WEBVTT 00:00:00.010 --> 00:00:07.210 And now we got this boom. Okay. Shall we just go? 00:00:07.910 --> 00:00:08.630 Yes. 00:00:09.030 --> 00:00:14.190 Yes. Okay. Here comes. I almost forgot that button. Here we go. 00:00:36.290 --> 00:00:42.550 Welcome to Curmudgeon's Corner for Saturday, December 14th, 2024. 00:00:43.850 --> 00:00:48.890 It is just before 1830 UTC as we're starting to record. I am Sam Inter. 00:00:48.990 --> 00:00:50.410 Yvonne Boas here. Hello, Yvonne. 00:00:51.190 --> 00:00:53.590 Hello. Hi. 00:00:54.010 --> 00:00:55.090 You sound exhausted. 00:00:55.550 --> 00:01:03.530 Dude, seriously. how would i not be fucking exhausted i mean are. 00:01:03.530 --> 00:01:08.070 You kidding me we're gonna do our butt first for first which is just our own 00:01:08.070 --> 00:01:11.730 stuff and then we'll get into newsy stuff in the next two segments so yvonne 00:01:11.730 --> 00:01:14.230 what's been going on that's exhausting you. 00:01:14.230 --> 00:01:20.310 You know that aside from my wife being sick Aside from me. 00:01:23.950 --> 00:01:24.570 Go ahead. 00:01:24.650 --> 00:01:29.150 What the hell? I'll just put it on speaker here. This could be on the show. Hello. 00:01:30.890 --> 00:01:34.350 Yes, you're on the podcast right now. So say hi to everybody. 00:01:34.930 --> 00:01:35.730 Hi, everybody. 00:01:36.370 --> 00:01:36.930 Hi, Wada. 00:01:37.410 --> 00:01:40.210 We are live from my bed. 00:01:43.030 --> 00:01:49.270 Sam said hi. You can't hear him. I'm sorry. But what? I'm sorry. But what's going on? 00:01:50.110 --> 00:01:57.330 Were you medically able to attend your event on the day you purchased your insurance plan? No, right? 00:01:57.770 --> 00:01:59.890 On the day you purchased it? Yes. 00:02:00.610 --> 00:02:02.350 But I didn't go to the event. 00:02:02.710 --> 00:02:07.770 On the day you purchased it, were you able to attend the event? 00:02:07.910 --> 00:02:11.770 The answer is yes. On the day you bought it, you could go. But now you can't. 00:02:12.530 --> 00:02:16.710 Is the patient included on this plan? Yes. 00:02:17.710 --> 00:02:23.630 Okay i i i all right can i can i get back to recording a podcast at this point. 00:02:24.390 --> 00:02:25.650 Thank you so much. 00:02:25.650 --> 00:02:27.790 All right you're welcome okay bye bye, 00:02:29.350 --> 00:02:33.350 One of the things that my wife is doing right now is filing, 00:02:33.590 --> 00:02:40.110 you know, I will say she bought tickets to go to a concert next Friday. Okay. 00:02:40.610 --> 00:02:40.970 Okay. 00:02:41.230 --> 00:02:45.690 It is very impractical to go to, she can't go really medically. She can't go. 00:02:45.970 --> 00:02:51.750 Her leg needs to be elevated and needs to be elevated for an extended period of time. 00:02:52.250 --> 00:02:56.810 So, so she can't go to a concert. I will say that I usually, 00:02:57.070 --> 00:02:58.650 you know, you go to, she bought it on ticket. 00:02:58.650 --> 00:03:02.990 For those tuning in for the first time, if they're already a couple of weeks 00:03:02.990 --> 00:03:07.810 ago, your wife had an Achilles tendon injury. And then last week she had surgery for it. 00:03:07.930 --> 00:03:12.730 That's correct. Okay. And so she, she had surgery, so she, she cannot really, 00:03:12.910 --> 00:03:15.710 her mobility is severely restricted at this moment. 00:03:16.030 --> 00:03:20.850 And so my wife had bought these tickets to a concert recent times. 00:03:21.430 --> 00:03:29.290 It must've been in October. where I really, when my wife goes to buy tickets 00:03:29.290 --> 00:03:33.030 to a concert, I really shouldn't let her buy tickets to a concert. 00:03:34.090 --> 00:03:37.910 And the reason I say this is because I keep thinking we're going to go to a 00:03:37.910 --> 00:03:43.190 music concert and we're not talking for a international superstar. 00:03:43.350 --> 00:03:50.190 We're talking for a medium star, but not one that is like, it's not like Madonna or something, right? 00:03:50.190 --> 00:03:52.010 You weren't doing the Taylor Swift concert. 00:03:52.510 --> 00:03:56.770 Exactly. This is not the Taylor Swift concert or anything of the sort. Okay. 00:03:57.350 --> 00:04:01.490 And my wife, for some reason, just always buys whatever the hell the most expensive 00:04:01.490 --> 00:04:05.090 tickets that are available. And it's just an eye-watering price every time. 00:04:05.270 --> 00:04:10.510 I'm just like, I figure 200 and some odd bucks for a couple of cups. No, $700. 00:04:11.970 --> 00:04:17.790 Wait, why are we paying $700 to see Joe Blow? I mean, what are we doing? 00:04:18.050 --> 00:04:21.490 What are we doing? it but this time i almost 00:04:21.490 --> 00:04:24.350 always ticket master aside from the fees and other shit 00:04:24.350 --> 00:04:27.870 the ticket master adds because you know ticket master gets 00:04:27.870 --> 00:04:31.010 shit for a good reason i mean you 00:04:31.010 --> 00:04:34.370 see the price for an event and then on top 00:04:34.370 --> 00:04:37.070 of that fees this that i mean 00:04:37.070 --> 00:04:39.870 it just it's just so much 00:04:39.870 --> 00:04:43.130 on top of it okay all right it's crazy 00:04:43.130 --> 00:04:47.570 and one of the things they also sell is this insurance and the insurance is 00:04:47.570 --> 00:04:53.730 not cheap okay and i'm i always usually fuck this i'm not buying the stupid 00:04:53.730 --> 00:04:59.930 insurance right but my wife if she's doing it bought the insurance and i was like and. 00:04:59.930 --> 00:05:01.210 This time it came in. 00:05:01.210 --> 00:05:04.330 Handy yes it did okay now now i 00:05:04.330 --> 00:05:07.050 will say this that like every insurer and you know 00:05:07.050 --> 00:05:14.250 we have insurance as a subject of course this guy you know what happened finally 00:05:14.250 --> 00:05:20.030 the claim was not easy okay and so she is going through right now the questionnaire 00:05:20.030 --> 00:05:25.570 that they have for for her to be able to secure a refund for the tickets okay, 00:05:26.670 --> 00:05:31.750 So that's part of it. And it's not easy. 00:05:32.050 --> 00:05:37.090 I mean, they're not, you know, she tried to call customer service today on a Saturday. 00:05:37.790 --> 00:05:41.090 They don't even have customer service available on Saturday. 00:05:41.550 --> 00:05:46.150 We're sometimes, well, I don't know why the hell I'm complaining about it. 00:05:46.310 --> 00:05:50.050 You know, we have way too many people that really don't need to be working on weekends. 00:05:52.710 --> 00:05:55.630 You know, so I guess it's okay. I mean, you know, that's fine. 00:05:55.630 --> 00:05:58.150 But obviously, she couldn't get through to customer service. 00:05:58.290 --> 00:06:02.990 Well, also, a bunch of this crap should just be automated. It doesn't even need a human, right? 00:06:03.190 --> 00:06:06.370 Agreed. I mean, I don't really. Well. 00:06:07.810 --> 00:06:11.890 I mean, I guess it should be. But the thing is that the system, 00:06:12.070 --> 00:06:16.730 we're not very good at building user-friendly systems. 00:06:17.110 --> 00:06:19.490 In general, for that matter. Okay. 00:06:19.490 --> 00:06:20.310 True, true. 00:06:20.310 --> 00:06:26.530 So, you know, especially when you've got a whole bunch of, I'm sure, 00:06:26.750 --> 00:06:31.210 executives, they're trying to make it difficult for you to really, 00:06:31.490 --> 00:06:34.590 okay, well, yeah, we want to sell this insurance, but come on, 00:06:34.730 --> 00:06:36.030 we really want to keep us, 00:06:36.330 --> 00:06:39.150 we really want to minimize claims. 00:06:39.590 --> 00:06:43.610 I mean, that's the way you make money in insurance. I mean, let's be clear. 00:06:43.750 --> 00:06:45.810 I mean, if you're doing insurance. 00:06:45.990 --> 00:06:47.970 I mean, that's why that guy was killed, right? 00:06:49.390 --> 00:06:56.050 Well. In his case, I'm still, let's be clear. I don't know why the hell that guy killed him. 00:06:56.550 --> 00:06:59.750 They didn't even have a policy with his insurance company. 00:06:59.930 --> 00:07:03.750 I'm still trying to figure out what the hell, you know, I mean, 00:07:03.870 --> 00:07:07.570 what created in his head a vendetta against the insurance industry. 00:07:07.950 --> 00:07:11.750 Sorry, sorry. I didn't want to move on to the real topics sooner. 00:07:11.910 --> 00:07:18.070 And we may not even talk about that. Between the surgery, between me having 00:07:18.070 --> 00:07:24.210 to be now on another round of antibiotics due to the CT scan results that I 00:07:24.210 --> 00:07:25.770 got from the previous week, 00:07:26.030 --> 00:07:29.390 between the condo board, for which I'm not going to go into details, 00:07:29.470 --> 00:07:36.070 but the bottom line is that it got to the point where the prize is not worth it. 00:07:36.890 --> 00:07:40.790 There is no point in me just... 00:07:42.450 --> 00:07:44.650 You know, there are certain battles in life that are winnable, 00:07:44.870 --> 00:07:46.270 but they're not worth the fight. 00:07:46.830 --> 00:07:51.190 And this got to a point where at this point in my life where that was one of them. 00:07:51.490 --> 00:07:55.110 And I just thought that. So I quit. I told him, fuck you, whatever. 00:07:55.370 --> 00:07:59.250 And just to remind people just last week, I asked you, why don't you quit? 00:07:59.330 --> 00:08:02.950 And you gave a whole bunch of reasons why you wouldn't. And then like a week later, you're out. 00:08:03.190 --> 00:08:10.110 Well, the reason that the, I will say that probably what tipped it to me for 00:08:10.110 --> 00:08:12.230 me, there were two things that tipped it. 00:08:12.450 --> 00:08:17.650 One was when the doctors called me and told me that I had to go back on, on medication. 00:08:19.390 --> 00:08:23.830 And I'm realizing how this is impacting my, my health in general. 00:08:24.350 --> 00:08:26.810 Okay. And I, I'm just like. 00:08:26.870 --> 00:08:30.950 Cause the, cause the, the thing you had is potentially aggravated by stress. 00:08:31.230 --> 00:08:37.170 Yes. But that doesn't help. And you know, there's a new board member that is 00:08:37.170 --> 00:08:41.910 on the board and I'm like trying to see if I could find a way to work with this person. 00:08:42.450 --> 00:08:47.550 And it became very evident within with my discussions that that just wasn't really feasible. 00:08:47.970 --> 00:08:54.670 And we've had before where we've had challenges that have come from the outside, 00:08:54.670 --> 00:08:56.250 but the board has been unified. 00:08:56.530 --> 00:09:00.630 If I got a divided board together with an outside challenge, 00:09:00.790 --> 00:09:02.230 then that makes it far more difficult. 00:09:03.210 --> 00:09:09.690 And so when, when everything just from the last time we talked about to that point piled up, 00:09:09.710 --> 00:09:15.470 I had also, I also remembered that I had made a commitment that look at some 00:09:15.470 --> 00:09:20.690 point after a lot of things that to improve the community happened, I was going to quit, 00:09:20.710 --> 00:09:26.730 but I was hoping to pass the baton to someone you liked. 00:09:27.530 --> 00:09:33.350 no no it's not that not necessarily to more qualified people and i'll say that 00:09:33.350 --> 00:09:36.090 flat out because someone you approved. 00:09:36.090 --> 00:09:37.230 Of let's put it this way. 00:09:37.230 --> 00:09:40.390 Listen i have i know people that 00:09:40.390 --> 00:09:43.570 i've worked with that are qualified that i don't necessarily like 00:09:43.570 --> 00:09:46.350 i will say flat out for example when i worked at hp 00:09:46.350 --> 00:09:50.130 i did not like mark hurd our 00:09:50.130 --> 00:09:53.190 ceo and i thought he was eminently qualified 00:09:53.190 --> 00:09:56.230 for the job at the same time so no 00:09:56.230 --> 00:10:00.190 they're not they're not they're not the same i i 00:10:00.190 --> 00:10:02.930 i think that there was a combination of both in this 00:10:02.930 --> 00:10:06.190 case and so i was just like but 00:10:06.190 --> 00:10:09.150 but you know what it wasn't worth it so so i 00:10:09.150 --> 00:10:12.170 did that but i also went on a business trip okay you 00:10:12.170 --> 00:10:15.470 know i had to go on a business trip which this was very complicated as 00:10:15.470 --> 00:10:18.510 well you know having to have like my mom 00:10:18.510 --> 00:10:21.470 be here my my my mother law be here 00:10:21.470 --> 00:10:24.290 having somebody else help our you know 00:10:24.290 --> 00:10:27.290 our our our i don't know i 00:10:27.290 --> 00:10:30.150 shouldn't call her it'd be she's she's more than a cleaning lady 00:10:30.150 --> 00:10:32.890 we have our our basically the person that comes and 00:10:32.890 --> 00:10:37.530 helps us at the house also drove manu to school a couple of days this week okay 00:10:37.530 --> 00:10:46.330 she's i mean look she's calling her a a cleaning lady is really way way way 00:10:46.330 --> 00:10:50.970 me undervaluing her work she is that does a hell of a lot more than that. 00:10:51.130 --> 00:10:53.850 She helps me organize. She helps me take care of stuff. 00:10:54.170 --> 00:10:57.910 Hell, you know what? With all this shit going on, she put up the Christmas tree. 00:10:59.110 --> 00:11:01.910 I mean, no. She's just, you know, 00:11:02.960 --> 00:11:07.360 She really takes, you know, and she is wonderful. 00:11:08.120 --> 00:11:11.520 She really likes my son too, which is great. So I'm like, you know, 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:16.560 she is like, oh, at this point, if I, if she, if she moves away or something, 00:11:16.780 --> 00:11:19.300 I'm, I'm, I'm, I'll, I'll have a fucking heart attack. 00:11:19.640 --> 00:11:23.020 Okay. All right. Because, you know, she's, she's, she's a blessing. Okay. 00:11:23.500 --> 00:11:27.540 We'll say that, you know, but, but she, but the business trip taking care of, 00:11:27.620 --> 00:11:30.980 I don't meet, you know, me flying up. I mean, come back. I have to pick them up at school. 00:11:31.100 --> 00:11:33.780 I have to take the school. I got to take care of them. I got to serve breakfast 00:11:33.780 --> 00:11:35.980 to my wife in bed. I got to serve lunch. I got to serve dinner. 00:11:37.140 --> 00:11:40.340 I had, I got, I got to try to work out fucking. 00:11:40.620 --> 00:11:43.780 I did go work out today. I haven't gone to work out in two weeks. 00:11:44.040 --> 00:11:48.380 And I said, look, I don't think it's going to be helpful to my health to not work out. 00:11:49.080 --> 00:11:53.640 So I did go work out. I made a point of doing that because I think that if I'm 00:11:53.640 --> 00:11:56.520 not healthy, then that's not helping anybody. 00:11:57.020 --> 00:11:58.680 So I'm taking my medication. 00:11:59.460 --> 00:12:03.680 I'm trying to work out. I want it worked out, but I'm exhausted, Sam. 00:12:04.020 --> 00:12:08.680 This is fucking, you know, I'm on call right now, 24 seven. 00:12:09.340 --> 00:12:10.000 Yup. Yup. 00:12:10.840 --> 00:12:13.700 So, but I will say this. 00:12:14.040 --> 00:12:14.560 Yes. 00:12:14.720 --> 00:12:18.720 I stopped popping Tylenols every day after I resigned from the board. 00:12:19.160 --> 00:12:19.700 Okay. 00:12:20.340 --> 00:12:23.440 So that was definitely the right call. Cause there's give, 00:12:23.500 --> 00:12:27.460 it was giving me a fucking tension headache and I wasn't realizing how much 00:12:27.460 --> 00:12:36.640 it was really like stress you know that how much stress it was generating good so good so i did that. 00:12:36.640 --> 00:12:40.080 Okay my turn for my but first and. 00:12:40.080 --> 00:12:46.020 This is the house on fire i forgot i forgot for god i meant to do. 00:12:46.020 --> 00:12:47.420 That no i. 00:12:47.420 --> 00:12:51.520 I mean always a way of organizing and cleaning the house is basically just uh 00:12:51.520 --> 00:12:53.080 you know burn it down burn it 00:12:53.080 --> 00:12:58.680 down i mean look nothing to take care of afterwards that's for sure there. 00:12:58.680 --> 00:13:01.520 You go nothing to worry about at all after you do that. 00:13:01.520 --> 00:13:03.700 Nah it's fine okay. 00:13:03.700 --> 00:13:09.840 No the thing i had was actually not on my agenda before we started this podcast. 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:11.240 Okay but. 00:13:11.240 --> 00:13:14.180 Now i feel like i have something to say about it. 00:13:14.740 --> 00:13:15.460 Which is? 00:13:15.680 --> 00:13:19.000 And that is Apple's center stage feature. 00:13:19.620 --> 00:13:20.220 Ow! 00:13:21.260 --> 00:13:24.720 Because, you know, if you're listening to this as a podcast later, 00:13:24.940 --> 00:13:27.480 you don't realize because it's audio only. 00:13:27.640 --> 00:13:32.740 But if you're watching on YouTube, either live or later, you'll see the video of us. 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:38.160 And Yvonne has this center stage feature turned on. And all I can say is it's 00:13:38.160 --> 00:13:39.580 just been moving constantly. 00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:44.580 The whole time we've been doing this so far, it's just constantly zooming. 00:13:44.580 --> 00:13:46.880 in, zooming out, moving to the left, moving to the right. 00:13:47.060 --> 00:13:49.300 Now, Yvonne's not moving around a lot. 00:13:49.880 --> 00:13:53.480 He's just sitting there, but it's just going wild. 00:13:53.760 --> 00:13:57.880 And I'm just like, okay, the center stage sucks. 00:13:58.220 --> 00:14:05.140 I'm getting dizzy here looking at Yvonne as the feature tries to keep him centered. 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:11.720 And again, if he was, the feature is intended to, you could move around a bit 00:14:11.720 --> 00:14:15.560 and it keeps you centered, which is fine but it's like zooming in and out and and. 00:14:15.560 --> 00:14:21.240 Even tiny movies do on tv you know you realize right that they constantly do 00:14:21.240 --> 00:14:28.540 that in order to try to like keep your attention like on what's going on i mean i feel. 00:14:28.540 --> 00:14:33.340 I feel like i'm on a boat in rough seas. 00:14:33.340 --> 00:14:38.580 Oh my goodness then i'll definitely keep then i'll definitely keep the sun from now on. 00:14:38.580 --> 00:14:44.720 For sure man no it's like you know i understand the need for the feature but 00:14:44.720 --> 00:14:50.280 it i i i have questions about the current implementation if it's moving this 00:14:50.280 --> 00:14:54.480 much when yvonne isn't moving this much like if he if he was like walking. 00:14:54.480 --> 00:14:58.640 Around or guess that the microphone has something to do with it and and yeah 00:14:58.640 --> 00:15:04.540 now you know yeah i i here we go yeah i i do think that for some reason the 00:15:04.680 --> 00:15:06.780 the i'm trying to because the. 00:15:06.780 --> 00:15:07.940 Microphone was in the image. 00:15:07.940 --> 00:15:13.260 Yeah yeah and i think that that is like kind of like messing with with it now 00:15:13.260 --> 00:15:14.940 i moved you see there you go. 00:15:14.940 --> 00:15:20.640 Yeah like if you move and it adjusts no problem but it was like you're just 00:15:20.640 --> 00:15:22.240 sitting still and it's just like. 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:27.420 There i know that there is a there there is a here i thought there was somewhere 00:15:27.420 --> 00:15:32.700 where i could adjust the zoom which obviously that would reduce how much movement it does. 00:15:33.560 --> 00:15:36.220 You don't have to spend time messing with it right now. 00:15:37.220 --> 00:15:39.940 There we go. There we go. 00:15:40.140 --> 00:15:43.580 I just wanted to complain about a silly tech feature. 00:15:43.640 --> 00:15:46.580 Yeah, actually, you know what? That's exactly what it was. 00:15:47.020 --> 00:15:47.760 What was it? 00:15:47.920 --> 00:15:51.140 It was the Zoom. I had it set to a setting that was making it. 00:15:51.320 --> 00:15:53.100 If you look now, I'm moving. 00:15:53.720 --> 00:15:54.560 Yeah, much better. 00:15:54.800 --> 00:15:56.980 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I had the Zoom setting set. 00:15:57.860 --> 00:16:02.520 I had the Zoom setting in a way that it was making it move around a lot. 00:16:02.680 --> 00:16:05.520 Because we've recorded this show with video for like a long time. 00:16:05.560 --> 00:16:07.580 And this has not been a problem for a long time. 00:16:07.680 --> 00:16:10.100 I think the very first time you got a computer with center stage, 00:16:10.100 --> 00:16:12.500 it was doing something funky. But not since then. 00:16:13.260 --> 00:16:15.320 So you were messing with the settings. 00:16:15.320 --> 00:16:21.060 I was messing with the settings. And I had it. Now that I did adjust the Zoom 00:16:21.060 --> 00:16:23.400 setting, now it's not doing that anymore. So there you go. 00:16:23.960 --> 00:16:24.260 Okay. 00:16:24.900 --> 00:16:25.640 So that's why. 00:16:26.460 --> 00:16:27.140 Do I have? 00:16:27.140 --> 00:16:33.580 Listen, you know, talking about Apple, you know, since you brought up Apple stuff. 00:16:33.720 --> 00:16:34.180 Okay, go ahead. 00:16:34.380 --> 00:16:40.200 Okay, all right. You know, a whole bunch of people, like a whole bunch of AI 00:16:40.200 --> 00:16:42.900 features Apple's been rolling out like this week specifically. 00:16:43.120 --> 00:16:43.240 Yeah. 00:16:43.480 --> 00:16:47.780 A whole bunch of different like takes on what things are doing or not. 00:16:47.940 --> 00:16:52.540 There's one that was funny. There was somebody that, and I saw this dialogue as well. 00:16:52.880 --> 00:16:57.940 There is this new Apple feature about images. I haven't I haven't played with 00:16:57.940 --> 00:17:00.820 it yet, but I but I heard, you know, how downloading. 00:17:01.240 --> 00:17:04.600 However, I will say that somebody was bitching about the dialogue because the 00:17:04.600 --> 00:17:09.780 dialogue said, hey, features are downloading over your please stay connected 00:17:09.780 --> 00:17:12.340 to the Wi-Fi to to do that. 00:17:12.400 --> 00:17:16.400 And they're like, well, I'm over Ethernet, bitch. What the fuck are you telling me about Wi-Fi? 00:17:16.660 --> 00:17:20.880 And I realize that that that dialogue is kind of like a generic dialogue that 00:17:20.880 --> 00:17:24.260 they have that I think actually the same one is on the phone when it's dialing. i. 00:17:24.260 --> 00:17:27.240 I was gonna say you're like wait on the phone no. 00:17:27.240 --> 00:17:32.020 You're talking somebody on their mac on their mac yeah so so and they were like 00:17:32.020 --> 00:17:36.360 complaining about it and it's like yeah it's you know that so they have this 00:17:36.360 --> 00:17:42.000 generic dialogue you know that just refers to wi-fi because reality is that right now most people, 00:17:42.870 --> 00:17:45.090 don't connect their computers. 00:17:45.090 --> 00:17:46.730 No hard. 00:17:46.730 --> 00:17:48.970 Connected to to an ethernet port. 00:17:48.970 --> 00:17:49.870 It's just that's. 00:17:49.870 --> 00:17:50.850 An oddity now. 00:17:50.850 --> 00:17:55.130 Not not if it's like if you have a specific reason 00:17:55.130 --> 00:17:57.990 where it matters to you like i know like some 00:17:57.990 --> 00:18:01.470 hardcore gamers always want to be directly on ethernet like 00:18:01.470 --> 00:18:04.670 blah blah blah there's some other use cases where 00:18:04.670 --> 00:18:07.630 it really matters but for the most part for 00:18:07.630 --> 00:18:10.730 normal usage like it doesn't 00:18:10.730 --> 00:18:15.490 matter it doesn't matter and why would you bother i mean even if even for a 00:18:15.490 --> 00:18:19.390 desktop computer but honestly desktop computers are much rarer now than they 00:18:19.390 --> 00:18:22.950 used to be most people like if you're thinking about having a new computer you 00:18:22.950 --> 00:18:28.490 got a laptop look i have mine you connected you have a you have a desktop you i do have a that. 00:18:28.490 --> 00:18:31.730 I do have a studio but but the reason more than anything that i have a connected 00:18:31.730 --> 00:18:34.610 is because it's super convenient i mean the hub is like right there it's not. 00:18:34.610 --> 00:18:35.370 Exactly Like. 00:18:35.510 --> 00:18:37.330 I mean, you know, it's not like 00:18:37.330 --> 00:18:42.310 I'm having to like run, do an ethernet run somewhere, whatever, whatnot. 00:18:42.490 --> 00:18:44.630 No, it's, I mean, the thing's right there. And I'm like, okay, 00:18:44.710 --> 00:18:48.430 well, why the hell not when I plug it in, when it's going to be obviously when 00:18:48.430 --> 00:18:49.810 it's right there, but it's right there. 00:18:50.110 --> 00:18:54.450 But like, honestly, most people like, you know, this last time I got a computer, 00:18:54.450 --> 00:18:57.950 I got a laptop and I'm using it as a desktop, right? 00:18:58.210 --> 00:19:04.650 90, 90% plus of the time I'm using it as a desktop. I have it plugged in to 00:19:04.650 --> 00:19:10.610 a full-size keyboard, a mouse, three monitors, some external hard drives, blah, blah, blah, but, 00:19:11.330 --> 00:19:14.210 I can unplug it and go sit on the couch whenever I feel like it. 00:19:14.510 --> 00:19:14.590 Right. 00:19:14.690 --> 00:19:17.630 You know, and it gives you that flexibility and blah, blah, blah. 00:19:17.930 --> 00:19:21.110 Could I have gotten a desktop only set up for less? 00:19:21.950 --> 00:19:26.910 Yes. I mean, I could have also spent just as much and gotten a more powerful desktop. 00:19:27.310 --> 00:19:27.510 Sure. 00:19:28.170 --> 00:19:34.890 But like it's with the trade-offs, at this point, it just makes sense most of the time. 00:19:34.890 --> 00:19:42.210 Now, honestly, like, would I have thought differently if like the most recently 00:19:42.210 --> 00:19:47.170 released laptop was older and the most recently released desktop was newer? 00:19:47.410 --> 00:19:51.590 Maybe like it just happened at the time I was buying it. It was the reverse of that. 00:19:51.830 --> 00:19:58.030 But, you know, we're we're we're buying my wife a replacement computer probably any time now. 00:19:58.350 --> 00:20:02.350 And she's also going to do a laptop and do the same thing with a setup so that 00:20:02.350 --> 00:20:06.150 she can plug it into her desk because it just makes sense. It like gives you 00:20:06.150 --> 00:20:07.270 that additional flexibility. 00:20:07.670 --> 00:20:12.250 Like if you have both, if you have a desktop and a laptop, then, oh, okay. 00:20:12.510 --> 00:20:15.650 Then maybe, yeah, it makes sense to also have the desk. 00:20:15.810 --> 00:20:19.310 Like it depends on your use cases and what you're going to be using it for. 00:20:19.450 --> 00:20:22.050 But of course, having both costs more money than having one. 00:20:23.870 --> 00:20:26.950 And it's really like, if you're going to go for the desktop, 00:20:27.190 --> 00:20:34.150 the pure desktop, it's like, okay, do you really have the use case that is 100% 00:20:34.150 --> 00:20:38.270 Like you are going to put it in one place and that's where you're always going to use it. 00:20:38.410 --> 00:20:41.450 And you know that and you never need the flexibility, you know? 00:20:42.070 --> 00:20:46.450 So I don't know. And so and of course, once you're like in a laptop configuration, 00:20:46.450 --> 00:20:52.470 I mean, I suppose you could like have your docking situation set up to switch 00:20:52.470 --> 00:20:53.830 to Ethernet when you're docked. 00:20:53.910 --> 00:20:56.450 But like for the most part, I mean, the default is wireless. 00:20:56.610 --> 00:20:59.430 The default is wireless for everything, even if you've got the desktop. 00:20:59.690 --> 00:21:00.890 Like you said, you're convenient. 00:21:02.070 --> 00:21:05.610 you're it's right there i mean it's right there like like less than. 00:21:05.610 --> 00:21:10.090 A foot and a half away but if i had to but right if i had to if it was in another 00:21:10.090 --> 00:21:13.250 room where there wasn't an ethernet run right now i wouldn't do it. 00:21:13.250 --> 00:21:17.090 Yeah you just use the wireless you wouldn't bother running no no. 00:21:17.090 --> 00:21:18.390 No no i don't think so no no. 00:21:18.390 --> 00:21:21.190 Yeah and and i think that's true 00:21:21.190 --> 00:21:28.170 for for most folks like you know i don't know like my my i finally like my my 00:21:28.170 --> 00:21:33.590 daughter for a while did end up using a wired connection into her desktop computer 00:21:33.590 --> 00:21:39.130 because she was using it for games and she was constantly complaining about like you know well. 00:21:39.130 --> 00:21:40.570 Dropouts and stuff yeah. 00:21:40.570 --> 00:21:44.710 Well not because yeah lag lag 00:21:44.710 --> 00:21:47.550 dropouts just like and things 00:21:47.550 --> 00:21:50.330 that like for my usage like i would never 00:21:50.330 --> 00:21:53.470 even notice like if i'm watching like streaming video it's 00:21:53.470 --> 00:21:56.430 all buffered and i would never even notice like if it 00:21:56.430 --> 00:21:59.590 hiccuped for a half a second or something but if 00:21:59.590 --> 00:22:02.890 she's playing a you know live internet 00:22:02.890 --> 00:22:06.050 game with people all over the world and she 00:22:06.050 --> 00:22:11.450 has that kind of glitch then she gets annoyed so right of course of course unlike 00:22:11.450 --> 00:22:16.850 you who would worry about like properly running a cable i i just have a cable 00:22:16.850 --> 00:22:18.290 running across the floor through 00:22:18.290 --> 00:22:25.430 the hallway down the hall into her room yeah i i you know i i don't no no. 00:22:25.430 --> 00:22:28.110 No no no no i i i you. 00:22:28.110 --> 00:22:28.650 Know the. 00:22:28.650 --> 00:22:31.650 Ethernet cable that's here i had to 00:22:31.650 --> 00:22:35.410 do it the the actual box 00:22:35.410 --> 00:22:38.470 that has the fiber coming into the house 00:22:38.470 --> 00:22:41.470 is in a hallway okay and so 00:22:41.470 --> 00:22:45.170 the thing is that for me to even like set 00:22:45.170 --> 00:22:47.970 up my wi-fi router and other stuff or whatever there just 00:22:47.970 --> 00:22:50.630 wasn't really a place for there in the 00:22:50.630 --> 00:22:53.410 hallway it was just it was just a i could have but it 00:22:53.410 --> 00:22:56.110 was just it was inconvenient and so 00:22:56.110 --> 00:22:59.990 i had somebody go and run an ethernet cable 00:22:59.990 --> 00:23:05.450 from that location where no matter what what service came in this is the place 00:23:05.450 --> 00:23:11.550 where everything came into the house from you know from outside okay cables 00:23:11.550 --> 00:23:16.990 wise whether it was cable tv whatever so i just had him look run i need a. 00:23:16.990 --> 00:23:20.150 Cable from there is all about 00:23:20.150 --> 00:23:23.630 cable management and making the cables invisible i'm all 00:23:23.630 --> 00:23:28.570 about the massive tangle of cables where everything is accessible at all times 00:23:28.570 --> 00:23:32.790 and i can change it at will but when i do want to change it i have to untangle 00:23:32.790 --> 00:23:38.610 everything because it's all like you know a huge mass of random wires all like 00:23:38.610 --> 00:23:42.430 scattered all over my desk you know so yeah anyway. 00:23:43.220 --> 00:23:47.980 I will say the cable management is okay right now. It could be better. 00:23:48.900 --> 00:23:53.640 I mean, I do have like, because I did set on my 2-EA table. 00:23:53.640 --> 00:23:57.060 I will say when I got the new microphone a couple weeks ago, 00:23:57.060 --> 00:24:05.400 I did make sure the cable for that one was attached to the little arm that I have the microphone on. 00:24:05.400 --> 00:24:05.840 There you go. 00:24:05.960 --> 00:24:10.380 And then routed behind the computer. Now, it's not all taped or whatever, 00:24:10.440 --> 00:24:13.060 but it's not just hanging straight down from my microphone. 00:24:13.220 --> 00:24:17.800 Well, the one thing I said that I, a big thing I did is that there are like 00:24:17.800 --> 00:24:21.620 on this desk, on this desk, there are places where you can like, 00:24:21.800 --> 00:24:25.140 you know, so to put the cables through, go hidden. 00:24:25.280 --> 00:24:29.260 But, but also I had three power strips put in on the, on the table itself. 00:24:29.720 --> 00:24:33.920 So that way I don't have to be like hunting for a plug or something or whatever. 00:24:33.920 --> 00:24:40.380 there are on the desk there are there are there are plugs that are easily accessible. 00:24:40.380 --> 00:24:41.540 For anybody. 00:24:41.540 --> 00:24:45.060 To get which is very convenient at this point but anyway. 00:24:45.060 --> 00:24:48.380 All right shall we shall we take a break and move on yeah. 00:24:48.380 --> 00:24:48.920 We need to. 00:24:48.920 --> 00:24:53.600 Okay we will take a break and when we come back we will have a little bit more 00:24:53.600 --> 00:25:01.620 serious more newsy topics starting with yvonne picking but first here is popular. 00:25:01.860 --> 00:25:04.580 Yeah, Yvonne's camera swinging around again. 00:25:06.200 --> 00:25:11.940 Okay, here, this break. He's trying to make me dizzy. He's intentionally trying to make me dizzy. 00:25:13.020 --> 00:25:16.700 Okay, this break is popular wiki of the day. Here you go. 00:25:17.480 --> 00:25:21.040 Do do do. Hello, this is Noral Sally. 00:25:21.360 --> 00:25:25.060 I'm here to let you know about Sam the Curmudgeon's other podcast, 00:25:25.280 --> 00:25:27.080 the Wiki of the Day podcasts. 00:25:27.360 --> 00:25:32.420 Wiki of the Day comes in three varieties, popular, random, and featured. 00:25:32.840 --> 00:25:38.180 Each highlights a new Wikipedia article each day, they just pick the articles differently. 00:25:38.440 --> 00:25:43.460 This week on popular Wiki of the Day, you would have heard this summary for Kshamuraju. 00:25:44.620 --> 00:25:51.620 Kshamuraju, born May 29, 2006, also known as Kshdi, is an Indian chess grandmaster 00:25:51.620 --> 00:25:53.540 and the reigning world chess champion. 00:25:53.800 --> 00:25:58.500 He is the youngest undisputed world chess champion in the history of the game. 00:25:58.660 --> 00:26:03.240 A chess prodigy, Ksh is the youngest player to have surpassed a FIDE rating 00:26:03.240 --> 00:26:06.660 of 2,750, doing so at the age of 00:26:06.660 --> 00:26:12.040 17, and was the third youngest to have surpassed 2,700 at the age of 16. 00:26:12.420 --> 00:26:17.120 He earned the title of Grandmaster at the age of 12 and remains the third youngest 00:26:17.120 --> 00:26:19.180 Grandmaster in the history of chess. 00:26:19.380 --> 00:26:24.460 He won a team gold and an individual gold medal at the 45th Chess Olympiad in 00:26:24.460 --> 00:26:31.480 2024, as well as a team bronze and an individual gold medal at the 44th Chess Olympiad in 2022. 00:26:31.920 --> 00:26:36.880 At the age of 18, he became the youngest candidates tournament winner and, 00:26:37.100 --> 00:26:43.080 subsequently, the World Chess Champion by defeating Dingler in 7.5-6.5 at the 00:26:43.080 --> 00:26:45.080 World Chess Championship 2024. 00:26:45.680 --> 00:26:50.780 At the junior level, he is a multiple gold medalist at the World Youth Championship 00:26:50.780 --> 00:26:53.140 and the Asian Youth Chess Championship. 00:26:53.500 --> 00:26:56.640 Gush is also a silver medalist at the Asian Games. 00:26:57.100 --> 00:27:04.060 That's all there is to it. 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It's quite thin. 00:27:43.680 --> 00:27:47.620 No, I said maybe we wouldn't. I said, I didn't know whether we were going to 00:27:47.620 --> 00:27:50.860 talk about the CEO killer again this week or not. We did mention him a little 00:27:50.860 --> 00:27:52.840 bit last week, but they caught the guy this week. 00:27:53.040 --> 00:27:55.520 So, well, I will. 00:27:55.600 --> 00:27:58.540 Is that your topic? Is that what you want to talk about next? Go ahead. 00:27:58.580 --> 00:27:58.720 Yeah. 00:27:58.820 --> 00:27:59.240 Go, go. 00:28:00.080 --> 00:28:01.080 I think that. 00:28:01.120 --> 00:28:01.820 So what's the update? 00:28:02.380 --> 00:28:08.240 I mean, there's not much of it. Well, the main update. Okay. They caught the guy. 00:28:10.360 --> 00:28:14.660 And he doesn't even have United. He didn't even have United healthcare insurance. 00:28:15.380 --> 00:28:17.480 So he did have a chronic back issue. 00:28:17.660 --> 00:28:23.340 He did have a chronic back issue. but like maybe he was rejected by some other company. 00:28:23.940 --> 00:28:29.460 He did not come from a, he, no, he was a family of means. It's not, there is. 00:28:29.620 --> 00:28:35.500 You know, I was going to say that it's not like, even if the insurance company 00:28:35.500 --> 00:28:41.020 did screw him, he comes from a background where they could probably have absorbed 00:28:41.020 --> 00:28:42.780 the cost. They were a fairly wealthy family. 00:28:42.940 --> 00:28:45.200 If I remember, they were a fairly wealthy family. So that, that, 00:28:45.200 --> 00:28:47.640 that wasn't a consideration. 00:28:49.460 --> 00:28:51.040 now and prominent. 00:28:51.040 --> 00:28:53.200 Too like there were like elected political. 00:28:53.200 --> 00:28:55.460 Officials in maryland and such yes that are. 00:28:55.460 --> 00:28:56.060 Related to him. 00:28:56.060 --> 00:29:02.440 I mean that doesn't mean that a person can't be radicalized about a subject 00:29:02.440 --> 00:29:08.200 yes which seems to be the case but i i will say that the, 00:29:09.380 --> 00:29:16.380 the thing that most disturbed has disturbed me and i've seen already some discussions 00:29:16.380 --> 00:29:23.040 devolve into really contentious discussions related to the assassination of this guy, 00:29:24.020 --> 00:29:27.340 is how many people are like... 00:29:27.340 --> 00:29:28.040 Rah, rah, good. 00:29:28.520 --> 00:29:29.920 Yeah, yes. 00:29:31.220 --> 00:29:35.640 And I mean, I've heard a middle position as well, which is like, 00:29:35.740 --> 00:29:38.780 there's the rah, rah, good. Glad it happened, folks. 00:29:39.480 --> 00:29:42.880 There's the, oh my God, what are you talking about? Murder is bad. 00:29:43.000 --> 00:29:44.860 This is only harmful, blah, blah, blah. 00:29:45.040 --> 00:29:50.840 The middle position is sort of like, Well, of course, murder is bad and it's 00:29:50.840 --> 00:29:56.220 probably counterintuitive, but maybe don't live your life in such a way that 00:29:56.220 --> 00:29:59.020 when you're murdered, like half the country is like. 00:29:59.200 --> 00:30:04.780 Oh, well, you know, this is my problem. The problem is that this is a. 00:30:05.780 --> 00:30:09.100 And we did talk a little bit about this last week, but let's keep going. 00:30:09.100 --> 00:30:17.960 But the thing is that I find the judgment very... 00:30:20.590 --> 00:30:31.190 That it doesn't really look at how the world is in terms of how many leaders, 00:30:31.190 --> 00:30:41.570 people in industries and things make decisions of all sorts that result in eventually 00:30:41.570 --> 00:30:46.510 people one way or another dying or injured. 00:30:46.510 --> 00:30:54.350 And that there is no, probably no one, no leader on, no president, 00:30:54.730 --> 00:31:01.510 no, no leader of any large organization that doesn't do decisions that are harmful. 00:31:01.770 --> 00:31:09.050 And my whole thing is that when, where is your line to which ones are okay to just murder or not? 00:31:09.150 --> 00:31:14.110 Because you're jumping up and down and saying, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, good. 00:31:14.270 --> 00:31:17.650 He's dead. And I'm like, okay, so where are you drawing the line? 00:31:18.030 --> 00:31:21.410 What's your line? I mean, because here's the thing. I'm one that's opposed to 00:31:21.410 --> 00:31:22.890 the death penalty. Okay. 00:31:23.510 --> 00:31:26.430 I'm one that, so if you're opposed to the death penalty. 00:31:26.630 --> 00:31:32.090 We have talked before about how upset you were about the execution of Saddam 00:31:32.090 --> 00:31:33.730 Hussein. Oh, you remember. 00:31:34.250 --> 00:31:39.550 And we have talked about on this show how neither one of us were entirely comfortable 00:31:39.550 --> 00:31:44.470 with how the bin Laden thing went down either. How it would have been better if we captured him. 00:31:44.750 --> 00:31:45.050 Yes. 00:31:45.710 --> 00:31:47.870 You know, and so, yes. 00:31:48.030 --> 00:31:51.790 So if I don't, if I'm not comfortable with any of those, why the fuck would 00:31:51.790 --> 00:31:54.850 I be comfortable with this? And why are so many people comfortable with it? 00:31:55.110 --> 00:31:58.590 I just don't, and no, and no, beyond gleeful. 00:31:59.370 --> 00:32:02.530 I understand the, the, 00:32:04.240 --> 00:32:09.060 I understand more than most of these people how difficult it is to deal with 00:32:09.060 --> 00:32:11.900 insurance companies because for full disclosure, and I guess I haven't discussed 00:32:11.900 --> 00:32:13.820 this before, but the subject is whatever. 00:32:14.120 --> 00:32:14.960 You mentioned it a little bit before. 00:32:14.980 --> 00:32:19.000 I mentioned it a little bit, but let me be clear. The reason my father went 00:32:19.000 --> 00:32:25.660 to jail specifically was because of issues with health insurance companies. 00:32:25.660 --> 00:32:35.220 And his grievance with the health insurers was that, and I will say that the 00:32:35.220 --> 00:32:37.800 grievance itself was valid. His solution was the problem. 00:32:38.180 --> 00:32:44.860 His grievance was that insurers had decided that, well, we're getting squeezed 00:32:44.860 --> 00:32:47.640 by cost. So here's our solution. 00:32:47.980 --> 00:32:51.360 You're a pharmacist and you're selling drug X. 00:32:51.640 --> 00:32:59.860 Drug X costs $5. It used to be, we would pay you to dispense the drug $5 plus 30%. 00:33:00.480 --> 00:33:04.040 Okay. Cover your cost, overhead, profit, whatever, you know, so you get that. 00:33:04.300 --> 00:33:08.540 So then one day they said, well, we'll pay you five plus 15%. 00:33:09.440 --> 00:33:14.360 Okay. And these numbers are close to reality. I'm not, I'm not making these 00:33:14.360 --> 00:33:16.620 numbers up. We'll pay you five plus 15. 00:33:17.720 --> 00:33:25.060 Ah, that's too much. we'll pay you 5% plus 0% plus a $4 dispensing fee, 00:33:25.140 --> 00:33:27.320 no matter what the price of the drug is. 00:33:28.320 --> 00:33:33.700 Okay? So if the drug is $1,000, you make $4. Okay? 00:33:34.660 --> 00:33:38.420 Ah, nah, nah. That's too generous. We're going to pay you... 00:33:38.420 --> 00:33:40.580 Oh, the average wholesale price. 00:33:40.700 --> 00:33:46.840 There is a publication that shows these. Average wholesale prices for drugs. 00:33:48.250 --> 00:33:54.830 We'll pay you the average wholesale price minus 10%, minus 10%, right? Okay. 00:33:55.270 --> 00:33:59.550 So you have to be, you know, by the way, very difficult to get that. 00:33:59.750 --> 00:34:03.150 Oh no, we'll pay you now average wholesale price minus 15%. 00:34:03.910 --> 00:34:09.730 So the insurance companies decided, well, the problem, the way to solve our 00:34:09.730 --> 00:34:17.230 problems is just to just say, oh, you, you want to, you want to do business with us. 00:34:17.230 --> 00:34:19.550 you have to treat us as a lost leader. 00:34:20.090 --> 00:34:24.130 So the only companies that could do that are major chains. And they could also 00:34:24.130 --> 00:34:29.850 negotiate with the drug companies to sell them the drugs at discounts that would offset these things. 00:34:30.790 --> 00:34:36.450 And so it's a very difficult environment. It's a very difficult environment. They go and they do that. 00:34:36.770 --> 00:34:40.190 And my father, because he was very aggrieved about this, went about a way to 00:34:40.190 --> 00:34:43.230 try to solve this in a way that wound up landing him in jail. And for good reason. 00:34:43.950 --> 00:34:44.110 Okay. 00:34:44.870 --> 00:34:49.410 You know what? I... And by the way, one of the insurers, yeah, 00:34:49.470 --> 00:34:51.750 it was bought by UnitedHealthcare. And you know what? 00:34:52.370 --> 00:34:59.410 I still think that it's preposterous and ridiculous to be okay with the murder 00:34:59.410 --> 00:35:02.690 of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, even though they landed my dad in jail. 00:35:02.870 --> 00:35:09.330 So everybody here that goes, oh, you know, whatever, which for the most part, 00:35:09.510 --> 00:35:15.590 most people have not had relatives die in the hands of health insurers. 00:35:16.070 --> 00:35:18.910 Okay. And they go and they give me this shit. 00:35:19.610 --> 00:35:26.090 And I've spent literally the last 20, 30 years because I had to take over my dad's business. 00:35:26.310 --> 00:35:30.970 I got deposed by the insurers nonstop because they were going after the company. 00:35:31.230 --> 00:35:35.690 And I had to wind up in court, spent probably back then. Jesus Christ. 00:35:35.930 --> 00:35:39.250 I would be retired by now if I had spent probably a couple of hundred thousand 00:35:39.250 --> 00:35:41.870 dollars in legal fees back then in the 90s. 00:35:43.340 --> 00:35:51.540 You know, literally went bankrupt. You know, I mean, we literally went bankrupt over this. 00:35:52.180 --> 00:35:55.880 So what people tell me all these grievances that they've got, 00:35:55.980 --> 00:36:00.960 and I've had to afterwards fight for my son's coverage, fight for this, fight for that. 00:36:01.140 --> 00:36:03.920 I've spent literally 30 years fighting the insurance companies. 00:36:04.820 --> 00:36:08.720 And all these fucking people saying this. 00:36:09.640 --> 00:36:18.000 I'm sorry, that's not the solution. The problems in the system are it's in many cases, man, 00:36:18.420 --> 00:36:21.340 it's not even a fucking, you know, the insurance companies to a certain way, 00:36:21.520 --> 00:36:26.520 they are a vehicle to institute a lot of fucked up policies. 00:36:26.820 --> 00:36:30.800 OK, because one of the biggest problems that you've got with with insurance 00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:34.160 is that right now, mostly it's employer provided. 00:36:34.500 --> 00:36:40.080 OK, I or the government pays for it. So you've got to a couple of perverse things 00:36:40.080 --> 00:36:45.740 going on here, because, by the way, the companies decide in most cases what 00:36:45.740 --> 00:36:48.660 is covered by the insurance plan. 00:36:48.860 --> 00:36:49.940 You mean the employers? 00:36:50.280 --> 00:36:51.920 The employer. The employer. 00:36:52.620 --> 00:36:53.000 Right. 00:36:53.240 --> 00:37:01.640 Okay. And the insurance company is there just to enforce what the employer said that they will cover. 00:37:01.640 --> 00:37:09.060 So many of those decisions wind up at the employer's feet. 00:37:09.400 --> 00:37:16.520 Now, the Affordable Care Act did put a lot of locks and restrictions. 00:37:16.980 --> 00:37:24.180 So this wouldn't be as draconian as it was because people, well, 00:37:24.360 --> 00:37:25.540 nobody remembers anything. 00:37:25.540 --> 00:37:33.620 Matt, before the ACA, the fucking restrictions that companies could put on insurance were nuts. 00:37:34.120 --> 00:37:39.660 No preventive care. You wouldn't get a dime, you know, no preventive care. 00:37:39.780 --> 00:37:43.520 You would not get covered for any preventive, you know, I know so many plans 00:37:43.520 --> 00:37:47.300 that would not cover any preventive care at all, at all. 00:37:48.300 --> 00:37:53.780 Which one of those things, by the way, this is one of those rules that makes 00:37:53.780 --> 00:37:58.960 sense from a money-making perspective, potentially, but is completely backwards 00:37:58.960 --> 00:38:01.080 from an optimizing healthcare perspective. 00:38:01.220 --> 00:38:06.660 Exactly. For the nation. That's correct. Yes. Absolutely. Okay? No preventive care. 00:38:07.880 --> 00:38:11.480 Lifetime limits. So what the fuck does that mean, a lifetime limit? 00:38:12.020 --> 00:38:13.260 Say you got a chronic disease. 00:38:13.860 --> 00:38:17.380 You got to. The insurance company spent a million dollars. 00:38:17.800 --> 00:38:23.180 They would say, oh, no, you're fucked. We're not covering another dime. See ya. Bye. 00:38:24.120 --> 00:38:27.260 You know, you're fucked. Die. See you later. 00:38:28.970 --> 00:38:33.370 which is one of the reasons why so many people used to go a lot more often bankrupt 00:38:33.370 --> 00:38:36.750 from medical care in the past. 00:38:37.490 --> 00:38:40.950 And by the way, it still happens more in this country than anywhere else in the world. 00:38:40.970 --> 00:38:43.190 But it happens a lot less as the affordable care. 00:38:43.390 --> 00:38:43.490 Yes. 00:38:43.610 --> 00:38:50.550 Okay. Pre-existing conditions. Oh, you have this, you're moving over to us. 00:38:50.790 --> 00:38:52.690 Ah, you're fucked. You're not getting covered. 00:38:53.990 --> 00:39:00.270 There are so many perverse things, But there and there's still a lot of perverse 00:39:00.270 --> 00:39:02.490 things, unfortunately, that are still going on. 00:39:02.910 --> 00:39:07.250 You know, there was there was an article recently about they were talking about 00:39:07.250 --> 00:39:10.910 certain practices the United Health Care does for Medicaid specifically. 00:39:11.570 --> 00:39:16.350 OK, related to how they get contracted to manage Medicaid in certain states. 00:39:16.490 --> 00:39:17.630 And one of the things that they do. 00:39:18.430 --> 00:39:24.370 So so the way that a statement, this is one way of doing it instead of paying for actual costs. 00:39:24.370 --> 00:39:27.890 okay which a lot of employers for example 00:39:27.890 --> 00:39:30.590 i know that i believe that my company and a few companies that i've worked 00:39:30.590 --> 00:39:33.650 for the the insurance administers the 00:39:33.650 --> 00:39:38.530 plan but they only pay actual expenses okay so so they pay a management fee 00:39:38.530 --> 00:39:45.070 to the insurer okay and then they they will pay what actually is spent okay 00:39:45.070 --> 00:39:49.250 so and which is a reason why of course they have that there are certain incentives 00:39:49.250 --> 00:39:51.970 to save money, which is this is where this whole thing gets perverse. 00:39:52.190 --> 00:39:56.590 OK, and so but with Medicaid, it also happens in a way where, 00:39:56.830 --> 00:40:00.370 OK, we're going to give you a your Medicaid for the state of Georgia. 00:40:00.830 --> 00:40:03.230 You're going to cover this area here. 00:40:03.770 --> 00:40:06.270 There's 300,000 Medicaid recipients. 00:40:06.950 --> 00:40:15.430 We're going to pay you $50 a month to manage their care and you get to manage the care. 00:40:15.430 --> 00:40:21.570 And so, because there is this number of subscribers at a price, 00:40:21.590 --> 00:40:25.030 they obviously have an incentive to... 00:40:26.020 --> 00:40:29.140 You know, cut costs as much as possible. So they get to keep most more, 00:40:29.280 --> 00:40:31.980 more of those $50 that are getting given every month. 00:40:32.780 --> 00:40:37.520 And, and, and the thing is, in many of these, they don't have enough health 00:40:37.520 --> 00:40:43.540 outcome targets that prevent them from saying, well, fuck this shit. 00:40:43.700 --> 00:40:48.620 Well, we'll, oh, they'll say what they cover, right? Oh, we'll cover this, this, this, and this. 00:40:48.900 --> 00:40:53.320 But there aren't enough locks in how difficult they make it to access the coverage many times. 00:40:53.820 --> 00:40:59.160 So you see, oh man, And you see so many doctors right now refusing to take Medicaid 00:40:59.160 --> 00:41:03.780 because of this, because they're like, man, they don't pay enough. 00:41:03.980 --> 00:41:05.540 We can't take these patients. 00:41:06.140 --> 00:41:10.700 We're just, you know, we're not going to take them. They're not paying us enough. 00:41:10.840 --> 00:41:14.240 I can't make, you know, we can't do this. 00:41:14.760 --> 00:41:19.180 So the thing is that if they measured however more health outcomes, 00:41:19.460 --> 00:41:22.960 hey, this population right now has this 00:41:22.960 --> 00:41:25.740 incidence of diabetes this incidence of 00:41:25.740 --> 00:41:29.040 this we have this many hospitalizations we 00:41:29.040 --> 00:41:31.820 have this you know there are certain metrics because 00:41:31.820 --> 00:41:34.800 hospitalizations can also get tricky metric because hey what 00:41:34.800 --> 00:41:37.540 do you do oh don't let him go into a fucking hospital let's just throw him 00:41:37.540 --> 00:41:40.700 out right you have to you know 00:41:40.700 --> 00:41:43.580 anyway so yeah so there are 00:41:43.580 --> 00:41:47.100 all these perverse things in the entire system that 00:41:47.100 --> 00:41:50.060 make it that that you wind 00:41:50.060 --> 00:41:53.000 up with the system and look the aca tried to do a lot of things 00:41:53.000 --> 00:41:56.140 to to do this well hell hillary care 00:41:56.140 --> 00:41:59.280 was going to do a hell of a lot more to do 00:41:59.280 --> 00:42:07.240 that but the reality is that that i mean when obama went to do this you know 00:42:07.240 --> 00:42:11.660 he did a lot and as usual and as i've learned my experience is that you can 00:42:11.660 --> 00:42:15.280 do a whole lot to make people's lives better and Like a lot of people just won't 00:42:15.280 --> 00:42:18.060 fucking appreciate it or really understand that you're the person that did it. 00:42:18.960 --> 00:42:23.120 You know, this is, this is where we are right now. And the system is perverse. Okay. 00:42:23.340 --> 00:42:26.640 And, and I think that a lot of times laying blame on the, 00:42:26.940 --> 00:42:31.480 many times I feel that the insurance companies are the ones that are kind of 00:42:31.480 --> 00:42:36.900 like, uh, in the middle of all of this because men, you know, Hey, 00:42:37.120 --> 00:42:43.080 what better way of shifting the blame from me doing anything as a government I don't know. 00:42:43.840 --> 00:42:48.020 Than to hire them to run it. And so they take all the slings and shots. 00:42:48.800 --> 00:42:49.240 Okay. 00:42:50.060 --> 00:42:54.620 You know. It's just a fucked up system. 00:42:55.800 --> 00:42:56.940 Agreed. Agreed. No. 00:42:57.460 --> 00:43:01.380 And if we start deciding. Well where do we start the murder list. 00:43:01.800 --> 00:43:07.380 Of all the blame. Then you know what. Maybe you can start with a fucking GOP. 00:43:07.600 --> 00:43:11.960 Assholes who fucking block any meaningful health reform. Over the last 40 years. 00:43:12.200 --> 00:43:14.900 How about we start with those. if you want to start a murder list, 00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:16.520 okay? And I'm not advocating one. 00:43:16.700 --> 00:43:19.180 I was going to say, let's not go there. 00:43:19.340 --> 00:43:20.540 I'm not advocating one. 00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:26.760 But you could still say, and I've heard people argue about UnitedHealth versus 00:43:26.760 --> 00:43:28.520 the other insurance companies. 00:43:29.240 --> 00:43:35.340 UnitedHealth has a reputation for being especially ruthless even in comparison to their competition. 00:43:35.340 --> 00:43:39.000 Oh, fucking bullshit. I have UnitedHealthcare right now. Let me tell you something. 00:43:39.240 --> 00:43:43.180 I've had United. I've had Aetna. I've had Cigna. I've had, listen, 00:43:43.300 --> 00:43:45.120 I've had everybody bullshit. 00:43:45.400 --> 00:43:52.040 Listen, my experience has been with UnitedHealthcare that they have compared 00:43:52.040 --> 00:43:54.240 to like about the last five insurers. 00:43:54.800 --> 00:43:58.420 They have made it easier for me to submit claims. They have, 00:43:58.520 --> 00:44:03.800 they actually recently, okay, went and there was like, there was a thing with 00:44:03.800 --> 00:44:06.540 my son's speech therapy where all of a sudden they were paying me different. 00:44:06.540 --> 00:44:09.540 they have they have assigned care 00:44:09.540 --> 00:44:12.440 advisors and they have somebody that went 00:44:12.440 --> 00:44:15.320 and like fought my case for about four or five months 00:44:15.320 --> 00:44:19.000 and get they gave me my money back and 00:44:19.000 --> 00:44:22.420 i didn't even do anything other than call them up and say hey this 00:44:22.420 --> 00:44:25.980 is wrong this isn't the way and they said no well you know what we're gonna 00:44:25.980 --> 00:44:29.320 we're gonna file a case we're gonna do this we're gonna do that and they gave 00:44:29.320 --> 00:44:32.880 my fucking money back i had a whole bunch of other smaller insurers basically 00:44:32.880 --> 00:44:37.360 like told me to go fuck myself over stuff and that they didn't make it easy 00:44:37.360 --> 00:44:41.740 for you to submit a claim or they paid or they processed them late or they never processed. I mean. 00:44:42.670 --> 00:44:47.890 I will say that in terms of admin, that UnitedHealthcare is far superior than 00:44:47.890 --> 00:44:50.210 most of their bigger competitors, okay? 00:44:50.710 --> 00:44:55.490 The doctors, the people that have told me more that UnitedHealthcare is more 00:44:55.490 --> 00:44:58.910 ruthless, it's more on their end is with doctors, okay? 00:44:59.330 --> 00:45:05.710 But in terms of the consumer, I will say that having had them the last. 00:45:07.250 --> 00:45:13.170 You know, I've had them, you know, I've had so many freaking providers that 00:45:13.170 --> 00:45:17.850 honestly they've been the one that's been the easiest to work with and so i'm like you know, 00:45:18.610 --> 00:45:21.730 i i shit man 00:45:21.730 --> 00:45:26.370 i'm like man you guys are pissed off at united healthcare but you're man i mean 00:45:26.370 --> 00:45:35.310 i'm sorry but blue cross is worse etna's worse why i go after those guys i i 00:45:35.310 --> 00:45:39.890 don't i i just It was just very arbitrary. 00:45:40.310 --> 00:45:48.390 Okay, first of all, like we've said this before, how the death sentence is very arbitrary in general. 00:45:48.450 --> 00:45:51.890 It's why I'm not for a fucking death sentence. 00:45:52.470 --> 00:45:54.550 It's always been arbitrary. 00:45:55.150 --> 00:45:57.490 It's never executed fairly. 00:45:57.770 --> 00:46:02.150 And I'll add, the only real, like... 00:46:03.250 --> 00:46:10.050 If, if what you're after is revenge. Okay. Like I see that, but if you're actually. 00:46:10.190 --> 00:46:11.990 But this guy wasn't even after revenge. 00:46:12.170 --> 00:46:15.770 That was not, but I'm saying more generally, 00:46:16.110 --> 00:46:20.250 like in terms of this one, but also death penalty writ large, 00:46:20.410 --> 00:46:27.090 also just hell violent solutions to problems writ large, including most wars, you know, 00:46:27.410 --> 00:46:32.570 almost always the violence actually ends up making things worse. 00:46:32.570 --> 00:46:36.410 not actually improving the situation and solving the problem. 00:46:36.710 --> 00:46:39.870 You know, you may eventually get to something, 00:46:40.090 --> 00:46:46.490 but I'm not convinced there's very many situations at all where the violence 00:46:46.490 --> 00:46:51.850 is actually the optimal solution as opposed to figuring out something more civilly. 00:46:52.010 --> 00:46:56.270 But, you know, in terms of the healthcare situation specifically, 00:46:56.270 --> 00:46:57.930 and we touched on this last week, 00:46:58.110 --> 00:47:01.070 it's not like killing this guy 00:47:01.070 --> 00:47:05.870 is going to suddenly have united health change a whole bunch of their policies 00:47:05.870 --> 00:47:09.570 i mean you mentioned maybe some people will make some decisions differently 00:47:09.570 --> 00:47:12.990 on the margins but it's not like they're suddenly going to be like you know 00:47:12.990 --> 00:47:17.990 a whole bunch of things that we were rejecting last week we're going to accept 00:47:17.990 --> 00:47:20.790 this week because you killed the ceo that. 00:47:20.790 --> 00:47:25.430 Now yeah Yeah, exactly. But look, in the history of revenge, 00:47:25.950 --> 00:47:31.910 how has revenge really worked out over history? 00:47:32.410 --> 00:47:35.230 Just revenge doesn't work out very well. 00:47:35.470 --> 00:47:39.910 The old phrase is an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. 00:47:40.270 --> 00:47:48.070 Yeah. It's just not a solution. It's just not a solution. 00:47:48.570 --> 00:47:52.510 And, you know, yeah, I mean, I think there are, 00:47:53.330 --> 00:47:57.850 Well, I'm usually pretty consistent on topics. I've been very consistent on this topic. 00:47:58.190 --> 00:48:04.290 I don't think that I, you know, I mean, sure, I think I may be very a little 00:48:04.290 --> 00:48:10.410 bit on some, but I don't on this, like you mentioned, I wasn't comfortable when 00:48:10.410 --> 00:48:12.750 they when they hung Saddam like that. 00:48:13.090 --> 00:48:15.490 I wasn't comfortable with killing bin Laden. 00:48:15.890 --> 00:48:19.370 I'm not comfortable with this. And I wasn't comfortable with them trying to 00:48:19.370 --> 00:48:20.430 assassinate Trump either. 00:48:21.170 --> 00:48:21.330 Right. 00:48:21.330 --> 00:48:25.810 So no so but 00:48:25.810 --> 00:48:29.050 but look man if anything 00:48:29.050 --> 00:48:32.210 that i learned over my odyssey over here my my personal 00:48:32.210 --> 00:48:37.550 stuff and whatever with people's vitriol lately it's just that man we are in 00:48:37.550 --> 00:48:49.970 a really really really bad era in terms of people expressing their hate and vitriol openly well. 00:48:49.970 --> 00:48:55.790 And and part Part of this, too, is I think these are all related. 00:48:56.310 --> 00:49:01.470 People are very frustrated because they don't think they can get the results 00:49:01.470 --> 00:49:05.150 they want in the normal ways, in the approved ways. 00:49:05.210 --> 00:49:10.670 They've seen like years and years of, you know, we wanted X, Y, Z. 00:49:10.950 --> 00:49:13.690 We voted for whoever and it didn't happen. 00:49:14.270 --> 00:49:18.370 Whatever the thing was, you know, and depending on who you're talking to, the things they want. 00:49:18.870 --> 00:49:20.530 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. hold on hold. 00:49:20.530 --> 00:49:22.310 Yes hold on yes not. 00:49:22.310 --> 00:49:31.490 That maybe it didn't happen it's just that so many times changes to things are so small and. 00:49:31.490 --> 00:49:31.990 They happen. 00:49:31.990 --> 00:49:34.990 Gradually then people don't notice them okay. 00:49:34.990 --> 00:49:40.530 Yes it's like and and even when they do they don't know who to attribute the 00:49:40.530 --> 00:49:44.690 change to good or bad good or bad because right things things happen things 00:49:44.690 --> 00:49:49.690 happen with delays like you you pass a law and the effect of it happens five years later. 00:49:49.930 --> 00:49:50.010 Right. 00:49:50.270 --> 00:49:54.510 You know, all of this kind of stuff. So both in terms of getting credit for 00:49:54.510 --> 00:50:02.650 good things and getting blamed for bad things, people just don't associate cause with effect. 00:50:02.950 --> 00:50:06.310 Don't blame or give credit to the right people. 00:50:06.510 --> 00:50:06.670 Nope. 00:50:07.190 --> 00:50:11.970 And like you said, a lot of things happen gradually and they discount them entirely 00:50:11.970 --> 00:50:14.490 because they didn't even notice they happened. 00:50:14.670 --> 00:50:20.930 Right. It's almost like unless you have suddenly this big ceremony where on 00:50:20.930 --> 00:50:25.570 such and such date everything changes completely, people are oblivious. 00:50:27.150 --> 00:50:30.850 Unless it's bad. Unless it's bad. They notice gradual bad news. 00:50:31.970 --> 00:50:35.550 It's like the whole thing with the Affordable Care Act, right? 00:50:35.750 --> 00:50:42.230 How many people want to repeal Obamacare but love the Affordable Care Act? 00:50:43.770 --> 00:50:56.070 You're like, we're in a really shitty era in terms of, 00:50:56.190 --> 00:50:59.670 but information as well in general. 00:50:59.890 --> 00:51:00.250 Yeah. 00:51:00.530 --> 00:51:06.550 And that's, that's the bigger problem. I think it used, it used to be that 80, 00:51:06.690 --> 00:51:11.750 90% of the people operated based on a certain number of facts that came from 00:51:11.750 --> 00:51:13.290 certain limited sources. 00:51:14.070 --> 00:51:17.630 imperfect as they may have been yep but but 00:51:17.630 --> 00:51:21.370 even like when they fucked up most of them were trying most of the major ones 00:51:21.370 --> 00:51:26.010 were trying to get the facts out but we know that they're i mean they're they're 00:51:26.010 --> 00:51:30.750 being run by humans okay so they will have they will have their bents and their 00:51:30.750 --> 00:51:36.510 slants and so forth to an era where you know the alex jones type era. 00:51:36.510 --> 00:51:43.550 There was a day where it was actually like i i i'm not going to make up a percentage 00:51:43.550 --> 00:51:50.290 but a very large group of the general public and i'm talking not just college 00:51:50.290 --> 00:51:54.630 educated whatever but read a newspaper every day. 00:51:54.630 --> 00:51:59.650 Yeah like you know of all levels of education of. 00:51:59.650 --> 00:52:01.170 All levels of education. 00:52:01.170 --> 00:52:02.390 Of all. 00:52:02.390 --> 00:52:05.530 Like you know blue collar white collar. 00:52:05.530 --> 00:52:06.390 Yeah whatever. 00:52:06.390 --> 00:52:11.390 Like you know you you got home from the mines and you read the newspaper right. 00:52:11.390 --> 00:52:14.030 You read the paper even if it's just a little bit of reading the paper it's 00:52:14.030 --> 00:52:19.490 just even if it's cruising the headlines right that and watch the same and watch 00:52:19.490 --> 00:52:25.410 the the literally like 90 got their news from the same three different 30 minute 00:52:25.410 --> 00:52:27.990 broadcast yeah three same three yeah and. 00:52:27.990 --> 00:52:33.830 Look like on the one hand the proliferation of information is like incredible 00:52:33.830 --> 00:52:37.110 we've got like so many resources at our fingertips. 00:52:37.450 --> 00:52:42.770 But on the other hand, what that leads to is we've got these information bubbles. 00:52:42.950 --> 00:52:46.370 We've got a lot of confusion because people don't know who to trust, 00:52:46.490 --> 00:52:51.390 who not to trust, whatever, end up trusting the wrong people, blah, blah, blah. 00:52:52.330 --> 00:52:58.010 And so, yeah, you definitely have the information environment is very broken right now. 00:52:58.210 --> 00:53:02.130 It's very divergent, depending on what you're paying attention to, what you're not. 00:53:02.290 --> 00:53:08.710 I think also there's an education gap in terms of like people going through 00:53:08.710 --> 00:53:14.770 school and coming out and still having no freaking idea of basic civics and how things work. 00:53:15.590 --> 00:53:22.390 Well, to be fair, that happened more in the past. That happened in the past. But I think – I mean. 00:53:22.430 --> 00:53:26.190 It's always been complicated, right? I don't expect everybody to know the ins 00:53:26.190 --> 00:53:28.210 and outs of congressional committees and crap. 00:53:28.250 --> 00:53:32.410 But the point specifically about where people get the news, okay, 00:53:32.490 --> 00:53:34.890 in general and the sources themselves. 00:53:34.930 --> 00:53:38.630 And it goes back to something I was like last night. 00:53:38.810 --> 00:53:44.970 I was like – my son and my wife were in bed. I had no room. I was in the living 00:53:44.970 --> 00:53:47.430 room. I couldn't find what to watch. The bucket list was on. 00:53:47.570 --> 00:53:51.650 And it reminded me one thing that Jack Nichols said that was actually accurate. 00:53:51.750 --> 00:53:55.430 Which is like, by the way, you're talking about the movie, the bucket list, right? 00:53:55.670 --> 00:53:56.330 Yes. Yes. 00:53:56.490 --> 00:53:59.570 And which I have not seen. So I'm going to like make a little note of it. 00:54:00.090 --> 00:54:07.590 But, but I have heard as well. This is one of those like Mandela effect kind of things. 00:54:07.930 --> 00:54:08.090 Yeah. 00:54:08.250 --> 00:54:11.630 People have pointed out that the phrase bucket list. 00:54:12.010 --> 00:54:12.310 Yeah. 00:54:12.310 --> 00:54:17.370 Was coined by this movie in 2018. It did not exist before that. 00:54:17.850 --> 00:54:20.310 Or by the book it was based on. Was it based on a book? 00:54:20.650 --> 00:54:21.770 Yeah, it might have been. 00:54:21.790 --> 00:54:22.910 No, no, it was... 00:54:22.910 --> 00:54:23.870 It was in the movie? 00:54:24.770 --> 00:54:25.490 It looked... 00:54:26.780 --> 00:54:29.760 Oh, no, wait, this is the wrong movie. Not 2018. I had the year wrong. 00:54:30.180 --> 00:54:36.540 But there's another- Well, no, there's a 2018 bucket list film that's an Indian movie. 00:54:36.880 --> 00:54:38.540 That's not the one you're talking about. 00:54:38.640 --> 00:54:41.320 No, this one came out of 2007, 2008. 00:54:42.140 --> 00:54:45.860 2007, 2007. Yes, that's the one you meant. No, but that's when the phrase bucket 00:54:45.860 --> 00:54:47.100 list was coined, apparently. 00:54:47.620 --> 00:54:52.040 Or at least so I've heard. I read this on the internet and you know how true 00:54:52.040 --> 00:54:53.500 things are on the internet. 00:54:53.860 --> 00:54:57.780 If I saw it on the internet, it must be true. There's no doubt what's going on. 00:54:57.840 --> 00:55:02.440 I thought I heard it before, but be that as it may. 00:55:02.940 --> 00:55:07.480 That's what people always say. I thought I heard it before. It's been around all my life. 00:55:07.560 --> 00:55:07.840 But maybe. 00:55:07.980 --> 00:55:08.400 Apparently not. 00:55:08.800 --> 00:55:14.400 Okay. But be that as it may. Okay. Jack Nicholson said something that I've always reminded. 00:55:14.860 --> 00:55:18.220 It's on the Wikipedia page for Bucket List. 00:55:18.700 --> 00:55:22.840 It was written. The movie was written by Justin Zakim. 00:55:23.220 --> 00:55:26.400 And Zakim coined the expression Bucket List. 00:55:26.540 --> 00:55:32.180 after he wrote his own list of things to do before I kick the bucket and shortened 00:55:32.180 --> 00:55:33.860 it to Justin's bucket list. 00:55:34.100 --> 00:55:39.200 The first item on his list was get a film made at a major studio. 00:55:39.600 --> 00:55:44.540 The list gave him the idea for the screenplay and the bucket list became his first studio film. 00:55:44.700 --> 00:55:48.380 There you go. So, okay. So he said that. 00:55:48.540 --> 00:55:50.900 Man, anyway, sorry for the tangent. Go ahead. 00:55:51.200 --> 00:55:54.920 No, no, no. The one thing is that Jack Nichols is a, 00:55:54.920 --> 00:55:57.980 you know, is a we're talking about religion 00:55:57.980 --> 00:56:01.000 and uh and one of the things that 00:56:01.000 --> 00:56:03.900 morgan freeman tells jack nicholson is like so you're saying that 95 00:56:03.900 --> 00:56:06.740 of the people out there are wrong jack nicholson looked back and 00:56:06.740 --> 00:56:09.760 said listen i have made my i have made my 00:56:09.760 --> 00:56:15.500 money in my business because 95 of the fucking people are wrong yes that's the 00:56:15.500 --> 00:56:22.280 reality and worse most of them think they're right um yes so that That's part 00:56:22.280 --> 00:56:27.400 of this issue with information being so... 00:56:29.190 --> 00:56:32.270 right now that it's coming from so many different sources. 00:56:33.170 --> 00:56:37.710 You basically get the situation where everybody thinks that whatever they're watching is right. 00:56:38.530 --> 00:56:39.090 Yeah. 00:56:39.230 --> 00:56:40.210 And everybody else is wrong. 00:56:40.570 --> 00:56:45.570 Right. Absolutely. And it's easy to get locked into that. 00:56:45.690 --> 00:56:52.350 I mean, I fully admit like there are a set of things I watch and listen to and read. 00:56:52.470 --> 00:56:57.890 Now, I try to make it very wide, as wide as possible to try to burst some of 00:56:57.890 --> 00:57:01.370 these bubble things. But at the same time, you know, there are certain sources 00:57:01.370 --> 00:57:02.510 that, yeah, I look at them. 00:57:02.590 --> 00:57:06.190 I'm like, yeah, I'm not even going to look at that because it's trash, you know? 00:57:06.350 --> 00:57:11.710 And I know there's a group of people who think the same thing about the sources I trust, you know? 00:57:12.850 --> 00:57:19.410 But yeah, like it's the lack of a common reality is definitely a problem right now. 00:57:20.110 --> 00:57:23.250 Okay. Anything else on that? Or should we take a break and move on. 00:57:23.350 --> 00:57:28.170 Yvonne? I, okay. Unfortunately, I have been called for duty. 00:57:28.630 --> 00:57:29.570 Ah, okay. 00:57:30.310 --> 00:57:33.730 I don't know if I can continue recording the show. 00:57:34.390 --> 00:57:39.950 Okay, well, we can, you know, I can take a break and maybe I'll have something 00:57:39.950 --> 00:57:42.550 to say later. Or maybe not. We could just shut it off now. 00:57:43.370 --> 00:57:44.970 We could be done. I'm okay with that. 00:57:44.970 --> 00:57:49.010 We could be done. I mean, look at, look at what, I mean, look at, let me say something. 00:57:49.670 --> 00:57:53.190 I think this is the thinnest, thinnest, thinnest. 00:57:53.590 --> 00:57:56.630 You know, I was going to talk about New Jersey drones. 00:57:57.230 --> 00:58:01.010 And maybe what the hell is there to say about the fucking new jersey drones 00:58:01.010 --> 00:58:04.750 hey there's a whole bunch of drones under new jersey we don't know where they 00:58:04.750 --> 00:58:09.790 came from i just read today that there's so many millions of drones flying or 00:58:09.790 --> 00:58:12.250 unauthorized space on a regular basis right now, 00:58:12.750 --> 00:58:16.690 that that you know nobody knows what the hell to do about it but i'm like okay 00:58:16.690 --> 00:58:23.590 there's drones in new jersey and they're flying nobody knows where they can 00:58:23.590 --> 00:58:25.950 they're big and they're big Like. 00:58:25.970 --> 00:58:29.970 Say, I don't believe no one knows. It's just ridiculous. 00:58:30.190 --> 00:58:33.970 Of course, somebody has figured. I mean, if nothing else, the people flying them know. 00:58:34.450 --> 00:58:39.710 Well, yeah, sure. Well, at least we don't have a straight answer. We don't know. 00:58:39.910 --> 00:58:41.270 Yes, we don't have a straight answer. 00:58:42.080 --> 00:58:48.520 but yeah and and and and asad like the stuff there but like like we we can we 00:58:48.520 --> 00:58:53.380 can call it i'm i'm good with that nice short show for once yeah. 00:58:53.380 --> 00:58:58.680 And and it's not you know look exigent circumstances unfortunately i i'm like 00:58:58.680 --> 00:59:03.140 right now i am a primary caregiver i have no backup i got people that want to 00:59:03.140 --> 00:59:04.800 need to eat i've just been. 00:59:04.800 --> 00:59:07.500 Informed what are you talking about that's yeah i know 00:59:07.500 --> 00:59:10.480 nobody needs to eat yeah and so i probably 00:59:10.480 --> 00:59:14.000 have one over here who wants to eat too i don't know so um 00:59:14.000 --> 00:59:16.740 okay so let's let's let's let's wrap 00:59:16.740 --> 00:59:19.560 this sucker up curmudgeon-corner.com the one oh the 00:59:19.560 --> 00:59:25.340 one thing i need to say that i promised last week and the week before that i 00:59:25.340 --> 00:59:36.900 would say the the sheet is now up for oh i've got a i've got a 3d printed hedgehog 00:59:36.900 --> 00:59:38.700 in my hand too that my son just gave me. 00:59:38.860 --> 00:59:41.160 That's always, always handy. 00:59:41.340 --> 00:59:45.900 Always necessary. Anyway, the Curmudgeons Corner Prediction Show for 2025 is 00:59:45.900 --> 00:59:51.580 going to come up the last week of this month, which means we will probably be, 00:59:51.800 --> 00:59:53.560 let's see, I'll look at the calendar. 00:59:54.060 --> 00:59:57.640 Two weeks from now, we will probably be recording this prediction show. 00:59:58.020 --> 01:00:06.700 So time is limited. I have set up a Google Docs document that is currently completely blank. 01:00:06.700 --> 01:00:14.100 other than headings for potential categories like politics, international technology, 01:00:14.220 --> 01:00:17.200 etc., and some subcategories that we've used in the past. 01:00:18.600 --> 01:00:23.440 And the, oh, I noticed a formatting problem. I'll fix it after I do this. 01:00:23.640 --> 01:00:30.140 Anyway, it is at tinyurl.com slash ccpred2025. 01:00:30.540 --> 01:00:37.520 Like we've done the last couple of years, We will mostly do predictions based on listener requests. 01:00:37.660 --> 01:00:42.780 I will go in and at the last moment, fill it in with some of the stuff we usually 01:00:42.780 --> 01:00:44.040 do if we don't have enough. 01:00:44.220 --> 01:00:49.680 But if you are interested in asking us to predict things, go to tinyurl.com 01:00:49.680 --> 01:00:57.900 slash ccpred 2025 and add your requests of things you would like us to predict. 01:00:57.900 --> 01:01:04.160 They need to be things that will happen within calendar year 2025 and will be 01:01:04.160 --> 01:01:10.540 clearly and where we'll be able to clearly determine if we were right or not in January, 2026. 01:01:11.040 --> 01:01:15.780 So those are the guidelines. 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All right. 01:02:31.390 --> 01:02:37.110 So I don't, I don't remember if we mentioned the Hawk to a girl coin the last, last time. 01:02:37.150 --> 01:02:40.390 I don't, we talked about it on the Slack, but I don't think we talked about it. 01:02:40.530 --> 01:02:45.330 So, so, so, all right. But, but, okay. So the thing is that the Hawk to a girl 01:02:45.330 --> 01:02:48.390 went and like, apparently started for a. 01:02:48.530 --> 01:02:54.090 Uh, uh, for anybody who doesn't know who she is, there was one of these. 01:02:54.090 --> 01:02:55.530 Do we have to explain this? 01:02:56.610 --> 01:03:04.490 There was one of these on the street interview things, and somebody asked her about something. 01:03:04.730 --> 01:03:07.350 And somebody asked her about something. You're going to be specific. 01:03:07.530 --> 01:03:11.870 Listen, they asked her something about how you keep a boyfriend or something, 01:03:11.930 --> 01:03:14.690 and she answered with an answer about what you do. 01:03:14.930 --> 01:03:18.070 And Hak Tua was basically her spitting on the guy's dick while she was going 01:03:18.070 --> 01:03:20.990 to suck it. Okay, all right, so there you go. All right, I'll be exactly explicit. 01:03:21.710 --> 01:03:24.670 You were more explicit than I was going to be, but okay, fine. 01:03:24.870 --> 01:03:25.890 Okay, so yeah. 01:03:26.370 --> 01:03:27.990 And she got famous for this. 01:03:28.070 --> 01:03:29.350 She got very famous for this. 01:03:29.870 --> 01:03:34.250 She's making the most of her 15 minutes of fame and cashing in in all kinds of different ways. 01:03:34.250 --> 01:03:37.650 And she was doing a whole bunch of stuff, which is for the most part to be seen fine. 01:03:38.330 --> 01:03:42.810 Good for her. She started a podcast. She's been on all kinds of other shows. 01:03:42.870 --> 01:03:44.970 She's making all kinds of deals. 01:03:45.530 --> 01:03:46.310 She's got an agent. 01:03:47.570 --> 01:03:53.130 By the way, if you get a viral 15 minutes of fame, by all means. 01:03:53.130 --> 01:03:55.870 Cash in in every way possible cash in 01:03:55.870 --> 01:03:58.570 go cash in i'm i'm fine so the one thing 01:03:58.570 --> 01:04:01.290 is that we we had shared a story and there was another one that 01:04:01.290 --> 01:04:04.110 we shared about this like this week from a from a 01:04:04.110 --> 01:04:07.190 teenage kid but this is the headline hawk 01:04:07.190 --> 01:04:11.730 to a girl responds as people call for her to be jailed with fans losing life 01:04:11.730 --> 01:04:15.610 savings after buying her cryptocurrency the viral section has been accused of 01:04:15.610 --> 01:04:24.830 pulling the rug under investors as her crypto coin plummeted by $430 million in just 20 minutes. 01:04:25.560 --> 01:04:29.060 And there's about 90%. Maybe we did mention this on the show. I don't know. 01:04:29.160 --> 01:04:32.380 I don't remember that we mentioned it. It's but, but we had so. 01:04:32.500 --> 01:04:37.660 But, but you saying that makes me remember, I don't know. I don't know. Is it all together? 01:04:38.400 --> 01:04:42.580 But then we had this week, but we also had the reason I was mentioning is because 01:04:42.580 --> 01:04:47.400 we had this week, aside from that one, if we mentioned it, our apologies, 01:04:47.420 --> 01:04:48.940 because my brain is fried, 01:04:49.620 --> 01:04:53.220 that there was some other kid this week that in less than 10 minutes, 01:04:53.420 --> 01:04:57.700 a US team made a small fortune selling off a mean coin he made on a lark. 01:04:57.900 --> 01:05:00.300 Traderless feeling swindled, sought revenge. 01:05:00.640 --> 01:05:10.640 I'm just like, man, you know, if you guys are buying, look at who you're buying this shit from. 01:05:11.240 --> 01:05:17.160 Random coin created by a teenager on a lark on a site that lets anybody create 01:05:17.160 --> 01:05:22.460 a coin with almost no effort, then you get what you deserve. 01:05:22.460 --> 01:05:28.660 of and of course i said we got to make curmudgeons coin and alex emzola coin so that you know hey like. 01:05:28.660 --> 01:05:30.540 You guys could. 01:05:30.540 --> 01:05:34.140 All buy it and then we can rug pull and. 01:05:34.140 --> 01:05:39.440 You know listen he's a look alex is a teen he's got time i don't have time for 01:05:39.440 --> 01:05:43.480 this shit right now i don't have time i don't have time for anything i would 01:05:43.480 --> 01:05:47.480 see if you create a couple of meme coins and like you know pull like 30 40 million 01:05:47.480 --> 01:05:51.620 dollars so we could just fucking like call it a day i'll put him on the assignment Yeah, 01:05:51.740 --> 01:05:54.260 I'll take, I'll, I'll just take a 15%. 01:05:54.920 --> 01:05:55.960 You keep 85. 01:05:56.740 --> 01:05:58.180 Okay. I'll take 15%. 01:05:58.960 --> 01:06:02.080 I don't know. You're going to have to convince him not to keep a hundred if 01:06:02.080 --> 01:06:03.140 you're making him do the work. 01:06:03.740 --> 01:06:08.120 I mean, you know, we're going to keep him out of jail. That's my part. 01:06:08.440 --> 01:06:09.620 You'll provide the lawyer. 01:06:09.840 --> 01:06:16.000 I exactly. I do the post. He's got to do the pre I'm, I'm doing the protection side. Okay. All right. 01:06:16.820 --> 01:06:20.380 I have the right attorneys. I can make sure that he's well defended. 01:06:20.380 --> 01:06:24.120 to i'm doing that part okay you gotta do the other part first. 01:06:24.120 --> 01:06:32.100 Well it's unclear to me whether either hawk to a girl or this teenager actually did anything illegal. 01:06:32.100 --> 01:06:37.680 I know i don't i don't know either but however i'm sure that they will be the 01:06:37.680 --> 01:06:43.020 recipients of a lot of lawsuits and so you know so you gotta have a strategy 01:06:43.020 --> 01:06:45.580 to fend that shit off okay okay, 01:06:46.480 --> 01:06:47.840 Okay. All right. So we're done. 01:06:48.080 --> 01:06:53.080 There you go. Okay. Thanks everybody for joining us. We'll see you next week. 01:06:53.280 --> 01:06:54.520 Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 01:06:54.920 --> 01:07:00.680 And please, again, tinyurl.com slash ccpred2025. 01:07:01.460 --> 01:07:04.400 Add things that you would like us to make predictions on. 01:07:04.560 --> 01:07:10.700 And last year, everybody waited until like a couple days before we were going 01:07:10.700 --> 01:07:13.680 to record the damn show, before they added anything to this thing. 01:07:13.680 --> 01:07:18.080 And then all of a sudden we had like a bunch of people add their requests. 01:07:18.500 --> 01:07:21.560 Don't wait till the end. Start adding them now. 01:07:22.120 --> 01:07:25.620 Okay. With that, we are out of here. Have a great week. Stay safe. 01:07:25.800 --> 01:07:27.480 We'll talk to you next time. Goodbye. 01:07:27.940 --> 01:07:28.280 Bye-bye. 01:07:58.600 --> 01:08:02.180 Okay, here comes the stop button. Go take care of your family, Yvonne. 01:08:02.560 --> 01:08:05.400 All right, well, we got to save. Save. Come on, go save.