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Hey everybody, hi. Welcome to the show. Here we are. It's Tuesday, August 2nd. And the Jeff

Gerson show is live. I'm Jeff Gerson posting today. I turned the music back up before it

had finished fading out because I'm a professional. You know what I mean? Pro. Pro level podcasting

here. They don't just sell these microphones to anyone. You need to pass a test. And that

test says, uh, do you? Can you not get enough of your own voice? You pathetic egomaniac.

And you check the box. Yes, definitely. And then they're like, great. You've got a podcast,

mother fucker. And you're like, yeah. Woo. So here we are. Ready to talk about the power

of video games and more. I don't know. It's so gosh. Hmm. So yesterday was my birthday.

And that was a good time. I ran a ran a stream here. And we ended up playing quite a bit of

track mania. And I decided to start a track mania server. I decided that that would be the

that would be the the only logical move would be for this community to have its own track mania

server. And so I started going down that road of paying someone 15 euros a month for I believe

three months to to run a track mania server. And that went that went horribly wrong. That would

absolutely arrive. Well, I don't know. I had to contact this is going to be a big week for

talking to customer support people and trying to get problems solved. It turns out. So yeah, kind

of a kind of a long running thing. Also, I've started ranking energy drinks. I think I don't know

if I think that happens since we last spoke here on the podcast started building that list. And so

um. That list is just getting longer. And I you know, just these these rabbit holes keep getting

keep getting weird. I've got another that I I've got a blue razz bang here. I'm going to open up

and see if that's any better than the sourheads. One that I had yesterday, which was terrible.

Which was absolutely awful. This can is nicely dented up. That's how you know it's that's how

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