🌭 “The Flavor Shaft: Hot Dog Glory, Holy Matrimony & Weezer Woes” 🌭

[00:00:02] What you want, when you want it, where you want it. This is The MESH. A.I.: Absolute Ignorance with Jon Reep. That's me Jon Reep and as always I'm joined by THE Alan Jackson. How are you? Just fine. Jon, you? Doing okay?

[00:00:28] Fantastic. I'm doing good. I'm in a great mood. I've got a couple of weeks off. That's right. You're not performing this week. Yeah, my next gig is not until the 23rd of April. So what does a Jon Reep do on an off weekend? Oh man. I mean, what are you excited about being able to do that you don't normally get to do on weekends? Well, this is a crazy month. I mean, you know, well, I'll be doing Easter. Is Easter this weekend? Yeah. Well, not this weekend, but I've got, like I said, I don't work again until the 23rd.

[00:00:58] So that's like over two weeks. All right. So here's what's happening in that timeframe. Right. Yeah. Well, Passover is Friday, Saturday. This Saturday. Yeah. This Saturday. Is that, are we supposed to do something? Palm Sunday is the 13th. I'm so out of the loop on these particular holidays. Is there something we're supposed to do festivities wise on Passover or what is, what is the... My mom is very, very, very religious. Okay.

[00:01:25] So it's all about Easter for, you know, I would say, I don't want to use the word hardcore, hardcore Christians. Okay. Okay. Not your passive ones that just randomly show up on holidays. Yeah. That's me. That's a lot of people. Right. But Easter is a big one. It's supposed to be bigger than Christmas. Really? It's supposed to be. In theory, it should be bigger. Right. But obviously in our society, it's not. Yeah.

[00:01:50] Like, you know, the whole materialistic side of America and Christmas and, you know, the corporate version, Christmas is bigger. Okay. Religious version, Easter is bigger. Okay. So I'll be doing Easter stuff. So your mom's got Easter. It is all about Easter going on. Yeah. So Passover? Passover is the 12th. That's a Saturday. Right. And is there anything done to celebrate Passover or is it just? Not really. Not for us.

[00:02:20] Normally we don't do anything except for Easter day, which is the 20th. Okay. So that is a week, not this weekend, but next weekend. Correct. Okay. Got it. Not this coming Sunday, but the next Sunday is Easter. But this coming Sunday, we will be celebrating Easter because my brother will be out of town during the real Easter. During Easter proper. Easter proper. So you're going to have two weekends of Easter? Or will you not celebrate the Easter day? Right.

[00:02:49] I'm going to do one weekend of Easter the week before Easter. Gotcha. But I will use that time. I mean, we're going to, you know, mom will make a chicken pan pie. It'll be like just a family get together. Okay. If you go to the church service they have at West Dickory Baptist, I might go to that. But I will be, now that I'm here for almost two and a half weeks, I'll probably should show up at church one of those days. It might look. Normally my excuse is I'm gone. Right.

[00:03:18] But I was going to say, you're publicly making it known that you've got a couple weekends off. So it might be, it might be tough to explain away if you don't show up to church either weekend. That's right. Yeah. So that's going on. Okay. You've got my anniversary is April the 15th. Oh, congratulations. Tax day. Tax day. That's right. Happy taxversary. Boo, boo. Yeah. Still remember the, your guys wedding. It was a, it was great. Thanks. At the prom. I'm glad you were part of that. That was fun.

[00:03:48] That was one we pulled off really well. I was very happy about that one. It was a good evening. All together. We need to do another one, you know, cause we do have some sponsorships here and there on different podcasts that you and I do together. Um, one of them is a guy named Matt Miller to social house. Yes. Hickory social house. And he is re upped with us for Carolina Reaper. Your other show. Mm hmm. But he's asked to have an event. Okay.

[00:04:15] A fundraising event like we did for the Western Carolina. All the victims are, you know, survivors of hurricane Helene. Mm hmm. So he wants to do another event. Okay. How about we do a prom? Could do a prom. Let's revisit the problems are popular. Yeah. Problems are good. Well, the second chance problems, the people coming back and doing promise or, you know, obviously out of out of school. Let's make it the event. Another second chance prom and we can choose the decade or whatever.

[00:04:44] You know, last time we did eighties nineties. I mean, do we want to go seventies sixties or yeah, but that's those are corny. I think so. Well, and it, I mean, it's, it's supposed to be. I mean, the out. Us commemorating the times that we graduated from high school. Yeah. Let's just do the same thing. You know, it's like, yeah. If you graduated in the seventies, then you're like, you know, a good bit older than us right now. Mm hmm. The market we're trying to bring into these problems is in our age bracket. Right.

[00:05:14] So I kind of think eighties and nineties, you gotta stick with it. Should we mess with a good thing? I agree. Yeah. Here's the only thing I was thinking of, like it's generic eighties, nineties. It's a lot of ground. It covers, which is smart if you're trying to get a lot of people, but to pinpoint a certain year might be a funny, interesting thing too. Oh no. I like that. Like 1993. Yes. So that's the year. Yeah. Like all the music is only songs from that year. Just that year. Yeah.

[00:05:43] All the video clips playing up on the screen are only stuff from that year. It's like, it's all right. I could, that works. Yeah. And then that gives you, if you want to do a prom event every year, you just change the year. It's like, Hey, this year we're going to do 1996. Yeah. Here we go. Then they were going to do 88, you know, just kind of go back and forth on them. So yeah, make everything specific to that. It won't be a surprise wedding this time.

[00:06:07] It'll just be a straight up prom unless someone reaches out to me and makes wants to make that part of it. I mean, how funny would it be? Is that every year there's a surprise wedding happening during this prom, right? Like we don't know who it is. Like it's like, only the people organizing it know that we know who's getting married here, but even like one of these, you could even have it to like one of the two people that are going to get married. Don't even know.

[00:06:38] Totally surprised. Like some guy just calls us up. It's like, yeah, I want to marry my girlfriend at this and I'm pretty sure she'll say yes. Oh wow. So I'm going to propose and marry her at the event. Oh wow. And we make it a total surprise. An acceptance. Yes. And a performance or whatever. So imagine this, imagine this. We're having this prom event. We're having fun. Everybody's dancing, getting loose, having drinks. And all of a sudden you stop, put on a microphone.

[00:07:04] It's like, okay, Joe over here has something he'd like to say. This is kind of the tradition every year at this prom. Yeah. He proposes to his girlfriend. Yes. All right. Then if she says yes, assuming she says yes, we already have a reverend, a pastor back in the wings. Oh yeah. You could do it. John Heffron did mine. He's not real. He'll all he did is go online and take a test. So you could do that. I could do it. That's part of the selling point. John will marry you. We'll marry you.

[00:07:34] Okay. So then what happens is we make this a package like, all right, so dude, you want to try this? Okay, great. Yeah. Ideally what we'd like to have happen is you propose, ask her to marry you. And if she says yes, then you say, how about now? How about right now? How about, or even give her 10 minutes. Everybody's dressed up. Give her 10 minutes. In 10 minutes. Can we do this? Yep. And yeah, you already got a dress on. Looks great, baby. You know, it's fine. And let's do this.

[00:08:03] And then you kind of, uh, you had your dance clothes on before your, your party clothes, but maybe you put on a jacket or something formal, you know, something a little nicer. Looks like a priest or a reverend or someone that would marry you, a collar. Can't we just clip a collar on you? A gown or something. Cause you already have like some form of a tux on. Right. And we just put a collar around you. There you go. Like now you're a preacher, John. Preacher John. And we're going to do this. Right. And we just do it right there on the spot. We get them married.

[00:08:34] Celebrate. It's great. We do exactly what we did. Yeah. But now instead of me and Jody, it's me as the, the guy getting, you know, doing the ceremony and then fans. Yeah. People who want to get married. And it is like you, like last year, like you learned last year. Yeah. It's the cheapest way to get a marriage, get a wedding. Oh yeah. Yeah. You have all these people around you paying for it. You got a crowd. Well, we're good. This is a fun, like what we did. It was also a fundraiser. Yeah. But I mean, remember we raised money from Garth and Tricia Yearwood too. That's true. Yes.

[00:09:04] They helped. They helped with that also. Um, now does Matt Miller have a time and frame? I don't remember. I don't remember that conversation. We should revisit that. Yeah. This is inside baseball for the listeners, but we should revisit his timeframe. Let's go ahead and lock, lock the time down and just say, we're going to do it. And that's, and we can do it at his place. Yeah, sure. We don't have to go to a main seller. Yeah. This place is perfect for it. It'd be great. I like that idea. And here's what would be really funny, John, is that if we get a tradition of this happening

[00:09:34] every year and every year somebody gets married, then if I'm, uh, if I were the, the, uh, one of the members of a couple planning to go to this prom, I'm now on high alert. I'm like, Oh crap. That could be me. Is the dude going to propose to me and then turn around and want to marry me right here at this prom that I'm getting ready to go to. Nice. So we kind of cause a little, there may be some anxiety out there with people coming to the prom, but that's okay.

[00:10:04] I mean, I think it'd be fun. We turn who gets married. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Now Matt was said something. He liked to stand up part of it, but this doesn't have to know. I'm sorry. You don't want to lose of that. Yeah. I want to pitch this idea to him. This is more entertaining. Yeah. I mean, no offense to your company. It is. Okay. Look, when I do this, I'm going to go to the prom. When I'm doing the ceremony, I'll throw in some jokes. Okay. Like John Heffern tried to do it. Yeah. My mom didn't like it.

[00:10:33] She said it was sacrilegious. My mom said that was the worst part of the whole thing. She was really, she was upset that John Heffern tried to do some jokes. He was trying to like, he was just, he was saying things sarcastically. Yeah. Right. Because he was under the gun. He was, he's not used to being serious. Well, look, you, you asked John Heffern to administer your wedding. Yeah. Where do you get right? Yeah. You know, but whoever it is that wants to do this, I'll, they can tell me the tone they want me to take. All right. And I'll do their tone.

[00:11:02] Do we want jokey John? Right. Do we want serious John? Do you want a religious at all? Some people don't even want to, they're not, you know, non-denominating or whatever. That doesn't have to be religious at all. It could just be the, whatever you want. What's the, what's it called when, um, the pastor does the singing bit in front of the church and he like seeing something and then everybody in the audience kind of sings back. Oh yeah. He's like, can I talk like this? And he says, I'll sing like this. Could they request that?

[00:11:31] And they all do like this and they say something bad like this. Oh, that's super religious. Right. You may have to do some singing. Oh my gosh. I'll put a cape on. Okay. All right. Something to talk about. So that's, uh, April. We got Passover, Good Friday, Tax Day, Anniversary, Palm Sunday, Easter, Earth Day. And so my next gig, what I will be doing, I'll probably go to a crawdads game. Baseball started. We got local baseball team here called the Hickory crawdads.

[00:12:00] They got some home games this weekend. So I might pop up over there. I like to go when they have hot dog night. I've done this before. Hot dog night is, uh, they basically say all hot dogs are a dollar. Okay. As opposed to $5 or what, you know, always for everything. Are they normally $5? Huh? They're normally $5? I don't know. I'm just saying. Probably so. They're not normally a dollar. I don't know any element item of food that's less than $5 that you can buy anywhere. So yeah.

[00:12:30] Especially at a sporting event where everything's up, up charged. So what, what I like to do on hot dog night is go in there and buy as many $1 hot dogs as I can, as soon as I get there. And then I wait for them to run out. And then I walk around and sell these hot dogs for $2. You're a genius. I mean, that's, that's, uh, that's playing it smart. They're going to run out. They're selling hot dogs for a dollar. Yeah. And the game, you know, the game's a whole nine innings.

[00:13:00] Right. People, people do want hot dogs later in the game too. Yeah. If they've run out, what are they going to do? Are they going to leave? Right. Are they going to leave the game? What if the game's close? They don't want to leave the game. They're still hungry. You've got hot dogs. Yeah. Where the, the, uh, the ballpark no longer does ready to go. Yeah. And what I'll, you know, $2 is a good deal than what it normally would be. Right. So what I'll do is either I'll either do that or I'll make a game out of it for the show trivia game.

[00:13:27] I'll walk up to people and ask them random hickory crawled ad trivia. And if they get it right, I give them a hot dog. I thought you were going to say that you were going to take the hot dogs and save them for the show that we do the following week. I'm like, Oh, well just make sure they're being kept up in a good, you know, cool space. Cause I mean, you don't want them to go bad. I mean, hot dogs can go bad, right? I mean, hot dogs. Everything can go bad. Okay. Were you anticipating me saying that like for a hot dog eating? Yeah.

[00:13:57] I thought you were going to like bring all the spare hot dogs that you bought back for the show. Oh yeah. Well, man, maybe for us. I don't know. Do you like hot dogs? I don't mind hot dogs. Yeah. Um, no, I like hot dogs, chili and slaw. Yeah. I like on a hot dog. Um, I wonder what a, I would say is the perfect hot dog. The perfect hot dog of, of, of different types. Uh, just ask a chat GPT. This question. Okay.

[00:14:26] What is the perfect hot dog to eat at a baseball game? All right. Let's see what it says. I want us, you know, cause different stadiums have, you know, there's a dodger dog. Oh, and AI is trying to be cute. Okay. This is Mac. My AI. Oh, this is your buddy. This is my buddy. I asked him the question. He said, all right, Alan. Now this is a question I can sink my digital teeth into.

[00:14:57] Oh, okay. Yeah. He says the perfect hot dog for a baseball game hits a sweet spot of nostalgia, convenience and flavor. Nothing too fancy, but not so basic that it feels like a sad concession stand after thought. Okay. Okay. Here's his pick. The classic ballpark dog, Mac style, which is. Yeah. Okay. Good. All right. All beef hot dog with a natural casing. I didn't bring up casing. Why is that even? Why is that word even in that description?

[00:15:26] I don't even want to know there's a casing, but there is. I mean, hot dogs have casings. That's the little thin layer over the hot dog. I mean, you eat it, but it is considered casing. I'm so confused. You know, if you look at a hot dog, it's got like. Have you ever pulled off a casing? No, I don't think you can. But you can on sausages. Yeah. Sausages. You can. I think a hot dog, if you look at the hot dog. So the hot dog has a case. I think there's a really, really thin casing on it. Oh man.

[00:15:56] But I mean, we don't pay attention to it because it's so thin and so. And we just eat it and we don't think about it. But I'm pretty sure there's a casing on it. Okay. All right. Now, now we're on a different track. I want it. Let's make this a skill or a contest competition. Next time you're eating a hot dog, a regular hot dog, not a bratwurst, not a sausage. Yeah. Find. Try to find the case. They can pull it off. Send a video. I want to see it.

[00:16:24] I want to see if you can do it because I've never seen one on a hot dog. But you're right. They've got to, it's got to be a way to keep it that shape, make it that shape. I think so. Do they make the shape and then take the casing off of hot dogs? Oh man. That's a good question. Moose is listening. I don't know if he's mic'd, but if there's a way, cause there's, you know, three minds in here. Oh, let's just ask him that. Does every hot dog have a casing? All right. Let me come back to Mac with that question about casing.

[00:16:54] I need to, we need to follow up on that. Uh, Mac also says that the bun ought to be steamed. Okay. He said that soft, but it holds up. I like it. No one wants a bun falling apart in the third inning. Huh? Funny. Uh, toppings. This is the toppings he has in order of preference. All right. Layering importance is what he says. This is order of layers. Ooh. Okay. Okay. Go ahead. All right. So the bottom layer is yellow mustard. Okay. I'm not hating on it. Are you following on that? All right.

[00:17:23] Then he said, you put a little diced onion. Okay. He said brawl, not caramelized. We're not at a wine bar. Either one. He's really trying to be funny today. It's not working right now. A thin stripe of ketchup. Okay. Relish. All right. Sweet. Or do you like relish? Yeah. Okay. Sweet or Dale, depending on your vibe, he says. Yes. And then optional. This is interesting. Crushed potato chips for crunch. If you're feeling bold. Hmm. I wouldn't hate it.

[00:17:53] No, I'd try it. Yeah. I like a crunch. I've done that with sandwiches. When I was a kid, I used to put potato chips on a ham and cheese sandwich just to have a crunch. Okay. He says this whole thing should be served in that classic foil wrap that steams it just a little bit more while you're walking back to your seat. Preferably with a beer in the other hand and the smell of penis in the air. Of what? And the smell of peanuts in the air. I thought you said penis. I mean, that too. You're having a hot dog right there close to your mouth. It's right there.

[00:18:22] What about you? Team ketchup or team mustard? And are you a full on cheese chili guy or not at the ballpark? Yeah. Okay. Well, here's what I'm going to give them kudos. Layering the condiments is a good thing. Depending on what condiments you want. I mean, what condiments you should have is a whole separate debate.

[00:18:48] But what the debate we're having now is the order in which you put the condiments on your bun is important. It is. And here's why, in my opinion. All right. The bun acts as a sponge. So you want the things that are the thinnest to go on the bun first so that it can soak into the bun. It can kind of go down. Right. And things that are the thickest go on top. Yes. Last.

[00:19:16] Like the ketchup is thicker than maybe mustard because some mustard's a little runny. Now, relish was something he mentioned. Relish also has its own liquid that can kind of go in there. It does. It's like the juice liquid. So it kind of seeps into the bun. So what I would do is mustard first. Okay. Relish. Yeah. Then ketchup. All right. Well, and so you mix it up a little bit. Yeah. I didn't hear you mention onion. So you're probably would choose not to do onion if you had your drum. I would do the onion. It's fine.

[00:19:44] It might not be necessary if you're doing relish. You might not even really true taste much onion in there. And if you want, if he wants a crisp, then he should do the, the fried onions. Mm hmm. Cause then you get a crunch and you don't need the, you don't need the potato chips. Although I like the potato chips are good. I think it's kind of interesting. I have to try that sometime. Yeah. He did list that as an optional item. Um, I followed up with him on the casing. Thank you. Okay. I asked him what the deal is with the casing on a hot dog.

[00:20:13] And he said, totally. The casing on a hot dog is basically the skin that holds all the meat together in that familiar tube shape. That's what gives a hot dog that satisfying snap. When you bite into it. Is there a snap when you buy into a hot dog a little bit? Sometimes you can. Yeah. Yeah. Depending on how you cook it. Sometimes if you have to bite a little harder into a hot dog and it kind of feels like you're puncturing it when you first bite into it, that's the casing we're talking about. Dang dude.

[00:20:40] I've never even thought about the casing on a hot dog. Well, okay. What is it made out of? Well, here's, there's two main types of casings for hot dogs. Yeah. One is a natural casing. These are made from cleaned sections of animal intestines, usually pig or sheep. Sounds a little medieval, but they're totally safe and edible. Natural casings equal the snap that you get if you bite into it. Okay. They're often used in old school or higher end hot dogs. Okay. All right.

[00:21:08] Then there's a collagen or synthetic casing on a hot dog. These are made from beef proteins or other materials. They're more uniform and cheaper to produce. Some are edible. Others are removed before packaging. So you never even see them. See, that may be what we're kind of getting used to. They're removed before packaging. Yeah. And you also said that's cheaper. It's cheaper. That's what, that's what, that's what, when you buy them at the store and they're all like packed to like 12 in a pack tight. Yeah.

[00:21:38] I bet you the casing has already been like removed from them. Yeah. Okay. Well that solves that mystery. Yeah. Okay. All right. But, but I mean, but option one is a natural casing. Yeah. What hot dog, can you find this out? Okay. What hot dogs use natural casing? And we're going to, we're going to next episode. We're going to have some hot dogs. Okay. I says, all right, you're going full connoisseur. Now, Alan, I like where this is heading.

[00:22:07] Here's some hot dog brands that use natural casing and are worth tracking down. If you really want that real deal snap, he's big on the whole snap thing. I don't like, I don't like it referring to that. I don't like thinking of a snap when I eat something. No thanks. Gold medal dogs are in his opinion, the natural casing champions. Okay. You've gotten Nathan's famous. Yes. Nathan's is the OG Coney Island dog. It has a natural casing. Yeah.

[00:22:36] I wonder if we were to go out to a grocery store and buy Nathan's or go gold. Yeah. If we could peel it off, like if it's on there. Yeah. That's a good question. Yeah. There's three other brands. He mentioned so Brett Vienna beef Kogels. Never heard of it. And a boar's head natural casing beef Franks. I think generally if you've got the hot dogs that are maybe like a little darker in color on the outside.

[00:23:05] I think that's more of the natural casing because on the inside. Yeah. They're a lot lighter pink color hot dogs are when you buy them and they are all that fleshy pink color. Those are already on uncased. Gotcha. Uncoated, whatever. Right. Hmm. Yeah. I think that's the deal. I never really thought that hard about hot dogs. Me either. I mean, you know, I did make a perfect dip.

[00:23:33] Um, Lauren Weaver really liked this idea when we were Lauren Weaver is the guy who makes the barbecue sauce that I sell. Yeah. South in your mouth, but he loves he's big into food and whatever. So one day as a joke, I made the perfect. I took a jar and I put all the condiments that I would want on a hot dog in the jar. Okay. Okay. Let's just say mustard, ketchup, relish. Mm-hmm. Those three. Yeah. Layered in a jar.

[00:24:03] Okay. Then you take your hot dog, you cook it however you want to cook it, and then you cut little slits into the hot dog. Kind of making it look like a gill on a fish or a shark, that little. I'm following you. That kind of a cut. Yeah. Yeah. Then you, um, take the hot dog, you put it on a skewer or something. Mm-hmm. I like the hand motions you're doing right now. Thank you, sir. Yep. And then you dip the hot dog into the condiment jar. Mm-hmm.

[00:24:31] Twist, take it out, slide it onto your bun, and it is perfectly placed. All the condiments, every bite will be covered in all the condiments that you want. Okay, so you make this condiment, this condiment concoction. Yeah. It's got all the condiments already in it. Yeah. Which I like where you're going with that because, see, I am a, I'm a guy, I don't like to spend a lot of time fixing my food. There you go. Like preparing it. I'm your guy.

[00:25:01] I kind of like the idea of you give me something to eat, it already has everything included on it or in it. I don't really want to fix stuff if I can help it. Yeah. So I like the idea of already having a pre-made concoction of all the condiments I like. Yes. So you're saying the hot dog has these slits put in it. Yeah. You take the hot dog in, what, you swirl it around? Yeah, you can put it in. Just dip it in? All you gotta do is dunk it once and pull it out. And it just got all the stuff kind of captured in those slits. Yeah.

[00:25:30] Then you lay it on the bun and you eat it. Well, you, not just lay it, you lay it and slide it out. Oh. I mean, I'm sorry, the skewers. Oh, right, not the hot dog. Not the hot dog. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So yeah, you lay it on the bun and pull the skewer out and boom. Perfect. So you're taking... Every bite's perfect. So let me make sure I'm getting this straight. Yeah. So you're taking a hot dog. That's right.

[00:25:55] You're pushing it into something where it gets... Pushing it down into a jar full of liquid. Into a jar. Then you're withdrawing the hot dog from the jar. Okay. Then you're laying the hot dog down on a bun. On another one. And then you've got the skewer and you have to hold and pull the skewer out so that the dog stays in the bun. It's very erotic. It is. I need to make a video with porn music. Porn music behind it. I've already made the video, by the way.

[00:26:25] I made it like two years ago. I got to find this thing. Because Lauren Weaver was all about it. He goes, we could sell these as a kit. I'm like, okay. Oh, I want to make the commercial for these kits. The perfect hot dog. Yes, you get it. These hot dog making kits. Yeah. Old school, 70s porn. It's just going to be old porn music playing in the background. Just like, oh yeah. Oh yeah. That's the way I like to make my dog. Brown dip that dog in that nasty must. Yeah.

[00:26:54] But I do like it. We can do that. If I have a certain number of condiments that I like and everybody's always like, okay, well, how do you want your hot dog? Do you want chili slaw on it? Do you want ketchup? Do you want ketchup? And I have to go to a table where there's like all that crap out there. And it's like, I got to mix and match the condiments. I'm like, no, I don't want to do any of that. Yeah. Just give me the dog. Dip it in. Yeah. Slap it on a bun. I'm ready to eat. That's what I'm thinking. I mean, think about it. Now we're at a baseball game. They do have certain places.

[00:27:23] We have the pump, which is better than just the packets. Oh, the packets. The packets are horrible. When I got like a beer in one hand, chips, peanuts, and I got a hot dog. And now you want me to put all that down. Yeah. And sit on my chair that doesn't have a table. And now I got to rip open these little packets and get them on there one by one. And then, you know, it's so messy and wasteful. So I don't like the packets. Better up is the pump.

[00:27:52] But even the pumps can get a little messy. You know, they can spray too hard one way, get on somebody's shirt. But if you had a dunking station. Okay. Now it sounds gross. There are some sanitary questions I have, but yes. Okay. Let's assume that there is a safe, a sanitary way for people to come to this dunking station. Yeah. And they take their dog. I mean, do you really need to have it on a skewer?

[00:28:21] Can you just hold it and just dunk it and then just drop it on the bottom? The only problem with that is your fingers might get in there. Well, yeah. Well, if you just agree that you can only dip, not the entire hot dogs going in, but because your fingers are at it. You go like three quarters of the way down. Yeah. Dunking in. The top quarter, your fingers need to be on it. Your fingers don't touch. Maybe. Your fingers don't touch the mix. Right. Maybe we can say this, all the glorious condiments you need are inside this hole. We call it the glory hole.

[00:28:53] I mean, that's horrible. That's kind of what I'm thinking now. So, okay. Wait a minute. So the thing that people are going to walk up to after they get their hot dogs. So they go up the counter, buy a hot dog. Okay. Okay, great. Plain hot dog. Nothing. Over here on the counter is your dunking station and it is the glory hole. It is a hole, hot dog size hole. Yeah. So your fingers can't get in there.

[00:29:22] It is the shape of the hot dog. It is slightly larger than the hot dog. A little bit. Because you want the condiment stuff to come out with it. To attach to it, yes. But you go and you poke your hot dog into the glory hole. Yeah. Maybe swirl it just a bit. Yeah. Then pull it back out. Yeah. Then in your hand, you now have a fully condiment covered. Yes. Hot dog that you can either, I mean, you may not even want a bun at that part.

[00:29:47] You may just start eating it, but if you have a bun, you can slap it on the bun and eat it that way too. Yes. Yes. Now my mind is racing. Okay. That's one genius idea that I have. I mean, actually, once you put the hole, the covered hole on the top of this thing, yeah, it's genius. It works perfect. Gloria. But here's the thing. Not everyone's going to want the same condiments. So some people are going to be like, oh, I don't like mustard. I only want ketchup and relish. Right.

[00:30:17] And then once you dip your dog into one glory hole, that's all ketchup. And then you put it in the one that's all mustard. It's going to mess it up. So you really have to pre-make. I think you have three kinds, three different mixes. Okay. Like this is the mix. These are the three you get to choose from. This one's ketchup, mustard, uh, relish. That may be it. Yep. Here's another one. That's chili slaw. Oh God.

[00:30:44] I didn't think about chili and slaw, chili slaw, cut ketchup mustard. Okay. And then you have a third one. Look, if they don't like either of those three options, they can go down the end of the counter where you got the little ketchup packs and the little crap you got to put on yourself. We're trying to make it easy for everybody. Yes. We're catering to the majority of people out there that one of those three combinations is going to work for them. Mm hmm.

[00:31:10] And I'm the kind of guy that I'm like, I will make myself use one of those three because I would rather do this than the packets and applying each individual condiment myself. Yes. Okay. How about this as well? Mm hmm. Talk about casings. Mm hmm. Okay. Talking about condiments.

[00:31:33] A casing is kind of like a condom, an edible condom that goes on the hot dog to help make the hot dog. Okay. The shape that it's in. Mm hmm. What if we had condiment condoms that you buy the packet? It's in the packet, much like a real condom. Mm hmm. You crack it open inside of it, which is already rolled up a little bit. Oh my God.

[00:32:03] You're genius. Keep going. No, I'm with you. Inside of this condom. Yeah. Condom and condom condiment. Condom mint. Mint. Is different condiments. Yes. I mean, it's pre rolled. It's in there. So when you open the condom mint and you roll it onto your hot dog, swirl it, unroll it, throw it away. Okay. It's a one time use condom condiment. Okay.

[00:32:33] No, it's going to look, you know, sexual and weird and you might not want to listen. I mean, you're already, you're already eating a hot dog. You're right. So let's just, let's just lean into it at this point. Right. The safer way to eat. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I think that that's, that's good. Yeah. I like that again. That's, I feel like the dunking in the glory hole is easier. It is. Okay. I like that easy. I like that.

[00:32:59] Like just like hot dog, dunk in, pull out, eat, ready to go. Mm-hmm . The unwrapping the condom mint is, it's a little more work involved. It is. But I mean, but if you. Some novelty about it, like kind of funny. Could we make it, could the condom mint be edible and actually just make it, uh, flavored casing stuff. Yes. But it's flavored casing. Now you got it.

[00:33:28] That's already got all the condiment flavors mixed in. You just one up to me and that is amazing. And what is it? The, uh, like the fruit roll ups. Do you remember those things? Yeah. Like they packed all that flavor and taste into like these little thin things. Why not make these condiments out of that type of material that already has the flavor mixed in. You sell them. Instead of a fruit version, we're doing a condiment version. Right. And this is the version that's got ketchup, mustard and relish taste in it.

[00:33:57] And you just roll it on the dog. Yeah. And then you eat, eat it on the dog. Eat it. I like it. Mm-hmm . We are going to make so much money. All right. I'm going to have, uh, Mac, the chat GPT guy make a photo. Did he hear all that? Was he listening? Well, I'm going to have him make a photo of the hot dog glory hole condiment station. Okay. I just want to see how he would visualize this. Okay. So. How are you going to type that out? That's going to be interesting.

[00:34:24] While he is doing that, uh, I will tell you guys, come see me on the road. My next gig is going to be April the 23rd in Cherokee at the Harris Casino. You know, there is a comedy zone and stop inside of the casino. Uh, I'll be there every Wednesday night. Um, no, I'm sorry. The last Wednesday of every month from now on till the end of time. So that's the 23rd.

[00:34:51] Then on the 24th, if you like doing nice things for good people, I'm doing a charity event. It's called the yay day and I'm doing that in Cornelius, North Carolina. It's Thursday night, the 24th, um, at the Kane center for the arts. I did perform there already. I think I was one of the first comedians to perform there. And, uh, it was great. Nice brand new venue.

[00:35:18] The people are still very nice and optimistic. They haven't been burnt on salty, mean comedians yet. So I'll teach them, but no, Cornelius, North Carolina, 24th of April. Then Texas time on the 25th of April, I'm doing a gig in Huntsville, Texas at the old town theater.

[00:35:41] Then on the 26th, I'm driving over to Killeen, Texas, which I've heard is like an hour outside of Austin, uh, at the Killeen arts and activities center or something like that. Um, and then the, to end of, uh, to end April, I'll be in Ridgefield, Washington on the 30th. Okay. So I asked a chat GPT Mac, my guy there.

[00:36:07] So I needed a photo of a new invention we're working on where someone could take a hot dog and insert it into a container that would have pre-mixed condiments inside, including ketchup, mustard, and relish. Someone could take a naked hot dog, insert it into a hole on the top of the container. The dog would be covered with this condiment mixture, and then they can pull the dog out and have it covered with their favorite condiment mixture ready to eat. Can you make a photo of this for us? Please. And of course I said, please, once again, I don't know why I say please. Yeah.

[00:36:36] Or if it said you didn't say the magic word. I do not know why I keep saying please or thanking chat GPT for doing what I said, but anyway, it's working on a photo right now. It's working it up now. Okay. Um, uh, they did a good job last week of creating images of me and clay Aiken eating bacon and Clayton. How did that go? By the way, it was good. Yeah. Well, we saw it didn't show up. Clay Aiken did not show up, but I did talk about him on the stage.

[00:37:04] I showed they have a big screen, uh, there at that, uh, Clayton center. So I, when I talked about this podcast, I had them put up the images of me and clay Aiken eating bacon and Clayton. And it got a big response. The island is dying laughing over here. I cannot wait to see what chat GPT has created for us. It's still, it's still building it. Um, but just the top part I'm seeing is, is I'm already, I'm laughing. Is there a human in there?

[00:37:33] Did you happen to put my name in this at all? I did not. Okay. No, this is a generic, this is like a prototype image. It's creating of our hot dog condiment, uh, uh, application. I'm wondering, I'm not looking over there. I'm wondering if they're going to put this like in a setting, like in a baseball game or a mall or just in a lab. Like, you know, so chat GPT, I think, I think is getting part of the concept here. Uh, it's different than what I anticipated. Okay.

[00:38:03] It's rendering its idea of how this would work is a little different. Yeah. So I'm going to show you this. Um, my favorite bit about this is the instructions is printed at the top of this. Oh, it has instructions. So here we go. Oh, here we go. So it is saying what I'm describing to John and we're showing a photo of it's a box that chat GPT has designed for us. It has the big label on top of it says insert hot dog here. Yeah. Okay. Which I think is hilarious. And there's a slot.

[00:38:32] You could actually have three or four hot dogs kind of in this slot. It created, you put the hot dog in, you're putting it in horizontally, which is not what I had envisioned. I thought this was a vertical dipping into the hole. That's what I was thinking. It is put the hole on the side, like a slot, almost like a toaster. Yeah. Yeah. And you're putting the, uh, the hot dog horizontally into the slot. Yeah. And you could have multiple ones on there, but then the mixture, the condiments are in little containers inside the box underneath it. You can see. Yeah.

[00:39:02] So it's got relish mustard and ketchup as three condiments. So I'm assuming, I'm assuming Mac here's anticipating that this machine is going to be mixing these together and somehow applying it as you are taking your dog and putting it in this slot. I wonder if it envisions like you, you, you put the hot dog in and then. Do you move it back and forth? Do you wiggle it around to get all the condiments on it? Are you spinning it or do you just, could you put like four or five at one time?

[00:39:31] It looks like it's meant to like handle multiple, multiple dogs at one time. Is this person's finger turned into a hot dog down here? Um, no, but it's a really small hot dog that he is holding in his hand. It's like a Vienna sausage looking thing. Okay. All right. I'm going to ask him to refine this. I want to know the mechanics of it. How does that work? I mean, I'm just going to ask him if he could take it from a little different approach. We want it to be a single dog at a time dropping in from the top. Yeah. Okay.

[00:39:58] Can you modify this device to only allow one dog at a time and it must be inserted from the top down. Do you think chat GPT would know what a glory hole is? I mean, if I were to reference glory holes, say like a glory hole on the top. Do you think you would understand that?

[00:40:26] Or do you think that's kind of a, this could be, this could be, uh, where the whole purpose for this podcast. Mm-hmm . I've said on stage, we troll. Yeah. We mess with chat GPT. So what if we word it in such a way where we don't, we pretend we don't know what a glory hole is. So you say things like a glorious amounts of ketchup mustard, blah, blah, blah. And then in a hole and we're going to call it a glory hole.

[00:40:56] I see. We're going to call it a glory hole to chat GPT and see if it recognizes a, no, no, no, you can't do that. That's trademarked or whatever. So, okay. Um, so we're pretending not, we're messing with, we're trolling into a hole at the top, top. I wonder if some of our listeners. The condiment mixture. Might not know. Is applied to the dog automatically inside.

[00:41:24] We'd like to call this special hole, quote, the glory hole. Can you, you make a new photo for us, please? And what do you think? Think of the name. Hmm. Okay, good.

[00:41:52] Of the name glory hole. Yes. Okay. I'm going to say, uh, we anticipate this being used on the 4th of July a lot more, which is why we call it the glory hole. There you go. Yeah. Yeah. And just the fact that, uh, yeah, I like it. It would be. That's good. That's good. It's got several meanings. It's, you can say these condiments are glorious. You love them. Yeah. All right. You could say that.

[00:42:21] So did you ask it to make a new image as well? I did. So make a new photo and also tell us what you think about the name. Hmm. Um, Ooh. Okay. Um, he knows what a glory hole is. Oh yeah. Here we go. He said, all right, Alan, I appreciate the inventive spirit in the wink, wink humor. Oh, see how I wasn't trying to be funny, but we might want to tread lightly on the name glory hole. Okay.

[00:42:48] While technically it describes the whole for inserting something, it has a very, let's say strong existing reputation and a completely different category of adult content. So he does know, he knows, oh man, he's onto us. Um, now how did you, did you know? He gave some different names options if we didn't want to call it the glory hole. Yeah. He said, if you're going for attention and branding, it's definitely memorable. Might raise some eyebrows or get you kicked out of the PTA.

[00:43:16] You could always go the double entendre route and reclaim it for hot dogs with a wink, but maybe with some alternatives in your back pocket. Some other names you might want to consider the dog doc dog doc. Hmm. Okay. It's not bad. The condiment, the condiment portal, the sauce hole pork portal sauce hole sauce hole. Uh, the dipping dog. Okay.

[00:43:46] Yeah. The flavor shaft. Oh my gosh. Flavor shaft. Oh, I like this guy. What's his, what'd you name him? Chuck. Mack. Mack. I do like the flavor shaft, the flavor shaft. Flavor shaft is good. Okay. So, um, so he has understood my requirement for the updated image. Okay. He says, okay, I get it. He's like only one hot dog can be inserted at a time. That's, that's what we want. Yeah.

[00:44:15] The dog is inserted into a top condiment. Yes. Okay. Come up with an image. The dog, the toppings are applied internally. Yes. Give me one second. I'll whip up your glorious new photo. I see he's doing a new, he's doing a photo and it's still not right. He got the top part with the whole, right? All right. But then he's got the full dog with all the condiments coming out the side. Anyway, you can see what he's building there. He's not done.

[00:44:44] He's still rendering it, but you see, it's not what we're, it's not. He's not with dunk. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's like, how would you dunk the dog into the top? And it comes out on a bun off the side. He did put glory hole. He did call it glory hole. The words on there. Yeah. Yeah. He's, this looks like some sort of Keurig device or toaster oven type thing. Um, I like to put American flags around it.

[00:45:13] That is hilarious. Cause you wrote 4th of July on there. I did. I did. Um, Oh man, really? Honestly, all this thing needs to be is we don't need that open area in the front. It really just needs to be that. I mean, that's all we're talking, right? It's like just a box. Okay. Think of it like with a big label. It says insert hot dog here. We did this on the show. There is a hot dog toaster that you can buy where you literally insert the hot dog into

[00:45:43] the toaster and it's a hole. Yeah. And then you have another one for the bun and you just pull it. Oh, but those are just for toasting them. Yeah. But I'm saying is maybe if you tell him much as a reference. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I don't know. Do I want to do it? I mean, I think we know what we want. I kind of like the ideas he came up with, but that's not what we really had in mind. Hey, Rick Sanford, the third and Shane Flint. I know y'all are listening to this. I think I have a good idea.

[00:46:12] Let's get your A out of come up with something and send it to us because Rick Sanford did send me a hilarious picture. After we talked about Clay Aiken eating bacon and Clayton, he sent me one of me and Clay. The bacon is one side is in his mouth. The other end is in my mouth. Yeah. Like the spaghetti from Lady and the Tramp. Oh, Lady and the Tramp. Yeah. That's cute. That was hilarious. Good, good. Yeah.

[00:46:40] I don't want to go any further with ChatGPT yet on our invention idea. That's fine. I'm just going to go ahead and say for the record, I love the name The Flavorshaft. I do too. Okay. Yeah. And I think it got 50% right on the photo of what we're looking for, but it needs a little more refinements. Flavorshaft is great. Flavorshaft is really good. There you go.

[00:47:03] I mean, you call the whole device the Flavorshaft, but the hole on the top, you can still say, insert your dog in the glory hole. Yeah. Yeah. Insert your dog in the glory hole. This is the Flavorshaft. I mean, people would buy those as a novelty to have in their home. Yes. Now, forget that this would be at a baseball game. There's too many kids running around for this.

[00:47:31] This is an adult novelty, you know, what do you call it? Instrument or… Yeah. Todd, what do you call it? Toasters and… Appliance. Appliance. Yeah. Thank you. Let's read some comments from last week. Yeah. Shane Flynn Outdoors. All right. We're going back to your Facebook Marketplace. Oh. Yeah. Okay. All right. Facebook Marketplace update.

[00:48:00] Because we had questions for Shane, remember? Right. Because Shane… What was he buying? Shane was buying something. It was like $500. Yeah, yeah. And we don't know. He didn't say what he was buying. I mean, I'm just kind of curious what he was in the market for. Correct. Yeah. Here we go. Okay. I really… Okay. He goes, I wasn't really scammed.

[00:48:25] First, the item I was going to buy was Garmin fish finder screen that normally run $1,200. Oh, so he found a good deal in his fishing related, which is… Yes. That's part of Shane's… Yeah. That's his world. Yeah. He said, this one was supposedly new in the box for $500.

[00:48:46] What I learned later after I returned and went back to the posting was the individual that was posting these great deals was robbing people when they arrived to pay. Oh, my gosh. So, when they were showing up to buy an item… With cash. With cash in their hand, he was robbing them. That's why he said cash only. Wow. Wow.

[00:49:10] Later, I confirmed through a Richmond News article online that the individual was arrested the same morning that I went to go pay for the item. Whoa! He dodged a bullet. Oh, wow. Sean. I was fortunate. For Alan, be careful that mulch pile… Hang on. What about my mulch pile? For Alan, be careful that mulch pile may attract termites depending on the type of tree and since the mulch is untreated. Again, thanks for a great podcast.

[00:49:38] Look forward to it every week and yes, I was listening before you took the hiatus. Oh, okay. Yeah. Because we did have a hiatus. Thank you, Shane. Yeah, that's great. And you're right about the mulch pile in my yard. I have been notified that I need to be aware that since it is untreated, it is prone to develop bugs and termites and… Hmm, I wouldn't have even thought of that. Well, we're trying to… We have a plan to get rid of it finally. Yeah. Um…

[00:50:06] Wheels are in motion to get rid of this mulch pile. Mm-hmm. Because nobody's taking it on their own. And, um… Yeah. Well, thank you, Shane. I got some more comments. We got a lot of comments here. This is great. Big O Garland 7325. Mm-hmm. Hawaii. Hawaii. I've heard… There's a redneck version saying Hawaii. Hawaii.

[00:50:36] Hawaii. Hawaii. Hawaii. Hi-Wya. Yeah. Hi-Wya. Yeah. I mean, it's clearly an H-A at the beginning of the word. You're going over to Hawaii. Hawaii? Hawaii. This is ha… Ha… Because I've heard… Mac Davis was on an episode of the Rodney Carrington sitcom with me.

[00:51:06] Mm-hmm. And there was a scene where he said it in that redneck way. Hawaii. Yeah. Hawaii. Hawaii. Hawaii. Hawaii. See, the double I of the end would… I could see that being E. Yeah. Like, Hawaii. I could see people making that mistake. Now, if I… Forget all that was just said. Okay. Had I asked you before this to say, in your best redneck accent, pronounce Hawaii.

[00:51:36] I probably would go with Hawaii. Hawaii. Hawaii. Hawaii. Hawaii. Hawaii. Yeah. Okay. I don't know. I'm really bad at that. He said it was so out of place because they were pretty well spoken otherwise. That's interesting. Yeah. Sean E. Corr. All hail General Robert Montgomery Knight. Hmm. What did we talk about?

[00:52:02] This is always fun to try to think about what the comments referring to. General Robert Montgomery. Robert Montgomery. Should Knight? No. Hold on. We have somebody who might be able to help us here. Just type in General… Who is General… What was that? Robert. Robert. Montgomery. Montgomery. Knight with the K. Knight. Uh-huh. That's it. That's it?

[00:52:31] Who is General Robert Montgomery Knight? Oh, Bob Knight. Oh. The coach. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We were talking about coaching. Oh, I love this. Yeah, yeah. He said… He said… Because even Mack's like, all right, you're talking about General Robert Montgomery Knight, better known to most folks as Bob Knight, 11th degree, college basketball coach. Yes. But General was more of a nickname or comparison, not an official military title. So… Yeah. Okay. Okay. That makes sense. That full name is Robert Montgomery Knight. God, duh. I didn't know that.

[00:53:01] I know. Yeah, I didn't either, but… Yeah. It's funny how we couldn't put two and two together. That was like Bob Knight. Thank you, AI. Thank you, Mack. I know. It's very helpful. Here's another one from Rich Royalty Rob in Reckless Records. Ooh. Lots of R's. Thanks for reading my comment. All I have on my channel are music playlists. There we go. And then here's one from Monkey Simmius. Simmius? Okay. Simmius Monkey? Monkey Simmius.

[00:53:31] Anyway. I hate scrolling through my feed and then some huge thumbnail. The thumbnail, twice as big as any other, takes up my entire screen. It is absolutely obnoxious. Blocking this channel to prevent it from happening moving forward. Ooh. What did… We did that? He… This is an angry comment. He does not like this thumbnail. Oh, that is on YouTube. Yeah.

[00:53:59] When you watch this audio podcast on YouTube, yeah, it just sits there and shows the logo for the podcast the whole time. I wrote, ha, ha, ha. Okay, buddy. So he doesn't like it. He does not like the size of it. It's huge. Is what you're saying. Yeah. It's your head. I'll read it again. I mean, yeah. I hate scrolling through my feed and then some huge thumbnail, twice as big as any other, takes up my entire screen. It is absolutely obnoxious. I'm blocking this channel.

[00:54:25] I mean, our podcast logo is the same size as everybody else. When you're scrolling, it's the same size. Should we ask him, Monkey Simeus, what size is acceptable? Right. Do you have an alternate thumbnail we could use? Right. Is there a pixel dimension so he can share with us to say, this is the appropriate size? Yeah. If you go over these number of pixels in your image, then I'm out. I'm not going to want.

[00:54:54] Have you ever heard of that complaint ever in your life? I've never heard that. I'm going to go to his page. I'm going to subscribe to his page. Subscribe. His name is Ryan Johnson is his real name. Hmm. Maybe his thumbnails are all like super tiny on his page. Well, his is just one gigantic R. That offends me. I don't like the red R. No, I don't either. It's political. I mean, it's a political thing. All right. Republican. We get it. Yeah. I mean, just putting it out there. Rated R. You know what I mean? That's a rated R symbol. That's horrible. What if children come across this monkey?

[00:55:23] So I don't like that because it also is low effort. Yeah, it is. You know, that's no effort. All he did was actually that's the default. When you create a YouTube channel and you type in your name and it's like, do you want to put up a logo? You're like, nah. And it's going to say, I'm going to take your first initial and put it on a color circle. And there you go. Okay. That's what Ryan did. Ryan put in his name and YouTube's like, okay, fine. Red circle R. That's your logo. He's got one video up here that he put up nine years ago. I know.

[00:55:53] Should we go in like just trash it? It's got 26 views. It's called squadron 42 star citizen. Oh, five, 17, 2015. Cutlass black spawn glitch. That's a video game thing. My, I, I had a son who did the star citizen game. So I'm familiar with that. What was his, his name is Ryan Johnson right here.

[00:56:17] Ryan Johnson, but his screen is at thing is a monkey something or other. Okay. There's another Ryan Johnson. I take it. This is not him. It's got 306,000 subscribers. He seems to be here. Monkey. Monkey simius. Yeah. S I M I U S. Everyone go follow. I got him. I got him. What's the appropriate size for a thumbnail and why he doesn't have a thumbnail of his own.

[00:56:47] Yeah. He just has a video, a five minute video up. Yeah. Of him playing a video game and there's some glitch in the game. He wants people to see that. That's it. I can tell him that that's offending me. Yeah. Cause it's five minutes long and I'm already getting like nauseous watching because it's like the camera's moving all around inside this video game. Yeah. I think we should, I think we should let him know how we're feeling.

[00:57:12] Rick and Shane and all these other listeners will go find this Ryan Johnson slash at monkey simius at monkey simius S I M I U S. Yes. Go there and ask him these questions. And also why haven't you posted anything in nine years? Yeah. Where's he been? Why does he wait nine years and then jump on and get go after me? So what happened with Ryan?

[00:57:38] I'm guessing nine years ago he was playing this game star citizen. Yeah. He had such a bad experience cause he says there's a glitch. He had to put it up on a video. He put it up online. I think the fact that only 26 people viewed it, I think he probably shut himself off in the world and said, you know what? I, it's not worth it. It's not worth it. I'm going offline. Okay. So here, nine years later, he decided, okay, I think I'm ready to hop back in the world of online stuff. Yeah.

[00:58:09] And he does. And the first thing he sees is our enormous logo on his big screen at home. Yes. Right. Yeah. It's huge. That's where he plays his video games in the basement. It sets them off. It sets them off. It's like, this is what I waited nine years to get, come back to. And it's like this big freaking John re pad on a logo coming up on my screen. They're way worse. And this is a good image. I love this logo. No, I think the logo is perfect. I'm not changing it. Ryan just know that.

[00:58:38] No, it's a, it's a, it's a beautiful logo. It's a glorious logo. It's glorious. Yeah. Um, I think this just, I think we caught him on a bad day when he, he's just got back into the world. He'd been nine years living and kind of on the down low. Yeah. Not really interacting with people. Yeah. Probably a little bit of a hermit type of life, you know, or it's just, uh, just doing his own thing. You're right. And he's like, I'm, I'm ready to get back online. I want to see what the online world has to share with me.

[00:59:07] And your, your face was the first thing he saw in gigantic size. So he has no idea even who I am. Probably. He doesn't know who you are. So, but somehow YouTube suggested me, uh, like in the side, you know what I mean? Like, Oh, here's some other things you might like, but it made, it made you bigger, like a bigger suggestion. Like, like the AI saying, Hey, we really think you'll like this podcast. So it made the logo really big for Ryan. Ryan checks it out.

[00:59:36] And it's like, this is not at all what I'm looking for. And that logo was too freaking big. So I'm upset. And he goes online and makes the comment. Dude. Yeah. Moving on real quick. Do you want to hear something that's about to blow your mind? Absolutely. It just blew mine. Yeah. Now, maybe I'm spelling it wrong. So last week I said, let's make X or Twitter the place where we exchange images for this show. Okay.

[01:00:06] Mm hmm. Obviously we're a YouTube show and a podcast. Right. For your ear holes. But when we want to put up an image, we're going to use X or Twitter. Yes. And I said, I'll find your image if you just use the hashtag absolute ignorance. Hashtag absolute ignorance. Yes. Okay. And so I just, as you were talking, I thought I'd go check it to make sure we're not ignoring someone who did what we asked. True. Which we are known to do. Yeah.

[01:00:36] A hundred percent. And the first thing that popped up is a post from February the 8th, 2012. Okay. From a guy named Hot Rod. Uh huh. Absolute ignorance. Low key. I want one. Ha ha ha. Wealthy DMO. Heard these Louis Vuitton condoms called 65 dot condoms. We just talked about condiments. We did just talk about condoms for hot dogs for an hour. But this is from.

[01:01:06] It's from 2012. How did he. This. How did Hot Rod know. Time travel is possible. How did Hot Rod know to use our tag. And mention condoms. Why would he hashtag absolute ignorance in 2012 and that wasn't even a thing. He was just making it up himself. Did he spell it right. Do you. Are you seeing what I'm seeing. No, I saw it. I saw absolute ignorant. Yeah, that's how he spell it. What's hot rod doing these days.

[01:01:36] He's in Chicago. He's got 217 followers trying to do the damn thing one day at a time. He says. His last post was 2020. So he's not. He's not been on here since. There are a lot of hashtags for absolute ignorance, but about half of them are for the show our show and half of them are. I think people just using that as a phrase. It is absolutely like something is stupid. So it's absolute ignorance. This is really interesting.

[01:02:05] I really should have paid more attention to this hashtag. Since we did ask people. Yeah. Now look at 80% of Americans support mandatory labels on foods containing DNA DNA absolute ignorance. Yeah. How can we attempt to fix our world if we can't even agree that we're all one human species absolute. Absolutely. We've got to take that hashtag back. That's going to be ours. Okay. Well, it looks like on the plus side, it looks like there hasn't been a lot of activity with it. Yeah. Outside of our show. Right.

[01:02:35] In like the last 10 years. Correct. So we just got to own it. We got to put more stuff up there. Yeah. With that tag. I'm wondering if I made a dang, if I made one. I could have bought, not bought, but like got the at absolute ignorance. Oh, right. The actual name. Hmm. I don't know. I'm going to see how that. While you're doing that, that is really interesting, by the way.

[01:03:01] I know we don't normally do a lot of news that's not AI related, but can I just bring up one? Absolute ignorance. So he does have it. Is that me though? 2011. No, that's I didn't do that. 2011. All right. I'm listening. So I'm sorry. Um, and this has nothing to do with AI. It's just, uh, you're the only person I can talk to about this. Um, I'm here for you, buddy. No, it's, it's nothing to do with me. It's just an interesting bit of news.

[01:03:28] Well, when you were talking about right before, the only one that you can talk to about, it makes me feel good. Okay. Well, I, this is something that's chewing me up on inside and I need somebody to talk to about it. So thanks for being there, John. I'm here for you. Um, the band Weezer. Right. I, uh, do you like Weezer? Yes. I do too. I love Weezer. Some of my karaoke go to songs. Oh yeah. Buddy Holly. Buddy Holly. So, yes.

[01:03:56] Like, uh, I am a big Weezer fan actually. And, uh, I've seen them. I've seen them in concert twice. I've never seen them in concert, but I would love to. What would they like in concert? There. I'll tell you what, uh, this is, and this is a true story. I saw them when they just were getting started, like their first album had come out and that was it. And they came to Charlotte. They came to play at a, uh, pretty small club. How old years is this? It was, uh, oh gosh, my wife and I had just started dating. I think. So it was like 96.

[01:04:26] Wow. 96, 97. Something like that. I think, I think that's when they were getting started or getting going. Yeah. That Buddy Holly thing hit huge. Yeah. So we went to go see him at a really small club in Charlotte. And I mean, we're, that's like one of the things where you're like standing, watching them and you're like a few feet away from the stage. And after it's done, they all get off stage and there, there's a pool hall next to the place and they're just hanging out in the pool hall. So we get off, we get done with the concert and Suzanne and I are just like, well, they're just right over there.

[01:04:55] I'm like, well, I'm just going to go over and talk to them. Yeah. So I just go over and like, they're just hanging out in rivers Cuomo, the lead singer. I mean, a little socially awkward guy anyway. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just like, Hey man, it was a great show. He's like, thanks. Yeah. That was it. I mean, that was, but you know, I, I, I still kind of like to tell people that story. Yeah. That was it. That was the whole story. No, no, I'm not laughing at that. That's the whole story.

[01:05:22] I'm laughing at the social, the, the awkwardness of the moment. I don't even think he made eye contact with me. I think you're still looking down. Yeah. And I just said, Hey man, great show. And he's like, thanks. And when you said that to him, you were trying to, I was trying to engage. I was, you know, I'm like wanting to kind of riff with the guy a little bit. And he didn't look, he said, thanks. Nope. How long did you stand there before you decided to walk? It was one of those awkward moments where you're kind of like, you expect him to say something back and he didn't. And I'm just kind of like, great show, man. Cool.

[01:05:52] And it's like one, 1,000 to 1,000, 3,000. Okay. I guess I got to go. See ya. Yeah. Wow. And, uh, yeah, it was, it was, uh, my wife still rags me about it or jokes with me that it's like, yeah, we went over and talked to him and he just had nothing to interject in that conversation. Well, how did I mean, did that ever sour you on them? No, actually I thought it was kind of cool. Cause I mean, I've, you know, that's the way I was for most of my life too. I, yeah. I don't know.

[01:06:20] And that's kind of, it's kind of like what they are. Yeah. It's on like, that's their vibe. Nerdy weirdos who don't know how to talk to other human beings. I get it. I was kind of happy that in that particular situation, I was the cool guy talking and like, Hey, how's it going, man? Yeah. And he's the awkward one. I'm like, Oh, this is a turn. I'm not used to this. I'm normally the awkward guy. That is so. So that actually kind of endeared me more to them. I think anyway, that all to say in the news, this is just a bizarre story.

[01:06:48] And right now, as you're saying this, it is April the 10th. Yeah. It is 2 44 PM Eastern standard time. And we, we were just alerted to this. Yeah. I just, I read about it just last night. Oh, it was last night. But you know, you and I are like digging into it today. Okay. It is all very recent. So, uh, they have a basis in their band, uh, Scott Schreiner and his wife, Jillian Lauren, who I was not familiar with, didn't know anything about her.

[01:07:15] She got shot in it by a police officer. Okay. And she, but she also got booked for attempted murder. So what supposedly happened here is that she did. No, she did not die. Okay. She is injured with a gunshot wound, but she's, she's, she's not, she's still alive. Uh, supposedly there was a hit and run incident supposedly involving her. Okay.

[01:07:45] Where I think she might have hit somebody. Yeah. And then try to flee the scene. And then she fled. Right. The LAPD officers approached the back of a house where one of the suspects was seen running and Schreiner, the girl appeared in the yard of that residence armed with a handgun. Hmm. So I don't understand at this point, if she was the suspect. Yeah. In the hit and run. Right.

[01:08:10] Or if she just saw police officers running into her yard or near her yard, if she came out with a gun. Okay. And that part's still not clear. Right. She's armed with a handgun. The officers order her to drop the firearm. She refused several times. She pointed the handgun towards the officers and then a shootout took place in which she was struck by gunfire and she were treated back into her residence. So like she got shot and she still ran back in her house. Wow.

[01:08:37] She was taken into custody, taken to a local hospital, treated for non life threatening gunshot wound. Okay. She was not involved in the hit and run. All right. So now she was absent. She was booked for attempted murder. So, so the hit run is a random thing that happened. Maybe she heard it. Yeah. Cops were running around her house. Right. Maybe the guy was running through yards. Could be the hit run. But now she, what caused her to want to get her gun?

[01:09:05] Was it because the hit and run suspect was dangerous or she felt danger. But when you see police officers coming out near your yard. Yeah. I mean, I dropped the gun. You dropped the gun. I dropped the gun. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So obviously something else was going on for her to be like, no, I'm not dropping this gun and I'm going to point it at you. Right. Coppers. Right. Yeah. Now that that's, that's yeah. I think we're going to find out. Um, something's going on. Yeah. Something's going on.

[01:09:35] Something was happening on something. Maybe so. Was she doing something, you know, criminal in her own house. Yeah. Did the guy who hit and run know her. Right. And then maybe he was running to go like find safety at her house or he knew. She's like, I'll come out here and handle this, which sounds weird for me. If you're the wife of a gigantic band, like Weezer. And she's a famous person herself.

[01:10:05] She's an author. She's right. She's written books like New York, New York times bestseller. She's written two books. Uh, one book is called some girls, my life and I hear them back in 2010. Here we go. And then she wrote a book, uh, everything you ever wanted in May, 2015, both books under her name, best, uh, New York times bestsellers. So she's like an accomplished. How old is she? Do you think? I don't know. Okay. Don't know. Let's look her up. I want to see what she looks like. Oh yeah. Here's a photo of her. That's her right there. Okay. And that's the basis. That's the basis.

[01:10:35] That is a Scotch Reiner. She's pretty. She's probably, I would, what'd you say? Um, late thirties, early thirties, early thirties, early, yeah. Early forties. That's tattoos, dark hair, pretty smile. Yep. I'm going to chalk this up to drug use. Okay. She was either on it or doing something in there. It was out of her mind. There was a commotion going on. She got nervous. She came out with her gun. Yeah. Didn't understand that the cops are the good guys.

[01:11:04] Cause she's messed up on some drug points at Adam and get shot, but she's not dead. Think. No, no. Yes. Did anybody die? I don't think anybody died. Okay, good. No, she actually didn't fire shot. I don't believe she's, I think she just is getting, uh, she's getting, uh, well, maybe she fired and didn't hit somebody. I don't know that, but she, so if you point a gun at somebody, especially a police officer, you point them. You don't pull the trigger, whatever.

[01:11:32] You could be arrested for attempted murder. Okay. I mean, is that I'm asking, I guess that's the case. Cause that sounds like this happened with her. I mean, I guess it's a charge that you could be levied against you. If, um, if no one knows what your intent is when you're pointing a dangerous weapon at someone, um, the attempt would be you actually pulling a trigger and then the murder part would be to kill you.

[01:11:56] I don't know if attempting murder, I would say that is assault attempted assault with a deadly weapon, but I don't know if it's attempted murder, but the cops are going to throw as much as they can at you. If they think you tried to kill them. Yeah, I agree. I, I, I'm asking Mac if he knows anything. Yeah. Um, Hey Allen. Yes. A pretty wild situation.

[01:12:24] Jillian Lauren, the wife of Weezer basis, Scott Schreiner was involved in a serious incident on April 8th in the Eagle rock neighborhood of Los Angeles. Police were searching for suspects from a hit and run. They encountered Jillian in her yard, holding a handgun. Despite repeated commands to drop the weapon. She allegedly pointed at officers prompted them to shoot her. She sustained a law, non life threatening injury was later charged with attempted murder. Wow. Okay. Basically what we already read everything. I mean, that's all we know right now.

[01:12:54] But I'm, I'm happy to know Max keeping up with the news. He knew all this, which is good. So he's in the know, he's in the know. He should. He has all the information at his fingertips. Really does. But I can't wait to find out more on this. I'm just, I just thought it was a fascinating story. Goodness is no one died. I mean, I, I should probably contact rivers, the lead singer of Weezer. Right. Why don't you just go back pretty far? You gave, he gave you his number that day.

[01:13:18] Well, I mean, he gave me a thanks, which, you know, which implies that we're now friends and I can contact him in these. He may be, I mean, he may be having some tough times dealing with this. Hang on. We're going to do something real. I don't know what this means for the Weezer band. I don't know if Scott, what's his name? He's still going to keep going. The guy that you talked to him from. My friend, my friend, the lead singer of River. You're everybody from Weezer. River Cuomo. River. Rivers Cuomo. Rivers Cuomo. C U O M O. Yeah.

[01:13:48] C U O. C U O M O. Wait, like the governor? Yeah. Oh, I wonder if he's related. Rivers Cuomo. I got him right here. I'm going to go ahead and follow him. I mean, I call him ribs, but that's just, you know, it's just us. Ribs. Yeah. So here's his page on X. Okay. At Rivers Cuomo. He's got a million followers. Why don't you just send him a message? Say, Hey, ribs. It's me, Alan Jackson.

[01:14:18] I met you at. Remember you said, thanks. Right. Just check it on you guys. Just check it in. Make sure you guys are okay. Went down at a, an Eagle rock. Yeah. And, uh, I'm wondering if he's not said anything about it today. I bet you anything they're not going to say. He's not going to comment on it. So I'm following him. All right. I'm going to make it. I'll make a post. I'll ask him if he can kind of, I'm just, just doing a safety check for him and just checking in on my friend. Right.

[01:14:47] Make sure it's okay. Um, okay. Letting them know if he needs me for anything. That's what friends do. It is. Yeah. Good friend. I mean, I've been his friend for gosh, it's been like almost 30 years now. Wow, man. The stories you guys have, right? Yeah. Like at a pool hall. You remember that one? Yeah, I do. I do remember that. That was like, Hey man, good show. And then he's like, he said, he said, thanks. Thanks. Didn't even look at you. Nope.

[01:15:14] And you're like, but that lack of icon Mississippi said so much, you know, that's when you know you're in a comfort zone with a good friend when you don't have to look at each other rat. And you don't have to say anything more. You don't even have to talk for nine years after that. Or whatever. 30. 30. That's how close you are. You know, some people call it a comfortable silence. It's like, you know, you have a friend. I could call him tomorrow.

[01:15:43] It is like, we just pick up where we left off. That's no time has passed. Right. That's you. And I could ask him ribs, how you been doing? And he'd say fine. And then it's like, no time has passed. Hey, I'm good here. Talk to you in 30 years. I'll check in with you later. So that's a good relationship. I bet you he does have some, I wonder if he's on the spectrum.

[01:16:13] You know, I've always wondered. He's a little socially weird. He's a little socially weird, but extremely talented. I mean, you know, the guy writes so much music. I think Weezer puts out for there for the last few years, they've been putting out like albums almost every year. I need to go back and revisit their, their newer stuff that you're just not in the public eye as much anymore, but they're still doing stuff. And I can, I can, I can send you a playlist. Oh, please do. Of like a recent Weezer stuff. Yeah.

[01:16:44] We say that five times fast. Recent, recent Weezer. I need some Weezer. Weezer. Yes. Give me one Weezer. Let me give you a Weezer playlist. I love it. Okay. Hey, we've been talking for a long time. Yeah. But we've covered so much. We have glory holes. Yes. Attempted murder. My, my, uh, my undying friendship with Rivers Cuomo. Yep.

[01:17:12] Um, and that it was pretty much, that was pretty much it, but yeah. Um, what do y'all think? Uh, go to the YouTube page. That's just my channel. Find a, you know, you'll know what it is by the huge thumbnail. Right. Look for scan the internet, look on YouTube and find the biggest thumbnail. My big fat, artificially intelligent. And that's where we are. That's where we are. Yeah. And then, uh, this is the most recent one.

[01:17:41] Um, and then, uh, leave us a comment. Let us know what your AI would create if you asked it to come up with a, um, oh God, what was it called? Taste. No, what was it? Glory hole, but the shaft something shaft. Uh, the flavor shaft. The flavor shaft. The flavor shaft. Yeah. What was your AI? If you, all of us listed this probably dabbling chat GPT and other AI systems. What, what was yours going to create?

[01:18:11] And then like, like Rick Sanford, the third did send it to me, but then send it to me via X slash, you know, Twitter using the hashtag absolute ignorance. Absolute ignorance. It's a long, it's a long one, but you got to write out the whole, both words. Yeah. That's how I'll find you your image. And we'll go from there. Sounds good. Good buddy. All right. Well, let's wrap this one up foremost for the Alan Jackson. I am John Rape saying goodbye.

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