WEBVTT 00:00:00.010 --> 00:00:02.210 You are not in your usual location. 00:00:02.870 --> 00:00:04.110 No kidding. Really? 00:00:07.150 --> 00:00:07.630 Wow. 00:00:07.850 --> 00:00:08.690 Sherlock Holmes. 00:00:09.370 --> 00:00:10.210 Where are you? 00:00:10.850 --> 00:00:16.510 I'm in San Juan. That's why I said I had to take a 6.30 a.m. flight to get home. 00:00:17.110 --> 00:00:21.070 You didn't say to get home. I thought you were leaving home to go somewhere. 00:00:21.610 --> 00:00:24.310 No, no, no. I need the flight to get home. 00:00:24.910 --> 00:00:27.410 Gotcha. You're sideways. 00:00:30.050 --> 00:00:31.550 I'm okay with you sideways. 00:00:32.930 --> 00:00:37.510 Here's the thing. Over here, I'm not sideways. Yet you are. 00:00:38.510 --> 00:00:39.390 I'm sideways. 00:00:42.670 --> 00:00:48.310 I'm like, why the hell? I'm trying this for the first time on the iPad. 00:00:49.410 --> 00:00:52.350 You're using the app? Okay, you're right side up now. 00:00:53.590 --> 00:00:55.590 I guess this doesn't rotate. 00:00:57.630 --> 00:01:05.330 Wait, what the fuck did I do? What is grid beaker slider? 00:01:06.270 --> 00:01:08.510 I don't know what any of these things are. I don't know. 00:01:11.610 --> 00:01:13.670 Okay. Good, good, good. 00:01:14.310 --> 00:01:17.230 Well, it's just that I was trying to move the camera because the thing is, 00:01:17.250 --> 00:01:20.470 oh, here. Okay, that'll, that'll, okay, that fixes that. There you go. 00:01:20.650 --> 00:01:23.370 That's better. Not, I'm looking at the wrong place. 00:01:24.630 --> 00:01:27.790 You're all good. Shall we, shall we go? Or shall we? 00:01:27.790 --> 00:01:29.530 Yeah, we need to go because I have to, yeah. 00:01:30.690 --> 00:01:33.610 Sleep! Sleep is good! Okay, here we go. 00:01:59.640 --> 00:02:06.340 Welcome to Curmudgeon's Corner for Saturday, August 31st, 2024. 00:02:06.420 --> 00:02:08.180 It's just after zero UTC. 00:02:08.340 --> 00:02:10.560 I'm Sam Minter and Yvonne Bo is here. Hello, Yvonne. 00:02:10.740 --> 00:02:12.560 I am here. Hello. 00:02:13.780 --> 00:02:15.360 You sound so enthused. 00:02:16.480 --> 00:02:19.420 Well, I got sick this week. 00:02:20.720 --> 00:02:23.640 I am finally over my COVID, by the way. 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:28.720 I tested negative starting Wednesday night. And my symptoms had abated a few 00:02:28.720 --> 00:02:30.400 days before that. So, yeah. 00:02:30.760 --> 00:02:36.340 Look, I had a very stressful work week, which unfortunately, 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:41.560 I'm really frustrated because I managed to accomplish. 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:46.600 Well, no, I'm grossly excited to say nothing. 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:51.100 I did move things forward, but I wanted to put, I'm in sales. 00:02:51.200 --> 00:02:52.880 I wanted to move them to completion. 00:02:54.020 --> 00:02:57.880 Unfortunately, completion did not happen. Did I get advances? 00:02:58.900 --> 00:03:04.640 Yes, I got some significant advances, but some of that stuff was hindered by 00:03:04.640 --> 00:03:11.540 the fact that, I don't know, on Tuesday night, I'd gone out to dinner and hung out with some friends. 00:03:11.540 --> 00:03:14.760 are actually celebrating the fact that one of my co-workers actually closed 00:03:14.760 --> 00:03:15.660 some of their first deals. 00:03:16.200 --> 00:03:16.920 Okay, good. 00:03:18.100 --> 00:03:23.360 It's a new employee. They've been here a few months. We had a little bit of wine. We had nothing. 00:03:23.780 --> 00:03:28.360 Nothing too much. We ate, whatever, but nothing too much. 00:03:28.500 --> 00:03:36.900 Three in the morning, I feel my intestines are acting like when I get sick or food poisoned. 00:03:37.460 --> 00:03:38.780 They're not happy at all. 00:03:39.300 --> 00:03:42.460 No. And I'm like, what the hell is going on? 00:03:43.420 --> 00:03:51.440 I'm like, and so anyway, the next day I have some important meetings I need to try to go to. Okay. 00:03:51.940 --> 00:03:57.920 And I'm like, look, I got to book this up. It doesn't fucking matter. I got to. I can't. 00:03:58.320 --> 00:04:00.380 And so I woke up. 00:04:00.460 --> 00:04:02.040 You tried to push through it anyway. 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:08.400 No, I did. But listen, I did. Okay. All right. Well, I woke up. No, I got up. 00:04:08.780 --> 00:04:13.440 I felt like, I don't, I'm like, what the fuck is wrong with me? 00:04:13.480 --> 00:04:16.280 And I wasn't really sure what was going on yet still. Okay. 00:04:17.420 --> 00:04:25.200 But I felt just completely destroyed. I just felt just what the hell. 00:04:26.060 --> 00:04:30.720 When I get to the office and then we go to this thing. 00:04:31.500 --> 00:04:37.420 And then, you know, one thing is that at some point realize that we got there. 00:04:37.420 --> 00:04:43.360 And well, I had been able to explain to a couple of people that we're gonna go to the meeting and. 00:04:44.190 --> 00:04:49.150 What the purpose of it was. And we found out that, anyway, the guy that we wanted 00:04:49.150 --> 00:04:51.410 to talk to didn't want to receive that many people at once. 00:04:52.050 --> 00:04:56.410 So they said, look, I told him, look, I feel, take me back to the office. I can't. 00:04:57.170 --> 00:05:00.250 You said, look, I got it. I got it. Listen, we got it. Just, 00:05:00.250 --> 00:05:05.090 you know, these people aren't even my, they're not on my same team. 00:05:05.310 --> 00:05:11.510 They're on a different team, but we were having stuff that dealt with the same organization. 00:05:11.510 --> 00:05:14.410 organization and so this guy was just look i'll 00:05:14.410 --> 00:05:17.210 help you out okay all right because i know what i gotta do i 00:05:17.210 --> 00:05:20.350 don't i don't need to sell you i right now it's just a process thing 00:05:20.350 --> 00:05:23.570 you need to get some approvals through some organization and i'm 00:05:23.570 --> 00:05:26.570 just like so he drove me back to the office and i got there and listen 00:05:26.570 --> 00:05:29.690 my i i i left everything 00:05:29.690 --> 00:05:32.370 in the bathroom at the office and thank god that nobody was there when i 00:05:32.370 --> 00:05:36.510 got there because i was just oh god yes and i 00:05:36.510 --> 00:05:39.310 you know i had thought that from there i should 00:05:39.310 --> 00:05:42.090 have taken an uber and just left my rental 00:05:42.090 --> 00:05:45.090 car back at the office and i had my briefcase i'll 00:05:45.090 --> 00:05:47.750 just go straight to the hotel probably would have been the 00:05:47.750 --> 00:05:50.730 smartest thing because i i drove back and i almost fell 00:05:50.730 --> 00:05:55.590 asleep twice and hit and and on one of them i well i probably wouldn't have 00:05:55.590 --> 00:06:01.290 crashed but i i did fall asleep at a traffic light oh wow at two o'clock in 00:06:01.290 --> 00:06:08.130 the afternoon yeah okay like i think that's a short drive i got there i got to the hotel, 00:06:08.830 --> 00:06:10.990 I proceeded to get into bed and completely passed out. 00:06:11.550 --> 00:06:15.910 I then had to wake up because some stuff happened. I needed to talk to the contract 00:06:15.910 --> 00:06:17.050 people. I needed to talk to people. 00:06:17.550 --> 00:06:21.010 I basically wound up still working hours and hours, but from bed, 00:06:21.130 --> 00:06:24.310 just laying down in bed and going to the bathroom. 00:06:25.750 --> 00:06:30.750 The next day, I felt somewhat better, but I had an in-person meeting, 00:06:30.970 --> 00:06:35.670 and I told the person, listen, I don't think it's a good idea I come to your office. 00:06:35.670 --> 00:06:39.050 how about we just zoom this make this brief, 00:06:39.790 --> 00:06:46.270 and we'll go from there so I got them on I just I zoomed that meeting I did 00:06:46.270 --> 00:06:50.410 have to look I had to cancel a meeting I had in the afternoon on the previous 00:06:50.410 --> 00:06:53.690 day I couldn't go to a customer this one I zoomed, 00:06:55.270 --> 00:06:59.590 So that was like Wednesday, Thursday. 00:07:00.210 --> 00:07:08.170 I didn't eat for two days. But today, by yesterday evening, after my system 00:07:08.170 --> 00:07:14.090 had been properly evacuated, I felt a lot better. 00:07:14.190 --> 00:07:19.250 I found out, I told my co-worker I was celebrating with on Tuesday. 00:07:19.470 --> 00:07:22.530 I said, well, I called her up and I said, look, this happened. 00:07:22.530 --> 00:07:26.010 And she said, you know what? I know what happened. It's like, what do you mean? 00:07:26.130 --> 00:07:28.610 Well, I had a note from school. 00:07:29.190 --> 00:07:33.730 There's been a 24-hour virus going through all the kids at school. 00:07:34.470 --> 00:07:37.370 And that they've been getting this. And it's been like, you know, 00:07:37.390 --> 00:07:38.870 like that, like pretty quick. 00:07:39.030 --> 00:07:42.410 And on the day that I was at the office, a whole bunch of kids, 00:07:42.570 --> 00:07:46.890 parents had picked up their kids at school and brought them to the office. 00:07:48.070 --> 00:07:49.270 Your kids who were sick? 00:07:49.890 --> 00:07:53.970 Well, they probably weren't. well they may have had it but they weren't. 00:07:53.970 --> 00:07:58.190 Right okay it wasn't like they they got called from school come pick up your 00:07:58.190 --> 00:08:03.510 kid they're sick and they took him to the office right but it was more just kids were exposed yeah. 00:08:03.510 --> 00:08:13.430 And so i wound up being it so i'm still i i did work today a full day but i 00:08:13.430 --> 00:08:15.750 don't really feel back to 100 you. 00:08:15.750 --> 00:08:20.290 Don't look back to 100 you you look at most 50 percent Oh. 00:08:20.350 --> 00:08:25.170 I'm like, I'm about 50. And then, you know, it was really, really stressful with work. 00:08:25.650 --> 00:08:31.330 You know, just getting stuff and working until very, I still wound up working 00:08:31.330 --> 00:08:36.610 all the time, even though I was basically just in bed with fucking laptop and 00:08:36.610 --> 00:08:39.130 phone and shit. And, you know. 00:08:40.210 --> 00:08:41.090 But, yeah, I'm not. 00:08:41.570 --> 00:08:47.550 That sucks. There's no other word for it. Your week sounds awful. 00:08:48.250 --> 00:08:51.290 It's awful. It's awful. Plus, I didn't get. 00:08:51.970 --> 00:08:55.050 You didn't get done what you wanted to get done. No. 00:08:55.870 --> 00:08:57.650 No, no. It wasn't because of that. 00:08:58.050 --> 00:09:00.010 Well, it didn't help. It didn't help. 00:09:00.150 --> 00:09:04.870 Well, it didn't help. Okay. That's for sure. But the biggest reasons for that 00:09:04.870 --> 00:09:08.430 are just, you know, happened weeks and weeks in advance. 00:09:08.430 --> 00:09:12.590 Well, we had shit like, for example, unfortunately, this is in Puerto Rico, 00:09:12.630 --> 00:09:18.110 and one of the things that a lot of stuff got delayed because we had a storm two weeks ago. 00:09:19.310 --> 00:09:23.970 So they had a storm, not like the storm that happened like Maria seven years 00:09:23.970 --> 00:09:26.670 ago, but it still had some impacts. 00:09:27.290 --> 00:09:31.530 And so a lot of people didn't get any work done that week. 00:09:32.030 --> 00:09:32.530 Right. 00:09:32.630 --> 00:09:35.990 So that delayed shit, honestly, probably the storm. 00:09:37.070 --> 00:09:40.470 Without that storm, I would have gotten, we would have had enough time to get 00:09:40.470 --> 00:09:42.030 everything done. End of the month. 00:09:42.410 --> 00:09:42.930 Right. 00:09:43.150 --> 00:09:47.390 But, you know, hey, and I gotta be honest. 00:09:47.810 --> 00:09:55.430 I went from traveling nonstop. The pandemic made me spend one year where I didn't travel at all. 00:09:56.030 --> 00:09:56.550 Right. 00:09:56.750 --> 00:10:04.710 So now I have slept, I don't know. I have traveled a ridiculous amount again, 00:10:04.850 --> 00:10:09.470 and I just want to fucking go home. 00:10:10.130 --> 00:10:14.190 Yeah. I'm sick and tired of this fucking hotel. It's a nice hotel. 00:10:14.950 --> 00:10:16.490 I'm fucking sick and tired of it. 00:10:16.910 --> 00:10:17.410 Right. 00:10:18.550 --> 00:10:21.010 So no matter how fucking nice it is. 00:10:21.330 --> 00:10:22.350 I gotcha. 00:10:22.670 --> 00:10:26.590 I did get, you know, I did, you know, I was so exhausted. 00:10:26.710 --> 00:10:30.630 One thing, at least, you know, about the hotel, it's in front of the ocean. 00:10:30.690 --> 00:10:38.270 So I had just opened my slider door and I probably, you know, 00:10:38.330 --> 00:10:42.790 when I got back from the office, I just crashed for a while. 00:10:43.490 --> 00:10:48.090 just hearing that sound until some idiots started playing music outside for 00:10:48.090 --> 00:10:52.830 some reason on on a on a plaza i decided that this is like fun to have some 00:10:52.830 --> 00:10:56.930 boom boxes start playing music and woke me up okay. 00:10:56.930 --> 00:11:00.390 Well i'm glad you're feeling better even though you're not completely better 00:11:00.390 --> 00:11:04.130 at least you're you know 50 is better. 00:11:04.130 --> 00:11:08.070 Than where it sounds like you were oh man i mean that was like i mean people 00:11:08.070 --> 00:11:12.430 are looking at me the other day i'm like are you okay there'll be people I was like, it's like stress. 00:11:12.650 --> 00:11:19.190 I'm like, what the fuck is going on now? This thing is real sick. 00:11:19.790 --> 00:11:23.590 So anyway, our plan for the day, this is our but first. 00:11:24.870 --> 00:11:30.450 Yvonne was just sharing his illness. Well, hopefully you can't actually catch 00:11:30.450 --> 00:11:32.570 it through listening to the podcast. 00:11:32.770 --> 00:11:34.350 This is not like Smell-O-Vision? 00:11:35.110 --> 00:11:37.210 No, no. We don't do that. 00:11:37.210 --> 00:11:40.530 Where was Smell-O-Vision? I can't remember what the hell. 00:11:40.530 --> 00:11:43.290 Well i saw i 00:11:43.290 --> 00:11:46.230 saw recently actually that like you know 00:11:46.230 --> 00:11:49.370 that oh the the the sequel 00:11:49.370 --> 00:11:52.510 to the tornado movie twist or two or whatever just came 00:11:52.510 --> 00:11:57.410 out like a few weeks ago and there are apparently some there's some theaters 00:11:57.410 --> 00:12:05.330 that are like 4d something something blah blah blah oh sure that i think it 00:12:05.330 --> 00:12:08.890 does include the smell of vision but it also includes the thing where it shakes 00:12:08.890 --> 00:12:11.450 the seats and stuff like that in the movie. 00:12:11.630 --> 00:12:17.050 So apparently a lot of people were watching this tornado movie in this theater 00:12:17.050 --> 00:12:23.910 that has the full immersive experience where you feel like you're actually in the tornado. 00:12:24.150 --> 00:12:30.510 And I don't know if they actually impale some audience members with random debris or not. 00:12:30.590 --> 00:12:31.330 That would be interesting. 00:12:31.830 --> 00:12:33.950 You know, but yeah. 00:12:34.290 --> 00:12:36.190 Yeah, I mean, that would be. 00:12:37.370 --> 00:12:38.230 That would be interesting. 00:12:38.670 --> 00:12:39.990 A little too realistic? 00:12:40.410 --> 00:12:43.650 That might be a little bit. You know, I've mentioned that, you know, 00:12:43.670 --> 00:12:48.230 there is this ride at Disney called Soarin' that is like that in terms of when 00:12:48.230 --> 00:12:52.990 you, they do the movie and they take you, you know, flying and they, 00:12:53.070 --> 00:12:55.090 you know, make the effect of feel like you're going, 00:12:55.190 --> 00:12:57.650 but they also add all the sets and things. 00:12:57.830 --> 00:13:01.830 Like if you're in the savannah, you know, you smell that. 00:13:01.910 --> 00:13:05.790 If you're at the Taj Mahal, I think there's, I don't know what flowers, 00:13:05.950 --> 00:13:09.970 roses, whatever there are, are you getting those so they do add that to the 00:13:09.970 --> 00:13:16.250 to the experience so that that is so they do that yeah i guess it's you know somebody decided hey. 00:13:16.250 --> 00:13:19.170 Let's i think once or twice i went to things 00:13:19.170 --> 00:13:27.270 that had that kind of stuff and you know it was a novelty like but but it was 00:13:27.270 --> 00:13:31.690 it was not when when i went it wasn't like a regular movie it was a movie that 00:13:31.690 --> 00:13:37.050 was designed to do these things so it I mean, I think it was 3D, too. 00:13:37.150 --> 00:13:39.650 So, of course, they were always like shoving stuff at your face. 00:13:39.830 --> 00:13:44.210 And then like at certain points in the thing, it would shake or at certain points 00:13:44.210 --> 00:13:47.110 they'd spray some smell in your general direction. 00:13:47.450 --> 00:13:50.790 And I'm like, OK, this was an interesting experience. 00:13:51.010 --> 00:13:56.450 I wouldn't want like normal movies to be like this. You know, I think that. 00:13:56.450 --> 00:14:00.730 You know, the thing is that, you know, the thing with those kinds of movies, 00:14:00.850 --> 00:14:04.330 right, is that they're focusing more on the effects rather on the movie. 00:14:04.870 --> 00:14:09.050 And so it's just, it's just not a good movie. It's just something to show off 00:14:09.050 --> 00:14:10.190 that they can do the effect. 00:14:10.510 --> 00:14:15.650 You know, whereas if you have a good movie and you intersperse like really good, 00:14:15.710 --> 00:14:21.210 like surround sound that feels realistic and certain movements and certain things 00:14:21.210 --> 00:14:24.030 that you do it like that, it's directly related to the plot. 00:14:24.070 --> 00:14:26.730 And that makes more sense. Otherwise it's just, yeah. 00:14:26.730 --> 00:14:31.730 I mean, I think even there, I mean, yes, you can do it. 00:14:31.750 --> 00:14:36.470 So it's really good and it's integral to the experience. But like most movies, 00:14:36.810 --> 00:14:40.410 I don't want to smell what's going on. I just don't want to. 00:14:40.710 --> 00:14:45.790 Like, I don't care how integral it is to the story. I don't want to smell it. I'm sorry. 00:14:46.370 --> 00:14:50.370 And like, if I'm sitting on my couch, relaxing, watching a movie, 00:14:50.570 --> 00:14:51.950 I don't want my couch. It smells like shit? 00:14:52.450 --> 00:14:55.730 Well, yeah, I don't want necessarily, oh, they're going through a cow pasture. 00:14:55.950 --> 00:15:01.670 Lovely. I can smell it. You know, and I don't want my couch to shake. I don't know. 00:15:01.770 --> 00:15:04.930 The smells are not, you know, the thing. But look, 00:15:05.090 --> 00:15:10.490 but there is a big, big, big difference in, you know, when you go to an IMAX 00:15:10.490 --> 00:15:16.030 movie with the sound, you know, that is realistic versus, you know, 00:15:16.090 --> 00:15:16.930 you're watching an IMAX. 00:15:17.730 --> 00:15:22.610 Well, yes, compared to watching on your phone and also like even like a regular 00:15:22.610 --> 00:15:28.510 television or television versus sound bar versus a real like seven to surround system, whatever. 00:15:28.730 --> 00:15:31.890 Like there are differences at all of those levels. 00:15:32.090 --> 00:15:37.670 And but, you know, most and like like I have the surround sound. 00:15:38.250 --> 00:15:43.710 I have I have the surround sound system in my living room when I watch things. 00:15:43.830 --> 00:15:48.510 But, you know, and occasionally it matters. like if you're watching a movie 00:15:48.510 --> 00:15:52.650 that takes advantage of it well i think the problem is. 00:15:52.650 --> 00:15:55.950 When you have it on all the time you stop noticing that it's happening and so 00:15:55.950 --> 00:15:59.590 you know it's one of those things that i just i really notice it when i you 00:15:59.590 --> 00:16:02.290 know for example i'm traveling and i'm watching something because i'm renting 00:16:02.290 --> 00:16:07.410 freaking thing with a little speaker it's not exactly really that much you know it's it's not really. 00:16:07.410 --> 00:16:10.290 You notice the difference more after that yeah of course yeah. 00:16:10.290 --> 00:16:11.550 Yeah yeah i. 00:16:11.550 --> 00:16:16.750 Mean and like most of the time what's on my projector system in my is news and 00:16:16.750 --> 00:16:18.830 like you know i it's really i. 00:16:18.830 --> 00:16:21.610 Think we really notice it it's like a movie like a really. 00:16:21.610 --> 00:16:26.110 I know i was just gonna say surround sound does not add a lot to wolf blitzer 00:16:26.110 --> 00:16:28.750 no you know probably probably. 00:16:28.750 --> 00:16:30.610 The opposite to be honest with you. 00:16:30.610 --> 00:16:33.590 Yeah i i mean but and even with movies mr 00:16:33.590 --> 00:16:36.590 wolf on the kind yes mr wolf mr wolf it 00:16:36.590 --> 00:16:39.710 it it depends on the kind of movie too like 00:16:39.710 --> 00:16:43.610 some movies you know like an action movie is 00:16:43.610 --> 00:16:46.430 going to take a lot more advantage of the surround sound and 00:16:46.430 --> 00:16:51.570 stuff like that than a rom-com you know sure you know so i mean you may still 00:16:51.570 --> 00:16:55.190 get some of that like some ambient noises from behind you and some stuff like 00:16:55.190 --> 00:17:00.230 that but it makes more of a difference in things that where there's lots of 00:17:00.230 --> 00:17:05.390 movement and action and things going on you know so and fine anyway. 00:17:05.390 --> 00:17:06.250 We've dragged this out. 00:17:06.250 --> 00:17:06.950 Anyway okay. 00:17:06.950 --> 00:17:08.410 All right what are you gonna. 00:17:08.410 --> 00:17:14.450 Okay what are Should I skip my movie? We can get right onto the meat of things. 00:17:14.450 --> 00:17:18.490 No, no, no. What's your movie this week? 00:17:19.530 --> 00:17:19.990 Ghostbusters. 00:17:20.490 --> 00:17:21.410 The first one? 00:17:22.270 --> 00:17:28.670 The first one. Okay, you've watched it. Oh, yeah, I have seen Ghostbusters many times before. 00:17:29.130 --> 00:17:34.070 This comes from when the newest Ghostbusters was in the theater. 00:17:34.450 --> 00:17:36.790 My wife was like, hey, let's go see it. 00:17:37.990 --> 00:17:44.490 And then we were like, well, wait, we haven't seen the one immediately before it. 00:17:44.770 --> 00:17:48.690 And it's sort of a direct sequel to the one immediately before it. 00:17:48.690 --> 00:17:54.850 So I'm like, you know, let's, let's watch all of the Ghostbusters and then we'll go see the new one. 00:17:55.090 --> 00:17:57.370 Like, so let's, let's catch up on the series. 00:17:57.630 --> 00:18:00.790 But of course, catching up on the series took us months. 00:18:01.370 --> 00:18:05.670 And so it's long gone from the theaters now. We could, it's, 00:18:05.670 --> 00:18:08.110 it's now available on streaming, the newest one. 00:18:08.110 --> 00:18:11.130 we have caught up like we've actually watched all 00:18:11.130 --> 00:18:14.130 the ones prior to the newest ones we we skipped 00:18:14.130 --> 00:18:17.330 for now the various ghostbusters tv series 00:18:17.330 --> 00:18:22.490 we have skipped those there were there were like three different ghostbusters 00:18:22.490 --> 00:18:28.110 cartoons or something but we we have skipped those but we have watched all of 00:18:28.110 --> 00:18:33.470 the ghostbusters movies and but now i'm only here to talk about the first one 00:18:33.470 --> 00:18:35.950 and i'll I'll get to the other ones later. 00:18:36.150 --> 00:18:37.990 Okay, let's talk about the first. 00:18:39.030 --> 00:18:42.130 So, I mean, it's a classic. 00:18:42.470 --> 00:18:46.010 How does it hold up 40 years later? 00:18:47.970 --> 00:18:53.110 Pretty good, actually. Yeah? Like, there are a few parts that fall flat, 00:18:53.370 --> 00:18:57.010 but I'd say mostly it holds up. 00:18:57.230 --> 00:18:57.830 That's good. 00:18:57.970 --> 00:19:00.110 And, I mean, you know. 00:19:00.150 --> 00:19:05.370 I am remembering some of the lines from it. I'm just smiling from like thinking 00:19:05.370 --> 00:19:10.850 some of the stuff because I still remember that one of the first parts is – what's his name? 00:19:10.950 --> 00:19:16.270 Oh, God, Will Murray doing these experiments on this – with these two people. 00:19:16.430 --> 00:19:20.610 I guess he's like doing electrical torture or something, the questions. 00:19:20.930 --> 00:19:24.270 And the reality is he's just after – you know, he wanted just this girl. 00:19:24.430 --> 00:19:26.390 He was just torturing the other poor guy. 00:19:27.910 --> 00:19:32.070 Yeah, he was zapping the guy and telling the guy that he got everything wrong, 00:19:32.290 --> 00:19:36.250 where the woman that was there got everything right. 00:19:36.270 --> 00:19:39.370 And there was, you are psychic. 00:19:39.470 --> 00:19:42.390 This is amazing. Like, blah, blah, blah. Yes, yes. 00:19:44.990 --> 00:19:49.530 I'm going to give it a thumbs up. I mean, Ghostbusters is Ghostbusters. 00:19:49.670 --> 00:19:51.610 I mean, who hasn't, like, seen this? 00:19:51.790 --> 00:19:57.230 Like, I don't know. It's, you know, like I said, some parts hold up a little bit better than others. 00:19:57.910 --> 00:20:03.270 but for the most part, it's pretty consistently still funny and it's, 00:20:03.270 --> 00:20:09.910 it's got some classic moments and, you know, and spoilers, you got the marshmallow guy near the end and. 00:20:09.950 --> 00:20:11.250 You know, yes. 00:20:12.110 --> 00:20:18.650 Ray, if someone asks you, if you're a God, you say yes. 00:20:19.610 --> 00:20:23.610 You know, stuff like that. It's a, I mean, it's got good lines. 00:20:23.770 --> 00:20:27.390 It's, it's, you know, there's, there's a reason it's a beloved franchise. 00:20:27.910 --> 00:20:31.710 Blah blah blah I'm trying to think of something that just can't make me happy 00:20:31.710 --> 00:20:34.590 it was the little marshmallow guy. 00:20:37.630 --> 00:20:44.310 Exactly and you're right I mean it's exactly 40 years it came out in 1984 I'm not. 00:20:44.310 --> 00:20:45.950 Sure if it was 40 years yeah. 00:20:47.090 --> 00:20:50.850 40 years in June so we're two months past 40 years. 00:20:54.090 --> 00:20:59.670 I'm wondering when that movie came out 40 years before It was the number one movie in 1944. 00:21:00.870 --> 00:21:03.550 I'm going to check. 1944. 00:21:04.870 --> 00:21:10.630 See, four years before that, the number one movie was called me going my way. 00:21:11.430 --> 00:21:12.110 No idea. 00:21:12.550 --> 00:21:17.510 I mean, me neither. The second one I've heard, but I don't think I've watched it. Meet me in St. Louis. 00:21:18.010 --> 00:21:19.710 I've heard of that, but I don't think. 00:21:19.710 --> 00:21:23.570 I've never watched top grossing movies going my way. 00:21:24.390 --> 00:21:28.050 I don't know what the hell it's about. Well, let's see. What is it about? 00:21:29.750 --> 00:21:33.430 It's, it doesn't really say here. What's wrong? 00:21:36.510 --> 00:21:43.090 Okay. God, I'm slow. My Way, I said, right? 1944? 00:21:44.030 --> 00:21:44.630 Yeah. 00:21:44.670 --> 00:21:48.590 Yeah, Going My Way, 1944. It's a musical. 00:21:49.070 --> 00:21:50.050 Okay. Wow. 00:21:50.210 --> 00:21:51.490 With Bing Cronby. 00:21:52.840 --> 00:21:58.920 It's a 1944 American musical, comedy, trauma film directed by Leo McCary and 00:21:58.920 --> 00:22:01.840 starring Bing Crosby and Mary Fitzgerald, written by Frank Butler, 00:22:02.040 --> 00:22:03.240 based on a story by McCary. 00:22:03.400 --> 00:22:07.940 The film is about the new young priest taking over a parish from an established old veteran. 00:22:08.240 --> 00:22:12.920 Crosby sings five songs, with others performed on screen by Metropolitan Opera 00:22:12.920 --> 00:22:14.680 star Miss Soprano, Rye Stevens. 00:22:14.680 --> 00:22:20.360 Deep um okay i i've added both that one and meet me in st louis which is also 00:22:20.360 --> 00:22:24.500 a musical to my my grand list of movies i i i can. 00:22:24.500 --> 00:22:30.020 See how this kind of year this kind of movie light and frothy 1944 with the 00:22:30.020 --> 00:22:33.300 war going on seemed like something that people want to watch. 00:22:33.900 --> 00:22:39.460 Yeah a nice distraction from everything else that was going on yeah blah blah blah yeah. 00:22:39.460 --> 00:22:41.020 That makes Makes sense. Makes sense. 00:22:42.060 --> 00:22:43.280 Anyway, Ghostbusters is also 00:22:43.280 --> 00:22:46.840 kind of light and frothy. It's not a serious movie at all. It's a comedy. 00:22:47.180 --> 00:22:53.960 You know, there are really goofy, silly things happening throughout the movie. 00:22:54.560 --> 00:22:58.980 It's just fun. It's just a fun romp. You know, it has a nice, 00:22:59.020 --> 00:23:03.260 you know, exciting ending that, you know, spoilers again. 00:23:03.420 --> 00:23:06.900 It turns out well. Everyone's happy. They're triumphant. Whatever. 00:23:07.100 --> 00:23:09.460 Has a good song. You know. Has a good song. 00:23:10.120 --> 00:23:15.020 you know, who you're going to call catchphrase that has lasted 40 fucking years. 00:23:15.080 --> 00:23:18.800 I mean, that's the thing, I guess, you know, think about, okay, 00:23:18.900 --> 00:23:24.260 nobody remembers that fucking movie from, from, from 1944, but to be fair. 00:23:24.460 --> 00:23:29.060 To be fair, it's been 80 years now. Maybe they did remember it 40 years ago. 00:23:29.140 --> 00:23:34.300 Like if, if you were a teenager, when that movie came out and people made references 00:23:34.300 --> 00:23:37.880 to it, you might know them right off the top of your head. 00:23:39.010 --> 00:23:45.370 But I don't think, I will say, to be fair, that those war years were not peak for movie making. 00:23:45.830 --> 00:23:46.270 Hmm. 00:23:47.130 --> 00:23:51.130 Okay? There are a few classics from the 40s. There are a few, 00:23:51.310 --> 00:23:56.010 but it was, you know, because of the war, I mean, they weren't making as many, 00:23:56.010 --> 00:23:58.990 like, say, you know, big movie productions. 00:23:59.190 --> 00:24:02.870 It's just, you know, hell, there were even actors and people who were going to war themselves. 00:24:03.870 --> 00:24:07.950 Right. So it wasn't exactly, like, you know, the easiest time for that. 00:24:07.950 --> 00:24:12.490 that so i i guess that that to be fair is not not not not good judging like 00:24:12.490 --> 00:24:17.850 that that time period on by the way that movie by the way go my way 83 on already 00:24:17.850 --> 00:24:26.030 rotten tomatoes 90 on metacritic okay so it does have some good you know good reviews so okay. 00:24:26.030 --> 00:24:32.050 And and yeah like to this day i mean if you say who who you're gonna. 00:24:32.050 --> 00:24:37.130 Call you're gonna call i mean you know people you know the right way to respond to that phrase. 00:24:37.250 --> 00:24:38.110 Yeah, exactly. 00:24:38.450 --> 00:24:43.950 40 years later, yes. So that was a very iconic movie indeed of the 1980s. Absolutely. 00:24:44.290 --> 00:24:51.250 Now, I'm not sure if you picked a random 18-year-old, would they get the references instantly? They might. 00:24:52.870 --> 00:24:54.590 Because we got the Ghostbusters. 00:24:55.210 --> 00:25:00.370 Yeah, they got the new one. And one of the differences between now and when 00:25:00.370 --> 00:25:04.930 we were kids is the absolutely easy access to the Backit catalog. 00:25:05.790 --> 00:25:08.170 Like, you know, what are you talking about? 00:25:08.350 --> 00:25:12.030 I, I, will you, will you, I mean, didn't you stream your movies back in 1984? 00:25:13.690 --> 00:25:20.230 I mean, it was, I'm sure it was possible to go get going my way at the blockbuster 00:25:20.230 --> 00:25:23.490 and watch it, but it took a little bit. 00:25:23.490 --> 00:25:26.750 Not even actually, I've got to say probably not. 00:25:27.170 --> 00:25:27.970 I don't know. 00:25:28.370 --> 00:25:32.150 No, because the blockbusters used to have a very limited selection. 00:25:33.320 --> 00:25:37.260 you know, of what the hell was current, what the hell was renting frequently. 00:25:37.620 --> 00:25:41.220 Yes, they did have some of those old classics, but you know, 00:25:41.240 --> 00:25:44.120 it wasn't like they had every movie available. Okay. 00:25:44.200 --> 00:25:44.700 Well, no. 00:25:44.700 --> 00:25:45.040 Yeah. 00:25:45.120 --> 00:25:49.200 Cause you had to maintain physical inventory and you have limited space. 00:25:49.300 --> 00:25:52.680 So you have to pick and choose the things that people are likely to get. And so exactly. 00:25:52.980 --> 00:25:56.200 So you'd have a classic section, but there'd only be. 00:25:56.320 --> 00:26:00.500 You know, like the really big things like Casa Blanc, stuff like that, 00:26:00.500 --> 00:26:03.240 out whatever that everybody remembered okay you know. 00:26:03.240 --> 00:26:06.980 Now there were there there were back in the day there were some specialty video 00:26:06.980 --> 00:26:11.460 stores that specialized in certain eras or certain genres yeah but you have 00:26:11.460 --> 00:26:15.340 to go find those you had to go find them you had to do that yeah well it's not like. 00:26:15.340 --> 00:26:19.200 You know i still remember the scene in the movie big where he was the ceo of 00:26:19.200 --> 00:26:22.820 the you know he's a big shot at the toy company and i don't think we had the 00:26:22.820 --> 00:26:27.140 facility where tom hanks goes and says hey could you go get me a copy of the 00:26:27.140 --> 00:26:30.920 super bowl and just edit out all the commercials show so i can watch it when 00:26:30.920 --> 00:26:33.600 i want please so yeah we we didn't have those kind of power. 00:26:34.120 --> 00:26:36.900 Yeah and i i definitely can't get big to 00:26:36.900 --> 00:26:40.600 my list too yeah so yeah so 00:26:40.600 --> 00:26:43.400 anyway thumbs up to ghost busters if you haven't seen 00:26:43.400 --> 00:26:46.100 it i'm not even going to pretend anybody listening has not 00:26:46.100 --> 00:26:49.160 seen ghost busters but if you haven't seen it recently it's 00:26:49.160 --> 00:26:54.340 worth a re-watch and you know like you know no spoilers for the other ones i'll 00:26:54.340 --> 00:27:01.140 do ghostbusters 2 next week but like but you know so far we've caught up with 00:27:01.140 --> 00:27:06.460 all of the Ghostbusters other than the brand new one that was out in the theaters this year. And... 00:27:07.300 --> 00:27:11.720 You know, it's worth watching the whole damn series. You know, it's fun. 00:27:12.580 --> 00:27:17.380 I'm going to say, I'm pretty sure, I guess I watched probably Ghostbusters and 00:27:17.380 --> 00:27:19.060 Ghostbusters 2. That's right. 00:27:19.980 --> 00:27:26.620 Okay. We'll talk about the rest in due course as I get to them in order. 00:27:26.740 --> 00:27:28.860 And we're starting with Ghostbusters 2 next week. 00:27:30.400 --> 00:27:35.560 Well, let me see. Well, hold on. I'm looking. So it's Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters 2. 00:27:36.060 --> 00:27:36.500 Yeah. 00:27:36.500 --> 00:27:42.520 So then there was a 2016 reboot, which was, what the heck was that called? 00:27:42.700 --> 00:27:46.220 Was it called Ghostbusters? It was just called Ghostbusters. 00:27:46.240 --> 00:27:50.500 They retroactively added some name to it, but it was just called Ghostbusters. 00:27:50.800 --> 00:27:54.700 It was the one with female Ghostbusters that was in a different continuity. 00:27:55.180 --> 00:28:00.840 So they tried to reboot the series from scratch rather than making a sequel. 00:28:01.280 --> 00:28:05.700 And it kind of fell flat. And it's like, when I get to that movie in order, 00:28:05.840 --> 00:28:06.780 we'll talk about this more. 00:28:06.900 --> 00:28:09.940 But there was a controversy. Did people hate it because it was actually bad? 00:28:10.700 --> 00:28:14.900 Or because there was a lot of hate to it just because they cast women? 00:28:15.520 --> 00:28:19.560 And so was it bad because it was bad? Or was it bad because people just had 00:28:19.560 --> 00:28:22.360 a negative reaction to casting women in these films? 00:28:22.360 --> 00:28:26.880 Then we got Ghostbusters Afterlife and then Ghostbusters Frozen Empire was the new one. 00:28:26.880 --> 00:28:30.500 Yeah. and i i've seen i've seen i've 00:28:30.500 --> 00:28:33.720 seen all of them except frozen except frozen empire 00:28:33.720 --> 00:28:38.780 i haven't seen frozen empire yet and they're also a whole bunch of uh you know 00:28:38.780 --> 00:28:45.460 tv shows you know animated tv shows and blah blah blah yeah so there's a bunch 00:28:45.460 --> 00:28:50.900 of stuff i haven't watched the tv shows i haven't watched the tv shows but maybe someday i. 00:28:50.900 --> 00:28:55.500 I haven't watched tv shows nor the sequels nor anything. 00:28:55.500 --> 00:28:56.200 Anything. 00:28:57.260 --> 00:29:02.480 But I will say that I think you're motivating me to watch Ghostbusters with my son. 00:29:03.260 --> 00:29:08.620 Well, and that's the thing. Now, there are a few scenes that get slightly racy, 00:29:08.800 --> 00:29:11.080 like PG-13 racy, not R-racy. 00:29:11.420 --> 00:29:16.740 That's fine. You think knowing me, you think, I mean, I haven't watched that 00:29:16.740 --> 00:29:18.540 stuff, maybe a little bit slightly racy. 00:29:18.600 --> 00:29:21.600 I mean, come on. The kid, like right now, all the complaints I was listening 00:29:21.600 --> 00:29:24.660 to today is that, you know, he's saying shit a lot. 00:29:25.500 --> 00:29:25.980 Uh-huh. 00:29:28.160 --> 00:29:30.000 I'm just like, well, what the fuck you expect? 00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:33.920 Now, here's the question. Do you have him saying shit in English, Spanish, or both? 00:29:34.440 --> 00:29:38.000 No, no, no. In English. The thing is that we've been focusing on his English 00:29:38.000 --> 00:29:46.160 because he is right now, I've seen that he's picking up more words in Spanish, 00:29:46.320 --> 00:29:48.440 okay? But we've been focusing on his English. 00:29:48.560 --> 00:29:54.040 And I will say that I probably, I have focused my cursing lately more in English. 00:29:55.840 --> 00:30:04.000 Yeah, but anyway, I watch all these movies with Alex, and we have never shied away from, 00:30:05.150 --> 00:30:09.150 you know, the R rated stuff, you know, it's just like, you know, 00:30:09.150 --> 00:30:11.930 if, if he doesn't like it, he will leave. 00:30:12.410 --> 00:30:14.910 Whoa. Oh, oh, alarm, alarm. 00:30:15.670 --> 00:30:22.970 Sorry. You know, I have been woken up by a fire alarm, fire alarm in this, 00:30:22.970 --> 00:30:27.270 in this hotel before and I'd been stuck outside for a while. Understood. 00:30:27.690 --> 00:30:30.350 Anyway, like we, we, we don't shy away from that. 00:30:30.410 --> 00:30:34.130 And my, my whole philosophy for that is like, he can self-censor. 00:30:34.130 --> 00:30:40.870 if he's upset by what he sees he can leave or he can tell me what's going on you know yeah what i. 00:30:40.870 --> 00:30:43.070 Mean it's not like you know what are you gonna do. 00:30:43.070 --> 00:30:46.210 Yeah yeah i mean like well he. 00:30:46.210 --> 00:30:47.250 Doesn't like me swearing. 00:30:47.250 --> 00:30:52.410 Oh no he he does not like the swearing but he will watch movies with swearing 00:30:52.410 --> 00:30:55.950 with me like oh so it's just a swear. 00:30:55.950 --> 00:30:57.990 So the problem with the swearing is more is. 00:30:57.990 --> 00:31:04.030 You is you yeah well okay no he he doesn't like the swear he will cringe when 00:31:04.030 --> 00:31:07.870 there's swearing in a movie we are watching but he will not ask me to stop the 00:31:07.870 --> 00:31:12.970 movie okay although there are a few movies that have tested that because of 00:31:12.970 --> 00:31:16.250 how much swearing was in them but you know but. 00:31:16.250 --> 00:31:20.990 The opposite my son is apparently picking up chip off the old block. 00:31:20.990 --> 00:31:28.010 There you go okay let's let's take a break And then we will do our two segments of more newsy things. 00:31:28.190 --> 00:31:32.150 I never actually said the agenda, but it's the usual. 00:31:32.270 --> 00:31:36.470 Two segments of more newsy stuff. The first one will be stuff picked by Yvonne. 00:31:36.530 --> 00:31:38.750 The second one will be stuff picked by me. 00:31:39.510 --> 00:31:43.670 Assuming Yvonne makes it that far. If Yvonne collapses, we'll just end the show. 00:31:43.870 --> 00:31:46.130 That's fine. We can have a short show. It's good. 00:31:46.490 --> 00:31:53.270 But this first break is another Apple Dream. This is Apple Dream 35. 00:31:54.490 --> 00:31:57.330 It's a short one, one minute or so. Here we go. 00:32:39.650 --> 00:32:45.790 That's good advice. There was more that happened before. 00:32:54.710 --> 00:32:55.190 Was anymore. 00:32:57.290 --> 00:33:00.410 Bye. And that's it. 00:33:00.750 --> 00:33:07.930 So, you know, don't let your toddlers play around freely in the balcony in your high-rise. 00:33:07.930 --> 00:33:12.730 The always necessary high, you know, child safety adult dream. 00:33:13.450 --> 00:33:17.330 Yeah. And you know, like I'm thinking it's been a long time. 00:33:17.370 --> 00:33:20.730 Like I've got a backlog of these on my phone that I've never published to TikTok. 00:33:21.150 --> 00:33:24.870 And at some point I need to catch up on them. And I haven't recorded a new one. 00:33:24.970 --> 00:33:30.110 Like I, I'm so far behind on publishing the ones I already recorded on my phone 00:33:30.110 --> 00:33:34.490 that I have, I got out of the habit of like, okay, if I wake up in the middle 00:33:34.490 --> 00:33:38.910 of the night and I still remember a dream, quick record it. I haven't done that in many months. 00:33:39.350 --> 00:33:44.670 like if if i wake up and i had a really good one i'll do it but if i if i wake 00:33:44.670 --> 00:33:48.230 up and like okay there was a dream but it was like mediocre and not all that 00:33:48.230 --> 00:33:53.430 interesting i'll be like oh screw it yeah i'm not gonna do it right now i don't 00:33:53.430 --> 00:33:58.250 feel like that's fair if i caught up maybe but like i, 00:33:59.210 --> 00:34:04.910 haven't done that in a while anyway yvonne of the newsy topics what do you have in mind there's. 00:34:04.910 --> 00:34:07.710 A a number of political ones. What are we talking about? 00:34:07.950 --> 00:34:14.970 We got, I see one, two, three, four political ones. 00:34:15.070 --> 00:34:17.730 So why don't we talk about those? Okay. 00:34:18.310 --> 00:34:20.430 Where do you want to start on politics? 00:34:21.310 --> 00:34:24.750 Where do we want to start on politics? Why don't we start on politics on the 00:34:24.750 --> 00:34:26.190 polls, Sam? Are you giving an update? 00:34:27.610 --> 00:34:29.750 Okay. Let me bring that up real quick. 00:34:30.850 --> 00:34:33.890 I said Sam a ton of polls, so give him a lot of work. 00:34:34.640 --> 00:34:39.980 Well, you know, actually in this case, like about half an hour to an hour after 00:34:39.980 --> 00:34:44.060 you sent them to me, like the Bloomberg article was behind the paywall, 00:34:44.180 --> 00:34:50.040 but the link to the detailed polls was in the part you could see before they 00:34:50.040 --> 00:34:52.420 graded out and said you had to register or whatever. 00:34:52.620 --> 00:34:58.460 Like sometimes, sometimes the link to the full details is like below that part. 00:34:58.460 --> 00:35:05.940 Now, interestingly enough, the actual like PDF with the full results is not behind the paywall. 00:35:06.080 --> 00:35:08.560 So if you have the link, you can get to that. 00:35:09.060 --> 00:35:14.660 But the link to it is in the article that they publish. And depending on the 00:35:14.660 --> 00:35:16.020 article, like if they mention. 00:35:16.180 --> 00:35:17.160 If they put that link. 00:35:17.380 --> 00:35:21.360 Because the way Bloomberg works, the way Bloomberg works, which is where this 00:35:21.360 --> 00:35:25.560 set of polls that you've on, they let you see like the first two or three paragraphs. photographs. 00:35:26.020 --> 00:35:29.660 And then after that, they're like, to see any more, you have to pay. 00:35:30.300 --> 00:35:33.640 And sometimes they put the link in the top part and sometimes they put it in 00:35:33.640 --> 00:35:36.000 the bottom part. This time they put it in the top part. 00:35:36.120 --> 00:35:39.580 So I was actually able to link to and get to the whole thing, 00:35:39.660 --> 00:35:44.820 but I got a, I had a head start on it because Yvonne sent it to me. 00:35:45.060 --> 00:35:50.160 But no, here's where we are right now. Bottom line, we are still in a neck and 00:35:50.160 --> 00:35:51.580 neck race, essentially. 00:35:51.780 --> 00:35:54.900 With Harris having a slight advantage at this point. 00:35:55.140 --> 00:35:59.720 If you go to electiongraphs.com, you'll see my, my, first of all, 00:35:59.720 --> 00:36:02.480 the straight up, like trust all the polls. 00:36:02.960 --> 00:36:08.740 If either candidate has even the very slightest advantage, assume they're going to win. 00:36:09.160 --> 00:36:12.940 And if you do that, Harris wins by 46 electoral votes right now. 00:36:13.160 --> 00:36:19.060 Um, and the tipping point is Pennsylvania with Harris ahead by 0.9%. 00:36:19.060 --> 00:36:25.360 So that's still a fairly narrow margin of error there, but she is ahead. 00:36:25.600 --> 00:36:29.560 And the reason I say that is because if like the last couple of cycles, 00:36:29.760 --> 00:36:31.700 the polls have underestimated the Republicans. 00:36:31.760 --> 00:36:35.360 If they underestimated the Republicans by the same amount that they have the 00:36:35.360 --> 00:36:39.000 last couple of cycles, you end up Trump with a very narrow victory. 00:36:39.340 --> 00:36:42.660 Like even though the polls show Harris slightly ahead. 00:36:42.800 --> 00:36:47.360 Now, if this time the polls are underestimating the Democrat, it goes the other way. 00:36:47.640 --> 00:36:52.420 And maybe Maybe this is a Harris landslide. You know, the problem is like, 00:36:52.460 --> 00:36:56.980 there are so many states that are really close right now. 00:36:57.200 --> 00:37:01.140 So let, let me read you some of the close states right now. 00:37:01.960 --> 00:37:08.660 Here, here are all the states that where the current margin is less than two and a half percent. 00:37:08.980 --> 00:37:09.480 Okay. 00:37:11.040 --> 00:37:13.420 Virginia Harris's ahead by 2.4%. 00:37:14.220 --> 00:37:20.240 Michigan, Harris is ahead by 2.1%. Nebraska's second congressional district, 00:37:20.300 --> 00:37:24.620 I currently have the average at Harris up by 1.8, but there have been very few 00:37:24.620 --> 00:37:26.800 polls right there, so grain of salt there. 00:37:27.380 --> 00:37:32.400 Pennsylvania, Harris up by 0.9. Nevada, Harris up by 0.5. 00:37:33.160 --> 00:37:37.120 Georgia actually has Harris ahead right now, but only by 0.4. 00:37:37.980 --> 00:37:42.740 Iowa's in this list has Trump up by 0.6, but there have been zero, 00:37:42.980 --> 00:37:48.020 zero Trump versus Harris polls in Iowa so far. 00:37:48.120 --> 00:37:52.860 So that's based only on sort of Iowa's average behavior over the last five elections. 00:37:53.060 --> 00:37:59.020 And it has been moving more red. So I don't actually expect Iowa to be anywhere near that close. 00:37:59.180 --> 00:38:03.000 It's probably a strong Trump state at this point, but there just haven't been 00:38:03.000 --> 00:38:04.400 any polls to prove that yet. 00:38:04.800 --> 00:38:11.160 Arizona, Trump up by 0.6%. North Carolina, Trump up by 1.2%. 00:38:11.160 --> 00:38:15.980 Maine's second congressional district, Trump up by only 1.4%. 00:38:15.980 --> 00:38:24.560 Every single thing I just listed is incredibly close and could easily go either 00:38:24.560 --> 00:38:27.960 way, even if you assume the polls are generally right. 00:38:27.960 --> 00:38:32.380 Now, if the polls have some sort of systematic error to them, that adds to things. 00:38:32.540 --> 00:38:37.580 But like, those are just like right on the edge, all of those states, 00:38:37.680 --> 00:38:39.160 that's like a huge number. 00:38:39.400 --> 00:38:45.920 And so if you look at, you know, just, and I did two and a half percent, but like my, 00:38:46.040 --> 00:38:52.680 my best case and worst case in the trust, the polls says any state under 5% 00:38:52.680 --> 00:38:55.020 could go either way fairly easily. 00:38:55.020 --> 00:39:03.200 The range you get from that is from Harris by 174 to Trump by 114. 00:39:03.300 --> 00:39:05.420 Like it's a massive range. 00:39:05.740 --> 00:39:06.540 It's ridiculous. 00:39:07.560 --> 00:39:13.800 You know, because you got a huge number of states with lots and lots of electoral votes, very close. 00:39:14.280 --> 00:39:19.700 And the polls have been moving. As a general statement about trends, 00:39:21.500 --> 00:39:28.840 we had massive movement towards Harris after Biden dropped out for the first 00:39:28.840 --> 00:39:31.180 few weeks to the beginning of August. 00:39:31.180 --> 00:39:36.460 Then we add a little bit back to Trump and then back to Harris again. 00:39:37.120 --> 00:39:44.920 And then in the last, I don't know, couple weeks, it moved back towards Trump 00:39:44.920 --> 00:39:50.800 again and then has started to move back towards Harris again since the convention. 00:39:51.300 --> 00:39:54.540 But we're still, it's still close. 00:39:54.820 --> 00:39:59.800 It's still, there's a lot of back and forth as we get new polls in or out. 00:39:59.800 --> 00:40:04.800 I think a whole bunch of national polls also that are showing, like. 00:40:05.640 --> 00:40:13.280 The national polls have, generally speaking, had a slow trend towards Harris, 00:40:13.380 --> 00:40:15.820 but we're back down a little bit from the peak. 00:40:16.140 --> 00:40:21.780 But it's been like a tiny amount. They got to like a three, you know, like on Thursday. 00:40:21.780 --> 00:40:25.140 The high was 3.9% and it's back down to 3.4. 00:40:25.460 --> 00:40:28.500 Exactly. And it's been around that range, basically. 00:40:28.740 --> 00:40:30.920 Yeah. And so. 00:40:30.920 --> 00:40:36.780 Yeah, it's not, it's not like, it's not, you know, no, no, no mailing it in. This is, this is all. 00:40:37.280 --> 00:40:43.340 No, not at all. Like right now, my odds, I have my two different models that 00:40:43.340 --> 00:40:47.080 account for the amount of time left for the election, which as we are recording 00:40:47.080 --> 00:40:51.860 is refresh 66.9 days left. 00:40:52.960 --> 00:40:57.800 But between like, I'm going to ignore the, if the election was to the light today stuff, stuff. 00:40:57.840 --> 00:41:03.300 But my model, including the time left, my two models, the range is from Harris 00:41:03.300 --> 00:41:07.640 having a 53.1% chance to Harris having a 57.2% chance. 00:41:07.840 --> 00:41:14.240 So she is favored a little bit, but that's not like, we're not talking 95%. 00:41:14.240 --> 00:41:15.920 No, no, no, no, no, no. 00:41:16.180 --> 00:41:21.360 This is not that far away from a coin toss at this point. 00:41:21.980 --> 00:41:26.860 And that's where we are now. I mean, I think, you know, so it, it frankly, 00:41:27.780 --> 00:41:32.700 like we ha we haven't yet had a big convention bounce show up, 00:41:32.800 --> 00:41:38.020 but we still don't have a lot of post-convention polls. 00:41:38.140 --> 00:41:41.240 We have a few, there were a whole bunch, you know, Yvonne mentioned, 00:41:41.280 --> 00:41:47.300 he made me a bunch of work, but over the last 48 to 72 hours, 00:41:47.420 --> 00:41:51.580 there have been so many swing Wing State polls, there have been quite a lot. 00:41:51.840 --> 00:41:58.360 And so it looks like if we got a convention balance, at least so far, it looks pretty small. 00:41:59.720 --> 00:42:02.100 Well, I think one thing is that we all don't. 00:42:02.780 --> 00:42:06.500 The thing is that things had bounced so far towards Harris already, 00:42:06.820 --> 00:42:09.360 it's hard to squeeze more juice out of that. 00:42:09.420 --> 00:42:11.120 That's what I was thinking. 00:42:11.340 --> 00:42:14.280 But here's the thing, though, and this gets me back. 00:42:14.460 --> 00:42:20.500 I have a couple charts on electiongraphs.com that compare to 2016 and 2020. 00:42:20.500 --> 00:42:26.780 Right now, it looks like, unless something major changes in the next couple days, 00:42:27.220 --> 00:42:33.660 for the very first time ever, Harris will be doing better than Clinton was doing 00:42:33.660 --> 00:42:35.580 at the same time before the election. 00:42:36.060 --> 00:42:37.240 Wow. Okay. 00:42:37.240 --> 00:42:43.400 For the very, like, like, again, that we're not quite there yet. 00:42:43.440 --> 00:42:47.620 We're like a day or two away from like a place in the calendar where Clinton 00:42:47.620 --> 00:42:50.520 suddenly did much worse for a few days. 00:42:51.220 --> 00:42:56.720 That's where we're talking, but we're still nowhere near where Biden was in 2020. 00:42:57.120 --> 00:43:01.320 Like we're still several percent behind, like at the moment, 00:43:01.360 --> 00:43:06.520 like I'll give you like the stats as of right now, Now, 67 days before the election, 00:43:06.680 --> 00:43:10.860 right now we have the tipping point, which is the margin in the state that would 00:43:10.860 --> 00:43:12.320 put the winner over the edge. 00:43:12.780 --> 00:43:17.200 We have Harris up by 0.9% in the tipping point state, which right now is Pennsylvania. 00:43:17.720 --> 00:43:27.920 At this exact same time, 67 days before the election, Clinton was up by 3.4% and Biden was up by 4.6%. 00:43:27.920 --> 00:43:33.760 So we're still a long way behind the pace of either of those two times. 00:43:33.840 --> 00:43:39.240 And of course, Biden just barely pulled it out and Clinton lost. So... 00:43:41.040 --> 00:43:46.700 So, as you said, we've got a long way to go. Nobody should be complacent. 00:43:48.520 --> 00:43:53.920 There are a lot of things that indicate how – we've talked about how Trump seems 00:43:53.920 --> 00:43:59.580 to be struggling right now in terms of how to respond to Harris and how he's 00:43:59.580 --> 00:44:03.540 getting less rational and how he's doing things that should hurt him. 00:44:04.240 --> 00:44:07.800 But it's not impacting his voters. I mean, they're just whatever. 00:44:07.800 --> 00:44:14.020 I mean, he's got the core group that is not going to change no matter what. 00:44:14.480 --> 00:44:18.940 And, you know, a lot of the stuff that we've seen is actually like, 00:44:19.040 --> 00:44:22.760 I mentioned this last time we were talking polls on the show, 00:44:22.880 --> 00:44:25.160 but like, for the most part, 00:44:25.440 --> 00:44:30.980 the changes here have been on the Democratic side, where the Democrats are doing stronger. 00:44:30.980 --> 00:44:35.040 Everything I talked about on election graphs is all centered around margins. 00:44:35.280 --> 00:44:39.960 But if you separate it out to look at how the Democrat is doing versus how the 00:44:39.960 --> 00:44:46.680 Republican is doing, basically what's going on here is the Democrat has been improving, 00:44:46.960 --> 00:44:50.300 but Trump has been staying flat. 00:44:50.860 --> 00:44:56.540 The number of people supporting Trump is not moving. 00:44:56.540 --> 00:45:02.480 Yeah, I mean, a little bit, but like, if you look on the national polls, 00:45:02.600 --> 00:45:04.680 like 538 national poll graph, 00:45:04.900 --> 00:45:08.580 and this is especially clear, like if you if you look on mobile, 00:45:08.720 --> 00:45:13.240 or you, you know, so that you have a narrower thing, it's even more obvious 00:45:13.240 --> 00:45:14.960 than if you look on desktop. top. 00:45:15.060 --> 00:45:20.220 But, you know, I'm looking since this only has since Biden dropped out because 00:45:20.220 --> 00:45:21.420 they have Biden versus Harris. 00:45:21.680 --> 00:45:25.460 But when on, what was it? 00:45:25.480 --> 00:45:29.860 July 24th, Trump was at 44% in their average. 00:45:30.950 --> 00:45:35.590 As of right now, Trump is at 43.7% in their average. 00:45:35.990 --> 00:45:39.610 He's dropped 0.3% in that timeframe. 00:45:40.030 --> 00:45:44.650 Meanwhile, Harris has gone from 44.9 to 47.2. 00:45:44.750 --> 00:45:51.570 So Harris has gotten some movement, but Trump, it's just flat. It's just flat. 00:45:51.790 --> 00:46:00.090 You know, nobody's coming or going. So this is all about undecideds and maybe 00:46:00.090 --> 00:46:02.830 a few of those RFK people jumping to Harris. 00:46:03.370 --> 00:46:07.350 That's what it's about. It's not people are turning away from Trump. 00:46:07.670 --> 00:46:12.510 And it's all the one thing that, like we've said, we don't exactly know about 00:46:12.510 --> 00:46:18.110 turnout, which always is a big driver around all of these things. 00:46:18.110 --> 00:46:22.630 Well, and you hear anecdotally all these stories about how like, 00:46:22.750 --> 00:46:26.690 you know, the support for Trump is, you know, you're not seeing as many like 00:46:26.690 --> 00:46:32.930 Trump parades and you're not seeing as many signs or the trucks with the flags behind them. 00:46:32.990 --> 00:46:35.410 And they're just less than there were before. 00:46:36.110 --> 00:46:41.330 But and so maybe that indicates less enthusiasm, but does it mean they won't vote? 00:46:41.450 --> 00:46:46.830 No, but I think more like a lot of that we've talked about over the last four 00:46:46.830 --> 00:46:50.690 years. There's been turnout for special elections and all these other things, 00:46:50.770 --> 00:46:54.670 et cetera, that we've been surprised. We've been continuously surprised. 00:46:55.070 --> 00:47:01.690 You know, we were continuously surprised in 2016 and even in 2020 on turnout 00:47:01.690 --> 00:47:03.190 in the opposite direction. 00:47:04.370 --> 00:47:08.210 But we have been repeatedly surprised in the opposite direction. 00:47:08.350 --> 00:47:11.730 It doesn't, you know, to create a massive landslide, you know, 00:47:11.730 --> 00:47:14.710 in the electoral system, it's not like it takes a lot of points. 00:47:15.610 --> 00:47:15.630 Right. 00:47:15.670 --> 00:47:20.170 One to two points that you're underestimating on one candidate at a number of 00:47:20.170 --> 00:47:21.870 states creates a landslide. 00:47:22.630 --> 00:47:28.970 It's that simple in the EV college. And so, yeah, it's very tight. 00:47:29.430 --> 00:47:35.630 I just brought up election betting odds. So this is, this averages odds from 00:47:35.630 --> 00:47:39.230 Betfair, Smarkets, Predictit, and Polymarket. 00:47:39.470 --> 00:47:40.010 Okay. 00:47:40.110 --> 00:47:48.090 And right now, this very second, they have Harris 49.1%, Trump 49.1%. 00:47:48.090 --> 00:47:49.010 Jesus. 00:47:49.850 --> 00:47:55.150 So, and then like other random people that's just dumbass. 00:47:55.270 --> 00:48:00.030 It's not even the right people. Like, if an asteroid hit and killed both Trump 00:48:00.030 --> 00:48:03.150 and Harris, the people they have third, fourth, fifth, and sixth on the list 00:48:03.150 --> 00:48:05.590 are not the people who would be most likely to win. 00:48:05.910 --> 00:48:09.210 Which is why those aren't exactly the best places to look at. 00:48:09.270 --> 00:48:17.310 I mean, they have Haley next at 0.6%, and then Michelle Obama at 0.5%. And then RFK Jr. 00:48:17.550 --> 00:48:20.810 at 0.2%, and Hillary Clinton at 0.1%. 00:48:20.810 --> 00:48:21.130 Okay. 00:48:21.130 --> 00:48:27.610 You know, here's the thing. It is possible that neither Trump or Harris will 00:48:27.610 --> 00:48:30.650 end up as president. There are scenarios that play out that way. 00:48:30.770 --> 00:48:36.050 One or both of them could drop dead or have to drop out or whatever. 00:48:36.250 --> 00:48:41.830 That could happen. But in the scenarios that that happens, we're not going to 00:48:41.830 --> 00:48:43.730 get Haley, Obama, Kennedy, or Clinton. 00:48:43.990 --> 00:48:47.730 We're going to get like Walls or Vance, you know? 00:48:48.410 --> 00:48:51.030 Or even if those two were knocked out too. 00:48:52.220 --> 00:48:55.900 It's not going to be Haley, Obama, Kennedy, or Clinton. There would be other 00:48:55.900 --> 00:48:58.600 people who would be more likely anyway. 00:48:59.400 --> 00:49:00.240 Okay. All right. 00:49:00.480 --> 00:49:02.940 Of course, I should say this. 00:49:03.120 --> 00:49:03.560 Yeah? 00:49:03.720 --> 00:49:10.540 If both Harris and Trump were, well, you'd have to kill Biden too. 00:49:10.840 --> 00:49:15.860 I was going to say you could end up with Speaker of the House Johnson or somebody 00:49:15.860 --> 00:49:18.260 as president if you knocked out people. 00:49:18.780 --> 00:49:21.160 Oh, God. Okay. Well, no, but you have Biden. 00:49:21.160 --> 00:49:25.000 Okay, did you have other politics questions besides polls? 00:49:27.920 --> 00:49:33.760 So, I mean, we had these things that happened. You didn't watch the interview. 00:49:34.440 --> 00:49:39.820 I did not. I've heard clips, basically. I have not watched it. 00:49:40.360 --> 00:49:41.740 I mean, it sounded good. 00:49:42.060 --> 00:49:47.680 The basic summary of the impressions I've heard from people and from the few 00:49:47.680 --> 00:49:55.260 clips I have heard is that Harrison Walls both essentially knocked it out of 00:49:55.260 --> 00:49:58.260 the park in terms of handling the interview well. 00:49:58.880 --> 00:50:07.240 However, the interview itself was just dumb. The questions were dumb and it's 00:50:07.240 --> 00:50:09.400 like, didn't add any real information. 00:50:09.640 --> 00:50:12.920 There was a lot of, what do you think about this Republican talking point? 00:50:13.140 --> 00:50:16.640 A lot of the questions were structured like that now 00:50:16.640 --> 00:50:20.880 i've seen like i've read some of the chyrons on fox news when i have like the 00:50:20.880 --> 00:50:25.960 four up display with all the news networks and they're doing a lot of like the 00:50:25.960 --> 00:50:31.420 interview proved she's unserious you know and you know that she has no weight 00:50:31.420 --> 00:50:35.380 and no real policy and blah blah blah she has no weight what. 00:50:35.380 --> 00:50:36.920 She's weightless what is she in space. 00:50:36.920 --> 00:50:41.620 Oh yeah probably probably you know Our first president in space. 00:50:42.140 --> 00:50:47.120 You know, but from the little bits I've heard, she handled the questions that were asked, 00:50:47.850 --> 00:50:52.010 very well. Trump said that it was boring. Trump said it was boring, 00:50:52.170 --> 00:50:57.090 which again, that's not necessarily bad. 00:50:57.650 --> 00:51:04.330 There were policy questions asked where she answered in detail. 00:51:05.130 --> 00:51:10.170 She knew what the fuck she was talking about and said, well, 00:51:10.330 --> 00:51:14.610 X, Y, Z, and here's why we did this, and here's what we're going to do next 00:51:14.610 --> 00:51:15.790 and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 00:51:16.230 --> 00:51:20.470 I guess Trump expected him to, I don't know, do the tango or something. 00:51:20.930 --> 00:51:25.510 Well, and you know what you're used to like in a Trump interview is that he 00:51:25.510 --> 00:51:26.930 doesn't answer the question at all. 00:51:27.030 --> 00:51:29.810 Instead, he yells about how the question is stupid. 00:51:29.950 --> 00:51:37.250 He yells about how it's unfair, how he actually won the 2020 election and people are after him. 00:51:37.610 --> 00:51:42.230 And like all of this sort of performative stuff without any – Like, 00:51:42.270 --> 00:51:45.250 and this people have brought up over and over and over again, 00:51:45.350 --> 00:51:50.170 which is like the ridiculous double standard that is applied here. 00:51:50.470 --> 00:51:57.270 Like people are nitpicking Harrison walls on like detailed policy questions. 00:51:57.610 --> 00:52:03.590 And were you exactly right in the way you worded your history about the whatever. 00:52:03.950 --> 00:52:09.110 And meanwhile, Trump can't say a single sentence without being, 00:52:09.210 --> 00:52:11.550 without lying about every word. 00:52:12.510 --> 00:52:16.250 And, and, and, and like, he says things that don't make sense. 00:52:16.350 --> 00:52:19.790 He says things that have no relation to reality whatsoever. 00:52:20.270 --> 00:52:25.790 He just in the last couple of days, he's gone back and forth on abortion and IVF. 00:52:25.790 --> 00:52:29.770 That was the next thing that I, that I had on my list. Hey, Sam. 00:52:29.890 --> 00:52:38.390 So, So is Trump, you know, pro-choice? Is he pro-IVF? Is he anti? What is he, Sam? 00:52:39.010 --> 00:52:45.010 Look, here's the thing. And this applies to absolutely everything Trump-related. 00:52:45.310 --> 00:52:45.830 Yeah. 00:52:46.490 --> 00:52:52.890 He doesn't give a shit about the actual policy. He says what he thinks will get him to win. 00:52:53.230 --> 00:52:57.550 Correct. Like, and this, every single issue. 00:52:57.890 --> 00:53:01.770 Like, he doesn't care. he doesn't care he doesn't care at all what. 00:53:01.770 --> 00:53:02.690 Could i say with. 00:53:02.690 --> 00:53:05.750 Yeah yeah that's it 00:53:05.750 --> 00:53:09.030 that's it and so like he sensed that people 00:53:09.030 --> 00:53:15.490 were upset a little bit about abortion and so he tried to moderate his opinion 00:53:15.490 --> 00:53:20.930 a bit and guess what his his quote-unquote base got really upset by it so he 00:53:20.930 --> 00:53:26.490 went back the other direction a few hours later and of course before that he 00:53:26.490 --> 00:53:28.970 was taking credit it for getting rid of Roe, 00:53:28.970 --> 00:53:31.650 and he's been trying to push this. 00:53:32.430 --> 00:53:35.430 Everybody wanted it to just go to the states, and that's what they got, 00:53:35.530 --> 00:53:36.710 so everybody should be up for it. 00:53:37.050 --> 00:53:41.310 Everybody wanted it. Everybody had been collaborating for it to go to the states. 00:53:41.310 --> 00:53:43.930 I didn't hear about this. That was what all the polls said. 00:53:44.530 --> 00:53:48.270 Yeah. Yeah. Everybody. And so he's trying to, 00:53:48.330 --> 00:53:52.950 he's flailing around trying to figure out the fact that like this out of several 00:53:52.950 --> 00:53:58.970 issues where his stated positions in the past and the Republican party more 00:53:58.970 --> 00:54:03.130 generally there where they have really unpopular positions, 00:54:03.310 --> 00:54:12.210 he's trying to triangulate and figure out how to say something that will get more people on board. 00:54:12.210 --> 00:54:18.850 and it has absolutely nothing to do with his beliefs on the damn issue if he 00:54:18.850 --> 00:54:23.830 ever says something that actually represents a belief it's an accident and. 00:54:23.830 --> 00:54:26.110 Actually he doesn't he doesn't know what he's. 00:54:26.110 --> 00:54:26.850 Talking about anyway. 00:54:26.850 --> 00:54:33.950 No he believe that he should get money now that's one thing yes now that's one thing that. 00:54:33.950 --> 00:54:35.930 Is one thing that he actually has. 00:54:35.930 --> 00:54:42.110 I mean a principled opinion on uh you know like his his very principled opinion 00:54:42.110 --> 00:54:45.410 on cryptocurrency that which is. 00:54:46.750 --> 00:54:48.130 He hated it and. 00:54:48.130 --> 00:54:48.810 Pulling out a big. 00:54:48.810 --> 00:54:49.970 Donor that liked it. 00:54:49.970 --> 00:54:52.830 And then he liked it and then he likes 00:54:52.830 --> 00:54:56.350 it and then he was going to be the most crypto pro president 00:54:56.350 --> 00:55:01.010 ever and then he was going to as usual i mean the thing is i don't understand 00:55:01.010 --> 00:55:05.350 how these people support him when he does this shit every time i'm going to 00:55:05.350 --> 00:55:09.510 be announcing you know you were talking about the double standard harris asking 00:55:09.510 --> 00:55:13.670 a question about policy giving a detail i'm gonna announce the detailed, 00:55:14.890 --> 00:55:18.610 cryptocurrency that my administration will have because the united states is 00:55:18.610 --> 00:55:23.270 going to be a crypto what the fuck was it it was like heaven it was like the 00:55:23.270 --> 00:55:28.590 olympus whatever the fuck it was okay just like the best place for crypto and 00:55:28.590 --> 00:55:33.410 we're gonna create like some kind of crypto like like, super fund or something or whatever. 00:55:33.630 --> 00:55:36.790 And then he announces his crypto thing. 00:55:37.650 --> 00:55:39.610 And basically, he's... 00:55:40.270 --> 00:55:46.410 getting paid by some guy to brand his own crypto currency that's it yeah nice 00:55:46.410 --> 00:55:55.370 and then he decided to promote it to everybody on lo and behold on x by you 00:55:55.370 --> 00:55:58.690 know by by you know by shoving around, 00:55:59.230 --> 00:56:04.950 this guy who i guess is paying him money for some new cryptocurrency that's so that's the trump, 00:56:06.190 --> 00:56:08.550 cryptocurrency policy. 00:56:09.290 --> 00:56:12.210 Buy the branded crypto. 00:56:13.110 --> 00:56:17.210 I will get money and we will be fine. 00:56:17.590 --> 00:56:24.630 And yes, and this is not the only issue he's done this on. He's completely reversed the opinion. 00:56:25.790 --> 00:56:30.450 I mean, how old would I have during a campaign selling $99 digital trading card? 00:56:31.650 --> 00:56:35.390 I mean, Which scam is he not running, man? 00:56:36.530 --> 00:56:39.430 And nothing's changed. I mean, he's been doing this the whole time. 00:56:39.650 --> 00:56:41.950 It's just like, what's this week's version? 00:56:42.010 --> 00:56:45.470 It's just like in the middle of a fucking election campaign. 00:56:46.410 --> 00:56:49.810 He's like, oh, yeah, let me just announce another scam. 00:56:51.730 --> 00:56:56.750 So, okay, the other thing that I've got here on the list that everybody seems 00:56:56.750 --> 00:56:57.930 to have forgotten already. 00:56:58.770 --> 00:56:59.290 Arlington? 00:57:00.270 --> 00:57:04.970 Well, that one's like, whatever. ever know more important superseding indictment sam. 00:57:04.970 --> 00:57:07.930 Oh yeah we'll talk about that and then and then 00:57:07.930 --> 00:57:10.810 i'll do arlington for a little bit but yeah we 00:57:10.810 --> 00:57:15.010 had the superseding indictment the reason it's gone away so quickly in terms 00:57:15.010 --> 00:57:22.130 of attention is because there were no charges added or anything this was the 00:57:22.130 --> 00:57:30.110 special counsel for the dc case the january 6th case just refiling refiling the the indictment, 00:57:30.190 --> 00:57:35.630 essentially taking out all the stuff the Supreme Court said they couldn't use. 00:57:35.870 --> 00:57:42.350 Great. So they actually, as we are recording, both the special counsel and Trump's 00:57:42.350 --> 00:57:48.850 lawyers have a few hours left to submit their briefs to Judge Trunkin on, 00:57:49.130 --> 00:57:50.810 Trunkin, is that how you say it? 00:57:50.850 --> 00:57:53.650 Anyway, whatever, you know how bad we are at hands. 00:57:54.270 --> 00:57:58.310 Yes, briefs, not underwear. Oh, okay. 00:57:58.310 --> 00:58:00.650 You could. Oh, you mean, okay. No. 00:58:00.930 --> 00:58:03.690 All the lawyers have to submit their underwear. 00:58:04.330 --> 00:58:07.670 That would be one hell of a way of doing this, but no, thank you. 00:58:07.710 --> 00:58:10.890 No, they have to submit their briefs on how this case should proceed, 00:58:10.990 --> 00:58:14.450 given the Supreme Court's judgment on presidential immunity. 00:58:14.810 --> 00:58:19.550 But the superseding indictment is specifically redoing the indictment, 00:58:19.610 --> 00:58:22.650 taking out everything that is... 00:58:23.210 --> 00:58:28.170 would be problematic given what the Supreme court said, or in the cases where 00:58:28.170 --> 00:58:33.190 the Supreme court said there was a presumption, but that could be overcome putting 00:58:33.190 --> 00:58:36.830 in detailed arguments about why it overcame the presumption and stuff like that. 00:58:36.910 --> 00:58:39.790 So it's not like new charges. 00:58:40.070 --> 00:58:48.310 It's just representing the old charges in a way designed to deal with the Supreme court decision. 00:58:48.650 --> 00:58:49.950 Right. Okay. 00:58:50.430 --> 00:58:54.930 Because there was some evidence that they are like, there are some things like 00:58:54.930 --> 00:58:59.910 where he talked to the Justice Department to try to get them to do bogus investigations 00:58:59.910 --> 00:59:03.570 that the Supreme Court said was off limits. So that stuff's completely gone. 00:59:03.870 --> 00:59:08.570 There are some places where there were references to conversations that happened 00:59:08.570 --> 00:59:11.530 in the Oval Office or tweets that were done from the Oval Office. 00:59:11.670 --> 00:59:17.930 Those references are gone. They also added stuff to specifically point out that 00:59:17.930 --> 00:59:23.310 all the co-conspirators were acting in their private capacities when they were 00:59:23.310 --> 00:59:24.530 talking about Mike Pence. 00:59:24.750 --> 00:59:30.130 They took out things where there were conversations with Mike Pence about executive 00:59:30.130 --> 00:59:34.450 office functions, just generally when they were talking about election fraud, 00:59:34.490 --> 00:59:35.730 for instance. All that stuff's gone. 00:59:35.950 --> 00:59:41.050 But they left in when Pence was acting as president of the Senate. 00:59:41.780 --> 00:59:45.920 Because that isn't, you know, the vice president has a dual role. 00:59:46.160 --> 00:59:50.100 Yes, they're an executive branch, but when they're, when they're acting as president 00:59:50.100 --> 00:59:52.460 of the Senate, they're actually part of the legislative branch. 00:59:52.540 --> 00:59:56.760 And so they made it clear, like almost every time Pence was mentioned, 00:59:56.920 --> 01:00:03.140 they talked about, you know, his role as president of the Senate and anywhere 01:00:03.140 --> 01:00:04.880 they couldn't say that they took out. 01:00:05.000 --> 01:00:07.700 So those are the kinds of changes they made. 01:00:08.040 --> 01:00:11.960 And, you know, Like I said, within the next few hours, it's due by, 01:00:12.060 --> 01:00:14.820 I think, Friday midnight Eastern time. 01:00:15.160 --> 01:00:18.540 So getting very close here, they're 01:00:18.540 --> 01:00:22.700 supposed to submit their plans to the judge on how to move forward. 01:00:22.840 --> 01:00:26.960 And then sometime next week, we'll hear more about that as well. 01:00:27.160 --> 01:00:30.460 Because I think the judge is going to have a hearing and then they'll make a 01:00:30.460 --> 01:00:33.520 decision and then we'll see what's going forward on that. 01:00:34.060 --> 01:00:37.440 So yeah, that's what's going on with the superseding indictment. 01:00:37.860 --> 01:00:41.300 Okay. Well, I want to mention something about the Arlington thing. 01:00:41.440 --> 01:00:45.260 I'm just like, I don't know what I mean. What do you expect from this asshole? 01:00:45.260 --> 01:00:53.780 So here's the thing. And this is an example of like, as well of has Trump lost some of his mojo here? 01:00:53.920 --> 01:01:05.300 Because the intention here was to beef up his, you know, his whole reputation with the military. 01:01:05.300 --> 01:01:11.040 And specifically, the thing that he was going to at Arlington was the one-year anniversary. 01:01:11.580 --> 01:01:13.120 Was it one year? Two years. Whatever. 01:01:13.120 --> 01:01:14.140 Yeah, I think it's whatever. 01:01:14.500 --> 01:01:14.840 Two years. 01:01:14.920 --> 01:01:16.040 The anniversary. 01:01:16.740 --> 01:01:22.260 Yeah, the anniversary. However many years it is, we've lost track of the soldiers 01:01:22.260 --> 01:01:25.660 who were killed in Afghanistan while we were withdrawing. 01:01:25.740 --> 01:01:30.600 And so he was going with the families of some of those people who were killed 01:01:30.600 --> 01:01:36.780 to visit their graves, blah, blah, blah. And so the intention was A, highlight Biden's, 01:01:37.530 --> 01:01:41.210 issue in Afghanistan of all the things in his presidency, that was one of the 01:01:41.210 --> 01:01:42.410 ones that was the most chaotic. 01:01:42.450 --> 01:01:49.150 And you can argue why it almost had to be that way, but nevertheless, it was not a good look. 01:01:49.450 --> 01:01:54.530 Um, and so he wanted to highlight that. And plus he wanted some nice pictures 01:01:54.530 --> 01:01:56.270 of him supporting veterans and stuff. 01:01:56.390 --> 01:01:57.810 Yeah. But that's the problem. 01:01:57.850 --> 01:02:03.850 But it completely backfired on him because he went and like, 01:02:03.950 --> 01:02:08.330 he made a campaign commercial out of this, But the problem is that there are 01:02:08.330 --> 01:02:13.590 federal laws saying you can't do that at that part of the cemetery. 01:02:14.150 --> 01:02:16.750 Great. And there's a good reason for that. 01:02:17.490 --> 01:02:18.710 You know, basically you cannot. 01:02:18.710 --> 01:02:24.090 Not just at that cemetery. At any of the military cemeteries around, you know, that exist. 01:02:24.370 --> 01:02:25.710 Right. Well, apparently. 01:02:25.830 --> 01:02:26.570 National cemeteries. 01:02:26.570 --> 01:02:29.330 National cemeteries. No, but even within the national cemeteries, 01:02:29.350 --> 01:02:33.690 apparently, like if you want to do that in the part that has Civil War veterans, you can do it. 01:02:33.690 --> 01:02:39.290 The parts that are restricted are the parts that are from modern wars where 01:02:39.290 --> 01:02:44.790 the relatives of the dead are still very actively visiting people they knew, right? 01:02:45.930 --> 01:02:50.930 And so, but yeah, so he went in, him and his team. 01:02:51.130 --> 01:02:56.670 They were told multiple times that, no, you cannot have, you know, 01:02:56.670 --> 01:03:02.650 video and photography in this area. like, you know, your own private ones, 01:03:02.790 --> 01:03:04.950 especially anything related to your campaign. 01:03:05.170 --> 01:03:12.510 They ignored that. Somebody on their team assaulted the army person who was telling them no. 01:03:13.430 --> 01:03:17.730 And then, and of course they use all this footage in a commercial anyway, 01:03:17.910 --> 01:03:23.750 and it has Trump standing next to the grave, grinning and giving a big thumbs up sign. 01:03:24.310 --> 01:03:26.290 And it's like- I didn't see that. 01:03:26.470 --> 01:03:32.190 He's reciting Trump. I'm grave grinning with a thumbs up. 01:03:32.610 --> 01:03:34.110 Yes. Yes. 01:03:35.090 --> 01:03:36.010 I cannot stop. 01:03:37.860 --> 01:03:39.240 And so, of course. 01:03:39.360 --> 01:03:41.300 Like that part, I didn't know. 01:03:41.920 --> 01:03:46.460 Yes. That is the case. I've seen the pictures I've seen and not, 01:03:46.520 --> 01:03:48.360 it's not just that the picture exists. 01:03:48.420 --> 01:03:50.960 They, they're using this in ads. 01:03:52.220 --> 01:03:52.740 Okay. 01:03:54.920 --> 01:04:01.020 I'm going to go right beside my, my, my, my, my, my family's grave and just be sitting over there. 01:04:01.960 --> 01:04:04.080 Yes. The big thumbs up, big grin. 01:04:05.340 --> 01:04:12.840 It's literally a meme. It's literally a meme like this. Like, he's fucking crazy. 01:04:14.040 --> 01:04:19.140 So here's the thing. Like, all sorts of military organizations who already weren't 01:04:19.140 --> 01:04:23.320 all that hot on him because of the statements he's made about, 01:04:23.420 --> 01:04:26.060 you know, prisoners of war being idiots. 01:04:26.520 --> 01:04:31.020 John McCain and others, he made statements while he was president that he didn't 01:04:31.020 --> 01:04:35.600 want, like, the people, you know, who were in wheelchairs because they lost legs in the war. 01:04:35.680 --> 01:04:38.820 Don't bring them in here. Don't show them. No one wants to see that. 01:04:38.980 --> 01:04:43.220 He said things like that. He made a comment just a couple of weeks ago about 01:04:43.220 --> 01:04:49.800 the Medal of Honor not being as good as the Medal for Civilians because you 01:04:49.800 --> 01:04:56.380 didn't have to die or be injured to get the other one. 01:04:57.620 --> 01:05:02.600 And so a lot of military organizations have basically condemned his behavior 01:05:02.600 --> 01:05:03.860 at the cemetery, all that. 01:05:04.040 --> 01:05:08.240 Now, there was one fake poll that's been going around showing like Oh God. 01:05:08.240 --> 01:05:11.560 The fake poll. Which I went and I suspected it had to be fake. 01:05:11.640 --> 01:05:13.480 And I said to this, I said, is this real? 01:05:13.940 --> 01:05:20.300 But yeah, somebody went and doctored like a Fox screen To show like 90% And 01:05:20.300 --> 01:05:23.580 I'm like looking at it and I'll go, bullshit, no way. 01:05:23.960 --> 01:05:27.180 Yeah, it was like I would dream, but no. 01:05:27.440 --> 01:05:31.200 Trump's ratings being like near zero for everything, like 10%, 01:05:31.200 --> 01:05:33.960 5%, whatever, amongst military families. 01:05:34.340 --> 01:05:36.440 It should be, but But it isn't. 01:05:36.440 --> 01:05:43.340 It isn't. And the military has been getting less Republican over time. 01:05:43.560 --> 01:05:47.700 But historically, the military has been a very conservative organization. 01:05:48.140 --> 01:05:48.680 Yes, yes. 01:05:48.840 --> 01:05:56.220 And so you certainly don't get like, you know, suddenly the military are the 01:05:56.220 --> 01:06:01.620 most liberal people in the universe and are all 95% for Harris or some bullshit like that. 01:06:01.800 --> 01:06:04.800 But it is hurting him amongst those groups. 01:06:24.840 --> 01:06:25.140 Yeah, it's not happening. Yeah, it's not happening. 01:06:25.700 --> 01:06:31.820 that you are willing to sacrifice your own opportunities or your life because 01:06:31.820 --> 01:06:36.660 you are serving some higher cause that is completely alien to him. 01:06:36.720 --> 01:06:39.140 He can't understand that happening. 01:06:39.260 --> 01:06:46.640 And so, you know, so whenever you get that kind of scenario where someone has 01:06:46.640 --> 01:06:51.160 died or been injured or hell, 01:06:51.400 --> 01:06:56.180 even when they're doing something like they're giving up financial opportunities 01:06:56.180 --> 01:06:57.900 to work in the public sector, 01:06:58.780 --> 01:07:01.440 let alone like dying or being injured. 01:07:03.240 --> 01:07:11.440 What do you mean you're teaching for like 30K a year when you could be doing 01:07:11.440 --> 01:07:12.920 something that made you money? 01:07:13.280 --> 01:07:13.920 Right. 01:07:14.100 --> 01:07:17.400 You just can't understand. and i this 01:07:17.400 --> 01:07:21.100 stuff is seems to be like a lot 01:07:21.100 --> 01:07:24.040 of people are reacting negatively to it but again we were 01:07:24.040 --> 01:07:28.000 just talking about polls like these numbers are flat like. 01:07:28.000 --> 01:07:30.940 Most so maybe most of the people who actually care about 01:07:30.940 --> 01:07:33.700 this kind of stuff already left him a long time 01:07:33.700 --> 01:07:36.640 ago and the ones that are left are going to be there forever 01:07:36.640 --> 01:07:41.560 yeah you know so okay that's 01:07:41.560 --> 01:07:48.520 that's all the stuff are we done with politics yeah okay let's take another 01:07:48.520 --> 01:07:53.820 break and then i'll bring up a couple non-politics things and then we'll then 01:07:53.820 --> 01:07:57.320 we'll wrap this sucker up back after this. 01:08:47.420 --> 01:08:51.800 Okay. There we are. For those of you who are just listening on audio, 01:08:51.920 --> 01:08:54.920 you missed both Yvonne and I sort of dancing and bopping along. 01:08:55.060 --> 01:08:56.140 Dancing, bopping, yeah. 01:08:56.600 --> 01:09:04.340 Yeah, yeah. Okay. I got three things that aren't directly related but are sort of whatever. 01:09:04.640 --> 01:09:08.980 Just three things that we can talk about quickly. So I want to start, 01:09:09.020 --> 01:09:12.720 though, with something that hit the news a few hours before we were recording. 01:09:14.240 --> 01:09:17.900 Brazil has banned Axe. What the fuck's going on, Yvonne? 01:09:18.480 --> 01:09:25.960 Well, as far as I can tell, for a long time, the thing is, the way that I understand, 01:09:26.560 --> 01:09:30.400 and don't get me, don't, even though I have to deal. 01:09:30.480 --> 01:09:31.020 Don't quote you. 01:09:31.420 --> 01:09:36.260 Well, no, I'm not an expert in the Brazilian legal system, even though I've had to deal with it. 01:09:36.280 --> 01:09:42.100 No, really? Yeah, you're not an expert. I thought you were a Brazilian lawyer all this time. 01:09:42.280 --> 01:09:44.280 I have been under the misunderstanding. 01:09:44.280 --> 01:09:50.220 And I am standing a lot more familiar with, like, say, how federal courts work, state courts. 01:09:50.540 --> 01:09:54.820 And I know how you could appeal U.S. federal and state courts. 01:09:54.920 --> 01:09:58.240 I understand why you could bring a state action or why you could bring a federal 01:09:58.240 --> 01:09:59.940 action for certain cases. 01:09:59.960 --> 01:10:04.040 But normally would be because the difference is, you know, I know some of that 01:10:04.040 --> 01:10:06.940 from Brazil. I know a little. OK. 01:10:07.200 --> 01:10:11.320 But one thing that I that I remember is that the judges, when they're assigned, 01:10:11.420 --> 01:10:13.920 they're like prosecutors themselves. Okay. 01:10:14.040 --> 01:10:21.380 And so when they have been doing this investigation into X, 01:10:21.520 --> 01:10:31.480 the thing is that they have been demanding many things from X to produce them. 01:10:31.560 --> 01:10:36.680 And Elon thinking that every nation has the same rules and laws, 01:10:37.060 --> 01:10:39.460 they've been ignoring them. them. 01:10:39.460 --> 01:10:43.900 Well also they as well as asking for documents and other evidence and stuff they're also. 01:10:43.900 --> 01:10:46.780 Asking him to remove some posts right correct and 01:10:46.780 --> 01:10:49.880 they were also asking him to send subcontinent actions of 01:10:49.880 --> 01:10:54.580 according to local law and one of the things that i always said is and i still 01:10:54.580 --> 01:10:59.240 don't understand how x has not gotten into more trouble regarding this across 01:10:59.240 --> 01:11:05.780 the world especially in europe okay where i know that it there are certain things 01:11:05.780 --> 01:11:08.560 related to this is that if they don't have that That ability, 01:11:08.760 --> 01:11:11.660 at some point, this is going to catch up with them legally mid-time, 01:11:11.720 --> 01:11:15.300 because they basically got rid of most of the people that do this. 01:11:15.960 --> 01:11:19.800 And so they have not been complying with orders. They've not been responding 01:11:19.800 --> 01:11:21.740 to subpoenas. They've not been responding to everything. 01:11:21.980 --> 01:11:26.940 And from what it seems is that he's acting like everywhere, where he thinks 01:11:26.940 --> 01:11:31.040 that he can just ignore the law ad infinitum. 01:11:31.800 --> 01:11:34.620 and they finally got fed up and they said you know what 01:11:34.620 --> 01:11:40.200 listen if you're going to be in complete content fuck you you know we're it's 01:11:40.200 --> 01:11:45.160 a temporary order as far as i understand it's not a permanent ban but look brazilian 01:11:45.160 --> 01:11:51.180 courts have been this is a fuck around and find out thing because just to be 01:11:51.180 --> 01:11:53.420 clear they've said they've. 01:11:53.420 --> 01:11:55.740 Said they've said x can't operate there. 01:11:55.740 --> 01:11:56.700 Yes they've. 01:11:56.700 --> 01:12:01.680 Also said that anybody using a vpn to get access to x anyway has. 01:12:01.680 --> 01:12:02.780 Significant fines. 01:12:02.780 --> 01:12:05.560 Like close to ten thousand dollars for trying. 01:12:05.560 --> 01:12:08.280 To do that um i i think. 01:12:08.280 --> 01:12:14.140 I think i saw somewhere else that they're also telling app stores to pull some 01:12:14.140 --> 01:12:15.700 of the vpn software as well. 01:12:15.700 --> 01:12:16.560 Right so. 01:12:16.560 --> 01:12:20.120 This is a fairly extensive order to. 01:12:20.120 --> 01:12:25.540 Well this is and listen the one thing is that this is a fuck around and find out moment. 01:12:25.640 --> 01:12:32.500 A few years ago, Facebook had been brought to court over failure to comply over certain things. 01:12:33.480 --> 01:12:40.820 I can't remember exactly related to what. Bottom line is that they kept doing the same shit. 01:12:41.700 --> 01:12:44.400 They had taken the Facebook Brazil president and jailed him. 01:12:44.840 --> 01:12:45.300 Right. 01:12:45.520 --> 01:12:51.540 I vaguely remember that. Yeah. And then I know another time, 01:12:52.790 --> 01:12:56.930 The Cisco Brazil president was also thrown in jail, in large part, 01:12:56.990 --> 01:13:02.250 by the way, because it was found out that he was in cahoots over a scam to evade import duties. 01:13:02.650 --> 01:13:03.790 Oh, beautiful. Yeah. 01:13:04.150 --> 01:13:07.410 Yeah. So that, yeah, so that, that was the thing. 01:13:07.450 --> 01:13:12.530 So, and look, even my previous employer, Kodak, and I can talk about this because 01:13:12.530 --> 01:13:18.590 this is in public filings, or if you look at the SEC filings for my old employer, Kodak, it's there. 01:13:19.290 --> 01:13:24.710 We had a whole bunch of assets frozen. That were still frozen when I left because 01:13:24.710 --> 01:13:31.350 there was a $100 million tax judgment against Kodak Brazil. 01:13:31.910 --> 01:13:36.830 And the bulk of the assets that the company owned there were under, 01:13:37.010 --> 01:13:40.970 you know, were frozen until this got resolved. 01:13:40.970 --> 01:13:44.190 involved so brazilian courts 01:13:44.190 --> 01:13:47.410 don't fuck around okay they will 01:13:47.410 --> 01:13:50.150 you know it's not something you know their 01:13:50.150 --> 01:13:54.890 court system is strong they're not like they you know i will say that when they're 01:13:54.890 --> 01:14:01.990 talking about when they go about enforcing shit they don't fuck around and so 01:14:01.990 --> 01:14:06.090 where he thinks that in the u.s he can like vote the motion make us a peanut 01:14:06.090 --> 01:14:08.890 push off whatever pa pa pa pa man Man, 01:14:09.010 --> 01:14:12.530 they get really hard with big companies that don't comply. 01:14:13.490 --> 01:14:19.150 And you really, really, really just try to just ask the same. 01:14:19.150 --> 01:14:26.910 And to be clear, this isn't like X going through the legal process and in the end losing. 01:14:27.070 --> 01:14:31.810 It's them refusing to participate in the process. Correct. 01:14:32.090 --> 01:14:37.650 And having multiple and multiple opportunities to comply where they refused. 01:14:38.750 --> 01:14:38.890 Right. 01:14:39.850 --> 01:14:44.770 So, you know, well, I mean, it's a big market. 01:14:46.390 --> 01:14:50.930 Yes. And so one of the things I heard, I haven't had a lot of confirmation on 01:14:50.930 --> 01:14:55.530 this, but I saw a couple of people post on Mastodon that apparently a whole 01:14:55.530 --> 01:14:58.890 bunch of Brazilians in response to this are signing up for Blue Sky. 01:14:59.330 --> 01:15:02.590 Enough so that they crashed Blue Sky. 01:15:02.870 --> 01:15:06.530 Well, listen, think about this. Brazil has 200 million people. 01:15:06.650 --> 01:15:09.510 They have super high internet penetration. 01:15:09.850 --> 01:15:13.690 mobile phone penetration all this shit this isn't like you know taking it away 01:15:13.690 --> 01:15:16.950 from some country that you know some tiny country where nobody has cell phones 01:15:16.950 --> 01:15:22.710 so yeah i mean i'm i'm expecting the figures from a whole bunch of tech companies 01:15:22.710 --> 01:15:28.910 are gonna be like whoa we just got a whole bunch of people signed up for shit in a hurry and. 01:15:28.910 --> 01:15:34.450 And anybody who doesn't already have a brazilian presence is going to be like, 01:15:34.490 --> 01:15:37.550 oh, let's get that taken care of right now. 01:15:37.790 --> 01:15:38.670 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 01:15:38.750 --> 01:15:47.030 You know? Yeah, okay. Along those same lines, the CEO of Telegram got arrested in France. 01:15:49.070 --> 01:15:53.050 I, you know what? I read a little bit about what the hell was going on, 01:15:53.210 --> 01:15:55.850 but I didn't look at the details too much. 01:15:55.890 --> 01:16:00.570 It seems that it was, like, also related to not complying with some requests 01:16:00.570 --> 01:16:02.050 for investigations and stuff. 01:16:02.050 --> 01:16:04.530 There was some of that and then 01:16:04.530 --> 01:16:10.170 also, well, and I've heard mixed things about this. So on the one hand, 01:16:11.410 --> 01:16:16.870 At a high level, it's, hey, Telegram has become a cesspool for illegal activities. 01:16:17.270 --> 01:16:17.790 Yes. 01:16:17.890 --> 01:16:27.650 Everything from child porn to coordinating arm sales, all this kind of stuff. 01:16:28.190 --> 01:16:35.690 But it's not, like people think of, there's a component of it that's like a 01:16:35.690 --> 01:16:38.870 WhatsApp or whatever, where it's like person-to-person communication. 01:16:38.930 --> 01:16:41.730 And that does exist. and it and 01:16:41.730 --> 01:16:44.670 by the way people assume it's like end-to-end encrypted by 01:16:44.670 --> 01:16:47.630 default it's not okay do that to do 01:16:47.630 --> 01:16:50.410 that person to person with end-to-end encryption you actually have to take 01:16:50.410 --> 01:16:57.010 some extra steps to do it but telegram also has like lots of channels really 01:16:57.010 --> 01:17:02.130 large channels that are open chat rooms right a lot of this illegal activity 01:17:02.130 --> 01:17:09.810 was happening there and so basically similar to what Elon's getting in trouble for in Brazil, 01:17:10.030 --> 01:17:13.970 which, by the way, we didn't mention, they've also sanctioned SpaceX as well 01:17:13.970 --> 01:17:16.450 as X, just because they're related somehow. 01:17:16.870 --> 01:17:19.690 Anyway, specifically Starlink. 01:17:20.950 --> 01:17:26.390 But with these Telegram channels, a lot of this illegal activity was happening 01:17:26.390 --> 01:17:27.530 in these public channels. 01:17:27.750 --> 01:17:35.130 It wasn't even in the secret places. And they were refusing to censor those 01:17:35.130 --> 01:17:40.270 locations out of a, you know, free speech mindset or whatever. 01:17:41.130 --> 01:17:46.910 Look, I sympathize to some degree with not wanting to put a heavy hand on censorship. 01:17:47.030 --> 01:17:56.250 But on the other hand, when your open chat room that anybody can join is facilitating 01:17:56.250 --> 01:17:58.550 illegal activities right there. 01:18:01.180 --> 01:18:03.700 Look at some point somebody's going. 01:18:03.700 --> 01:18:04.560 To do something about that. 01:18:04.560 --> 01:18:07.780 All the major telecommunication carriers 01:18:07.780 --> 01:18:11.160 whatever the hell you want have areas dedicated 01:18:11.160 --> 01:18:15.060 to basically law enforcement requests 01:18:15.060 --> 01:18:21.020 and a process and how to deal with them and how to comply with the law okay 01:18:21.020 --> 01:18:24.900 when the requests come in the problem always comes in it's the same promise 01:18:24.900 --> 01:18:30.140 as X is having in Brazil is that if you start getting those requests and you 01:18:30.140 --> 01:18:33.680 basically decided that you want to operate like a rogue state, 01:18:34.420 --> 01:18:38.460 well, at some point, they're going to come down on you. They're going to come down on you hard. 01:18:38.880 --> 01:18:42.420 Plain and simple. You have to have a process. You have to be able to respond. 01:18:42.740 --> 01:18:46.860 You have to be able to comply or say why you're not going to comply and the 01:18:46.860 --> 01:18:48.920 reasoning, period. End the story. 01:18:49.260 --> 01:18:53.900 Or if you really and truly are like, we can't operate under those rules, 01:18:53.900 --> 01:18:55.700 then you don't operate in that country. 01:18:55.720 --> 01:18:57.780 But you can't operate in that country, period. 01:18:58.280 --> 01:19:04.680 And look, lots of companies have made significant compromises in order to operate 01:19:04.680 --> 01:19:09.300 in China, for instance, or many other countries that have severe rules. 01:19:09.740 --> 01:19:14.940 They agree to things they would never agree to in the U.S. because it's the 01:19:14.940 --> 01:19:16.240 only way to be in that market. 01:19:16.460 --> 01:19:21.220 And you can judge them for that decision to make that compromise. 01:19:21.220 --> 01:19:28.200 compromise but if you go into a country and then say yeah but i'm not going to follow their rules, 01:19:29.100 --> 01:19:31.800 I'm going to blatantly operate illegally. 01:19:32.480 --> 01:19:36.540 And I understand that maybe you don't agree with the rule, but unfortunately, 01:19:36.600 --> 01:19:39.460 that's the rule there. And you're going to suffer the consequences. 01:19:39.920 --> 01:19:42.880 You know, simple as that. I mean. 01:19:44.340 --> 01:19:50.200 Yeah. So and now the one thing that I heard was part and I don't have the details. 01:19:50.260 --> 01:19:55.180 I have not dug into this and a bad host for not doing so. Bringing up a topic 01:19:55.180 --> 01:19:56.280 I haven't researched fully. 01:19:56.640 --> 01:20:01.840 Oops. Oops, not like we ever get a lot of gear, you know, like we always only. 01:20:01.940 --> 01:20:04.740 Oh, no, we're we are the experts on everything. 01:20:04.820 --> 01:20:09.340 On everything. Like we would never make a mistake thing. We never pull shit 01:20:09.340 --> 01:20:12.080 out of our asses to talk. No, never, never, never. 01:20:12.740 --> 01:20:18.700 Anyway, apparently there are one part of this potentially is about asking for 01:20:18.700 --> 01:20:23.820 encryption keys and other stuff that might compromise privacy for people using Telegram. 01:20:23.820 --> 01:20:27.380 And there's some questions about what Telegram has, 01:20:27.600 --> 01:20:30.800 what Telegram doesn't have, what level of encryption they have, 01:20:30.800 --> 01:20:36.600 and when do they apply it, and stuff like that, that may have implications of 01:20:36.600 --> 01:20:42.020 France doing some things that have other negative consequences as well. 01:20:42.020 --> 01:20:46.720 But in the end, like, like you, like you said, it boils down to, 01:20:46.800 --> 01:20:52.940 if you don't like the laws in a country, then maybe don't do business in that country. 01:20:53.460 --> 01:20:59.760 But if you are going to do business in that country, you're kind of forced to follow their laws. 01:21:00.250 --> 01:21:00.720 Yeah, basically. 01:21:00.720 --> 01:21:05.040 It's part of the deal. And whether you like them or not, you can lobby to change the laws. 01:21:05.400 --> 01:21:12.440 You can say it should be something else and work in whatever way that country has to change laws. 01:21:12.880 --> 01:21:17.060 But if you are blatantly going to do something against the laws of the country 01:21:17.060 --> 01:21:20.060 after multiple warnings that apparently happened in this case, 01:21:20.060 --> 01:21:24.540 as in Brazil, then in the end, the country is going to do something. 01:21:24.680 --> 01:21:29.620 And in this case, unlike Brazil shut down X, France did not shut... 01:21:29.640 --> 01:21:32.600 Yeah, basically. Shut down Telegram. They arrested the CEO instead. 01:21:33.580 --> 01:21:38.420 I mean, Elon actually said the other day when he saw about this whole thing 01:21:38.420 --> 01:21:46.460 that maybe he's going to have to curtail some travel because he's afraid of legal repercussions. 01:21:46.840 --> 01:21:53.700 I'm sorry. Like, you know, I would not shed tears over Elon getting arrested somewhere. 01:21:54.180 --> 01:21:55.660 No, not really, no. 01:21:56.380 --> 01:22:00.300 Yeah. Go ahead and make that trip to Brazil, Elon. Yes. 01:22:00.480 --> 01:22:05.360 Yeah, I'm sure that'll go fine. I actually had a boss deported from Brazil. 01:22:06.920 --> 01:22:11.400 I had a boss that arrived that did not have the proper papers, 01:22:11.600 --> 01:22:17.260 a VP at HP, and he basically was not allowed to enter and was summarily deported. 01:22:17.840 --> 01:22:20.740 Beautiful. That's what you want to see happen. 01:22:20.960 --> 01:22:21.320 Yes. 01:22:23.080 --> 01:22:23.960 Okay, one more. 01:22:24.160 --> 01:22:26.460 One more, one more. 01:22:26.460 --> 01:22:26.900 One more. 01:22:27.100 --> 01:22:31.240 One more, one more, one more thing. The stranded astronauts. 01:22:33.600 --> 01:22:38.240 Well, they're going to be stranded longer, and they're sending the ship back. 01:22:39.280 --> 01:22:41.280 NASA officially made the decision. 01:22:41.360 --> 01:22:43.900 We talked about how this might be possible, but it's now official. 01:22:44.260 --> 01:22:50.000 They are not going to let the astronauts go back to Earth on the Boeing capsule 01:22:50.000 --> 01:22:54.380 because they don't think it's safe. At least they don't feel it's safe. 01:22:54.380 --> 01:22:59.100 Here's the one thing. Now, I will say this. I don't think, actually, 01:22:59.200 --> 01:23:01.480 I don't think that it's because they don't think it's safe. 01:23:02.000 --> 01:23:08.880 I actually don't think that. I think that in the, if this was, if they hadn't lost two. 01:23:08.940 --> 01:23:12.080 If they hadn't lost two space shuttles, they'd be sending them down on that. 01:23:12.360 --> 01:23:16.840 Exactly. If they hadn't lost two space shuttles and Boeing isn't being raped 01:23:16.840 --> 01:23:23.620 over the cold through all the fuck ups they have done the last decade on quality and, 01:23:23.680 --> 01:23:27.780 you know, design and shit or whatever, they might be coming back on that ship. 01:23:27.780 --> 01:23:32.340 But the brand new Boeing CEO that came in, but I was reading this, 01:23:32.440 --> 01:23:36.900 the brand new Boeing CEO that came in, got on the phone with Bill Nelson. 01:23:37.040 --> 01:23:38.380 They looked at their wrist. 01:23:38.560 --> 01:23:39.020 From NASA. 01:23:39.340 --> 01:23:43.400 From NASA. And this guy basically is like, you know what? 01:23:43.460 --> 01:23:46.740 The first act that I'm going to do as CEO is not bring down, 01:23:46.900 --> 01:23:48.620 not go kill two astronauts. 01:23:49.320 --> 01:23:53.580 Screw this. Send the capsule back and bring it back somewhere else. 01:23:53.820 --> 01:23:56.560 Okay? Even if the chance was less than 1%. 01:23:56.560 --> 01:24:01.140 Well, I mean, and this is the fundamental thing. Like the NASA folks explicitly said, 01:24:01.380 --> 01:24:07.720 look, we have learned over the course of mistakes we have made in the past with 01:24:07.720 --> 01:24:12.580 Challenger and Columbia that basically there were, in those two occasions, 01:24:12.880 --> 01:24:17.600 there were engineers who raised red flags and they were ignored. 01:24:17.840 --> 01:24:18.280 Ignored. 01:24:18.600 --> 01:24:20.120 And then people died. 01:24:20.120 --> 01:24:25.560 And here's the thing. You have a solution. Okay? You have a choice. 01:24:26.900 --> 01:24:28.520 You don't have to bear the risk. 01:24:29.390 --> 01:24:33.710 It may not look good, but you don't have to take the risk. You've got another 01:24:33.710 --> 01:24:34.550 way of bringing them back. 01:24:35.210 --> 01:24:39.010 Right. Now, they have to wait until, like, February or something. 01:24:39.990 --> 01:24:44.330 They were supposed to be there eight days. They're going to be there eight months. But, you know. 01:24:44.790 --> 01:24:48.010 I mean, shit. I mean, I'm sure they're astronauts. 01:24:48.350 --> 01:24:53.010 I'm sure that from, you know, unexpectedly long stay at the ISS, 01:24:53.090 --> 01:24:56.530 but also at the same time as being astronauts, it's like, well, shit. 01:24:57.090 --> 01:24:59.370 I get to stay at the ISS? for. 01:24:59.370 --> 01:25:00.910 Eight months and. 01:25:00.910 --> 01:25:05.550 They will find useful things to do they will get to like participate and like 01:25:05.550 --> 01:25:11.130 yes i mean i'm sure they didn't plan to spend this time away from their families 01:25:11.130 --> 01:25:16.630 etc blah blah blah but you know better than getting in the capsule and burning 01:25:16.630 --> 01:25:19.530 up and re-entry i hope they filed taxes and. 01:25:19.530 --> 01:25:21.190 Shit they didn't have an extension due. 01:25:21.190 --> 01:25:25.930 Well so someone i was interacting with on mastodon asked about whether they could vote. 01:25:26.210 --> 01:25:29.490 And so here's what I could find so far. 01:25:29.710 --> 01:25:30.010 Shit. 01:25:30.370 --> 01:25:35.310 There are mechanisms in place for astronauts to vote from the ISS. 01:25:35.810 --> 01:25:36.370 Okay. 01:25:36.470 --> 01:25:42.670 However, the standard procedure for that is you have to sign up for it before you leave. 01:25:43.510 --> 01:25:48.610 Well, fuck. What? And we got to strand these guys in space. 01:25:49.590 --> 01:25:52.790 So I was like, I'm sure they'll figure out some way around it. 01:25:52.790 --> 01:25:56.250 But apparently like there's some federal form that you're supposed to fill in 01:25:56.250 --> 01:25:59.130 and, and like most astronauts are based out of Texas. 01:25:59.270 --> 01:26:05.210 So Texas, like a couple of decades ago, passed a specific set of laws for how 01:26:05.210 --> 01:26:06.710 astronauts should vote. 01:26:06.930 --> 01:26:12.230 And they, they built specific mechanisms for how the ballots get transmitted 01:26:12.230 --> 01:26:17.150 to the space station securely and how the results get transmitted back securely 01:26:17.150 --> 01:26:18.610 and all of this kind of stuff. 01:26:18.610 --> 01:26:22.890 but they have to fill out some fucking form before they leave. 01:26:25.650 --> 01:26:30.170 And apparently I don't, I haven't confirmed whether these two astronauts are based in Texas. 01:26:30.210 --> 01:26:35.690 Like most are, if they're not based in Texas, it depends on your local laws, wherever you are based. 01:26:36.490 --> 01:26:39.910 But, but I'm sure they'll work out something for them. 01:26:39.950 --> 01:26:46.290 They'll figure probably, but, but yeah, so, so Boeing's really happy about all this. 01:26:46.430 --> 01:26:51.310 And, but yeah, like, look, You're right. I mean, NASA, this is, 01:26:51.310 --> 01:26:54.390 if NASA had picked anything else, like, 01:26:55.150 --> 01:27:00.010 it's no way i mean maybe they get lucky and everybody i mean get lucky there's 01:27:00.010 --> 01:27:04.570 probably a 95 chance everything would actually be what i read is even higher 01:27:04.570 --> 01:27:06.130 than that it was like probably closer. 01:27:06.130 --> 01:27:08.030 It was higher than that but. 01:27:08.030 --> 01:27:10.090 It's probably yeah 99 yes. 01:27:10.090 --> 01:27:15.550 It was probably 99 but you know they were like man no no let's not you know no. 01:27:15.550 --> 01:27:21.170 Yeah why take the chance if you don't have to exactly You know, and so, 01:27:21.350 --> 01:27:28.370 but, you know, didn't I hear there's yet another like Boeing quality issue about 01:27:28.370 --> 01:27:31.510 like the 777s or something? I don't know. 01:27:31.650 --> 01:27:35.990 Well, no, okay, not a quality issue. 01:27:36.070 --> 01:27:42.510 What they discovered was normal during, you know, flight testing in the 777X. 01:27:42.510 --> 01:27:45.850 that they'd, you know, unfortunately this is something that is, 01:27:45.950 --> 01:27:50.330 the kind of things they discovered during testing was that certain certain, 01:27:50.690 --> 01:27:53.570 I don't remember what the name of the part is. 01:27:54.010 --> 01:27:58.710 The support structure laid to the engine towards the wing, and I'm not sure 01:27:58.710 --> 01:28:02.470 if it's the pylon or something, but they discovered that they all had been fracturing. 01:28:03.830 --> 01:28:08.250 And so they're not sure if it's a fabrication defect, a design defect, or so forth. 01:28:08.490 --> 01:28:14.750 But they discovered that, and so obviously they're trying to get the 777X certified 01:28:14.750 --> 01:28:19.950 to begin deliveries soon. 01:28:21.230 --> 01:28:24.250 And the plan has right now been delayed already four plus years. 01:28:24.870 --> 01:28:29.170 And so this is a big setback for them that they discovered this on the 777X. 01:28:29.730 --> 01:28:33.510 But yeah, I mean, it was something that they discovered during... 01:28:33.510 --> 01:28:38.010 Well, it's better discovering it during testing than after. 01:28:38.010 --> 01:28:41.770 It was not during production. It was whatever. This is the flight search and 01:28:41.770 --> 01:28:43.170 testing and they were going through the parts. 01:28:43.210 --> 01:28:46.990 But the point is, Boeing has been having a tough time recently. 01:28:47.670 --> 01:28:48.930 A very tough time. 01:28:49.670 --> 01:28:53.170 Very tough time. I mean, they got a new CEO. 01:28:53.370 --> 01:28:53.810 Like you said. 01:28:53.990 --> 01:28:55.050 They'll turn it all around. 01:28:55.090 --> 01:29:01.230 Here is what I will say. I was looking at going through my re-watching all the 01:29:01.230 --> 01:29:07.910 seasons of Air Disaster, starting with season one and going through like season 14 right now. 01:29:08.110 --> 01:29:12.730 Let me tell you something. Airbus had a really bad streak for a while L2 of this ship. 01:29:12.930 --> 01:29:17.950 It had a really bad streak of stuff. 01:29:18.250 --> 01:29:25.950 And so one of the things that I could see that was the most pervasive was and 01:29:25.950 --> 01:29:29.650 Boeing had been later to implementing a, 01:29:30.560 --> 01:29:36.040 More computerized, you know, less direct control of flights, 01:29:36.280 --> 01:29:40.500 whereas Airbus use a side stick to transmit a computer commands. 01:29:41.080 --> 01:29:47.000 The side sticks in the new Airbus aircraft aren't connected one to the other. 01:29:47.040 --> 01:29:51.960 So you can have like inputs that are differing inputs and the damn airplane 01:29:51.960 --> 01:29:54.220 will average them out, which I find is idiotic. 01:29:54.500 --> 01:29:58.520 Makes no sense. Once, you know, on a Boeing aircraft, you know, 01:29:58.840 --> 01:30:02.900 you both are pushing, you know that if you're both pushing forward or back and 01:30:02.900 --> 01:30:04.700 the other pilot knows that. 01:30:04.980 --> 01:30:09.900 And Boeing has been later to add like computerized things to do certain things, 01:30:10.080 --> 01:30:13.020 like what happened with the 737 MAX. 01:30:13.020 --> 01:30:15.980 but man i saw so many accidents 01:30:15.980 --> 01:30:18.860 lately on airbus where they had added 01:30:18.860 --> 01:30:22.500 those features over the last eight years and it caused a crash on 01:30:22.500 --> 01:30:26.040 a320s a330s the a300 01:30:26.040 --> 01:30:28.920 i mean there was one specific i 01:30:28.920 --> 01:30:31.780 was just reading about the a390s it's one of the first ones 01:30:31.780 --> 01:30:34.540 fly by wire that it was like the pilots hit 01:30:34.540 --> 01:30:38.500 the take off and go around button and they said 01:30:38.500 --> 01:30:41.520 it where the fucking pilot couldn't overwrite it and so 01:30:41.520 --> 01:30:44.680 the pilots are pushing forward the goddamn stick on 01:30:44.680 --> 01:30:47.960 the plane on landing the plane's nose will not fucking 01:30:47.960 --> 01:30:50.680 go down and they just stalled right near the fucking 01:30:50.680 --> 01:30:56.840 runway and by the way oh yeah there's a software update that didn't put in and 01:30:56.840 --> 01:31:06.700 i'm like oh for god's sakes you know so boeing had really not done a lot of 01:31:06.700 --> 01:31:09.520 that kind of stuff that their airplanes Lange's Insult recently. 01:31:09.880 --> 01:31:14.860 And so I think that they're now, I mean, they've had this issue with. 01:31:15.960 --> 01:31:19.660 With that, but also the other problems have been fabric, you know, 01:31:19.660 --> 01:31:20.700 manufacturing problems. 01:31:20.820 --> 01:31:27.620 And that is an issue which is more specific to Boeing because they decided over 01:31:27.620 --> 01:31:30.260 the last decade plus to change the way they made their planes. 01:31:30.360 --> 01:31:35.380 And it's really caused them a lot of problems because they've decided to contract 01:31:35.380 --> 01:31:37.800 substantial pieces to a whole bunch of other manufacturers. 01:31:38.240 --> 01:31:45.080 And so their entire control of their supply chain is not the same way it was as before. 01:31:45.080 --> 01:31:50.180 and and that's well hell they they had to one of the companies they spun off 01:31:50.180 --> 01:31:54.160 for this they had to buy it back so. 01:31:54.160 --> 01:32:00.040 Right anyway so okay so basically i think we. 01:32:00.040 --> 01:32:00.900 Need to i need to. 01:32:00.900 --> 01:32:04.360 I think we're done you need you need to go to sleep you need to catch your plane 01:32:04.360 --> 01:32:11.660 in the morning need to continue your recovery okay i i will mention one one 01:32:11.660 --> 01:32:15.940 quick thing on polls one quick Just on how fast they're coming in. 01:32:15.980 --> 01:32:19.220 Since we have been recording the show, not only since we've been recording the 01:32:19.220 --> 01:32:23.920 show, since we talked about polls earlier in the show, there have been two new 01:32:23.920 --> 01:32:27.640 polls, one in Texas and one in Minnesota, that have been released. 01:32:28.620 --> 01:32:33.760 Minnesota matters, Texas, I mean, or less surprising, the data in Texas. 01:32:34.720 --> 01:32:38.040 Yeah, well, no, it's not surprising. It's as Trump ahead by eight. 01:32:38.180 --> 01:32:40.620 So neither one of these are surprising. 01:32:40.620 --> 01:32:44.180 They're both in line with roughly where the states are already. 01:32:44.500 --> 01:32:47.920 So it's not going to change anything big, but there are two new polls just in 01:32:47.920 --> 01:32:51.320 the last couple hours since we've been talking that, you know, 01:32:51.320 --> 01:32:56.680 I'll probably put in after we're done, but yeah, because the polls are happening hot and heavy. 01:32:56.820 --> 01:33:02.000 It's going to get more and more as we get closer, but like, it's getting to 01:33:02.000 --> 01:33:06.280 the point where, you know, it's a substantial time commitment for me now each 01:33:06.280 --> 01:33:08.020 week to put in these things. 01:33:08.060 --> 01:33:12.600 And of course, like, you know, I'm occasionally asked, you know, 01:33:12.720 --> 01:33:18.160 you could just like build something that ties into FiveThirtyEight's API and 01:33:18.160 --> 01:33:19.720 just pulls all their polls automatically. 01:33:20.100 --> 01:33:27.260 And I do not do that. I manually enter polls because I make slightly different 01:33:27.260 --> 01:33:28.460 decisions than FiveThirtyEight. 01:33:28.460 --> 01:33:34.740 I use them as my main source, and then I also check with the Hill decision desk 01:33:34.740 --> 01:33:39.860 poll information because sometimes decision desk has something that FiveThirtyEight 01:33:39.860 --> 01:33:41.380 rejects for whatever reason. 01:33:41.520 --> 01:33:45.400 So I look at different places and I determine differently which versions of 01:33:45.400 --> 01:33:46.600 the polls to include, blah, blah, blah. 01:33:46.740 --> 01:33:49.920 So I do it manually, but it ends up taking a lot of time. Anyway, we're done. 01:33:50.240 --> 01:33:54.100 You can all go to curmudgeons-corner.com. 01:33:55.100 --> 01:33:58.780 It now has the link to our YouTube. is now on the website. 01:33:59.020 --> 01:34:04.600 So if you want to see the YouTube versions of this, someone subscribed last week. 01:34:05.200 --> 01:34:06.720 Whoa! 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Yes, yes. 01:36:07.810 --> 01:36:09.210 No, no, no, go, go, go, go, go. 01:36:09.210 --> 01:36:16.270 At $2 a month or more, or if you just contact us in any of the ways on the website 01:36:16.270 --> 01:36:20.610 and ask, we will invite you to the Commerciants Corner Slack where Yvonne and 01:36:20.610 --> 01:36:23.890 I and a bunch of listeners are chatting and sharing links throughout the week. 01:36:24.350 --> 01:36:26.890 So Yvonne, anything to highlight from the Slack? 01:36:27.750 --> 01:36:34.610 Bank employees found dead in her cubicle four days after last clocking in. 01:36:35.130 --> 01:36:39.350 A Wells Fargo employee in Arizona was discovered dead in her cubicle last week, 01:36:39.370 --> 01:36:41.810 four days after she was last seen clocking into the office. 01:36:42.370 --> 01:36:46.150 Security at the Wells Fargo branch located in the 1100 block of West Washington 01:36:46.150 --> 01:36:49.830 Street contacted the Plembe Police Department after 60-year-old Denise Prudhomme 01:36:49.830 --> 01:36:52.470 was found dead in her cubicle Tuesday, August 20th. 01:36:52.510 --> 01:36:56.450 Prudhomme had last scanned into work Friday, August 16th at around 7 a.m. 01:36:56.890 --> 01:36:59.830 and never checked out. Police reported that Prudhomme was found on the third 01:36:59.830 --> 01:37:02.130 floor of the building in a cubicle that was not in a main hallway. 01:37:02.350 --> 01:37:03.830 There's no immediate sign of foul play. 01:37:04.350 --> 01:37:07.930 An anonymous employee told KPNX that co-workers had noticed a foul odor, 01:37:08.070 --> 01:37:09.830 but assumed it was related to a plumbing issue. 01:37:10.370 --> 01:37:13.210 Prudhomme's body was eventually discovered by another employee passing by. 01:37:13.730 --> 01:37:17.590 So how's all that employee interaction at the office, huh, Sam? 01:37:18.210 --> 01:37:22.450 Yeah, that's what I said. Now, of course, like, I made a stupid joke about this 01:37:22.450 --> 01:37:26.910 in terms of like, Like, you know, forcing people back into the office for all 01:37:26.910 --> 01:37:30.150 the interactions, but yet somebody died and was not found for four days. 01:37:30.150 --> 01:37:31.190 They've been found for four days! 01:37:31.950 --> 01:37:34.550 But at the same, I mean, this is an awful story. 01:37:35.230 --> 01:37:38.410 It's an awful story! I mean, I'm really tired of it for a second, 01:37:38.470 --> 01:37:41.510 but also, no, but it's a good point. I'm like, fuck. 01:37:41.810 --> 01:37:45.550 I mean, these people didn't notice that their co-worker is dead for four fucking days! 01:37:46.590 --> 01:37:49.530 I mean, what the hell? Wasn't there a cleaning crew there that night? 01:37:50.390 --> 01:37:51.090 Apparently not. 01:37:52.200 --> 01:37:55.720 There had to be around them. 01:37:55.780 --> 01:37:56.560 I don't know. 01:37:57.100 --> 01:38:00.980 Well, it's really look really, they look really focused. 01:38:01.600 --> 01:38:04.560 Well, it sounds like they weren't on a main hallway or something. 01:38:04.660 --> 01:38:09.600 They were off in a corner and they just didn't go. Maybe they even saw like 01:38:09.600 --> 01:38:12.180 the person there and we're like, Oh, we don't, we don't want to disturb them. 01:38:12.260 --> 01:38:15.120 I will say this. And you talk about what I want to say. Have you been, 01:38:15.120 --> 01:38:18.560 you would element about this is poor lady. I guess you have anybody that Mr. 01:38:19.520 --> 01:38:24.480 I don't know. Like maybe, Maybe, I imagine if there was a family, 01:38:24.540 --> 01:38:29.380 maybe they were, they didn't know, like they called and it would take a few days to do that. 01:38:29.460 --> 01:38:34.180 Sam, well, what do you mean a few days? If you didn't come back from the office. 01:38:34.600 --> 01:38:39.300 Okay. Yeah, I think my wife would notice within a couple hours. 01:38:39.620 --> 01:38:42.240 Where's Sam? Shouldn't he be home by now? Exactly. 01:38:42.340 --> 01:38:44.300 Where the fuck are you? but. 01:38:44.300 --> 01:38:48.100 Like if I lived alone it might take a while before. 01:38:48.100 --> 01:38:56.120 Like my mom or my sister or something but that was my point the pressing aspect 01:38:56.120 --> 01:39:01.200 of that that I was saying is that they didn't have anybody that even noticed she was, 01:39:02.570 --> 01:39:04.530 That's right, though. Yeah. Anyway. 01:39:05.750 --> 01:39:09.250 Okay. Well, on that cheery note. Yay. 01:39:11.870 --> 01:39:17.310 Yes. I feel sorry for her and her family, and probably her co-workers are feeling 01:39:17.310 --> 01:39:18.890 a little guilty, too, at this point. 01:39:18.930 --> 01:39:20.730 Oh, God. They better be fuckers. 01:39:21.510 --> 01:39:26.630 Yeah. Anyway, thanks, everybody, for joining us for yet another Curmudgeon's Corner. 01:39:27.170 --> 01:39:31.870 And hopefully we will be back next week, and Yvonne will be feeling a lot better. 01:39:32.650 --> 01:39:40.410 Speaking of next week oh god i'm gonna be in vegas okay oh for god's sake well 01:39:40.410 --> 01:39:42.550 i don't know what the hell we're gonna do but okay we'll. 01:39:42.550 --> 01:39:46.730 We'll figure that out so maybe we'll have yvonne maybe we won't ah who the hell 01:39:46.730 --> 01:39:55.050 knows but yeah and don't don't do what i did and gamble the entire 75 cents you have to your name and. 01:39:55.050 --> 01:39:58.030 The good news is 01:39:58.030 --> 01:40:02.530 i'm going on the company dime so therefore i'm not the company 01:40:02.530 --> 01:40:06.870 is giving me an award for how much i sold last year and part of it is a trip 01:40:06.870 --> 01:40:12.930 to vegas for for the don't don't gamble your award well i can't gamble my award 01:40:12.930 --> 01:40:17.870 part of it was in you know the the you know the the type that the companies 01:40:17.870 --> 01:40:22.330 give like the earned technology so i it's not invested yet ah. 01:40:22.330 --> 01:40:27.070 Right okay well do you get it like a little plaque or something, at least? 01:40:27.150 --> 01:40:28.790 I probably will, yes. 01:40:29.270 --> 01:40:32.150 Well, don't gamble that. Don't gamble the plaque. 01:40:32.770 --> 01:40:36.250 I'll go to the... I'm staying at the win on course. 01:40:37.090 --> 01:40:40.030 It's expensive wood's there. I'm going to go to the table. I'm going to put 01:40:40.030 --> 01:40:42.490 the plaque down. Okay. All of it on eight. 01:40:44.650 --> 01:40:46.990 But if you win, you get more plaques. 01:40:47.270 --> 01:40:48.750 I get more plaques, yes. 01:40:49.150 --> 01:40:52.870 There you go. Okay, we're done. We are so done. Bye, everyone. 01:40:52.870 --> 01:40:56.170 one. We'll talk to you next week, or at least I will. We'll see. 01:40:56.610 --> 01:41:00.010 I don't know. Whatever. Something. Bye. Later. 01:41:00.730 --> 01:41:01.510 Bye. Bye-bye. 01:41:31.150 --> 01:41:36.790 Thank you. Okay, Yvonne, sleep, feel better, get home. I'm hitting stop.