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- TSA says travelers with no REAL I.D. face a hefty fee - YouTube
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This is the launch episode 44 for December 2, 2025. For you to know, you can call the show Live or After the Fact, 774-462-5667. Live on Tuesday's 11/30 AM Pacific, 230PM Eastern, 7/30 PM UTC AT, JBLive.TV, or in your podcasting app 2.0, Appetros. Of course, the momo rooms roll in and links to what we talk about over at WeeklyLunch.Rox and you can get details and resources over there. No Andrews, are you feeling the holiday spirits? I know while I was over there for your Thanksgiving, the Christmas decorations were getting deployed, the Christmas tree is fully up and operational.
Yeah, so holidays, holidays are shifting. Our kids are 12, 14, 16. It all feels different and I feel like there's just going to have to be a change next year, I think. Oh, I don't know. Not this year? Not this year? Well, 2026. Yeah, I mean, what's different though? Well, so for Thanksgiving, for the longest time, you come over, we've really worked out how to cook things and the kids this time just stayed in their room so long. For a long time. Well, until food was down. Yeah, and I don't even know if Bella made a plate, actually. Well, she had mac and cheese.
She had mac and cheese, yeah. A secondary mac and cheese that was made. Just for her. I just, I don't know. It just feels different. And anyway, COVID really messed with a lot of traditions throughout the year. I had been taking the kids to tulip town every year. Couldn't do that. And that dropped off basically with 2020. And so Christmas also dropped from my traditions for Christmas was taking a picture of the kids' reflection in an ornament. And part of that is because there just wasn't, at first I was getting new ornaments each year and it was neat.
But I have way too many ornaments. No, I don't necessarily, I do buy a couple new ones each year. This year I got like a five inch mirrored disco ball and a silver crown. My tree is green, white lights. It does have variety lights, but I'd like the white lights and just silver, glass or white ornaments. That is the theme. It's been the theme since I turned 18 when I was gifted a, our first artificial tree. So, and the ornaments that, but let's see, a set of silver ornaments that started the whole thing. So, anyway, so yeah, Christmas traditions for us, it's not necessarily on Christmas morning, right?
We've always been really good about, you know, if it works better for one parent or the other, we just, you know, yeah. I wonder, are there other folks out there that don't necessarily have their Christmas on Christmas day? Yeah. At first, when the kids were younger, they didn't know what day it was. No. It was no problem for them to, you know, come home Christmas night and have Christmas morning, the day after or the day before or whatever. But one thing that I prefer is just to, if I have the kids, well, first of all, opening gifts in the morning, definitely with a breakfast.
Yeah. But then I prefer to have them for the rest of the day. You know, I don't like to pack them up. And that started early when we had to go to so many different families. It just ruined our day to be like, okay, thanks for opening our gifts. Let's get ready and go to grandma's. Yeah. You know, in great grandma's and all the families. So anyway, that's one thing that I prefer. And then food wise, we never established a specific food day. Christmas food, no. No. Just for me, it's just been a big breakfast these last couple years. But I usually use those good as eggs and steak for breakfast on Christmas.
Abby would love that. Stake and eggs. You should do that for Abby. Mm-hmm. Peanut butter balls. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Normally, it was a Christmas thing. And it's so funny because I made them sparingly because I couldn't stir it, you know. And so Chris was my muscles for that. Mm-hmm. Stake, the peanut butter. Yeah. And it is. It is. And then my mom got me a kitchen aid and I didn't need them anymore for that. So then I was able to make them all, you know, throughout the year. And right now, anytime I make peanut butter balls, I give a batch to Dylan's friend's dad. His dad had driven Dylan to school almost every day and bought him gas station snacks.
And it was just so important that he had that experience and was going to school because otherwise I'd be fighting with him. So he's like an honorary for life peanut butter ball recipient. Wes says that his family does a Christmas brunch. Yeah. That's nice. Yeah, the brunch is the way to go. Yeah. Oh, we can't say that word on the show. Sorry. Oh, yeah. Oh. And when I was a kid, we always had to, we would wake up before my mom and we'd have to go start her coffee before we woke her up. Did you have something similar? Did do that a few times out of, you know, just being nice, trying to get them going.
No, actually, often my dad would be the first person up and then he would be as loud as possible in the kitchen getting himself ready. Mm-hm. So like banging the cupboards and clinking, clinking the spoon in the bowl for the cereal, you know? Talking with the dog, loud stuff like that. Just don't try to wake everybody up. We get them going. That's funny. Yeah. Yeah. I definitely am a fan of eating first and they're just taking your time. There's something about the build up to the presence a little bit instead of just waking up and going right to presence.
Oh, that's what we do. I know. I know. It's normal. It's normal, but I do like the idea of a build up a little bit, but the kids, the kids don't even want to wait till Christmas. They want like, I know. As soon as they know the presents are on the premises, they want them. Yeah. Hopefully, and they're also, they're converting to that. Can I just have money? Yes. Yes. Which is so lame. And they don't want, like Dylan doesn't want books, but I bought him a driver's head book last year. And he was so mad. I thought I said, I didn't want to boot or, you know, yes, he did. But this one is like, helpful.
Read it. Yeah. Read it. Read it. She's kind of, I don't want to run the road. I don't want them on the road. No, I don't want it. It's just so bad out there. It's just crazy. It is. It is. And especially on the holidays. Yeah. You have to have that before you send it for driver's head. But I just mean, like, you know, like when you drive into family events, it's always when the roads are in the worst condition. And the whole family is in the car. Yeah. It's bad. Yeah, I think this year will be a little different too for us, because I think we're going to maybe have an outside tree and an inside tree if we get our act to get it.
Oh, fun. Yeah. Yeah, we've been slowly stacking Christmas lights. Are there? Do a bigger tree. What's your tree theme? They're red green and they're like multicolored, but they're Christmas colored. No, ornaments. Oh. I don't know. I don't know. Or you just think we just have we generally have enough ornaments for a small tree and they're just kind of basic ornaments, but we're talking about a bigger tree. We might know it. We might need to go get like a Costco pack or something, you know, because that would be a good way to.
Yeah. But I wish I could remember the name of these LED lights that we have because they are. Maybe I could find them really quick because they are the best lights for Christmas ever. And they really give off a great color and light and they last forever and they just, yeah. And sometimes you, well, let's see, yeah, sometimes you've taken the kids somewhere, Christmas bright, not necessarily. I think they've never, it's never landed on Christmas day. No, like this year, we're going to do that too and it's not going to. Yeah.
Well, so I guess you'll probably, probably, the way that it works is you'll probably have them Christmas day just because I think we're traveling before Christmas. Mm-hmm. Something like that. I'm sure. Yeah. I think I found them. See, I don't know if I found them or not actually. I'm checking. These are really cool lights. So I want to be clear. Yes, okay. Okay. Maryco. Yeah, Maryco.com, I think is where you go. Maryco.com. Spell it. M-E-R-R-Y. Co. Like Maryco. Yep. Maryco.com and they have the best lights ever. Go check them out. I don't have any relationship with them, but they have the, they have like a, you know, classic lights that when you were a kid were like hung up, those big, yes, but they were really great, but they weren't LED.
Yeah. Well, they've managed after years of work to replicate that. Why did it take that long? I don't know. That's so stupid. I know. And they're so bright. Like, there's just no reason. I want some. They're not super cheap, but they're, they're not horribly expensive either. So I've been stacking a box or two every Christmas for the last three years. Oh my gosh, that's funny. Yeah. Did you date them, you know, so that you're like, oh, that would have been a good idea. But now that we've got enough, we're like using them in extra places and stuff. All right.
So boost in with your Christmas traditions. We want to hear them or whatever your holiday tradition might be too. We'd like to hear that. Mm-hmm. Anything weird you do? Let us know. Or your tree theme? Mm-hmm. Oh. I wonder if somebody out there is a Star Trek theme. They have Star Trek ornaments. Yeah. Oh, that would be so cool. Yeah. Yeah. There's only two colored ornaments on my tree. One is the weird leprechaun that my mom got us for our wedding. And the other one is a brown leopard ornament that I got with some zebra, blackened silver zebra ones.
All right. Buckle in because you're about to get some value out of this show. We have some public service announcements for you. Get ready. [MUSIC PLAYING] A little PSA. [MUSIC PLAYING] From Chris and Angela. All right. Let's start with something you should just know about. You got to get your real ID sorted out because you're going to get feed if you travel without one now. Although, you could just opt to pay the fee it turns out. Yeah, that's crazy. I know. Our local after all that. Our local King V has the details. Says travelers who show up to airport security for domestic flights without a real ID or passport will face a $45 fee starting in February.
That's more than double the $18 fee proposed last month. The fee covers a 10-day travel window and flyers will be able to pay it online before arriving at the airport. The agency says the fee is necessary to cover the costs of the enhanced ID verification system. You know that thing that we forced you to do? Now, we got to force you to pay because it costs more money. I don't know. So, $45, you get 10 days. We don't need real ID. So, where does that? What's crazy is the people that are not doing it have to pay for the people that did do it?
Is that really what-- that's the angle that they're using? That seems to be the implication. That's ridiculous. That's the implication. Yeah. Okay, well, here's some facts. So, real ID, there's real ID and there's enhanced driver's license, right? I have an enhanced driver's license. Do you? Yes, now I think I might-- no, no, because the system was down when I renewed my license. Oh, okay. The system was down. So, real ID costs the same as a standard ID. It has a star in the-- it says top right corner. I'm not sure if that's accurate or not. And it's only valid for air travel within the United States.
That's it. Well, actually-- The real ID. Yes. So, the enhanced is-- it counts as a real ID and it has a US flag. It says in the top right corner, but it is not. It is over my picture. Oh, yeah, that is. Yeah. Yeah. And you can use it for air travel domestically and for border crossings into Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Now, I tried to look this up, like, I don't know, a year ago. They've been threatening this every year for like three or four years now, maybe even five. And there was no clear delineation of between the two of these. So, I'm really glad that Google actually has this.
So, that is the difference between-- Yeah, especially, like, I think Adia has that, and she goes to Vancouver quite a bit to buy her insulin. Yeah. And that's really handy. I didn't know that the enhanced driver's license could act as a passport for land in C entry into Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Yeah, for those reasons. Like, I didn't realize that. I went and got my passport, you know, when we got it for the kids and-- Passports, sort of, is-- like, so if you have a passport, you don't need a real ID. Yeah.
And a passport is going to let you travel internationally and all that kind of stuff, too. So-- So, a domestic flight, if you use the passport, you don't need real ID? Correct. In addition to it? Oh, right. I see. I don't have real ID. I just have a passport. Okay. And I've been-- since they did the thing, I've just been using that to fly around. Yeah. Yeah. All right, so there's PSA number one. [MUSIC PLAYING] A little PSA. [MUSIC PLAYING] A quick signature on today. All right. Mm-hmm. Here comes the stomach bugs. Woo!
I have a hot intel that it is-- the stomach bug, probably, norovirus-- is spreading like crazy in the old people homes right now. Because Hadee has been going there to see her uncle and going to a couple of them, because he's got another friend. And, yeah, they are on full lockdown mode. I'm talking, like, sanitizing everything, got to wear a face mask. People are puking, like, crazy at the old people homes. Gross. Yeah. And when it moves, first it goes to the old people, or the kids kind of depends on the match. And then it goes to the other one.
Right. This is going to move to the kids. Yeah. And then from the kids, it'll move to every adult, surely, but slowly. So save this episode and this chapter because your buddy, Chris, is going to do you a solid this week. And if you follow my tips, you take them seriously. Things may just actually stay solid for you, too, if you get my drift. Okay. All right. So, I didn't get any sleep last night. Hadee has started getting my wife started getting sick around 10 pm last night. No signs before that. That sucks. That it started.
Yeah. It's a bad time. It also sucked because she was feeling fine before that. And we'd never do this without the kids. Never in our life, we went to Round Table Pizza. Wow. Yeah. So this was the punishment. Yeah. Not great. How dare you put that into the universe. I know. So, of course, she was just, I mean, every 10 minutes. That's crazy. Yeah. It was so rough that afterwards she called her mom. She didn't get solid bar at Round Table, did you? No. No, she got this. She got this because she went to this old people home with her dad. Yeah.
Her dad got it two days prior. Oh my gosh. And then we thought, oh, you missed it. Yeah. You avoided it because her dad lost 10 pounds in three days. That her dad can't get sick. No, he's not. No. So, now Hadee has got it. And she's got it so bad that this morning after she started feeling a little bit around 5.60 pm, she called her mom and apologized because she knows she's been sick once like this bad once before when she was a kid and her mom had to go through it. She's like, I know. Now I understand how bad that was. Mom, I'm just so, I want to say I'm sorry.
Right. Yeah, it's, it's rough. So if you have any taken care of the sick wife tips, let me know. But it's probably the norivirus or some kind of horrible stomach bug. It has already breached my home. So I am now shifting to a containment and fortification process that I believe is a protocol that if I do get sick, we'll lessen the duration of the sickness and give me my best probable chance of not getting sick. I'm going to tell you about that, but first we'll do a little up on the norivirus and why it's, it's ridiculous. This effing thing can live for like a week on a surface, it for a week on a surface.
Oh my gosh. So this is a little bit old, but still relevant. Talking for months now about flu and COVID, but as those numbers are going down, another virus is making a resurgence that dreaded stomach bug is back. I spoke with a local doctor about how you can keep your family healthy. You know the symptoms. It can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and stomach cramping. Norivirus, also known as the stomach flu, is making the rounds. We spoke with Dr. Carol Wellaway with Baylor Scott and White All Saints Medical Center. We see it commonly.
Usually it starts around the fall, goes into the winter, and then starts to come down in spring. It spreads quickly and easily, especially among kids. But there are a couple of things you can do to lower your family's risk. Everything hand washing. Yeah, they're the worst tips. Wash your hands. Yeah, I'm going to wash my hands, obviously, but we're going to go way beyond that. So let's start with the firewall prevention. So the stomach bug, there's norivirus, whatever it is, it can also be suspended in the air for up to two hours after a vomiting incident.
Oh, I know. Okay, so turn the fan on in the bathroom if you're if you're a wretching. Now it's not like it's not like COVID where it would like fly all around the ventilation system. This generally stays within about a six to 12 foot radius, but yeah, if you can run event, oh man, we're in a small space. Yeah. Six feet is. Yeah. Yeah, and I'm so scared. The other one, which of course I didn't do, if you're in the danger zone, you got to lock it on your sleep, even mild sleep deprivation, turns your immune response down. Yep.
So try to get good sleep, avoid late meals if you think it could be coming your way, and another one, no alcohol to be, you know, to press her for the immune system. Now here's the thing, a sand tent. I didn't realize this beforehand, maybe you did, but hand sanitizer does not work. No, no. And in fact, I refused to have the school have the kids use it. Yeah, it's, I mean, maybe for some of these, but not for this one. In fact, it just sort of laughs at hand sanitizer. You need, you need a really good soap and you need really good friction. And yet that will help you wash it off.
You need to focus on the big four in your home, faucet handles, door handles, light switches, toilets. Yeah. I am motivated. Yeah, it's coming. I'm gonna. It's coming. Yeah. Now, here's the other thing, like, because we were talking about it doesn't really, like, lice all spray doesn't kill it. Really? I know. I thought for sure, lice all spray, because this is kills 99.99. You're saying spray. Yeah, it's a lice all spray. No, no, no, I know, but like what about wipes? The wipes do not either. Yeah. The wipes do not. That's 99.99.
I know. I feel robbed. Yeah. No, so you got to go nuclear. You actually need to mix a little bit of bleach. Oh. Yeah. You know, like five to 25 tablespoons of spain on which your situation is to one gallon of water. Mm-hmm. Then wipe down the high touch surfaces. Be careful. Don't get on your clothes. Yeah. You can also, you know, stretch it. Yeah. Spot test. Spot test. Yeah. But this stuff is serious. It can live for a week. But bleach kills it. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And here's the other thing is, and this is the mistake I made last night is I shared a water glass with a deal last night.
Yeah. Rest in peace. I know. So don't share drinks. Yeah. Don't share towels. Don't share utensils. Snacks. Nope. No. And I established that really early with the kids. Like I would never drink off of their things. And if they drink off of mine, I was done with it. You know, I did it. I didn't want to create more dishes. That, you know, so stupid. Yeah. Also, something people don't think about. The fridge handles and microwave buttons. Mm-hmm. Surprisingly, in an area of high risk. Yeah. So here's my survival kit. And I think this is something because I was doing the math. I'm like, okay, if his dad took two days and then she got it.
And then I'm probably going to get it a little bit closer because I probably got affected in, you know, around the same time she did. So I'm betting tonight, tomorrow, if I get it is when I'm going to get it. And so now is the time. So I got on Instacart while I was in bed because I couldn't sleep. And I got like, I got Apple sauce. Oh, right. I got sugar free gatorade. Yeah. You know, I should have gotten some bleach. Now I think about it. Bananas. And a toast. I already have bread. And then I got a zinc supplement because I guess study suggests that zinc can reduce the durations of verity of the infection.
Yeah. I took an LDA supplement that had zinc in it. And within 15 minutes, I felt like I was going to throw up. Like my body cannot handle zinc. I can guarantee 15, 20 minutes later I can induce a massive purge. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So you feel it too. Yeah. So I, but I'm on it right now. I took it this morning. I found some good stuff. Okay. And short version is it often goes by peps in GI. It's zinc and another complex in there that are designed to be really easy on the gut. Wait a second. And help with gut health. Does this help you with your stomach issue in the morning?
I don't know. I've just got this. I just ordered this because I was not even know such a thing existed. Peps in GI. And this is a version of zinc that's really easy on the gut, but also helps with your gut lining, which is probably something if you're puke and you're going to want. There's other types of zinc as well. Like it's, I don't know how to pronounce it, but it's zinc by glycinate. Yeah. And then there's the other glides. Glides in it. Right. I believe those are a little easier. Also, just things I read getting started on a high quality probiotic now. Evidence suggests it'll shorten the duration of diarrhea by about a day.
And then also hydrate. Don't wait till you're thirsty because once you start getting sick, you're going to dehydrate very fast and you won't be able to keep water down for a bit. Well, who drinks water when they're throwing up like that? You can't. Yeah, no. It's horrible. Well, I got a system. I have a system. Okay. Because there's a there's a window of time that I think people miss that make the sickness worse. And that is if you don't, if you eat too soon, you just get into this situation or you drink too soon, you get a situation you're talking about. But if you wait too long, you start to get nausea from just starvation, but your system, your signals are all messed up.
So it's hard to tell. So I've developed the 20 minute rule. So after vomiting, you put nothing in your mouth for 20 minutes, no water, nothing. Yep. Then after that, you start with just small bb-sips of water. Wait 10 minutes. If it stays down, get a bb-sip in there. Wait 10 minutes. If you vomit, you got to reset the clock. Yep. Over time, this will be awful. But over time, you'll start to feel like when you're getting better and when your system's keeping things down. And then you'll start to know when you have it under control. And then when you can start to go to the easy foods I mentioned earlier, like applesauce, toast, bananas, worst case, you puke again, right?
But if you go with the easy foods, it's not so bad coming up. All right. So if you're going to be a proper, what needs to be collected? You got to get some things ready for sure. I like this tip. Put a towel down under your pillow. Just in case, I know. Rose? Rose? If you got a kid that gets sick, maybe not an adult that can make it to the toilet, but a kid, a young kid, put a towel down. Just, oh, it's a lot. Electrily packets, you're going to want tissues, you're going to want some towels and wet wipes because it's going to be some clean up too. You skipped the big cup with a straw.
Yeah. Okay. All right. I wasn't sure on that one. No, definitely. You think so? Yeah. Big cup with a straw? All right. And then I thought this was a good tip, too, is stomach bug laundry bag. Because I know we already made the mistake of mixing some of our laundry, but because this stuff, on clothing, it can last for up to two weeks. Yeah. Cheers. Oh my God. I know. It's a bag for your infected stuff. Yep. And then the most important protocol is the one that I have the wife undergoing at home right now. You got to watch Star Trek. You got to watch Star Trek.
So when you're done in the bathroom, that's when you go watch Star Trek, but not any episode of Star Trek. This is very important. This is part of the healing process. Whatever is your least favorite Star Trek or if you've never watched Star Trek, whatever has turned you off, that's what you watch. So me, not a big fan of the Deanna episodes. So when I'm sick, I watch a Deanna episode because I've avoided those episodes. I'll find new nuggets. And when you're sick, your defenses are down, your mind's more open. You'll take it in.
You won't care that it's camp here, whatever it is that turns you away. So watch some Star Trek. It's like chicken soup for your eyeballs. That's funny. Because when Dylan is sick, like if he has a fever, like he doesn't move, there's no fidgeting. Yeah. I think closer to normal than ever, except he feels like crap, you know, but it's just it's really interesting to see that that is an interesting challenge that you have presented. So this morning she watched the first episode where Q turns them all into the Mary Men in Robinhood. And then now she's watching a board episode.
No, a board episode. That's a higher end episode, but she's she's at her vegetables. So check in and make sure she's watching Star Trek because that's really the most important part. You can thank me later. That'll solve it. I don't know. I have, you know, for me, like I first thing I thought I was like, I got an interview scheduled later this week with a very special guest that we've wanted to talk to for a long time for Linux unplugged. Tomorrow I need to do this week in Bitcoin. Like, I got a meeting Thursday. Mm-hmm.
When? When you're going to get sick. And then you have the kids this weekend because yeah, yeah, longer week and and it's a lot because Abby's things going on. There's a lot of going back and forth. So it's going to be probably two people on deck to manage that and I think I don't know. I don't know. So I've taken, I've taken everything I've basically laid out here today in preparation. This morning I just been slowly doing it and I will see. We'll see. The long shot. I'm drinking my water. Yeah. I'm drinking my water. But there you go.
That's the public service announcement. If it, if it enters your area, you really want to start doing this before it gets into the home and you got to double down and get your ass together if it does. That's it. The helpful PSA. The more you know from your pals, Chris and Angela. Now, what do you say we do? What do you say we do a song? You like to do a song? Okay. Just stupid, stupid jingles. This is, you know, this is a special time because we're going to play a value track and you know what that means. Now's the time. It's the song of the week.
Remember, you can boost the track. They sure like that. Yeah. And this week our track is cold-hearted by Sengiu. And if you boost while the song plays 95% of the sets, go to him. [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] >> Well, I'm just going to make a quick call to my launch. I haven't checked in since yesterday. [MUSIC] >> And you know what, Andrews? We did get five calls. And our first one is from our friend, and Trinidad.
>> Hi, good day. This is Roland again from Trinidad, West Indies. Just listening to the latest episode, and heard the thing about the face ID and stuff, which is very concerning to me, especially to a daughter who might want to jump on social media soon, although it is that we are outside of the US. I don't know if there's a requirement. I should probably check and see. But my unfilter hat tells me that they want this face ID because it makes it easier to unlock or do whatever account stuff for a lot to be able to log in if necessary in future. I don't know.
I find it kind of strange and scary at the same time, but have any of these attached to your accounts as part of a sign-in or a sign-in process. It needs that. It's not something that you control who has access to your account that is finished. I need to get more details, but that is just by full unfilter and thinking, comment to plea there. Who for everybody has a good task that I should give in and enjoy? I think what the part that resonates with me is we're just jumping way too fast into facial scans for access to crap like Facebook and Roblox and crap that just doesn't need it.
And to me, the system that does seem right is the way Apple does face ID on the iPhone. And that is when you want to use Apple Pay or something like that, it's not the point of sales device that's scanning your face. It's your iPhone. It's storing that in a secure enclave locally and then it's saying yes I've confirmed this is the person they say they are and they can use this feature. And so it's sort of like a pass key in a way. You have the thing that's trusted in doing the authorization and it does the face scan and then they just take a success token instead of them having to do the face scan. Okay, so was it born identity where the thumb had to be cut off and used for the scan?
Was it Matrix? No, that was the Tom Cruise movie where they're swooshing around with the screens and replacing eyeballs. So, oh, I just, can you use a picture? Like, if it's not... Well, they make you turn your head so they do it completely. In Apple? No, on these like Roblox and the Facebook apps that we were talking about. Oh, no, I know about that. But like, I haven't set up face ID. Oh, really? No, no, it does a depth sensor. Ah, depth. Okay, so... Minority report, by the way. Oh, minority, yes, of course. Thank you, ADM.
Yes, thank you, Hybrid. Anyway, I just, I just don't want to set that up. Like, what... Dead body could unlock it then, right? Probably. It's not thermal. Yeah, dead body. Detecting. That's true. That's true. Dead body can't unlock a pin code though. That's true. That's the thing. Yep. All right, Tech Geek called in. Hey guys, this is Tech Geek from Orlando. Just arrived at work finishing up at the student number 42. And I got a couple of things for you. Part of the spam fighting, I mean, yeah, that's a tough one. But one thing that ultimately might work for you and it worked for me was actually changing providers.
I was a GNL user for me since the early days of invite only. And probably about three years ago, I moved over to proton mill. I'd get maybe a spam, maybe once a year. Another thing that service they have is helps with that is creating aliases for different services. So if you sign up for newsletters or subscribe to whatever, you know, create an online account. You can just generate an alias. And if you feel you're getting too many emails, spam emails to that email address, you can disable that alias. And you can be true. I think I got a question you're talking about.
Restaurant apps. You ever come across a restaurant who will only accept your order if you order to their app? I did one tier in Orlando, a place called Blaze Pizza. I called in an order once. They were brand new opened up in our area and called in order. And they said he wouldn't take my order over the phone unless I had to put in the order to the app. I said, well, you're not getting my business. Oh, I found up one of them and didn't know they haven't got my business since then. So just curious if you ever come across that. So annoying, really annoying.
All right. Good job. Thanks for all you got to do. Wonderful podcast. A little listen to you guys. Have a good one. Thanks, Ted Keith. Awesome. Okay. We'll start with the spam. Google Gmail is what I have. And I do have some aliases set up. But I forgot about that. Yeah. And I'm not sure. Yeah. I will have to look that up. But what was the other thing about the spam? Oh, yeah. I'm just not. I'm just not good at change. I'm not going to create a new email address. I just don't. I don't know about that. There's also something too. Like as the email address has been out there for years.
It does just sort of start collecting spam. So they can have really good spam filter. And then some of that gets knocked down by just the age of your email address. Right. So then I used a plumber a couple of weeks ago. And every time I use this plumber, I get a rash of calls afterwards. Oh, yeah. I got three calls at Thanksgiving. They're going to be in the area they even said my street name on Thanksgiving. Yeah. Yeah. I just said, yeah, it'd be a bad time to have a plumbing incident. Yeah. And the thing is is that these dialers are using an ID, like a name. They're using a person's name is the ID.
So it's bypassing the spam filter that, you know, where AT&T would tell you that it's potentially spam. It's so frustrating. So I don't know what to do. I want to call a follow-up plumbing and find out what to do. Yeah, what the hell? Yeah. Should ask them. Like it's really coincidental. Like they'll probably deny it. And that might be wrong, but I remember this happening last time I used them. So have you ever had to go to a restaurant where they forced you to use the app door? Okay. So Taco Bell recently redid their inside in Marysville? They got screens in Kiosk.
Yeah. Yes. And so they just don't even have somebody there to take your order. They can help you, but yeah, for the last part. I walked into a Mac dawns for the first time that they kind of had like a booth up front, but nobody there taking orders or nothing. As a project manager, I know exactly why the restaurant that he went to did that. Oh, yeah. It is to funnel the orders in proper order. Like it is to create a system where there won't be exceptions or misses or whatever. It totally makes sense. Right. And so recently I mentioned a couple weeks ago in like Stevens, they have a line for people that want to stand in line and wait.
And they have a line for mobile drive through. Yeah, I've seen that too. Yeah. And so the first, well, the first time we went there, we just stood in line forever. The second time we went there, we stood in line and were like, oh, yeah, let's do that. And then we walked to the other line. We shaved off 20 minutes of waiting by doing that. Whoa. And then the next time we went inside, the mobile app, it would have been faster to go through the standing line because everybody had figured out this hack. Yeah, oh, I see. No, yeah.
Well, because there was a restaurant and they had a door dash line, like a different register just for the door dash people. Which is nice because sometimes those door dashes don't even like, there's not a spot. They don't know if an order is ready. You might be sitting there forever. I know. And then that's on them. And then that's why I was there. This was after we had dropped Abby off for band practice. We went and got Teriyaki while we were sitting there at the Teriyaki diner. I bet you five door dash orders came in. Okay.
Is it right next to Happy Lemon? Well, I don't know. But Domino's I think it's in a strip mall. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That is that and they had free broth. Yes. Yeah. So good. Very good. This Teriyaki place is so good. Yeah. You have to order the thick Teriyaki sauce if you want extra because they give you by default the liquidy one. Yeah. Yeah. That is the best Teriyaki that I think I've ever had. So the weirdest experience I had with a restaurant being really anal about the process. But we went and knowing it was like this was. Have you seen these sumo buffets?
No. But I heard buffet. Yeah. What kind of food? So this is it's weird trip because it's all kinds of food. It's a weird trip because they replace a Sherry's diner. They go in and like, which is a classic Americana diner and they turn it into this high tech buffet and you get to your seat and they'll sit you. Well actually show up and you tell them if you want track A or track B. Track A is like all the food except for one category and track B is like everything and you just pay one price. Except for seafood. Something like.
Yes. Something like. I thought it was. I got the cheaper one. And where is it? This one is in Burlington but I threw a couple of them in Washington. Okay. So then you go to your table and they make you scan the QR code and use the app or the webpage and then everything is brought out by robots which is fun. It's a fun idea. So you don't go stack up at the buffet. You don't take a plate and go around the buffet and add a scoop of that and a little dash of that. You go into the app and you tell the app I want this, this and that. And then a robot comes out a couple minutes later with a plate assembled for you and then you eat it and then you put it on the robot and it takes it back and it brings you another plate of food.
It's an interesting experience but I guess to power the robots that make you use. Okay. So this is sumo sushi and grill? It might have been. I didn't do any of the seafood stuff. There's one in Burlington, Seattle and Linwood. That sounds right. Which I was going to say there was a sharey in Linwood and if sharey went out of business it probably. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. No, I don't know about sushi at all. Yeah. I think a deer did though because you know she loves sushi. It's crazy. All right. Thank you, Ted Geek. Our next call is a voicemail.
Oh yeah. Right. I love this because I think this should be the, this should be a rule of thumb for the show. If you are having crab bread goon or crab cakes or any kind of crab based dish, that's the universe telling you it's time to call the launch. So when you're eating crab, yeah. Call the launch. I'm just going to say not sushi, but I want crab. I need crab. Costco has crab, but it's like a $50 container. It's a little bit because I want some crab. All right. Yeah. All right. So here we go. Oh, hey. Hello. Hello. I'm sitting here eating crab wonton and for some reason I just felt that inkling that I needed to call in.
I don't know. Maybe it's the, the love playing in the background or the crab wonton, but it felt like I needed to call in. Good instinct. Oh, excuse me. Sorry. It's Monday. It's definitely Monday after holiday, but related notes. I think I found a use case for ersatz TV at work. So now I'm getting paid to figure out how to use ersatz TV. Thanks for the recommendation, Chris. Have a good one. That is so cool. That's great. I love it when the work basically funds your like, you know, interest. Ersatz is with powering, Sadia's, Sadia's, hadia's dream of Star Trek right now. She just turns on the Star Trek channel and just sends her, just sends her Star Trek.
I love it. I'd love to know how you're using it. Call back in if you like. So, her lurks a lot is next. Hi, Chris and Angie. This is Sir lurks a lot. Yeah. I know it's been a long time. Hey, sir. So regarding your spam, here's how I solve that problem. All right. Well, my telephone number, I give out a Google voice number that I've been using since it was in beta. I know. I mean, that they get my voice messages in AI. But the thing is, I've gone through several cell phones and it always forwards to the phone because I can change it. And so, I don't have to worry about updating people with my number.
I just kind of use that one. Now, this area code for the Google voice number is in a state I've never lived in before. Okay. And my actual cell phone is also in an area code where my sister lives, not where I live. So, it's a totally different area code. So I wind up not getting any spam on my phone through text messages and whatnot because the messages that come through from the area code where my sister lives, if they're not in my contact list, it's not my sister or my family. I ignore it. Same thing with the Google voice. If it comes through with that area code, I don't have a New Jersey, you know, I live in order again.
So whatever. That helps a lot. Now, it's email. I do, I do the painful thing. I know, I know. I run my own email server. Oh, that way, but I like cell hosting. And so I give every company a different email address. For example, Amazon, Dash, customer at my domain.com and strike. Dash user at my domain.com every single company, system 76 customer at my domain.com. If I get spam coming in, I know where it leaked from. I know who to contact. Oh, share those. 76 had somebody leak information in China through one of their shippers and I got spam to that address and notified them a month or two before it came out.
Oh, wow. I'm just saying. Nice job. Nice, Larry. Nice. Now, I know why you never answer my calls. So the dialer systems are really smart though. They're going to, they're going to look at your area code and they're going to call, they're going to choose numbers from your area code. So it only goes so far for that, but that is, that is a really good method. You're like, I don't get a lot of crap calls to my Google voice number. No, I used to, so my number is very similar to some like auto shop in Portland or something. So I do get a call occasionally for that, but that's funny.
But you're right. I also don't. All right, our last voice mail this week comes from the one. The only, a magnolia may have. Hey, if I know, yes. So first things first, another day, all another day working these people's savages, savages, exactly. Oh, I'm wondering if I'm with you here. Like I remember just being absolutely fascinating, but like alternative computer architectures. And don't mean like all, oh, that's. I mean, natural, natural hardware, like I remember that circa 2007, 2008, I almost got broken up with.
My girlfriend back in and wife now, she got a PlayStation three. And I thought it would be really interesting to see how it works. Anyways, what do you know? Something like alternative architectures, like going beyond just like arm and maybe even wrist bob. There's all kinds of crazy stuff out there that you don't even hear a lot about. There's all kinds of Motorola architectures and like it used to be such a rich world back in like the 60s and 70s. Not just all boring, F-86 and all the weird kids are on arm and stuff, but is that even still community these days?
Like are there are there really a lot of alternatives? I say that people use. I know it's just something curious, something I'm curious about. Anyway, I mean, they're definitely out there. When I go to certain events, I still see booths of people getting alpha machines going and of course power PC like you mentioned, but I think the network effect of X86 compatibility plus you got to give Intel credit and AMD. They got those X86 chips doing more than anybody ever thought possible at power ranges, power ranges, not power rangers, but also power rangers that nobody thought would be possible. So there's some of that too, but I do feel you there was a little bit of me that's sad that we don't have all that variety out there.
Yeah. Alright, thank you everybody for the call. It's a good batch of calls. You know what to do. If you want a call, you can do it. Just leave us a voicemail. We'll have the phone number in the show notes and we'll play it on the next week's episode. And now it is time for the booths. Well, we do have a couple of booths and I do mean just a couple of booths and our first one comes from outdoor geek who's coming in with 10,000 sets. It's over 9,000! It is indeed. He writes, "Hi Chris and Angela, air quality monitoring with home assistant could be a topic for a future love or launch.
I have three different monitors currently. A number one is a DIY air gap based ESP. Number two is an air things view plus the H.A. integration is cloud based, however. And number three is an air cube pro. It's expensive, but so far my favorite and I've only had it for a few days. Local polling integrations and all that are interesting. Do you honor your indoor air quality at all?" I only go so far as to monitor temperature and humidity. Those are the two things that I would let. I mean, I'm a data person. Bring it.
Oh, it is fun. I want to see what the air quality is. Especially since we had two kids bedrooms on the second floor and then I had a wall built to create a third bedroom that was going to be dillens. In order to do that, I had to lock a cold air return. And then because I blocked that, I had to create a new outlet. And so his second cold air return was put right above the other one that's downstairs, right? I got you. So one, because I don't want, who wants to smell boy? It was going to just pull boy smell out of his ear and you know, return it to the house. Nobody wants that.
I've been curious about how well the air circulates on the second floor now because there isn't a second floor cold air return. I am trying to blank on the CO2 sensor that I have ended up with. I've tried a couple. I do like this because for us, we use propane stove. Oh, yeah. Super important. Yeah, it's nice to just have. We have one built in to the RV, but it's only an alert. It'll just scream at me if it detects it. But I want to know what the actual levels are. And so you can do that with home assistant and these sensors. It is a good topic.
I'm going to give some consideration to that. Sensors in general are interesting. Yeah, because like, I think my house has a CO2 sensor, but it's in the ceiling. And if I understand correctly, CO2 would be detected lower. Lower? Yeah. So I probably need something. Well, if you didn't guess, our next booster is turd Ferguson and he comes in with 1333 sets. Okay. So I brined the bird and it was better. It definitely was juice here, but is it just me or is turkey better as leftovers? All that work and all I really want is to make a sandwich out of it the next day. Yeah, I do understand.
I made a sandwich yesterday. I made a turkey sandwich. It was really good. I think I would have rather had prime rib and then just buy somebody else's turkey from the store, right? How did yours turn out? ours is pretty good. Yeah, ours was, I later tried the praki turkey, the butter ball and I actually thought it was just as good as the really expensive turkey from the butcher and it had more meat. So it made just low-brow, I don't know, but the leftovers is good. Yeah, it was so good. And then just side note just because this is the lunch, just kidding. I make sweet potatoes and the turkey is so good in the sweet potato sauce, just so good.
Everything, I mean, it went so smooth. It was really great. Everything turned out great. My mom made it for a little bit to say hi and we were, I think I was home by like six or seven? Yeah, it was six seven? Six seven. Yeah, six seven for sure. It was nice. It was an earlier one for sure. Yeah, it went so smooth. We had like literally no hiccups, so we were done. We were done. We were done. Right before we sat down and the eat, Chris was like, oh, let me get the pie and the, yeah, I was a pie, I guess, an apple pie in the oven. So it was ready after we were done eating.
It really was smooth. Ah, super your ability. Breeds, superior ambition. All right, well, so thank you to our two boosters this week, Turd and Outdoor Geek. Appreciate you very much. And thank you to everybody who streamed Sats. That was one of you. And you by yourself sent the show 1,750 Sats bringing our total this week to 25,083 Sats. We're going to take it, we're going to take it and stride. We'll assume that you are having a great holiday and joined friends and family and food. And you weren't thinking about your buddies over here at the launch. Maybe you dropped your boost wallet at the family family.
Maybe you maybe had a boating accident. You never know. Things can happen. But thank you everybody. You does support the show. And of course, thank you to our Jupiter party members. Now it's going to be worth it because I got a big idea for you. I got to take a crack at another classic idea of mine. So here we go. Get ready for this one. $240,000 quite reasonable. Absolutely. Built in 1980. A little. A little. It's an Odessa, Texas. Is it hot there? Probably. 3500 square feet, six on 0.7 acres. Three beds, two baths. Can hold a lot of canned goods.
Okay, that's weird. That's right. That's where I had left during the song because I read that and I'm like, okay, I'm going to click on it. And also the possibilities are endless because yes, ladies and gentlemen, I have found yet another bunker. Yeah, it is. I have found another one. I don't. Wow. The vibe on this one is a little rough. So this is more like, yes, it's really gone south. And I mean, it's an Odessa, Texas. The problem is, is parts of it are actually quite nice for what it is. But then other parts really give prison, like bad prison vibes. I'm looking at shots of the overview of the living room and it just looks like a prison --Yes.
--The thoroughfare, the bathroom looks like a prison. The bedrooms look like a prison. Oh, yeah, those pots. Yeah. And for some reason, every time they do an overview shot of the living room, it looks like a thoroughfare of a prison. It's really weird. It's because of the high windows. Yeah, and it's all cement. And that's how, yes, and it's curved. That's how when I worked at a collection agency, that's how it works. How the windows work. And yeah, they didn't really want us to know that it was light outside because then we'd want to go home.
Right, then once you'd collect them. So you know, you'd have a lot of work to do, but how do you, how do you make up for the fact that it's in a bunker underground? It's partially under feet, underground. Yeah. I'm trying to see if they tell us. They don't actually tell us. They just say, mostly underground. And they say, don't miss out on this one of a kind opportunity. That's definitely one of a kind. It is, it is, okay. Sure, what it looks like from Ariel because it looks like maybe from a plane you wouldn't be able to tell that there was a house.
I don't think you would, because it's so dirty in this bushes. It's so dirty, yeah. It just looks like a dome kind of maybe a mound. It might look like a mound. Now if that's not quite what you're looking for, I have something that's slightly more expensive, but it's ready for those that want to be a prepper. And that's a lot of value. So you can really plan for the future with this gem. They're calling, quote, all survivalist preppers in anyone tired of Amazon prime taking two days at clocks in at $249,000. It was built in 1974 in Burrow, Utah.
It's got two beds, two baths. It's 2,012,192 square feet. And you see this was a dream. And what started as a simple trailer is now a fortified retreat featuring two kitchens, bedrooms and two bathrooms. Even off grid, nobody wants to wait for a hot shower. Tucked away in total seclusion, this is the definition of self-sufficiency, no quick trips to town required. And for peace of mind, the camera system is ready to go. When the world gets weird, you'll be glad you're here. This is, it looks like a junkyard. Well, I think if you look at it with your regular, normy society eyes, but if you look at it with your collapse zombie apocalypse eyes, you're not, I don't think you're factoring in all the trash.
It's so, see, like that, there's got to be $200 worth of stuff. Yeah, this also has cement. Yeah. Or is that cement? It looks like cement. You didn't notice my favorite part though, which part? This place is such a dump. Listeners, you're going to have to check out the link in the show notes. It's, this place is such a dump. They had to draw on the pictures where the front door was and where you're actually supposed to enter. Yeah, no, I did see that. Because you can't tell where the front door is if they hadn't draw, it's, that's how much of a pile this place is.
But the inside photos, like you could almost, all, okay, if it's a good deal and I want to prep, okay, but the inside, it's filled with garbage. Yeah, there was no cleaning, you know, for it since it was built. Look at all that garbage. I mean, every room, every bathroom, every living room, the garage, every hallway is absolutely stuffed with gross, disgusting garbage. Yeah. And you would have to clear all of this out if you wanted to buy this place. The other one would be way more worth it. Yeah. They're literally the same cost. I know.
Well, one's in Utah, one's in Tejas. Yeah. I'd still rather, I think it would be on Tejas, yeah. Oh, Texas. I thought it was a desert. But there's like some underground, like dirt bunker? I think that's the back door. They just didn't label it. I don't know what it is. No, you can't tell. You can't tell. I mean, wow. Well, I think the bunker is the way to go on this one if we're just giving out advice here on the show. The bunker seems like the way to go. The prepper route, you know, and it was weird too. Just one last thing with the prepper place is they lead with the trailer. Like they say, what started out as a single trailer, right?
So you think you're going to get a trailer? The trailer has been completely trashed. It is completely junk. You cannot use that trailer. It's absolutely destroyed. Yeah. And also the, like half the roof is missing on the building and the windows are all missing. This is the, how could they possibly the land? Maybe is worth 200,000? Right. Just demolish it. Get rid of it. Burn it. Big opportunity, everybody. We'll have a link in the show notes. All right. Links to what we talked about, like those fantastic opportunities are over at weeklylaunch.rocks. My favorite zinc medication for your tummy line.
And that's also linked over there. And of course, we want to hear what your holiday traditions are, any weird things you do or not weird. That's okay. We just want to hear about it. Boost in and support the show. Of course, you can also get the bootleg version, which is a little extra show, about 100 and, um, 100? Nope. About an hour and 20 minutes longer. I guess I was looking at the wrong number. And so you get a little extra show too. And we really like that because then it supports the production directly. There's no advertiser in this here podcast.
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This is the launch episode 44 for December 2, 2025. For you to know, you can call the show Live or After the Fact, 774-462-5667. Live on Tuesday's 11/30 AM Pacific, 230PM Eastern, 7/30 PM UTC AT, JBLive.TV, or in your podcasting app 2.0, Appetros. Of course, the momo rooms roll in and links to what we talk about over at WeeklyLunch.Rox and you can get details and resources over there. No Andrews, are you feeling the holiday spirits? I know while I was over there for your Thanksgiving, the Christmas decorations were getting deployed, the Christmas tree is fully up and operational.
Yeah, so holidays, holidays are shifting. Our kids are 12, 14, 16. It all feels different and I feel like there's just going to have to be a change next year, I think. Oh, I don't know. Not this year? Not this year? Well, 2026. Yeah, I mean, what's different though? Well, so for Thanksgiving, for the longest time, you come over, we've really worked out how to cook things and the kids this time just stayed in their room so long. For a long time. Well, until food was down. Yeah, and I don't even know if Bella made a plate, actually. Well, she had mac and cheese.
She had mac and cheese, yeah. A secondary mac and cheese that was made. Just for her. I just, I don't know. It just feels different. And anyway, COVID really messed with a lot of traditions throughout the year. I had been taking the kids to tulip town every year. Couldn't do that. And that dropped off basically with 2020. And so Christmas also dropped from my traditions for Christmas was taking a picture of the kids' reflection in an ornament. And part of that is because there just wasn't, at first I was getting new ornaments each year and it was neat.
But I have way too many ornaments. No, I don't necessarily, I do buy a couple new ones each year. This year I got like a five inch mirrored disco ball and a silver crown. My tree is green, white lights. It does have variety lights, but I'd like the white lights and just silver, glass or white ornaments. That is the theme. It's been the theme since I turned 18 when I was gifted a, our first artificial tree. So, and the ornaments that, but let's see, a set of silver ornaments that started the whole thing. So, anyway, so yeah, Christmas traditions for us, it's not necessarily on Christmas morning, right?
We've always been really good about, you know, if it works better for one parent or the other, we just, you know, yeah. I wonder, are there other folks out there that don't necessarily have their Christmas on Christmas day? Yeah. At first, when the kids were younger, they didn't know what day it was. No. It was no problem for them to, you know, come home Christmas night and have Christmas morning, the day after or the day before or whatever. But one thing that I prefer is just to, if I have the kids, well, first of all, opening gifts in the morning, definitely with a breakfast.
Yeah. But then I prefer to have them for the rest of the day. You know, I don't like to pack them up. And that started early when we had to go to so many different families. It just ruined our day to be like, okay, thanks for opening our gifts. Let's get ready and go to grandma's. Yeah. You know, in great grandma's and all the families. So anyway, that's one thing that I prefer. And then food wise, we never established a specific food day. Christmas food, no. No. Just for me, it's just been a big breakfast these last couple years. But I usually use those good as eggs and steak for breakfast on Christmas.
Abby would love that. Stake and eggs. You should do that for Abby. Mm-hmm. Peanut butter balls. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Normally, it was a Christmas thing. And it's so funny because I made them sparingly because I couldn't stir it, you know. And so Chris was my muscles for that. Mm-hmm. Stake, the peanut butter. Yeah. And it is. It is. And then my mom got me a kitchen aid and I didn't need them anymore for that. So then I was able to make them all, you know, throughout the year. And right now, anytime I make peanut butter balls, I give a batch to Dylan's friend's dad. His dad had driven Dylan to school almost every day and bought him gas station snacks.
And it was just so important that he had that experience and was going to school because otherwise I'd be fighting with him. So he's like an honorary for life peanut butter ball recipient. Wes says that his family does a Christmas brunch. Yeah. That's nice. Yeah, the brunch is the way to go. Yeah. Oh, we can't say that word on the show. Sorry. Oh, yeah. Oh. And when I was a kid, we always had to, we would wake up before my mom and we'd have to go start her coffee before we woke her up. Did you have something similar? Did do that a few times out of, you know, just being nice, trying to get them going.
No, actually, often my dad would be the first person up and then he would be as loud as possible in the kitchen getting himself ready. Mm-hm. So like banging the cupboards and clinking, clinking the spoon in the bowl for the cereal, you know? Talking with the dog, loud stuff like that. Just don't try to wake everybody up. We get them going. That's funny. Yeah. Yeah. I definitely am a fan of eating first and they're just taking your time. There's something about the build up to the presence a little bit instead of just waking up and going right to presence.
Oh, that's what we do. I know. I know. It's normal. It's normal, but I do like the idea of a build up a little bit, but the kids, the kids don't even want to wait till Christmas. They want like, I know. As soon as they know the presents are on the premises, they want them. Yeah. Hopefully, and they're also, they're converting to that. Can I just have money? Yes. Yes. Which is so lame. And they don't want, like Dylan doesn't want books, but I bought him a driver's head book last year. And he was so mad. I thought I said, I didn't want to boot or, you know, yes, he did. But this one is like, helpful.
Read it. Yeah. Read it. Read it. She's kind of, I don't want to run the road. I don't want them on the road. No, I don't want it. It's just so bad out there. It's just crazy. It is. It is. And especially on the holidays. Yeah. You have to have that before you send it for driver's head. But I just mean, like, you know, like when you drive into family events, it's always when the roads are in the worst condition. And the whole family is in the car. Yeah. It's bad. Yeah, I think this year will be a little different too for us, because I think we're going to maybe have an outside tree and an inside tree if we get our act to get it.
Oh, fun. Yeah. Yeah, we've been slowly stacking Christmas lights. Are there? Do a bigger tree. What's your tree theme? They're red green and they're like multicolored, but they're Christmas colored. No, ornaments. Oh. I don't know. I don't know. Or you just think we just have we generally have enough ornaments for a small tree and they're just kind of basic ornaments, but we're talking about a bigger tree. We might know it. We might need to go get like a Costco pack or something, you know, because that would be a good way to.
Yeah. But I wish I could remember the name of these LED lights that we have because they are. Maybe I could find them really quick because they are the best lights for Christmas ever. And they really give off a great color and light and they last forever and they just, yeah. And sometimes you, well, let's see, yeah, sometimes you've taken the kids somewhere, Christmas bright, not necessarily. I think they've never, it's never landed on Christmas day. No, like this year, we're going to do that too and it's not going to. Yeah.
Well, so I guess you'll probably, probably, the way that it works is you'll probably have them Christmas day just because I think we're traveling before Christmas. Mm-hmm. Something like that. I'm sure. Yeah. I think I found them. See, I don't know if I found them or not actually. I'm checking. These are really cool lights. So I want to be clear. Yes, okay. Okay. Maryco. Yeah, Maryco.com, I think is where you go. Maryco.com. Spell it. M-E-R-R-Y. Co. Like Maryco. Yep. Maryco.com and they have the best lights ever. Go check them out. I don't have any relationship with them, but they have the, they have like a, you know, classic lights that when you were a kid were like hung up, those big, yes, but they were really great, but they weren't LED.
Yeah. Well, they've managed after years of work to replicate that. Why did it take that long? I don't know. That's so stupid. I know. And they're so bright. Like, there's just no reason. I want some. They're not super cheap, but they're, they're not horribly expensive either. So I've been stacking a box or two every Christmas for the last three years. Oh my gosh, that's funny. Yeah. Did you date them, you know, so that you're like, oh, that would have been a good idea. But now that we've got enough, we're like using them in extra places and stuff. All right.
So boost in with your Christmas traditions. We want to hear them or whatever your holiday tradition might be too. We'd like to hear that. Mm-hmm. Anything weird you do? Let us know. Or your tree theme? Mm-hmm. Oh. I wonder if somebody out there is a Star Trek theme. They have Star Trek ornaments. Yeah. Oh, that would be so cool. Yeah. Yeah. There's only two colored ornaments on my tree. One is the weird leprechaun that my mom got us for our wedding. And the other one is a brown leopard ornament that I got with some zebra, blackened silver zebra ones.
All right. Buckle in because you're about to get some value out of this show. We have some public service announcements for you. Get ready. [MUSIC PLAYING] A little PSA. [MUSIC PLAYING] From Chris and Angela. All right. Let's start with something you should just know about. You got to get your real ID sorted out because you're going to get feed if you travel without one now. Although, you could just opt to pay the fee it turns out. Yeah, that's crazy. I know. Our local after all that. Our local King V has the details. Says travelers who show up to airport security for domestic flights without a real ID or passport will face a $45 fee starting in February.
That's more than double the $18 fee proposed last month. The fee covers a 10-day travel window and flyers will be able to pay it online before arriving at the airport. The agency says the fee is necessary to cover the costs of the enhanced ID verification system. You know that thing that we forced you to do? Now, we got to force you to pay because it costs more money. I don't know. So, $45, you get 10 days. We don't need real ID. So, where does that? What's crazy is the people that are not doing it have to pay for the people that did do it?
Is that really what-- that's the angle that they're using? That seems to be the implication. That's ridiculous. That's the implication. Yeah. Okay, well, here's some facts. So, real ID, there's real ID and there's enhanced driver's license, right? I have an enhanced driver's license. Do you? Yes, now I think I might-- no, no, because the system was down when I renewed my license. Oh, okay. The system was down. So, real ID costs the same as a standard ID. It has a star in the-- it says top right corner. I'm not sure if that's accurate or not. And it's only valid for air travel within the United States.
That's it. Well, actually-- The real ID. Yes. So, the enhanced is-- it counts as a real ID and it has a US flag. It says in the top right corner, but it is not. It is over my picture. Oh, yeah, that is. Yeah. Yeah. And you can use it for air travel domestically and for border crossings into Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Now, I tried to look this up, like, I don't know, a year ago. They've been threatening this every year for like three or four years now, maybe even five. And there was no clear delineation of between the two of these. So, I'm really glad that Google actually has this.
So, that is the difference between-- Yeah, especially, like, I think Adia has that, and she goes to Vancouver quite a bit to buy her insulin. Yeah. And that's really handy. I didn't know that the enhanced driver's license could act as a passport for land in C entry into Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Yeah, for those reasons. Like, I didn't realize that. I went and got my passport, you know, when we got it for the kids and-- Passports, sort of, is-- like, so if you have a passport, you don't need a real ID. Yeah.
And a passport is going to let you travel internationally and all that kind of stuff, too. So-- So, a domestic flight, if you use the passport, you don't need real ID? Correct. In addition to it? Oh, right. I see. I don't have real ID. I just have a passport. Okay. And I've been-- since they did the thing, I've just been using that to fly around. Yeah. Yeah. All right, so there's PSA number one. [MUSIC PLAYING] A little PSA. [MUSIC PLAYING] A quick signature on today. All right. Mm-hmm. Here comes the stomach bugs. Woo!
I have a hot intel that it is-- the stomach bug, probably, norovirus-- is spreading like crazy in the old people homes right now. Because Hadee has been going there to see her uncle and going to a couple of them, because he's got another friend. And, yeah, they are on full lockdown mode. I'm talking, like, sanitizing everything, got to wear a face mask. People are puking, like, crazy at the old people homes. Gross. Yeah. And when it moves, first it goes to the old people, or the kids kind of depends on the match. And then it goes to the other one.
Right. This is going to move to the kids. Yeah. And then from the kids, it'll move to every adult, surely, but slowly. So save this episode and this chapter because your buddy, Chris, is going to do you a solid this week. And if you follow my tips, you take them seriously. Things may just actually stay solid for you, too, if you get my drift. Okay. All right. So, I didn't get any sleep last night. Hadee has started getting my wife started getting sick around 10 pm last night. No signs before that. That sucks. That it started.
Yeah. It's a bad time. It also sucked because she was feeling fine before that. And we'd never do this without the kids. Never in our life, we went to Round Table Pizza. Wow. Yeah. So this was the punishment. Yeah. Not great. How dare you put that into the universe. I know. So, of course, she was just, I mean, every 10 minutes. That's crazy. Yeah. It was so rough that afterwards she called her mom. She didn't get solid bar at Round Table, did you? No. No, she got this. She got this because she went to this old people home with her dad. Yeah.
Her dad got it two days prior. Oh my gosh. And then we thought, oh, you missed it. Yeah. You avoided it because her dad lost 10 pounds in three days. That her dad can't get sick. No, he's not. No. So, now Hadee has got it. And she's got it so bad that this morning after she started feeling a little bit around 5.60 pm, she called her mom and apologized because she knows she's been sick once like this bad once before when she was a kid and her mom had to go through it. She's like, I know. Now I understand how bad that was. Mom, I'm just so, I want to say I'm sorry.
Right. Yeah, it's, it's rough. So if you have any taken care of the sick wife tips, let me know. But it's probably the norivirus or some kind of horrible stomach bug. It has already breached my home. So I am now shifting to a containment and fortification process that I believe is a protocol that if I do get sick, we'll lessen the duration of the sickness and give me my best probable chance of not getting sick. I'm going to tell you about that, but first we'll do a little up on the norivirus and why it's, it's ridiculous. This effing thing can live for like a week on a surface, it for a week on a surface.
Oh my gosh. So this is a little bit old, but still relevant. Talking for months now about flu and COVID, but as those numbers are going down, another virus is making a resurgence that dreaded stomach bug is back. I spoke with a local doctor about how you can keep your family healthy. You know the symptoms. It can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and stomach cramping. Norivirus, also known as the stomach flu, is making the rounds. We spoke with Dr. Carol Wellaway with Baylor Scott and White All Saints Medical Center. We see it commonly.
Usually it starts around the fall, goes into the winter, and then starts to come down in spring. It spreads quickly and easily, especially among kids. But there are a couple of things you can do to lower your family's risk. Everything hand washing. Yeah, they're the worst tips. Wash your hands. Yeah, I'm going to wash my hands, obviously, but we're going to go way beyond that. So let's start with the firewall prevention. So the stomach bug, there's norivirus, whatever it is, it can also be suspended in the air for up to two hours after a vomiting incident.
Oh, I know. Okay, so turn the fan on in the bathroom if you're if you're a wretching. Now it's not like it's not like COVID where it would like fly all around the ventilation system. This generally stays within about a six to 12 foot radius, but yeah, if you can run event, oh man, we're in a small space. Yeah. Six feet is. Yeah. Yeah, and I'm so scared. The other one, which of course I didn't do, if you're in the danger zone, you got to lock it on your sleep, even mild sleep deprivation, turns your immune response down. Yep.
So try to get good sleep, avoid late meals if you think it could be coming your way, and another one, no alcohol to be, you know, to press her for the immune system. Now here's the thing, a sand tent. I didn't realize this beforehand, maybe you did, but hand sanitizer does not work. No, no. And in fact, I refused to have the school have the kids use it. Yeah, it's, I mean, maybe for some of these, but not for this one. In fact, it just sort of laughs at hand sanitizer. You need, you need a really good soap and you need really good friction. And yet that will help you wash it off.
You need to focus on the big four in your home, faucet handles, door handles, light switches, toilets. Yeah. I am motivated. Yeah, it's coming. I'm gonna. It's coming. Yeah. Now, here's the other thing, like, because we were talking about it doesn't really, like, lice all spray doesn't kill it. Really? I know. I thought for sure, lice all spray, because this is kills 99.99. You're saying spray. Yeah, it's a lice all spray. No, no, no, I know, but like what about wipes? The wipes do not either. Yeah. The wipes do not. That's 99.99.
I know. I feel robbed. Yeah. No, so you got to go nuclear. You actually need to mix a little bit of bleach. Oh. Yeah. You know, like five to 25 tablespoons of spain on which your situation is to one gallon of water. Mm-hmm. Then wipe down the high touch surfaces. Be careful. Don't get on your clothes. Yeah. You can also, you know, stretch it. Yeah. Spot test. Spot test. Yeah. But this stuff is serious. It can live for a week. But bleach kills it. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And here's the other thing is, and this is the mistake I made last night is I shared a water glass with a deal last night.
Yeah. Rest in peace. I know. So don't share drinks. Yeah. Don't share towels. Don't share utensils. Snacks. Nope. No. And I established that really early with the kids. Like I would never drink off of their things. And if they drink off of mine, I was done with it. You know, I did it. I didn't want to create more dishes. That, you know, so stupid. Yeah. Also, something people don't think about. The fridge handles and microwave buttons. Mm-hmm. Surprisingly, in an area of high risk. Yeah. So here's my survival kit. And I think this is something because I was doing the math. I'm like, okay, if his dad took two days and then she got it.
And then I'm probably going to get it a little bit closer because I probably got affected in, you know, around the same time she did. So I'm betting tonight, tomorrow, if I get it is when I'm going to get it. And so now is the time. So I got on Instacart while I was in bed because I couldn't sleep. And I got like, I got Apple sauce. Oh, right. I got sugar free gatorade. Yeah. You know, I should have gotten some bleach. Now I think about it. Bananas. And a toast. I already have bread. And then I got a zinc supplement because I guess study suggests that zinc can reduce the durations of verity of the infection.
Yeah. I took an LDA supplement that had zinc in it. And within 15 minutes, I felt like I was going to throw up. Like my body cannot handle zinc. I can guarantee 15, 20 minutes later I can induce a massive purge. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So you feel it too. Yeah. So I, but I'm on it right now. I took it this morning. I found some good stuff. Okay. And short version is it often goes by peps in GI. It's zinc and another complex in there that are designed to be really easy on the gut. Wait a second. And help with gut health. Does this help you with your stomach issue in the morning?
I don't know. I've just got this. I just ordered this because I was not even know such a thing existed. Peps in GI. And this is a version of zinc that's really easy on the gut, but also helps with your gut lining, which is probably something if you're puke and you're going to want. There's other types of zinc as well. Like it's, I don't know how to pronounce it, but it's zinc by glycinate. Yeah. And then there's the other glides. Glides in it. Right. I believe those are a little easier. Also, just things I read getting started on a high quality probiotic now. Evidence suggests it'll shorten the duration of diarrhea by about a day.
And then also hydrate. Don't wait till you're thirsty because once you start getting sick, you're going to dehydrate very fast and you won't be able to keep water down for a bit. Well, who drinks water when they're throwing up like that? You can't. Yeah, no. It's horrible. Well, I got a system. I have a system. Okay. Because there's a there's a window of time that I think people miss that make the sickness worse. And that is if you don't, if you eat too soon, you just get into this situation or you drink too soon, you get a situation you're talking about. But if you wait too long, you start to get nausea from just starvation, but your system, your signals are all messed up.
So it's hard to tell. So I've developed the 20 minute rule. So after vomiting, you put nothing in your mouth for 20 minutes, no water, nothing. Yep. Then after that, you start with just small bb-sips of water. Wait 10 minutes. If it stays down, get a bb-sip in there. Wait 10 minutes. If you vomit, you got to reset the clock. Yep. Over time, this will be awful. But over time, you'll start to feel like when you're getting better and when your system's keeping things down. And then you'll start to know when you have it under control. And then when you can start to go to the easy foods I mentioned earlier, like applesauce, toast, bananas, worst case, you puke again, right?
But if you go with the easy foods, it's not so bad coming up. All right. So if you're going to be a proper, what needs to be collected? You got to get some things ready for sure. I like this tip. Put a towel down under your pillow. Just in case, I know. Rose? Rose? If you got a kid that gets sick, maybe not an adult that can make it to the toilet, but a kid, a young kid, put a towel down. Just, oh, it's a lot. Electrily packets, you're going to want tissues, you're going to want some towels and wet wipes because it's going to be some clean up too. You skipped the big cup with a straw.
Yeah. Okay. All right. I wasn't sure on that one. No, definitely. You think so? Yeah. Big cup with a straw? All right. And then I thought this was a good tip, too, is stomach bug laundry bag. Because I know we already made the mistake of mixing some of our laundry, but because this stuff, on clothing, it can last for up to two weeks. Yeah. Cheers. Oh my God. I know. It's a bag for your infected stuff. Yep. And then the most important protocol is the one that I have the wife undergoing at home right now. You got to watch Star Trek. You got to watch Star Trek.
So when you're done in the bathroom, that's when you go watch Star Trek, but not any episode of Star Trek. This is very important. This is part of the healing process. Whatever is your least favorite Star Trek or if you've never watched Star Trek, whatever has turned you off, that's what you watch. So me, not a big fan of the Deanna episodes. So when I'm sick, I watch a Deanna episode because I've avoided those episodes. I'll find new nuggets. And when you're sick, your defenses are down, your mind's more open. You'll take it in.
You won't care that it's camp here, whatever it is that turns you away. So watch some Star Trek. It's like chicken soup for your eyeballs. That's funny. Because when Dylan is sick, like if he has a fever, like he doesn't move, there's no fidgeting. Yeah. I think closer to normal than ever, except he feels like crap, you know, but it's just it's really interesting to see that that is an interesting challenge that you have presented. So this morning she watched the first episode where Q turns them all into the Mary Men in Robinhood. And then now she's watching a board episode.
No, a board episode. That's a higher end episode, but she's she's at her vegetables. So check in and make sure she's watching Star Trek because that's really the most important part. You can thank me later. That'll solve it. I don't know. I have, you know, for me, like I first thing I thought I was like, I got an interview scheduled later this week with a very special guest that we've wanted to talk to for a long time for Linux unplugged. Tomorrow I need to do this week in Bitcoin. Like, I got a meeting Thursday. Mm-hmm.
When? When you're going to get sick. And then you have the kids this weekend because yeah, yeah, longer week and and it's a lot because Abby's things going on. There's a lot of going back and forth. So it's going to be probably two people on deck to manage that and I think I don't know. I don't know. So I've taken, I've taken everything I've basically laid out here today in preparation. This morning I just been slowly doing it and I will see. We'll see. The long shot. I'm drinking my water. Yeah. I'm drinking my water. But there you go.
That's the public service announcement. If it, if it enters your area, you really want to start doing this before it gets into the home and you got to double down and get your ass together if it does. That's it. The helpful PSA. The more you know from your pals, Chris and Angela. Now, what do you say we do? What do you say we do a song? You like to do a song? Okay. Just stupid, stupid jingles. This is, you know, this is a special time because we're going to play a value track and you know what that means. Now's the time. It's the song of the week.
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>> Hi, good day. This is Roland again from Trinidad, West Indies. Just listening to the latest episode, and heard the thing about the face ID and stuff, which is very concerning to me, especially to a daughter who might want to jump on social media soon, although it is that we are outside of the US. I don't know if there's a requirement. I should probably check and see. But my unfilter hat tells me that they want this face ID because it makes it easier to unlock or do whatever account stuff for a lot to be able to log in if necessary in future. I don't know.
I find it kind of strange and scary at the same time, but have any of these attached to your accounts as part of a sign-in or a sign-in process. It needs that. It's not something that you control who has access to your account that is finished. I need to get more details, but that is just by full unfilter and thinking, comment to plea there. Who for everybody has a good task that I should give in and enjoy? I think what the part that resonates with me is we're just jumping way too fast into facial scans for access to crap like Facebook and Roblox and crap that just doesn't need it.
And to me, the system that does seem right is the way Apple does face ID on the iPhone. And that is when you want to use Apple Pay or something like that, it's not the point of sales device that's scanning your face. It's your iPhone. It's storing that in a secure enclave locally and then it's saying yes I've confirmed this is the person they say they are and they can use this feature. And so it's sort of like a pass key in a way. You have the thing that's trusted in doing the authorization and it does the face scan and then they just take a success token instead of them having to do the face scan. Okay, so was it born identity where the thumb had to be cut off and used for the scan?
Was it Matrix? No, that was the Tom Cruise movie where they're swooshing around with the screens and replacing eyeballs. So, oh, I just, can you use a picture? Like, if it's not... Well, they make you turn your head so they do it completely. In Apple? No, on these like Roblox and the Facebook apps that we were talking about. Oh, no, I know about that. But like, I haven't set up face ID. Oh, really? No, no, it does a depth sensor. Ah, depth. Okay, so... Minority report, by the way. Oh, minority, yes, of course. Thank you, ADM.
Yes, thank you, Hybrid. Anyway, I just, I just don't want to set that up. Like, what... Dead body could unlock it then, right? Probably. It's not thermal. Yeah, dead body. Detecting. That's true. That's true. Dead body can't unlock a pin code though. That's true. That's the thing. Yep. All right, Tech Geek called in. Hey guys, this is Tech Geek from Orlando. Just arrived at work finishing up at the student number 42. And I got a couple of things for you. Part of the spam fighting, I mean, yeah, that's a tough one. But one thing that ultimately might work for you and it worked for me was actually changing providers.
I was a GNL user for me since the early days of invite only. And probably about three years ago, I moved over to proton mill. I'd get maybe a spam, maybe once a year. Another thing that service they have is helps with that is creating aliases for different services. So if you sign up for newsletters or subscribe to whatever, you know, create an online account. You can just generate an alias. And if you feel you're getting too many emails, spam emails to that email address, you can disable that alias. And you can be true. I think I got a question you're talking about.
Restaurant apps. You ever come across a restaurant who will only accept your order if you order to their app? I did one tier in Orlando, a place called Blaze Pizza. I called in an order once. They were brand new opened up in our area and called in order. And they said he wouldn't take my order over the phone unless I had to put in the order to the app. I said, well, you're not getting my business. Oh, I found up one of them and didn't know they haven't got my business since then. So just curious if you ever come across that. So annoying, really annoying.
All right. Good job. Thanks for all you got to do. Wonderful podcast. A little listen to you guys. Have a good one. Thanks, Ted Keith. Awesome. Okay. We'll start with the spam. Google Gmail is what I have. And I do have some aliases set up. But I forgot about that. Yeah. And I'm not sure. Yeah. I will have to look that up. But what was the other thing about the spam? Oh, yeah. I'm just not. I'm just not good at change. I'm not going to create a new email address. I just don't. I don't know about that. There's also something too. Like as the email address has been out there for years.
It does just sort of start collecting spam. So they can have really good spam filter. And then some of that gets knocked down by just the age of your email address. Right. So then I used a plumber a couple of weeks ago. And every time I use this plumber, I get a rash of calls afterwards. Oh, yeah. I got three calls at Thanksgiving. They're going to be in the area they even said my street name on Thanksgiving. Yeah. Yeah. I just said, yeah, it'd be a bad time to have a plumbing incident. Yeah. And the thing is is that these dialers are using an ID, like a name. They're using a person's name is the ID.
So it's bypassing the spam filter that, you know, where AT&T would tell you that it's potentially spam. It's so frustrating. So I don't know what to do. I want to call a follow-up plumbing and find out what to do. Yeah, what the hell? Yeah. Should ask them. Like it's really coincidental. Like they'll probably deny it. And that might be wrong, but I remember this happening last time I used them. So have you ever had to go to a restaurant where they forced you to use the app door? Okay. So Taco Bell recently redid their inside in Marysville? They got screens in Kiosk.
Yeah. Yes. And so they just don't even have somebody there to take your order. They can help you, but yeah, for the last part. I walked into a Mac dawns for the first time that they kind of had like a booth up front, but nobody there taking orders or nothing. As a project manager, I know exactly why the restaurant that he went to did that. Oh, yeah. It is to funnel the orders in proper order. Like it is to create a system where there won't be exceptions or misses or whatever. It totally makes sense. Right. And so recently I mentioned a couple weeks ago in like Stevens, they have a line for people that want to stand in line and wait.
And they have a line for mobile drive through. Yeah, I've seen that too. Yeah. And so the first, well, the first time we went there, we just stood in line forever. The second time we went there, we stood in line and were like, oh, yeah, let's do that. And then we walked to the other line. We shaved off 20 minutes of waiting by doing that. Whoa. And then the next time we went inside, the mobile app, it would have been faster to go through the standing line because everybody had figured out this hack. Yeah, oh, I see. No, yeah.
Well, because there was a restaurant and they had a door dash line, like a different register just for the door dash people. Which is nice because sometimes those door dashes don't even like, there's not a spot. They don't know if an order is ready. You might be sitting there forever. I know. And then that's on them. And then that's why I was there. This was after we had dropped Abby off for band practice. We went and got Teriyaki while we were sitting there at the Teriyaki diner. I bet you five door dash orders came in. Okay.
Is it right next to Happy Lemon? Well, I don't know. But Domino's I think it's in a strip mall. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That is that and they had free broth. Yes. Yeah. So good. Very good. This Teriyaki place is so good. Yeah. You have to order the thick Teriyaki sauce if you want extra because they give you by default the liquidy one. Yeah. Yeah. That is the best Teriyaki that I think I've ever had. So the weirdest experience I had with a restaurant being really anal about the process. But we went and knowing it was like this was. Have you seen these sumo buffets?
No. But I heard buffet. Yeah. What kind of food? So this is it's weird trip because it's all kinds of food. It's a weird trip because they replace a Sherry's diner. They go in and like, which is a classic Americana diner and they turn it into this high tech buffet and you get to your seat and they'll sit you. Well actually show up and you tell them if you want track A or track B. Track A is like all the food except for one category and track B is like everything and you just pay one price. Except for seafood. Something like.
Yes. Something like. I thought it was. I got the cheaper one. And where is it? This one is in Burlington but I threw a couple of them in Washington. Okay. So then you go to your table and they make you scan the QR code and use the app or the webpage and then everything is brought out by robots which is fun. It's a fun idea. So you don't go stack up at the buffet. You don't take a plate and go around the buffet and add a scoop of that and a little dash of that. You go into the app and you tell the app I want this, this and that. And then a robot comes out a couple minutes later with a plate assembled for you and then you eat it and then you put it on the robot and it takes it back and it brings you another plate of food.
It's an interesting experience but I guess to power the robots that make you use. Okay. So this is sumo sushi and grill? It might have been. I didn't do any of the seafood stuff. There's one in Burlington, Seattle and Linwood. That sounds right. Which I was going to say there was a sharey in Linwood and if sharey went out of business it probably. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. No, I don't know about sushi at all. Yeah. I think a deer did though because you know she loves sushi. It's crazy. All right. Thank you, Ted Geek. Our next call is a voicemail.
Oh yeah. Right. I love this because I think this should be the, this should be a rule of thumb for the show. If you are having crab bread goon or crab cakes or any kind of crab based dish, that's the universe telling you it's time to call the launch. So when you're eating crab, yeah. Call the launch. I'm just going to say not sushi, but I want crab. I need crab. Costco has crab, but it's like a $50 container. It's a little bit because I want some crab. All right. Yeah. All right. So here we go. Oh, hey. Hello. Hello. I'm sitting here eating crab wonton and for some reason I just felt that inkling that I needed to call in.
I don't know. Maybe it's the, the love playing in the background or the crab wonton, but it felt like I needed to call in. Good instinct. Oh, excuse me. Sorry. It's Monday. It's definitely Monday after holiday, but related notes. I think I found a use case for ersatz TV at work. So now I'm getting paid to figure out how to use ersatz TV. Thanks for the recommendation, Chris. Have a good one. That is so cool. That's great. I love it when the work basically funds your like, you know, interest. Ersatz is with powering, Sadia's, Sadia's, hadia's dream of Star Trek right now. She just turns on the Star Trek channel and just sends her, just sends her Star Trek.
I love it. I'd love to know how you're using it. Call back in if you like. So, her lurks a lot is next. Hi, Chris and Angie. This is Sir lurks a lot. Yeah. I know it's been a long time. Hey, sir. So regarding your spam, here's how I solve that problem. All right. Well, my telephone number, I give out a Google voice number that I've been using since it was in beta. I know. I mean, that they get my voice messages in AI. But the thing is, I've gone through several cell phones and it always forwards to the phone because I can change it. And so, I don't have to worry about updating people with my number.
I just kind of use that one. Now, this area code for the Google voice number is in a state I've never lived in before. Okay. And my actual cell phone is also in an area code where my sister lives, not where I live. So, it's a totally different area code. So I wind up not getting any spam on my phone through text messages and whatnot because the messages that come through from the area code where my sister lives, if they're not in my contact list, it's not my sister or my family. I ignore it. Same thing with the Google voice. If it comes through with that area code, I don't have a New Jersey, you know, I live in order again.
So whatever. That helps a lot. Now, it's email. I do, I do the painful thing. I know, I know. I run my own email server. Oh, that way, but I like cell hosting. And so I give every company a different email address. For example, Amazon, Dash, customer at my domain.com and strike. Dash user at my domain.com every single company, system 76 customer at my domain.com. If I get spam coming in, I know where it leaked from. I know who to contact. Oh, share those. 76 had somebody leak information in China through one of their shippers and I got spam to that address and notified them a month or two before it came out.
Oh, wow. I'm just saying. Nice job. Nice, Larry. Nice. Now, I know why you never answer my calls. So the dialer systems are really smart though. They're going to, they're going to look at your area code and they're going to call, they're going to choose numbers from your area code. So it only goes so far for that, but that is, that is a really good method. You're like, I don't get a lot of crap calls to my Google voice number. No, I used to, so my number is very similar to some like auto shop in Portland or something. So I do get a call occasionally for that, but that's funny.
But you're right. I also don't. All right, our last voice mail this week comes from the one. The only, a magnolia may have. Hey, if I know, yes. So first things first, another day, all another day working these people's savages, savages, exactly. Oh, I'm wondering if I'm with you here. Like I remember just being absolutely fascinating, but like alternative computer architectures. And don't mean like all, oh, that's. I mean, natural, natural hardware, like I remember that circa 2007, 2008, I almost got broken up with.
My girlfriend back in and wife now, she got a PlayStation three. And I thought it would be really interesting to see how it works. Anyways, what do you know? Something like alternative architectures, like going beyond just like arm and maybe even wrist bob. There's all kinds of crazy stuff out there that you don't even hear a lot about. There's all kinds of Motorola architectures and like it used to be such a rich world back in like the 60s and 70s. Not just all boring, F-86 and all the weird kids are on arm and stuff, but is that even still community these days?
Like are there are there really a lot of alternatives? I say that people use. I know it's just something curious, something I'm curious about. Anyway, I mean, they're definitely out there. When I go to certain events, I still see booths of people getting alpha machines going and of course power PC like you mentioned, but I think the network effect of X86 compatibility plus you got to give Intel credit and AMD. They got those X86 chips doing more than anybody ever thought possible at power ranges, power ranges, not power rangers, but also power rangers that nobody thought would be possible. So there's some of that too, but I do feel you there was a little bit of me that's sad that we don't have all that variety out there.
Yeah. Alright, thank you everybody for the call. It's a good batch of calls. You know what to do. If you want a call, you can do it. Just leave us a voicemail. We'll have the phone number in the show notes and we'll play it on the next week's episode. And now it is time for the booths. Well, we do have a couple of booths and I do mean just a couple of booths and our first one comes from outdoor geek who's coming in with 10,000 sets. It's over 9,000! It is indeed. He writes, "Hi Chris and Angela, air quality monitoring with home assistant could be a topic for a future love or launch.
I have three different monitors currently. A number one is a DIY air gap based ESP. Number two is an air things view plus the H.A. integration is cloud based, however. And number three is an air cube pro. It's expensive, but so far my favorite and I've only had it for a few days. Local polling integrations and all that are interesting. Do you honor your indoor air quality at all?" I only go so far as to monitor temperature and humidity. Those are the two things that I would let. I mean, I'm a data person. Bring it.
Oh, it is fun. I want to see what the air quality is. Especially since we had two kids bedrooms on the second floor and then I had a wall built to create a third bedroom that was going to be dillens. In order to do that, I had to lock a cold air return. And then because I blocked that, I had to create a new outlet. And so his second cold air return was put right above the other one that's downstairs, right? I got you. So one, because I don't want, who wants to smell boy? It was going to just pull boy smell out of his ear and you know, return it to the house. Nobody wants that.
I've been curious about how well the air circulates on the second floor now because there isn't a second floor cold air return. I am trying to blank on the CO2 sensor that I have ended up with. I've tried a couple. I do like this because for us, we use propane stove. Oh, yeah. Super important. Yeah, it's nice to just have. We have one built in to the RV, but it's only an alert. It'll just scream at me if it detects it. But I want to know what the actual levels are. And so you can do that with home assistant and these sensors. It is a good topic.
I'm going to give some consideration to that. Sensors in general are interesting. Yeah, because like, I think my house has a CO2 sensor, but it's in the ceiling. And if I understand correctly, CO2 would be detected lower. Lower? Yeah. So I probably need something. Well, if you didn't guess, our next booster is turd Ferguson and he comes in with 1333 sets. Okay. So I brined the bird and it was better. It definitely was juice here, but is it just me or is turkey better as leftovers? All that work and all I really want is to make a sandwich out of it the next day. Yeah, I do understand.
I made a sandwich yesterday. I made a turkey sandwich. It was really good. I think I would have rather had prime rib and then just buy somebody else's turkey from the store, right? How did yours turn out? ours is pretty good. Yeah, ours was, I later tried the praki turkey, the butter ball and I actually thought it was just as good as the really expensive turkey from the butcher and it had more meat. So it made just low-brow, I don't know, but the leftovers is good. Yeah, it was so good. And then just side note just because this is the lunch, just kidding. I make sweet potatoes and the turkey is so good in the sweet potato sauce, just so good.
Everything, I mean, it went so smooth. It was really great. Everything turned out great. My mom made it for a little bit to say hi and we were, I think I was home by like six or seven? Yeah, it was six seven? Six seven. Yeah, six seven for sure. It was nice. It was an earlier one for sure. Yeah, it went so smooth. We had like literally no hiccups, so we were done. We were done. We were done. Right before we sat down and the eat, Chris was like, oh, let me get the pie and the, yeah, I was a pie, I guess, an apple pie in the oven. So it was ready after we were done eating.
It really was smooth. Ah, super your ability. Breeds, superior ambition. All right, well, so thank you to our two boosters this week, Turd and Outdoor Geek. Appreciate you very much. And thank you to everybody who streamed Sats. That was one of you. And you by yourself sent the show 1,750 Sats bringing our total this week to 25,083 Sats. We're going to take it, we're going to take it and stride. We'll assume that you are having a great holiday and joined friends and family and food. And you weren't thinking about your buddies over here at the launch. Maybe you dropped your boost wallet at the family family.
Maybe you maybe had a boating accident. You never know. Things can happen. But thank you everybody. You does support the show. And of course, thank you to our Jupiter party members. Now it's going to be worth it because I got a big idea for you. I got to take a crack at another classic idea of mine. So here we go. Get ready for this one. $240,000 quite reasonable. Absolutely. Built in 1980. A little. A little. It's an Odessa, Texas. Is it hot there? Probably. 3500 square feet, six on 0.7 acres. Three beds, two baths. Can hold a lot of canned goods.
Okay, that's weird. That's right. That's where I had left during the song because I read that and I'm like, okay, I'm going to click on it. And also the possibilities are endless because yes, ladies and gentlemen, I have found yet another bunker. Yeah, it is. I have found another one. I don't. Wow. The vibe on this one is a little rough. So this is more like, yes, it's really gone south. And I mean, it's an Odessa, Texas. The problem is, is parts of it are actually quite nice for what it is. But then other parts really give prison, like bad prison vibes. I'm looking at shots of the overview of the living room and it just looks like a prison --Yes.
--The thoroughfare, the bathroom looks like a prison. The bedrooms look like a prison. Oh, yeah, those pots. Yeah. And for some reason, every time they do an overview shot of the living room, it looks like a thoroughfare of a prison. It's really weird. It's because of the high windows. Yeah, and it's all cement. And that's how, yes, and it's curved. That's how when I worked at a collection agency, that's how it works. How the windows work. And yeah, they didn't really want us to know that it was light outside because then we'd want to go home.
Right, then once you'd collect them. So you know, you'd have a lot of work to do, but how do you, how do you make up for the fact that it's in a bunker underground? It's partially under feet, underground. Yeah. I'm trying to see if they tell us. They don't actually tell us. They just say, mostly underground. And they say, don't miss out on this one of a kind opportunity. That's definitely one of a kind. It is, it is, okay. Sure, what it looks like from Ariel because it looks like maybe from a plane you wouldn't be able to tell that there was a house.
I don't think you would, because it's so dirty in this bushes. It's so dirty, yeah. It just looks like a dome kind of maybe a mound. It might look like a mound. Now if that's not quite what you're looking for, I have something that's slightly more expensive, but it's ready for those that want to be a prepper. And that's a lot of value. So you can really plan for the future with this gem. They're calling, quote, all survivalist preppers in anyone tired of Amazon prime taking two days at clocks in at $249,000. It was built in 1974 in Burrow, Utah.
It's got two beds, two baths. It's 2,012,192 square feet. And you see this was a dream. And what started as a simple trailer is now a fortified retreat featuring two kitchens, bedrooms and two bathrooms. Even off grid, nobody wants to wait for a hot shower. Tucked away in total seclusion, this is the definition of self-sufficiency, no quick trips to town required. And for peace of mind, the camera system is ready to go. When the world gets weird, you'll be glad you're here. This is, it looks like a junkyard. Well, I think if you look at it with your regular, normy society eyes, but if you look at it with your collapse zombie apocalypse eyes, you're not, I don't think you're factoring in all the trash.
It's so, see, like that, there's got to be $200 worth of stuff. Yeah, this also has cement. Yeah. Or is that cement? It looks like cement. You didn't notice my favorite part though, which part? This place is such a dump. Listeners, you're going to have to check out the link in the show notes. It's, this place is such a dump. They had to draw on the pictures where the front door was and where you're actually supposed to enter. Yeah, no, I did see that. Because you can't tell where the front door is if they hadn't draw, it's, that's how much of a pile this place is.
But the inside photos, like you could almost, all, okay, if it's a good deal and I want to prep, okay, but the inside, it's filled with garbage. Yeah, there was no cleaning, you know, for it since it was built. Look at all that garbage. I mean, every room, every bathroom, every living room, the garage, every hallway is absolutely stuffed with gross, disgusting garbage. Yeah. And you would have to clear all of this out if you wanted to buy this place. The other one would be way more worth it. Yeah. They're literally the same cost. I know.
Well, one's in Utah, one's in Tejas. Yeah. I'd still rather, I think it would be on Tejas, yeah. Oh, Texas. I thought it was a desert. But there's like some underground, like dirt bunker? I think that's the back door. They just didn't label it. I don't know what it is. No, you can't tell. You can't tell. I mean, wow. Well, I think the bunker is the way to go on this one if we're just giving out advice here on the show. The bunker seems like the way to go. The prepper route, you know, and it was weird too. Just one last thing with the prepper place is they lead with the trailer. Like they say, what started out as a single trailer, right?
So you think you're going to get a trailer? The trailer has been completely trashed. It is completely junk. You cannot use that trailer. It's absolutely destroyed. Yeah. And also the, like half the roof is missing on the building and the windows are all missing. This is the, how could they possibly the land? Maybe is worth 200,000? Right. Just demolish it. Get rid of it. Burn it. Big opportunity, everybody. We'll have a link in the show notes. All right. Links to what we talked about, like those fantastic opportunities are over at weeklylaunch.rocks. My favorite zinc medication for your tummy line.
And that's also linked over there. And of course, we want to hear what your holiday traditions are, any weird things you do or not weird. That's okay. We just want to hear about it. Boost in and support the show. Of course, you can also get the bootleg version, which is a little extra show, about 100 and, um, 100? Nope. About an hour and 20 minutes longer. I guess I was looking at the wrong number. And so you get a little extra show too. And we really like that because then it supports the production directly. There's no advertiser in this here podcast.
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