WEBVTT 00:00:00.010 --> 00:00:05.490 Hello, this is Sam from the Future. We recorded this show Friday night, U.S. time. 00:00:05.730 --> 00:00:10.830 That would be Friday, June 19th? No, no, 20th. 00:00:11.210 --> 00:00:14.290 Friday, June 20th is when we recorded this show. 00:00:14.770 --> 00:00:20.750 And, well, before I got it out, there were a few news developments. 00:00:21.370 --> 00:00:26.590 Specifically, during this show, we talked a little bit about Donald Trump's 00:00:26.590 --> 00:00:31.190 statement that he was going to wait a couple weeks, potentially to figure out 00:00:31.190 --> 00:00:35.030 what to do about Iran and how, generally speaking, 00:00:35.410 --> 00:00:40.410 he has used this two-week time frame many, many times before to avoid making decisions. 00:00:40.970 --> 00:00:44.510 Well, Saturday we actually attacked Iran. 00:00:45.010 --> 00:00:51.550 Now, one report had it that, well, there was an angry call between Trump and 00:00:51.550 --> 00:00:56.050 Netanyahu and where Netanyahu said, we're not going to wait two weeks. 00:00:56.530 --> 00:01:02.170 We are going to attack ourselves if you don't do it yourself. 00:01:02.910 --> 00:01:05.870 If the U.S. doesn't do it, we will, basically. 00:01:06.470 --> 00:01:11.870 And shortly after Donald Trump did the attack, which would sort of fit with 00:01:11.870 --> 00:01:15.070 what we also talked about on this show about, you know, he's always influenced 00:01:15.070 --> 00:01:16.370 by the last person who talks to him. 00:01:16.370 --> 00:01:22.730 However, there has also been reporting that the two-week thing this time around 00:01:22.730 --> 00:01:26.550 was completely a ruse, that the decision had already been made, 00:01:26.730 --> 00:01:28.550 that things were already underway. 00:01:29.150 --> 00:01:36.710 Given how this administration is known for truth-telling, I'm not sure I know what to believe. 00:01:37.230 --> 00:01:43.630 I mean, fundamentally, they had already reported that the plans were made. 00:01:44.330 --> 00:01:48.950 Everything was ready to go and was just waiting on a final decision from Donald 00:01:48.950 --> 00:01:52.170 Trump to basically hit the go button. 00:01:52.530 --> 00:01:58.330 So I wouldn't be surprised if they're just trying to finagle the language to 00:01:58.330 --> 00:02:02.410 make it seem like Donald Trump wasn't flip-flopping all over the place on this thing. 00:02:02.810 --> 00:02:09.270 But on the other hand, who knows? Like, all of the players involved here are 00:02:09.270 --> 00:02:11.250 not particularly known for truth-telling. 00:02:11.250 --> 00:02:14.410 anyway there's a discussion later 00:02:14.410 --> 00:02:20.710 on in the show well in the show proper about about all of the iranian developments 00:02:20.710 --> 00:02:28.430 and about the two weeks that as i just said ended up not happening and various 00:02:28.430 --> 00:02:31.730 other things now that the attack has happened. 00:02:33.110 --> 00:02:41.970 We'll see how things develop. It is still unclear, as I am recording this on Sunday evening U.S. 00:02:42.110 --> 00:02:47.190 time on the 22nd, you know, how effective the attack was, what was actually 00:02:47.190 --> 00:02:48.450 destroyed, what was not. 00:02:48.770 --> 00:02:52.910 There's one thing the Americans are saying, there's one thing the Iranians are 00:02:52.910 --> 00:02:59.210 saying, and again, we have no actors on this stage that are known for their truth-telling. 00:02:59.410 --> 00:03:04.970 So until or unless there's independent verification of something, who the hell knows? 00:03:05.150 --> 00:03:09.650 And of course, Iran is threatening retaliation. They're saying they're closing 00:03:09.650 --> 00:03:12.970 the Straits of Hormuz, all kinds of things. 00:03:13.130 --> 00:03:18.850 And so, whereas the U.S. administration seems to be saying, you know what? 00:03:18.990 --> 00:03:20.690 It's a one and done. We did this. 00:03:20.910 --> 00:03:24.030 Hopefully now there'll be peace. We shall see. 00:03:24.630 --> 00:03:29.750 Anyway, I will start the actual show we recorded in just a moment. 00:03:29.910 --> 00:03:33.130 I did have one other thing to say. 00:03:33.390 --> 00:03:38.890 For any of our listeners in the greater Seattle metropolitan area. 00:03:40.030 --> 00:03:45.230 Yvonne's going to be in town June 30th through... 00:03:45.230 --> 00:03:48.950 I guess he's coming in late on the 29th and leaving on the 3rd, 00:03:49.010 --> 00:03:53.290 but basically the 30th, the 1st, and the 2nd, he's going to be around. 00:03:53.490 --> 00:03:56.250 And we're talking about doing a curmudgeon's Corner meetup. 00:03:56.550 --> 00:03:59.910 Those of you who are on the Slack regularly may already know about this because 00:03:59.910 --> 00:04:00.930 we're discussing it there. 00:04:01.110 --> 00:04:04.950 But for those of you who aren't on the Slack, if you are interested, 00:04:05.230 --> 00:04:08.730 most likely, although nothing's final, final, final yet, 00:04:09.110 --> 00:04:13.730 most likely we will do some sort of meetup the evening of Wednesday, 00:04:13.990 --> 00:04:17.250 July 2nd in Seattle somewhere. 00:04:17.910 --> 00:04:23.590 If you are interested in joining us, please go to curmudgeons-corner.com. 00:04:23.750 --> 00:04:26.270 All of the ways to contact us are listed there. 00:04:26.510 --> 00:04:32.270 Email, Facebook, Mastodon, right. 00:04:32.650 --> 00:04:37.190 But email us or whatever and let us know you're interested and we will put you 00:04:37.190 --> 00:04:43.250 on the list and make sure to let you know exactly where and when and all of 00:04:43.250 --> 00:04:45.510 that kind of stuff once that's decided. 00:04:45.850 --> 00:04:51.150 So if you are a regular listener and in the Seattle area let us know we'd love 00:04:51.150 --> 00:04:56.430 to we'd love to have you meet us and meet you if we haven't met you before and 00:04:56.430 --> 00:05:03.910 all of that i guess that's it i guess now that i've like spoken for a long time. 00:05:04.670 --> 00:05:08.110 We can start the actual show here we go, 00:05:30.280 --> 00:05:36.620 Welcome to Curmudgeons Corner. It's Saturday, July 21st, 2025. 00:05:37.080 --> 00:05:42.360 Just after two UTCs, we're starting to record. I am Sam Minter. Yvonne Bo is here. 00:05:42.840 --> 00:05:44.960 Hello, Yvonne. Welcome back. 00:05:45.760 --> 00:05:46.020 Hi. 00:05:46.900 --> 00:05:50.280 Are you excited to be back? Did you miss me last week? 00:05:50.960 --> 00:05:51.400 Yes. 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:58.860 I don't understand what is it that you had going on I mean I you know the the 00:05:58.860 --> 00:06:03.960 it wound up that okay I could only do Thursday right you couldn't do it yeah. 00:06:03.960 --> 00:06:07.340 You could do Thursday or Saturday I could only do Friday. 00:06:07.340 --> 00:06:13.320 So right no I couldn't do Saturday either but I could do Thursday but you couldn't 00:06:13.320 --> 00:06:16.660 do right but you couldn't do Friday you know you could only do Friday I. 00:06:16.660 --> 00:06:21.340 Couldn't do thursday yeah i could only do friday and so we had ed you. 00:06:21.340 --> 00:06:21.820 Know that. 00:06:21.820 --> 00:06:28.600 That was that was good ed ed uh ed was here ed had a good time we had a good time it was good. 00:06:28.600 --> 00:06:32.980 No but what did you have on thursday do you have another one of these do you 00:06:32.980 --> 00:06:36.200 have to show your face at some event again or something the. 00:06:36.200 --> 00:06:37.520 Family went to a movie. 00:06:37.520 --> 00:06:41.800 Oh okay which yeah well. 00:06:41.800 --> 00:06:44.920 I'm not going to talk about this today but we went. 00:06:44.920 --> 00:06:46.040 To the live action How. 00:06:46.040 --> 00:06:48.520 To Train Your Dragon, the live action version. 00:06:48.760 --> 00:06:49.940 Yeah, you don't have to do a review. 00:06:50.100 --> 00:06:52.600 I'm just wondering. And we went on opening day. 00:06:53.120 --> 00:06:53.560 Oh. 00:06:53.860 --> 00:06:56.200 Like we were making a point of going on opening day. 00:06:56.520 --> 00:06:57.460 You did the opening day. 00:06:57.460 --> 00:06:58.980 We did not wear costumes, though. 00:06:59.580 --> 00:07:00.940 Ah, that's good. 00:07:01.560 --> 00:07:05.420 Well, we probably should have. It would have been good. You know, we could have. 00:07:05.540 --> 00:07:07.740 Like... You know, dress up as a dragon? 00:07:08.100 --> 00:07:09.900 Or a viking. Or both. 00:07:10.140 --> 00:07:10.580 Viking. 00:07:11.100 --> 00:07:11.740 You know? 00:07:12.060 --> 00:07:12.460 Okay. 00:07:12.460 --> 00:07:17.880 But no, I will save a full review for when we do that in order, 00:07:18.120 --> 00:07:26.460 but my short thumbs up, very thumbs up, it was a big thumbs up for the original animated version, 00:07:26.740 --> 00:07:29.100 but also a big thumbs up for the live action version. 00:07:29.400 --> 00:07:32.360 Okay, that's good. it was a good remake 00:07:32.360 --> 00:07:35.260 but you know speaking of speaking of 00:07:35.260 --> 00:07:42.700 movies though i i i told ed last week i had calculated that at the rate i am 00:07:42.700 --> 00:07:49.240 watching these things and finishing things i will never catch up if i only mention 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:55.160 one a week so i have to do two so when it gets to be my part of the But first, 00:07:55.440 --> 00:07:57.260 I will do two movies. 00:07:57.640 --> 00:08:01.020 But, you know, I was going to say I'll bring back the timer for that. 00:08:01.500 --> 00:08:05.240 But I forgot to, like, bring the timer into the room. 00:08:05.440 --> 00:08:06.920 I have a timer here. 00:08:07.240 --> 00:08:10.020 Well, then you can be the one to, like, buzz me out. 00:08:10.060 --> 00:08:10.500 Hold on. 00:08:10.700 --> 00:08:15.800 I mean, I've got multiple timers. I just don't have them within arm's reach of where I am right now. 00:08:15.980 --> 00:08:18.600 Right here, which is one that you sent me. It's right here. 00:08:18.620 --> 00:08:23.140 Oh, yeah, yeah. I really enjoyed that particular timer, but Alex broke it. 00:08:24.810 --> 00:08:34.310 You know, I have now, after I was with a colleague from work this week, 00:08:34.310 --> 00:08:38.890 who has been at the company only one year, also has a MacBook Pro. 00:08:39.550 --> 00:08:43.810 And they explained to me how they've already broken the keyboard. And I'm like, how? 00:08:44.890 --> 00:08:50.690 Well, as you know, I already broke my screen and had to have it fixed under AppleCare already. 00:08:51.810 --> 00:08:53.230 It's less than... 00:08:53.230 --> 00:08:54.710 No, it's about a year old now. 00:08:54.790 --> 00:08:59.070 It's about a year old. I mean, they had about six months in, I broke the screen. 00:08:59.430 --> 00:09:04.190 So, so apparently the way that they did it was, you know, okay. 00:09:04.210 --> 00:09:08.850 So they, they're in sales just like me. We have a, you know, similar role. 00:09:09.010 --> 00:09:11.650 They just cover a different, you know, thing. 00:09:12.110 --> 00:09:15.710 But, but, you know, we're, you know, we're, I have the same manager and I guess, 00:09:15.910 --> 00:09:16.950 you know, they're travel, whatever. 00:09:17.650 --> 00:09:21.430 You know, as you know, I'm, I'm a neat freak. Okay. 00:09:22.270 --> 00:09:23.570 Yes. Yes, you are. 00:09:23.630 --> 00:09:23.850 All right. 00:09:24.010 --> 00:09:24.870 That's a fact. 00:09:25.430 --> 00:09:31.390 Okay. Well, neither is she. And as maybe she's not like, I've been to her house. 00:09:32.130 --> 00:09:35.650 I, listen, this is a crazier part of the story. 00:09:35.750 --> 00:09:40.270 Look, I went to her house because one day we were supposed to meet for dinner. 00:09:40.370 --> 00:09:42.990 My boss was in town there. We're supposed to meet for dinner. 00:09:43.470 --> 00:09:43.830 Yes. 00:09:43.910 --> 00:09:48.710 She's a single mom. Okay. Her son was at the house. She was alone at the house. 00:09:48.950 --> 00:09:50.070 She was just going to meet us. 00:09:50.550 --> 00:09:56.690 Called her on the phone. Hey, what time are we meeting? And something didn't sound right. 00:09:56.990 --> 00:09:59.830 Honestly, she sounded delirious. Okay? 00:10:00.050 --> 00:10:01.410 That's not good. Yeah. 00:10:01.530 --> 00:10:03.190 Yeah. I mean, she sounded... 00:10:04.240 --> 00:10:09.240 As something told me, and I've only met her for like six months, 00:10:09.500 --> 00:10:14.420 but something sounded way off, beyond the norm. 00:10:14.600 --> 00:10:21.920 Okay. And she lives in Puerto Rico. And I'm like, okay, are you okay? And she was incoherent. 00:10:22.340 --> 00:10:26.160 I had her home address. I said, I'm going to your house right now. 00:10:26.540 --> 00:10:31.120 I found her delirious on the bed. She really had no clue. 00:10:31.680 --> 00:10:33.580 She had been vomiting nonstop. 00:10:34.240 --> 00:10:41.320 And she, and I'm like, you know, look, I'm, you know, much faster was me calling 00:10:41.320 --> 00:10:44.460 an ambulance, whatever shit show. I'm like, look, here, come on. 00:10:44.580 --> 00:10:47.120 I'm taking you to the hospital. I loaded up in the car. 00:10:47.620 --> 00:10:52.420 And so I took her to the hospital and not sure what virus she had. 00:10:52.460 --> 00:10:57.180 But what happened is that with her fever and whatever, she got super dehydrated 00:10:57.180 --> 00:11:03.080 and was just, you know, she was just, she just wasn't. 00:11:03.500 --> 00:11:07.680 she doesn't even remember that I went and I got her out of her room and took 00:11:07.680 --> 00:11:09.760 her to the car. You had no idea. 00:11:10.960 --> 00:11:15.800 That's how bad she had been. So I've been to her house. So she's not as messy 00:11:15.800 --> 00:11:20.340 as you, but she's not as a compulsive neat freak as I am. Okay? Alright? 00:11:20.840 --> 00:11:24.760 That's a reality, but her place is pretty decently clean. Okay? 00:11:25.020 --> 00:11:27.180 But it's not like me. So, I don't know. 00:11:27.700 --> 00:11:31.700 You know, she's traveling. You eat, like you buy a Starbucks or whatever. 00:11:31.860 --> 00:11:37.340 Bah, bah, bah. She's working on the keyboard she got the keyboard really dirty okay oh yeah i. 00:11:37.340 --> 00:11:39.620 Remember we're now back to the broken computer. 00:11:39.620 --> 00:11:43.560 Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah so so i've forgotten what the destination of all that 00:11:43.560 --> 00:11:47.480 explaining that what that i know that she's i've been to your house i've been 00:11:47.480 --> 00:11:52.560 to her house i know she's not as clean freak as i am but she's she's cleaner 00:11:52.560 --> 00:11:56.780 than you she's in the middle of but she's in the middle of uh of us okay in 00:11:56.780 --> 00:11:58.100 that range so she's probably. 00:11:58.100 --> 00:11:59.580 Right like at normal. 00:11:59.580 --> 00:12:02.580 Yeah yeah yeah yeah she's like at normal okay she's 00:12:02.580 --> 00:12:05.480 not at me level she's like nor you know yeah she's normal but 00:12:05.480 --> 00:12:09.280 she's normal okay so she goes 00:12:09.280 --> 00:12:12.860 and tells me well i decided i need to clean the keyboard because it was getting 00:12:12.860 --> 00:12:18.980 kind of sticky okay right yeah so she she went and she pulled out all the keys 00:12:18.980 --> 00:12:26.040 which i do not wreck okay once again i said what are you doing look i i this is not a good idea. 00:12:26.340 --> 00:12:28.840 Do not pull out the fucking keys. Okay? 00:12:29.340 --> 00:12:36.400 Just don't do that. Well, she managed to put them all back except one of the keys, which she broke. 00:12:36.740 --> 00:12:37.940 Okay. Yes. 00:12:38.140 --> 00:12:44.860 All right? Which is what usually happens with pulling apart all the fucking keys. 00:12:45.220 --> 00:12:49.080 It's just, you know, the standard thing. 00:12:51.060 --> 00:12:56.800 So anyway, she broke the keyboard Okay? She broke the damn keyboard I just, 00:12:56.920 --> 00:13:03.980 you know, look I urge people Listen, if you're going to clean the damn keyboard Okay? 00:13:04.660 --> 00:13:09.740 Whatever you do Try to avoid Removing the keys Okay? 00:13:10.000 --> 00:13:16.540 That always never works Out well It just, you know, one of them will never go back The way that, 00:13:17.600 --> 00:13:23.600 It's supposed to it's just you know that that will it just so so avoid that 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:29.980 at all costs okay i you know the thing is she's had a one-year-old macbook she's 00:13:29.980 --> 00:13:34.380 got a red keyboard mine is about to turn four years old, 00:13:35.560 --> 00:13:38.840 you know it looks new you know 00:13:38.840 --> 00:13:42.060 i i am i did i did uh uh you 00:13:42.060 --> 00:13:44.920 know i i did i am getting a replacement this year 00:13:44.920 --> 00:13:48.520 because apparently our life cycle is four years so i 00:13:48.520 --> 00:13:51.260 i am kind of happy about about getting that because i still 00:13:51.260 --> 00:13:54.400 have an intel macbook pro and you know 00:13:54.400 --> 00:13:57.620 i i did i do want to get you know apple 00:13:57.620 --> 00:14:02.340 silicon laptops especially since they're dropping support of a lot of those 00:14:02.340 --> 00:14:07.840 now they're being pretty aggressive about you know fuck you know fuck this until 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:12.660 hardware we're not you know we're not gonna keep keep supporting any yeah we're 00:14:12.660 --> 00:14:15.320 not we're not supporting this shit for well i'll. 00:14:15.320 --> 00:14:19.840 I'll tell you i'll tell you two things along your repair stories first of all 00:14:19.840 --> 00:14:25.300 i know the time i talked about it more extensively was when yvonne gpt was on 00:14:25.300 --> 00:14:30.060 the show like the reason i my screen on my laptop broke. 00:14:30.060 --> 00:14:31.460 Is is. 00:14:31.460 --> 00:14:33.320 I closed it with a needle in there. 00:14:34.090 --> 00:14:34.650 A needle? 00:14:35.170 --> 00:14:38.210 I don't know where the needle came from. I don't know, like... 00:14:38.210 --> 00:14:41.970 What the fuck do you get a needle from? The hell? You don't sew? 00:14:42.450 --> 00:14:43.530 What the hell do you get a needle? 00:14:43.890 --> 00:14:50.230 Well, and actually, it was more like... It was like the kind of straight pin. It wasn't a needle. 00:14:50.430 --> 00:14:54.590 It was like a straight pin of the kind that you pin... That come, 00:14:54.710 --> 00:14:57.530 like, when you buy a new dress shirt. And they come pinned together. 00:14:57.790 --> 00:15:00.910 Okay. All right. So one of those dress pins. Okay. So one of those clothes. 00:15:00.910 --> 00:15:01.430 Now, of course... 00:15:01.430 --> 00:15:01.670 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:15:01.910 --> 00:15:05.750 Of course, it had been, like... It's actually not that long since I'd bought 00:15:05.750 --> 00:15:08.810 one of those because I bought one like in January. 00:15:09.350 --> 00:15:11.370 Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it may have been from that somehow. 00:15:11.670 --> 00:15:14.790 It may have been from that, but somehow it got in there. 00:15:14.930 --> 00:15:19.690 I closed the laptop with that like sitting on the keyboard or something and 00:15:19.690 --> 00:15:21.250 it hit the screen and it cracked. 00:15:21.710 --> 00:15:25.870 So that's how I broke my laptop keyboard and or not the keyboard, 00:15:26.010 --> 00:15:28.690 I screened. And luckily, Apple care. 00:15:29.990 --> 00:15:33.410 and and i will say the other thing is right before 00:15:33.410 --> 00:15:36.370 this show i i had for for 00:15:36.370 --> 00:15:43.090 the day i i i've been alex has been using my laptop while i'm away at work he's 00:15:43.090 --> 00:15:49.490 doing various projects on it so it had been downstairs well i i we had taken 00:15:49.490 --> 00:15:54.730 it away and i brought it back so i was setting it back up at my docked location. 00:15:56.030 --> 00:16:00.850 And even though I'm using it docked, I did open it up and I noticed it did have crumbs. 00:16:02.410 --> 00:16:07.090 There was like food stuck to the screen of some sort. 00:16:07.430 --> 00:16:14.310 So yes, this is the kind of thing that probably does not happen in your household. 00:16:15.410 --> 00:16:21.190 Look, I will say that my, let me see, I'm trying to figure out how old these keyboards are. 00:16:21.830 --> 00:16:24.890 Okay, they're both very old. Okay, let's see. 00:16:26.630 --> 00:16:31.030 Yeah, they don't really have... They're a little bit... They... 00:16:31.980 --> 00:16:39.040 These are got to be at least five years old, six, actually seven. 00:16:39.580 --> 00:16:40.940 I don't think I've cleaned. And 00:16:40.940 --> 00:16:44.920 also, I don't think I've cleaned them in a long time. And they're fine. 00:16:45.360 --> 00:16:48.380 You know, I mean, I could stay on the cleaning, but it's not like it's not. 00:16:48.480 --> 00:16:52.520 I'm not I'm not I'm not rushing to to get them cleaned at this point. 00:16:52.980 --> 00:16:55.840 Also, another thing I discovered this week, aside from the fact that, 00:16:55.960 --> 00:16:58.400 you know, a lot of people are clumsy with their computers. 00:16:59.340 --> 00:17:03.540 A very interesting factoid. for whatever reason or scrolling through the TV 00:17:03.540 --> 00:17:08.160 and Matlock was on TV the original. 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:08.920 Or the new one. 00:17:08.920 --> 00:17:11.820 The original because there is a new one, 00:17:13.600 --> 00:17:18.140 because there is the new one and all of a sudden I saw that the original was 00:17:18.140 --> 00:17:24.620 on TV and I was I had a very long week okay I must admit I started today I had an 8, 00:17:25.660 --> 00:17:31.380 there's nothing worse than an 8am meeting and I had several of them this week. 8 a.m. 00:17:31.440 --> 00:17:32.080 Fucking meetings. 00:17:32.340 --> 00:17:34.520 8 a.m. meetings are the worst. 00:17:35.960 --> 00:17:36.560 Definitely. 00:17:38.180 --> 00:17:48.360 I mean, I'm just... You know, I do get to them functional, but it takes a Herculean effort. 00:17:49.780 --> 00:17:51.320 Herculean? Is that how you say it? 00:17:52.300 --> 00:17:55.240 I think so. Hercules? Herculean? 00:17:55.420 --> 00:17:56.320 Herculean, maybe? 00:17:56.480 --> 00:17:59.420 Herculean? Herculean? 00:17:59.780 --> 00:18:00.300 Yeah. 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:07.060 Yeah. Yeah. Herculean effort to be, you know, composed for a fucking meeting 00:18:07.060 --> 00:18:11.740 to discuss the migration of a core banking application, you know, 00:18:11.940 --> 00:18:15.020 and the necessary, you know. 00:18:15.120 --> 00:18:16.600 So scintillating conversation. 00:18:17.080 --> 00:18:23.160 Yeah. Not exactly. Yeah. And complex, you know, because we're talking about, you know. 00:18:24.230 --> 00:18:28.870 how much storage capacity and services and what things and, you know, 00:18:28.950 --> 00:18:32.950 all the different subcomponents and stuff and security and shit. 00:18:33.090 --> 00:18:37.770 So it's not, you know, this isn't some fluffy conversation. Okay. All right. 00:18:38.330 --> 00:18:44.150 And so, damn it, I got to be this fucking call to talk about this at eight in the fucking morning. 00:18:44.590 --> 00:18:49.490 And, you know, so the day at four o'clock, I was already kind of wiped out. 00:18:49.610 --> 00:18:52.990 I decided to just lay down and watch some TV because we were going to go out 00:18:52.990 --> 00:18:56.310 in there. So I go and I put on, put on Matlock and I'm looking at, 00:18:56.370 --> 00:18:58.150 I'm looking at Andy Griffith. Okay. 00:18:58.470 --> 00:19:01.110 Who's, who's Matlock and, uh, in the series. 00:19:01.490 --> 00:19:05.850 The series was filmed. Filming began in 1985 around there. 00:19:06.210 --> 00:19:10.450 I'm looking at how old is angry Griffith when he is on that show. 00:19:10.750 --> 00:19:14.150 I don't know if you remember the image and I'll send you an image of how Andy 00:19:14.150 --> 00:19:17.890 Griffith looked because I took a picture off the TV and, and I am like, 00:19:17.990 --> 00:19:23.010 okay, so I mean, I'll send you the picture on your messages. 00:19:23.510 --> 00:19:28.090 How old does that guy look to you in that picture? I just say, 00:19:28.610 --> 00:19:29.870 I mean, what do you think? 00:19:30.170 --> 00:19:33.910 Well, we have to index for the 80s because people listen. 00:19:33.910 --> 00:19:36.030 To just just whatever. I'm not. No, no, no. 00:19:36.450 --> 00:19:37.790 If this was today. 00:19:38.230 --> 00:19:39.750 How old does that guy look to you? 00:19:39.910 --> 00:19:45.270 If I saw this person on the street today, I would guess early 70s. 00:19:45.410 --> 00:19:46.630 Early 70s, right? 00:19:46.890 --> 00:19:52.090 But given this was the 1980s, I would guess he's younger than us. 00:19:52.790 --> 00:19:56.370 He's not younger than us. Okay. He's not younger than us. 00:19:56.730 --> 00:19:57.430 So he's late 50s. 00:19:57.630 --> 00:20:03.850 Yes. He's 59. So I sent this picture to my brother, my two brothers, 00:20:04.210 --> 00:20:07.890 one who was already 60 and the other one who was about to turn 58 this week. 00:20:08.010 --> 00:20:11.130 And I said, guys, okay, let me tell you something. 00:20:12.630 --> 00:20:19.670 This, this guy here is your age. And they're both like, oh, what the fuck? 00:20:19.670 --> 00:20:25.090 Well, this is something that people have pointed out a lot when looking at media 00:20:25.090 --> 00:20:29.570 from decades ago, is that how, you know, 00:20:30.030 --> 00:20:37.490 if you compare a given age between TV shows in the 80s and how people look today, 00:20:37.490 --> 00:20:40.590 they look older, you know? 00:20:40.590 --> 00:20:50.590 And now I've seen a couple of people do experiments where they basically adapted, 00:20:51.610 --> 00:21:00.510 like they took what they look like now, but then did their hair and outfit and 00:21:00.510 --> 00:21:03.950 just styling in an 80s style. 00:21:03.950 --> 00:21:09.870 and they did instantly look older now be so part of it is just the cultural 00:21:09.870 --> 00:21:19.490 association of the time but there does seem to also just be a thing with and this depends highly on, 00:21:20.450 --> 00:21:27.130 where you are socioeconomically and all kinds of other issues but people being 00:21:27.130 --> 00:21:30.470 healthier longer and there is there are. 00:21:30.470 --> 00:21:35.970 Two well there is a big factor that I know impacted a lot of those people, 00:21:36.660 --> 00:21:39.640 in their 50s at that time. It was the smoking. 00:21:40.100 --> 00:21:42.160 Oh, yes. That was big. 00:21:42.400 --> 00:21:44.320 The smoking was huge. 00:21:44.840 --> 00:21:49.860 And even for non-smokers, because it was freaking everywhere. You could not escape it. 00:21:49.880 --> 00:21:53.100 You could not escape the smoking. The damn smoking. 00:21:53.280 --> 00:21:58.300 Look, I mean, smoking aged people drastically, quickly. 00:21:58.560 --> 00:22:01.960 Smoking has been shown to give people heart disease, high blood pressure, 00:22:02.120 --> 00:22:03.500 all of these damn things. 00:22:03.620 --> 00:22:07.100 And not just that, It made people's faces age. 00:22:07.560 --> 00:22:12.140 I mean, it has been shown that people that were heavy smokers compared to the 00:22:12.140 --> 00:22:20.600 other, you know, smoke, their faces would age so much, so drastically compared to non-smokers. 00:22:21.000 --> 00:22:26.320 And that is just a factor. Look, I have a friend of mine that I knew over here 00:22:26.320 --> 00:22:29.640 who smoked so much until his 50s. 00:22:29.720 --> 00:22:33.880 And then he quit smoking. And I saw him three or four years later after he quit 00:22:33.880 --> 00:22:37.400 smoking. and he hadn't smoked for three or four years, he looked like he had lost 10 years. 00:22:37.640 --> 00:22:39.480 He looked 10 years younger. It was crazy. 00:22:40.040 --> 00:22:46.820 And I do think that one of the things that was such an impact to those people 00:22:46.820 --> 00:22:51.580 at that time was how much smoking happened back then. 00:22:51.680 --> 00:22:56.800 Yeah, and I don't know exactly when the peak year was. Probably in the 70s, I would guess. 00:22:57.080 --> 00:22:57.960 Yes, I think so. 00:22:58.080 --> 00:23:08.180 But the penetration of the percentage of the population that were regular smokers was insanely high. 00:23:08.420 --> 00:23:14.100 Like today it's unimaginable. I mean, people still smoke and people vape and 00:23:14.100 --> 00:23:17.720 people do other things and people smoke things other than tobacco. 00:23:18.120 --> 00:23:25.360 Yeah. So it's still out there by all means, but the percentage of people who don't, 00:23:26.100 --> 00:23:32.000 is higher, is, you know, most people don't anymore. 00:23:32.100 --> 00:23:35.080 And when they do, it's rarer, at least, 00:23:38.120 --> 00:23:42.180 within certain parts of the country, certain socioeconomic circles. 00:23:42.360 --> 00:23:46.680 Again, like if you go, this is one of those things where if you go to sort of 00:23:46.680 --> 00:23:48.740 the more blighted parts of the country, 00:23:48.740 --> 00:23:55.000 smoking rates are higher than they are in the richer parts as is drug use as 00:23:55.000 --> 00:24:00.960 is all kinds of things because you know for all kinds of reasons people turn 00:24:00.960 --> 00:24:06.120 to substances when other things in their lives aren't going right so the peak. 00:24:06.120 --> 00:24:09.260 For smoking was in the, 00:24:10.660 --> 00:24:19.020 around the 50s, 60s where it was over 40 you know it actually spiked, 00:24:19.040 --> 00:24:25.560 I see, from the 60s into the 70s into the mid 40s, okay? 00:24:26.000 --> 00:24:32.880 And then it started coming down, down, down, down. Until now, it's 11%. Okay? 00:24:33.080 --> 00:24:38.480 So it's down like 80% from where it was. But the one thing that you mentioned, 00:24:38.580 --> 00:24:40.900 you're right, because it wasn't just you smoking. 00:24:41.180 --> 00:24:44.080 If you, listen, if you socialized, you went out, say 00:24:44.080 --> 00:24:47.340 you only drank and you didn't smoke you 00:24:47.340 --> 00:24:50.440 go out to a bar back then dude if 00:24:50.440 --> 00:24:53.620 you were going into a cigarette chamber okay yes 00:24:53.620 --> 00:24:56.580 i mean i i would go out 00:24:56.580 --> 00:25:01.760 in the 80s and i remember when i went to the places i mean everything i wore 00:25:01.760 --> 00:25:07.000 just even when i i didn't smoke reeks of cigarettes the moment i came i i came 00:25:07.000 --> 00:25:11.800 home every night so yeah i mean you were in a in a cigarette chamber airplanes 00:25:11.800 --> 00:25:15.820 for god's sakes they're smoking on the damn airplanes, smoke on the airplanes, 00:25:16.200 --> 00:25:18.240 smoking at the offices, smoke. 00:25:18.280 --> 00:25:24.080 I mean, I mean, hell on TV. I was watching some old Johnny Carson shows where 00:25:24.080 --> 00:25:26.340 he was smoking. He was smoking in between. 00:25:26.560 --> 00:25:30.160 Like, you know, he would go and like sneak off to the side to grab a puff from 00:25:30.160 --> 00:25:34.180 a cigarette, you know, while he was recording the show live on TV. 00:25:34.200 --> 00:25:39.100 So, yeah, I mean, he was, you know, that's how prevalent it was back then. 00:25:39.100 --> 00:25:44.060 But yeah, I definitely, there is definitely, 00:25:44.120 --> 00:25:50.940 I have no doubt that that is one of the biggest reasons why people are around 00:25:50.940 --> 00:25:54.280 50 years now look so much younger than they did back then. 00:25:54.640 --> 00:25:58.680 Well, and like you said, even the 11% is... 00:25:59.470 --> 00:26:04.270 Unless you are one of the 11%, it's less visible, too. 00:26:04.530 --> 00:26:05.190 Right. Yeah. 00:26:05.650 --> 00:26:10.310 I mean, even now compared to 10 years ago, 00:26:10.690 --> 00:26:16.710 like, I remember 10 years ago when I was coming in and out of buildings at work, 00:26:16.910 --> 00:26:20.890 there'd still be, like, you know, several people sitting there smoking near 00:26:20.890 --> 00:26:21.930 the entrance somewhere. 00:26:22.030 --> 00:26:25.090 Right. Now they won't even allow them near the entrance anymore. Yeah. 00:26:25.230 --> 00:26:25.430 Right. 00:26:25.510 --> 00:26:26.450 You're, like, banished. 00:26:26.450 --> 00:26:35.230 Yeah. So like, you know, I, you don't just notice the presence all the time, 00:26:35.230 --> 00:26:37.870 unless you're one of the ones doing it yourself. 00:26:38.150 --> 00:26:41.110 I mean, I'm not going to say I haven't seen people smoking. 00:26:41.290 --> 00:26:48.390 I have within, you know, even at work, I saw someone smoking a cigarette and 00:26:48.390 --> 00:26:51.050 tossing it out before going in the building within the last week. 00:26:51.530 --> 00:26:54.430 But it's rare. It's much rarer. 00:26:54.430 --> 00:26:57.550 It used to be when I when I worked at an office in the late 90s, 00:26:57.650 --> 00:27:03.530 early 2000s, I mean, there was an entire I mean, I literally I had all these 00:27:03.530 --> 00:27:05.990 managers of smoke. I would go, OK, let's go. 00:27:06.150 --> 00:27:11.630 You know, we I mean, we were just a whole bunch of people outside standing, you know, smoking. 00:27:11.810 --> 00:27:16.410 I wasn't one of the smokers, but I had I work with two people directly most 00:27:16.410 --> 00:27:17.810 of the time. Both of them smoked. 00:27:18.330 --> 00:27:21.130 So I'm like, OK, I'm going to go outside with you to have a chit chat. 00:27:21.130 --> 00:27:25.750 I'm like, whatever, at least we're outside. I'm not inside a room like locked in, like sucking this. 00:27:25.870 --> 00:27:28.770 But yeah, you know, but that was like a typical thing. 00:27:29.550 --> 00:27:34.250 Right. Yeah, no, definitely. I think that's part of it. And like I said, 00:27:34.330 --> 00:27:35.690 though, there are other factors, too. 00:27:36.010 --> 00:27:41.210 Like somebody like I keep going back to this experiment somebody did where they 00:27:41.210 --> 00:27:45.470 they, you know, they were pointing out the like there's a picture of like the 00:27:45.470 --> 00:27:47.870 golden girls or whatever with their ages next to it. 00:27:47.890 --> 00:27:52.410 Like they're they're all in their 50s, except one who was actually in their 40s. 00:27:52.410 --> 00:27:55.950 you know um and jesus 00:27:55.950 --> 00:27:58.870 christ and and and you know that whole 00:27:58.870 --> 00:28:03.070 show was about them being old and over the hill and like right yeah whatever 00:28:03.070 --> 00:28:12.190 but you know basically this person who was the same age just dressed up like 00:28:12.190 --> 00:28:18.430 older like dressed in the style of that they dressed in that show Oh, 00:28:18.550 --> 00:28:23.110 and yeah, they instantly look 10, 15 years older just from changing how they 00:28:23.110 --> 00:28:24.450 dressed and how they did their hair. 00:28:24.870 --> 00:28:28.310 You know, well, look, I mean, but I think you're absolutely right. 00:28:29.070 --> 00:28:32.830 You know, we got the Brimley cocoon line that we've talked about. 00:28:33.010 --> 00:28:33.150 Right. 00:28:33.250 --> 00:28:37.190 I mean, you know, look, Wolfram Brimley, for whatever reason, 00:28:37.450 --> 00:28:42.850 you know, was a he when he was in cocoon. 00:28:42.850 --> 00:28:46.150 how old was he 52 i think it was i 00:28:46.150 --> 00:28:49.290 look uh looking up the age hold on 00:28:49.290 --> 00:28:54.610 wilford brimley age oh 00:28:54.610 --> 00:28:57.650 shit okay he was 49 when he 00:28:57.650 --> 00:29:02.250 was cast sappy was 50 okay 00:29:02.250 --> 00:29:13.630 turning 50 during the filming i mean holy shit yes it's 49 years old holy shit 00:29:13.630 --> 00:29:21.870 man they lived a hard life back then let me tell you holy shit wow yes. 00:29:21.870 --> 00:29:24.150 Anyway shall we move on. 00:29:24.150 --> 00:29:31.710 Yeah you know if any of you can't I can't notice that I'm stalling talking about 00:29:31.710 --> 00:29:38.470 potential World War III or other stuff or whatever, you know, chaos and whatever. 00:29:38.470 --> 00:29:41.830 It's just because I gotta be honest with you, I'm exhausted. 00:29:42.590 --> 00:29:45.630 Well, I got two movies and you've got the timer in front of you. 00:29:45.730 --> 00:29:47.510 How much time are you going to give for each movie? 00:29:47.770 --> 00:29:48.930 All right. Ten minutes. 00:29:49.310 --> 00:29:50.310 Ten minutes each? 00:29:51.010 --> 00:29:51.150 Yeah. 00:29:51.330 --> 00:29:53.350 Or ten minutes total? Okay. Okay. 00:29:53.390 --> 00:29:55.690 I'll give you 15 minutes total. Okay. All right. 00:29:55.730 --> 00:29:58.150 Here we go. No, give me, so seven and a half. 00:29:58.210 --> 00:30:00.710 I'll give you like seven and a half. Okay. So I'll go, I'll, 00:30:00.710 --> 00:30:02.290 I'll make the seven and a half. 00:30:02.830 --> 00:30:07.450 All right. And, uh, I think we're good. I think we're good. Yeah. Time. Yeah. I hear it. 00:30:07.990 --> 00:30:14.630 Okay. Number one, which I watched on September 15th of last year, Godfather part three. 00:30:15.260 --> 00:30:18.380 Ah, the most hated one. 00:30:18.800 --> 00:30:25.560 Except, I must say, it is hard to actually find the original Godfather Part 00:30:25.560 --> 00:30:30.260 3 now, because they put out Godfather Coda, which was... 00:30:30.260 --> 00:30:34.180 Oh, yeah, it was a big... Yeah, I know. 00:30:34.580 --> 00:30:37.200 They basically re-edited it. 00:30:37.340 --> 00:30:43.200 So Godfather Coda is the one I actually saw, which was released in 2020. 00:30:43.680 --> 00:30:49.960 Okay. Um, so I'll say like, so apparently there were, there's like three different versions. 00:30:50.080 --> 00:30:54.360 There's the original like theatrical release, which was when, 00:30:54.500 --> 00:31:02.380 on 1990, there was a director's cut or quote, final director's cut from 1991. 00:31:02.740 --> 00:31:05.880 And then Godfather Coda was in 2020. 00:31:06.500 --> 00:31:13.160 And it says the Wikipedia summary of the Coda one is for the film's 30th anniversary, 00:31:13.480 --> 00:31:17.740 recut titled The Godfather Coda, The Death of Michael Corleone, 00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:22.140 received a limited theatrical release, followed by digital and home releases. 00:31:22.460 --> 00:31:27.280 This version includes changes to the beginning and ending and some edited scenes 00:31:27.280 --> 00:31:31.060 and musical cues as a runtime of 158 minutes. 00:31:31.200 --> 00:31:36.140 He has said that the 2020 recut is the one that he and Puzo originally envisioned 00:31:36.140 --> 00:31:38.960 and that it vindicates its status 00:31:38.960 --> 00:31:42.760 in the Godfather trilogy as well as his daughter Sophia's performance. 00:31:43.440 --> 00:31:47.260 Both Pacino and Keaton gave their approval to the new cut, noting it is an improvement 00:31:47.260 --> 00:31:48.980 over the original theatrical release. 00:31:49.340 --> 00:31:53.620 So I have not seen the originals. I've only seen the Coda version. 00:31:55.460 --> 00:32:02.920 And I know that this, as you alluded to, people sort of hated it compared to the others. 00:32:03.460 --> 00:32:07.840 I thought it was fine. I give it a thumbs up. I liked it, you know, 00:32:08.480 --> 00:32:13.000 fine. And it was, you know, it was, it was nominated, not the Coda version, 00:32:13.120 --> 00:32:15.660 but the original was nominated for best picture. 00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:19.380 You know, it was a, you know, it was a good movie, you know? 00:32:19.620 --> 00:32:23.460 I thought so too. I listened. I thought that the original version without that, 00:32:23.460 --> 00:32:26.220 that re-edited, I've watched both, was good too. 00:32:26.600 --> 00:32:34.600 I think the people, I, a lot of the shit that Coppola got was about this daughter being in the movie. 00:32:35.020 --> 00:32:35.520 Mm-hmm. 00:32:36.540 --> 00:32:39.900 I thought she did fine and she's shown herself to be actually be a very good, 00:32:40.840 --> 00:32:45.880 director in her own completely standing on her own so she's shown herself that 00:32:45.880 --> 00:32:47.840 she's not she's not a hack yeah, 00:32:48.610 --> 00:32:52.750 Some people criticized Andy Garcia on the movie, which I actually thought he 00:32:52.750 --> 00:32:55.610 did a really good job in the movie. 00:32:56.310 --> 00:32:58.510 I'm not going to remember who is who, but yeah. 00:32:59.110 --> 00:33:04.050 He is, what's his name, Corleone's nephew, the one that married, 00:33:04.370 --> 00:33:07.770 the one that wound up to marry his daughter. 00:33:08.790 --> 00:33:13.630 So just to hit it real quick before we run out of time, plot-wise, 00:33:13.890 --> 00:33:18.030 this is the last of the three Godfather movies. Apparently, they had thought 00:33:18.030 --> 00:33:20.490 about a sequel, but Godfather 4 never happened. 00:33:20.670 --> 00:33:22.810 There was a book that came out of that. 00:33:23.330 --> 00:33:29.550 But, you know, and it basically, like with, they did some of this in the other 00:33:29.550 --> 00:33:32.110 movies too, but it's the later, 00:33:32.650 --> 00:33:38.830 older Michael Corleone, but with lots of flashbacks to the past as well. 00:33:38.830 --> 00:33:39.310 Yeah. 00:33:39.950 --> 00:33:45.370 You know, going back to when his family was still in Italy, when they first 00:33:45.370 --> 00:33:46.950 came over to the States, et cetera. 00:33:47.650 --> 00:33:54.070 And this one has like a whole part of the plot about, you know, 00:33:54.590 --> 00:33:58.610 interfering with papal succession, you know, as well. 00:33:58.610 --> 00:34:02.370 Which, by the way, here's the interesting thing about that part. 00:34:02.730 --> 00:34:03.250 Yes. 00:34:03.770 --> 00:34:09.530 Very similar to what happened recently, some of the events, okay, specifically. 00:34:09.810 --> 00:34:10.530 Yeah. 00:34:10.530 --> 00:34:18.090 Specifically related to financial fraud in the immobiliaria, the company, 00:34:18.390 --> 00:34:24.690 you know, this holding that the Vatican has, where there was one person that 00:34:24.690 --> 00:34:31.450 recently the Pope wrote that he removed precisely for that, okay, 00:34:32.050 --> 00:34:34.030 before he died, okay? 00:34:34.670 --> 00:34:40.930 So I was like, whoa, what the hell? This is, you know, what I heard about that happening. 00:34:41.630 --> 00:34:51.470 Well, this also just in the movie, too, it's also inspired by real events from earlier, too. 00:34:51.850 --> 00:34:56.350 There was conspiracy around the death of Pope John Paul I. 00:34:56.470 --> 00:34:56.790 Yes. 00:34:56.890 --> 00:35:00.050 You remember, only lasted like a month in office. A month. 00:35:00.450 --> 00:35:02.190 Yes. And there was a conspiracy that he was murdered. 00:35:02.190 --> 00:35:04.230 And there was a banking scandal there, too. 00:35:04.330 --> 00:35:05.850 And there was a banking scandal, yes. 00:35:06.430 --> 00:35:11.190 And so, yeah. Anyway, I liked the movie. I enjoyed it. 00:35:11.290 --> 00:35:15.590 I understand they changed a few things around. And I remember, 00:35:15.870 --> 00:35:20.090 after watching it, reading a little bit about the specific changes they made. 00:35:20.970 --> 00:35:26.930 But, you know, which I guess were to try to clarify some things and to, 00:35:26.930 --> 00:35:33.690 you know, slightly change the nature of the very ending, which I won't give away, but you know, 00:35:34.300 --> 00:35:40.820 I liked all three movies, to be honest. Like, you know, I enjoyed the whole series. 00:35:41.220 --> 00:35:46.040 Alex watched them with me. He did not enjoy them so much. But, you know, whatever. 00:35:46.420 --> 00:35:54.160 I thought they were good. I enjoyed them. They deserve their reputation as an 00:35:54.160 --> 00:36:00.400 important film series that, you know, now if I had to pick, like, 00:36:01.040 --> 00:36:03.960 you know, would three be my number one? 00:36:03.960 --> 00:36:06.800 not probably not but i i thought they were a 00:36:06.800 --> 00:36:10.420 good trilogy it it's fine as a series like 00:36:10.420 --> 00:36:13.400 you know you know there's some 00:36:13.400 --> 00:36:17.540 where you feel like okay they're just milking it they're just milking it like 00:36:17.540 --> 00:36:22.600 you mentioned a few weeks ago like fast and furious 27 or whatever the hell 00:36:22.600 --> 00:36:27.440 they're on now and they're i i going into space and stuff you know but yeah 00:36:27.440 --> 00:36:30.980 you know we we didn't have like. 00:36:30.980 --> 00:36:32.360 Oh i don't think they. 00:36:32.360 --> 00:36:33.280 Probably did. 00:36:33.280 --> 00:36:34.420 Go into space right yeah. 00:36:34.420 --> 00:36:37.260 Godfather three did not involve any 00:36:37.260 --> 00:36:42.700 involve anybody going to space or you know on to the ocean gate submersible 00:36:42.700 --> 00:36:51.480 or anything like that you know you know but you know it was uh but yeah no enjoyable 00:36:51.480 --> 00:36:54.860 trilogy is my seven and a half minutes up i'm like vamping a little bit you're. 00:36:54.860 --> 00:36:56.600 Like you're have a minute left. 00:36:57.200 --> 00:37:02.060 I have a minute left. So anything else to say? 00:37:02.260 --> 00:37:07.420 I mean, I don't know. Like, I enjoyed it. It was a long time ago. 00:37:07.500 --> 00:37:08.460 So I don't remember all the details. If we don't have, let's go to the next 00:37:08.460 --> 00:37:11.020 one. We'll save some time, and we'll go, you know, that way. 00:37:11.180 --> 00:37:14.240 Okay, so let's go to the next one. I'll give you the seven and a half minutes back. 00:37:14.600 --> 00:37:17.260 We're back here. Okay, so let's go to the next one. Okay. 00:37:17.320 --> 00:37:22.020 Okay, the next one. Watched on September 19th, 2024, just a few days later. 00:37:22.600 --> 00:37:28.760 The Princess and the Frog from 2010. it's a Disney animated thing, 00:37:28.840 --> 00:37:36.620 I'm giving it another thumbs up I really enjoyed it it's from 2009 it was, 00:37:37.680 --> 00:37:44.860 set in New Orleans in the 1920s there's a waitress who wants to someday own 00:37:44.860 --> 00:37:50.920 a restaurant and you may guess from the title The Princess and the Frog she 00:37:50.920 --> 00:37:53.940 meets a you know, she meets a frog, 00:37:54.580 --> 00:37:59.740 who actually in fact was a prince who was turned into a frog by some magical spell, 00:38:00.540 --> 00:38:04.120 and and adventures ensue and uh 00:38:04.120 --> 00:38:10.120 it's a musical a few songs a few good songs it it tugs at your heartstrings 00:38:10.120 --> 00:38:16.700 at all the right times you know there's a there's a scene where you know no 00:38:16.700 --> 00:38:20.860 spoilers but something happens to a character and you like you want to cry it's 00:38:20.860 --> 00:38:23.080 all emotional and And, you know, 00:38:23.580 --> 00:38:26.560 there's, you know, look, it's a Disney cartoon. 00:38:26.800 --> 00:38:30.520 So it's all the things you would expect of that. 00:38:31.560 --> 00:38:36.700 It's emotional at the right times. There's sort of adventure sequences. There's comedy. 00:38:37.980 --> 00:38:42.520 It's a fun movie. It's just plain fun movie. 00:38:42.780 --> 00:38:48.980 It won. Did it win or was just nominated? It was nominated for Best Animated Feature that year. 00:38:50.530 --> 00:38:57.290 Big thumbs up. I enjoyed it. And it is one of those things that it's a family 00:38:57.290 --> 00:38:58.870 movie, not a kid's movie. 00:38:59.010 --> 00:39:02.030 So, you know, that you really do have the two types. 00:39:02.150 --> 00:39:06.430 Sometimes you have movies that are really, really aimed at like younger kids 00:39:06.430 --> 00:39:11.330 of a certain age and adults have, you know, sort of suffer through it. 00:39:11.550 --> 00:39:16.210 This is one that's good for the whole family as, as most Disney movies are, 00:39:16.210 --> 00:39:22.070 you know and yeah like i'm not gonna have a lot i'm not gonna use the whole 00:39:22.070 --> 00:39:27.190 seven and a half minutes of on this one either have you seen this one no i haven't 00:39:27.190 --> 00:39:30.170 seen it it's it's worth seeing, 00:39:30.750 --> 00:39:34.790 and it you know and like i said it's good for adults but like if you have kids 00:39:34.790 --> 00:39:40.910 kids will like the movie too you know it's and it was also i should say it was 00:39:40.910 --> 00:39:49.830 well known this was the first disney princess who was black and so at the time oh my god yeah. 00:39:49.830 --> 00:39:51.290 I'm just jeez yeah. 00:39:51.290 --> 00:39:56.970 You know i mean it was 2009 it was you know it's about freaking time you know 00:39:56.970 --> 00:40:02.790 disney had been around a while by 2009 you know but you know but you know still 00:40:02.790 --> 00:40:07.090 this is the kind of thing that you know how even today you had obama and you had. 00:40:07.090 --> 00:40:08.930 A black princess i mean jesus christ, 00:40:09.530 --> 00:40:11.190 You know, now you know what we have, MAGA. 00:40:11.630 --> 00:40:16.250 I mean, even now, I mentioned I saw the live-action How to Train Your Dragon. 00:40:16.490 --> 00:40:23.650 There was controversy because the female lead in Animated was like, 00:40:23.750 --> 00:40:26.490 you know, a blonde Viking, right? 00:40:26.670 --> 00:40:32.150 But they cast a black actress in that role for the live-action remake. 00:40:32.690 --> 00:40:36.390 And so there was a lot of controversy when they first announced that casting. 00:40:37.110 --> 00:40:42.470 She was excellent, by the way. She did a great job. She inhabited the character. 00:40:43.070 --> 00:40:50.290 It went, you know, anybody who's bitching about it, there is absolutely no reason other than racism. 00:40:50.570 --> 00:40:55.970 You know, it's, and yeah, but that's, that was like the cast, 00:40:56.250 --> 00:40:59.930 the movie came out this year, but the casting was announced like a year ago or more. 00:40:59.930 --> 00:41:02.930 and there were people complaining about it the whole 00:41:02.930 --> 00:41:06.050 you know oh they're going woke and 00:41:06.050 --> 00:41:09.050 blah blah blah oh give me a fucking break you know 00:41:09.050 --> 00:41:17.910 it's and like princess and the frog by the way you know is also like you know 00:41:17.910 --> 00:41:27.110 it leans into sort of new orleans culture and the fact that she's black is relevant to that, 00:41:27.410 --> 00:41:33.670 you know, you know, in the 1920s and, you know, the, the sort of dynamics of 00:41:33.670 --> 00:41:35.970 1920s, Louisiana and such. 00:41:36.090 --> 00:41:38.890 And it would, the movie would have a different character if she wasn't, 00:41:38.990 --> 00:41:45.290 you know, and, but whereas the, the, the dragon movie, it really didn't make 00:41:45.290 --> 00:41:49.790 any difference, but there were all kinds of people going, you can't do that. Vikings were white. 00:41:52.090 --> 00:41:56.450 And you know the straight up answer to that in a movie like How to Train Your 00:41:56.450 --> 00:41:58.950 Dragon is you know what else? 00:41:59.050 --> 00:42:06.750 talking about a movie with a fucking dragon exactly Vikings didn't ride dragons either Jesus. 00:42:06.750 --> 00:42:08.390 Fucking Christ you idiots, 00:42:10.710 --> 00:42:11.650 God almighty. 00:42:12.450 --> 00:42:13.930 Yeah. So. 00:42:14.510 --> 00:42:19.370 Oh, we need the historical accuracy for a movie that involves a fucking dragon. 00:42:22.570 --> 00:42:23.070 Yes. 00:42:27.570 --> 00:42:30.090 Yes. Okay. 00:42:30.290 --> 00:42:34.190 I'm checking my list. So we got two minutes on this. I'm checking my list of 00:42:34.190 --> 00:42:36.610 Fast and the Furious movies. Okay. 00:42:36.790 --> 00:42:39.550 You did talk about this only a few weeks ago, but go ahead. 00:42:39.550 --> 00:42:45.010 Yes, but I'm looking through the list, okay? By the way, they didn't go to space, okay? 00:42:45.110 --> 00:42:46.130 Let me correct that. 00:42:46.330 --> 00:42:52.330 I exaggerated a little bit about that. They did go to Japan. One thing I can see. 00:42:52.510 --> 00:42:54.250 Well, that's like space, isn't it? 00:42:54.530 --> 00:43:00.470 I mean, kind of. I mean, if you've been to Tokyo, it looks like you're out of space, you know? 00:43:00.990 --> 00:43:04.790 So it's very modern. So let's see. So the first one we'll call it. 00:43:04.790 --> 00:43:07.330 But look, James Bond went to space decades ago. 00:43:07.330 --> 00:43:12.330 J-Spot was to space multiple times. Okay, Moonraker, okay, you know, 00:43:12.430 --> 00:43:16.530 where they did the whole thing where apparently you could launch a shuttle attached 00:43:16.530 --> 00:43:21.870 to the 747, which is completely, you know, had a lot of holes in the plot. 00:43:22.150 --> 00:43:25.630 But still, anyway, Fast and Furious did not go to that. 00:43:25.630 --> 00:43:29.210 The first one was the Fast and the Furious. 00:43:29.330 --> 00:43:29.690 Right, right. 00:43:30.050 --> 00:43:31.850 Okay, the. It's important. 00:43:32.250 --> 00:43:32.510 The, yes. 00:43:32.710 --> 00:43:36.290 Because the second one was too fast and too furious. then 00:43:36.290 --> 00:43:39.790 you had the Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift and 00:43:39.790 --> 00:43:46.830 then you had Fast and Furious not the Fast and Furious oh right this is why 00:43:46.830 --> 00:43:50.590 I made sure to mention that there was a the Fast and Furious and then there 00:43:50.590 --> 00:43:59.130 was a Fast and Furious okay no the okay very important then you went into Fast 5, 00:43:59.870 --> 00:44:08.530 then you went into Fast and Furious 6 then you went into Furious 7 get rid of 00:44:08.530 --> 00:44:12.530 the fast timer went off, there you go so, 00:44:14.090 --> 00:44:21.870 the fate of the Furious not faster anymore then we simplified it to F9 sounds 00:44:21.870 --> 00:44:30.390 like a jet fighter craft at this point and then you went to Fast X which sounds like an iPhone and. 00:44:30.390 --> 00:44:33.110 There was a spinoff called Hobbs and Shaw. 00:44:33.110 --> 00:44:34.810 Hobbs and Shaw, yes, 00:44:35.680 --> 00:44:39.400 And they've got a plan for Fast X Part 2. 00:44:40.200 --> 00:44:40.240 Yes. 00:44:40.420 --> 00:44:47.360 Okay. And then you've got another one that they think Fast and the Furious presents Hobbs and Reyes. 00:44:47.620 --> 00:44:50.560 Not Hobbs and Shaw. Not sure who Reyes is. 00:44:50.880 --> 00:44:54.220 And then the other ones have no name. But they have two more. 00:44:54.380 --> 00:44:56.900 One that says Untitled Standalone Film. 00:44:57.560 --> 00:45:01.360 Untitled Female Led Spinoff. I mean, I'm not... 00:45:01.360 --> 00:45:05.920 And as I scroll down the Wikipedia page, there are two short films as well. 00:45:06.040 --> 00:45:09.900 They're short films, yes. The Turbo Charge. 00:45:09.940 --> 00:45:15.700 And a TV show. And a TV show. The Spy Racers on Netflix. 00:45:16.240 --> 00:45:17.900 And six seasons. 00:45:18.440 --> 00:45:19.000 Yes. 00:45:19.540 --> 00:45:22.300 I mean, I got to say, man, let me tell you something. 00:45:22.500 --> 00:45:30.100 I got to give good credit to Vin Diesel for milking the shit out of a mediocre movie. 00:45:30.100 --> 00:45:36.880 and making it a gravy train that, by the way, I'll give credit to Vin Diesel 00:45:36.880 --> 00:45:42.840 for being a stand-up guy because when Paul Walker died, he basically still kept 00:45:42.840 --> 00:45:44.340 taking care of his daughter, 00:45:44.880 --> 00:45:46.740 gave him money, walking down the aisle. 00:45:47.200 --> 00:45:49.620 So, you know, knowing that his death, he actually took care of, 00:45:49.660 --> 00:45:52.320 you know, one of his co-stars, so I'll give him credit for that. 00:45:52.380 --> 00:45:57.640 But this guy milked, I mean, this is 30 years of milking, you know, 00:45:58.340 --> 00:46:02.320 this. I mean, this makes like Tom Cruise with the Mission Impossible movies 00:46:02.320 --> 00:46:05.060 seem like just, you know, he's a rookie. 00:46:05.260 --> 00:46:08.380 I mean, this is serious milking here. Okay. 00:46:08.480 --> 00:46:10.580 And by the way, the TV series is animated. 00:46:11.060 --> 00:46:13.320 Oh, the TV series is animated. Oh, there you go. 00:46:14.520 --> 00:46:15.480 But apparently. 00:46:16.500 --> 00:46:22.340 And there's also, listen, there's also a very shitty ride. Okay. Which I went on. 00:46:22.880 --> 00:46:26.200 I went on when I went to Los Angeles a couple of years ago. 00:46:26.200 --> 00:46:33.040 they have a ride at universal studios okay as well which i thought was ridiculously 00:46:33.040 --> 00:46:39.920 stupid okay but i got on it it's there so they've got a ride at the universal 00:46:39.920 --> 00:46:43.380 studios hollywood i think they also have the same one in. 00:46:43.380 --> 00:46:48.140 Florida oh i i have to correct myself though i i started to say that the animated 00:46:48.140 --> 00:46:52.820 series has a lot of the same voices no it only has vin diesel and some cameos 00:46:52.820 --> 00:46:55.860 otherwise not so yeah oh well so. 00:46:55.860 --> 00:46:59.560 The ride is called fast and furious supercharged. 00:46:59.560 --> 00:47:02.260 Okay i mean 00:47:02.260 --> 00:47:06.080 so shall shall we go ahead and take a break and then get to world war three 00:47:06.080 --> 00:47:17.360 and everything else that we need to talk about yeah okay um yeah okay here here 00:47:17.360 --> 00:47:19.560 comes a break and then we will, 00:47:20.120 --> 00:47:22.940 talk about the more serious things going on in the world. 00:47:23.120 --> 00:47:26.780 And actually, there's too many serious things going on in the world. 00:47:26.800 --> 00:47:31.080 We probably won't get to all of them. But here we go. 00:49:32.240 --> 00:49:36.020 Okay, so we're back. Now, I had mentioned there was a lot going on, 00:49:36.140 --> 00:49:37.480 and we'll only talk about some of them. 00:49:37.700 --> 00:49:42.680 So let me list the list real quick, because some of these don't even feel like 00:49:42.680 --> 00:49:43.640 they were still this week. 00:49:44.100 --> 00:49:49.360 We had the Minnesota lawmaker shootings, the state reps. 00:49:49.360 --> 00:49:53.100 Jesus Christ, that was still this week? That was this week? 00:49:53.360 --> 00:49:57.920 Yeah, that happened last Saturday, which was after Ed and I recorded the last show. 00:49:58.340 --> 00:50:02.020 We had the No Kings rallies. We had Trump's parade. 00:50:02.460 --> 00:50:06.920 We had the New York comptroller, who's also running for mayor, 00:50:07.300 --> 00:50:11.520 arrested, trying to do some, you know, on immigration stuff. 00:50:11.940 --> 00:50:15.100 We, of course, have Iran that I'm sure we're going to talk about. 00:50:15.100 --> 00:50:21.600 we had the supreme court make a significant decision on trans rights and the 00:50:21.600 --> 00:50:23.440 other things sort of fall into that category wait. 00:50:23.440 --> 00:50:27.760 What was okay what was the decision on trans rights i don't remember this one now which one. 00:50:27.760 --> 00:50:35.640 The supreme court let stand uh states who have outlawed um gender affirming 00:50:35.640 --> 00:50:42.380 surgery for for minors right yeah so and and that affects approximately half 00:50:42.380 --> 00:50:45.360 the country And so, you know, basically, 00:50:45.780 --> 00:50:50.540 if you're a trans kid in those states, you're out of luck right now, 00:50:50.800 --> 00:50:56.740 unless your parents are wealthy enough to, you know, take you to a different 00:50:56.740 --> 00:50:57.720 state for your treatments. 00:50:58.540 --> 00:51:01.300 So that went on i will say on the 00:51:01.300 --> 00:51:04.340 no kings thing i'd mentioned last week 00:51:04.340 --> 00:51:07.140 both ed and i talked about how the fact we intended to go 00:51:07.140 --> 00:51:14.680 to these things i did go and i will say it was it was it was good like i went 00:51:14.680 --> 00:51:20.040 in everett washington and you know ed and i talked about like one of the reasons 00:51:20.040 --> 00:51:25.300 for things like this is not necessarily that you expect, 00:51:25.600 --> 00:51:29.840 oh my God, Donald Trump will see all these rallies and change things. 00:51:30.060 --> 00:51:35.780 And no, that's not it. But it's when you go to them, the sense of, 00:51:35.900 --> 00:51:38.380 you know, no, you're not alone. 00:51:38.600 --> 00:51:45.720 A lot of people also feel this way. A lot of people are upset by this. 00:51:46.020 --> 00:51:51.020 And to sort of get that validation and to feel like, you know, 00:51:51.100 --> 00:51:53.560 especially right now when, you know, 00:51:54.280 --> 00:51:58.260 all of the institutions are going the other direction, you know, 00:51:58.440 --> 00:52:01.320 the presidency, the court, the Congress, et cetera. 00:52:01.600 --> 00:52:05.640 And we have things like the Supreme Court decision, you know. 00:52:06.470 --> 00:52:12.550 Being in a place where you are surrounded by like-minded people who are being 00:52:12.550 --> 00:52:17.030 loud and vocal, and you can see that there are actually a lot of them. 00:52:17.770 --> 00:52:22.530 Nationwide, I think the estimates ended up at five or six million people nationwide 00:52:22.530 --> 00:52:25.370 participated in these things. I saw some estimates. 00:52:25.590 --> 00:52:28.970 Basically, as many people that went to the parade in Washington, right? 00:52:30.110 --> 00:52:34.570 Just a tad more. But yeah, I've seen some estimates that were even higher, 00:52:34.750 --> 00:52:37.350 but the most credible estimates were five to six million. 00:52:38.350 --> 00:52:41.910 And, you know, like when I was in Everett, Washington, you know, 00:52:41.990 --> 00:52:44.050 there were big crowds. There was a little rally. 00:52:44.230 --> 00:52:50.030 And then there was like a couple hours of sign waving along one of the main drags through town. 00:52:50.030 --> 00:52:56.270 And the thing that got me the most and honestly had me like tearing up at certain 00:52:56.270 --> 00:52:59.110 points were that, you know, 00:52:59.790 --> 00:53:05.090 almost the entire time where people were sand, sand, sand, sign waving, 00:53:05.350 --> 00:53:08.910 the, the road was still open. This wasn't a parade. 00:53:09.070 --> 00:53:12.370 This was just people lining the sidewalks with their signs. 00:53:12.370 --> 00:53:15.870 So there was still traffic going down the street. and 00:53:15.870 --> 00:53:19.030 there was almost non-stop the 00:53:19.030 --> 00:53:22.130 entire time people honking in support 00:53:22.130 --> 00:53:27.710 and waving out their windows as they drove by whereas like i've been to i've 00:53:27.710 --> 00:53:33.110 been to sign wavings before for like candidates like both for my wife and for 00:53:33.110 --> 00:53:37.610 other local candidates where you know you're just sitting on a corner waving 00:53:37.610 --> 00:53:41.590 the sign for your candidate or whatever and yeah you get some supporting honks, 00:53:41.650 --> 00:53:44.950 but you also get people, well, no, you get a few, 00:53:45.230 --> 00:53:49.790 but, but you also get people giving you the finger and yelling out the window. 00:53:50.250 --> 00:53:55.850 There was none of that going on. And maybe they were just intimidated by the large crowd. 00:53:56.890 --> 00:53:58.430 And exactly good. 00:53:58.730 --> 00:54:04.170 You know, I, I, I, you know, I want to go back to the time where fucking racist 00:54:04.170 --> 00:54:06.350 people were intimidated into not being racist. 00:54:07.290 --> 00:54:07.570 Yeah. 00:54:07.790 --> 00:54:11.810 Can we go back to that time? You remember the good old days? 00:54:11.970 --> 00:54:12.330 Oh, yeah. 00:54:12.330 --> 00:54:14.050 When they were scared of being fucking racist? 00:54:14.550 --> 00:54:18.610 Oh, yeah. But like, no, it was just very heartening to like, 00:54:18.990 --> 00:54:22.790 you know, we spent probably an hour walking down the street because there was 00:54:22.790 --> 00:54:28.350 like a like a mile where people were lining the streets and we walked down one side and up the other. 00:54:28.350 --> 00:54:36.270 And, you know, during that time, you know, I mean, just all the energy that 00:54:36.270 --> 00:54:39.410 was there was just very heartening and invigorating. 00:54:39.750 --> 00:54:43.690 And, you know, it's like, yeah, let's go. 00:54:43.690 --> 00:54:49.050 And I've seen some things afterwards, you know, we've criticized like, 00:54:49.190 --> 00:54:55.070 you know, Democratic leadership before for not having this kind of energy. 00:54:55.390 --> 00:55:00.090 And there were a lot of Democratic leaders who sort of stayed away from these things. 00:55:00.330 --> 00:55:04.310 And, you know, with notable exceptions, the usual notable exceptions. 00:55:04.310 --> 00:55:08.290 but it's like, come on folks, harness this energy. 00:55:08.590 --> 00:55:12.430 Like, let's go, let's show some vigor, show some fight. 00:55:12.750 --> 00:55:20.050 And, uh, cause there are clearly lots of people that are just ready for that 00:55:20.050 --> 00:55:26.890 and want to want an outlet for all this energy and want leaders that also show 00:55:26.890 --> 00:55:31.450 the same kind of energy as opposed to sort of just, 00:55:32.490 --> 00:55:33.270 what we're getting. 00:55:35.370 --> 00:55:41.190 So, again, with notable exceptions. Okay, that was all I had to say. 00:55:41.290 --> 00:55:44.670 The other things that I listed that were not particularly newsy, 00:55:44.770 --> 00:55:49.510 I've mentioned on the show my little Tempest game machine that has been in a 00:55:49.510 --> 00:55:53.430 box for months, or not months, years. 00:55:53.430 --> 00:55:53.710 Years. 00:55:54.050 --> 00:55:59.910 Years and years. My son Alex arranged for me to get it for Christmas like three 00:55:59.910 --> 00:56:04.530 years ago or something. I opened the box once, saw it looked complicated to 00:56:04.530 --> 00:56:06.630 put together, put it back in the box. 00:56:06.850 --> 00:56:10.850 And ever since then, I've been begging my family every birthday, 00:56:11.150 --> 00:56:15.970 every Christmas, every Father's Day, can you please put this together for me? 00:56:16.110 --> 00:56:19.450 Because it stressed me out when I even looked at it. 00:56:19.890 --> 00:56:25.150 Yeah, you would be no good at assembling. Because I assembled it and I... 00:56:25.150 --> 00:56:25.630 Yeah. 00:56:26.310 --> 00:56:28.470 You would not be the right person to do it. 00:56:28.470 --> 00:56:32.550 I have assembled other things, and I hate assembling things, 00:56:32.610 --> 00:56:35.010 and it stresses me out, even when it's simple. 00:56:35.290 --> 00:56:39.070 I opened this box, and it didn't look simple. No, this is not simple. 00:56:39.390 --> 00:56:43.910 I was like, screw that. I'm not doing it. So Alex and my wife, 00:56:43.990 --> 00:56:48.630 Brandy, together put this thing together for this fall. Together, together, together. 00:56:49.110 --> 00:56:54.430 Put it, assembled it for this Father's Day. I've been playing it. It comes with 12 games. 00:56:54.550 --> 00:56:58.310 I've now played 11 of them. I've said nobody else is allowed to play it until 00:56:58.310 --> 00:57:01.730 I play the first game on each one of the games. I've got one more to do. 00:57:02.850 --> 00:57:05.670 But I've been enjoying it. I've been playing every day. 00:57:06.670 --> 00:57:09.530 I like ours. We don't have the Tempest one. 00:57:09.990 --> 00:57:15.370 I got the Ms. Pac-Man one. It's got about a dozen games. No, we've got Galaga. 00:57:16.250 --> 00:57:19.810 It's got... No, and I must say, the reason... Dig Dug. 00:57:20.350 --> 00:57:25.290 The reason Alex got this for me is I had said before, from that era of games, 00:57:25.470 --> 00:57:26.490 Tempest was my favorite. 00:57:26.810 --> 00:57:28.050 I, I, I, I. 00:57:28.050 --> 00:57:33.190 I like, that's why I have this one. And, and I have, I have played the, 00:57:33.190 --> 00:57:35.810 I have played the others on this console. 00:57:35.970 --> 00:57:40.010 It's got like Centipede and Millipede and those are, and like Missile Command 00:57:40.010 --> 00:57:41.490 and a few other things like that. 00:57:41.610 --> 00:57:43.130 Ah, Missile Command. Yes. 00:57:43.290 --> 00:57:48.470 And, and, you know, those are fun. Those are okay. But I must say Tempest is, is my go-to. 00:57:49.010 --> 00:57:52.770 And like, I've played Tempest clones elsewhere. 00:57:53.410 --> 00:58:00.210 But this has the proper spinny wheel control and like, it's not the same game. 00:58:00.430 --> 00:58:02.990 If you're trying to do it with an Xbox controller or something. 00:58:03.230 --> 00:58:04.170 You know, it's just not. 00:58:04.270 --> 00:58:08.830 You know, so, so I am enjoying the spinning wheel. 00:58:09.090 --> 00:58:14.730 I'm enjoying the game. So thank, and oh, Alex wants me to mention that he has 00:58:14.730 --> 00:58:21.650 also, he has been coding up a Tempest clone for the iPad using what, 00:58:21.650 --> 00:58:23.090 what's this program called Kodia? 00:58:24.050 --> 00:58:27.390 c-o-d-e-a he's been he's he's 00:58:27.390 --> 00:58:30.650 been using that to to program a tempest 00:58:30.650 --> 00:58:33.410 clone that every time 00:58:33.410 --> 00:58:38.750 he shows it to me he's added more of the original game into it so it's got the 00:58:38.750 --> 00:58:43.850 sort of spinning around and shooting things and he's now got it so you can finish 00:58:43.850 --> 00:58:49.230 a level and you know as several of the things if you don't know what the tempest 00:58:49.230 --> 00:58:51.130 game is this won't mean anything to you but, 00:58:51.710 --> 00:58:54.510 you know anyway he's every time he 00:58:54.510 --> 00:58:57.770 hands it to me it's got more features except the one thing that 00:58:57.770 --> 00:59:03.130 i still have not gotten used to obviously an ipad does not have a little controller 00:59:03.130 --> 00:59:08.910 to spin he's set it up so the controls are actually spinning the ipad and and 00:59:08.910 --> 00:59:14.390 i can't quite i can't quite get used to those controls but i have managed to 00:59:14.390 --> 00:59:17.710 finish the level that he's set up so Anyway, 00:59:18.370 --> 00:59:20.630 okay, that was everything else. 00:59:20.790 --> 00:59:23.270 What, Iran? Are we just going to go to Iran now? 00:59:23.490 --> 00:59:25.870 Or are we going to spend the rest of time talking about Trump's party? 00:59:25.870 --> 00:59:28.490 No, let's go to Iran. 00:59:30.790 --> 00:59:31.310 Iran. 00:59:31.830 --> 00:59:35.830 So, Ed and I did talk about Iran a little bit. 00:59:35.830 --> 00:59:36.130 I hate Iran. 00:59:36.310 --> 00:59:40.410 Because it had started last time. Israel had attacked. 00:59:40.870 --> 00:59:45.090 Iran had started to retaliate when we recorded last week's show. 00:59:45.090 --> 00:59:49.050 But obviously, it's continued this whole time. 00:59:49.310 --> 00:59:55.890 And I guess the big additional thing is Donald Trump has been contemplating 00:59:55.890 --> 00:59:59.250 whether or not to let the U.S. 00:59:59.370 --> 01:00:02.470 get involved in helping take out. 01:00:02.470 --> 01:00:07.530 The underground portions of the nuclear capability. Camp, uh, whatever. 01:00:07.610 --> 01:00:07.830 Nucular! 01:00:08.970 --> 01:00:13.730 Nucular, yes, sorry. I keep wanting to say Frodo for where this is. 01:00:13.830 --> 01:00:16.890 It's not Frodo, uh, because of the Lord of the Rings. 01:00:17.190 --> 01:00:19.630 It's Fordor? What is it? Fordor? 01:00:19.990 --> 01:00:23.970 The Iranian base where they're doing enrichment or whatever. 01:00:23.970 --> 01:00:24.850 Something like that. 01:00:25.530 --> 01:00:27.590 But I keep wanting to call it Frodo. 01:00:27.930 --> 01:00:30.330 I am... Something. 01:00:31.070 --> 01:00:33.910 And it's not Fodor's either. That's a travel guide. 01:00:34.090 --> 01:00:36.730 That's a travel guide, yes. That's correct. footer, yes. 01:00:38.300 --> 01:00:42.580 Fordow, F-O-R-D-O-W, is the actual thing. Not Frodo. 01:00:43.200 --> 01:00:44.180 Not Fredo. 01:00:44.400 --> 01:00:47.140 It's the Fordow fuel enrichment plant. 01:00:47.140 --> 01:00:49.540 Given that you did the godfather, Fredo. 01:00:49.660 --> 01:00:51.060 Oh, Fredo, yes, Fredo. 01:00:51.060 --> 01:00:52.740 Yes, it's not Fredo. 01:00:53.100 --> 01:00:54.240 Or Alfredo. 01:00:54.500 --> 01:00:56.600 Or Fettuccini, Alfredo, yes. 01:00:57.140 --> 01:01:03.280 Exactly. Now you're making me hungry. Okay, we're still avoiding the topic. 01:01:03.800 --> 01:01:09.180 Look, so, okay, well, now, see? It seems that Trump's chickened out. 01:01:09.480 --> 01:01:13.120 Yes, it does appear. Like, here's the thing. 01:01:13.380 --> 01:01:18.980 He went from, when this whole thing started, the U.S. 01:01:19.100 --> 01:01:27.400 position stated by all kinds of administration people was this is entirely between Israel and Iran. 01:01:27.680 --> 01:01:31.260 We have nothing to do with it. We're not going to be involved. 01:01:32.160 --> 01:01:37.220 We were pushing for Israel not to do this. 01:01:37.680 --> 01:01:43.280 because we were pushing the peace talks, we wanted the new deal in place, et cetera, et cetera. 01:01:44.420 --> 01:01:51.860 Then there was a leak that said, well, actually, Donald Trump has said publicly 01:01:51.860 --> 01:01:56.160 that he was pushing for the deal, but actually he didn't say no to the Israelis. 01:01:56.240 --> 01:01:57.740 And he actually gave the green light. 01:01:58.180 --> 01:02:03.000 And then there was reporting that what was actually happening is Trump really 01:02:03.000 --> 01:02:07.000 liked the coverage on Fox of what Israel was doing. 01:02:07.240 --> 01:02:09.240 And so he wanted to take some credit for it. 01:02:11.780 --> 01:02:13.120 And so he was. 01:02:13.200 --> 01:02:16.020 God, which makes sense. Yeah. 01:02:16.360 --> 01:02:22.140 And so then, you know, there was still sort of, then there was this talk about 01:02:22.140 --> 01:02:26.620 how, well, Israel's not going to be able to get all of the capabilities because 01:02:26.620 --> 01:02:30.120 they don't have the right kind of bunker buster bombs. 01:02:30.360 --> 01:02:34.780 And so, you know, they really are going to need the U S and Netanyahu is trying 01:02:34.780 --> 01:02:36.420 to get Trump to get involved. 01:02:37.260 --> 01:02:41.780 And sin though, so there was a lot of Donald Trump saying, well, 01:02:41.920 --> 01:02:45.840 we might get involved in a, we, we, we might kill Khamenei too. 01:02:46.740 --> 01:02:49.260 And we might even use a tactical nuke. 01:02:49.760 --> 01:02:53.360 And we might use a tactical nuke. Now, Trump didn't say that. 01:02:53.520 --> 01:02:58.280 There was somebody else said that. But like, you know, it's been implied that 01:02:58.280 --> 01:02:59.500 nothing is off the table. 01:02:59.860 --> 01:03:07.200 And so there was a ramp up of the hawkish rhetoric coming from Trump and those 01:03:07.200 --> 01:03:08.860 surrounding him for a few days. 01:03:08.860 --> 01:03:11.720 And then it became clear that there 01:03:11.720 --> 01:03:21.340 was a significant schism in Trump land between the isolationist wing who really 01:03:21.340 --> 01:03:27.840 bought into Trump as the peace president and doesn't want war and wants to keep 01:03:27.840 --> 01:03:29.280 away from all of this stuff. 01:03:29.280 --> 01:03:36.000 And the whole point is, you know, America first, forget about all these international entanglements. 01:03:36.220 --> 01:03:42.060 In fact, Bannon specifically was on TV saying, you don't want to let this Iran 01:03:42.060 --> 01:03:47.560 thing distract from deporting all the illegals, because if you don't deport 01:03:47.560 --> 01:03:49.880 all the illegals, you've lost the country. 01:03:49.880 --> 01:03:52.660 And so, apparently... 01:03:52.660 --> 01:03:55.660 This straight. Let me get this straight. Okay? 01:03:55.860 --> 01:03:56.040 Yes. 01:03:56.240 --> 01:04:00.140 So my choices are, okay, it seems, 01:04:01.300 --> 01:04:11.380 fucking send a fleet of B-2 spirits with these bunker buster bombs over there in order to you know, 01:04:11.520 --> 01:04:18.720 maybe fail at this and maybe stop the Iranians, maybe not, maybe trigger World War 3. 01:04:19.020 --> 01:04:33.000 Or, Or my door number two is this ridiculous mass cruelty event that we're living with right now. 01:04:33.180 --> 01:04:38.220 Is that, you know, with the deportation? Are those my doors at this moment? 01:04:38.260 --> 01:04:43.560 Well, there are other people that say why you have both. But I'll also say you 01:04:43.560 --> 01:04:47.580 also had the faction of the Republicans who are more aligned with the neocons. 01:04:48.520 --> 01:04:51.080 who, you know, and like, what's his name? 01:04:51.300 --> 01:04:51.420 Bomb them. 01:04:51.720 --> 01:04:53.720 Lindsey Graham was one of these. 01:04:54.540 --> 01:04:56.660 Well, Fetterman was like bomb. 01:04:57.220 --> 01:05:01.000 Fetterman, yeah, absolutely. On the Democratic side, there are a whole bunch 01:05:01.000 --> 01:05:04.940 saying, yeah, absolutely, we have to take out the Iranians, whatever we do now, 01:05:05.080 --> 01:05:06.780 let's take our chance. Let's do this. 01:05:06.920 --> 01:05:10.700 We've been wanting to do this for a decade, you know? 01:05:10.860 --> 01:05:16.580 And so it seems like at the moment we are recording, and this could change in 01:05:16.580 --> 01:05:21.660 the next hour, the last person to talk to Donald Trump was indeed Bannon. 01:05:21.980 --> 01:05:28.620 And so the current thing that came out immediately after Donald Trump had Bannon 01:05:28.620 --> 01:05:33.180 over to the White House was, okay, let's, 01:05:33.870 --> 01:05:40.230 We'll give it two weeks. We'll give the Iranians two weeks to maybe come to 01:05:40.230 --> 01:05:42.570 the table and do the peace deal after all. 01:05:43.030 --> 01:05:46.910 Now, a couple of things on this. First of all, I will say— And apparently. 01:05:46.990 --> 01:05:49.830 Wait, Trump was also talking about the Nobel Peace Prize. 01:05:50.390 --> 01:05:52.490 Yes, yes. We'll hit that in a second. 01:05:52.590 --> 01:05:58.210 But that's not unimportant, okay? Here is the thing about this. 01:05:59.670 --> 01:06:04.890 Remember that Obama got one. And there is this entire Obama, 01:06:04.890 --> 01:06:10.150 you know, thing that kills him, okay, about that. 01:06:10.150 --> 01:06:18.450 Ed and I talked about this last week. You know, Trump clearly in multiple areas is saying, 01:06:19.050 --> 01:06:24.870 hell, today he like truth socialed something where he almost explicitly said 01:06:24.870 --> 01:06:30.530 it, but he was hoping for the fix the Ukraine situation in 24 hours and get 01:06:30.530 --> 01:06:31.850 the Nobel Peace Fries for that. 01:06:31.990 --> 01:06:37.830 Feeling that he wanted to get a Nobel Peace Prize for solving Gaza by building 01:06:37.830 --> 01:06:40.950 the Gaza and Riviera and kicking out all the people. 01:06:41.570 --> 01:06:48.730 Now, he was hoping to get a Nobel Peace Prize by bringing back the Iranian deal 01:06:48.730 --> 01:06:50.830 that he killed eight years ago. 01:06:52.310 --> 01:06:58.710 You know, there's... Oh, and he's also saying he deserves it for solving the 01:06:58.710 --> 01:07:04.950 India-Pakistan situation. Oh, and by the way, just a few hours ago, 01:07:06.370 --> 01:07:11.590 Showing that they know how to suck up, the Pakistanis nominated him for a Nobel 01:07:11.590 --> 01:07:15.650 Peace Prize for the India-Pakistan situation. 01:07:21.130 --> 01:07:25.590 Now, look, but it's very clear that Bannon went in there. 01:07:25.590 --> 01:07:31.990 and his, listen, because he had the Netanyahu manipulation using Fox News with 01:07:31.990 --> 01:07:35.510 going and, you know, doing the bombing and saying, 01:07:35.630 --> 01:07:40.050 hey, they're a threat, and they were kind of like brainwashing him nonstop with 01:07:40.050 --> 01:07:42.290 Fox just being all warmongery. 01:07:42.590 --> 01:07:46.830 So you had him almost on the point of like him pulling the trigger. 01:07:46.830 --> 01:07:49.810 He was ready to push the damn button to drop a nuke on Tehran. 01:07:49.970 --> 01:07:54.570 Yeah, exactly. He had him all the way there, then Bannon goes in because, 01:07:54.610 --> 01:07:56.730 you know, like, like, like, you know, 01:07:57.050 --> 01:07:59.890 like everything happens, like, but the whole immigration thing the other week 01:07:59.890 --> 01:08:04.330 when he, when he's flip-flopped already, you know, where Bannon goes in and 01:08:04.330 --> 01:08:09.590 he said, no, whatever you want, that noble peace prize, we can't do this. 01:08:09.650 --> 01:08:14.950 And then all of a sudden, no, we're off the table. We're going for peace. Two weeks. 01:08:15.030 --> 01:08:19.090 Here's, here's the thing. Well, the two weeks thing, and a number of people 01:08:19.090 --> 01:08:24.990 have pointed this out, but, and some people have made video compilations of this, 01:08:25.730 --> 01:08:32.690 but we'll decide this in two weeks, is a standard go-to thing that Donald Trump does. 01:08:33.050 --> 01:08:37.870 People have pulled video compilations. Apparently, he's done it a few dozen 01:08:37.870 --> 01:08:41.290 times already since January in his second term. 01:08:41.530 --> 01:08:42.570 Infrastructure week! 01:08:42.790 --> 01:08:45.670 And people pulled it from his first term as well. 01:08:45.770 --> 01:08:50.230 Not just infrastructure week, but basically whenever there was a decision to 01:08:50.230 --> 01:08:57.490 be made that was somewhat hard, his go-to is, we'll make a decision on this in two weeks. 01:08:57.630 --> 01:09:02.590 And he hopes that two weeks later, everyone's forgotten because he never comes 01:09:02.590 --> 01:09:05.110 back and actually makes the decision two weeks later. 01:09:08.130 --> 01:09:09.310 Oh, my God. 01:09:09.550 --> 01:09:15.350 So, like, the play here is not actually, we'll give it two weeks, 01:09:15.370 --> 01:09:17.150 and two weeks later, we'll make a decision. 01:09:17.150 --> 01:09:22.510 The play is, in two weeks, I will have created some other crisis in some other 01:09:22.510 --> 01:09:26.250 fucking way that will make you forget about that one two weeks ago. 01:09:26.710 --> 01:09:29.350 Exactly. Which is, you know, yes. 01:09:29.430 --> 01:09:31.010 Very plausible. 01:09:31.750 --> 01:09:32.170 Totally. 01:09:32.170 --> 01:09:37.530 And also in this scenario, he may be like, hey, hell, two weeks from now, 01:09:37.650 --> 01:09:39.670 there's no indication the Israelis are waiting. 01:09:40.190 --> 01:09:44.450 The Israelis have put out a bunch of statements today that says all this reporting 01:09:44.450 --> 01:09:48.030 that we can't do it ourselves is bullshit. We've got ways to do it. 01:09:48.030 --> 01:09:56.110 But look, it is the Israelis know it is far more difficult for them to do it without our help. 01:09:56.250 --> 01:10:00.470 OK, well, and one of the statements about using a tactical nuke did come from 01:10:00.470 --> 01:10:06.370 the Israeli side, by the way, that there is there is not officially not an official 01:10:06.370 --> 01:10:08.110 statement. But, you know, listen. 01:10:08.490 --> 01:10:15.270 I got to tell you something. The Israelis have to be out of their fucking mind. 01:10:15.920 --> 01:10:17.360 To try to use a nuke. 01:10:17.840 --> 01:10:18.460 It is Bibi. 01:10:18.960 --> 01:10:25.360 It doesn't matter. Okay, look, listen, let's be clear. Why is Bibi doing this, Sam? 01:10:25.960 --> 01:10:30.340 Oh, could it possibly be because his trial's not going well? 01:10:32.260 --> 01:10:37.700 And his coalition is so fragile. How do you keep that coalition together? 01:10:37.960 --> 01:10:42.660 Well, and this is, you know, Ed and I talked about this about Iran last week, 01:10:42.680 --> 01:10:44.260 but it applies to Israel, too. 01:10:44.660 --> 01:10:44.880 Yeah. 01:10:44.880 --> 01:10:51.640 The one thing that is consistent, you know, worldwide, all the time, 01:10:51.840 --> 01:10:55.440 you can point to examples here in the U.S., it doesn't always last forever. 01:10:55.860 --> 01:11:00.520 But if you want a boost in your approval ratings, war. 01:11:01.000 --> 01:11:02.400 Yeah. Yeah. 01:11:02.520 --> 01:11:02.960 You know? 01:11:03.400 --> 01:11:03.520 Yeah. 01:11:03.520 --> 01:11:08.020 Like, if you're, if, I mean, hell, they made Wag the Dog about this, right? 01:11:08.200 --> 01:11:08.560 Yes. 01:11:08.560 --> 01:11:14.340 If you have domestic issues and you want to boost and you want to make people 01:11:14.340 --> 01:11:16.280 forget about the domestic issues. 01:11:16.580 --> 01:11:20.160 War. War against a known enemy. 01:11:20.920 --> 01:11:22.580 Against, yeah. I mean, like. 01:11:22.620 --> 01:11:25.740 I mean, you know, it's like the Argentinians. Listen, the Argentinians and the 01:11:25.740 --> 01:11:26.740 Falklands, for example. 01:11:27.520 --> 01:11:32.240 Look, I mean, that was like, look, that was a sore spot for them. 01:11:33.700 --> 01:11:37.820 The British, you know, were hated over the Falklands were theirs. 01:11:37.820 --> 01:11:45.240 that military government was was in you know was in crisis fuck let's take let's 01:11:45.240 --> 01:11:50.800 take the falklands the hell with it and and their popularity soared okay immediately. 01:11:50.800 --> 01:11:56.780 Well yeah i mean the context ed and i talked about this last week was the israelis 01:11:56.780 --> 01:12:01.800 talking about hey maybe because of this the iranian regime is really fragile 01:12:01.800 --> 01:12:06.720 and they'll fall and i was like no come on the one thing that rallies people 01:12:06.720 --> 01:12:08.500 behind the flag is being attacked. 01:12:09.120 --> 01:12:10.620 Even more than going to war. 01:12:11.780 --> 01:12:12.520 Well, look. 01:12:12.980 --> 01:12:18.080 There is a certain point. There is a certain tipping point where if it gets 01:12:18.080 --> 01:12:19.900 bad enough, it goes the other direction. 01:12:20.280 --> 01:12:26.320 But here's the thing. The Iranian regime is vastly unpopular. 01:12:26.580 --> 01:12:29.600 I had shared an article from The Economist that was talking about this. 01:12:30.260 --> 01:12:33.640 I'll tell you what, they're more popular now than they were two weeks ago. 01:12:33.880 --> 01:12:39.460 But not that much is what I'm looking at in there. There were actually quite a lot of people. 01:12:39.640 --> 01:12:41.920 You know, there was an article that I shared from The Economist. 01:12:42.000 --> 01:12:44.880 The Arab War thinks differently about this Iran war. 01:12:45.140 --> 01:12:50.280 A new spectator sport with scary consequences in which a lot of the people that 01:12:50.280 --> 01:12:55.940 normally were like Iranian, like, you know, cheerleaders were just like, 01:12:56.460 --> 01:12:59.820 eh, fuck the Iranians. You know, what the hell? 01:13:00.100 --> 01:13:03.040 They're assholes anyway. They've been fucking with us for so long. 01:13:03.240 --> 01:13:12.500 The hell with them. You know, it's just, it just, it wasn't, there wasn't the, 01:13:13.430 --> 01:13:24.030 There wasn't the kind of reaction that you would expect outpouring of mass support for the Iranians. 01:13:24.230 --> 01:13:28.430 OK, but did it maybe improve internally? 01:13:29.430 --> 01:13:33.910 Somewhat. Sure. But they definitely didn't get some. 01:13:34.350 --> 01:13:38.170 You know, it's not like when, you know, Russia attack Ukraine. Right. 01:13:38.610 --> 01:13:38.830 Mm hmm. 01:13:40.110 --> 01:13:45.050 Unilaterally, everybody was on the Ukrainian side. The Israelis attacked Iran 01:13:45.050 --> 01:13:47.310 and even their neighbors or whatever. 01:13:47.450 --> 01:13:50.990 They were like, they're supposed to allies. They were like, well. 01:13:51.010 --> 01:13:55.170 I am talking mainly internally in my in the statement I made. 01:13:55.370 --> 01:13:58.610 But even there was there was talk about internally. 01:13:58.930 --> 01:14:04.050 Look, there was quite a lot. There was quite, quite a lot of angst against the 01:14:04.050 --> 01:14:05.270 Iranian regime right now. 01:14:05.550 --> 01:14:10.210 A lot of people were talking, you know, the things internally that we're talking 01:14:10.210 --> 01:14:13.310 about was how stupid are our leaders? 01:14:13.430 --> 01:14:18.330 that they got caught like that and they got killed like that, 01:14:18.470 --> 01:14:24.230 that they were so cavalier that even though there were messages about the threats, 01:14:24.630 --> 01:14:29.250 what they decided to do is after bullshit and they got killed. 01:14:30.110 --> 01:14:36.590 And specifically, like even those that thought they would probably be an attack 01:14:36.590 --> 01:14:42.290 thought that the Israelis would hold off until the next scheduled meeting with the Americans. 01:14:42.650 --> 01:14:42.830 Yeah. 01:14:43.390 --> 01:14:50.290 Like, and, and probably I would imagine, you know, Donald Trump probably thought so too. 01:14:50.710 --> 01:14:51.210 Yeah. 01:14:51.370 --> 01:14:55.110 You know, he was played by, by Bibi on this one. 01:14:55.210 --> 01:15:01.830 He was used as the bait to make sure the Iranians were caught by surprise because 01:15:01.830 --> 01:15:05.370 they thought they were right in the midst of negotiations with the Americans 01:15:05.370 --> 01:15:09.930 and there was no way the Israelis would attack while that was going on. Wrong. 01:15:10.590 --> 01:15:10.870 Yep. 01:15:10.870 --> 01:15:13.750 You know but but yeah so anyway 01:15:13.750 --> 01:15:17.630 it looks like donald trump has done his it'll 01:15:17.630 --> 01:15:21.270 you know we'll tell you in two weeks and he's 01:15:21.270 --> 01:15:28.390 really hoping this goes away and you know let's hope he's right i don't know 01:15:28.390 --> 01:15:37.730 like you know you know i saw a chart of the number of attacks in both directions 01:15:37.730 --> 01:15:39.810 over the last couple of weeks. 01:15:40.350 --> 01:15:43.310 And it is less than it was at the beginning. 01:15:43.690 --> 01:15:49.950 Like there was a big spike at the beginning in both directions and it is slowing down. 01:15:50.830 --> 01:15:54.610 But it's not over in either direction. 01:15:55.050 --> 01:15:58.230 Listen, this is very costly for the Israelis, like right now. 01:15:58.410 --> 01:16:04.530 I just saw that just the defense, just how much in munitions for daily defense 01:16:04.530 --> 01:16:09.970 it cost when the Iranians were launching was about a quarter of a billion dollars a day. 01:16:10.710 --> 01:16:17.170 Well, and there's also a question of how many of these defensive missiles they even have. 01:16:17.690 --> 01:16:22.250 Like, you know, there were reports that, you know, although the quality isn't 01:16:22.250 --> 01:16:29.590 that great, just in terms of sheer numbers, Iran has more offensive missiles 01:16:29.590 --> 01:16:32.410 than Israel has defensive missiles. 01:16:32.550 --> 01:16:33.370 So they think. 01:16:33.810 --> 01:16:34.690 So they think. 01:16:34.850 --> 01:16:37.610 So they think. Because that's been the speculation. Because also, 01:16:37.730 --> 01:16:40.130 by the way, you know, the Iranians, all of a sudden, the number of missiles 01:16:40.130 --> 01:16:42.670 they were launching was also going down pretty quickly as well. 01:16:42.850 --> 01:16:43.430 Yes, it was. 01:16:43.670 --> 01:16:43.770 Yeah. 01:16:44.250 --> 01:16:49.890 Well, and for two reasons. One, you know, well, one is just straight up, 01:16:50.150 --> 01:16:52.850 Israel is destroying a lot of them on the ground. Exactly. 01:16:53.190 --> 01:16:59.830 A bunch of what Israel is doing is attacking known Iranian missile bases. 01:17:00.850 --> 01:17:01.270 Missile bases, yeah. 01:17:01.270 --> 01:17:04.590 I mean, one of the things that Israel has said is, yes, we're after the nuclear 01:17:04.590 --> 01:17:09.530 capabilities, but we're also after the missile capabilities, conventional. 01:17:09.990 --> 01:17:10.350 Right. 01:17:10.350 --> 01:17:15.350 You know, because that, and if you remember, that was one of the main, 01:17:15.750 --> 01:17:20.150 I shouldn't say one of the main, there were many criticisms, 01:17:20.450 --> 01:17:27.550 but one of the big criticisms the Israelis and the neocon conservatives in America 01:17:27.550 --> 01:17:36.030 had against the Iran deal that the Obama-Iran deal was that it only talked about 01:17:36.030 --> 01:17:40.130 the nuclear development platform and not all the other things. 01:17:40.130 --> 01:17:45.330 Iran was doing with their missile capabilities and their interference with various 01:17:45.330 --> 01:17:46.790 other countries around the region. 01:17:47.610 --> 01:17:52.510 And Obama's response was, look, one thing at a time, we're dealing with the news. 01:17:52.510 --> 01:17:52.570 Yeah. 01:17:53.830 --> 01:17:58.350 Whereas, you know, B.B. and others were basically saying, if you don't solve 01:17:58.350 --> 01:18:00.110 everything, we're not interested at all. 01:18:00.670 --> 01:18:03.690 Ah, the perfect solution. Otherwise, no solution. Yes. 01:18:03.890 --> 01:18:09.930 And also always, always a way to solve all problems is to always look for the perfect solution. 01:18:10.150 --> 01:18:16.610 And the other thing that all of these folks said was a problem was the Obama deal had a lifespan. 01:18:16.610 --> 01:18:21.590 It was you won't do these things for X number of years and said nothing about 01:18:21.590 --> 01:18:25.650 the time period after that. And they were basically saying the fact that it's 01:18:25.650 --> 01:18:27.270 not forever makes it unacceptable. 01:18:27.850 --> 01:18:32.930 Whereas, again, the Obama position was, hey, if we've got a 10-year moratorium, 01:18:33.190 --> 01:18:37.230 it gives us 10 years to work on the deal for what happens after that. 01:18:37.390 --> 01:18:43.670 And it gives us 10 years to work on improving the relationship I've ever ran 01:18:43.670 --> 01:18:47.110 with the rest of the world to diminish the problem anyway. Of course, 01:18:47.270 --> 01:18:51.410 that didn't play out because Donald Trump, you know, got rid of the deal. 01:18:51.630 --> 01:18:55.370 And I've also seen all kinds of charts in the last week of, you know, 01:18:55.510 --> 01:19:02.050 the amount of nuclear, of refined uranium that Iran had, or the number of centrifuges, 01:19:02.310 --> 01:19:06.130 all various metrics here that show it go up, up, up, up, up. 01:19:06.130 --> 01:19:09.090 then the the the deal 01:19:09.090 --> 01:19:12.390 happens and it goes to zero it 01:19:12.390 --> 01:19:15.130 goes to zero and it's flat and if 01:19:15.130 --> 01:19:18.110 you remember this was verified internationally going yeah 01:19:18.110 --> 01:19:22.910 i know i know all kinds of inspectors and blah blah blah and then there's another 01:19:22.910 --> 01:19:27.570 vertical line that says oh and at this point this is when trump pulled out and 01:19:27.570 --> 01:19:31.090 all those lines start going back up again there's like a three-month delay and 01:19:31.090 --> 01:19:36.030 then it all starts going back up again and exceeds where they were in the obama administration Well. 01:19:36.030 --> 01:19:39.530 I wish his father had pulled out at some point, but that didn't happen. 01:19:43.430 --> 01:19:44.710 Um, yeah. 01:19:44.910 --> 01:19:49.670 So I, I, one other thing, just before I forget, when, when we were talking about 01:19:49.670 --> 01:19:51.270 the factions of Republicans, 01:19:51.630 --> 01:19:56.690 including the ones who are upset about Donald Trump, but potentially liking 01:19:56.690 --> 01:19:58.710 war and not being all peacenik, 01:19:58.890 --> 01:20:03.710 my daughter was apparently hearing from the other room and texted me all the 01:20:03.710 --> 01:20:07.630 Trump stands crying over this war effort are goofy losers. 01:20:10.850 --> 01:20:18.550 Okay let's be clear all the trump stands period about anything are goofy losers 01:20:18.550 --> 01:20:20.450 all right let's be clear let's. 01:20:20.450 --> 01:20:24.910 Get back let's get back to the walls weird thing that should never have been abandoned. 01:20:24.910 --> 01:20:28.430 That should never been abandoned you know but there was there was this article, 01:20:29.950 --> 01:20:33.870 talking about specifically this you can go first because it's about this subject 01:20:33.870 --> 01:20:36.410 specifically okay You know, talking about why, you know, 01:20:37.150 --> 01:20:42.410 somebody, it's up stack, Charlie Sykes wrote, why is this happening with Trump? Okay. 01:20:42.890 --> 01:20:46.170 And these were, these were the bullet points. Okay. About this. 01:20:46.290 --> 01:20:47.350 You need to understand this. 01:20:47.910 --> 01:20:52.410 This is what we need to understand about that fetid stew of Trump's cognitive, 01:20:52.410 --> 01:20:56.630 you know, this is Trump loves to dress up part of being generalissimo, 01:20:56.890 --> 01:20:58.610 but he is not a warrior president. 01:20:59.220 --> 01:21:03.300 He revels in the trappings and parade of power, but if he wages war, 01:21:03.460 --> 01:21:06.660 he wants to be here in America, not abroad. Crazy. 01:21:07.140 --> 01:21:10.980 Yes, that's what he's doing. He would love day one of the war, 01:21:11.100 --> 01:21:12.680 not so much the days after. 01:21:12.900 --> 01:21:15.180 He wants the show, but not the mess. 01:21:15.820 --> 01:21:19.940 Donald Trump very much wants to be the strong man who drums the big bunker bomb 01:21:19.940 --> 01:21:24.240 on Iran's nuclear program, but he also very much wants to win a Nobel Prize 01:21:24.240 --> 01:21:27.300 because he really does fancy himself as a peacemaker. 01:21:27.500 --> 01:21:30.500 Don't ask. Let me put a parenthesis why that is. 01:21:31.180 --> 01:21:35.960 Trump enjoys the attention he's getting now and craves being in control. 01:21:36.120 --> 01:21:38.340 But the fallout from war is uncontrollable. 01:21:38.780 --> 01:21:43.800 There are $40,000 American troops in harm's way. Iran could blockade the Strait of Hormuz. 01:21:44.240 --> 01:21:49.640 And finally, the guy who blusters all caps threats, unconditional surrender, 01:21:50.000 --> 01:21:51.660 really does always chicken out. 01:21:51.660 --> 01:21:59.920 Yes, because he doesn't want to do anything that in the end is risky to him. 01:22:00.120 --> 01:22:05.400 There was another clip, and this was from BBC Newsnight that I saw shared on 01:22:05.400 --> 01:22:08.520 social media with an analyst talking about this. 01:22:08.600 --> 01:22:13.960 And this, I said it was spot on, nails it. Because basically she said, 01:22:14.040 --> 01:22:21.220 look, the thing you got to remember is that Trump does not think strategically at all. 01:22:21.680 --> 01:22:21.920 Nothing. 01:22:22.240 --> 01:22:26.980 Nothing. He does not think about what's good for America. 01:22:27.560 --> 01:22:28.760 What's good for the world. 01:22:29.160 --> 01:22:32.900 For Israel, for Iran, for any. No, God. 01:22:33.480 --> 01:22:34.040 Fuck no. 01:22:34.040 --> 01:22:38.500 It is all about how does he personally come out looking like a winner. 01:22:38.880 --> 01:22:39.280 Yep. 01:22:39.700 --> 01:22:40.500 That's it. 01:22:40.940 --> 01:22:46.000 That is it. There is no other fucking consideration in this guy's mind. 01:22:46.680 --> 01:22:51.860 Exactly. And so like this flip-flopping you're seeing, like this is exactly 01:22:51.860 --> 01:22:56.100 like at first he was like, hey, I'm going to come out a winner because I'm going 01:22:56.100 --> 01:22:57.880 to come up with a new Iran deal. 01:22:58.650 --> 01:23:06.790 And then he sees Israel kicking ass, blowing up things in Iran and getting positive coverage on Fox News. 01:23:07.050 --> 01:23:09.070 Hey, hey, hey, hey, I want credit for that. 01:23:09.870 --> 01:23:15.050 Exactly. And then he gets Bannon talking to him and saying, oh, 01:23:15.130 --> 01:23:17.250 no, no, no, that would be a huge mess. 01:23:17.430 --> 01:23:19.110 You want to keep out of this. You 01:23:19.110 --> 01:23:22.590 want to make sure you have your success elsewhere. And so he pivots again. 01:23:22.830 --> 01:23:23.690 You want to get your noble beast, Bryce. 01:23:24.230 --> 01:23:28.710 And it's all about what does he make him look good. Now, I've also seen people 01:23:28.710 --> 01:23:33.390 point out, because it was both him and it was Tucker Carlson and Bannon. 01:23:33.630 --> 01:23:36.290 Oh, my God. No, yeah, well, both of them. 01:23:36.290 --> 01:23:41.970 Tucker Carlson was talking to Ted Cruz and was all going in on Ted Cruz. 01:23:44.470 --> 01:23:49.890 Tucker Carlson humiliated Ted, which I guess is not that hard if you get him one on one. 01:23:49.990 --> 01:23:53.690 Look, he was asking questions about, like, what's the population of Iran and 01:23:53.690 --> 01:23:55.850 such, and I wouldn't have known off the top of my head either. 01:23:55.850 --> 01:23:58.470 you know so but his point no. 01:23:58.470 --> 01:24:02.070 But but his his point was that he hasn't he had been making. 01:24:02.070 --> 01:24:03.930 His point very detailed. 01:24:03.930 --> 01:24:06.430 Recommendations without knowing shit about the subject. 01:24:06.430 --> 01:24:09.610 Yes yes the fundamental point was ted cruz 01:24:09.610 --> 01:24:12.790 has been going on about wanting to attack iran 01:24:12.790 --> 01:24:15.630 and we needing to be part of this and how this is 01:24:15.630 --> 01:24:19.870 necessary but then when you ask him questions that 01:24:19.870 --> 01:24:23.010 delve anything beyond the superficial of 01:24:23.010 --> 01:24:26.490 the situation he has no freaking idea exactly and and 01:24:26.490 --> 01:24:29.730 so and and then you may look this 01:24:29.730 --> 01:24:32.530 is this is one of those scenarios where okay 01:24:32.530 --> 01:24:35.810 they're fighting themselves this is like when we were talking about elon 01:24:35.810 --> 01:24:39.750 a few weeks ago right you know yes it's 01:24:39.750 --> 01:24:43.030 fun to watch them fight amongst themselves but you 01:24:43.030 --> 01:24:45.970 don't have to align yourself with them you know it's like 01:24:45.970 --> 01:24:49.010 it's like okay i am glad 01:24:49.010 --> 01:24:52.150 that bannon is in there trying to 01:24:52.150 --> 01:24:54.890 talk donald trump out of getting involved in a 01:24:54.890 --> 01:25:03.650 war but that doesn't make a reasons are awful are awful it has nothing to do 01:25:03.650 --> 01:25:09.510 with what would be my reasons for keeping out of a war in iran right of which 01:25:09.510 --> 01:25:13.350 there are many there are many good ones yes But Bannon's reason, 01:25:13.830 --> 01:25:19.270 oh, you don't want to be distracted from causing great pain and suffering amongst 01:25:19.270 --> 01:25:21.750 the immigrant population in the country. 01:25:22.030 --> 01:25:25.990 By the way, the immigrant population in the blue states in the country, 01:25:26.130 --> 01:25:31.390 which is what I'm realizing now, by the way, this is I realize. 01:25:31.650 --> 01:25:33.870 I mean, he's hitting some red states, too. But, yeah, it's mainly. 01:25:34.210 --> 01:25:39.890 Barely, barely, Sam. Barely. this is all listen, 01:25:40.170 --> 01:25:48.050 this is all show and he's really targeting like New York and California I mean, 01:25:48.250 --> 01:25:52.910 you don't see this shit coming out barely out of Texas or. 01:25:52.910 --> 01:25:53.790 Where you are in. 01:25:53.790 --> 01:25:54.830 Florida or Florida, 01:25:56.330 --> 01:26:03.130 This is, I mean, and there was, like recently, I can't remember when he said 01:26:03.130 --> 01:26:08.970 this, that we need to exert the maximum pain on those states specifically. 01:26:08.970 --> 01:26:10.510 They're open about it. They're open. 01:26:10.550 --> 01:26:10.890 Yeah. 01:26:11.090 --> 01:26:13.230 It's not even hidden in any way. 01:26:13.470 --> 01:26:13.730 Right. 01:26:14.690 --> 01:26:21.370 Now, and I suspect, you know, there, I suspect there's plenty happening in red 01:26:21.370 --> 01:26:24.770 states too, actually, but where they want the emphasis is the blue. 01:26:25.690 --> 01:26:33.970 There is some happening, but it's nowhere, nowhere near what they're doing in California, New York. 01:26:34.150 --> 01:26:41.330 My point is just that, you know, it is really weird to be in a situation where 01:26:41.330 --> 01:26:42.970 you're like, go, Bannon, go. 01:26:43.290 --> 01:26:44.870 I know. I'm like, fuck. 01:26:45.150 --> 01:26:49.050 Or like, oh, Tucker Carlson. You know, go, go. 01:26:50.130 --> 01:26:54.150 Humiliated Ted Cruz. I'm like, yeah, I'm all I'm all in for humiliating Ted 01:26:54.150 --> 01:26:57.670 Cruz. I mean, you know, that's always a fun day, you know? 01:26:58.170 --> 01:27:03.350 I mean, making him look like the complete fucking idiot loser he is. Yes, I'm all in. 01:27:04.130 --> 01:27:04.590 Yes. 01:27:04.810 --> 01:27:12.010 But Tucker Carlson is a hateful, spiteful little man as well. So. 01:27:12.530 --> 01:27:13.530 As is Bannon. 01:27:13.890 --> 01:27:14.890 As is Bannon. 01:27:15.410 --> 01:27:16.970 Yeah, a bunch of these other folks. 01:27:17.110 --> 01:27:21.830 As is Miller. As is, you know. Hey, how's Tulsi feeling today, by the way? 01:27:21.970 --> 01:27:24.950 Oh, yeah. Well, we hadn't even mentioned Tulsi. 01:27:25.250 --> 01:27:27.790 How's she doing? You think she's feeling good today? 01:27:30.330 --> 01:27:32.090 It's not her best week. 01:27:32.590 --> 01:27:33.150 No. 01:27:34.050 --> 01:27:36.770 So you want to say what happened to Tulsi or shall I? 01:27:37.370 --> 01:27:39.470 I mean, okay, so. 01:27:39.990 --> 01:27:42.390 This is actually important to the scenario, too. 01:27:43.170 --> 01:27:46.270 The main thing today, Trump was angry. 01:27:46.690 --> 01:27:49.650 Earlier this month, I'll read it. This is from a New York Times article. 01:27:49.830 --> 01:27:51.330 It talks specifically about this call. 01:27:52.050 --> 01:27:56.850 Trump's rebuke of Gabbard signals an uneasy moment. 01:27:57.410 --> 01:28:00.950 Earlier this month, Tulsi Gabbard, his director of national intelligence, 01:28:01.130 --> 01:28:04.650 posted a three and a half minute video, social media, describing her visit to 01:28:04.650 --> 01:28:06.350 Hiroshima and outlining the 01:28:06.350 --> 01:28:09.410 horrors caused by the detonation of a nuclear weapon there 80 years ago. 01:28:10.070 --> 01:28:13.130 Speaking directly to the camera, Ms. Gabbard warned that the threat of nuclear 01:28:13.130 --> 01:28:16.790 war remained as we stand here today closer to the brink of nuclear annihilation 01:28:16.790 --> 01:28:20.770 than ever before. She said political elites and warmongers are carelessly fomenting 01:28:20.770 --> 01:28:22.870 fear and tension between nuclear powers. 01:28:23.210 --> 01:28:27.630 Mr. Trump berated Ms. Gabbard for the video, according to two people briefed on the conversation. 01:28:27.830 --> 01:28:31.110 She had said that her discussion of nuclear annihilation would scare people 01:28:31.110 --> 01:28:33.270 and that officials should not talk about it. 01:28:33.430 --> 01:28:40.290 So that was the first thing. OK, and then she was Trump was asked publicly about, 01:28:40.290 --> 01:28:44.290 you know, the the military strike on Iran. 01:28:44.510 --> 01:28:48.630 Miss Gabbard, a critic of overseas entanglements, has privately raised concerns of a wider war. 01:28:48.770 --> 01:28:53.830 And on Friday, Mr. Trump said she's wrong when he was asked about her testimony 01:28:53.830 --> 01:28:58.750 in March that Iran had not decided to build a nuclear weapon. Just flat out. 01:28:58.750 --> 01:29:04.290 And let me hit that part, because I think that's actually very important, 01:29:04.290 --> 01:29:06.950 because this is not just Tulsi. 01:29:07.690 --> 01:29:14.870 Like, Tulsi is representing the actual intelligence conclusion of the U.S. 01:29:15.050 --> 01:29:18.030 government that has been consistent for a number of years. 01:29:18.030 --> 01:29:19.110 That they're not building a nuke. 01:29:19.110 --> 01:29:27.510 Which is that while the capacity that the Iranians have for uranium enrichment is concerning, 01:29:27.890 --> 01:29:34.630 because in theory, it means if the Iranians made the decision to actually build 01:29:34.630 --> 01:29:36.990 a weapon, it gets them closer to that point. 01:29:37.150 --> 01:29:42.710 But the actual situation going back to all the way to, I believe, 2003, 01:29:43.190 --> 01:29:49.030 is that the leadership in Iran, the religious leadership in Iran, 01:29:49.330 --> 01:29:54.350 had put a stop to actual nuclear weapon research. 01:29:55.350 --> 01:30:00.430 And had put out all kinds of statements about how nuclear weapons were immoral 01:30:00.430 --> 01:30:04.490 and should not be used in war, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. 01:30:04.710 --> 01:30:16.010 And basically killed any actual development of weapons way back in 2023, not 2023, 2003. 01:30:17.110 --> 01:30:21.030 Like over 20 years ago. And the U.S. 01:30:21.690 --> 01:30:25.450 intelligence consensus is that that has not changed. 01:30:25.710 --> 01:30:34.590 The sort of official sense of what's going on is, yes, the Iranians have a civilian capacity. 01:30:34.830 --> 01:30:40.990 Yes, that civilian capacity could potentially be converted to dual use and made 01:30:40.990 --> 01:30:47.950 into a weapons capacity. And yes, there is concern about how short that time period is. 01:30:48.450 --> 01:30:55.150 If you fully develop what the Iranians are doing, you potentially get into a 01:30:55.150 --> 01:31:00.630 situation where converting it into a weapons capacity is a very short timeline. 01:31:00.630 --> 01:31:06.770 Now you hear like some people on the, you know, on the hawkish side say that time period is in weeks. 01:31:07.150 --> 01:31:14.330 But what I've heard from more neutral experts is more likely we're talking six 01:31:14.330 --> 01:31:19.570 months to a year if the Iranians actually decided, yes, we absolutely do want a weapon. Let's go. 01:31:20.810 --> 01:31:21.930 And so... 01:31:22.900 --> 01:31:26.060 There is reason for concern, potentially. 01:31:26.680 --> 01:31:34.280 However, the American intelligence consensus is the Iranians have never actually 01:31:34.280 --> 01:31:37.240 made that shift and said, yes, 01:31:37.440 --> 01:31:43.000 we are building a weapon and we want to build a weapon or that it's moral to do so. 01:31:43.160 --> 01:31:49.640 Right now, there is a religious dicta saying that that would be fundamentally 01:31:49.640 --> 01:31:52.780 wrong and that the country should not do that. 01:31:53.420 --> 01:31:57.560 And that doesn't mean they couldn't change their mind or the next leader could 01:31:57.560 --> 01:31:58.720 have a different opinion. 01:31:58.960 --> 01:32:04.220 But it does mean that when you, and obviously, like, well, I shouldn't say obviously, 01:32:04.460 --> 01:32:09.240 the take is Israeli intelligence has come to a different conclusion. 01:32:09.240 --> 01:32:16.900 But you have to wonder, do they really know something more or are they just, for good reason, 01:32:17.520 --> 01:32:23.200 wanting to index to being more paranoid about the situation because the consequences 01:32:23.200 --> 01:32:27.540 are much greater for them in the short term if Iran does decide to do this? 01:32:27.540 --> 01:32:30.420 and apparently this this 01:32:30.420 --> 01:32:33.500 is a situation where as recently as march 01:32:33.500 --> 01:32:36.680 like you said tulsi was in front of congressional 01:32:36.680 --> 01:32:39.600 committees stating that this 01:32:39.600 --> 01:32:45.800 was the conclusion of an of american intelligence and we have donald trump openly 01:32:45.800 --> 01:32:51.060 on the white house lawn answering a question saying well if that's what they 01:32:51.060 --> 01:32:54.660 think they're just full of it they're just wrong they're they're just wrong 01:32:54.660 --> 01:32:59.220 Not because he knows something specific otherwise. 01:32:59.660 --> 01:33:04.720 It's just it's not convenient for him. And this just reminds you of the situation 01:33:04.720 --> 01:33:08.280 going up to the first Iraq war where, you know, 01:33:08.360 --> 01:33:15.280 the intelligence community was essentially stifled and was only allowed to bring to the president. 01:33:16.220 --> 01:33:20.680 Information that led to the conclusion that, yes, of course the Iraqis are building 01:33:20.680 --> 01:33:23.000 weapons of mass destruction and we need an invasion. 01:33:23.260 --> 01:33:28.660 All of the counter evidence was stifled and held internally, 01:33:28.660 --> 01:33:33.360 and people were told, no, no, no, that's not wanted. We're not going to go there. 01:33:33.520 --> 01:33:34.900 There was plenty of that. 01:33:35.180 --> 01:33:39.540 There was plenty of intelligence indicating that it was bullshit. 01:33:39.540 --> 01:33:43.220 Including an actual guy that people made fun of, Hans Blix, 01:33:43.360 --> 01:33:49.160 who was an inspector that went around and basically had done all these inspections 01:33:49.160 --> 01:33:56.840 and show that they weren't doing this and the u.s government chose to ignore that information. 01:33:56.840 --> 01:33:59.660 And and this this is the similarity i'm pointing 01:33:59.660 --> 01:34:04.600 out it's just like donald and we know this about him in general donald trump 01:34:04.600 --> 01:34:10.920 has no real concern for what is actually true or not yeah what are facts no 01:34:10.920 --> 01:34:15.240 it's what it's what's convenient for his situation again what will make him 01:34:15.240 --> 01:34:18.020 see seem like a winner and oh. 01:34:18.020 --> 01:34:23.640 By the way as as this was all happening he called the fed chairman powell a complete moron. 01:34:23.640 --> 01:34:29.100 Well yes of course and he said he's going to appoint his successor soon even 01:34:29.100 --> 01:34:33.000 though he's got like a year left on his term or whatever yeah something like 01:34:33.000 --> 01:34:39.620 yeah i mean it's all about positioning himself to look like a winner It is not 01:34:39.620 --> 01:34:41.280 about what's actually happening on the ground. 01:34:41.660 --> 01:34:49.220 And I'll point out, by the way, also, as usual with Israeli preemptive wars, 01:34:49.480 --> 01:34:53.640 or for that matter, preemptive wars in general, it holds true for the Iraq war 01:34:53.640 --> 01:34:54.920 we were just talking about, too. 01:34:55.320 --> 01:35:03.020 You know, if you look at casualties and fatalities in this back and forth between 01:35:03.020 --> 01:35:07.000 Israel and Iran, Israel's killed a lot more people than Iran has. 01:35:07.000 --> 01:35:12.420 just like israel's killed a lot more people in gaza than than hamas succeeded 01:35:12.420 --> 01:35:17.620 in killing israelis you know and so obviously there are other factors at play 01:35:17.620 --> 01:35:21.280 that you have to consider but if you just weigh things in terms of who's killed 01:35:21.280 --> 01:35:26.020 the more people the most people it's not even close yeah. 01:35:26.020 --> 01:35:30.620 I know oh gosh any other happy fun stuff. 01:35:30.620 --> 01:35:38.720 Happy fun stuff we we we the lawmaker shootings Is that happy and fun? 01:35:39.530 --> 01:35:45.810 I mean, I'll just say on this, having a wife who's a state legislator, this stuff hits home. 01:35:47.590 --> 01:35:55.090 And there, you know, I've heard through the grapevine, nothing I could quote directly, 01:35:56.150 --> 01:36:01.490 but there are considerations being worked up in terms of does security have 01:36:01.490 --> 01:36:08.710 to be increased for other lawmakers, you know, here in Washington and across the country after this. 01:36:08.710 --> 01:36:16.230 and you know my my wife this very moment i just finished a she was attending 01:36:16.230 --> 01:36:21.670 a conference in seattle of women lawmakers from across the country and you know 01:36:21.670 --> 01:36:26.950 this was a topic of conversation you know look i. 01:36:26.950 --> 01:36:33.450 I when i lived in in puerto rico when i was young there were still residual 01:36:33.450 --> 01:36:39.430 effects of a significant amount of violence against elected officials in Puerto Rico, 01:36:39.670 --> 01:36:45.430 assassination attempts and other things, which meant that many elected officials 01:36:45.430 --> 01:36:47.810 in Puerto Rico at much, you know, 01:36:48.190 --> 01:36:50.970 unlike in the States, that at the governor level, 01:36:51.870 --> 01:36:55.750 the ace of the governor, et cetera, many of those had police, 01:36:57.090 --> 01:37:04.170 I mean, they had to sign security details because of how, I mean, 01:37:04.270 --> 01:37:05.890 these attacks were, I mean, 01:37:06.570 --> 01:37:10.510 there was a siege in Old San Juan that happened in the 50s, okay, 01:37:10.690 --> 01:37:13.910 by terrorists seeking to assassinate the governor. 01:37:14.130 --> 01:37:18.290 It was this bad, taking lawmakers hostage, you know, all of this. 01:37:18.430 --> 01:37:21.650 We had bombings regularly, a post office. 01:37:21.910 --> 01:37:26.130 Hell, there was even an attack on an Air Force base in Puerto Rico that destroyed 01:37:26.130 --> 01:37:29.130 a whole bunch of F-4 Phantoms on a tarmac. 01:37:29.130 --> 01:37:34.250 So so we had that level of local violence. And I happen to have the governor's 01:37:34.250 --> 01:37:37.790 daughter was with me at school and she had a sign. 01:37:37.910 --> 01:37:43.670 I mean, we had assigned police officers that were guarding our school, you know. 01:37:44.030 --> 01:37:51.550 And look, we've we've said before that, you know, given the increasing temperature of 01:37:51.950 --> 01:37:58.690 It is surprising that we haven't had more of this than we have. 01:37:58.830 --> 01:38:00.610 And that's not to say there's been zero. 01:38:00.910 --> 01:38:06.430 You know, there were plenty of attempts. We had the two Donald Trump assassination attempts. 01:38:06.650 --> 01:38:11.310 We had the softball game shooting where Scalise was shot. 01:38:11.470 --> 01:38:15.730 We had Gabby Gifford. Gabby Giffords. We've had plenty. 01:38:16.110 --> 01:38:20.490 We had January 6th. We've had plenty of situations. 01:38:20.490 --> 01:38:22.010 Oh, but that was a tour. 01:38:22.470 --> 01:38:23.150 Oh, yeah. 01:38:23.430 --> 01:38:25.190 Yeah. What are you talking about? 01:38:25.770 --> 01:38:30.750 That was completely peaceful. You know, we've had a bunch of these events, 01:38:31.030 --> 01:38:39.490 but like, and I may be forgetting some, but there may have been one other fatality. 01:38:39.830 --> 01:38:41.070 The governor of Michigan plot. 01:38:41.370 --> 01:38:44.650 Oh, yeah. The governor of Michigan plot where they were going to kidnap her. 01:38:46.050 --> 01:38:49.210 But this is the first fatality in a while. 01:38:49.210 --> 01:38:55.110 you know with this kind of violence but the thing is that's important here is 01:38:55.110 --> 01:39:01.470 it does look like once again this is like a lone wolf type guy who is just you 01:39:01.470 --> 01:39:04.550 know but that's how this was a liberal right. 01:39:04.550 --> 01:39:05.530 He was a he was. 01:39:05.530 --> 01:39:10.870 Oh yeah he was a flaming liberal right oh he's a fame antifa obviously no no 01:39:10.870 --> 01:39:16.930 he was not but like this is the thing with when you're raising the temperature 01:39:16.930 --> 01:39:19.990 like this They call it stochastic violence, 01:39:20.870 --> 01:39:23.070 you know, stochastic terrorism, et cetera. 01:39:23.410 --> 01:39:28.570 It is not some like organized group that's, you know, I mean, 01:39:28.650 --> 01:39:32.230 look, they're all, there are these militias and the night, the, 01:39:32.230 --> 01:39:37.910 the three percenters and the proud boys and all these folks, but those are, yeah. 01:39:38.370 --> 01:39:42.470 And those do have their own risks associated with them and things they could do, 01:39:42.470 --> 01:39:50.810 but the greatest danger and the hardest to combat is just random people who 01:39:50.810 --> 01:39:54.450 get radicalized and go decide they're going to do something. 01:39:55.010 --> 01:39:57.850 And this guy had, you know, he ended up, 01:39:59.510 --> 01:40:03.870 killing two people, the ex-speaker of the house and her husband, 01:40:05.150 --> 01:40:11.990 and injuring two more lawmakers, no, one more lawmaker and his wife who are going to survive. 01:40:12.810 --> 01:40:16.870 Also killed the dog of the one he killed as well, by the way. 01:40:17.410 --> 01:40:19.250 So, Kristi Noem was not involved here? 01:40:19.670 --> 01:40:25.390 Kristi Noem was not involved. But, you know, he had a list of several dozen people. 01:40:25.390 --> 01:40:28.010 Yeah, I know she had a list of fucking a lot of people. 01:40:28.010 --> 01:40:32.450 And there were people not just in that state, too. This was in Minnesota. 01:40:32.690 --> 01:40:37.030 He had a whole bunch of Minnesota lawmakers. He had a whole bunch of Minnesota anti, 01:40:37.410 --> 01:40:42.750 not anti-abortion, a whole bunch of Minnesota pro-choice activists who weren't 01:40:42.750 --> 01:40:48.150 lawmakers, also on the list, and then a bunch of lawmakers from outside of Minnesota, 01:40:48.350 --> 01:40:49.830 from neighboring states as well. 01:40:50.350 --> 01:40:53.510 You know, so, you know, he had a big long list. 01:40:53.630 --> 01:41:00.630 And apparently, before he was caught, he went to two more houses from people on his hit list. 01:41:00.750 --> 01:41:01.850 They weren't home, thank God. 01:41:01.890 --> 01:41:04.690 They weren't home, you know, or this would have been more. 01:41:05.350 --> 01:41:11.010 So, this is a good advocacy for socialize and get the hell out of the house more often. 01:41:12.490 --> 01:41:16.030 Might save your life. You got some asshole trying to kill you. 01:41:16.890 --> 01:41:20.710 I guess so, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so, I don't know. 01:41:21.690 --> 01:41:28.270 By the way, as my recommendation to you, okay, I don't know about you guys, 01:41:28.310 --> 01:41:32.210 and my wife gets on me, but number one, okay, you guys have a doorbell. 01:41:32.310 --> 01:41:36.170 You don't open the fucking door for, you know, you don't know who the fuck it is. 01:41:38.250 --> 01:41:41.450 We've got more fundamental issues with that, right? 01:41:42.990 --> 01:41:44.990 You should have the door locked. 01:41:45.730 --> 01:41:48.130 Yes, the door should be locked. 01:41:48.130 --> 01:41:52.730 We should all the doors need to make the argument that i get with my wife you 01:41:52.730 --> 01:41:56.990 know no she now does it but the arguments that i got listen you need to have 01:41:56.990 --> 01:41:59.470 your doors locked you know yeah. 01:41:59.470 --> 01:42:09.190 Look look i i mean we we uh conversations are beginning about upgrading security you. 01:42:09.190 --> 01:42:10.470 Know and. 01:42:10.470 --> 01:42:17.830 And not And because of this shit, you know, not, not, not that we have a specific 01:42:17.830 --> 01:42:20.030 threat right now, but because. 01:42:20.190 --> 01:42:24.930 But you guys have received threats already that you guys have had investigated. 01:42:25.330 --> 01:42:27.370 My. Yes. They're. 01:42:27.490 --> 01:42:27.810 Okay. 01:42:28.010 --> 01:42:33.890 Look, the bottom line is any public figure gets stuff all the time. You know. Yeah. 01:42:34.540 --> 01:42:38.840 There was, yes, there was one situation that was actually credible enough that 01:42:38.840 --> 01:42:42.840 was investigated and discussed, but, but like, you know, it was, 01:42:42.940 --> 01:42:47.340 it was, it didn't turn out to be anything, but like any public figure, 01:42:47.820 --> 01:42:49.680 potentially this kind of stuff could happen. 01:42:50.240 --> 01:42:56.440 But my, my wife is an elected representative. It, all it takes is some crazy right now. 01:42:56.660 --> 01:42:59.340 Like, you know, addresses and stuff are public record. 01:42:59.820 --> 01:43:02.840 Like, you know, this, you know, where we live is not a secret. 01:43:03.020 --> 01:43:04.260 If somebody wants to find it out. 01:43:04.260 --> 01:43:07.640 Except apparently if you're an ICE agent right now, which apparently you can 01:43:07.640 --> 01:43:10.740 go around completely without any identification, 01:43:11.180 --> 01:43:16.020 not identify yourself whatsoever, and grab a random person off the street without 01:43:16.020 --> 01:43:20.040 producing any paperwork to back up while you're grabbing them off the street. 01:43:20.200 --> 01:43:23.140 Now, that apparently is okay. I don't know if you've noticed. 01:43:23.600 --> 01:43:26.160 That apparently is fine. Okay? 01:43:26.680 --> 01:43:31.200 You know, but no. But your information is public. Yeah. 01:43:31.420 --> 01:43:31.560 No. 01:43:31.560 --> 01:43:35.640 You need to have a security system that works. 01:43:35.720 --> 01:43:37.640 You need to have cameras that works. 01:43:37.900 --> 01:43:41.900 You need to make sure your doors are locking on a regular basis. 01:43:42.120 --> 01:43:43.880 Look, which is the drill. 01:43:44.840 --> 01:43:45.640 Conversations are happening about it. 01:43:45.660 --> 01:43:50.780 I'm giving you the drill because I have lived through this kind of shit, unfortunately, okay? 01:43:51.120 --> 01:43:54.660 You know, because we've been robbed. We have had people come in. 01:43:54.760 --> 01:43:58.240 We have had people put guns to it. You know, so I have dealt with that, 01:43:58.320 --> 01:44:02.200 which is why I at this age have still and my wife's will we live in Boca. 01:44:02.300 --> 01:44:03.720 Listen, I don't fucking care. 01:44:03.980 --> 01:44:07.500 All right. All it takes is one lunatic. OK. All right. 01:44:07.700 --> 01:44:15.220 Yeah. And we're there. We are having conversations about new doors, new alarm systems. 01:44:15.720 --> 01:44:22.020 Like like you said, more more and better camera systems that are installed in 01:44:22.020 --> 01:44:25.880 such like, you know, I've got a little portable ones that I can move around and blah, blah, blah. 01:44:25.880 --> 01:44:28.660 as my wife pointed out someone can just 01:44:28.660 --> 01:44:31.600 snip the cord unplug them yes you know you want one that's 01:44:31.600 --> 01:44:34.820 installed in such a way that it's built in and you can't do that you 01:44:34.820 --> 01:44:38.160 know all of this kind of stuff you know that there are 01:44:38.160 --> 01:44:42.560 you know and you know look we've same thing we're like you know it's a fairly 01:44:42.560 --> 01:44:47.120 decent neighborhood and yeah we had something stolen once in 12 years we had 01:44:47.120 --> 01:44:53.440 something stolen but you know but yeah it's a it's a decent neighborhood it's 01:44:53.440 --> 01:44:55.120 a whatever blah blah blah but all it takes? 01:44:55.300 --> 01:44:59.820 Like you said, one person, especially if they're targeting people. 01:45:00.280 --> 01:45:00.800 Exactly. 01:45:01.120 --> 01:45:05.880 Exactly. Like, it's one thing where it's like you want to deter sort of the 01:45:05.880 --> 01:45:11.020 casual thief who's wandering by and looking for the more vulnerable place, whatever. 01:45:11.260 --> 01:45:15.920 It's a completely different problem if you're worried about somebody that might be targeting. 01:45:16.950 --> 01:45:21.890 And so, yeah, and so like their personal conversations we're having in the family. 01:45:22.090 --> 01:45:31.250 But like I said, I am 100% guaranteeing you all 50 state legislatures and probably 01:45:31.250 --> 01:45:37.010 the Congress as well are reassessing what they are doing for security and deciding, 01:45:37.010 --> 01:45:39.950 is it enough or do we have to beef it up? 01:45:39.950 --> 01:45:44.250 because this one event happened. 01:45:44.930 --> 01:45:48.550 You mentioned the one that happened where they tried to kidnap the governor 01:45:48.550 --> 01:45:52.490 and they did take over the state capitol in that situation. 01:45:54.830 --> 01:46:00.770 And I'm sure this is being reassessed everywhere because the threat level is 01:46:00.770 --> 01:46:09.110 increasing because the tension levels are increasing because the animosity between 01:46:09.110 --> 01:46:12.090 the sides here is increasing as well. 01:46:12.450 --> 01:46:19.370 And because, you know, I mean, bringing up the protests and bringing in the 01:46:19.370 --> 01:46:24.150 National Guard to California and all of this kind of stuff, same thing. 01:46:24.350 --> 01:46:32.250 It's like you are taking the already vast divisions in this country and you 01:46:32.250 --> 01:46:37.470 are driving the sides further apart as we go, not bringing them back together. 01:46:37.870 --> 01:46:44.830 And it becomes harder for both sides to imagine reconciling this gap. 01:46:45.170 --> 01:46:46.530 Not anytime soon. 01:46:46.770 --> 01:46:49.330 Not anytime soon. And so... 01:46:49.330 --> 01:46:49.410 No. 01:46:50.070 --> 01:46:51.670 Okay, well, that was fun. 01:46:52.290 --> 01:46:52.890 Yay! 01:46:54.050 --> 01:46:55.270 Shall we wrap it up? 01:46:55.610 --> 01:46:56.090 Yeah. 01:46:56.810 --> 01:47:02.030 Okay, curmudgeons-corner.com. go see the stuff. 01:47:02.570 --> 01:47:07.510 We've got the archives, we've got transcripts, we've got links to all the ways to contact us. 01:47:07.970 --> 01:47:12.370 And of course, we've got the Patreon where you can give us money at various levels. 01:47:12.630 --> 01:47:14.390 We'll send you a postcard, we'll 01:47:14.390 --> 01:47:18.150 send you a mug, we'll mention you on the show, all that kind of stuff. 01:47:18.190 --> 01:47:22.550 I know, I know, I still owe postcards and mugs to people. 01:47:23.120 --> 01:47:29.780 Ed did get his mug, but I owe two postcards and a mug and I will eventually get to it. 01:47:29.960 --> 01:47:32.800 You know, I've, I've owed these things for months. 01:47:33.240 --> 01:47:36.520 Well, the new mug is for Todd. It was just on a couple of weeks ago, 01:47:36.640 --> 01:47:41.420 but, but I've, I've owned, I've owed these postcards for like months and months and months now. 01:47:42.060 --> 01:47:43.300 Eventually you will, you will 01:47:43.300 --> 01:47:48.520 get your postcards, but importantly at $2 a month or more on the Patreon, 01:47:48.880 --> 01:47:52.920 or if you just ask us, we will invite you there to Curmudgeons Corner Slack, 01:47:53.100 --> 01:47:58.440 where Yvonne and I and a whole bunch of listeners are chatting and sharing links throughout the week. 01:47:59.000 --> 01:48:04.120 So, Yvonne, what's a highlight from this week's Curmudgeons Corner Slack that 01:48:04.120 --> 01:48:05.700 we have not talked about on the show? 01:48:05.700 --> 01:48:11.540 Ah, the most important news of the week, which we did not cover here. 01:48:11.700 --> 01:48:19.080 And we need to make sure that our listeners and viewers are well-informed because 01:48:19.080 --> 01:48:24.980 this could be an opportunity to save money for you as the Trump Organization 01:48:24.980 --> 01:48:30.020 announces a mobile plan with a $499 smartphone. 01:48:30.480 --> 01:48:37.340 The Trump Organization unveiled a mobile phone plan and a $499 smartphone that 01:48:37.340 --> 01:48:39.100 is set to launch later this year. 01:48:39.320 --> 01:48:43.660 The new venture is the example of Donald Trump's business empire capitalizing 01:48:43.660 --> 01:48:45.760 association with a sitting president. 01:48:46.020 --> 01:48:49.780 Apparently, you can get the new service from Trump Mobile. 01:48:49.780 --> 01:48:59.340 We'll offer a $47.45 per month plan that includes unlimited talk and data, 01:48:59.540 --> 01:49:05.920 as well as roadside assistance and a telehealth and pharmacy benefit, 01:49:06.140 --> 01:49:07.500 Sam, according to its website. 01:49:07.500 --> 01:49:12.580 The company, owned by President Donald Trump, also announced it will sell a 01:49:12.580 --> 01:49:21.380 T1 smartphone, which appears to feature a gold-colored metal case etched with an American flag, Sam. 01:49:22.040 --> 01:49:29.540 I mean, but, but Yvonne, the most critical thing, right? This phone is 100% made in America, right? 01:49:31.860 --> 01:49:33.060 Oh, no. 01:49:35.300 --> 01:49:38.880 But they said they will get there at some point. 01:49:39.160 --> 01:49:42.780 But we have all these Americans clamoring to build phones. 01:49:43.800 --> 01:49:49.480 Yeah, because they say, hey, our made in the USA T1 phone is available pre-order now. 01:49:49.480 --> 01:49:52.600 The reality is that, as usual with 01:49:52.600 --> 01:49:59.460 them, they say that, and this is like pre-ordering a Tesla semi-truck. 01:50:01.040 --> 01:50:02.840 You may wait that long. 01:50:03.200 --> 01:50:04.720 How long has that one been now? 01:50:05.120 --> 01:50:09.100 Just like those seven or eight years we've been waiting for this Tesla semi. 01:50:09.140 --> 01:50:10.780 They do say made in America, Yvonne? 01:50:11.180 --> 01:50:14.260 They say that they will eventually make it. 01:50:14.420 --> 01:50:18.160 So there was an interview with, I think, one of the Trump moron kids. 01:50:18.160 --> 01:50:21.520 I don't know, whichever, one of the, you know, one of those idiots, 01:50:21.760 --> 01:50:25.380 whatever, it doesn't matter, they're fungible, in my view, anyway. 01:50:25.840 --> 01:50:29.040 One of them, they asked him about, hey, so is the phone made in America? 01:50:29.240 --> 01:50:33.420 Well, not yet, but eventually, Sam. 01:50:34.080 --> 01:50:36.500 Eventually. Yeah. Okay. 01:50:36.660 --> 01:50:40.620 So are we pre-ordering our T1 phone? 01:50:41.540 --> 01:50:42.840 How can you not? 01:50:42.840 --> 01:50:49.200 You know, I, you know, if I could, it's $500. 01:50:49.680 --> 01:50:54.540 That's such a waste. Because I would like to get one and take like a sledgehammer 01:50:54.540 --> 01:50:58.320 and just beat it to pieces and like tape, you know, record that video. 01:50:58.600 --> 01:51:03.220 See, here's the thing, though. You do that, you've still paid them the $500. 01:51:03.640 --> 01:51:09.140 You've still paid them. So you have to, if you're going to do something like that. 01:51:09.140 --> 01:51:13.420 That have some kind of like a repair breakage warranty, maybe, 01:51:13.680 --> 01:51:14.620 where I could get my money. 01:51:14.660 --> 01:51:20.780 No, no, no. No, it's, well, maybe. No, you have to have some way where you get 01:51:20.780 --> 01:51:25.280 it from somebody who paid for it, but you don't. Or something. 01:51:25.900 --> 01:51:26.200 Right. 01:51:26.320 --> 01:51:28.160 Or, you know, or. 01:51:28.600 --> 01:51:32.660 Or I find a used one on eBay for like 10 cents. After somebody, 01:51:32.820 --> 01:51:35.660 ah, yeah, because look, somebody will buy it. 01:51:36.220 --> 01:51:41.420 They'll realize what a piece of shit. they'll put it up for sale at 10 cents 01:51:41.420 --> 01:51:46.220 on the dollar if that, okay, and then we take that one and smash it hmm. 01:51:46.640 --> 01:51:49.880 Maybe I don't know, yeah, I, 01:51:50.740 --> 01:51:54.400 You somehow, you have to arrange the whole scenario. 01:51:54.660 --> 01:51:55.980 So it doesn't cost me money. 01:51:56.360 --> 01:52:02.400 No, it's not that it doesn't cost you money. The important part is you're not giving them money. 01:52:02.700 --> 01:52:06.900 Right, right, right. So they don't get money. We need to get a phone without 01:52:06.900 --> 01:52:10.300 us having to pay for it, but not committing something illegal. 01:52:10.900 --> 01:52:13.680 Oh, that puts constraints. Yeah. 01:52:14.000 --> 01:52:19.920 Like, yeah, I was thinking, you know, stealing. But, you know, you were right. 01:52:20.740 --> 01:52:22.580 We should not commit felonies. 01:52:22.800 --> 01:52:29.300 Some kind of trial. I say, hey, guys, listen, send us a, listen, we are a podcast. 01:52:29.480 --> 01:52:32.120 We're extremely conservative podcast. 01:52:34.060 --> 01:52:40.880 And, you know, we want to review this phone for our audience so you can send us a free sample. 01:52:41.580 --> 01:52:46.040 Yes, that's it. Yes. Okay. You get right on that, Yvonne. 01:52:46.540 --> 01:52:51.940 There you go. Say, yeah, we are an ultra right-wing podcast. 01:52:53.180 --> 01:52:58.520 We are all in on Trump. We are on the Trump train. We'll drive the Trump train. 01:52:58.920 --> 01:53:00.160 Just send us a free phone. 01:53:01.400 --> 01:53:02.120 Okay, fine. 01:53:02.320 --> 01:53:05.280 This is how they operate. I don't know if you think you realize this, right? 01:53:05.360 --> 01:53:11.060 This is exactly, I mean, I just felt slimy saying that, but I realize that that's the way they work. 01:53:11.600 --> 01:53:18.820 Right, because, yes, yes. If your bottom line, like Donald Trump, 01:53:19.140 --> 01:53:26.480 is do whatever makes me money, makes me a winner, and it doesn't matter what 01:53:26.480 --> 01:53:30.220 that thing is, then if you can identify, 01:53:30.840 --> 01:53:37.240 hey, it would be more lucrative to become a conservative influencer than a liberal 01:53:37.240 --> 01:53:39.200 influencer, then you just do it. 01:53:39.380 --> 01:53:39.860 Yes. 01:53:39.860 --> 01:53:45.900 Because like what you say doesn't matter. It's just instrumental to get what you want. 01:53:46.480 --> 01:53:51.380 There is a car guy that does car YouTube that has been very successful last 01:53:51.380 --> 01:53:52.680 five or six years, seven years. 01:53:52.820 --> 01:53:57.540 And some people are trying to dig into his background and realize that and and 01:53:57.540 --> 01:54:01.280 he admitted and he didn't want to talk about it because he's ashamed of it. 01:54:01.520 --> 01:54:04.660 That for a period of time, this is exactly what he was doing online. 01:54:04.660 --> 01:54:09.680 He was some kind of conservative troll and there was some way that he was harvesting 01:54:09.680 --> 01:54:14.640 clicks and harvesting those clicks made him money by just posting rage bait 01:54:14.640 --> 01:54:18.980 and whatever whatnot and getting the interactions and that made him money and he did that. 01:54:18.980 --> 01:54:22.540 but it was very clear that it was brought up and somebody said, 01:54:22.760 --> 01:54:24.280 and I'm like, you know what? 01:54:24.500 --> 01:54:30.080 Yeah, I did that. And I, I, I don't want to talk about that because it, 01:54:30.160 --> 01:54:33.260 but it's so like, again, he, he, he is a shame. 01:54:33.420 --> 01:54:37.580 He, it's, you can tell he was ashamed of having done that, but it was at a point 01:54:37.580 --> 01:54:40.640 where I think he admitted he was, he was broke and it was like, 01:54:40.640 --> 01:54:44.240 Oh look, I could make money out of this. Great. You know, I could make a living. 01:54:44.700 --> 01:54:48.680 And so he was doing that, but then yeah, he, he realized it, you know, like, 01:54:50.200 --> 01:54:53.840 But I am, you know, I have more scruples than that. 01:54:53.980 --> 01:54:58.440 I don't care how fucked up broke I am. I'm not going to stoop to that level of that. 01:54:58.580 --> 01:55:02.160 I could do quite a lot of other things that could earn me a wage that don't 01:55:02.160 --> 01:55:05.700 stoop to being a, basically a scumbag. 01:55:06.460 --> 01:55:14.680 But Yvonne, look, the bottom line here is there are a lot of dumb people out there. 01:55:14.860 --> 01:55:19.300 And the best way to make money is figure out how to separate them from their 01:55:19.300 --> 01:55:21.540 money. In one way or another. 01:55:21.920 --> 01:55:22.340 Is that P.T. Barnum? 01:55:23.020 --> 01:55:27.000 It's P.T. Barnum was close to that statement. I think you're right. 01:55:27.080 --> 01:55:30.600 That was probably him separating a fool from their money or whatever. 01:55:31.380 --> 01:55:36.660 And just in general, fraud is extremely lucrative so long as you don't get caught. 01:55:37.280 --> 01:55:38.480 Ah, that's a weird one. 01:55:38.520 --> 01:55:39.400 And by the way. 01:55:39.420 --> 01:55:43.120 Wait, wait, wait, wait. No, no, no. No, no, no. Even if you get caught, 01:55:43.420 --> 01:55:48.060 what you got to do is make a hefty donation to the Donald J. 01:55:48.060 --> 01:55:52.820 Trump's super PAC and make sure it's a federal crime and you're. 01:55:52.840 --> 01:55:58.800 You're, I was, I was about to say effectively Donald Trump's administration 01:55:58.800 --> 01:56:05.500 has legalized white collar crime because they are not prosecuting it. 01:56:05.620 --> 01:56:10.240 They are not investigating it. If you do get caught, he'll pardon you for the right donation. 01:56:10.700 --> 01:56:14.060 Uh, Menendez went to jail this week. It's a, it's a miracle. 01:56:14.260 --> 01:56:17.440 He's not pardoned yet. I guess he just hasn't given the right donation. 01:56:17.860 --> 01:56:20.420 Yeah, I'm like wondering, I mean, when they, I mean, I'm like. 01:56:20.420 --> 01:56:24.520 Fully doesn't he have any of those gold bars left? Come on. Come on. 01:56:25.520 --> 01:56:30.360 Yeah, I mean, I am shocked, shocked still to this moment that Menendez has not been part, 01:56:30.890 --> 01:56:33.590 Anyway, we digress. We were trying to end the show. 01:56:33.930 --> 01:56:38.070 Oh, yes. End the show. Okay. Thanks, everybody, for listening. 01:56:38.250 --> 01:56:41.950 We'll talk to you next week. Have a great week. Stay safe. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 01:56:42.810 --> 01:56:46.050 We just had Juneteenth. Happy Juneteenth, I guess. 01:56:46.270 --> 01:56:50.350 Happy Juneteenth. Unless you're Donald Trump who said, I don't know, something just—. 01:56:50.350 --> 01:56:53.030 There are too many holidays where people don't work. Go fucking work, 01:56:53.090 --> 01:56:56.010 bitches. People need to work more. I didn't get the day off. 01:56:56.390 --> 01:56:58.970 I did. My company gave the day off. 01:56:59.190 --> 01:57:05.230 I am jealous. But apparently we have too many days off. We should all be working more. 01:57:05.470 --> 01:57:09.350 Be grateful for what we get. You know, so anyway. 01:57:10.250 --> 01:57:14.910 Okay. Did I say goodbye? Thanks, everybody. We'll see you next week. Goodbye. 01:57:15.330 --> 01:57:15.810 Bye. 01:57:45.630 --> 01:57:49.830 You know, a few times lately when I've seen headlines about Bannon, 01:57:50.210 --> 01:57:53.250 I've misread it and thought they were talking about Barron. 01:57:53.670 --> 01:57:55.510 Oh, well, yeah. 01:57:55.750 --> 01:58:00.450 Now, Barron Trump is turning into quite the scumbag himself as he grows up, 01:58:00.450 --> 01:58:04.070 apparently, but, you know, I guess you can't avoid it in that family. 01:58:04.150 --> 01:58:06.070 Well, he has been indoctrinated, you know, from an early age, 01:58:06.210 --> 01:58:07.990 so unfortunately, I mean, yeah. 01:58:08.550 --> 01:58:11.970 But, you know, oh well, Baron, Bannon, same damn thing, I guess. 01:58:12.350 --> 01:58:12.710 Yeah. 01:58:12.990 --> 01:58:15.150 Okay, see you later, Yvonne. Goodbye. 01:58:15.670 --> 01:58:16.110 Bye.