WEBVTT 00:00:00.010 --> 00:00:01.370 Hello, Yvonne. 00:00:01.950 --> 00:00:02.250 Hello. 00:00:03.310 --> 00:00:08.130 Okay. So let me make sure the live stream's all going, going and stuff, stuff. 00:00:08.710 --> 00:00:11.610 And here we go. That's going. 00:00:12.230 --> 00:00:14.550 Now we'll check this thing. 00:00:15.810 --> 00:00:17.170 Boo, boo, boo, boo, boo. 00:00:18.190 --> 00:00:20.450 La, la, la. No, it's. 00:00:21.110 --> 00:00:27.810 Okay. Let's just take this one. And. Ah. Okay. 00:00:28.710 --> 00:00:34.630 And actually this is here there we go blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah 00:00:34.630 --> 00:00:41.070 okay ready yvonne ready to go ready to go i'm live here comes the intro, 00:01:05.130 --> 00:01:14.130 welcome to curmudgeon's corner for saturday november 23rd 2024 it is just after 00:01:14.130 --> 00:01:20.350 1830 utc as we're starting to record i'm sam entry von boas here hello yvonne 00:01:20.350 --> 00:01:24.350 hello 13 30 18 30 Didn't I say 18? 00:01:24.770 --> 00:01:27.410 It sounded like 13 for some reason, but okay. Yeah. 00:01:27.510 --> 00:01:28.050 It's 18. 00:01:28.450 --> 00:01:28.790 Okay. 00:01:28.910 --> 00:01:29.230 It's 18. 00:01:29.590 --> 00:01:31.470 I, I, I, my ears are, I, anyway. 00:01:32.450 --> 00:01:35.090 Need to start getting those little assistant things. You know, 00:01:35.430 --> 00:01:37.530 you know, the, the Apple has now added. 00:01:37.790 --> 00:01:38.170 I know. 00:01:38.510 --> 00:01:40.950 Earring aid features to the AirPods. And so, you know. 00:01:41.030 --> 00:01:44.330 Man, no, I mean, I may need to mow the hair and the ears or something like that. I don't know. 00:01:44.530 --> 00:01:45.870 There you go. Now, now. 00:01:45.970 --> 00:01:49.230 That is one thing that I can't, you know, I, I don't actually get like, 00:01:49.550 --> 00:01:52.710 like, I, I know people that that that get really bushy 00:01:52.710 --> 00:01:55.670 in the ear hair thing 00:01:55.670 --> 00:02:00.870 and i'm one that look i had to start shaving when i was like 12 okay it was 00:02:00.870 --> 00:02:05.950 ridiculous okay i mean i i got i mean i had a really ridiculous beard but i 00:02:05.950 --> 00:02:12.650 don't get that much of it but what i do get i do remove i will say i i i i will 00:02:12.650 --> 00:02:14.910 i will get rid of that hair you're. 00:02:14.910 --> 00:02:15.730 Talking ear hair. 00:02:15.730 --> 00:02:24.070 Yes yes ear hair you know yeah so i i do get rid of that and i'll clean my ears regularly good. 00:02:24.070 --> 00:02:26.030 For you i guess yep. 00:02:26.030 --> 00:02:28.490 Well i mean with proper methodology. 00:02:28.490 --> 00:02:29.090 You're not just. 00:02:29.090 --> 00:02:32.110 Showing proper method yeah yeah no no no with proper method well 00:02:32.110 --> 00:02:36.330 here's one thing i i realized especially wearing using like because i i use 00:02:36.330 --> 00:02:41.110 earbuds regularly right uh-huh look i mean you listen if you don't keep your 00:02:41.110 --> 00:02:45.970 ears clean i've sometimes you know when i haven't cleaned my ears i will pull 00:02:45.970 --> 00:02:50.350 them out they're like oh gosh that's disgusting i'm like no I, 00:02:51.720 --> 00:02:54.720 not not which doesn't happen regularly but it's happened where i've been like 00:02:54.720 --> 00:03:00.500 i mean i've been a little bit remiss on that department and all of a sudden i'm like uh you. 00:03:00.500 --> 00:03:04.280 Right so now before we get any deeper into details 00:03:04.280 --> 00:03:12.060 of yvonne's earwax um let me just say agenda wise we'll do our usual we'll do 00:03:12.060 --> 00:03:15.780 a butt first and then you know we'll have a segment where yvonne picks what 00:03:15.780 --> 00:03:18.280 we talk about and then we'll have a segment where i pick what we're talking 00:03:18.280 --> 00:03:23.380 about but i was just mentioning to Yvonne right before the actual start of the show. 00:03:23.440 --> 00:03:24.680 We don't have a lot on the list. 00:03:24.980 --> 00:03:29.580 We're kind of light. Like we had the election. We were burnt out by the election. 00:03:30.100 --> 00:03:33.760 We did talk about election-related stuff anyway last week. 00:03:33.920 --> 00:03:40.780 But at this point, it's like one of the topics on my potential list is everybody's 00:03:40.780 --> 00:03:46.800 – lots of people are backing off from news and stuff. I'm not so much. 00:03:47.220 --> 00:03:51.180 But a lot of people. I know a lot of people are. Yeah, I mean, 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:54.860 it's like, don't even, you know, I don't want to hear it. 00:03:55.020 --> 00:03:57.560 Just don't even, you know, mention it. Yeah, I know. 00:03:57.840 --> 00:04:00.080 That's a topic to discuss. Yeah. 00:04:00.300 --> 00:04:04.860 Yeah. So I don't know. So you want you want to start a but firsty kind of thing? 00:04:04.940 --> 00:04:08.400 Well, here's a but first thing that I will I will I will mention. 00:04:09.600 --> 00:04:17.500 So my wife and son were supposed to travel today for for a few days to visit 00:04:17.500 --> 00:04:21.100 family in Bogota because there's no school. 00:04:21.400 --> 00:04:25.620 But I still had work. And I was like, you know, I'm like, look, 00:04:25.740 --> 00:04:30.740 I'm going to go over there and I'm going to wind up because I've done this before when I've had work. 00:04:31.020 --> 00:04:33.680 I'm like, look, I'm going to wind up. You guys go do something. 00:04:33.680 --> 00:04:38.580 And I got to sit in front of the computer anyway because I got to deal with shit. 00:04:38.700 --> 00:04:44.580 So this doesn't make any sense. You guys go and I'll stay over here, 00:04:44.620 --> 00:04:46.660 work, and then I'll pick you guys up back at the airport. 00:04:47.340 --> 00:04:53.780 But the interesting thing that happened is that the date's approaching and we 00:04:53.780 --> 00:05:01.580 get news that they were going to stay at her aunt's house where also her aunt. 00:05:02.480 --> 00:05:06.960 Her cousin has been living there with his wife for a little bit. 00:05:07.060 --> 00:05:08.760 They actually have a very big house. 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:12.960 So it's not like it's not for money reasons. It's like they, 00:05:12.960 --> 00:05:18.520 you know, they got married and they have a very big house and they're basically splitting it. 00:05:18.640 --> 00:05:21.860 My mom is, you know, divorced for a long time. 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:25.000 So she's single. So they're like, well, you got one side of the house. 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:27.720 I got side of the house. This works, you know, and that way, 00:05:27.800 --> 00:05:31.960 you know, you know, we're all here and they had pregnant. They had a baby. Okay. 00:05:32.440 --> 00:05:36.200 Not that long ago, less than a year old. And so my wife was going to stay over 00:05:36.200 --> 00:05:37.400 there because the house is quite big. 00:05:37.480 --> 00:05:40.740 And Manu went to the house. And the house is quite nice, to be honest. 00:05:40.900 --> 00:05:43.680 And Manu was like, no, no, I want to stay at that house. I don't want to stay there. 00:05:43.880 --> 00:05:46.760 No, no, where are you going to take me? No, you're not going to take me to some 00:05:46.760 --> 00:05:50.460 tiny apartment. No, no, no, that house is awesome. And the house is pretty cool. 00:05:51.640 --> 00:05:53.960 So all of a sudden, get a call a couple of days and say, hey, 00:05:54.060 --> 00:06:00.120 his cousins, my wife's cousin's wife's family had come to visit. 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:04.740 They had been on a cruise and apparently they all came back sick. 00:06:04.940 --> 00:06:06.560 Not sure exactly with what. 00:06:06.880 --> 00:06:12.220 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, let, let me express my utter shock that people 00:06:12.220 --> 00:06:16.440 went on a cruise and all came back sick. 00:06:16.620 --> 00:06:25.220 This is a place where you are all together in a space for an extended period of time. 00:06:25.520 --> 00:06:31.300 Yeah. Yeah. And, and, and people came home sick. Like, I am shocked beyond belief 00:06:31.300 --> 00:06:32.300 that this might have happened. 00:06:32.640 --> 00:06:35.280 Yeah. And so they came back. A whole bunch of them came back sick. 00:06:36.100 --> 00:06:39.480 And the baby got sick. Okay. So they took the baby. 00:06:39.620 --> 00:06:42.960 And the baby got really badly sick. So they took him to the hospital. 00:06:43.360 --> 00:06:48.680 When they tested the baby, he came back positive for both the flu and COVID. 00:06:49.460 --> 00:06:50.480 Nice. Together. 00:06:50.940 --> 00:06:51.260 Together. 00:06:52.100 --> 00:06:52.560 Excellent. 00:06:53.650 --> 00:06:58.150 So, well, OK, so my wife's like, well, I guess we can't stay there. 00:06:58.270 --> 00:07:01.170 And then she she talking to her friend, which they were originally going to 00:07:01.170 --> 00:07:03.510 stay at her place. She's got the flu. 00:07:05.070 --> 00:07:09.630 And I'm like, OK, so then, well, how about you're going to stay at your aunt's 00:07:09.630 --> 00:07:11.890 house and her other aunt? 00:07:12.090 --> 00:07:19.350 OK, she doesn't have the flu, but her daughter is at the hospital and they don't 00:07:19.350 --> 00:07:23.450 know why she is feeling ill and they're not sure why. 00:07:23.650 --> 00:07:26.410 And so it was just like. 00:07:26.610 --> 00:07:28.590 Everyone's sick or everyone else. 00:07:28.810 --> 00:07:33.390 Everyone is sick. And so the thing is, Manu was really, really, 00:07:33.590 --> 00:07:38.010 really, really, really, really excited about, you know, getting on, 00:07:38.390 --> 00:07:41.390 you know, he loves airplanes, but go get on the damn plane. 00:07:42.590 --> 00:07:48.790 And well, I had to break the news to him yesterday that I'm not going to be able to go today. 00:07:49.370 --> 00:07:52.170 So you know but i did what i 00:07:52.170 --> 00:07:54.930 what i did is like i i said look one thing 00:07:54.930 --> 00:07:57.970 is i'm telling him not to go on a plane and have no plan b 00:07:57.970 --> 00:08:01.810 is terrible because that's that's the thing that i've noticed with him that 00:08:01.810 --> 00:08:06.910 it's like you will get very upset if you're just telling him well it's canceled 00:08:06.910 --> 00:08:16.070 we got no no you know no plan b so then he will be very upset so i went i said no no no Look, 00:08:16.370 --> 00:08:18.970 and my wife's like, look, I can't just tell him I'm not going. 00:08:19.150 --> 00:08:22.450 I got to figure out what plan B is. I don't know yet what plan B is. 00:08:22.790 --> 00:08:26.110 So I sat down last night. I'm trying to look at what the plan Bs are. 00:08:26.270 --> 00:08:31.210 And the one that I finally settled on was, OK, look, let me look at the calendar. 00:08:32.510 --> 00:08:35.350 Because we had planned already on a trip during the holidays. 00:08:35.710 --> 00:08:39.050 So I was like, well, we can't move this airplane trip to the holidays. 00:08:39.210 --> 00:08:43.390 Actually, we haven't been, amazingly enough, Sam, we haven't been to Disney since June. 00:08:43.830 --> 00:08:48.730 OK. I was about to say, let me guess, you're going to Disney? 00:08:48.970 --> 00:08:49.430 No, no, no. 00:08:49.730 --> 00:08:51.490 I'm like, no, he's not going to mention he's going to Disney. 00:08:51.490 --> 00:08:52.070 No, no, no. 00:08:52.150 --> 00:08:53.030 He goes to Disney all the time. 00:08:53.150 --> 00:08:55.910 No, no, no. But we haven't been to Disney since June, so we had already booked 00:08:55.910 --> 00:08:57.910 that for the holidays. That was already booked. 00:08:58.210 --> 00:09:02.530 And I'm like, well, we're not going to fly to Orlando, okay? 00:09:02.690 --> 00:09:05.050 All right? That makes no sense, okay? 00:09:05.790 --> 00:09:11.970 You know, so then I looked. I'm like, okay, but that was going to be after Christmas, okay? 00:09:12.410 --> 00:09:15.590 We're going to go for New Year's? No, no, no, no, no, no. 00:09:15.690 --> 00:09:21.410 What I did is I rebooked the airline tickets for them to go before Christmas, 00:09:21.790 --> 00:09:25.090 like to go from the 19th through the 23rd, because this is going to be a short 00:09:25.090 --> 00:09:32.150 trip anyway, for them to go over there and to go before Christmas to hang out for a few days. 00:09:32.690 --> 00:09:35.590 Then you come back, we spend Christmas here, and then we'll go. 00:09:35.870 --> 00:09:37.570 So wait, where are you sending them for a few days? 00:09:37.750 --> 00:09:40.410 They're going to go back. They're going to go to Bogota because my wife had 00:09:40.410 --> 00:09:44.850 wanted to visit, but I changed the dates towards December 19 instead of flying now. 00:09:44.990 --> 00:09:47.530 I was able to find tickets, 00:09:48.790 --> 00:09:52.310 This stupid trip every time. This is the second time I've rebooked it. 00:09:52.630 --> 00:09:57.870 The tickets don't have penalties. However, the thing is that if there's a fair 00:09:57.870 --> 00:09:59.050 difference, you have to pay it. 00:09:59.650 --> 00:09:59.810 Okay. 00:10:00.330 --> 00:10:06.710 Every time I've rebooked it, the price has gone up. And because that's a very 00:10:06.710 --> 00:10:12.210 busy time, I wound up having to pay a whole bunch of more money. 00:10:12.310 --> 00:10:18.490 I wound up paying more than the price that I originally paid for the tickets. 00:10:18.790 --> 00:10:22.970 For them to be able to fly on those damn days. 00:10:23.730 --> 00:10:27.090 And I'm like, you gotta be shitting me. 00:10:27.230 --> 00:10:32.770 This stupid trip, every fucking time they were supposed to go in September, something happened. 00:10:33.270 --> 00:10:34.970 Okay, we pushed it for Thanksgiving. 00:10:36.490 --> 00:10:40.830 Now, this weekend, everybody gets sick. No, we gotta push it again. 00:10:41.010 --> 00:10:44.950 And I'm like, damn it, back then I paid, I don't know how much money because 00:10:44.950 --> 00:10:50.770 the fare was higher because it was a busier time period. And now that one is 00:10:50.770 --> 00:10:52.470 even busier than this one. 00:10:52.750 --> 00:10:58.230 And so therefore, right now, basically the price of these tickets has doubled. 00:10:59.010 --> 00:11:04.850 Right. It's doubled since I originally bought the damn things. 00:11:05.250 --> 00:11:06.410 Beautiful, beautiful. 00:11:07.170 --> 00:11:12.370 Like, I was like, what? Actually, no, wait, what am I talking? No, not doubled. 00:11:12.590 --> 00:11:16.530 No, no, more. It's more, it's tripled. 00:11:17.950 --> 00:11:25.910 Okay okay so anyway i i i this trip is i really hope they fly this time but are. 00:11:25.910 --> 00:11:28.990 They doing anything else this week to. 00:11:28.990 --> 00:11:31.290 Substitute school are. 00:11:31.290 --> 00:11:34.530 They just staying home or they are they gonna like fill. 00:11:34.530 --> 00:11:35.150 That week with. 00:11:35.150 --> 00:11:36.110 Some sort of activity. 00:11:36.110 --> 00:11:41.510 We haven't figured that out yet okay but the thing is that yeah there's no school 00:11:41.510 --> 00:11:45.690 and so i don't know i don't know what the hell we're gonna do now, 00:11:47.330 --> 00:11:50.430 okay you know i i don't know well manu you 00:11:50.430 --> 00:11:53.290 know the the biggest thing was the flying on 00:11:53.290 --> 00:11:56.370 the plane right we're gonna get him to you know at least he knows that he's 00:11:56.370 --> 00:11:59.070 gonna fly on the plane on the 19th and when i told him that we changed the dates 00:11:59.070 --> 00:12:01.850 and everybody was sick he was like oh okay so i just gotta wait more days yeah 00:12:01.850 --> 00:12:05.690 it's fine and so he's like okay cool no problem so he's you know he took that 00:12:05.690 --> 00:12:11.510 he took that uh because i came up with a plan he took it well because when my wife at first, 00:12:12.050 --> 00:12:14.170 tried to tell him that we're not going. 00:12:15.810 --> 00:12:20.470 She started first with strategy. Oh, we're just not going to tell him that? 00:12:20.710 --> 00:12:23.710 Oh my god, that kid was breaking up in tears. 00:12:24.490 --> 00:12:25.890 I mean, he was just... 00:12:27.110 --> 00:12:30.450 I'm like, okay, okay. Wait, wait, wait, wait. I'm like, wait, 00:12:30.630 --> 00:12:32.350 wait, wait. Let me try to figure something out. 00:12:32.630 --> 00:12:35.870 Okay? Because the poor kid was just gonna... 00:12:38.270 --> 00:12:44.830 He was gonna cry like oh my god he was he was ready to explode crying so i i had to uh, 00:12:45.730 --> 00:12:49.730 sort something out so what are we going to do the next couple of days i don't 00:12:49.730 --> 00:12:55.210 know there's no school i don't know stay. 00:12:55.210 --> 00:12:57.870 Home and watch tv and play video games that's fine right. 00:12:57.870 --> 00:13:02.690 That's that that's basically what what i've got on on the agenda now here's 00:13:02.690 --> 00:13:06.370 one thing that this doesn't convenience me i had planned to do a number a certain 00:13:06.370 --> 00:13:09.570 to take care of a certain number of things like the next couple of days because 00:13:09.570 --> 00:13:11.370 there were going to be a way and. 00:13:11.370 --> 00:13:12.030 That'll be hard. 00:13:12.030 --> 00:13:15.110 And now all of a sudden, well, I'm going to have to still, well, 00:13:15.190 --> 00:13:20.690 one of them involves me getting, going to, to get a, a chest CT scan. 00:13:21.030 --> 00:13:22.650 Oh, that's fun. Yeah. 00:13:22.850 --> 00:13:27.430 Yeah. Woo. Yeah. I know. It's like exciting. Yeah. I scheduled all this exciting 00:13:27.430 --> 00:13:28.890 stuff to do while they were gone. Yeah. 00:13:28.970 --> 00:13:32.870 No, it like I'm getting a chest CT and shit like that, whatever. 00:13:32.970 --> 00:13:36.350 And I'm like, okay, well at least, you know, I don't have to worry about other stuff. 00:13:36.570 --> 00:13:41.090 I've got like right now, because I was in the hospital last month because some 00:13:41.090 --> 00:13:47.510 other tests or whatever i have like right now scheduled three different medical 00:13:47.510 --> 00:13:49.290 tests over the next month, 00:13:50.210 --> 00:13:55.130 that's exciting i got one that involves me you know drinking this barium thing 00:13:55.130 --> 00:14:01.210 in order to get contrast ct they tell me it tastes terrible i've never had to do that before you. 00:14:01.210 --> 00:14:05.290 Know we clearly live up to our curmudgeons title when we talk about our our 00:14:05.290 --> 00:14:07.110 health issues and maladies. 00:14:07.110 --> 00:14:09.850 Well this is the kind of shit here's the thing this is 00:14:09.850 --> 00:14:12.510 the kind of shit that happens as you know 00:14:12.510 --> 00:14:15.610 as we are getting into our curmudgeonly years and 00:14:15.610 --> 00:14:20.450 i gotta tell you something it's gonna get worse i'm sure yeah you know there 00:14:20.450 --> 00:14:25.130 was like i still always remember this the scene from uh city slickers with uh 00:14:25.130 --> 00:14:29.630 billy crystal where he went he go they had brought him in you know there's one 00:14:29.630 --> 00:14:33.990 of these days a career day i guess and he was supposed to talk to the to the little kids about, 00:14:35.810 --> 00:14:40.170 his work or whatever and his work was boring and there was this one line, 00:14:40.370 --> 00:14:43.550 you know, he was talking about getting old and he said you know, 00:14:43.810 --> 00:14:45.970 as we grow old, one thing has happened, it's like, you know, 00:14:46.070 --> 00:14:48.290 we go and get sent to the hospital and we get an, 00:14:49.670 --> 00:14:52.810 operation, but in order not to make it sound so bad, we call it a procedure, 00:14:53.600 --> 00:14:57.200 You know, so, you know, well, you know, that, that's where to step with. 00:14:57.300 --> 00:14:59.720 We are at that. We are at the procedure step right now. 00:14:59.900 --> 00:15:02.140 I understand. So is it my turn? 00:15:02.520 --> 00:15:03.300 Yes, it's your turn. 00:15:03.720 --> 00:15:08.680 Okay. Now I'll, I'll just say this upfront. Like I've got, I know we have sort 00:15:08.680 --> 00:15:11.480 of the butt first and then the more newsy things, but honestly, 00:15:11.520 --> 00:15:16.080 most of the things on my list at this point are, and this ties to what we were 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:17.480 saying about people being sick of news. 00:15:17.720 --> 00:15:21.740 I'm still like religiously following news, but most of the things I have on 00:15:21.740 --> 00:15:31.220 my list are not particularly newsy so here's a spider story yeah yes yeah. 00:15:31.220 --> 00:15:34.320 I i see that there i i don't remember talking about the spider. 00:15:34.320 --> 00:15:38.780 Story i i have not said anything to you guys on the slack about the spider story 00:15:38.780 --> 00:15:44.240 it is it is not it is not something i saw in the news it is something that happened to me so uh people. 00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:45.940 Ditching x for blue sky. 00:15:45.940 --> 00:15:47.800 Blue sky that's another. 00:15:47.800 --> 00:15:53.460 One i i i i have to admit that for just because i'm just i mean how many fucking 00:15:53.460 --> 00:15:55.080 apps do i really want to be. 00:15:55.080 --> 00:16:00.140 Okay okay let's let's i i am going to pick for my butt first here all right 00:16:00.140 --> 00:16:01.860 i'm gonna do the spider story. 00:16:01.860 --> 00:16:03.120 Okay the spider. 00:16:03.120 --> 00:16:10.080 Story because i feel like this is spider so here's the thing and i know me and 00:16:10.080 --> 00:16:13.120 my family will appall certain people by this, 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:20.840 But we are kindly to the wildlife, including spiders, okay? 00:16:21.440 --> 00:16:24.500 We basically leave the bee. 00:16:24.660 --> 00:16:33.400 No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Okay, I am somewhat kindly to the wildlife, but I got some lines. 00:16:34.600 --> 00:16:39.460 So spiders in particular are good. They are helpful creatures. 00:16:39.740 --> 00:16:42.660 No, no. They're good outside. 00:16:42.660 --> 00:16:47.320 Inside not in here unless you've got like poisonous spiders or something which 00:16:47.320 --> 00:16:48.980 we really don't have in this area i. 00:16:48.980 --> 00:16:54.740 Know how do i know how the hell do you know what do you got a little fucking decoder card. 00:16:54.740 --> 00:17:02.940 Well so the thing is like yes in in this part of the world like spiders that 00:17:02.940 --> 00:17:06.360 are dangerous to humans are rare we don't live in australia it would be in a 00:17:06.360 --> 00:17:10.160 different story in australia okay but spiders that are how do. 00:17:10.160 --> 00:17:14.400 You know some asshole didn't bring one like you know from Australia, as far as you know. 00:17:14.680 --> 00:17:18.160 You know, the Everglades right now is overrun with pythons. 00:17:18.400 --> 00:17:18.760 Yes. 00:17:18.900 --> 00:17:21.880 They're not native here because a whole bunch of assholes fucking like, 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:25.420 oh, well, I bought a python and had it home. Well, oh shit, it was such a bad 00:17:25.420 --> 00:17:26.820 idea to have a python at home. 00:17:26.980 --> 00:17:30.300 Let me just dump it in the Everglades. And they multiply worse than rabbits. 00:17:31.180 --> 00:17:35.660 So anyway, the point of this is there are a variety of places in our living 00:17:35.660 --> 00:17:39.860 spaces where we cohabitate with the spiders and are fine with them. 00:17:40.080 --> 00:17:43.380 Like we intentionally don't mess with them. We let them be. 00:17:43.560 --> 00:17:49.000 So I am looking in the corner of my office. There are webs right there. Okay? 00:17:49.400 --> 00:17:52.940 And I'm like, that's fine. They can be there. 00:17:53.080 --> 00:17:57.080 There's like some webs in the – there's a spider that lives in my shower. 00:17:57.160 --> 00:18:02.080 And, you know, I leave it alone. It leaves me alone. There's no worries there. 00:18:02.620 --> 00:18:10.520 But – because, you know, they're nice little creatures. They are our friends. You know? 00:18:10.520 --> 00:18:12.900 They can be my friend outside. 00:18:13.120 --> 00:18:17.180 Now, my daughter is scared of spiders. 00:18:17.990 --> 00:18:25.170 But, you know, in my spaces and whatever, I, I'm not going to interfere with 00:18:25.170 --> 00:18:27.290 the spiders and they're not going to interfere with me. 00:18:27.430 --> 00:18:35.890 So more specifically, there was one particular spider that for the last, 00:18:36.170 --> 00:18:42.170 I don't know how many months, but definitely months was living in my car. Okay. 00:18:42.650 --> 00:18:48.050 Oh, fuck this. The hell with that shit. Oh, my God. 00:18:48.690 --> 00:18:49.930 So let me know. 00:18:50.270 --> 00:18:53.710 No, I mean, listen, fuck it. The car. 00:18:54.070 --> 00:18:56.950 Fuck you. No, no, no, no, no. 00:18:57.270 --> 00:19:00.470 I'm like, even like, you know, it's in the corner over there in the office. 00:19:00.670 --> 00:19:06.310 I'm like, whatever. I'm like, I am probably like, OK, in the fucking car. No way. No. 00:19:06.870 --> 00:19:14.250 So like, look, it would it usually lived around the around the driver's seat, 00:19:14.510 --> 00:19:16.390 you know, in that general area. 00:19:16.630 --> 00:19:20.930 So like while I was driving, I would see it like on the mirror and stuff. 00:19:21.110 --> 00:19:25.590 Sometimes it would like come down in front of my face. There was one time recently 00:19:25.590 --> 00:19:29.270 where it was on the headrest and Alex was like, be really careful. 00:19:29.470 --> 00:19:31.790 Don't put your head back because you might squish the spider. 00:19:32.350 --> 00:19:38.490 And so, you know, for months and months, like Alex and I would pay attention to where the spider was. 00:19:38.750 --> 00:19:43.890 We'd talk to the spider. We'd say hello to the spider. we'd be like if the spider 00:19:43.890 --> 00:19:48.650 was in a dangerous place we'd make sure we paid attention and whatever and so 00:19:48.650 --> 00:19:50.910 like again the spider was our friend, 00:19:51.730 --> 00:19:56.390 Okay. Now you'll notice I have used the past tense because something horrible happened. 00:19:56.690 --> 00:19:58.390 You crushed it accidentally. 00:19:58.550 --> 00:20:07.210 I did not crush it. I was, I was picking up some fast food for Alex at a McDonald's. 00:20:07.450 --> 00:20:07.890 Yeah. 00:20:08.110 --> 00:20:11.890 And you know, it is one of these curbside pickup things. So like, okay. 00:20:12.230 --> 00:20:16.950 The, the, you know, you, you pull up to the spot and they come out and bring you your food. 00:20:16.970 --> 00:20:18.770 I rolled down the window. The 00:20:18.770 --> 00:20:23.770 guy starts handing me my food and then he's like, oh, you have a spider. 00:20:24.450 --> 00:20:24.930 Boom. 00:20:25.770 --> 00:20:35.990 Exactly. Like he smacked the spider and, and I was like stunned. I was like. 00:20:36.030 --> 00:20:37.670 That's the normal reaction. 00:20:38.110 --> 00:20:41.870 I, I, I was not. And he's like, oh, don't worry. I got it for you. 00:20:44.630 --> 00:20:52.890 And and meanwhile like i i wanted i wanted to scream no but it was too late 00:20:52.890 --> 00:20:56.450 he'd already smacked the spider so i just and. 00:20:56.450 --> 00:21:01.470 I and i'm guessing at some point you realized oh shit that's the normal thing to do i. 00:21:01.470 --> 00:21:03.090 Can't no he was actually. 00:21:03.090 --> 00:21:09.410 He was actually trying to be nice but did you realize that that was the opposite. 00:21:09.410 --> 00:21:17.710 So like yeah i i i you froze i froze i wanted to say something but i froze yeah 00:21:17.710 --> 00:21:23.110 he and he sort of was like you know you want a napkin it sort of fell down and 00:21:23.110 --> 00:21:26.890 i'm like no no and to myself i'm thinking god damn it you've done enough, 00:21:27.930 --> 00:21:30.490 asshole but like i. 00:21:30.490 --> 00:21:33.930 Said nothing he was but he i know he he 00:21:33.930 --> 00:21:42.230 would okay let's be clear he was i i know it was a mistake but because for 99.999 00:21:42.230 --> 00:21:47.610 percent of the people that would have been a nice thing to do he did what he 00:21:47.610 --> 00:21:51.370 thought would have been unfortunately i. 00:21:51.370 --> 00:21:58.390 Hear you like so i just sort of was like nope nope i'm good and i closed the 00:21:58.390 --> 00:22:03.890 window he went back in i sat there in the car and cried for several minutes before. 00:22:03.890 --> 00:22:11.110 By the way i do understand i i understand so i i will say that i i look i'm 00:22:11.110 --> 00:22:14.710 not like that with spiders but you know we get like uh and. 00:22:14.710 --> 00:22:16.770 Then i had to break the news to alex because he cared. 00:22:16.770 --> 00:22:19.510 About spider too we get these little we get these 00:22:19.570 --> 00:22:24.830 geckos like around that are actually harmless and they're actually good especially 00:22:24.830 --> 00:22:27.850 because they had a lot of cockroaches they actually they they will they will 00:22:27.850 --> 00:22:31.690 they will eat the cockroaches yes so the little geckos i'm actually fine and 00:22:31.690 --> 00:22:32.650 that's what the spiders do. 00:22:32.650 --> 00:22:34.130 Too they they eat other bugs. 00:22:34.130 --> 00:22:40.030 Yeah but but you know i i don't like the fucking spiders anyway but but you 00:22:40.030 --> 00:22:43.090 know i don't like the fucking cobwebs i don't like walking into the fucking 00:22:43.090 --> 00:22:46.830 cobwebs that they that they do and then I get them all, anyway, no, no, 00:22:47.030 --> 00:22:49.950 no, no, they're, they're too, too, but the geckos are harmless, 00:22:50.070 --> 00:22:55.090 they don't build webs, they don't leave shit, they don't do whatever it needs, so, so, you know, 00:22:55.970 --> 00:22:59.490 like, I think a lot of people are scared of them, too, but I'm, 00:22:59.550 --> 00:23:01.750 like, usually, like, we find one, we're, like, 00:23:02.730 --> 00:23:05.830 you know, we'll try to leave it alone, or, you know, because I know that they 00:23:05.830 --> 00:23:10.010 can't be inside all the, all the time, I'll try to, like, you know, grab it, and, like, 00:23:11.240 --> 00:23:15.300 get it outside so it could be, you know, that way because they want water and 00:23:15.300 --> 00:23:19.040 they need, they need to be outside. Okay. Also, they can't just be stuck inside all the time. 00:23:19.800 --> 00:23:23.960 Yeah. So I, I mean, I accidentally once like with a door, it got in, 00:23:24.020 --> 00:23:26.180 it got wedged in the door jam. 00:23:27.420 --> 00:23:31.140 Man, close the door. Flatten the poor gecko. 00:23:31.620 --> 00:23:37.680 I was very upset when that happened. So, so I understand why you were like, 00:23:37.780 --> 00:23:40.540 I was like, it's been a couple of weeks now. 00:23:40.540 --> 00:23:45.380 So I'm able to laugh and joke about this a little bit now, but like for like 00:23:45.380 --> 00:23:48.320 a couple days, I was like, every time I thought about it, I was upset. 00:23:48.940 --> 00:23:53.240 You know, I'm like, I should have done something. I could have like, I don't know. 00:23:54.740 --> 00:23:59.240 You know, this reminds me. There's a movie that I actually I have to look to 00:23:59.240 --> 00:24:03.360 to watch this movie again, because I looked up that it does have a lot of good 00:24:03.360 --> 00:24:04.700 reviews, but it's not a very. 00:24:05.240 --> 00:24:08.880 As a matter of fact, I know I just looked up the box office it had was one hundred 00:24:08.880 --> 00:24:12.460 thousand dollars. That's how little play it got. 00:24:12.620 --> 00:24:15.880 It's a movie with Kevin Bacon. It was called The Big Picture. Okay. 00:24:16.320 --> 00:24:16.520 Okay. 00:24:16.540 --> 00:24:22.620 So The Big Picture was a movie about Kevin Bacon being a promising new kid from 00:24:22.620 --> 00:24:27.260 film school that all of a sudden got hired and they gave him a contract to do a movie in Hollywood. 00:24:27.260 --> 00:24:34.260 But then he wanted to do a black and white movie like the old school and whatever. 00:24:34.260 --> 00:24:38.680 And then, you know, he started sitting down with all these people at the commercial 00:24:38.680 --> 00:24:46.340 Hollywood studio and it wind up turning into some movie with bikini girls on 00:24:46.340 --> 00:24:48.760 a beach and pop music and, 00:24:49.100 --> 00:24:52.760 you know, just just some generic thing that had nothing to do with the with 00:24:52.760 --> 00:24:55.040 the art, right, art, art, art, 00:24:55.740 --> 00:24:57.460 artistic type of movie he wanted to make. 00:24:57.920 --> 00:25:01.740 So one day he's sitting at a bar this is why this reminds me of you he's sitting 00:25:01.740 --> 00:25:06.880 at a bar and he's watching they have a tv and they have an older tube tv i don't 00:25:06.880 --> 00:25:10.440 know if you've ever noticed some older tv sometimes like that and i've seen 00:25:10.440 --> 00:25:14.120 this before i mean sometimes yeah a little off and. 00:25:14.120 --> 00:25:15.000 You smack them to get them. 00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:17.860 Yeah and and sometimes like for example you smack them 00:25:17.860 --> 00:25:20.540 and sometimes they would be in black and white and smack them 00:25:20.540 --> 00:25:23.400 and come into color okay so he had been wanting to 00:25:23.400 --> 00:25:26.260 do the movie in black and white and he's 00:25:26.260 --> 00:25:29.020 sitting there and the tv is showing this movie that looks in 00:25:29.020 --> 00:25:31.940 black and white and so the bartender sees this 00:25:31.940 --> 00:25:38.000 and is annoyed by it and smacks the tv and it puts it and i think it was a colorized 00:25:38.000 --> 00:25:41.640 version of a black and white movie that's what it was and so the movie is showing 00:25:41.640 --> 00:25:44.960 him black and white he's like oh look at this movie in the original black and 00:25:44.960 --> 00:25:49.160 white and the bartender smacks the tv and it goes into color he's like wow that's 00:25:49.160 --> 00:25:50.280 much better and he's like, 00:25:52.120 --> 00:25:55.360 asshole. You don't understand. So that's kind of like what happened to you. 00:25:55.500 --> 00:25:57.480 This guy thought, oh yeah, I'm doing you a favor. 00:25:57.660 --> 00:26:00.380 I'm like going to put it in color and like, you know, so he killed the spider. 00:26:00.500 --> 00:26:02.780 But unfortunately, uh, no, it's, uh, no. 00:26:03.080 --> 00:26:07.600 Well, and my, my wife, one of the things she did, one of the things she said 00:26:07.600 --> 00:26:11.640 to try to make me feel better, which you'll love is like, well, 00:26:12.000 --> 00:26:15.260 maybe if you're really lucky before it was killed, 00:26:15.420 --> 00:26:18.400 it laid eggs and then you'll have 00:26:18.400 --> 00:26:22.120 lots of little baby spiders in a little while so far 00:26:22.120 --> 00:26:25.880 it's been it's been like three weeks no no sign of no 00:26:25.880 --> 00:26:30.920 sign of baby spiders no sign of baby spiders yet no side sign of a replacement 00:26:30.920 --> 00:26:39.000 spider of any sort you know so i don't know but yeah so it's still sad but yeah 00:26:39.000 --> 00:26:45.100 i thought you would appreciate that story and my general attitude towards spiders in the house i. 00:26:45.100 --> 00:26:47.700 I i do appreciate how I do. 00:26:47.700 --> 00:26:49.440 Not. 00:26:49.440 --> 00:26:55.560 I am not in the camp of like the attitude you guys have against the spiders. 00:26:55.760 --> 00:27:00.020 However, I do totally empathize with the fact that, you know, 00:27:00.220 --> 00:27:02.740 you had been protecting this damn spider for so long. 00:27:02.880 --> 00:27:06.120 And then all of a sudden somebody trying to be nice. 00:27:07.640 --> 00:27:13.640 Now I will say, I will say a few days before the spider went away. 00:27:14.780 --> 00:27:17.700 We did find another creature in the car 00:27:17.700 --> 00:27:20.440 that we did help outside there was 00:27:20.440 --> 00:27:23.800 a snail there was a snail in the car yeah okay 00:27:23.800 --> 00:27:29.180 and and we're like the spider clearly was thriving in the car it was fine it 00:27:29.180 --> 00:27:32.940 was doing yeah but not the snail the snail was like the snail is just going 00:27:32.940 --> 00:27:38.820 to die if it stays here so we very carefully we looked up the proper instructions 00:27:38.820 --> 00:27:41.380 because like if you just yank a snail off somewhere, 00:27:41.620 --> 00:27:44.640 you can injure it through the process of trying to pull it off. 00:27:44.800 --> 00:27:49.380 So we properly looked up the instructions of how to get it to gently let go. 00:27:49.640 --> 00:27:53.520 And we got the snail to let go. And we took the snail and we put it out into 00:27:53.520 --> 00:27:57.520 the yard and blah, blah, blah, you know, in a place that hopefully it'll be fine. 00:27:58.320 --> 00:28:01.220 But yeah, so the snail was not allowed to live there. 00:28:02.430 --> 00:28:08.230 You know, the rats who have a couple of times destroyed the interior of the 00:28:08.230 --> 00:28:11.610 car and other electronics, they are not welcome. 00:28:12.270 --> 00:28:16.050 Now, I still like would prefer not to kill the little creature. 00:28:16.370 --> 00:28:21.670 But, you know, if you've done thousands of dollars of damage to my car, 00:28:21.890 --> 00:28:26.530 I have a little bit less sympathy for you than to the spider. 00:28:27.030 --> 00:28:30.750 You know, I am also trying to be careful with snails. I will tell you that the 00:28:30.750 --> 00:28:34.890 one thing that always like, oh, my God, just breaks my heart is that sometimes 00:28:34.890 --> 00:28:36.230 we have a lot of snails around. 00:28:36.490 --> 00:28:38.730 And look, if I see one walking around, I'll try to avoid it, 00:28:38.770 --> 00:28:40.030 make sure I don't hurt it or whatever. 00:28:40.210 --> 00:28:40.330 Right. 00:28:40.550 --> 00:28:44.230 But I will tell you the one that always like just that it's happened to me a 00:28:44.230 --> 00:28:49.490 couple of times and always like that, that, that hits me stepping on a snail accidentally. 00:28:50.030 --> 00:28:50.390 Yeah. 00:28:50.670 --> 00:28:55.930 Ah, fuck. A couple of, you know, they're just, you know, not doing anything 00:28:55.930 --> 00:28:58.650 bad. And all of a sudden I just walked along. I didn't see it. 00:28:59.290 --> 00:29:02.110 A couple of years ago a couple of years 00:29:02.110 --> 00:29:05.310 ago we were out with my wife and 00:29:05.310 --> 00:29:09.530 the person she hired as a campaign manager this was several campaigns ago and 00:29:09.530 --> 00:29:13.650 we were putting up signs and blah blah and we were putting up one like big sign 00:29:13.650 --> 00:29:18.250 that required like you know it wasn't just the little signs you stick in with 00:29:18.250 --> 00:29:22.730 wires like yeah big wood frame several feet across blah blah blah, 00:29:23.370 --> 00:29:28.970 and you know while we were doing this you know near where we were setting up the sign, 00:29:29.670 --> 00:29:35.610 my wife brandy notices a snail on the ground and she tells the campaign manager 00:29:35.610 --> 00:29:40.430 oh watch out watch out we're gonna we're you know whatever and then like not 00:29:40.430 --> 00:29:45.070 less than 15 seconds later he steps on it directly and crushes it yeah and it's 00:29:45.070 --> 00:29:49.530 like oh come on she just told you to watch out yeah but maybe she. 00:29:49.530 --> 00:29:52.370 Didn't see or didn't see where I was. So you're like, sometimes you're like, 00:29:52.570 --> 00:29:54.950 I listen, I've had, she should watch out, watch out. 00:29:55.030 --> 00:29:57.810 We're all of a sudden you're looking, you didn't see it. And then you move and you're like, ow. 00:29:58.650 --> 00:30:00.830 Yeah. So yeah. 00:30:02.290 --> 00:30:05.070 Yeah. Anyway. All right. So, okay. Okay. 00:30:05.150 --> 00:30:09.470 So shall we, shall we take a break? And then I don't know, maybe, 00:30:09.470 --> 00:30:14.130 maybe instead of like a you segment and me segment, we just keep alternating. I don't know, whatever. 00:30:15.010 --> 00:30:18.810 We'll figure it out. But next here, here comes our break. 00:30:19.470 --> 00:30:26.570 It's the ray lynch one here you go if it works let's try again click hold on 00:30:26.570 --> 00:30:31.790 hold on computer buffering i don't know what it's doing here we go let me try again, 00:32:32.400 --> 00:32:37.640 okay we are back yvonne so why don't you pick next let me guess you want to 00:32:37.640 --> 00:32:45.120 talk 100 all about donald trump's cabinet picks and how all that's gone and 00:32:45.120 --> 00:32:50.600 matt gates and no names matt right no no no this is not your pick no. 00:32:50.600 --> 00:32:53.700 I'm gonna actually what i'm gonna talk about is more 00:32:53.700 --> 00:32:57.460 specifically around the business the business reaction 00:32:57.460 --> 00:33:07.000 to to the trump election like what i've noticed is there is quite a lot of enthusiasm 00:33:07.000 --> 00:33:12.780 in the business community related to to the election there's been some ceos 00:33:12.780 --> 00:33:16.000 that have been heard saying certain things and and and look. 00:33:16.000 --> 00:33:22.160 Well let me ask some of the appointments for example before you get deeper like 00:33:22.160 --> 00:33:26.380 it seemed just looking at it like i don't pay as much attention to this stuff 00:33:26.380 --> 00:33:30.300 as you do But it kind of seemed to me like immediately after the election, 00:33:30.680 --> 00:33:32.820 like the stock market had a big pop. 00:33:33.040 --> 00:33:36.100 Everything was going up. It seemed like everybody was super excited about exactly 00:33:36.100 --> 00:33:36.840 what you're talking about. 00:33:37.040 --> 00:33:42.820 Like this means regulations are dead. We can go full steam ahead and nobody's 00:33:42.820 --> 00:33:44.400 going to bug us, blah, blah, blah. 00:33:44.920 --> 00:33:48.620 And then that sort of started going in the opposite direction. 00:33:48.820 --> 00:33:53.520 Well, listen, there's two things. what the markets are, how the markets are 00:33:53.520 --> 00:33:59.020 moving, which is one reaction versus what executives think that they can do strategically. Okay. 00:33:59.160 --> 00:33:59.380 Okay. 00:33:59.640 --> 00:34:05.720 Because one of the big concerns that came up when first the stock market did that massive move up, 00:34:05.860 --> 00:34:13.740 the biggest issue that economists and investors have had with the Trump administration 00:34:13.740 --> 00:34:18.560 is that almost every proposal that they have had on the table is inflationary. 00:34:19.040 --> 00:34:19.140 Right. 00:34:19.520 --> 00:34:27.480 And so one of the key drivers in terms of Fed policy to cut rates is, 00:34:27.700 --> 00:34:31.420 hey, inflation is coming down, so we can cut rates. 00:34:31.940 --> 00:34:37.160 But one of the key indicators for mortgage rates, well, the key indicator for 00:34:37.160 --> 00:34:39.500 mortgage rates to be precise is a 10-year bond. 00:34:40.340 --> 00:34:47.340 And yields on the 10-year bond as soon as the election was over have been going the wrong way. 00:34:47.360 --> 00:34:51.780 Way in terms of rates coming down, which is why mortgage rates have, 00:34:51.940 --> 00:34:55.900 even though with already a three quarter point cut by the Fed, 00:34:56.340 --> 00:34:57.820 mortgage rates haven't budged. 00:34:58.340 --> 00:34:58.940 Okay. 00:34:59.240 --> 00:35:02.900 They're not going down. And so lending costs are not going down. 00:35:04.040 --> 00:35:13.180 And so the market, the money itself is telling you that for whatever the hell 00:35:13.180 --> 00:35:15.560 Trump spoke about inflation and all this shit. 00:35:16.870 --> 00:35:23.130 The analysis by, I would say, about 80% of the economists of anything that Trump 00:35:23.130 --> 00:35:30.390 has talked about policy-wise tells you that none of that is actually very good for the economy. 00:35:31.550 --> 00:35:36.790 I mean, there isn't, I, the tariffs, not good for the economy. 00:35:37.230 --> 00:35:41.250 The illegal immigrants thing, not so good for the economy. 00:35:42.110 --> 00:35:45.210 But in specifically those two because 00:35:45.210 --> 00:35:47.910 those two are his the ones that he has been 00:35:47.910 --> 00:35:51.110 talking about the loudest right and and and 00:35:51.110 --> 00:35:54.990 then the other issue tax cuts right look 00:35:54.990 --> 00:36:00.330 the united states already has the lowest tax burden of any of the developed 00:36:00.330 --> 00:36:05.330 nation okay and all these people are complaining about the budget deficits okay 00:36:05.330 --> 00:36:09.310 which you know under biden once again have started to come down as they have 00:36:09.310 --> 00:36:14.070 over Democrats during all the last administrations. 00:36:14.570 --> 00:36:18.130 But look, if you do a whole bunch of tax cuts, you're going to drive up the 00:36:18.130 --> 00:36:22.270 deficit, which by the way means usually they'll drive up interest rates. 00:36:22.750 --> 00:36:30.270 And so you've got, you know, people are hearing the rhetoric, 00:36:30.550 --> 00:36:34.030 but yet when you, everything that you're proposing is that way. 00:36:34.830 --> 00:36:38.590 But that's not really helpful towards 00:36:38.590 --> 00:36:41.370 the stated goals that that you have 00:36:41.370 --> 00:36:44.870 set out and so but but here's 00:36:44.870 --> 00:36:49.350 the for here's a flip side okay here's the other thing okay for example you 00:36:49.350 --> 00:36:53.590 know for all this talk about man of the people you know certainly quite a lot 00:36:53.590 --> 00:36:59.830 of picks that are definitely like all wall street billionaire types especially 00:36:59.830 --> 00:37:04.030 the treasury guy who's a hedge fund manager that each is named. 00:37:04.350 --> 00:37:09.510 So these picks are not, how do I say, consumer-friendly, okay? 00:37:10.070 --> 00:37:18.610 Or, for example, the issue with, on another side, why businesses are salivating 00:37:18.610 --> 00:37:24.630 in terms of, okay, great, now we've got a Department of Justice that is in our side. 00:37:24.630 --> 00:37:27.970 And what does the other side mean? They won't block mergers. 00:37:29.930 --> 00:37:32.490 They won't try to keep, 00:37:33.460 --> 00:37:37.280 you know, certain regulatory actions in terms of companies. 00:37:38.220 --> 00:37:43.100 So that will reduce that. But one 00:37:43.100 --> 00:37:49.520 of the reasons why this administration and the Justice Department has been reviewing 00:37:49.520 --> 00:37:54.380 businesses and business combinations and concentrations of certain power in 00:37:54.380 --> 00:37:58.840 certain companies is because all of those are inflationary. It stifles competition. 00:37:59.060 --> 00:38:05.240 And so therefore it winds up with, you know, the consumers wind up being the losers in the end. 00:38:05.560 --> 00:38:10.380 Right. And so if you get a department that like right now, for example, 00:38:10.560 --> 00:38:16.040 I know airline airlines were salivating at this because there have been several 00:38:16.040 --> 00:38:25.760 alliances and mergers that had been blocked by the Justice Department of this administration. Okay. 00:38:26.560 --> 00:38:31.900 American Airlines had tried to do a combination with JetBlue for an alliance that got blocked. 00:38:32.120 --> 00:38:36.120 It was a merger between Spirit and JetBlue that got blocked. 00:38:37.280 --> 00:38:40.460 There's just been a number of those that have happened. 00:38:40.660 --> 00:38:45.580 And so all of a sudden, airline executives are like, oh, wait, you know what? Yeah. 00:38:46.180 --> 00:38:49.300 That's all going out the window. The hell with that shit. 00:38:49.860 --> 00:38:54.780 Now we can do whatever the fuck we want, but that's going to wind up being leading to higher prices. 00:38:54.980 --> 00:38:59.200 It's not, it's not going to, that's not cutting prices for anybody. Okay. 00:38:59.680 --> 00:39:03.220 In any way. So that's, so, you know. 00:39:03.440 --> 00:39:06.940 There's also an uncertainty factor. Like one of the things that people were 00:39:06.940 --> 00:39:09.640 talking about after the election in the stock market and such was, 00:39:10.020 --> 00:39:13.840 you know, you can expect to pop almost no matter what the result is because 00:39:13.840 --> 00:39:14.900 you're replacing uncertain. 00:39:14.900 --> 00:39:16.440 Replacing uncertainty, correct. 00:39:16.740 --> 00:39:17.120 However, 00:39:19.540 --> 00:39:23.360 with Donald Trump, there's still lots of uncertainty because he's just a chaos agent, right? 00:39:23.600 --> 00:39:27.280 Like even you mentioned the tariffs, right? There's still lots of debate here. 00:39:27.380 --> 00:39:31.880 I'm like, okay, well, but what is he actually going to do? 00:39:32.240 --> 00:39:36.740 Like, because yes, he's saying all these crazy things with huge numbers about 00:39:36.740 --> 00:39:38.920 tariffs on absolutely everybody in the world. 00:39:39.800 --> 00:39:45.280 But is he actually just going to do it? Or is it a negotiating gambit where 00:39:45.280 --> 00:39:50.060 he's going to try to use the threat of that as leverage in some way? 00:39:50.060 --> 00:39:52.600 And then he's not actually going to do it. 00:39:52.680 --> 00:39:57.040 He's going to extract concessions out of person A or B or C in exchange. 00:39:57.040 --> 00:39:59.600 And so we have no idea what's really going to happen. 00:39:59.880 --> 00:40:02.960 And or, you know, he's going to want to do this. 00:40:03.000 --> 00:40:06.780 And people who actually know what the hell is going on about the economy are 00:40:06.780 --> 00:40:12.320 going to be like, no, don't do that. And some people still think he'll listen to that kind of thing. 00:40:12.520 --> 00:40:16.740 Although I think there's lots of evidence that he won't, but you know, 00:40:17.300 --> 00:40:20.700 because, because as we said, like his, his whole thing is like, 00:40:21.120 --> 00:40:27.580 he was frustrated by the first term in terms of people telling him no, 00:40:27.580 --> 00:40:30.960 and he doesn't want that this time. 00:40:33.020 --> 00:40:39.420 Well, one thing about that is that I don't know what he, well, 00:40:39.480 --> 00:40:42.940 we still don't exactly know yet what the hell he'll do. I'll say one thing, though. 00:40:43.100 --> 00:40:46.360 Look, the main driver for Trump, what is it? 00:40:47.070 --> 00:40:52.070 Number one. Number one has to be whatever benefits himself personally. 00:40:52.590 --> 00:40:59.010 Correct. That's right. So one thing that we've established that because of our 00:40:59.010 --> 00:41:04.870 new how we are right now, in terms of presidential immunity, 00:41:05.330 --> 00:41:09.830 no giving giving a shit about emoluments, money, whatever. 00:41:09.830 --> 00:41:15.770 You got a sitting president that has a publicly traded company out there that 00:41:15.770 --> 00:41:19.450 people could just inflate the value of that fucking company in order to basically 00:41:19.450 --> 00:41:22.530 make them richer at their whim. 00:41:23.010 --> 00:41:28.990 So right now, there is an entire gaggle. 00:41:28.990 --> 00:41:33.110 Just along those lines specifically, one person was commenting, 00:41:33.370 --> 00:41:38.230 when you're looking at the whole tariff thing, don't look at the headline of 00:41:38.230 --> 00:41:40.870 the tariff. Look at what the exceptions are. 00:41:41.170 --> 00:41:41.650 Correct. 00:41:41.690 --> 00:41:44.010 Because that's where the gifts are being given up. 00:41:44.010 --> 00:41:48.910 Ah, ah, because right now, for example, there is an entire, 00:41:49.250 --> 00:41:57.570 entire gaggle of people lining up right now and meeting with him to just go 00:41:57.570 --> 00:42:01.070 and like get their damn exemptions. OK, all right. 00:42:01.490 --> 00:42:06.690 Oh, but, you know, wait, you know, everybody is lining up to influence him. 00:42:06.690 --> 00:42:13.250 And right now, one thing that we know, the spigots are open to basically pay 00:42:13.250 --> 00:42:15.430 off this man in any way possible. 00:42:15.670 --> 00:42:16.090 Right. 00:42:16.590 --> 00:42:25.790 There is no fucking, this is the first president that we are ever really getting in history. 00:42:26.570 --> 00:42:28.850 That can be bought openly. 00:42:29.730 --> 00:42:34.810 I mean, just as a simple example to make it concrete, you know, 00:42:34.890 --> 00:42:40.270 you could be like, hey, so you don't want the price of iPhones to double overnight? 00:42:40.750 --> 00:42:42.970 What are you going to give me? Right. 00:42:43.710 --> 00:42:47.750 Right. And, you know, you got to see if you're like Tim Cook or something, 00:42:48.070 --> 00:42:51.190 you have to, like, have that conversation. 00:42:52.490 --> 00:42:54.510 It's not an option to ignore it. 00:42:55.130 --> 00:42:56.830 That's right. so. 00:42:56.830 --> 00:43:00.530 It's like what what is the trade-off that. 00:43:00.530 --> 00:43:03.550 Who's gonna impeach him who's gonna prosecute him 00:43:03.550 --> 00:43:08.830 who's gonna go after him yeah nobody's gonna do a damn thing he can go right 00:43:08.830 --> 00:43:17.490 now openly and ask for as much fucking money to do anything that he wants and 00:43:17.490 --> 00:43:21.870 there is absolutely no stopping him in any way, shape, or form. 00:43:22.650 --> 00:43:29.430 Right. That's the bottom line. And as you said, there's so many sort of open venues. 00:43:29.770 --> 00:43:33.350 You can buy goddamn truth social stock. 00:43:34.730 --> 00:43:39.910 Right now during this transition period, the Trump transition has completely 00:43:39.910 --> 00:43:46.230 refused to sign any of the documents about transparency in the transition process. 00:43:46.550 --> 00:43:52.870 And so there's all kinds of things you can donate to to help with the inauguration 00:43:52.870 --> 00:43:57.930 or whatever that are completely unmonitored, unregulated, whatever. 00:43:58.510 --> 00:44:01.930 And because he's not cooperating with any of that stuff and who's going to make him? 00:44:02.430 --> 00:44:02.890 Nobody. 00:44:03.650 --> 00:44:08.790 And, and, and like he had to sell the damn hotel, but there's plenty of other venues. 00:44:10.370 --> 00:44:14.930 Well, he had to sell. Sam, Sam, he made a killing. 00:44:15.150 --> 00:44:18.270 Oh, I know. I know. I know. Cause it was bought for way more than it was. 00:44:18.370 --> 00:44:23.810 I mean, the hotel was already shortly after the guys that bought it were in trouble financially. 00:44:24.090 --> 00:44:24.470 Okay. 00:44:24.630 --> 00:44:26.810 With a fucking hotel. I mean, he completely. 00:44:26.810 --> 00:44:28.210 We're talking about the Washington DC. 00:44:28.390 --> 00:44:36.150 Yeah. Exactly. I mean, he made a killing in that hotel is crazy. It was so overpaid. 00:44:36.910 --> 00:44:38.770 It's like that house that some 00:44:38.770 --> 00:44:42.950 Russian bought overpaid in Palm Beach that they bought for 20 million. 00:44:43.190 --> 00:44:45.150 They gave him a hundred million dollars for. 00:44:45.670 --> 00:44:46.130 Yes. 00:44:46.230 --> 00:44:52.810 I mean, all you got to do is say, oh, oh, there's a resort up in Scotland. 00:44:53.310 --> 00:44:56.890 Oh, so, oh, we'll give you two billion dollars for it. 00:44:56.890 --> 00:45:03.450 Or even absent that, I mean, you know, he can, he can ramp up the prices for 00:45:03.450 --> 00:45:06.070 just people to stay there and they can book rooms. 00:45:06.210 --> 00:45:08.290 Well, that's what they were doing at the hotel. 00:45:08.510 --> 00:45:12.450 That's what they were doing at the hotel. And, you know, and in his last presidency, 00:45:12.450 --> 00:45:15.630 like doubled or tripled the price of a membership at Mar-a-Lago. 00:45:15.870 --> 00:45:17.090 You're sure he's going to do that again. 00:45:17.270 --> 00:45:21.830 Oh yeah, totally. And, uh, and, and, and at the hotel, listen, 00:45:21.950 --> 00:45:27.930 there was, listen, There was certain countries had been blocking and buying 00:45:27.930 --> 00:45:31.070 blocks of rooms that remained empty. 00:45:31.270 --> 00:45:31.690 Yes. 00:45:32.310 --> 00:45:36.130 Just, you know, oh, we'll take a couple of floors. 00:45:36.710 --> 00:45:42.910 Yes. And this is one of those things, one of many things that once the Biden 00:45:42.910 --> 00:45:45.930 administration came in, they decided not to pursue aggressively. 00:45:46.450 --> 00:45:49.450 Where, you know, but oh, well, water under the bridge. 00:45:51.610 --> 00:45:56.910 You know so now one thing also there is in terms of, 00:45:57.570 --> 00:45:59.470 Policy predictability, right? 00:45:59.590 --> 00:45:59.750 Yes. 00:46:00.390 --> 00:46:05.130 The problem with this is also that this makes whatever the fuck policy is going 00:46:05.130 --> 00:46:06.550 to do also very unpredictable. 00:46:07.170 --> 00:46:11.670 Because, hey, if somebody offers you a billion dollars to do this, 00:46:11.810 --> 00:46:14.670 but then the other guy offers you three billion to do the other thing, 00:46:15.190 --> 00:46:19.350 then all of a sudden you'll wind up flip-flopping in two seconds and fuck the other guy. 00:46:20.790 --> 00:46:25.290 An actual example from the last couple of years. Well, two actual examples, actually. 00:46:25.290 --> 00:46:30.810 Now he wasn't president, but he was running for president and he did one eighties 00:46:30.810 --> 00:46:39.510 on his position of a tick tock ban and B crypto both directly in response to 00:46:39.510 --> 00:46:40.870 money flowing into his campaign. 00:46:41.190 --> 00:46:42.730 Exactly. Absolutely. 00:46:43.230 --> 00:46:47.190 And like 180 degree change in his position on both of those. 00:46:47.330 --> 00:46:53.010 So it's not even subtle. It's not a slight adjustment. It's a, you know, this is bad. 00:46:53.250 --> 00:46:56.030 Like in TikTok, he was like all four banning TikTok. 00:46:57.030 --> 00:47:00.710 Suddenly a major investor in TikTok was donating to campaign. 00:47:01.010 --> 00:47:02.890 Oh no, let's leave TikTok alone. 00:47:03.090 --> 00:47:04.730 TikTok is great. Oh no, no, no, great. 00:47:05.410 --> 00:47:09.370 And same thing with crypto. He was on the record talking about how crypto was 00:47:09.370 --> 00:47:12.130 a scam and it should be regulated and blah, blah, blah. 00:47:12.390 --> 00:47:17.030 The crypto bros came in and full fledged support, including Elon Musk. 00:47:17.130 --> 00:47:19.630 And now he's all about crypto. He's starting his own damn crypto. 00:47:20.310 --> 00:47:26.130 You know, his family is. So yeah. So I think that is part of the unpredictability 00:47:26.130 --> 00:47:28.010 as well, for sure. It's like, yeah. 00:47:28.310 --> 00:47:34.570 And the other way of putting it and is that even when like most of it is, 00:47:34.770 --> 00:47:37.470 you know, when people talk about him being transactional, 00:47:37.790 --> 00:47:43.550 a lot of it is certainly like the personally transactional, like do it, do something for me. 00:47:43.650 --> 00:47:50.550 But even when it's not, it's still transactional in terms of like he doesn't 00:47:50.550 --> 00:47:53.290 care from some sort of ideological position. 00:47:53.510 --> 00:47:57.690 So like even when he's talking about things like how NATO sucks or whatever 00:47:57.690 --> 00:48:01.410 if all the European countries in NATO want to just. 00:48:01.820 --> 00:48:03.000 Pay some more. 00:48:03.000 --> 00:48:06.740 Buy him off he would suddenly be happy with nato. 00:48:06.740 --> 00:48:09.260 Nato's great you know it's awesome. 00:48:10.160 --> 00:48:12.240 It's just 100 like. 00:48:12.240 --> 00:48:17.400 Get the european get the you get the defense companies you know all of them 00:48:17.400 --> 00:48:20.780 you know that that would be like that that would be i would say you know defense 00:48:20.780 --> 00:48:25.420 companies have not had problems in the past that bribing like officials okay 00:48:25.420 --> 00:48:30.240 let's be clear all right not Not exactly, not exactly off their game. 00:48:30.380 --> 00:48:34.920 So what the hell, man? I mean, come on, you know, the biggest payday. 00:48:35.300 --> 00:48:38.520 Yeah, this is also something he was known for last time around in term and with 00:48:38.520 --> 00:48:42.000 varying levels of success. But he kept wanting to, for instance, 00:48:42.540 --> 00:48:46.520 for making deals like he didn't want to deal with the EU. 00:48:46.720 --> 00:48:48.720 He wanted to deal with each of the countries individually. 00:48:49.100 --> 00:48:52.860 And he kept trying to push them in that direction. And for the most part, 00:48:53.080 --> 00:48:56.980 they sort of stuck together and said, no, no, we're negotiating as a bloc. 00:48:57.480 --> 00:49:03.460 But that's clearly his direction. He wants everything as a one-on-one, 00:49:03.780 --> 00:49:08.100 person-to-person, let's make a deal. Let's make a handshake deal. 00:49:08.320 --> 00:49:13.280 You do this for me, I'll do that for you. There's no sort of thought of, 00:49:13.760 --> 00:49:19.800 hey, there's this abstract long-term goal where we have a mutual benefit, 00:49:19.980 --> 00:49:20.740 blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 00:49:21.200 --> 00:49:27.220 He doesn't believe in that at all. it's all about like how how can we make a 00:49:27.220 --> 00:49:32.620 deal that i get something out of you and he does not care about a mutually beneficial 00:49:32.620 --> 00:49:38.040 deal by the way he would much rather it be a deal where you get screwed but like so. 00:49:38.040 --> 00:49:42.680 So my point is that this is why businesses are salivating at this administration 00:49:42.680 --> 00:49:46.940 and they have been openly salivating about it because they pretty much figure 00:49:46.940 --> 00:49:50.940 yeah whatever the fuck we want from this damn administration. 00:49:50.980 --> 00:49:54.780 All we got to do, if we put up enough money, we'll get whatever the fuck we 00:49:54.780 --> 00:49:56.920 want. Oh, yeah. Yeah, 100%. 00:49:57.760 --> 00:50:07.660 So, you know, and by the way, the thing about it is, how does that help the little guy, Sam? 00:50:08.260 --> 00:50:10.860 Yeah, you got any idea? Do you think that helps the little guy? 00:50:11.260 --> 00:50:11.800 Oh, no. 00:50:11.940 --> 00:50:13.360 You think that helps them with the price of eggs? 00:50:16.100 --> 00:50:21.280 Yes, the price of eggs. Yeah, that'll be coming right down immediately. 00:50:22.000 --> 00:50:26.260 Not that it wasn't already down, by the way. But yeah, I'm sure it'll fix that problem immediately. 00:50:26.620 --> 00:50:30.800 Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's just, you know, it's just one of these things 00:50:30.800 --> 00:50:40.120 where you get this guy who is showing up in his, has his jet with his name on it, 00:50:40.320 --> 00:50:44.360 with golden toilets and shit, and telling, 00:50:44.640 --> 00:50:50.300 and he convinces the average Joe that he is there for the little guy. 00:50:51.120 --> 00:50:55.960 And I'm just like, are you fucking kidding me? Oh, I don't know. 00:50:56.120 --> 00:51:03.100 I mean, but, but there is there, I see, I was thinking about this today in terms 00:51:03.100 --> 00:51:05.920 of like the people that Trump admires. Right. 00:51:06.820 --> 00:51:12.740 And I remember remembering like when my, when I went to Moscow a few years back 00:51:12.740 --> 00:51:15.020 and I realized that, you know, 00:51:15.300 --> 00:51:18.360 that this is one of the guys that he admires the most, which is, 00:51:18.480 --> 00:51:23.500 which is Putin and how, how that works there. Right. 00:51:24.020 --> 00:51:30.240 Which for whatever reason, look, Putin does have a lot of support with the people. 00:51:30.420 --> 00:51:37.160 It's not just that he isn't just there where 80% of the people hate him and 00:51:37.160 --> 00:51:38.980 he's just there by force. 00:51:39.600 --> 00:51:42.700 I mean even though he has crushed all the opposition 00:51:42.700 --> 00:51:45.740 okay the reality is that he does have 00:51:45.740 --> 00:51:49.060 a lot of support a lot of people there see that after 00:51:49.060 --> 00:51:52.020 the collapse of the soviet union and the country 00:51:52.020 --> 00:51:57.100 was a disaster and a mess hyperinflation blah blah blah he's brought stability 00:51:57.100 --> 00:52:04.200 okay all right and he's brought russia back to be you know a proud country respected 00:52:04.200 --> 00:52:11.160 that whatever all this bullshit okay honor ah yes and and you know i i still remember because. 00:52:12.760 --> 00:52:16.840 Vladimir the way that he's run the country is that he has these business favorites 00:52:16.840 --> 00:52:19.800 that sometimes you know when they fall out of favor with them he'll fucking 00:52:19.800 --> 00:52:23.340 throw them in jail and you know whatever but he he is the one that really picks 00:52:23.340 --> 00:52:27.600 the winners and losers in the economy and who you know all these people that 00:52:27.600 --> 00:52:32.740 have money and one of the things that that that struck me about Moscow was, 00:52:32.820 --> 00:52:42.020 I mean, the wealth displayed was, you know, it was very prominent. 00:52:43.000 --> 00:52:45.300 It was a very, very... 00:52:46.740 --> 00:52:55.660 You saw wealth being flaunted in a very open way. 00:52:56.540 --> 00:53:00.880 And I think that the funny thing is that they're in Moscow now, 00:53:01.020 --> 00:53:03.940 but you go into the smaller villages and other places, whatever, 00:53:04.100 --> 00:53:09.320 that are in Russia, many of them are struggling and they can't afford even the basics, okay? 00:53:09.500 --> 00:53:09.760 Right. 00:53:09.760 --> 00:53:15.600 But for whatever reason, I think that the people in those small towns see Moscow 00:53:15.600 --> 00:53:19.780 and see it wealthy. And it's like, oh, look, you see how we are big and proud of whatever. 00:53:20.060 --> 00:53:23.340 And I sometimes wind up thinking that a whole bunch of people that are voting 00:53:23.340 --> 00:53:26.040 for Trump, they kind of think the same thing. 00:53:26.160 --> 00:53:29.060 They see the wealthy guy and whatever. 00:53:29.280 --> 00:53:33.440 And he comes into, you know, kind of bumfuck whatever town that he goes to. 00:53:33.980 --> 00:53:39.340 And these people look at him as like, look, these America, that's the America 00:53:39.340 --> 00:53:41.720 I want. It's like, that's who I want to be. 00:53:41.900 --> 00:53:45.080 And so it's, you know, because they want to be like him. 00:53:45.400 --> 00:53:45.920 Right. 00:53:46.440 --> 00:53:51.820 They literally want to be like him. And, you know, it's like why Berlusconi 00:53:51.820 --> 00:53:55.300 stayed in power in Italy for so many years. 00:53:56.220 --> 00:54:03.280 This guy, you know, it's, he follows, he wants, that's what he wants. 00:54:03.280 --> 00:54:11.260 He wants and he's gotten a lot of adulation by a whole bunch of people that are living shit life. 00:54:11.360 --> 00:54:15.820 And they think for some reason that voting for him is going to rub off on them in some fucking way. 00:54:16.560 --> 00:54:22.440 I don't understand why, but, you know, but that that's just seems to be what it is. 00:54:22.880 --> 00:54:32.800 So anyway, so bottom line, businesses are flat out super excited about this administration. 00:54:33.280 --> 00:54:42.520 And everybody is getting their trucks of money ready to go in order to pay them off. 00:54:43.550 --> 00:54:46.290 Okay, before we take a break and move on to something from me, 00:54:46.390 --> 00:54:47.450 just one last question on this. 00:54:47.930 --> 00:54:53.390 Given you've got all of these, you know, big wigs and major companies and stuff, 00:54:53.730 --> 00:54:58.530 like, trying to figure out the right angle to make all kinds of money off this, 00:54:58.710 --> 00:55:02.570 what's the right angle as a fairly small, like, person here? 00:55:03.050 --> 00:55:08.190 If you just pour lots of money into SPY and did the S&P 500 index or something, 00:55:08.650 --> 00:55:15.750 are we going to see all the big companies make money and the stock market go crazy? What's the deal? 00:55:16.630 --> 00:55:18.270 Like, surely there must be some angle. 00:55:18.470 --> 00:55:24.610 I am not sure yet what the angle is on this right now. And one of the... 00:55:25.290 --> 00:55:27.890 Apparently, crypto has been doing really well the last couple of weeks. 00:55:28.330 --> 00:55:32.290 Well, one thing is short term, short term trends, which, you know, 00:55:32.430 --> 00:55:34.950 the stock market and other things have been going off short term. 00:55:35.110 --> 00:55:36.470 I'm trying to think more over. 00:55:36.470 --> 00:55:39.010 What's what's the four or five year play. 00:55:39.750 --> 00:55:44.770 Yeah. And I got to be honest, I think until the you see what the economic plan 00:55:44.770 --> 00:55:47.510 is going to be and how they're going to do it, I just don't know. 00:55:47.690 --> 00:55:50.370 I think the one thing like like you mentioned, it's very unpredictable and it 00:55:50.370 --> 00:55:52.690 really depends who gets into his pocket or not. 00:55:52.970 --> 00:55:57.270 Here's a here's an example of something. All right. I know he he has been barking. 00:55:57.270 --> 00:56:01.730 And talking about and even Elon Musk has been saying, oh, let's get rid of the 00:56:01.730 --> 00:56:04.650 incentives for energy. Let's get rid of the seventy five hundred. 00:56:06.110 --> 00:56:07.570 Listen, for EV cars. 00:56:07.930 --> 00:56:11.510 Yeah, for EV cars. I know that Elon says that, but I guarantee you that the 00:56:11.510 --> 00:56:15.350 moment he finishes that if he listens to a CFO, a Tesla, he's got to be saying, 00:56:15.430 --> 00:56:16.810 are you out of your fucking mind? 00:56:19.510 --> 00:56:23.450 More than half our profits come from that fucking damn incentive. 00:56:23.450 --> 00:56:24.870 What the fuck are you doing? 00:56:25.830 --> 00:56:31.170 Why are you saying this? And by the way, I don't put it past Elon to be saying 00:56:31.170 --> 00:56:34.150 that publicly just to get like publicity and then go and turn around. 00:56:35.330 --> 00:56:39.710 Oh, no. But now we're because the only eligible car makers are Tesla. 00:56:40.130 --> 00:56:41.130 You know what I'm saying? 00:56:41.450 --> 00:56:42.670 He'll work the exemption. 00:56:43.530 --> 00:56:52.450 Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, so come on, I'm like, man, I don't know, no, 00:56:53.230 --> 00:56:56.790 you know, I see the populist thing that he's saying, but I don't see anybody 00:56:56.790 --> 00:57:01.250 in their right mind that would go and sacrifice more than 50% of their profits 00:57:01.250 --> 00:57:07.530 and boost competitiveness of his competitors overseas for, 00:57:07.530 --> 00:57:11.130 for any good logical reason that I can think of. 00:57:11.800 --> 00:57:12.120 Right. 00:57:12.320 --> 00:57:21.500 I don't. I mean, it's I mean, now now Elon has done incredibly dumb shit that loses money already. 00:57:21.840 --> 00:57:25.380 I mean, because this will forget about his net worth, like whatever the fuck it is right now. 00:57:25.480 --> 00:57:28.600 The reality is that the profits at the companies that he has been running, 00:57:28.820 --> 00:57:33.240 you know, the two the the two public, you know, the one that was Twitter. 00:57:33.720 --> 00:57:37.680 Yeah, it is. Revenue is down 90 percent. He's well, that's OK. 00:57:37.680 --> 00:57:43.760 Yeah, but Tesla, Tesla, Tesla is, is growth has been obliterated. Okay. 00:57:44.140 --> 00:57:47.220 They're losing market share and their growth has been obliterated. Okay. 00:57:47.440 --> 00:57:52.680 They're not growing and they don't seem to be able to figure out a way to grow right now. Okay. 00:57:53.180 --> 00:57:57.520 And so, and by the way, SpaceX lives on fucking government money. 00:57:57.980 --> 00:58:01.100 Right. Well, look, look, here's, here's the thing on some of this. 00:58:01.200 --> 00:58:04.880 Like for instance, you, you, you mentioned the Twitter slash X one. 00:58:04.880 --> 00:58:10.120 There's been lots of commentary at this point that hey it's clear at this point 00:58:10.120 --> 00:58:17.380 like he didn't expect like it to necessarily do great he just wanted a mouthpiece 00:58:17.380 --> 00:58:21.360 and he wanted to have something that he could use to influence politics and 00:58:21.360 --> 00:58:24.220 he got exactly what he wanted out of it i i will. 00:58:24.220 --> 00:58:27.800 Say this i think he wanted the mouthpiece but i don't think he thought he was 00:58:27.800 --> 00:58:29.900 gonna lose listen he tried to back out. 00:58:30.780 --> 00:58:31.260 Yes. 00:58:31.400 --> 00:58:35.700 Don't tell me this shit. He tried to back out. He wound up backing into this 00:58:35.700 --> 00:58:39.220 because he wound up having to fork over to $40 billion. 00:58:39.700 --> 00:58:43.540 But let's be clear. He tried to back out. 00:58:44.040 --> 00:58:44.520 Right. 00:58:44.940 --> 00:58:48.280 Well, and like, tell me about the 4D chess bullshit, whatever, 00:58:48.580 --> 00:58:50.780 because he desperately wanted to back out. 00:58:50.880 --> 00:58:54.260 It was only because the court forced them to buy it that he wound up owning it. 00:58:55.360 --> 00:59:00.060 Right but i guess the question is like at this point does he care at this point 00:59:00.060 --> 00:59:01.480 it's like a rounding error. 00:59:01.480 --> 00:59:04.360 At this point well at this point i mean he's written 00:59:04.360 --> 00:59:08.500 i mean he's written it off i mean basically is everybody's written it off i 00:59:08.500 --> 00:59:12.520 mean he's he's he's lost the money it cost him 40 billion dollars so he's getting 00:59:12.520 --> 00:59:17.280 so now he's getting the worth of it from this but not yet but my point is it's 00:59:17.280 --> 00:59:22.020 a business move i mean my point is it's a right you also. 00:59:22.020 --> 00:59:26.440 Mentioned spacex though i mean and this is why he's sucking up to donald trump too right like. 00:59:26.440 --> 00:59:30.720 Right but but my point is that you can't i mean listen those government subsidies 00:59:30.720 --> 00:59:35.680 are fucking critical for the profitability of his company yeah. 00:59:35.680 --> 00:59:41.740 Yeah no but my point though is like he's he's got this doge thing that has been 00:59:41.740 --> 00:59:45.340 set up for him to recommend government cuts he's not going to recommend cutting 00:59:45.340 --> 00:59:48.760 spacex he's going to recommend cutting blue. 00:59:48.760 --> 00:59:58.160 Origin keep spacex well but sam But he's been openly saying to completely kill the EV credit. 00:59:58.400 --> 01:00:04.140 I mean, which I know the company that that worst gets hurt by that is Tesla. 01:00:04.580 --> 01:00:07.720 Yeah, but but but because you're OK. 01:00:07.900 --> 01:00:11.840 So because think about this, right? You want to talk about stupid strategy, right? 01:00:12.460 --> 01:00:16.420 OK. All right. So Donald says, well, fuck it. 01:00:16.520 --> 01:00:21.140 Drill, drill, drill, baby oil burning car, you know, gas gas burning cars or whatever. 01:00:21.760 --> 01:00:29.320 Does Tesla have any gasoline cars no right who has the fucking gasoline cars, 01:00:30.240 --> 01:00:33.580 GM for all his fucking competitors okay 01:00:33.580 --> 01:00:40.520 so go you know he thinks well I'm gonna hurt them no you're not if you get rid 01:00:40.520 --> 01:00:44.780 of the regulations and you do that fuck you're bailing them out from starting 01:00:44.780 --> 01:00:48.040 to build the fucking EVs that have been losing money say oh fuck that I'll just 01:00:48.040 --> 01:00:51.220 build more you know built more gas-closing cars and fuck you! 01:00:52.200 --> 01:00:58.680 I mean, that is one of the things that I am just like. 01:00:58.820 --> 01:01:09.020 I mean, literally like one possibility here is he's like, I'm rich enough. 01:01:09.020 --> 01:01:10.340 I don't give a fuck anymore. 01:01:10.360 --> 01:01:15.080 I'm going to do what I like. I really don't believe in government subsidies. 01:01:15.320 --> 01:01:18.500 I'm going to want to say kill all of them, even if it hurts my bottom line. 01:01:18.900 --> 01:01:27.920 Here's the problem with this, right? Okay. Tesla's valuation is hyperinflated, okay? 01:01:28.960 --> 01:01:33.860 So if you collapse the profits, there's no way it can stay up there. 01:01:34.040 --> 01:01:39.760 I mean, you're doing everything actively to try to see how much does it take 01:01:39.760 --> 01:01:44.060 to finally fucking pop that bubble, okay? 01:01:44.280 --> 01:01:47.760 And here's the other thing, okay, that's also important. 01:01:48.660 --> 01:01:51.400 At some point right elon must right 01:01:51.400 --> 01:01:54.300 now getting so rich right now with how the stocks have moved whatever 01:01:54.300 --> 01:01:57.180 because of how close he's to trump how long 01:01:57.180 --> 01:02:01.020 is it until donald trump says well why the why the fuck am i making this guy 01:02:01.020 --> 01:02:04.220 rich this should be my money but yeah because remember what he did with the 01:02:04.220 --> 01:02:09.140 people at uh at at whatchamacallit the truth social he basically tried to screw 01:02:09.140 --> 01:02:11.700 them all you know he's like fuck you you guys don't deserve any of this money 01:02:11.700 --> 01:02:14.300 it's mine how long does it take for him to say that. 01:02:14.740 --> 01:02:17.320 Well, and also, yes, absolutely. 01:02:17.660 --> 01:02:20.320 I made you that money. That's not you. 01:02:20.580 --> 01:02:23.820 No, absolutely about the money, but also about the attention. 01:02:24.300 --> 01:02:29.520 If you remember, there have been multiple situations over the years where somebody 01:02:29.520 --> 01:02:34.020 who works for Donald Trump has started getting all the attention for whatever 01:02:34.020 --> 01:02:36.720 reason, and they get the knife in the back immediately. 01:02:37.020 --> 01:02:37.540 Yeah. 01:02:37.880 --> 01:02:43.080 Because you're distracting. And already, Trump was at Mar-a-Lago joking about 01:02:43.080 --> 01:02:48.620 how he couldn't get rid of elon and you know he's just he's like he's following 01:02:48.620 --> 01:02:55.320 me everywhere and he won't leave so okay break all. 01:02:55.320 --> 01:02:56.620 Right yep break. 01:02:56.620 --> 01:02:59.520 Okay and when we come back i don't 01:02:59.520 --> 01:03:04.840 know i'll figure out something to talk about back after you see i had. 01:03:04.840 --> 01:03:05.800 Something to talk about. 01:03:05.800 --> 01:03:10.160 Oh yeah you did so like yeah we'll do a normal like you you your your segment 01:03:10.160 --> 01:03:16.120 and then my segment and then we'll be out so here we go blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. 01:03:16.120 --> 01:03:17.000 Blah blah blah blah. 01:03:17.000 --> 01:03:23.840 Except i once again have to stop and start this thing hold on brip brip brip. 01:04:13.360 --> 01:04:17.360 Okay, we're back. And since I teased it a little bit in a beginning segment, 01:04:17.360 --> 01:04:22.560 and we almost started to talk about it, but didn't quite, I think I'll do the 01:04:22.560 --> 01:04:24.180 disconnecting from news thing. 01:04:24.180 --> 01:04:28.180 Because I know on our Curmudgeon's Corner Slack, 01:04:28.460 --> 01:04:36.840 several people have talked about how they are so discouraged and stressed out 01:04:36.840 --> 01:04:43.580 or whatever that they are actively avoiding news that they used to pay attention 01:04:43.580 --> 01:04:45.660 to. And that includes you, I believe, Yvonne. 01:04:47.020 --> 01:04:52.320 And also, there have been reports about cable news channels, 01:04:52.320 --> 01:04:58.220 like ratings dropping in half since the election, you know, and now honestly, 01:04:58.240 --> 01:04:59.860 there's, there's a couple of different things there. 01:05:00.020 --> 01:05:04.020 One, it may be, there's a certain portion of it. I'm sure that's like people 01:05:04.020 --> 01:05:06.400 like, you know, I'm just burnt out. 01:05:06.540 --> 01:05:09.420 I don't want to talk about news right now, but also just to keep in mind that 01:05:09.420 --> 01:05:18.660 always happens after elections, elections are one of the big sources of ratings for the, 01:05:18.850 --> 01:05:24.470 News organizations in general, TV, print, print, who does print anymore? 01:05:24.650 --> 01:05:26.750 But like, there's still print. 01:05:26.970 --> 01:05:30.510 I know there's still some print, but like, you know, the traditional media, 01:05:30.630 --> 01:05:33.050 New York Times, Washington Post, blah, blah, blah. 01:05:33.330 --> 01:05:36.970 All of these things traditionally see a drop after elections, 01:05:36.970 --> 01:05:40.110 but maybe it's more than that this time. 01:05:40.270 --> 01:05:48.130 There seems to be a lot of people, especially on the left, who are just like, 01:05:48.270 --> 01:05:52.330 hey, you know, I really invested myself into this for the last few years. 01:05:52.770 --> 01:05:59.350 We lost, I can't, I don't want to pay attention to whatever nonsense Donald Trump is doing. 01:05:59.630 --> 01:06:04.590 I need to take care of me and my family and, and not think about this for a while. 01:06:04.950 --> 01:06:08.450 I'll tell you, I'm still, I'm an addict to this stuff. 01:06:08.630 --> 01:06:13.750 So I've still got like news feeds everywhere around me all the time. 01:06:13.970 --> 01:06:15.550 I'm checking that kind I'm not 01:06:15.550 --> 01:06:21.270 avoiding it. But even so, in run-up to the election, I had the four up, 01:06:21.630 --> 01:06:26.190 four news channels, live feed, almost always in the background, 01:06:26.430 --> 01:06:30.950 just to see, was there some new development I should pay attention to? 01:06:30.970 --> 01:06:33.410 I would have it muted or whatever, but it was always there. 01:06:33.570 --> 01:06:38.410 I haven't had that up since the election. I have all my other sources, 01:06:38.590 --> 01:06:41.610 but I've watched less live than I did before. 01:06:41.930 --> 01:06:47.890 I still have sort of, it's my default, my default rotations of podcasts I listen 01:06:47.890 --> 01:06:49.870 to are just, you know, news shows. 01:06:50.110 --> 01:06:57.550 But I definitely have heard a lot of people talking about that pullback. 01:06:57.550 --> 01:07:06.410 Look, I will say from me personally, and this started a few weeks before the election. 01:07:06.750 --> 01:07:11.630 You know, I'm one that likes it. 01:07:13.170 --> 01:07:16.150 Bloomberg in the mornings. I always watch it in the morning. 01:07:16.290 --> 01:07:17.370 I've talked about this here. 01:07:17.810 --> 01:07:23.170 I have not watched them in about a month. 01:07:23.950 --> 01:07:24.030 Wow. 01:07:25.320 --> 01:07:30.420 And I've tried a couple of times and I can't do it. The problem is that every 01:07:30.420 --> 01:07:32.740 time they talk about Trump, it's very triggering. 01:07:33.660 --> 01:07:36.680 And I realize that I start getting really pissed off. 01:07:37.240 --> 01:07:40.680 And I just don't want to, I'm like, okay, I don't want to fucking listen to this. 01:07:40.840 --> 01:07:44.800 I don't want to, I don't want to listen. The other day I tried to watch again 01:07:44.800 --> 01:07:48.680 and, and I was like, it was because Nvidia had talked to, you know, come out with earnings. 01:07:48.700 --> 01:07:51.900 I was hoping, well, let me don't talk about earnings, but then they had some 01:07:51.900 --> 01:07:58.020 guy from the fucking previous Trump administration on talking about what they 01:07:58.020 --> 01:08:02.060 did when they came to office in 2016. 01:08:02.560 --> 01:08:07.780 And the thing is that, as usual with these people, they twist everything and lie about everything. 01:08:07.960 --> 01:08:13.280 And I'm like, he was talking about, well, we came in in 2016 because we had to fix the economy. 01:08:14.320 --> 01:08:17.200 I mean, he started off with this shit, okay? 01:08:17.880 --> 01:08:21.880 And how important it was for us to cut the taxes in order to alleviate the burden. 01:08:22.100 --> 01:08:30.260 Again, this country has the lowest tax burden of any fucking developed nation. 01:08:31.000 --> 01:08:31.580 Right. 01:08:32.040 --> 01:08:37.000 I mean, every time these guys talk about sky-high taxes, I am like, 01:08:37.180 --> 01:08:40.120 what the fuck are you talking about? 01:08:40.840 --> 01:08:44.460 It's just, you know, it's another made-up straw man. 01:08:45.500 --> 01:08:50.600 And so I hear this and I hear that, and I just, like I said, I can't watch this. 01:08:50.740 --> 01:08:54.520 I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't watch. And the problem is that, 01:08:54.540 --> 01:08:58.320 of course, they're bringing some of these people in from the Trump circle because 01:08:58.320 --> 01:09:01.780 they're trying to understand what the fuck he's going to be doing, whatever. 01:09:02.000 --> 01:09:04.360 And I'm like, you know what? I don't fucking care. 01:09:05.540 --> 01:09:11.220 And why do I not fucking care? Because it's all going to be chaos. It's all bullshit. 01:09:12.100 --> 01:09:14.600 All of these people are going to be speculating one thing or another. 01:09:14.740 --> 01:09:17.180 We just talked about it earlier. It's transactional. 01:09:17.280 --> 01:09:21.400 It's going to be whatever the fuck, you know, he thinks is going to be gainful 01:09:21.400 --> 01:09:23.720 at that moment. He has no convictions. 01:09:25.060 --> 01:09:30.400 You know, other than, hey, let me burnish my image. Let me make myself money. 01:09:30.540 --> 01:09:32.860 Those are the only fucking convictions. Let me be a crook. 01:09:33.100 --> 01:09:35.940 And let me do it the crooked way, not the right way. I just want to do it like 01:09:35.940 --> 01:09:38.200 in some transactional way where I'm like, you know. 01:09:38.720 --> 01:09:41.880 And the transactional part is important for him because it's like, 01:09:42.000 --> 01:09:45.540 I win, you lose. Because he thinks that every transaction he's going to get. 01:09:46.860 --> 01:09:50.040 That's the thing. I beat you on the transaction. 01:09:50.440 --> 01:09:54.520 Right. Like I said in the last segment, he's not looking for a win-win. 01:09:55.120 --> 01:09:58.220 No, that doesn't exist. In his world, it's a zero-sum game. 01:09:58.920 --> 01:10:05.520 Right. And in terms of like a media drop-off, you also have like the whole, 01:10:05.680 --> 01:10:11.600 there was a Morning Joe fluffle because Joe and Mika from Morning Joe on MSNBC. 01:10:11.600 --> 01:10:15.280 By the way, same reason why they went down there is because, you know what? 01:10:15.380 --> 01:10:19.200 And I actually understand why because I'm like, well, if we're going to be finding 01:10:19.200 --> 01:10:22.160 out what the fuck is going on, we got to be talking to these people. 01:10:22.320 --> 01:10:25.000 We can't act like they don't exist. He's going to be the fucking president. 01:10:25.600 --> 01:10:30.500 Right. The whole thing there was people are really upset that like they've spent 01:10:30.500 --> 01:10:34.220 the last four years, actually more than four years, practically since the moment 01:10:34.220 --> 01:10:40.040 he was elected eight years ago, talking about how bad Donald Trump is. 01:10:40.220 --> 01:10:45.280 Now, people in part gave them some credit for getting him elected in the first place. 01:10:45.400 --> 01:10:50.680 But and then they sort of are like, well, he won. We're going to go talk to him. 01:10:51.120 --> 01:10:54.500 You know, we're going to do this. Some people have talked about that they may 01:10:54.500 --> 01:10:57.820 have been like afraid to some degree of not doing that. 01:10:58.220 --> 01:11:00.560 And I understand that, too. 01:11:01.480 --> 01:11:04.140 And you're right. Like the whole media ecosystem. 01:11:05.150 --> 01:11:09.270 The reality is, and there are probably a few exceptions here and there, 01:11:09.490 --> 01:11:15.110 but like the whole commercial media ecosystem, at least, 01:11:15.390 --> 01:11:22.710 has a very heavy incentive to make sure you have connections to whoever is in power. 01:11:22.950 --> 01:11:24.850 To know what the fuck is going on. 01:11:24.850 --> 01:11:32.590 Yeah, to know what is fucking on, to know what is going on, to have the inside 01:11:32.590 --> 01:11:36.910 sources and scoops so that you get the news story and not somebody else. 01:11:37.110 --> 01:11:37.430 Right. 01:11:37.730 --> 01:11:41.610 You know, people complained all along about, what was it, Maggie Haberman at 01:11:41.610 --> 01:11:45.510 the New York Times and how she was like all cozy with Donald Trump. 01:11:45.810 --> 01:11:46.730 You know, you're going to. 01:11:46.730 --> 01:11:49.030 Well, that's how she was able to report and all that shit. 01:11:49.370 --> 01:11:53.210 Right. And Woodward, for that matter, all of these folks. 01:11:53.210 --> 01:11:56.210 You know and and you're of course you're 01:11:56.210 --> 01:11:59.350 gonna see all the same stuff again and and people complain about 01:11:59.350 --> 01:12:03.290 normalization but at the same time for like 01:12:03.290 --> 01:12:07.970 maybe somebody like maybe non-profits like pro publica can get away with it 01:12:07.970 --> 01:12:13.570 but like all of your corporate owned media it's like no you you have to be like 01:12:13.570 --> 01:12:17.490 you have to take them seriously you have to like oh yes this is the secretary 01:12:17.490 --> 01:12:21.170 of the treasury let's talk about what they're doing but listen. 01:12:21.170 --> 01:12:25.410 Even if you're npr If you're going to be reporting on Treasury policy and you're 01:12:25.410 --> 01:12:30.450 not going to interview the Secretary of Treasury that Trump nominates, 01:12:30.570 --> 01:12:31.730 how are you going to do your job? 01:12:32.010 --> 01:12:35.790 Well, NPR is a different story. They rely a lot on government funding as well. 01:12:36.230 --> 01:12:37.310 Not a lot. 01:12:38.110 --> 01:12:39.950 Some, some, some. Yeah, they've got. 01:12:40.070 --> 01:12:45.110 Yeah, a lot. It's a 3% of the budget. Not exactly really, you know. 01:12:45.530 --> 01:12:48.570 They're still not eager to get rid of that 3%, though, if you know what I mean. 01:12:48.870 --> 01:12:53.010 Yeah, but still. I mean, but okay. Okay, but say whoever, okay? 01:12:53.130 --> 01:12:53.550 Yes, yeah. 01:12:53.630 --> 01:12:56.690 Look, if you really want to report on what's going on and you're not going to 01:12:56.690 --> 01:12:59.990 talk to any of them, even though they are going to be in charge, 01:13:00.150 --> 01:13:01.610 I don't know how you do your job. 01:13:01.930 --> 01:13:06.470 Now, the flip side, but the flip side is, do I really want to know what the 01:13:06.470 --> 01:13:09.610 fuck is going on in my new detail right now? No. 01:13:09.790 --> 01:13:13.270 What I'm doing is like right now, listen, it's not like I am totally disconnected. 01:13:13.310 --> 01:13:19.050 I know what's going on, but I've just really limited how much I consume every day of it. 01:13:19.170 --> 01:13:19.350 Right. 01:13:19.470 --> 01:13:23.570 Okay. So, yeah, I am reading it, and I know what the hell is going on. 01:13:24.390 --> 01:13:30.510 I just shut off. You know, one thing, and this is something that I was pretty 01:13:30.510 --> 01:13:33.990 good about in the past, and I must admit that I have been remiss. 01:13:34.470 --> 01:13:38.070 And this reminded me of this, what happened with Trump. 01:13:38.690 --> 01:13:46.350 I used to very much limit my notifications regularly of what the hell I got notified about. 01:13:46.890 --> 01:13:50.130 And the thing is, with so many apps and so many things that I subscribe to, 01:13:50.270 --> 01:13:52.970 that number of notifications about shit going on had multiplied. 01:13:52.970 --> 01:13:58.170 And I was like, very, for years, very like, no, I don't want these notifications. 01:13:58.350 --> 01:13:59.290 No, I don't want these notifications. 01:13:59.530 --> 01:14:02.370 No, I don't want these notifications. When I go and sit down to check. 01:14:03.200 --> 01:14:07.600 I'll check, but the number of notifications I got, it's not like I didn't get 01:14:07.600 --> 01:14:13.380 any, but I significantly limited it, okay, in order to make sure that I wasn't 01:14:13.380 --> 01:14:15.220 bombarded with shit all the time. 01:14:15.560 --> 01:14:20.040 And I had let that get out of hand. And so what I did was I did not cut off 01:14:20.040 --> 01:14:22.540 myself from completely from news, but I definitely. 01:14:22.540 --> 01:14:23.760 Limited- Turned off a lot of them. 01:14:24.420 --> 01:14:27.520 Turned off a lot of notifications from a lot of stuff because I'm like, 01:14:27.580 --> 01:14:30.140 look, I don't want to, I don't need to be notified about every fucking thing. 01:14:30.140 --> 01:14:32.840 You'll find out eventually. You don't need to know the second it happens. 01:14:33.540 --> 01:14:33.940 Exactly. 01:14:34.420 --> 01:14:38.300 You know, like the important things will find you. You'll see them in a once a day scan. 01:14:38.680 --> 01:14:42.560 You don't have to be interrupted in real time to know that, you know, 01:14:42.960 --> 01:14:46.540 Donald Trump's latest appointment to I could be irritated. 01:14:46.540 --> 01:14:49.900 Like at one time, like at seven o'clock, you know, like later, 01:14:50.100 --> 01:14:53.380 whatever, about all this stuff. instead of constantly being irritated all day 01:14:53.380 --> 01:14:55.280 long about all this shit. 01:14:55.480 --> 01:14:58.420 You know what I'm saying? That's it. That's all I'm trying to do. 01:14:58.580 --> 01:15:01.980 I'm just not trying to be like, you know, because there is, you know, 01:15:02.060 --> 01:15:06.720 people are like, oh, we're trying to normalize this. And I keep going back, look. 01:15:07.560 --> 01:15:12.460 No, that's not what it is. The problem is that right now, I can have all the 01:15:12.460 --> 01:15:15.780 outrage in the world that you want me to have right now. And what is it going 01:15:15.780 --> 01:15:17.280 to do? Is it going to change anything? 01:15:18.120 --> 01:15:20.420 Is it going to do one bit of a difference? As a matter of fact, 01:15:20.420 --> 01:15:23.800 I think that there is an argument for the fact that in the past, 01:15:23.840 --> 01:15:26.260 we did do all the protesting, 01:15:26.480 --> 01:15:30.140 all the outrage that we want, and probably emboldened Trump to do more because 01:15:30.140 --> 01:15:35.480 he got, it was kind of like, he fed off the attention. 01:15:36.200 --> 01:15:38.640 Yeah. All attention is good attention. 01:15:38.840 --> 01:15:42.380 All attention is good attention. So if you, if you actually don't pay, 01:15:43.060 --> 01:15:46.700 if you're not outraged about every fucking thing he does every day, 01:15:46.780 --> 01:15:50.120 it probably motivates him not to do it. It probably either. 01:15:50.500 --> 01:15:54.600 You might, you know, you're not feeding all, you're not feeding him that. 01:15:54.600 --> 01:15:57.360 Right you know and i've seen a 01:15:57.360 --> 01:16:00.480 lot of and i've seen a lot of people online with that kind of attitude too 01:16:00.480 --> 01:16:03.340 of like look yeah i i'm cutting 01:16:03.340 --> 01:16:08.060 out trumpies for my life but at the same time like if they're trumpies that 01:16:08.060 --> 01:16:14.160 are trying to get me aggravated i'm just like i hope you get everything you 01:16:14.160 --> 01:16:19.340 want out of this and just walking away leaving it at that you know yeah there's 01:16:19.340 --> 01:16:21.140 no And I wanted to mention, 01:16:21.260 --> 01:16:26.140 this reminded me, we did have a piece of feedback that I'll share here. 01:16:26.520 --> 01:16:32.660 Actually, there was more than one person who has told me explicitly about this 01:16:32.660 --> 01:16:37.800 podcast that, for instance, they could not bring themselves to listen to our 01:16:37.800 --> 01:16:38.820 election night episode. 01:16:39.240 --> 01:16:39.720 Yeah, I know. 01:16:40.760 --> 01:16:43.920 Here's one, and this is from our loyal listener, Matt. 01:16:44.200 --> 01:16:48.960 I was talking to him about some other stuff, but he says, As an aside, 01:16:49.240 --> 01:16:54.200 I started listening to the podcast episode from election night during a walk I was taking last week. 01:16:54.830 --> 01:16:59.830 Since, of course, I knew the end result and my walk was supposed to be for relaxing 01:16:59.830 --> 01:17:05.070 and de-stressing, I actually had to stop the podcast about 15 minutes into it. 01:17:05.190 --> 01:17:10.710 I was just getting so upset all over again, almost like a PTSD episode. 01:17:10.930 --> 01:17:11.130 Yeah. 01:17:11.290 --> 01:17:14.590 I just couldn't go through living through all that again. 01:17:15.010 --> 01:17:20.290 And he goes on to say, the election definitely hit me and his wife, 01:17:20.330 --> 01:17:24.410 but actually had a much more significant effect on my two older daughters. 01:17:24.830 --> 01:17:27.830 They've been really engaged both before and after the election. 01:17:28.050 --> 01:17:31.150 Dinner conversation frequently turned into political commentary, 01:17:31.150 --> 01:17:35.790 which has been kind of cool to be able to talk with the kids about that kind of adult stuff. 01:17:35.930 --> 01:17:40.810 But on the other hand, the first few days after the election were bad for them. 01:17:40.970 --> 01:17:45.150 They started ditching people on socials, blocking people, and started getting 01:17:45.150 --> 01:17:49.470 vocal with their friends and acquaintances about not wanting to spend time with 01:17:49.470 --> 01:17:55.390 someone who can blindly be ignorant of reality and or blindly do what their uninformed parents do. 01:17:55.850 --> 01:18:00.930 And he finally says, and I kid you not, a lot of the times his wife will turn 01:18:00.930 --> 01:18:06.090 to me and ask, did Sam say anything about that? What does he and Yvonne think about blah? 01:18:06.470 --> 01:18:08.990 So anyway, a little bit of feedback. 01:18:09.170 --> 01:18:11.970 Well, by the way, well, one thing I will say, manβ€”, 01:18:12.810 --> 01:18:16.090 You're really, really, really impressed 01:18:16.090 --> 01:18:19.870 with the level of smarts of your daughters. Okay, let me tell you. 01:18:20.170 --> 01:18:23.670 I'm like, that's, man, I'm proud of those girls. 01:18:23.670 --> 01:18:24.250 Age 21 and 18, by the way. 01:18:24.470 --> 01:18:27.430 Be proud of those girls. They're fantastic. I'll tell you what. 01:18:27.550 --> 01:18:31.370 That's great. I love that. You know, I really love that. 01:18:31.570 --> 01:18:36.710 And well, you know, I get it. Listen, I get it, man. 01:18:37.010 --> 01:18:42.070 I mean, it's like I said, you know, you talk about, yeah, listening to that podcast triggering. 01:18:42.070 --> 01:18:45.290 The same thing with me what i mean i i can't i 01:18:45.290 --> 01:18:48.550 i could listen the the regular news program 01:18:48.550 --> 01:18:52.870 that i watch in the morning which is mostly business focused even just some 01:18:52.870 --> 01:18:57.350 stray mentions of what the fuck is going on had me going so bad that i'm like 01:18:57.350 --> 01:19:03.290 i basically i don't watch it anymore i am now watching get up on espn one of 01:19:03.290 --> 01:19:07.370 the great things i will say about about that that espn And, you know, 01:19:07.450 --> 01:19:12.010 for better or worse, and I know that it impacted certain certain people negatively. 01:19:12.010 --> 01:19:15.310 And I follow some of those people outside of ESPN. 01:19:15.570 --> 01:19:20.310 But look, a few years ago, CEO of ESPN said during the Trump administration, 01:19:20.310 --> 01:19:23.890 and they had a whole bunch of skirmishes with them, said, OK, 01:19:24.290 --> 01:19:29.550 listen, people, we are not talking about anything politics on this fucking network. 01:19:29.990 --> 01:19:32.010 Not one fucking thing. Nothing. 01:19:32.470 --> 01:19:36.350 They don't exist. We're not talking about it. Not one word. 01:19:36.470 --> 01:19:43.630 It's like that shit doesn't happen we are people come here and honestly they're 01:19:43.630 --> 01:19:46.070 coming here because they don't want to be listening to that shit. 01:19:46.690 --> 01:19:49.550 So we're not we're going to act like it doesn't exist 01:19:49.550 --> 01:19:52.530 we're talking about sports that's it 01:19:52.530 --> 01:19:55.990 so when you turn it to ESPN it's 01:19:55.990 --> 01:19:58.890 like the day after the election it's like the election didn't 01:19:58.890 --> 01:20:02.150 happen nothing not even a stray mention 01:20:02.150 --> 01:20:04.890 nothing not one and you 01:20:04.890 --> 01:20:07.790 know what i realized i like this 01:20:07.790 --> 01:20:12.950 i don't want to hear about it let's just talk endlessly about the benching of 01:20:12.950 --> 01:20:16.270 daniel jones and the new york giants who the fuck gives it which is one of the 01:20:16.270 --> 01:20:21.470 most inane stories ever and like completely insignificant and you know what 01:20:21.470 --> 01:20:24.150 at least because we're talking about bullshit it doesn't remind me anything 01:20:24.150 --> 01:20:25.090 about this fucking election, 01:20:26.110 --> 01:20:26.490 Great. 01:20:27.190 --> 01:20:32.050 Right. And, and look, even here, I mean, we've, we've been talking about avoiding 01:20:32.050 --> 01:20:33.410 politics, which is still politics. 01:20:33.590 --> 01:20:39.510 We've been talking about economics, but we did not specifically talk about all 01:20:39.510 --> 01:20:44.110 the ins and outs of what was happening with Matt Gaetz and all of the other, 01:20:44.670 --> 01:20:50.530 and, and, and, and, and like my list of things to talk about was the damn spider 01:20:50.530 --> 01:20:56.390 was about blue sky was about, hey, should I be thinking about upgrading my iPhone? 01:20:56.550 --> 01:20:58.050 It's a little bit old right now. 01:20:59.290 --> 01:21:07.130 You know, I've got a thing that I may still mention before we close it out about more use of AI. 01:21:07.550 --> 01:21:12.670 Like I was doing some, Alex wants me to do game programming and I was doing 01:21:12.670 --> 01:21:17.690 a bunch of AI stuff last night and I was really excited about it last night actually. 01:21:17.850 --> 01:21:21.910 And the stupid AI screwed me at one point and caused me a lot of extra work. 01:21:22.270 --> 01:21:26.570 And so there was that I, I, I, I, I'm revising my resume. 01:21:26.590 --> 01:21:30.370 I, I used AI to help with that and their pros and cons to that. 01:21:30.470 --> 01:21:33.850 And, you know, but the point is not those things. I don't want to talk about 01:21:33.850 --> 01:21:37.930 necessarily any of those things right now, but like bullet point, 01:21:38.090 --> 01:21:39.750 bullet point, bullet point, bullet point. 01:21:40.190 --> 01:21:45.870 Like I was putting down things this week that were not related to news and stuff. 01:21:46.090 --> 01:21:50.250 AI. Speaking of AI, I got my, I got recently got Manu a new, 01:21:50.250 --> 01:21:55.530 new, new MacBook pro. okay and so you know as we dive. 01:21:55.530 --> 01:21:56.650 Into the tangent go ahead. 01:21:56.650 --> 01:22:01.270 Well yeah no well well yeah it's so the one thing is that you know i actually 01:22:01.270 --> 01:22:05.450 i was playing around with it i you know i don't the map comes with a chess program 01:22:05.450 --> 01:22:09.610 yep yeah i hadn't played chess in like forever and i'm like okay well and the 01:22:09.610 --> 01:22:13.970 one thing is that i had it like reading out the the moves okay and so manu liked 01:22:13.970 --> 01:22:15.470 hearing the moves read out, 01:22:16.310 --> 01:22:19.590 I've never been a good chess player, but let me tell you something. 01:22:19.810 --> 01:22:22.710 And, but it used to be like the old, old programs. 01:22:22.950 --> 01:22:27.170 If you set it at the dumbest setting, I could at least like occasionally win 01:22:27.170 --> 01:22:28.890 a match against the computer. 01:22:29.230 --> 01:22:29.830 Okay. All right. 01:22:30.610 --> 01:22:38.430 Dude, I have not been even remotely close, even at the dumbest fucking setting 01:22:38.430 --> 01:22:40.510 at beating this damn computer. 01:22:40.630 --> 01:22:43.750 And it's so, so let me, let me tell you one of the things like, 01:22:43.750 --> 01:22:48.830 I also have never been good at chess although i wish i was and always every 01:22:48.830 --> 01:22:50.190 once in a while i would like try playing, 01:22:50.910 --> 01:22:54.510 if you go looking for chess programs now one 01:22:54.510 --> 01:22:57.390 of the things to explicitly look out for now 01:22:57.390 --> 01:23:00.150 is their dumb levels especially if 01:23:00.150 --> 01:23:06.390 you're people like me like get one that specifically has really really really 01:23:06.390 --> 01:23:10.690 dumb levels because the one thing is remember you know i i attended some of 01:23:10.690 --> 01:23:15.270 the Kasparov deep blue matches where like one of my first dates with my goddamn 01:23:15.270 --> 01:23:17.950 wife was attending one of those blue matches. 01:23:18.670 --> 01:23:22.750 But like the second round, I think with her and I had done some a few years earlier with the. 01:23:22.750 --> 01:23:26.850 I'm pretty sure that the stupid computer at the dumb level, I got a smart at 01:23:26.850 --> 01:23:29.110 the fucking smart at fucking deep blue. 01:23:29.310 --> 01:23:32.130 Well, what I was going to say, not necessarily the dumb level there, 01:23:32.270 --> 01:23:34.850 but every single iPhone chess game, 01:23:35.380 --> 01:23:40.260 has levels at this point that can beat the world champion. 01:23:40.440 --> 01:23:46.440 The current world champion today cannot beat the highest levels on a program that runs on your phone. 01:23:46.640 --> 01:23:50.180 Exactly. It's ridiculous. It's fucking ridiculous. 01:23:50.600 --> 01:23:56.340 And so, yeah, I can't set that damn thing to a dumb enough level where I can win one fucking game. 01:23:56.400 --> 01:24:00.100 Well, just to be clear, there are chess programs you can get that are dumber. 01:24:00.300 --> 01:24:05.140 Well, I said that. No, no, no. I know, but that one, I can't set it dumb enough for me to win. 01:24:05.380 --> 01:24:05.920 Yeah. 01:24:06.300 --> 01:24:07.920 It's fucking ridiculous. 01:24:08.320 --> 01:24:12.440 To be fair, Yvonne, it probably has to be pretty dumb for you to beat it. But, you know. 01:24:12.560 --> 01:24:15.720 I agree. I'm not arguing that. 01:24:16.080 --> 01:24:20.280 But, I mean, literally, some of the programs have levels that just make random 01:24:20.280 --> 01:24:22.080 moves. Completely random moves. 01:24:23.620 --> 01:24:27.980 Well, here's the thing. But that's what a lot of average humans would do. 01:24:28.440 --> 01:24:28.860 Yeah. 01:24:29.120 --> 01:24:34.940 Okay? And that's the problem. I can't set this one. This one will always do a fucking smart move. 01:24:35.380 --> 01:24:38.660 You know, it's not going to do a stupid move. Even at the dollar, 01:24:38.740 --> 01:24:41.960 it's going to do a fucking smart move. It won't make a fucking mistake. 01:24:42.360 --> 01:24:45.640 Humans, especially the average player, will make some dumb mistake. 01:24:45.840 --> 01:24:50.260 Not notice that you put a piece in jeopardy and like, ah, fuck. 01:24:50.780 --> 01:24:55.700 You know, shit. Yeah. So, but yeah, so I cannot, I have not been able to beat that computer. 01:24:55.880 --> 01:25:01.380 Not even, I've got like, maybe like 25, 30 moves deep, but no, 01:25:01.740 --> 01:25:04.080 no, still can't win. Doesn't matter. No. 01:25:04.660 --> 01:25:09.680 Right. So my, my point, my point was just, even as we're thinking about topics 01:25:09.680 --> 01:25:14.760 for the show, the shift towards non newsy topics has been real. 01:25:14.920 --> 01:25:20.640 Like at least this week, like here's, I expect at a certain point, 01:25:21.280 --> 01:25:23.620 like there's the temptation to do that right now. 01:25:23.620 --> 01:25:28.640 At a certain point, it will once again become unavoidable because Trump will 01:25:28.640 --> 01:25:32.160 actually be in office. He will actually be doing damaging things. 01:25:32.660 --> 01:25:34.560 We still got a couple of months to go. we. 01:25:34.560 --> 01:25:36.400 Still got a couple of months to go so we. 01:25:36.400 --> 01:25:40.000 We can talk about other stuff and you know i 01:25:40.000 --> 01:25:42.920 mean there will be a lot of dumb stuff i mean i can i you know 01:25:42.920 --> 01:25:45.900 one dumb thing that i didn't mention i was going to mention earlier go ahead 01:25:45.900 --> 01:25:50.080 you did you did touch on it a little bit uh about how they weren't signed they 01:25:50.080 --> 01:25:54.800 didn't want to sign any of the ndas or anything whatever look here here's the 01:25:54.800 --> 01:26:00.060 idiotic thing you know they're already starting off from from just some of what 01:26:00.060 --> 01:26:02.840 doing one of the dumbest things that you could do during the transition. 01:26:03.180 --> 01:26:05.020 Which is not talk to the people who are there now. 01:26:05.640 --> 01:26:09.300 Yeah, exactly. I mean, that doesn't help them at all. They think that somehow, 01:26:09.440 --> 01:26:13.320 whoa, we're doing a, I heard a word, we're doing a hostile takeover. Well, listen, clown. 01:26:14.060 --> 01:26:18.060 You know, you're like trying to take over an aircraft carrier that you've never run before. 01:26:18.760 --> 01:26:21.540 And you're trying, you're saying that you don't want any of the people running 01:26:21.540 --> 01:26:23.260 it to tell you where the fuck stuff is. 01:26:23.960 --> 01:26:27.720 You know what? You're going to be, you, I mean, 01:26:28.810 --> 01:26:34.010 Maybe these people have run ships before, but, you know, you're going to be 01:26:34.010 --> 01:26:40.710 just, you're making it far more difficult to probably get control of it faster. 01:26:41.630 --> 01:26:44.350 What they're doing is counter to their goal. 01:26:44.710 --> 01:26:46.930 Well, also, just to be just. 01:26:46.930 --> 01:26:51.550 You want to, you want them to show you where everything is just to be clear. 01:26:51.790 --> 01:26:58.150 Just to be clear. Their explicit plan also includes on day one going in and 01:26:58.150 --> 01:26:59.550 firing all kinds of people. 01:26:59.850 --> 01:27:03.110 So it's not only they're not going to talk to them now, 01:27:03.370 --> 01:27:10.610 the supposedly career people who are not political, they're going to go in and 01:27:10.610 --> 01:27:15.090 at least the plan, we'll see if they actually do it, is to decimate that group 01:27:15.090 --> 01:27:16.790 right when they first start. 01:27:17.650 --> 01:27:21.390 So they're going to damage that even further when they get in. 01:27:21.390 --> 01:27:26.970 Now their take on that is all those people will just be there to stop us from 01:27:26.970 --> 01:27:32.170 doing what we want to do anyway so they're you know there's no point in talking 01:27:32.170 --> 01:27:35.410 to them there's no point in keeping them we're just going to immediately get 01:27:35.410 --> 01:27:37.610 rid of it and we'll do what we want to do. 01:27:37.610 --> 01:27:43.230 I i now i'm pretty sure that that will happen at some agencies and certain things 01:27:43.230 --> 01:27:44.890 but i'll tell you one thing i'm, 01:27:46.990 --> 01:27:49.850 As much as I loathe Marco Rubio, probably won't do that. 01:27:50.470 --> 01:27:53.690 And like the guy that they named at Treasury probably won't do that. 01:27:53.770 --> 01:27:55.490 But I'm sure that at certain agencies, they will. 01:27:56.470 --> 01:28:02.630 But again, the problem is that you're going to get rid of everybody that knows where anything is. 01:28:02.790 --> 01:28:07.310 Well, remember, whatever the hell you're going to do. For many of these agencies, 01:28:07.650 --> 01:28:13.830 the explicit goal is to cripple the agency and make sure it can't do anything. 01:28:14.870 --> 01:28:20.250 And that, okay. And I'm not sure how that's going to help them accomplish anything, but okay. 01:28:20.730 --> 01:28:25.370 Well, it'll accomplish crippling the agency and keeping it from doing anything. 01:28:25.750 --> 01:28:31.010 You know, it's one thing if you want the agency to do something different than it does today. 01:28:31.370 --> 01:28:37.530 But if you want it to stop working, then it's much easier to break things than to fix them. 01:28:37.770 --> 01:28:41.110 It really depends on how agencies are structured or what they do, right? 01:28:41.330 --> 01:28:47.590 Okay. Because let me give you an example. OK, somebody was talking about what 01:28:47.590 --> 01:28:49.810 CEOs do on a day to day basis. 01:28:50.010 --> 01:28:53.770 Right. And how some companies can can operate without a CEO being there. 01:28:54.390 --> 01:28:59.510 One of the things is that stuff like down when you've got a agency that has 01:28:59.510 --> 01:29:03.530 100000 employees and departments and agencies and sub offices and whatever, whatnot. Right. 01:29:03.990 --> 01:29:07.110 Well, everybody's just doing their job every day. They're not getting instructions 01:29:07.110 --> 01:29:11.410 from from the from the from the chief executive or like whatever in order to 01:29:11.410 --> 01:29:12.850 do their job on a daily basis. 01:29:12.850 --> 01:29:16.870 OK, they need to probably receive most of the time, you know, 01:29:16.950 --> 01:29:19.810 they need to receive instructions in order for something to change. 01:29:20.290 --> 01:29:26.590 OK, and, you know, and so and this reminds me of the experience I had with when 01:29:26.590 --> 01:29:30.750 Carly Fiorina came into to HP where she had the same mindset. 01:29:31.030 --> 01:29:34.670 OK, she didn't understand why things didn't change. And I'm like, 01:29:34.750 --> 01:29:36.930 well, you got 150,000 employees. 01:29:37.930 --> 01:29:42.370 And if you want to change, it has to percolate all the way down to like the 01:29:42.370 --> 01:29:43.950 people that are actually doing the work. 01:29:44.720 --> 01:29:51.940 And if you don't really, and any change like that takes time because there's 150,000 employees. 01:29:52.300 --> 01:29:56.100 So if you basically cut off all communication to, to management, 01:29:56.340 --> 01:30:00.520 I've had, I've been in situations where my boss has been non-existent. 01:30:00.660 --> 01:30:02.020 What are you going to do every day? 01:30:02.240 --> 01:30:04.980 Well, if they happen to fire you over there, whatever, it's just going to keep 01:30:04.980 --> 01:30:06.400 doing whatever the hell you were doing before. 01:30:06.800 --> 01:30:07.160 Right. 01:30:07.380 --> 01:30:13.000 And so I, I, I don't, I don't understand this, this entire thinking that they've got. Okay. 01:30:13.880 --> 01:30:16.880 It's just really it may 01:30:16.880 --> 01:30:19.740 change like strategy in the long run well they're not going 01:30:19.740 --> 01:30:24.300 to get some stuff or whatever whatnot but it's very difficult to you know you're 01:30:24.300 --> 01:30:27.560 not getting people to stop every day unless you're just going to fire everybody 01:30:27.560 --> 01:30:32.420 at the you know just everybody all the way down just fire everybody shut down 01:30:32.420 --> 01:30:37.380 the department right so I and then you know it's. 01:30:39.020 --> 01:30:46.700 There is a lot of in this what I see naivety and wish casting rather than any 01:30:46.700 --> 01:30:51.600 smart, methodical way of how to execute this. 01:30:53.100 --> 01:30:58.080 Because I've always thought that the first thing that you do is that if you 01:30:58.080 --> 01:31:02.220 want to take over something and be effective at changing what it is, 01:31:02.420 --> 01:31:06.380 you probably can find some allies in that group. Okay? 01:31:06.760 --> 01:31:09.920 And some people that are willing to share the information. So you talk to them, 01:31:10.060 --> 01:31:12.820 you figure out who your allies are, they'll tell you where the fuck 01:31:12.820 --> 01:31:15.680 everything is and then you start you start you know 01:31:15.680 --> 01:31:18.380 doing whatever the fuck it is and then you start firing people if you're 01:31:18.380 --> 01:31:22.880 going in if you're going in and not even like do that it's going to make whatever 01:31:22.880 --> 01:31:25.980 the hell you're going to try to do a hell of a lot a lot harder but but look 01:31:25.980 --> 01:31:32.920 we're expecting a mess and i expect a mess and i expect a broad mess from a 01:31:32.920 --> 01:31:36.080 lot of places which is why i don't know what the fuck is going to happen, 01:31:37.510 --> 01:31:42.370 i just don't know and i think that that's the uncertainty that the markets and 01:31:42.370 --> 01:31:45.290 everybody is having right now after the first little boost of whatever went 01:31:45.290 --> 01:31:50.450 out there it's just like who the fuck knows what they're gonna do right and. 01:31:50.450 --> 01:31:58.830 And there's yeah but i think the spectrum goes from oh my god really really 01:31:58.830 --> 01:32:01.610 like country destroying bad to, 01:32:03.630 --> 01:32:08.810 bad along the same lines as the first term, which was still pretty bad. 01:32:08.970 --> 01:32:12.410 To be clear, there are lots of people minimizing how bad the first term was, 01:32:12.490 --> 01:32:13.650 but it was pretty damn bad. 01:32:13.930 --> 01:32:17.410 But you've got that whole spectrum. I don't think there's any possibility that 01:32:17.410 --> 01:32:19.550 it's better than the first term was. 01:32:19.710 --> 01:32:25.070 No, no. I'll tell you an example, for example, of things that got really bad, 01:32:25.230 --> 01:32:29.710 like people just applying for a visa to come to the US, 01:32:29.710 --> 01:32:33.970 people that you would never turn away okay you 01:32:33.970 --> 01:32:38.590 know people who even they want to come in right they decimated that process 01:32:38.590 --> 01:32:43.090 so bad that some people in places were raiding years to get appointments that 01:32:43.090 --> 01:32:48.350 normally took you know got got handled pretty quickly and so it's that kind 01:32:48.350 --> 01:32:53.070 of stuff where you're even impeding the shit that you want like to happen, 01:32:54.610 --> 01:32:59.870 So, I don't know. Okay. We'll just, all right, well, we're done. 01:33:00.030 --> 01:33:01.230 Let's get the fuck out of here. 01:33:01.450 --> 01:33:03.390 Let's wrap this sucker up. 01:33:03.790 --> 01:33:04.230 Yeah. 01:33:04.990 --> 01:33:11.570 One other thing I am going to say out loud here that I mentioned in passing, 01:33:11.630 --> 01:33:12.730 I was updating my resume. 01:33:13.270 --> 01:33:16.190 And by the way on the ai part of that the only 01:33:16.190 --> 01:33:19.070 warning is you know ai can be useful for things 01:33:19.070 --> 01:33:22.570 like shortening and blah blah blah and re reflow 01:33:22.570 --> 01:33:25.270 this in another way reformat blah blah blah but you 01:33:25.270 --> 01:33:28.770 gotta watch that shit like a hawk because like 01:33:28.770 --> 01:33:33.110 you know i i was working on updating it and making sure like it included the 01:33:33.110 --> 01:33:38.910 last few years of stuff i had done and and and shortening it and like blah blah 01:33:38.910 --> 01:33:42.930 blah get get getting rid of some of the really old stuff blah blah blah but 01:33:42.930 --> 01:33:47.950 like stupid thing kept trying to add completely made up shit that doesn't exist, 01:33:50.270 --> 01:33:53.770 it's like and i i had to i have to make sure to go through you. 01:33:53.770 --> 01:33:59.690 Weren't a president and ceo of this company for seven years sam you didn't know this ai knows. 01:33:59.690 --> 01:34:05.170 Not quite that bad but i had to like over and over and over again every time 01:34:05.170 --> 01:34:08.610 like i would ask it for something simple like you know hey this is too long 01:34:08.610 --> 01:34:12.150 can we shorten it whatever you know and and but i had to go over 01:34:12.290 --> 01:34:18.050 every single line line by line reading every fucking word because it would be 01:34:18.050 --> 01:34:22.770 like it would change it into something unrecognizable and i'm like i didn't 01:34:22.770 --> 01:34:27.770 do that what are you what are you talking about like i can can you listen i. 01:34:27.770 --> 01:34:33.710 I i i told i i mentioned i think earlier that i had tried to get ai to help me write a letter okay. 01:34:33.710 --> 01:34:34.670 Specifically and. 01:34:34.670 --> 01:34:38.130 The thing is that when it when i i asked it to check the letter that i wrote 01:34:38.130 --> 01:34:44.010 and the one thing that i i wound up almost taking every edit out because it 01:34:44.010 --> 01:34:45.750 didn't sound like me anymore. 01:34:45.890 --> 01:34:48.750 It made it sound like some generic person talking. 01:34:48.970 --> 01:34:52.830 It took language that I normally would use, which I sometimes use very, 01:34:54.170 --> 01:35:00.350 idiosyncratic you know yes exactly things that are just that sound like me took 01:35:00.350 --> 01:35:03.750 them all out and sounded like some bland fucking like thing and i'm like no 01:35:03.750 --> 01:35:07.990 that's that's that's you took out my me-isms and made it sound like totally 01:35:07.990 --> 01:35:10.150 bland no that's not what i want yeah. 01:35:10.150 --> 01:35:15.930 No absolutely but like i and and you know that i was just concerned about accuracy 01:35:15.930 --> 01:35:20.790 i was concerned about two things One, don't say shit that's not true. Okay. 01:35:21.790 --> 01:35:27.550 Number one. And two, it has to be recognizable so that like, 01:35:27.570 --> 01:35:31.450 if somebody asks me about this bullet point, I know what the hell it was talking about. 01:35:31.990 --> 01:35:36.810 And so, cause like, even if it like, sometimes it was reworded to such a generic 01:35:36.810 --> 01:35:41.330 way that I'm like, okay, maybe, but I don't even remember. 01:35:41.330 --> 01:35:49.270 Like, so anyway, the point is like these tools can be helpful sometimes in some scenarios. 01:35:49.270 --> 01:35:51.470 But you got to be careful. 01:35:51.710 --> 01:35:58.370 You have to be super, don't like never, ever, ever just take the output of one 01:35:58.370 --> 01:36:01.930 of these things and send it sight unseen. 01:36:01.950 --> 01:36:09.870 You have to check every damn line, every word, make sure it's what you actually want to be saying. 01:36:09.870 --> 01:36:16.270 And that, frankly, in some cases, that means you'd be better off just not using 01:36:16.270 --> 01:36:18.690 it at all and just writing the stuff. 01:36:18.990 --> 01:36:26.070 So the resume was inaccurate when it said you were an expert in bondage and BDS and other things? 01:36:27.410 --> 01:36:29.670 You're like, wait, what? What? What? 01:36:30.710 --> 01:36:36.510 Yeah. But yet, it was fine when it said I was an astronaut. 01:36:37.690 --> 01:36:38.390 That's good. 01:36:38.390 --> 01:36:43.530 That's just yeah that's part of my record part of my history you know you. 01:36:43.530 --> 01:36:48.350 Know they say that you were part of the first first group to land on mars or something like. 01:36:48.350 --> 01:36:51.450 I was gonna say it said i was on the challenger but that 01:36:51.450 --> 01:37:00.170 would be something yeah anyway no so the thing i wanted to say is i'm not going 01:37:00.170 --> 01:37:05.690 to get into details of how or why i am still at my current position but I am 01:37:05.690 --> 01:37:10.350 actively paying attention and looking at alternatives and blah, 01:37:10.450 --> 01:37:12.910 blah, blah. So just for any of you out there, 01:37:13.670 --> 01:37:18.470 If you have any leads for me, contact me. If you're already a LinkedIn contact, 01:37:18.730 --> 01:37:20.010 LinkedIn is completely up to date. 01:37:20.150 --> 01:37:24.730 That resume I talked about has an HTML version at ablesmay.com slash resume. 01:37:25.270 --> 01:37:31.850 Take a look. Basically, I'm a program manager slash product manager kind of 01:37:31.850 --> 01:37:39.450 thing with a specialty in sort of anti-abuse content related stuff. 01:37:39.890 --> 01:37:43.050 So if anybody's got any leads, ping me. 01:37:43.050 --> 01:37:48.050 We'll give all the contacts and yeah i mean i'm exploring let's put it that 01:37:48.050 --> 01:37:53.530 way i'm exploring i'm looking for options and so if anybody's got any leads 01:37:53.530 --> 01:37:57.750 let me know especially if you're a fan of this show i'd love to hear from you 01:37:57.750 --> 01:38:01.190 anyway but yeah um okay with that one. 01:38:01.190 --> 01:38:03.770 More thing one more so so i got my. 01:38:03.770 --> 01:38:06.290 Oh you got one more thing go go well i. 01:38:06.290 --> 01:38:08.330 Got that well i have the thing from our Slack. 01:38:08.510 --> 01:38:15.650 Okay, well, then let me do the website. So yeah, go to curmudgeons-corner.com. 01:38:15.850 --> 01:38:18.990 You'll find all the ways to contact us. You will find our archives. 01:38:19.290 --> 01:38:23.490 You will find links to our YouTube where we live stream these things. 01:38:23.690 --> 01:38:27.810 We had one person in and out on today's show. Thank you, whoever that was. 01:38:28.930 --> 01:38:32.610 Oh, that was me. That was you. Okay, well, thank you, Yvonne. 01:38:33.170 --> 01:38:36.910 Well, I was just trying to see if anybody commented on anything on the thing. 01:38:37.990 --> 01:38:40.450 Well, I appreciate you watching the show, Yvonne. 01:38:41.370 --> 01:38:43.590 Watching ourselves? Oh, yeah. You're welcome. 01:38:43.970 --> 01:38:50.490 Yeah. So anyway, I have seen these get some views after the fact as well. So I appreciate that. 01:38:50.650 --> 01:38:55.890 There are links to all that kind of stuff on the website on curmudgeons-corner.com. 01:38:56.030 --> 01:39:00.250 I have not linked to TikTok yet, but I am posting stuff on TikTok. 01:39:00.510 --> 01:39:05.150 We have gotten actually a decent amount of engagement on the TikTok. 01:39:05.150 --> 01:39:11.890 Like, you know, basically, like if you look at the views of, 01:39:12.390 --> 01:39:16.610 I posted four clips from last week's show. Okay. 01:39:17.310 --> 01:39:22.610 Let me, let me check where we are right now. Last week's show at the moment. 01:39:23.900 --> 01:39:29.640 Had 38 downloads of the audio podcast, of the, of the audio podcast, 01:39:29.640 --> 01:39:37.300 the regular way, the tick talk, each one of the four clips that I posted had more than 700 views. 01:39:37.740 --> 01:39:38.260 Wow. 01:39:38.500 --> 01:39:44.300 Now, now, if you look at the stats, most of those views were only one second 01:39:44.300 --> 01:39:51.120 long, but you know, Hey, but we, we, we got, we got a few likes, we got a few comments. 01:39:51.120 --> 01:39:54.220 There was one person specifically complaining about my audio 01:39:54.220 --> 01:39:57.600 quality last week and i admit it there well 01:39:57.600 --> 01:40:00.900 there was a problem i it was a real problem my my audio 01:40:00.900 --> 01:40:04.440 was blown out i tried to fix it a little bit in post but i couldn't really fix 01:40:04.440 --> 01:40:08.960 it completely so it sounded just my my voice was not great on last week's show 01:40:08.960 --> 01:40:18.880 and in fact i'm for next week i will have a new one of these the pro The problem was, unlike Yvonne, 01:40:19.260 --> 01:40:23.120 I listen to myself in the headphones. 01:40:23.580 --> 01:40:28.500 And the port where I can plug the headphones in on my Yeti mic is broken. 01:40:28.840 --> 01:40:38.040 So I have ordered a new mic. This week, I am using my wife's mic instead that's sitting on my desk. 01:40:38.600 --> 01:40:42.120 But I ordered a new one for me. It's the new model they have. 01:40:42.120 --> 01:40:45.740 So it's got some upgrades i 01:40:45.740 --> 01:40:48.820 could have gone with a completely different brand but i didn't anyway that doesn't 01:40:48.820 --> 01:40:52.280 matter but the point was there's lots of engagement there was a commentary there 01:40:52.280 --> 01:40:56.720 have been people going back and forth etc like lots of likes from people i don't 01:40:56.720 --> 01:41:01.400 recognize now has it translated into actual listeners on the main show no i 01:41:01.400 --> 01:41:04.900 can't see that yet we don't know we don't know we've had. 01:41:04.900 --> 01:41:09.300 A drop off also from here here's the thing i don't know i'm sure we've had a 01:41:09.300 --> 01:41:12.500 mix of people coming in and out, especially because we had a lot of people that, 01:41:12.980 --> 01:41:15.360 after the election, just don't want to listen to this shit right now. 01:41:15.460 --> 01:41:18.920 Yeah. But you know, the thing is... 01:41:20.070 --> 01:41:24.070 The Riverside, which we use to record, automatically generates these clips. 01:41:24.230 --> 01:41:25.710 It generates like a dozen of them. 01:41:25.930 --> 01:41:29.990 And I watch them and most of them suck. And I pick a couple ones that suck a 01:41:29.990 --> 01:41:31.990 little bit less and I post them. It's not much work. 01:41:32.170 --> 01:41:35.630 So I figure, why not? And if some of those people like the clips and eventually 01:41:35.630 --> 01:41:37.590 listen to the whole podcast, great. 01:41:37.890 --> 01:41:41.550 If not, oh, well, didn't cost that much in terms of time or anything. 01:41:41.830 --> 01:41:44.790 Anyway, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 01:41:45.050 --> 01:41:49.470 One of the links on curmudgeon-corner.com is a link to our Patreon, 01:41:49.470 --> 01:41:54.430 where you can give us money at various levels. We will mention you on the show. 01:41:54.590 --> 01:41:56.470 We'll send you a postcard. We'll send you a mug, blah, blah, 01:41:56.550 --> 01:41:57.170 blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 01:41:57.350 --> 01:42:01.510 And very importantly, at $2 a month or more, or if you just ask, 01:42:01.670 --> 01:42:05.490 we will invite you to the Curmudgeon's Corner Slack where Yvonne and I and a 01:42:05.490 --> 01:42:08.930 bunch of listeners are hanging out, sharing links and chatting throughout the week. 01:42:09.210 --> 01:42:14.410 And Yvonne has a highlight of something from the Slack that we have not talked about on the show. 01:42:14.570 --> 01:42:18.470 There were all these power outages in Washington State. I was talking about 01:42:18.470 --> 01:42:20.810 generating electricity and whatnot or whatever. 01:42:21.010 --> 01:42:24.510 And I was like, I was looking around and there was somebody that, 01:42:24.510 --> 01:42:28.650 that is posting like, and they're trying to get this thing like funded and built. 01:42:29.490 --> 01:42:33.590 Powering your home with a fridge sized nuclear reactor. 01:42:34.270 --> 01:42:40.410 So you get this, this little like mini nuke in your house that, 01:42:40.410 --> 01:42:45.050 that is the size of a fridge that, you know, that can power your house. 01:42:45.550 --> 01:42:50.710 Well, and look, these are, it may be a little while out yet till you can really 01:42:50.710 --> 01:42:55.470 do this in a way that makes sense at the household level, but this is very much 01:42:55.470 --> 01:42:57.690 being talked about at the corporate level right now. 01:42:58.110 --> 01:43:04.530 Yes. We're sort of powering data centers or other places where instead of your 01:43:04.530 --> 01:43:10.610 regular grid connection, you basically get a, you know, a standard shipping container size. 01:43:10.610 --> 01:43:13.410 And I'm talking about the big ones they put on trucks or trains or boats. 01:43:14.270 --> 01:43:19.770 You know, you get one of those that's a self-contained nuclear reactor and you 01:43:19.770 --> 01:43:22.330 just plug it in and you power your thing, you know? 01:43:22.470 --> 01:43:26.270 And it'll work for 30 years or something, whatever, something very long amount of time. 01:43:26.270 --> 01:43:33.210 And, you know, people's immediate reaction to anything nuclear is, oh, my God, safety. 01:43:33.430 --> 01:43:36.550 Is it going to explode like a bomb? Is there going to be nuclear waste? 01:43:36.670 --> 01:43:37.670 Is there this? Is there that? 01:43:37.910 --> 01:43:46.290 Honestly, a lot of those issues that were bigger issues like 40 years ago, 01:43:46.570 --> 01:43:49.410 the technology has improved a lot. 01:43:49.530 --> 01:43:50.010 Yeah. 01:43:50.010 --> 01:43:55.250 They're a lot less concerning today than they were and are traded off against everything else. 01:43:55.250 --> 01:43:58.330 Like you know against the the big changes 01:43:58.330 --> 01:44:01.350 of course everybody is much more aware of the damage that burning 01:44:01.350 --> 01:44:07.670 carbon costs right you know so it's not like you can say like nuke you know 01:44:07.670 --> 01:44:12.490 people always had the oh my god the nuclear stuff is dangerous without really 01:44:12.490 --> 01:44:17.550 considering the danger of the old of yeah of the carbon base sources which has 01:44:17.550 --> 01:44:20.110 actually caused a huge amount of damage over the years. 01:44:20.410 --> 01:44:25.990 And so, you know, I've said for a long time, you know, the, the, 01:44:26.460 --> 01:44:34.100 The decline in nuclear was actually one of the biggest mistakes that was made over the last 50 years. 01:44:34.340 --> 01:44:35.240 Oh, I agree. 01:44:35.540 --> 01:44:36.280 I agree. 01:44:36.720 --> 01:44:40.020 I mean, nuclear had problems that needed to be addressed. 01:44:40.100 --> 01:44:45.140 What we needed to do was address the problems, not have nuclear decline, period. 01:44:45.640 --> 01:44:48.560 And look, there is a reason. 01:44:48.680 --> 01:44:53.020 We had some very big disasters between the really big ones because Three Mile 01:44:53.020 --> 01:44:57.620 Island didn't, although it was a disaster. in terms of nuclear radiation. 01:44:58.120 --> 01:45:00.320 But in terms of Chernobyl and the one in... 01:45:00.320 --> 01:45:03.400 But Chernobyl and Fukushima. Fukushima, yeah. I mean, those were, 01:45:03.400 --> 01:45:07.260 you know, really terrible disasters. 01:45:07.260 --> 01:45:12.260 But at the same time, look, instead of, like, just ditching it, 01:45:12.680 --> 01:45:16.300 one of the things is that those two reactors that those three we're talking 01:45:16.300 --> 01:45:17.940 about were extremely ordered designs. 01:45:18.940 --> 01:45:23.880 There's so much newer technology that addresses the reasons why those were risky 01:45:23.880 --> 01:45:27.460 and cause a problem that instead of like, you know, we need to look at that 01:45:27.460 --> 01:45:29.700 again and, and, and adopt some of that. 01:45:29.880 --> 01:45:34.320 If we really want to accelerate our move towards, you know, carbon neutrality. 01:45:34.560 --> 01:45:37.200 I mean, there's just, you know, because Ivan. 01:45:37.420 --> 01:45:41.780 Ivan back to the current news, we've elected somebody. It's all about drill, 01:45:41.920 --> 01:45:44.520 baby drill. All of these alternative sources are bullshit. 01:45:44.780 --> 01:45:47.620 No more solar, no more electric, no more wind. 01:45:48.040 --> 01:45:49.880 All of those are bullshit. No more nuclear. 01:45:50.440 --> 01:45:53.800 Hey, he might like nuclear a little bit, but you know, but basically. 01:45:53.880 --> 01:46:02.500 Drill baby drill yeah sure okay anyway line up sign up to get the personal nuke 01:46:02.500 --> 01:46:07.160 for your home yes um you know and and if they take too long to build it you 01:46:07.160 --> 01:46:10.440 know you can i'm sure you can look up a guide online and just make it yourself. 01:46:11.210 --> 01:46:11.550 Yeah. 01:46:12.230 --> 01:46:12.430 Yeah. 01:46:12.430 --> 01:46:13.890 I like that movie Manhattan project. 01:46:14.730 --> 01:46:17.710 Really? I don't know. I didn't have never seen that. I have to look that up too. 01:46:18.290 --> 01:46:22.210 But, uh, wait, is it, is it called a Manhattan? Wait, wait, hold on, hold on, hold on. 01:46:22.390 --> 01:46:27.850 There was a guy that like got in trouble, like for, like a high school science 01:46:27.850 --> 01:46:30.890 project actually did get like 99% of the way to. 01:46:31.030 --> 01:46:34.830 Well, this was, uh, this was, uh, a movie about that. 01:46:35.390 --> 01:46:39.690 Yeah. A high school prodigy built an atomic bomb with stolen plutonium to win 01:46:39.690 --> 01:46:41.110 the 45th national science fair. 01:46:41.210 --> 01:46:45.070 An explosive nuclear weapons lab yeah the movie is called the manhattan project 01:46:45.070 --> 01:46:49.290 with john lithgow and a couple of other people that are oh. 01:46:49.290 --> 01:46:55.370 I've added it to my list but but there there was a real life case of that as 01:46:55.370 --> 01:46:59.210 well they did not actually have stolen plutonium but they they built like a 01:46:59.210 --> 01:47:04.930 breeder reactor in their garage or whatever and you know eventually they look at listen at. 01:47:04.930 --> 01:47:09.870 Code listen i i recently you know found out recently for some reason and i think 01:47:09.870 --> 01:47:13.530 this may be part of a reason why my ex-employer kodak has not been able to sell 01:47:13.530 --> 01:47:15.350 that one of their buildings. 01:47:15.350 --> 01:47:16.070 Uh there's. 01:47:16.070 --> 01:47:19.690 A nuclear reactor somewhere in a fucking kodak building. 01:47:19.690 --> 01:47:23.150 Yeah in rochester if you 01:47:23.150 --> 01:47:26.630 remember and here we are on a tangent again one of 01:47:26.630 --> 01:47:33.490 the important like little stories about the manhattan project is that kodak 01:47:33.490 --> 01:47:40.270 was unintentionally very involved because the secret nuclear tests were messing 01:47:40.270 --> 01:47:45.570 up film because they were exposing film. 01:47:45.750 --> 01:47:52.350 And Kodak actually had to do a variety of things to make film that was less 01:47:52.350 --> 01:47:59.290 sensitive to what was happening in the Nevada tests and also keeps secret all 01:47:59.290 --> 01:48:05.190 of the stuff that was going on here because it's just their... 01:48:06.730 --> 01:48:11.030 They were sensitive to what was happening. 01:48:11.230 --> 01:48:14.350 So even when they weren't like officially brought into the loop, 01:48:14.510 --> 01:48:16.910 it was like, oh, look, something's happening. 01:48:17.450 --> 01:48:20.510 Right. And there's a whole story. I don't remember the details. 01:48:20.650 --> 01:48:24.470 There's some YouTube videos about it. you can go look it up about Kodak's involvement 01:48:24.470 --> 01:48:27.890 in the Manhattan project and how this, 01:48:27.890 --> 01:48:34.510 the, the, the photo sensitivity of film in terms of detecting radiation from 01:48:34.510 --> 01:48:37.370 tests was a big deal and they had to deal with it anyway. 01:48:37.450 --> 01:48:39.630 Yeah, I can believe that. Yeah. So, all right. 01:48:39.710 --> 01:48:40.510 I think, I think we're done. 01:48:40.910 --> 01:48:41.430 We're done. 01:48:41.630 --> 01:48:47.770 Okay. Thanks everybody for joining us once again, you know, all the stuff stay safe. 01:48:48.710 --> 01:48:52.610 I got, I, you know, they'll probably complain to me about sound again. 01:48:52.770 --> 01:48:55.610 Cause I've got like a little bit of echo going. Wow. Sound good. 01:48:55.830 --> 01:48:57.110 You sound good on my end. 01:48:57.290 --> 01:49:00.530 So, well, no, I hear myself coming back through you. I don't know. 01:49:00.770 --> 01:49:03.470 Anyway, whatever, whatever. 01:49:05.910 --> 01:49:09.850 Stay safe. Have a good week. We'll see you next time. Goodbye. 01:49:10.590 --> 01:49:11.030 Bye. 01:49:43.490 --> 01:49:51.050 Okay there it goes i'm gonna hit stop later yvonne bye Thank you.