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New Orleans is filthy and Instagram check mark is flawed.
New Orleans is filthy and Instagram check mark is flawed.
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About this episode
A solo recap of a recent trip to New Orleans highlights the city's vibrant yet dirty atmosphere, with stories of food experiences, nightlife, and cultural insights. The host shares thoughts on Instagram verification flaws, discussing how the process has changed and its implications for content creators. Car news includes Tesla's rise in brand value and a new Chinese sports car with unique features. The episode blends personal anecdotes with automotive discussions, making it a unique listen for fans.
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new orleans trip
instagram verification
car news
food experiences
tesla brand value
chinese sports car
nightlife
cultural insights
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In this episode, host Jhae Pfenning accuses the new Meta and Instagram Verification process as flawed and explains why. Then he revisits details of a recent trip to New Orleans while reviewing the food, dirty streets, nightlife, and history. The car news segment returns, Tesla makes history, find out how.
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The check, mark, same with Facebook.
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The number four wheel online. So one of the things that I've
struggled with I struggle with this a lot and I'm not good, not listen, believe it or not, I don't like talking about me as much as I like talking about other things in other people.
I guess, if you want me to talk about me you're going to hear a lot more over on the patreon. I'm not trying to send you guys
over to spend money on me. I'm just saying, that's usually
when I talk about me what's going on in my life?
Things like that. But I say that to say that, it's
always difficult when people learn that.
I have a podcast. Oh yeah.
What's your podcast about? And I never it's for some
reason. It's very difficult for me to
explain what this podcast is. So if you're someone who listens
to this all the time, please for god, sakes.
Send me an email, our parking podcast at gmail.com.
Tell me what this podcast is because I struggled to finding this to other people. So same deal.
When I tell them that I'm the owner of one honor movement and I have a counseling people like oh yeah what's that about people ask me what I do for work. See Healthcare it.
Oh yeah, what's that about? I just struggle.
And it hurts because it's you have the confidence of saying what it is. You do or usually other people
tell you that I have a podcast. I don't mean I go around town
and I slap my stickers on things when I'm on vacation.
Because it's a lot of fun. I just struggle and I feel like
if I didn't struggle would be easier because a lot of podcasts there's because there's no there's no set regiment to what it is. We do here at hard parking
another podcast I could be like well I have a true-crime podcast and we talk about American history in the murders that most other people aren't talking about.
Oh, wow, that's interesting. I want to hear about that.
You know, where it's a car podcast, sort of, but not really. But how do you explain that?
Because of the die-hard car? People.
They want to hear about cars or they want to break and just want to casually here about cars and want to hear about everything else, that's what this is. If you're not into cars and I
tell you, it's an honor motive Automotive podcast and you're kind of like and I really want to hear about cars.
Good luck. But we don't talk about that
much here, but we do a little bit.
Like I said we have car news coming up its cars for everyday people but I still would not describe the podcast is that yeah, help me please because I need that I need to update.
All my, all my descriptions online.
What this is, I need to have a better quicker response other than a little story. Hey Jay, what's your podcast
about? Well, you see, it's kind of like
you know you ever walk down the street and then I start telling a story I really don't but that's what it probably sounds like it's terrible. It's a fucking disaster.
Before I talk about New Orleans want to talk about this whole Instagram verification. There's a fundamental flaw and
how they do it now. So for those of you who aren't
sure, or maybe there's a, I'm going to be all over the place with this because it's almost like being verified on YouTube.
Like you want the check mark on YouTube.
That's like, you're right of passage.
That means you are someone and as a Content producer, it feels weird to say. Hey, what is it?
You do what you want to say? Reduce content, I'm a digital
Creator. You don't want to say I'm an
influencer. I'm a YouTuber.
Hell even I'm a podcaster because it almost sounds Kind of douchey, I guess because there's a lot of people who don't do what it is, we do on a daily basis, and they think if they don't understand it, it's like okay, whatever.
You're just some kid who sits on top of your Ferrari and wreck stuff for likes. All you care about our likes and
views. Well, yeah, because that's how
you get paid. That's what it's all about.
So, when you have a check mark on YouTube, that means you're a verified Channel and people are going to not only stop and pay more attention, but you're more likely to get your your videos viewed. You're going to get more likes,
it's going to push you up, you're getting more subscribers, YouTube, you have 1,000 subscribers and 4000 viewing hours, and a rotating 365-day schedule in order to even be eligible for monetization. My channel obviously sucks
because I'm at 800 some subscribers and I've been doing it for a couple years but I'm not consistent.
I know my flaws. So when it comes to things like
Twitter If you're verified your somebody.
You're somebody in the media. You're somebody in the Sports
World, your somebody in the entertainment?
I don't even understand how Twitter does it.
I actually honestly. I deleted my Twitter, I deleted
the app a few weeks ago, I didn't delete my account.
I don't understand that mindset when someone wants to take a break from social media, how they just delete their account snow, just uninstall the app, and then get back to it whenever you feel like it. And then all the stuff is still
there. When you delete it, you start
all over. So I've never really quite
understood that. That's not what this section is
about. I'm just trying to explain why
it is that people want verification.
So when it comes to Instagram, you know all of Of us who produce content want to be verified because verified going back to what I said about YouTube.
Usually that little blue check mark, means you're someone doing something. You're someone have
significance. It doesn't mean because I've
seen a lot of comments like, well, I don't want to pay for the check mark. I know who I am and my people
know who I am. Good.
Good for you. You're obviously not saying
You're Nobody, But You're Nobody, you know, and I had said this on one, drink Wednesday and I wasn't trying to take out one of our most loyal listeners. Interviewers just even the
accurate guy because he's like, well, I can't get verified.
Well, what do you do? You don't do anything.
Sure. You've given your name, Steven
the accurate guy? Do you have a YouTube channel
where you talk about? Acuras all the time are you?
Honda pro Jason? Everybody knows who Honda pro.
Jason is in the car world. Everybody.
He's so famous now. When he goes places, he gets he
gets brought into places that normal people can't get to because of who he is. that means he's someone Instagram got the
they made it really difficult to get verified.
You had to have an IMBD. You had to have real articles
written about you like on Forbes you know you had to either pay someone thousands of dollars to write up all these things because what they would do is they would run an algorithm and it runs through the entire internet and it's got little check marks. Are you on Wikipedia check you
have an IMDb check. Have you been into in anything
significant check. Do you have these three articles
about You check, boom. You get the check mark because
they don't have time to go through in like manually.
Verify. You are who you are.
What they decide to do is in an effort that they saying.
In an effort to cut down on fake accounts because you have seen that, whereas maybe someone you follow as famous or someone you personally know, has done enough stuff.
Like I said, you you're out there enough to where you have some sort of level of significance.
Like how many times you've gone through social media and you saw an account that you knew wasn't them because you know, the real person and they're trying to sell you crypto, they're trying to sell you this, they're trying to sell you.
That that's what meta is saying that they have tried to reduce.
That is what they're saying, we're trying to eliminate this by making everybody verified. By the way, you can be verified
to for 1499, you just have to show, you are who you are.
And so what with that comes you have to submit your driver's license, your name on your profile, has to match what you have on your driver's license. You have to submit fuck, I don't
remember. There's three, there's three
things you have to do. The problem for me is, I don't
go like my driver's license doesn't say J Finning.
So it went from being someone to just literally Being you, and it's only worth it if you're trying to build an audience, if you're a content creator. So if you're like marks tommen,
one of our most loyal people on the show, patrons marks Tolman, you're not actually trying to build anything out.
There you have your family by if you have your, you know, your profession, you don't live through the lens like people don't live their lives vicariously.
Through your own social media, David Garner, our new has patreon. David has a YouTube channel,
Well, he's got way more subscribers and I do he releases you know a video probably every other day.
He is out there actually doing stuff for trying to do stuff.
He would be an excellent candidate to get verified on Instagram so that no one tries to be David Garner.
So, you know, when you go to David Garner's page, it is in fact, David Gardner but under the new rules again, your profile has to have your birth name on it.
And let's be honest, how many famous people out there go by their birth names. How about probably zero?
Okay, so Cody Walker friend of the show is name is Cody Walker.
Paul Walker's name is Paul Walker, Vin Diesel's name is not Vin Diesel. It's like Mark, I do Mark
something, I had it looked up before.
So by the current rules, we all know who Vin Diesel is.
Vin Diesel could not be verified on Instagram, under the current rules because they got rid of all that stuff where you had to be someone and for 1499. All you have to be is you and if
you're not trying to build a public profile, They don't care, they'll happily take your 1499. So it's kind of controversial,
they need to have another method.
I can't get verified because again, my name is not J.
Pfennig some of, you know, my name.
It's not what shows up on my driver's license is not what shows up on my credit card is not what shows up on my bank accounts. My mom calls me Jay, my parents,
my both, my parents, before my dad passed call me.
Everybody calls me Jay, and they spell it J Hae, and she sends me a Christmas card JJ Hae when you Google Jay Finning, I'm not saying Google me bitch, but when you Google J finding a lot of stuff comes up, that's what I'm known as but not legally.
So I decided I'm not going to change my profile to show my legal name just so I can Get the check mark when I like to check mark. Absolutely.
Because I'm trying to build something in many people know me for what it is. I'm trying to build a my
important, not saying, I am not saying I'm any more important than marks Tolman, or Stephen, the accurate guy.
But when I turn around and my desk, I see miniature car models, with my name on it. J findings.
This J fittings at some of you have bought those things.
There's things that I've been asked to autograph over the years. I should have the check mark,
but I can't get it because I refused to change my ways and publicly show everyone who I am by my name.
Just for a check. Mark, that may or may not mean
shit. That's a fundamental flaw
because I run four or five is how many Instagrams I have guys.
We have J travels. If J Finning, we have the V F1 s
in a sex shop. I'm an admin on the NSX, Pope
Page. But that doesn't really.
It's not really mine. That's just shared property.
And the one on a movement page and then flipping it over to Metta / Facebook or this. All the same, I have all those
pages plus Mars base design, which is a shop in order to open up a shop. You have to submit your ID, they
have to know your social security, or your or your a business EIN number. You have to submit proof of
having a business. So they have all the stuff that
proves I am who I am but because my name doesn't match my ID, regardless of my face, then I can't get verified and that's a fundamental flaw. So hard of that check.
Mark, is you get access to customer support.
I already have access to customer support through business tools to where you can actually chat and interact with a real person. They need to have that.
It's like, hey, you guys need to review my request.
I'm willing to give you Dollars a month that I can write off as a business expense. You need to manually review this
request when requested of you to verify am who I am until they do that, which I think they will. The Instagram verification is
fundamentally flawed. And now that we got the
Instagram verification front of the flawed out of the way.
So some of you know hopefully many of you know at this point I was in New Orleans. We did not rent a car.
But think I may have said that at the end of the last episode, we were going to rent a car. It didn't make any sense and I'm
glad we didn't because parking overnight was anywhere from $45.
I think the 50 or $60, once you get downtown to the French Quarter, you can pretty much walk anywhere you want, everything is within like a mile and a half, and it's a long way to walk. Most of the times we walk too
far. It was like point eight miles,
but when you're walking through busy streets restaurants bars, Bars, and more bars, and more shops, and more bars and more street performers. It goes fast, like a 20-minute
walk. If that, so we walked
everywhere, and if it was a little far, and if we're running short on time, we call an Uber, which was rare.
They were called to a, not the course of the whole weekend.
Some guy we didn't rent a car, so, unfortunately, I don't have a rental car review for you. And I know all of you are here,
just for that. New Orleans is dirty and to be
completely honest with you guys, I didn't really want to go.
I mean, I wanted to go, but I didn't, my wife didn't know this, but I had an invitation to go to the Acura.
Long Beach, Grand Prix and I've wanted to go to that for years.
What had happened was I've been planning a charity with the Arizona Venture group and Arizona Natural.
Restorations, for a few months, we got to the point in early March, were decided to postpone it to the end of the year.
So up until that point Saturday. April 15th was not available for
me because the charity. So a few weeks ago, my wife
says, hey are you available Saturday April 15th?
I go. No, I have that charity, and I'm
thinking to myself, I talk about it every week, like, multiple times. I complain about how difficult
that thing is to organize, how much more I'm having to do to design all this stuff. But it's going to be a big, huge
benefit to be great raised, thousands of dollars for Arizona Natural Restorations out of the data.
That's probably a patreon episode when we going off about that in the future. But anyway, I'm thinking well,
no, I'm busy. She was, oh, I go why she says,
well, I'm going to go to New Orleans after work there on Thursday, Wednesday and Thursday.
If we could maybe you can fly on say the weekend, but never mind.
It's like yeah, I'm busy. She was okay, it's inviting her
girlfriend and Few weeks go by and we decide to postpone the trip. So, I asked her, I go.
Hey, this, I think we were in Hawaii.
At this time, I go hang You still going to New Orleans, have you heard back from Celia? Which is her girlfriend?
No. I haven't really heard back from
her yet and I go. Okay, well, we postpone the
trip. So now I'm available.
She's kind of like, okay, but it wasn't like, okay cool.
I'll just tell Celia since I haven't heard back from her.
Forget it, I'm rather go with you so she didn't say anything.
So, I bring it up again, later, I go.
Hey, her back from silly yet? No, I don't think she can go her
husband's getting on her, because that's her birthday weekend. I'm sitting there thinking all
sheep I mean, obviously I would if I wanted to plan a birthday for Yvette celebration and then her friend invited to go out of town that weekend. She's not going the family.
We wouldn't let her go. We're like no, you're staying
here and she would have got it. So I'm like, okay, well you not
want to go with me. I mean I do I said no, I get it.
I do you have your girl's trip? That's fine.
That's fine. Have you girls trip?
Go out there have fun. I'm sure she's a lot more fun
than I am to hang out with, in which you vet, confirmed.
Yes, when you're not being a complete asshole, Hold on.
I'm saying something with G that's that's not how you get someone to go on vacation with you is when you tell them that as long as you're not being a complete asshole then there are right not a good recruitment strategy there.
I'm like okay all right well let me know okay I'll let you know next day I get a call. Hey man when I go to the Acura
Grand Prix of Long Beach sooner thinking well yeah but I'm on standby for For New Orleans at this point.
So I didn't say anything to be better about it and told the person I go look, just wait a while, give me a couple days.
I may go to New Orleans just give me a couple days.
We'll figure it out. So long story short, I confirm
go to New Orleans reluctantly and I'm like man and it's going to rain. I'm like shit I could be at Long
Beach in the VIP tent Acura with my friends with my peoples.
Or go to New Orleans. Whether I made the right choice,
I'm going to say absolutely. I made the right choice but New
Orleans is dirty and we had a good time.
Make no mistake. I'm glad I went, I'm really glad
I went, we had a great time experienced a lot of things.
You know, we went on two tours. Charlie was our first tour guide
and then Charles was our second Charles was the cemetery tour and that's where we learned that.
You know, we already knew that they bury people above ground.
They put them in these basically.
I'm going to call him earns, you stick them in, there is something they've done for hundreds of years.
So what happens is once the body is basically slow-cooked and decompose, and know that sounds gross, they take this 10 foot long Pole where I'd like a big broom or something a Scraper on the end. They open up this huge
aboveground tomb urn thing and they scrape the top of this thing and they push it to the back into this long shaft that goes down to underground somewhere.
Two things came from that. That's where I wouldn't touch
you with a 10-foot pole came from.
And that's where you're fired from work, man.
They gave me the shaft. That's where that came from.
I thought was pretty cool, nautical history there.
The Jazz history. Jazz.
Even in the beginning of this century was regarded as doubles music. So there was a big movement to
get just to completely eradicate.
Jazz from New Orleans, can you imagine that?
Jazz and New Orleans is synonymous jazz in Louisiana, is synonymous, is it not? That was almost completely
abolished much of murders happen in politics happen.
And now, we Revere New Orleans. We Revere Baton Rouge we Revere
Louisiana as the jet. That's the only jazz place we
could think of, I mean you have Jazz barge, right Chicago.
She like that. We're going back a little bit to
some of the things that You know, I didn't when I thought about going back to New Orleans, I we've gone before and it was all right, but it's not a spot where I figured that I would really be in a rush to go to again.
You know, a few months ago that's like, hey, do you want to go there for Mardi Gras? And I'm thinking?
No, not really. Because the last time we were
there, one of our Uber drivers told us.
That's the worst time of the year.
We celebrate it, people love it. There's beads everywhere.
It gets into the sewer system and takes them weeks to clean that shit up now. Can you imagine?
Because when I think in New Orleans I think of remonstrate the French Quarter Frenchmen Street big difference to between the two but Burma streets. Just it's it's a fucking it's a
shit show. It's a lot of Fun, but it is a
shit show. So when I'm walking down Bourbon
Street, I'm thinking God, this would have been great with the boys. We were like 21 to 24, 25 years
old going to these bars, drinking these holy hand, grenade drinks, just getting plastered meeting, all these people, you know, partying having a great time, because that's what it is, but it's everyone's here.
It's not just young people, it's adults.
But it's a shit show performers at every corner strip clubs at every corner. Holy hand, grenade bars at every
corner street performers which are remarkable every like 30 feet. And then there's Frenchmen
Street, which is more adult. So we're saying the conservative
too cool for school, 26, year, olds and people older.
And that's where most of the live music is going to be.
We went down there, watch the band one night, got there at 8:45 didn't leave the bar till like 3:00 in the morning.
But one thing that I really realized this trip is the one this is more than just Bourbon Street and the French quarter and Frenchmen Street. There's a lot of other side
streets. You walk around.
We went to a lot of really nice bars.
Really adult bars like this is nice, chill places and it was cool to walk around. Weirdly especially at night
because once you get away from those super busy streets and Nest, I swear the city never sleeps.
Now, I don't know how many I would imagine a lot of the bars close it like three or four. Only one time we were out even
close to that late. Because we're old man.
Like it's getting late. So, go back to the hotel and go
to sleep. It's like 11:30, maybe 12 by
then you've been drinking for like six hours, but I would go back if you haven't been in New Orleans, it mean, I think it's on everyone's bucket list. I would say go.
Go with family, even go with friends, go with other couples.
If you're a couple or one of those groups where you're like, mixed couples and mix singles, like, when we went to Austin.
So when you're in a large group, you can always have a good time, no matter where you're at. And New Orleans are just be.
I mean it's I mean make no mistake.
It is still a shit show but it's also a good time and there's a lot of great history there. And maybe I'm saying that
because I'm old, I'm like, my parents and they would show us slides. That was good.
I was just a film but no straight up slideshow their vacations and it was the most boring thing and I don't know if it was a combination between these still photos of mom and dad standing there with their little vacation hats on in front of some from Temple or just maybe the presentation overall just sucked. This isn't that now we have our
phones and stuff and we can relive.
We do Rios and stuff like that, but go, it's good time.
Talk about the food though we saw there's we discover there's a few chicken places there. I'm gonna talk about the chicken
in a second. Is Willie's there's brothers,
and there's one called like Voodoo.
I'm sure there's other ones too, but those are the big ones will ease. And brothers, are the really big
ones in town. What are some?
I feel like everywhere we went and I don't remember this a last time, but most of the food wasn't hot and I don't mean hot spicy. I mean, hot temperature.
I feel like a lot of the food we ate, which is like warm and and so much that I had to make a note of it.
I was like man, this isn't this would be really good if it was hot but it's like it's warm or the sauce was kind of cold and so we tell them and they take it back and then you want to do when I go down and just heat it up.
It still tastes the same. And I'm not really a food
complainer. When I go out.
My wife always tells me, oh my God, you're too nice.
Because if someone bumps me like we're at the, that one club from 8:45 to 3:00 in the morning and people, you know, people get crunk people having a good time. They started dancing and
bouncing around people kind of bumping into you.
I just put up with it you know, because I know that it's not intentional in my wife's, like you want me to say something?
I think we're waiting in line somewhere inches.
You want to go the front of the line?
I was waiting to get a drink at a bar.
I go not just relax. It's all right.
People are unaware of their surroundings or not, rude, they're just unaware. So when you go to the bar and
you're having a drink, and you're there with your buddies, your girlfriend's in your talk, in you order a drink, and you turn Some people order the drink and they leave the bar.
Some people just stand there at the bar and drink their drink and talk to other people. They don't scoot over because
they know there's six people behind him, waiting is to file in, they're not rude, they're just unaware.
And so that's that's kind of how I Travel through life like, okay, this person is intrude, they're just, they're just unaware. There's an idiot.
Try to run me off the road because you're driving too fast.
I just laugh at you. I don't honk and flick you off
and ride your ride, your bumper. I'm just like, I usually I just
laughs. I'm like, oh my God, this
motherfucker. I hope you didn't wreck.
I hope you get pulled over. Yeah.
So anyway, it's just the food was, I so usually, I don't, I usually don't send food back. It's cold.
I just deal with it, unless it's like too cold.
So I did send food back a couple times on this trip.
But it's weird. I just don't remember it being
hot and I don't remember it being that good.
It was good. Our last trip to New Orleans was
remember, the food being better and Yvette shared the same thing. In fact, she made that
observation more more than I did.
And in fact, we did an experience is called the petite chef and it's one of the only places in the country, came from France. It's a French thing where you
sit in this dark room and it's a light show and what happens is there's a Here that shoots down on your plate and it's an experience meals, like 130, 140 bucks a piece, so it's spending.
And what happens is this little cartoon Chef, you know, it comes onto your plate and he meant, he builds this stuff and then when the, the scene is over, but this goofy little animation, this music, then the real shafts and the real servers have already prepared your meal. And so each course, it's, for
course or five course. I'm like that, like the first
one, they make the salad and then the animation goes away.
And the Door opens and they bring everybody their salad.
Your main course. Course one course, to course
free dessert, it should have been better.
The food was it was close but again it wasn't hot.
So, you know, we had the salad and salad and supposed to be hot. But the next course, was a soup
is like a shallot octopus clam muscles.
A couple of little things and they bring it to you and it should you should be able to see the Steam on it.
Like it should be hot like Have to blow on the spoon?
Am I right? When someone serves you soup,
you want to blow on that spoon before you put that shit in your mouth? No, spoon blowing going on.
It just wasn't hot. And then, the next course, they
brought out butter-poached Lobster again.
It wasn't hot, in fact, Not only, was it?
Not hot, but I question if the lobster was fully cooked correctly because it was too soft, I don't care if it's butter, posher, not Lobster, should be a little more firm and they didn't even clean the intestinal tract.
So, what we vet, Who drinks lobsters overrated to begin with. She cousin or Lobster.
She sticks. Her mouth all grit, man.
Yes, disgusting is. She was disgusted.
She was sitting there. Scraping all that shit out of
the intestinal tract. I see her make that mistake
first, so I clean mine out. She ends up giving me her
laughter because he was, it wasn't a lot either as a super small portion. So usually, when you have the
four, five, six course meals, which I don't do a lot.
But upon research, I found that usually always, it's not always going to fill you up. I got spoiled because when I was
in New Jersey, Last time I was working in Jersey with my friend Dylan. Yeah, brought us to a restaurant
and his friend, Robbie is a chef that Robbie Felice.
Look them up on Instagram, r0b bief.
Alicew01 was practicing because he was getting invited to New York City, to to be a Michelin star Chef or something like that. He actually served us full
courses every single time which is the exact opposite by the time you do the third course you are full like he serves everybody gets a plate for each one.
I'm like yeah, this is way too much food.
I watch chopped. I watched all those shows.
This is way too much food. Robbie serves at all, which by
the way he is. Now he's been nationally
recognized. That's pretty fun.
Kohlrabi Feliz. Yeah, and I ate his food.
Anyway, back to New Orleans. Like every course is just, you
know, the end of the day. She had two drinks.
I had two drinks. Our bill was like $350 with
gratuity added. There's other people in the
room, should have been better. But you know what?
The best food we ate New Orleans, was it?
My opinion. The chicken.
Yeah, the first night. We're walking back.
I fly in as though I'm on the plane, I'm flying in and before I even I'm in the Uber on the way to the hotel.
I get a text message from hey come down to Bourbon Street, I'm like oh shit. Please don't tell me.
You're drinking a hand, grenade. She goes.
Yep, sends me a selfie with her crew with a hand grenade.
I'm like shit. She was smart.
Those took a sip and dumped it out.
She's no fool. She knew as soon as she took
that sips you should dump it out the restroom.
Somebody else paid for it. Soon, as you took that sip, she
knew This is bad. I'm not going to make it through
the night because they gone from a dinner to that.
And at dinner, it was probably two or three drinks.
So she's smart mouths when they're smart.
So, we were out all night. That's the night where we went
to the club and the ATM fee was $45.
Not speaking from experience, that's what I was told.
Not line forget that not line part so we're walking back and we're looking for Voodoo chicken but we stumble across Willie's and there's a Willy's chicken like every 50 feet.
So we go into Willie's chicken. We get, I don't know.
Six piece Mike's between the two of us, we get six wings, like some fries and I want cat fish, fry, catfish.
Sounds gross is great. In fact, I think it's great
because you've had it almost all of it.
And like half a catfish, but it was good.
It was hot like it was not, it had a little bit of spice to it, but it was heat hot like they you ordered it and they made it right then it wasn't sitting up in the window.
That was good next night. You know, where I poked, I had
posted that and on Instagram Westwood mechanic on Instagram.
Send me a message. He goes, oh, I love New Orleans,
you guys gotta try Brothers. Chicken has a brother Shaikh and
I go I don't know. We just had chicken last night.
I don't know if I'm gonna have chicken again, dude, that's that's a lot but maybe sure. Shit, there's a Brothers chicken
right across from our hotel. We stayed at the AC Marriott I
go. That's Brothers is the same
thing and he goes, yeah, it's the same.
I'm thing. So it's like a Brothers
convenience store and inside the store, they have the chicken.
So we stopped there and we ordered again except for they ran out of everything. That's like I want some mac and
cheese and I go, I'm gonna get the chicken in the fish.
See what kind of fish they miss? A, we're gonna fish when, what
kind of fish it is, we'll get chicken.
Look at fish. We get mac and cheese.
So what do you want? I go.
Oh, let me get the three piece. Chicken, mac and cheese.
We don't have mac and cheese. What do you want?
Okay, what the fish we don't have fish.
What else you want? Like, what do you have?
We have fries. That's it while guess we're
getting the chicken in the fries.
So we got the chicken, the fries.
And it was really good too. So that was the best thing we
ate. In my opinion, we did the
Beignets. I still say that I say Cafe
Beignet is better than Café Du Monde.
Café Du Monde is, I think they're more known there.
But Kathy beignet is better. But there's we went to two
locations when we were there. There was one on Canal Street
and then there's one like in the French Quarter, and I think it's bourbon, but it's one of those streets like down like deep down in it and the one that's deep down in.
It was a lot better. It was crispy and a little
crunch to it but still soft hot in the middle and then the one on Canal which is like a sopapilla man.
It's like this big piece of bread with powdered sugar on it.
What is good? Lots of overweight people in The
Big Easy, not fat, shaming anyone.
But I blame the food from the police officers to the employees of almost everywhere. We went, they were clinically
overweight. I'm not saying huge, like, you
need a lawyer lift or I don't know if you guys know what a whore your lift is. Those of you in the medical
industry, know what a horror lifted.
It's not that. But everyone was visibly
overweight. There aren't you didn't see a
lot of fit people in New Orleans but that way, And I blame the food because the food is had--they.
You have a Cafe Beignet Café Du Monde.
You know, you get that crawfish sauce, the booze the beer.
It's just, yeah, it's just, it's too easy.
I'm glad I don't live in New Orleans more than just because it's a dirty is probably the dirtiest City I've ever been to New Orleans is a dirty City. I think I said that at the
beginning, it is the dirtiest popular tourist destination in the United States. I believe that hands down no
bones about it because it's all condensed to is you can go to Tent City in La as dirty as shit.
Dirty spots, a phoenix there are definitely dirty spots in New York dirty spot Chicago but for the concentrated area that makes up the tourist spot of New Orleans it's dirty and it's stinky. But that's New Orleans.
Let's get into some car news for some reason.
I like giving you guys Tesla news every once in a while.
But you know this seems like Like its kind of newsworthy.
This is an email I got from Brad Finance.com.
Yeah, the Associated Press news wire Tesla accelerate to the front of the pack taking pole position as the world's most valuable automaker brand Automotive brand with its brand surging by 44 percent. According to a new report from
leading brand valuation consultancy, brand Finance, this makes it the world's most valuable item of build automobiles brand for the first time in the first time that the brand, which does not manufacture.
Internal combustion, buildings has topped the global rankings.
Every year, leading brand valuation consultancy, brantner that nobody cares. It says, the Tesla brand is now
worth five times. Its pre-pandemic value out.
Overtaking last year's litre, Mercedes Benz.
And last year's runner-up, Toyota this next piece was reported by Keith Burnett of Corvette blogger.com, although
I've seen it now, published on multiple sources.
This article is called it front lift just become obsolete.
So, what is front lifts for those of you non-car, people are those, your car people don't have a car that has a Lift.
It's a suspension thing. That's built into the car where
it lifts the front of the car up over curbs.
Speed bumps, steep inclines, a little bit rate, basically raises suspensions, you don't scrape the shit out of the front of your car. Something I need that my wife
won't. Let me get on those.
She promised we could get it. If I sign on the dotted line for
more money for the house, except for after I sign, she has now, I don't think so. So an EV automaker in China
named byd is introducing a new sports car called the Wang Zhang or something. The Yang Wang Wang Yang the
Yang, the Yang Wang Everybody Wang Chung Tonight called the Yang Wang, u9 the features, a radical active suspension control, called the discs us X, they're just trying to screw me up. They recently demonstrated the
car offers three wheel driving And even has the ability to Bunny Hop with all four wheels leaving the ground.
Bunny Hop. I love that.
That's a you know how many of you could Bunny Hop but that's like the one thing I could competently do on a bicycle, you ride and you jump and you somehow jump with your bike with you without going over a ramp and you bring both wheels up.
So we had always drive and ride really hard and it's get close to a curb. You would bunny hop up on the
sidewalk or bunny hop, over little things.
I can never bunnyhop high, but I can buddy up.
So I know what it is. There's a video out there where
it shows a car driving and it's missing one of the front wheels, but it's still driving kind of rocking like a boat would over waves. Which makes me wonder?
Is that is it real? The Chinese are crafty if I can
say so is it a real video? But the fact that a car could
literally Bunny Hop, that's some serious stuff.
But I don't know how practical it is.
Like I can see automakers adopting the technology for it.
To lift up which they already have.
So, I don't know why. This article even exists when it
says good front lift, just become obsolete.
No, it didn't. Come obsolete.
It did not become obsolete because we still need the front and rear lifted. I could use it on minus X.
It's all I know. Bunny Hop car.
Look it up. And finally, as reported by AZ
Central and Arizona Foothills magazine, some lucky, Arizona residents and visitors can. Now enjoy food delivery by drone
live by robotics has launched his first delivery by drone trial run in Mesa, which is right down the street from me after raising four million in seed investment funding.
Because remember a few years ago that I noticed in downtown Tempe, The delivery. The food.
Delivery robots. There are these little I think
they're called my something Star Industries.
I don't remember fully because I reached out to them and they never got back to me. One of them on the podcast.
But if you ordered for like ubereats or something, down at the campus of ASU, they would put the food in these little robots and then would drive it across the street.
They have little lights on them and you could track.
I'm just like, you can track your package is now really almost real time, or when you order an Uber, you can see the Uber, oh, they were is turning up the street.
It's coming down my street New Bridge right in front of me.
I need to go outside and get my food.
Same deal with the, the ones that were driving around a couple years ago and I would imagine it's the same time.
Same deal here. Like what's the commercial don't
they, is it a video? I don't know, I don't remember
if it's a video that I saw on social media or if it's a commercial where the the Drone delivers a cake and it just lands and crashes like I can't imagine having a cake delivered.
But what is it delivering? Let's see.
Just like ubereats doordash GrubHub and Postmates customers order directly through the app during the Live Trial customers with a one mile within a one-mile radius of participating restaurants. And that's a long that one mile
that's far, I don't know drones that well but that seems far One mile radius restaurants can place an order for just three dollars after placing an order of flyby calls.
Each customer, when the order takes flight the app, guides each customer to watch their surroundings and communication visual markers to the Drone pilot.
Flyby instructs customers not to hang up until the order is delivered to maintain a safe distance from the Drone.
So, the Drone pilot that means there's somebody piloting, the Drone I guess that's interesting.
This is an interesting development.
I don't remember if we ever talked about on this podcast, have to go back and look, but there was another podcast or named Jason be good boy, who had wake up with Wonder and we had a as a Discord or Whatsapp group and he was talking about this technology of Buddy of his was trying to Source this and raise the money for it and this was the future in the thought.
And the question was, you know Howard?
I think it wasn't on this podcast.
The question is, how are you going to manage Air Traffic Control when you have hundreds of drones flying around?
Sounds like someone's figured that out.
So this will be interesting. Have your food delivered by a
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