WEBVTT 00:00:00.010 --> 00:00:00.810 Hello. 00:00:01.570 --> 00:00:02.250 Hi. 00:00:02.970 --> 00:00:03.550 Hi. 00:00:05.630 --> 00:00:11.490 Let's get rid of my extra things. Okay, turn off your sound, Alex. 00:00:12.250 --> 00:00:16.930 Your shirt has a logo of... What is that? 00:00:17.370 --> 00:00:19.470 Whatever brand of shirt it is. 00:00:19.930 --> 00:00:20.690 Is it? 00:00:21.050 --> 00:00:21.490 Yeah. 00:00:22.030 --> 00:00:25.590 It's not something from a movie or TV show? 00:00:25.930 --> 00:00:26.370 No. 00:00:26.370 --> 00:00:29.350 It looks like something from a movie or TV show. 00:00:30.130 --> 00:00:37.110 I'll read that. No. No. I'll find it. Hold on. 00:00:37.130 --> 00:00:38.030 I think you're wrong. 00:00:38.850 --> 00:00:46.130 No, I am right. It is a generic, like, shirt thing. 00:00:46.570 --> 00:00:47.630 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:00:47.790 --> 00:00:53.650 That I got one time when I was like, maybe I'll actually exercise. 00:00:54.230 --> 00:01:01.510 Which, of course, I've never done. but I am all completely sweaty because I 00:01:01.510 --> 00:01:10.070 did ugh okay here you go let's see here I'll actually use the, 00:01:11.030 --> 00:01:22.110 chat inside the where is the maybe I won't there's a chat the chat inside Riverside? 00:01:22.410 --> 00:01:25.870 Wow yeah Riverside the studio 00:01:25.870 --> 00:01:28.990 chat here we go there are multiple chats there you 00:01:28.990 --> 00:01:32.950 go um and meanwhile 00:01:32.950 --> 00:01:35.970 let's make sure the live stream is going hello 00:01:35.970 --> 00:01:44.450 live stream people that is going although our my signal is sucky but okay let's 00:01:44.450 --> 00:01:53.330 see did it do this yes and ah blah blah blah of course i was gonna do an image search. 00:01:53.550 --> 00:02:00.130 But as I started, as I went to take a screenshot, your image turned completely fuzzy on my end. 00:02:00.490 --> 00:02:01.010 Yeah. 00:02:01.410 --> 00:02:01.570 I, I. 00:02:02.580 --> 00:02:08.160 I was noticing that on the the youtube thingy maybe it'll get better maybe it 00:02:08.160 --> 00:02:10.300 won't who knows shall we start. 00:02:10.300 --> 00:02:11.980 Yeah okay. 00:02:11.980 --> 00:02:14.040 Did you look at the amazon link is that. 00:02:14.040 --> 00:02:20.800 Not yet hold on uh i was i was seeing what what new came on the slack okay here 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:27.020 we go all right let's see of course it's not clickable okay let's not use this 00:02:27.020 --> 00:02:31.680 chat ever again okay all right shall we it's a stupid thing i'll. 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:32.940 I'll text it to you instead. 00:02:33.260 --> 00:02:36.020 No, no, no. I copied and pasted it now. 00:02:36.660 --> 00:02:36.920 Okay. 00:02:38.120 --> 00:02:42.660 Nellius Men's Dry Fit Mesh Athletic Shirt. 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:49.480 One word that we know that we shouldn't mix together with Sam is the word athletic. 00:02:50.060 --> 00:02:53.600 I think when I bought these, like... 00:02:53.600 --> 00:02:54.680 You were under the delusion. 00:02:54.940 --> 00:03:03.560 Well, it was May 2018, the last time I bought these. I did buy it a couple times. 00:03:04.220 --> 00:03:08.760 So I have like six of these shirts or something. But I did actually go to the 00:03:08.760 --> 00:03:10.300 gym like a handful of times. 00:03:10.660 --> 00:03:12.200 Oh, okay. Okay. 00:03:12.740 --> 00:03:13.720 And then I didn't. 00:03:13.820 --> 00:03:15.080 And then you. 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:19.300 But I have worn them when I was out of regular t-shirts. 00:03:20.140 --> 00:03:21.200 Ah, I see. 00:03:22.420 --> 00:03:24.780 So anyway, shall we go? 00:03:25.160 --> 00:03:25.620 Yes. 00:03:26.460 --> 00:03:28.780 Okay, here we go. Blah, blah, blah, blah. 00:03:29.500 --> 00:03:33.580 Blah, blah, blah. blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 00:03:33.580 --> 00:04:01.860 I'll see you next time. 00:04:01.880 --> 00:04:05.900 welcome to curmudgeon's corner for saturday 00:04:05.900 --> 00:04:11.080 june 7th 2025 it 00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:18.080 is 1740 utc as we're starting to record this show so here we are here we are 00:04:18.080 --> 00:04:24.040 together again together together again isn't there a song we're together yeah 00:04:24.040 --> 00:04:28.520 there is but i can't come up with it right now yeah i don't know you know, 00:04:28.880 --> 00:04:31.360 and everyone should be glad that we can't. 00:04:31.720 --> 00:04:35.540 So, yes, I guess we'll do our usual. 00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:41.060 We'll start out like with non-newsy stuff and then we'll get more newsy as the day progresses. 00:04:42.460 --> 00:04:46.800 So I don't know. It's it's a day. I'm, 00:04:47.580 --> 00:04:51.860 You know, I could just go back to sleep right now. I'd be fine with that. 00:04:52.140 --> 00:04:55.580 You know, it's just a thing. 00:04:56.280 --> 00:04:58.320 I mean, nothing's happened this week. 00:04:59.340 --> 00:05:03.500 Of course, nothing at all. Are we going to go into our usual joke of how nothing 00:05:03.500 --> 00:05:05.160 has happened when something has happened? 00:05:05.460 --> 00:05:09.160 It's calm and relaxed. I mean, what joke? What are you talking about? 00:05:09.520 --> 00:05:17.480 You know, what happened? You know, it's one of those standard, substandard weeks. 00:05:18.380 --> 00:05:22.320 Right. Okay. So, I don't know. 00:05:22.480 --> 00:05:27.580 You know, my week, let me put it this way. Not just the stuff that happened. 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:36.980 Look, I should have known Monday how this week was going to be insane. Okay? 00:05:37.100 --> 00:05:45.840 Because my week started off with insanity. okay because i had a business trip i oh. 00:05:45.840 --> 00:05:47.600 I believe i heard a little bit about this. 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:50.500 I dutifully prepared for this business trip 00:05:50.500 --> 00:05:54.380 i got to the airport on time and 00:05:54.380 --> 00:06:00.720 as i am sitting there waiting to board the flight i i look at my at my phone 00:06:00.720 --> 00:06:05.800 at my emails i hadn't looked at them because i was i was taking care of a whole 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:10.180 bunch of other things and whatnot i remember i i i was like you know, 00:06:10.320 --> 00:06:12.440 getting chats about this and that, 00:06:13.900 --> 00:06:15.800 stuff going on, blah, blah, blah. 00:06:16.380 --> 00:06:19.700 I look at my work emails and I see that the people I'm meeting with tomorrow 00:06:19.700 --> 00:06:23.940 have sent me a thing saying that, oh, we're canceling the meeting. 00:06:24.620 --> 00:06:28.760 This is as I am at the boarding area for the flight. Okay. 00:06:29.580 --> 00:06:42.020 And so now I had some other business to tend to, but that was the key part of my trip. Okay. 00:06:42.860 --> 00:06:47.040 But there were other things. Okay. So I'm like, look, 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:54.080 Well, I'm about the board. You know, the other things weren't as cooked as this. 00:06:54.220 --> 00:06:58.820 This was very important. I'm like, let me just, whatever. We'll go anyway. All right. 00:06:59.300 --> 00:07:02.980 Our aircraft that is supposed to take us gets there. Okay. 00:07:04.140 --> 00:07:12.840 And soon after it gets there, a big cluster of thunderstorms rolls in to Miami. Okay. 00:07:13.060 --> 00:07:16.920 Okay. Yeah. And as happens sometimes in that part of the world. 00:07:16.920 --> 00:07:22.140 You know, you get some passing thunderstorms on a regular basis. 00:07:22.360 --> 00:07:25.640 This is the more, not the normal one. 00:07:25.740 --> 00:07:31.180 This was like far heavier, broader, and more intense. 00:07:31.400 --> 00:07:37.600 As a matter of fact, that system later was seen as possibility for tropical 00:07:37.600 --> 00:07:40.160 development, like later. Okay? 00:07:40.400 --> 00:07:46.900 I remember seeing an NHC map that had like a little yellow blob in that area. 00:07:46.920 --> 00:07:54.740 And it was that thunderstorm system, okay, that developed very swiftly, okay? 00:07:55.300 --> 00:07:59.020 And so thunderstorms roll in a couple of things. 00:07:59.260 --> 00:08:06.340 What things happen? Number one, well, all takeoffs and landings were stopped 00:08:06.340 --> 00:08:11.760 because this was that bad that they had to stop all traffic, okay? 00:08:12.100 --> 00:08:16.620 The ramp gets closed, so all the employees have to shelter in place. 00:08:16.620 --> 00:08:21.140 I mean, you can see the thunder and lightning, like, rolling in really bad. 00:08:21.540 --> 00:08:25.740 Okay, so flight's delayed. I've had this happen before. I mean, 00:08:25.860 --> 00:08:30.520 you know, this has happened. It's caused a delay, and we're usually, 00:08:30.520 --> 00:08:34.740 you know, on our way late or whatever. So I wait. We wait, wait. 00:08:35.520 --> 00:08:39.240 One of the annoying things, and I've seen this with other airlines, 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:47.940 not just American, that the updates that they put on departure time are not helpful, okay? 00:08:48.520 --> 00:08:51.040 Because the system keeps automatically 00:08:51.040 --> 00:08:55.380 saying, oh, we didn't leave at 2.30. Oh, we'll leave at 2.45. 00:08:55.600 --> 00:08:57.720 2.45 for a sign. Oh, no, we'll leave at 3. 00:08:58.100 --> 00:09:01.560 Oh, the computer, uh-uh. No, 3.15. I'm like, look. 00:09:01.760 --> 00:09:03.900 It's being optimistic, Yvonne. 00:09:03.900 --> 00:09:10.260 I mean, we haven't even boarded the fucking plane. How the fuck are we leaving in 15 minutes, okay? 00:09:10.440 --> 00:09:13.960 All right, this is not happening, okay, in any way, stretch, or form. 00:09:15.680 --> 00:09:20.240 So updates keep rolling around. At some point, I'm hungry. 00:09:21.180 --> 00:09:25.320 Thankfully, right across from the gate, there was a nice restaurant. 00:09:25.720 --> 00:09:30.820 So I went over to the nice restaurant to have a meal, okay, got something, 00:09:30.980 --> 00:09:36.580 whatever. And then as I finish my meal and I walk back to the gate at around 00:09:36.580 --> 00:09:39.280 five o'clock, they cancel the flight. Okay. 00:09:40.080 --> 00:09:46.260 And this is as I saw people actually in the ramp working because the storms had stopped. 00:09:47.480 --> 00:09:50.620 But they they they cancel the flight. 00:09:50.760 --> 00:09:57.080 Now, I must admit, I had not looked at how bad the situation was in terms of diversions. 00:09:57.080 --> 00:10:04.000 I realized later that, holy shit, I mean, they diverted everything to like, 00:10:04.160 --> 00:10:07.500 I mean, all the international flights coming from Europe got sent to Orlando. 00:10:08.060 --> 00:10:08.540 Okay. 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:12.660 I spoke to someone I know over there that works at the airport and they told 00:10:12.660 --> 00:10:19.200 me, listen, we got all of a sudden, I had to work an 18, she had to work an 18 hour shift. 00:10:19.660 --> 00:10:26.200 Okay. At Orlando, because so many flights from Europe that they didn't expect came in. 00:10:27.000 --> 00:10:31.500 that they had to handle all of a sudden, okay? And they sent them to Palm Beach 00:10:31.500 --> 00:10:32.560 and they sent them to everywhere. 00:10:32.720 --> 00:10:37.020 And so when they canceled the flight, I'm like, look, my meeting got canceled, okay? 00:10:37.900 --> 00:10:43.460 You know, my flight gets canceled. So I call, you know, so I call our travel 00:10:43.460 --> 00:10:46.760 agency and I just said, listen, just cancel the hotel. 00:10:47.740 --> 00:10:54.520 Don't even try to rebook me. I saw the next flight to San Juan also got canceled. 00:10:54.520 --> 00:11:02.480 There was a line at the airport that I'm not exaggerating, probably was almost 00:11:02.480 --> 00:11:06.700 a mile long of people trying to get assistance. 00:11:07.100 --> 00:11:10.860 OK, all right. Which is particularly insane. 00:11:11.020 --> 00:11:15.940 I think I'm like, guys, I'm like at this point getting into that stupid line. 00:11:16.460 --> 00:11:16.840 Right. 00:11:17.120 --> 00:11:21.160 It's just there is no point. Just just just whatever. 00:11:21.160 --> 00:11:24.900 you know just don't get a dislike call up 00:11:24.900 --> 00:11:27.520 do something whatever so which is what i did i mean 00:11:27.520 --> 00:11:30.420 i called our travel agency i told just cancel everything cancel it's okay 00:11:30.420 --> 00:11:33.800 as a little car you want me to rebook you nah listen i 00:11:33.800 --> 00:11:36.900 gotta figure out what the fuck's going on you canceled my 00:11:36.900 --> 00:11:42.080 meeting whatever so then i go back down to get baggage claim because i i check 00:11:42.080 --> 00:11:48.220 my bags i i hate carrying my bag so like let me try to get my bag well no bags 00:11:48.220 --> 00:11:54.520 listen it's gonna take eight hours to unsnarl the bag mess that has been created right now. 00:11:55.360 --> 00:11:59.120 And I'm like, ah, fuck that. Look, I'll put a claim. 00:11:59.520 --> 00:12:02.660 And I don't know, some of the people don't understand how this process works, 00:12:02.660 --> 00:12:05.040 even the employees. And I was just like, 00:12:05.670 --> 00:12:08.390 okay just they'll send me the bag oh no no they won't do that 00:12:08.390 --> 00:12:11.170 i'm like look whatever i know they'll send me the back to 00:12:11.170 --> 00:12:14.410 the house whatever so i pulled in the claim whatever put 00:12:14.410 --> 00:12:18.130 it in the system got in my car i went home and unfortunately 00:12:18.130 --> 00:12:23.530 at rush hour which basically with the storms the rain even though the the the 00:12:23.530 --> 00:12:29.030 thunderstorm part itself was passed the rain had not ceased okay for hours and 00:12:29.030 --> 00:12:35.270 hours all the way driving home it was pouring rain it took me two hours to drive home okay all right. 00:12:36.090 --> 00:12:39.370 How bad the the weather was so i 00:12:39.370 --> 00:12:42.110 go to check you know i i didn't 00:12:42.110 --> 00:12:45.030 expect to find out anything on my about my bag that night 00:12:45.030 --> 00:12:47.750 and i'm like okay next day let me see where 00:12:47.750 --> 00:12:51.130 the hell the bag is and i track the the the 00:12:51.130 --> 00:12:54.450 track it with the with the little tracking number should now 00:12:54.450 --> 00:12:57.350 now they all have this air tag tracking thing 00:12:57.350 --> 00:13:00.670 i'm gonna get a fucking air tag to track the bag because all 00:13:00.670 --> 00:13:03.630 the airlines now support it as well in order to find your backpack 00:13:03.630 --> 00:13:06.550 right well i checked the next day my my 00:13:06.550 --> 00:13:09.810 flight's in puerto rico they put it on the first flight in the 00:13:09.810 --> 00:13:12.990 morning to puerto rico because your back still went yeah 00:13:12.990 --> 00:13:16.070 my back still went because and actually the airline was trying to be helpful 00:13:16.070 --> 00:13:19.610 because they figured hey this guy needed to get there i'm sure he'll get on 00:13:19.610 --> 00:13:23.410 another flight let's just send him the bag over there let's get get his bag 00:13:23.410 --> 00:13:28.970 over there so he's got his luggage when he gets there well no i i didn't and 00:13:28.970 --> 00:13:31.650 so then i call american and i'm like guys. 00:13:32.750 --> 00:13:35.430 You sent my bag well we were trying to get it 00:13:35.430 --> 00:13:38.870 for you to get because they get there and i'm like yeah oh no 00:13:38.870 --> 00:13:42.870 you're right okay well can you bring it back yes we'll 00:13:42.870 --> 00:13:45.870 bring the back back so this was the 00:13:45.870 --> 00:13:48.710 bag i checked it in on monday i did not get 00:13:48.710 --> 00:13:52.930 the bag back until thursday now 00:13:52.930 --> 00:13:55.830 they did deliver it like as i expected to my 00:13:55.830 --> 00:13:58.530 house i did not have to go to the airport to go get it i 00:13:58.530 --> 00:14:01.450 don't understand why well you actually it's they do 00:14:01.450 --> 00:14:04.150 have this very nice service you know whatever you put in your 00:14:04.150 --> 00:14:06.950 information and some guy just came in and brought it 00:14:06.950 --> 00:14:11.090 all the way to my house so i didn't have to do that but basically 00:14:11.090 --> 00:14:17.510 i i should have known as my with all the shit that went wrong in the week and 00:14:17.510 --> 00:14:22.050 a whole bunch of other things that work where all of a sudden And we had just 00:14:22.050 --> 00:14:27.470 things that I had planned in one way and everything went sideways. 00:14:27.570 --> 00:14:37.130 I'm like, you know, this is just an omen to all how our week as a nation has gone. 00:14:37.310 --> 00:14:39.070 Oh, an omen. Yes. 00:14:39.290 --> 00:14:46.670 Yes. It just, I mean, you know, I don't think that as a country we have ever 00:14:46.670 --> 00:14:51.950 had a spectacle between our president and a key advisor. 00:14:53.350 --> 00:14:59.250 In the way that it happened this week in public. This has never happened, right? I'm not wrong. 00:14:59.730 --> 00:15:03.390 I mean, has this ever happened like this? With a key advisor. 00:15:03.590 --> 00:15:05.530 Well, like this. With threats. 00:15:06.410 --> 00:15:11.650 Probably not. With threats and insults and threats and, you know, 00:15:12.610 --> 00:15:17.470 just, I mean, vicious attacks. 00:15:17.470 --> 00:15:22.330 attacks, including attacks of accusing the other guy of pedophilia, 00:15:22.850 --> 00:15:27.910 of participating in a pedophilia ring, which apparently is a thing for Elon. 00:15:28.930 --> 00:15:31.950 Well, he just said he was in the files. He didn't say in what capacity. 00:15:32.630 --> 00:15:37.550 Oh, yes. He just meant it in a good way. It was in a positive way. Yes. 00:15:37.730 --> 00:15:40.110 It's going to come out that he's in the files in a positive way. 00:15:40.210 --> 00:15:43.090 He was the savior of the children. Well, that's why. 00:15:43.690 --> 00:15:44.090 Yes. 00:15:44.090 --> 00:15:48.290 That's why that's why Elon mentioned him, you know, prominently, 00:15:48.310 --> 00:15:51.010 of course, he's the savior. Sam, I forgot. Yes. 00:15:51.270 --> 00:15:54.170 I mean, he's you know, that's right. He's such a kind man. 00:15:54.610 --> 00:16:00.410 Yes. So undoubtedly, Trump versus Musk will be one of our main topics as we 00:16:00.410 --> 00:16:02.870 proceed on this show. I can't imagine avoiding it. 00:16:02.970 --> 00:16:08.170 It's just that what the fuck? I mean, everything is, Sam, 00:16:08.850 --> 00:16:14.610 you know, look, if we scripted a movie of this shit, 00:16:15.130 --> 00:16:22.030 listen, we've said this before, but even more today, if we had written a script 00:16:22.030 --> 00:16:28.090 15 years ago, describing the situation for a movie about the presidency, 00:16:28.430 --> 00:16:32.370 we would have been laughed out of the, you know, out of the studio. 00:16:32.370 --> 00:16:35.030 I was like, you guys are out of your minds. It's ridiculous. 00:16:35.870 --> 00:16:37.230 They're never going to happen. 00:16:38.490 --> 00:16:48.610 Yes. I mean, we have mocked before sort of how off the rails the later seasons of House of Cards went. 00:16:49.110 --> 00:16:49.630 Yeah. 00:16:49.890 --> 00:16:52.850 And we're getting in that zone, you know? 00:16:53.030 --> 00:16:53.250 Yes. 00:16:53.410 --> 00:16:58.010 And we certainly are well past, like, things that happened in West Wing, you know? 00:16:58.310 --> 00:16:58.690 Oh! 00:17:00.050 --> 00:17:06.710 Yes, anyway. Ah, so I have one thought that's just a riff off what you said 00:17:06.710 --> 00:17:11.310 on your travel situation before I get to my movie, which is this. 00:17:11.470 --> 00:17:15.410 You mentioned your rush hour escape from the airport back home. 00:17:15.710 --> 00:17:16.190 Yeah. 00:17:18.130 --> 00:17:26.090 As our loyal listeners know, I have for a long time now, we have been required 00:17:26.090 --> 00:17:29.030 at my employer to go back into the office five days a week. 00:17:30.190 --> 00:17:33.010 It was three days a week for a while, and then now it's five days. 00:17:33.550 --> 00:17:36.210 Let me ask you a question. Have you gotten used to it now? 00:17:36.830 --> 00:17:37.350 Hell no. 00:17:37.910 --> 00:17:38.350 No? 00:17:38.450 --> 00:17:45.870 No. Okay. Every single time I do it, I'm swearing at myself the whole damn trip back and forth. 00:17:46.450 --> 00:17:51.030 Okay. You know, because I went through, the reason I say that is because I went through this. 00:17:51.170 --> 00:17:57.030 Now, what happened is that I changed, not that my employer changed their minds. I changed jobs. 00:17:57.250 --> 00:17:57.490 Right. 00:17:57.650 --> 00:18:05.530 Back in 2010. And I went from HP, where I worked from home for several years, 00:18:06.270 --> 00:18:11.930 back to an office environment that not only did I have to go to the office five 00:18:11.930 --> 00:18:13.850 days a week, I had to be there at 8 a.m. 00:18:14.430 --> 00:18:21.070 Well, thank God I don't have that, at least. I have been attempting recently 00:18:21.070 --> 00:18:24.250 to try to be there closer to nine. 00:18:24.250 --> 00:18:33.890 And here's where I say, like, whatever has been going on, the last two to three 00:18:33.890 --> 00:18:37.770 weeks, traffic has gotten significantly worse. 00:18:38.050 --> 00:18:41.210 And I don't know what changed, okay? 00:18:41.770 --> 00:18:45.290 Some other companies started mandating people to go back to the office? 00:18:45.610 --> 00:18:50.730 Probably. I hadn't read that news story, but probably something like that. 00:18:50.730 --> 00:18:54.470 I, you know, but here's the deal. 00:18:54.790 --> 00:18:59.790 Like, prior to maybe three weeks ago, the trip in... 00:19:00.380 --> 00:19:06.440 I'd say, like I've said on a show before, if I go at like two in the morning 00:19:06.440 --> 00:19:12.160 when there's no traffic, it's about a 35 minute door to door drive. Okay. 00:19:12.700 --> 00:19:16.520 You know, if I was Yvonne, I could make it in less. 00:19:17.480 --> 00:19:18.700 How many miles is it? 00:19:19.000 --> 00:19:19.900 About 25. 00:19:20.540 --> 00:19:22.680 Oh shit. Yeah. I'd make it in less. 00:19:22.940 --> 00:19:29.180 Now, now the beginning and end of that is not highway, but like the bulk of it doesn't matter. 00:19:29.180 --> 00:19:32.240 I'm, shit, I could tear it a lot less than that. 00:19:32.840 --> 00:19:41.360 Yes, now, with me meticulously following speed limits and traffic laws, takes about 35, okay? 00:19:41.460 --> 00:19:41.600 Okay. 00:19:41.900 --> 00:19:50.500 With no traffic. Now, the actual, like, my morning experience going in was probably 00:19:50.500 --> 00:19:54.820 typically between 45 minutes and an hour, okay? 00:19:55.020 --> 00:19:55.560 Not terrible. 00:19:55.800 --> 00:20:03.380 Unless, you could be guaranteed, If it was raining or otherwise bad weather, 00:20:03.380 --> 00:20:08.680 it would instantly add at least 20 minutes to it, maybe more. Okay? 00:20:08.940 --> 00:20:12.200 And if there were accidents along the way, even more. So, like, 00:20:12.220 --> 00:20:15.080 it could spike up to as high as two hours. 00:20:15.420 --> 00:20:17.960 But that was rare under certain conditions. 00:20:19.500 --> 00:20:23.580 And my trip back would typically be around an hour. 00:20:23.900 --> 00:20:28.520 Because my trip back would typically... And part of this was the morning, 00:20:28.760 --> 00:20:35.380 like, I would go in a little bit later, and there'd be a little bit less traffic in the morning. 00:20:35.660 --> 00:20:43.740 But anyway, the last three weeks, consistently, both morning and evening commutes, 00:20:45.260 --> 00:20:50.500 closer to 90 minutes and sometimes longer in, in both directions. 00:20:50.800 --> 00:20:51.260 Wow. 00:20:51.500 --> 00:20:57.680 Even when there's like good weather, no obvious accidents, you know, whatever. 00:20:58.720 --> 00:21:01.740 And that has been, and, and, 00:21:02.100 --> 00:21:05.180 you know, part of it, I mentioned, I was trying to get in a little bit earlier 00:21:05.180 --> 00:21:11.660 that undoubtedly is part of it because I am closer to the, the big bulk of the 00:21:11.660 --> 00:21:14.340 traffic going through the snake's digestive system. 00:21:15.480 --> 00:21:20.400 But it's not all that. Because even when I've gone in a little bit later, it's still... 00:21:20.400 --> 00:21:26.400 At 90 minutes, has it not made you reconsider taking the rail option to go into the city? 00:21:26.820 --> 00:21:30.980 No. Because every... I have tried this. Here's the thing. 00:21:31.780 --> 00:21:39.400 First of all, for me to get from where I am to the closest rail option is already 00:21:39.400 --> 00:21:41.160 like 40 minutes out of that commute. 00:21:41.540 --> 00:21:44.120 It's 40 minutes? That far? 00:21:44.820 --> 00:21:49.340 Well, during the traffic, it would be a lot faster if it wasn't. 00:21:49.480 --> 00:21:55.120 But I would have to get past a chunk of that traffic to get to the rail. 00:21:55.280 --> 00:21:55.760 Okay. 00:21:57.980 --> 00:22:04.740 Second, I tried the light rail when they opened the closest stations to me. 00:22:05.040 --> 00:22:05.560 Okay. 00:22:06.540 --> 00:22:10.640 Right after it opened, within two to three weeks of it opening. Okay. 00:22:11.470 --> 00:22:17.050 Parking was no problem whatsoever. I have subsequently heard that the parking 00:22:17.050 --> 00:22:22.290 garage there fills up by like 7 a.m., maybe even earlier. 00:22:22.530 --> 00:22:22.810 No. 00:22:22.910 --> 00:22:23.170 Okay. 00:22:23.350 --> 00:22:23.770 Okay. 00:22:23.830 --> 00:22:26.290 Well, that makes it not. So I can't park and ride there either. 00:22:26.290 --> 00:22:28.210 I would have to find some other way. 00:22:28.350 --> 00:22:37.590 But even when I did that, once I got to the platform, my time into the city 00:22:37.590 --> 00:22:40.790 was still at least that hour and a half. 00:22:40.790 --> 00:22:44.370 And I've already burned 30 minutes plus to get there. 00:22:44.790 --> 00:22:49.270 And once I get to the train station in the city, I then have to walk to my office, 00:22:49.450 --> 00:22:50.810 which is another 20 minute walk. 00:22:51.550 --> 00:22:57.290 It's not even really, you know, I would have, I would have assumed it's more every convenient. 00:22:57.490 --> 00:23:00.790 I've done, because the reason I mentioned it, I've gotten, you know, 00:23:00.890 --> 00:23:06.990 so like we've got, there is a, there are two rail options now to go from Boca 00:23:06.990 --> 00:23:09.810 Raton into, into Miami downtown. Okay. 00:23:10.410 --> 00:23:15.210 Both of them during rush hour, if I went, if I had to go regularly, 00:23:15.750 --> 00:23:20.710 basically would be meet or beat the time it would take me by driving. 00:23:20.710 --> 00:23:25.750 Every, I have over the years, I have tried the light rail. I have tried buses. 00:23:26.410 --> 00:23:32.830 I have, I have tried every combination of the above that I can try, have figured out. 00:23:33.030 --> 00:23:36.270 Every time it seems like a new option is available, I have tried it. 00:23:36.630 --> 00:23:46.630 And the, the, every single one, the door to door time is significantly longer than the drive time. 00:23:47.250 --> 00:23:53.850 the one advantage there is one advantage which is i can sit there and i can 00:23:53.850 --> 00:23:59.750 go back to sleep right i can sit there and read i can do something else i'm 00:23:59.750 --> 00:24:00.990 not going to sit there and work, 00:24:01.630 --> 00:24:04.710 but i i'm i can potentially relax if you had. 00:24:04.710 --> 00:24:05.450 To you could. 00:24:06.430 --> 00:24:11.330 If i had to i could but i'm not going to i'll be honest with myself but you. 00:24:11.330 --> 00:24:14.330 Know what i'm saying Okay, no, but you could have something that all of a sudden 00:24:14.330 --> 00:24:17.010 requires you to do something, and you could do it. 00:24:17.010 --> 00:24:22.810 You could conceivably. There is also a company shuttle option that could be taken. 00:24:23.010 --> 00:24:29.170 But from what I—and I have never actually tried that one, but I have listened to people who have. 00:24:29.450 --> 00:24:36.730 It has very restrictive schedules, you know, and you have to sign up in advance 00:24:36.730 --> 00:24:41.870 for, I am going to be on this bus at this time. And that just doesn't work for me. 00:24:42.170 --> 00:24:46.910 And so I've explored all those options. Driving is the, is still the best option 00:24:46.910 --> 00:24:50.510 for me, but it's, it's killing three hours a day right now. 00:24:50.930 --> 00:24:53.310 And that is a lot of time. 00:24:54.160 --> 00:25:02.120 out of the schedule, you know, and it, and yeah, I'm a, I listen to podcasts 00:25:02.120 --> 00:25:08.480 or whatever, but you know, it, it, it is, and it has increased over the last few weeks. 00:25:08.820 --> 00:25:19.200 Like, and could I potentially alleviate some of this by adjusting my hours further? 00:25:19.200 --> 00:25:22.060 Maybe like, you know, take, 00:25:22.060 --> 00:25:25.160 take morning meetings at home but it 00:25:25.160 --> 00:25:32.680 yes i can and i've experimented with some of that but it it helps some but then 00:25:32.680 --> 00:25:38.040 it it kills your momentum in the middle of the day like i kind of want to like 00:25:38.040 --> 00:25:42.580 once i'm working yeah i don't yeah i'm working i'm with you i. 00:25:42.580 --> 00:25:48.420 Yeah yeah yeah i i'm with you on that one i don't like the oh yeah like take 00:25:48.420 --> 00:25:53.760 a meeting and then go thing unless unless there's a 7 a.m. meeting that has to happen. 00:25:53.760 --> 00:25:57.560 Yeah yeah i mean i've done that in those kinds of situations and and i you know 00:25:57.560 --> 00:26:03.580 and i have done that when the calendar works out for it but you lose that momentum 00:26:03.580 --> 00:26:08.120 but i'll say even with even without that even if the commute is at the very beginning, 00:26:09.820 --> 00:26:16.180 look i'm already getting up earlier than i want to get up in order to do work 00:26:16.180 --> 00:26:17.880 anyway right like Right. 00:26:18.100 --> 00:26:22.480 If I had my druthers, I would not be up before 10, 11 a.m. 00:26:22.740 --> 00:26:26.160 any day ever, you know, and I'd stay up two or three. 00:26:26.460 --> 00:26:27.740 I don't know what the fuck is 00:26:27.740 --> 00:26:34.880 going on with me now, but I have been having problems sleeping past 730. 00:26:35.360 --> 00:26:38.880 And this has not been an issue to me in the past. 00:26:39.560 --> 00:26:44.540 I've gone through periods where that has been true where like my schedule my 00:26:44.540 --> 00:26:50.460 work schedule was consistent enough for long enough that I started sort of waking up on my own yeah. 00:26:50.460 --> 00:26:53.940 And this is what's been happening I've been setting the alarm for later. 00:26:53.940 --> 00:26:57.800 And I keep waking up before it goes off well. 00:26:57.800 --> 00:27:00.100 Before the damn alarm goes off. 00:27:00.100 --> 00:27:01.420 Yeah I'm. 00:27:01.420 --> 00:27:03.580 So angry at myself about this I. 00:27:03.580 --> 00:27:06.660 Gotta be honest but anyway what I was saying though is like, 00:27:08.090 --> 00:27:12.570 then I'm not a morning person anyway. I struggle with mornings. 00:27:12.790 --> 00:27:17.750 Afternoon is much more productive for me regardless. But if you start my day 00:27:17.750 --> 00:27:24.850 by a waking up before my body is ready to wake up and then a 90 minute drive, 00:27:24.850 --> 00:27:33.490 I arrive at the office like already wiped and like not like, 00:27:33.490 --> 00:27:39.690 So it makes it even harder for me to get into the groove and get going once I'm there. 00:27:40.050 --> 00:27:42.490 And it's just, it all sucks. 00:27:42.930 --> 00:27:47.670 It all sucks. Now, I'm hoping, like what you said may be true. 00:27:47.850 --> 00:27:51.510 It may be somebody new is requiring people to come into the office, 00:27:51.510 --> 00:27:54.950 and that's why the traffic is bad, and therefore it's going to be permanent. 00:27:54.950 --> 00:27:58.270 i'm kind of hoping it's something temporary 00:27:58.270 --> 00:28:01.170 and it'll get back to how it was which 00:28:01.170 --> 00:28:04.130 wasn't great but it was better than what it is right now better 00:28:04.130 --> 00:28:07.590 than this yeah you know or or 00:28:07.590 --> 00:28:14.490 maybe i will have to like really investigate you know screw it completely change 00:28:14.490 --> 00:28:20.350 my schedule like get up really freaking early and beat the morning rush and 00:28:20.350 --> 00:28:26.890 be at work at like seven or some crap and then leave early too I don't know. Leave it three. 00:28:28.710 --> 00:28:32.630 Yeah. Although traffic is already bad at three. I've done that, but I've. 00:28:32.630 --> 00:28:37.850 Noticed that too. You know, the traffic coming from Miami, whenever I have to 00:28:37.850 --> 00:28:42.530 go, I mean, I can't remember the hell it was that I arrived at a flight. Oh, I arrived at two 30. 00:28:42.750 --> 00:28:45.670 I will get stuck in traffic at three o'clock. And I was like, 00:28:45.750 --> 00:28:48.130 ha ha, you idiot. Very funny. 00:28:49.050 --> 00:28:54.150 You're such an ad. You're such a dumb ass. Yeah. You're stuck in traffic anyway. Yeah. 00:28:54.510 --> 00:28:58.530 Yeah, I've joked before, what I need is a catapult. 00:28:59.030 --> 00:29:00.470 That would be interesting. 00:29:00.890 --> 00:29:01.410 Yeah. 00:29:01.630 --> 00:29:05.010 You know, I mean, that would be an interesting way to get to work, 00:29:05.130 --> 00:29:06.650 you know, as people see you. 00:29:06.790 --> 00:29:12.670 I would suggest that to make it an easier landing, that you wear a parachute. 00:29:13.110 --> 00:29:18.610 So you will be catapulted very high distance. And then as you're approaching, 00:29:18.890 --> 00:29:25.170 like your destination, you pull chute and then you make a nice soft landing. 00:29:25.330 --> 00:29:28.030 It would just impress the hell out of everybody. 00:29:28.210 --> 00:29:34.110 In my head, I wasn't catapulting sort of out in the open. I was in like a giant hamster ball. 00:29:35.130 --> 00:29:36.830 So the hamster ball could have a parachute. 00:29:37.110 --> 00:29:41.470 The hamster ball could have a parachute. Yeah. The hamster ball has a parachute, 00:29:41.470 --> 00:29:47.190 and you click a button, and then you gently descend to your destination. 00:29:47.430 --> 00:29:49.030 It's not a bad idea, actually. 00:29:49.730 --> 00:29:53.850 You know, I'm sure we could make it work. There wouldn't be any liability issues. 00:29:53.970 --> 00:29:57.230 Hey, maybe we could talk to Elon now. I think he's got more spare time. 00:29:57.450 --> 00:30:04.190 You know, I believe it was just on last week's show that we said we should not 00:30:04.190 --> 00:30:08.370 dismiss the stupid ideas out of hand. We should go all in. 00:30:08.750 --> 00:30:09.250 Yes. 00:30:09.670 --> 00:30:13.150 So catapult-based hamster ball commute. 00:30:13.610 --> 00:30:14.250 Yes. 00:30:14.530 --> 00:30:21.850 We will be billionaires any day now. Yes. I'm sure everybody will be signing up. 00:30:22.430 --> 00:30:27.650 We'll be mocking all these people that are only centimillionaires, you know, very soon. 00:30:29.070 --> 00:30:31.910 As as i tried to watch another one of 00:30:31.910 --> 00:30:35.470 these shows about billionaires like 00:30:35.470 --> 00:30:38.150 because i i think i mentioned in the slack that i tried to 00:30:38.150 --> 00:30:41.470 watch this succession okay right one 00:30:41.470 --> 00:30:44.610 of our listeners also said he had the same problem after watching 00:30:44.610 --> 00:30:47.470 three or four shows i get so sick of these people i'm 00:30:47.470 --> 00:30:50.170 just like i can't watch this fucking show i fucking want to 00:30:50.170 --> 00:30:52.810 punch these people in the face i can't i fuck them 00:30:52.810 --> 00:30:56.510 all i i can't i i can't do it okay so 00:30:56.510 --> 00:30:59.790 i also they said that they they had published this movie on 00:30:59.790 --> 00:31:04.170 hbo as well called mountain head which is about a set of billionaires and some 00:31:04.170 --> 00:31:10.010 kind of like it's some takes a lot of things that are happening right now changes 00:31:10.010 --> 00:31:14.250 in some way it's fictional okay as to how these billionaires deal with some 00:31:14.250 --> 00:31:18.490 you know chaos that's happening in the world, you know, 00:31:18.870 --> 00:31:24.290 spawned by AI in some way and some of the stuff or whatever and how they're 00:31:24.290 --> 00:31:28.770 talking about how all billionaires now want their own, like, independent, like. 00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:32.200 Fiefdom in the middle of the ocean or country or they 00:31:32.200 --> 00:31:35.380 want to take over a country or something i started watching like 00:31:35.380 --> 00:31:38.560 first 20 30 minutes of this this thing and i i i'm 00:31:38.560 --> 00:31:41.200 like okay fuck this i can't i can't watch i i want to 00:31:41.200 --> 00:31:45.720 punch these guys i can't i can't deal with these assholes i can't do it fuck 00:31:45.720 --> 00:31:51.500 i i so i i so i i quit that one but the one thing that was in the movie was 00:31:51.500 --> 00:31:55.460 that uh there were a couple of guys that were billionaires and they were friends 00:31:55.460 --> 00:31:59.040 with this guy that only was a centimillionaire. 00:31:59.180 --> 00:32:02.680 So he only had, he only had hundreds of millions and how they mocked them for. 00:32:02.980 --> 00:32:03.460 Right. 00:32:04.020 --> 00:32:08.880 He called them soups, like a soup kitchen because, you know, 00:32:08.960 --> 00:32:12.280 he's only got a hundred million dollars. So, you know, he's the soup kitchen guy. 00:32:12.520 --> 00:32:15.720 He has to get food at the soup, you know, the food bank. 00:32:16.080 --> 00:32:22.180 Yeah. He might actually have to think about it a little bit before self-funding an independent nation. 00:32:22.760 --> 00:32:27.300 Yes. Yeah, he has to. That's just so sad. These poor people. 00:32:28.440 --> 00:32:31.680 Okay. We've got on long enough that I will not get my movie, 00:32:31.860 --> 00:32:34.740 even though I'm falling further and further behind on the movie list. 00:32:34.860 --> 00:32:37.880 I will mention what the movie is for next week. 00:32:38.440 --> 00:32:46.320 Which is? It will be Judas and the Black Messiah, which was a 2021 American 00:32:46.320 --> 00:32:48.760 biographical historical drama film. 00:32:49.280 --> 00:32:56.320 I didn't even, I must totally admit that I never even knew that a movie with that title existed. 00:32:56.720 --> 00:33:00.300 Of the cast list, there's only one you would probably recognize. 00:33:01.080 --> 00:33:02.380 Martin Sheehan was in it. 00:33:03.180 --> 00:33:06.100 Okay, so, I mean, it's got somebody with some name recognition. 00:33:06.300 --> 00:33:08.640 I have no idea this movie even existed. 00:33:09.180 --> 00:33:15.900 But, you know, as my pop, listen, as my pop culture surveys that I've done recently 00:33:15.900 --> 00:33:18.400 have shown, I know nothing. 00:33:19.440 --> 00:33:22.420 to be fair this is more. 00:33:22.420 --> 00:33:27.040 A film festival movie than like a mass pop culture movie. 00:33:27.040 --> 00:33:32.960 Still doesn't matter you know whatever I have known nothing of this I mean like 00:33:32.960 --> 00:33:38.580 I grabbed the top 100 songs again recently to try to see who I do on that list 00:33:38.580 --> 00:33:44.180 I think I went 0 for 100 if I do any of those people so you haven't been. 00:33:44.180 --> 00:33:48.380 Following the new Sabrina Carpenter song that came out like yesterday and the. 00:33:48.380 --> 00:33:49.500 Controversy over whether. 00:33:49.500 --> 00:33:52.100 She was doing it to step on some other artist's new album. 00:33:52.100 --> 00:33:54.900 Okay i i i have to say i look at 00:33:54.900 --> 00:34:00.560 i'm not making this up i have no idea who the hell sabrina carpenter is i have 00:34:00.560 --> 00:34:07.080 no idea not i mean i listen if you put you put her in a listen you told me you 00:34:07.080 --> 00:34:12.500 told me listen i'll give you 10 million dollars identify this person right now 00:34:12.500 --> 00:34:14.600 i'll put four people in front of you, 00:34:14.820 --> 00:34:17.700 I mean, I would fail. 00:34:19.900 --> 00:34:23.900 If you gave me a picture array of 20 people, you told me, hey, 00:34:24.080 --> 00:34:26.800 pick for the only way I would win is random chance. 00:34:27.810 --> 00:34:30.070 Okay, I sent you a link. Do you recognize the girl? 00:34:30.350 --> 00:34:31.870 Okay, let me see. 00:34:32.510 --> 00:34:33.670 I'll check. 00:34:33.990 --> 00:34:35.630 Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. No. 00:34:38.290 --> 00:34:44.770 No. Not a clue. No. Not a clue. I have no idea who this person is. 00:34:45.030 --> 00:34:46.290 Okay, cool. 00:34:46.550 --> 00:34:52.810 But look, Bloomberg has this really cool news quiz lately every week. 00:34:53.310 --> 00:34:54.650 And you do well or not? 00:34:54.650 --> 00:34:59.870 See, I, man, the last couple of weeks, I've been at the top 5% of the news quiz. 00:35:00.290 --> 00:35:01.290 Oh, nice. 00:35:01.930 --> 00:35:06.190 So I've been, I've been, I've been really hitting that news quiz really good. 00:35:06.430 --> 00:35:11.390 But I have no idea, not one clue who Sabrina Carpenter is. I mean, I, listen, you can. 00:35:11.830 --> 00:35:14.270 Is this the pointed news quiz? 00:35:14.830 --> 00:35:18.590 Yes. Yes. Yes. I just Googled it. Yeah. 00:35:19.070 --> 00:35:21.550 Yeah. It's a pointed news quiz. Do you have to be a subscriber? 00:35:21.550 --> 00:35:25.030 There is, I don't know. It's a good question. I'm. 00:35:25.030 --> 00:35:31.550 Looking got it you have to wager and. 00:35:31.550 --> 00:35:36.790 Stuff yes you also have to do some wagering it's too complicated you have to do some wagering. 00:35:37.310 --> 00:35:38.610 Here we go. 00:35:38.610 --> 00:35:41.230 We're going to do this I'm. 00:35:41.230 --> 00:35:42.550 Going to play this thing live. 00:35:42.550 --> 00:35:54.050 I haven't played this week hold on let me see I'm going to make my wagers I just left mine on. 00:35:54.050 --> 00:35:55.170 The default all even. 00:35:55.170 --> 00:35:59.670 Okay well you can use it you could by the way there's one thing important to 00:35:59.670 --> 00:36:03.470 use there's the multipliers that are available so if you're very sure about 00:36:03.470 --> 00:36:07.390 an answer make sure to use your multiplier okay all right that helps you this. 00:36:07.390 --> 00:36:09.250 Is too complicated i'm just going to try. 00:36:09.250 --> 00:36:14.830 No no complicated no okay. 00:36:14.830 --> 00:36:17.890 So once you click it does it go away. 00:36:18.710 --> 00:36:19.590 What do you mean it goes away? 00:36:20.150 --> 00:36:22.730 Like, does it go straight to the next question once you quick the answer? 00:36:22.810 --> 00:36:24.810 Because I want to read the question aloud to people. 00:36:24.990 --> 00:36:29.230 Okay, so go ahead and make your wager on the first one. Then I will read it and make it. 00:36:29.230 --> 00:36:31.990 Okay, hold on. Then I got, I got, okay, hold on, hold on. 00:36:32.050 --> 00:36:34.310 How many questions are in this thing? Like 10, 10 questions? 00:36:34.430 --> 00:36:36.810 10, 10, 10 questions. Okay, so let's go to our first question. 00:36:36.950 --> 00:36:38.590 Okay. All right, here we go. 00:36:39.170 --> 00:36:42.690 Okay. President Donald Trump issued a full ban on entry into the U.S. 00:36:42.730 --> 00:36:44.030 for citizens of 12 countries. 00:36:44.630 --> 00:36:48.290 10 of them are in Africa and the Middle East, but which two countries are elsewhere? 00:36:48.710 --> 00:36:52.570 One is recovering from a major earthquake, and the other is, 00:36:52.670 --> 00:36:58.590 according to the United Nations, one of the five places in the world with catastrophic levels of hunger. 00:37:00.030 --> 00:37:05.350 Okay. And the choices are A, Laos and Venezuela, B, Myanmar and Haiti, 00:37:05.570 --> 00:37:10.210 C, Afghanistan and Equatorial Guinea, D, Nicaragua and Ukraine. 00:37:10.510 --> 00:37:14.230 We shall both make our choices. Have you made your choice? 00:37:14.510 --> 00:37:15.110 I did. 00:37:15.410 --> 00:37:16.770 Okay. I'm making my choice. 00:37:17.070 --> 00:37:18.170 Myanmar. Yeah. 00:37:19.390 --> 00:37:22.250 I went for the one with Venezuela in it. 00:37:22.610 --> 00:37:28.670 What? How did you fail that one? Myanmar and A, what the hell? 00:37:29.330 --> 00:37:31.950 You already for the last one? 00:37:33.030 --> 00:37:35.970 My first instinct was the Afghanistan one. 00:37:36.410 --> 00:37:42.270 The earthquake! The Myanmar earthquake, remember when we pulled out the fucking relief workers? 00:37:43.130 --> 00:37:43.550 No. 00:37:44.350 --> 00:37:44.990 Fuck! 00:37:45.830 --> 00:37:48.870 69% of people got it right, so I suck. Okay. 00:37:49.090 --> 00:37:49.450 Yes! 00:37:49.770 --> 00:37:50.190 Next! 00:37:50.250 --> 00:37:51.670 What is the layup? 00:37:52.810 --> 00:37:57.870 Your wager, blah, blah, blah. Okay. Geet Wilders, a far-right lawmaker, 00:37:57.970 --> 00:38:02.970 pulled his freedom party, party woer de vr, out of his nation's... Oh, come on. 00:38:03.930 --> 00:38:05.850 You know the answer to this question. 00:38:06.230 --> 00:38:09.850 Out of his four party... Okay. Have you made yours? 00:38:11.170 --> 00:38:14.650 The choices are Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, or Denmark. Okay. 00:38:15.530 --> 00:38:19.530 Shit, I'm not sure. Okay, I kept thinking this was about the Polish election, and it's not. 00:38:19.750 --> 00:38:24.470 But based on that name, I'm going to make a choice. I think I know which one it is. You ready? 00:38:25.030 --> 00:38:25.350 Ready. 00:38:25.390 --> 00:38:27.790 You made your choice? Okay, all right, made my choice. 00:38:28.850 --> 00:38:29.210 Netherlands. 00:38:29.870 --> 00:38:31.290 Yeah, it's the Netherlands, yes. 00:38:32.530 --> 00:38:33.250 Okay, next. 00:38:33.950 --> 00:38:37.350 Yeah, with a name like Geert Wilders, that is such a Dutch name. 00:38:37.670 --> 00:38:42.790 You know, that was a giveaway, just the Dutch name. I didn't realize that that happened. 00:38:43.370 --> 00:38:48.110 Okay. Huawei's Pura X is a new foldable phone sold only in China. 00:38:48.370 --> 00:38:52.030 The device is an opportunity for the company to showcase its recently launched 00:38:52.030 --> 00:38:55.990 operating system. A competitor on iOS and Android called what? 00:38:56.550 --> 00:39:02.050 The word that appears in the name derives from the Greek meaning joint. 00:39:02.890 --> 00:39:07.350 And I say because I don't know the Greek alphabet well enough to pronounce that. 00:39:08.930 --> 00:39:11.890 And are you ready? I'm ready. 00:39:12.270 --> 00:39:16.650 Okay. Okay. Well, hang on. I haven't chosen yet. I will choose now. Okay. 00:39:17.210 --> 00:39:19.250 I chose hinge, but it's harmony. 00:39:19.650 --> 00:39:22.810 Yeah. I chose unison, but it's harmony. Yeah. 00:39:23.130 --> 00:39:26.410 I figured joint is a hinge, but no. 00:39:26.630 --> 00:39:30.730 I mean, unison, joint. No, well. 00:39:30.850 --> 00:39:31.710 Okay. Next. 00:39:32.170 --> 00:39:32.610 Yeah. 00:39:33.430 --> 00:39:36.170 We got to get this going because we're. Yeah. 00:39:36.210 --> 00:39:39.250 Come on. Come on. Come on. Hey, we're going through it, but we're going through the news. 00:39:39.490 --> 00:39:44.030 There you go. Yale University is finalizing a sale of as much as $2.5 billion 00:39:44.030 --> 00:39:46.550 of its private equity and venture capital assets. 00:39:46.710 --> 00:39:48.730 What is the code name of the project? 00:39:49.030 --> 00:39:53.770 It references a fictional character who is ostentatiously wealthy and loves 00:39:53.770 --> 00:39:56.970 someone named Daisy. This one's an easy one. 00:39:58.010 --> 00:39:59.770 At least for me. You got it, Yvonne? 00:40:00.370 --> 00:40:04.950 Fuck, I'm not totally sure. But I think I know it. I think it's, yeah. Okay. 00:40:05.210 --> 00:40:11.190 Have you chosen? Oh, the choices are Project Gatsby. Project Clampett, 00:40:11.450 --> 00:40:14.170 Project Warbucks, or Project Scrooge. 00:40:14.870 --> 00:40:15.550 I got it wrong. 00:40:16.190 --> 00:40:17.130 It's Gatsby. 00:40:17.830 --> 00:40:20.710 Yeah, I knew that. 00:40:20.950 --> 00:40:28.770 It's from the great Gatsby, which I was supposed to read in high school and didn't. Okay. Next. 00:40:30.270 --> 00:40:34.590 Sotheby's will soon auction off a black Hermes bag with gold hardware. 00:40:34.810 --> 00:40:39.490 It was commissioned in 1984 for which fashion icon? 00:40:39.750 --> 00:40:41.950 A, Jackie Kennedy. B, Princess Diana. 00:40:42.290 --> 00:40:45.790 C, Grace Kelly. D. Jane Birkin. 00:40:46.270 --> 00:40:47.650 I'm going to guess it's Princess. 00:40:48.450 --> 00:40:51.430 You know, you should say it before I say it, but I was going to make the same 00:40:51.430 --> 00:40:54.050 guess, Princess Diana, which was wrong. It was Birkin. 00:40:54.750 --> 00:40:59.630 Fuck. Follow me both. Okay. Well, that's one that I put down to five points 00:40:59.630 --> 00:41:00.770 because I knew I had no idea. 00:41:00.770 --> 00:41:04.930 I did know the Birkin was a kind of bag, and I thought about that. 00:41:04.930 --> 00:41:05.430 No, I know the Birkin's a bag. 00:41:05.530 --> 00:41:08.010 But I didn't know who the fuck they made it for. I have no idea. 00:41:08.210 --> 00:41:09.070 The hell am I supposed to know? 00:41:09.530 --> 00:41:14.590 Okay. The newly elected president of a certain country said his first task would 00:41:14.590 --> 00:41:17.470 be to avoid imposing martial law again. 00:41:17.950 --> 00:41:18.650 Okay, I know which one. 00:41:18.650 --> 00:41:22.330 Which country is it? The Philippines, South Korea, Thailand, or Malaysia? 00:41:22.930 --> 00:41:23.490 Okay. 00:41:23.870 --> 00:41:27.030 Okay, I'm ready. One, two, three. South Korea. 00:41:27.030 --> 00:41:27.450 South Korea. 00:41:27.970 --> 00:41:29.730 Yes. Next. 00:41:30.860 --> 00:41:35.080 Taylor Swift acquired the rights to her first six albums from a private equity firm. 00:41:35.220 --> 00:41:38.420 In her announcement, Swift wrote, This was a business deal to them, 00:41:38.540 --> 00:41:41.820 but I really felt like they saw it for what it was for me. 00:41:42.140 --> 00:41:46.380 My first tattoo might just be a huge blank in the middle of my forehead. 00:41:46.840 --> 00:41:52.980 Which symbol, both the name and the logo of the firm, fills the blank? 00:41:53.960 --> 00:41:55.280 Fuck. I don't know. 00:41:55.660 --> 00:41:56.060 Okay. 00:41:56.560 --> 00:41:57.060 You do? 00:41:57.140 --> 00:41:57.920 Pick one. Pick one. 00:41:58.800 --> 00:41:59.860 Okay, I picked one. 00:41:59.860 --> 00:42:07.580 The choices are Anchor, Cerebus, Shamrock, or Scooter. I am picking Shamrock, and I am right. 00:42:08.020 --> 00:42:08.960 Yes, you're right. 00:42:09.200 --> 00:42:10.120 Did you get it wrong? 00:42:10.600 --> 00:42:15.040 No, I got it wrong. Man, this is the worst I've done in this thing in the last 00:42:15.040 --> 00:42:17.220 three weeks. This is ridiculous. 00:42:17.440 --> 00:42:20.460 Okay, here we go. You know, I started out missing a few I should have gotten. 00:42:20.940 --> 00:42:27.280 Okay, Carol Narrocki, a nationalist backed by Trump, won a presidential election in a European country. 00:42:27.280 --> 00:42:31.860 After the victory, the president-elect said, we will not allow blank to hold 00:42:31.860 --> 00:42:36.240 all the power and have a monopoly of evil power that does not care about public finances. 00:42:36.500 --> 00:42:41.860 The name of which prime minister who wields the majority of the political influence 00:42:41.860 --> 00:42:45.240 in Narwaki's country fills the blank? A. 00:42:45.920 --> 00:42:49.520 Nikusir Dan. B. Alexander Lukashenko. 00:42:50.080 --> 00:42:54.500 C. Donald Tusk. D. Viktor Orban. 00:42:55.000 --> 00:42:58.140 Well, I know it's not C and D. But I'm not sure. 00:42:58.560 --> 00:43:01.560 You know, you shouldn't give me hints before I've chosen. 00:43:02.060 --> 00:43:02.540 Fuck. 00:43:03.740 --> 00:43:04.220 Okay. 00:43:04.420 --> 00:43:05.220 I'm going to make a choice. 00:43:05.400 --> 00:43:11.240 I'm going for A. It was Donald Tusk. It was one of the ones you said it wasn't. 00:43:11.740 --> 00:43:14.200 What? How could it be Donald Tusk? 00:43:15.500 --> 00:43:17.160 Ah. Okay. 00:43:17.990 --> 00:43:21.950 I was going to pick Tusk until you said something. 00:43:22.190 --> 00:43:27.970 Donald Tusk was a fake fucking character from goddamn House of Cards. 00:43:29.030 --> 00:43:36.050 Next. Okay. Sanofi agreed to buy a U.S. biopharma group for at least $9.1 billion. 00:43:36.410 --> 00:43:45.010 What type of drawing made with ferric ferocyanide appears in the name of the company? 00:43:45.430 --> 00:43:51.270 Jesus Christ. Obviously, I've paid no attention to the news this week with Elon 00:43:51.270 --> 00:43:56.630 and Donald going at it, okay? I have no idea what the fuck this is. 00:43:57.110 --> 00:43:59.910 I'm going to take a guess at one of these, but I have no idea. 00:44:00.090 --> 00:44:04.850 I'm going now, and I am picking—oh, the choices were tattoo, 00:44:05.170 --> 00:44:07.410 stipple, lithograph, and blueprint, by the way. 00:44:07.450 --> 00:44:09.090 All right, I'm going to pick a choice. 00:44:09.190 --> 00:44:09.390 Okay. 00:44:09.630 --> 00:44:11.330 No, and I got that one wrong, too. 00:44:11.730 --> 00:44:16.430 I picked lithograph because I thought— My God. I thought blueprint was too obvious 00:44:16.430 --> 00:44:18.190 and also ferric would be reddish. 00:44:18.190 --> 00:44:18.870 So did I! 00:44:19.050 --> 00:44:21.890 Not blue. We're not doing well. 00:44:22.010 --> 00:44:24.250 We are not doing well. We're not. We're doing terrible. 00:44:24.930 --> 00:44:30.110 After 16 years, comedian Mark Maron's pioneering podcast that helped define 00:44:30.110 --> 00:44:31.590 the medium is coming to an end. 00:44:31.790 --> 00:44:36.110 Which abbreviation is used in the title of the show? WTF? 00:44:36.910 --> 00:44:39.330 TTYL? OMG? Or TLDR? 00:44:39.710 --> 00:44:41.390 I have no idea either. 00:44:41.650 --> 00:44:45.150 This one's an easy one. It's WTF. done. Okay. 00:44:46.730 --> 00:44:50.470 Oh, I shouldn't have said that before you had indicated you had chosen. 00:44:51.030 --> 00:44:55.010 That's the one I was going to choose, but you know. Okay. So we did poorly. 00:44:55.250 --> 00:44:55.910 See results. 00:44:56.170 --> 00:44:59.390 Actually, you know what? Many people did poorly this week. 00:44:59.570 --> 00:45:01.530 My final score was zero. 00:45:02.510 --> 00:45:07.410 Okay. My final score was 32.5. 00:45:07.750 --> 00:45:13.570 I scored better than 38% of the other players so i did not i was not this this 00:45:13.570 --> 00:45:18.750 was not a colossal total failure but this is about the worst i've done in this 00:45:18.750 --> 00:45:21.950 quiz in the in the last few weeks okay. 00:45:21.950 --> 00:45:25.250 Well we have wasted a good deal of time on that i could have. 00:45:25.250 --> 00:45:27.950 Done my movie a lot of the news a. 00:45:27.950 --> 00:45:31.370 Lot of the news that we probably would not have talked about. 00:45:31.370 --> 00:45:34.830 Otherwise we would not have talked these are things that we would not have talked 00:45:34.830 --> 00:45:36.810 about and so we just covered it so there you go. 00:45:36.810 --> 00:45:42.730 Yes there you go okay let's take Take a break and then I guess we'll probably 00:45:42.730 --> 00:45:45.130 just start off on Musk versus Trump. Everyone's eager. 00:45:45.350 --> 00:45:45.550 Yes. 00:45:46.090 --> 00:45:50.890 Everyone's eager. Okay, here we go. Here's a break. Breaky, breaky, breaky. 00:45:54.250 --> 00:46:04.070 Do, do, do. This podcast is sponsored by AlexMzilla.com. 00:46:46.300 --> 00:46:56.740 Youtube channel is a l e x m x e l a dot com Yes. 00:46:57.320 --> 00:46:58.720 Do, do, do. 00:46:59.560 --> 00:47:02.540 Do, do, do. Okay. 00:47:02.840 --> 00:47:03.520 Do, do, do, do, do. 00:47:04.580 --> 00:47:07.780 Very exciting. I will note that for, 00:47:08.380 --> 00:47:14.980 we have had a viewer on our live stream for the most of the show so far, 00:47:15.160 --> 00:47:20.080 but it was my son Alex on one of, 00:47:20.280 --> 00:47:23.980 logged in as me on like my iPad or something. 00:47:24.540 --> 00:47:28.320 And so he's been commenting things like, oh, no, that's unfortunate. 00:47:28.740 --> 00:47:33.460 And a frowny face on things we were saying earlier in the show. 00:47:33.820 --> 00:47:35.860 There you go. Perfect. 00:47:36.260 --> 00:47:39.320 And it shows up as comments from me because he was logged in as me. 00:47:39.520 --> 00:47:43.800 But you're upset at yourself. 00:47:44.140 --> 00:47:50.280 I am. I am. Anyway, there was one brief moment with two people watching, 00:47:50.540 --> 00:47:52.320 but that didn't last very long. 00:47:52.760 --> 00:47:59.640 Anyway. Anyway. Anyway, so Elon and Donald having a good old time this week. 00:48:00.340 --> 00:48:04.780 They, they, they are just, they're, they're, they're getting along really well. 00:48:05.220 --> 00:48:12.980 I think that they are. It's, it's just amazing how you see titans of industry 00:48:12.980 --> 00:48:18.620 in our nation, our world getting along well. 00:48:19.440 --> 00:48:26.320 in such a great way, publicly, with the leaders, the president of our nation, 00:48:26.580 --> 00:48:29.160 solving through the nation's problems, Sam. 00:48:29.420 --> 00:48:32.380 It's just, it's wonderful to see. It's amazing. 00:48:32.680 --> 00:48:39.180 And also the respect that our president showed to the visiting chancellor of Germany. 00:48:39.300 --> 00:48:46.360 It's just so, so great as he was asking him whether he was disappointed that, 00:48:46.360 --> 00:48:48.180 you know, that the Nazis were defeated. 00:48:48.420 --> 00:48:53.100 Right. Yes. He couldn't possibly understand why that wouldn't be a sad thing 00:48:53.100 --> 00:48:54.780 for the German chancellor. 00:48:55.660 --> 00:48:57.700 Oh, Jesus Christ. 00:48:58.760 --> 00:48:59.160 Okay. 00:48:59.420 --> 00:49:05.180 So this whole thing started, as far as I can tell, between—well, 00:49:05.380 --> 00:49:12.140 if you go through the background story, there was obviously a lot of tension. 00:49:12.140 --> 00:49:19.240 Yeah, as we talked about last week, you know, the fact that Elon was leaving 00:49:19.240 --> 00:49:24.000 was not exactly unwelcome for the rest of the Trump team. 00:49:24.300 --> 00:49:31.140 Right. It is very clear that they were very, very, very ready for him to be gone. 00:49:31.140 --> 00:49:38.620 great for him to be gone you know there is this guy who has come to the fore 00:49:38.620 --> 00:49:45.900 as apparently one of the key guys that was driving this and one of the, 00:49:46.810 --> 00:49:54.390 biggest things that he pushed against was the nomination of the NASA administrator, okay? 00:49:54.630 --> 00:50:00.030 All of a sudden, right after the farewell meeting at the White House, 00:50:00.450 --> 00:50:06.290 the guy who was Elon's guy to head NASA was withdrawn. 00:50:06.890 --> 00:50:11.350 Jared Isigman was the guy that was nominated there. 00:50:11.530 --> 00:50:17.730 And this guy that I guess I not really paid attention to before, 00:50:18.270 --> 00:50:21.870 this advisor named the last name Gore, G-O-R. 00:50:23.210 --> 00:50:24.290 Oh, not Al Gore. 00:50:24.590 --> 00:50:31.670 Not G-O-R, not G-O-R-E, okay? He apparently, Sergio Gore, okay? 00:50:32.050 --> 00:50:32.670 Okay, yep. 00:50:33.070 --> 00:50:37.450 Sergio apparently had a very close relationship with Trump, 00:50:37.450 --> 00:50:44.310 and it seemed to have been rooted from right after January 6th where he apparently 00:50:44.310 --> 00:50:53.530 was a guy that helped them publish books and many books from allies of Trump after that. 00:50:54.330 --> 00:51:02.950 So he seemed to have been a key supporter of Trump right at the moment when 00:51:02.950 --> 00:51:06.290 a lot of people seemed to have walked away from him. 00:51:06.730 --> 00:51:11.810 It says here that he co-founded Winning Team Publishing with Donald Trump Jr., 00:51:11.810 --> 00:51:16.610 The imprint publishes books by Trump and his allies and put much-needed cash 00:51:16.610 --> 00:51:21.350 in Trump's pocket during his isolation after the January 6th riot at the Capitol. 00:51:21.670 --> 00:51:25.490 So this guy was very close in with him. 00:51:25.570 --> 00:51:32.310 He was a frequent guest at Mar-a-Lago. He was a tough fundraiser in the pack. 00:51:32.510 --> 00:51:39.570 And this guy despised Elon. And he was very hell-bent against Isaacman, 00:51:39.710 --> 00:51:46.230 in large part because there were records to show that this guy was a big Democratic donor. 00:51:46.990 --> 00:51:49.730 Jared isaac man okay yeah he had been a 00:51:49.730 --> 00:51:53.350 very big democratic donor okay by the way which 00:51:53.350 --> 00:51:56.330 by the way donald trump also was but okay let's not get 00:51:56.330 --> 00:51:59.890 into those details but you know there's something that's happened with a lot 00:51:59.890 --> 00:52:05.230 of these people with money but so he was as a big democratic donor and he was 00:52:05.230 --> 00:52:10.070 like coming up to trump saying hey just get this guy out but but wait wait because 00:52:10.070 --> 00:52:15.490 this is by the way they're saying that this is the biggest root of how this tension started okay, 00:52:16.030 --> 00:52:20.490 Gore was the one that was going to Trump and basically just saying, 00:52:20.710 --> 00:52:23.550 you need to get rid of Isaac. You need to get rid of Isaac. 00:52:23.610 --> 00:52:26.490 And he kept showing him how he had donated to the Democrats. 00:52:26.550 --> 00:52:28.670 And he kept showing him that and that and that. 00:52:28.810 --> 00:52:34.350 And by the way, so this got to and and in the meeting that happened at the White House, 00:52:34.670 --> 00:52:40.790 where we heard that Marco Rubio had gone toe to toe with with Musk, 00:52:41.050 --> 00:52:46.130 it went unreported that this guy also did. big time, okay? 00:52:46.550 --> 00:52:48.810 And so that went unreported. So 00:52:48.810 --> 00:52:57.250 the role that this guy had in terms of fomenting this Musk Trump schism. 00:52:58.170 --> 00:53:01.730 Was far more significant than was previously known, okay? 00:53:02.130 --> 00:53:09.090 And so, look, to Elon Musk, what the fuck could be more important than having 00:53:09.090 --> 00:53:12.850 the NASA administrator be a key ally of his? 00:53:13.170 --> 00:53:21.070 Given the, if you look at his holdings right now, number one holding that he has is SpaceX, 00:53:21.990 --> 00:53:25.310 okay that his his the 00:53:25.310 --> 00:53:28.650 value his net worth depends a 00:53:28.650 --> 00:53:31.750 lot more on spacex than it does on tesla stock 00:53:31.750 --> 00:53:35.270 okay according to reports that i've seen so 00:53:35.270 --> 00:53:38.190 all of a sudden this guy yanking that 00:53:38.190 --> 00:53:46.890 guy out was what was a brutal blow and then you know a lot of other people that 00:53:46.890 --> 00:53:53.330 you know musk is out The knives have come out like left and right and precipitated 00:53:53.330 --> 00:53:55.470 that, you know, with this big, beautiful bill, 00:53:56.290 --> 00:54:00.190 Doge not bringing in the savings that were expected. 00:54:00.230 --> 00:54:04.870 But not just that, the fact that they the big, beautiful bill, 00:54:05.210 --> 00:54:10.590 you know, it goes totally the opposite way of where they had come in three months 00:54:10.590 --> 00:54:13.550 ago and will add to the deficit like crazy. 00:54:13.950 --> 00:54:18.210 And so, you know, Elon just started railing into this. 00:54:18.570 --> 00:54:22.630 Although Republicans, by the way, are still denying that and saying the CBO 00:54:22.630 --> 00:54:24.230 is full of it. It's not accurate. 00:54:24.390 --> 00:54:26.930 Ignore them. There will be so much growth. 00:54:27.490 --> 00:54:30.290 Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever. Yeah, whatever. Right. 00:54:30.490 --> 00:54:34.510 That was the same bullshit that they said back when they passed the last tax 00:54:34.510 --> 00:54:37.090 cut in 2018 and the deficit went through the roof. 00:54:37.090 --> 00:54:39.930 right because the cbo is 00:54:39.930 --> 00:54:47.450 full of shit but but so so you know and and the startup it escalated quite quickly 00:54:47.450 --> 00:54:50.110 i understand that by the way trump 00:54:50.110 --> 00:54:57.170 fired all the doge people uh he cleared them all out as of yesterday i. 00:54:57.170 --> 00:54:58.410 Hadn't heard that is that new today. 00:54:58.410 --> 00:55:07.530 No that was yesterday yesterday trump ordered everybody at doge fired everybody all of them okay. 00:55:07.530 --> 00:55:08.590 I hadn't seen that yet. 00:55:08.590 --> 00:55:14.430 Yeah i mean i i shared that on the slack let me find it but there was but there 00:55:14.430 --> 00:55:17.810 was a story specifically that that, 00:55:18.830 --> 00:55:24.310 literally everybody that they told everybody at doge to clear out get the fuck out what. 00:55:24.310 --> 00:55:29.330 I saw is that they had cleared out their desks in anticipation of that, 00:55:29.590 --> 00:55:32.510 but that it hadn't actually happened yet. 00:55:33.110 --> 00:55:37.570 No, no. But what I got is that there was an order that they got there and saw 00:55:37.570 --> 00:55:39.630 that their desks had been cleared out. 00:55:40.650 --> 00:55:43.410 So I guess we've got conflicting reports on that. 00:55:43.670 --> 00:55:44.570 Find the link. 00:55:44.710 --> 00:55:51.230 I gotta find... Ah, fuck. Jesus Christ, so much shit. Da-da. Da-da-da-da. 00:55:52.310 --> 00:55:53.430 Da-da-da. 00:55:55.410 --> 00:55:56.130 I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 00:55:57.620 --> 00:56:02.460 Fair, no. Art Fizer, no. No. No. 00:56:03.400 --> 00:56:09.120 No. Let's see. Okay. Well, I can't find it right now. 00:56:09.920 --> 00:56:16.440 Okay. I cannot find it right now, but I had one report that I got that basically 00:56:16.440 --> 00:56:21.340 they had told everybody to clear out. Okay? Okay. 00:56:21.940 --> 00:56:23.660 And look, it would not be surprising. 00:56:23.800 --> 00:56:29.880 All the staffers. Right. That was a retaliation that was said to have happened yesterday. 00:56:30.420 --> 00:56:36.220 I will say conflicting reports, like you said, because I have also heard that. 00:56:36.360 --> 00:56:39.520 Oh, here it is. Here it is. It's a Midas touch. Reported it. 00:56:40.500 --> 00:56:44.140 Doge staffers also had their desks cleaned out and packed last night in case 00:56:44.140 --> 00:56:45.260 they were all fired by Trump. 00:56:45.400 --> 00:56:48.220 Oh, in case they were all fired by Trump. Okay. So I misread that. 00:56:48.280 --> 00:56:48.880 You read that correctly. 00:56:49.120 --> 00:56:54.680 I just got the Doge HQ. I'm the last man here. The place cleared out as a precaution. Okay. 00:56:54.780 --> 00:57:00.920 Right. Because I have also read that many of these are still in place and actually 00:57:00.920 --> 00:57:03.640 still taking action as of yesterday. 00:57:04.640 --> 00:57:11.700 And even with Elon gone, the team he put in place is still going forward, 00:57:11.700 --> 00:57:12.860 but under somebody else. 00:57:13.620 --> 00:57:17.880 Yeah, but that's all bullshit. All the agencies are now rebelling to this. As a matter of fact. 00:57:17.880 --> 00:57:19.700 There's a story that— Yes, they can now push back more effectively. 00:57:20.060 --> 00:57:24.860 But it's not just push back. They're actively undoing a whole bunch of the things 00:57:24.860 --> 00:57:26.200 that were done. There was a story. 00:57:26.280 --> 00:57:29.960 They were rehiring people because they fired too many people, et cetera. 00:57:30.060 --> 00:57:35.760 They were rehiring people at agencies across the board where they had been fired 00:57:35.760 --> 00:57:38.880 that they just realized that we just can't continue without them. 00:57:39.000 --> 00:57:41.120 And they were actively hiring them all back. 00:57:41.740 --> 00:57:46.020 Aside from there was a bill that's advancing in Congress, like right now with 00:57:46.020 --> 00:57:53.520 bipartisan support also, to restore all the cuts that were made to. The weather service. 00:57:54.460 --> 00:57:55.080 Right. Okay. 00:57:55.660 --> 00:58:01.080 And that one's also advancing as well, because basically people realize that 00:58:01.080 --> 00:58:07.260 we are right now, Doge has made us, created significant blind spots in our monitoring 00:58:07.260 --> 00:58:08.620 of major weather events. 00:58:09.000 --> 00:58:17.000 Right. And I suspect, like, all it'll take is like one major event to do the 00:58:17.000 --> 00:58:21.160 same kind of stuff for FEMA, because they've also gutted FEMA. Yeah. 00:58:21.160 --> 00:58:24.580 Yeah, I mean, FEMA is in the same, in the same. 00:58:24.620 --> 00:58:29.780 Although so far, like we've got things like Donald Trump denying emergency relief 00:58:29.780 --> 00:58:33.000 to various places that have had issues, you know. 00:58:33.260 --> 00:58:36.540 And these are places that are that are with Republicans. 00:58:37.060 --> 00:58:37.900 Yeah, red state. 00:58:38.000 --> 00:58:42.700 I mean, you have Republican government. You've had Republican governors asking for for help from FEMA. 00:58:42.940 --> 00:58:46.000 And they basically tell, fuck you, like right now. 00:58:46.440 --> 00:58:53.080 So so that's that's been going on. But listen, the way that the bottom line... 00:58:53.510 --> 00:58:59.490 You know, Elon yesterday went, basically said that Trump's a pedo. 00:58:59.730 --> 00:59:04.090 He said that he's all over the Epstein files, and that's why they're not being released. Okay? 00:59:04.790 --> 00:59:08.270 He also said he's starting a third party. He also said— Yes. 00:59:08.310 --> 00:59:09.010 He did say that as well. 00:59:10.470 --> 00:59:16.890 He threatened to decommission Dragon as well, which he apparently backed off of. Okay. What else? 00:59:17.030 --> 00:59:22.630 Because Donald was threatening to remove all the federal contracts from SpaceX as well. 00:59:22.630 --> 00:59:28.050 Oh, yeah, right. Donald threatened to cancel all federal contracts with Elon Musk. 00:59:28.430 --> 00:59:32.070 What the fuck else? I mean, there was like so many things that they threw at each other. 00:59:32.170 --> 00:59:36.230 Here are a few things to keep in mind for both of these people. 00:59:37.090 --> 00:59:46.550 First of all, neither one of these people has any affinity or care about the truth. 00:59:47.030 --> 00:59:51.510 It's just not part of their... So, like, if they say something, 00:59:51.790 --> 00:59:54.770 it is not because the thing is true. 00:59:54.770 --> 01:00:00.270 It is because they think saying it will have the effect that they want or will 01:00:00.270 --> 01:00:02.530 lead things in the direction that they want. 01:00:02.830 --> 01:00:09.330 So, you know, start with Elon and tying Trump to the Epstein files. 01:00:09.510 --> 01:00:13.910 So, first of all, Trump has been tied to the Epstein files for years. 01:00:14.190 --> 01:00:17.550 This has been published in things that have already been released. Okay. 01:00:17.850 --> 01:00:18.470 True. But. 01:00:20.330 --> 01:00:23.890 Let me just say this. You know, they're, you know, 01:00:25.000 --> 01:00:29.640 And there's video of him and Epstein together. There's video of him talking 01:00:29.640 --> 01:00:32.400 about Epstein's predilection for young girls. 01:00:32.620 --> 01:00:35.680 All of this exists. All of this has been out there for years. 01:00:35.680 --> 01:00:40.820 It's known that he'd made trips to a stupid island or whatever. All of this is out there. 01:00:41.620 --> 01:00:47.020 The rumor mongering is, of course, there's something more substantial that directly 01:00:47.020 --> 01:00:49.900 ties Donald Trump to nefarious activities. 01:00:50.160 --> 01:00:53.440 So let's be clear. Wait, wait, wait. Okay, so let me finish this point. 01:00:53.440 --> 01:00:57.260 Well, no, but I want to be clear about what that is, about the extra stuff. 01:00:57.480 --> 01:01:01.320 The extra stuff that's been talked about and that there was controversy yesterday 01:01:01.320 --> 01:01:05.980 because Kash Patel went on Rogan and said one thing, and Pam Bondi said something different. 01:01:06.280 --> 01:01:10.940 It's about videos, specifically about videos with underage girls and who the 01:01:10.940 --> 01:01:11.800 hell's appearing on them. 01:01:12.120 --> 01:01:16.240 Kash Patel went and said, oh, no, there's no such videos that are bad. 01:01:16.540 --> 01:01:20.440 Pam Bondi said, well, we can't release these videos because they show all these 01:01:20.440 --> 01:01:23.100 underage girls, and we don't want to victimize them again. 01:01:23.920 --> 01:01:27.140 Yes so the point i was making about 01:01:27.140 --> 01:01:30.240 musk is that the fact 01:01:30.240 --> 01:01:33.300 that he tweeted that does not indicate that 01:01:33.300 --> 01:01:37.700 he actually knows anything one way or the other true maybe he does maybe he 01:01:37.700 --> 01:01:42.240 doesn't it just indicates that he thinks saying that would have an effect like 01:01:42.240 --> 01:01:47.040 okay now the truth of what may or may not exist is an entirely separate question 01:01:47.040 --> 01:01:50.240 i'm just saying that to to elon musk that's irrelevant. 01:01:50.540 --> 01:01:53.280 What's relevant is that saying that would have an impact. 01:01:53.420 --> 01:01:57.740 But here is the thing, right? Three months ago, in February, 01:01:57.980 --> 01:02:03.060 right, Pam Bondi invited all these people that she supposedly gave the Epstein 01:02:03.060 --> 01:02:05.920 files to. And what did she hand them? 01:02:06.630 --> 01:02:09.910 You remember? Okay, I remember. Empty binders. 01:02:10.390 --> 01:02:11.830 Oh, yes, I do remember that. 01:02:11.830 --> 01:02:17.030 And they marched out of the White House with these binders that had nothing in them. Nothing. 01:02:18.050 --> 01:02:24.190 Then you get this report that the New York office, I think of the, 01:02:24.310 --> 01:02:28.910 I can't remember which agency, I can't remember it was the attorney general, 01:02:29.290 --> 01:02:34.150 basically had an entire crew of people scouring through these files. Okay? 01:02:34.510 --> 01:02:38.050 Scouring and scouring and scouring to supposedly to to 01:02:38.050 --> 01:02:43.170 redact to do whatever in order to publish the files and nothing still has been 01:02:43.170 --> 01:02:49.550 released okay now now remember they promised promised we are going to release 01:02:49.550 --> 01:02:56.650 these and then all of a sudden three months later we've got dick nothing and. 01:02:56.650 --> 01:03:02.250 I will also remind people of the lawsuit that was about to go forward right 01:03:02.250 --> 01:03:09.190 before the 2016 election with the person who claims that Donald Trump and Epstein 01:03:09.190 --> 01:03:10.910 did something with her when she was 13. 01:03:11.210 --> 01:03:11.430 Right. 01:03:11.770 --> 01:03:12.910 And that was squashed. 01:03:13.290 --> 01:03:15.930 That's probably another cat, one of these catch and kill things. 01:03:16.270 --> 01:03:20.970 Yeah. And that was withdrawn like weeks before the election. 01:03:21.250 --> 01:03:21.610 The election. 01:03:22.690 --> 01:03:29.510 And under sort of, the person in question backed off, didn't want to do it anymore, blah, blah, blah. 01:03:30.730 --> 01:03:34.650 And she could have been scared. She could have been bribed. 01:03:34.650 --> 01:03:37.910 there's all kinds of reasons or or maybe 01:03:37.910 --> 01:03:40.890 she realized that she was lying 01:03:40.890 --> 01:03:43.770 and there was nothing to it and she better get off we don't know 01:03:43.770 --> 01:03:46.770 but but yeah like look this all this 01:03:46.770 --> 01:03:51.210 kind of stuff has been out there for years the musk's point in doing this was 01:03:51.210 --> 01:03:58.450 just just to sort of turn the screwdriver for donald trump and and and ratchet 01:03:58.450 --> 01:04:06.430 up this now i saw i have not confirmed myself but I saw somebody post something this morning that says, 01:04:07.540 --> 01:04:09.460 Musk has now removed that post. 01:04:10.160 --> 01:04:12.160 Well, I'm not on X, so I don't know. 01:04:12.440 --> 01:04:13.920 Yeah, I'm not on X either. 01:04:14.340 --> 01:04:18.320 Oh, yeah, remove that post. Like, yeah, nobody saw it, Sam. That solves the 01:04:18.320 --> 01:04:20.460 problem. Nobody saw that. 01:04:20.740 --> 01:04:26.600 Well, the question on all of this is, are they going to de-escalate and make friends again? 01:04:26.780 --> 01:04:32.320 Well, listen, I saw Donald Trump, like, on Air Force One, I guess he was coming 01:04:32.320 --> 01:04:34.380 back fucking Mar-a-Lago again, 01:04:35.280 --> 01:04:44.500 basically saying something like he refused to engage reporters' questions about the... 01:04:45.100 --> 01:04:49.260 Tiff kept saying, oh, I wish him well. Oh, I wish him well. 01:04:49.960 --> 01:04:53.900 Right. Whereas 24 hours previously, he had been going... 01:04:53.900 --> 01:04:56.540 I'm fucking canceling all of you. Go fuck yourself. Fuck you. 01:04:56.720 --> 01:04:57.660 And all of a sudden, I wish him well. 01:04:57.660 --> 01:05:03.040 And he'd been going through the rounds calling every cable news anchor he could 01:05:03.040 --> 01:05:08.940 think of to trash musk some of them yeah so he's pushing. 01:05:08.940 --> 01:05:14.320 Him well 24 hours later what the fuck is going what what the fuck happened behind the scenes sam. 01:05:14.320 --> 01:05:18.740 So that is bizarre well there are a couple things that i think first of all 01:05:18.740 --> 01:05:30.080 i think musk was hoping that a significant portion of sort of the MAGA base would take his side. 01:05:30.980 --> 01:05:34.180 And it looks like that portion is relatively small. 01:05:34.380 --> 01:05:38.980 Like, all of the congressional Republicans are like, yeah, we hope this goes 01:05:38.980 --> 01:05:43.220 away, but if Bush comes to shove, we're on Trump. We're on Team Trump. 01:05:44.160 --> 01:05:49.240 There was a poll that came out that showed, like, Musk's support was relatively 01:05:49.240 --> 01:05:50.900 small amongst Republicans. 01:05:51.320 --> 01:05:56.000 It was, I mean, it was, like, Republicans, the poll, But, but, 01:05:56.180 --> 01:06:01.140 but, but, but this poll seemed to have not been like yesterday or this week. Okay. 01:06:01.800 --> 01:06:03.280 I understood it was a. 01:06:03.280 --> 01:06:08.940 Let me double check. Let me see. Let me double check because I'm looking at, 01:06:09.040 --> 01:06:10.160 I'm looking it up right now. 01:06:10.320 --> 01:06:13.000 The number that came up was 6%. Okay. 01:06:13.480 --> 01:06:18.740 According to this versus 71 for Trump and 12, which basically neither. 01:06:19.440 --> 01:06:23.180 Yesterday at 10, 12 a.m. Let me double check to make sure that this poll was a, 01:06:23.980 --> 01:06:27.900 cat turns lined up with the president apparently prompting must to unfollow 01:06:27.900 --> 01:06:31.640 him but he's not alone full release by you govern the wake of conflagration 01:06:31.640 --> 01:06:39.540 so yes it was actually time um yes so they they it showed that must get six percent and also. 01:06:39.540 --> 01:06:44.360 I think when push comes to shove on the threats they were making against each 01:06:44.360 --> 01:06:49.520 other yeah to use trump's own terminology trump has the cards points. 01:06:50.240 --> 01:06:56.180 You know, Trump has more leverage against Musk than the other way around. 01:06:56.400 --> 01:07:00.500 Oh, totally. Because Trump has the force of the federal government. 01:07:01.340 --> 01:07:06.060 But this is the problem that Musk created for himself, okay? 01:07:06.380 --> 01:07:10.900 Well, yeah, but look, I will point out, I will point out just for the record, 01:07:11.180 --> 01:07:18.080 that many of the things Trump and Trump's team are threatening are questionably 01:07:18.080 --> 01:07:22.480 legal and would undoubtedly end up for years in court. 01:07:22.640 --> 01:07:28.460 But we know this administration doesn't care about that, so it wouldn't matter. 01:07:28.580 --> 01:07:34.060 So we've got the threat of the unilateral cancellation of all the SpaceX contracts. 01:07:34.400 --> 01:07:39.540 Okay, well, these are contracts. They have been signed. There are provisions 01:07:39.540 --> 01:07:42.720 in them for how and where you cancel. 01:07:42.900 --> 01:07:48.020 There's also federal government regulations on how things have to follow processes 01:07:48.020 --> 01:07:51.440 and can't just be arbitrary decisions by the president. 01:07:51.740 --> 01:07:56.120 Now, as I said, Donald Trump clearly doesn't care about any of that. 01:07:56.320 --> 01:07:59.700 He could try to cancel it anyway. And of course, it'll end up in court. 01:08:00.380 --> 01:08:04.820 But the point is, he could cause extreme disruption right now. 01:08:04.980 --> 01:08:08.780 We've also got a number of Trump's advisors saying, hey, 01:08:08.980 --> 01:08:15.480 you should investigate Elon Musk's initial visa into the United States and whether 01:08:15.480 --> 01:08:22.920 there were irregularities into him overstaying the visa or lying on the visa 01:08:22.920 --> 01:08:24.200 or anything else like that. 01:08:24.260 --> 01:08:26.160 Can we revoke bus citizenship? 01:08:26.600 --> 01:08:31.280 Yeah, because while he is a naturalized citizenship, now if it turned out that 01:08:31.280 --> 01:08:36.300 that was predicated on fraud, you can revoke his citizenship and deport him. 01:08:36.960 --> 01:08:44.860 You know, there are also Trump advisers suggesting that skip canceling the contracts, just nationalize. 01:08:45.160 --> 01:08:48.740 Nationalize SpaceX. Well, fuck, we've said that a year before. 01:08:49.480 --> 01:08:52.120 I ain't agreeing with any of these assholes. 01:08:53.820 --> 01:08:57.420 But again, questionable legality. 01:08:58.080 --> 01:09:03.100 Although for the nationalizing SpaceX, there is apparently, and people were 01:09:03.100 --> 01:09:05.480 talking about this earlier in the 01:09:05.480 --> 01:09:12.120 Ukraine war. There are laws where the president can basically take U.S. 01:09:12.880 --> 01:09:18.160 manufacturing capability that is significant to national security and take over 01:09:18.160 --> 01:09:20.620 in one way or another, or at least mandate what it does. 01:09:20.620 --> 01:09:26.660 A news story in the Washington Post, okay, summarizing some of the stuff that's been going on. 01:09:27.220 --> 01:09:30.640 Summarizing some, because I mentioned a lot of things that Musk said about Trump. 01:09:31.260 --> 01:09:35.540 Trump said, rattled in the wake of Elon Musk's public attacks, 01:09:35.740 --> 01:09:38.860 this is inside the battles that shattered Trump and Musk's alliance, 01:09:39.060 --> 01:09:40.480 okay, is a news story there. 01:09:40.740 --> 01:09:43.320 And a parent called for his impeachment, because by the way, 01:09:43.400 --> 01:09:46.800 Musk called for Trump's impeachment as well, for God's sakes, 01:09:47.000 --> 01:09:49.920 okay? Trump worked the phones, the briefing, close confidence, 01:09:50.080 --> 01:09:51.280 and casual acquaintances alike. 01:09:51.660 --> 01:09:55.380 His former ally was a big-time drug addict, he called him. 01:09:55.660 --> 01:09:55.840 Yes, yeah. 01:09:55.840 --> 01:09:58.460 Trump said at one point, as he tried to make sense of must behavior, 01:09:58.620 --> 01:10:01.840 according to a person with knowledge to call, who liked other interviews for 01:10:01.840 --> 01:10:03.800 his story on the condition of anonymity. 01:10:03.900 --> 01:10:09.000 But he called him, man, he called him a fucking big-time drug addict. And by the way. 01:10:09.360 --> 01:10:13.060 Trump has— And we talked about the New York Times article from last week, last week. Yeah. 01:10:13.060 --> 01:10:19.300 Yeah, but Trump has a big issue with addiction, okay? Yes, because of his brother. 01:10:19.920 --> 01:10:26.840 His brother died, you know, with a huge alcohol addiction. It's the reason why Trump doesn't drink. 01:10:27.560 --> 01:10:34.800 So this for him isn't some, you know, it's something that is a... 01:10:34.800 --> 01:10:36.120 Is actually personal to him. 01:10:36.540 --> 01:10:38.620 Yes, totally, okay? 01:10:38.860 --> 01:10:42.520 Well, almost everything is personal to Donald Trump. That's how he lives his 01:10:42.520 --> 01:10:49.700 life. But this specifically, he cares about this issue because of the personal 01:10:49.700 --> 01:10:50.840 experience in his family. 01:10:51.560 --> 01:11:05.280 Yes. So, I mean, yes, Trump definitely has far a lot more ammunition that he could hurt Musk with. 01:11:05.560 --> 01:11:12.100 And the reality is that even if he can't cancel immediately a SpaceX contract. 01:11:12.100 --> 01:11:19.060 Musk can make some noise on X. Musk could make some mischief with SpaceX, but if he does... 01:11:20.270 --> 01:11:23.070 the feds have all kinds of ways to retaliate and deal with that. 01:11:23.070 --> 01:11:28.550 Um let me give you one example right now look let me tell you something you've 01:11:28.550 --> 01:11:31.210 had all these starship launches that have been, 01:11:32.110 --> 01:11:37.070 chaotic okay that all of a sudden with what he did going into the administration 01:11:37.070 --> 01:11:40.210 he had basically despite the investigations. 01:11:40.210 --> 01:11:42.010 Of those and killed any. 01:11:42.010 --> 01:11:44.670 Yes like there was movement to. 01:11:44.670 --> 01:11:48.390 Further regulate and those died. But they can come back. 01:11:48.630 --> 01:11:54.330 Guess. Take a wild guess. You think that now after he called for his impeachment 01:11:54.330 --> 01:11:58.630 or whatever, do you think that these people are going to back off on him? 01:11:58.770 --> 01:12:01.370 I'll tell you something. I'm going to say this right now. 01:12:01.790 --> 01:12:05.930 I bet you there isn't another Starship launch anytime soon. 01:12:07.390 --> 01:12:11.430 They're going to stop him from launches now. They're going to say, fuck you, no. 01:12:11.890 --> 01:12:15.710 You've blown up five of these. we need to do a thorough investigation. 01:12:16.590 --> 01:12:21.390 I could easily see that I mean honestly that's the prudent thing to do anyway 01:12:21.390 --> 01:12:22.970 that would have been the prudent. 01:12:22.970 --> 01:12:24.730 Thing to do but the point is that they. 01:12:24.730 --> 01:12:30.210 Had if he was still in the good graces of the administration they would have 01:12:30.210 --> 01:12:31.250 just gone full speed ahead, 01:12:32.670 --> 01:12:40.630 or let SpaceX do whatever they wanted to yeah look and this is why I think you're 01:12:40.630 --> 01:12:47.630 going to get some sort of truce, but it'll be a truce under, 01:12:48.190 --> 01:12:51.410 it will be Trump winning this debate. 01:12:51.990 --> 01:12:57.590 Or at the very least, like this truce may be just Elon decides to be quiet for a while. 01:12:57.790 --> 01:13:00.930 Rather, you know, because he realizes he's lost. 01:13:01.930 --> 01:13:04.650 Yeah. I mean, you're right. 01:13:04.810 --> 01:13:09.810 I mean, I don't see, the problem that Musk has right now is that there is no 01:13:09.810 --> 01:13:12.290 winning scenario here. in any direction. 01:13:12.550 --> 01:13:14.630 Here's a fucking problem that Musk's got. 01:13:15.170 --> 01:13:21.170 The people that used to be his biggest supporters in the past were all these 01:13:21.170 --> 01:13:27.590 people that were all in on him because, hey, electric cars, solar power, 01:13:28.230 --> 01:13:31.890 you know, you're helping the future, blah, blah, blah. 01:13:32.150 --> 01:13:33.350 Hey, those don't sound like maggots. 01:13:33.350 --> 01:13:38.250 And he went to all those people. Exactly. And he went and gave the middle finger 01:13:38.250 --> 01:13:43.330 to all those fucking people across the world. 01:13:43.690 --> 01:13:49.130 Okay? He gave him the fucking middle finger to back this shit. 01:13:49.450 --> 01:13:56.650 Now, as everybody that goes and tries to make a deal with Donald winds up getting 01:13:56.650 --> 01:14:01.630 fucked, as I totally expected and predicted, 01:14:02.130 --> 01:14:04.470 okay? He was going to get fucked. 01:14:04.470 --> 01:14:08.170 Almost everybody did. It wasn't your unique prediction. No. 01:14:08.330 --> 01:14:12.670 The question was what the time frame would be. like no but i. 01:14:12.670 --> 01:14:15.610 I i did give it 90 days okay. 01:14:15.610 --> 01:14:18.530 No i know you said it was going to be right on there were a 01:14:18.530 --> 01:14:22.510 few people that gave it like short time frames i believe on our prediction show 01:14:22.510 --> 01:14:28.030 you said like like around this time i said i thought he would make it to the 01:14:28.030 --> 01:14:35.610 second half of the year he almost did almost but not quite uh you know so you 01:14:35.610 --> 01:14:38.450 know but like there were a lot 01:14:38.510 --> 01:14:43.610 of people said there is no way this relationship can last for the long term. 01:14:43.850 --> 01:14:47.370 And there was a betting market on how long it would take before they fell apart. 01:14:47.610 --> 01:14:52.930 But, you know, there weren't a lot of people saying they'll still be buddy buddies in four years. 01:14:53.370 --> 01:14:57.670 Now, who knows? They may make up. They may all be like shaking hands again. 01:14:57.990 --> 01:15:06.690 I mean, Trump has made up with Trump has made up with people that he was publicly feuded like crazy. 01:15:06.910 --> 01:15:12.170 I mean, look at Marco Rubio in the fucking State Department, for God's sakes. 01:15:12.370 --> 01:15:12.630 Yes. 01:15:13.380 --> 01:15:17.480 So, you know, it's possible. 01:15:17.520 --> 01:15:22.820 But I think in the short term right now, all of these, you know, 01:15:23.460 --> 01:15:28.640 Musk played this hand, played it heavily, and economically, 01:15:29.940 --> 01:15:33.220 all it's done is give him loss after loss. 01:15:33.680 --> 01:15:37.860 Yeah, I think that's your key. 01:15:38.220 --> 01:15:44.960 And I don't know, he may fight on, he may do more stuff, But I kind of suspect 01:15:44.960 --> 01:15:51.360 that at a certain point, he realizes that he thought he had a play that he didn't. 01:15:52.000 --> 01:15:55.600 He thought there'd be all kinds of people rallying to his defense, 01:15:55.600 --> 01:15:59.680 that he'd be able to split the Republican caucus, that he might be able to kill 01:15:59.680 --> 01:16:00.800 the big, beautiful bill. 01:16:01.120 --> 01:16:04.900 Now, the big, beautiful bill has issues in the Senate anyway. It may die regardless. 01:16:04.900 --> 01:16:08.160 Listen, I don't know if he's killing the big, beautiful bill. 01:16:08.160 --> 01:16:11.080 I think the problem with the big, beautiful bill is a problem that is built 01:16:11.080 --> 01:16:13.300 into the big, beautiful bill. OK, all right. 01:16:13.460 --> 01:16:16.680 That's what I say. It has a problem. It may die anyway, but I don't think it's Elon. 01:16:16.760 --> 01:16:20.140 Right. It's not Elon killing it. OK. 01:16:20.500 --> 01:16:23.220 But again, but here's the one thing about this. OK. 01:16:23.460 --> 01:16:26.260 And how these coalitions are and how the hell it is. 01:16:26.480 --> 01:16:32.340 Despite the fact that we're saying, hey, OK, the Republicans have stood by Donald. 01:16:33.000 --> 01:16:38.420 OK. But here's the reality. in the political environment we are in, 01:16:38.800 --> 01:16:41.600 when it's only 71%, that's not good. 01:16:42.840 --> 01:16:46.080 That's not good. It's only 71% of them. 01:16:46.860 --> 01:16:54.360 That's, that's, that's, that's, I mean, you lost 30, you lost 29% of them in this fight. 01:16:54.620 --> 01:16:59.820 So, while 71% of Republicans is strong enough to maintain, you know, 01:17:00.000 --> 01:17:04.940 all these people that you need, like the House or whatever, align nominally 01:17:04.940 --> 01:17:07.640 in terms of like, well, you're not getting impeached or whatever. 01:17:08.280 --> 01:17:13.700 Losing that percentage is enough to derail a bill like this. 01:17:13.920 --> 01:17:19.980 Well, especially the bill was in trouble anyway. Like it barely passed in the House. 01:17:20.620 --> 01:17:24.400 And well, of course, it barely passed in the House. That's what the margin is 01:17:24.400 --> 01:17:25.640 like, you know, but right. 01:17:25.840 --> 01:17:32.480 But in the Senate, right off of day one, there were people, there were Republican 01:17:32.480 --> 01:17:35.620 senators saying they couldn't vote for it. it needed to change. 01:17:35.820 --> 01:17:37.900 They needed to adjust X, Y, Z. 01:17:38.240 --> 01:17:42.740 And the problem with that is the things that need to be adjusted to get one 01:17:42.740 --> 01:17:45.200 set of people loses another set of people. 01:17:45.820 --> 01:17:51.140 And so now I kind of feel like in the end, they'll pull out something. 01:17:51.780 --> 01:17:56.660 Now, what that something will be, I don't know. But like, I feel like whatever it is. 01:17:56.820 --> 01:17:58.960 It's not going to be a big, beautiful bill. Let me tell you something, 01:17:59.120 --> 01:18:00.800 whatever it is, not going to be a big, beautiful bill. 01:18:00.940 --> 01:18:04.480 And it's precisely because of what you said. Okay. The biggest problem with 01:18:04.480 --> 01:18:06.040 the big, beautiful bill is that, 01:18:07.110 --> 01:18:08.550 Any of the concessions that you 01:18:08.550 --> 01:18:13.190 need to make on this bill to get it passed lose you way too many people. 01:18:13.510 --> 01:18:19.890 You can see to the hawks more, you lose a whole bunch of moderates. 01:18:20.950 --> 01:18:23.830 They're like, look, we can't vote for this. Okay? 01:18:24.050 --> 01:18:24.150 Right. 01:18:25.310 --> 01:18:31.590 You go and you try to raise taxes, that's another fucking group of people big that you lose. 01:18:31.590 --> 01:18:36.650 Any way you go and you push this damn bill because it's so big and so weirdly, 01:18:37.450 --> 01:18:43.470 you wind up losing large swats of people that say, fuck you, we can't do this. 01:18:43.470 --> 01:18:49.030 Well, and this is also why congressional people were trying to tell Donald Trump, 01:18:49.230 --> 01:18:53.470 don't do one big, beautiful bill, do a series of smaller bills. 01:18:53.550 --> 01:18:54.730 Do a series of smaller bills. 01:18:54.890 --> 01:19:00.230 Because then you can get different coalitions for these different things and 01:19:00.230 --> 01:19:01.810 maybe pass them independently. 01:19:01.990 --> 01:19:08.290 Whereas if you roll it up together, there's always something that is a breaker 01:19:08.290 --> 01:19:11.710 for somebody. Now, you know, again. 01:19:12.030 --> 01:19:19.530 I'll tell you one thing that I just saw this week, a group of of of I believe 01:19:19.530 --> 01:19:21.290 I don't think it was just House people. 01:19:21.410 --> 01:19:27.550 I think it was senators and House congressmen basically were making a big push 01:19:27.550 --> 01:19:35.710 to strip from the bill all these cuts that were being done to for things that were from the IRA. 01:19:35.710 --> 01:19:42.070 because they knew that their districts were going to get destroyed by these, okay? 01:19:42.530 --> 01:19:42.690 Right. 01:19:42.890 --> 01:19:47.930 So there is a big push to strip all that shit out because they're like, 01:19:48.030 --> 01:19:49.550 damn it, what are we fucking doing? 01:19:50.190 --> 01:19:54.770 Yeah, there were specifically reports of House members who had voted for the 01:19:54.770 --> 01:19:59.850 bill asking their Senate colleagues to please take this stuff out that they voted for. 01:20:00.150 --> 01:20:03.150 That they voted for! Fucking idiots! 01:20:03.150 --> 01:20:07.650 For exactly the reason you're talking about. Well, they needed to get on record 01:20:07.650 --> 01:20:14.630 as supporting Trump's policies, but then they want to make sure that it doesn't 01:20:14.630 --> 01:20:15.370 actually take it to effect. 01:20:16.130 --> 01:20:23.870 There's one provision that would basically make it that no foreign person would want to buy any U.S. 01:20:24.010 --> 01:20:28.490 investments because of the tax implications that they added to it. It was nuts. 01:20:29.620 --> 01:20:35.320 They they put so much shit that is toxic in this bill. 01:20:35.700 --> 01:20:44.000 OK, it's this bill is it's just ridiculously bad. 01:20:44.520 --> 01:20:48.240 And, you know, the funny thing is when you get somebody, of course, 01:20:48.340 --> 01:20:53.020 not surprising, like Marjorie Taylor Greene saying, oh, this thing was in there. 01:20:53.160 --> 01:20:57.720 And then she says, oh, I never saw that. I'm like, so you didn't read the bill. 01:20:58.920 --> 01:21:04.220 To be fair, both sides have yelled at the other side for decades about not reading 01:21:04.220 --> 01:21:12.380 the bill because that is a legislative reality in how these things are constructed. 01:21:12.380 --> 01:21:18.720 Come on, man. You've got a fucking staff of people to go and like parse and 01:21:18.720 --> 01:21:23.860 summarize and go through this fucking thing in order to make sure you know what 01:21:23.860 --> 01:21:25.780 the fuck is in there or not. You're not sitting. 01:21:25.900 --> 01:21:28.920 I mean, I understand how difficult it is for one person to read it. 01:21:29.200 --> 01:21:30.460 But that's why you have the staff. 01:21:31.220 --> 01:21:36.660 You split up the 1,800 pages. Everybody gets 100 pages and you make sure to 01:21:36.660 --> 01:21:38.580 flag to your principal the things that matter. 01:21:39.240 --> 01:21:45.040 Exactly. But these people don't even do that anymore, Sam. They don't do that anymore. 01:21:45.520 --> 01:21:48.080 Well, I would also say... 01:21:48.080 --> 01:21:48.560 Some of them. 01:21:49.100 --> 01:21:54.700 Some of them, yeah. But I would also say there's an issue that I don't necessarily 01:21:54.700 --> 01:21:58.020 believe the protestations that they didn't know. 01:21:58.800 --> 01:22:03.240 I'm sure in some cases they don't know. I'm sure in some cases they actually 01:22:03.240 --> 01:22:05.580 didn't know because Marjorie Taylor Greene is an idiot. 01:22:06.140 --> 01:22:11.840 And so I'm sure I'm sure she didn't. OK, but I'm sure there are plenty of other 01:22:11.840 --> 01:22:14.740 people who protest. Oh, I had no idea. 01:22:15.620 --> 01:22:19.460 Oh, and they knew. Yeah. No, no, no. I'm with you. No, I'm with you. Yeah. 01:22:19.880 --> 01:22:22.840 I mean, just like all of these Congress people who are like, 01:22:22.960 --> 01:22:26.680 oh, did Donald Trump tweet something? I had no idea. 01:22:27.720 --> 01:22:30.860 You know, he didn't tweet something, a truth, a truth. Well, 01:22:30.980 --> 01:22:33.580 now he truths it, but like, you know. 01:22:33.680 --> 01:22:36.100 Well, well, let's call it a tweet anyway, because that he was, 01:22:36.260 --> 01:22:40.120 what is a, what is something that you post on X supposed to be called? 01:22:40.600 --> 01:22:41.300 A shit? 01:22:42.840 --> 01:22:43.280 Yes. 01:22:44.240 --> 01:22:45.140 I don't know. 01:22:45.880 --> 01:22:46.960 Sounds perfect to me. 01:22:47.900 --> 01:22:52.180 No, the, but yeah, that was another interesting part of this whole thing is 01:22:52.180 --> 01:22:56.180 like people are talking about how they were going at each other on their respective 01:22:56.180 --> 01:22:57.840 social media platforms. 01:22:58.880 --> 01:23:07.860 You know? You have the two billionaires each with their own captured social media that, 01:23:09.340 --> 01:23:14.200 undoubtedly are rigged to boost their own posts, etc, etc. 01:23:14.480 --> 01:23:19.240 No! No way! Nah! Come on! Nah! 01:23:19.760 --> 01:23:23.960 Elon would never do that. Donald would never do that. No, no, 01:23:24.800 --> 01:23:32.700 no, but OK, here one more one more Elon related thing before we take a break 01:23:32.700 --> 01:23:34.400 and move on. I don't even know what else. 01:23:35.000 --> 01:23:37.920 Like, well, we'll see about the last segment. 01:23:38.080 --> 01:23:46.200 But there was a lot of reaction and then counter reaction to a certain group 01:23:46.200 --> 01:23:51.940 of I'm going to say Democrats, but it also included never Trumpers and such. 01:23:51.940 --> 01:23:57.860 to this whole feud going, enemy of my enemy is my friend. Let's figure out how 01:23:57.860 --> 01:24:03.180 to make nice with Elon and bring him back into the fold and figure out how to use him. 01:24:03.680 --> 01:24:09.080 On video, I am showing me like giving both my middle fingers to this idea. 01:24:09.360 --> 01:24:11.120 I mean, fuck Elon. I don't care. 01:24:12.700 --> 01:24:17.960 I mean, well, listen, I hated Elon before he tied himself to MAGA. 01:24:18.160 --> 01:24:22.860 So I hated him as a MAGA. I still hate him now. Fuck him. 01:24:23.660 --> 01:24:32.100 And look, here's the thing. He is, it is one thing to cheer on and say, 01:24:32.220 --> 01:24:35.660 hey, it's great that they're fighting amongst themselves. 01:24:36.580 --> 01:24:42.360 Sure. Stand back and let them do it. It is quite another thing to say, oh, 01:24:42.620 --> 01:24:49.440 okay, in that case, let's work with Elon and see how we can make it so that 01:24:49.440 --> 01:24:51.960 he will like us and support us instead. 01:24:52.440 --> 01:24:56.200 And I think this ties to the more general question. 01:24:56.930 --> 01:25:01.810 There's been a more general debate amongst Democrats that we've touched on here 01:25:01.810 --> 01:25:09.250 before about whether the right way forward is to try to change Democratic positions 01:25:09.250 --> 01:25:14.810 to try to convert marginal Trump voters and try to bring over, 01:25:15.330 --> 01:25:18.810 you bring back the white middle class, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 01:25:19.050 --> 01:25:24.090 Like, let's let's, you know, let's throw the trans people under the bus. 01:25:24.410 --> 01:25:26.550 Let's moderate on immigration. 01:25:26.550 --> 01:25:31.650 Like I said before, the problem with all of these is not the it's not it's not 01:25:31.650 --> 01:25:32.770 the Democratic positions. 01:25:32.970 --> 01:25:37.750 The problem is that the Democrats never had an effective way of how to counter 01:25:37.750 --> 01:25:40.870 the straw man that that that Republicans made. 01:25:40.870 --> 01:25:45.350 Because when when when when the Republicans went anti-trans, 01:25:45.810 --> 01:25:48.850 what the Democrats did and mostly did was nothing. 01:25:48.850 --> 01:25:55.710 They didn't say they said, but they didn't go and combat the misinformation 01:25:55.710 --> 01:25:57.630 that they were giving on all of this. 01:25:57.750 --> 01:26:01.410 Well, instead of like going, I'm like, oh, my God, men, women's, 01:26:01.470 --> 01:26:03.910 you know, women's courts are being invaded by men. 01:26:04.030 --> 01:26:10.310 You should have gone and had an ad that said, guys, they're talking about five athletes out of 80,000. 01:26:10.870 --> 01:26:14.510 OK, because that's the reality. This isn't real. 01:26:15.050 --> 01:26:21.790 OK, well, true. And how they just ignored it. The same thing with abortion rights. 01:26:22.270 --> 01:26:23.370 Yeah, we've had this. 01:26:23.410 --> 01:26:27.530 Again, they go, oh, the Democrats are pro-abortion. And they're like, 01:26:27.630 --> 01:26:30.770 no, idiots, we're not pro-abortion. We're pro-women's rights. 01:26:30.890 --> 01:26:35.190 But they don't scream it at the top of the lungs to oppose this misinformation. 01:26:35.770 --> 01:26:37.050 And so the problem. 01:26:37.170 --> 01:26:40.430 Again, is not opposition. The problem is that the Democrats sit there and like, 01:26:40.490 --> 01:26:43.510 you know what? Oh, we're going to pass a great bill, okay? 01:26:44.110 --> 01:26:48.110 We're going to do this, and we're going to legislate, and we're going to do this or whatever. 01:26:48.350 --> 01:26:53.510 And, you know, with this walkie bill, which, by the way, has many benefits, it's going to be great. 01:26:53.610 --> 01:26:58.030 But the reality is that, unfortunately, the human reality is that most people 01:26:58.030 --> 01:27:04.570 don't see that shit that is the real shit that actually helps them live their 01:27:04.570 --> 01:27:06.750 lives, that is done behind the scenes. 01:27:07.070 --> 01:27:10.630 They don't really have the appreciation for it. 01:27:10.970 --> 01:27:14.490 We've talked about this before. I think part of it, you're absolutely right, 01:27:14.610 --> 01:27:18.210 combat the misinformation. But I think it's fundamentally more than that. 01:27:18.930 --> 01:27:23.870 And I thought there was a brief window where I thought the Democrats were past 01:27:23.870 --> 01:27:30.330 this and were going to do this right, and then they sort of retreated to their old ways, which is... 01:27:31.010 --> 01:27:35.750 You can't retreat from these culture war issues and be like, 01:27:36.290 --> 01:27:42.090 you know, oh, like, they're talking about trans people, so we want to hide and not talk about. 01:27:42.130 --> 01:27:47.070 Like, this issue. No, no, no, you combat the misinformation head on. 01:27:47.130 --> 01:27:53.150 But not only do you combat the misinformation, you vigorously defend your own position. 01:27:53.350 --> 01:27:54.070 And why? 01:27:54.070 --> 01:27:59.170 You talk about why you are right and they are wrong, you know, 01:27:59.330 --> 01:28:06.590 because for years and years and years, and this goes back, I'd say, all the way to, like, 01:28:07.350 --> 01:28:15.490 I want to say the 70s on lots of issues where the Democrats sort of decided that the general, 01:28:15.770 --> 01:28:20.970 or maybe it's the 80s, maybe it's after Ronald Reagan, where the Democrats were 01:28:20.970 --> 01:28:23.290 beaten so badly by Ronald Reagan. 01:28:23.290 --> 01:28:31.390 that they decided, oh, hell, the conservative positions, the Americans really are conservative. 01:28:31.510 --> 01:28:36.490 So we have to hide our liberal positions, pretend to be more moderate, 01:28:36.730 --> 01:28:39.830 and that's the only way we can win. 01:28:40.070 --> 01:28:47.090 Like there's Bill Clinton's triangulation strategy to try to capture the middle. 01:28:47.250 --> 01:28:52.790 And you've still got a lot of people in the Democratic Party who came up in that era. 01:28:53.110 --> 01:28:57.550 Whereas, look, if you do the polling on an individual by individual basis, 01:28:57.890 --> 01:28:59.890 individual issue by individual basis, 01:29:00.670 --> 01:29:08.110 they, you know, the Democrat, the liberal position is the majority position on immigration. 01:29:09.650 --> 01:29:11.470 Immigration is questionable. It's very. 01:29:11.530 --> 01:29:14.970 No, no, no. On immigration. No, no, no. In immigration, you're right. 01:29:15.170 --> 01:29:18.350 I mean, immigration are against the mass deportations. Well, right, right. 01:29:19.150 --> 01:29:24.350 Yeah. Yes. There's some question on how you word it and what kinds of things you're talking about. 01:29:24.410 --> 01:29:27.190 But yeah, on immigration, people don't want this. 01:29:27.350 --> 01:29:32.190 On gay rights, people are for gay rights now. People are for gay marriage. 01:29:32.730 --> 01:29:36.770 The trans is a little bit behind that. But getting there, you know, 01:29:36.890 --> 01:29:42.530 on social issues, on like what the safety net should look like. Marijuana, abortion. 01:29:43.030 --> 01:29:44.670 Abortion. All of these issues. 01:29:45.030 --> 01:29:45.910 Healthcare, social security. 01:29:46.390 --> 01:29:50.030 All of these issues are majority positions. So occasionally you get people like 01:29:50.030 --> 01:29:54.350 Matt Iglesias and people like that saying, Democrats should just poll things 01:29:54.350 --> 01:29:57.350 and then go after the popular issues, avoid the issues that aren't. 01:29:57.510 --> 01:30:01.270 And you can see that a little bit. But the problem is that, 01:30:01.760 --> 01:30:08.980 Voters and the public at large detect inauthenticity instinctually. 01:30:09.260 --> 01:30:10.600 And so if you've got. 01:30:10.600 --> 01:30:15.960 People who are— One thing that you can say for sure is that Donald Trump is 01:30:15.960 --> 01:30:20.480 an authentic racist and he shows it every day. So that's why his people love him. 01:30:22.020 --> 01:30:29.300 It's true. They know he is one of theirs. They know he is one of theirs in that way. 01:30:29.560 --> 01:30:35.260 Right. So for all of these issues, when the Democrat hides from the issue and 01:30:35.260 --> 01:30:39.200 says, oh, they're attacking me on trans issues, so I'll just be quiet about that. 01:30:39.680 --> 01:30:46.400 Or, oh, they're really aggressive on immigration, so I have to become more aggressive on immigration, too. 01:30:46.640 --> 01:30:51.600 Or all of these things, they lose respect right off the bat. 01:30:51.860 --> 01:30:56.600 First of all, one of the things that Donald Trump also showed is you can win 01:30:56.600 --> 01:31:03.180 by just going for your base. Donald Trump makes no effort whatsoever to go after the center. 01:31:03.280 --> 01:31:05.280 To go to the middle. Yeah, not at all. 01:31:05.340 --> 01:31:09.200 And how has he won? He has not won by converting people in the middle. 01:31:09.420 --> 01:31:13.880 He has won by getting people out to vote who don't normally vote. 01:31:14.720 --> 01:31:18.660 And the Democrats instead are constantly going back to, ooh, 01:31:18.880 --> 01:31:23.220 how do we get this squishy voter in the middle who doesn't pay attention to 01:31:23.220 --> 01:31:29.220 anything, as opposed to energize your fucking base instead of alienating them. 01:31:29.980 --> 01:31:32.220 So, like, when there's an issue... 01:31:33.180 --> 01:31:37.220 Like any of those that we just listed, don't hide from it. 01:31:37.620 --> 01:31:42.120 Defend your goddamn position and talk about why you are right and they are wrong. 01:31:42.440 --> 01:31:46.520 I keep coming back to the weird thing and stuff like that. This is why that 01:31:46.520 --> 01:31:50.160 was working for the short period of time the Harris folks were using it. 01:31:50.280 --> 01:31:50.440 It was working. 01:31:50.780 --> 01:31:56.140 Because it's like, no, we're not the ones that are out of the mainstream. 01:31:56.420 --> 01:32:00.320 They're the ones that are out of the mainstream. They're the ones that are weird. 01:32:00.320 --> 01:32:06.800 They are the ones who like are advocating for cruel and unusual things that 01:32:06.800 --> 01:32:09.700 nobody supports. That strategy was working. 01:32:10.060 --> 01:32:13.640 Now, on the other hand, with this Elon thing, you all of a sudden get all these 01:32:13.640 --> 01:32:20.540 people saying, oh, what can we do to change our positions to get Elon solidly 01:32:20.540 --> 01:32:22.760 on our side? Because that would help so much. 01:32:24.540 --> 01:32:26.300 No, no. No. 01:32:26.940 --> 01:32:30.560 Rule number one, tell Elon to go fuck himself. 01:32:30.880 --> 01:32:33.420 And if you forget rule number two, if you forget about that, 01:32:33.560 --> 01:32:36.200 please go back and read rule number one. That's it. 01:32:36.480 --> 01:32:45.360 And, you know, and the Democrats also have to be willing to alienate some supporters also. 01:32:45.680 --> 01:32:47.500 Like, you know, if you listen. 01:32:47.680 --> 01:32:53.360 Here's one thing. Fifteen years ago, the Bernie Sanders approach was not the right approach. 01:32:53.360 --> 01:32:54.560 Yeah okay. 01:32:54.560 --> 01:32:59.360 But right now it is when obama won it wasn't. 01:32:59.360 --> 01:33:00.420 Yeah but. 01:33:00.420 --> 01:33:07.000 Right now that's the approach we need it needs to be combative it can't be appeasing 01:33:07.000 --> 01:33:10.340 it has to be aggressive period. 01:33:10.340 --> 01:33:15.440 And part of that is being is having the hundred percent loss of all the governmental 01:33:15.440 --> 01:33:20.740 institutions when you were like you don't have you don't have the house you 01:33:20.740 --> 01:33:23.300 don't have the senate you don't have the presidency, you don't have the courts. 01:33:24.010 --> 01:33:28.530 In that situation, you can't act like a governing party. 01:33:28.870 --> 01:33:34.790 And I look, if you are in charge, there's certain things you have to do to govern well. But if you are. 01:33:34.790 --> 01:33:40.210 You have to obstruct, you have to stop, you have to, you have to always be just, 01:33:40.670 --> 01:33:46.410 listen, whatever the fuck they're doing, you do not, do not, do not. 01:33:46.730 --> 01:33:49.850 Under any circumstances, give them anything. 01:33:50.650 --> 01:33:54.710 Do not, even if it's something that you want, okay? 01:33:55.850 --> 01:33:58.630 And frankly, even if they're going to win in the end anyway, 01:33:58.750 --> 01:34:00.970 because they have the numbers, you have to write. 01:34:01.010 --> 01:34:05.050 Even more so in that situation, you have to be the opposition. 01:34:05.750 --> 01:34:06.250 Yes. 01:34:06.710 --> 01:34:07.130 Anyway. 01:34:07.330 --> 01:34:07.570 Yes. 01:34:08.410 --> 01:34:13.450 That was drifting a little bit from Elon, but the reason is there is such a 01:34:13.450 --> 01:34:19.170 resurgence this last week of these people going like, yay, now Elon's our friend. Bullshit. 01:34:19.850 --> 01:34:21.790 He's not your friend. He will never be your friend. 01:34:22.070 --> 01:34:26.630 He wasn't your friend. He's never been your friend. Never been your friend. 01:34:26.910 --> 01:34:30.650 This guy has never been anybody's friend at all. 01:34:31.490 --> 01:34:31.890 Okay. 01:34:32.590 --> 01:34:34.550 All right. I need to wrap it up. 01:34:34.970 --> 01:34:39.110 Okay. Yeah, let's... I was going to say let's take... 01:34:39.110 --> 01:34:39.510 A little bit short. 01:34:40.070 --> 01:34:42.770 Yeah, we don't need a break in a second thing. We can just wrap it. 01:34:43.790 --> 01:34:48.030 Because even if we did take a break, I'd be like, well, what are we going to 01:34:48.030 --> 01:34:49.830 talk about? There are a couple of small things. 01:34:50.030 --> 01:34:53.530 Yeah, there's a couple of small things, but I think we've... 01:34:53.530 --> 01:34:54.290 I'm just going to hit... 01:34:54.290 --> 01:34:57.390 We covered all the... Listen, that news quiz did help us cover all the news. 01:34:57.530 --> 01:34:58.590 We got to see if we do better next time. 01:34:58.590 --> 01:35:01.010 I'm just going to hit bullet points. Like... 01:35:01.010 --> 01:35:01.570 Hit the bullet points. 01:35:01.570 --> 01:35:06.050 Hit the bullet points. If you have any quick reactions. We have Ukraine taking 01:35:06.050 --> 01:35:09.250 out a significant portion of the Russian bomber fleet. 01:35:09.290 --> 01:35:10.890 We forgot this happened this week! 01:35:12.630 --> 01:35:15.250 So the Ukrainians are not so dumb after all, huh? 01:35:15.430 --> 01:35:17.130 It turns out they have some cards. 01:35:17.890 --> 01:35:21.850 It turns out they have some cards. By the way, one of the things that happened, 01:35:21.990 --> 01:35:28.510 and I also checked traffic maps about this, Russian traffic is in a complete snarl like crazy. 01:35:28.590 --> 01:35:29.930 Because they're checking all the trucks now. 01:35:30.190 --> 01:35:32.570 Every fucking truck everywhere now is getting checked. 01:35:32.770 --> 01:35:37.210 What happened? The Ukrainians loaded up some trucks full of drones. 01:35:38.210 --> 01:35:39.630 And they hired Russian truckers. 01:35:39.800 --> 01:35:45.020 Yeah, essentially, by the way, what they're doing here that is extremely clever, 01:35:45.020 --> 01:35:50.000 that they have been really innovating on dramatically over the last few years, 01:35:50.120 --> 01:35:53.800 they essentially take commercial drones and modify them to weaponize them. 01:35:54.040 --> 01:35:59.200 So we're talking about like drones that are on the order of $1,500 to $2,000 01:35:59.200 --> 01:36:04.120 a pop, as opposed to like, you know, these mega drones that. 01:36:04.300 --> 01:36:09.440 Yeah, like a Reaper or something. A Reaper, right. I was going to say Rapier. No, Reaper. 01:36:09.440 --> 01:36:13.460 That costs like billions of dollars or however the hell much they cost. 01:36:13.760 --> 01:36:16.520 Well, they're not billions. They're expensive. 01:36:16.600 --> 01:36:16.820 Trillions. 01:36:16.820 --> 01:36:17.520 They're way more expensive. 01:36:17.640 --> 01:36:18.040 Trillions. 01:36:19.320 --> 01:36:22.160 Trillions. Yes, as our Secretary of Education said this week, yes. 01:36:22.240 --> 01:36:22.460 Anyway. 01:36:22.600 --> 01:36:24.000 She's cutting $1.5 trillion. 01:36:24.220 --> 01:36:28.160 Anyway, these are relatively inexpensive drones. And the ones they use for this 01:36:28.160 --> 01:36:32.520 are sort of on the high end of what they're using in the field all over Ukraine as well. 01:36:32.920 --> 01:36:36.040 But they modify these things. They put weapons on them, whatever. 01:36:36.040 --> 01:36:39.580 They put a whole bunch of them in specially modified trucks. 01:36:39.760 --> 01:36:44.880 They hired Russian truckers to transport them that had no idea what they were transporting them. 01:36:45.020 --> 01:36:48.940 And then they had them leave them like a couple of miles from military bases 01:36:48.940 --> 01:36:55.660 and then remote control, launch all the drones, blow up a whole bunch of planes. 01:36:56.140 --> 01:37:01.580 You know, they take off from close enough that there's not a lot of time to respond. 01:37:02.660 --> 01:37:07.280 And boom. And, you know, people have pointed out the biggest. 01:37:07.280 --> 01:37:11.120 The biggest issue Russia has right now, they can't replace those planes. 01:37:11.560 --> 01:37:12.040 Yeah. 01:37:12.820 --> 01:37:15.360 They, they're, they, they have no way of replacing those planes. 01:37:16.150 --> 01:37:19.310 At least on any term of reasonable time frame. Yes. 01:37:19.450 --> 01:37:23.790 Yeah, right. Yeah. Actually, they don't have a, I mean, they don't have, 01:37:23.870 --> 01:37:25.850 they don't have factories or churning them out. 01:37:26.010 --> 01:37:28.270 They can't just, you know, it would take like. 01:37:28.730 --> 01:37:30.230 Years, years and years. 01:37:30.230 --> 01:37:31.330 Yes, years and years. 01:37:31.790 --> 01:37:36.830 Yeah. So anyway, yeah, Ukraine did this and people are talking about how, 01:37:36.990 --> 01:37:41.910 look, the whole world has to adapt to this new reality of how things work. 01:37:41.910 --> 01:37:46.990 because defenses were set up against like you're sending fighters and. 01:37:46.990 --> 01:37:50.130 Bombers from another country and you. 01:37:50.130 --> 01:37:55.630 See them on radar and you set up your your counter fighters and you use anti-aircraft 01:37:55.630 --> 01:38:00.410 guns and blah blah blah blah blah none of that works against. 01:38:00.410 --> 01:38:06.010 Small drones launched some of it works i know that the navy has been adapting 01:38:06.010 --> 01:38:10.530 because they've been getting hit by drones at see they've had them and there 01:38:10.530 --> 01:38:13.870 are certain weapon systems that were designed there are ways to. 01:38:13.870 --> 01:38:14.990 Adapt the point is. 01:38:14.990 --> 01:38:18.570 There you have to they have to adapt you have to adapt you cannot you cannot 01:38:18.570 --> 01:38:20.570 depend the old way of doing. 01:38:20.570 --> 01:38:21.530 Things is dead. 01:38:21.530 --> 01:38:27.590 Yeah so so there are certain systems that are being adapted in order to be able 01:38:27.590 --> 01:38:32.330 to and another thing is that in the past in any times when you detected things 01:38:32.330 --> 01:38:36.810 like this right and this is something that's happened to that you you consider that oh that's noise, 01:38:37.250 --> 01:38:39.650 which is not, we're not paying attention to that. 01:38:39.830 --> 01:38:43.250 Now you can't, now you can't say that's noise. Now you got to go and like, 01:38:43.430 --> 01:38:46.990 your sensors, your whatever that you're using, you got to like, 01:38:47.130 --> 01:38:48.270 no, that's not noise anymore. 01:38:48.430 --> 01:38:51.590 And your decision-making process, because instead of having, 01:38:51.730 --> 01:38:55.330 you know, 20 minutes notice or something, you may have 20 seconds notice. 01:38:55.690 --> 01:38:56.790 Seconds to decide. Yeah. 01:38:57.190 --> 01:39:02.710 Yeah. So, okay, we got Ukraine. We got the new travel ban. We did have a question on that on the quiz. 01:39:02.790 --> 01:39:04.930 We did have a question on the travel ban and we answered it. 01:39:05.030 --> 01:39:05.990 You answered it incorrectly. 01:39:05.990 --> 01:39:13.610 I did. I was wrong. Donald has instigated a new investigation of Biden's use of Autopan. 01:39:14.260 --> 01:39:14.880 Uh-huh. 01:39:15.200 --> 01:39:25.080 Yep. There was an escalation in ICE versus anti-ICE protesters in L.A., like last night. 01:39:25.260 --> 01:39:27.880 A lot of places, actually. But yeah, in L.A. 01:39:27.920 --> 01:39:34.280 It got biggest in L.A. yesterday. But it's been growing over the last few weeks anyway, 01:39:34.280 --> 01:39:40.900 where there have been groups that have come out to try to get in the way of 01:39:40.900 --> 01:39:44.120 ICE when they're doing enforcement actions. 01:39:45.260 --> 01:39:49.020 and there are starting to be conflicts between. 01:39:49.860 --> 01:39:55.480 Listen, I have said, and, you know, we talked about non-aggressive Democrats not being aggressive. 01:39:55.760 --> 01:39:58.860 If I'm the mayor, I'm the governor of the state. I'm like right now, 01:39:58.980 --> 01:40:01.280 my thing is right now I'm looking out for human rights. 01:40:01.460 --> 01:40:05.960 I'm looking for violations of due process by ICE. And I'm starting to I'm starting 01:40:05.960 --> 01:40:07.980 to I'm starting to arrest ICE agents. 01:40:08.360 --> 01:40:11.320 You're not following due process here. You know, I'm dragging you to jail. 01:40:11.320 --> 01:40:15.760 And that's how and you're you're you're you. Oh, you think you don't have the 01:40:15.760 --> 01:40:17.500 because they don't have the authority. 01:40:17.980 --> 01:40:21.120 They don't. Listen, I know by law, because this is this is a question that came 01:40:21.120 --> 01:40:25.440 to to to an issue in Puerto Rico. They don't have the authority to question U.S. citizens. 01:40:26.440 --> 01:40:31.900 You don't have it. So there was a thing that for years they tried to do when 01:40:31.900 --> 01:40:36.220 you exited Puerto Rico, where they kept asking people whether you were a U.S. citizen or not. 01:40:36.400 --> 01:40:39.180 And they were taking people who refused to answer the question and bringing 01:40:39.180 --> 01:40:39.880 them in for questioning. 01:40:40.120 --> 01:40:43.580 That went to the courts. The courts determined, you know what? 01:40:43.720 --> 01:40:44.900 ICE agents don't have that right. 01:40:45.600 --> 01:40:49.440 Immigration agents do not have that right. And the problem right now is that 01:40:49.440 --> 01:40:51.760 we're letting them get away with way too much. 01:40:51.760 --> 01:40:57.820 Well, and there are also a lot of situations where they are relying on people 01:40:57.820 --> 01:41:02.100 not knowing that for certain things they are actually required to have warrants. 01:41:03.080 --> 01:41:07.420 And so, like, people can say, no, I'm not letting you in unless you can show 01:41:07.420 --> 01:41:08.500 me a warrant or whatever. 01:41:08.700 --> 01:41:11.840 Show me a warrant or whatever. You've got no right to come in here, period. 01:41:12.100 --> 01:41:12.280 Yeah. 01:41:12.280 --> 01:41:15.120 But this is a big problem. 01:41:15.240 --> 01:41:19.960 But my problem is that if I'm a mayor and I'm a sheriff of a city and I've got 01:41:19.960 --> 01:41:24.060 immigration agents breaking the law left and right, you know what I'm doing? 01:41:24.160 --> 01:41:25.580 I'm fucking arresting these assholes. 01:41:26.380 --> 01:41:29.560 That's what I would be doing. They want to start with this shit. 01:41:29.740 --> 01:41:32.460 You want to start breaking the law left and right? You think that you've got 01:41:32.460 --> 01:41:35.700 the right to just break the law in my city? Fuck you, no. Okay? 01:41:35.700 --> 01:41:38.860 Yeah, I think we are seeing escalation of this situation. 01:41:39.100 --> 01:41:47.200 And we're seeing, yeah, in LA, they were using, you know, the non-lethal force. 01:41:47.320 --> 01:41:47.880 Flashbang. 01:41:48.260 --> 01:41:48.480 Flashbang. 01:41:48.580 --> 01:41:52.320 Whatever, but it's ridiculous. It's ridiculous for an immigration raid. 01:41:52.320 --> 01:41:57.840 Well, and I think it's only a matter of time till we get like the equivalent 01:41:57.840 --> 01:41:59.980 of what happened in Kent State in the 60s. 01:42:00.200 --> 01:42:06.300 And some protester gets killed and then you'll start seeing reaction to that. 01:42:06.420 --> 01:42:08.480 This is going to escalate. I see no way. 01:42:08.660 --> 01:42:10.060 It's going to escalate. Yeah. 01:42:10.400 --> 01:42:15.540 Okay. Along those lines, last item I'm going to mention here is Garcia has been 01:42:15.540 --> 01:42:17.500 returned from El Salvador. Yeah. 01:42:17.830 --> 01:42:20.250 Now they have indicted him. 01:42:20.350 --> 01:42:23.730 Now they have made up these charges against him. 01:42:23.850 --> 01:42:30.690 Well, here's the thing. I've seen a few legal reviews of the indictment that say it's really weak. 01:42:30.850 --> 01:42:36.050 There might be something, but it's really weak. There are all kinds of holes I can put in this. 01:42:36.410 --> 01:42:40.910 But the fundamental thing, I've seen a lot of the Republicans say things along 01:42:40.910 --> 01:42:44.010 the, essentially boiling down to, okay, fine. 01:42:44.170 --> 01:42:50.370 Are you happy now? And the answer is, well, kind of, because now he will go 01:42:50.370 --> 01:42:51.490 through the proper process. 01:42:51.710 --> 01:42:58.170 You say you have charges against him. We were never saying necessarily that 01:42:58.170 --> 01:42:59.990 this guy was pure as the driven snow. 01:43:00.310 --> 01:43:03.010 But by the way, there is something that, no, no, no, here's something. 01:43:03.170 --> 01:43:06.330 Okay, listen, there is significant evidence that the U.S. 01:43:06.430 --> 01:43:09.590 attorney for Tennessee resigned the moment that he was coming back. 01:43:09.590 --> 01:43:12.310 And the main reason why in the background they said is because he basically 01:43:12.310 --> 01:43:15.470 said that this entire chart is made up and political. 01:43:15.730 --> 01:43:19.930 Yes. But here's the thing. They now have to prove it. 01:43:20.310 --> 01:43:27.550 You know? And so this will go to court. It will, you know, it'll go through the standard process. 01:43:27.930 --> 01:43:31.290 Either the guy will be convicted or he won't be. Now, they're trying to keep 01:43:31.290 --> 01:43:35.250 him in pretrial detention the whole time. We'll see if that flies. 01:43:35.790 --> 01:43:41.690 And if it is completely made up and he gets exonerated, we'll see what happens then. 01:43:42.170 --> 01:43:46.410 I mean, the guy shouldn't have, assuming this stuff is fairly flimsy, 01:43:46.830 --> 01:43:50.590 then he shouldn't be going through any of this at all, of course. 01:43:50.890 --> 01:43:58.150 But at least now, the basic principle at play here is there has to be a process. 01:43:58.370 --> 01:44:01.130 The government can't just say, you're bad. 01:44:01.810 --> 01:44:03.250 And send you to El Salvador. 01:44:03.630 --> 01:44:04.310 El Salvador. 01:44:04.630 --> 01:44:09.470 They have to prove their case. They have to have a case and they have to prove the case. 01:44:10.350 --> 01:44:13.930 And, you know, and we'll see what happens in this case. 01:44:14.070 --> 01:44:18.670 But that's the important principle. And so many people on the MAGA side are 01:44:18.670 --> 01:44:19.810 like, well, that's bullshit. 01:44:19.890 --> 01:44:22.510 He's a bad guy. He shouldn't have due process. 01:44:22.850 --> 01:44:25.910 But the problem is, if you don't have that. 01:44:25.970 --> 01:44:27.950 Everybody has due process. 01:44:27.950 --> 01:44:31.590 If you don't have that process for. 01:44:32.130 --> 01:44:38.530 everyone, then there's nothing stopping you from abusing that power for everyone. 01:44:38.850 --> 01:44:39.330 Right. 01:44:39.730 --> 01:44:44.870 You know, and whether or not this individual guy is guilty or not is not actually the point. 01:44:45.350 --> 01:44:49.890 Now, if they're completely railroading an innocent man, there should be consequences 01:44:49.890 --> 01:44:52.290 for that. There may or may not actually be in the end. 01:44:52.710 --> 01:44:56.970 But even if he, if he turned, let's say he turns out to be guilty. 01:44:57.270 --> 01:45:03.110 He did all the stuff they said. well you still need to prove it and that right 01:45:03.110 --> 01:45:05.530 that's what they're doing okay that was the last thing i had. 01:45:05.530 --> 01:45:07.090 All right so we're done. 01:45:07.090 --> 01:45:11.910 We're done okay everybody uh curmudgeon-corner.com 01:45:11.910 --> 01:45:17.850 you can find our archives you can find all the ways to contact us you can find 01:45:17.850 --> 01:45:23.670 transcripts you can find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow you can find 01:45:23.670 --> 01:45:27.450 all the good stuff you could possibly want right Yvonne. 01:45:28.450 --> 01:45:31.910 Absolutely everything everything the whole time everything. 01:45:31.910 --> 01:45:37.550 Everything yes and if you don't find everything all the time if you don't find 01:45:37.550 --> 01:45:42.970 any of that on curmudgeon-corner.com that is your fault for it is not ours you 01:45:42.970 --> 01:45:45.490 know it's your problem that's. 01:45:45.490 --> 01:45:48.430 Your problem you know I sorry but you know. 01:45:48.430 --> 01:45:53.090 Do better please anyway one of the things is a link to our patreon where you 01:45:53.090 --> 01:45:57.570 can give us money we would like more money And at various levels, 01:45:57.610 --> 01:46:00.110 we'll send you a postcard, we'll send you a mug, blah, blah, 01:46:00.110 --> 01:46:02.130 blah. 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Look, I did, for full disclosure, when I was at Kodak, 01:46:52.200 --> 01:46:55.120 I did release a product called the Kodak Scan Cloud. 01:46:55.400 --> 01:46:55.860 Uh-huh. 01:46:56.420 --> 01:46:58.020 All right. Now, the Kodak Scan Cloud. 01:46:58.020 --> 01:46:59.740 Are you going to get in trouble for revealing this, Yvonne? 01:47:00.120 --> 01:47:03.940 Not really. I mean, you know, I don't think so. You know, look, I launched this. 01:47:04.020 --> 01:47:08.100 The one thing is that I didn't, look, the whole thing was that we would scan 01:47:08.100 --> 01:47:11.640 capture data on your documents, okay? 01:47:12.060 --> 01:47:17.580 We had an SLA. that we would meet and that you would get this information fed into your system. 01:47:18.040 --> 01:47:23.980 Now, I didn't say how that happened. It made it sound like it was technology. 01:47:24.020 --> 01:47:29.440 But the reality is that I had this place staffed with people 24-7 that basically 01:47:29.440 --> 01:47:30.580 when the documents came in, 01:47:30.680 --> 01:47:35.060 there was some technology involved, but there was humans that had to really 01:47:35.060 --> 01:47:37.820 do the last mile of it in order for your document to be processed. 01:47:38.060 --> 01:47:39.220 But I didn't say that anyway. 01:47:39.740 --> 01:47:44.380 So I'm not surprised that somebody... And the reason, the reason why I did that 01:47:44.380 --> 01:47:47.660 is because there was software that could automatically do this, 01:47:47.680 --> 01:47:53.960 but the licenses were so expensive that the reality is that the people were cheaper. 01:47:54.280 --> 01:47:54.600 Yeah. 01:47:54.720 --> 01:47:58.460 And by the way, more accurate as well. The people were cheaper and more accurate. 01:47:58.860 --> 01:47:59.500 There you go. 01:47:59.560 --> 01:48:03.040 So I was like, well, what the hell, you know? 01:48:03.560 --> 01:48:04.880 Well, I, so, so yeah. 01:48:04.940 --> 01:48:09.140 So I'm sure that that's what the, what they figured out with the 700 guys. 01:48:09.140 --> 01:48:13.140 They're like, wait, the technology will say stupid shit that we don't want it 01:48:13.140 --> 01:48:15.720 to say. It'll give you wrong answers. What the hell? 01:48:16.220 --> 01:48:19.660 You know, we'll just put 700 people back there. We won't tell everybody that's. 01:48:20.400 --> 01:48:25.280 Well, didn't you mention last week that Tesla was hiring a team of. 01:48:25.560 --> 01:48:26.000 Yes. 01:48:26.520 --> 01:48:28.300 For drivers. For their self-driver. 01:48:28.540 --> 01:48:33.400 For their self-driving. Yes. For the driverless taxis. Yes. Well, hiring drivers. 01:48:33.400 --> 01:48:42.180 Which, by the way, is apparently typical of all of these self-driving taxi folks. 01:48:42.260 --> 01:48:48.400 Yes, I mean, Waymo has people that can take over remotely in case the vehicle gets into it. 01:48:48.400 --> 01:48:52.180 The question, of course, is how often is the human having to do something versus 01:48:52.180 --> 01:48:54.480 how often it really is automated. 01:48:54.660 --> 01:48:56.700 Right. If it's basically driving the full time. 01:48:56.740 --> 01:48:58.260 And that's not always disclosed. 01:48:58.680 --> 01:49:01.120 Right. Yes, that is true. 01:49:01.120 --> 01:49:04.220 One of these companies that had to i 01:49:04.220 --> 01:49:07.180 forget which one that had to pull out of some marketplace after an 01:49:07.180 --> 01:49:13.000 accident or whatever ended up revealing that they had like two drivers on staff 01:49:13.000 --> 01:49:24.120 for every car or whatever and yes um and so and i believe there's even one company 01:49:24.120 --> 01:49:26.100 out there who doesn't try to fake it. 01:49:26.340 --> 01:49:29.740 And it's just like, this isn't, this isn't a self-driving car. 01:49:30.060 --> 01:49:33.700 It's just that your chauffeur happens to be in Mumbai. 01:49:34.600 --> 01:49:37.260 we're driving the car by remote control from wherever. 01:49:37.260 --> 01:49:42.820 I mean honestly look there is an advantage to not having to be with another 01:49:42.820 --> 01:49:47.560 human being in the car right i mean i really you know for the most part i don't 01:49:47.560 --> 01:49:51.860 i don't i one reason i like to drive myself i don't want to be in the car with 01:49:51.860 --> 01:49:56.700 some other person i have no idea who the hell they are fuck this shit right, 01:49:57.460 --> 01:50:01.360 Yeah, let him be 5,000, 7,000 miles away. The hell with this shit. 01:50:03.640 --> 01:50:07.580 Yeah, well, okay. Anyway, we are done. Thank you, everybody. 01:50:07.920 --> 01:50:10.440 Have a nice week. We'll be back next week. 01:50:10.800 --> 01:50:16.500 Stay safe. Have a good time, etc., etc., etc., etc. Goodbye. 01:50:17.240 --> 01:50:17.760 Bye. 01:50:47.500 --> 01:50:52.040 Do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Okay, later, Yvonne. Have a good weekend. 01:50:52.400 --> 01:50:54.120 Okay. All right, let's do this.