. They're building like SpaceX is building like that star hopper stuff here in Texas down in Bokachika.

And if you've seen any of those like that test footage. What? Yeah, they're building like a big rocket. They want to try to ultimately use to get to Mars. And they're like, they're building it in a weird way. I have y'all not heard these stories, like this star hopper, they're trying to build it cheaper than normal and they're using like,

this can't miss. Yeah, they use like welders who normally build water towers to like build the hole and and put it all together. And it had its first test flight two weeks ago, maybe three weeks ago, where we actually got up, like went over to another pad and landed, and now they're putting adjustable fins on it, and it's becoming a real thing.

Shit. And this thing is going to lose the serley bonds of Earth and fly into outer space and get to Mars. Yes. Okay. But so far, it is hopped. It is hopped. About 30 feet from pad to pad.

200 feet maybe. I think it's like 250 yards. But yeah, it has not gone far. What's the national student debt? U.S. National. You think in Bezos, Capeta? Yeah., we're without even thinking about yeah without even thinking I love it. I think it's a ton. Nope. Maybe a little too much

1.5 trillion dollars. Oh, well, he can make a nice debt. He can make a little yeah, a little dimple federal food and loan debt. Oh God, that's sad. It's a lot of money. Fuck. Oh, for what degrees? Rock a filler on that. Yeah, little dimple federal food and loan debt. Oh God, that's sad. It's a lot of money. Fuck. Oh Degrees Rockefeller on that. Yes, you're saying Those days it's get Rockefeller and Fuguer. That was a guy's name right Jacob Fuguer. Let's get them on that together. You can take care of the little over half All right, well I'm not pressed. It's about time to wrap this up on that depressing though. Oh That's it. We'll do more post show. All right. Uh, Thanks for watching everybody. We'll see you guys next time. Happy fall. Bye Do you like apples? Describe the show to a newcomer and a more familiar way. Do you like apples?

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