WEBVTT 00:00:00.725 --> 00:00:01.845 Hello, Mr. Bo. 00:00:02.685 --> 00:00:03.265 Hello. 00:00:04.185 --> 00:00:06.805 Are you happily back from all your travels? 00:00:07.705 --> 00:00:08.905 Happily? I'm back. 00:00:11.925 --> 00:00:16.285 Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I understand. 00:00:17.725 --> 00:00:18.305 Happily. 00:00:19.965 --> 00:00:21.285 Happily ever backily. 00:00:21.685 --> 00:00:26.865 Happily ever backily. There you go. There it goes. There is your title. 00:00:26.865 --> 00:00:35.025 Title shall we uh just uh crank her up and go uh-huh here we go wait wait i 00:00:35.025 --> 00:00:37.485 almost forgot an important button here we go, 00:00:59.105 --> 00:01:04.865 Welcome to Curmudgeon's Corner for Saturday, June 15th, 2024. 00:01:05.165 --> 00:01:08.645 It's just after 2 UTC as we're starting to record. 00:01:08.825 --> 00:01:14.125 I am Sam Mentor, and for the first time in like years, Yvonne Bo is back. Hello, Yvonne. 00:01:14.245 --> 00:01:15.965 Years. In a couple of weeks. Hello. 00:01:18.285 --> 00:01:24.085 Yes, yes. We had a good time with Bruce and then Pete while you were gone, but now we got you back. 00:01:24.085 --> 00:01:31.305 Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i heard you complaining about me being absent but in my defense i. 00:01:31.305 --> 00:01:34.345 Was i was teasing not really complaining. 00:01:34.345 --> 00:01:44.305 In my in my defense i have looked up stats okay so according to this year yeah 00:01:44.305 --> 00:01:51.865 i have slept at a hotel let me see how many nights i had it right here here we go Oh, where'd you go? 00:01:51.985 --> 00:01:54.945 Nights this year. You're already to 41. 00:01:56.285 --> 00:01:57.965 43 nights in a hotel. 00:01:58.285 --> 00:02:01.045 Out of how many so far this year? How many days? 00:02:01.145 --> 00:02:06.225 I mean, well, I mean, there's, it's about a hundred and what? 00:02:06.405 --> 00:02:10.965 Uh, 50 days. I'm going to guess 60 days, 160 days. 00:02:11.345 --> 00:02:14.285 Day one 67 day one 67. 00:02:14.445 --> 00:02:19.065 So I've spent about, I've spent about a third 25 to 30. already what did you 00:02:19.065 --> 00:02:28.245 say 43 days 40 40 hang on 43 nights at a hotel that's that's 25.7. 00:02:28.245 --> 00:02:30.325 Percent of the time since the year began. 00:02:30.325 --> 00:02:37.825 Yeah slept at a hotel so yeah it's been a job you know oh thank you it's been 00:02:37.825 --> 00:02:41.225 it's been a lot of nights and i've been out of town, 00:02:42.743 --> 00:02:46.523 You know, I, I looked up last year total. 00:02:47.363 --> 00:02:51.003 I think I maybe spent like less than 20. 00:02:52.063 --> 00:02:55.003 Yeah, that's right. Less than 20 last year. 00:02:55.363 --> 00:02:59.263 And, and I, we're not even, yeah. And I mean, more than doubled in, 00:02:59.283 --> 00:03:00.723 in five and a half months. 00:03:01.243 --> 00:03:01.723 Yeah. 00:03:02.003 --> 00:03:02.983 I mean, so. 00:03:02.983 --> 00:03:04.603 20 was all of last year. 00:03:04.683 --> 00:03:05.943 All of last year. 00:03:06.023 --> 00:03:08.343 Not, not just up to this point of last year. 00:03:08.383 --> 00:03:17.043 Right. That was all of last year. you know so i i'm oh so any. 00:03:17.043 --> 00:03:21.523 Anyway folks our plan for the day is as usual we're going to do a but first 00:03:21.523 --> 00:03:24.943 yvonne's going to do something non-newsy i'm going to do something non-newsy 00:03:24.943 --> 00:03:28.883 and then we'll have a couple news related segments after that that yvonne will 00:03:28.883 --> 00:03:31.103 pick the first one i will pick the second one there we go. 00:03:31.103 --> 00:03:34.943 And a couple of occasions that i was traveling you know i think some of you 00:03:34.943 --> 00:03:38.963 that have listened to the podcast for whatever the hell damn reasons we had 00:03:38.963 --> 00:03:41.723 a lot of technical issues oh your. 00:03:41.723 --> 00:03:44.843 Your connections sucked whenever you were traveling. 00:03:44.843 --> 00:03:50.143 Oh my god i mean it was just bad i mean you know on several occasions i mean 00:03:50.143 --> 00:03:54.743 there was one you know there you know on a couple of them i couldn't even be 00:03:54.743 --> 00:03:56.083 there for the finish i mean say i'm 00:03:56.083 --> 00:03:59.763 at the finish by himself because kept disconnecting so many times story. 00:03:59.763 --> 00:04:00.363 Of my life. 00:04:00.363 --> 00:04:11.703 Yeah well no so um so anyway you know i i so i i i don't know so what what's 00:04:11.703 --> 00:04:14.863 going on uh what's so what what do. 00:04:14.863 --> 00:04:17.163 You want your but first to be this time yvonne. 00:04:17.163 --> 00:04:20.643 My butt first you have. 00:04:20.643 --> 00:04:26.303 A interesting thing to talk about that's not particularly newsy i'm just re 00:04:26.303 --> 00:04:29.283 repeating how this usually works because i'm sure you've forgotten by now. 00:04:29.283 --> 00:04:38.103 Trying to remember what's happened news where the hell is i was in anything you. 00:04:38.103 --> 00:04:39.963 Did guatemala and then you did disney right. 00:04:39.963 --> 00:04:44.983 Well i'll talk about something that is just it's not like general news but it 00:04:44.983 --> 00:04:51.063 is kind of it's it's it's well it's it's personal newsy because no you know 00:04:51.063 --> 00:04:56.243 okay nobody really cares about puerto rican elections okay all right yeah those 00:04:56.243 --> 00:04:57.763 puerto Puerto Ricans care about the elections. 00:04:57.903 --> 00:05:01.263 I mean, it's not like, you know, it doesn't really impact. 00:05:01.443 --> 00:05:02.543 Are you guys a state yet? 00:05:03.163 --> 00:05:06.903 Nope. So independent. Nope. 00:05:07.083 --> 00:05:12.723 So anyway, one of the things that so Puerto Rico had primaries recently. 00:05:13.143 --> 00:05:14.703 Okay. And. 00:05:15.993 --> 00:05:21.613 You know, the incumbent governor was primary, okay? 00:05:21.813 --> 00:05:29.813 The incumbent governor came to office in a really circuitous way. 00:05:29.933 --> 00:05:30.533 Circuitous? 00:05:30.693 --> 00:05:37.893 Yes. Because there was a governor from their party that was governor up until, 00:05:37.973 --> 00:05:46.173 like, 2019 when he was forced to resign because of a massive scandal involving 00:05:46.173 --> 00:05:53.773 a Telegram account that had a chat between him and his high school buddies in 00:05:53.773 --> 00:05:57.693 which he basically disparaged just about everybody. 00:05:58.033 --> 00:05:58.593 Okay. 00:05:59.313 --> 00:06:02.673 In very sophomoric terms. Homophobic terms. 00:06:03.593 --> 00:06:09.433 Transphobic terms. I mean, misogynist terms. I mean, every, which every, 00:06:09.653 --> 00:06:15.733 which, you know, is, you know, you know, racist, you know, misogynist, 00:06:15.753 --> 00:06:17.933 whatever, you know, all the bad ists. 00:06:17.933 --> 00:06:21.093 They, they were misbehaving in the group chat or whatever. 00:06:21.293 --> 00:06:27.233 Oh my God. And, but he, it's not like he was a passive, you know, 00:06:27.233 --> 00:06:30.653 it's not like he was on a chat where other people just said stuff or whatever. 00:06:30.773 --> 00:06:35.053 He was an active participant saying this kind of stuff. 00:06:35.053 --> 00:06:37.993 So he was forced to resign 00:06:37.993 --> 00:06:41.133 for according to the 00:06:41.133 --> 00:06:44.753 law he had appointed this person that's currently governor as his 00:06:44.753 --> 00:06:47.513 replacement because something in the 00:06:47.513 --> 00:06:53.653 line of succession where the people that were in line also had previously resigned 00:06:53.653 --> 00:06:58.073 nice okay so the secretary of 00:06:58.073 --> 00:07:06.293 state was it was it was a mess and then it went to the supreme court the. 00:07:06.293 --> 00:07:07.453 Puerto rican supreme court. 00:07:07.453 --> 00:07:10.353 So the puerto rican supreme court and it came 00:07:10.353 --> 00:07:13.853 about that somebody else should be 00:07:13.853 --> 00:07:17.093 governor and not this guy so after a very short amount of time he had to step 00:07:17.093 --> 00:07:21.633 down and this person wound up being governor then he ran for election he did 00:07:21.633 --> 00:07:28.113 win but the percentage of the vote that he got was like 30 some odd percent 00:07:28.113 --> 00:07:31.673 and so you You don't need a majority. You didn't need a runoff. It was, you know. 00:07:31.893 --> 00:07:35.433 You just need the plurality and you win. And there were like a whole bunch of candidates. 00:07:35.933 --> 00:07:38.393 And it was a big split. Okay. Okay. 00:07:39.483 --> 00:07:45.403 And so he was governor. He has not been very popular. 00:07:45.563 --> 00:07:49.903 I was trying to understand why that has been. 00:07:51.043 --> 00:07:59.163 And a lot of the stuff came back that he was just and I can see it now that he was just very not. 00:08:00.083 --> 00:08:09.143 How do I say empathetic with the plight and the problems that the Puerto Ricans had? OK. OK. 00:08:09.483 --> 00:08:15.983 Um, and so he lost the primary as the incumbent to some, you know, 00:08:15.983 --> 00:08:21.303 so, so he got, you know, here's the interesting part. 00:08:21.423 --> 00:08:27.883 The polls leading up to the primary showed that supposedly he had a, 00:08:28.123 --> 00:08:34.683 I mean, it wasn't a huge lead, but it should have been above the margin of error. Okay. 00:08:35.043 --> 00:08:39.043 Okay. So it is a big enough lead that you, you're not like it's close. 00:08:39.843 --> 00:08:46.143 Big enough in the lead that he should have won okay but not only did he lose 00:08:46.143 --> 00:08:50.863 he lost big okay it was it was over 10 points yet. 00:08:50.863 --> 00:08:52.743 Another big pulling error i. 00:08:52.743 --> 00:08:58.043 Know and that's yeah and i mean it was like it was a big miss and not just that 00:08:58.043 --> 00:09:02.923 turnout was terrible okay it's just turnout was awful, 00:09:04.349 --> 00:09:08.049 And so it was just one of those that just smacked you in the face. 00:09:08.089 --> 00:09:09.569 I'm like, what the hell, man? 00:09:09.669 --> 00:09:14.309 I mean, it's just, you know, you get this turnout that is just so bad. 00:09:14.669 --> 00:09:17.829 I mean, compared to the previous primaries. 00:09:18.729 --> 00:09:24.369 And hell, I think if I remember, the previous primaries were ran right there during COVID. 00:09:25.789 --> 00:09:28.489 And this one had worse turnout. 00:09:29.189 --> 00:09:30.229 Okay. Yeah. No. 00:09:31.689 --> 00:09:35.709 So it was, it was pretty bad. 00:09:35.869 --> 00:09:42.169 One thing that has weighed on everybody has been the situation with the electric grid. 00:09:42.329 --> 00:09:46.109 There's a massive power outage again this week. Okay. 00:09:46.109 --> 00:09:48.549 This is still ding ding. 00:09:48.729 --> 00:09:51.489 This is my phone telling me to go to sleep. 00:09:51.589 --> 00:09:58.049 That this is still stuff that's never been fully fixed after the hurricane a few years back. 00:09:58.109 --> 00:10:08.729 Yeah. Yeah, but a big reason for that is because even though Congress had authorized 00:10:08.729 --> 00:10:12.649 a lot of funding for Reconstruction, 00:10:12.749 --> 00:10:16.629 very little has been spent so far. 00:10:17.729 --> 00:10:21.549 I mean, this is like seven years later. And a big part of that was because during 00:10:21.549 --> 00:10:26.969 the Trump administration, he had blocked a lot of it from being spent. 00:10:26.969 --> 00:10:31.249 Usually by, you know, three or four years, he would have gotten it done. 00:10:31.789 --> 00:10:38.169 There's been a lot of changes also in the structure of the electric company 00:10:38.169 --> 00:10:46.289 in Puerto Rico, because there was a discovery of this massive fraud for which. 00:10:47.429 --> 00:10:53.369 Nobody seemed to have gone to jail about related to the purchase of overpriced 00:10:53.369 --> 00:10:58.629 oil from Brazil that was above market price, 00:10:58.929 --> 00:11:05.329 but that also did not meet federal clean air standards and that they were faking 00:11:05.329 --> 00:11:07.089 the certificates for it. 00:11:08.109 --> 00:11:08.949 Beautiful. Beautiful. 00:11:09.029 --> 00:11:15.349 And this was in the tune of billions of dollars, which contributed to the bankruptcy 00:11:15.349 --> 00:11:17.269 of Puerto in Puerto Rico as well. 00:11:18.369 --> 00:11:22.269 It's because Puerto Rico is going through a bankruptcy process right now, 00:11:22.329 --> 00:11:27.509 still that supervised by a board of oversight appointed by, by, 00:11:27.509 --> 00:11:32.529 by, I think it's the president was the main person that disappointed people to the board. 00:11:32.589 --> 00:11:37.149 I thought that was a law authorized by Congress because Puerto Rico did not 00:11:37.149 --> 00:11:41.189 fall under like municipalities can file for bankruptcy, 00:11:41.809 --> 00:11:48.449 but not, but, But a state can't file for bankruptcy or a territory. 00:11:48.869 --> 00:11:53.409 And so this is what this has become, where it's just been a complete shush show. 00:11:53.489 --> 00:11:59.249 I did speak to people where finally they are putting these plans together to 00:11:59.249 --> 00:12:02.629 finally spend a lot of this money on the electrical grid. 00:12:02.709 --> 00:12:08.789 But look, they have this massive power outage again, like recently and during the primaries. 00:12:09.129 --> 00:12:13.769 There was a massive power outage the day of the primaries. the counting took 00:12:13.769 --> 00:12:19.409 several days which shouldn't have taken several days but it did, 00:12:20.889 --> 00:12:27.649 and people are deeply unhappy there there there is one funny like aside so you 00:12:27.649 --> 00:12:30.389 know we're talking about ai right and oh. 00:12:30.389 --> 00:12:32.009 Were we yeah oh okay yep. 00:12:32.009 --> 00:12:38.309 We've you know we've talked about it a few times on the show over the last... 00:12:38.309 --> 00:12:42.769 And we may well do so again. It's one of the potential topics. 00:12:43.269 --> 00:12:47.409 Right. And so it's been a subject that we've talked about. 00:12:47.409 --> 00:12:48.289 It keeps coming up. 00:12:48.429 --> 00:12:57.749 It keeps coming up. And so there is this comedian in Puerto Rico that I don't know what tools he... 00:12:58.369 --> 00:13:05.289 What AI tools he is using, but I've seen him play for a couple of months with 00:13:05.289 --> 00:13:12.889 every time some event happens, him creating some parody of it using AI tools. Okay. 00:13:12.949 --> 00:13:13.429 All right. 00:13:13.509 --> 00:13:18.909 And he's created videos. And one of the things I think I mentioned that he made 00:13:18.909 --> 00:13:22.889 a video where there are a lot of people in it and the videos are very spooky. 00:13:23.209 --> 00:13:27.989 On our Slack, we had shared a video of like AI making videos, 00:13:28.983 --> 00:13:30.343 I think it was a beer commercial. 00:13:30.783 --> 00:13:34.983 Oh yeah. That was, that one was like a while ago. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 00:13:35.063 --> 00:13:40.763 But it's been like a, but, but, but that it's just when a lot of people were 00:13:40.763 --> 00:13:45.623 involved, they started doing AI, had to do a lot of really odd stuff. 00:13:45.823 --> 00:13:49.543 Okay. So he did some videos before where there was like, well, 00:13:49.603 --> 00:13:52.743 what are the things that happened? There was, there was talking about the power. 00:13:52.823 --> 00:13:57.503 There was, they had, I've never heard of this before anywhere. 00:13:57.503 --> 00:14:03.063 Where they were having an influencers awards night okay. 00:14:03.063 --> 00:14:04.923 Yes yes they do have those things. 00:14:04.923 --> 00:14:07.723 They do okay i i didn't know 00:14:07.723 --> 00:14:10.523 this and they had it at this theater they were 00:14:10.523 --> 00:14:13.743 they were scheduling it at this very old theater from 00:14:13.743 --> 00:14:16.743 was it the streamies no no 00:14:16.743 --> 00:14:19.483 no this was a local one in puerto rico i don't know what 00:14:19.483 --> 00:14:22.823 the hell they called it okay okay and so 00:14:22.823 --> 00:14:26.403 but they were going to do it at this theater that 00:14:26.403 --> 00:14:29.543 dates back to to spanish colonial times 00:14:29.543 --> 00:14:32.523 there is this really cool theater in san 00:14:32.523 --> 00:14:35.603 juan that i've been to for events it's 00:14:35.603 --> 00:14:39.023 it's it's really nice but it's a it's a small interesting 00:14:39.023 --> 00:14:41.803 location it was i mean it's 00:14:41.803 --> 00:14:44.943 the theater is about it was inaugurated 00:14:44.943 --> 00:14:47.843 in 1832 to give perspective okay so it's you 00:14:47.843 --> 00:14:51.583 know this was like a couple of hundred year old theater okay and 00:14:51.583 --> 00:14:55.023 they were going gonna do the this you know influencer night 00:14:55.023 --> 00:14:57.803 thing whatever well when they got there the 00:14:57.803 --> 00:15:02.623 event was gonna start there was a power outage so they couldn't have the event 00:15:02.623 --> 00:15:07.483 now there was a whole bunch of videos posted online and so he made this comedic 00:15:07.483 --> 00:15:13.623 video that showed like all these people at this theater and uh influencers dressed 00:15:13.623 --> 00:15:17.163 in like garb from like 200 years ago. 00:15:18.438 --> 00:15:25.458 And just just making fun of it so this weekend he produced a whole bunch of parody songs, 00:15:26.278 --> 00:15:30.758 using these tools and one thing the songs were hilarious and i realized that 00:15:30.758 --> 00:15:34.718 he said look guys you know i don't know what's going to happen with ai but i'll 00:15:34.718 --> 00:15:36.918 say this i was able to produce, 00:15:37.498 --> 00:15:42.138 it took me a couple of years one time to produce an album i was able to produce 00:15:42.138 --> 00:15:49.778 eight songs in a weekend you no no not this guy the the guy that's making the parodies oh. 00:15:49.778 --> 00:15:53.478 Okay i got i got confused at some point thought you were talking about yourself. 00:15:53.478 --> 00:15:56.238 No don't no not me no so this guy that made 00:15:56.238 --> 00:15:59.798 the parody video before of the of the yeah yeah 00:15:59.798 --> 00:16:03.818 yeah yeah was able to make eight videos making 00:16:03.818 --> 00:16:06.558 fun of the political situation and the 00:16:06.558 --> 00:16:10.198 song and the music or whatever whatever that were really original okay 00:16:10.198 --> 00:16:17.618 but he used it using all these ai tools and they were hilarious so maybe this 00:16:17.618 --> 00:16:21.418 is what you know i know a lot of people are scared of what the eye is but i 00:16:21.418 --> 00:16:28.018 saw that i mean what he said is his productivity of doing this kind of shit it's like skyrocketed, 00:16:28.758 --> 00:16:34.998 and and the content was original it wasn't you know it wasn't a recycling of 00:16:34.998 --> 00:16:37.778 like shit that you You just saw copy-pasted from other places. 00:16:38.778 --> 00:16:44.298 Although the way those tend to work is like the way it's put together into the 00:16:44.298 --> 00:16:49.038 new thing isn't recycled, but the style of some of the elements maybe is. 00:16:49.278 --> 00:16:53.898 Well, I think the one thing is, you know, it's you pick the thing is, 00:16:54.078 --> 00:16:57.618 I really see it more a lot like. 00:16:59.961 --> 00:17:03.881 What he was talking is, look, I'm the guy who picked, you know, 00:17:03.901 --> 00:17:07.301 I want to create it this way, right? 00:17:07.401 --> 00:17:13.141 This is what I want it to look like. This is, I maybe I will write the song, 00:17:13.781 --> 00:17:20.241 but it will help me, you know, make multiple instruments at once and make it, 00:17:20.241 --> 00:17:22.821 do it faster and a whole bunch of stuff. And yeah, yeah. 00:17:22.881 --> 00:17:27.541 Click you to videos and give, Hey, I want the graphics to look like from this 00:17:27.541 --> 00:17:33.441 era and from this. And, And it just made it happen a lot faster. 00:17:34.001 --> 00:17:34.441 Yes. 00:17:34.581 --> 00:17:36.361 So, yeah. So he was... 00:17:36.361 --> 00:17:39.641 Well, and just to, like, not to get into the whole AI discussion, 00:17:39.861 --> 00:17:43.181 maybe we save that for later if we end up talking about Apple. I don't know if we will. 00:17:43.201 --> 00:17:47.461 But I just thought... But Puerto Rico, the whole thing... To circle the whole thing. 00:17:47.561 --> 00:17:52.061 The thing is that Puerto Rico has had a rich history of, like, 00:17:52.081 --> 00:17:59.301 very funny political satire and parody. And I remember that there were these shows. 00:17:59.361 --> 00:18:02.141 There was an hour and a half show that I used to watch every week. 00:18:02.221 --> 00:18:08.341 It was just making fun of politicians from every party of everything and whatnot or whatever. 00:18:08.561 --> 00:18:11.441 And this guy is from that vein. vein 00:18:11.441 --> 00:18:14.581 and he he he really has 00:18:14.581 --> 00:18:17.361 you know i was just seeing all these 00:18:17.361 --> 00:18:20.521 videos he's been producing the last couple of weeks just making fun of 00:18:20.521 --> 00:18:23.321 what happened to the primary and the power outage the thing 00:18:23.321 --> 00:18:26.181 into whatever and they've been 00:18:26.181 --> 00:18:29.181 hilarious you know but but i will 00:18:29.181 --> 00:18:32.021 say that what he's discussing with my wife is that 00:18:32.021 --> 00:18:34.801 man i mean and and it's just they're 00:18:34.801 --> 00:18:37.721 just just i find it 00:18:37.721 --> 00:18:40.421 that the videos that we do 00:18:40.421 --> 00:18:43.181 in puerto rico for this are a lot i find them so much 00:18:43.181 --> 00:18:45.841 funnier than almost any content i've seen even in the u 00:18:45.841 --> 00:18:52.481 has to do this stuff and it's it's the thing is that i think that the parody 00:18:52.481 --> 00:18:57.301 is done the guys used to have the slogan we try to offend everybody equally 00:18:57.301 --> 00:19:01.841 so the one thing that they were trying to do is that they weren't doing it so 00:19:01.841 --> 00:19:05.101 So if you're one from one party, you would be offended when not. 00:19:05.161 --> 00:19:08.521 It doesn't matter which he was making fun of Party X. 00:19:08.681 --> 00:19:11.561 But even if part of Party X, you saw it and you were like, oh, 00:19:11.601 --> 00:19:12.601 my God, this is so hilarious. 00:19:13.555 --> 00:19:16.335 You know, I think, and that's the thing that I think is the, 00:19:16.335 --> 00:19:20.775 the, the theme I like about the political satire that it's not, 00:19:20.775 --> 00:19:24.775 you know, the stupid, like, let's go Brandon stuff or whatever, 00:19:24.835 --> 00:19:27.415 not like this. That is really, truly insulting to a guy. 00:19:27.515 --> 00:19:30.315 It's something that even if you were a Democrat, you saw this, 00:19:30.375 --> 00:19:34.115 you'd be like, like, oh my God, this is hilarious. 00:19:34.275 --> 00:19:40.055 So I think that is the, the healthier part of the, of the political thing. 00:19:40.055 --> 00:19:46.815 So yeah, so AI making satire and I'm seeing these guys just doing this shit 00:19:46.815 --> 00:19:48.855 so, so, so well, I was like, damn. 00:19:49.255 --> 00:19:52.335 Well, this, this, this relates to things that we've said before. 00:19:52.375 --> 00:19:56.435 I think Pete and I even covered this a little bit last week is that the, 00:19:56.495 --> 00:20:00.815 maybe I, I, all of this runs together in my head now I'm getting old, 00:20:00.915 --> 00:20:02.515 but like, tell me about it. 00:20:02.515 --> 00:20:08.915 But the thing is, the place where these things can sort of run wild right now 00:20:08.915 --> 00:20:11.735 is where truth doesn't matter. 00:20:11.895 --> 00:20:15.435 It's just being about being creative and putting things together. 00:20:15.775 --> 00:20:20.175 Because then, you know, no one's going to tell you, hey, in that skit you just 00:20:20.175 --> 00:20:22.115 did, this part was wrong. 00:20:22.315 --> 00:20:24.395 Or you got something factually incorrect. 00:20:24.715 --> 00:20:29.135 Well, you're making a comedy skit, so the facts don't matter about this. 00:20:29.215 --> 00:20:30.435 You're just making comedy. 00:20:30.655 --> 00:20:32.275 Right, exactly. That's what I'm saying. 00:20:32.275 --> 00:20:33.135 So that's right. 00:20:33.335 --> 00:20:40.375 The place where AI still has lots and lots of issues is whether it matters if 00:20:40.375 --> 00:20:43.555 it's factually correct or not, you know? 00:20:44.135 --> 00:20:47.695 Right. If it's creating a cheap comedy video, who cares? 00:20:47.755 --> 00:20:51.415 But if it's trying to dispense medical advice, then, you know, 00:20:51.495 --> 00:20:53.675 you want to be a little bit more careful. 00:20:54.295 --> 00:20:58.675 Maybe don't trust it when it says glue your cheese onto your pizza or whatever. 00:20:59.255 --> 00:21:02.295 Gluing the cheese to the pizza just doesn't sound good. 00:21:03.257 --> 00:21:05.157 How about gluing a cheese to my sandwich? 00:21:06.277 --> 00:21:09.577 Yes, go for it. And it's still useful. 00:21:09.857 --> 00:21:18.257 I once again, just yesterday, had ChatGPT help me with some simple scripting 00:21:18.257 --> 00:21:20.817 stuff I was using to monitor something on my computer. 00:21:21.097 --> 00:21:26.037 And I took a few iterations, but I got it to do exactly what I wanted a lot 00:21:26.037 --> 00:21:27.817 faster than if I was doing it by hand. 00:21:27.817 --> 00:21:31.017 You know and so yeah again it's like if 00:21:31.017 --> 00:21:33.797 there are certain domains where it's really good there's certain 00:21:33.797 --> 00:21:37.797 domains where it sucks the problem is when you try to get it to do the things 00:21:37.797 --> 00:21:42.017 it sucks at and the things that sucks out today it may be great at in a year 00:21:42.017 --> 00:21:47.597 or two years or three years but if you're figuring out what to do today you 00:21:47.597 --> 00:21:51.217 want to use it for the things it's actually good at today not things that could 00:21:51.217 --> 00:21:53.357 be good at in the future right. 00:21:53.357 --> 00:21:58.277 Well i think that look the whole thing about this is just a you know to to wrap 00:21:58.277 --> 00:22:02.877 it up a little bit since you know is that you, 00:22:04.477 --> 00:22:07.897 using it for anything above 00:22:07.897 --> 00:22:15.357 like an aid to you doing something right now is not really a good idea i mean 00:22:15.357 --> 00:22:20.097 because it's just if you're using it to aid what you're doing and it's accelerating 00:22:20.097 --> 00:22:24.517 your work which is what i saw with this guy i used it a little bit and it helped 00:22:24.517 --> 00:22:26.817 me accelerate some work and some stuff, that's good. 00:22:26.897 --> 00:22:31.717 But if you're just taking its output without any vetting, you're setting yourself for problems. 00:22:32.647 --> 00:22:36.387 Yes, absolutely. And of course, there are all the issues of like, 00:22:36.587 --> 00:22:41.467 you know, is it using training data without permission? And should they be doing that? 00:22:41.587 --> 00:22:46.607 And how much energy usage does this stuff take up? How much water does the stuff use? 00:22:46.787 --> 00:22:50.187 Because there's cooling and, you know, there are all kinds of issues associated with it. 00:22:50.267 --> 00:22:52.307 Well, we could just melt the icebergs. 00:22:52.907 --> 00:23:00.407 That's for a different segment. So your segment started somehow in Puerto Rican politics. politics and. 00:23:00.407 --> 00:23:01.167 It ended in ai. 00:23:01.167 --> 00:23:10.507 Ended in ai yes is it my turn yes okay so normally at this point i would do 00:23:10.507 --> 00:23:15.927 my next media thing and my next media thing is i finished house of cards the 00:23:15.927 --> 00:23:20.907 american version of house of cards all six seasons but i'm gonna save that for next week. 00:23:20.907 --> 00:23:22.187 You know that i. 00:23:23.007 --> 00:23:26.387 Save it for next week save it for next week i got something else no. 00:23:26.387 --> 00:23:28.967 No no no no no i was just going to mention that. 00:23:28.967 --> 00:23:29.907 Yes i'm. 00:23:29.907 --> 00:23:33.147 Not going to talk about it is that i don't think i ever finished it i think 00:23:33.147 --> 00:23:34.787 i didn't watch like the last season. 00:23:34.787 --> 00:23:40.187 Yeah you i remember you talking about this years ago you bailed out at a certain 00:23:40.187 --> 00:23:43.967 point i forget which season you bailed out at but we can talk about that next 00:23:43.967 --> 00:23:49.827 week yeah because i actually finished all six seasons but i have something else to talk about today. 00:23:49.827 --> 00:23:52.727 Yeah which is you're pregnant. 00:23:52.727 --> 00:23:56.207 Yes i am pregnant how many months, 00:23:57.027 --> 00:23:59.827 i i three months i'm good you 00:23:59.827 --> 00:24:03.207 know due due in december good 00:24:03.207 --> 00:24:06.067 good so it'll it'll be great 00:24:06.067 --> 00:24:12.687 great great great we're welcoming a new addition to the family and yeah no no 00:24:12.687 --> 00:24:19.087 i am not pregnant neither is my wife no no as far as i know no one in my immediate 00:24:19.087 --> 00:24:23.647 family is pregnant okay okay you You know, we'll see. 00:24:23.747 --> 00:24:24.107 Yeah, okay. 00:24:24.167 --> 00:24:32.107 But no, as far as I know, that has not happened. No. What I have to report on this time is... 00:24:33.183 --> 00:24:37.903 The Mac mini that I've been complaining about for years and years and years, 00:24:38.023 --> 00:24:41.163 it seems like anyway, I think it's like three years. 00:24:41.223 --> 00:24:41.963 It's been years. 00:24:42.803 --> 00:24:47.383 I think it's three years. I think I got it in 2021, I think. 00:24:48.043 --> 00:24:53.783 And it was always significantly underpowered for my needs from the day I bought it. 00:24:53.803 --> 00:24:58.183 I bought it under duress because my iMac that I had before that died. 00:24:58.663 --> 00:25:01.863 We were in the middle of the pandemic. i did 00:25:01.863 --> 00:25:06.863 not have a lot of extra cash and everything was out of stock anyway so i got 00:25:06.863 --> 00:25:11.583 the absolute bottom line mac mini and i've been struggling with it ever since 00:25:11.583 --> 00:25:18.003 it is now on a shelf somewhere i am talking to you right now from a brand new 00:25:18.003 --> 00:25:19.743 computer and a brand new setup. 00:25:19.743 --> 00:25:27.583 I i i was going to say i am like i i i was pretty sure that was the case because 00:25:27.583 --> 00:25:32.523 you know unlike you guys i i could see them on video yeah and i could tell that 00:25:32.523 --> 00:25:35.103 the video quality was substantially improved. 00:25:36.043 --> 00:25:38.663 It's the same camera that hasn't changed. 00:25:38.663 --> 00:25:42.263 Well something is making it look better i mean 00:25:42.263 --> 00:25:46.983 maybe it's because no no no i'm gonna tell you why i think it's because almost 00:25:46.983 --> 00:25:52.743 most of the time before right now it is coming across blurry but most of the 00:25:52.743 --> 00:25:59.443 time with your old computer the resolution Evolution would never get to full HD ever. 00:25:59.803 --> 00:26:03.903 It always stayed at pixelated levels. 00:26:04.363 --> 00:26:10.363 And all of a sudden, I've noticed that, wait a minute, he's looking crystal clear. 00:26:10.523 --> 00:26:14.623 This never happened before. All I ever got to see was a blurry Sam at the other end. 00:26:15.323 --> 00:26:18.683 I've made a number of changes because I not only upgraded the computer, 00:26:18.823 --> 00:26:21.443 I upgraded my whole new setup. I have a new desk. 00:26:21.723 --> 00:26:27.683 It's one of these standing desks that moves up and down. I got extra monitors. 00:26:27.803 --> 00:26:33.443 So I am back in a three 27 inch monitor situation for the first time in many 00:26:33.443 --> 00:26:36.483 years since even before the last computer died. 00:26:37.123 --> 00:26:44.303 All kinds of things. So I am very happy. I'm very thrilled. I did not get a Mac studio. 00:26:45.183 --> 00:26:53.023 I got a MacBook Pro with a nice little docking setup and everything else. 00:26:53.023 --> 00:26:58.183 So that like I'm running it in clamshell mode with the three big monitors and 00:26:58.183 --> 00:27:00.043 a keyboard and a mouse and all that right now. 00:27:00.703 --> 00:27:06.123 And like 90% of the time I've been doing that, but like now I have the flexibility. 00:27:06.343 --> 00:27:10.163 On a few occasions, I've picked up the computer, I've gone somewhere else in 00:27:10.163 --> 00:27:15.303 the house and I can do that, which I could not do with the desktop scenario. It has been. 00:27:16.660 --> 00:27:21.480 About 20 years since the last time I had a laptop. I think it was actually like 00:27:21.480 --> 00:27:23.200 18 and a half or something like that. 00:27:23.480 --> 00:27:29.380 Since I switched from a laptop to an iMac and I've been on iMacs ever since 00:27:29.380 --> 00:27:32.180 until I had the Mac mini, but I'm at bat. 00:27:32.240 --> 00:27:36.720 I've had laptops for work, of course, but for home, my, my theory was always, 00:27:36.780 --> 00:27:38.480 I've got a laptop for work. 00:27:39.080 --> 00:27:42.480 So at home, I'll go with the desktop. but this 00:27:42.480 --> 00:27:45.780 time I decided to go ahead with the the laptop there 00:27:45.780 --> 00:27:48.960 were two reasons for that one at this exact 00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:54.760 moment in time the the MacBook Pros have a newer chipset than the studios did 00:27:54.760 --> 00:27:59.280 and they've been refreshed more recently yes plus the portability like I said 00:27:59.280 --> 00:28:03.700 I really I really like had been thinking about it a lot and there were a number 00:28:03.700 --> 00:28:08.780 of scenarios where I wanted to like just I had stuff to do, 00:28:08.880 --> 00:28:14.060 but I didn't want to like go up to my office and do it. I wanted to sit in the 00:28:14.060 --> 00:28:14.900 living room or something. 00:28:14.960 --> 00:28:18.020 And I was like, you know, and I didn't want to use my work computer because 00:28:18.020 --> 00:28:24.080 like, well, theoretically I can and have sometimes done personal stuff on my work computer. 00:28:24.200 --> 00:28:26.700 I would rather avoid it, you know? 00:28:26.880 --> 00:28:34.560 So I got that and I didn't completely max out the MacBook pro because I couldn't, 00:28:34.560 --> 00:28:38.600 I I couldn't really say I needed the absolute top end options. 00:28:38.780 --> 00:28:45.680 So for instance, I did get the 16 inch and I did get the, the, 00:28:45.820 --> 00:28:50.580 the M three max version and with 16 core CPU, 00:28:50.860 --> 00:28:54.960 40 core GPU, 16 core neural neural engine, all that. 00:28:55.160 --> 00:28:59.500 I did the mid range memory. So 64 gigabytes. I, 00:29:00.064 --> 00:29:03.564 64 gigabytes i couldn't justify 128 i was like i don't know. 00:29:03.564 --> 00:29:05.144 No you don't. 00:29:05.144 --> 00:29:08.804 You know and i did the big 00:29:08.804 --> 00:29:12.844 thing i splurged on is i got the four terabyte ssd and 00:29:12.844 --> 00:29:16.024 those things are fucking expensive on the internal built-in ones 00:29:16.024 --> 00:29:18.864 oh yeah i i did not go for 00:29:18.864 --> 00:29:22.084 the eight terabyte ssd i did not determine 00:29:22.084 --> 00:29:24.944 that was necessary but i really wanted the 00:29:24.944 --> 00:29:28.624 four because like my my imac 00:29:28.624 --> 00:29:32.204 from years ago had a three terabyte fusion drive and 00:29:32.204 --> 00:29:35.264 i was always filling that sucker up 00:29:35.264 --> 00:29:41.504 and like i've lived since then the built-in drive on the stupid mini was only 00:29:41.504 --> 00:29:49.324 like 256 like not even terabytes gigabytes and then i moved to a one terabyte 00:29:49.324 --> 00:29:54.744 external and it always felt cramped And I'm like, I know I can fill two. 00:29:55.024 --> 00:30:05.824 I want to get enough that I'll have some headroom that I won't have to worry about this for a while. 00:30:06.204 --> 00:30:09.084 I will probably eventually have to worry. 00:30:09.164 --> 00:30:16.144 In fact, already, like, frankly, like, my photo library is bigger than four terabytes. 00:30:17.504 --> 00:30:20.284 So I'm still going to put that on an external drive. 00:30:20.484 --> 00:30:20.884 Right. 00:30:20.884 --> 00:30:26.084 Uh, and, and so I have to like either put only, you know, the, 00:30:26.164 --> 00:30:29.684 the, the way, the way it works, you can keep most of it on iCloud and only put 00:30:29.684 --> 00:30:32.244 the local stuff, but I still want a local copy of everything. 00:30:32.544 --> 00:30:36.084 So I'll make sure I have a local drive with a local copy of everything so I 00:30:36.084 --> 00:30:37.164 can get it backed up, blah, blah, blah. 00:30:37.504 --> 00:30:41.104 Anyway, I got the four terabyte. I could not just to go from four terabytes 00:30:41.104 --> 00:30:43.604 to eight terabytes would be, would have been an extra $1,200. 00:30:45.024 --> 00:30:50.344 I couldn't, I mean, it's just the, the numbers are too big. I'm like, 00:30:50.404 --> 00:30:52.164 I could not justify doing that. 00:30:52.664 --> 00:30:57.044 Yeah, no, no, no, no. It's just, it just starts getting out of control. No, I get it. Yeah. 00:30:57.584 --> 00:31:02.784 So I got the four terabyte SSD, which already was like a thousand bucks more 00:31:02.784 --> 00:31:06.284 than the base model, like then, then just having one terabyte. 00:31:06.624 --> 00:31:11.424 And I got the 64 gig and I've got it. You know, I had, I got. 00:31:12.312 --> 00:31:16.912 I had previously one 27-inch external monitor. I got two more. 00:31:17.772 --> 00:31:23.832 You know, I got the little moving up and down desk thing. I got a new desk chair. 00:31:24.292 --> 00:31:29.272 You know, I am thrilled. This was actually all in place when I talked to Pete last week. 00:31:29.532 --> 00:31:32.612 But I wanted to save it to talk to you about it, Yvonne. 00:31:32.672 --> 00:31:39.912 So I didn't mention it last week. Like, ah, but, and, 00:31:40.092 --> 00:31:43.392 you know, and I thought about trying to keep the Mac mini going in parallel 00:31:43.392 --> 00:31:48.652 to use as like a file server or something, but it was, it, it, it just has issues. 00:31:48.772 --> 00:31:51.792 It like, I, I could not trust it for anything. 00:31:52.032 --> 00:31:55.352 There is something. Yeah. There, there is something wrong with it. Yes. 00:31:55.412 --> 00:31:59.592 I could not trust it. It crashes all the time. I haven't, I haven't been able 00:31:59.592 --> 00:32:03.752 to properly back up the external drives that were attached to it in a long time. 00:32:03.752 --> 00:32:07.412 And in fact, right now I'm having to deal with that because one of them failed 00:32:07.412 --> 00:32:13.272 and that stupid Mac mini had not successfully finished a full backup of it. 00:32:13.292 --> 00:32:14.072 They'll call it. 00:32:14.252 --> 00:32:18.632 So I'm having to like figure out like, you know, disc recovery services and 00:32:18.632 --> 00:32:22.312 all that crap to try to get that stuff back, which is pissing me off by the way. 00:32:22.352 --> 00:32:24.832 But I'll let you know how that goes when that saga is over. 00:32:25.372 --> 00:32:27.512 But I am thrilled with this new 00:32:27.512 --> 00:32:31.652 thing. It feels like for the first time in years, I can freaking breathe. 00:32:32.192 --> 00:32:37.492 Breathe. Like I, I've got like all the windows up that I want and the thing is not struggling. 00:32:37.732 --> 00:32:41.432 It is not telling me I'm out of application memory twice a day. 00:32:41.712 --> 00:32:45.012 I, I do not have to reboot the damn thing. 00:32:45.052 --> 00:32:50.352 And like, I know, like I use my computer in a way that lots of people don't. 00:32:50.352 --> 00:32:53.492 I always have a, you know, a whole bunch of applications open. 00:32:53.572 --> 00:32:56.192 My browser has hundreds of tabs open. 00:32:56.332 --> 00:32:58.392 I often have multiple browsers. 00:32:58.752 --> 00:33:03.332 I've got all kinds of stuff going on. I know I, use this in a way that is heavier 00:33:03.332 --> 00:33:07.052 than lots of people use it, but that Mini just could not handle it. 00:33:07.452 --> 00:33:11.172 The base model Mini with only eight. 00:33:11.934 --> 00:33:15.054 Gigabytes of ram and you know 00:33:15.054 --> 00:33:17.994 a single terabyte once i had 00:33:17.994 --> 00:33:21.794 moved to an external drive and and a slow comparatively slow 00:33:21.794 --> 00:33:25.414 chip and blah blah blah i mean it was an m1 but still 00:33:25.414 --> 00:33:29.154 it was i it was car 00:33:29.154 --> 00:33:32.014 it was a constant struggle almost since the day 00:33:32.014 --> 00:33:35.194 i bought the damn thing and in recent months 00:33:35.194 --> 00:33:38.534 it it was just getting super super annoying and 00:33:38.534 --> 00:33:41.934 i was holding my breath till the day that my company 00:33:41.934 --> 00:33:44.834 provided the next set of stock options which happened at 00:33:44.834 --> 00:33:49.374 the end of may and like essentially as 00:33:49.374 --> 00:33:55.174 soon as that happened i was like okay ordering i'm i'm ordering and so i'm thrilled 00:33:55.174 --> 00:34:00.614 i like i i loaded up the latest version of the x-plane 12 flight simulator and 00:34:00.614 --> 00:34:07.954 it like it's smooth as butter like on on any old computers that i'd tried previous versions of the 00:34:07.994 --> 00:34:12.154 flight simulator on to get it to run in a decent way at all. 00:34:12.214 --> 00:34:16.054 I'd had to turn down all the graphic options and all this kind of stuff. 00:34:16.094 --> 00:34:17.794 This was like default options. 00:34:18.514 --> 00:34:22.134 Everything go nice. It's smooth. It's pretty. 00:34:22.734 --> 00:34:26.314 I'm driving three monitors off this thing. If I feel like it, 00:34:26.354 --> 00:34:30.054 I can open the lid of the MacBook and be operating on four monitors. 00:34:30.374 --> 00:34:32.814 Although I've found like I did that for a little while and I was like, 00:34:32.874 --> 00:34:37.634 you know, almost all the time three is good. but that fourth one ends up being 00:34:37.634 --> 00:34:39.954 extra every once in a while. 00:34:40.034 --> 00:34:43.594 If I have something that I'm really want it for, I can open it up and have the 00:34:43.594 --> 00:34:44.594 fourth one and it's fine. 00:34:45.114 --> 00:34:50.674 The one annoying thing I found is that this is a, a Thunderbolt limitation. 00:34:50.814 --> 00:34:58.794 I understand from the ports, like each Thunderbolt, each Thunderbolt cable can 00:34:58.794 --> 00:35:00.074 only drive two of these monitors. 00:35:00.234 --> 00:35:00.514 Yeah. 00:35:00.514 --> 00:35:03.914 So like I have to plug in with two monitors to get all three. 00:35:03.914 --> 00:35:09.594 I plug in with two cables to get all three monitors or a fourth or a fifth. 00:35:09.694 --> 00:35:11.234 I think it can drive up to six. 00:35:12.080 --> 00:35:15.900 External monitors. I don't need six external monitors. I'm not doing that. 00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:17.840 But the three is awesome. 00:35:18.020 --> 00:35:22.500 I got several years back, I had a three monitor setup and I was really happy 00:35:22.500 --> 00:35:23.680 and really thrilled with it. 00:35:23.720 --> 00:35:29.240 And then for various reasons, I ended up going back down to two and the mini could only do two. 00:35:29.240 --> 00:35:33.460 And it was this again, it feels like I can freaking breathe again, 00:35:33.600 --> 00:35:39.900 like I can use my computer and do all the things I want to without it complaining, 00:35:40.180 --> 00:35:44.700 without it crashing, without it like slowing to a crawl. all. 00:35:44.720 --> 00:35:48.240 I mean, with the, with the old system, sometimes like, you know, 00:35:48.240 --> 00:35:52.920 I I'd flip windows and I'd have to wait five seconds for it to catch up with me and I'd type. 00:35:52.940 --> 00:35:55.120 And sometimes I'd have to wait for it to catch up with me. 00:35:55.260 --> 00:35:59.980 And I know like if I'd, if I'd closed everything and done one thing at a time, 00:36:00.100 --> 00:36:04.940 maybe it would have been okay, but it wasn't. So anyway, I am. 00:36:05.040 --> 00:36:08.440 I mean, you know, you, I mean, you were making do for a while because, 00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:11.320 you know, there were circumstances stances that that forced that you 00:36:11.320 --> 00:36:14.420 know it happens i mean you know having to 00:36:14.420 --> 00:36:19.980 drag it out for a bit until you know things you know it changed i i look but 00:36:19.980 --> 00:36:26.620 even like that mac mini i still can't remember which you know one of the computers 00:36:26.620 --> 00:36:33.740 you had in past years where if you went to boot up an application that. 00:36:33.740 --> 00:36:39.200 Was that that was the imac before the mac mini when it was dying like in In 00:36:39.200 --> 00:36:40.720 the last few months, I had it. 00:36:40.760 --> 00:36:47.620 Right. It would take like 30 minutes or something like that in order for a fucking 00:36:47.620 --> 00:36:50.160 application to open or something like that. 00:36:50.280 --> 00:36:53.260 I had to know before we started the podcast. 00:36:53.340 --> 00:36:58.240 I had to plan like a couple hours in advance to reboot, reboot the computer 00:36:58.240 --> 00:37:03.040 and bring up like the three applications that I needed to have open while recording the show. 00:37:03.572 --> 00:37:07.912 And the Mac mini, you know, to be fair, you know, was cheap. Okay. 00:37:08.052 --> 00:37:13.812 And it was, it was cheap and it got the job done. It was a little painful, but it got the job. 00:37:13.852 --> 00:37:18.812 It got the job done. Definitely, you know, a lot better than that dying computer. 00:37:19.152 --> 00:37:25.852 So, you know, I mean, I, I, I look at the last two computers I bought. 00:37:25.972 --> 00:37:30.192 I, I didn't even, I wound up buying them because the previous computer just 00:37:30.192 --> 00:37:32.692 both of them died suddenly on me. 00:37:32.992 --> 00:37:39.012 Yeah. I mean, the Mac Mini that I immediately replaced with this was working 00:37:39.012 --> 00:37:40.952 immediately before I bought this. 00:37:41.012 --> 00:37:44.932 But about a month earlier, it had a near-death experience. 00:37:45.412 --> 00:37:50.332 Like, it crashed and would not come up. 00:37:50.332 --> 00:37:59.152 And I had to, I spent like something like 72 hours repeatedly trying to reinstall 00:37:59.152 --> 00:38:02.652 the operating system, trying to move to a new external drive, 00:38:03.052 --> 00:38:06.192 trying to like do all kinds of different things. 00:38:06.212 --> 00:38:09.432 And eventually, I don't know what combinations of things I did, 00:38:09.512 --> 00:38:14.752 but eventually I got it to come back, but it was really touch and go for a while there. 00:38:15.052 --> 00:38:18.012 So I'm glad it made it the extra like month and a half. 00:38:18.012 --> 00:38:23.692 But you know and like I said I was thinking about like trying to keep that around 00:38:23.692 --> 00:38:28.452 and do something else with it like mount all my external drives on that and 00:38:28.452 --> 00:38:32.292 never attach them to this thing and when push came to shove I was like. 00:38:32.987 --> 00:38:35.827 Fuck that i can't trust the old computer i can't 00:38:35.827 --> 00:38:38.507 like if i was going to do anything with it i'd have to 00:38:38.507 --> 00:38:41.467 like wipe it to factory state start over and then 00:38:41.467 --> 00:38:44.207 maybe use it for something really simple but i'm 00:38:44.207 --> 00:38:48.727 like you know i've got this nice docking setup i'll have the external drives 00:38:48.727 --> 00:38:52.727 i want hooked up to the dock when i plug in the computer i'll have access to 00:38:52.727 --> 00:38:56.007 all of them and i've actually haven't finished setting up everything on this 00:38:56.007 --> 00:39:01.507 like i'm i'm i've decided i'm going to systematically add these drives back one at a time, 00:39:01.627 --> 00:39:03.827 give them time to back up to the network, 00:39:04.107 --> 00:39:07.587 make sure everything's good, make sure everything's working properly. 00:39:07.767 --> 00:39:11.847 I'm going to take the ones that are nothing but archival stuff for my son and 00:39:11.847 --> 00:39:14.987 attach those, those drives to his computer instead of mine. 00:39:15.167 --> 00:39:16.347 Now that's a good idea. 00:39:16.567 --> 00:39:20.267 Now that means he'll have like a crap load, extra drives. 00:39:20.287 --> 00:39:25.167 He'll have like 15, 20 drives attached to his computer, but let that hit be his problem. 00:39:25.267 --> 00:39:25.587 Right. 00:39:25.707 --> 00:39:32.627 Uh, and in the And I will only attach the ones that I'm actually using for this computer onto this one. 00:39:32.847 --> 00:39:38.267 And like I said, I'm going to do it slowly. Like right now, Backblaze hasn't 00:39:38.267 --> 00:39:41.367 finished backing up my main system yet. 00:39:41.507 --> 00:39:44.647 So I'm not attaching the first external drive until that's all done. 00:39:44.827 --> 00:39:48.307 And it's actually having an issue where there are certain files that's having 00:39:48.307 --> 00:39:51.427 issues backing up and I'm sort of figuring those out one by one. 00:39:51.427 --> 00:39:57.827 I think it's like things that are in iCloud, but not locally downloaded to my computer. 00:39:58.047 --> 00:40:02.007 And it's getting confused by that because the state on my old, 00:40:02.107 --> 00:40:06.387 because it inherited the state from my old computer, but my old computer was confused. 00:40:06.707 --> 00:40:11.227 So I'm dealing with those issues one by one. And then once I have that all settled, 00:40:11.367 --> 00:40:15.387 then I'll attach the first one of these external drives and then I'll do that. 00:40:15.547 --> 00:40:18.427 And then I'll slowly work my way through them. And in the meantime, 00:40:18.527 --> 00:40:25.647 I have them all unplugged since there's no, no reliable new backup of a whole 00:40:25.647 --> 00:40:27.807 bunch of these. I'm just like, I'm unplugging them. 00:40:28.207 --> 00:40:31.407 I'm not doing anything with them until I'm ready. 00:40:31.507 --> 00:40:34.227 And then I will plug them in. And the first thing that's happening is they're 00:40:34.227 --> 00:40:38.707 getting a cloud backup, you know? So anyway, yeah, well. 00:40:38.887 --> 00:40:43.327 Well, congratulations, Sam, you finally were able to get that new computer. 00:40:43.387 --> 00:40:45.667 I know it'd been, uh, it'd been a while. 00:40:46.487 --> 00:40:50.367 Yeah, no, I am. I can breathe. I'm happy. 00:40:50.807 --> 00:40:56.067 The next project that I've also talked about here on the show is couches. 00:40:56.327 --> 00:41:00.287 Oh, couches. Well, but that's a every two year thing that you mentioned. 00:41:00.967 --> 00:41:05.927 Yes. Yes. I, what I, after I talked to you and listed all the criteria of the 00:41:05.927 --> 00:41:10.747 new couches, I realized one of the other ones that had to be added to that list. 00:41:10.827 --> 00:41:14.327 I I've added a few since I talked about it on show, show, but one of the criteria 00:41:14.327 --> 00:41:21.967 I added was cheap enough that I won't blink or care if I have to replace it in only two years. 00:41:23.242 --> 00:41:30.122 Well, I can see how that would be important. And I see Sam again in like crystal clear, like HD. 00:41:30.342 --> 00:41:33.142 Well, you're blurry though. Like you're blurry to me. 00:41:33.422 --> 00:41:37.442 I don't know why the hell I'm blurry. Am I blurry most of the time to you? 00:41:37.522 --> 00:41:39.282 Or am I, I mean, like right now you. 00:41:39.342 --> 00:41:41.422 You, you, you have been, you have been today. 00:41:41.622 --> 00:41:42.662 I have been today. 00:41:43.022 --> 00:41:46.482 Every once in a while you come in clear, but, but not, not always. 00:41:46.602 --> 00:41:50.922 But today you're like, you're, you're blurry and you're freeze. 00:41:50.922 --> 00:41:55.622 And now of course i we're talking and like people listening to the show can't 00:41:55.622 --> 00:41:59.562 tell yeah i mean i guess your voice is blurry all the time well. 00:41:59.562 --> 00:42:00.482 My i mean. 00:42:00.482 --> 00:42:00.882 I'm sure. 00:42:00.882 --> 00:42:02.582 My voice is blurry all the time. 00:42:02.582 --> 00:42:05.102 I mean i don't i mean it sounds like. 00:42:05.102 --> 00:42:06.842 I mean i should have a blurry voice. 00:42:06.842 --> 00:42:09.522 Yeah anyway and i did think a 00:42:09.522 --> 00:42:12.362 little bit about like what if they come out with new ones 00:42:12.362 --> 00:42:15.662 like right away oh fuck wwdc was 00:42:15.662 --> 00:42:18.822 coming up and like oh you can't it wasn't due 00:42:18.822 --> 00:42:22.982 for it wasn't due for macbook pro updates anyway they were you know they come 00:42:22.982 --> 00:42:27.582 in a little cadence and it it would it would have been surprising unfortunately 00:42:27.582 --> 00:42:31.502 but but wait wait here's the thing here's the thing at a certain point i was 00:42:31.502 --> 00:42:35.782 like i don't fucking care i need it i need it now if they come out next week 00:42:35.782 --> 00:42:37.542 i still need it fucking now i. 00:42:37.542 --> 00:42:41.122 Mean that's been my issue the last couple of times i think you know when i got 00:42:41.122 --> 00:42:47.802 like my imac like the one computer previous to this that I got it in 2018. 00:42:48.682 --> 00:42:51.822 Right. Right. So I think it was 2017. Yeah. 00:42:52.332 --> 00:42:54.372 2017 or 28 i think it was 2018. 00:42:54.372 --> 00:42:55.612 Yeah and. 00:42:55.612 --> 00:43:00.512 It was like look i mean i can't i can't wait the other one's dead. 00:43:00.512 --> 00:43:01.092 Right i. 00:43:01.092 --> 00:43:06.552 I i don't you know it's it's dead dead i mean it's you know i got home and it 00:43:06.552 --> 00:43:11.752 was completely dead i mean there's just nothing that i could do about it you know so. 00:43:11.752 --> 00:43:14.672 Exactly right right now i'm looking 00:43:14.672 --> 00:43:20.212 at the the mac rumors buyers guide which i always go by for these things it's 00:43:20.212 --> 00:43:26.832 been 228 days since the last macbook pros were released which they put as neutral 00:43:26.832 --> 00:43:32.252 mid-product cycle because the average time between updates is 390 days so a 00:43:32.252 --> 00:43:34.632 little bit more than a year where's. 00:43:34.632 --> 00:43:36.372 The mac studio on that uh. 00:43:36.372 --> 00:43:40.552 Wait wait hold on i'll tell you i'll tell you in a second the looking back at 00:43:40.552 --> 00:43:47.472 the last six well the last six releases of the macbook pro the longest time 00:43:47.472 --> 00:43:50.212 between releases was 705 days. 00:43:50.652 --> 00:43:55.512 The shortest time was only 176 days between updates. 00:43:55.872 --> 00:44:00.052 Like I would have been kind of pissed if like there was one that short year, 00:44:00.152 --> 00:44:03.392 like it's been 228 days and one comes out at 230. 00:44:03.832 --> 00:44:09.332 I mean, even so I needed the damn thing, but so I wouldn't have been that pissed. 00:44:09.492 --> 00:44:17.552 Okay. Mac studio, you asked, it has been 375 days since the last Mac studio release. least yeah. 00:44:17.552 --> 00:44:21.452 So it would have been and so it would have been a bad moment to really pick up a mac studio. 00:44:21.452 --> 00:44:24.512 Yeah they recommend that as caution 00:44:24.512 --> 00:44:28.652 approaching end of cycle there's only been one update for the mac studio so 00:44:28.652 --> 00:44:34.272 far and that was after 454 days so it's getting close now the root the rumors 00:44:34.272 --> 00:44:41.312 for the macbook pro are now that they put out the m4 chips for the ipad that 00:44:41.312 --> 00:44:43.812 there got to be M4 MacBooks coming soon. 00:44:44.172 --> 00:44:49.232 But soon probably means end of this year, maybe beginning of next year. 00:44:49.392 --> 00:44:51.232 And I wasn't going to wait six months. 00:44:51.955 --> 00:44:54.555 Yeah, no, no, no. 00:44:54.595 --> 00:44:54.855 No. 00:44:55.235 --> 00:44:59.475 You know, if there were really, really active rumors saying, 00:44:59.635 --> 00:45:04.475 hey, they're going to be new MacBook Pros in July, maybe I would avoid it. 00:45:05.435 --> 00:45:08.195 Maybe, but, but yeah, no, you, you, you really. 00:45:08.295 --> 00:45:12.795 I, I needed it. And like, you know, and there were no such rumors. 00:45:12.915 --> 00:45:16.655 The rumors were, eh, maybe the, maybe at the end of the year at the earliest, 00:45:16.715 --> 00:45:20.615 probably early next year, those, that's what the rumors were saying right now. 00:45:20.675 --> 00:45:22.415 So I was like, no, no. not waiting. 00:45:23.015 --> 00:45:26.975 Anyway, nobody probably cares about the new computer, but I am thrilled by the 00:45:26.975 --> 00:45:30.215 new computer. I'm also thrilled by the new desk. I'm thrilled by the new chair. 00:45:30.535 --> 00:45:34.275 I, on both of those, like I spent more on the computer. 00:45:34.635 --> 00:45:38.075 And so I got a little bit less. 00:45:38.555 --> 00:45:42.315 I spent a little bit less on the desk and a little bit less on the chair that 00:45:42.315 --> 00:45:43.315 I would have done otherwise. 00:45:43.835 --> 00:45:49.315 But I also realized this chair and this desk do absolutely everything I fucking need. 00:45:49.795 --> 00:45:53.215 Did I really need to buy one that It costs twice as much. No, 00:45:53.335 --> 00:45:54.995 I probably didn't, you know? 00:45:55.135 --> 00:46:01.235 And in fact, this one, the desk I got is it's a, it's, it's, 00:46:01.235 --> 00:46:03.095 it's probably about half the price, 00:46:03.235 --> 00:46:06.795 maybe even less than half of the price of the one that I'd been eyeing for a 00:46:06.795 --> 00:46:11.115 while, but it's got a bigger surface area and I'm using every inch of that bigger 00:46:11.115 --> 00:46:14.135 surface area and it's fine. 00:46:14.375 --> 00:46:15.775 The big, well, that's a good thing. 00:46:15.775 --> 00:46:23.475 Ben, the big difference like is I am sure like this one, if you like lean into 00:46:23.475 --> 00:46:28.135 it, like I, I, if I push it, I can jiggle it, you know, like, Oh. 00:46:28.255 --> 00:46:29.155 I see a jiggling. 00:46:29.555 --> 00:46:33.395 Yvonne can see my picture jiggling. Cause I'm like just putting my hand on the 00:46:33.395 --> 00:46:35.555 desk and like shoving it a little bit. 00:46:35.635 --> 00:46:39.555 I'm sure the more expensive one is a little bit more sturdy. 00:46:40.377 --> 00:46:44.737 But it's not like it's shaking so much I'm worried it's going to fall down. 00:46:44.957 --> 00:46:48.357 It's not like it's like bothering me on a regular basis. 00:46:48.477 --> 00:46:53.117 It's like, okay, if I shake it, it shakes, you know? 00:46:53.457 --> 00:46:56.337 And so I'm like, this, this is fine. It's great. 00:46:56.577 --> 00:47:00.517 Same, same thing with the chair. I was looking at like the wire cutter recommended 00:47:00.517 --> 00:47:05.197 chair and it was like, you know, for $450 was their budget chair. 00:47:05.537 --> 00:47:08.497 And I'm like, I guess I'll wait. I'll keep the old chair for a while. 00:47:08.497 --> 00:47:12.857 And then I was just browsing and I'm like, there are perfectly decent chairs 00:47:12.857 --> 00:47:13.897 for under a hundred bucks. 00:47:14.017 --> 00:47:16.237 I'm just going to pick one of those and it's fine. 00:47:16.577 --> 00:47:19.597 You know, you know, and I spent a lot of money on furniture. 00:47:19.777 --> 00:47:24.337 The one thing I did not really spend a lot of money on is a chair. 00:47:24.657 --> 00:47:29.557 I will say, and I still have this chair. I bought this chair at Costco and I 00:47:29.557 --> 00:47:32.777 tried the chairs and I found it very comfortable and it was, 00:47:32.777 --> 00:47:34.337 you know, a hundred and some odd bucks. 00:47:35.037 --> 00:47:41.097 I will say that the glass that the chair is on, so it won't scratch the floor, 00:47:41.217 --> 00:47:42.817 is more expensive than the chair. 00:47:42.977 --> 00:47:46.397 Yeah, and that's another thing I got. I have never used one before, 00:47:46.517 --> 00:47:48.457 but I got one of those mats for under the chair. 00:47:48.757 --> 00:47:51.537 But I got one of the plastic ones. 00:47:51.977 --> 00:47:55.697 And, like, it was supposedly a pretty thick one, whatever. And then, 00:47:55.717 --> 00:47:58.137 like, after I had it, like, 48 hours, I'm like... 00:47:59.108 --> 00:48:02.528 Dense under the chair i can't glide smoothly on 00:48:02.528 --> 00:48:05.448 this thing it also moves a little bit like 00:48:05.448 --> 00:48:08.308 it shoves to the side like all the time apparently 00:48:08.308 --> 00:48:12.708 when i sit down i push it to the left and so it's always sort of scooting to 00:48:12.708 --> 00:48:19.008 the left i'm like i'm gonna have to like buy one of the slightly more expensive 00:48:19.008 --> 00:48:25.988 but that's still not super expensive ones that's really solid and not like this rubber mat. 00:48:26.488 --> 00:48:30.788 Like, like the rubber mat, maybe it protects the carpet, but this carpet is 00:48:30.788 --> 00:48:33.808 completely destroyed anyway. I don't need to protect this fucking carpet. 00:48:34.028 --> 00:48:39.568 I just want something where I can like roll smoothly and I can't roll smoothly on this. 00:48:39.948 --> 00:48:43.708 Well, for, for that one, it's not, well, that's exactly right. 00:48:43.908 --> 00:48:47.168 I mean, the one thing in your case is not, you know, I, I did it more, 00:48:47.248 --> 00:48:50.508 but you know, it's not because of the smooth rolling on your case, 00:48:50.548 --> 00:48:52.968 you need the smooth rolling and the plastic is not going to do it. 00:48:53.148 --> 00:48:56.628 Yeah. Like I have a carpet, like if this was hardwood floor i wouldn't even 00:48:56.628 --> 00:48:59.348 bother with it at all like yeah but. 00:48:59.348 --> 00:49:04.848 Well i wound up doing it i didn't do it before with a hardwood floor the problem is that that because. 00:49:04.848 --> 00:49:08.868 You want it but now you want to protect the floor because you damage floor over the course of the years. 00:49:08.868 --> 00:49:13.708 Yeah because we yeah i damaged a floor over the course of the years and i realized 00:49:13.708 --> 00:49:17.788 i'm like damn it you know but i got listen i got the one that they advertise 00:49:17.788 --> 00:49:21.588 which is this vitrasa one okay but And it's advertised on a word of place. 00:49:21.648 --> 00:49:25.428 It's pricey, but look, it's, it's solid. 00:49:25.588 --> 00:49:28.368 Okay. Number one, it's, and it's clear. 00:49:28.508 --> 00:49:28.668 Yeah. 00:49:28.668 --> 00:49:32.788 Okay. So you don't, you barely notice that it's there. 00:49:32.888 --> 00:49:33.108 Right. 00:49:33.168 --> 00:49:37.608 Okay. But it's totally solid and it's like perfect for whatever, 00:49:37.708 --> 00:49:41.368 but it's really, you know, their mat is definitely worth the money compared 00:49:41.368 --> 00:49:42.608 to the other ones that I've had. 00:49:43.008 --> 00:49:47.408 Yeah. I, I, I haven't ordered a new one of these mats yet, but it's like, 00:49:47.408 --> 00:49:52.528 it is frustrating me more by the day. So I, I imagine before too long, I will. 00:49:52.628 --> 00:49:58.648 Cause like, you know, I have a chair with wheels so I can roll around, 00:49:58.848 --> 00:50:02.948 but then yeah, I start, I want to roll and. 00:50:02.948 --> 00:50:03.608 You can't roll. 00:50:03.968 --> 00:50:09.028 And I realize I'm, I'm sunken in dents and like, yes. 00:50:09.128 --> 00:50:12.768 And I have to like, before I can roll, I have to put a whole bunch of extra 00:50:12.768 --> 00:50:16.128 effort to get myself out of the dent and look, okay. 00:50:16.208 --> 00:50:17.268 A little bit of exercise. 00:50:17.448 --> 00:50:20.948 It is a little bit of exercise. I mean, it's not like a huge amount of effort, right? 00:50:20.988 --> 00:50:25.388 Leg strengthening exercise. I saw the other day, listen, you need to get, 00:50:25.408 --> 00:50:30.508 I saw there was an infomercial on TV on one of these things that you put on the floor. 00:50:30.908 --> 00:50:34.708 And it's apparently, so you're pedaling, like exercising as you're... 00:50:36.112 --> 00:50:36.992 I've got one. 00:50:37.332 --> 00:50:38.052 You do? 00:50:38.392 --> 00:50:43.272 Yeah. Or I forget if I got it for me or if I got it for my wife or something. 00:50:43.612 --> 00:50:46.212 It's like, it's in the garage. It's not like right here or anything. 00:50:46.292 --> 00:50:51.012 Cause no one ever used the damn thing, but it's like, you know. 00:50:52.912 --> 00:50:57.092 Nobody uses anything that they sell from one of those TV infomercials. 00:50:57.092 --> 00:50:59.452 Well, it basically, that's what happens. 00:50:59.592 --> 00:51:03.612 Like, I don't know if I saw it on an infomercial. I saw it somewhere like, 00:51:03.692 --> 00:51:06.532 cause I was like, you know, need to exercise more. 00:51:06.612 --> 00:51:11.092 Maybe I can use one of those little thingies that I can like pedal while I'm on the thing. 00:51:11.172 --> 00:51:14.572 And so I looked one up and I bought it and it was cheap. It wasn't like an expensive 00:51:14.572 --> 00:51:16.292 thing. It was, and I got it. 00:51:16.292 --> 00:51:20.812 They're not expensive, but that you're like, you're like, this is bullshit. 00:51:21.412 --> 00:51:25.652 No, no. And you know what I do have though? I do have, 00:51:25.752 --> 00:51:29.112 cause this is, I am sitting right now at the standing desk because 00:51:29.112 --> 00:51:32.572 I didn't want to prematurely give away my thing 00:51:32.572 --> 00:51:35.592 but i do have one of these balance 00:51:35.592 --> 00:51:38.232 board things to stand on when i've got it 00:51:38.232 --> 00:51:44.632 in standing mode that like oh that you have to like you know it because it's 00:51:44.632 --> 00:51:50.032 it's it's it's only got it's like got a rocker on the bottom so you stand on 00:51:50.032 --> 00:51:54.372 it and it wobbles and so you have to use your sort of whole body has to balance 00:51:54.372 --> 00:51:57.532 to keep yourself vertical while you're on this thing instead of falling over. 00:51:57.692 --> 00:52:03.592 And it's just like a constant sort of micro dose of exercise while you're standing on the thing. 00:52:04.211 --> 00:52:07.231 So there you go. And, and, and, you know, I am sitting right now, 00:52:07.291 --> 00:52:10.371 but I have, you know, I found like, it's interesting. 00:52:10.751 --> 00:52:15.411 I, the other thing, by the way, about my, my setup with the monitors and everything 00:52:15.411 --> 00:52:17.551 is because I've got it set up this way. 00:52:17.991 --> 00:52:23.751 If I'm working for work, I just unplug my home laptop and plug in my work laptop 00:52:23.751 --> 00:52:26.631 and I'm all set to go with the whole setup for work too. 00:52:27.231 --> 00:52:33.051 So, so I've been doing that and I found myself more likely to stand at the standing 00:52:33.051 --> 00:52:39.251 desk desk when I'm working for my job than when I'm doing my home projects on my computer. 00:52:39.451 --> 00:52:43.811 I don't know why, but so far that's been the case, you know, 00:52:43.811 --> 00:52:48.131 and it also depends like, you know, if it's early in the day and I've still 00:52:48.131 --> 00:52:51.571 got a bunch of energy, I'm more likely to stand by the time we're, 00:52:51.571 --> 00:52:53.271 we're recording this in the evening. 00:52:53.551 --> 00:52:56.151 And by now I'm like, I want to sit down. 00:52:56.871 --> 00:53:02.751 I know one thing that I, this week after I've been like doing all this traveling, 00:53:02.751 --> 00:53:05.751 like i i i uh you know i have 00:53:05.751 --> 00:53:08.871 been struggling to stay focused on on work oh 00:53:08.871 --> 00:53:16.611 my god i i've just been like i mean i it's just i i did get a lot done but it 00:53:16.611 --> 00:53:26.051 it seemed to take a lot more effort right than the usual to just stay focused on the task at hand and. 00:53:26.051 --> 00:53:28.611 We will finish but first any minute it now but like. 00:53:28.611 --> 00:53:32.551 Well I'm sure by now everybody's already like turned off the podcast yeah. 00:53:32.551 --> 00:53:37.851 Everybody's gone everybody's gone but like the the the on Tuesday this week 00:53:37.851 --> 00:53:43.691 I noticed early in the morning I was like oh crap I've got this one morning meeting and, 00:53:44.280 --> 00:53:50.260 And then I've got almost nothing the rest of the day. I'm going to be able to get a lot of stuff done. 00:53:51.860 --> 00:53:56.680 But several things then happened. I was working from home that day. 00:53:56.820 --> 00:54:01.100 So first thing was I was like, hey, I'm working from home. 00:54:01.380 --> 00:54:05.700 My wife is here. I finished my first meeting. Let's go get some breakfast. 00:54:06.180 --> 00:54:10.120 Like, let's go to a diner and get some breakfast. Yeah, that was fine. 00:54:10.300 --> 00:54:13.060 But then we went to a diner that was a little bit further away and then they 00:54:13.060 --> 00:54:15.840 were slow. And then by the time we got back from the diner, it was like, 00:54:15.900 --> 00:54:18.460 oh, two hours just went by. How'd that happen? 00:54:18.780 --> 00:54:23.740 And then like, actually right before we left to go to the diner, 00:54:23.780 --> 00:54:29.040 like I got a, an impromptu call that somebody scheduled with like no notice. 00:54:29.160 --> 00:54:33.340 It's like, Hey, can we talk real quick? So I ended up spending half an hour on the phone for that. 00:54:33.540 --> 00:54:36.860 And then after I got back, there was another meeting that I was like, 00:54:36.900 --> 00:54:40.840 I was planning on skipping, but I was like, I should tune in at least a little bit. 00:54:40.900 --> 00:54:44.100 And then I ended up on that meeting for an hour. And then by the time all of 00:54:44.100 --> 00:54:49.080 these things were done, my like, oh, my God, I've got six free hours that I 00:54:49.080 --> 00:54:50.840 can just like sit down and work. 00:54:51.100 --> 00:54:57.160 I ended up with like one, you know, and I was like, well, there goes that fucking day. 00:54:57.220 --> 00:55:01.040 I was really excited that I was going to be able to get a whole crap load of stuff done. 00:55:01.300 --> 00:55:06.480 And I didn't. And then, you know, I and I got a little bit of that work done 00:55:06.480 --> 00:55:07.500 in the next couple of days. 00:55:07.580 --> 00:55:11.540 But I never got like the really solid. solid because here's the thing when you 00:55:11.540 --> 00:55:17.020 got the big solid open chunk of time it's not just you've got six hours of time 00:55:17.020 --> 00:55:21.720 it's you've got six hours where you can build up a head of steam and you can 00:55:21.720 --> 00:55:25.780 like really get into something and get some solid stuff done because i don't know about you. 00:55:26.320 --> 00:55:29.220 But when i've got little like 15 20 half 00:55:29.220 --> 00:55:32.520 hour slots of time like yeah there's 00:55:32.520 --> 00:55:35.260 certain things i can do i can check my email i can check 00:55:35.260 --> 00:55:39.920 my messaging things like that but like for a lot of stuff like it takes me a 00:55:39.920 --> 00:55:46.040 half hour just to get myself into the groove of working on the thing and so 00:55:46.040 --> 00:55:50.280 like if all i've got is half hour slots i i don't get it i never get the flow 00:55:50.280 --> 00:55:52.520 and get into that pattern listen. 00:55:52.520 --> 00:55:56.100 My my thing is that i spent that whole week traveling and then a whole week 00:55:56.100 --> 00:56:02.420 on vacation and i got back and i had so many things that were open items that 00:56:02.420 --> 00:56:06.900 i am like struggling as to wait, which one the fuck do I do first? 00:56:07.240 --> 00:56:12.440 And then new things kept coming in at the same time. And so I did get through 00:56:12.440 --> 00:56:17.420 a whole bunch of it, but part of it is that I also need to do my, I have a fricking, 00:56:18.570 --> 00:56:21.390 note over there on the wall that i need to do some account 00:56:21.390 --> 00:56:25.250 planning because they changed all my almost all 00:56:25.250 --> 00:56:28.670 the accounts that i'm that i'm dealing with and so i 00:56:28.670 --> 00:56:37.430 i am one that that sees a value well me i in order to get on track to what the 00:56:37.430 --> 00:56:41.690 hell we're going to do for this year right which for us just started i need 00:56:41.690 --> 00:56:47.750 to fucking write down what the fuck we're doing otherwise it's just you know, attending fires. 00:56:47.810 --> 00:56:52.010 Right. Instead of doing, you know, a focused work. 00:56:52.150 --> 00:56:56.730 And, and so I, I, I, I started some of it, but I'm not through it. 00:56:56.870 --> 00:57:03.210 So I don't know. So anyway, now that we've like bored every listener to death at this point. 00:57:03.310 --> 00:57:08.930 I, what one, one more computer thing, one more thing is I just got more. 00:57:08.990 --> 00:57:12.290 I just got a text from my wife saying this 00:57:12.290 --> 00:57:16.090 happens daily and it's her computer saying 00:57:16.090 --> 00:57:21.610 your computer was restarted because of a problem and this is her old iMac which 00:57:21.610 --> 00:57:27.610 is many years old how old is it i don't it's really old like it's five or six 00:57:27.610 --> 00:57:32.870 years old if not older at this point because she already replaced it remember remember she. 00:57:32.870 --> 00:57:34.410 Got that lap computer stolen. 00:57:34.410 --> 00:57:38.130 Yes because she got a new MacBook Pro like 00:57:38.130 --> 00:57:40.890 a year and a half ago or two years ago whenever it was 00:57:40.890 --> 00:57:43.830 and then it got stolen and right 00:57:43.830 --> 00:57:46.730 and because she needed something she did something very similar 00:57:46.730 --> 00:57:49.810 to what i did she got like a bottom of the line macbook 00:57:49.810 --> 00:57:52.990 air and she can that thing barely 00:57:52.990 --> 00:57:55.750 does the thing she needs it to even though her 00:57:55.750 --> 00:58:01.730 needs are much less than i my needs she's still like that thing it's its screen 00:58:01.730 --> 00:58:04.850 is too small it's got this it's got that she has all kinds of issues with it 00:58:04.850 --> 00:58:09.710 it doesn't do what she needs it to do so she often tries to use her much much 00:58:09.710 --> 00:58:14.290 older iMac and it's starting to have issues now too. So I can easily see, 00:58:15.001 --> 00:58:18.701 Like the next stock grant, guess who's getting a computer then. 00:58:19.061 --> 00:58:24.061 So, you know, we may, this may be a two computer year for this family. 00:58:24.161 --> 00:58:26.381 So we usually try to space them out. 00:58:26.621 --> 00:58:31.141 Like, cause everybody in the family needs something, but like we try to space 00:58:31.141 --> 00:58:33.921 them out, but this may be a year we can't. So we'll see. 00:58:34.361 --> 00:58:39.301 You know, I will say that as a, okay, if I, one more thing on the computer is 00:58:39.301 --> 00:58:46.241 that, so I got, I got my wife, a Mac book air, right at the start of the pandemic. 00:58:46.401 --> 00:58:48.461 So that was like about four years ago. 00:58:49.201 --> 00:58:54.641 And she had a MacBook. And we gave that MacBook to Manu to use. 00:58:56.061 --> 00:59:00.061 And he's using it for school and stuff or whatever. 00:59:00.281 --> 00:59:03.481 I will say that, surprisingly, those two have held up pretty well. 00:59:03.581 --> 00:59:04.961 I mean, that MacBook, I got... 00:59:05.561 --> 00:59:10.481 Shit, it's older than my iMac, so it's 2017. And it's still... 00:59:10.981 --> 00:59:12.441 You know, I've checked it out. 00:59:12.501 --> 00:59:13.481 It's still chugging along. 00:59:14.161 --> 00:59:15.821 Still chugging along perfectly fine. 00:59:16.001 --> 00:59:16.261 Yeah. 00:59:16.361 --> 00:59:17.281 You know, both of those. 00:59:17.401 --> 00:59:20.781 Alex will probably need a new computer at some point too. 00:59:21.681 --> 00:59:25.021 Like it's one of the, he, he, he hasn't complained yet, so I'm not bringing 00:59:25.021 --> 00:59:26.601 it up until he starts to complain. 00:59:26.721 --> 00:59:27.481 Don't bring it up. 00:59:27.501 --> 00:59:32.801 But, but it's older and it's, it will undoubtedly need it at some point. 00:59:32.861 --> 00:59:38.261 And he's pushing it kind of hard. He's doing like programming and games and blah, blah, blah. 00:59:38.461 --> 00:59:41.701 So, you know, Oh. 00:59:41.701 --> 00:59:44.681 Manu's not pushing it very hard, so therefore it's probably helping. 00:59:44.881 --> 00:59:46.541 Yeah, yeah. Okay. All right. 00:59:46.601 --> 00:59:47.021 All right. 00:59:47.021 --> 00:59:48.161 We need to move on. 00:59:48.861 --> 00:59:49.601 Yes, we need to. 00:59:49.601 --> 00:59:53.641 We move on, and then maybe since we've talked about computers now, 00:59:53.721 --> 00:59:57.421 we don't do WWDC as one of our topics. Probably a good idea. 00:59:57.841 --> 01:00:01.401 Anyway, first break coming up, and then Ivan will pick a topic, 01:00:01.421 --> 01:00:06.081 and depending how long he goes and what the topic is, maybe that'll be it. Maybe I don't get one. 01:00:06.181 --> 01:00:09.201 I mean, I sort of had a topic. Back after this. 01:00:09.461 --> 01:00:12.861 Do do do. 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See? Fun, entertaining, educational. 01:02:13.050 --> 01:02:18.210 And short. Okay, now look for and subscribe to the Wiki of the Day family of 01:02:18.210 --> 01:02:23.890 podcasts on your podcast playing software of choice, or just go to wikioftheday.com 01:02:23.890 --> 01:02:25.150 to check out our archives. 01:02:28.730 --> 01:02:31.170 Okay, Yvonne, what's our topic? 01:02:32.075 --> 01:02:35.275 Well, I was going to bunch it up as politics. 01:02:36.075 --> 01:02:37.955 Okay. Politics. 01:02:38.615 --> 01:02:40.475 All right. So politics. 01:02:41.295 --> 01:02:46.055 I think with that broad a topic, let's just say this is the rest of the damn show. Politics. 01:02:46.615 --> 01:02:52.595 Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. So Hunter Biden is not fit to be president. 01:02:53.035 --> 01:02:55.595 He is not. Not. No. 01:02:56.075 --> 01:02:58.515 Right. That's the conclusion I've got. 01:02:59.215 --> 01:03:03.315 That's the conclusion. hunter biden is 01:03:03.315 --> 01:03:06.555 guilty of sin like yeah you 01:03:06.555 --> 01:03:09.295 know like yeah one of the 01:03:09.295 --> 01:03:17.375 things like that we see here is i have yet to hear and maybe i've just missed 01:03:17.375 --> 01:03:24.795 it but i have yet to hear any democrats really grousing about this outcome nobody 01:03:24.795 --> 01:03:29.095 is now and saying you know So, witch hunt, 01:03:29.315 --> 01:03:33.435 they're going after him, they're blah, blah, blah, he should have been innocent, blah, blah, blah. 01:03:33.615 --> 01:03:39.275 You know, I have heard people say he probably would not have been charged if 01:03:39.275 --> 01:03:42.015 he wasn't the president's son. And that's probably true. 01:03:42.455 --> 01:03:46.475 But at the same time, he's fucking guilty. He did it. 01:03:47.695 --> 01:03:50.675 Here's the thing. I don't know about not being charged. I mean, 01:03:50.755 --> 01:03:54.455 but I think that the, listen, 01:03:55.155 --> 01:04:00.175 most of the people, like with the situation that Hunter had, 01:04:00.415 --> 01:04:03.055 same as the situation that Hunter, 01:04:03.990 --> 01:04:10.930 idiot donald j trump had in these situations 90 plus percent of people will 01:04:10.930 --> 01:04:18.350 plead out right yeah the evidence in both of their cases is pretty clear cut well. 01:04:18.350 --> 01:04:24.210 Before that like like it i think it is important to say that the gun charges 01:04:24.210 --> 01:04:29.870 he had in particular are ones that are very very rarely brought alone as. 01:04:29.870 --> 01:04:33.430 Opposed to as part of a larger criminal like they've done a bunch. 01:04:33.430 --> 01:04:35.710 Of other stuff and you put the gun charge on top. 01:04:35.710 --> 01:04:39.610 Well what happened is that hunter was being investigated for a number of things 01:04:39.610 --> 01:04:44.910 and and has happened sometimes with these investigations is that look they decided 01:04:44.910 --> 01:04:51.350 to bring the one that they they had the the the strongest case for but but they. 01:04:51.350 --> 01:04:52.830 They were doing guns and taxes. 01:04:53.290 --> 01:04:57.910 Guns and taxes. But again, he was offered a plea deal. 01:04:58.110 --> 01:04:58.790 Yeah, he was. 01:04:58.910 --> 01:05:03.390 He rejected the plea deal. And the reason why he rejected the plea deal. 01:05:03.730 --> 01:05:07.730 Remember, first, the judge rejected the plea deal. 01:05:09.730 --> 01:05:17.050 Here's the important part. Both parties had presented a plea deal where they 01:05:17.050 --> 01:05:23.370 asked the judge to be the determiner of whether Hunter was being good afterwards. 01:05:23.730 --> 01:05:29.710 And it started falling apart when the judge was like, no, that's not my job. 01:05:29.870 --> 01:05:34.690 I'm not going to do that. And then she asked him, do you understand what you're pleading to? 01:05:35.110 --> 01:05:39.670 And then there was an issue where there was a misunderstanding where Hunter's 01:05:39.670 --> 01:05:43.370 team thought that if he pled, he'd be off the hook for everything. 01:05:43.670 --> 01:05:46.690 And the prosecution was like, no, you don't want to be off the hook for this. 01:05:46.750 --> 01:05:48.530 We're still going to be investigating other stuff. 01:05:49.090 --> 01:05:51.070 And that's where it all fell apart. 01:05:51.070 --> 01:05:55.370 Right. And that was the thing. 01:05:55.550 --> 01:06:03.570 He had specifically asked, hey, if I plead to this, I am basically immune from any other prosecution. 01:06:03.930 --> 01:06:09.250 And it was very extensive. And I was like, fuck, I've never heard a prosecutor 01:06:09.250 --> 01:06:14.490 ever agreeing to such a plea deal. I mean, it was just the ask was absurd. 01:06:15.150 --> 01:06:20.370 I mean, I think that they could probably, you know, do away with a couple of 01:06:20.370 --> 01:06:22.790 things, but you couldn't ask for that kind of blanket immunity. 01:06:23.670 --> 01:06:27.130 And so there was just no way away about it. 01:06:27.870 --> 01:06:30.390 Basically, they were still digging into the finances. 01:06:30.910 --> 01:06:31.390 Right. 01:06:31.690 --> 01:06:35.790 And weren't and weren't willing to say we're not going to find anything else. 01:06:35.990 --> 01:06:40.130 Like they were willing to plead him on the guns and the finances they already 01:06:40.130 --> 01:06:44.850 had. but they weren't willing to clear him for more financial stuff that they 01:06:44.850 --> 01:06:45.850 were still digging into. 01:06:46.150 --> 01:06:47.390 And that, right. Right. 01:06:48.584 --> 01:06:52.744 Well, I mean, it's, it's very difficult for somebody to get cleared on, 01:06:52.824 --> 01:06:56.664 you know, basically on things you don't know. Right. 01:06:57.084 --> 01:06:59.824 You know, and so, and that was the problem. 01:07:01.104 --> 01:07:06.584 It's just, you know, I, I'm going to pardon you for any crimes you may, you may have committed. 01:07:07.044 --> 01:07:12.884 Right. I mean, basically, but on the facts here, I mean, it was like, yeah, 01:07:13.044 --> 01:07:19.824 you were clearly a drug addict at the time that you signed a document saying 01:07:19.824 --> 01:07:22.664 that you weren't in order to try to get the gun. 01:07:23.084 --> 01:07:28.284 And look, he may get, listen, the reality is that because of what the charge 01:07:28.284 --> 01:07:32.104 is, you may get probation for all we know. 01:07:32.424 --> 01:07:37.964 If you add up all the maximum charges, it's a lot of years, but he won't get the maximum. 01:07:38.244 --> 01:07:41.164 It'll be, like you said, his first time offender, blah, blah, 01:07:41.184 --> 01:07:42.944 blah. Just like Trump won't get the maximum. 01:07:43.284 --> 01:07:48.924 Well, it's not just a first-time offender. It was a single charge. 01:07:49.464 --> 01:07:50.884 Well, three, but yeah. 01:07:51.404 --> 01:07:55.264 Well, three, but it was like for the purchase of one weapon, 01:07:55.464 --> 01:07:59.204 there wasn't a crime associated with it that was committed. 01:08:00.464 --> 01:08:04.244 There's a whole bunch of circumstances that usually, like you mentioned, 01:08:04.404 --> 01:08:08.784 most people that get this charge are charged with other crimes, 01:08:09.004 --> 01:08:13.604 usually. They committed a murder or robbery or something like that. 01:08:13.844 --> 01:08:16.344 That's not the case in this situation. 01:08:16.684 --> 01:08:20.464 So you will probably get off with a light sentence. 01:08:21.004 --> 01:08:25.684 He might get some jail time. And the reason he might get the jail time is because 01:08:25.684 --> 01:08:32.764 one of the things that prosecutors and probation officers are looking for in 01:08:32.764 --> 01:08:36.424 the report is some kind of, 01:08:37.372 --> 01:08:42.332 except as a guilt and contrition. Okay. It's what they're looking for. 01:08:42.432 --> 01:08:47.872 But if you basically are just still at that moment, just acting like, 01:08:47.932 --> 01:08:49.152 well, I'm not a criminal. 01:08:49.252 --> 01:08:52.552 I didn't do anything wrong. Well, if you don't think you did anything wrong, 01:08:52.632 --> 01:08:53.652 then you are going to do it again. 01:08:54.452 --> 01:08:58.672 Right. I mean, here, here are the couple of things with this. 01:08:59.272 --> 01:09:04.672 One is his sentence is probably going going to be on the lighter side but he's 01:09:04.672 --> 01:09:11.312 still got the tax stuff coming up in september and because at that point it 01:09:11.312 --> 01:09:15.612 won't be his first offense anymore it ups the risk of the sentence for the tax 01:09:15.612 --> 01:09:19.152 issues later which he's probably guilty of too by the way. 01:09:19.152 --> 01:09:24.712 Right well there's a whole bunch of financial things where apparently he wasn't 01:09:24.712 --> 01:09:30.772 paying you know he had refused to pay Some, some child supports alimony or so 01:09:30.772 --> 01:09:32.012 a whole bunch of tax stuff, 01:09:32.032 --> 01:09:35.612 or he hadn't properly filed a report on a whole bunch of money. 01:09:35.652 --> 01:09:36.952 There's a whole bunch of shit. 01:09:37.252 --> 01:09:40.952 Yeah. Only some of them he's been charged with, but, but in general, 01:09:41.092 --> 01:09:44.952 I mean, I don't know how many times on this show I've uttered the words, 01:09:45.072 --> 01:09:47.052 Hunter Biden is a piece of work. 01:09:47.512 --> 01:09:52.152 Like he, this man has lots of issues and it, from all reports, 01:09:52.312 --> 01:09:55.732 he may have cleaned himself a little bit, cleaned himself up a little bit in 01:09:55.732 --> 01:10:00.752 the last few years, but he has had lots and lots of problems. Yeah. 01:10:00.892 --> 01:10:08.152 You know, finance, financial stuff, sex stuff, the way he's treated the people 01:10:08.152 --> 01:10:14.452 he's been in relationships with the gun thing, the drug things that look, 01:10:14.652 --> 01:10:19.272 this guy has had a lot of issues and nobody denies that, including himself. 01:10:19.492 --> 01:10:26.652 He wrote a whole book about it. Like, you know, So he's admitted all this stuff. And so we'll see. 01:10:26.812 --> 01:10:32.192 Like, I mean, he probably, I would not be surprised if he does some time before 01:10:32.192 --> 01:10:35.052 we're done with this thing. Now, another part of this, 01:10:35.673 --> 01:10:41.313 And the contrast and what brings it into politics is his father's reaction to this. 01:10:41.573 --> 01:10:43.773 You know, first, first of all. 01:10:43.833 --> 01:10:45.473 What chant? 01:10:45.653 --> 01:10:50.793 Yeah, no, that, that's not what Joe did. No, Joe, Joe's like. 01:10:50.873 --> 01:10:56.253 No, it wasn't like an all caps on, on, on, on social media. no joe. 01:10:56.253 --> 01:10:57.633 Joe is like you know. 01:10:57.633 --> 01:11:01.173 You didn't get you get a net get like a run-on 01:11:01.173 --> 01:11:10.073 endless sentence of like capitalized letters saying you know the the nancy pelosi 01:11:10.073 --> 01:11:19.293 uh fbi doj witch hunt that has has pursued my son, 01:11:19.393 --> 01:11:21.753 something like that. No, no, no. 01:11:23.033 --> 01:11:23.993 George Soros. 01:11:24.373 --> 01:11:30.973 No, no, no. Of course, what Joe, what Joe Biden did, what, what Joe, who. 01:11:30.973 --> 01:11:36.253 Am I missing? I need, I need, I need more conspiracies. I'm not very good with this conspiracy stuff. 01:11:36.973 --> 01:11:41.053 Yes, yes, yes. What Joe Biden did was first of all. 01:11:41.113 --> 01:11:44.413 I need my conspiracy AI. Can I find some conspiracy AI? 01:11:44.953 --> 01:11:47.873 Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. OK, OK, enough, enough. 01:11:48.073 --> 01:11:53.973 What Joe Biden actually did was, of course, express support for his son, 01:11:54.073 --> 01:11:57.353 say, you know, I love my son. We support him. 01:11:57.473 --> 01:12:00.833 You know, as he goes through his appeal. But oh, by the way, 01:12:01.033 --> 01:12:04.773 we respect the legal process. We respect the verdict. 01:12:05.293 --> 01:12:09.053 As my son decides what to do about appeals, we will support him in that. 01:12:09.153 --> 01:12:12.693 Oh, but by the way, I'm not pardoning him. 01:12:13.293 --> 01:12:16.273 And then when people asked, well, will you commute his sentence? 01:12:16.273 --> 01:12:18.653 He's like, I won't commute his sentence either. 01:12:19.769 --> 01:12:25.549 And because he's basically saying, look, look, I am not going to use my presidential 01:12:25.549 --> 01:12:28.189 powers for the direct benefit of my family. 01:12:28.289 --> 01:12:30.929 Now, I have one thing to say on that. 01:12:31.089 --> 01:12:38.009 I understand him saying that right now, but I have said before and I will predict again. 01:12:38.009 --> 01:12:45.069 Again, if Joe Biden is about to leave the presidency, whether it be in 2025 01:12:45.069 --> 01:12:49.769 or 2020, what would it be? Nine, 2029. 01:12:51.649 --> 01:12:57.809 And on the day he is about to leave the presidency, Hunter Biden is actually in jail. 01:12:58.509 --> 01:13:01.409 I think he'll commute a sentence on that last day of his office, 01:13:01.569 --> 01:13:03.369 despite what he's saying today. 01:13:04.249 --> 01:13:09.649 But I look, I don't I don't know. No. Now, you mean if he's in jail that but 01:13:09.649 --> 01:13:11.749 but OK, here's one thing here. 01:13:12.129 --> 01:13:17.129 If Hunter is actually in jail on Joe Biden's last day in office, 01:13:17.429 --> 01:13:19.769 he's going to spring his son. I'm sorry. 01:13:20.209 --> 01:13:22.949 He will. He will say, look, the circumstance. 01:13:23.109 --> 01:13:26.449 Look, I don't know. I'm going to listen. I love it. Let me just say this, 01:13:26.509 --> 01:13:30.569 because I've had to deal with the situation where I had my father convicted 01:13:30.569 --> 01:13:37.729 of a of a federal offense. look i i i gotta be honest unless i thought that i mean you. 01:13:37.729 --> 01:13:41.129 You wouldn't have sprung your dad because you felt like he needed to learn his lesson. 01:13:41.129 --> 01:13:45.949 Oh fuck yeah you know oh fuck yeah well. 01:13:45.949 --> 01:13:51.089 Because there is there is that certain thing that says that says hey son hey 01:13:51.089 --> 01:13:56.649 son you have to suffer the consequences for your action you you have to learn yeah yeah. 01:13:56.649 --> 01:13:59.669 You know if you're telling 01:13:59.669 --> 01:14:02.469 me that it look if maybe when I was leaving 01:14:02.469 --> 01:14:05.549 office and my father had been in jail maybe two years 01:14:05.549 --> 01:14:08.309 and maybe there were five more years left in 01:14:08.309 --> 01:14:11.269 the sentence but then maybe I'm like oh god you know 01:14:11.269 --> 01:14:17.409 but I don't think that any of these offenses like get that kind of jail time 01:14:17.409 --> 01:14:22.949 so my father got six months look if I'm getting if I'm leaving office and there 01:14:22.949 --> 01:14:25.229 is like about a month left I'm 01:14:25.229 --> 01:14:28.869 not fucking commuting a sentence you're staying there for a month Yeah. 01:14:28.969 --> 01:14:33.289 You're right. I will agree to that caveat. 01:14:33.549 --> 01:14:39.089 If he's only serving a few months and there's only a little bit of it left, 01:14:39.429 --> 01:14:43.949 then yeah, let him serve out his term. 01:14:44.269 --> 01:14:49.409 I mean, hell, what's her name? Martha Stewart served her term. 01:14:49.589 --> 01:14:56.449 He can serve for his term too. right exactly exactly if on the other hand for 01:14:56.449 --> 01:14:59.469 whatever reason he ends up with like decades in jail, 01:15:00.427 --> 01:15:03.167 I think changes the picture, but that's unlikely. 01:15:03.347 --> 01:15:06.247 I think, I think that changes the picture, but it's unlikely. 01:15:06.487 --> 01:15:14.827 So, yeah. So me, meanwhile, and the contrast is amazing. 01:15:15.027 --> 01:15:18.847 And what is shifting a little bit to the Republicans. One of the things has 01:15:18.847 --> 01:15:25.067 been lots of reporting on is how the Republicans are so disappointed because 01:15:25.067 --> 01:15:31.007 they were hoping he would get off and not be convicted, 01:15:31.047 --> 01:15:38.267 that either be a hung jury or an actual acquittal, and then they could go on 01:15:38.267 --> 01:15:39.827 about how the system was rigged. 01:15:39.927 --> 01:15:45.427 And it was clearly the weaponized DOJ who was going after Trump, 01:15:45.587 --> 01:15:49.267 but it was all set up and Hunter was let go. 01:15:49.827 --> 01:15:51.647 But instead, he's convicted. 01:15:51.807 --> 01:15:52.247 Right. 01:15:52.467 --> 01:15:58.107 And now they've still come on and tried to say, well, yeah, they convicted him 01:15:58.107 --> 01:16:03.167 of this thing, But it's all just a smokescreen to distract from the real bad things. 01:16:03.287 --> 01:16:10.647 The Hunter Biden, the Biden crime family, Biden crime family is is responsible 01:16:10.647 --> 01:16:12.707 for. And this is the tip of the iceberg. 01:16:12.887 --> 01:16:16.527 And they're using it as a distraction for all the really bad stuff. 01:16:16.927 --> 01:16:24.707 I mean, you know, I mean, yeah, I mean, I know that the Biden crime family has done so many things. 01:16:25.227 --> 01:16:29.947 I think I heard that there is presidential M&Ms. I think they're involved in 01:16:29.947 --> 01:16:31.867 the trafficking of the presidential M&Ms. 01:16:32.367 --> 01:16:33.907 I heard they taste good, too. 01:16:34.427 --> 01:16:38.007 You know, I've heard Godfather 4 is going to be about the Biden crime family. 01:16:38.916 --> 01:16:43.976 Oh, that's what it is. Oh, wow. Well, that's Joe. Well, maybe that's the next 01:16:43.976 --> 01:16:45.256 career Joe Biden will have. 01:16:45.336 --> 01:16:49.016 He'll have an onscreen career. Going to go make some movies. 01:16:49.776 --> 01:16:50.876 Yeah, I don't know. 01:16:52.936 --> 01:17:01.476 So and this is this is the thing. Like, I can't like if they were going after Don Jr. junior or Eric. 01:17:02.556 --> 01:17:09.376 I, I don't feel like the Republicans would be reacting in the same way the Democrats are. 01:17:09.456 --> 01:17:12.156 Oh, are you kidding? Oh my God. 01:17:13.156 --> 01:17:18.216 The Democrats almost universally. They're like, yeah, Hunter did some bad shit. 01:17:18.256 --> 01:17:19.316 He deserves what he gets. 01:17:19.576 --> 01:17:23.896 The Republicans would be like, wait, Sean, they're after him for no reason. 01:17:23.936 --> 01:17:26.636 He's a per being persecuted, blah, blah, blah. 01:17:27.076 --> 01:17:31.096 What, which was the Clinton who Clinton had, Who did he have? 01:17:31.196 --> 01:17:34.296 A brother? Which one was the one that was... 01:17:35.396 --> 01:17:36.896 Clinton had a brother. 01:17:38.316 --> 01:17:43.496 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did Clinton have... Yeah, I can't remember. 01:17:43.856 --> 01:17:47.636 I thought Clinton had a problem with one of his siblings or something. 01:17:48.056 --> 01:17:52.036 I keep thinking Billy Carter, but that's a different presidential brother. 01:17:53.096 --> 01:17:55.096 No, that's a... Yeah, that's a... Yeah, right. 01:17:56.156 --> 01:18:00.236 As we all look up, Bill Clinton's brother. brother, Roger Clinton. 01:18:01.516 --> 01:18:06.676 Roger gets two days in jail, three years of probation. There you go. So, yeah. 01:18:06.836 --> 01:18:12.356 So Roger went to jail when President Clinton was in office. 01:18:12.896 --> 01:18:17.996 So there you go. Look at that. I don't remember anybody going and saying it 01:18:17.996 --> 01:18:19.736 was a witch either back then. 01:18:20.056 --> 01:18:23.156 It was reckless driving, DUI. 01:18:23.916 --> 01:18:28.216 Well, was it a witch hunt? Did anybody call? I don't remember anybody did. 01:18:29.001 --> 01:18:36.701 No, whereas, you know, Madison, this guy, Cawthorn, the guy that the Republicans 01:18:36.701 --> 01:18:41.401 like expelled or he lost the primary Madison Cawthorn. 01:18:41.521 --> 01:18:49.321 Yeah, because he was like saying that they all had cocaine, like prostitute parties in Washington. 01:18:49.601 --> 01:18:56.021 Okay. So the other day he got, he got into a drunken driving car accident and 01:18:56.021 --> 01:18:57.381 crashed into a police car. 01:18:57.381 --> 01:19:00.181 And somehow a couple of 01:19:00.181 --> 01:19:03.201 months later some police department like i don't 01:19:03.201 --> 01:19:06.141 know one of these like two-bit police departments was giving 01:19:06.141 --> 01:19:12.181 him some award you know like a couple of months after he had crashed into while 01:19:12.181 --> 01:19:18.021 driving drunk in a car that was not fitted with the devices that usually are 01:19:18.021 --> 01:19:23.501 required for somebody with his you know because he doesn't have legs if i remember 01:19:23.501 --> 01:19:26.081 he He can't hit the pedals. He need the hand assist. 01:19:26.281 --> 01:19:30.261 It didn't have that shit. He was driving a fucking Mercedes without that shit 01:19:30.261 --> 01:19:32.761 and crashed into a fucking cop car drunk. 01:19:33.461 --> 01:19:36.881 And he gets some kind of fucking award from some two bit bullies department. 01:19:37.001 --> 01:19:41.361 So going back to Roger Clinton for a second, because I had not remembered all 01:19:41.361 --> 01:19:44.501 of these details and talking crime families. 01:19:44.501 --> 01:19:55.681 One of the things that Roger Clinton did was accept a $50,000 Rolex from the Gambino crime family. 01:19:55.961 --> 01:19:57.881 Holy shit. Really? 01:19:58.901 --> 01:19:59.381 Yes. 01:20:00.481 --> 01:20:00.721 Fuck. 01:20:01.861 --> 01:20:13.081 Yeah. And Bill Clinton did end up pardoning Roger Clinton for a cocaine possession. 01:20:13.081 --> 01:20:15.361 Session on his last day at office on. 01:20:15.361 --> 01:20:16.401 His last day of office. 01:20:17.345 --> 01:20:20.085 I think it was his last day of office. I don't actually see that it's his last 01:20:20.085 --> 01:20:22.405 day of office, but it was probably right before he left. 01:20:23.845 --> 01:20:26.165 For like, yeah, for a cocaine charge. 01:20:28.345 --> 01:20:33.485 Yeah. And actually, I guess the time in jail was probably the cocaine charge, not the DUI. 01:20:33.765 --> 01:20:36.765 I don't know for sure. But yeah, it would make sense if it was. 01:20:36.905 --> 01:20:41.945 It says he spent time in federal prison after being convicted of a sting operation 01:20:41.945 --> 01:20:45.265 for conspiracy to distribute cocaine. 01:20:45.265 --> 01:20:47.925 Cane so like presidents have had lots of 01:20:47.925 --> 01:20:54.425 family who aren't exactly sinners you know and going back a long long time probably 01:20:54.425 --> 01:21:00.785 to the beginning of the republic but having a messed up family is not the same 01:21:00.785 --> 01:21:06.705 as you being messed up yourself i'm sorry correct yeah yeah it's like Like, 01:21:06.705 --> 01:21:09.805 and yeah. 01:21:09.945 --> 01:21:17.125 So meanwhile, Donald Trump is going to Capitol Hill asking what's his name? 01:21:17.145 --> 01:21:20.745 Johnson to figure out how to undo his conviction. 01:21:21.605 --> 01:21:27.185 It's like, dude, I don't think the house of representatives has that power. 01:21:28.485 --> 01:21:30.105 You know, apparently like. 01:21:30.205 --> 01:21:35.345 Uh, apparently Johnson, apparently Johnson's answer, by the way, was he'd work on it. 01:21:35.345 --> 01:21:41.225 But well that's that's a good answer i think it's a good answer i mean if you're 01:21:41.225 --> 01:21:48.865 in that that spot yeah it's a good answer i i i did see you know who the heck 01:21:48.865 --> 01:21:51.665 was it my my mind's like going, 01:21:52.465 --> 01:21:56.265 what was i talking no you're talking about johnson you're talking about congress 01:21:56.265 --> 01:22:03.745 you know trump yeah you know so trump went to to to oh yeah he went to he also had a meeting with 01:22:03.785 --> 01:22:07.585 his CEO Business Roundtable also when he was in Washington. 01:22:07.665 --> 01:22:07.705 Ah, right, yes. 01:22:07.905 --> 01:22:13.605 Okay. Basically, anybody who actually spoke about what happened at the Business 01:22:13.605 --> 01:22:18.745 Roundtable basically said that he was an incoherent mess, that he didn't know 01:22:18.745 --> 01:22:19.845 anything about what, yeah. 01:22:20.685 --> 01:22:23.965 Yes. And by the way, that 01:22:23.965 --> 01:22:27.125 was also the reports from the 01:22:27.125 --> 01:22:30.045 people who gave off-the-record comments about his 01:22:30.045 --> 01:22:33.405 meeting on Capitol Hill with congressional leaders as 01:22:33.405 --> 01:22:38.685 well yeah uh when he met the republican caucus now the on the record folks were 01:22:38.685 --> 01:22:43.665 all like it was a great speech it was uplifting we're all unified but the people 01:22:43.665 --> 01:22:49.205 who spoke off the record were making comments like it was listening to it was 01:22:49.205 --> 01:22:51.505 like listening to your drunk uncle yeah. 01:22:51.505 --> 01:22:54.805 Oh yeah that was the one that was listening to the drunk uncle that's right yes, 01:22:55.486 --> 01:23:00.186 Yeah. And he doesn't even drink. Well, thank God Donald Trump doesn't drink. 01:23:00.366 --> 01:23:06.226 Okay. Real for God's sake. All right. Yes. Can you imagine this guy drunk? 01:23:06.666 --> 01:23:13.626 Okay. What the hell he would do? Oh my God. You know, thank God he doesn't drink. Good Lord. 01:23:14.226 --> 01:23:20.286 I mean, but yeah, the, both the CEOs and the congressional people, 01:23:20.406 --> 01:23:26.486 the reports are he's He's having a hard time keeping a train of thought, being coherent. 01:23:27.026 --> 01:23:32.006 And look, we've said Donald Trump has had these kinds of issues a long time, 01:23:32.126 --> 01:23:34.406 but from all reports, it's getting worse. 01:23:34.786 --> 01:23:36.106 He's got a lot worse. 01:23:36.346 --> 01:23:39.486 And some of it is out in public, too. 01:23:39.626 --> 01:23:44.726 I mean, we had this whole thing with his sort of sharks versus batteries versus 01:23:44.726 --> 01:23:50.006 electric boats rambling statement this time around. 01:23:50.426 --> 01:23:55.666 Well, I went to a boat company in South Carolina. The boat, I said, how is it? 01:23:55.686 --> 01:23:58.686 He said, it's a problem, sir. They want us to make all electric boats. 01:23:59.106 --> 01:24:03.046 So I said, let me ask you a question. And he said, nobody ever asked this question. 01:24:03.306 --> 01:24:06.486 And it must be because of MIT, my relationship to MIT. 01:24:06.906 --> 01:24:12.186 Very smart. He goes, I say, what would happen if the boat sank from its weight 01:24:12.186 --> 01:24:17.806 and you're in the boat and you have this tremendously powerful battery and the 01:24:17.806 --> 01:24:22.966 battery is now underwater and there's a shark that's approximately 10 yards over there? 01:24:23.186 --> 01:24:26.406 By the way, a lot of shark attacks lately. Do you notice that? A lot of shark. 01:24:26.606 --> 01:24:30.486 I watched some guys justifying it today. Well, they weren't really that angry. 01:24:30.486 --> 01:24:35.866 They bit off the young lady's leg because of the fact that they were not hungry, 01:24:35.966 --> 01:24:39.106 but they misunderstood who she was. These people are great. 01:24:39.486 --> 01:24:42.726 He said, there's no problem with sharks. They just didn't really understand 01:24:42.726 --> 01:24:44.766 a young woman swimming now. 01:24:44.826 --> 01:24:47.486 It really got decimated. And other people, too. A lot of shark addicts. 01:24:47.506 --> 01:24:54.826 So I said, so there's a shark 10 yards away from the boat, 10 yards or here. Do I get electrocuted? 01:24:55.206 --> 01:24:58.506 If the boat is sinking, water goes over the battery. The boat is sinking. 01:24:58.646 --> 01:25:01.366 Do I stay on top of the boat? and get electrocuted? 01:25:01.766 --> 01:25:05.606 Or do I jump over by the shark and not get electrocuted? Because I will tell 01:25:05.606 --> 01:25:08.926 you, he didn't know the answer. He said, you know, nobody's ever asked me that question. 01:25:09.386 --> 01:25:12.626 I said, I think it's a good question. I think there's a lot of electric current 01:25:12.626 --> 01:25:17.166 coming through that water. But you know what I'd do if there was a shark or you get electrocuted? 01:25:17.326 --> 01:25:19.826 I'll take electrocution every single time. 01:25:20.306 --> 01:25:23.366 I'm not getting near the shark. So we're going to end that. We're. 01:25:25.033 --> 01:25:32.693 So somebody made this great AI clip of the scene in Jaws where the captain is 01:25:32.693 --> 01:25:37.553 talking to Roy Scheider on one side and Richard Dreyfuss on the other side talking about, 01:25:37.633 --> 01:25:40.513 you know, what they do to catch a shark or whatever. 01:25:40.513 --> 01:25:45.433 And there's this ominous music in the background and you hear the ship rolling 01:25:45.433 --> 01:25:46.733 and creaking and whatnot. 01:25:47.093 --> 01:25:51.273 And what they did is that they got the voice of the captain, 01:25:51.593 --> 01:25:58.033 okay, to basically say the speech that Trump, well, the speech, 01:25:58.233 --> 01:26:05.693 the incoherent mess that Trump said about boats, batteries, sharks. And it's great. 01:26:06.833 --> 01:26:11.413 I mean, it works in that environment. But I'm like, holy shit. 01:26:11.553 --> 01:26:18.833 I mean, what the fuck? It coherent, complete bluster mess that was. 01:26:19.093 --> 01:26:25.673 I mean, I don't understand who the hell. Listen, I not even for a candidate I really like. 01:26:25.793 --> 01:26:32.233 Do I go to a rally? And this is even for candidates that say inspiring shit, 01:26:32.453 --> 01:26:36.993 you know, smart shit, shit that you want to cheer for when they're saying it. 01:26:37.073 --> 01:26:40.093 I mean, I, you know, I mean, I don't go to those. 01:26:40.273 --> 01:26:50.173 I mean, who the hell stands out there in the heat to hear this mess of words 01:26:50.173 --> 01:26:53.713 that come out that just are completely incoherent and go, 01:26:54.093 --> 01:26:57.173 yay, yay, he's my guy, yay. 01:26:57.173 --> 01:27:04.513 I'm like, yeah, what sharks batteries and boats sinking MIT. 01:27:05.593 --> 01:27:14.693 I, I have not actually listened to a whole Trump speech and to end in a long, long time. 01:27:14.853 --> 01:27:18.733 And apparently it's getting hard to find them. 01:27:18.793 --> 01:27:23.513 If you don't show up in person, nobody's covering them live. 01:27:23.613 --> 01:27:28.793 Not even Fox is covering them at live. Right. And people are speculating. 01:27:28.813 --> 01:27:33.153 Part of that is because it's not, yeah, you hear these little segments about 01:27:33.153 --> 01:27:35.873 like the shark and the boat and stuff that's like a couple minutes long. 01:27:36.013 --> 01:27:44.153 But apparently he will ramble on for two hours and it's all like this or almost all like this. 01:27:44.153 --> 01:27:48.493 It's just a rambling stream of conscious, 01:27:48.633 --> 01:27:55.653 a lot of repeated themes about how he's persecuted and how the 2020 election 01:27:55.653 --> 01:28:00.313 was stolen from him and Hillary Clinton and Russia, 01:28:00.413 --> 01:28:06.553 Russia, Russia, and just a scrambled mess of all kinds of things. that's hard to follow. 01:28:07.133 --> 01:28:10.533 And, you know, even the people who show up to these, like they're, 01:28:10.533 --> 01:28:15.533 they're often leaving before the end and all kinds of stuff. And, and, 01:28:16.021 --> 01:28:20.721 And so there's been a start of a debate of like with news folks, 01:28:20.861 --> 01:28:24.841 you know, should, should we actually start showing more of this again? 01:28:24.941 --> 01:28:29.301 Cause people need to see how incoherent he is. 01:28:29.881 --> 01:28:33.821 I mean, there are certain people that are sharing clips, you know, 01:28:33.821 --> 01:28:38.361 out there from every, from every event. 01:28:38.601 --> 01:28:40.941 Okay. I mean, that, that is happening, but. 01:28:41.141 --> 01:28:44.501 Well, and the thing is, the thing is you wonder you, the thing, 01:28:44.501 --> 01:28:46.001 the thing is though, if you wonder. 01:28:46.021 --> 01:28:51.581 If you only show the little clips here and there, you wonder, 01:28:51.721 --> 01:28:55.241 is this selective editing? Is it actually fine? Because there have been some. 01:28:55.241 --> 01:29:00.381 Instances- But is it like OAN or Newsmax or any of those carrying these things? 01:29:00.761 --> 01:29:02.161 No, not even them. 01:29:02.501 --> 01:29:02.921 Wow. 01:29:03.081 --> 01:29:09.801 But here's the thing. There were examples even today of this coming the other 01:29:09.801 --> 01:29:11.601 way, where one of those that you You just mentioned, 01:29:11.661 --> 01:29:13.301 I don't know which one had some 01:29:13.301 --> 01:29:20.161 clips of Biden at an event that showed him sort of at the end of event, 01:29:20.281 --> 01:29:23.781 sort of wandering off aimlessly in some direction. 01:29:23.941 --> 01:29:26.161 And they're like, where's he going? What's he doing? 01:29:26.541 --> 01:29:31.681 Oh, he was, that was the New York post. He wasn't, he went to say hi to some paratroopers. 01:29:32.781 --> 01:29:37.401 Exactly. Yeah, exactly. He was, they cropped it in such a way that you couldn't 01:29:37.401 --> 01:29:41.341 tell where he was going, but But he was actually going somewhere with a purpose 01:29:41.341 --> 01:29:43.641 to talk to a person who was over there. 01:29:44.001 --> 01:29:49.361 There was another example where they edited something in such a way that made 01:29:49.361 --> 01:29:52.361 it look like he was trying to sit down somewhere where there wasn't a chair. 01:29:52.561 --> 01:29:56.441 That also was deceptively edited. That wasn't what happened. Blah, blah, blah. 01:29:57.001 --> 01:29:59.821 Well, there was another one that they were like complaining that apparently, 01:30:00.041 --> 01:30:03.001 I can't remember one event, Biden was like standing there, whatever. 01:30:03.561 --> 01:30:07.281 And I guess like a whole bunch of us, he can't dance worth a damn. 01:30:07.281 --> 01:30:12.481 And so everybody else was dancing and you know he was there smiling or whatever 01:30:12.481 --> 01:30:16.461 he was dancing and people are like look at this guy look at this whatever and 01:30:16.461 --> 01:30:22.921 i'm like what he's just okay he's can't dance okay next week. 01:30:22.921 --> 01:30:25.761 They're gonna put out like him doing a tiktok dance or something but. 01:30:25.761 --> 01:30:28.601 You know but. 01:30:28.601 --> 01:30:35.061 Here here's the thing the the point is that everybody at this point has to be 01:30:35.061 --> 01:30:37.101 wary of of deceptive editing right 01:30:37.101 --> 01:30:41.641 like okay Trump looked really stupid in that 30 minute 30 second clip. 01:30:41.641 --> 01:30:44.361 Well and then you know add by I've got I've 01:30:44.361 --> 01:30:47.381 got now I'm gonna make this curmudgeons a curmudgeon corner 01:30:47.381 --> 01:30:52.741 AI and think about all the fucking you know because I've already seen from other 01:30:52.741 --> 01:30:59.781 places all this deceptive shit that is using AI generated content to just spew 01:30:59.781 --> 01:31:05.221 horse shit all over the place I'm not talking about just here in this election just everywhere. 01:31:06.144 --> 01:31:09.364 Oh, yeah, this is going to be a huge problem because it's now really, 01:31:09.464 --> 01:31:16.024 really easy to do the deep fakes of someone talking that is pretty convincing. 01:31:16.144 --> 01:31:19.364 We're like, if you're paying close attention, you can tell still. 01:31:19.624 --> 01:31:23.904 But if you're just casually looking, it looks like the real thing. 01:31:24.064 --> 01:31:29.764 You mean to tell me Donald Trump wasn't sitting on a 50-year-old boat talking 01:31:29.764 --> 01:31:32.564 to Roy Scheider? Oh, man. 01:31:33.464 --> 01:31:40.084 Yeah. Well, the thing is, even without that, like some of the examples I just 01:31:40.084 --> 01:31:42.364 gave weren't even fancy AI stuff. 01:31:42.444 --> 01:31:44.764 They were just like crop the video. 01:31:44.884 --> 01:31:48.884 So you can't see what's over to the side. Like this is simple shit that could 01:31:48.884 --> 01:31:49.784 have been done for years. 01:31:49.864 --> 01:31:54.264 But the point is that everybody needs to be on their guard. 01:31:54.404 --> 01:31:59.484 So if you hear like the 32nd soundbite of Trump sounding stupid, 01:31:59.484 --> 01:32:05.144 stupid okay maybe it was out of context now from the reports i'm hearing it's 01:32:05.144 --> 01:32:10.784 not out of context he very much is rambling and incoherent but you shouldn't 01:32:10.784 --> 01:32:15.324 trust that because you don't know like maybe they're really yeah yeah. 01:32:15.324 --> 01:32:16.504 Right no i agree. 01:32:16.504 --> 01:32:22.804 You know you know so you gotta you you gotta you know what what is it domiata 01:32:22.804 --> 01:32:27.104 proviate or whatever trust but verify i just mangled the russian version, 01:32:27.304 --> 01:32:30.784 but you know, it's yeah. Like, 01:32:31.768 --> 01:32:36.008 And look, we're having this battle where the Republicans are all trying to make 01:32:36.008 --> 01:32:41.548 out like Biden is the old senile guy, but it's Donnie. 01:32:41.648 --> 01:32:44.228 Come on. He's not looking great. 01:32:44.388 --> 01:32:46.688 So let's be clear. Biden is old. 01:32:47.408 --> 01:32:49.028 Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. 01:32:49.888 --> 01:32:50.488 Biden's old. 01:32:51.068 --> 01:32:51.548 Yes. 01:32:51.608 --> 01:32:55.588 But, you know, I saw him the other day also doing a press conference with Zelensky, 01:32:55.728 --> 01:32:57.868 asking certain questions, going through stuff or whatever. 01:32:57.868 --> 01:33:01.228 Ever i've seen him do a number of interviews you know 01:33:01.228 --> 01:33:04.168 this year you know he's he's done 01:33:04.168 --> 01:33:07.948 several interviews with certain people you know 01:33:07.948 --> 01:33:10.868 he has a you know somebody was complaining you know 01:33:10.868 --> 01:33:14.348 they did this wall street shooter article that he apparently got some facts 01:33:14.348 --> 01:33:19.648 confused in certain times and whatnot and i'm just like fuck i get i mean jesus 01:33:19.648 --> 01:33:23.428 christ over here we're fucking like fishing through fucking google to get our 01:33:23.428 --> 01:33:27.988 facts right i mean what the hell man so yeah Yeah, maybe he got a fax wrong here and there, 01:33:28.188 --> 01:33:31.248 but you know, he's not, he's not, you know, he's not. 01:33:31.748 --> 01:33:36.748 I bet Joe Biden would have known off the top of his head, Bill Clinton's brother's name. 01:33:37.428 --> 01:33:43.168 Probably. Yes. I bet you he would have. And I, and I, and I'm going to bet that 01:33:43.168 --> 01:33:47.188 fucking Joe Biden also wouldn't have told me to stick a UV light up my ass and 01:33:47.188 --> 01:33:48.588 check myself with bleach. 01:33:50.108 --> 01:33:53.128 Well, see, this is the thing. And we've talked about it, about Donald Trump 01:33:53.128 --> 01:33:59.128 before. I mean, it's not like he was this brilliant mind in 2016. 01:33:59.928 --> 01:34:00.968 No! Yeah. 01:34:01.628 --> 01:34:07.788 You know, I think he is getting worse, but it's not. He was incoherent, 01:34:07.788 --> 01:34:09.228 you know, eight years ago. 01:34:10.108 --> 01:34:15.888 You know, he had his issues. And he's all the psychological issues as well, right? 01:34:16.828 --> 01:34:21.288 You know, I was seeing also, like, you know, talk about his psychological issues 01:34:21.288 --> 01:34:23.508 that, you know, Apparently, Dr. 01:34:23.708 --> 01:34:28.948 Fauci is having a book published right now, in part talking about him being... 01:34:30.375 --> 01:34:33.935 The advisor to presidents in the past and you 01:34:33.935 --> 01:34:37.295 know he dedicated a significant section to you know 01:34:37.295 --> 01:34:45.275 to mr you know i don't even mr trump yes where basically in the chapter entitled 01:34:45.275 --> 01:34:50.715 he loves me he loves me not okay dr fauci described how mr trump repeatedly 01:34:50.715 --> 01:34:54.975 told him he loved them while at the same time excoriating him with tirades flecked 01:34:54.975 --> 01:34:56.535 with four-letter words okay OK, 01:34:56.555 --> 01:35:00.295 the president was irate, saying that I could not keep doing this to him. 01:35:00.555 --> 01:35:05.175 You know, what the fuck was he doing? He said he loved me. The country was in 01:35:05.175 --> 01:35:07.035 trouble and I was making it worse. 01:35:07.195 --> 01:35:09.095 He added the stock market went 01:35:09.095 --> 01:35:13.555 up only 600 points in response to the positive phase one vaccine news. 01:35:13.695 --> 01:35:15.675 And it should have gone up 1000 points. 01:35:15.975 --> 01:35:21.375 And so I cost the country one trillion dollars. The president added an expletive. 01:35:21.615 --> 01:35:27.815 I'm like, what the fuck? Fuck. I mean, this is, you know. Yeah. 01:35:29.015 --> 01:35:29.975 So, yeah. 01:35:30.415 --> 01:35:34.875 Well, we're less than a week and a half, believe it or not, from the presidential 01:35:34.875 --> 01:35:36.835 debate, the first presidential debate. 01:35:37.275 --> 01:35:42.175 So we're going to get to see Trump and Biden head to head and see what it's 01:35:42.175 --> 01:35:43.835 like. It'll be interesting. 01:35:44.075 --> 01:35:49.375 Okay. I got it. Okay. 50 bucks says that Trump backs out. 01:35:53.415 --> 01:36:00.635 I don't know. i i think his ego once will make him do it i. 01:36:00.635 --> 01:36:06.455 Mean he yeah listen he might say he's gonna do it but look what about look like 01:36:06.455 --> 01:36:10.135 did he testify right look at his yeah but look at his testimony in his trial 01:36:10.135 --> 01:36:15.115 right he said he was gonna yo yeah yeah i'm gonna go defend myself and then 01:36:15.115 --> 01:36:18.415 what do you say well they didn't let me and. 01:36:18.415 --> 01:36:22.495 And look you know that debate could go either way They could both come out looking 01:36:22.495 --> 01:36:25.055 bad. You know, who knows? 01:36:25.695 --> 01:36:31.215 You know, if I had to bet, I think Joe Biden will come out ahead just in terms of being. 01:36:31.615 --> 01:36:35.315 Well, it depends on what you're looking for. Right. And this is the fundamental 01:36:35.315 --> 01:36:36.435 problem with our politics. 01:36:36.635 --> 01:36:41.015 If you're looking for someone who seems like they know what they're doing and 01:36:41.015 --> 01:36:43.815 they're competent, Joe Biden will come out way ahead. 01:36:44.115 --> 01:36:49.575 If you're looking for somebody who's going to come out sort of angry and passionate 01:36:49.575 --> 01:36:53.495 and And like they're sticking it to the other guy. Trump's going to win that one. 01:36:53.855 --> 01:36:57.275 I don't know about that either. Look, Trump's come out looking, 01:36:57.355 --> 01:37:01.275 just sounding like an incoherent mess every time we've seen him lately talking in public. 01:37:01.615 --> 01:37:05.955 And so, I mean, and so I don't know, you know. 01:37:06.953 --> 01:37:15.453 And actually, Biden did a pretty good job in the state of the union of coming 01:37:15.453 --> 01:37:18.073 out and pounding the table forcefully. 01:37:18.113 --> 01:37:18.513 Yeah, yeah. 01:37:18.813 --> 01:37:24.973 So I don't know. I mean, it could be, you know, I mean, my odds are is that, 01:37:24.973 --> 01:37:30.293 you know, listen, every other debate that he participated has participated has been a disaster. 01:37:30.733 --> 01:37:35.973 Okay. For Trump, it's been bad or, you know, none of them have been good. 01:37:35.973 --> 01:37:40.353 I mean, Hillary completely destroyed him, okay, in the debates, okay? 01:37:40.933 --> 01:37:45.433 Well, and that's a good example, right? She completely destroyed him in the 01:37:45.433 --> 01:37:50.213 debates, but did it end up affecting anything in the course of that election? No. 01:37:51.713 --> 01:37:54.533 Well, no, because we had Comey. 01:37:54.973 --> 01:38:01.253 Right. But, yeah, I mean, the usual thing with debates, and we're going to have 01:38:01.253 --> 01:38:04.953 one more show before the debate, so we should maybe save this for next week. 01:38:04.953 --> 01:38:07.893 But like the usual thing with debates 01:38:07.893 --> 01:38:10.893 is that like there's no 01:38:10.893 --> 01:38:13.793 lasting effect like even if it has an immediate 01:38:13.793 --> 01:38:16.513 pop like one way or the other in the 01:38:16.513 --> 01:38:22.873 days immediately after there's no lasting effect with the with the exception 01:38:22.873 --> 01:38:29.633 of every once in a while somebody has a complete meltdown or a bad thing like 01:38:29.633 --> 01:38:34.153 the you know you're no jack kennedy moment kind of thing you know okay. 01:38:34.153 --> 01:38:39.273 Let me let me Well, unless what the dream I had two days ago happens. 01:38:39.713 --> 01:38:41.513 Okay. What was your dream, Yvonne? 01:38:41.513 --> 01:38:45.073 Which is, holy shit, I forgot that. I haven't mentioned this. 01:38:45.929 --> 01:38:49.969 I had a fucking dream and it was so vivid. I have to check my phone, 01:38:50.089 --> 01:38:52.109 make sure that this wasn't real. 01:38:52.529 --> 01:38:57.889 That fucking Trump had a heart attack while at the podium on stage. 01:38:58.309 --> 01:39:02.349 Okay. And they were trying to resuscitate him on the fucking, 01:39:02.389 --> 01:39:04.649 on the fucking stage. Okay. 01:39:05.869 --> 01:39:09.869 And, you know, and then they took, and then they took him away and I didn't 01:39:09.869 --> 01:39:11.669 see what happened during the dream. 01:39:11.869 --> 01:39:15.389 And then I woke up and I'm like, wait, what the fuck? Wait. 01:39:15.389 --> 01:39:19.909 Wait, was Joe Biden giving Donald Trump mouth-to-mouth? 01:39:20.209 --> 01:39:26.289 No, no. Some random people were going and doing chest compressions on him, 01:39:26.309 --> 01:39:28.089 whatever is what I'm looking at. 01:39:28.249 --> 01:39:35.969 And I was like, I have to admit, I can't believe because I'm not one that really 01:39:35.969 --> 01:39:38.569 is taking pleasure from anybody dying. 01:39:38.849 --> 01:39:43.449 But I have to say, I was kind of excited if that was true. 01:39:44.689 --> 01:39:45.509 And i've. 01:39:45.509 --> 01:39:48.429 Never felt like that about anybody in my life. 01:39:48.429 --> 01:39:53.929 Well i will say if that ends up happening yvonne the secret service will be 01:39:53.929 --> 01:39:59.629 coming to ask you whether you poisoned him so it. 01:39:59.629 --> 01:40:01.609 Was just a dream it. 01:40:01.609 --> 01:40:07.489 Was just a dream just a dream no i mean so yeah debate's coming up in a couple 01:40:07.489 --> 01:40:12.369 weeks week and a half something like that what what other politics i think we 01:40:12.369 --> 01:40:15.189 got a few other things. We've got Supreme Courts going on. 01:40:15.289 --> 01:40:17.369 We've got Garland being held in contempt. 01:40:17.809 --> 01:40:23.049 We've got UK, EU, and France election stuff. 01:40:23.649 --> 01:40:25.429 We've got all kinds of stuff. 01:40:29.569 --> 01:40:33.969 I don't know. SCOTUS said one thing one way, and then, 01:40:37.389 --> 01:40:38.949 they did the, 01:40:40.570 --> 01:40:46.170 abortion medication stuff they basically unanimously batted away the challenge. 01:40:46.170 --> 01:40:51.290 Well in it's very important how they did it they said that the particular people 01:40:51.290 --> 01:40:57.130 who brought the case which were doctors did not have standing in this case uh 01:40:57.130 --> 01:40:58.110 it's usually what they do. 01:40:58.110 --> 01:40:59.410 With these they they don't. 01:40:59.410 --> 01:41:04.270 Right but they they they there are two things about that are that are important One, 01:41:04.770 --> 01:41:10.970 the way they did it also potentially makes it harder for other doctors to get 01:41:10.970 --> 01:41:15.910 standing in cases on all kinds of other issues or even on the abortion issue 01:41:15.910 --> 01:41:19.510 in the opposite direction, which may have negative consequences. is. 01:41:19.970 --> 01:41:24.990 Also, the way they did it very specifically leaves it open that the same issue 01:41:24.990 --> 01:41:31.550 can be brought back up with a different set of people almost right away because 01:41:31.550 --> 01:41:38.630 they didn't get to the main issue. They only stopped at standing. 01:41:38.910 --> 01:41:43.930 And in fact, in the other one, the bump stock decision, they did something similar. 01:41:44.110 --> 01:41:50.230 The problem was with the way it was done administratively, not with the general concept. 01:41:50.690 --> 01:41:57.130 So if they didn't touch the second amendment implications, for instance, 01:41:57.310 --> 01:42:02.510 it was just the ATF can't do this, it would have to be a law. 01:42:02.870 --> 01:42:08.310 And of course, that ends up kicking it because there's no way that would get passed as a law anyway. 01:42:08.410 --> 01:42:12.190 Sorry for jumping from the one to the other, but back to you, Yvonne. 01:42:13.170 --> 01:42:16.350 No, but I guess, listen, but here's 01:42:16.350 --> 01:42:20.150 the one thing that's happened with most of these cases when when they've been 01:42:20.150 --> 01:42:24.890 you know when they get to the when they get to scotus and they get dismissed 01:42:24.890 --> 01:42:35.250 with you know in that way man i don't see them coming back again very very quickly well very quickly is. 01:42:35.250 --> 01:42:39.410 Important the cycle is usually two to three years so like they'll be back but 01:42:39.410 --> 01:42:41.950 it'll be a few years it's not going to be like next No. 01:42:42.190 --> 01:42:46.710 It's not. No, it usually it gets they kick the can down the road several years. 01:42:46.950 --> 01:42:51.630 Okay. All right. So and that's if it comes back. In some cases, 01:42:51.650 --> 01:42:53.390 I've seen that they just don't come back. 01:42:53.570 --> 01:42:58.170 I mean, like, I don't expect, for example, that that bump stock ruling that 01:42:58.170 --> 01:43:03.910 somebody is going to come back and try to, you know, argue something about that again. 01:43:03.910 --> 01:43:11.850 Well, the thing is, since they tossed out that rule for it to come back, either the, 01:43:12.670 --> 01:43:16.550 administration would have to try to do it again administratively without a law, 01:43:16.670 --> 01:43:21.470 in which case it would probably come back relatively soon, or Congress would 01:43:21.470 --> 01:43:25.270 actually have to pass a law about it, which, come on, with our existing Congress, 01:43:25.350 --> 01:43:26.190 just isn't going to happen. 01:43:26.510 --> 01:43:27.170 Right. Right. 01:43:27.916 --> 01:43:33.916 So I just, you know, so basically, whatever, this has been basically kicked 01:43:33.916 --> 01:43:38.716 down the road a few years, like right now, at best case. 01:43:38.756 --> 01:43:42.356 So worst case, everybody's going to say, forget it. We're not going to even try again. 01:43:42.516 --> 01:43:46.876 But but, you know, like right now with all of these, they keep like I mean, 01:43:46.876 --> 01:43:48.676 there's so many of these files. 01:43:48.676 --> 01:43:51.856 But you know that there is one thing that happened recently, 01:43:52.136 --> 01:43:57.916 that there was a significant change related to filings of these cases, okay? 01:43:58.336 --> 01:44:02.496 Where in the last, you know, several months, 01:44:02.616 --> 01:44:08.576 a change was made in federal court where there had been a number of people seeking 01:44:08.576 --> 01:44:13.576 to challenge, you know, all sorts of things, okay? 01:44:13.576 --> 01:44:20.596 OK, especially conservatives that had been shopping to go to this court specifically 01:44:20.596 --> 01:44:29.696 in Texas that was seen as very favorable to to getting all these challenges, you know, up. 01:44:29.776 --> 01:44:32.836 They were there every time that they brought something up to that court, 01:44:32.956 --> 01:44:38.496 that case start, you know, got traction and and and and and started going up 01:44:38.496 --> 01:44:41.036 the chain. OK, as some sort of challenge. 01:44:41.176 --> 01:44:48.476 But but the federal courts made a change that you can't do this kind of shopping anymore. 01:44:48.756 --> 01:44:51.816 OK, in order to limit this shit. 01:44:51.956 --> 01:44:59.496 OK, and I saw that that quietly happened recently, but nobody paid a lot of 01:44:59.496 --> 01:45:01.616 attention to it for whatever reason. 01:45:02.956 --> 01:45:05.976 And I read it. Let me see. 01:45:06.176 --> 01:45:11.036 When the hell did it come out? It happened over the last few weeks and I didn't share it. 01:45:12.090 --> 01:45:19.290 Let me see. Let me try to find it. Okay, here we go. Okay, here it is. This was in March, okay? 01:45:19.730 --> 01:45:23.270 The Judicial Conference of the United States published a new policy last Tuesday, 01:45:23.490 --> 01:45:25.730 March 12th, to curb judge shopping in federal courts. 01:45:25.850 --> 01:45:29.930 In essence, it directed district courts to randomly assign cases on a district-level 01:45:29.930 --> 01:45:32.690 basis when the plaintiffs seek an actual injunction. 01:45:32.910 --> 01:45:37.150 Today, a few districts adopt internal divisions that have the result of allowing 01:45:37.150 --> 01:45:39.610 plaintiffs to choose the judge who will hear their cases. 01:45:39.610 --> 01:45:43.090 For example, the Northern District of Texas, which is the one I was talking 01:45:43.090 --> 01:45:48.950 about, assigns all cases filed Amarillo division to Judge Matthew Cash or whatever his name is. 01:45:49.030 --> 01:45:53.030 Some have received cash or whatever benches more friendly to their goals and 01:45:53.030 --> 01:45:55.170 have thus chose to file cases only in Amarillo. 01:45:55.350 --> 01:46:01.090 In 2023, Judge whatever issued a national injunction that reversed the decades 01:46:01.090 --> 01:46:08.090 long approval of Mipfer Stone, the most used abortion medication in the country. 01:46:08.090 --> 01:46:10.690 Country, thus nearly prohibiting abortion access nationwide. 01:46:10.690 --> 01:46:11.970 Even those cases were illegal. 01:46:12.150 --> 01:46:16.530 So it goes back to this case. So the problem is that right now they changed the rule. 01:46:17.970 --> 01:46:23.630 So this, this is, they, they have been funneling everything through this fucking judge. 01:46:24.130 --> 01:46:28.750 Okay. That, right. It's just doing this sort of bullshit and starting the, 01:46:28.770 --> 01:46:31.430 you know, steering up this shit in these cases. 01:46:31.510 --> 01:46:35.870 And basically, you know what they said? No. No. 01:46:36.415 --> 01:46:42.275 No more of this. And that had been the source of most of these cases. 01:46:42.435 --> 01:46:48.675 And I do think that going forward, thank God, and I don't know why more people 01:46:48.675 --> 01:46:51.135 didn't pay attention because this is a massive change. 01:46:52.175 --> 01:46:57.335 This cuts down on a lot of this shit that's been going on from the right. 01:46:57.335 --> 01:47:01.895 Right so and you know because commentators were quick were quick to tie this 01:47:01.895 --> 01:47:06.855 new policy to the flood of national chasm mayor or whatever like. 01:47:06.855 --> 01:47:09.135 Injunctions okay as. 01:47:09.135 --> 01:47:10.575 It turns out so. 01:47:10.575 --> 01:47:17.015 We are so good at pronouncing names and even remembering names like one of the 01:47:17.015 --> 01:47:22.615 things i noticed when i listened to old episodes is how often we're like actively 01:47:22.615 --> 01:47:28.195 avoiding saying the name we'll be like Like the prime minister of country X, 01:47:28.335 --> 01:47:30.435 you know, without ever mentioning the name. 01:47:30.875 --> 01:47:34.535 Oh, well, the prize bidder of, you know, well, whatever the fuck, 01:47:34.555 --> 01:47:37.595 you know, just like, you know, or, you know. 01:47:37.595 --> 01:47:41.475 Oh, that guy, you know, that guy. Yeah. That one, that one. Yeah. 01:47:41.515 --> 01:47:45.195 The guy, the guy. Yeah. Yeah. That guy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 01:47:45.275 --> 01:47:47.235 That's right. You know? Yeah. I don't know. 01:47:48.395 --> 01:47:52.915 Speaking of political wipeouts. Okay. All right. Since we didn't even touch 01:47:52.915 --> 01:47:53.995 this and it's not on the list. 01:47:54.035 --> 01:47:59.575 Wait, wait. before before you do that like just to finish off scotus just to mention. 01:47:59.575 --> 01:48:01.815 Oh yeah yeah the other coast both. 01:48:01.815 --> 01:48:06.475 No not not the other case like both alito and thomas have been in the news again. 01:48:06.475 --> 01:48:08.575 Oh god fuck. 01:48:08.575 --> 01:48:14.635 You know thomas for more like more bribes basically. 01:48:14.635 --> 01:48:19.775 Money that more bribes i mean basically because he takes them you know there 01:48:19.775 --> 01:48:25.355 was a graph that showed how much money thomas you know takes and everybody the 01:48:25.355 --> 01:48:29.455 fuck else and basically it's just I mean I, 01:48:30.124 --> 01:48:34.804 You know, Clarence Thomas just has a fucking deposit box in front of his house. 01:48:36.024 --> 01:48:37.684 Alito was number two, by the way. 01:48:38.104 --> 01:48:39.424 Alito was number two. Yeah. 01:48:39.684 --> 01:48:42.324 Far below Thomas, but he was number two. 01:48:42.384 --> 01:48:45.724 Oh, but, but, but far below Thomas, but he was number two. 01:48:46.444 --> 01:48:51.684 Yeah. And, but yeah, that, so Thomas was revealed to have even more of these 01:48:51.684 --> 01:48:55.064 gifts from generous, wealthy friends. 01:48:55.644 --> 01:49:02.344 Like I shouldn't say bribes. Come on. you know who amongst us doesn't regularly 01:49:02.344 --> 01:49:07.424 get you know private jet trips from your favorite billionaire friends you know 01:49:07.424 --> 01:49:11.724 i i do that every weekend every weekend yeah so, 01:49:12.404 --> 01:49:17.984 and they pay for my kids private school yes you know it it happens all this kind of stuff. 01:49:17.984 --> 01:49:22.704 Country club country club memberships i know you have several country club memberships. 01:49:22.704 --> 01:49:25.864 Yeah because you know i'm all about the golf yeah. 01:49:25.864 --> 01:49:27.464 You know i i know you love that golf. 01:49:27.464 --> 01:49:28.164 I mean. 01:49:28.164 --> 01:49:32.084 Oof, let me tell you. You and that golf. My God. 01:49:32.084 --> 01:49:38.704 Anyway, and then Alito and his wife were both caught on on secret recordings 01:49:38.704 --> 01:49:43.204 where there's some progressive activist who infiltrates. This is apparently her thing. 01:49:43.324 --> 01:49:47.784 She infiltrates conservative events, pretending to be a religious conservative 01:49:47.784 --> 01:49:54.744 and trying to get people to say things that would be embarrassing if made public. 01:49:54.784 --> 01:49:59.184 And she succeeded in this on both Alito and Alito's wife. 01:50:01.210 --> 01:50:06.310 With Alito saying things about how it was important that, first of all, 01:50:06.310 --> 01:50:09.870 the divisions in this country would not be solved by compromise. 01:50:09.990 --> 01:50:10.930 Somebody's going to win. 01:50:11.990 --> 01:50:13.670 And by the way, which I agree with. 01:50:15.130 --> 01:50:20.610 Alito's comments were not that bad. Okay. All right. I mean, he. 01:50:20.610 --> 01:50:24.490 Also said something about returning the country to godliness, 01:50:24.690 --> 01:50:27.630 et cetera. There were comments that were sort of like. 01:50:27.630 --> 01:50:31.650 But his comments were not, they were like a little bit, you know, 01:50:31.690 --> 01:50:34.250 I wasn't comfortable with, but they weren't that bad. 01:50:34.250 --> 01:50:38.550 They were like the things you wouldn't expect. You would expect even if a judge 01:50:38.550 --> 01:50:41.390 believed these things, they wouldn't say them publicly. 01:50:41.550 --> 01:50:41.970 Correct. 01:50:42.090 --> 01:50:49.150 But also you'd want a judge to be more cognizant of their role, 01:50:49.390 --> 01:50:53.410 that even if they, for instance, have deeply held religious beliefs, 01:50:53.630 --> 01:51:00.250 that they wouldn't be implying that the country should- But we. 01:51:00.250 --> 01:51:02.730 Knew this about this guy. Okay. All right. Right. 01:51:02.730 --> 01:51:06.010 So we know this about this guy. But also it was in contrast. 01:51:06.070 --> 01:51:11.250 She got Roberts on tape with the same question. And Roberts responded exactly 01:51:11.250 --> 01:51:13.590 the way you would want somebody in his position. 01:51:13.610 --> 01:51:15.690 Yes. Yes. That that. Exactly. 01:51:16.270 --> 01:51:20.010 He basically said, well, you know, I shouldn't be the arbiter of morals. 01:51:20.130 --> 01:51:21.330 I'm the arbiter of the laws. 01:51:21.470 --> 01:51:26.230 That's up for Congress and the president and the political elected people. 01:51:26.970 --> 01:51:30.810 Roberts, I mean, you know what? I heard Roberts and Roberts made me feel, 01:51:30.930 --> 01:51:34.450 I mean, I felt better after hearing Roberts. Can I be honest? 01:51:34.890 --> 01:51:38.670 Yeah. I mean, Robert said, no, I don't think it is a Christian country. 01:51:38.750 --> 01:51:41.370 My Muslim and Jewish friends would not think so. 01:51:41.630 --> 01:51:44.170 And, you know, so Roberts seemed very reasonable. 01:51:44.830 --> 01:51:47.830 Alito less so. And Alito's wife just seems like a nut job. 01:51:48.411 --> 01:51:53.511 Oh, my God. Alito's wife is a psychopath. Now, I will say that after seeing 01:51:53.511 --> 01:52:00.071 that, I do totally believe what Alito said about it was his wife that did the 01:52:00.071 --> 01:52:01.951 whole flag thing. And not just that. 01:52:02.031 --> 01:52:08.771 She actually flat out said, hey, you can't control me. I do whatever the hell I want. 01:52:08.851 --> 01:52:13.911 I'm like, I'm like, OK, so Alito. OK. She did say. 01:52:13.911 --> 01:52:18.771 That right now she is refraining from additional flag things. 01:52:18.771 --> 01:52:26.111 Because he asked her respect for him because he asked her. He asked her not to. So, yeah. So, yes. 01:52:26.211 --> 01:52:30.511 Now, and to be clear, the asking her not to was after all this blew up. 01:52:30.591 --> 01:52:35.151 She was specifically saying she wanted to put up a flag to counter the pride 01:52:35.151 --> 01:52:41.991 flags that she could see, like to to basically say shame on you for the pride flag. 01:52:41.991 --> 01:52:45.851 But she is refraining from doing that at his request. 01:52:45.851 --> 01:52:48.151 Yeah so yeah. 01:52:48.151 --> 01:52:51.431 Okay you you were going to talk about election wipeouts. 01:52:51.431 --> 01:52:57.051 Speaking about political wipeouts i don't know if you've seen well i i'm pretty 01:52:57.051 --> 01:53:02.511 sure you know even if these polls are off by some it seems like the tories are 01:53:02.511 --> 01:53:06.691 going to get completely destroyed at this election that's soon not called, 01:53:07.828 --> 01:53:08.808 I mean, they're like. 01:53:08.908 --> 01:53:12.908 Even if they have a surprise on an upside, they're still going to lose it. 01:53:12.988 --> 01:53:16.428 But, but it's not just, it's not just a loss. I mean, they're, 01:53:16.428 --> 01:53:19.248 they're, they're getting annihilated. 01:53:19.748 --> 01:53:23.388 Oh, I know that it looks like they're, they're going to have like, 01:53:23.448 --> 01:53:25.668 they're going to have like almost nothing left. 01:53:26.248 --> 01:53:26.688 Yeah. 01:53:26.848 --> 01:53:31.228 You know, at least that's what it looks like. We will wait and see what the actual results are. 01:53:31.288 --> 01:53:36.188 But I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's, I, I, I, I am jealous. 01:53:37.248 --> 01:53:43.288 Okay. to a certain degree because it's what i wish would happen to the republicans over here. 01:53:43.288 --> 01:53:46.188 Yeah like i like i 01:53:46.188 --> 01:53:48.928 i i keep thinking i i've said for 01:53:48.928 --> 01:53:52.428 years now i look forward to the day when the 01:53:52.428 --> 01:53:56.128 republican party dies out and american politics becomes 01:53:56.128 --> 01:54:00.488 essentially a battle between the obama 01:54:00.488 --> 01:54:03.768 and hillary wings of the democratic party yeah no 01:54:03.768 --> 01:54:06.628 or the hillary and and bernie wings the 01:54:06.628 --> 01:54:12.528 hillary and bernie wings is better right you know i i that yes that's where 01:54:12.528 --> 01:54:18.028 i hope things will go but no we we are clearly nowhere near that yeah no we 01:54:18.028 --> 01:54:26.348 we we we are we there's a significant chance that donald trump will be president again so but. 01:54:26.348 --> 01:54:32.488 But it's like i mean man But the Tories are going to get absolutely destroyed, 01:54:32.648 --> 01:54:35.848 you know, and it's their own doing. 01:54:35.908 --> 01:54:39.668 I mean, they basically got Brexit done. 01:54:40.128 --> 01:54:43.568 Yeah, they basically got Brexit done. 01:54:43.688 --> 01:54:49.388 They did it. And now basically their party is going to get almost wiped off 01:54:49.388 --> 01:54:57.308 the map because the reality has finally, finally settled in with everybody. 01:54:57.648 --> 01:55:06.728 Holy shit. What a bad, bad, bad, bad thing we got. We bought. 01:55:07.088 --> 01:55:08.388 It's so bad. 01:55:09.331 --> 01:55:10.851 So, so yeah, I mean. 01:55:10.911 --> 01:55:13.851 You know, it's talk about shooting yourself in the foot. 01:55:14.051 --> 01:55:14.531 Yeah. 01:55:14.611 --> 01:55:21.731 No, it's like, yeah. And, and like anybody who knew anybody who knew anything 01:55:21.731 --> 01:55:24.711 predicted it too. Like, yes, yes. 01:55:25.391 --> 01:55:30.271 And just like, well, and meanwhile, we've got what, what, what was Donald Trump's 01:55:30.271 --> 01:55:35.431 latest, like get rid of the income tax and replace it all with 85% tariffs on everything imported. 01:55:35.831 --> 01:55:40.331 He basically took the Herbert Hoover economic plan. I mean, ask her, 01:55:40.351 --> 01:55:42.431 check out how that worked out and. 01:55:42.431 --> 01:55:43.571 How well did that work out? 01:55:43.691 --> 01:55:47.811 Yeah, exactly. I'm like, it's this guy. I mean, fuck. 01:55:48.031 --> 01:55:53.831 I mean, this guy, you know, his economists are just dumb. What the fuck is wrong with all of them? 01:55:54.031 --> 01:55:56.831 Well, of course he didn't use economists. What am I, what am I thinking? 01:55:56.951 --> 01:56:00.131 He came up with this, but did you see the European parliament elections that 01:56:00.131 --> 01:56:05.431 did get a, a rightward shift in, in the European parliament. 01:56:05.471 --> 01:56:08.751 But, but the centrist party still still retained control 01:56:08.751 --> 01:56:11.611 but the right wing grew a lot the right 01:56:11.611 --> 01:56:14.931 wing and it was it was it did very significantly 01:56:14.931 --> 01:56:19.791 country to country overall europe-wide the right wing grew a lot and specifically 01:56:19.791 --> 01:56:25.291 in germany and france uh the right wing did really well and so that also resulted 01:56:25.291 --> 01:56:31.791 in france calling a special election for their parliament in like in like two weeks i. 01:56:31.791 --> 01:56:34.311 Don't know why he called it because he's going to get crushed. 01:56:35.971 --> 01:56:40.911 Well, I think part of it, like I was seeing somebody say, 01:56:41.571 --> 01:56:45.491 there was a previous iteration somewhere, 01:56:46.071 --> 01:56:52.231 where basically this kind of thing happened and they let it linger and sort 01:56:52.231 --> 01:56:58.191 of it was held over the government for a year, year and a half, something like that. 01:56:58.411 --> 01:57:02.451 And the whole time it was just sort of shenanigans that didn't go well. 01:57:02.731 --> 01:57:07.471 So it's sort of pulling the Band-Aid off. And I guess his hope is like he's 01:57:07.471 --> 01:57:10.671 saying like, look, this is your chance right now. 01:57:11.291 --> 01:57:17.611 Repudiate this stuff, nip it in the bud so that like if Macron actually wins. 01:57:17.971 --> 01:57:21.431 It did work one time before. So, OK, so. 01:57:21.831 --> 01:57:26.671 Yeah, like if Macron actually wins at this point, then he's sort of neutered 01:57:26.671 --> 01:57:28.631 the right wing attack for several years. 01:57:29.031 --> 01:57:32.171 Now, of course, if he loses, whole other story. 01:57:32.731 --> 01:57:35.511 But, you know, that's the gamble, I guess. 01:57:35.791 --> 01:57:41.191 And the thing is, this is also like, you know, the whole European thing of like, 01:57:41.311 --> 01:57:46.331 I mean, what, in the UK, the election was called, what, a month and a half in advance? 01:57:46.591 --> 01:57:50.651 I mean, in France, they didn't even bother with that. It was like three weeks, two and a half. 01:57:51.351 --> 01:57:56.191 Like, I guess the election is actually in two rounds. But the first one's on June 30th. 01:57:56.750 --> 01:58:00.670 Which is like, we're talking two and a half weeks. 01:58:01.170 --> 01:58:07.250 Like, our freaking election cycles are more than four years. 01:58:07.610 --> 01:58:10.890 People start running for the next one before the next one even happens. 01:58:11.170 --> 01:58:14.630 I kind of wish for this election cycle. Can I be honest? I mean, 01:58:14.670 --> 01:58:18.090 I really, you know, I mean, this would not be so bad. 01:58:18.770 --> 01:58:25.370 I do like the idea of like, you know, well, Mexico has six-year election terms for president. 01:58:25.370 --> 01:58:30.950 President and so and but it's only a one term okay for for the presidency i 01:58:30.950 --> 01:58:35.830 actually kind of like that one to be honest because they can't run again oh. 01:58:35.830 --> 01:58:39.950 And mexico had a recent election as well new new female president etc. 01:58:39.950 --> 01:58:44.630 Yeah there's a new female president that won there's a lot of we'll get she's not. 01:58:44.630 --> 01:58:46.190 Sworn in yet but she won the election. 01:58:46.190 --> 01:58:50.950 Yeah it's it's yeah it's like six months you know the the they have a super 01:58:50.950 --> 01:58:53.370 long like uh you know from election 01:58:53.370 --> 01:58:57.390 to inauguration it's like fricking six months takes forever. Yeah. 01:58:57.730 --> 01:59:00.230 And you think ours is long at three months, you know? 01:59:00.230 --> 01:59:03.290 Yeah, I know. Yeah, no, no, there there's, yeah, it's like, yeah, 01:59:03.310 --> 01:59:05.610 she's not getting into office until end or. 01:59:05.610 --> 01:59:07.090 Two and a half, whatever it is. 01:59:07.310 --> 01:59:11.990 So, but, but it's like with their case, I've heard her speak many times. 01:59:12.050 --> 01:59:13.430 She's very bright and very articulate. 01:59:13.970 --> 01:59:20.910 What a lot of her detractors are, are saying is that she's a puppet to the current president who is. 01:59:21.844 --> 01:59:26.484 Basically sounds a lot like Trump. I mean, in terms of his coherence. AMLO. 01:59:26.924 --> 01:59:31.664 Yeah, who just says a lot of incoherent shit and does a whole bunch of dumb shit. 01:59:32.324 --> 01:59:37.684 His economy has improved. And I will say that the one thing that he has done 01:59:37.684 --> 01:59:42.144 versus other Latin American presidents, it's give a lot more money to the poor. 01:59:42.444 --> 01:59:46.184 And, you know, they have a lot of income inequality. And Mexico has been doing 01:59:46.184 --> 01:59:47.964 well, so he's giving a lot more money to the poor. 01:59:48.144 --> 01:59:52.864 I don't begrudge him for that. I think that's great. But he also did stuff like 01:59:52.864 --> 02:00:00.064 he killed a project that was halfway done to build a new airport for Mexico 02:00:00.064 --> 02:00:04.464 City after several billion dollars had been spent. 02:00:04.464 --> 02:00:13.124 And to basically build another airport that he decided in a location that he chose of his own. 02:00:13.384 --> 02:00:20.104 The other airport had a long-term plan designed by all this shit that you do 02:00:20.104 --> 02:00:23.704 in order to really build something that was well thought out. 02:00:24.484 --> 02:00:28.404 The new airport that he built, basically nobody's flying to it. 02:00:28.724 --> 02:00:34.744 And so the overcapacity problem at the existing airport in Mexico City is basically the same. 02:00:34.944 --> 02:00:40.844 And so basically he squandered like $7 billion and did nothing. 02:00:41.544 --> 02:00:44.344 And oh, by the way, the other airport, some people are thinking, 02:00:44.384 --> 02:00:49.004 oh, well, maybe, you know, when he gets out of office, we'll continue to construction. 02:00:49.204 --> 02:00:56.184 No, he went and he flooded the construction site because it was on a dry lake bed. 02:00:56.464 --> 02:01:01.304 He decided to flood it. And so therefore you can't even salvage the several billion dollars spent. 02:01:02.160 --> 02:01:07.180 Nice. So do you think she's actually a puppet of his? Or is she going to be 02:01:07.180 --> 02:01:08.660 actually her own independent person? 02:01:08.860 --> 02:01:13.400 Because she seems like she's well-educated. She was a scientist, blah, blah, blah. 02:01:13.960 --> 02:01:19.180 Man, I got to tell you something. I, yeah, I, you know what? 02:01:19.740 --> 02:01:24.140 I'm, you know, my Mexican friends say, no, no, no. She's just a puppet. 02:01:24.480 --> 02:01:29.960 And I know that they're very, you know, close and passionate about this, closer than I am. 02:01:30.180 --> 02:01:34.020 But I'm looking at this more from the objective political-like situation. 02:01:34.280 --> 02:01:36.380 And one of the things that I've seen when this shit happens, 02:01:36.480 --> 02:01:40.140 especially when that guy can't come back to office, right? 02:01:40.420 --> 02:01:43.880 Right. And I'm just like, you know what? But listen, this guy may, 02:01:43.980 --> 02:01:49.760 I've seen this before with candidates of other parties and other places, okay? 02:01:50.320 --> 02:01:55.160 Man, when that person goes in, it's like, listen, you're not the fucking president. 02:01:55.200 --> 02:01:57.640 Fuck you. I'm doing what the hell I want. 02:01:57.800 --> 02:02:04.940 So I really, you know, I'm waiting and seeing because from what I hear her and 02:02:04.940 --> 02:02:08.280 what she says she wants to do and what she wants to do, tell you what, 02:02:08.400 --> 02:02:12.960 I, you know, it doesn't to sound bad but i understand the fear that people have 02:02:12.960 --> 02:02:16.380 so because of the current president 02:02:16.380 --> 02:02:20.540 but we'll know pretty soon enough how that's going to turn out okay. 02:02:20.540 --> 02:02:25.340 So anyway all of these election cycles are nice and short so like you announce 02:02:25.340 --> 02:02:29.600 an election and a few weeks later you're done as opposed to like us talking 02:02:29.600 --> 02:02:31.900 about the election for four fucking years. 02:02:31.900 --> 02:02:37.860 We've been fucking i mean for fucking christ sakes i mean donald trump has been 02:02:37.860 --> 02:02:42.800 running for re-election for what for For three years, basically? 02:02:43.820 --> 02:02:46.440 Officially, right. But he never really stopped, right? Well, 02:02:46.500 --> 02:02:48.660 as far as he's concerned, he's been president the whole time. 02:02:49.020 --> 02:02:49.780 Well, yeah. 02:02:49.920 --> 02:02:52.920 He was always the rightful president, you know? Right. 02:02:53.460 --> 02:02:53.940 Yeah. 02:02:54.040 --> 02:03:00.400 At least we did not get the spectacle of him trying to pretend he was president from Mar-a-Lago. 02:03:01.253 --> 02:03:02.773 Like, you know, I. 02:03:02.773 --> 02:03:04.073 Don't know what that would have been funny though. 02:03:04.153 --> 02:03:11.453 He could have tried that. Like, you know, but yeah. Anyway, I think we're done here, Yvonne. 02:03:11.873 --> 02:03:13.153 All right. Done. 02:03:14.013 --> 02:03:17.513 We'll have to talk about Apple intelligence some other time. 02:03:17.793 --> 02:03:19.733 Next time we want to talk about AI. 02:03:20.973 --> 02:03:25.173 Steve Wozniak referred to, well, I have AI actual intelligence. 02:03:25.613 --> 02:03:26.853 Ah, nice. 02:03:27.293 --> 02:03:27.753 Yeah. 02:03:27.833 --> 02:03:30.873 There you go. I like that. Yeah. Okay. Okay, we are done here. 02:03:30.933 --> 02:03:35.433 The stuff at the end, go to curmudgeons-corner.com. 02:03:35.593 --> 02:03:41.233 You will find all the ways to contact us, Mastodon, email, Facebook, et cetera. 02:03:41.773 --> 02:03:45.773 I don't know why I said et cetera. Those are the three ways that are on there. There's no others. 02:03:46.113 --> 02:03:47.613 There's no others? Okay. 02:03:48.033 --> 02:03:50.393 There's no others. Those are the three that are on there. 02:03:51.093 --> 02:03:51.493 Telepathy. 02:03:52.053 --> 02:03:56.813 Ooh, that's good. I guess you could also contact us through Patreon by just 02:03:56.813 --> 02:04:00.213 giving us cash. That is a good way to contact us. 02:04:00.593 --> 02:04:03.413 Yes. Just send. That's correct. Yes. Yeah. 02:04:03.493 --> 02:04:08.153 We, we don't need any words. We don't need like long statements of love. 02:04:08.913 --> 02:04:11.353 Just send cash. That, that works. 02:04:11.453 --> 02:04:12.753 Yes, that works good. 02:04:12.833 --> 02:04:20.873 So, so on our Patreon at various levels, you can, you can get us mentioning on you on the show. 02:04:20.993 --> 02:04:24.353 You can get us ringing a bell. Where's the bell? Where's the bell? 02:04:26.353 --> 02:04:26.833 Bell. 02:04:27.513 --> 02:04:29.313 Where'd my bell go? Oh, it's hard. 02:04:29.453 --> 02:04:33.853 I'm yeah. You lost the stupid bell. You lost the microphone. 02:04:33.853 --> 02:04:37.233 I gave you, you know, all you're just losing things left and right. 02:04:37.333 --> 02:04:39.073 I know. I know. I know. 02:04:40.956 --> 02:04:45.156 Anyway, we will mention you on the show. We will send you a postcard. We will send you a mug. 02:04:45.716 --> 02:04:50.496 And at $2 a month or more, or if you just ask us, we will invite you to the 02:04:50.496 --> 02:04:54.016 Curmudgeon's Chorus Slack where Yvonne and I and a bunch of other folks, 02:04:54.096 --> 02:04:56.816 including Bruce and Pete, 02:04:57.036 --> 02:05:01.296 who co-hosted the last couple of weeks, are hanging out and sharing links and 02:05:01.296 --> 02:05:03.016 talking and all of that kind of stuff. 02:05:03.696 --> 02:05:08.196 You know, Bruce gave some additional follow up on Ocean Gate after talking about 02:05:08.196 --> 02:05:09.476 it on the show two weeks ago. 02:05:09.476 --> 02:05:14.896 Pete has shared some information about what you might want to do if you want 02:05:14.896 --> 02:05:18.916 to get up and running with the 3-in-3 game we talked about last week. 02:05:19.156 --> 02:05:22.656 So there's all kinds of fun stuff on there and all the sharing of the news and everything. 02:05:22.916 --> 02:05:26.556 I should mention before I get Yvonne's example from the Patreon, 02:05:26.736 --> 02:05:28.316 not from the Patreon, from the Slack. 02:05:29.296 --> 02:05:31.956 Did I even say, like, yeah, we would invite you to Slack, blah, 02:05:31.996 --> 02:05:33.596 blah, blah. I'm confusing myself. 02:05:33.856 --> 02:05:37.596 But yeah, our archives are also on the website. You can look at all our old 02:05:37.596 --> 02:05:39.276 shows, listen to all our old shows. 02:05:39.476 --> 02:05:43.596 I should say, and look at transcripts recently. I had to mess around with the 02:05:43.596 --> 02:05:46.876 code that does the transcript again two weeks ago because once again, 02:05:46.956 --> 02:05:53.556 they changed the format of the HTML that I get from Alphonic, which tells, 02:05:54.136 --> 02:06:00.876 me I should stop grabbing the HTML and actually grab the VTT transcript file that they have there, 02:06:00.996 --> 02:06:06.216 which I can also use for the podcast 2.0 stuff to let you see the transcript 02:06:06.216 --> 02:06:09.616 embedded in your podcast player. So maybe I'll do that one of these weeks. 02:06:09.936 --> 02:06:15.116 I'm yeah. One of these weeks, I just need a little extra time and yeah, that's it. 02:06:15.176 --> 02:06:19.716 So Yvonne, what is an example of something from the curmudgeons corner Slack 02:06:19.716 --> 02:06:26.736 this week that is interesting and exciting and will make people want to join us on the Slack? 02:06:27.336 --> 02:06:30.916 Well, since I mentioned already the other, other link, well, 02:06:30.996 --> 02:06:33.056 there is this one that was posted recently. 02:06:34.070 --> 02:06:38.570 Elon Musk demands money back from employees he laid off. 02:06:39.470 --> 02:06:42.630 Clawback after firing a number of Twitter staff in Australia, 02:06:42.850 --> 02:06:46.070 the platform's new owner, Elon Musk, is threatening to take him to court, 02:06:46.170 --> 02:06:50.210 demanding to claw back payments after claiming the company had overpaid them. 02:06:50.570 --> 02:06:54.130 About two years later, after he fired them, this son of a bitch wants to go 02:06:54.130 --> 02:06:58.350 and fucking get money back to these supposedly overpaid people. 02:06:58.990 --> 02:07:05.230 That's nice of him. And our listener, Bob, shared that story. So thank you, Bob. 02:07:05.530 --> 02:07:11.330 I will say that I had a company. The company did a payment to me. Okay. 02:07:12.650 --> 02:07:16.670 It wasn't an overpayment, to be clear. 02:07:16.830 --> 02:07:21.650 But what happened was that I got paid during one role and I switched roles. 02:07:22.470 --> 02:07:25.990 And they thought that I should give the money back. 02:07:26.230 --> 02:07:32.310 That was their opinion about it. And they sent me a thing asking for the money 02:07:32.310 --> 02:07:37.530 to be, for me to, they didn't even ask me to, like, it's not a notification 02:07:37.530 --> 02:07:38.650 they were taking the money back. 02:07:38.730 --> 02:07:42.410 Because I've had this happen at some other jobs with sales where a sale got 02:07:42.410 --> 02:07:45.790 reversed and, well, no, no, no, no, you owe us this money back. 02:07:45.950 --> 02:07:48.650 I actually had that happen recently. That's normal. 02:07:48.950 --> 02:07:51.830 But these guys, they knew they were on thin ice. 02:07:51.870 --> 02:07:56.450 So they sent me a note that basically for me to sign an authorization to take 02:07:56.450 --> 02:07:58.790 the money out of my paycheck. I said, listen. 02:07:59.706 --> 02:08:03.246 I'm not voluntarily turning over this money, okay? 02:08:03.666 --> 02:08:06.746 You guys want to send me a notice that you want me to acknowledge, 02:08:06.886 --> 02:08:11.206 basically, to acknowledge and to tell me that you're taking the money? 02:08:11.326 --> 02:08:16.906 You go and fucking take the money. But I'm not fucking, I'm not basically signing 02:08:16.906 --> 02:08:20.966 a fucking electronic funds authorization for you to take the money out. 02:08:21.206 --> 02:08:22.626 Screw yourselves. You know what? 02:08:22.906 --> 02:08:28.366 They said they didn't try again, which is what I would do if I was a Twitter fucking employee, 02:08:28.366 --> 02:08:35.046 is to say fuck you sue me okay you know it's like i thought he got 50 billion 02:08:35.046 --> 02:08:38.026 dollars more now you know and he's still bitching although. 02:08:38.026 --> 02:08:42.046 That's still in court right the the board it got approved by the shareholder 02:08:42.046 --> 02:08:45.046 vote or whatever but it's still going to go through court and blah blah blah. 02:08:45.046 --> 02:08:47.226 Yeah yeah we we all. 02:08:47.226 --> 02:08:51.126 Know elon's just a dick i mean that's the bottom line right. 02:08:51.126 --> 02:08:55.266 I mean on average you know yeah and the one thing the one thing about this is 02:08:55.266 --> 02:08:58.966 that you know people are saying well, how come he won the vote? Well, think about this. 02:08:59.546 --> 02:09:06.886 The stock is down 70%, like in the order of 60-70% since its peak. 02:09:07.286 --> 02:09:14.026 That means that all these people that thought he's a lunatic already sold their shares. 02:09:14.346 --> 02:09:19.306 So the only people left over are these people that I guess they're fine with 02:09:19.306 --> 02:09:26.026 turning over 25% right now of their stake to him. I'm like, yeah, he's crazy. 02:09:26.426 --> 02:09:29.226 Yeah it just makes no sense so anyway. 02:09:29.226 --> 02:09:37.086 Yeah okay are we done yep okay well you know only two segments this time but 02:09:37.086 --> 02:09:39.486 two long segments so sorry guys 02:09:39.486 --> 02:09:46.206 anyway that is yet another curmudgeons corner in the can as they say the. 02:09:46.206 --> 02:09:47.966 Can can the can. 02:09:47.966 --> 02:09:53.166 In the can it refers to the old like cans that you You put film in? 02:09:53.266 --> 02:09:57.806 Oh, yeah, that's right. I worked at a company that made those. 02:09:58.466 --> 02:10:03.946 Yeah, yeah. Anyway, we are done. Everybody, as usual, stay safe, 02:10:03.986 --> 02:10:06.226 have fun, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 02:10:06.926 --> 02:10:13.046 And if all goes as expected, we'll be back again next week. So we'll talk to you later. Goodbye. 02:10:13.686 --> 02:10:14.126 Bye. 02:10:43.050 --> 02:10:45.070 Okay, watch this, Yvonne. This is exciting. 02:10:47.910 --> 02:10:48.450 Yeah. 02:10:50.470 --> 02:10:54.310 Oh, you're rising. You are rising. 02:10:55.450 --> 02:10:56.790 I am rising. 02:10:58.390 --> 02:10:59.970 He has risen. 02:11:00.550 --> 02:11:03.950 I have risen. Just like what? The Poppin' Fresh Doughboy. 02:11:04.450 --> 02:11:05.210 There you go. 02:11:06.430 --> 02:11:08.250 And now I'm blurry. 02:11:08.530 --> 02:11:09.670 Now you're blurry again. 02:11:09.910 --> 02:11:13.250 Anyway, yeah, I'm now standing Standing at my standing desk, 02:11:13.370 --> 02:11:16.230 it is so exciting. Is this, this is the highest it goes, right? 02:11:16.610 --> 02:11:18.950 Yeah. I went to the high mark. 02:11:19.630 --> 02:11:22.910 Anyway, this is actually a little higher than I would normally stand at it. 02:11:22.930 --> 02:11:26.430 Unless I was on that little balance thing. If I'm on the little balance thing. 02:11:26.690 --> 02:11:27.730 Oh, the balance thing. 02:11:28.150 --> 02:11:31.770 That gives me a few more inches. And so then, then this height is just about 02:11:31.770 --> 02:11:33.850 right when I'm on the little balance thing. 02:11:34.070 --> 02:11:37.030 There you go. There you go. Now you're probably, you're back, not blurry. 02:11:37.290 --> 02:11:41.410 But then I'm all wobbly and. okay. 02:11:42.310 --> 02:11:43.810 Well, it's good for your core strength. 02:11:44.490 --> 02:11:46.970 Exactly. Okay. Bye Yvonne. I'm hitting stop. 02:11:47.410 --> 02:11:48.030 All right.