Baking Bread & Black Friday Bargains (Ep. 9)

A turkey torso in the oven, a countertop-sized dough ball on deck, and a dog who now treats the microwave like a dinner bell—this holiday recap has range. We bake our way into a conversation about fresh bread versus preservatives, why staling happens, and whether freezing and toasting really shift the glycemic punch. Then we veer delightfully into fast food nostalgia: Five Guys versus In-N-Out, secret-menu misadventures, and the moment bacon bits tasted like a science experiment gone wrong.

From there, we grab seats at the movies and talk about entertainment the way real people live it: a surprisingly graphic PG-13 Predator spinoff, the sacred economics of popcorn buckets, and why “was it fun?” beats awards-season sermons. Black Friday comes for the wallet and the studio: new mic, camera, capture card, Stream Deck, monitor, and a shockingly capable Mac mini paired with DIY storage. We break down price history tools, how to avoid fake “sales,” and how to multistream without overcomplicating the setup.

Threaded through the chaos is a practical check on health and money. We talk oatmeal for fiber balance, picking a clean whey protein, what creatine can do beyond the gym, and staying skeptical of supplement labels. We also cover boots, bones, and the quiet discipline of long dog walks, plus why buy-now-pay-later can quietly sink a budget and how simple credit hygiene pays off later.

Hit play for cozy kitchen wins, gear-nerd clarity, and the kind of honest, funny detours that make a solo show feel like a late-night call with a friend. If you’ve got a game you want to see on the first streams—or a bread recipe that never fails—drop it in the comments. And if this made you smile, subscribe, share with a friend, and leave a quick review so more folks can find the show.

Chapters

• 0:00 Holiday Catch-Up And Turkey Talk
• 2:30 Bread Marathon And Freezing Tips
• 5:45 Preservatives, Staling, And Glycemic Myths
• 9:20 Fast Food Memories And Ranking Burgers
• 14:50 Slang, Tangents, And Getting Back On Track
• 16:30 Dog Treats, Food Habits, And Training
• 19:50 Movie Night: Predator, Reviews, And Popcorn
• 25:20 Black Friday Binge: Mic, Camera, And Streams
• 29:00 Mac Mini, Storage Hacks, And Price Tracking
• 34:00 Multi-Stream Plans And Trolling Facebook
• 37:00 Budget Lines, BNPL, And Credit Lessons
• 41:30 Oatmeal, Fiber, Protein, And Creatine
• 46:00 Foot Recovery, Supplements, And Routine
• 49:30 Comfort Food Spiral And Breadstick Disasters
• 54:00 Flour Beetles, Pretzel Crumb, And Wrap-Up

Transcript

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And we're roaming for another big crash out gang. Welcome back, y'all. Missed you, ladies and fellas too. Hope y'all enjoyed the holidays. Had a happy Thanksgiving. Um, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, whichever, whichever you celebrate. All the above spend too much on the holidays, uh, like I did. But Thanksgiving was pretty good, mostly chill. Although I'm struggling right now, your boy getting sick. I need to go to bed once you're done uh filming this, but you know, I gotta stay on that uh Sigma grind set, whatever the hell they call it nowadays. But yeah, anywho, Thanksgiving was good. Headed home and came over, went for a long walk around the town with the dog, just meandering around. It's good vibes, and then while uh a big ass turkey cooked got some like eight-pound, like a chicken, not chicken, turkey breast. Although I don't know. I don't know my turkey anatomy. It was like the the top half of the turkey. It still had the hole for stuffing or stuffing. I feel like I've heard I think I saw recently that's like stuffing if you throw that shit in the bird, or dressing if you just cook it on the side. I always thought there was like just two different words for the same thing. And like dressing was southern. My dad always called it dressing, and I did not know what he was talking about at first, because like to me, dressing means like like a salad sauce or something like that, you know, like a salad dressing. But that's besides the point. It was like a I don't know what this turkey was, but it didn't have like the legs or the wings, it was just like a uh like a chest, it was just like the uh the torso of a turkey, but it was solid, it was solid, and then baked an ungodly amount of bread. Um I was trying to, you know, be resourceful, not waste anything, and realize I had some yeast in my cupboard that was about to expire. I mean, I don't know how long it lasts or if it actually expires at that point. But I was like, oh, I should use it to make bread. And long story short, I ended up going through like 40 cups of flour, which I didn't, you know, I don't know what I was thinking. I was like, I'll just use this all to scale it up to use all the yeast I had. And I was like, I got some big, big bags of flour from Costco that I like have never used, so I should use them up. And I legit just made a dough ball that ended up being like the size of my goddamn like countertop. I like kneaded that for like I felt at least half an hour. It was a solid workout, it was so big. I was like, it was like low-key punching bag at midway through uh kneading that. It's like it was like punching back, honestly. I was trying to like squish it down. It was a it was a good workout. Um and finally got it into some like giant well sort of formed dough ball, and then to break it up into basically just four large dough balls that are, I mean, still large but a little bit more manageable. This was kind of uh uh a little bit unreasonable, but you know, had to, you know, risk it for the biscuit, literally, because I just ended up throwing four of these dough balls in some like tin file nine by thirteen pans that I had, and just legit just had my oven just entirely full of these dough balls and made two like giant pans of bread and had that with the turkey and it was pretty fire, and the rest of it I just cut up in frozen bags, like quart bags of bread. Because I made this once a few weeks back and froze part of it and just thawed it, and it thawed pretty good. So I was like, well, I guess uh fresh bread does not last that long. It starts to get moldy after like a few days on the counter. Maybe it goes like lasts longer if you put it in the fridge as reading. I don't really know, but then some people say it stales faster because there's some process of like some something in the bread is like starch retrogradation. That's maybe the right word. I don't know, it's a big word. I think basically means like the bread rearranges and maybe it like gets rid of water, like it kicks out the water molecules. So that's why it gets kind of like stale bread is dry. Although, you know, I think maybe it's good if you get your like diabetic or something because it makes it harder to break down so it doesn't spike your blood sugar as much. And the same thing happens, maybe not as much. I don't really know. Similar thing that if you like you freeze your bread, something if you toast it too, because that's not some people trying to say like for if you're diabetic, you can freeze it and toast it to lower or increase the glycemic index, glycemic. I don't know which way, whatever, in a good way. I think I think high means it like spikes your blood sugar really fast, and low is the opposite. So I think it means it lowers it, I'm pretty sure. So if you're diabetic, you know, pro tip. I don't know. I don't know how much like of an effect it is, but I thought that was kind of interesting. But so I mean even one of these levels is kind of like a lot to eat within a few days. So I just like have a freezer full of frozen bread chunks, but it's it's pretty good. It's kind of dense bread, honestly. It's pretty, pretty like solid. I like kind of like we just bricks of bread, but used up my flour and my yeast and had that with the turkey, and that was legit all I had. Turkey and turkey and bread. Debated making mac and cheese. Like to uh whip up some boxed mac and cheese, crack a few eggs in it. That's pretty good. I gotta recommend that. ProStrat is yeah, just I don't even add anything else. Don't add no butter or milk. I legit. At least for the I've been buying these Goodles boxes, it's like I didn't even realize, like it's just some like protein mac and cheese. I started buying it at Target because it had some interesting flavors like truffle and jalapeno that were they're pretty fire. And then I like was reading it and then kind of like, oh, this is like a healthy one. Then maybe got extra protein or something, but it's still pretty good, and they got some interesting flavors. Although it's kind of expensive relative to like the classic craft or even like the other Annies, I think this is called what it's called. Although I did find that they have it at Costco for a much better deal, although they don't have the good, the best flavors, although it's still solid. They still got like the white cheddar one and then like a basic one, so it's decent, although it'd be hype if they had other flavors. There's some weird ones though, because I'm trying to think. I've had I guess they got like just a classic mac and cheese, they got just the white cheddar, which is top tier. Other really good flavors that I like are like they got a truffle one or um like a jalapeno one. Those are pretty good. Some other like elotes one, like the corn one, that was kind of wild because it kind of tasted like it. They had a bacon one that was decent. Then it made me like want to try to add like bacon to it, but I didn't have bacon, so I bought some like bacon bits at the store. I can't ever eat bacon bits again. I used to feel like I kind of liked them when I was little, like if I saw them at a salad bar, but I don't know if these like this like shaker of them is like just fake bacon. It just tasted like I felt like I got a chemical burn in my mouth after I ate that. I don't know how people like consume this. It was so bad. I had to just I like try a little bit, I just threw the whole ball of macaroni out. I was kind of sad. But I was like, I cannot eat this. It made me like after one bite, I did not feel good. I don't know what was in that. I don't know. That was that was one of the worst, you know, processed things that I've eaten. Like normally, you know, some process just pretty tasty, but I do not know what these fake bacon bits were. Don't recommend them. I would recommend if you, you know, just like get some really crispy bacon and break that up, but I think these are not real bacon. I mean, I'm guessing not because it's like just something that's at room temperature stored. How do they store things like Slim Jim's? Like, that's concerning, probably what it's got in them, how much preservatives. I think that's though what even our like bread in America, the good old US of A wonder breads, are like kind of like crazy how long they last on shelves. I mean, I guess it's good for business, but maybe not so great for us to eat. Because I know at like one point I bought some bread and kind of forgot about it, and it was like three months later I found it in my my cupboard and it looked fine, so I kind of like I rolled the dice. I was like, I'll I'll I'll try making a sandwich with it. And it tasted great, honestly. I finished that loaf, and I would not have been able to tell that was like three months expired. So I was like, this is sick, but also kind of concerning. I don't know. I think I've seen videos even about like how much different our bread is compared to other places, like in Europe, and like how big of a part of their culture, like they got like bakeries, like they got bakeries everywhere, and it's just you know part of your daily grind, you know, you just wake up, get your coffee, get your biscuit for the day, your baguette, and hit the road. But that's like you know, capitalism had to get that that bread profitable, they like really changed it up. Because I feel like I've even seen things where people like with some like maybe like gluten allergies, things like that, they they can have no problems eating that European baguette, the French baguette. I don't know. Don't quote me on that, but I feel like I've seen stuff like that. So I'd be kind of curious what exactly it is. I don't know what all the things are. There's some stuff to like stabilize it or preserve it for the shelf, and maybe bleaching it. I don't know. Bleach that bread like a butthole for real. Um I don't I don't know what else they do, but it's something. Because yeah, the some of the stuff that I had like after a few days already moldy. It's crazy. It's like how how's the the grocery store do it? And what kind of stuff? It's maybe like I think there used to be a thing where like one of I don't know, some Scandinavian-esque or northern European country. I feel like they have some museum where they just have like a Big Mac on display or like a McDonald's meal, a happy meal, something with like a live stream where you can just see it and it's like 15 years old, or at least it was at one point running. I don't know if this is still going on, and you can see this Big Mac or whatever it is just in pristine condition after years because of whatever preservatives, which is a little bit um unnerving, makes you feel a little bit suspect what you're eating, but some of it does taste good. Although I have not had I don't even know the last time I've been to McDonald's or had anything. I remember I used to like kind of like it when I was a kid. Get a happy meal. The toys, that was our guess. Or even like early high school. I feel like there was always there's always like random mystery mini things that we'd try to make. Like I remember the McGang bang. If you know you know, it's like if you put a McChicken inside of McDouble, that was pretty good. I remember sometimes the roll of dice, sometimes even the cashiers used to know. I don't know if this is a still thing anymore. Uh let us know if it is, but like you could just order McChicken or McDouble, or you could, you know, you know, really risk embarrassing yourself and order McGangbang and see if the cashier actually knew what you're talking about. Sometimes it'd be like, oh yeah, for sure, I got you, and be like, sick. And then you just sometimes get the weirdest looks when you said that. They'd be like, come again, and yeah. What a time to be alive. That's all I can say. Yeah, I don't know the last time I've been there. I don't I may I guess I maybe gone with people and I've got stuff, but I think of like the last McDonald's thing, I've you know maybe like a nugget or maybe a French fry. I can't actually think the last time. Yeah, I don't know. I think I got I mean I probably had it as like a kid at some point that I don't remember, but I had like the first whopper I ever had like a few months ago. Like I was just like, well, I was getting ice cream for my dog was really what I was doing, and then I was like, I've never had a Whopper, at least not that I like recall, so I decided to get one. Um but that was actually pretty solid, so I don't need to make fast food habit though. I feel like my top, the top-tier fast food burger has probably still got to be five guys. That's considered fast food, it's just so expensive. That's the L part of it, but they are pretty fire. I don't know. I think I've had Shake Shack, I feel like there's all sorts of wars of that. In and Out's pretty good. I feel like, you know, hot take is just like overhyped, but it's like a good vibe going in and out. It's kind of uh I don't know. It's got good vibes. It's like one of those things where it's like something that you know, like I feel like people don't want to say that it's not that great though, you know. But it's good, but it's like one of those foods like you know it's not actually good, but it's good be largely because of the vibes. It's still not bad, but it's not like I don't know. Trying to think of like a guilty pleasure food, like a cosmic brownie, like it's not really good, but it is good, you know? That's what I compare it to. And getting animal style, obviously, you got to. So remember the first time I like got one. I think I have I got family uh out there and like was visiting, and like I don't even know, this like old second uncle or I don't know, some distant year old that was talking about, oh yeah, make sure to try it. So what is it called? Like, bro actually told like 10-year-old me to try the doggy style fries, and then his wife was like, No, that's not what it is, it's animal style. But that would have been saved me from another McGang bang moment, pulling up to the In and Out and me, oh, can I get them fries doggy style? Meet me behind the dumpster for real. Missed out on that. Who knows what would have happened, but pretty solid. What other other ones? Shake Shake they talk about. I feel like I've had it. Maybe only once, though. There's whataburger, I feel like people in the South, you know. Is that only Texas? I don't know. Never had it, so I can't speak on that. I've only been to Texas like once, and I still remember. It was only for a few days, it was Austin, and I still remember I was shook that the crosswalks had like a southern drawl when it was like walk sound is on to cross. Okay, I'm gonna stop talking because I can't do accents for a shit, but I was like, ain't no way. Like it's felt almost like satirical that the this crosswalks had it, but I guess it would make almost more sense for them to have it, because like do I mean we I imagine we sound different, like or like people without a southern draw sound different to people in the south when you start talking. I don't know what you sound like, but or I mean just sound different. It like kind of catches you off guard. It is kind of kind of fun why to talk. Draw, yeehaw. I don't know what the southern phrases are. Get that lingo up. I feel like I got lingo though from all over because especially in college, I had roommates from like every part, or like people, even just friends from everywhere in the country, and like I got all sorts of random slang that I picked up. I feel like lots of stuff from the the DMV, the DC, Maryland, Virginia is that I think what that stands for. Some lingos from there. I feel like the jount or john, whatever you want to say, such a good word. You can use it for anything. That John over there, yo, what's this John doing? Just like you can use it. You fill in any word. Nothing, you know. Anything can be a John. Werever can be a John. And I think people say both, like John or John. I don't even know. I just say it because it's kind of fun to say. It's a solid one. This line, I don't know. I don't even know how we got here. What are we talking about? We were going got there from burgers, from McDonald's, oh, from bread. Wow, we backtracked. We're doing good, gang. We were kind of we're winding back these these branches of tangents that we found and going back to the the central branch. It's just like the that one show. Loki, yes. If you've seen Loki, we're talking about like that branching timeline. So I feel like we're back on the main timeline. I remembered. Uh back to making my bread on Thanksgiving. So made lots of bread. It's pretty solid. My dog has become a fan of bread though. She's definitely become a little bit of a uh a bread demon every time now, especially because it was like microwaving some of the frozen bread. And I'd like pop to the microwave, or she hear the frozen ziploc bags of bread rustling and me to start the microwave, and she comes running, just wagging her tail, drooling, and I'm like, you gotta get it together. I still fold and give her some. I mean, she got that was kind of her Thanksgiving meal. She got a little a mini play of bread and turkey. Doesn't seem to cause problems. I mean, I feel like it's just plain bread with nothing on it, and just plain turkey, don't do anything beyond that. I've only gotten like problems if I've given her like red meat or like beef, then her tummy does not like that. Although that was mainly as a puppy. I kind of just like abstain from ever trying it again after that. I've given her like little pieces of like steak or like tenderlin, something like that. She also just doesn't even seem that jazzed about it, so that's fine. I don't need to uh necessarily be spoiling her more. She still gets plenty. She doesn't get like I don't give her like actual real table scraps, just the the more bland stuff. I feel like the only things that she'll get are yeah, like bread or meat or rice. That's about it, I don't think. Everyone sometimes popcorn, been guilty of that. A few pieces is entertaining. The one thing that's other than I guess maybe some fruits. The one other thing though that's kind of entertaining is marshmallows. She does love like little marshmallows. I wasn't sure if she would, because I think the thing with fruits is like some things she'll they're like hit or miss. I think she gets confused by textures of things sometimes. I'll give her like a she likes eggs. Um, but if I give her a whole hard-boiled egg, which I'll normally do if I'm like on doing road trips with her and like get stuff from the hotel. Sometimes I got packaged like hard-boiled eggs. I'll give her that and she just looks at me like what the hell is this? She just kind of like takes in her mouth and drops it. But if I like crush it up into her bowl and just like squish it, and this was not like one big weird firm thing, then she'll like scarf that down, like lickety split. So I don't know what it is. Same with bananas. Sometimes if she gets a slice of it, she takes a minute to figure out how to chew, and she just like holds it in her mouth and drops it. She keeps chewing. Same thing with berries. She like does not know how to like chew bits or something, and doesn't want to like just swallow it whole like she does with other things like meat or bread. She just kind of like does a crocodile roll like they without and swallow without even really chewing. Uh but marshmallow she did figure it out, and then she kind of turned to the like the crocodile mode of eating, where she just like wolf it down. But those are her her, I mean, she mainly eats her dog food. I gotta be careful though. I can't give her too many uh bits of food because I feel like she'll get uh she learns quick and she'll be like waiting for the next uh batch of like bread or whatever. So I just gotta like hold out. And then she eventually gets hungry and eats her bowl of food. I'm very glad she's manages to self-regulate and not eat too much. So I can just have like a giant, she had like a big old bowl of food hanging out. So it's kind of nice. I don't have to. I mean, it's not that hard to give her breakfast and dinner or whatever people gotta do, but it is kind of convenient that I can just have a big bowl out for her whenever. Although I think kind of people, I think it's probably less common to be able to do that, if at least to do that and have her not get too chunky. She seems to stay a healthy weight, luckily. My grandpa and grandma have a dog where they just keep a big old bag of food in the garage. And she's shut his differently. I mean, she's not the most obese dog I've seen, but she's got a healthy belly, she's entertaining. But it's funny, like, especially when those other dogs are around, she gets a little bit like competitive eater mode turned on, flips a switch. Like if I visited with my dog and I just like look in the garage, and this dog has just got his head like fully gone in this bag of dog food, just like eating as much as she can and just gobbling it down. It's pretty entertaining. But yeah, different strokes, I guess, for different folks and felines or canines, I guess. I was going for the alliteration, but didn't quite work there. And different folks and different fluffers. I don't know. Doesn't matter. We're gonna move on. Um, but that was yeah, solid Thanksgiving, didn't do too much. Then kind of I was maybe debating going to a movie. I saw they had some like Thanksgiving horror movie, which is interesting. Although I guess it was maybe a rerun from a few years ago, so I didn't didn't end up going. I did end up seeing the new predator movie. Uh Badland? I don't know. I've actually never seen any of the Predator or alien movies, but so I feel like I was looking at the reviews or something. I guess it's like a totally different thing, because like normally the the predators are like the the antagonist, the bad guys, but this guy was kind of like the main character. It's is pretty entertaining. It was you know, I don't I won't get into spoilers, but I don't even care. Yeah, well, I mean I'm not gonna really try to. I'll I'll try to be careful by but this little little cute homie alien, well not really cute, but uh smaller than the rest, trying to, you know, get his get back and build up a clan with some other critters, which is cool. Um I guess it was PG 13, which I didn't realize because it was like plenty graphic of things getting totally obliterated and like ripped to pieces, but I guess maybe because it's just like alien blood and like funky stuff, it was PG-13, because I saw that. I'm like, oh what is this gonna be? This is gonna be like a some sort of like really kid-friendly movie, but it didn't not seem like that. It's more it was pretty kind of gory, honestly. But not like too bad. I mean, I guess it's like more like alien stuff just blowing up and getting ripped up, but I will say I did not well, I guess there was like a beheading, alien beheading, which I think I think that happened, or maybe I just inferred that's what happened. I don't know. But no, I feel like there's definitely several. I feel like there were, yeah, I don't think I'm tripping on that. Which yeah, I did not expect because I was like, Oh, this is PG 13. But it was a solid movie. I was thoroughly entertained. I mean, I don't know how the reviews were. I feel like reviews for me are so hit or miss like when I see stuff, and I guess my threshold for reviews mostly is like if I found it entertaining. Because I've gone to like some movies that get like crazy good reviews or whatever, and most of the time it's like some of the Oscar movies, and I'm like, this is not my cup of tea. I've been to I think the last one was like Killers of the Flower Moon or something. It was like some DiCaprio one. That was kind of a fucked up movie, it's kind of depressing what was going on. Like, though I will say, like, it was it was very good acting from Leo, the homeboy DiCaprio. I mean, I can't I can't hate on that part of it, but I think all that was probably good and it was probably very well made and cinematically and all that, but I just like didn't find it that uh personally entertaining, so that's all I judged on. Not really based on any other uh more professional merits, but you know, it's all I care about is if I can have a good time grabbing down popcorn to it. Cause that's main that's like half the reason I go to movies. I end up always eating way too much popcorn. I got some like discount thing for popcorn for the year. Hopefully there's a new thing for next year, because I mean, it's like ridiculous how much it costs. I feel like I feel like it's like 30 bucks for if I want to like get a large popcorn and a drink. But with this like different coupons and should I use always like six bucks. So I was like, this is the steel of a deal. And then I was like, I shouldn't eat this whole bucket of popcorn, but I always do. So I just have recently, by the end of the year, gave up on trying to not eat the whole bucket. And there's definitely time where two years like maybe did too much, but you know, I've trained my digestive system to eat a whole large popcorn and chug of Pepsi or Mountain Dew or whatever I'm feeling at the time. All that stuff. So it's all quintessential parts of the movie experience. I feel like I haven't, yeah, gone to more movies recently than I had in the past. It's been a good time. So that was a good movie. I feel like there's other stuff playing. I don't know how it looked to me. There's like The Running Man and uh Now You See Me, Now You Done. They both looked kind of like cheesy to me or something. Not that the other stuff wasn't. I don't know. I just wasn't feeling it at the time. Maybe we'll check it out later. But did fuck with the alien movie. I think that was, yeah, Friday that I saw that Black Friday after I wasted too much time shopping and money. But maybe there's gonna be lots of big stuff coming from that. You know, we invested, I got, I guess I got this new mic that hopefully this sounds good. Did get a better camera. Well, I don't know if it's better, but hopefully you can do maybe uh have a new setup where you're not looking at me uh just sitting on my bedroom floor as iconic as this is, might, you know, upgrade the the pod studio. But I guess I got the camera that I mean lots of impulsive stuff, but oh I guess I didn't bring anything to show off this week. I'll I'll have to make up for it next week. I'll I'll just tell you about all. I mean, I guess probably made more impulsive purchases this week than I will in a while. So it's probably not gonna be more. There really shouldn't be more in the next week, but who knows? Um where was I going? Oh, yes, we got the camera. And I think made the executive decision we're gonna we're gonna start some yo cash daddy streams, get some more of that out there because it was like I've been playing too much Call of Duty or Fortnite, although now I'm kind of like burnt out on it a little bit. Like I don't want to play that much more. But maybe there's other stuff I want to play. But I was like, I should just, you know, start streaming this. You know, there's crazy money on this, yo. Can I get a kick deal? Maybe once people start watching, that'd be sick. Uh luckily that no one's watching or paying too much attention to this, but maybe soon. Actually, the most of the I feel like when I look at the stuff, like the majority of the engagement I have is just like me getting absolutely flamed by some old farts on Facebook, but like, who the fuck is this moron? And I mean they're not wrong, but it is kind of funny that those are the ones. So I need to maybe I gotta get up, I gotta like really figure out ways to troll the Facebook old folks so I can, you know, think that's good for the algorithm, whatever they say. No such thing as bad pub publicity, can't even speak. Um, so I don't know what I can say to piss them off the most, but you know, really rile them up. That'll be if I gotta do what I gotta do for the algorithm, guys, you know, I'll I'll do that. Um I don't know. I don't know how to trigger them. But we we won't focus on that for the time being. I'll keep it in the back of my head. But so I think we got some stuff to maybe start streaming. I don't actually know how to do this, but got like the Elgato thing for like putting the uh whatever you call it, like Xbox gameplay to send that to a stream to the computer. Did get a new computer to hopefully use for that and other stuff too, but like one of the Mac minis, which I guess, which is surprising to me. I was like reading reviews about the newer model of like Mac minis, the M4 chip, I think is what it is. Like uh it's got it's basically from what I read, people were saying it's basically the best computer you can get for the money, like even building your own with for like the size and how it performs, which is kind of crazy for an Apple thing. But I think where the gitch is the second you get anything other than like the very like cheapest base model is like they charge the hell out of you, like every any part of it is just like way too expensive. Like all of the RAM or like storage upgrades, every one of them is like a fixed 200 bucks, which is kind of crazy. Like going from 256 to 512 gigs is 200 bucks, and I think that's not something funny, but they're showing like the price has been that it was the same as it was like 10 years ago, which is insane because I mean you should think it's like such a small fraction of the price that stuff has gotten over the time. So I didn't get like the cheapest base model because that's what I was saying. I mean, I don't think I need too much for it. If especially I don't know what I'll do with it, mainly if even if I'm streaming, I'm probably gonna be streaming Xbox stuff, so that'll be doing the gaming. I'm not gonna try to game off this, and it's gotta handle the stream, which I think shouldn't be too bad. So it was like 480 on sale, so that was like it's pretty sick to get. And I I did get a like USB hub, so with some more ports, and it's got like an option for like installing your own like MVME SSD chip, and it got a two-terabyte one, so that should give us more because like it only gives you 256 for the base model, which is not a lot. So I'll probably also get like uh maybe like a one of those HDD drives, which are like slower but cheaper and get more memory. But yeah, the 200, like I mean, I guess for like it was like the the car was like 150 for the two terabyte SSD and like 50 for the hubs is like 200 total, but if I were to like get two terabytes on that thing from Apple, that would be like an extra$600 versus 200, which is kind of like crazy dub charging. So we're rocking with that and got that today and set that up so it seems to work swell. Looks good with that. And though I was reading, like because it seemed like I was like trying to look at the price things, gotta stand that grind set of checking uh what's that called? There's some website. Camel, Camel, Camel, I think is what it's called, which is useful to check out if you're trying to, you know, make sure you're getting the best deal. It's like a useful thing for it's for Amazon specifically. I think only Amazon. There's maybe other like stuff, like similar websites for other things, but it's like a website where you can just like type in a product or like you copy your uh URL and paste it in for whatever you're looking at, and it'll like show you all the price history. So it's kind of helpful to be like, is this actually on sale? Because I feel like a lot of there are plenty of Amazon things where they'll say they're on sale. Amazon's maybe not so bad for this, honestly, but other places are where it's like Black Friday deal and it says it's like whatever. Ever off retail, but it's like normally always at that price. So I'm like, okay, I'm actually not gonna buy that right now because it doesn't really look like it's even different from when it was not on Black Friday. But that's that's besides the point. Still spent, still gonna stop me from blowing a lot of money. Maybe though it's an investment, guys. We're gonna get the crazy ROI ones, you know. We get those crazy sponsorship deals, it's all gonna be worth it in the end. Oh my gosh, my nose is stuffy. Luckily, my throat doesn't hurt anymore. We'll see though. It kind of hits late. I also I keep like fighting it and trying to sleep more and hoping this like cold goes away. But every morning, I wake up and like feel like absolute dog water, and I'm like, oh, do not want to get out of bed. But then I go for a long walk with the dog, and usually I feel a little bit better. Although I start getting cold pretty quick. So I get a little bit of chills, you know, when you're not feeling good. That part's not great. But I just kind of want to take a nap in a hot tub. Sounds perfect to me right now. Make it uh maybe just, you know, laying a hot pot of chicken noodle soup. Sounds pretty good. Yeah. I'm not even hungry, but just like the taste of chicken noodle soup in my mouth right now. Could use that. Uh where were we? Oh, yeah. So got that. Oh, I was talking about the the prices of SSDs. So I guess they're like starting to climb up because a lot of the AI companies and whatever for their data centers want, at least maybe the fancier ones with I don't actually know what this is, so I could be totally butchering this NAND or something. So I don't actually know how these SSD MV NVMEs work. I don't know anything about the hardware really. But some extra feature that makes them a little bit faster. So there's like a big demand for that for all these like AI data centers and stuff, and that's really driving up the price, maybe you know. If this is an AI bubble, then hopefully it pops. And well, I wish hopefully it doesn't pop. I think that would be probably very bad for very many people. So if it does, hopefully it brings those prices down. Not that actually it doesn't even matter to me anymore because I already bought one, and I'm not trying to go too crazy. But got that locked in and deal on a monitor. And I did get a stream deck, I've always wanted one, even just for random stuff. They are kind of fun. Having set it up. I've not done any streams yet, but it's coming soon. I gotta figure out how to set it up. I got this set up on like a little mini rolling disc, and I'm gonna like clamp it all in. So hopefully we are real official and try to, you know, at least when I'm playing, might as well hit record or whatever stream. What I actually have no idea. I got lots to look at over the next few weeks. Want to get the streams rolling, get a website set up. I did buy some domains. It is kind of fun to have bought an web domain and try to figure all that out. There's also like all sorts of stuff with that. I guess like some of the places, like I feel like it was when I was reading, it's like there's like Google domains, or maybe that's Squarespace now. Maybe Squarespace bought it. They're really kind of tax, but if I think the cheapest stuff that seems like pretty reliable to get one is like Dynadot. I think that's what I bought it through. It's like the best deal. So shout out to them if you want to go get a website domain. I don't actually have it running, but I got a few. I think people even invest in those, like buy like some useful domain.com and try to sell it to people, like buy like Tesla.com and hope you know Elon makes Tesla and sell it to him. Which is, I mean, I just gotta pick the right one, so it's kind of interesting. Um but have to, I don't know. I don't know how you pick the right ones, but there are some funny ones. All sorts of weird domains. There's like dot money or some weird things other than dot com. But that's all besides the point. Any other things that I made? I'm trying to think of what else I bought. Mainly, it was mainly, you know, equipment. Hopefully, trying to get that uh that uh this whole studio up and running. But if you the specific specific games you want to see, let me know. I think probably meaning mainly playing COD or Fortnite, those are the main things I've played, but you know, definitely GTA 6 when it comes out, but that's not gonna be tell hell. I don't even know if 2026 is that likely at this point. It would be sick. I hope they have a cool collector's edition for it. I'm definitely missing the days of buying collectors edition games, although I totally got scammed buying the Elden Ring DLC Collector's Edition. I shouldn't have done that. I jumped on it because I was like hyped when I saw the DLC came off of that. I still even have, I haven't even played the DLC. I played the regular game, although I definitely like played like the cheese strategy, kind of playing like one of the mages where you get like some OP spells. It's still pretty fun. So maybe I'll have to, you know, actually, you know, man up and do it with a sword or something. But it was it was a fun game. But the the collector's edition for that sold out really quick, and like the stuff for it was always like the super expensive statues from it. I'm kind of into those. Like, at least when I was little, I always liked some of the fancy collectors edition games. Like, remember the first one I got probably that was super hyped about was like the RCXD Black Ops version that was so hyped to me. And then I ended up buying like a few older ones. Um, there's like a Halo one where you got the helmet. There's an MW2 one where they came with night vision goggles. I think they remade that recently for a newer one. I don't know how they work. BO2 had like an actual like drone, I forget what they're called in the game. Umes that I were super hyped for was uh Skyrim after the fact that like that Elduin uh on the mountain statue. That was that was probably most hyped for that when I finally got one of those. That's like probably one of the games I've spent the most time playing. That or GTA, Skyrim or GTA, one of those two. What else? I mean GTA had one, didn't really have that much, honestly, but I was like hype for it because it was at the time when it gave you like exclusive access to a few vehicles that you couldn't buy otherwise, I think, or it just made them free. I think eventually they made that so you could buy them, but there was like a a short while or like it was an exclusive, exclusive whip to go around in GTA back in the early days. Back before there was no fourth character in GTA, you know, you had just Michael Franklin and Trevor. Did I say that right? Yeah. And there's just like that bottom slot when we didn't even know GTA Online was a thing. That was so hype when it finally dropped, honestly. Although it was you had to like wait like a month for it to come out, and it was so buggy. I remember I was like, I just spawned out in the desert, and then I found the injection, the BF injection. I remember it's like this little like it's like a Volkswagen Beetle is what it looks like, but like built for offering where it's got big tires, kinda, and you can whip around that, and I was like, this is my whip. And then like my stuff got it kept getting like reset, and I like lost my car, and I was just like heartbroken. But then eventually the I think they got things working smooth, and they gave me like uh a half a ticket or something like crazy at the time. Maybe it probably wasn't even that much. Like this was prior to shark cars. I didn't you couldn't even buy GTA money at this point. Actually, the only way to make money at this time was like me and the homies just doing online races. I remember grinding down the drain in like the the LA tunnel race, doing that over and over until we got enough money to buy like our our three-car garages, and yeah, I think the main cars I had were the BF injection, the sprunk bike. I think it saved it for that. And I do remember I had some homage who's doing some glitches. I got this like the space docker, I think it was like the Dune buggy, but it had like alien stuff, it's pretty sick. But then eventually they like took it away. Probably when they're fixing glitches. That was back in the day. They also had these like DNS codes where like people could use glitches and like give you like a billion dollars. It would be like something where they did something to their like internet settings, then they could set bounties on people that were like a billion dollars, so it was like in their games, and then just like killed some dude and they like had a billion in my account, and I could just basically buy everything. It's kind of crazy. I don't actually know, and they'd get like crazy levels off of it, so everyone got to like level like 400 or something crazy. I didn't ever actually do it to set it up because I think I don't know if they ever got banned, but I think they got a lot of their stuff reset. Because I think so many people were doing it that it'd be like if they banned everyone, it'd been like pretty bad. But I did like keep most of the stuff that I bought, I think. So I was like, although I spent so much probably on GTA. I've spent too much on GTA, like, or just any honestly, like microtransactions and games. GTA is probably the worst conven contender. Everything's been bad. I mean, Fortnite at this point is probably competing just for how long it's been out. GTA I played a long time though, so I don't know. What else is there? Or BO3, BO3 the loot crates, that was bad. I was like so hyped. I played BO3 is still probably my my GOAT cod. I honestly missed that. BO7s are pretty fun, honestly, but can't have B03. Now I just want to play that, honestly. Maybe I'll stream that. Some zombies. I played the B07 zombies a tiny bit. There's a lot going on. It seems kind of interesting. I still don't love the feel of it. Like BO3, like the health bars and stuff seem kind of weird on the zombies, so I haven't gotten used to that. But it's kind of fun driving the old Tessie truck through the farm. I don't actually really know what I'm doing. I've only played like three games, but I shouldn't even only two. So I can't speak too much. Just did like the small like farm one. At first it was like really hot, like going through, I was like, what the heck? Like, I didn't even have time to buy perks at the end of rounds before the zombies came running in. Then I realized someone turned on some like a rage mode where these zombies were just like flying out of nowhere and just like really they were like meth dub zombies, and it was kind of like what the hell is going on? But I feel like you can maybe turn it off lighter. Someone maybe did that, and then they all ex-filled, so it's kind of lame. The X-Fill is kinda-I mean, seems kind of lame to me. I feel like you all just gotta take the L X-Fill. I don't really want to do that, but then I guess like they could ex-fill without everyone voting on it, and then I was like, fine, I'll do it. Because like some guy dude just like disconnected after it. I was pretty sure I voted against it, so I don't know how it spawned. Some like big zombie bear showed up and I was like, what in the hell is going on? Fucking it up with the ray gun. Good times, sound of the ray gun, just blasting the piano piano. That's not at all how it sounds, but if you know you know, it's I don't even know what else compares no other, no other gun. I mean, it's kind of I guess the only thing that's maybe as iconic would be like maybe like the the grand like ching when you like you hit empty the clip and it shoots out. Um but yeah. So this is B07. I have no idea. I don't think I'm gonna trace back to exactly how we got to this one. I think it was just maybe talking about games to play. Yeah. Oh, sign about collector. Did I don't even think I I don't even think I finished where I was going. It's talking about collector's editions. So Elden Ring, the first edition, or the first like whatever base game collector's edition had like some millennia statue millennia. I don't know how you say something. And whatever it was expensive, sold out. And then they had like a collector's edition for the Shadow of the Urchery DLC, and I think it was like I think I legit paid like 200 bucks for it. And then like I've I feel like the price kept dropping it because I don't know if they made a whole bunch of them and were trying to sell it. It was like a statue of it's kind of cool, a mesmero, but it's honestly pretty cheap. Like this thing is probably not more than like 10 bucks for them to make, honestly, once I got it. And then I did see them finally like selling it for like 50 bucks, and I'm like, wow, that really took an L on this one. I thought I was trying to be proactive by it early, and I actually just got shafted. That was the only time I've really taken an L on that. Other cool DLCs, that's where I was going. I got on a tangent from GTA because I don't even know what I got out of that. I make out like a hat, like a lock bag, and maybe a map of like Los Santos. But um BO3, pretty, pretty top-tier collector's edition because I got a uh a Juggernaut mini fridge, which is pretty sick. I actually never actually ran it, but I just got it sitting on the shelf. Iconic. There's also like a Pit Boy collector's edition for Fallout 4. I don't know. I don't know my Fallouts. I never really played them that much. I mean I got that because it was kind of at the time when I was like just hyped on collectors editions, and you know, I mean I always spend money on dumb shit. I guess just what dumb shit it is that changes, you know. I'm like, wow, I've grown up now, I'm done spending my money on dumb stuff like that, but I then proceed to buy other dumb stuff. So, you know, it's life. What goes around comes around. That's not at all the phrase that's appropriate for there. I don't I don't actually know what the phrase I wanted was, but it's just what came out first. Anyways, um, yeah. I think there's I mean, I feel like I have so many games that I like bought on sale. Didn't I held back, didn't really buy anything on the Black Friday Xbox sale. Because I feel like keep doing that, and then I just never actually play the games. I feel like I have like several Fallout games, no, not Fallout, Far Cry games. Well, I mean I do have several Fallout games to play, but Far Cry games, which are I feel like basically all the same, but they're all pretty fun, fun games to play. Because I think the last one, actually, no, I never played the one. I think it was Far Cry VI. It was the one with the Giancarlo Esposito, the Gus Fring from Five Guys, not Five Guys Breaking Bad from Los Poyos Hermanos. Is that the place? I think this is chicken place. Wait, something. I don't actually know. I haven't watched Breaking Bad in too long. I mean, actually, in like 10 years at least. What the heck? That's terrifying. I do kind of want to watch it again. Oh, there's lots I gotta watch. I gotta backlog of stuff. I haven't I want to watch the new Stranger Things season. Although I I canceled my Netflix a while back. I was trying to save that money. So I think I'll get it once they release all of it. Because I think that's how they're like released. It's like they're releasing it, they released the first half of it, and then the next half on Christmas, and the finale on New Year's Eve, I think. Something kind of weird. But they're all pretty long, so I'll have to renew it for that. And then I guess I also gotta finish the U season. I never finished that. And lots of other stuff, lots of Apple TV stuff, and some Disney stuff. There's some Star Wars seasons that I want to watch, even though I've never watched the Star Wars movies, so I should do that. I should lock in and watch those so I can actually understand some of it. That is some like I mean, I'm definitely plenty much of a nerd, but that's some of the nerds that has evaded me, or I have evaded, however you want to put it. So I mean, I'll do it for the culture, watch those. I mean, I think I've watched enjoyed the stuff I watched, so I think it's not that I am not into it or wouldn't like it for any reason. I mean, I I I'm a big fan of like Lord of the Rings, so it's honestly just like that, but you know, more going on, so it's kind of sick having Lyce Haberis, honestly, it's pretty sick, so no real reason that I never watched it. I guess my parents just never played it. I don't know. I think I like went to homies' birthday parties that were super into it, and I had no idea what they're talking about. They're like yelling the stuff. Like, and I really don't know. I think the only thing I knew is there was a guy called Yeah Chewy or something. People said that, yeah. But that was yeah, I need like the names. I remember Skywalker, because that was like some everyone I feel like playing Wizard 101. I'd play, and their their names were always that. I'm like, why does everyone name that? And then I realized it was like a Star Wars character. But that's honestly iconic game, Wizard 101. Maybe I played that. I used to actually most games I play, I like in general. I mean, I like animals and pets, but spend way too much time focused on like the pets and stuff, especially in Wizard 101. I was so hyped because you can make hybrid animals. Well, they weren't like hybrids, they're just like special things you can get if you like would hatch your pet with someone else's pet. So I still remember that. I remember having some like going on like uh some Wizard 101 forums to try to, you know, it's like low-key, like uh, you know, trying to looking for hookup site, but for your Wizard 101 pets. And then I was like, I think I was like using my mom's email, honestly, at this point. I was like 10. And I was like trying to like, I wanted to like hatch my Stormzilla pet. Actually, it was a Firezilla from some card I bought at Best Pilot, and I was so gassed. Actually, honestly, Wizard 101 might be up there for the top games I spent money on. That's I don't know, so so iconic. But I was trying to find some lady with some there were allegedly some pets in Wizard 101 where like only the employees had these pets with these abilities where like this pet would like cast a spell in the middle of your battle to help you out. And I wanted one and then like found some lady on the forum. I think her like it was like a username of like Necroman. I think I never actually do it, ended up doing it because like my mom was like, Why am I getting emails from some lady called Necroman? What are you doing? And I'm like, Mom, chill. I'm trying to get a pimped out by your Zilla, alright? Don't worry about it, alright? Stay in your lane. But never happened. I think I got I got like, I don't know why I got nervous to message back. I feel like I feel like there's several things. I think there was also something when I was like, uh, I mean, I was probably not that much older. It was like all the Ty Lopez videos, and I think I like I filled out something based on one of them where they're like, join our club or whatever, we're gonna teach you to trade and make a million dollars. And I did it, and then like I got like uh like I said, to fill out something like I will be a committed student and I will learn, I will trade hours a day or something. And then like I got nervous because I got called back from somebody who's like, I'm calling for Ties Club and whatever, whatever. But now that bro's like face in charge, it's a good thing I didn't do that. Um I don't actually know what it was, but I still remember that because I'm like, oh shit, I got a call. Then I got nervous, partially because it was like 10, and I was like, I have no idea what's going on. I don't know why I filled that out. I mean, I guess I send lots of stuff online when I was little. Like, I guess I previously previously mentioned like I emailed like lobster farms and like even crocodile farms, be like, uh, yo, can you hook me up? How much for a crocodile, baby crocodile? So I was really just out there just shooting my shot at anyone. So, you know, I guess you you miss 100% of the shots you don't take, whatever they say. That Michael Squat Scott Wayne Greske quote, cannot talk, but good times, good times. So maybe I'll have to stream some wisdom 101 when we get that fully up and rolling. I really have a lot to figure out though, but it's kind of kind of fun to get things set up. But yeah, no, it's been been an eventful holiday. We got all that set up. Um, I don't really know if there's that much more I need to. I guess I gotta like I ordered some like stuff to like mount the the Mac mini. It's impressively small. It is pretty nice to the my mini desk. So if I tip it over, I don't like break everything. I mean, I guess things could I guess things have tip over there screwed up, but more so if I don't knock something off this table. Got a clamp to like get this monitor locked in. I don't haven't actually compared, like this monitor has like built-in speakers, so I was like kind of like curious if that was like well I was trying to find something with that because I didn't really want to have to do like get separate speakers, even if it's like a shitty speaker on the monitor. I'm not really trying to get anything great, but just for if I'm wanting some sort of audio playing out of this like setup. But when I set up the Mac Mini, I didn't even realize this little box has its own speakers, but I guess it's a speaker in this metal box, so it's probably not that great. So having compared. Speaking of speakers, I did get actually that is another impulse to purchase. Um, but hopefully it was like I kept getting like cashback stuff, so I was hopefully can, you know, whatever, apply some stuff to my card or whatever. I don't know. But for some like light up speaker, which I'm kinda hyped about, some like Govey something. I feel like I've just been giving all sorts of like brand reads this this episode, you know. But I'm just yapping. It's like this cool light where it's got a JBL speaker in it. Um I mean it's mostly cool, the light, honestly. And the speaker, I think it's decent enough. You know, this is only something I was probably gonna have in like the bedroom, but I'm kinda hyped for that to come. I'll see, I'll let you know. I'll show that off in the next thing. Actually, I got I'll have way too much to show off, honestly. But I held off on, well, I bought too much equipment. I feel like there's other things I was gonna buy, but I was like, no, I've I'm cutting myself off. I've spent more money than I should. And I've like I'm gonna have bills to pay. But we're we're trying to, you know, trying to make that money, work it back so we can get that return. Um I think we'll try to stream on everything that we can, multi-stream or whatever you call it. At least the big ones, which I don't actually know what that is. Is that just like Twitch kick? I was gonna say a rumble, but I think I looked at Rumble and I realized it was all like just like really political stuff, so probably not. I mean, I guess I would. If that's what the vibe is. I don't really care where it goes. Goody know if it's easy to add on. But I guess I think there's like Facebook, you know, really squabble with some grammas. It is entirely entertaining that that is majority of the the the content or the comments from who are I'm not making coherent sentences, but they just want to be us so bad they hate us, you know? That's all it is, whatever they say. Oh my goodness. Have we been doing on time? Okay, we got time, we got time. I don't know whether we want to yap about. There's lots of things to do, but I think I mean I don't even think there's any deals at this point for tomorrow. I can't spend more cutting myself off officially, at least for now. I mean, maybe unless I buy Christmas gifts, there are more of that that I want to do. So I take that back. At least so for myself, I'm cutting myself off there. There, there's there's a firm boundary, you know. This is called self-control. Well, not even self-control, just basic uh budgeting. That's what it is. Not uh going into debt. Maybe I could start gambling so I can pay that off sooner than buy more. Wow. This is America perfect ways. And I could uh just get all my Chipotle on the loans and then uh use that to gamble and make money. So then I just gotta make more than the interest, and I'm basically getting paid by the whatever credit companies. What a time. How do I how do I invest in the burrito loans or short them so we can don't have like the big shorter burrito loans? I don't know how that works. How consolidated loans. What was the company that was even offering that? I forget. I don't even know how you do that. It is kind of crazy how everything is like buy-in payments. I've never actually done it. Cause I mean, I feel like that's just easy to lose track of. I mean, I guess normally I just feel weird about it. I didn't even have a credit card for like till like a few years ago. And then I was like trying to do something and realized I had absolutely no credit. So just get a basic credit card game so you can at least have some credit. Just to get like, I had to get like a I tried to like apply to everything, but legit everyone rejected me. I sent out so many credit card applications because I was like, well, I have no credit score, so even though because I guess you apparently get like uh a ding on your whatever credit report history when you like they do, I guess they call it like a hard pull when they check your credit, and this like bad for your credit, which is kind of weird to me. I don't know how this works or who decided this, but so I was like nervous to do it, then I did it, but it was like it didn't even matter because I had no credit. Um it's kind of funny, like my credit went up like a thousand because when I after I finally got a credit card, because like for the long while after I first had credit, like the my credit, whatever score things would like read like off the charts negative, but I think it's probably just some default value. It's not actually anything meaningful. It just had like negative 400 or something like absurd. So then it went up to like 600 once there was finally credit, and it was like plus a thousand this month, and I was like, can I do it next month? Get 1600. I got that double 800 credit score. Didn't happen, sadly. I was hoping, you know, they just giving me money after that, but that growth did not continue in my credit score. So where was I? Oh, I was talking about like the loan done stuff. Because yeah, everything I feel like has like pay now or paying for payments with PayPal credit or whatever, but I've never actually done that. I feel like I'll just also like forget all your payments. I feel like that's a good way to just forget. Because I feel like a lot of times, especially just I feel like the tricky stuff of paying with like card in general. I totally lose track and then like checking my bank account. I'm like, oh, I did not realize how much money I spent spending. Okay, we're having uh oatmeal for dinner for the rest of the month. That's uh honestly though, maybe oatmeal is pretty good as long as you add a healthy amount of brown sugar to it, pretty fire, or cinnamon. I used to be pretty bad about that. Like I'd put so much cinnamon, like it would just smell like cinnamon in my apartment, and my roommates would be like, what the hell is it in here? And like normally, actually, most of the time I'd do it and I'd overdo it, and my tongue would tingle when I was eating it, but I'd like to try to like have probably just enough cinnamon before that point. Although it didn't really stab me if my tongue was tingling, but I was like, this is maybe overkilling the cinnamon. However, uh, I feel like I saw something where it's like maybe oatmeal's got a perfect blend of fiber for you, of like the mix of insoluble and soluble fiber or something. I forget what you should both do. I think insoluble is just like, you know, gives you turds, basically. Insoluble is like makes some gel in your guts and it slows stuff down so you digest lower, maybe, and you want both. I guess like fiber does a lot of important things. I was like, and I don't even know how. Oh, actually, I think I was I don't know. I was reading some all sorts of maybe it was like health videos that I came across. I don't know. One of my many tangents, just like my speaking of internet perusing. So I was like, well, maybe I should have my oatmeal more. I mean, because I have plenty of it, but I go in spurts. Um because that's that's I don't know, it does lots of good stuff for you. So eat your fiber and your protein. Because I think as I was looking at stuff, because I ended up buying, I haven't actually had any, actually I have one scoop of it, but like protein and creatine powder for the first time ever. I've like always been like kind of like it's like this feels sus. I don't know why. Like it just felt weird. It felt like maybe it's like probably like my mom rubbing off on me because she's always like paranoid as stuff. I mean, although a lot of it is founded, like most of like the um protein powders out there, and just a lot of supplements in general are just like not regulated at all, so they're like kind of very questionable what you're getting. Like that, I mean, best case you're just getting nothing, but a lot of things like they have like contaminants of like heavy metals, which are concerning. So at least uh do your research on what you buy. Don't just buy like you know something off the shelf with not looking at it, so it's kind of concerning. So hopefully I bought stuff that's good. Um, but I don't know, because I'm reading basically like I mean, I feel like I do eat like a ton of meat, honestly. So I'm do pretty good on eating protein, but it's just like as you get older, like you gotta eat more of it, and it's hard to get it. So I think there's all sorts of different types of it. But I think I was watching some doctor videos, so take it with a grain of salt. I don't think it's maybe the I can't guarantee it's accurate, but I was like, this guy seems fairly credible. Like, you know, unless you got like lactose allo allergies or yeah, lactose or or trying to do other like vegan things. I think like the best thing to get is just like whey isolate, not any like the soup weight. Yes. Or maybe it was a whey concentrate. Uh I think whey concentrate. I think that's what it is. Let me ch I don't know. I think basically like the not something that's super isolated, because there may be other good stuff in it, and just like look for like stuff that's basically only that and no other additives. There's like some other one, like lecithin, I think, however you say it. It's like L E C I T H I N, Lekathine, something like that. There's like soy that's in a lot of 'em. I think it helps with mix, but that's bad. But sunflower is fine and maybe sometimes good. I don't know. But looking at that, or if it's just stuff that's just like straight away, then it's pretty decent. So I try to find one that is like that. And I guess creatine too. I've always been like curious about it. Because I always like to see so much about it. And there's people always like saying, like, this is the most studied supplement, so you should be doing it. And I was like, never like that sold. I guess I'm curious about it for like running stuff, how it helps. But um, because I think there's like things where it makes you heavier because it like makes you like pull more water into your muscles. But where I was like more intrigued recently, what I learned is like, I mean, I guess it would make sense, like once I learned the biochem of like how your body like makes energy and stuff, like where creatine stuff like plays a role in that. And the thing particularly is like it's important to like for the the pathways for making energy that use like some creatine-related molecules are like the only ones that go on in your brain. Like your brain is like a sugar whore, like only goes off like breaking down sugar, and that part, which relies on like the the creatine stuff, so creatine for like your mental health, or maybe not mental health like psychologically, but more just like cognitive health is maybe important. So I'm kind of curious about that. I don't know. So I ended up copping some. It wasn't even on sale, unfortunately. The protein was. But I was gonna try to make uh make a staple of trying to have my oatmeal with protein and creatine every day or something like that to get a little bit more and you know, get some fiber in one. Um I think the other thing that people say is fish oil. I think there's another main supplement people say is good, or like definitively. I feel like every I mean there's like other things, some are maybe marginal, but I feel like what I've from what I've seen is like fish oil, which is probably like the biggest one, and then also like creatine and protein are good. So I feel like I'm trying to. I guess I've been having lots of calcium for my broken foot. I finally got sick. I think I've been like walking so much in the boot. I mean, I've been really wearing it hard for like the past six weeks, and I finally got like it's starting to get sore in my like hip that I wasn't wearing the boot from like kind of walking like slightly wonky with like one leg shorter, and I finally took it off, and it feels much better. My hip was kind of pretty sore. My every even that leg, my Achilles was kind of aching. Not a great time, so it's like it's so close to healed, and I honestly was wearing like probably the boot half the time prior to this, and now that other parts are taking control, I think I'm just gonna be careful and take it off. So knock on wood that I don't uh like roll my ankle and break it again. So I'm just gonna be careful, but I feel like it'll be fine. I mean, I did I've done lots of dump stuff on it, which has been more broke, but almost gone through like two big bottles of calcium gummies from Costco. Um I'll probably need to well, I don't know. I don't know if there's problems with that. I think it's got zinc and vitamin D in it. So I don't know if there's other issues with taking it. I've probably been having a little bit more than the recommended amount because I've just been trying to, you know, calcium max, get them bones, you know, nice and girthy and strong again. Get that number down, but we'll see. I'll have to report back if I whip up a recipe. Let you know my my uh secret broat meal recipe, bro oatmeal. It's always like seems like so aggressive to me, like the giant protein containers, but I guess I get it. Because it is kind of like gotta just be a big whatever. I think I was gonna buy one brand, and it seems like they just came in bags, but like a big bag, and I'm like, how am I gonna like reseal that a bunch? It seems really annoying. So I definitely now under pref understand the appeal of having the big tubs with like a screw tap. Because the bags, I feel like I've bought bags for things like even like hot chocolate, and it's just annoying. Although it's yeah, no, it's still kind of annoying to seal it up, and I feel like I I tap the bag and just get like a cloud of like dust up, and I'm like, damn it. I mean it probably still can happen on the tub, but it seems a little bit less likely, or it maybe you have to be a little bit less careful. So it will work on the probably thinking that this oatmeal would just be I don't know how much oatmeal. Because it depends on what I do. Depends on what I'm trying to eat the rest of the day. I don't know. I've never actually really thought too much about my diet. I mean I try to honestly no, I'm not that great. I've like it's like very uh cyclic of very much one thing. I guess I guess I have a lot of apples in general, so it's good. But a lot of times it's like a mix of egg, mac and cheese. Um just straight like turkey or chicken. There was also a time where I was like making like pot pie every week. It was like this giant pot pie. Or it was like pot pie filling, and then you like put biscuits on top, but I ended up using this little red lobster biscuit mix and just making a giant biscuit for the top. It was pretty good. But I like have to eat so much pot pie to go through it on my own. So after like honestly, like two years of making that at least like once or twice a month, I finally like it's not I'm not like sick of it. It'd probably be good if I ate it now. I just like now don't have much desire for it. Although all of a sudden I'm getting hungry for it as I'm talking about it. So I don't know if I've spoken up an appetite because before starting this, I was like, I'm just ready for bed. I just want to sleep. Um, I mean I'm still kind of like that, but maybe it was just the biscuits, honestly. That's maybe what did me. And thinking about the red lobster biscuits. I don't even know the last time I've been to Red Lobster either, but I think I remember little my mom makes the biscuits in their fire. So like try them on that, but I don't even know if I know what like the red lobster biscuits taste like from the from the restaurant fresh. So I'll have to go back for that. Or the most iconic of them all, olive garden breadsticks. I was such a horror for those as a child. I really want more of those. I think there's other things like Texas Roadhouse rolls, which are good and with like some cinnamon butter or something, but I don't feel like they're as gas as other stuff. Some people really like them. I don't hate them. Don't they're still good, don't get me wrong, but like I don't know. I feel like top tiers, well, I do like the red lobster biscuits, so I'd have to try those again. But Olive Garden still, I don't know. It's just like a special place in my heart. I remember almost burning my house down because of those when I was little, because they give you like a to-go bag for the breadsticks if you've ever gotten it. It's like just like a white paper bag, but it's got a foil lining for whatever reason. I don't know why that's necessary. But um, I was hyped when I was little, like I had like a bag full of breadsticks to take home, and I was like, yo, this is the sickest whatever uh waiter ever. And then the next day I just like took it home and started to heat it up in the microwave. Um, but as you know, um microwaving anything metal foil does not go good. And instantly, like I turned around, like I hit play, uh walked around and walked back after like five seconds because heard some like commotion and saw my breadsticks in flames because uh the foil in that bag, which I didn't even really realize was there, just you know started sparking up and that bag on fire. Um, so that was that was eventful. Luckily, uh threw it in the sink. Um, but I think my mom maybe did. I don't even actually remember how it was resolved. I just remember like what the hell is going on? I was like, my breadsticks. Getting absolutely torched. But yeah, top tier. Or just I feel like a lot of steakhouses for whatever reason just have like the best damn bread you ever have, and butter. It's always like so fresh. I don't know, I don't know how they do it, what they do, but I feel like how do you all which I'll do. I want the recipes for all of them. That's always kind of like a I feel like no better than any bakery that I've ever had is legit just like some fresh bread that they have at any like steakhouse places like that. I think that's top-tier bread. Or the bread I just made, that was pretty good. I will say I will pat myself on the back a little bit. Although it's maybe not like the objectively best bread, but it's like just some like dense, like white bread, which I'm a fan of with some butter, dip it in that perfect. Could eat lots of that. It's pretty thick though. And I think I maybe used more flour than I needed because I was just like adding it and not really paying attention. I had it like in weird containers. Oh, because I realized that it maybe has some like flour beetles or something. I don't know what this thing is. I was reading about it because I was like, what are these bugs? There was a few that were in my flour and like crawled out of it, and I was like, is it okay? When I started stuff earlier, and then people said something about freezing it, so I like had some in like a big baggie, like a ziploc, and others in like an ice cream pail. And I was like trying to like approximate how much I was using from like I was like, this seems like it's 20 cups. I don't know. But the fact that I went through like a 40 cup bag of flour for like four loaves of bread is probably uh I probably used a little bit more than I wanted. And it did taste the bread actually for this batch was like almost a little bit more pretzely, so I don't know. Does pretzel, does the recipe for pretzel bread like or just pretzels in general have more flour? Because I don't know. It's different, different, definitely a different texture, but it's it's still pretty good, I will say. It's just like not brown like a pretzel, but it tastes kind of like the the consistency of it or something. At least one of them did. I haven't had all the loves yet, honestly, so I can't tell you if I've tasted them all. They're all cut from the same massive dough ball, so shouldn't be that much variation, although it's maybe hard to mix. I have no idea how much, like a 10 pound dough that well. It's maybe not the best most well needed, but I did my best, you know. What you can do. What can you do? Well, we'll see, we'll see. Anyways, uh, that is that's the update for the week. You know, the the latest crash out, if you will. So I think we're gonna cut it there. Thank y'all for tuning in, and we'll catch you next time. Peace peace.