693: Hobbies, Puzzle Game Circuit, and Web Monetization News

Hey. They're here. Shop and Main. Actually, you're listening to another episode of Shop, Talk, Show podcast all about front end web design, and AI, baby. Getting the money, Chris. What's so awesome? Yeah. It's like. Right? Giving us nothing. Yeah. There you go. Yeah. Yeah. Welcome to this, you know, just post Thanksgiving special. I hope you made it through your your family's stuff. You know? Yeah. And we'll see. Nobody knows. Enough turkey to, last a lifetime here, Americans. I guess other places are like, why would I eat a turkey? So and that's a good question. It is kind of Why? It's so great. Wildly popular as a as a lunch meat, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Like, it crush it crushes chicken as a sandwich meat. Mhmm. But no but nobody, but obviously, chicken is, you know, generally thought of as better, you know. I had a guy propose it for our for you know, I'm I'm throwing Thanksgiving this year. I know this is weird. We're talking about it both past and present, but we're we're actually recording this to the day before Thanksgiving, and it will come out slightly after Thanksgiving, though. He's He's like, why don't we just do chickens? And I was like, I don't know why. Everybody prefers chickens. I prefer chicken, but this it's the rule. I just I have to do it. I'm more of a sentimentalist than I thought, apparently. That's fine. Doing the turkey. And giving in to big pilgrim, Chris, your Yeah. Your I suppose so. Yeah. Yeah. No. It's, I don't know. We're we're we we've tried to do the, turkeys, like, make them ourselves and stuff, and we kind of rejected on that. And we're kinda, like, Whole Foods, that has a little premade thing. And, like All of it too for down to the rolls. They'll give you an app. So we're kind of like, hey. Let's maybe do that and save ourselves a whole bunch of it, mess and grumpiness and you know? Yeah. My wife's gonna make the sides though how she wants because we did it last year, and it was kinda, like, you know, mid tier sides. You know? That's you know? No one makes it like grandma made it. You know what I mean? So For sure. Yeah. That's what people want is whatever they grew up with. I heard that the other day, and I and I and I like that. You know? Like, however the mashed potatoes were when you're, like, 10, that's how you want the mashed potatoes. You don't but you're you're not like, dude, that turkey better be grandpa's famous basting. You know? Yeah. Yeah. Probably not. Because they probably screwed it up. You know? Like, Alton Brown. You know? You know, everybody knows Alton Brown. Right? He dropped, like, a a special turkey episode just, not long ago kinda. And in it, he kinda takes credit for brining turkeys. He's like Really? You're …