WEBVTT 00:00:00.010 --> 00:00:00.570 Hello? 00:00:01.190 --> 00:00:01.830 Hello? 00:00:02.490 --> 00:00:03.590 Oh, fuck. 00:00:03.610 --> 00:00:04.210 You got echo. 00:00:04.710 --> 00:00:10.170 Yeah, I got echo. Ah, fuck. What the bloody hell? 00:00:10.550 --> 00:00:11.770 It's not on your headphones? 00:00:12.310 --> 00:00:15.690 No, but I was just on the headphones. 00:00:15.850 --> 00:00:21.890 What the fuck is wrong with you, you piece of sh— It says AirPods connected. 00:00:21.890 --> 00:00:24.050 What the—what is this thing doing? 00:00:25.610 --> 00:00:26.250 Speaker. 00:00:27.890 --> 00:00:31.150 No. Is that like an op? No. 00:00:32.870 --> 00:00:34.070 Okay, let me try this again. 00:00:34.510 --> 00:00:34.730 Okay. 00:00:35.530 --> 00:00:40.810 Leave. Okay, hello? Okay, now I hear you on my headphones, but okay. 00:00:40.990 --> 00:00:43.170 Okay. And I'm all good? 00:00:45.010 --> 00:00:45.410 Okay. 00:00:47.090 --> 00:00:50.670 Shall we just start then? Okay, here goes. 00:00:50.670 --> 00:01:13.990 Transcription by CastingWords Hello. 00:01:17.850 --> 00:01:20.750 I should do the intro. Welcome to Curmudgeon's Corner. 00:01:20.790 --> 00:01:22.110 Oh, the intro. Yes, that helps. 00:01:22.870 --> 00:01:26.090 Yes, the intro. My dog's getting excited too. 00:01:26.890 --> 00:01:32.230 Welcome to Curmudgeon's Corner for Saturday, May 3rd, 2025. 00:01:33.130 --> 00:01:38.230 It's just before 1930 UTC as we're starting to record. I'm Sam Minter, 00:01:38.710 --> 00:01:40.590 and Yvonne Bow is here. Hello, Yvonne. 00:01:41.250 --> 00:01:41.590 Hi. 00:01:42.770 --> 00:01:48.650 So, yeah, I can hear you. Your picture is frozen, but, you know, whatever. 00:01:49.190 --> 00:01:54.270 You know, I see that. I don't know. okay well and especially i love the the 00:01:54.270 --> 00:02:00.770 the the way that it froze it's a fantastic look for me it is this what the fuck 00:02:00.770 --> 00:02:02.970 i'm gonna take a screenshot of that. 00:02:02.970 --> 00:02:04.190 Before that disappears. 00:02:04.190 --> 00:02:09.130 Exactly which is like you know the right i i totally believe that that is the 00:02:09.130 --> 00:02:13.510 right face to be having for everything every day just be. 00:02:13.510 --> 00:02:14.590 Your thumbnail forever. 00:02:14.590 --> 00:02:16.590 Yes like you can change You can add all. 00:02:16.590 --> 00:02:18.290 Your social media to that right now. 00:02:18.570 --> 00:02:24.410 Exactly. And that's like an accurate take on how I feel on a regular basis right now. 00:02:24.510 --> 00:02:33.850 For those listening who cannot see, Ivan, he's got his lips sort of pursed. He's scowling. 00:02:34.130 --> 00:02:34.390 Right. 00:02:34.610 --> 00:02:38.230 He looks sort of a mix between anger and confusion. 00:02:38.650 --> 00:02:45.070 Yes, that's exactly right. And that's like standard every day now for a lot of people. 00:02:45.410 --> 00:02:47.550 Yeah. Yeah, perfect. 00:02:47.670 --> 00:02:52.270 Because every time you look at your phone, you get an alert and you're like, what the, what? 00:02:53.250 --> 00:02:56.130 I hear the next Pope is going to be Donald Trump. 00:02:56.790 --> 00:02:59.270 Yes, I saw that. Yes, he wants to be the Pope. 00:03:00.270 --> 00:03:03.490 Anyway, so the agenda as usual is we're going to do but first, 00:03:03.790 --> 00:03:06.250 lighter, non-newsy stuff first. 00:03:07.610 --> 00:03:10.490 And I don't know what Yvonne has planned, but I'm going to do a movie. 00:03:11.110 --> 00:03:15.510 And then we'll do a couple segments of, you know, things that have actually been in the news lately. 00:03:15.670 --> 00:03:20.210 Or, you know, whatever comes to mind. Like, I'm actually looking at, 00:03:20.390 --> 00:03:26.190 like, yo, I've got a few things that aren't newsy that I might bring up. I don't know. 00:03:26.390 --> 00:03:30.410 I won't make the decision until the last instant. We'll see. We'll see. 00:03:30.890 --> 00:03:34.670 But, so, Yvonne, you want to start us out with something non-newsy? 00:03:34.850 --> 00:03:39.390 I don't know. What the fuck is going on? Let's see. I, I, I, 00:03:39.630 --> 00:03:41.490 I'm just, Jesus. What day is today? 00:03:42.030 --> 00:03:43.410 Today is Saturday. 00:03:44.530 --> 00:03:45.490 May, uh. 00:03:45.990 --> 00:03:50.210 May 8th. or no no may 3rd may 3rd i got confused for a second because you know 00:03:50.210 --> 00:03:54.310 a three is like an eight with the left hand side erased and so it's easy to 00:03:54.310 --> 00:03:55.650 confuse those especially. 00:03:55.650 --> 00:03:58.370 At this age i guess you can't really see very well. 00:03:58.370 --> 00:04:02.090 Yeah exactly i just it's all trying to. 00:04:02.090 --> 00:04:10.010 Figure out what the hell you know happened this week i i mean in terms of you know i i. 00:04:11.090 --> 00:04:11.570 Stuff. 00:04:13.070 --> 00:04:14.410 It's been the blur. 00:04:14.810 --> 00:04:16.570 You can just pick a regular topic. 00:04:16.750 --> 00:04:23.110 No, but I think that it's been a blur, but it's a blur of. 00:04:25.290 --> 00:04:28.650 I'm talking to people that are at around this age. 00:04:29.250 --> 00:04:35.030 You've got jobs, you've got a child, you've got, you know, every day seems to 00:04:35.030 --> 00:04:38.010 be packed with something happening 00:04:38.010 --> 00:04:40.970 right after the other, right after the other, right after the other. 00:04:41.090 --> 00:04:45.650 It's like there is no, no, no, no break, you know, right. 00:04:46.050 --> 00:04:51.230 Anymore. It used to be, you know, we're not married and you don't have kids, you know, whatever. 00:04:51.710 --> 00:04:55.570 I mean, I still remember, you know, talking to there's a whole bunch of like 00:04:55.570 --> 00:04:58.750 much younger people that I work with. Right. 00:04:59.510 --> 00:05:06.630 And it's like, you know, I remember like back then, I don't know, I worked so many hours. 00:05:06.630 --> 00:05:11.390 And, you know, we go out, I would, I would go out regularly during the weekdays 00:05:11.390 --> 00:05:16.550 and somebody the other day went and like told me how they wanted to have some 00:05:16.550 --> 00:05:20.330 kind of like a work meeting. And they said, well, can we talk about this Sunday? 00:05:20.910 --> 00:05:26.090 I said, I hear you fucking mind. I, I, I, there is, listen, unless, 00:05:26.330 --> 00:05:30.290 you know, there is an apocalypse of some kind. Okay. 00:05:30.830 --> 00:05:37.890 I am not getting on a fucking call to discuss something work related on Sunday. 00:05:38.410 --> 00:05:42.430 I hear you. There is just no effing way. 00:05:42.950 --> 00:05:49.370 I was reading the other day about some of these people working at this junior 00:05:49.370 --> 00:05:51.170 bankers at this investment bank. 00:05:52.610 --> 00:06:00.470 They were working 120 hours a week at this place. 00:06:01.430 --> 00:06:03.010 That's nuts. 00:06:03.810 --> 00:06:10.590 Some guy I came in as a whole bunch of them were at work at four in the morning, mind you. 00:06:10.870 --> 00:06:14.130 OK, I'm guessing there's an investment bank, probably some trading, 00:06:14.330 --> 00:06:17.590 trading in Europe opened at that time or something, you know, 00:06:17.670 --> 00:06:22.330 which makes them, you know, it's one of those things where you're trading investments 00:06:22.330 --> 00:06:24.650 in Europe is open at that hour. 00:06:24.890 --> 00:06:28.810 You're probably have to be somebody's got to be looking at what the fuck is going on. 00:06:29.170 --> 00:06:33.390 And the guys were a bunch of them were talking about how burnt out they were 00:06:33.390 --> 00:06:37.350 and stuff or whatever. And some executive came in at four in the morning and 00:06:37.350 --> 00:06:40.450 told him, you know what? We're not pulling our weight. 00:06:40.630 --> 00:06:42.590 We're not working hard enough here. 00:06:43.030 --> 00:06:46.390 He's giving this speech at four in the fucking morning. 00:06:46.930 --> 00:06:51.470 You know, like, what the hell? I'm sorry. You're telling these guys that are 00:06:51.470 --> 00:06:55.710 in the office at four in the fucking morning that they're not working hard enough? 00:06:55.930 --> 00:06:57.530 What the fuck is wrong with you? 00:06:58.070 --> 00:06:58.510 Yeah. 00:06:59.110 --> 00:07:06.530 So, you know, you know, this is one of my job does not demand anything of a sort. 00:07:06.730 --> 00:07:09.530 And actually, the one thing that the people that wanted to have discussion, 00:07:09.550 --> 00:07:14.650 it wasn't actually related to my my job job itself. It was related to something 00:07:14.650 --> 00:07:16.450 that happened at the condo association. 00:07:16.890 --> 00:07:20.670 OK. All right. Which is kind of like a job. OK. When I had it. 00:07:21.030 --> 00:07:24.810 And, you know, the people from the property management or whatever, 00:07:25.150 --> 00:07:27.790 they wanted to discuss it. They said, hey, what do we meet on Sunday? 00:07:27.890 --> 00:07:30.650 And I'm like, that's all right, out of your fucking minds. I'm not meeting on a fucking Sunday. 00:07:31.130 --> 00:07:35.010 My job, you know, the only times that we've had something like come up on a 00:07:35.010 --> 00:07:39.270 weekend is, you know, I mean, we have systems that we manage 24 by 7. 00:07:39.570 --> 00:07:44.270 OK, so, hey, you know, somebody, you know, something went down hard. 00:07:44.990 --> 00:07:48.550 You know, something I mean, we've got a customer in a crisis. 00:07:48.970 --> 00:07:52.230 Yeah, that that would, you know, that wouldn't fail. And I get that. 00:07:52.350 --> 00:07:56.530 That's something that's not planned, unexpected. And you've got a customer that's 00:07:56.530 --> 00:07:59.170 on fire. And yeah, you got to do something. OK. 00:07:59.550 --> 00:08:04.950 But other than that, I mean, you know, you know, it's just, you know, that's what I said. 00:08:05.030 --> 00:08:07.730 You know, something's got to be apocalyptic. 00:08:08.310 --> 00:08:11.390 You know, something really bad has had to happen. 00:08:11.390 --> 00:08:15.310 And a lot of the systems that we service are critical, you know, 00:08:15.770 --> 00:08:19.130 to customers, you know, I mean, like one of them is like, you know, 00:08:19.230 --> 00:08:26.170 for a public utility for electricity, you know, so it does the service calls and stuff like that. 00:08:26.270 --> 00:08:30.690 So, you know, or a telephone company where our systems also do the service calls 00:08:30.690 --> 00:08:31.410 or something or whatever. 00:08:31.530 --> 00:08:34.910 So if that goes down, you know, you can see how that would impact, 00:08:35.150 --> 00:08:39.270 you know, a lot of people at the same time as something that is of critical 00:08:39.270 --> 00:08:43.950 need, you know. So, yeah, I get that. But other than that, I mean, I don't know. 00:08:44.170 --> 00:08:46.770 You know, this whole thing where we've gone from... 00:08:47.100 --> 00:08:51.620 We went from whatever the work-life balance that was before the pandemic, 00:08:51.900 --> 00:08:56.160 which I think was, you know, for most people, it wasn't bad. 00:08:56.440 --> 00:08:59.700 I think that our, well, I'm going to take that back. 00:09:00.040 --> 00:09:04.860 I think companies were, my experience had been working at about three different 00:09:04.860 --> 00:09:08.580 companies that most employers were pretty reasonable about that. Okay? 00:09:09.800 --> 00:09:13.700 Although this is the kind of thing that varies a lot from place to place, company to company. 00:09:13.920 --> 00:09:17.400 Right. No, no, no. I get that. But at the three different companies I spent, 00:09:17.760 --> 00:09:20.120 like before then, it had been pretty reasonable. 00:09:20.540 --> 00:09:23.040 Okay. All right. You know, what do you get to happen and so forth? 00:09:23.300 --> 00:09:25.000 You know, there were no hard and fast rules. 00:09:25.140 --> 00:09:28.740 Like, you know, I had employees that most of the time were tasked to an office, 00:09:28.740 --> 00:09:31.600 but they said, hey, you know, I got something going on the next couple of days. 00:09:31.680 --> 00:09:32.760 Can I work from home? It's like, sure. 00:09:32.880 --> 00:09:36.700 No problem. It's not like me telling somebody to work from home is violating 00:09:36.700 --> 00:09:39.080 some corporate edip of some kind. 00:09:39.080 --> 00:09:39.200 Right. 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:44.140 You know, you know, and now to where all of a sudden you've got executives and 00:09:44.140 --> 00:09:48.660 chief executives mandating, you know, how many days and what, 00:09:48.800 --> 00:09:52.460 you know, exactly when they need to be in the office and micromanaging this in a level. 00:09:52.460 --> 00:10:00.060 Yeah, and I think part of this is that for the people who got to work at home 00:10:00.060 --> 00:10:03.480 over the pandemic, and obviously this does not apply to all jobs. 00:10:03.480 --> 00:10:06.420 If you're in a factory making something, you could never work from home. 00:10:06.540 --> 00:10:06.700 Right. 00:10:07.120 --> 00:10:13.820 But for the people who did get to work from home, pandemic time was a realization 00:10:13.820 --> 00:10:16.700 of the amount of freedom you could have. 00:10:16.700 --> 00:10:26.160 So even going back to sort of where things were before would have still been a constraint, 00:10:26.160 --> 00:10:34.660 but because management is really wanting to control it and really force the issue, 00:10:34.900 --> 00:10:40.560 they're putting all these additional constraints which make it seem more like 00:10:40.560 --> 00:10:43.580 kindergarten than it was before. 00:10:43.580 --> 00:10:50.420 Yeah like yeah even even when they say the right things like like even when 00:10:50.420 --> 00:10:53.620 they say look look if you if you have a dentist appointment and you have to 00:10:53.620 --> 00:10:58.180 work from home no problem just tell us like fine but like, 00:10:58.910 --> 00:11:03.390 All of those things were very informal pre-pandemic. 00:11:04.030 --> 00:11:07.690 And now it's like, oh, yeah, you have to be sure to tell us. 00:11:07.770 --> 00:11:10.550 You have to put something on your calendar to block off the time. 00:11:10.670 --> 00:11:12.210 You have to do this. You have to do that. 00:11:13.290 --> 00:11:16.830 And even if it is fairly informal, even if it's still just, oh, 00:11:16.890 --> 00:11:22.530 tell your boss, it now feels like you're being watched at every moment. 00:11:22.950 --> 00:11:26.830 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that for a lot of people. I will say that for me, 00:11:27.110 --> 00:11:33.270 you know, and I think that I'm reading that I'm talking about from other people, not not me. 00:11:34.890 --> 00:11:41.190 You in your role, you're you and your company, you're still at home when you're not traveling. 00:11:41.370 --> 00:11:46.170 Right, right, right. I think that the one thing that did change is that my my 00:11:46.170 --> 00:11:50.910 kind of like I guess that my kind of like office time really was travel time. 00:11:50.910 --> 00:11:54.670 That's really what it boils down to in the essence. 00:11:55.010 --> 00:12:00.610 And the reality is that it's made me have to go back to traveling a lot. 00:12:00.850 --> 00:12:05.410 But at the same time, that was still a lot more flexible than most work arrangements 00:12:05.410 --> 00:12:07.650 that anybody else had in the first place. 00:12:07.770 --> 00:12:10.790 I mean, it's not the same thing. I mean, the one thing is, you know, 00:12:10.890 --> 00:12:13.770 you've got customers that are in the office and they're expecting you to come 00:12:13.770 --> 00:12:15.430 to visit them instead of doing a Zoom. 00:12:15.830 --> 00:12:21.050 And so, you know, that's that's, you know, that's fine. I mean, it is what it is. 00:12:21.230 --> 00:12:25.410 OK, so but I guess the thing is, it's just reading that. 00:12:25.590 --> 00:12:28.770 I'm like, oh, and I'm like, you know, how the hell some guy go. 00:12:29.010 --> 00:12:34.730 It's just the extreme insane of you've got people that literally are working 00:12:34.730 --> 00:12:39.990 120 hours a week and you're bitching that they need to double down. I'm just like, 00:12:40.540 --> 00:12:42.840 You know, and honestly. 00:12:43.080 --> 00:12:48.060 The thing is, and you know, I know people are pushing for get more and more 00:12:48.060 --> 00:12:53.080 done with less and less resources, but with technology and automation and everything 00:12:53.080 --> 00:12:56.660 else, we should actually be going to other direction. 00:12:56.840 --> 00:12:58.940 The humans that are working should be doing less. 00:12:59.740 --> 00:13:01.400 You know? Yeah. 00:13:02.800 --> 00:13:07.460 Things should be a little bit more relaxed. You look at these curves they do 00:13:07.460 --> 00:13:12.220 of per capita productivity comparing decade over decade, 00:13:12.220 --> 00:13:17.860 and each individual is getting so much more done than they did a few decades ago. 00:13:18.280 --> 00:13:24.180 Come on, let them some slack. Let's work at 1950s levels again, okay? 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:27.700 Well, think about farmers, for example, right? 00:13:27.860 --> 00:13:31.120 I mean, they talk about small pounds and whatnot. I mentioned this before in 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:37.640 the podcast. You see how the productivity per acre is so much higher than it's ever been. 00:13:38.460 --> 00:13:45.920 And, you know, how farmers now have all these automated tools to help do farming. 00:13:46.260 --> 00:13:50.160 You know, they don't need, you know, they don't need like people like out there, 00:13:50.200 --> 00:13:51.540 like picking the fields. 00:13:51.800 --> 00:13:55.620 They've got these damn combines that are robotic, that are GPS, 00:13:56.060 --> 00:13:57.660 you know, that could be driven by GPS. 00:13:57.660 --> 00:14:00.380 That they can pinpoint where the hell they have to be on 00:14:00.380 --> 00:14:03.260 the on the damn field and like you know that 00:14:03.260 --> 00:14:07.180 the systems and like they they pull and they automate they measure and they 00:14:07.180 --> 00:14:11.660 do all of this all this stuff it's amazing shit and i'm like you know but what 00:14:11.660 --> 00:14:16.400 that means is you definitely don't need as many people to do like i mean one 00:14:16.400 --> 00:14:21.480 person can do so much more than they used to be able to and right and of. 00:14:21.480 --> 00:14:26.520 Course what everybody what the tech industry right now is gambling on is that 00:14:26.520 --> 00:14:31.180 as ai continues to advance the same thing will be true of knowledge workers very soon. 00:14:31.180 --> 00:14:34.140 I mean i i and i think that that's you 00:14:34.140 --> 00:14:36.820 know like i was talking the other day and i and 00:14:36.820 --> 00:14:42.400 i and i saw a couple of other people like uh in the news talk about in the news 00:14:42.400 --> 00:14:47.500 talk about this and i i had thought this myself that a lot of the things that 00:14:47.500 --> 00:14:54.760 ai does is enable a lot of us to do work faster not necessarily remove the work. 00:14:55.180 --> 00:14:59.340 Not, I mean, not at least in this current iteration. And a lot of times, 00:14:59.660 --> 00:15:01.580 you know, what technology that we've done, 00:15:02.120 --> 00:15:02.460 Okay. 00:15:02.640 --> 00:15:06.540 Well, and again, and again, the gamble is that you can't judge it based on what 00:15:06.540 --> 00:15:10.980 it's doing now because it's moving so fast in another year, two years, three years. 00:15:11.940 --> 00:15:15.220 But still, I mean, it's like, you know, I still remember like, 00:15:15.760 --> 00:15:19.940 you know, come on 30, 40, 50, look, 50, 60 years ago. Okay. 00:15:20.340 --> 00:15:24.980 If you were doing, say, for example, one that is was so people intense that 00:15:24.980 --> 00:15:28.140 I remember reservations, travel reservations, airline. 00:15:28.660 --> 00:15:28.780 Right. 00:15:29.060 --> 00:15:33.780 Okay. Dude. You know, if you ran a big airline. And you were trying to do reservations 00:15:33.780 --> 00:15:35.260 back then, which was on paper. 00:15:36.040 --> 00:15:42.680 The amount of manual labor required, okay, to be able to track all of these 00:15:42.680 --> 00:15:45.420 things, okay, and to do so. 00:15:45.540 --> 00:15:48.980 And how, when they first came up with the first computers, ah, 00:15:49.160 --> 00:15:53.680 we won't have any employees doing this, blah, blah, blah, you know, 00:15:53.760 --> 00:15:55.400 we'll remove the humans from this. 00:15:55.480 --> 00:15:58.880 And that was the fear. It was like, oh, my God, who's going to work and whatnot? 00:15:59.360 --> 00:16:03.540 And, well, yes, we didn't remove a whole bunch of people that were doing a whole 00:16:03.540 --> 00:16:08.100 bunch of manual shuffling and paper and stuff and whatnot. 00:16:08.100 --> 00:16:12.920 But in the end, you know, they were put into a whole bunch of other things that 00:16:12.920 --> 00:16:15.100 actually people figure out. 00:16:15.520 --> 00:16:19.640 We want to figure out, oh, we're really not doing all this other stuff, 00:16:19.660 --> 00:16:23.540 you know, because we didn't have time because all of this stuff took. 00:16:23.720 --> 00:16:28.160 It was so manual that it didn't let you do any of this other stuff. 00:16:28.160 --> 00:16:31.600 Um you know it's just 00:16:31.600 --> 00:16:34.620 we even today with all the tools 00:16:34.620 --> 00:16:37.520 that we have all the computer whatever there are 00:16:37.520 --> 00:16:40.800 so many things that i do like for my job 00:16:40.800 --> 00:16:43.680 or for my previous jobs that are so manual even with 00:16:43.680 --> 00:16:46.440 all the computing that we have that i know that 00:16:46.440 --> 00:16:49.400 there's a lot of things that probably would be able to drive 00:16:49.400 --> 00:16:52.320 more sales that that would do 00:16:52.320 --> 00:16:55.500 that but look it's estimated that a lot of salespeople spend 00:16:55.500 --> 00:16:58.460 70 and 80 percent of their time actually doing 00:16:58.460 --> 00:17:01.540 admin work not really selling 00:17:01.540 --> 00:17:04.420 okay that's just the fact i 00:17:04.420 --> 00:17:09.080 mean imagine if you take people and you you know and that in a lot of instances 00:17:09.080 --> 00:17:13.700 we cover so few of the accounts that are assigned that if you actually were 00:17:13.700 --> 00:17:18.960 able to reduce that admin time down where things could be done a lot a lot easier 00:17:18.960 --> 00:17:24.340 it would actually allow people to be able to do far more in terms of the actual selling. 00:17:24.620 --> 00:17:29.380 Well, and I think that is true for many jobs, if not most jobs. 00:17:29.640 --> 00:17:30.960 Most jobs are like that. 00:17:31.120 --> 00:17:37.080 There's like so much that's overhead. And if you look at what portion of the 00:17:37.080 --> 00:17:41.600 workday is actually spent doing something that, 00:17:42.370 --> 00:17:48.470 isn't just documenting or tracking or writing a report or whatever, 00:17:48.750 --> 00:17:51.570 but is actually pushing the ball forward. 00:17:51.730 --> 00:17:52.190 Right. 00:17:52.430 --> 00:17:53.770 It's a small percentage. 00:17:54.250 --> 00:17:54.770 Yes. 00:17:55.050 --> 00:17:59.690 For like lots of jobs, not all jobs. There are some jobs that are structured 00:17:59.690 --> 00:18:02.370 that, you know, 90% of your work actually is productive. 00:18:02.730 --> 00:18:07.610 But, and I use the word productive. Look, I just want to say this. 00:18:07.710 --> 00:18:11.350 I use the word productive lightly here because some people actually, 00:18:12.790 --> 00:18:18.850 consider sort of those things like status reports to actually be very valuable 00:18:18.850 --> 00:18:23.750 in communication so people know what's going on etc etc but that's the kind 00:18:23.750 --> 00:18:25.670 of thing that is ripe for automation. 00:18:25.670 --> 00:18:28.650 I'm going to tell you something that one of the things that happens with so 00:18:28.650 --> 00:18:32.610 many status reports of my life is like so many people no one reads them well 00:18:32.610 --> 00:18:36.490 no it's not that it's you know maybe people won't read them the problem is that 00:18:36.490 --> 00:18:40.130 you know it's turning that actionable one of the It's like, I mean, 00:18:40.470 --> 00:18:43.830 you know, I still remember that there's this one guy, there's a story when I 00:18:43.830 --> 00:18:48.290 joined HP, a long time ago, talking to me about this guy that had been in charge, 00:18:48.430 --> 00:18:50.570 I believe, of service levels. 00:18:50.830 --> 00:18:55.570 Okay. All right. And he had all these metrics. He was like the master guru of 00:18:55.570 --> 00:19:00.790 measuring, you know, the service levels and how, you know, how long to take 00:19:00.790 --> 00:19:03.370 a call, how long to repair. He had all these stats. 00:19:03.690 --> 00:19:06.290 Okay. But he was in charge of delivery, not just of measuring. 00:19:06.490 --> 00:19:07.830 The problem was that they were all ready. 00:19:08.530 --> 00:19:12.590 All of them. and the question was like yeah great so you can measure every yeah 00:19:12.590 --> 00:19:16.590 so you're an expert you're better than everybody else at measuring all this 00:19:16.590 --> 00:19:21.290 shit and all you're saying is you know really well you know really really well. 00:19:21.290 --> 00:19:22.790 How screwed you are. 00:19:22.790 --> 00:19:28.390 Right but but you you have you either you don't have the time or don't know 00:19:28.390 --> 00:19:33.210 how to take any action on any of that shit that you mentioned that's wrong So yeah, 00:19:33.670 --> 00:19:43.010 you know, that's just, I think that every technology always imparts a high level of fear. 00:19:43.780 --> 00:19:49.940 In people and what their job will be, okay? You know, and it has had impact 00:19:49.940 --> 00:19:53.100 on jobs, okay? We've seen this, you know, before. 00:19:53.340 --> 00:19:58.360 But I do think that the problem is always how to deal with a dislocation and 00:19:58.360 --> 00:19:59.480 how to deal with a change. 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:03.280 Because, okay, great, so now people are not doing this, so what are we going 00:20:03.280 --> 00:20:06.540 to do? Or what are we going to do with, you know, with the money? 00:20:06.880 --> 00:20:10.400 You know, sometimes you go, hey, you're making more money, but you don't need as many, 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:14.180 you know, the economy is bigger, but sometimes, hey there's 00:20:14.180 --> 00:20:17.400 certain labor you don't need so how do you help people but i don't 00:20:17.400 --> 00:20:20.180 know it gets into another day but anyway my whole point was like 00:20:20.180 --> 00:20:25.620 man you know people are out there yeah my point is you know it goes back to 00:20:25.620 --> 00:20:29.940 what kind of an asshole goes and bitches to fucking people that are working 00:20:29.940 --> 00:20:34.560 120 hours a week that you've got to work harder that really takes a special 00:20:34.560 --> 00:20:39.620 level of asshole And I think that we are in an era of high-level assholing. 00:20:41.400 --> 00:20:46.540 Yeah, I think so. And we've said, you mentioned earlier, the pendulum has swung. 00:20:46.780 --> 00:20:47.000 Yeah. 00:20:47.140 --> 00:20:50.280 Well, the pendulum always eventually swings the other way. 00:20:50.560 --> 00:20:53.920 Yeah, at some point. It's just a matter of time. I saw a bunch of air traffic 00:20:53.920 --> 00:20:59.000 controllers that walked out in New York or something, forcing United to cancel 00:20:59.000 --> 00:20:59.900 a whole bunch of flights. 00:20:59.900 --> 00:21:04.140 You know that's the kind of like pushback against a whole bunch of this shit 00:21:04.140 --> 00:21:06.740 that that keeps happening in different places so. 00:21:06.740 --> 00:21:09.600 Well and and sometimes it's just a matter of 00:21:09.600 --> 00:21:13.600 time and the economics go 00:21:13.600 --> 00:21:16.640 through a couple cycles or whatever or people 00:21:16.640 --> 00:21:24.800 adapt to the technology but like right now we are in an era where lots of companies 00:21:24.800 --> 00:21:32.140 feel free to push really really hard on their employees because they know the 00:21:32.140 --> 00:21:34.480 employees don't have a lot of other options. 00:21:35.290 --> 00:21:40.070 Eventually, things will turn, and there will be lots and lots of options. 00:21:44.230 --> 00:21:49.270 And then people will be competing for those employees again and trying to offer 00:21:49.270 --> 00:21:53.370 all kinds of perks and benefits and work-life balance and, you know, 00:21:53.490 --> 00:21:56.070 whatever in order to get those people who are good. 00:21:56.290 --> 00:21:59.370 And letting them work from home again. You know, all of this other stuff. 00:21:59.450 --> 00:22:03.590 And it's eras. I mean, it's eras. Look, I still remember how I worked an entire 00:22:03.590 --> 00:22:11.190 era where I joined HP when it was really a company that – I mean, 00:22:11.230 --> 00:22:12.590 my work career is born in the South. 00:22:12.690 --> 00:22:16.510 And it was – it had a reputation for being one of the – if not the best, 00:22:16.550 --> 00:22:18.310 one of the best places to work in the world. 00:22:18.950 --> 00:22:24.510 And my later life has shown that that wasn't hyperbole, okay? All right? 00:22:24.810 --> 00:22:29.470 Because it really, truly was that. and from everybody that I work with who is 00:22:29.470 --> 00:22:34.630 now in other places, we all talk about, holy shit, I mean, were we you know, we, you know, 00:22:34.910 --> 00:22:38.670 where we worked and how the company treated us and everything, 00:22:38.850 --> 00:22:43.730 it's just I'm like, I don't think I appreciate it, but we said we didn't even 00:22:43.730 --> 00:22:46.750 appreciate it enough how good the. 00:22:47.710 --> 00:22:51.710 Treatment of people was at HP and their respect for employee and all of that 00:22:51.710 --> 00:22:55.530 stuff, and I lived through that transformation into complete assholery, 00:22:55.970 --> 00:23:00.490 you know, because it went from that into, you know, having Mark Hurd, who's dead, 00:23:00.830 --> 00:23:03.590 okay, you know, and I'm not really shedding a tear for that asshole, 00:23:03.870 --> 00:23:07.410 okay, who goes, and like, I still remember, like, every fucking time was, 00:23:07.530 --> 00:23:10.870 hey, what the fuck do we take away from employees, you know, 00:23:11.150 --> 00:23:14.310 every, I mean, it was like, every fucking announcement, every six months, 00:23:14.430 --> 00:23:17.810 as he announced that our profits were ever higher and higher and higher, 00:23:18.070 --> 00:23:21.690 it was just like, hey, what do we take away from people, what can we take away, 00:23:22.090 --> 00:23:25.850 you know, what's the next thing i'm like you know i'm like motherfucker you 00:23:25.850 --> 00:23:29.010 keep saying we're making more and more money and all you you know you're making 00:23:29.010 --> 00:23:34.010 more and more money and everything you're doing is trying to figure out how to fuck us over more yeah. 00:23:34.010 --> 00:23:37.650 You know and and mentioned this these things come in cycles but part of the 00:23:37.650 --> 00:23:40.270 problem is the cycles are long you know. 00:23:40.270 --> 00:23:41.850 Yeah it's. 00:23:41.850 --> 00:23:45.170 Not like oh next year it'll be better it might be better in five or. 00:23:45.170 --> 00:23:50.190 Ten five years yeah i mean they are long you know they are along but but you 00:23:50.190 --> 00:23:53.970 know but but that's that's where we are and so you know we are in the era of 00:23:53.970 --> 00:23:56.550 assholery in general yes. 00:23:56.550 --> 00:23:59.690 It is not limited to employer employee relationships. 00:23:59.690 --> 00:24:03.750 No you know if you just. 00:24:03.750 --> 00:24:08.350 Look at uh you know the current administration that just is. 00:24:08.350 --> 00:24:13.230 Exemplar of everything about just even in general daily life you know yeah well. 00:24:13.230 --> 00:24:19.690 It all flows from the top down like because if you demonstrate that a certain 00:24:19.690 --> 00:24:25.310 type of behavior is acceptable, then more people will engage in that behavior. 00:24:25.530 --> 00:24:28.910 Like if there are prominent people, 00:24:29.500 --> 00:24:34.400 who not only are assholes, but seem to get ahead by being assholes. 00:24:34.400 --> 00:24:35.280 Yes, yes. 00:24:35.620 --> 00:24:38.980 Then more people will strive to be assholes themselves. 00:24:39.480 --> 00:24:43.780 Yes! I strive to be an asshole! I want that on a shirt. 00:24:44.160 --> 00:24:48.660 You know, let's put that on some t-shirts. You know, they probably sell very well right now. 00:24:48.860 --> 00:24:56.500 I bet you there is already a t-shirt that says that. yeah i'm gonna strive to 00:24:56.500 --> 00:25:00.920 be an asshole t-shirt you. 00:25:00.920 --> 00:25:02.160 Know kids growing up right. 00:25:02.160 --> 00:25:04.860 Now oh yeah what do you want to be where you want to grow up i want to 00:25:04.860 --> 00:25:09.980 be an asshole it's my dream let's see i've got i'm not always an asshole just 00:25:09.980 --> 00:25:16.760 kidding go fuck yourself um stop asking why i'm an asshole i don't ask why you're 00:25:16.760 --> 00:25:22.540 stupid let's see i never dreamed i'd grow up to be an asshole but here i I am killing it. 00:25:24.640 --> 00:25:30.680 I'm the nicest asshole you will ever meet. There are more, but Alex is throwing 00:25:30.680 --> 00:25:32.680 things at me for saying asshole too much. 00:25:33.140 --> 00:25:35.300 Oh, so I'm going to stop. 00:25:35.840 --> 00:25:36.160 Okay. 00:25:39.800 --> 00:25:43.240 So your, your precise one isn't out there yet. 00:25:43.440 --> 00:25:49.220 No, you could go set it up on like one of the sites that lets you set up random t-shirts. 00:25:49.460 --> 00:25:53.020 Oh, wait, don't we have like a commercial merch site we could be you know don't 00:25:53.020 --> 00:25:55.500 we have like you know we could set that up as an option we. 00:25:55.500 --> 00:25:59.980 We at the moment it's not set up as a merch site that people can just go buy. 00:25:59.980 --> 00:26:03.600 It's just set up as a place where i can order stuff and you know we should set 00:26:03.600 --> 00:26:07.560 up you know because there are all these really cheap like ways to set up like 00:26:07.560 --> 00:26:12.000 a merch site you can just set up like and it's all you know right. 00:26:12.000 --> 00:26:18.380 Now right now for the stuff i use zazzle And actually, Ed has received his new mug. 00:26:18.740 --> 00:26:20.720 Yes! All right! 00:26:20.720 --> 00:26:24.620 I saw the delivery confirmation notice come in recently. 00:26:25.020 --> 00:26:30.900 And it's an I hate curmudgeon's corner mug, not a regular curmudgeon's corner mug. 00:26:31.080 --> 00:26:36.520 But Alex did insist on changing, on adding one line somewhere. 00:26:37.310 --> 00:26:41.910 Uh, I think he said, he said it had, it had to say it was a specimen. 00:26:42.370 --> 00:26:46.350 So I think I have a note on it that says, you know, Alex says specimen or something. 00:26:47.310 --> 00:26:49.450 So it's different than the one we made for him. 00:26:49.570 --> 00:26:52.590 So like, oh, so like when you get those fake bills, you know, 00:26:52.670 --> 00:26:54.930 like whatever, that's a sample. It says this is a specimen. 00:26:55.490 --> 00:26:57.190 Yeah, except it doesn't like a specimen. 00:26:57.490 --> 00:26:58.570 Like a urine is specimen. 00:26:58.790 --> 00:27:02.550 No, no, no. But it, so, but it doesn't have like the word all over everything. 00:27:02.550 --> 00:27:04.250 I just have it in like a corner. 00:27:04.310 --> 00:27:07.690 No, no, no. But usually there are certain events that you see that it's like 00:27:07.690 --> 00:27:10.630 a small little thing somewhere that it says, this is a specimen. 00:27:10.830 --> 00:27:12.430 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. So there you go. 00:27:12.450 --> 00:27:15.050 Yeah, but anyway, the point was I set all that up with Zazzle, 00:27:15.210 --> 00:27:20.270 but Zazzle's like shop view is actually kind of sucky. 00:27:20.490 --> 00:27:24.890 Like it wasn't, I haven't looked in years, so maybe they've improved it. 00:27:24.990 --> 00:27:28.630 But like you could set it up so anybody could buy the thing you created. 00:27:29.190 --> 00:27:33.090 But it was hard to make it a controlled experience. like, hey, 00:27:33.290 --> 00:27:37.010 you're in the curmudgeons corner shop and here's all the curmudgeons corner 00:27:37.010 --> 00:27:42.470 stuff and I've constrained it in a certain way so you can only buy the things 00:27:42.470 --> 00:27:43.710 we want you to buy, you know? 00:27:43.790 --> 00:27:44.530 Okay, okay. 00:27:45.110 --> 00:27:49.050 But there are other companies that do that too. So yeah, we could look up into 00:27:49.050 --> 00:27:51.230 it again. I'm sure the demand would be astronomical. 00:27:52.550 --> 00:27:56.710 But maybe not for the regular curmudgeons corner merch, but for the curmudgeons 00:27:56.710 --> 00:27:59.510 corner, I strive to be an asshole shirt. 00:28:00.370 --> 00:28:02.650 There you go. Talk about it. Talk about it. 00:28:02.650 --> 00:28:07.190 We could take the image of you from this podcast, have a giant version of your 00:28:07.190 --> 00:28:13.410 face on one side with a caption of the, I strive to be an asshole, right under. 00:28:14.270 --> 00:28:15.730 That sounds actually great. 00:28:17.170 --> 00:28:19.190 That sounds like a fucking great idea. 00:28:20.070 --> 00:28:25.310 Alex keeps throwing things at me, so I'm going to stop saying that word for now. 00:28:26.010 --> 00:28:28.350 Okay, are we ready for my movie? 00:28:28.730 --> 00:28:29.870 Yes, we're ready for your movie. 00:28:30.450 --> 00:28:36.370 Ready for the movie. So, I had mentioned before we've been going through the Ghostbusters series. 00:28:36.610 --> 00:28:40.230 The next one that I've watched, and actually the last one I've watched, 00:28:40.310 --> 00:28:45.330 watched it back in August, is Ghostbusters Afterlife from 2021. 00:28:45.330 --> 00:28:48.530 There's one more movie after this but i haven't seen the last one. 00:28:48.530 --> 00:28:52.410 Once again i you know i have no idea. 00:28:52.410 --> 00:28:55.390 Yeah and and see last time we talked about 00:28:55.390 --> 00:28:58.150 like one of the ghostbusters franchise we talked 00:28:58.150 --> 00:29:03.330 about the one with the women i mentioned you know it was worthwhile it is people 00:29:03.330 --> 00:29:06.730 criticized the one with the women but most of the criticism was just because 00:29:06.730 --> 00:29:12.330 they were women and it did like it wasn't a great movie it was an okay movie 00:29:12.330 --> 00:29:16.150 but people made it out like it was a horrible movie and it was not a hard movie. 00:29:16.470 --> 00:29:20.170 It was just people being sexist assholes. Oh, oops, I said it again. 00:29:21.910 --> 00:29:28.730 Oops. Yes. And I suddenly started getting the Britney Spears song going through 00:29:28.730 --> 00:29:31.150 my head, even though it wasn't said it. 00:29:32.070 --> 00:29:37.050 Okay. My head is starting to become injured. I'm going to get a concussion from 00:29:37.050 --> 00:29:38.410 all the cups being thrown at me. 00:29:38.670 --> 00:29:40.870 They are plastic cups, just to be clear. 00:29:42.130 --> 00:29:45.010 He's not like throwing your mugs then 00:29:45.010 --> 00:29:49.190 yeah right yeah no mugs no hammers yet 00:29:49.190 --> 00:29:56.510 but you know i wonder if i continue anyway ghostbusters afterlife is 2021 unlike 00:29:56.510 --> 00:30:00.390 the one with the women it's in the original continuity of the first two movies 00:30:00.390 --> 00:30:08.290 okay okay so what you actually get is the what is it uh is it, 00:30:10.770 --> 00:30:19.850 Like the main character you follow is the granddaughter of Egon Spengler from the first movie. 00:30:20.410 --> 00:30:21.510 Okay. 00:30:22.250 --> 00:30:27.350 And her brother's there, too. Her mother's there. A couple other things. 00:30:27.690 --> 00:30:32.890 They end up, I'll read you the beginning of the plot summary, so no big spoilers. 00:30:32.890 --> 00:30:39.370 In Somersville, Oklahoma, Egon Spengler captures an entity in occultist Evo 00:30:39.370 --> 00:30:43.350 Shandor's mine outside the town and lures another to his farm. 00:30:43.630 --> 00:30:46.990 He activates an elaborate setup on his property, but the power fails. 00:30:47.250 --> 00:30:52.770 Egon manages to conceal the ghost trap in his home before being attacked by 00:30:52.770 --> 00:30:57.430 the entity and suffering a fatal heart attack, and the entity returns to the mine. 00:30:58.390 --> 00:31:03.150 Egon's estranged, financially struggling daughter, Callie, inherits the farm 00:31:03.150 --> 00:31:07.150 and moves there with her children, Trevor and Phoebe, after being evicted from 00:31:07.150 --> 00:31:08.190 their Chicago apartment. 00:31:08.430 --> 00:31:13.910 Trevor becomes infatuated with carhop Lucky Domingo, and the scientifically-minded 00:31:13.910 --> 00:31:18.430 Phoebe enrolls in a summer science class taught by seismologist Gary Gooberson, 00:31:19.010 --> 00:31:21.230 whom Callie later dates. 00:31:21.810 --> 00:31:26.110 Phoebe discovers the farmhouse is haunted, and the poltergeist residing in it 00:31:26.110 --> 00:31:30.410 leads her to the ghost trap, which she shows to Gary and her new friend. 00:31:32.390 --> 00:31:37.250 Her new friend podcast. Gary, a fan of the Ghostbusters, helps her learn more 00:31:37.250 --> 00:31:38.930 about them and her grandfather. 00:31:39.370 --> 00:31:44.490 He, Phoebe, and podcast tamper with the trap, releasing Vins Clortho, 00:31:44.670 --> 00:31:48.850 key master of Gozer the Gozerian, which escapes to the mine. 00:31:48.850 --> 00:31:54.750 The farm ghost leads Phoebe to Egon's underground laboratory, and I will stop there. 00:31:55.090 --> 00:31:57.710 Okay. Because then it starts to get spoilery after that. 00:31:58.250 --> 00:32:02.910 Anyway, it does have cameos from the original Ghostbusters later in the movie. 00:32:03.250 --> 00:32:07.350 Obviously, there was a bit with Egon at the very beginning. But to be clear, 00:32:07.930 --> 00:32:16.110 this was filmed after the actor for Egon, who was Dana—no, not Dana Hecker. 00:32:16.270 --> 00:32:20.370 Dana Hecker is still alive. yeah a yvonne 00:32:20.370 --> 00:32:23.350 reitman is that right i even right um i haven't 00:32:23.350 --> 00:32:26.150 reitman uh yeah it was already dead when they 00:32:26.150 --> 00:32:29.750 filmed this movie or he died while it was filming or something something like 00:32:29.750 --> 00:32:38.590 that so so anyway yo so he appeared he appears in cameos anyway through the 00:32:38.590 --> 00:32:43.690 magics of magic of cinema but i look, 00:32:44.620 --> 00:32:48.720 Thumbs up. I actually really liked this movie. 00:32:49.040 --> 00:32:49.540 Okay. 00:32:49.840 --> 00:32:56.220 I'd say it gives the original a run for its money. It is different. 00:32:57.940 --> 00:33:03.360 It's definitely a modern 2020s movie, not a 1980s movie. 00:33:03.400 --> 00:33:06.020 But I think that actually makes it better. 00:33:06.720 --> 00:33:14.000 It's still got its comedic elements, but it's not so much a straight-up comedy 00:33:14.000 --> 00:33:16.080 as the original Ghostbusters was. 00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:17.620 It was Harold Ramis. I'm sorry. 00:33:17.820 --> 00:33:18.240 Oh, Harold Ramis. 00:33:18.240 --> 00:33:20.620 I thought it was a director that actually died as well. 00:33:21.100 --> 00:33:22.720 Yes, Harold Ramis. Sorry. Right. 00:33:23.780 --> 00:33:30.040 It looked like one of our college looks Dead Ringer for Al. 00:33:31.340 --> 00:33:36.520 But anyway, I really liked it. Like, it's a different style than the original, 00:33:36.520 --> 00:33:39.480 but I think it's just as good. 00:33:39.680 --> 00:33:45.000 I mean, if I had to say which of the Ghostbusters movies would I want to see 00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:48.960 again, I would pick this one over the original now. 00:33:49.460 --> 00:33:53.600 Now, having said that, that's partially because I've seen the original quite 00:33:53.600 --> 00:33:56.360 a few times at this point. I've only seen this one once. 00:33:56.760 --> 00:33:59.980 But yeah, I liked it. It was funny. 00:34:00.400 --> 00:34:03.200 It was sort of heartwarming at the right places. 00:34:03.720 --> 00:34:08.500 It had just enough of the lore of the original so that, you know, 00:34:08.740 --> 00:34:11.700 you felt connected to the original but 00:34:11.700 --> 00:34:15.200 it was moving the story onward and bringing in 00:34:15.200 --> 00:34:18.240 new characters to continue the story which by 00:34:18.240 --> 00:34:22.120 the way is the way i i prefer continuations after 00:34:22.120 --> 00:34:25.260 a long period of time you know sometimes and 00:34:25.260 --> 00:34:28.780 we've talked about this on the show before but sometimes complete reboots work 00:34:28.780 --> 00:34:34.540 and the new version is good in its own ways and i'll point to for instance battle 00:34:34.540 --> 00:34:40.640 star galactica oh yeah they're the newer and they're they're apparently redoing 00:34:40.640 --> 00:34:43.920 a new reboot of Battlestar Galactica well by. 00:34:43.920 --> 00:34:46.560 The way I love the reboot of Star Trek. 00:34:47.410 --> 00:34:50.150 I know a lot of many reboots of Star Trek at this point. 00:34:50.230 --> 00:34:52.050 But the last one. 00:34:52.050 --> 00:34:53.910 The last one. 00:34:54.230 --> 00:34:57.730 So that was the three movies that were that were by what's his name? 00:34:58.270 --> 00:35:02.110 You're you're talking movies, not because there there have been like five new 00:35:02.110 --> 00:35:04.130 Star Trek series in the last couple of years. 00:35:04.370 --> 00:35:07.610 Well, yeah, yeah, not not not so much the TV series, but more enough, 00:35:07.790 --> 00:35:12.350 you know, because in a movie era, I mean, you had like that series of movies that was by J.J. 00:35:12.490 --> 00:35:16.050 Abrams that he did that a lot of people like criticize. But I actually thought, 00:35:16.170 --> 00:35:19.010 yeah, but I thought they were great. I actually enjoyed them. 00:35:19.010 --> 00:35:22.390 Yeah, I haven't even watched all of them. I think I watched the first two, 00:35:22.510 --> 00:35:26.250 maybe. But, like, I was not impressed by them. I thought they were okay. 00:35:26.550 --> 00:35:32.310 But, like, you can tell how little impressed I was that I didn't bother seeing the last one. 00:35:32.970 --> 00:35:36.510 I liked them very much. You see? But there were a lot of people that shared. 00:35:36.550 --> 00:35:42.270 But also, even that one, by the way, they actually made a connection to the original series. 00:35:42.390 --> 00:35:47.810 It wasn't actually a real reboot. correct because they had like spock fall backwards 00:35:47.810 --> 00:35:52.210 in time and create a new timeline correct and he was in it like with the older 00:35:52.210 --> 00:35:56.530 spock so yes so they they maintained the continuity with the original sometimes 00:35:56.530 --> 00:36:01.350 like the the battlestar galactica one was completely yeah. 00:36:01.350 --> 00:36:02.630 Completely rebooted yeah. 00:36:02.630 --> 00:36:09.550 Although at the very end of the series they sort of did hint at connections to the original. 00:36:10.790 --> 00:36:16.670 I'll tell you one thing. The Battlestar Galactica, the second one itself, compared to the, 00:36:17.400 --> 00:36:21.180 first series was, Jesus, was so much more dystopian. 00:36:21.600 --> 00:36:25.520 I mean, I mean, not that the first one wasn't like it in that sense, 00:36:25.680 --> 00:36:30.280 in the sense of, I mean, Jesus, you know, all the all the humans were almost 00:36:30.280 --> 00:36:32.080 annihilated. They had to escape on ships. 00:36:32.460 --> 00:36:38.980 Right. I think that the that the tone of the second one was far darker. 00:36:39.380 --> 00:36:42.200 And I think that the other thing that they did is 00:36:42.200 --> 00:36:45.320 that they visualized and like presented a lot more 00:36:45.320 --> 00:36:51.580 what actually happened during the attack uh a lot of the suffering oh yeah yeah 00:36:51.580 --> 00:36:56.440 yeah yeah and so yeah it's like because on the on the first series that got 00:36:56.440 --> 00:37:01.740 very little play it was just a little bit of you saw that the you know the planets 00:37:01.740 --> 00:37:05.280 were attacked that they escaped that's it boom right and. 00:37:05.280 --> 00:37:09.760 This is also a thing where you know after so many decades pass it's a difference 00:37:09.760 --> 00:37:15.640 in you know what the style of television is right like is it the original premiered 00:37:15.640 --> 00:37:21.440 in 1978 you know and the new one was 2003 you know. 00:37:21.440 --> 00:37:23.440 There's a substantial difference. 00:37:23.440 --> 00:37:30.540 In how things are done but yeah my my point that though is just that you know 00:37:30.540 --> 00:37:35.620 sometimes people do complete reboots, wipe the slate clean, brand new cast. 00:37:35.800 --> 00:37:38.760 They reset it perhaps in a different time. 00:37:39.120 --> 00:37:42.000 They make different assumptions about the characters. 00:37:43.020 --> 00:37:48.100 And it really is a whole new show that just takes some of the same premises and does it again. 00:37:48.360 --> 00:37:52.280 That's one way of doing it. And I'm always a little wary of those. 00:37:52.480 --> 00:37:55.340 Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. And then the 00:37:55.340 --> 00:37:58.500 other way is you actually like say we're 00:37:58.500 --> 00:38:01.820 going to pick up the same story 20 years 00:38:01.820 --> 00:38:04.980 later and so the original characters 00:38:04.980 --> 00:38:08.260 are older but they're still around or at 00:38:08.260 --> 00:38:12.320 least they're in the history of the show even if the actor is not available and 00:38:12.320 --> 00:38:15.160 you know and you refer to the events of the first 00:38:15.160 --> 00:38:18.480 series and you continue the story for there that also 00:38:18.480 --> 00:38:21.140 sometimes works and sometimes doesn't work but i 00:38:21.140 --> 00:38:24.100 generally prefer that second approach to the first 00:38:24.100 --> 00:38:27.260 i feel like it gives more respect 00:38:27.260 --> 00:38:30.200 to the original and it may like 00:38:30.200 --> 00:38:33.120 whenever you do the complete reboot i kind of feel 00:38:33.120 --> 00:38:40.460 sad that you really and truly are burying the old version whereas the new version 00:38:40.460 --> 00:38:45.520 whereas if you continue it it's more like a celebration of the old version it's 00:38:45.520 --> 00:38:49.440 all part of the same thing and so i like it when they do the second, 00:38:49.500 --> 00:38:50.800 better than when they like the first. 00:38:50.940 --> 00:38:55.440 And anyway, the point is even within the Ghostbusters franchise I think the 00:38:55.440 --> 00:39:00.220 one where they rebooted it completely was the one with the women and it sort 00:39:00.220 --> 00:39:05.280 of fell flat on its face and again part of that was people being sexist and jerks. 00:39:06.360 --> 00:39:07.380 But you know, 00:39:08.270 --> 00:39:13.530 part of it was like you get less of the, you don't get the nostalgia effect 00:39:13.530 --> 00:39:15.690 if you don't connect it to the original. 00:39:16.170 --> 00:39:21.110 In this one, in Ghostbusters Afterlife, they connected it to the original two 00:39:21.110 --> 00:39:23.830 movies. They connected it to the original characters. 00:39:24.110 --> 00:39:27.410 The original characters made cameos as themselves. 00:39:27.630 --> 00:39:31.030 Like the one with the women, the original characters did make cameos, 00:39:31.170 --> 00:39:32.290 but playing different people. 00:39:32.550 --> 00:39:36.830 You know, in this one, the original characters made cameos as themselves. 00:39:37.250 --> 00:39:41.530 And it was like, oh, that's great. It's good to see what they're up to these days, you know? 00:39:42.090 --> 00:39:45.690 Anyway, I liked it. Big thumbs up to Ghostbusters Afterlife. 00:39:46.010 --> 00:39:50.070 There's one more, Ghostbusters Frozen Empire. I have not seen that yet. 00:39:50.370 --> 00:39:51.490 Eventually, I will see that. 00:39:52.070 --> 00:39:53.030 No, I haven't seen that yet. 00:39:53.290 --> 00:39:56.390 Maybe I'll see that soon. I don't know. But anyway, this is one, 00:39:56.550 --> 00:39:57.750 Yvonne, where I recommend you go ahead. 00:39:57.750 --> 00:40:02.030 Sam beating me to the punch on watching some movies, which is stunning. 00:40:02.510 --> 00:40:06.510 I recommend you go ahead and watch all the Ghostbusters movies. 00:40:06.750 --> 00:40:09.570 Start at the original and work your way forward. 00:40:09.890 --> 00:40:15.050 Don't skip the one with the women. It's not awesome, but it's not horrible. 00:40:15.770 --> 00:40:19.350 But give it its due service to sort of counteract the jerks. 00:40:19.750 --> 00:40:21.470 See, I'm using the word jerk now. 00:40:21.910 --> 00:40:26.850 And watch the new ones too. And I don't know, maybe the very most recent one 00:40:26.850 --> 00:40:28.190 sucks. I don't know, I haven't seen it yet. 00:40:28.330 --> 00:40:31.030 But I liked Ghostbusters Afterlife. There you go. 00:40:32.350 --> 00:40:37.330 Okay, with that, we will take a break. And after this break, 00:40:37.790 --> 00:40:40.770 I don't know, Yvonne will pick something to talk about. 00:40:41.190 --> 00:40:44.850 We'll talk about it for a while. Then I'll take a break and I'll pick something. 00:40:45.350 --> 00:40:49.430 Or we'll take a break. I mean, I guess I could take a break and Yvonne could keep going. 00:40:49.950 --> 00:40:50.350 Yeah. 00:40:50.450 --> 00:40:51.090 But that would be weird. 00:40:51.130 --> 00:40:52.550 That's possible. That would be strange. 00:40:52.830 --> 00:40:58.330 You could talk straight through the spot, like just giving your thoughts on something or other. 00:40:58.850 --> 00:41:00.650 Yeah, it's possible. Yeah. 00:41:00.650 --> 00:41:03.330 Anyway, here's a break. We'll be back in a moment. 00:41:46.250 --> 00:41:47.130 Okay, we're back. 00:41:47.570 --> 00:41:49.930 We're back. And we're bad. 00:41:50.530 --> 00:41:55.230 So I kept looking over to see what Yvonne was doing during your break, 00:41:55.330 --> 00:41:57.190 but it's still his big frozen face. 00:41:57.690 --> 00:41:59.290 Yeah, I'm still, you know, frozen. 00:41:59.790 --> 00:42:02.910 So anyway, what do you want to talk about? What do you want to talk about? 00:42:02.970 --> 00:42:03.950 There's been stuff going on. 00:42:04.070 --> 00:42:08.930 It's been longer than normal since we recorded the show early last time. 00:42:09.030 --> 00:42:11.310 Oh, I guess I should mention my surgery went fine. 00:42:13.090 --> 00:42:19.530 It went well. I had the thing cut out of me, and then the next day I had plastic 00:42:19.530 --> 00:42:25.690 surgery to patch up the big open wound that I had. 00:42:26.050 --> 00:42:31.490 It was like, I don't know, the size of a dime across and several millimeters 00:42:31.490 --> 00:42:34.650 deep in my nose, maybe even slightly bigger than that. 00:42:34.650 --> 00:42:37.170 Well, I mean, given your lobotomy, it doesn't sound like anything. 00:42:37.330 --> 00:42:38.130 You don't sound very different. 00:42:38.270 --> 00:42:42.910 Yeah, and then they patched it up. They didn't have to take skin from my forehead. 00:42:43.750 --> 00:42:49.370 They described it as they rotated the skin on my nose to cover up the injury. 00:42:49.510 --> 00:42:53.730 But apparently it was big enough that it would never have healed properly on 00:42:53.730 --> 00:42:55.770 its own. So that's why they did the plastic surgery. 00:42:56.010 --> 00:42:59.510 I got the stitches out a week later. 00:43:00.010 --> 00:43:03.870 Why do we even call this plastic surgery? It's not like they put in plastic. 00:43:04.010 --> 00:43:05.550 They did not put in plastic. 00:43:05.850 --> 00:43:07.830 Yeah, because it would be very weird. 00:43:07.870 --> 00:43:10.730 Okay, cosmetic surgery. Reconstructive surgery. 00:43:11.010 --> 00:43:14.410 But they do call it plastic surgery. And I'm just like, you know, 00:43:14.630 --> 00:43:18.430 what the hell? You know, we're not patching people off with plastic. Okay. 00:43:18.950 --> 00:43:19.950 Sometimes they are. 00:43:21.190 --> 00:43:24.070 Rarely at this point, I'm assuming. But for the most part. 00:43:24.270 --> 00:43:26.970 Sometimes plastic, sometimes silicone, sometimes other things. 00:43:27.150 --> 00:43:29.710 But yeah, you're right. It's not usually actually plastic. 00:43:29.890 --> 00:43:32.790 Because that would be very weird. And we were just, you know, 00:43:32.910 --> 00:43:35.690 all of a sudden, hey, I just came back from my plastic surgery. 00:43:35.850 --> 00:43:37.110 Your nose is made out of plastic. 00:43:38.430 --> 00:43:41.050 Yes indeed that might look. 00:43:41.050 --> 00:43:41.730 Like a clown. 00:43:41.730 --> 00:43:47.190 Well it depends they can make some like you know realistic look like. 00:43:47.190 --> 00:43:49.230 A like a permanent clown nose. 00:43:49.230 --> 00:43:52.650 Well alex alex did 00:43:52.650 --> 00:43:55.650 a image edit of me with a muppet nose and has 00:43:55.650 --> 00:43:58.530 been sending around to people he didn't send it to the curmudgeon score 00:43:58.530 --> 00:44:02.490 slack maybe you should do that now alex but yeah 00:44:02.490 --> 00:44:05.390 yeah so he's but yeah yeah like no i mean 00:44:05.390 --> 00:44:09.690 you know they make they make like the madame tussauds stuff that look realistic 00:44:09.690 --> 00:44:14.430 they make the animatronics at disney that look realistic you're right you you 00:44:14.430 --> 00:44:20.610 could you could substitute a brand new oh i've i actually saw yvonne moving 00:44:20.610 --> 00:44:22.970 instead of the freeze frame again hey. 00:44:22.970 --> 00:44:25.870 I am moving again what the hell okay all right. 00:44:25.870 --> 00:44:30.590 Back and anyway for those of you listening to the podcast later this means nothing 00:44:30.590 --> 00:44:35.270 to you anyway it looks fine my i i still have a little bit of swelling i still 00:44:35.270 --> 00:44:36.890 I'll have to like put Vaseline on it. 00:44:37.010 --> 00:44:40.290 And I'm supposed to be careful about sunlight for a full year. 00:44:40.290 --> 00:44:42.230 You're not supposed to be using that for sex. 00:44:43.190 --> 00:44:45.370 I was putting it on my nose. 00:44:45.870 --> 00:44:46.290 Right. 00:44:46.630 --> 00:44:47.510 And okay. 00:44:48.770 --> 00:44:50.730 I mean, what are you doing? Okay. Anyway. 00:44:51.730 --> 00:44:56.270 Anyway. Yeah. I still, I'm supposed to like wear sunscreen and a hat for like 00:44:56.270 --> 00:44:59.050 a full year. Like to keep the sun. 00:44:59.370 --> 00:45:00.770 I should always wear sunscreen and a hat. 00:45:00.770 --> 00:45:03.990 Well, that's what they told me actually, is that you be sure to do this for 00:45:03.990 --> 00:45:06.530 a year and actually forever. because you should have been doing it anyway. 00:45:07.230 --> 00:45:11.550 Yeah. I usually try to like, I mean, I'll say that I do a lot of times when 00:45:11.550 --> 00:45:16.350 I know that I'm going to be out in the sun, I do put up sunscreen on my face more than anything. 00:45:16.670 --> 00:45:21.050 And actually on the, I mean, on the back of my head where it's a little bit bold. 00:45:21.230 --> 00:45:23.750 I always try to make sure that that doesn't get, but you know, 00:45:23.870 --> 00:45:29.570 I mean, I do try if I'm going to be outdoors, you know, to wear a hat. 00:45:29.990 --> 00:45:33.470 I mean, not just walk into the car, you know, that just seems like a little bit. 00:45:34.030 --> 00:45:38.370 Right. So anyway, there's still a little bit of swelling, and I think the shape 00:45:38.370 --> 00:45:42.130 is slightly different than it used to be, but whatever. 00:45:42.570 --> 00:45:45.470 Like, you know, it doesn't look too bad. 00:45:45.930 --> 00:45:48.490 There's going to be a small scar, but whatever. 00:45:49.070 --> 00:45:54.430 Anyway, so I was giving the update since I was reminded. 00:45:54.670 --> 00:45:58.550 What I was saying is it's been longer since our last episode than usual. 00:45:58.690 --> 00:46:00.510 It's been like a week and a half instead of a week. 00:46:00.690 --> 00:46:03.670 So stuff has happened. So what do you want to talk about, Yvonne? 00:46:03.670 --> 00:46:10.110 Okay, so, Sam, Trump has only been in office for little more than 100 days. 00:46:10.570 --> 00:46:12.970 It doesn't seem like so much longer. 00:46:13.190 --> 00:46:14.770 It seems like it's been a year. 00:46:17.570 --> 00:46:18.770 Jesus Christ. 00:46:20.740 --> 00:46:22.460 How's the approval doing, Sam? 00:46:23.020 --> 00:46:24.060 Oh, great. 00:46:24.720 --> 00:46:25.280 Okay. 00:46:25.680 --> 00:46:28.260 He's the most popular president ever. 00:46:28.680 --> 00:46:32.220 According to Trump, yes. How's he doing? 00:46:32.720 --> 00:46:34.960 Oh, it's been horrible. 00:46:35.540 --> 00:46:42.020 I mean, right now, he has the worst. I mean, if you track almost every metric 00:46:42.020 --> 00:46:43.800 in terms of stock market, 00:46:45.600 --> 00:46:51.100 you know, economy, like just about anything, he is performing at a rate that's 00:46:51.100 --> 00:46:54.880 worse than any time that we've ever tracked this shit pretty much. 00:46:54.880 --> 00:46:57.780 Yeah i mean look people have 00:46:57.780 --> 00:47:01.420 generated all kinds of charts i'm looking at approval right now there 00:47:01.420 --> 00:47:03.880 are a whole bunch out there i'm looking at the one from the economist right 00:47:03.880 --> 00:47:08.660 now uh if you google economist trump approval tracker you'll find it but there's 00:47:08.660 --> 00:47:14.480 like a half dozen of these there's rcp there's there's a whole bunch nate silver 00:47:14.480 --> 00:47:20.360 has one the silver bulletin 538 doesn't exist anymore, but there are all these others out there. 00:47:20.960 --> 00:47:27.200 Anyway, Trump had already been the lowest net approval of any president since 00:47:27.200 --> 00:47:30.220 they started polling other than his first term. 00:47:30.500 --> 00:47:33.740 That had been true almost since the day one of his presidency. 00:47:34.020 --> 00:47:38.680 A couple of weeks ago, he is now doing worse than his first term for the first time. 00:47:39.540 --> 00:47:40.840 Congratulations. Yay. 00:47:41.480 --> 00:47:44.380 Yeah. And so now it's just straight up the worst 00:47:44.380 --> 00:47:47.080 net approval of any president since there was 00:47:47.080 --> 00:47:50.300 regular polling of this question and like 00:47:50.300 --> 00:47:53.820 you said all kinds of other metrics too in terms of how the stock market has 00:47:53.820 --> 00:47:59.840 done in the first 100 days worst ever start for presidency yeah um yeah hell 00:47:59.840 --> 00:48:05.440 in terms of how much legislation congress has passed like i i think i read they 00:48:05.440 --> 00:48:09.640 pass they have passed and had signed six bills in these hundred days. 00:48:10.320 --> 00:48:12.220 And in comparison, how is that? 00:48:12.720 --> 00:48:18.000 Oh, I think it's usually in the mid double digits, like 50 or 60 by this time. 00:48:18.900 --> 00:48:22.720 You know, I don't have those numbers ahead of me, in front of me, 00:48:22.820 --> 00:48:25.340 so I'm going by memory, but much higher. 00:48:25.820 --> 00:48:29.380 Even by the standards of recent congresses. 00:48:29.520 --> 00:48:32.680 Which have been very low on the productivity scale, yeah. 00:48:33.260 --> 00:48:37.140 Yeah. And of course, number of bills isn't a really great measure anyway, 00:48:37.440 --> 00:48:41.100 which is why I stopped tracking it myself. Well, also because it was too much. 00:48:41.200 --> 00:48:44.280 I mean, but it is a measure. I mean, you know, look, I mean, 00:48:44.380 --> 00:48:47.700 if you're Congress and you're not passing bills, the fuck are you doing? 00:48:48.020 --> 00:48:55.500 Now, the one metric that he has blown away every previous president is executive orders. 00:48:56.170 --> 00:49:00.830 He has issued more executive or he's like, I believe he's more than doubled, 00:49:01.050 --> 00:49:04.850 maybe even more than tripled the previous record for the number of executive 00:49:04.850 --> 00:49:06.210 orders in the first hundred days. 00:49:06.590 --> 00:49:11.170 I mean, yeah, I mean, everything is every other week they come up with some 00:49:11.170 --> 00:49:14.070 fucking executive order on something. 00:49:14.370 --> 00:49:20.810 And it's like, you know, like on some something, just on whatever the fuck it is. 00:49:20.910 --> 00:49:25.610 I mean, you all of a sudden you read the news, you're like, wait, he's doing what? 00:49:26.170 --> 00:49:29.570 You made an executive order on what? I mean, what, a fucking showerhead. 00:49:30.370 --> 00:49:30.850 Yes. 00:49:30.950 --> 00:49:31.950 A fucking showerhead. 00:49:31.950 --> 00:49:36.930 That's been pissing off Donald Trump for years. I remember him talking about it in 2016. 00:49:37.290 --> 00:49:41.490 Yeah, but come on, man. I mean, showerheads. I mean, you know, I don't know. 00:49:41.730 --> 00:49:45.450 Like, it's just there's always an executive order on something, 00:49:45.670 --> 00:49:47.570 okay? Targeting individuals. 00:49:48.210 --> 00:49:52.530 Okay, so let me, I think there have been more since then. This is through April 00:49:52.530 --> 00:49:54.650 29th, which is the first 100 days. 00:49:55.210 --> 00:50:02.230 For the last, going back through Clinton. No, going back through Reagan. 00:50:02.790 --> 00:50:05.850 Although they don't have George H.W. Bush on this list. I don't know why. 00:50:06.230 --> 00:50:11.350 Anyway, so Trump had, I'm going off a graph, so I'm estimating the numbers, 00:50:11.350 --> 00:50:14.010 about 85 in the first 100 days. 00:50:14.750 --> 00:50:19.390 Next highest was Obama at about 65. 00:50:19.410 --> 00:50:24.070 So I was wrong about the doubling, but still significantly higher. 00:50:24.650 --> 00:50:32.150 Next above that was about 55 for Reagan, about just over 50 for Clinton, 00:50:32.890 --> 00:50:36.030 just under 50 for George H.W. Bush. 00:50:36.850 --> 00:50:42.310 No, for George W. Bush. For some reason, George H.W. is missing here. 00:50:42.630 --> 00:50:44.370 Or maybe he just didn't do many. 00:50:44.670 --> 00:50:48.950 Or none. I don't know. I should look that up, but I'm not going to. 00:50:49.590 --> 00:50:57.090 Okay. so i mean 100 days one of the things that happened is the tariffs so we're 00:50:57.090 --> 00:51:02.470 tariffed you know uh peter navarro had gone on tv and said that we are going 00:51:02.470 --> 00:51:04.930 to be negotiating i screwed up. 00:51:04.930 --> 00:51:07.290 I did not properly look up that graph. 00:51:07.290 --> 00:51:10.890 Okay sorry uh-huh yeah yeah yeah correction that. 00:51:10.890 --> 00:51:12.790 Was the first hundred days of his first term. 00:51:13.520 --> 00:51:15.400 Oh, so what's the current term? 00:51:15.700 --> 00:51:20.740 Well, now I'm going to have to go find it because apparently I failed in finding it the first time. 00:51:21.700 --> 00:51:23.120 Oh, my goodness. 00:51:24.180 --> 00:51:29.640 I have seen this graph, but now I'm not going to be able to find the stupid thing. Let me add. 00:51:30.080 --> 00:51:34.320 Well, just ask how many executive orders, you know, here, let me see. 00:51:34.540 --> 00:51:41.680 Hey, Siri, how many executive orders has Donald Trump signed in his current presidential term? 00:51:42.300 --> 00:51:45.160 Do you want me to use chat gpt yes do 00:51:45.160 --> 00:51:48.060 okay here we go which i figured it was gonna do 00:51:48.060 --> 00:51:50.780 looks like 102 working with 00:51:50.780 --> 00:51:57.580 chat gpt okay so as of may 3rd 2025 president donald trump has signed 89 executive 00:51:57.580 --> 00:52:05.660 orders in his current term from yo 14 147 through yo 14 235 that was from chat 00:52:05.660 --> 00:52:08.080 gpt Check important info for mistakes. 00:52:08.400 --> 00:52:12.280 Yeah, I've got, he has signed three today. 00:52:12.680 --> 00:52:17.700 So that information is out of date. I have an executive order tracker. 00:52:17.880 --> 00:52:20.160 It's the executiveordertracker.com. 00:52:20.380 --> 00:52:26.180 It lists 43 in progress because after he signs them, it takes a couple of weeks 00:52:26.180 --> 00:52:28.780 for them to get into the federal register and be in effect. 00:52:29.040 --> 00:52:33.780 He's got 43 in progress, three that have been blocked by the courts and 69 total. 00:52:33.780 --> 00:52:38.640 So whatever and three with an unclear status so. 00:52:38.640 --> 00:52:47.060 If you add up nine plus 43 70 so no oh my god 113 112 69 plus 43 is 112 plus what else plus. 00:52:47.060 --> 00:52:47.920 Plus six more. 00:52:47.920 --> 00:52:54.420 So 118 118 okay so that is a a record pace by by a lot. 00:52:54.420 --> 00:52:55.780 By a lot yes. 00:52:55.780 --> 00:53:01.740 Yeah okay well and the people are people really liking all this stuff. 00:53:02.650 --> 00:53:08.210 No. We went through his approval rating before being the lowest ever. 00:53:08.830 --> 00:53:13.210 I mean, you still, the diehards of the diehards, they're never going to give them up no matter what. 00:53:13.330 --> 00:53:17.170 But all of these people who were sort of like, oh, I don't know, 00:53:17.390 --> 00:53:22.130 I'll vote for Trump because I liked the economy in his first term, 00:53:22.410 --> 00:53:24.610 forgetting the second half of his first term. 00:53:25.070 --> 00:53:30.830 And because, like, Biden's old and Biden hasn't done all the things I want to 00:53:30.830 --> 00:53:32.350 do. And I want change, damn it! 00:53:33.030 --> 00:53:33.430 Change! 00:53:34.430 --> 00:53:35.330 Change, Sam! 00:53:36.210 --> 00:53:36.610 Change! 00:53:37.170 --> 00:53:38.850 Yeah, those people are like... 00:53:38.850 --> 00:53:39.930 Well, you could go to National Change. 00:53:39.930 --> 00:53:40.970 This isn't what I meant. 00:53:41.910 --> 00:53:47.430 Oh, this isn't what you meant. Well, yeah, that's a reference, but, you know. 00:53:48.190 --> 00:53:53.470 But, yeah, the change for... I always find... 00:53:53.470 --> 00:53:58.650 Oh, and now I find the damn chart. Ah. Okay, so I will give you a reference 00:53:58.650 --> 00:54:01.090 to not only this chart, but a bunch of others. 00:54:01.310 --> 00:54:05.890 This is from the New York Times, published on April 29th, which was the 100-day mark. 00:54:06.790 --> 00:54:11.950 Trump's astonishing 100 days in eight charts. So the very first one is the executive 00:54:11.950 --> 00:54:14.170 orders, shows how much higher he is. 00:54:14.310 --> 00:54:17.890 The next closest, which our previous chart did not go back to, 00:54:17.950 --> 00:54:21.630 is FDR in 1941, who also was over 100. 00:54:22.210 --> 00:54:22.650 Okay. 00:54:22.650 --> 00:54:26.390 Um, the next chart was lost war go. 00:54:26.550 --> 00:54:31.250 Well, there was world war two going on. So I'm like, okay, I'll give FDR a pass. 00:54:32.490 --> 00:54:39.910 Yeah. The next number two and number three are FDR 1941 and FDR 1937 followed 00:54:39.910 --> 00:54:42.650 by Truman in 1945, then Biden in 2021. 00:54:42.990 --> 00:54:48.970 Those are the top five. The next chart is how much he's been sued in federal 00:54:48.970 --> 00:54:50.490 court against the president. 00:54:50.810 --> 00:54:54.730 Uh, and he, He's got to break a record of some kind. 00:54:54.730 --> 00:55:00.650 He has got, I'm eyeballing from the chart, like around 250 lawsuits so far. 00:55:01.430 --> 00:55:09.130 The next closest was Trump in 2017, who was only at like 115 or something. 00:55:09.610 --> 00:55:15.530 And then after that was Bush in 2005 and Obama in 2013. 00:55:15.770 --> 00:55:22.570 The next chart, revenue from tariffs. He's actually number one. Number two is Biden. 00:55:22.710 --> 00:55:23.450 No, get out of here. 00:55:24.250 --> 00:55:31.130 Then the dollar plunged. The dollar has plunged more than any of these other 00:55:31.130 --> 00:55:32.410 comparison presidents there. 00:55:32.610 --> 00:55:35.270 And it's weird here. Like, yeah, yes. 00:55:36.150 --> 00:55:39.370 The next worst was Nixon in 1973. 00:55:40.550 --> 00:55:41.670 Then markets. 00:55:41.950 --> 00:55:48.650 Of course, Nixon's 73. Okay. The main thing, 73 was the year of the oil shop, 00:55:48.670 --> 00:55:49.590 if I remember correctly. 00:55:50.210 --> 00:55:55.530 So that's why the dollar plunged. I'm pretty sure that that's what happened in 73. 00:55:55.530 --> 00:56:01.470 Speaking of markets, Trump 2025 first hundred days was not the worst ever, 00:56:01.650 --> 00:56:02.730 which I believe I said before. 00:56:03.250 --> 00:56:10.010 Nixon 1973 was actually worse. And Ford 1974 was worse as well. They're close. 00:56:10.450 --> 00:56:14.710 So by the way, for those that don't know, just because I say that oil shock 00:56:14.710 --> 00:56:16.870 like everybody knows what it is. 00:56:16.870 --> 00:56:22.710 OK, but but, you know, in October 1973, OPEC announced that it was implementing 00:56:22.710 --> 00:56:25.250 a total oil embargo against countries 00:56:25.250 --> 00:56:28.730 that supported Israel at any point during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, 00:56:28.930 --> 00:56:32.070 which began after Egypt and Syria launched a large scale surprise attack. 00:56:33.170 --> 00:56:37.090 And that was, you know, a massive shock. 00:56:37.370 --> 00:56:41.510 The price of oil rose by nearly 300 percent. 00:56:42.030 --> 00:56:46.570 OK, from three dollars per barrel to nearly twelve dollars a barrel globally. 00:56:46.870 --> 00:56:50.210 Prices in the United States were significantly higher than the global average. 00:56:50.350 --> 00:56:51.930 Okay, so it was even higher than that. 00:56:52.210 --> 00:56:56.050 After it was implemented, the embargo caused an oil crisis, oil shock, 00:56:56.370 --> 00:56:59.710 which very short and terminally affects the global economy as well as global politics. 00:57:00.190 --> 00:57:02.430 So think about this right now. 00:57:04.570 --> 00:57:09.850 Current price of oil being at $70 a barrel. Imagine if, like, 00:57:10.070 --> 00:57:14.810 overnight, it went to, what, 200-plus dollars a barrel? 00:57:15.190 --> 00:57:17.490 What the impact on the economy would be? 00:57:17.870 --> 00:57:18.470 Mm-hmm. 00:57:20.480 --> 00:57:28.020 Hey yeah you know that was so that was a brutal one a 73 with nixon but uh but 00:57:28.020 --> 00:57:32.140 this one here's a funny thing but here's the thing that was an external shock 00:57:32.140 --> 00:57:36.360 trump managed to do the same thing by doing it himself yeah. 00:57:36.360 --> 00:57:41.200 There you go the rest of the charts on this one fewer state department briefings 00:57:41.200 --> 00:57:44.120 than all these other presidencies significantly. 00:57:44.120 --> 00:57:48.620 Lower budget his budget request for the State Department. His budget request 00:57:48.620 --> 00:57:51.380 cut the budget for the State Department by 85%. 00:57:51.380 --> 00:57:55.420 Federal funding for medical research, the lowest of all of these other recent 00:57:55.420 --> 00:57:57.900 presidents. He's almost half the level. 00:57:58.480 --> 00:58:00.740 Medical research. We need some medical research. 00:58:02.060 --> 00:58:03.180 His approval. 00:58:03.440 --> 00:58:07.240 We got RFK Jr., man. What do we need that medical research for? 00:58:07.720 --> 00:58:12.680 Yeah. So then approval. This chart, we talked net approval before. This is just approval. 00:58:13.520 --> 00:58:18.780 So straight approval-wise, Trump 2017 is still worse than 2025 if you don't 00:58:18.780 --> 00:58:20.740 take the net and you just take the approval number. 00:58:21.180 --> 00:58:21.400 Okay. 00:58:21.680 --> 00:58:27.600 But it appears to be dropping faster than it did in 2017. And that's the last year. 00:58:27.620 --> 00:58:28.360 To be more effective. 00:58:29.420 --> 00:58:36.260 Yes. And it's important to keep in mind, the people who do still approve of 00:58:36.260 --> 00:58:41.240 Donald Trump, many of them think he's doing awesome and all this stuff is great. 00:58:41.820 --> 00:58:42.440 No, no. 00:58:42.460 --> 00:58:43.140 Not all of them. 00:58:43.160 --> 00:58:43.440 No, no. 00:58:43.440 --> 00:58:43.740 Not all. 00:58:44.000 --> 00:58:47.200 Wait, wait, wait. No. I've heard a whole bunch of them actually, 00:58:47.580 --> 00:58:56.500 no, no, no, say, oh, this really hurt me, this is so bad, but I still trust them anyway. 00:58:56.980 --> 00:58:57.540 Right. 00:58:58.040 --> 00:58:59.420 Which is even dumber. 00:59:00.510 --> 00:59:05.850 It's just ridiculous. They're like, oh yeah, I lost my job because of him and 00:59:05.850 --> 00:59:12.150 I can't afford anything and you know we're economically hurt but hey, I still trust him. 00:59:12.710 --> 00:59:14.630 Damn it. He's my guy. 00:59:15.570 --> 00:59:20.410 Sounds like I'm right. You know, this sounds like honestly, and I'm not minimizing 00:59:20.410 --> 00:59:24.130 this in any way, like the victims of like spousal abuse. 00:59:24.790 --> 00:59:26.490 Yeah, very much so. 00:59:26.750 --> 00:59:31.570 This is like daughter, spouse you know, behavior. 00:59:31.990 --> 00:59:38.110 I mean, because the reality is that everything he has done, the people he has 00:59:38.110 --> 00:59:41.830 fucked the worst, for the most part, are people that voted for him. 00:59:42.590 --> 00:59:42.710 Yeah. 00:59:43.470 --> 00:59:48.970 Think about Wall Street. Now, Wall Street, okay, wind up on Elia, 00:59:49.130 --> 00:59:53.090 we're going to go on the Trump bandwagon because, you know, he's going to cut 00:59:53.090 --> 00:59:56.250 regulations and stuff and whatever, going to cut taxes. 00:59:56.770 --> 01:00:01.330 Everything's going to be great. First guys that got fucked Fucked, 01:00:01.670 --> 01:00:03.650 fucked, fucked Wall Street. 01:00:03.950 --> 01:00:09.910 Both completely, you know, just absolutely annihilated them. You know? 01:00:11.350 --> 01:00:16.230 Farmers, okay? Farmers are getting killed by the tariffs. 01:00:16.490 --> 01:00:21.910 Killed, okay? This whole tariff trade is fucking screwing them. 01:00:22.010 --> 01:00:26.030 And they're still going around saying, Oh, Trump's my guy. 01:00:26.170 --> 01:00:31.670 Yeah, I can't sell my soybeans, but, you know. but hey you know Trump's still a genius. 01:00:32.410 --> 01:00:39.890 Right of course he is okay you know obviously this segment is the 100 day mark 01:00:39.890 --> 01:00:45.170 so what else do we want to say about how the first 100 days have been going anything um. 01:00:46.100 --> 01:00:51.540 I think the one thing on immigration, and do you have any stats there on deportations? 01:00:51.660 --> 01:00:53.140 How are they tracking versus? 01:00:53.660 --> 01:00:55.780 I did not. Like, one other chart. 01:00:55.780 --> 01:00:56.980 That would be a good one to look up. 01:00:57.100 --> 01:01:00.800 I will look at, while I'm talking, though, I have seen, by the way, 01:01:00.900 --> 01:01:04.900 one of, like, the whole Dodge thing is, like, to cut federal spending. 01:01:05.220 --> 01:01:05.680 Oh, yeah. 01:01:06.040 --> 01:01:09.940 And I have seen charts that, now, 01:01:10.080 --> 01:01:15.560 future spending may still be affected, but there are charts of the actual dollar 01:01:15.560 --> 01:01:21.480 outlays from the federal government for these first hundred days are higher. Are higher. 01:01:21.700 --> 01:01:22.220 Yes. 01:01:22.380 --> 01:01:26.280 Are higher than, well, I don't think they're comparing from four years ago, 01:01:26.380 --> 01:01:29.080 but compared to last year, 2025 compared to 2025. 01:01:29.100 --> 01:01:30.980 Compared to, exactly. They're higher. 01:01:31.360 --> 01:01:31.860 Yes. 01:01:31.980 --> 01:01:33.220 They're higher. Yes. 01:01:33.960 --> 01:01:34.480 Yeah. 01:01:35.000 --> 01:01:39.860 So Doge is costing money and even like when you, you know, but also, 01:01:40.140 --> 01:01:43.980 even if you take that out, The savings that were realized, okay, 01:01:44.140 --> 01:01:47.780 in terms of savings realized versus savings promised, 01:01:48.320 --> 01:01:54.100 it's about, I guess it's the standard, like, Elon Musk promised to delivery 01:01:54.100 --> 01:01:58.620 ratio, which is over 90% less than what he promised, okay, all right? 01:01:58.620 --> 01:02:03.340 So that's, you know, par for the course for Elon in everything that we've seen 01:02:03.340 --> 01:02:05.020 the last decade at this point. 01:02:05.600 --> 01:02:07.580 So that part is there. 01:02:08.260 --> 01:02:14.580 And I think also that if you probably measure the cost of the economy of a lot 01:02:14.580 --> 01:02:15.840 of the things that he got rid of. 01:02:15.840 --> 01:02:21.680 In the end, even though you save the money, maybe technically for the second 01:02:21.680 --> 01:02:27.580 year after severance or whatever for that, the cost of the economy is probably going to be higher. 01:02:27.740 --> 01:02:30.540 I mean, people, you know, yeah, you're getting less federal spending, 01:02:30.760 --> 01:02:35.740 you know, and the return is that you're going to have more costs across the 01:02:35.740 --> 01:02:39.460 board from eliminating programs that actually helped. 01:02:40.310 --> 01:02:43.850 In many ways, like in terms of climate forecasts, in terms of, 01:02:43.930 --> 01:02:47.870 say, I'll give you an example, one that always adds cost. That's simple, okay? 01:02:49.470 --> 01:02:55.710 FAA understaffing, okay? All right? For example, say you save a few billion on that. 01:02:55.850 --> 01:02:59.290 The cost of the airlines, from airline delays, okay, that they, 01:02:59.430 --> 01:03:03.410 again, far outweighs whatever you spent there. Another great example. 01:03:04.270 --> 01:03:09.330 Oh, we're cutting, you know, people at the IRS, left and right, okay? 01:03:09.870 --> 01:03:13.170 Cutting people in the irs usually whatever you 01:03:13.170 --> 01:03:16.310 cut the multiplier in terms of lost revenue 01:03:16.310 --> 01:03:19.230 is way higher so the savings are bullshit because you're 01:03:19.230 --> 01:03:21.910 saving you know oh yo we're gonna save a 01:03:21.910 --> 01:03:24.650 few billion here and people expecting tax returns well that 01:03:24.650 --> 01:03:27.990 means that a lot of people that are you know are skating without paying their 01:03:27.990 --> 01:03:32.510 taxes because we got rid of the people that make sure they do so that right 01:03:32.510 --> 01:03:37.850 so many of these okay and and those are short-term costs as a matter of fact 01:03:37.850 --> 01:03:41.970 Stats are showing already the tax, you know, receipts outside, 01:03:42.230 --> 01:03:44.830 you know, outside of the stupid tariffs. They're down. 01:03:45.390 --> 01:03:51.350 The deficit is way higher than it's been. So so they haven't saved the damn dime. 01:03:51.590 --> 01:03:54.650 OK, from any of this. So that's that's a savings. 01:03:55.010 --> 01:03:57.030 You're getting any close on the deportations there? 01:03:57.310 --> 01:04:02.590 Yeah, I have one number. This is from Forbes, which we've discussed before. 01:04:03.130 --> 01:04:03.970 Yeah, shaky. 01:04:03.970 --> 01:04:11.190 Not shaky as a source, but they say that so far during Trump's first 100 days, 01:04:11.390 --> 01:04:14.570 he has averaged 660 deportations a day. 01:04:15.450 --> 01:04:16.250 Okay, so 660 a day. 01:04:16.250 --> 01:04:22.530 The average for all of last year for Biden was 742 a day. 01:04:22.810 --> 01:04:28.110 So bottom line is, once again, what he's done is be more cruel about them, 01:04:28.190 --> 01:04:30.290 but not more effective at removing people. 01:04:30.950 --> 01:04:31.770 Right. Right. 01:04:32.340 --> 01:04:35.640 Yeah. Let's be arbitrary. Let's be unfair. 01:04:35.920 --> 01:04:38.680 You know, and all we want to do, because of course they're trying to do what 01:04:38.680 --> 01:04:40.360 the heck is this thing they keep talking about. 01:04:40.360 --> 01:04:43.620 Now, I will say the same Forbes article 01:04:43.620 --> 01:04:49.920 indicates that the Trump administration disputes those numbers and that the 01:04:49.920 --> 01:04:54.760 actual deportation rate should be higher because they are reporting numbers 01:04:54.760 --> 01:05:01.160 that also include deportation by the Coast Guard and Customs and Border Protection. 01:05:01.160 --> 01:05:04.940 Like, I guess, turning people away at the border and counting those, 01:05:05.100 --> 01:05:11.360 as well as counting people who self-deported using the CBP app. 01:05:11.860 --> 01:05:16.600 So they're counting those. But I figure if it's apples to apples, then, you know. 01:05:16.740 --> 01:05:20.220 You're not deporting as many people, you know, and it's just, 01:05:20.340 --> 01:05:22.660 you're making it more cruel and arbitrary. That's all you're doing. 01:05:23.000 --> 01:05:26.240 Right. And it's been pointed out too that like 01:05:26.240 --> 01:05:33.640 this is not you know the the worst of the worst we're getting the horrible criminals 01:05:33.640 --> 01:05:39.160 and kicking them out oh most of these are just normal people that the only thing 01:05:39.160 --> 01:05:44.860 the only thing they've done wrong is the actual immigration offense that's it and. 01:05:44.860 --> 01:05:49.660 Or you know like all of these that marco rubio is threatening all these people 01:05:49.660 --> 01:05:55.420 that if you've got a visa and that we're going to revoke your visa if you did some kind of like, 01:05:55.840 --> 01:05:59.860 fuck, he's trying to revoke visas for people that got like speeding tickets. 01:06:00.420 --> 01:06:09.240 Yeah. Or, you know, the big example of was people like the woman who wrote an editorial on Gaza. 01:06:09.800 --> 01:06:15.180 But yeah, they're trying to do speeding tickets. They're trying to use any possible excuse. 01:06:15.640 --> 01:06:19.780 But again, the reality is that it goes back to, like I said, 01:06:20.060 --> 01:06:25.160 the numbers are not at anywhere near the pace that he's wanted to do it. 01:06:25.340 --> 01:06:29.800 All they've managed to do is, is because they're focusing so much on, 01:06:29.980 --> 01:06:35.520 they are so focused on the show more than the effectiveness as usual, okay? 01:06:35.900 --> 01:06:41.300 That is all that counts. You know, you have the photo op with Miss $3,000 purse, 01:06:41.600 --> 01:06:46.600 purse for $3,000, you know, in front of a jail wearing her $50,000, 01:06:46.600 --> 01:06:50.700 $60,000 Rolex, you know, in front of the fucking jail. 01:06:51.620 --> 01:06:56.380 Down there at the photo op that they do. That's the shit that they like. 01:06:56.480 --> 01:07:00.400 By the way, aside from that, for her being such a publicity fucking dog, 01:07:00.880 --> 01:07:07.000 the other day as I was crossing through TSA, all of a sudden, I hear her. 01:07:07.340 --> 01:07:12.060 I'm like, what the fuck? So they replaced this video that as far as I recall, 01:07:13.050 --> 01:07:14.870 I think it may have happened. 01:07:15.230 --> 01:07:20.010 Oh, okay, a video. For a second, I thought you were going to say she was right there in person. 01:07:20.070 --> 01:07:24.290 Oh, fuck, Jesus Christ. Yeah, no, thank God, no. I'm like, you know, 01:07:24.650 --> 01:07:30.990 and they, on all the TVs now, when you're crossing DSA, they have a video showing her face, 01:07:31.450 --> 01:07:36.170 you know, telling you, you know, about the procedures to cross through security. 01:07:36.170 --> 01:07:39.490 And i was just like i am man i 01:07:39.490 --> 01:07:42.770 don't think that the last one had a video of 01:07:42.770 --> 01:07:47.710 the face of the homeland security secretary right but but she's such a fucking 01:07:47.710 --> 01:07:52.610 publicity hound that i guess she was like no like like trump give me a video 01:07:52.610 --> 01:07:56.990 oh by the way another cost saving thing did you see that trump apparently somehow 01:07:56.990 --> 01:08:01.750 has managed to finagle himself a new air force one i. 01:08:01.750 --> 01:08:08.770 I saw uh what he's doing yes i wouldn't call it quite that but yeah i mean i 01:08:08.770 --> 01:08:11.630 guess it will be if he flies in it it's air force one period. 01:08:11.630 --> 01:08:14.810 Right you know tell the story is that 01:08:14.810 --> 01:08:17.810 is that save a lot of money not as 01:08:17.810 --> 01:08:22.830 far as i can tell here's the thing about it and the worst thing is that he's 01:08:22.830 --> 01:08:29.510 going out is that there was the qatari government i many years ago had purchased 01:08:29.510 --> 01:08:35.790 a brand new 747-8 which is the latest version of the 747 passenger one, okay? 01:08:36.130 --> 01:08:41.690 And it outfitted for VIP trap, okay? It's an extremely, extremely posh, 01:08:42.170 --> 01:08:45.730 over-the-top, ridiculous interior, okay? 01:08:47.350 --> 01:08:52.790 And I know that the government, they've been trying to sell it for a long time, okay? 01:08:53.290 --> 01:08:58.190 They're just not using it. And they're like, eh, don't sell this thing. It's ridiculous, okay? 01:08:58.810 --> 01:09:02.330 So they've been shopping it, and apparently Trump went and saw this. 01:09:02.530 --> 01:09:08.310 And so somehow they managed to, I guess, acquire this aircraft in some way. 01:09:08.730 --> 01:09:13.810 And they're doing this conversion where they're adding all of this stuff to 01:09:13.810 --> 01:09:16.490 this aircraft so Trump can travel on it. 01:09:16.550 --> 01:09:20.930 And what they said is they're going to add it as a third aircraft to the fleet 01:09:20.930 --> 01:09:23.130 of Air Force Ones right now. 01:09:24.370 --> 01:09:27.310 Because they said that the air force had been looking to 01:09:27.310 --> 01:09:31.850 make sure that they could get a third aircraft because you know the other aircraft 01:09:31.850 --> 01:09:36.110 are old and they are old okay you know they're they're delivered in the 90s 01:09:36.110 --> 01:09:40.230 okay and that you know for reliability and whatever to make sure that we could 01:09:40.230 --> 01:09:46.590 have an aircraft that that can serve as a third aircraft okay you know i i really think that, 01:09:47.530 --> 01:09:52.110 this is bullshit. Trump is just obsessed on getting a new fucking airplane. Okay? 01:09:52.350 --> 01:09:55.830 He wants this new airplane. It looks a lot more luxurious than the current Air Force. 01:09:55.830 --> 01:09:56.730 He wants his new colors. 01:09:57.170 --> 01:10:01.690 And he wants his new colors, okay, as well. He's insisting on changing the colors, okay? 01:10:01.970 --> 01:10:11.210 But I have a feeling, I have a feeling that because how complex any of these renovations, 01:10:11.870 --> 01:10:16.690 that need to be for him to be able to really use it, he's going to wind up again 01:10:16.690 --> 01:10:20.030 we're going to have three fucking air three fucking air force ones that are 01:10:20.030 --> 01:10:24.350 going to be under construction and none of them will be flyable anytime soon. 01:10:24.350 --> 01:10:30.270 Okay didn't didn't they say also that like some of the things they wanted to 01:10:30.270 --> 01:10:36.430 some of the requirements for air force one that aren't in the stock planes can't 01:10:36.430 --> 01:10:40.090 be retrofitted if you're not building it from scratch to be this? 01:10:40.630 --> 01:10:46.490 I mean, it's very difficult to do so. You're basically having to fucking strip 01:10:46.490 --> 01:10:48.330 apart the whole fucking plane to do so. 01:10:48.570 --> 01:10:52.950 And that's the problem. Are they going to let him fly it without all those things? 01:10:53.470 --> 01:10:57.370 Because that's a safety concern too, but this administration doesn't seem to care about that shit. 01:10:57.570 --> 01:10:58.930 I mean, you know, look. 01:10:59.130 --> 01:11:00.010 And the national security. 01:11:00.010 --> 01:11:07.730 Can I just say this? If Donald Trump puts himself at a security risk where he 01:11:07.730 --> 01:11:11.350 gets shot down because, you know, he's an idiot because he wants to fly a new 01:11:11.350 --> 01:11:13.610 fucking plane, I'm not going to be crying over it. 01:11:16.210 --> 01:11:18.030 Because he's such a fucking asshole. 01:11:18.470 --> 01:11:25.530 And he doesn't put in, like, you know, whatever extra classified security stuff that Air Force One has. 01:11:26.470 --> 01:11:31.050 Air Force One has fucking military countermeasures, you know, 01:11:31.190 --> 01:11:33.630 that are a secret, you know, on that fucking plane. 01:11:33.910 --> 01:11:37.110 I don't see how they're going to take a fucking stock 747-8. 01:11:37.110 --> 01:11:39.570 And we know this because of the movie with Harrison Ford. 01:11:41.820 --> 01:11:44.160 No because i have not seen i've. 01:11:44.160 --> 01:11:45.520 Seen clips of it but i've not seen the. 01:11:45.520 --> 01:11:50.640 Movie it's on the list i i some speculate that there are some things that are 01:11:50.640 --> 01:11:54.420 shown in that movie that it has i think i'm guessing most not but i i am guessing 01:11:54.420 --> 01:12:00.100 you know things that they have said is like stuff that blocks like laser aiming 01:12:00.100 --> 01:12:05.200 and your radar jamming other kind of stuff like that I mean, the plane, 01:12:05.460 --> 01:12:07.760 you know, you know, you're carrying, you know, 01:12:08.400 --> 01:12:11.600 the it's he's not the leader of the free world anymore. 01:12:11.800 --> 01:12:13.100 You're carrying this, you know, 01:12:13.180 --> 01:12:16.200 the president of the United States on the thing. And so he's a target. 01:12:16.460 --> 01:12:19.800 And so obviously you want as many security measures. Look, 01:12:19.920 --> 01:12:24.460 the biggest mistake in this whole procurement thing with the fucking Air Force 01:12:24.460 --> 01:12:28.260 jets was this whole thing where they decided to try to instead of building two 01:12:28.260 --> 01:12:33.780 new airplanes to start with fucking refitting two. built. 01:12:34.200 --> 01:12:36.500 So the plan was to refit them anyway. 01:12:37.220 --> 01:12:40.740 Well, not the Qatarian one. 01:12:41.000 --> 01:12:44.120 No, but I mean the other ones that were part of the existing contract. 01:12:44.280 --> 01:12:48.780 They took two, because they were bitching about how much it was going to cost. 01:12:49.280 --> 01:12:55.160 And so they had, Boeing had produced two 747-8s for this Russian airline, 01:12:55.320 --> 01:12:59.300 okay, that never took delivery of them because they went bankrupt, okay? 01:12:59.300 --> 01:13:02.780 This was even before the same age and whatever, okay and 01:13:02.780 --> 01:13:06.000 they decided that those are the fucking place that they were going to refit those 01:13:06.000 --> 01:13:10.380 so that way technically supposed to save money and in the end it's it's they 01:13:10.380 --> 01:13:14.680 haven't saved any money the project's been you know it's it's made the project 01:13:14.680 --> 01:13:19.800 so go so much slower and right now there was a message said the speculation 01:13:19.800 --> 01:13:23.960 is that boeing won't be able to deliver these aircraft for another 10 years, 01:13:25.120 --> 01:13:33.160 I mean, 10 years, they said 2035, which to me seems crazy because this thing 01:13:33.160 --> 01:13:35.660 has been already going on for almost 10 years. 01:13:36.320 --> 01:13:37.740 Trump's going to have to fly commercial. 01:13:38.400 --> 01:13:43.000 That would be great. You know, I'm sure that I will go, you know, 01:13:43.200 --> 01:13:47.920 you know, I'm sure that will go perfectly fine. He won't be bothered by anybody. 01:13:48.580 --> 01:13:53.260 No, no. I mean, honestly, push comes to shove. The Air Force has lots of planes. 01:13:53.260 --> 01:13:56.900 The Air Force definitely has quite a lot not all of them are. 01:13:56.900 --> 01:13:59.300 Like super comfy like Air Force One. 01:13:59.300 --> 01:14:04.280 But there are a lot of comfy ones I mean you know there's 757s that are VIP 01:14:04.280 --> 01:14:11.560 configuration there's other aircraft I mean you know there definitely are there are a number of 01:14:12.000 --> 01:14:20.880 aircraft that we have private jets, Gulfstreams 757s, 737s I mean the Air Force 01:14:20.880 --> 01:14:25.200 has a big ass fucking VIP fleet of aircraft, okay? 01:14:26.220 --> 01:14:31.020 But, you know, he wants this guy, you know, hey, I'm gonna make everybody, 01:14:31.020 --> 01:14:35.940 like, eat cake, but I, and have only two dolls instead of 30, 01:14:36.080 --> 01:14:39.540 because apparently kids get 30 dolls for Christmas, okay, as we found out. 01:14:39.880 --> 01:14:42.140 Of course. And I realize that they got, you know, most kids, 01:14:42.260 --> 01:14:46.060 you know, got 30 Barbie dolls, okay, but now they're gonna get two. 01:14:46.560 --> 01:14:53.380 And, you know, he's gonna get his, he wants his new, shiny 747. painted in its color. 01:14:53.800 --> 01:14:55.140 Right, of course. 01:14:55.920 --> 01:14:58.260 It's the most ridiculous fucking thing ever. 01:14:59.550 --> 01:15:04.670 And it'll have a big copy of his face and striving to be an asshole on the side. 01:15:05.250 --> 01:15:08.390 Oh, we'll get those shirts, yeah, for that, yeah. 01:15:08.790 --> 01:15:13.610 I like, yeah, that's a great idea, yeah, yeah, good, good, yeah, I like it. 01:15:14.270 --> 01:15:16.190 Your 747 will have your face. 01:15:16.770 --> 01:15:21.370 Yes, yes, we're going to get a 747 for Dicker Muggies' quarter, 747. 01:15:22.610 --> 01:15:25.730 There's going to be a Dicker Muggies' quarter, 747, yes. You know, 01:15:25.890 --> 01:15:28.030 that sounds like just, you know, yeah. 01:15:29.550 --> 01:15:33.650 I mean, we need a 747. You know, I think there was a band, Iron Maiden, 01:15:33.830 --> 01:15:37.890 that had bought some old 747-400s that were using for a tour. 01:15:38.070 --> 01:15:39.570 But they did crash one of them. 01:15:39.930 --> 01:15:44.890 So I don't think, I really, you know, it's not a good omen, you know, 01:15:44.910 --> 01:15:48.110 to see that they crash one. I think it was in Chile or something that they crashed one. 01:15:49.210 --> 01:15:53.350 I don't, I think we can, I think we can just stick to commercial. 01:15:53.890 --> 01:15:55.490 Okay. We can do that. 01:15:55.890 --> 01:15:57.490 We can do that. We can do that. 01:15:57.490 --> 01:16:02.670 Okay, let's take a break, and then it's my side, my side, my turn, unless you have more. 01:16:02.790 --> 01:16:07.070 You have more Trumpy first hundred days stuff that you're anxious to get out? 01:16:07.550 --> 01:16:11.150 Uh, no, no. Let's, let's go. 01:16:12.710 --> 01:16:15.890 Okay. Here we go, then. Here comes the break. Now, remember, 01:16:16.170 --> 01:16:20.170 you do not get to take this break. I am taking this break. 01:16:20.850 --> 01:16:26.150 During this break, you need to recite Hamlet's soliloquy. Got this? 01:16:27.150 --> 01:16:30.010 You got it, Seth? Okay, here we go. 01:17:07.610 --> 01:17:13.170 Okay, so Yvonne had to step away for a second during the break, 01:17:13.190 --> 01:17:19.190 so I will read Hamlet's soliloquy while waiting for him to get back. 01:17:20.410 --> 01:17:23.590 To be or not to be, that is the question. 01:17:23.770 --> 01:17:27.330 Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous 01:17:27.330 --> 01:17:35.490 fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them, to die, to sleep no more. 01:17:35.750 --> 01:17:42.850 And by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to. 01:17:43.130 --> 01:17:48.810 Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished, to die, to sleep, to sleep, 01:17:49.090 --> 01:17:51.590 per chance to dream. Ay, there's the rub. 01:17:51.970 --> 01:17:55.770 When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause. 01:17:56.130 --> 01:17:59.810 There's the respect that makes calamity of so long life. 01:18:00.010 --> 01:18:03.230 For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, 01:18:03.530 --> 01:18:07.390 the oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, 01:18:07.610 --> 01:18:12.610 the pangs of dispersed love, the law's delay, the insolence of office, 01:18:12.770 --> 01:18:18.330 and the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes, when he himself might 01:18:18.330 --> 01:18:20.750 his quietus make with a bare bodkin. 01:18:20.990 --> 01:18:26.970 Who would Fardal's bear to grunt and sweat under a weary life but that the dread 01:18:26.970 --> 01:18:28.330 of something after death, 01:18:28.490 --> 01:18:31.370 the undiscovered country from whose born 01:18:31.370 --> 01:18:34.770 no traveler returns puzzles the will 01:18:34.770 --> 01:18:37.530 and makes us rather bear those ills we 01:18:37.530 --> 01:18:40.510 have than fly to others that we know not of 01:18:40.510 --> 01:18:47.390 thus conscious dust make cowards of us all and thus the native hue of resolution 01:18:47.390 --> 01:18:53.290 is sickly door with the pale cast of thought and enterprises of great pith and 01:18:53.290 --> 01:18:59.350 moment with this regard their currents turn awry and lose the name of action. 01:19:00.730 --> 01:19:02.810 There we go and yvonne is back, 01:19:05.630 --> 01:19:12.790 wow there you go stunning simply stunning hamlet soliloquy not from memory i did read it, 01:19:13.430 --> 01:19:18.570 yeah i i only know like the first couple lines of it i do i do know to be or 01:19:18.570 --> 01:19:21.170 not to be that is the question whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the 01:19:21.170 --> 01:19:24.830 slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles 01:19:24.830 --> 01:19:29.530 and by opposing end them i only get to that's as much as i don't know that's as much as i. 01:19:29.530 --> 01:19:31.970 Only get to the part where it says that is the question. 01:19:33.450 --> 01:19:40.130 Okay alex is covering my eyes to be or not to be that is the question whether 01:19:40.130 --> 01:19:43.850 it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune 01:19:43.850 --> 01:19:47.150 or by opposing end them did i miss something there. 01:19:47.150 --> 01:19:48.150 You go did. 01:19:48.150 --> 01:19:52.570 I miss something or to take arms against a sea of troubles i did miss one line 01:19:52.570 --> 01:19:55.230 i missed one no well anyway better. 01:19:55.230 --> 01:19:55.910 Than what i could do. 01:19:55.910 --> 01:19:57.490 So it's my turn I don't know. 01:19:57.970 --> 01:20:02.370 And I don't feel like talking about Donald Trump. 01:20:02.710 --> 01:20:07.150 I have a thing on the list about talking about trade and tariffs and all that 01:20:07.150 --> 01:20:08.790 kind of stuff. I don't feel like it either. 01:20:09.170 --> 01:20:14.690 We did have elections in Canada and actually Australia, both of which did not 01:20:14.690 --> 01:20:16.030 go the conservative way. 01:20:16.590 --> 01:20:22.430 We have some tech stuff with Apple and Meta. But no, what I feel like talking about is blue sky. 01:20:22.610 --> 01:20:25.550 We haven't talked about the social media landscape in a long time. 01:20:26.890 --> 01:20:31.130 And recently, like in the last few weeks, you know, for a long time, 01:20:31.250 --> 01:20:34.450 I've had, I've had a blue sky account. I had a threads account. 01:20:35.170 --> 01:20:39.250 I obviously, you know, I didn't actually cancel the X account, 01:20:39.370 --> 01:20:42.550 but I haven't logged in in years at this point, I haven't logged in in forever. 01:20:43.210 --> 01:20:48.230 And I've mostly been using my Mastodon account, but I was hearing more and more 01:20:48.230 --> 01:20:50.050 activity around Blue Sky. 01:20:50.490 --> 01:20:56.810 Like, when Threads first launched, a bunch of sort of the journalists and celebrities 01:20:56.810 --> 01:21:00.250 and academics and such, they were all going to Threads. 01:21:00.250 --> 01:21:06.450 But threads sort of plateaued and they threads also made a very conscious decision. 01:21:06.630 --> 01:21:11.890 They said as much where they did not want to be a platform for breaking news. 01:21:11.890 --> 01:21:16.390 So they were not optimizing it in a way to sort of surface those. 01:21:16.490 --> 01:21:20.450 Now I was always just looking at the following feed anyway, not the recommended 01:21:20.450 --> 01:21:26.450 algorithmic feed, but, but threads sort of seem to have plateaued for that kind of stuff. 01:21:26.750 --> 01:21:29.570 And we got to a point where it seemed like all of the. 01:21:30.290 --> 01:21:36.190 News organizations and reporters and scientists and all of those kinds of folks, 01:21:36.770 --> 01:21:41.710 all of the internet personalities that once upon a time I followed on Twitter, 01:21:42.010 --> 01:21:48.010 who had left Twitter and not ended up on Mastodon, it seemed like they were all going to Blue Sky. 01:21:48.270 --> 01:21:51.650 So I decided to give it another try. 01:21:52.110 --> 01:21:55.890 I mean, I'd still, both threads in Blue Sky, I'd been logging in every once 01:21:55.890 --> 01:21:58.730 in a while and just sort of looking at it. But I wasn't taking it seriously. 01:21:59.030 --> 01:22:03.910 I wasn't spending a lot of time there. I wasn't taking time to make sure I was 01:22:03.910 --> 01:22:05.810 following the people I wanted to follow. 01:22:06.170 --> 01:22:08.330 So a couple of weeks ago, I started doing that. 01:22:09.210 --> 01:22:16.790 And also, I was prompted, like, you know, on Mastodon, I use Ivory as my main client. 01:22:17.090 --> 01:22:21.410 The people who make Ivory, Tapabots, announced 01:22:21.410 --> 01:22:24.990 like a month ago that they are going to be making a blue sky client 01:22:24.990 --> 01:22:27.910 as well okay it's not okay you're not it's not actually 01:22:27.910 --> 01:22:30.750 going to be out until sometime in the summer and even then 01:22:30.750 --> 01:22:35.330 only in like alpha or something some sort of developer preview and so probably 01:22:35.330 --> 01:22:40.030 late this year by the time it has general availability but i'm like okay i'll 01:22:40.030 --> 01:22:44.650 try it and and for now i'll use the official client so i've been i've been playing 01:22:44.650 --> 01:22:50.550 with blue sky more i've and and i've i've been And the main thing also, 01:22:50.730 --> 01:22:55.690 when I was using Blue Sky before, I was only looking at it. I was not posting. I was not replying. 01:22:55.890 --> 01:23:00.390 I was not favoriting. I was not engaging anyway on Blue Sky. I was only looking. 01:23:00.970 --> 01:23:05.690 I've started to do all those things. I've started to make sure I'm checking 01:23:05.690 --> 01:23:12.030 Blue Sky on a regular basis, make sure I'm following more and more people I'm interested in. 01:23:12.600 --> 01:23:17.620 I've been, one of the things that Blue Sky allows is it lets you subscribe to 01:23:17.620 --> 01:23:22.620 custom feeds that are created in a few different ways. I subscribe to a few of those. 01:23:22.740 --> 01:23:26.800 So I have like, I have my regular following feed. I have another feed that's 01:23:26.800 --> 01:23:31.720 just mutual followers, like people who I follow who also follow me back. 01:23:31.900 --> 01:23:37.560 I have a feed that's my following feed, but only original posts, not reposts. 01:23:37.780 --> 01:23:41.960 I've got some for news and for science and a few other things. 01:23:41.960 --> 01:23:43.700 So I've been trying to make use of it. 01:23:43.820 --> 01:23:49.740 I also, by the way, I set up the wiki of the day, Blue Sky, and set up the automation for that. 01:23:49.900 --> 01:23:54.140 I also have set up a curmudgeon's corner, Blue Sky, but I haven't set up the 01:23:54.140 --> 01:23:57.380 automation for that yet. We'll see it. I'll do it at some point. 01:23:58.140 --> 01:24:01.580 And so it posts new episodes when they come out and stuff like that. 01:24:02.240 --> 01:24:11.460 And by the way, I set those all up with my domain. So I'm no longer ablesmay.bsky.social on Blue Sky. 01:24:11.460 --> 01:24:15.380 I'm just applesmay.com on social and the wiki of the day one is wiki of the 01:24:15.380 --> 01:24:20.740 day.com on blue sky and curmudgeons corners curmudgeons hyphen corner.com on blue sky. 01:24:21.000 --> 01:24:24.560 So go follow us even though there's nothing on the curmudgeons corner one yet. 01:24:25.460 --> 01:24:32.540 Bottom line, my initial, I don't yet think I have a full experience that I want 01:24:32.540 --> 01:24:34.540 there. I'm not following enough people yet. 01:24:34.860 --> 01:24:38.440 And I probably want to have a few more rules. Like one thing I haven't found 01:24:38.440 --> 01:24:42.420 on blue sky yet. Maybe I just haven't looked hard enough, is the equivalent of lists. 01:24:42.980 --> 01:24:47.520 I make heavy use of lists, and I guess maybe I could make my own feed. 01:24:47.540 --> 01:24:49.840 That would essentially be what a list is. 01:24:50.140 --> 01:24:54.560 But in the previous platforms, in Twitter and then in Mastodon, 01:24:54.640 --> 01:24:55.920 I've made heavy use of lists. 01:24:56.100 --> 01:25:00.760 Specifically, I'll have all of the people I follow, and there's that feed, 01:25:00.860 --> 01:25:06.160 but I make another feed that's just people who post about the news. Yeah. 01:25:06.510 --> 01:25:09.610 And I actually spend most of my time on that list. 01:25:12.490 --> 01:25:15.790 And so I don't quite have the equivalent of that yet. 01:25:16.590 --> 01:25:21.450 I did subscribe to a news custom feed on Blue Sky, but it's not the same. 01:25:21.690 --> 01:25:25.810 Because mine is people who talk about the news and post about the news a lot, 01:25:25.910 --> 01:25:29.390 not just news stories from news sources, which is what that news feed is. 01:25:30.570 --> 01:25:36.950 But the main thing is just, yeah, I'm finding a lot of the people who I used to follow on Twitter, 01:25:37.450 --> 01:25:42.530 that I have not seen much of for a couple years now because they weren't on 01:25:42.530 --> 01:25:46.970 Mastodon and I wasn't checking the other places on any sort of regular basis. 01:25:47.270 --> 01:25:51.450 And I'm finding them now on Blue Sky, which I'm like, oh, that person. 01:25:51.450 --> 01:25:53.730 I haven't seen them in a long time. 01:25:54.130 --> 01:25:56.770 And it's kind of refreshing to see some of those people again. 01:25:57.030 --> 01:26:00.330 And, you know, I'm still building up my experience there. 01:26:00.730 --> 01:26:06.330 And, you know, I think, you know, So since I, and I guess Blue Sky is all the following feed. 01:26:06.490 --> 01:26:09.830 I mean, some of these custom feeds are algorithmic feeds. Like there's a Discover 01:26:09.830 --> 01:26:13.650 feed and there's a best of your followers. 01:26:13.910 --> 01:26:17.230 There are a few different algorithmic feeds you can follow. But the default 01:26:17.230 --> 01:26:20.850 is here's a chronological feed of the people that you follow. 01:26:21.290 --> 01:26:25.750 And for that kind of feed to be good, you need to be following a lot of people. 01:26:25.870 --> 01:26:27.170 And I'm still working on building up. 01:26:27.610 --> 01:26:31.870 Well, one of the things is that, I mean, I have been, and I guess maybe the 01:26:31.870 --> 01:26:33.250 reason why I think, I mean, 01:26:33.430 --> 01:26:37.950 you started jumping more Blue Sky because I had been using it more in the last 01:26:37.950 --> 01:26:43.430 six months, maybe a little bit more around there than I started using it, 01:26:43.490 --> 01:26:44.950 more than I had been using Mastodon. 01:26:45.650 --> 01:26:52.910 And, well, I must admit that at first I avoided Blue Sky because you remember 01:26:52.910 --> 01:26:54.830 how originally it was invite only. 01:26:54.830 --> 01:26:59.090 It was invite only, and I had someone who was offering to give you an invite, 01:26:59.150 --> 01:27:00.150 and you were like, I don't want it. 01:27:00.150 --> 01:27:04.750 Well the main reason I didn't want it is because to be clear I mean it was really 01:27:04.750 --> 01:27:10.170 like Jack Dorsey was one of the driving forces at fucking Blue Sky Jack Dorsey is another fucking, 01:27:11.050 --> 01:27:13.990 well that's the one thing that changed significantly because he 01:27:13.990 --> 01:27:17.650 was originally one of driving forces at Blue Sky and Jack Dorsey is a fucking 01:27:17.650 --> 01:27:21.290 asshole and I'm like no man I'm just you don't want to just trade one asshole 01:27:21.290 --> 01:27:31.750 for another exactly I'm like I know that it threads at Meta well I mean You know, yeah. 01:27:33.510 --> 01:27:40.890 Meta is complicated because, you know, Zuckerberg is a fucking grifter. 01:27:42.230 --> 01:27:48.070 But but now he's gone like full, you know, well, I don't know. 01:27:48.190 --> 01:27:51.690 I don't know if he believes any of his own bullshit, you know, Trump won. 01:27:51.870 --> 01:27:56.550 And he's like, oh, yeah, listen, here's my I'm taking my shirt. 01:27:56.970 --> 01:28:00.690 I'm a new shirt. I'm back. I know, baby. I'm like, oh, for the love of God, 01:28:00.770 --> 01:28:03.230 he's like, you know, ah, that's it. 01:28:04.530 --> 01:28:08.790 Zuck is like Marco Rubio. That's who he is. 01:28:09.330 --> 01:28:14.110 Fucking like exactly like him. He may not believe any of this bullshit or whatever 01:28:14.110 --> 01:28:17.110 whatnot, but he'll fucking put whatever shirt gets of money, 01:28:17.110 --> 01:28:19.270 he'll put that fucking thing on. Okay? 01:28:20.550 --> 01:28:24.370 And, you know, all these things with the moderation, and when Zuck and I saw 01:28:24.370 --> 01:28:26.970 this shit with the moderation changes and whatnot, I was like, 01:28:27.070 --> 01:28:29.350 oh, maybe we should go back and fucking look at Blue Sky. 01:28:29.610 --> 01:28:34.050 Especially since Dorsey left. Okay? And so I've been using it, 01:28:34.210 --> 01:28:35.610 and that's the one thing that I noticed. 01:28:35.750 --> 01:28:39.650 Like you just noticed, there's a lot of people that actually have been on Twitter 01:28:39.650 --> 01:28:42.770 that definitely have not jumped the threads that are there. 01:28:42.770 --> 01:28:43.890 Or Mastodon, yep. 01:28:44.310 --> 01:28:49.650 Or Mastodon. And so, yes, it has been quite refreshing to see these people there. 01:28:49.810 --> 01:28:53.690 And I will tell you this, that I've still been using threads significantly. 01:28:55.030 --> 01:28:58.310 And look, there's been a lot of... 01:28:59.420 --> 01:29:06.660 At this point, almost everybody that I used to follow in Twitter regularly, 01:29:06.960 --> 01:29:10.900 or stuff that I was interested in, is available in these other places. 01:29:12.000 --> 01:29:20.840 There is only one thing that I will say that I miss, and it's many times when 01:29:20.840 --> 01:29:23.320 we're watching a sporting event, a live sporting event. 01:29:23.320 --> 01:29:31.760 So Twitter had these easy-to-follow threads related to the events. 01:29:32.560 --> 01:29:40.220 I haven't seen neither Blue Sky or threads have replicated that experience, 01:29:40.220 --> 01:29:44.200 that it works in the same way, where you're seeing people comment on real-time 01:29:44.200 --> 01:29:45.460 on what the fuck is going on. 01:29:46.780 --> 01:29:53.900 And Mastodon does have that. And actually, it does work decently. 01:29:54.100 --> 01:29:58.600 The thing is that there just aren't as many people there following those things. 01:29:58.800 --> 01:30:01.780 And so it's just not as engaging. 01:30:03.740 --> 01:30:10.420 But there definitely are. That is something that is far more workable in Macedon. 01:30:10.500 --> 01:30:13.520 But it's just the critical masses in there. So that is the one thing that I 01:30:13.520 --> 01:30:15.920 will say that is a little bit. 01:30:16.040 --> 01:30:24.520 But other than that, for the rest, I'm, you know, I've gone on Blue Sky. 01:30:24.700 --> 01:30:30.920 There's definitely a lot of people there that weren't on threads that are there. 01:30:31.280 --> 01:30:37.600 I mean, I only have like one list or one of these like featured like, 01:30:37.700 --> 01:30:41.400 you know, feeds that I'm following. 01:30:41.400 --> 01:30:44.100 I'm not following more I haven't found like more than 01:30:44.100 --> 01:30:46.800 I that I really like I for the most part what I 01:30:46.800 --> 01:30:50.460 did is I do think that I did start following a lot of people and I'm getting 01:30:50.460 --> 01:30:54.260 a lot of what they're posting which is interesting to me so I did take care 01:30:54.260 --> 01:30:58.300 take time to do that and so that's been so that's been the way that I've been 01:30:58.300 --> 01:31:05.200 using it but you know look I think that these will evolve yeah, 01:31:05.910 --> 01:31:15.530 positively uh in some way i'm thinking uh the lady who leads uh blue sky i see 01:31:15.530 --> 01:31:20.670 her face i can't remember her name she seems trying to not replicate the same 01:31:20.670 --> 01:31:22.750 mistakes done at at shitter. 01:31:25.390 --> 01:31:33.290 Um and so you know for now it's a much better place to be than at that than 01:31:33.290 --> 01:31:35.370 definitely at shitter, that's for sure. 01:31:35.510 --> 01:31:38.490 You're thinking of Jay Graber, by the way, the CEO of Blue Sky. 01:31:38.990 --> 01:31:42.690 Jay Graber. Okay, there you go. I don't remember her name. I can see her face, 01:31:42.910 --> 01:31:46.990 but I don't, you know, I'm terrible with names and faces. Like, but fucking Jesus. 01:31:48.230 --> 01:31:52.930 So that's, yeah, I mean, I am using it quite a lot in recent past. 01:31:52.930 --> 01:31:58.830 The one thing that's getting me, though, and to be honest here, is the split. 01:31:59.470 --> 01:32:02.070 Like, using more than one is a pain. 01:32:02.510 --> 01:32:06.430 Well, yeah. I mean, That is the one thing that happened with, 01:32:06.430 --> 01:32:10.850 with, with, with Elon's takeover that, that the audience has been fragmented 01:32:10.850 --> 01:32:14.970 significantly, you know, you're not on one place following, you know. 01:32:14.970 --> 01:32:21.150 I mean, I feel like at this point I'm, I'm checking, I'm checking Facebook itself. 01:32:21.450 --> 01:32:25.430 I'm checking threads. I'm checking Mastodon. I'm checking Blue Sky. 01:32:25.770 --> 01:32:30.650 Now I had been in a mode of like Mastodon was where I was all the time. 01:32:30.650 --> 01:32:33.890 And I would check the others like once a day or twice a day or something. 01:32:34.390 --> 01:32:39.450 Whereas, whereas Mastodon, I'd be checking like at least hourly, you know? 01:32:39.570 --> 01:32:40.050 Right, right, right. 01:32:40.310 --> 01:32:42.650 But whereas now it's more like. 01:32:43.970 --> 01:32:49.770 I'm checking both blue stick, blue sky and Mastodon on sort of a roughly hourly 01:32:49.770 --> 01:32:53.030 basis and the others may be daily and then tick tock. 01:32:53.150 --> 01:32:57.670 It's a different kind of thing, but then, then tick tock. But, um, well, well. 01:32:57.670 --> 01:33:01.010 Well, you say that it's different. It's different because it's video form, 01:33:01.150 --> 01:33:04.870 but the reality is a lot of people are getting the information, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 01:33:05.070 --> 01:33:08.350 It still takes time and it's a different format, but like if you, 01:33:08.390 --> 01:33:13.010 if you talk about what sucks up more of my time, tick tocks right up there with the rest. 01:33:13.390 --> 01:33:18.070 But if you, but for this kind of stuff, it really is the text-based platforms I'm talking about. 01:33:19.010 --> 01:33:22.950 But even then it's like, okay. And if I'm going to participate, 01:33:23.170 --> 01:33:25.730 if I'm going to repost something, or if I'm going to answer something, 01:33:26.310 --> 01:33:29.370 do I, if I post something, do I post it in both places? 01:33:29.490 --> 01:33:32.130 Do I post it in one? Do I reply in one? Do I reply another? 01:33:32.410 --> 01:33:36.010 And for the most part, I'm thinking like wherever I see it first is where I'm 01:33:36.010 --> 01:33:39.470 going to interact with it. But that then splits my presence too. 01:33:41.170 --> 01:33:43.690 And yeah, I don't, I don't know. it's it's like. 01:33:43.690 --> 01:33:46.690 Well look and i i was checking to 01:33:46.690 --> 01:33:50.050 see what i'm using like on my uh screen time oh 01:33:50.050 --> 01:33:53.030 yeah let me check my screen time and this confirms what i 01:33:53.030 --> 01:33:56.130 what i was what i was pretty confident of okay 01:33:56.130 --> 01:34:03.110 i am using threads a lot okay but almost about the same amount the place where 01:34:03.110 --> 01:34:09.950 i'm getting most of my news is actually the apple news app okay yeah i i am 01:34:09.950 --> 01:34:14.590 like the the reality is that there are a number of reasons why that is. 01:34:14.710 --> 01:34:19.470 Apple has actually improved. One thing that was annoying about the Apple News 01:34:19.470 --> 01:34:24.270 app in recent time is that it's being far... 01:34:24.840 --> 01:34:29.820 Far faster at displaying to you recent news events, okay? 01:34:30.320 --> 01:34:34.760 Because it used to be that when you scrolled, it wasn't unless you dug down 01:34:34.760 --> 01:34:39.380 into latest news in certain areas or whatever, it's gotten way better at, 01:34:39.780 --> 01:34:42.640 hey, something's happening like right now, and boom, it's right there on the 01:34:42.640 --> 01:34:43.800 feed. It's right there on the feed. 01:34:44.060 --> 01:34:49.540 And it's a place where the great thing about the news app is that, 01:34:49.700 --> 01:34:53.440 look, I follow all these different publications, okay, 01:34:53.520 --> 01:34:56.380 for news, and it's consolidating like 01:34:56.380 --> 01:34:59.480 into for you for example i got bloomberg story 01:34:59.480 --> 01:35:02.340 npr story espn story a guard guardian story 01:35:02.340 --> 01:35:08.260 palm beach post washington post reuters you know you know all these news on 01:35:08.260 --> 01:35:14.620 and and on the things that i selected for me that are you know relevant and 01:35:14.620 --> 01:35:19.800 timely okay and it's not just from one source of news okay yeah i've never. 01:35:19.800 --> 01:35:24.580 Taken the time to like figure out how to use apple news effectively. 01:35:24.580 --> 01:35:27.540 I spent a lot of time figuring out which was 01:35:27.540 --> 01:35:30.400 to follow law whatever so like when 01:35:30.400 --> 01:35:34.920 i look here like you know stories that came out in the last you know recently 01:35:34.920 --> 01:35:38.620 for example multiple stories on what warren buffett spoke about is this morning 01:35:38.620 --> 01:35:42.240 on tariffs for example that's something you didn't want to talk about you know 01:35:42.240 --> 01:35:47.100 a story nine minutes ago from here palm beach county you know something about 01:35:47.100 --> 01:35:49.720 what to know about alligator mating season. 01:35:49.980 --> 01:35:52.960 Okay. Very critical for us to know, like over here, you know, 01:35:53.200 --> 01:35:57.360 but, but number of timely stuff here, something that Trump just said a little 01:35:57.360 --> 01:36:01.380 bit ago, Trump draws criticism after posting an AI image of himself as the Pope, 01:36:01.740 --> 01:36:04.720 you know, that that's been going around. That's a, it's a good one. 01:36:04.900 --> 01:36:07.920 Global factories over struggling to overcome Trump tariffs. 01:36:08.140 --> 01:36:11.640 So, you know, the F1 races are on right now. 01:36:11.760 --> 01:36:16.240 I've got this. There's a number of stories about what's going on in the racing in the last few hours. 01:36:16.960 --> 01:36:23.180 I took a lot of time picking which ones, subjects, doing that and whatnot. 01:36:26.280 --> 01:36:31.160 In order for me to get news, it's better. 01:36:31.420 --> 01:36:36.580 I will say that the one thing that I also like, that I realize that Apple News 01:36:36.580 --> 01:36:39.660 Plus, is they expand a lot which magazines are included. 01:36:41.740 --> 01:36:47.060 You get the Atlantic. you get the new yorker you get new york magazine you know 01:36:47.060 --> 01:36:50.600 all of these that have to have a separate subscription no they're all included in the. 01:36:50.600 --> 01:36:54.860 And this is this is something by the by the way like i think it was new york 01:36:54.860 --> 01:36:59.540 magazine that had the profile on fetterman a couple days ago and yes exactly and i got. 01:36:59.540 --> 01:37:01.400 And they got new york magazine and i read. 01:37:01.400 --> 01:37:05.920 A lot and and here's well my story is like i saw that reference several times 01:37:05.920 --> 01:37:09.340 i clicked the link there was the paywall so i couldn't read it and i was like 01:37:09.340 --> 01:37:14.640 oh well i guess i'm not going to read it but and then i realized I said, I did say to myself, 01:37:14.820 --> 01:37:18.680 you know, you probably have this in Apple news and can probably read the whole 01:37:18.680 --> 01:37:21.360 article, but I was like, oh, but that's a pain. I'm not going to bother. 01:37:22.500 --> 01:37:24.800 Didn't I share the link on the Fetterman article? 01:37:25.100 --> 01:37:27.900 I don't think we shared that on the Commudgeons Corner Slack. 01:37:28.500 --> 01:37:31.460 Like, I was going to share it, but I didn't find one without the paywall, 01:37:31.620 --> 01:37:33.060 and I didn't bother to look at Apple News. 01:37:33.600 --> 01:37:39.600 Okay, well, I know I did read it, and I realize I'll make it easy for you because I didn't read it. 01:37:39.740 --> 01:37:43.160 So for anybody who doesn't know what we're talking about, there was an article 01:37:43.160 --> 01:37:45.880 on Fetterman's mental health, which is apparently not good. 01:37:46.600 --> 01:37:46.940 Right. 01:37:47.280 --> 01:37:47.880 That's the subject. 01:37:48.680 --> 01:37:52.120 And that it's been deteriorating over the last couple of years. 01:37:52.120 --> 01:37:53.560 Significantly and there was like and. 01:37:53.560 --> 01:37:57.280 His staff is seriously concerned about his condition and whether. 01:37:57.280 --> 01:38:00.020 And there was an incident there was an incident recently there 01:38:00.020 --> 01:38:03.220 was like also on what the heck where the heck was it on on it 01:38:03.220 --> 01:38:06.400 was like on some social media here it is john fetterman struggle here it is 01:38:06.400 --> 01:38:11.820 there we go there see so this is the thing i'm getting you know all of this 01:38:11.820 --> 01:38:17.360 shit i'm getting through here right and you know and i'm not having to pay seven 01:38:17.360 --> 01:38:21.240 i'm not having to go through seven different sites and subscribe to seven different subscriptions. 01:38:21.380 --> 01:38:24.960 You pay for the one bundle to Apple. It's not like you don't pay, 01:38:24.980 --> 01:38:27.080 but you pay Apple the one price and you get a whole bunch. 01:38:27.100 --> 01:38:29.620 You pay Apple the one bundle and you get I mean, that's the one thing. 01:38:29.760 --> 01:38:32.400 It's like we're talking about cable bundles and the non-bundling, whatever. 01:38:32.760 --> 01:38:36.680 Fuck. You know what? I'm getting the bundle here. I'm not having to subscribe 01:38:36.680 --> 01:38:39.600 to each one of these damn publications separately. I'm going to Apple. 01:38:39.760 --> 01:38:43.420 I get my News Plus. I get all these really good publications. 01:38:43.720 --> 01:38:47.180 You know, so I just shared the Fender Runner article for you so you can go like 01:38:47.180 --> 01:38:51.020 read it. So, but, but yeah, so, so I also, by the way, here's another one. 01:38:51.140 --> 01:38:52.100 That's a big one that's in here. 01:38:52.480 --> 01:38:55.820 Wall Street journals included no extra chart. Okay. All right. 01:38:55.980 --> 01:38:56.140 Okay. 01:38:56.260 --> 01:38:59.560 Wall Street journal in, in, in Apple news plus. And that's the reason why I 01:38:59.560 --> 01:39:02.860 share a lot of journal articles. It's included in there at no extra charts. 01:39:03.360 --> 01:39:07.680 And that in and of itself is 300. That's a subscription of $300 a year that 01:39:07.680 --> 01:39:11.040 I don't pay anymore because I realized, Oh, it's free at Apple news. 01:39:11.180 --> 01:39:12.200 Fuck this. I'm not paying. 01:39:12.500 --> 01:39:15.580 I'm not paying for the wall street journal subscription. It's in here for free. 01:39:16.360 --> 01:39:20.200 So, you know, so that's, that's the one that I've been using. 01:39:20.240 --> 01:39:25.000 I did spend, I will tell you that I did spend quite a lot of time in, 01:39:25.000 --> 01:39:27.980 in the section picking what are my favorites, what things I want, 01:39:28.200 --> 01:39:30.740 not blah, blah, blah, the channels and topics, 01:39:31.320 --> 01:39:37.160 you know, and blocking shit that I didn't like, you know, it's not the best interface for that. 01:39:37.320 --> 01:39:40.240 I will say that they should, they need to work on that. 01:39:40.380 --> 01:39:44.400 And one thing that I, that I've said before is that they should have a way to 01:39:44.400 --> 01:39:45.480 block certain subjects. 01:39:45.480 --> 01:39:48.960 Is there a single feed where you just get all the magazines you followed? 01:39:49.580 --> 01:39:51.120 Yes. Okay. Yes. 01:39:51.300 --> 01:39:52.800 You'll have to show me how. 01:39:53.040 --> 01:39:57.520 That's in the News Plus tab. That's where you get that. 01:39:57.520 --> 01:39:59.000 It's not in the following tab. 01:39:59.600 --> 01:40:02.720 No, it's in the News Plus tab. The magazines are in the News Plus tab. 01:40:02.740 --> 01:40:04.780 In my magazine? Where is that? Where is that? 01:40:05.200 --> 01:40:09.540 Yeah. If you get in the, no, there is the, well, you get the best of News Pluses 01:40:09.540 --> 01:40:13.200 selected, the magazines that you select, and it'll show you the ones that are, you know. 01:40:14.140 --> 01:40:19.600 Okay. I'll experiment later. But I did, by the way, look up my... 01:40:19.600 --> 01:40:29.480 So this isn't entirely representative because last week was the week I had surgery, but whatever. 01:40:30.180 --> 01:40:33.140 They don't have the best interface. I will say this, but the thing is, 01:40:33.740 --> 01:40:35.680 they need to approve this. 01:40:35.860 --> 01:40:42.560 But everything that you want is there, and you don't have to pay for 15 fucking 01:40:42.560 --> 01:40:43.840 different subscriptions, okay? 01:40:43.840 --> 01:40:44.380 Okay. 01:40:44.480 --> 01:40:45.820 And it does learn from what you read. 01:40:46.140 --> 01:40:50.140 Okay. Excellent. So let me give you, I was just going to give you my screen 01:40:50.140 --> 01:40:56.200 time report for the last complete week, which again is not representative because 01:40:56.200 --> 01:40:57.780 it's the week I had my surgery, but whatever. 01:40:58.200 --> 01:41:03.840 And these, I'm ignoring all the other apps. These are just the social or communications related apps. 01:41:04.060 --> 01:41:07.520 The order. TikTok was number one last week. 01:41:08.040 --> 01:41:11.960 Then messages for like texting back and forth with family and stuff. 01:41:11.960 --> 01:41:15.060 Then iCatcher, which is the podcast app I use. 01:41:15.220 --> 01:41:18.460 Then YouTube TV for watching live TV. 01:41:18.880 --> 01:41:19.960 Well, yeah, yeah, yeah. 01:41:20.080 --> 01:41:24.620 Followed by Ivory for Mastodon and Blue Sky for Blue Sky. 01:41:24.820 --> 01:41:28.720 And looking, by the way, they are so close together last week. 01:41:28.980 --> 01:41:33.360 Ivory, six hours and 53 minutes. Blue Sky, six hours and 47 minutes. 01:41:33.980 --> 01:41:37.220 So last week, I was pretty much splitting them evenly. 01:41:37.720 --> 01:41:43.200 Then Slack at six hours, 31 minutes. And then mail, YouTube, 01:41:44.060 --> 01:41:51.380 then Facebook, and now we're really, and then threads, LinkedIn. 01:41:52.000 --> 01:41:52.520 Yeah. 01:41:52.780 --> 01:41:57.260 We're getting to really small amounts of minutes now, but yeah, so that's it. 01:41:58.750 --> 01:42:00.830 So anyway the social media world. 01:42:00.830 --> 01:42:06.150 Is continuing to evolve it's very fragmented i mean and the news world is continuing to. 01:42:06.150 --> 01:42:07.370 Evolve as well yeah. 01:42:07.370 --> 01:42:11.210 I mean everything is very fragmented right now we talked about this about you 01:42:11.210 --> 01:42:15.970 know overall you know that that how people consume everything is so fragmented 01:42:15.970 --> 01:42:19.930 and unfortunately to a certain to a certain extent it's also a reason why, 01:42:22.310 --> 01:42:25.250 people to a certain extent now what the facts 01:42:25.250 --> 01:42:28.330 are becomes so difficult to 01:42:28.330 --> 01:42:31.510 to discuss with people because of 01:42:31.510 --> 01:42:35.510 what they what they what they watch and consume and because a lot of people 01:42:35.510 --> 01:42:40.410 are i think people are so susceptible to just propaganda as i've mentioned before 01:42:40.410 --> 01:42:47.210 and it's like you know they they go to i mean they hear bullshit and so many 01:42:47.210 --> 01:42:48.850 of them are just so open to, 01:42:49.370 --> 01:42:52.130 not even questioning, without question believing it. 01:42:52.830 --> 01:42:58.970 I will say, we do, you know, I mean, how many times have you and I not seen 01:42:58.970 --> 01:43:06.090 a story that we, something that is fake, but that is something that we would like to be true. 01:43:07.110 --> 01:43:07.450 Okay? 01:43:08.070 --> 01:43:13.650 That's fake, that we look at it and we say, nah, man, that can't be true. 01:43:13.890 --> 01:43:16.490 Yeah, yeah, yeah, it would be great, but it's like, nah. 01:43:16.590 --> 01:43:21.870 Well, having Having said that, both of us have occasionally been fooled. 01:43:22.590 --> 01:43:23.630 We have been fooled. 01:43:23.710 --> 01:43:28.830 Last week on the show, you brought up an example, and I'm like, that's fake. 01:43:29.210 --> 01:43:31.930 And you're like, oh, damn it, it is fake when you looked into it. 01:43:32.010 --> 01:43:35.210 Yeah, but that's my point. My point is you point out to me it's fake. 01:43:35.210 --> 01:43:39.390 It's not like I go and I start getting into a fucking argument with you telling you how it's true. 01:43:39.530 --> 01:43:44.610 You're a fucking liar, you know? You're part of the fucking mainstream media, blah, blah, blah. 01:43:44.910 --> 01:43:47.950 No, you're like, point out. that's exactly my 01:43:47.950 --> 01:43:50.730 point i go and i share it i'm like that's fake and i'm 01:43:50.730 --> 01:43:53.410 like oh man i wanted that to 01:43:53.410 --> 01:43:56.470 be true but okay no it's it's not it's 01:43:56.470 --> 01:44:02.530 not true and i i think that's that you know we try to you know if you show me 01:44:02.530 --> 01:44:06.970 how it's not true i'm very open to understanding how even it may be something 01:44:06.970 --> 01:44:12.150 that i really really want to be true oh fuck it's not true so i still remember 01:44:12.150 --> 01:44:13.490 the one that we love the most, 01:44:13.570 --> 01:44:17.050 but we knew it had to be not true. The Alpha server. Alpha Bank. 01:44:18.190 --> 01:44:22.310 We knew from the moment that came up, we were like, that's nonsense. 01:44:22.770 --> 01:44:23.630 It's ridiculous. 01:44:24.370 --> 01:44:29.050 Especially when they started listing details, it's like, that's just stupid. No. 01:44:29.310 --> 01:44:30.510 Right. No. 01:44:32.270 --> 01:44:33.090 Alpha Bank. 01:44:33.490 --> 01:44:36.630 Sounds great, but no, it's not true. 01:44:37.350 --> 01:44:42.190 But I'm sure they are selling children 01:44:42.190 --> 01:44:46.610 for child prostitution out of the basement of a pizza parlor in D.C. 01:44:47.210 --> 01:44:48.050 You're sure about that? 01:44:48.150 --> 01:44:49.030 I'm sure about that. 01:44:50.280 --> 01:44:54.460 I went to that pizza parlor with my dad and stepmom a few years back. 01:44:54.640 --> 01:44:57.000 After this, it all happened. I went to that pizza parlor. 01:44:57.360 --> 01:45:02.420 And I can confirm there are pages full of children all over the place. 01:45:02.920 --> 01:45:04.720 Ah, so that's part of the experience. 01:45:05.720 --> 01:45:08.720 Actually, there is no basement at all. It was good pizza. 01:45:08.780 --> 01:45:08.960 Yeah. 01:45:09.560 --> 01:45:10.220 It was good pizza. 01:45:11.300 --> 01:45:15.640 I mean, I know that I've been in the area many times, but I don't know. 01:45:15.980 --> 01:45:17.660 I don't know if I went to that place. 01:45:18.160 --> 01:45:23.000 It's sort of like It's, it's, it's like, it's Comet Pizza, by the way, 01:45:23.180 --> 01:45:25.320 if I remember the name correctly. 01:45:25.560 --> 01:45:26.340 It's Comet Pizza. 01:45:27.540 --> 01:45:31.680 It's just a hole in the wall pizza place. It's not like some high end fancy place. 01:45:31.860 --> 01:45:32.420 Oh, I know, I know. 01:45:33.100 --> 01:45:34.320 It's just, it's just like. 01:45:34.640 --> 01:45:38.140 But you, but you, okay, but there were no cases, but you met with a cabal, right? 01:45:38.460 --> 01:45:41.160 Oh, yes. Met with a cabal, had all kinds of other things. 01:45:41.520 --> 01:45:44.240 Well, that's good. As long as you meet with a cabal, then you. 01:45:44.240 --> 01:45:48.120 Okay, I want to say one other social media related thing before I wrap up. 01:45:48.120 --> 01:45:50.800 The the other thing about social media that i've 01:45:50.800 --> 01:45:54.140 noted like some of the sites like like blue sky is not 01:45:54.140 --> 01:45:57.560 you know facebook almost alone 01:45:57.560 --> 01:46:00.500 out of these was actually intended for you 01:46:00.500 --> 01:46:03.320 to keep up with friends and family originally yeah they 01:46:03.320 --> 01:46:06.320 they've moved on from that but all these other sites like twitter blue 01:46:06.320 --> 01:46:09.520 sky mouse no whatever that's not what they're built for they're built 01:46:09.520 --> 01:46:12.660 no no that not at all they're they're meant 01:46:12.660 --> 01:46:18.380 for individuals broadcasting to the world and for you to consume content from 01:46:18.380 --> 01:46:22.380 people broadcasting from the world it's not meant to keep up with like i'm not 01:46:22.380 --> 01:46:27.140 going to expect to find out what's going on in yvonne's life by looking on blue 01:46:27.140 --> 01:46:30.760 sky yo that is just not where i'll find it okay. 01:46:34.300 --> 01:46:39.680 I see what have i reposted or like because i maybe there are some i wonder what 01:46:39.680 --> 01:46:44.440 have i posted so based on my blue sky profile or what i've posted let's see 01:46:44.440 --> 01:46:47.040 what would you conclude that up doing if this is what you thought. 01:46:47.520 --> 01:46:53.280 Okay, posts. Let's see. I mentioned something about primary Democrats. 01:46:54.120 --> 01:46:59.860 Okay. The next one was, I reposted something about ICE. 01:47:00.320 --> 01:47:05.280 There was a story about how Mr. Seymour Wiener, and by the way, 01:47:05.340 --> 01:47:08.800 this is the true name of this person. Okay. This is actually a real name. 01:47:09.140 --> 01:47:13.420 New York Men's announced Tuesday that noted fan and World War II veteran Seymour Wiener has died. 01:47:13.780 --> 01:47:17.960 So, yeah, the guy was actually i i got to try to check picture of me with my 01:47:17.960 --> 01:47:24.160 son was a baby something about kilomar abrigo and back from this thing you would 01:47:24.160 --> 01:47:27.680 see me sitting in there at an office like actually going to an office you would 01:47:27.680 --> 01:47:33.100 think i work in an office and you know i don't think you'd get much out of, 01:47:34.040 --> 01:47:37.640 knowing anything about me on blue sky other than a pair of like do you like 01:47:37.640 --> 01:47:43.940 the movie stripes because what I said was about Mike Waltz was named to the 01:47:43.940 --> 01:47:46.900 instead of like being fired Trump does this thing where. 01:47:48.450 --> 01:47:53.650 Puts people in, like, I don't know, like, who was it? Don Jr.'s ex-girlfriend 01:47:53.650 --> 01:47:55.630 sent her as ambassador to Greece. 01:47:56.150 --> 01:47:59.230 I guess it's kind of like he dispatches them somewhere, okay? 01:47:59.370 --> 01:48:04.090 He doesn't get rid of you, but he puts you in some job just very far away. 01:48:04.410 --> 01:48:07.410 And so I guess Mike Waltz is going to be now a U.N. ambassador, 01:48:07.950 --> 01:48:11.010 which, you know, knowing how much he cares for the U.N., he basically might 01:48:11.010 --> 01:48:12.210 as well have put him in Siberia. 01:48:12.370 --> 01:48:16.490 And so the one thing is that I was, like, remembering this line from the movie 01:48:16.490 --> 01:48:20.990 Stripes where it told, like, the captain of the movie that if he screwed that 01:48:20.990 --> 01:48:24.530 up, he was going to assign him to a weather station above the Arctic Circle. 01:48:25.030 --> 01:48:28.210 And that would be like, you know, what in the past, somebody, 01:48:28.410 --> 01:48:33.110 if you did something like Mike Waltz did, that would be the right, 01:48:33.290 --> 01:48:34.830 that would be the thing that I would expect. 01:48:34.990 --> 01:48:37.730 They were probably in a prison, probably, in the Arctic Circle. 01:48:38.170 --> 01:48:41.870 But, you know, we're talking about Air Force One security, signal, 01:48:42.010 --> 01:48:43.650 and all of this stuff right now, apparently. 01:48:44.070 --> 01:48:48.030 I mean, by the way, one thing that we didn't talk about, before we go. 01:48:48.590 --> 01:48:51.550 I still have a thing to finish on social media, but go ahead. 01:48:51.750 --> 01:48:57.450 Did you see that Mike Waltz getting fired and they had a screenshot. 01:48:57.450 --> 01:49:01.270 They took a picture of what the fuck he was looking at in the stupid cabinet 01:49:01.270 --> 01:49:03.230 meeting and he was still using Signal! 01:49:03.870 --> 01:49:08.350 Well, and also people discovered that's actually not Signal. 01:49:08.670 --> 01:49:14.170 It's a Signal clone on the Signal interface who is built for the purpose of 01:49:14.170 --> 01:49:16.570 archiving the messages. Which means 01:49:16.570 --> 01:49:22.490 by definition, it is also sending your messages to a third party to save. 01:49:23.570 --> 01:49:29.690 And the company who makes the signal clone for this purpose is tied to Israeli intelligence. 01:49:31.120 --> 01:49:35.960 Why are these guys so stupid? Why are they so stupid? 01:49:36.200 --> 01:49:45.500 In their zeal to avoid actual scrutiny here, they're basically just giving everything 01:49:45.500 --> 01:49:49.960 away to the Russians, to the Israelis, to whoever the fuck wants that. 01:49:50.420 --> 01:49:51.100 Uh-huh. 01:49:51.860 --> 01:49:57.080 I saw Marco Rubio using it on there. They had, I mean, yeah, 01:49:57.480 --> 01:49:59.380 fucking everybody on that damn thing. 01:49:59.720 --> 01:50:06.500 Right. Anyway, the thing I was going to say about social media is that everything 01:50:06.500 --> 01:50:11.180 is moving away from actually like keeping up with friends and family. 01:50:11.420 --> 01:50:14.560 Like these other platforms aren't meant for it. Facebook was originally meant 01:50:14.560 --> 01:50:16.560 for it, but long ago moved away from that. 01:50:16.560 --> 01:50:26.060 So I just wanted to mention, one of my personal projects right now is intended as a low volume, 01:50:26.060 --> 01:50:33.580 longer form way of specifically keeping in touch with friends and family. Now, I want to be clear. 01:50:34.120 --> 01:50:37.800 This is something I'm sparing maybe like an hour a week to work on. 01:50:37.940 --> 01:50:39.520 So it won't actually be ready to show. 01:50:39.620 --> 01:50:41.140 It won't be ready by the time I'm done. 01:50:41.740 --> 01:50:46.160 Exactly. Like it won't even be ready to show like in an alpha version to interested 01:50:46.160 --> 01:50:49.200 parties for like many, many, many months, probably. 01:50:49.560 --> 01:50:56.480 But for anybody who's interested, I have a splash page only with the basic information of the concept. 01:50:56.920 --> 01:51:01.300 It's on Robin letter.com. R O B I N L E T T E R. 01:51:01.300 --> 01:51:03.940 You know, you could share a link on, you know. 01:51:04.510 --> 01:51:05.390 This thing we use. 01:51:05.630 --> 01:51:06.230 The Slack? 01:51:07.590 --> 01:51:10.090 Ah, that's it. Yes, we have this thing called the Slack. 01:51:10.290 --> 01:51:12.170 I was bringing it up on the show 01:51:12.170 --> 01:51:15.370 because of the fact that we were sort of talking about adjacent stuff. 01:51:15.590 --> 01:51:19.210 But it's not ready. It's just a splash page. I can share it on there. 01:51:19.370 --> 01:51:20.350 You can share it on there. Whatever. 01:51:20.550 --> 01:51:26.370 But I was going to wait to share it until I actually had functionality to share. All I have is like a bad. 01:51:26.510 --> 01:51:29.750 Nobody told. Well, of course, nobody, you know, probably nobody listening at 01:51:29.750 --> 01:51:30.670 the end of the show anyway. 01:51:30.810 --> 01:51:35.350 But there you go. But like I have bad pixel art of a Robin that I did myself 01:51:35.350 --> 01:51:37.270 and I have a couple of paragraphs. 01:51:37.530 --> 01:51:40.450 That's all that's there. A couple of paragraphs about the concept. 01:51:40.630 --> 01:51:44.870 I have built some more behind the scenes, but it's all just like infrastructural 01:51:44.870 --> 01:51:47.570 crap. There's no actual functionality to share yet. 01:51:47.830 --> 01:51:51.350 Like I said, it'll probably be months before that. But the basic idea is you 01:51:51.350 --> 01:51:57.130 have a circle of friends that you share updates with sequentially when it's 01:51:57.130 --> 01:51:59.790 your turn instead of just a free for all. 01:51:59.790 --> 01:52:04.290 And it emulates a really old way of communicating that people had. 01:52:04.650 --> 01:52:09.210 And I thought it was interesting, so I'm spending some spare time on it. 01:52:09.290 --> 01:52:13.030 Well, one thing that I did here, and I haven't seen this yet, 01:52:13.210 --> 01:52:17.430 but I thought that they said that in Facebook, and oh, there it is, 01:52:18.130 --> 01:52:19.590 they have a friends tab now. 01:52:19.850 --> 01:52:25.310 They have a friends feed now again. Now, what they did, they have added back in a friends tab. 01:52:25.810 --> 01:52:31.150 And what it is, is it's still an algorithmic feed, but it's an algorithmic feed of only your friends. 01:52:31.350 --> 01:52:35.030 But without knowing, but that's good because it's really, you know, 01:52:35.170 --> 01:52:37.870 that's, yeah, I mean, that works because it does the part. 01:52:37.870 --> 01:52:43.010 I just wanted to share, though, and the instructions I'm going to give are the iOS mobile app. 01:52:43.210 --> 01:52:49.170 But there was a way to get this anyway, non-algorithmic, just actually like 01:52:49.170 --> 01:52:51.130 chronological, reverse chronological only. 01:52:51.770 --> 01:52:58.830 If you are on the iOS Facebook app, bottom right-hand corner says menu. You click that. 01:52:59.130 --> 01:53:02.750 And then you get a page. On that page, there's a button that says feeds. 01:53:03.030 --> 01:53:08.190 If you click feeds, then the top bar has options, all favorites, 01:53:08.510 --> 01:53:09.890 friends, groups, and pages. 01:53:10.110 --> 01:53:14.930 If you click the friends one, then you have a reverse chronological feed of 01:53:14.930 --> 01:53:17.070 everything your friends are posting. 01:53:17.530 --> 01:53:22.350 So like the algorithmic feed, even the friends tab, is trying to selectively 01:53:22.350 --> 01:53:25.610 choose from what your friends post for the things that are most interested, 01:53:25.910 --> 01:53:28.830 that might be most interesting. It's not reverse chronological. 01:53:29.690 --> 01:53:34.590 They're cycling it and bringing things to the top based on what they think you'll most likely respond to. 01:53:34.810 --> 01:53:41.330 The instructions I just gave, menu, feeds, friends, will take you to a proper 01:53:41.330 --> 01:53:44.490 reverse chronological feed of everything your friends have done. 01:53:44.630 --> 01:53:45.990 There's an equivalent on desktop. 01:53:46.270 --> 01:53:49.850 But this is several clicks deep. It's kind of buried. 01:53:50.010 --> 01:53:56.790 But for a couple years now, whenever I do go to Facebook, that's what I do. 01:53:57.340 --> 01:54:05.700 Sometimes I use the menu feeds all to also get things posted in my groups and my pages. 01:54:06.560 --> 01:54:12.420 And that's fine too. But I get the reverse chronological feed. I get to see everything. 01:54:12.820 --> 01:54:16.040 And if I want to filter it down to friends only, I just click over to friends. 01:54:16.180 --> 01:54:17.760 So it is there. It's just buried. 01:54:17.980 --> 01:54:22.400 The new friends tab is an improvement though. You can at least go to just your friends. 01:54:23.620 --> 01:54:26.380 It's still not reverse chronological, which bugs me a little bit. 01:54:27.360 --> 01:54:31.320 But hell, it's better than, you know, being cluttered with all this other shit. 01:54:31.660 --> 01:54:34.680 You know. You could say there are advantages to that, too, because it surfaces 01:54:34.680 --> 01:54:39.080 sort of the thing from a day and a half ago that you missed that is getting 01:54:39.080 --> 01:54:42.940 a lot of traction from comments and such that you might miss if you're only 01:54:42.940 --> 01:54:46.780 doing reverse chronological and you're not diligent to go back down to the last thing you saw. 01:54:46.920 --> 01:54:51.120 So there are advantages of algorithmic feeds there, but being just friends is 01:54:51.120 --> 01:54:55.420 good. Now, of course, Mark Zuckerberg was on TV saying, you know, 01:54:55.600 --> 01:54:59.400 most people only have three friends, but there's demand for 15. 01:54:59.900 --> 01:55:01.440 Oh, fuck that. 01:55:01.500 --> 01:55:09.120 So we can make up the difference with 12 AI friends and that'll make everyone happy. Right? 01:55:09.880 --> 01:55:10.240 Okay. 01:55:10.920 --> 01:55:16.080 Anyway, we'll wrap it up. Go check out RobinLadder.com. If you are at all interested 01:55:16.080 --> 01:55:20.960 in the concept, send me an email and I'll include you whenever I do get to the 01:55:20.960 --> 01:55:22.840 point where there's something actually to see. 01:55:23.300 --> 01:55:27.160 Like I said, I only have like an hour a week to work on this stupid thing, 01:55:27.260 --> 01:55:30.780 so it's going to be a long time, but whatever. Email me if you're interested. 01:55:31.820 --> 01:55:34.600 Okay, let's wrap this sucker up. What is it? 01:55:35.000 --> 01:55:39.240 Oh, yeah, curmudgeons-corner.com. Which, by the way, 01:55:39.660 --> 01:55:47.660 we have curmudgeons-corner.com because somebody a long, long time ago actually 01:55:47.660 --> 01:55:52.020 took curmudgeons-corner.com without the hyphen. 01:55:52.140 --> 01:55:55.780 And it had some sort of placeholder page. 01:55:55.920 --> 01:56:03.500 The domain without the hyphen is now officially for sale for $2,695. 01:56:04.360 --> 01:56:10.120 So if any of you out there want to buy it for us feel free, 01:56:10.140 --> 01:56:17.140 you can get curmudgeonscorner.com is available for purchase for $26.95 and we 01:56:17.140 --> 01:56:21.560 can start using that instead of curmudgeons-corner.com for my own purposes, 01:56:21.820 --> 01:56:28.200 let me just say right out there I would pay a little bit for curmudgeonscorner.com 01:56:28.200 --> 01:56:30.480 without the hyphen, not $26.95, 01:56:31.480 --> 01:56:34.980 I could see going up to $100 or $200. Yeah. 01:56:35.720 --> 01:56:37.400 Do they have an offer button? 01:56:38.120 --> 01:56:43.140 No. They do let you do a payment plan where you can pay $225 a month for $12. 01:56:43.380 --> 01:56:46.780 No, no, no, no, no. Fuck them. No, no, no. 01:56:47.720 --> 01:56:50.540 There's a 30-day money-back guarantee. No. 01:56:51.020 --> 01:56:52.180 Yeah, no, no, thank you. 01:56:52.680 --> 01:56:56.160 No. Anyway, we're at curmudgeons hyphen corner. And by the way, 01:56:56.320 --> 01:56:58.540 there's at least one more curmudgeons corner. 01:56:58.760 --> 01:57:01.780 There's a curmudgeons corner podcast on YouTube. 01:57:02.400 --> 01:57:08.280 That is not us. That, that has been, you know, been around a while, get some viewers. 01:57:08.520 --> 01:57:12.420 I've never watched an entire episode of their show, but you know, it's out there. 01:57:12.940 --> 01:57:17.100 So we're not the only one. So maybe they'll buy the 2695 domain name. 01:57:17.280 --> 01:57:18.220 Oh God. 01:57:19.160 --> 01:57:22.020 They're they're only on youtube as far as i can tell right now and 01:57:22.020 --> 01:57:25.220 there there are a few others but anyway we are at 01:57:25.220 --> 01:57:28.000 curmudgeon's hyphen corner.com and there 01:57:28.000 --> 01:57:30.740 you can see our archives you can see all the ways 01:57:30.740 --> 01:57:36.520 to contact us you can see links to our our facebook our youtube etc i still 01:57:36.520 --> 01:57:40.640 have not linked to the tiktok and i i'm getting further and further behind point 01:57:40.640 --> 01:57:44.280 posting the tiktoks like i haven't posted the tiktoks for last week yet i'll 01:57:44.280 --> 01:57:47.700 post them before i put this episode out but I'm getting behind because they're 01:57:47.700 --> 01:57:50.320 not getting many views lately. So maybe I'll stop. I don't know. 01:57:50.720 --> 01:57:54.480 Anyway, you can find all those things. You can also find a link to our Patreon 01:57:54.480 --> 01:57:59.160 where you can donate the $26.95 to us or anything else you would like to. 01:57:59.420 --> 01:58:03.960 At various levels, we will send you, we will mention you on the show. 01:58:04.060 --> 01:58:06.040 We'll send you a postcard. We'll send you a mug. 01:58:07.720 --> 01:58:10.620 And I mentioned earlier that Ed got his mug. 01:58:10.820 --> 01:58:19.360 The postcards are not out yet. However, I have written the two postcards for Pete and Brett. 01:58:19.540 --> 01:58:21.360 There you go. I've made progress. 01:58:21.700 --> 01:58:25.240 I took the week off after the surgery. And I haven't felt too bad, 01:58:25.240 --> 01:58:26.240 so I've been able to do stuff. 01:58:26.480 --> 01:58:30.320 And I'll tell you, I didn't need to take the time off, apparently. 01:58:30.980 --> 01:58:32.140 Apparently, there was a risk. 01:58:32.180 --> 01:58:35.400 It was the best thing to do. It was the best thing. It was the best thing to 01:58:35.400 --> 01:58:39.300 do. They said take it easy for a week. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 01:58:39.420 --> 01:58:44.280 And I have taken it easy for a week. I've just, I've watched a bunch of TV and 01:58:44.280 --> 01:58:47.060 movies with Alex. I've just laid around the house. 01:58:47.320 --> 01:58:52.260 I've done some work on my personal projects. I've done, I've done some laundry, 01:58:52.260 --> 01:58:54.280 you know, and, and honestly, 01:58:54.560 --> 01:58:59.520 like completely independent surgery or not the mental health break of like just 01:58:59.520 --> 01:59:02.560 relaxing for a week, very much needed. 01:59:03.000 --> 01:59:08.560 It was, uh, and so, so anyway, I wrote the postcards, but the next step is to 01:59:08.560 --> 01:59:13.100 send them to Yvonne for him to add his comments, and then he'll send them out to actual people. 01:59:13.700 --> 01:59:17.560 And I haven't done that yet, but I hopefully will by the end of this weekend. 01:59:17.740 --> 01:59:21.420 Anyway, I am eventually getting to these things. It took a while, but I'm getting to them. 01:59:21.740 --> 01:59:25.300 It took me having surgery to have time to get to them, but you know, whatever. 01:59:26.080 --> 01:59:31.780 Anyway, importantly, on the Patreon at $2 a month or more, or if you just ask 01:59:31.780 --> 01:59:34.940 us, we will invite you to the Curmudgeon's Corner Slack where Yvonne and I and 01:59:34.940 --> 01:59:40.520 others are hanging out throughout the week, sharing links, all of that kind of stuff. So Yvonne, 01:59:41.330 --> 01:59:44.930 What's a highlight for the curmudgeon's quarter slot from the curmudgeon's quarter slot? 01:59:44.950 --> 01:59:51.390 I'm going to give you two quick ones. Two quick ones. One was $800,000 in dimes 01:59:51.390 --> 01:59:53.870 spilled onto a North Texas highway. 01:59:55.170 --> 02:00:00.670 Somehow there was a truck that had, I mean, this is 8 million dimes. 02:00:01.170 --> 02:00:04.510 I'm trying to understand, how the fuck were you hauling? 02:00:04.890 --> 02:00:09.290 Where the hell did you get 8 million dimes from? How the fuck were you hauling them? It's like crazy. 02:00:09.290 --> 02:00:12.190 Well, presumably it was a shipment from like the Mint. 02:00:12.330 --> 02:00:15.670 From the Federal Reserve to the Mint, I guess. But geez, man, 02:00:15.830 --> 02:00:18.330 8 million dimes, 8 million dimes. 02:00:18.450 --> 02:00:21.470 I don't even remember the last time I saw a dime. I got to admit. 02:00:22.070 --> 02:00:22.230 Right. 02:00:22.270 --> 02:00:26.450 It's been so long. Okay. So that was like one that was interesting. 02:00:26.970 --> 02:00:31.610 And then there was this thing where I'm not sure which stores are the ones that 02:00:31.610 --> 02:00:34.190 have like this Amazon kitchen brand. Okay. 02:00:34.850 --> 02:00:40.370 But they had this thing at the store. Okay. It said, it's a rap, 02:00:40.590 --> 02:00:44.210 and it said, Lorem Ipsum Duller and Cheddar. 02:00:44.870 --> 02:00:57.190 With Lorem Ipsum Duller, I am, no mummy, no mummy, nim osimod tinsidunt, 02:00:57.950 --> 02:00:59.750 perishable, keep refrigerated. 02:01:00.190 --> 02:01:04.070 So, you know, I mean, I think the one thing is, 02:01:04.070 --> 02:01:06.970 well it's you know obviously somebody forgot 02:01:06.970 --> 02:01:10.170 to uh complete uh fill out their template but 02:01:10.170 --> 02:01:13.210 you know that lorem ipsu door thing has been 02:01:13.210 --> 02:01:15.950 around like i i remember this is like 02:01:15.950 --> 02:01:20.110 being like a random like scribble on like microsoft word in order to show you 02:01:20.110 --> 02:01:25.150 where the word of words went and it has no meaning as far as i know whatsoever 02:01:25.150 --> 02:01:29.990 i looked it up there is no meaning to this but for some reason automatically 02:01:29.990 --> 02:01:34.610 you know that it's somebody that you you know that this is like somebody typed this out. 02:01:35.070 --> 02:01:37.750 Somebody went and they had a template, they were supposed to erase something 02:01:37.750 --> 02:01:41.470 and put it in, and boom, you wound up with So according to Wikipedia. 02:01:42.270 --> 02:01:50.830 The lorem ipsum text is derived from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of Cicero's 02:01:50.830 --> 02:01:54.210 De Finibus Banorum et Malorum. 02:01:54.430 --> 02:02:00.550 The physical source may have been the 1914 Loeb Classic Library edition of that 02:02:00.550 --> 02:02:04.010 thing, where the Latin text presented on the left hand, 02:02:04.190 --> 02:02:10.450 even pages, breaks off on page 34 and continues on page 36 with Lorem Ipsen 02:02:10.450 --> 02:02:15.550 suggesting that the galley type of the page was mixed up to make the dummy text today. 02:02:15.750 --> 02:02:20.790 So it's not actually a quote from that text. No, it's not. It's from that text 02:02:20.790 --> 02:02:22.730 and then scrambled in some way. 02:02:23.340 --> 02:02:23.660 Yeah. 02:02:24.020 --> 02:02:28.440 And so the the relevant section of Cicero is printed in the sources reproduced 02:02:28.440 --> 02:02:32.200 below with the fragments used in lorem ipsum highlighted. 02:02:32.640 --> 02:02:37.060 So lorem ipsum doesn't even like lorem starts in the middle of a word. 02:02:37.240 --> 02:02:39.240 It's del lorem ipsum in the text. 02:02:39.380 --> 02:02:42.140 Yeah, I know. It's not exactly not even a word. Yeah. 02:02:42.520 --> 02:02:45.480 Right. And so it's like it's if you look at the highlighting here, 02:02:45.600 --> 02:02:48.200 it's just it skips a whole bunch of words. It's whatever. 02:02:48.400 --> 02:02:54.780 But it's apparently taken from that source. there you go so so so very tasty all. 02:02:54.780 --> 02:02:56.900 Of some it'll learn of some dollar and cheddar rack. 02:02:56.900 --> 02:02:59.720 Alex is requesting that i give one other thing 02:02:59.720 --> 02:03:02.620 for people to take a look at which is i shared 02:03:02.620 --> 02:03:06.860 on the curmudgeon's corner slack a few minutes ago but is also posted on youtube 02:03:06.860 --> 02:03:10.520 i've been trying to post it on tiktok but tiktok's been giving me trouble so 02:03:10.520 --> 02:03:14.980 it's not on tiktok yet so i don't know if it'll show up there but alex entitled 02:03:14.980 --> 02:03:22.220 it daddy torture video so if you go to YouTube and search on Abulsme, A-B-U-L-S-M-E. 02:03:22.320 --> 02:03:25.140 Don't search on Samuel Minter because there are lots of Samuel Minters. 02:03:25.340 --> 02:03:28.580 But if you search on Abulsme, one of the first things that comes up will be 02:03:28.580 --> 02:03:31.820 the Samuel Minter channel that you can click through and see everything on the channel. 02:03:31.980 --> 02:03:37.240 But also, if you're listening to this soon after I post it, probably the second 02:03:37.240 --> 02:03:40.720 video or within the first few videos is going to be daddy torture video anyway. 02:03:40.800 --> 02:03:43.180 I just posted it a couple hours before recording. 02:03:43.780 --> 02:03:48.680 Basically, the bottom line here is we needed Alex to sign a medical form because 02:03:48.680 --> 02:03:53.420 legally here in Washington state, if you're over 13, there are certain things 02:03:53.420 --> 02:03:55.380 that your parents cannot do for you. 02:03:55.480 --> 02:03:59.240 And there are certain things that the doctor's office isn't even allowed to 02:03:59.240 --> 02:04:03.480 talk to the parents unless they have written permission from the child. 02:04:03.720 --> 02:04:07.620 So we needed to get the form that gave us written permission to talk to the 02:04:07.620 --> 02:04:09.400 doctor in addition to Alex. 02:04:09.900 --> 02:04:12.400 And Alex did not, well. 02:04:13.390 --> 02:04:17.690 Alex demanded extortion. I don't know. 02:04:18.030 --> 02:04:22.930 He, he would, he would not sign without us giving us something significant. 02:04:23.390 --> 02:04:27.210 There were a couple, there were a couple of things he asked for first from his 02:04:27.210 --> 02:04:30.270 sister. Her, his sister did not give him what he wanted. 02:04:30.770 --> 02:04:37.810 So when we were at a diner, he indicated that he would sign the papers. 02:04:38.650 --> 02:04:43.150 If I drank slash ate a concoction, he made it the diner. 02:04:43.390 --> 02:04:47.990 Made out of all the random shit that's on a diet on a diner table he's hitting 02:04:47.990 --> 02:04:52.670 me because i said shit mixed all up together so we've got creamer we've got 02:04:52.670 --> 02:04:58.750 french fries we've got hot sauce we've got salt we've got pepper we've got butter you. 02:04:58.750 --> 02:05:01.930 Have to give it a try you have to drink the whole fucking thing i. 02:05:01.930 --> 02:05:07.090 Have to drink the whole thing and you can see the video you can see me do it i i did it. 02:05:07.250 --> 02:05:13.830 He signed the papers, but it is a 10 minute long video of me forcing myself 02:05:13.830 --> 02:05:21.770 to consume this absolutely disgusting concoction and to try to do it without throwing up spoilers. 02:05:22.030 --> 02:05:26.050 I did not throw up, but I make quite a few funny faces while I'm, 02:05:26.050 --> 02:05:29.690 while I'm eating this stuff or drinking, eating, drinking slash eating. 02:05:29.850 --> 02:05:33.770 Cause like there was a bunch you could drink, but then there was stuff left 02:05:33.770 --> 02:05:35.410 at the bottom that you had to eat. 02:05:35.630 --> 02:05:41.170 Like I ate an entire like sphere of butter straight, you know, things like that. 02:05:41.610 --> 02:05:44.930 And the concoction itself was absolutely disgusting. Anyway, 02:05:46.710 --> 02:05:51.250 he wants everybody to like watch the video. So there you go. 02:05:52.870 --> 02:05:53.390 Okay. 02:05:53.890 --> 02:05:58.670 And with that, we are out of here. Thank you for joining us for yet another 02:05:58.670 --> 02:06:00.370 at Curmudgeon's Corner. Have a great week. 02:06:00.630 --> 02:06:02.910 If all goes well, we'll be back next time. 02:06:03.590 --> 02:06:08.650 Stay safe. Be good. Blah, blah, blah. Goodbye. Say goodbye, Yvonne. 02:06:09.270 --> 02:06:09.490 Bye! 02:06:10.350 --> 02:06:12.310 There we go. Here comes the music. 02:06:12.650 --> 02:06:13.510 That would help. 02:06:40.690 --> 02:06:44.350 I was actually worried that YouTube and TikTok and these places would block 02:06:44.350 --> 02:06:46.990 it just because the name is Daddy Torture Video. 02:06:48.250 --> 02:06:50.410 That could be a problem. 02:06:50.490 --> 02:06:53.430 Torture. I mean, it was kind of torture. 02:06:53.630 --> 02:06:56.670 Well, the torture right now is very popular in this country anyway. 02:06:57.010 --> 02:06:58.930 There you go. Okay, I'm hitting stop.