WEBVTT 00:00:00.010 --> 00:00:00.910 Yellow. 00:00:01.610 --> 00:00:04.090 Hi. Okay, this is working. 00:00:04.810 --> 00:00:09.990 Let me get all the other people to see the colors. 00:00:11.150 --> 00:00:13.170 Okay, we're going there. 00:00:14.670 --> 00:00:17.950 And boom. Boom. 00:00:18.350 --> 00:00:23.870 Okay, all the preliminaries are already out of the way. Shall we just go? 00:00:24.410 --> 00:00:25.990 Shall we un-preliminate? 00:00:26.250 --> 00:00:30.870 Un-preliminate. Un-preliminate. This is an interesting word. 00:00:31.790 --> 00:00:33.030 Me too. Okay. 00:00:33.930 --> 00:00:36.250 Here goes the doohickey. 00:00:36.510 --> 00:00:39.010 The doohickey. With a theme. 00:00:57.710 --> 00:01:07.550 Welcome to curmudgeons corner for saturday july 19th 2025. It's just about two 00:01:07.550 --> 00:01:09.150 UTC as we're starting to record. 00:01:09.310 --> 00:01:13.750 I am Sam Minter and Yvonne Bo is here again today. Hello, Yvonne. 00:01:14.370 --> 00:01:16.590 Are you feeling better? You were sick last week. 00:01:16.930 --> 00:01:26.270 I felt horrible last week. I had a combination of a cold with some gastro issues. 00:01:26.630 --> 00:01:28.030 Oh, that's always fun. 00:01:28.250 --> 00:01:31.650 Which happened to just coincide. It's just, it was horrible. 00:01:32.490 --> 00:01:37.030 I literally spent in bed. I am a guy. 00:01:37.490 --> 00:01:44.350 I don't, I'll, I'll take breaks. I usually sometimes if I'm tired during the day. 00:01:44.710 --> 00:01:45.250 Yeah. 00:01:45.550 --> 00:01:49.150 I mean, I'm working like, you know, working from home, especially. 00:01:49.410 --> 00:01:54.330 But I remember that I always wound up sometimes feeling somewhat tired in the afternoon. 00:01:54.330 --> 00:01:56.950 I remember in the office. I mean, when I went to the office, 00:01:57.090 --> 00:02:05.810 I was like, oh, man, I remember that that 2.30 to 4 o'clock time, I was like, oh, man. 00:02:06.930 --> 00:02:12.350 And I remember that my energy would reignite at 5. 00:02:12.870 --> 00:02:18.590 See, now, the way I go, like, my body clock, like, I have had that mid-afternoon wall sometimes. 00:02:18.590 --> 00:02:28.390 But my usual experience on my normal days are to be dragging all morning long and actually get that, 00:02:28.610 --> 00:02:36.170 like, I'm actually ready to go and my body is into things, like, around 1 or 2 p.m. 00:02:36.310 --> 00:02:37.610 No, I'll drag early. 00:02:37.610 --> 00:02:38.470 And then I'm ready to go. 00:02:39.130 --> 00:02:40.750 I'll drag early. 00:02:41.610 --> 00:02:47.590 And then I've got a good burst, like, after 9.30, 10. Okay, I'm good. 00:02:47.670 --> 00:02:50.210 Oh, yeah. All right? I'm still Dragon 10. 00:02:50.630 --> 00:02:54.630 11. But I'm, you know, look, before 9.30, I'm just, you know, 00:02:54.710 --> 00:02:56.890 come on, man. Give me a fucking break, you know? 00:02:57.390 --> 00:03:00.370 Oh, before 9.30, I'm practically a zombie. 00:03:00.430 --> 00:03:06.190 Listen, when I worked at HP, I had, you know, that I had to go to the office. HP was very flexible. 00:03:06.810 --> 00:03:09.930 I mean, I would get to the office every day around 9.30 to 10. 00:03:10.430 --> 00:03:13.170 Okay. Yep. that that was fine that was not 00:03:13.170 --> 00:03:16.350 a problem and i usually the thing is because they're flexible and i 00:03:16.350 --> 00:03:20.090 like i said i got a burst of energy at five so 00:03:20.090 --> 00:03:23.150 i'm not heading home at five shit that's 00:03:23.150 --> 00:03:30.010 like my peak productivity time what hit like at five so no i would be you know 00:03:30.010 --> 00:03:36.050 banging away and shit until 7 30 because that's like when you know all of a 00:03:36.050 --> 00:03:40.790 sudden maybe my day would drag and all of a sudden, everything would gel. 00:03:40.950 --> 00:03:45.170 I'm like, shit, this shit, it's all coming out now. Boom! You know? 00:03:45.610 --> 00:03:53.070 My, look, my peak productivity, if I had no other constraints, 00:03:53.930 --> 00:03:59.510 would be like, yeah, I would start to really hit my stride around three or four o'clock. 00:03:59.510 --> 00:04:05.030 And from there until midnight is like my prime hours. Okay. 00:04:05.610 --> 00:04:12.190 You know, now here's the thing. If I were able, if I were able to be on a sleep 00:04:12.190 --> 00:04:15.550 schedule that didn't make me have to fucking wake up. 00:04:16.320 --> 00:04:23.020 as early as I have to now, I would be in sync with what you're talking about, okay? 00:04:23.100 --> 00:04:26.480 Well, see, here's the thing for- The fucking problem is that kids' obligations. 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:28.900 Bullshit- This is what I was going to say. 00:04:28.900 --> 00:04:36.200 Make it that I got to be up at fucking 6.45, so my burst now at that hour is not- Yeah. 00:04:36.280 --> 00:04:39.220 This is exactly what I was getting at. 00:04:39.360 --> 00:04:45.560 Like, you know, I don't hit those peak hours for work because, 00:04:45.880 --> 00:04:47.420 yeah, I have home obligations. 00:04:47.820 --> 00:04:52.320 And you mentioned you'd keep working past five. If I was working from home, 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:55.740 I probably would keep working from home longer. 00:04:56.380 --> 00:04:59.320 But I've got this hour and a half commute home. 00:04:59.520 --> 00:05:06.380 And if I leave work at five, I'm already talking about getting home 6.30 to 00:05:06.380 --> 00:05:08.980 seven, like potentially. Yeah, sure. 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:14.780 It's usually not a full hour and a half to get home, And it's a little bit better, 00:05:14.780 --> 00:05:19.480 like on Fridays, but like, that's the actual drive. 00:05:19.500 --> 00:05:24.300 Like from the moment I close my laptop, you know, I've still got like 15, 00:05:24.460 --> 00:05:29.880 20 minutes to like, you know, get all my stuff together, go to the garage, get in my car, get going. 00:05:30.060 --> 00:05:32.100 And I'm not even counting that stuff. 00:05:32.600 --> 00:05:39.580 And, you know, and, and I've usually, you know, this, like, I don't know. 00:05:39.580 --> 00:05:45.780 The point is, you know, if I leave at five, realistically, I'm not available 00:05:45.780 --> 00:05:48.020 to my family till like seven. 00:05:48.300 --> 00:05:53.900 Well, but my point is of this, bringing this up, was because I was mentioning 00:05:53.900 --> 00:05:58.280 about how, okay, I'm usually, I stayed in bed all Friday. 00:05:58.360 --> 00:05:59.480 Oh, because you were sick. Yes. 00:05:59.880 --> 00:06:06.660 Yeah, I mean, so I'm not, but I'm usually one that's doing shit from morning 00:06:06.660 --> 00:06:13.200 till late. And I felt so bad That for... 00:06:13.760 --> 00:06:17.120 I don't know, the first time in quite a long time. I was in bed all day. 00:06:17.780 --> 00:06:17.920 Right. 00:06:18.260 --> 00:06:23.900 I just, I was not, and I slept a lot of the day, which is the other thing. 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:28.220 I don't, I might be sometimes not feeling well in bed. I was sleeping all day. 00:06:28.840 --> 00:06:29.240 Okay. 00:06:29.800 --> 00:06:34.000 Because that's not normal. So that's, that's how, you know, I was feeling last 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:35.660 week, which is why I was like, shit. 00:06:35.840 --> 00:06:41.680 I'm like, no, I can't, I can't do this. I'm just, you know, I'm so tired. 00:06:42.820 --> 00:06:44.140 and not feeling well. 00:06:44.320 --> 00:06:46.000 Well, I mean, look, the bottom line. 00:06:46.120 --> 00:06:49.380 And then all of a sudden, I started going to the bathroom nonstop at three in the morning. 00:06:49.520 --> 00:06:50.920 Oh, good. Nice, nice. 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:55.200 Thank you for sharing. It's the perfect time, you know, for that to hit. 00:06:55.480 --> 00:06:58.940 Well, all of a sudden, I'm like, oh, man, come on. Really? 00:06:59.220 --> 00:07:01.740 Well, look, here's the thing. I mean, you're talking about, like, 00:07:02.220 --> 00:07:04.520 feeling bad that you're not working when you're sick. 00:07:04.680 --> 00:07:08.880 I mean, that's like, our culture is so broken with that. It should just be like. 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:11.200 Oh, I'm sick, I'm done. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. 00:07:11.740 --> 00:07:15.180 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's not go crazy here. 00:07:15.880 --> 00:07:19.900 I felt bad about being sick. I didn't feel bad about not working. 00:07:19.920 --> 00:07:20.800 Oh, okay, okay. 00:07:20.980 --> 00:07:26.440 Fuck that shit. No, no, no, no. What the fuck are you talking about? No, no, no. 00:07:26.740 --> 00:07:29.540 It felt bad that I felt sick, you know? 00:07:29.960 --> 00:07:33.540 I mean, did not work. And I'm like, listen, I immediately, I felt like shit. 00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:38.000 There were forecast calls. I called my boss. I said, dude, I'm sick. I'm out, you know? 00:07:38.100 --> 00:07:38.240 Right. 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:42.780 You know, see, I'm like, I'm not, you know. No, no, no. 00:07:43.280 --> 00:07:50.180 I mean, one thing about my current job in which I am working more than and not 00:07:50.180 --> 00:07:54.020 taking as much vacation as I normally do. And but let's be fair here. 00:07:54.200 --> 00:08:00.400 I take still quite a lot of vacation against the average American. 00:08:00.780 --> 00:08:01.300 OK, yeah. 00:08:01.900 --> 00:08:04.780 But I haven't taken more just because. 00:08:06.990 --> 00:08:13.450 My my role is a sales job. And the reality is that when I take time off because 00:08:13.450 --> 00:08:19.730 I get paid commissions, I lose money. I lose money. 00:08:19.950 --> 00:08:20.510 OK. 00:08:21.150 --> 00:08:25.230 All right. I lose money. And to me, I'm like, you know what? 00:08:25.390 --> 00:08:30.230 I feel like in this almost like when I had my own business where I'm like, 00:08:30.330 --> 00:08:34.790 look, if I'm not there minding the store every day, that money isn't coming in the till. 00:08:34.790 --> 00:08:37.910 right okay you know i gotta keep you 00:08:37.910 --> 00:08:43.090 know so so it's it's not even anybody demanding that i stay at work it's me 00:08:43.090 --> 00:08:47.110 like saying oh fuck this no i can't i can't go two weeks what am i crazy i gotta 00:08:47.110 --> 00:08:50.910 i gotta all these deals i gotta do this i gotta i gotta make this no fuck this 00:08:50.910 --> 00:08:55.830 shit i can't lose this money but but you know but contrary to others ivan get yeah all. 00:08:55.830 --> 00:08:57.850 You have to do is send them a letter. 00:08:57.850 --> 00:09:03.250 I don't know why you're making this so complicated you know what listen it was 00:09:03.250 --> 00:09:05.030 a conversation today that I had with, 00:09:05.150 --> 00:09:08.130 listen, I had a very important presentation with a customer today, 00:09:08.170 --> 00:09:14.230 and I presented the proposal, and it was a big amount of money. 00:09:14.250 --> 00:09:16.090 It was about seven figures, okay? 00:09:16.270 --> 00:09:18.810 You know, we're not talking, you know, we're not talking, you know, 00:09:19.150 --> 00:09:21.090 20, it was a big deal, okay? 00:09:21.670 --> 00:09:26.250 Seven figures for the first year, okay? So, you know, this go on for years, okay? 00:09:26.710 --> 00:09:31.190 And I go, And he said about talking to the CEO about the money. 00:09:31.350 --> 00:09:35.710 And I said, look, listen, the last thing I expect that I presented this about, 00:09:35.850 --> 00:09:36.990 are you just saying, hey, good. 00:09:37.690 --> 00:09:41.110 Oh, it's fine. Yeah. You know, I'm like, you know, I'm like, 00:09:41.170 --> 00:09:45.110 you know, if I'm asking people for that kind of money, I usually I don't. 00:09:45.390 --> 00:09:49.670 Is somebody just saying yes, that that that's like weird. 00:09:49.770 --> 00:09:52.550 And that's like the Donald Trump negotiating tactic, which is like, 00:09:52.610 --> 00:09:55.190 hey, I'll just send you a letter. See, you know, deal. 00:09:55.990 --> 00:09:58.690 The fuck they all kind of it's not 00:09:58.690 --> 00:10:01.330 a deal not deals the hell are 00:10:01.330 --> 00:10:04.470 we doing but anyway i i i was 00:10:04.470 --> 00:10:12.650 sick i i even though no sam i was not feeling bad about not working okay i you 00:10:12.650 --> 00:10:18.410 know i was perfectly happy not working i'm still i i calculated last year to 00:10:18.410 --> 00:10:22.090 talk about the fact that we have unlimited vacation at our company, 00:10:22.090 --> 00:10:29.630 I know that in the last 12 months, I've probably taken at least 40 vacation days. Okay. Yeah. 00:10:29.870 --> 00:10:30.630 That's a lot. 00:10:30.970 --> 00:10:32.190 That's a lot. Yes. 00:10:32.330 --> 00:10:32.490 Yeah. 00:10:33.410 --> 00:10:38.030 So, yeah, I mean, I've taken about 40 vacation days. 00:10:38.550 --> 00:10:43.210 So, you know, that's why I hear people complaining, oh, my God, I want them. 00:10:43.770 --> 00:10:47.690 It's a scam, the limited vacation. And I'm like, listen, shut up. 00:10:47.890 --> 00:10:52.710 Oh, you shut the fuck up. This is a scam only because you guys are all too scared of taking it. 00:10:52.890 --> 00:10:56.070 And at every company I have been, it's the same story. 00:10:56.150 --> 00:11:01.150 I have everybody around me always saying, oh, I can't take vacation. It's going to kill me. 00:11:01.230 --> 00:11:05.630 I'm like, you know what? I never, ever suffered from taking all of my vacation. 00:11:06.350 --> 00:11:08.350 Ever. Never a problem. 00:11:08.650 --> 00:11:09.090 Okay? 00:11:09.390 --> 00:11:13.590 I always say that's more fear than anything. I usually, but one thing I did, 00:11:13.730 --> 00:11:14.850 I left everything organized. 00:11:15.090 --> 00:11:18.310 I made sure that everything was taken care of. I made sure that my boss didn't 00:11:18.310 --> 00:11:20.210 get called for a fire of any sort. 00:11:20.270 --> 00:11:24.610 And if anything was pending, just to make sure, you know, it somehow is going to be taken care of. 00:11:24.830 --> 00:11:29.810 OK, so that's the way. But but a lot of people, the thing that they do is, 00:11:29.970 --> 00:11:34.210 oh, yeah, you know, oh, I get yelled at taking vacation. 00:11:34.410 --> 00:11:39.530 You left the place on fire and you go. Right. 00:11:39.850 --> 00:11:44.390 And so you don't tell anybody it's on fire. So all of a sudden, 00:11:44.610 --> 00:11:49.150 you know, the fumes, the fire hits your boss and they're calling. 00:11:49.150 --> 00:11:50.790 What the fuck is going on? 00:11:50.870 --> 00:11:53.390 Well, shit, you left the place on fire, you idiot. 00:11:53.810 --> 00:11:55.670 What do you expect is going to happen? 00:11:56.630 --> 00:11:58.470 Yes, that does make a difference. 00:12:02.030 --> 00:12:03.990 So, yeah, I, you know. 00:12:04.670 --> 00:12:06.170 Well, I'm glad you're feeling better. 00:12:06.530 --> 00:12:13.590 I am feeling better. Thank God. And, uh, you know, I don't know. It worked. 00:12:14.050 --> 00:12:18.050 Oh, yeah. I should mention our agenda. If you guys couldn't tell, 00:12:18.230 --> 00:12:19.610 we're doing the butt first right now. 00:12:19.870 --> 00:12:24.150 Yvonne just had a nice little story. I think, you know, I'm going to ask him 00:12:24.150 --> 00:12:26.190 if he has anything else for the butt first in a second. 00:12:26.370 --> 00:12:30.210 And then I'm going to do... This time, it's two movies. 00:12:31.010 --> 00:12:31.870 Two? Woo! 00:12:31.990 --> 00:12:35.170 Well, I'm trying to do two every time because otherwise I'll never catch up. 00:12:35.190 --> 00:12:39.190 Yeah, otherwise we'll never catch up. Yes. Well, the other thing I want to mention 00:12:39.190 --> 00:12:41.890 is something that I didn't mention last week is that I did again... 00:12:42.730 --> 00:12:47.170 Recently, I went and I I decided instead of buying a new device. 00:12:48.530 --> 00:12:52.090 To get some repairs done on my devices. Okay. 00:12:52.730 --> 00:12:54.790 Okay. You're talking mobile devices here. 00:12:55.110 --> 00:12:59.350 I'm talking, well, in this case, because I've done before iPads, other stuff, whatever. 00:12:59.630 --> 00:13:04.270 Right. Yeah. So, I mean, actually, but I talked, look, last year, 00:13:04.450 --> 00:13:09.430 I think it was a year and a half ago where I had the battery replaced on my 00:13:09.430 --> 00:13:12.370 work MacBook Pro. Okay. Also as well. 00:13:12.750 --> 00:13:18.210 But I decided that, you know, I don't think I'm going to, I want to get a new iPhone. 00:13:18.530 --> 00:13:23.650 17 pro right now or and i asked my son if he wanted a new phone. 00:13:23.650 --> 00:13:26.950 So so meanwhile my my my battery 00:13:26.950 --> 00:13:29.750 is crap right now but i have 00:13:29.750 --> 00:13:35.110 an iphone 12 still and my plan absolutely is to order the 17 as soon as it comes 00:13:35.110 --> 00:13:42.410 out so i am not i have a 15 pro max and yeah i have mine is a 12 pro max i did 00:13:42.410 --> 00:13:46.170 go to the apple store because i had the thing where it wasn't charging properly 00:13:46.170 --> 00:13:47.970 because there was like a lint build up. 00:13:48.110 --> 00:13:49.290 Yeah, get lint in there, yeah. 00:13:49.410 --> 00:13:50.390 So I have them. 00:13:50.470 --> 00:13:54.270 They have the tools that's better than anything you can do at home. 00:13:54.270 --> 00:13:57.750 That's better than anything that you can do at home, and they go over there, and they there you go. 00:13:57.790 --> 00:13:59.710 Yeah, because I've tried to fix that at home. 00:13:59.730 --> 00:14:04.670 I've tried it too at home. Never works. They go over there, and it's like magic. 00:14:04.670 --> 00:14:06.830 A couple seconds, it was beautiful again. 00:14:07.070 --> 00:14:07.630 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:14:07.890 --> 00:14:13.490 But nevertheless, my battery sucks at this point. It will not last even through the workday. 00:14:13.710 --> 00:14:17.970 I have one of those little battery packs i attach it to to get through the second 00:14:17.970 --> 00:14:22.330 half of the day and but the but i know the new ones are coming out in like two 00:14:22.330 --> 00:14:27.870 months you know last about two months yeah july august september yeah so i i'm 00:14:27.870 --> 00:14:30.730 like yeah i'm just gonna make this one last a couple months and then i'll order 00:14:30.730 --> 00:14:31.570 the new one and i'll be well. 00:14:31.570 --> 00:14:36.990 The thing is that i'm like look i i've got so my son has the se his battery 00:14:36.990 --> 00:14:44.030 life was in the crapper his his battery the the the the thing said 60 or something It was bad. Okay. 00:14:44.570 --> 00:14:47.770 And so I was going to get him a new phone, but he said no. 00:14:48.650 --> 00:14:52.830 I'm like, okay. And his phone, you know, him being like that was in really good shape. 00:14:52.890 --> 00:14:53.530 So you got the battery upgraded. 00:14:54.050 --> 00:14:57.390 So I went and I'm like, you know what? I was able to just get him a new battery. 00:14:57.590 --> 00:15:01.270 And so my phone, it wasn't just the battery. 00:15:01.610 --> 00:15:08.630 I somehow, the front of the screen, had scratched it really bad. Okay. 00:15:08.970 --> 00:15:10.750 Yeah. So you got your screen fixed. 00:15:10.750 --> 00:15:15.790 I had a very deep scratch that was like right down the middle. Okay. 00:15:16.070 --> 00:15:16.250 Yep. 00:15:16.410 --> 00:15:23.030 Which is really irritating. Okay. and I was like, my phone was still under AppleCare, 00:15:23.230 --> 00:15:27.850 plus my son's, you know, it wasn't because his phone is older. 00:15:28.450 --> 00:15:35.850 But look, I got my, and I had, like right when it was new, I had cracked the 00:15:35.850 --> 00:15:38.830 rear bottom corner of the back of the screen. 00:15:39.150 --> 00:15:39.670 Right. 00:15:39.870 --> 00:15:45.650 It was a tiny crack, and it happened when new. So it would be like almost two years ago. 00:15:46.390 --> 00:15:51.930 But I was like, look, if I'm going to take it, my battery was not down as bad 00:15:51.930 --> 00:15:57.070 as yours, but it was down enough that it was noticeable, okay? 00:15:57.550 --> 00:16:02.710 And it was down to around 85%. They told me at Apple that they would do it under 00:16:02.710 --> 00:16:06.690 AppleCare if it was under 80%. So I was not at the threshold. 00:16:06.690 --> 00:16:08.870 Let me check where mine is actually right now. 00:16:08.870 --> 00:16:18.710 Yeah, so they went and $89 plus $30 got me the glass. 00:16:18.750 --> 00:16:20.070 Mine's at 78%. 00:16:20.810 --> 00:16:22.190 It's not that bad. 00:16:22.710 --> 00:16:23.890 It's not that bad. 00:16:23.990 --> 00:16:27.450 But here's what I will say. Here. Yeah, that's what that says. 00:16:27.570 --> 00:16:28.290 Let me tell you something. 00:16:28.450 --> 00:16:35.490 It's not really 78%. Because I noticed quickly when I got the battery back that 00:16:35.490 --> 00:16:43.870 that 15% in real world usage was a hell of a lot more than 15%. 00:16:43.870 --> 00:16:48.370 OK, it was like probably like I'd say closer to 40%. 00:16:48.370 --> 00:16:56.750 OK, so I'm not sure why, but it really that 50% made a hell of a lot more of 00:16:56.750 --> 00:16:59.070 a difference than than than 40%. 00:16:59.070 --> 00:17:04.610 Because I noticed that I kept going every day at my battery usage, 00:17:04.610 --> 00:17:08.830 kept reading about 110% before I got the battery. 00:17:09.110 --> 00:17:14.490 And then like right now, for example, and right now I haven't charged it all 00:17:14.490 --> 00:17:17.010 day. I still got 22% left. 00:17:18.260 --> 00:17:25.220 You know, so, so that's like, and I'm talking like, I would be like, it would be dead by now. 00:17:25.700 --> 00:17:28.260 So, so yeah, so I got it done. 00:17:28.740 --> 00:17:31.360 So you have the Apple store experience. 00:17:31.960 --> 00:17:35.860 Yeah. I mean, usually always here, the store is very, I mean, 00:17:35.880 --> 00:17:39.600 it's close by. It's very easy to get stuff. 00:17:39.760 --> 00:17:43.240 Well, I'll tell you, I had an Apple store experience this week too. 00:17:44.660 --> 00:17:47.320 My, my, what, what you're laughing. 00:17:47.320 --> 00:17:53.140 Well, you said it in a way that sounded ominous. I had an experience. 00:17:53.140 --> 00:17:54.340 Let me tell you something. 00:17:55.540 --> 00:17:57.320 Let me tell you my experience. 00:17:57.440 --> 00:18:02.240 No, no. They are always good to me. The Apple store is always good to me. 00:18:02.240 --> 00:18:04.800 They're always good to me. I never have problems with people. 00:18:04.800 --> 00:18:08.500 And of course, I have all the Apple cares and all that kind of stuff. 00:18:08.700 --> 00:18:12.100 So, like, no, this was my AirPod Maxes. 00:18:12.860 --> 00:18:15.920 Like, just gave up the ghost. they'd been having a 00:18:15.920 --> 00:18:19.060 harder and harder time pairing over the last few months 00:18:19.060 --> 00:18:22.380 they've actually had a problem for a while but i was always able to like you 00:18:22.380 --> 00:18:25.720 know it like you know it's supposed to automatically connect and reconnect and 00:18:25.720 --> 00:18:31.860 blah blah it was routinely getting disconnected and the only way to get it back 00:18:31.860 --> 00:18:36.640 was to sort of reset and repair and blah blah blah it was it was annoying and 00:18:36.640 --> 00:18:40.680 it got worse and worse and then eventually like sometime last week it just stopped working entirely. 00:18:41.540 --> 00:18:46.000 So I was still under Apple care and my Apple care on those things was good till January. 00:18:46.460 --> 00:18:49.900 I took it in, the guy like examined them and was like, yeah, 00:18:50.620 --> 00:18:52.200 there's something really wrong with these. 00:18:52.360 --> 00:18:56.340 They're, they're not even like, you know, you unplug them and the light instantly 00:18:56.340 --> 00:18:58.740 goes out and it's not responding and blah, blah, blah. 00:18:59.140 --> 00:19:03.820 So he took it from me. They, I just got a note of, they had to like ship it 00:19:03.820 --> 00:19:06.080 to somewhere to be looked at, but whatever. 00:19:06.240 --> 00:19:11.640 I just got a notification that they've finished fixing them and it's on the way back FedEx to me. 00:19:11.800 --> 00:19:15.820 And so I'll, I'll have it. I think they originally estimated I'd have it by 00:19:15.820 --> 00:19:20.200 Saturday, but I think I saw that the estimate was now Monday, 00:19:20.460 --> 00:19:23.620 but whatever did without them for a little while. 00:19:23.820 --> 00:19:28.080 And, but you know, all taken care of, like went in there for a few minutes. 00:19:28.240 --> 00:19:30.220 They looked at it all good. You know, I mean. 00:19:30.220 --> 00:19:36.660 This is the one thing where, you know, anybody tried to convince me to buy something else. 00:19:36.660 --> 00:19:39.800 and i remember 00:19:39.800 --> 00:19:43.740 what it was to get anything electronic repaired 00:19:43.740 --> 00:19:51.160 or what it is to get anything repaired outside of like my auto dealership experience 00:19:51.160 --> 00:19:58.400 or my apple experience how shit is and let me tell it's like it's like getting 00:19:58.400 --> 00:20:00.740 my damn samsung refrigerator fixed. 00:20:02.260 --> 00:20:07.080 I had technicians coming out six times. It's a mess. They never get it right. 00:20:07.320 --> 00:20:09.740 I had the same thing with washer or dryer. 00:20:10.120 --> 00:20:15.540 You know, I had the GE guy go and like, whoa, whoa, we'll charge you $300 to change this part. 00:20:15.740 --> 00:20:19.260 But, you know, it might not work and we're not going to give you your money 00:20:19.260 --> 00:20:22.060 back. You know, shit like, literally shit like that. 00:20:22.280 --> 00:20:25.800 Where I'm like, promised repairs that don't repair anything. 00:20:25.820 --> 00:20:30.300 And oh, by the way, oh, oh, we charge you the money. It didn't do anything. Fuck you. 00:20:30.700 --> 00:20:33.580 You know? So I'm sorry, okay? 00:20:33.940 --> 00:20:43.380 No, I like this experience. I remember, I mean, shit, the horrible time that 00:20:43.380 --> 00:20:47.580 I had getting a Sony TV repaired that I got, okay, like years ago. 00:20:47.800 --> 00:20:49.960 That was like horrible. 00:20:50.240 --> 00:20:54.680 It was horrible. They literally destroyed the TV trying to fix it. 00:20:54.780 --> 00:20:59.180 And then my TV was discontinued and they had to wind up, Well, 00:20:59.500 --> 00:21:03.120 we have either a bigger model, which didn't fit in my furniture. 00:21:03.480 --> 00:21:08.580 And I'm like, yes, Elwood can give you the bigger model. But that one doesn't fit. 00:21:09.060 --> 00:21:14.260 I don't have room for that one. Well, we can give you the same size, 00:21:14.260 --> 00:21:15.620 but it's a much crappier one. 00:21:15.740 --> 00:21:20.300 And I'm like, don't just want to be fixed. 00:21:21.420 --> 00:21:24.840 I just wanted my TV fixed. I didn't want you guys to break it. 00:21:25.800 --> 00:21:26.240 Yes. 00:21:26.240 --> 00:21:31.880 So this kind of shit, when I go to Apple, never happens. 00:21:32.340 --> 00:21:37.080 I go in, they fix it, they give it back to me, it works. 00:21:38.420 --> 00:21:43.580 And I don't, here's the one thing, it's, and look, me coming from HP, 00:21:44.060 --> 00:21:47.080 where we did a lot of end-user repairs. 00:21:47.720 --> 00:21:54.220 And man, our end-user experience at HP for devices was horrible. 00:21:54.720 --> 00:21:58.120 It was horrible. It was horrible, okay? 00:21:58.340 --> 00:21:58.480 Right. 00:21:58.580 --> 00:22:03.840 I had people calling me, pleading, crying on the phone, begging for help to 00:22:03.840 --> 00:22:05.180 get their devices fixed. 00:22:05.540 --> 00:22:09.580 And then they would send in devices and they would get sent back saying repair 00:22:09.580 --> 00:22:11.800 it and they didn't touch anything or fix anything. 00:22:12.380 --> 00:22:13.960 And that happened often. 00:22:14.440 --> 00:22:14.620 Right. 00:22:15.420 --> 00:22:20.940 So, yeah. So, to me, I put a lot of value in this experience, 00:22:20.940 --> 00:22:25.600 which is, yep, we'll do this. Yep. We'll get it back to you. 00:22:25.800 --> 00:22:29.920 Yep. Oh, oh, oh, well, we'll just swap it out. Fine. 00:22:30.400 --> 00:22:33.640 Well, you know, we have a, we have a re or, or if they think, 00:22:33.720 --> 00:22:35.160 oh, it's too hard. No, refurb. 00:22:35.380 --> 00:22:37.760 Fuck it. There you go. Have a refurb. Get out of here. Beat it. 00:22:37.860 --> 00:22:41.600 Hey, you know, they don't, they don't fuck around with a customer. 00:22:42.240 --> 00:22:42.560 Right. 00:22:43.160 --> 00:22:47.180 And I, and I, you know, the, the one thing is that also why I'm, 00:22:47.180 --> 00:22:48.900 I'm keeping this phone and not buying one. 00:22:49.680 --> 00:22:53.920 I, I had to do something where I was going through all the Apple devices and 00:22:53.920 --> 00:22:55.180 purchases that I have made, 00:22:56.100 --> 00:22:58.400 Holy shit, I've bought a lot of Apple shit. 00:22:58.940 --> 00:22:59.580 Oh, yeah. 00:23:00.060 --> 00:23:06.500 I was looking through this list all of a sudden. I'm like, holy mother of God, what the fuck? 00:23:06.880 --> 00:23:12.500 And so I realized that I went through the amount of money I also spent the last 00:23:12.500 --> 00:23:16.680 couple of years on a number of devices. 00:23:17.040 --> 00:23:18.880 And I realized that it was... 00:23:18.880 --> 00:23:22.920 Don't look at that. Don't add it up. No. That's a bad idea. 00:23:23.360 --> 00:23:27.060 Oh, God. It was obscene. And I'm just like, oh, God, Jesus Christ. 00:23:27.160 --> 00:23:29.200 I'm not buying anything else. 00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:34.760 I thought you were going to say that given all that, you were inspired to immediately 00:23:34.760 --> 00:23:37.740 go into the Apple store and buy an Apple Vision. 00:23:38.400 --> 00:23:39.720 Yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah. 00:23:39.860 --> 00:23:41.660 No, I'm not buying it. You need that. 00:23:42.960 --> 00:23:44.980 I'm like, no, I'm like, shit. 00:23:45.140 --> 00:23:45.580 Vision Pro. 00:23:45.720 --> 00:23:51.100 And praise my son, okay, to be the frugal one who I offered, 00:23:51.140 --> 00:23:53.080 hey, you want a new phone? And he was like, no. 00:23:53.080 --> 00:23:54.680 And he said, no. I'm good. 00:23:54.680 --> 00:23:58.260 I like this phone I'm like okay good so there you go. 00:23:58.260 --> 00:24:03.720 Yeah no anyway fun stuff right ready for my movies movies. 00:24:03.720 --> 00:24:04.700 Let's go to the movies. 00:24:04.700 --> 00:24:11.160 Let's go to the movies okay number one at the movies first of all I will say 00:24:11.160 --> 00:24:18.180 like our listener Pete encouraged us all to see Superman in the theaters I. 00:24:18.180 --> 00:24:19.780 Couldn't see fucking Superman. 00:24:19.780 --> 00:24:21.200 My son and. 00:24:21.200 --> 00:24:22.700 My wife went. 00:24:23.620 --> 00:24:24.060 Without... 00:24:24.060 --> 00:24:25.020 Well, yes! 00:24:25.440 --> 00:24:26.560 I was in bed. 00:24:26.580 --> 00:24:27.400 And I was out. 00:24:27.720 --> 00:24:28.360 And they were like. 00:24:28.540 --> 00:24:28.620 Oh, we'll go to the movie. 00:24:28.900 --> 00:24:33.160 And I had told Pete said he would come on the show to talk about Superman with 00:24:33.160 --> 00:24:38.140 us, and I said I would talk out of order about Superman if Yvonne saw it, 00:24:38.300 --> 00:24:41.740 but then Yvonne hasn't seen it. So, you know, we will wait. 00:24:41.740 --> 00:24:44.820 Here's what I'm going to suggest. I think that you guys need to record something 00:24:44.820 --> 00:24:49.320 separately without me on Superman. I do want to see it. 00:24:49.740 --> 00:24:51.220 Maybe I'll talk to Pete about that. 00:24:51.220 --> 00:24:55.720 Yeah, I definitely want to see it, but I'm not sure when I'm going to be able 00:24:55.720 --> 00:24:58.440 to get to it right now, you know, in the next few weeks. 00:24:58.680 --> 00:24:59.180 Yeah, yeah. 00:24:59.360 --> 00:25:03.500 But I definitely am planning to see it. Okay. I've got to figure it out. 00:25:03.960 --> 00:25:06.460 Okay, we got it. Like, you know, but. 00:25:06.680 --> 00:25:08.640 I have an assignment there to try to. 00:25:09.040 --> 00:25:12.740 You have an assignment. And see, it'll probably be in the theaters a while. It's doing really well. 00:25:12.820 --> 00:25:16.320 Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, exactly. So, I got to make it to the theater. 00:25:16.520 --> 00:25:18.680 I got to go. I got to fulfill my assignment. 00:25:19.000 --> 00:25:20.380 I may have to go, like, one of 00:25:20.380 --> 00:25:23.860 these days. Like I'll go like early in the afternoon and just go watch it. 00:25:24.040 --> 00:25:27.820 I won't say anything about the new Superman movie other than thumbs up. 00:25:28.500 --> 00:25:30.140 Definite thumbs up. Okay. 00:25:30.300 --> 00:25:30.720 There you go. 00:25:31.240 --> 00:25:38.240 But the movies I'm actually talking about today are still ones I, we're in last October. 00:25:38.420 --> 00:25:46.600 This one, this first one I watched October 16th, 2024, Moonrise Kingdom from 2012. 00:25:47.260 --> 00:25:48.520 Have you heard of it, Yvonne? 00:25:49.310 --> 00:25:51.530 The name does not ring a bell. 00:25:51.910 --> 00:25:55.150 So I will start off by saying this is a Wes Anderson film. 00:25:55.550 --> 00:25:59.590 And I've reviewed other Wes Anderson films on the show before. 00:25:59.830 --> 00:26:03.950 And I don't believe any of them have done better than A Thumbs Sideways. 00:26:04.230 --> 00:26:06.510 And some of them have probably even been A Thumbs Down. 00:26:06.510 --> 00:26:08.750 I don't even know who the fuck Wes Anderson is. 00:26:08.970 --> 00:26:15.750 So he's a director. But the thing is, his films have a very distinct style to 00:26:15.750 --> 00:26:18.230 them. And they're very stylized. 00:26:18.610 --> 00:26:19.350 Okay? Okay. 00:26:21.250 --> 00:26:27.710 And all of the other ones, I'm looking at his filmography and seeing which ones I've watched. 00:26:28.050 --> 00:26:30.690 American filmmaker. I think I've watched the Royal Tenenbaums. 00:26:31.170 --> 00:26:32.290 I've heard of that one. 00:26:32.450 --> 00:26:35.350 I think I've watched the Grand Budapest Hotel. 00:26:37.210 --> 00:26:39.770 Okay, I have watched the Grand Budapest Hotel. 00:26:39.810 --> 00:26:42.690 Okay. Okay. And there are a couple others here that I think I've seen. 00:26:42.710 --> 00:26:43.910 Oh, Rushmore. Okay. 00:26:44.130 --> 00:26:49.490 I have never seen Rushmore. Really? I think, yeah, never. even though people 00:26:49.490 --> 00:26:53.490 tell me I look like the main character or I used to when I was younger or something like that. 00:26:53.630 --> 00:26:56.590 I don't know if it's true or not, but I've heard... 00:26:56.590 --> 00:27:00.050 I believe I saw a picture of him at their rate. 00:27:00.630 --> 00:27:05.110 Okay. But yeah, and I think I've seen parts of Fantastic Mr. 00:27:05.330 --> 00:27:08.110 Fox and Isle of Dogs, but I don't think I've seen the whole movie. 00:27:08.230 --> 00:27:11.070 It's sort of been like somebody else has been watching it and I've walked through the room. 00:27:11.790 --> 00:27:16.710 But anyway, I haven't... My general take is I don't like his style. 00:27:16.710 --> 00:27:20.190 I don't like his movies. He's kind of crappy. 00:27:20.930 --> 00:27:22.530 So, so... 00:27:22.530 --> 00:27:27.190 He's kind of crappy. He's had five... He's won five Academy Awards. 00:27:27.190 --> 00:27:29.630 I know, like, people love these things, but I don't. 00:27:29.830 --> 00:27:30.270 Five BAFTAs. 00:27:30.310 --> 00:27:30.530 Okay. 00:27:30.750 --> 00:27:37.650 Two Golden Globes. He's had 16 Academy Award nominations, 20 BAFTA nominations, and 11 Golden Globes. 00:27:37.850 --> 00:27:40.110 Okay. Tell me he's crap. Let me just put it in a different... 00:27:40.110 --> 00:27:42.070 I would say, not your style. 00:27:42.270 --> 00:27:43.050 Not for me. 00:27:43.290 --> 00:27:44.070 Not for you. 00:27:44.270 --> 00:27:44.670 But... 00:27:45.640 --> 00:27:48.220 I was surprised because I really enjoyed Moonrise Kingdom. 00:27:48.840 --> 00:27:49.140 Oh! 00:27:50.000 --> 00:27:52.940 Like, I hadn't liked any of the other of his movies I'd seen, 00:27:53.080 --> 00:27:56.000 but I had fun with this movie. I thought it was cool. 00:27:56.140 --> 00:27:59.180 It was sweet. It was sort of touching. 00:27:59.500 --> 00:28:07.020 It was also stylized, but in a slightly less annoying way, at least I thought so. 00:28:07.560 --> 00:28:14.720 I'll give you the first couple paragraphs of the plot, and I won't go beyond that for spoilers. 00:28:15.640 --> 00:28:23.240 On the New England island of New Penzance, 12-year-old orphan Sam Shakuski attends 00:28:23.240 --> 00:28:29.700 Camp Ivanhoe, a khaki scout summer camp led by Scoutmaster Randy Ward. 00:28:30.360 --> 00:28:35.440 Susie Bishop, also 12, lives on the island with her parents Walt and Laura, 00:28:35.700 --> 00:28:40.140 both lawyers, and her three younger brothers in a house called Summer's End. 00:28:40.140 --> 00:28:45.760 Sam and Susie, both introverted, intelligent, and mature for their age, 00:28:45.940 --> 00:28:54.500 meet in the summer of 1964 during a church performance of Noyuz Fluttle and become pen pals. 00:28:54.760 --> 00:28:58.540 The relationship becomes romantic over the course of their correspondence, 00:28:58.560 --> 00:29:02.820 and they make a secret plan to reunite and run away together. 00:29:02.820 --> 00:29:06.920 In September 1965, they execute their plan. 00:29:07.180 --> 00:29:12.360 Sam escapes from Camp Ivanhoe while Susie runs away from summer's end. 00:29:12.560 --> 00:29:17.800 The pair rendezvous, hike, camp, and fish in the wilderness with the goal of 00:29:17.800 --> 00:29:19.280 reaching a specific location. 00:29:20.040 --> 00:29:24.520 So maybe I like it just because the main character's name is Sam and he's a geeky 12 year old. 00:29:25.040 --> 00:29:29.340 I don't know. Maybe that's why I like it. And hey, that's not a bad reason. 00:29:29.520 --> 00:29:33.580 And he ended up like, you know, having this relationship with a geeky 12 year old girl. 00:29:33.700 --> 00:29:36.700 And maybe I was just like, oh, that would have been cool if it had happened 00:29:36.700 --> 00:29:38.700 to me. It didn't. But, you know, whatever. 00:29:39.500 --> 00:29:43.260 But no, you know, I just I enjoyed it. 00:29:43.360 --> 00:29:48.820 Like I said, it was quirky, but in a way that was less annoying to me than some of these others. 00:29:48.820 --> 00:29:55.680 and I just, it's sort of sweet and pulled at the emotional heartstrings at the 00:29:55.680 --> 00:29:59.080 right moments and I just liked it, you know? 00:29:59.420 --> 00:30:05.960 So just cast-wise, it had Bruce Willis in it, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, 00:30:06.740 --> 00:30:12.740 Francis McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman, who I believe is the guy from Rushmore, 00:30:13.720 --> 00:30:18.920 Bob Balaban so I don't know who Bob is I recognize most of those other names 00:30:18.920 --> 00:30:25.500 but and I guess the kids were Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward no idea if you know 00:30:25.500 --> 00:30:28.280 what else they've been in I could look it up but I'm not going to, 00:30:28.900 --> 00:30:34.560 anyway thumbs up and that's probably all I have to say about Moonrise Kingdom I enjoyed it alright. 00:30:34.560 --> 00:30:35.960 So that's movie number one. 00:30:35.960 --> 00:30:46.480 Movie number two is from the Star Wars universe It is one of the ones that I 00:30:46.480 --> 00:30:51.960 believe is officially no longer canon from 1985, 00:30:52.200 --> 00:30:54.540 made for television, 00:30:54.940 --> 00:30:58.120 the second of the two Ewok movies. 00:30:58.400 --> 00:31:01.800 This is Ewoks, the battle for Endor. 00:31:02.100 --> 00:31:03.900 Oh, this doesn't sound good. 00:31:06.270 --> 00:31:12.590 This sounds really bad. This gives me Christmas special vibes. 00:31:13.310 --> 00:31:19.170 Yes. And so it is a direct sequel to the first Ewok movie. 00:31:19.590 --> 00:31:23.490 I mean, like, there shouldn't have been a first one in the first place. 00:31:25.330 --> 00:31:32.390 So just to say a couple words about the first Ewok movie, 00:31:32.390 --> 00:31:38.810 It had a family that were stranded when their Star Cruiser is wrecked, 00:31:38.870 --> 00:31:40.390 and they have a few adventures. 00:31:40.710 --> 00:31:45.090 And at the end, the family decides to stay with the Ewoks until they can repair 00:31:45.090 --> 00:31:48.390 their Star Cruiser. And that was the first movie. 00:31:48.670 --> 00:31:55.390 The second movie, let me read you the first paragraph of this one. 00:31:55.990 --> 00:31:59.550 Nearly six months have passed since the events of the first film. 00:31:59.550 --> 00:32:03.890 The Tawani family's star cruiser is almost completely fixed, 00:32:04.090 --> 00:32:07.230 and Jeremut is putting the final touches on the craft. 00:32:07.690 --> 00:32:11.350 While the family is preparing to leave the forest moon of Endor, 00:32:11.590 --> 00:32:18.570 the Ewok village is attacked by a marauder group led by Terak and his witch-like sorceress, Sharal. 00:32:19.190 --> 00:32:25.350 Many Ewoks are captured, while Jeremut, Katarina, and Mace are killed, 00:32:25.530 --> 00:32:27.550 helping to defend the Ewok village. 00:32:28.130 --> 00:32:33.970 Basically, the entire family from the first movie, except for one surviving child, is killed. 00:32:33.970 --> 00:32:34.650 It gets wiped out. 00:32:34.810 --> 00:32:37.330 Nice! It gets wiped out and killed in the first few minutes. 00:32:37.390 --> 00:32:39.570 Ah, sounds really nice. 00:32:39.770 --> 00:32:43.430 The Marauders steal a power cell from the Tawani Star Cruise are believing it 00:32:43.430 --> 00:32:46.070 to have some sort of magic power over the stars. 00:32:46.070 --> 00:32:48.910 and so this movie is 00:32:48.910 --> 00:32:54.530 about the one surviving child from that family plus one ewok wicket the ewok 00:32:54.530 --> 00:33:01.650 and their adventures to like get away from the marauders and eventually you 00:33:01.650 --> 00:33:08.330 know do whatever and so i won't give spoilers but let's just say, 00:33:09.160 --> 00:33:11.440 Your intuition is correct. 00:33:14.400 --> 00:33:22.600 It, it, apparently, like, I, I was, I'm looking at the Wikipedia page and was surprised. 00:33:23.780 --> 00:33:28.560 Positive. It, it, it did get, like, Emmy nominations. 00:33:29.380 --> 00:33:31.000 Okay, but for what? 00:33:31.180 --> 00:33:33.260 Well, one of them was for special effects. 00:33:33.600 --> 00:33:34.960 Okay, yeah, all right. 00:33:35.440 --> 00:33:42.540 Now, having said that, watching this 1985 movie from a 2025 perspective, 00:33:43.060 --> 00:33:50.360 the special effects were very 1985 television movie special effects. 00:33:50.420 --> 00:33:51.040 Yeah, which are not good. 00:33:51.040 --> 00:33:52.800 Not even Star Wars special effects. 00:33:52.860 --> 00:33:53.880 Right, which are not good. 00:33:54.100 --> 00:33:58.720 Yeah, I mean, like, you know, this was after Return of the Jedi and all that. 00:33:58.940 --> 00:34:01.380 You know, Return of the Jedi had good effects even back then. 00:34:01.380 --> 00:34:08.100 Sure, but that was a very expensive theatrical production versus a made-for-TV film. 00:34:15.700 --> 00:34:20.580 So it got an Emmy for special effects, and it got two nominations for Outstanding 00:34:20.580 --> 00:34:25.500 Children's Program and Outstanding Sound Mixing. 00:34:26.560 --> 00:34:31.620 So let me get this straight. The two nominations really are for the sound, 00:34:31.840 --> 00:34:33.300 for the special effects. 00:34:34.360 --> 00:34:37.160 Sound, special effects, and Outstanding Children's Program. 00:34:37.180 --> 00:34:38.920 And somehow it entertained kids. 00:34:39.300 --> 00:34:39.780 Yes. 00:34:40.080 --> 00:34:44.500 Yeah, because you have great sound in the special effects, which that actually entertains kids. 00:34:45.120 --> 00:34:47.740 I guess so. Right. 00:34:47.940 --> 00:34:48.540 Makes sense. 00:34:49.100 --> 00:34:52.720 Anyway, it was dumb. It was really dumb. 00:34:52.940 --> 00:34:58.540 The first Ewok special, I mean, we're not talking, you know, holiday special dumb. 00:34:59.720 --> 00:35:05.360 Nothing can even approach that. Nothing in the universe can approach how dumb that was. 00:35:05.920 --> 00:35:10.740 But they were both dumb. And your reaction of like, did this really need to 00:35:10.740 --> 00:35:14.480 be made is, I think, the right thing. 00:35:14.480 --> 00:35:18.620 Now, of course, this is like post-Return of the Jedi, you know, 00:35:19.140 --> 00:35:21.500 Lucas cashing in some more, you know? 00:35:21.800 --> 00:35:26.320 So I guess in that sense, it needed to be done. 00:35:27.940 --> 00:35:31.900 You know, George wanted some more money, you know? 00:35:34.360 --> 00:35:35.220 George has. 00:35:35.420 --> 00:35:39.320 Did I say Attack of the... I said post-Return of the Jedi, right? 00:35:39.420 --> 00:35:40.120 I didn't screw up the movies. 00:35:40.120 --> 00:35:40.860 Right, post-Return of the Jedi. 00:35:40.980 --> 00:35:41.120 Yeah. 00:35:42.840 --> 00:35:43.620 Here's one thing. 00:35:43.620 --> 00:35:51.000 So wait, let me say, this is the last of the television slash movies from after 00:35:51.000 --> 00:35:55.100 Return of the Jedi before The Phantom Menace. And I have now watched all of them. 00:35:55.580 --> 00:35:57.740 Caravan of Courage and Ewok Adventure. 00:35:59.100 --> 00:36:07.000 Also the droids cartoon series and the Ewoks cartoon series and now the second Ewok movie. 00:36:07.840 --> 00:36:11.840 All four of these things are regrettable. 00:36:12.840 --> 00:36:16.220 So here's the thing, right? You said, you know, George Lucas, 00:36:16.420 --> 00:36:18.600 you know, needing to make a buck, right? 00:36:18.880 --> 00:36:25.320 And the one thing is, I heard George Lucas somehow, like, talk recently, 00:36:26.200 --> 00:36:28.360 say in the last decade, okay? 00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:30.180 Since he sold. 00:36:30.660 --> 00:36:36.780 Since he sold, talking about, somehow about, it sounded like about the evil 00:36:36.780 --> 00:36:40.540 of money and blah, whatever, right? 00:36:40.540 --> 00:36:46.900 And I'm like, you know, every guy paid billions, okay, right, to sell this, right? 00:36:47.400 --> 00:36:53.500 And I see him doing that movie with just a fucking money grab. 00:36:54.080 --> 00:36:59.040 I'm like, look, don't give me that shit. Just don't give me that shit. 00:36:59.380 --> 00:37:04.940 Because, I mean, you over and over did money grabs, you know, just for money grabs. 00:37:04.940 --> 00:37:10.980 so don't go now and like tell me all you know you know the evil of the buddy 00:37:10.980 --> 00:37:17.520 or whatever would you know it's like i mean you know come on what were episodes 00:37:17.520 --> 00:37:21.200 one two and three hey i mean people were clamoring. 00:37:21.200 --> 00:37:24.520 The where's the rest where the rest you said there would be nine movies where 00:37:24.520 --> 00:37:27.460 the rest he he had to do it right yeah. 00:37:27.460 --> 00:37:30.780 He you know he didn't 00:37:30.780 --> 00:37:33.500 have to i i will say that at the end 00:37:33.500 --> 00:37:39.520 they turned out good okay i i say that overall it turned out well you know there's 00:37:39.520 --> 00:37:45.080 the i mean i think you know i i think if you poll people on average i think 00:37:45.080 --> 00:37:50.940 it turned out well well this is one of the it's not hated i mean this is you 00:37:50.940 --> 00:37:52.700 know they're well like here. 00:37:52.700 --> 00:37:59.020 Well here's the thing on them like a lot of the people who saw the original 00:37:59.020 --> 00:38:01.540 trilogy in the theaters as children. 00:38:01.540 --> 00:38:02.680 Right and. 00:38:03.510 --> 00:38:09.210 Were not liking the prequel trilogy and gave it a lot of hate, 00:38:09.370 --> 00:38:11.170 especially episode one. 00:38:12.670 --> 00:38:15.130 But I'm talking about overall. 00:38:15.470 --> 00:38:21.850 No, no, I know. The overall audience. No, but what I'm saying is that those people who wanted, 00:38:23.050 --> 00:38:28.610 who grew up with Star Wars and wanted new Star Wars for them as adults tended 00:38:28.610 --> 00:38:30.490 to be disappointed with the prequels. 00:38:30.910 --> 00:38:35.670 But, and I've heard interviews with like the cast members of the prequels about 00:38:35.670 --> 00:38:42.410 this, where they talk about how they felt bad because of all the negative reaction 00:38:42.410 --> 00:38:44.250 they got when the movies first came out. 00:38:44.390 --> 00:38:51.690 But now, you know, 20 plus years later, they get people coming up to them, 00:38:52.190 --> 00:38:56.230 telling them how important those movies were to them when they were kids. 00:38:56.230 --> 00:38:56.830 Were kids! 00:38:57.130 --> 00:39:01.610 Because one of the things that George Lucas did that specifically annoyed people, 00:39:01.610 --> 00:39:03.590 And this was a little bit less in episode three. 00:39:03.790 --> 00:39:06.230 It got less and less as you went through one, two and three, 00:39:06.770 --> 00:39:12.510 but he specifically set out and said, I am not making these movies for the people 00:39:12.510 --> 00:39:15.310 who were kids for episodes. 00:39:15.330 --> 00:39:16.450 In 1970s. 00:39:16.550 --> 00:39:21.910 In the late 1970s, early 1980s for the first three movies. I'm making this for 00:39:21.910 --> 00:39:23.450 the people who are kids now. 00:39:24.130 --> 00:39:28.210 And that disappointed a lot of people, but you know, it is what it is. 00:39:28.210 --> 00:39:33.150 Like I said, look, they had, you know, Overall, they had a good reception. 00:39:33.570 --> 00:39:37.530 I mean, think about this. Bitching about Star Wars Episode I, 00:39:37.990 --> 00:39:41.110 you know how much that fucking movie grossed what the box office was? 00:39:41.970 --> 00:39:44.510 $1.1 billion, Sam! 00:39:44.750 --> 00:39:46.210 Yes. Yeah, yeah. 00:39:46.690 --> 00:39:49.530 It's not a failure by any stretch. 00:39:49.930 --> 00:39:55.550 I remember lining up and seeing it with my whole family. I don't remember if 00:39:55.550 --> 00:40:00.990 we did it on opening day, but we certainly did it within the first week and it being a major event. 00:40:00.990 --> 00:40:06.930 I will say this. You know, I do think it was a money grab, but at the same time, 00:40:06.930 --> 00:40:11.730 I watched all three, and I grew up watching those. I liked them. 00:40:12.130 --> 00:40:15.550 Other than, you know, look, we should have. 00:40:15.690 --> 00:40:20.330 I mean, struck our face. Well, you grew up watching the prequel series? That's like 1999. 00:40:20.330 --> 00:40:23.330 No, no, no, but I grew up with the original. 00:40:23.530 --> 00:40:24.990 Oh, and you still like the new ones. 00:40:24.990 --> 00:40:30.550 And I still like the new ones, is what I'm saying, okay? I, you know, I'm not that... 00:40:33.000 --> 00:40:38.900 I am not that, like, how do I say? 00:40:39.940 --> 00:40:44.080 I don't get, like, bogged down with, oh, my God, it wasn't like whatever. 00:40:44.260 --> 00:40:46.320 For example, like, I think you and I have talked about this, 00:40:46.340 --> 00:40:47.640 and I think we disagree on this. 00:40:47.960 --> 00:40:54.040 I liked the new Star Trek movies with, you know, J.J. 00:40:54.160 --> 00:40:56.280 Abrams. I liked them very much. 00:40:56.480 --> 00:41:03.920 Yeah, my sense on those was I was not, I didn't hate them, but I was sufficiently 00:41:03.920 --> 00:41:07.480 unimpressed that I never bothered watching the last one. 00:41:08.640 --> 00:41:11.440 I, I, I, you see, I'm different. 00:41:11.640 --> 00:41:16.320 I actually liked them very much. As a matter of fact, I will say that they were 00:41:16.320 --> 00:41:23.840 much better than the last few of the, you know, the next generation motion picture ones. 00:41:24.120 --> 00:41:24.480 Okay. 00:41:25.160 --> 00:41:26.580 Much better. Okay. 00:41:26.940 --> 00:41:30.140 I will eventually get to all of these two. I'm working my way through the, 00:41:30.300 --> 00:41:35.480 as, as you see, i'm working my way slowly through the star wars i'm also slowly 00:41:35.480 --> 00:41:39.440 working my way through the star truck and i will you know eventually. 00:41:39.440 --> 00:41:42.440 As much as i love the the next generation 00:41:42.440 --> 00:41:51.340 cast the movies were man they weren't great you know they were okay anyway but 00:41:51.340 --> 00:41:56.680 and i and i and i'm like what that i found and and i and look they didn't do 00:41:56.680 --> 00:41:59.700 well in the box office either the last one they there was a large hiatus, 00:42:00.040 --> 00:42:01.440 you know, getting to the J.J. 00:42:01.540 --> 00:42:06.700 Abrams ones because the last one of that group did poorly. Right. 00:42:06.980 --> 00:42:12.200 So anyway, I'm going to say thumbs down for Ewoks, the battle event for Endor. 00:42:12.900 --> 00:42:17.140 Right. The only reason to watch this is if you are being a completist and trying 00:42:17.140 --> 00:42:20.220 to watch all Star Wars ever made. That is the only reason. 00:42:20.360 --> 00:42:23.960 Otherwise, let's just say, fuck the Ewoks, and that's it. 00:42:24.820 --> 00:42:30.980 Yes. All right, good. And so let's, let's take a break and then we can start 00:42:30.980 --> 00:42:34.860 talking about news, this stuff going on. 00:42:36.140 --> 00:42:41.160 Like now I will say I, this came up in the random rotation last time, 00:42:41.160 --> 00:42:45.180 but I saved it for this week, Yvonne, because this is a new break. 00:42:45.680 --> 00:42:50.120 It is actually something that was recorded years ago at this time. 00:42:50.500 --> 00:42:57.100 My son had me do this and he's actually got remixes of it, but this is just the raw audio. 00:42:57.960 --> 00:43:02.500 And it's very, very short. It is the shortest break we have. 00:43:02.700 --> 00:43:08.580 It's like less than 30 seconds, but I saved it so that we could get your reaction. 00:43:08.840 --> 00:43:09.860 All right, break it. 00:43:10.480 --> 00:43:12.240 Okay. Okay. 00:43:12.480 --> 00:43:14.360 You can tell your son that I'm alive. 00:43:16.240 --> 00:43:17.480 I want to be. 00:43:35.730 --> 00:43:39.790 And that's it. Did you enjoy that, Yvonne? 00:43:39.990 --> 00:43:45.010 For those of you who can't see him, he's cracking. 00:43:48.450 --> 00:43:51.850 All I'm going to say that is post-production, you got to turn down the volume 00:43:51.850 --> 00:43:54.410 a little bit on that for people. 00:43:55.110 --> 00:43:59.590 Oh, it'll, everything gets leveled. So don't worry. Did I blow out your ears? 00:43:59.710 --> 00:44:00.910 I apologize if I blew out. 00:44:00.930 --> 00:44:01.630 It was loud. 00:44:04.270 --> 00:44:07.630 especially the the tick talking you know 00:44:07.630 --> 00:44:11.210 talk yes okay i 00:44:11.210 --> 00:44:13.810 want to be under the tree well yes you want to 00:44:13.810 --> 00:44:17.650 be under the tree all right so what the fuck are we going to talk about first 00:44:17.650 --> 00:44:23.550 okay well uh you know what yes i'm gonna give a news update on something that 00:44:23.550 --> 00:44:27.950 isn't on the list which i forgot to put in oh okay yes i'm gonna write it down 00:44:27.950 --> 00:44:32.270 right now just so okay keep track Okay. 00:44:32.830 --> 00:44:37.330 Well, last Friday, as I was lying down sick, 00:44:38.750 --> 00:44:45.350 the India Air Investigations Bureau released their preliminary findings on the 00:44:45.350 --> 00:44:49.970 crash of the 787 in India. Okay. 00:44:50.310 --> 00:44:55.850 And one thing is that leading up to that, a number of people had been very concerned 00:44:55.850 --> 00:45:00.690 whether they were going to even release the report publicly. 00:45:01.830 --> 00:45:06.350 The reason is that the day before, 00:45:06.890 --> 00:45:15.230 a very reputable source had indicated that there was evidence gathered that 00:45:15.230 --> 00:45:20.310 showed that the reason why the plane crashed is because somebody flipped off 00:45:20.310 --> 00:45:23.250 the fuel right after takeoff. 00:45:23.790 --> 00:45:27.270 There's two fuel switches and they got shut off. 00:45:27.730 --> 00:45:33.410 Right. And from all sorts of videos and stuff I've seen, it is very, 00:45:33.630 --> 00:45:36.170 it is hard to move these switches. 00:45:36.350 --> 00:45:39.090 It is designed so it can't be done accidentally. 00:45:39.650 --> 00:45:46.310 Correct. The switches are made so you just can't bump them and you turn them off. 00:45:46.410 --> 00:45:51.590 You actually have to literally physically pull on the switch to lift it and 00:45:51.590 --> 00:45:54.250 then move it and then put it back down. 00:45:54.250 --> 00:46:01.030 So you have to exert an outward force to pull it out of the thing, 00:46:01.310 --> 00:46:03.870 okay, in order for it to unlock. Right. 00:46:05.070 --> 00:46:13.670 India has had a history of covering up accidents and the causes, okay? 00:46:13.890 --> 00:46:19.550 Especially when it comes to pilot error or something like this. Or a suicide, okay? 00:46:20.050 --> 00:46:27.430 A long time ago, an Air India jet was intentionally crashed by the cockpit crew, okay? 00:46:27.830 --> 00:46:28.310 Right. 00:46:28.430 --> 00:46:35.550 Over the Atlantic. And the Indian government decided to dispute that finding. 00:46:35.870 --> 00:46:42.770 They didn't, they, even though the evidence was very clear that the, 00:46:42.770 --> 00:46:49.390 that, that the plane was intentionally crashed, they, they disputed that. 00:46:49.570 --> 00:46:53.290 And they said, they, they actually sent out a different finding. 00:46:53.450 --> 00:46:56.770 This was, this is a crash that happened 1985. 00:46:57.370 --> 00:46:58.090 Okay. 00:46:58.690 --> 00:47:01.570 There's an Air India 747, okay? 00:47:02.410 --> 00:47:05.690 No, no, no, no. I got the wrong one. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. 00:47:06.730 --> 00:47:08.090 You should be ashamed. 00:47:08.530 --> 00:47:12.210 I'm sorry. Ah, no. Oh, God. 00:47:13.840 --> 00:47:17.520 Where, hang on, hang on. Oh, God. 00:47:18.020 --> 00:47:23.680 I had it here and I let it, well, I don't have it here, but right now. 00:47:23.780 --> 00:47:26.940 But it was, it happened a long time ago. 00:47:27.140 --> 00:47:32.300 And they've disputed the, they disputed the findings, okay? It's happened like before. 00:47:33.020 --> 00:47:38.060 You know, you cover it up. You don't want to show that the pilots are, or that they're pilots. 00:47:38.200 --> 00:47:42.880 They'd rather blame the foreign aircraft for a crash. So we're concerned whether 00:47:42.880 --> 00:47:43.680 that was going to be released. 00:47:44.360 --> 00:47:47.900 By the way, the preliminary report that they also released was actually very thin. 00:47:48.500 --> 00:47:54.440 I mean, they didn't actually even say it because they did say in the report, 00:47:54.440 --> 00:47:58.220 they did confirm that it was a fuel switches that got turned off. 00:47:58.580 --> 00:48:02.500 OK, right. But they didn't say who said it. 00:48:02.620 --> 00:48:05.740 And by the way, the way that the microphones and everything is in there in 30 00:48:05.740 --> 00:48:08.480 days, you could figure out which who said it. 00:48:08.480 --> 00:48:13.500 OK, based on the location of the microphones, it did come out later that it 00:48:13.500 --> 00:48:18.040 was the it was it was the the person that asked, hey, did you turn off the fuel? 00:48:19.080 --> 00:48:22.400 Was the co-pilot, OK, who had the least amount of experience, 00:48:22.560 --> 00:48:25.160 but he was the pilot in command. He was the one that was flying. 00:48:25.900 --> 00:48:28.840 The captain was the one was the one that was monitoring at the time. 00:48:29.240 --> 00:48:32.600 And so he asked them, hey, did you shut off the fuel? And he's like, no. 00:48:32.940 --> 00:48:38.400 And then a few seconds later, they restarted the fuel. But at that critical 00:48:38.400 --> 00:48:42.360 moment in flight, there's just no way to survive that. 00:48:42.720 --> 00:48:46.760 You can't just, you know, when you, when you, when you do that intentionally. 00:48:48.700 --> 00:48:53.100 So somebody intentionally crashed this plane for what reason, who knows? 00:48:53.380 --> 00:48:58.420 They haven't given any further details on the, on the crew on board or anything, 00:48:58.420 --> 00:49:05.680 but, but, you know, but yeah, I mean, this was, this was an intentional crash, unfortunately. 00:49:06.700 --> 00:49:09.780 There's no doubt about that at this point. 00:49:10.740 --> 00:49:15.840 Yeah. And I mean, you mentioned sort of the critical part of the flight, 00:49:16.040 --> 00:49:22.360 but bottom line, if the person in control of the plane wants to crash it or 00:49:22.360 --> 00:49:25.040 kill it, it's hard to stop that. 00:49:25.670 --> 00:49:31.870 Now, you know, you do potentially have two people up there in certain other parts of the flight. 00:49:32.030 --> 00:49:35.790 Maybe you could subdue the guy trying to do something bad. But bottom line, 00:49:35.930 --> 00:49:41.470 if the person in control wants something bad to happen, they can make something bad happen. 00:49:41.510 --> 00:49:47.710 Yes, absolutely. And the thing is, like I said, in a critical part of flight, 00:49:47.890 --> 00:49:49.670 which is the problem, OK, 00:49:50.150 --> 00:49:55.950 you know, there was there was a recent incident by a Horizon Airlines crew member 00:49:55.950 --> 00:49:59.210 that was that was there were a pilot, but they were off duty. 00:49:59.410 --> 00:50:05.710 That was in the jump seat in in a commuter plane somewhere in your area. 00:50:06.010 --> 00:50:06.890 Yeah, I remember that. 00:50:06.890 --> 00:50:11.010 And this guy apparently had gotten high on psychedelics and other things. 00:50:11.170 --> 00:50:12.890 He had had something that happened to him. 00:50:13.050 --> 00:50:15.630 And in the middle of flight, he tried to shut down the engines. 00:50:16.250 --> 00:50:20.650 In the middle of flight. Now, the reality is that where they were in flight, 00:50:20.870 --> 00:50:23.250 it was something that was recoverable. Okay? 00:50:23.490 --> 00:50:27.910 The other two crew members were there. He was subdued. They took care of him. 00:50:27.970 --> 00:50:30.950 And they were able to recover from the incident. 00:50:31.150 --> 00:50:36.770 But, you know, a cruise, yeah, it's something that you could do something about. 00:50:36.890 --> 00:50:40.530 But unfortunately, you got time to do something. 00:50:40.750 --> 00:50:46.450 OK, but I mean, damn it. You know, when you are at that critical moment on takeoff, 00:50:46.630 --> 00:50:48.930 I mean, you cut off the fuel. There's just not enough. 00:50:50.110 --> 00:50:57.230 There's just not enough time to do anything. Just not enough time. Not enough time. 00:50:58.010 --> 00:51:03.230 So, by the way, I'm confusing an Egypt air crash with an Air India crash. 00:51:03.390 --> 00:51:03.710 OK. 00:51:04.050 --> 00:51:04.230 All right. 00:51:04.370 --> 00:51:04.590 Yes. 00:51:04.590 --> 00:51:08.330 That was one that was a suicide over the Atlantic. 00:51:08.470 --> 00:51:13.570 So my apologies that I confused it. But in the past, there had been a reputation 00:51:13.570 --> 00:51:18.530 by Air India of covering up causes for pilot mistakes. Okay. 00:51:18.790 --> 00:51:23.330 So there was some talk about that. And so there was some concern whether they 00:51:23.330 --> 00:51:28.790 actually would be as open about what happened. And so, but they... 00:51:30.190 --> 00:51:34.650 But they, look, they issued a report, you know, and we got the information. 00:51:35.590 --> 00:51:39.310 And so, you know, thankfully, we know what happened. 00:51:39.510 --> 00:51:47.150 I guess, listen, I'll tell you, the place where everybody sighed a big relief was at Boeing. 00:51:48.330 --> 00:51:49.810 Because it wasn't a mechanical failure. 00:51:50.090 --> 00:51:55.110 Yeah, because with all the bad news they've had, the last thing they needed 00:51:55.110 --> 00:51:59.830 is a fucking 787 having some kind of serious issue. 00:52:00.190 --> 00:52:06.170 right now but but no but thankfully they they probably they were like oh god 00:52:06.170 --> 00:52:12.010 they they they sighed relief and they said they were like oh gosh it's not it's 00:52:12.010 --> 00:52:13.970 it's not our fault thank god, 00:52:14.710 --> 00:52:20.910 you know but but this is a terrible crash i mean it's just shit i mean there's 00:52:20.910 --> 00:52:26.970 just yeah i'm a shot and nobody had i mean the the guy that survived it's still 00:52:26.970 --> 00:52:31.190 the most stunning thing It's one guy. He just walked out. 00:52:31.750 --> 00:52:34.910 For a little while, people were being like, that has to be a fraud, 00:52:35.010 --> 00:52:38.590 right? He wasn't really. But no, he did. He walked away. 00:52:38.850 --> 00:52:45.370 He walked away. Crazy. This one guy just walked away. 00:52:45.770 --> 00:52:46.230 Right. 00:52:46.710 --> 00:52:52.930 So anyway, I just want to give the update that we at least know what happened. We don't know why. 00:52:53.690 --> 00:52:58.290 But look, I mean, we had, you know, the one of the aircraft crashes has also 00:52:58.290 --> 00:53:00.010 been suspected to a pilot like 00:53:00.010 --> 00:53:05.310 intentionally crashing a plane is that a Malaysia 777 that disappeared. 00:53:05.930 --> 00:53:10.110 Right. And still hasn't been found decades later. 00:53:10.290 --> 00:53:12.470 Yeah. I mean, we found pieces of it. 00:53:12.630 --> 00:53:13.110 Yes. 00:53:13.530 --> 00:53:14.050 That's it. 00:53:15.160 --> 00:53:18.900 But it became pretty clear through the investigation that this was intentionally 00:53:18.900 --> 00:53:24.640 done by the captain, if I remember correctly, on that flight. 00:53:27.280 --> 00:53:30.780 So, you know, there have been safeguards and things. 00:53:30.940 --> 00:53:35.180 As a matter of fact, there was a recent incident that happened where a Lufthansa 00:53:35.180 --> 00:53:38.500 flight, one of the crew members went to the bathroom. 00:53:39.400 --> 00:53:40.900 And then they locked him out. 00:53:41.340 --> 00:53:45.400 Right? Well, they didn't lock him out. The other pilot suffered some, 00:53:45.400 --> 00:53:49.860 some, uh, uh, he, he had a, he had a seizure. 00:53:50.220 --> 00:53:52.020 This was the last month or so. 00:53:52.500 --> 00:53:52.840 Okay. 00:53:53.420 --> 00:53:53.680 Yeah. 00:53:54.020 --> 00:53:54.960 This is a different one than I was thinking. 00:53:55.060 --> 00:53:58.900 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're thinking about German wings. No, this is like in the 00:53:58.900 --> 00:54:01.380 last month because there was this crash. 00:54:01.520 --> 00:54:04.160 It was a German wings, which is a Lufthansa subsidiary where, 00:54:04.300 --> 00:54:08.120 where, where, where, where the co-pilot went and like intentionally slammed 00:54:08.120 --> 00:54:09.320 the plane on the ground. Okay. 00:54:09.540 --> 00:54:11.700 You know, well, well, the guy was on a restroom break. Okay. 00:54:11.700 --> 00:54:16.100 And there was a debate in Europe about what the correct procedure should be 00:54:16.100 --> 00:54:20.240 when, you know, to not leave just one person in the cockpit. 00:54:20.960 --> 00:54:24.800 There's been a lot of arguments. They wound up basically defaulting. Now it's fine. 00:54:24.940 --> 00:54:30.500 We, you know, they went back to just having one person in the cockpit at this point. 00:54:31.640 --> 00:54:35.400 But they had debated whether at least like a flight attendant or somebody should 00:54:35.400 --> 00:54:38.580 be in there with a person. Just so you don't leave them alone. Okay. 00:54:39.960 --> 00:54:43.620 So this guy went to the bathroom. The other guy had a seizure. 00:54:44.280 --> 00:54:48.880 And all of a sudden he was like, the plane was actually, while he was having 00:54:48.880 --> 00:54:53.620 the seizure, he started involuntarily pressing on the rudder pedal. 00:54:54.400 --> 00:54:58.180 It wasn't disabling the autopilot, but the plane was steering, 00:54:58.600 --> 00:55:01.300 was going off course. Okay? 00:55:02.380 --> 00:55:05.800 The other guy's trying to get in, trying to get in. And apparently, 00:55:06.080 --> 00:55:11.780 if the person now is, say, incapacitated, okay, the lockout, 00:55:11.980 --> 00:55:16.120 because there is a lockout that the crew could reject that person. 00:55:16.320 --> 00:55:20.800 But if it's by incapacitation, after they put in the code, if that person doesn't 00:55:20.800 --> 00:55:22.000 reject it, the door will open. 00:55:22.560 --> 00:55:22.900 Okay? 00:55:24.360 --> 00:55:29.280 Because they'll assume, hey, if he's not replying, it's because he's incapacitated. 00:55:29.500 --> 00:55:33.600 The door will pop open. But before that, apparently, the guy started recovering 00:55:33.600 --> 00:55:37.500 from whatever seizure he had enough that he could open the door. 00:55:38.260 --> 00:55:42.580 And so the other crew member was able to come in and, like, land the plane, 00:55:43.040 --> 00:55:44.380 do an emergency landing and so forth. 00:55:45.120 --> 00:55:49.980 But it went back now that obviously the airlines are debating as to what the 00:55:49.980 --> 00:55:56.420 hell do we do in this instance and not leaving a single crew member alone. 00:55:57.460 --> 00:56:00.820 But even in the Air India case, it wasn't a matter. or they were both right 00:56:00.820 --> 00:56:05.060 there. One of them, for some fucking reason, decided to... 00:56:06.670 --> 00:56:08.830 crashed a plane right on takeoff. 00:56:09.390 --> 00:56:13.750 So the answer to all these questions, Yvonne, is obviously full automation. 00:56:13.750 --> 00:56:15.570 No humans in the cockpit at all. 00:56:15.770 --> 00:56:21.770 So we'll put XAI Grok at the wheel, and that will solve the problems. 00:56:22.190 --> 00:56:22.790 Exactly. 00:56:23.350 --> 00:56:25.770 I'm sure that, you know, he'll be fine. 00:56:26.710 --> 00:56:34.170 Hey, you know, it's an easier problem than self-driving in many ways. 00:56:34.210 --> 00:56:38.170 It is an easier problem. Listen, flying by itself is definitely easier. 00:56:38.170 --> 00:56:43.930 You already have situations where an autopilot can do the entire flight from beginning to end. 00:56:44.050 --> 00:56:44.710 That is correct. 00:56:44.790 --> 00:56:45.830 Under certain situations. 00:56:46.350 --> 00:56:52.170 That is correct. At the correct airports, the correct places. Yes, that is correct. 00:56:52.770 --> 00:56:58.670 I will say that, yes, actually having the aircraft on full automation. 00:56:58.850 --> 00:57:01.810 I mean, and right now, in large part, they are. 00:57:02.410 --> 00:57:02.690 Yeah. 00:57:02.690 --> 00:57:08.290 I mean, once takeoff is complete, usually, I mean, the planes are basically 00:57:08.290 --> 00:57:13.130 set on autopilot, they have the waypoint set, and here you go, off on your way. 00:57:14.300 --> 00:57:21.540 Okay, so that wasn't like a full segment, so I'm going to ask you to pick another 00:57:21.540 --> 00:57:23.640 topic before we take a break and do my stuff. 00:57:23.760 --> 00:57:30.080 But I will mention, we do have a comment on the live stream from someone who 00:57:30.080 --> 00:57:32.160 is marked as a number one fan. 00:57:32.520 --> 00:57:33.340 Oh boy. 00:57:33.920 --> 00:57:34.860 It's my son. 00:57:35.220 --> 00:57:35.700 Yeah. 00:57:36.080 --> 00:57:38.740 He says, screw GPT demands justice. 00:57:39.700 --> 00:57:44.620 Well, we'll send him to justice. Does that include the electric chair or something like that? 00:57:45.140 --> 00:57:47.320 I said, of course, justice someday. 00:57:48.700 --> 00:57:50.600 Yes, we'll meet out justice, all right. 00:57:50.640 --> 00:57:55.860 Screw GPT is, of course, his custom GPT that he wants to co-host one day instead of you. 00:57:57.160 --> 00:58:01.880 He thinks it's, I guess, an improvement over the Yvonne GPT I did before. 00:58:02.160 --> 00:58:05.380 My feeling on this is, like, we did that experiment once. 00:58:05.580 --> 00:58:09.620 We can wait, like, at least a full year for the technology to advance further 00:58:09.620 --> 00:58:10.700 before trying that again. 00:58:11.220 --> 00:58:12.940 That would be nice. Yeah. Okay. All right. 00:58:13.060 --> 00:58:15.400 All right. Okay. So, next time. 00:58:15.420 --> 00:58:18.780 Okay. So, second thing. Well, because we did talk about that this week hasn't 00:58:18.780 --> 00:58:21.080 been as tariff heavy as last week. 00:58:21.360 --> 00:58:24.720 Okay. So, we'll talk about a little bit about, okay, so we've been getting all 00:58:24.720 --> 00:58:25.960 these tariff letters, Sam. 00:58:26.480 --> 00:58:31.080 Okay. So, then, just to put it out there, since you're doing tariffs now, 00:58:31.180 --> 00:58:36.020 when we get to my segment, we're going to talk about all the Epstein crap again 00:58:36.020 --> 00:58:39.120 and maybe some of Donald Trump health stuff. 00:58:39.660 --> 00:58:40.060 Epstein? 00:58:40.060 --> 00:58:41.120 I don't know. Some guy. 00:58:41.720 --> 00:58:46.720 Oh, okay. All right. Sam, I think we got all these tariffs. It's all done, right? 00:58:47.140 --> 00:58:51.160 Well, like I was saying in the first segment, like you're complaining about 00:58:51.160 --> 00:58:53.080 like it being hard to make sales. 00:58:53.540 --> 00:58:55.940 Yeah, I know. Yeah, I know. All I got to do is send a letter. 00:58:56.720 --> 00:58:56.860 Yeah. 00:58:57.380 --> 00:59:02.600 Yeah. I don't know. The last week, it's just Brazil. 00:59:04.560 --> 00:59:10.260 Brazil got 50% tariffs. Even though the U.S. has a trade surplus with Brazil. 00:59:11.380 --> 00:59:14.960 But there's obviously an emergency situation there that has to be dealt with. 00:59:15.400 --> 00:59:20.460 Yes, because they're prosecuting the president to try to basically topple the government. 00:59:21.320 --> 00:59:25.720 Look, I am not a fan of the current president of Brazil either. 00:59:26.220 --> 00:59:31.960 The current president of Brazil was actually convicted and thrown in jail for bribery. 00:59:33.560 --> 00:59:38.200 There's recordings where he accepted the fucking bribes. Okay? 00:59:38.680 --> 00:59:42.000 Is this a problem, Yvonne? You seem upset. 00:59:42.060 --> 00:59:45.140 According to Trump, no. You know, here's the thing. 00:59:45.340 --> 00:59:53.420 Considering that, you know, he is also a fellow bribe, you know, 00:59:53.600 --> 00:59:56.360 accepting man. I figured Trump should like him. 00:59:56.960 --> 00:59:59.220 He should like Lula. I mean, what the hell? 00:59:59.620 --> 01:00:00.860 He likes the other one better. 01:00:01.280 --> 01:00:08.260 You know, yeah. So Bolsonaro. So, yeah, he decided that he's imposing 50% tariffs 01:00:08.260 --> 01:00:10.300 on Brazil. I don't know, man. 01:00:10.520 --> 01:00:15.800 I mean, you know, he's sending tariffs to, I mean, and, you know, 01:00:15.880 --> 01:00:20.040 with these letters that are, you know, we complained about how ChatGPT calculated 01:00:20.040 --> 01:00:24.020 the tariffs, right? Because this is dumb. 01:00:24.440 --> 01:00:26.920 I think ChatGPT would have written better letters. 01:00:28.680 --> 01:00:29.160 Okay. 01:00:29.280 --> 01:00:33.840 I mean, because these letters were written by somebody who basically stopped 01:00:33.840 --> 01:00:37.220 using crayons a short time ago, as far as I can tell. 01:00:39.290 --> 01:00:46.370 I mean, they're, they're, they're just, it, there's no, he talks about negotiations. 01:00:47.010 --> 01:00:53.770 There's no negotiations. There's just ultimatums, you know, Canada 30, 20. 01:00:54.030 --> 01:01:00.150 And, and, and everything is the only thing that I could see about these announcements. 01:01:00.150 --> 01:01:03.210 It's all, it's all predicated on him 01:01:03.210 --> 01:01:06.750 basically just grabbing attention every 01:01:06.750 --> 01:01:10.070 day and trying to just steer attention away from epstein 01:01:10.070 --> 01:01:17.430 away from the floods away from whatever unpopular thing that may be going on 01:01:17.430 --> 01:01:23.410 at the moment well just steer attention to him because well listen he just likes 01:01:23.410 --> 01:01:26.810 chaos and all of them are just about yeah yeah yeah i. 01:01:26.810 --> 01:01:32.850 Want to say a couple things on that one while i agree that he's constantly just 01:01:32.850 --> 01:01:37.110 trying to drive the attention cycle and one of the things that's been different 01:01:37.110 --> 01:01:40.130 over the last couple of weeks is he's kind of failed. 01:01:40.570 --> 01:01:44.310 He's trying to move the attention away from Epstein and it hasn't been working. 01:01:44.530 --> 01:01:48.890 Usually this kind of stuff works for him, but at the same time, 01:01:48.890 --> 01:01:54.530 I think all of the people who sort of are like, that's a distraction. 01:01:54.530 --> 01:01:58.350 That's a distraction. He's just trying to keep you from thinking about like the big, 01:01:58.470 --> 01:02:01.830 beautiful bill or whatever i think that's misguided too 01:02:01.830 --> 01:02:05.550 because it's they're all 01:02:05.550 --> 01:02:12.050 of these things are bad you know so so it's not like oh ignore this one that's 01:02:12.050 --> 01:02:16.210 a distraction and pay attention to this one because it's the only one that matters 01:02:16.210 --> 01:02:20.550 you have to figure out how to multitask you have to figure out how to multitask 01:02:20.550 --> 01:02:24.030 and actually care about all the bad things i think. 01:02:24.030 --> 01:02:26.750 I think more about the things that that get him 01:02:26.750 --> 01:02:34.350 criticized in some way okay you know but but actually the thing is like somebody 01:02:34.350 --> 01:02:44.030 said he he loves the chaos he wants chaos he thinks this is good and. 01:02:44.030 --> 01:02:49.130 Well you know back to tariff specifically i mean he thinks the chaos is good 01:02:49.130 --> 01:02:52.490 because this is his leverage this is how he influences things. 01:02:53.550 --> 01:02:57.910 He's driving the conversation. Wait, wait, wait. But there is no... 01:03:00.070 --> 01:03:01.610 There is, okay. 01:03:01.930 --> 01:03:03.330 I mean, I'm not saying he's right. 01:03:03.330 --> 01:03:05.350 I'm saying this is what he thinks. No, no, no. What I'm saying is, 01:03:05.410 --> 01:03:09.650 no, no, no. What I'm saying is that, no, because he thinks he's winning. What is he winning? 01:03:10.810 --> 01:03:15.270 Because that's the whole thing, right? Because what is his overarching, 01:03:15.470 --> 01:03:18.670 does he have an overarching goal, Sam? What is it? 01:03:19.130 --> 01:03:22.630 Only on a day-to-day basis. He has no strategic plan. 01:03:22.770 --> 01:03:23.170 Exactly. 01:03:23.350 --> 01:03:23.890 That's my point. 01:03:23.890 --> 01:03:24.810 He has a goal for the day. 01:03:25.110 --> 01:03:31.330 And people around him have explicitly said, this is how he thinks about things 01:03:31.330 --> 01:03:38.070 he wakes up in the morning and says what is today's episode of the trump show going to look like yeah. 01:03:38.070 --> 01:03:41.130 Basic exactly that's right and so 01:03:41.130 --> 01:03:47.050 the thing is that during this the economy you know the american economy and 01:03:47.050 --> 01:03:54.550 the global economy is riding hostage to his reality show driven presidency that's 01:03:54.550 --> 01:03:59.510 what we got um you know he's railing that i mean And today, 01:04:00.090 --> 01:04:07.770 you know, the whole problem is, he keeps railing about Powell and the Fed and rates. 01:04:08.390 --> 01:04:14.250 Problem is that with all these tariffs, there is no way to lower rates. 01:04:14.670 --> 01:04:16.730 And aside from that. 01:04:17.110 --> 01:04:24.390 Wait, wait, wait, Ivan. There is no way to lower rates without negative consequences. That's different. 01:04:24.770 --> 01:04:29.710 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You can lower short-term rates. 01:04:30.010 --> 01:04:30.450 Yes. 01:04:30.610 --> 01:04:34.310 But the thing is that the rates that he's focused on, that they try to talk 01:04:34.310 --> 01:04:36.830 about, the mortgage rate and whatnot and whatever, 01:04:37.950 --> 01:04:45.050 even if the Fed drops the funds rate to zero, the damn 10-year, 01:04:45.070 --> 01:04:51.390 which drives those rates, will not budge. 01:04:51.550 --> 01:04:55.190 It hasn't budged already. Listen. 01:04:56.260 --> 01:05:00.680 The Fed cut rates sometime last year. 01:05:01.020 --> 01:05:04.400 The 10-year rate didn't budge. Not one bit. 01:05:04.720 --> 01:05:11.240 Not one bit. And the problem is, because he wakes up every day into reality 01:05:11.240 --> 01:05:14.200 presidency, which involves all these tariffs, okay? 01:05:15.040 --> 01:05:20.880 The tariffs are pissing off the two biggest buyers of the fucking 10-year, 01:05:21.000 --> 01:05:24.360 which is Japan and China. 01:05:24.360 --> 01:05:33.420 And if those guys aren't buying damn 10-year notes, the damn interest rate isn't 01:05:33.420 --> 01:05:36.280 going to go down. It's as simple. 01:05:36.760 --> 01:05:42.680 Bond rates work in a very simple way. Bond prices go up. 01:05:43.660 --> 01:05:48.040 Rates go down. Simple as that. It's not the coupon. 01:05:48.420 --> 01:05:53.960 You can issue a bond. Hey, $100 bond. 01:05:54.360 --> 01:05:57.700 10-year, 6%, okay? 01:05:58.100 --> 01:06:03.840 But if the market doesn't think that 6%, or no, I'll change it, 2%, okay? 01:06:04.400 --> 01:06:10.460 But hey, if the market doesn't think that 2% is right, what they will do is 01:06:10.460 --> 01:06:14.660 they will go to the market and say, well, we're not buying that bond for $100. 01:06:15.520 --> 01:06:24.600 We're going to buy it for what makes us earn 5%. So the price of the bond will go down to that number. 01:06:24.680 --> 01:06:29.420 So it yields the 6%. And that's what's happening in the market. 01:06:30.200 --> 01:06:31.600 It's that simple. 01:06:32.560 --> 01:06:38.640 There is no way. The Fed can't control that. The Fed can only control short-term rates. 01:06:39.240 --> 01:06:42.100 That's it. They can drive those. 01:06:43.160 --> 01:06:45.880 And, you know, and we've had periods of time. 01:06:46.360 --> 01:06:51.800 Look, look, you're thinking too small. he can issue an executive order tomorrow, 01:06:51.800 --> 01:06:55.640 just ordering banks to use whatever mortgage rate he wants them to. 01:06:56.200 --> 01:07:00.380 Uh-huh. Yeah, that won't cause any market problems. Sure. 01:07:01.380 --> 01:07:01.640 Yeah. 01:07:04.500 --> 01:07:10.360 Yeah, that was, you know, you know what? Okay. Okay. All right. 01:07:11.140 --> 01:07:13.540 Let's take your scenario. Banks. 01:07:13.660 --> 01:07:16.160 I'm sure there would be immediate legal challenges, of course, blah, blah, blah. 01:07:16.160 --> 01:07:17.620 Well, aside from that. 01:07:17.720 --> 01:07:21.060 Because he doesn't actually have the authority to do that with an executive order. 01:07:21.200 --> 01:07:22.800 Okay. But let's say. 01:07:22.960 --> 01:07:23.660 He could try anyway. 01:07:23.760 --> 01:07:29.800 Let's say he tries to force the banks to do that, right? Here's the problem with that, right? 01:07:30.400 --> 01:07:37.040 Once again, those assets, a bank usually gets issues alone. 01:07:37.360 --> 01:07:39.940 They turn around and they sell it. Okay. All right. 01:07:40.540 --> 01:07:43.540 What happens in the market is that they wind up saying, well, 01:07:43.960 --> 01:07:48.600 you see, we don't think that's worth that. Okay. 01:07:49.560 --> 01:07:53.120 We're not willing to pay for a 2% yield. 01:07:53.300 --> 01:07:57.800 Nobody wants a 2% year. We want four. So they will have to start selling the 01:07:57.800 --> 01:08:01.000 fucking mortgages at a loss. 01:08:01.820 --> 01:08:05.340 The Fed just issues mortgages directly. Cut out the banks entirely. 01:08:06.240 --> 01:08:10.020 Oh. Oh, I see. Well, that's simple then. 01:08:10.160 --> 01:08:11.320 At 0% interest. 01:08:11.920 --> 01:08:15.220 I'm sure that's not going to cause any problems with inflation, 01:08:15.220 --> 01:08:19.100 with the rest of our bonds, with the banking system. 01:08:19.100 --> 01:08:25.660 All I'm saying is you seem constrained by the way things have been done in the past. 01:08:25.660 --> 01:08:29.560 I know these damn details. Details. Yes, I know. 01:08:30.060 --> 01:08:35.460 I'm so, you know, I'm so, you know, the details just get me. Yeah, I know. 01:08:36.040 --> 01:08:40.840 I am so small minded. I don't, I'm not, you know, I'm not a stable genius. 01:08:43.880 --> 01:08:51.620 So to to pivoting back to tariffs for a second we also had some inflation numbers 01:08:51.620 --> 01:08:55.920 and people keep saying you know it's coming the effects of the. 01:08:55.920 --> 01:08:59.860 Tariffs by the way the underlying data shows that they are coming okay all right 01:08:59.860 --> 01:09:04.560 the headline number didn't say that well once you dug through the data you were 01:09:04.560 --> 01:09:09.520 like fuck this is looking like a volcano ready to explode, 01:09:10.720 --> 01:09:12.580 That's what the underlying data showed. 01:09:13.800 --> 01:09:18.820 I saw somewhere else, though, the economist predictions of percent chance of 01:09:18.820 --> 01:09:21.380 recession have dropped over a couple months ago. 01:09:21.840 --> 01:09:25.220 Like they peaked a couple months ago, like in May or something, 01:09:25.400 --> 01:09:26.760 and are down a little bit from that. 01:09:27.040 --> 01:09:30.780 Still not zero, but not as high as they were. 01:09:30.860 --> 01:09:35.420 Well, remember, they peaked when, I think, you know, at the tariff shock, 01:09:36.060 --> 01:09:41.500 one, they've gone down somewhat. But but but but they're still above where they were. 01:09:41.740 --> 01:09:46.660 Say, now everybody's believes taco and that none of these things will end up actually happening. 01:09:46.880 --> 01:09:50.600 That's right. That's right. Everybody believes that he will eventually chicken out. 01:09:51.180 --> 01:09:56.860 I mean, but but the thing is, Sam, we have tariffs already in place. 01:09:57.460 --> 01:10:05.220 Yes, there there is there are all these effects going through the economy right now of this. 01:10:05.880 --> 01:10:09.940 And so it's just, it just takes time. 01:10:10.380 --> 01:10:13.940 But the data is starting to show that this is going to be shitty. 01:10:14.760 --> 01:10:16.160 Is that a technical term? 01:10:16.440 --> 01:10:16.900 Yes. 01:10:17.500 --> 01:10:17.940 Okay. 01:10:19.120 --> 01:10:21.060 That's all that highfalutin education. 01:10:21.460 --> 01:10:24.960 But how high are we talking like inflation-wise? Are we talking double digits? 01:10:24.960 --> 01:10:27.400 They basically said that we are going to, not double digits, 01:10:27.500 --> 01:10:31.220 that we will go back to the same inflation we had in 2021, 2022. 01:10:31.800 --> 01:10:33.680 Just 6% to 8%. By the way. 01:10:33.980 --> 01:10:37.620 Should we really be worried unless we're hitting 1970s levels? 01:10:38.600 --> 01:10:39.740 Here's the problem. 01:10:42.140 --> 01:10:47.740 In 1970s, we had all these exogenous shocks and all these things were happening, right? 01:10:48.480 --> 01:10:52.160 Difficult to manage. All these shocks have been self-inflicted. 01:10:52.460 --> 01:10:56.920 The second thing is, are we going to stop shooting ourselves in the foot? 01:10:58.330 --> 01:11:03.550 You see, here's the thing. If you told me right now, hey, all tariffs are done, 01:11:03.730 --> 01:11:09.170 it's over, whatever, then it could be like transitory as it was, 01:11:09.270 --> 01:11:10.630 where it peaked and then it came down. 01:11:11.330 --> 01:11:15.590 People didn't like the transitory term. I think the people didn't like the transitory 01:11:15.590 --> 01:11:18.570 term were idiots because they, for some reason, thought transitory was three months. 01:11:18.570 --> 01:11:21.510 Okay well yeah i mean and. 01:11:21.510 --> 01:11:25.210 I'm like you know muhammad al-aryan i'm talking about you you're an idiot okay all right. 01:11:25.210 --> 01:11:27.610 Sorry it didn't mean like. 01:11:27.610 --> 01:11:28.550 Six months okay. 01:11:28.550 --> 01:11:30.030 Well and also there was. 01:11:30.030 --> 01:11:33.390 That though but also there was a big war shock in the middle okay because. 01:11:33.390 --> 01:11:38.350 Yeah yeah no but the invasion i still i still fault the people who use that 01:11:38.350 --> 01:11:44.670 word because the common meaning of that word if you don't know what everything 01:11:44.670 --> 01:11:49.570 surrounding it is short enough that you don't have to worry about it you'll 01:11:49.570 --> 01:11:52.270 it'll be over before you think twice to. 01:11:52.270 --> 01:11:56.130 Me you see transitory meant that it wasn't a systemic uh. 01:11:56.130 --> 01:12:01.110 Yeah but that's not how like normal people well okay but but the reality is 01:12:01.110 --> 01:12:07.030 and maybe if you're i know if you're somebody like that who's speaking not just 01:12:07.030 --> 01:12:10.230 i mean i know in his opinion he was speaking to specialists, 01:12:10.510 --> 01:12:12.890 but the reality was it was going out to the world. 01:12:13.090 --> 01:12:17.790 And you have to be careful about your language and use terms not in the specialist 01:12:17.790 --> 01:12:20.750 way, but in the general way that people will understand. 01:12:21.070 --> 01:12:22.990 But ears, you know, fuck. 01:12:24.070 --> 01:12:29.050 Well, everybody's so short-term. Look, the reality is transitory versus systemic, okay? 01:12:29.450 --> 01:12:36.130 You know, systemic, Argentina that's experienced inflation 25% every year for the last 25 years. 01:12:36.510 --> 01:12:38.450 That's systemic, okay? 01:12:39.030 --> 01:12:44.310 That's systemic. And that was the whole point. What we had, is it like that? 01:12:44.450 --> 01:12:49.830 Are we going to continue with 68% inflation, you know, like right now? 01:12:49.950 --> 01:12:52.850 No, because we did a lot of changes. It's going to come back down. 01:12:52.850 --> 01:12:54.050 so it's going to be transitory. 01:12:54.190 --> 01:12:56.310 It's not systemic. Simple as that. 01:12:56.830 --> 01:13:02.850 I'm like, but, but I guess, but like everybody, everybody wants a fucking exact 01:13:02.850 --> 01:13:08.210 calendar of like, when the fuck, oh, but when is the price exactly going to go up? 01:13:08.310 --> 01:13:11.330 Is it going to be July 30th or is it going to be August 15th? 01:13:11.390 --> 01:13:15.190 Well, we've talked about this before. There's two, there's two things. 01:13:15.390 --> 01:13:18.710 One, I think he should have, like, 01:13:18.850 --> 01:13:22.390 if the notion was, it wasn't going to be just a couple months, 01:13:22.390 --> 01:13:25.130 then yeah yeah i know 01:13:25.130 --> 01:13:27.930 you can't give an exact date but you could probably say 01:13:27.930 --> 01:13:30.710 something like it's going to be high for a year or two 01:13:30.710 --> 01:13:34.850 and people would have reacted to that differently or you 01:13:34.850 --> 01:13:40.470 know but even then though you still have the more fundamental problem that in 01:13:40.470 --> 01:13:45.390 terms of the general public they don't really understand inflation as the rate 01:13:45.390 --> 01:13:50.710 of change they want to know when do prices go back down well but that but and that was the. 01:13:50.710 --> 01:13:54.830 Problem that That was more of a problem than anything else. The reality is it 01:13:54.830 --> 01:13:57.630 wasn't even whether it was transitory or not. 01:13:57.750 --> 01:14:01.330 The reality is that people went and said, well, when are prices going to go back down? 01:14:02.070 --> 01:14:05.510 And people didn't understand, no, they're not coming back down. 01:14:05.810 --> 01:14:11.130 The rate of increase is going down, but the price isn't going down. 01:14:11.150 --> 01:14:14.270 We're not having deflation, which would be bad. 01:14:15.230 --> 01:14:18.010 By the way, that's even more problematic. 01:14:18.010 --> 01:14:24.370 Unfortunately. Okay, any other economic bombshells you want to drop or talk 01:14:24.370 --> 01:14:26.190 about before we take another break? 01:14:26.430 --> 01:14:27.450 No, let's go. 01:14:28.090 --> 01:14:32.210 Okay, we're going to take another break. This is another one I saved for you. 01:14:32.270 --> 01:14:32.950 Oh, God. 01:14:33.090 --> 01:14:34.370 Because this one's an Apple Dream. 01:14:34.870 --> 01:14:35.510 Ah, okay. 01:14:35.510 --> 01:14:42.210 This is Apple Dream 50. And when we return, we will talk about Epstein and Trump 01:14:42.210 --> 01:14:45.530 and Trump's mental health, Trump's physical health. 01:14:45.630 --> 01:14:48.890 Didn't he say that we need to stop talking about this? 01:14:49.830 --> 01:14:55.910 Oh, I'm sorry. In that case, yeah, let's just spend the next segment on Cuomo 01:14:55.910 --> 01:14:57.130 running for mayor again. 01:14:57.510 --> 01:14:59.810 We don't need to talk about it. Oh, Cuomo. 01:15:00.110 --> 01:15:03.810 Oh, yeah, Cuomo. Well, the battery jump starter guy. 01:15:04.370 --> 01:15:09.310 Never mind Cuomo. Anyway, here is Apple Dream 50. We'll be back after this. 01:15:09.430 --> 01:15:11.550 Yeah, fuck Cuomo too, Jesus Christ. 01:15:13.410 --> 01:15:16.850 This is a bad one, so I'll be short. 01:15:17.270 --> 01:15:21.910 The main part of it is we were all living, 01:15:22.150 --> 01:15:28.950 meaning my current family and my daughter, my son, my wife, at the house that 01:15:28.950 --> 01:15:36.270 my family rented when I was like a preteen in Durham, North Carolina. 01:15:37.790 --> 01:15:38.670 And... 01:15:40.480 --> 01:15:47.000 Anyway, the long and short of it comes down to, I was going upstairs for something. 01:15:47.360 --> 01:15:59.920 I heard Amy yell at Alex something about watching Miley or something like that, watching Miley go out. 01:16:00.800 --> 01:16:08.840 Then a few minutes later, I was coming back down, and Amy was doing something 01:16:08.840 --> 01:16:15.440 like preparing to move, like she was moving her stuff to a moving truck or something. 01:16:16.920 --> 01:16:22.720 And the, anyway, somebody, 01:16:23.220 --> 01:16:29.500 mom yells from the other room or something, I'm starting to lose details, 01:16:29.500 --> 01:16:36.600 the important part is there, but anyway, it's discovered that the front door is wide open. 01:16:37.460 --> 01:16:40.720 And Amy thought someone else closed it. 01:16:41.160 --> 01:16:48.720 And anyway, Miley had gotten out. So people start looking for Miley. 01:16:48.960 --> 01:16:52.520 And I look out the window in the front of the house. 01:16:53.500 --> 01:17:02.260 And I see right by the door near where the truck was that we were packing Amy's stuff into. 01:17:02.440 --> 01:17:07.620 But it wasn't that. it was like the truck was there in my head but it wasn't 01:17:07.620 --> 01:17:14.040 actually there there was a curb and then there was a spot anyway there was clearly 01:17:14.040 --> 01:17:16.380 a flat thing there that used to be miley. 01:17:18.180 --> 01:17:24.820 And she had just been squashed like cartoon style squashed like you know when 01:17:24.820 --> 01:17:30.060 in a cartoon steamroller runs over somebody and they're made flat but there 01:17:30.060 --> 01:17:33.000 were still enough details that you could see it was Miley. 01:17:33.160 --> 01:17:35.320 Anyway, I was very, very upset. 01:17:36.080 --> 01:17:38.880 I yelled at Amy, you know, that, 01:17:41.130 --> 01:17:44.270 yeah the door shouldn't 01:17:44.270 --> 01:17:47.470 have been open and i'm like you killed miley and 01:17:47.470 --> 01:17:50.630 of course like it was an innocent mistake 01:17:50.630 --> 01:17:54.210 nobody meant to kill miley but she 01:17:54.210 --> 01:17:57.310 had obviously gotten run over and i was really upset 01:17:57.310 --> 01:18:08.570 and my amy and me and alex and mom were all running to where miley was then 01:18:08.570 --> 01:18:14.090 I woke up and I went straight out of bed and looked and found Miley and made 01:18:14.090 --> 01:18:16.190 sure she was okay Miley's fine, 01:18:16.810 --> 01:18:23.490 Miley's a great dog Miley's an old dog but Miley's a great dog and she's not flat love you Miley. 01:18:24.290 --> 01:18:31.030 And that's that very cheery dream that time of course Miley has since passed 01:18:31.030 --> 01:18:34.310 away of old age like you know but how long ago. 01:18:34.310 --> 01:18:36.690 Was how long ago was this recorded? 01:18:37.690 --> 01:18:42.330 I don't know. I don't have proper dates on this. All right, never mind. 01:18:42.450 --> 01:18:42.770 Okay. 01:18:43.010 --> 01:18:50.990 I am years behind on the Apple Dreams, and probably three or four years ago 01:18:50.990 --> 01:18:53.750 at this time, like this one, I don't know. 01:18:54.170 --> 01:18:56.190 It's been a while. Anyway. 01:18:58.090 --> 01:19:03.790 Well, you know, reminds me of you blaming others for the dog's death. 01:19:03.890 --> 01:19:07.230 You know, my mom blamed me for one of our dogs dying. 01:19:07.650 --> 01:19:08.250 Oh, wow. 01:19:08.810 --> 01:19:13.310 But she was also like you. She was distraught. She was just, 01:19:13.470 --> 01:19:17.410 we didn't know what caused the dog to die. He didn't get run over or something. 01:19:17.590 --> 01:19:21.250 The dog developed some kind of, he got sick and died. 01:19:22.250 --> 01:19:27.230 My mom started speculating that I had left the door to the room where the pool 01:19:27.230 --> 01:19:31.290 chemicals were and the dog got into them. But you know what? 01:19:33.090 --> 01:19:38.770 That was just her trying to grasp the straws as why the dog died. I really don't think. 01:19:39.330 --> 01:19:41.410 I never thought. I'm like, nah, man, come on. 01:19:42.310 --> 01:19:45.530 That room probably, I don't know how many times it's probably somebody left 01:19:45.530 --> 01:19:49.190 the door open back there. And that dog is not that stupid to go and like. 01:19:49.710 --> 01:19:52.270 There's nothing in there that is attractive to the dog. 01:19:52.750 --> 01:19:53.150 Right. 01:19:53.410 --> 01:19:58.290 You know, I mean, there's just, you know. He's going to want to all of a sudden 01:19:58.290 --> 01:20:01.130 volunteer like snort chlorine? No. 01:20:02.190 --> 01:20:09.690 So, I don't know. But Bob was really upset. So, I'm like, what are you talking 01:20:09.690 --> 01:20:11.910 about? The doctor never said it was anything like that. 01:20:12.290 --> 01:20:15.210 I took it to the vet. You know? Anyway. 01:20:16.250 --> 01:20:17.610 All right. Epstein! 01:20:18.130 --> 01:20:19.330 Yeah, let's start with that. 01:20:19.370 --> 01:20:20.230 So much happier. 01:20:21.190 --> 01:20:25.310 I mean, I- It's a cold rapist. Yeah, I talked about this last week when you 01:20:25.310 --> 01:20:28.850 weren't here. But obviously, things have continued to develop. 01:20:29.370 --> 01:20:36.170 The bottom line is that, you know, look, my default position coming in here, 01:20:36.350 --> 01:20:40.210 and I think a lot of people were at this spot when this, you know, 01:20:40.570 --> 01:20:46.190 the latest round of Epstein stuff came up and the administration was like, oh, case closed. 01:20:46.190 --> 01:20:53.030 it's over, was just that a bunch of these conservative MAGA yahoos who'd been 01:20:53.030 --> 01:20:57.950 making a big deal out of Epstein because they thought that his files contained 01:20:57.950 --> 01:21:02.110 all the damning information about all the liberals who were involved in the 01:21:02.110 --> 01:21:04.670 pedophile ring, and this would get Bill Clinton, 01:21:04.850 --> 01:21:08.150 and this would get Bill Gates, and all of these other people. 01:21:09.250 --> 01:21:13.130 And obviously, it was something nefarious and blah, blah, blah. 01:21:13.490 --> 01:21:17.870 He didn't kill himself. actually when they got into power and looked at all 01:21:17.870 --> 01:21:20.050 the details, found out, okay, 01:21:21.470 --> 01:21:26.790 There's not the actual evidence to back any of that up, which, 01:21:26.890 --> 01:21:29.630 by the way, is not the same thing as saying it didn't happen. 01:21:32.170 --> 01:21:35.710 Something may have happened, but there's not enough evidence to actually prove 01:21:35.710 --> 01:21:38.490 it, that those are not mutually incompatible. 01:21:38.670 --> 01:21:42.570 But they got in there and—wait, wait, let me finish my thought. 01:21:42.570 --> 01:21:45.450 like they and so that this was 01:21:45.450 --> 01:21:48.350 my original hypothesis is these guys got over their 01:21:48.350 --> 01:21:52.490 skis they got into power they looked into it and they couldn't back up what 01:21:52.490 --> 01:21:58.190 they'd been riling their base up for years and years and years but then then 01:21:58.190 --> 01:22:02.230 donald trump started protesting and protesting and getting more and more upset 01:22:02.230 --> 01:22:06.170 and there's nothing here there's nothing to see go away It looks the other way, blah, blah, blah. 01:22:06.970 --> 01:22:12.750 And it's like, okay, there must be something dead. Otherwise, 01:22:13.010 --> 01:22:14.190 why the hell are you doing this? 01:22:14.190 --> 01:22:15.090 Why are you getting so agitated? 01:22:15.250 --> 01:22:20.370 Why are you getting so agitated? Because if it really was the first scenario, 01:22:21.190 --> 01:22:27.050 then okay, just, you know, there are other ways to present this. 01:22:27.150 --> 01:22:32.750 Now, the diehards who are really 100% in on this conspiracy theory will never 01:22:32.750 --> 01:22:34.010 be convinced no matter what. 01:22:34.990 --> 01:22:40.050 But you could come out and just clearly say, hey, we thought there was all this 01:22:40.050 --> 01:22:46.090 stuff in there, but look, we've looked into it and we've looked at all the details and stuff. 01:22:47.210 --> 01:22:51.210 The evidence of the things we thought there was evidence of just isn't there. 01:22:51.390 --> 01:22:54.490 Now, they'd still hate you. They still wouldn't believe you, 01:22:54.610 --> 01:22:56.010 but you'd have a clear story. 01:22:57.210 --> 01:23:02.950 Let's be clear about this. If there was this massive smoking gun against a whole 01:23:02.950 --> 01:23:08.250 bunch of Democrats, don't you think that they would have already been—the pages 01:23:08.250 --> 01:23:09.790 of every paper in the U.S. 01:23:10.090 --> 01:23:13.050 would have been plastered with all of this? 01:23:13.050 --> 01:23:17.650 Well, this is one of the things that the base still to this day, who's upset about this, 01:23:17.750 --> 01:23:21.670 the conservatives who are like, no, you've got to release the files are still 01:23:21.670 --> 01:23:27.390 are now thinking that Donald Trump and Bondi and all these folks are covering 01:23:27.390 --> 01:23:28.790 up for the Democrats still. 01:23:29.290 --> 01:23:34.010 Like they're not they're not convinced that like Donald Trump had to do with any of this. No, no. 01:23:34.170 --> 01:23:37.650 They're they're like, why is Donald Trump protecting Bill Clinton? 01:23:38.490 --> 01:23:44.290 You know, that's where the thought process is. Why is he defending the vast 01:23:44.290 --> 01:23:50.470 international pedophile conspiracy ring run by the liberals? Why is he flipped? 01:23:51.370 --> 01:23:57.170 Well, let's be clear about this. Okay. This is, you know, the number of people, 01:23:57.810 --> 01:24:03.530 when you're talking about the entire, take the electorate, just talking about 01:24:03.530 --> 01:24:04.850 the electorate, not the general pop. 01:24:05.750 --> 01:24:13.810 I what percentage of those are pedophile conspiracy, blah, blah, blah, say 25 percent. 01:24:13.890 --> 01:24:17.290 The conspiracy of the total electorate. 01:24:17.330 --> 01:24:21.590 Including Democrats, including Democrats, I'd say even less than 25 at that point. 01:24:22.090 --> 01:24:25.870 OK, so I would say maybe it's even only 25 percent of Trump voters. 01:24:26.170 --> 01:24:29.290 OK, so so that's that's where that's where this is. Right. 01:24:29.590 --> 01:24:34.590 OK, where it's, you know, you've got it's a. 01:24:34.850 --> 01:24:40.370 Small, but very loud and very, it's not small. It's a significant portion of 01:24:40.370 --> 01:24:42.490 his base that's very active and very loud. 01:24:42.990 --> 01:24:46.430 And they have been the guys that have been carrying the torch for him. 01:24:47.250 --> 01:24:50.350 OK, most of the time, that's the reality. 01:24:51.470 --> 01:24:57.290 And so now all of a sudden you've got these guys who expected something. Right. 01:24:58.150 --> 01:25:05.230 And the guy who was supposed to give it to them is now just no, we're not. 01:25:06.090 --> 01:25:07.530 We're not releasing this. 01:25:07.810 --> 01:25:15.890 Well, and the thing is, the more he protests about it, the more it just like, you know, the. 01:25:15.890 --> 01:25:17.230 More guilty he looks. 01:25:17.230 --> 01:25:20.330 The more guilty he looks and it's like i've seen 01:25:20.330 --> 01:25:24.290 people post i forget if it was josh marshall or somebody else who was like you 01:25:24.290 --> 01:25:28.170 know i thought this was just them getting all over their skis but the more donald 01:25:28.170 --> 01:25:32.970 trump thinks about this more donald trump talks about this the more the only 01:25:32.970 --> 01:25:38.770 natural conclusion is actually donald trump ran the pedophile ring and framed Epstein. 01:25:40.450 --> 01:25:44.690 Because otherwise, why is he doing all this? And, you know, and there was this 01:25:44.690 --> 01:25:48.790 big hype about this Wall Street Journal release as well, where Donald Trump 01:25:48.790 --> 01:25:54.370 apparently contributed this cryptic little note for a 50th birthday book for Epstein. 01:25:55.370 --> 01:26:00.950 And, you know, and Donald Trump is now sued them over publishing this. 01:26:01.230 --> 01:26:04.750 He and his like team were apparently 01:26:04.750 --> 01:26:07.670 exerting a huge amount of pressure on the wall street journal to 01:26:07.670 --> 01:26:14.690 not publish this at all they did anyway and as far as i can tell like look this 01:26:14.690 --> 01:26:21.810 this is just another okay trump and epstein were good friends trump and epstein 01:26:21.810 --> 01:26:27.170 were both wink wink nod nod and obviously liked younger girls dude yeah yeah. 01:26:27.170 --> 01:26:29.790 Yeah like very much so huh. 01:26:29.790 --> 01:26:34.730 But there's not there's not the thing wasn't a smoking gun it's nothing you 01:26:34.730 --> 01:26:37.510 could use in court to prove anything it's. 01:26:37.510 --> 01:26:43.030 Not a smoking gun but come on saying i mean that note holy shit that note. 01:26:43.030 --> 01:26:49.310 Well it's it's all cryptic crap though like yeah it's like oh we share secrets okay. 01:26:49.310 --> 01:26:55.070 Yeah what the fuck were the secrets that we've known about this guy the entire fucking time now. 01:26:55.070 --> 01:26:56.650 Well yeah i realize that. 01:26:56.650 --> 01:26:57.850 He did with everybody. 01:26:57.850 --> 01:27:02.010 But again the thing is like this is all like with all Well. 01:27:02.410 --> 01:27:09.110 There's all these videos of teenagers talking about stooping his daughter. 01:27:09.730 --> 01:27:15.110 He goes and repeatedly says it about Epstein, and then he puts it down on a note. 01:27:15.330 --> 01:27:15.590 That's provable. 01:27:16.190 --> 01:27:23.590 I mean, well, listen, this is not maybe court evidence, but fuck, man. 01:27:24.290 --> 01:27:26.330 It's, you know, man. 01:27:26.650 --> 01:27:30.730 This is all stuff that, with all the context, you could infer what he probably 01:27:30.730 --> 01:27:33.490 meant. But you can't prove a damn thing. 01:27:33.750 --> 01:27:41.530 I can't prove it to convict, but I can prove it to show how morally bankrupt, 01:27:42.350 --> 01:27:43.410 Donald Trump, you know. 01:27:44.050 --> 01:27:45.530 Well, we didn't know it. 01:27:45.790 --> 01:27:49.690 But just further evidence of how morally bankrupt this asshole was. 01:27:49.830 --> 01:27:55.130 Yes, this is what I was saying. It's like, well, we all knew this already. But here's the thing. 01:27:55.830 --> 01:27:58.830 We did not all know this already. 01:27:59.070 --> 01:28:02.830 There are a couple of crucial differences here to point out. 01:28:02.830 --> 01:28:09.350 Like, you and I and people who've been paying attention and have been into politics 01:28:09.350 --> 01:28:16.330 and who have been paying attention to the right sources have known all of this crap since 2015, 01:28:16.330 --> 01:28:19.370 at least, probably earlier, right? 01:28:19.990 --> 01:28:26.410 But for people who are embedded in the right-wing ecosystem, 01:28:26.410 --> 01:28:31.470 a lot of them have never heard this crap about Donald Trump. 01:28:31.790 --> 01:28:31.990 Right. 01:28:31.990 --> 01:28:35.590 They've heard things about Epstein, but everything they've heard about Epstein 01:28:35.590 --> 01:28:36.950 has been about liberals. 01:28:37.230 --> 01:28:42.630 And Sam, Sam, can we, listen, listen, but forget about this, okay? 01:28:42.830 --> 01:28:50.290 We are skipping over the most important thing, the video, Sam. The fucking video, Sam. 01:28:50.630 --> 01:28:55.590 The video that they released, that is very clearly doctored, 01:28:55.910 --> 01:29:02.970 which was supposed to be, Hey, look, we've released this video to show what 01:29:02.970 --> 01:29:04.930 happened at Epstein's cell. 01:29:05.510 --> 01:29:11.110 And, motherfucker, Sam, the video they shared is doctored. 01:29:11.430 --> 01:29:12.910 And missing three minutes. 01:29:13.170 --> 01:29:13.730 Right? 01:29:14.050 --> 01:29:14.890 Yes. 01:29:15.670 --> 01:29:17.170 Holy fucking hell! 01:29:19.630 --> 01:29:23.650 I mean, the one that should have been the clean sweep. 01:29:24.430 --> 01:29:27.230 No problem. them hey here is the raw 01:29:27.230 --> 01:29:30.250 footage here you go knock yourself out 01:29:30.250 --> 01:29:33.070 well here it is this is one of the they 01:29:33.070 --> 01:29:39.850 share a sam these guys shared a video missing three minutes do you remember 01:29:39.850 --> 01:29:44.790 what happened with the nixon tapes of the missing minutes yes yes yes yeah we're 01:29:44.790 --> 01:29:51.270 those missing minutes like you know bullshit dude what the fuck we. 01:29:51.270 --> 01:29:54.550 To this day don't know for sure what was on those missing minutes. 01:29:54.750 --> 01:29:56.290 It was an innocent mistake, Yvonne. 01:29:56.350 --> 01:29:56.990 It was an innocent mistake. 01:29:56.990 --> 01:29:57.870 In Watergate 2. 01:29:58.530 --> 01:29:58.730 Right. 01:29:58.970 --> 01:30:02.790 Now, look, here's the thing, though. With this group of clowns, 01:30:03.290 --> 01:30:08.210 you can't eliminate that it was a dumb mistake. 01:30:08.470 --> 01:30:11.450 You know? But look, the other thing I was going to mention. 01:30:11.450 --> 01:30:12.610 But holy hell, Sam! 01:30:12.790 --> 01:30:13.790 I know, I know. 01:30:13.870 --> 01:30:18.930 You want to create a firestorm of more doubt, okay? 01:30:19.190 --> 01:30:23.630 Over something. and it's by fucking releasing, 01:30:25.770 --> 01:30:29.410 captured video of the Epstein cell. 01:30:29.530 --> 01:30:29.710 Okay. 01:30:29.870 --> 01:30:30.230 Damn it. 01:30:30.310 --> 01:30:30.770 Yes. 01:30:30.950 --> 01:30:38.370 I mean, I have one that up until that moment was 100, I felt 100% convinced 01:30:38.370 --> 01:30:43.030 he committed suicide. I have no doubts. Yeah. But fuck, Sam. 01:30:44.110 --> 01:30:50.790 Now? I mean, they actually made me, who never even believed in that, doubt it. 01:30:51.570 --> 01:30:57.550 I still think it's highly likely that he did commit suicide, but you're right. 01:30:57.670 --> 01:31:03.610 None of this like does anything but add more doubt because of how everybody's acting around. 01:31:04.450 --> 01:31:05.010 Exactly. 01:31:05.790 --> 01:31:09.910 Let me get back to my point though, like, cause you took me off in a different 01:31:09.910 --> 01:31:10.670 direction in the middle. 01:31:11.070 --> 01:31:16.970 One was that people in the conservative, you know, in the conservative ecosystem 01:31:16.970 --> 01:31:21.390 never heard the connection between Trump and Epstein before. 01:31:21.570 --> 01:31:25.910 They just heard bad things about Epstein, not that Trump was best friends with 01:31:25.910 --> 01:31:30.870 him for 15 years and was on a bunch of these lists and went to the island and 01:31:30.870 --> 01:31:33.810 was joking about the young girls and blah, blah, blah. 01:31:34.010 --> 01:31:38.390 But also just on the history of what Epstein did himself, 01:31:38.630 --> 01:31:45.210 another important thing to remind folks about is like the youngest voters in 01:31:45.210 --> 01:31:50.590 2024 were 10 years old back in 2015. 01:31:51.490 --> 01:31:58.290 They weren't paying attention, you know, you know, and so like the, 01:31:58.410 --> 01:32:02.350 we should not take for granted at all that. 01:32:02.550 --> 01:32:06.390 Well, everybody knows all this stuff about Epstein. 01:32:06.650 --> 01:32:09.890 Everything knows about how Trump was related to Epstein. 01:32:10.070 --> 01:32:16.630 Everybody knows about like the Access Hollywood tape or any of the other Donald 01:32:16.630 --> 01:32:21.290 Trump stuff because A, tons of people are locked in this conservative ecosystem 01:32:21.290 --> 01:32:24.550 that doesn't give time to these issues and B, 01:32:24.990 --> 01:32:26.630 a lot of voters, 01:32:27.330 --> 01:32:29.310 were not paying attention, 01:32:30.170 --> 01:32:32.190 seven, eight, nine, 10 years ago. 01:32:32.270 --> 01:32:33.250 Fuck, they were not paying attention now. 01:32:33.250 --> 01:32:37.130 Some of them because they were too young. Some of them just because they weren't. 01:32:37.270 --> 01:32:40.690 But like this is something I've heard a number of journalists talk about. 01:32:40.690 --> 01:32:44.710 Like there's a, in terms of how they're covering this story, 01:32:45.330 --> 01:32:51.090 like it's still being covered by like, here's the new stuff that was released this week. 01:32:51.550 --> 01:32:54.770 There's not a lot of, Hey, everybody let's review. 01:32:55.950 --> 01:33:00.890 Here's, here's all the stuff we already knew 10 years ago. And here's all the details of this. 01:33:01.230 --> 01:33:05.830 But the reality is even the people who were paying attention 10 years ago, 01:33:06.010 --> 01:33:08.050 a lot of them have forgotten, you know? 01:33:08.050 --> 01:33:14.570 and so you gotta bring people back up to speed with the whole thing now and 01:33:14.570 --> 01:33:21.750 in the end like I don't know like again like my my general thought process on all of this was. 01:33:22.750 --> 01:33:28.770 Going back to, you know, that girl who was suing Donald Trump and, 01:33:28.770 --> 01:33:32.530 you know, decided to back out of it like days before the 20, 01:33:32.630 --> 01:33:37.610 20, 16 election was of course, Donald Trump is probably guilty of all this shit. 01:33:37.850 --> 01:33:41.630 Of course he is, but we can't prove it. 01:33:42.350 --> 01:33:49.270 And, you know, it's the longer time goes on, the less chance we'll ever be able to prove it. 01:33:49.490 --> 01:33:55.050 Now, if you believe women to begin with, I mean, my God, like there's like 27, 01:33:55.490 --> 01:34:01.070 28 women who've credibly accused Donald Trump of various kinds of sexual assault over the years. 01:34:01.490 --> 01:34:06.510 And obviously people didn't care. But again, like a lot of people didn't know, 01:34:06.730 --> 01:34:11.070 despite the fact that like it was out there in the zeitgeist. 01:34:11.070 --> 01:34:17.910 And but this time, the difference is that Donald Trump's own people, 01:34:18.150 --> 01:34:23.310 because they feel betrayed by this, are pushing for more information. 01:34:23.570 --> 01:34:28.550 And Donald Trump is apparently scared of the more information. Right. 01:34:28.750 --> 01:34:33.710 So maybe there is stuff above and beyond, like the conservative response to 01:34:33.710 --> 01:34:37.290 the stuff in this, the single page of this book that Donald Trump apparently 01:34:37.290 --> 01:34:41.030 wrote has been, oh, this is clearly fake. 01:34:41.190 --> 01:34:43.790 This is not him. This is nothing. Blah, blah, blah. 01:34:44.530 --> 01:34:49.430 But the way Donald Trump has been reacting, it can't just be about this single 01:34:49.430 --> 01:34:50.910 page. There's got to be more. 01:34:50.910 --> 01:34:55.590 No, there's got to be more. There's got to be more. But hey, 01:34:55.710 --> 01:34:58.590 you know, listen, there are, as you said before today, 01:34:59.670 --> 01:35:06.390 on the Slack, we have apparently an extra 1,000 witnesses now that we can depose 01:35:06.390 --> 01:35:09.610 on, you know, on what the hell is on those documents. 01:35:09.790 --> 01:35:13.450 So let's talk about the 1,000 witnesses, because this was new news in the last 01:35:13.450 --> 01:35:16.610 24 hours that's also important here. 01:35:16.610 --> 01:35:22.070 Apparently, Pam Bondi, and you can be sure she didn't do this of her own volition, 01:35:22.470 --> 01:35:24.710 like Donald Trump must have asked about this, 01:35:25.890 --> 01:35:29.890 assigned the reports say a thousand 01:35:29.890 --> 01:35:41.210 FBI agents to be pulling 24-hour shifts to go through 100,000 pages of Epstein-related 01:35:41.210 --> 01:35:46.590 evidence to specifically look for and mark and call it. 01:35:46.610 --> 01:35:49.150 out any possible reference to Donald Trump. 01:35:50.370 --> 01:35:54.470 And there's no reporting on exactly how much was found, 01:35:54.470 --> 01:36:01.750 but apparently someone was worried enough about it to initiate this very significant 01:36:01.750 --> 01:36:06.650 effort to go through everything and try to find all the Trump references. 01:36:07.250 --> 01:36:10.950 You know how nutty this is. There are— And by the way. 01:36:11.010 --> 01:36:12.610 We've known for years. 01:36:12.950 --> 01:36:17.070 There are a thousand—I don't know if it—listen, whether it's agents or employees, okay? 01:36:17.210 --> 01:36:17.430 Yes. 01:36:18.230 --> 01:36:22.750 The FBI has 30-some-odd thousand employees only. Okay? 01:36:23.510 --> 01:36:28.810 So, to pull a thousand of them. I mean, pulling a... Sam, do you understand? 01:36:28.930 --> 01:36:33.730 To pull a thousand employees into a single task. 01:36:34.550 --> 01:36:39.290 What kind of, like, crazy, batshit, authoritarian bullshit this is. 01:36:39.770 --> 01:36:43.010 Yes. And, like, 24-hour shifts and stuff. 01:36:43.130 --> 01:36:43.230 Right. 01:36:43.230 --> 01:36:45.150 Which can't be the best way to do this either. 01:36:45.250 --> 01:36:45.410 No! 01:36:45.450 --> 01:36:46.810 Like, people get tired, you know? 01:36:46.810 --> 01:36:52.190 This is like insane authoritarian bullshit. And I mean, this is, 01:36:52.330 --> 01:36:58.430 this is the only people to do this are insanely scared. 01:36:59.290 --> 01:37:04.770 Well, and here's the thing. Like, I would not be surprised if the answer to 01:37:04.770 --> 01:37:10.530 what these thousand people found was a lot of stuff that could be embarrassing. 01:37:10.530 --> 01:37:13.870 But again, nothing that could be used in a court of law. 01:37:15.050 --> 01:37:19.050 What the fuck do we know? No, Sam, look. No, no, we don't know. 01:37:19.210 --> 01:37:21.510 Jeff didn't go to trial. Okay, he died. 01:37:22.510 --> 01:37:28.050 Gallain pleaded out. So that wasn't a trial either. Okay? So if anything in there. 01:37:28.050 --> 01:37:36.290 Was— I keep coming back to if there really was, like, actionable evidence against 01:37:36.290 --> 01:37:41.030 Donald Trump or Bill Clinton or any other famous people, they would have done something with it. 01:37:41.210 --> 01:37:45.030 There's a difference between actionable evidence— Oh. 01:37:45.250 --> 01:37:48.530 Yes. This is the key difference. 01:37:49.350 --> 01:37:55.890 You know, just because it doesn't meet the threshold of a conviction doesn't 01:37:55.890 --> 01:37:58.270 mean it's really, really damning. 01:37:58.650 --> 01:38:03.230 Oh, right, right. I mean, I agree with you, absolutely. There's lots of. 01:38:03.230 --> 01:38:06.350 Stuff that could be— Especially when one of the big problems that you've got 01:38:06.350 --> 01:38:10.250 with this case is that Epstein is dead. 01:38:10.670 --> 01:38:11.210 Mm-hmm. 01:38:11.670 --> 01:38:17.950 OK, because all you've got is this and you don't have a witness to corroborate a lot of it. 01:38:18.150 --> 01:38:22.590 OK, which, by the way, goes back to why the hell all of a sudden, 01:38:22.670 --> 01:38:26.990 you know, we're asking about, well, why the hell is he dead? Right. 01:38:27.470 --> 01:38:30.770 And why would he be dead? Not because he wanted to. 01:38:30.890 --> 01:38:36.970 It's because a lot of that is worthless without him corroborating it. 01:38:37.920 --> 01:38:41.000 Well, this is one of the things we don't know for sure, right? 01:38:41.180 --> 01:38:45.540 There may be other witnesses, too. There may be documentation. 01:38:46.040 --> 01:38:50.920 One of the things they apparently got was all kinds of video evidence. 01:38:52.500 --> 01:38:57.120 And I speculated last week, the problem on some of these might be like, 01:38:57.500 --> 01:39:02.100 yeah, there's a video, but you can't really tell for sure who it is in the video. Right. 01:39:02.960 --> 01:39:07.300 Things like that, because it's like low-quality surveillance video or something. 01:39:08.460 --> 01:39:12.040 but there's, and this is one of those key differences. 01:39:12.220 --> 01:39:16.300 They have asked, apparently they've asked a judge just in the last 24 hours 01:39:16.300 --> 01:39:18.700 to, to release the grand jury testimony. 01:39:19.040 --> 01:39:23.900 Now the grand jury testimony is different than the whole thing of all the evidence 01:39:23.900 --> 01:39:26.340 and they're going to redact it anyway. 01:39:26.500 --> 01:39:33.020 And you can be sure they would not just redact the victim's names and identifying information. 01:39:33.420 --> 01:39:39.900 But the proper way to do redaction on this stuff is to also redact the names 01:39:39.900 --> 01:39:46.040 of people who, that are incriminated, but that there are no charges against 01:39:46.040 --> 01:39:48.300 for the reasons we're talking about. 01:39:48.560 --> 01:39:53.200 Like this is, you know, yeah, this is, this is really damning evidence, 01:39:53.360 --> 01:39:55.400 but not enough that you could get a conviction. 01:39:55.760 --> 01:40:01.420 So, so the right thing to do from, you know, a justice department and a judicial 01:40:01.420 --> 01:40:07.140 point of view is you don't go, you know, Comey and Hillary Clinton side. 01:40:07.520 --> 01:40:11.580 This is not, you don't release that information in that way. 01:40:11.700 --> 01:40:18.720 So if you get stuff released, there's going to be a lot of, and person A did 01:40:18.720 --> 01:40:24.460 this or person A saw this because you've got not only the victims who don't want to be, 01:40:24.600 --> 01:40:28.300 you know, don't want to be identified, don't want to be dragged through the mud again. 01:40:28.300 --> 01:40:31.300 you've got witnesses who apparently part 01:40:31.300 --> 01:40:34.200 of the problems with these prosecutions all these years 01:40:34.200 --> 01:40:37.080 was you had tons of witnesses who feared for their 01:40:37.080 --> 01:40:42.820 physical safety if they said stuff and so you don't want you know you don't 01:40:42.820 --> 01:40:48.320 want to dox those people either and then of course you've got potential perpetrators 01:40:48.320 --> 01:40:53.580 that are you have information about but not enough to prove it and you're not 01:40:53.580 --> 01:40:54.780 going to release those names either. 01:40:54.980 --> 01:40:57.160 But those names are what everybody really wants. 01:40:57.460 --> 01:41:02.620 They want those. They want to know, you know, this guy's incriminated. 01:41:02.760 --> 01:41:07.500 Even if we can't prove it, it damn well looks bad for them. 01:41:07.780 --> 01:41:13.020 You know, and that's what everybody's really after, whether it's Trump or any of the liberals. 01:41:14.110 --> 01:41:17.650 And we're probably not going to get that. Although I have to say, 01:41:17.750 --> 01:41:21.910 like, in a lot of the redacted documents that came out over the course of the 01:41:21.910 --> 01:41:26.450 other investigations to Donald Trump, people were able to figure out who most 01:41:26.450 --> 01:41:29.010 of the person A, person B, person C really were. 01:41:29.370 --> 01:41:32.770 They were able to figure that out just by putting together clues. 01:41:33.130 --> 01:41:37.630 So I don't know. But Donald sure seems scared. 01:41:38.150 --> 01:41:39.110 He seems petrified. 01:41:39.110 --> 01:41:41.370 That's the bottom line on this. You know. 01:41:41.430 --> 01:41:44.670 I mean, you know. and donald doesn't seem well. 01:41:44.670 --> 01:41:48.450 Okay let's pivot to that so first 01:41:48.450 --> 01:41:51.550 of all donald before we before we get to physical 01:41:51.550 --> 01:41:54.690 i want to say that like we've talked 01:41:54.690 --> 01:41:58.270 a long time about donald trump's mental deterioration over 01:41:58.270 --> 01:42:01.370 time but it does seem to be getting a lot 01:42:01.370 --> 01:42:04.130 worse like he's less and less 01:42:04.130 --> 01:42:07.410 coherent he's you know talking about 01:42:07.410 --> 01:42:10.670 you know we were talking about powell the fed fed chair he 01:42:10.670 --> 01:42:13.650 was like slamming the appointment 01:42:13.650 --> 01:42:17.330 not remembering that it was him apparently you know 01:42:17.330 --> 01:42:22.910 we've got all kinds of other things where he's clearly doesn't really know what's 01:42:22.910 --> 01:42:27.170 going on and look that's been true for years and years but it seems to be getting 01:42:27.170 --> 01:42:34.430 worse rapidly and you know people seem reluctant to like at least the the sort 01:42:34.430 --> 01:42:36.730 of mainstream major media outlets, 01:42:37.290 --> 01:42:38.850 aren't really talking about that. 01:42:39.010 --> 01:42:46.210 I mean, they go off on Biden, and as far as I can tell, Trump is worse than Biden ever was. 01:42:46.230 --> 01:42:47.250 Way worse! 01:42:48.120 --> 01:42:52.220 In terms of sort of mental health and age affecting his abilities. 01:42:52.580 --> 01:42:54.140 And now let's talk physical. 01:42:55.220 --> 01:42:59.500 So the latest thing is people have been noticing bruising, people have been 01:42:59.500 --> 01:43:00.840 noticing swollen ankles, 01:43:01.440 --> 01:43:06.240 and they released an official White House doctor report saying, 01:43:06.440 --> 01:43:10.540 what was it, insufficient venous something. Yeah. 01:43:11.140 --> 01:43:17.440 You know, and basically saying, look, 20% of people in their 70s end up getting 01:43:17.440 --> 01:43:20.280 this. This is, you know, it happens. 01:43:20.900 --> 01:43:26.920 And I have seen a lot of people speculating, okay, it's clearly not just that, 01:43:27.180 --> 01:43:31.760 but, and so like specifically I've seen like on TikTok recently, 01:43:32.020 --> 01:43:37.100 tons and tons of nurses that work in cardiac wards and stuff like that saying 01:43:37.100 --> 01:43:40.000 like, look, there's more going on than that. 01:43:40.100 --> 01:43:43.900 They may not want to say it right now, but you've got a lot of stuff going on 01:43:43.900 --> 01:43:46.460 that looks like congestive heart failure. 01:43:46.460 --> 01:43:50.740 And then, though, I have seen a bunch of doctors, including, 01:43:50.980 --> 01:43:56.480 by the way, our very own Ed on our Mudgeons Corner Slack, saying given all the 01:43:56.480 --> 01:43:58.640 information they have released on this, 01:43:59.120 --> 01:44:03.100 it does look like something that they've done all the tests for the things that 01:44:03.100 --> 01:44:05.040 could be serious causes of this. 01:44:05.040 --> 01:44:07.580 Venus insufficiency is what the letter said exactly. 01:44:07.640 --> 01:44:13.560 Yes, yes. And, like, it very well, this is common, and this doesn't have a high 01:44:13.560 --> 01:44:15.660 mortality rate, and it's manageable. 01:44:16.100 --> 01:44:21.220 And so, like, people shouldn't get over their skis. And I've seen a lot of doctors also say that. 01:44:21.440 --> 01:44:28.500 But I think part of the reason why people are jumping to other things is no 01:44:28.500 --> 01:44:33.260 one freaking trusts the White House doctor to be actually giving the full story. 01:44:33.400 --> 01:44:33.720 Yeah. 01:44:33.720 --> 01:44:37.800 You know, so look. 01:44:37.880 --> 01:44:40.540 The White House doctor doesn't matter who's been in power. 01:44:41.550 --> 01:44:48.070 OK, it has never been fully forthcoming about the health of any of our presidents. 01:44:48.350 --> 01:44:50.290 OK, yes. Republican or Democrat. 01:44:50.450 --> 01:44:51.410 Republican or Democrat. 01:44:51.710 --> 01:44:57.490 And we've got all kinds of historical examples of this going back 100 plus years. 01:44:57.590 --> 01:45:03.890 Yes, yes. So, you know, look, it's it's not, you know, it's part of the job. 01:45:04.550 --> 01:45:12.110 But given that, you know, even before he was president, unlike Joe or some other 01:45:12.110 --> 01:45:15.290 presidents that have provided a hell of a lot more detail into their health. 01:45:15.530 --> 01:45:23.310 OK, I mean, Trump, I mean, when he first ran for president, all we got was that letter from Dr. 01:45:23.530 --> 01:45:27.330 Bornstein, whatever his name is, talking about that he was the physical, 01:45:27.630 --> 01:45:34.650 the best physical specimen ever. And that's basically all we have really gotten about his health. 01:45:34.850 --> 01:45:37.250 We've never really gotten anything else. 01:45:37.850 --> 01:45:46.890 He probably, at least in recent times, has been the one from where we have gotten 01:45:46.890 --> 01:45:50.830 the least amount of any detailed information about his health. 01:45:51.190 --> 01:45:54.190 I mean, just starting from his weight, Sam, for God's sakes. 01:45:54.750 --> 01:45:58.770 You know, Eli, I mean, everything on the report, you look at it and you're like, 01:45:59.130 --> 01:46:03.130 man, this is just a fucking like just pack of lies straight out. 01:46:03.350 --> 01:46:06.310 Because, of course, he's an incredibly muscular athlete. 01:46:06.770 --> 01:46:11.250 Yes, absolutely. I mean, it's so nuts. 01:46:11.730 --> 01:46:17.430 And so, look, the speculation, the reason that the doctor had to put out a statement 01:46:17.430 --> 01:46:23.130 was because people were openly speculating about his health due to his visual appearance. 01:46:23.130 --> 01:46:27.590 That, listen, dude, that swollen, his ankles swollen were really, 01:46:27.830 --> 01:46:29.070 really, really swollen. 01:46:29.570 --> 01:46:33.070 That was not just a tad. Holy shit. You know? 01:46:33.590 --> 01:46:38.590 I mean, that it was so bad that these guys have always, like, 01:46:38.750 --> 01:46:40.550 deflected everything and just not said anything. 01:46:41.170 --> 01:46:46.830 The fact that they actually had the doctor put out a note tells you how self-conscious 01:46:46.830 --> 01:46:48.350 they are about how bad it is. 01:46:48.350 --> 01:46:53.150 And by the way, like one of the things they said is the patches and bruises 01:46:53.150 --> 01:46:56.390 on his arm were due to excessive handshaking. 01:46:56.630 --> 01:46:58.050 Now, first of all. 01:46:58.230 --> 01:46:58.670 Bullshit. 01:46:59.390 --> 01:47:04.650 They did mention that, look, it's very common in older people to bruise very easily. 01:47:05.070 --> 01:47:08.490 That's true. And it's very true. Like I, you know. 01:47:08.610 --> 01:47:11.250 I've got that happening with my father now all of a sudden. Yeah. 01:47:11.350 --> 01:47:17.350 Yeah. My father as well. Very easily bruises. It is common in older people to 01:47:17.350 --> 01:47:22.150 have that situation, but a number of people pointed out, given the location, 01:47:23.530 --> 01:47:31.630 Given the location and given what it looked like, it's also consistent with, he's recently had IVs. 01:47:31.930 --> 01:47:32.490 Yeah. 01:47:32.670 --> 01:47:36.170 You know, for something or other. Now, that's not proof. 01:47:36.270 --> 01:47:43.050 Which by the way, by the way, by the way, which the IVs could explain why he was so swollen. 01:47:43.530 --> 01:47:49.170 Because that happens. Okay? When you've had to receive a mass amount of IVs 01:47:49.170 --> 01:47:52.370 to get that kind of swelling like he had down in his ankles. 01:47:53.430 --> 01:47:56.510 I don't know. I'm not going to do medical speculation. 01:47:56.890 --> 01:47:58.530 It's something I've seen. 01:47:58.690 --> 01:47:59.930 Other than repeat other people's medical speculation. 01:48:00.150 --> 01:48:00.870 But yeah, but no, yeah. 01:48:01.670 --> 01:48:06.030 But like, so the question is like, okay, he's deteriorating mentally. 01:48:06.030 --> 01:48:07.850 He's deteriorating physically. 01:48:08.370 --> 01:48:09.730 Not fast enough, Sam. 01:48:11.550 --> 01:48:15.610 And he's spiraling due to this Epstein stuff that he's obviously scared. 01:48:15.610 --> 01:48:20.570 I'm hoping he has a stroke or a heart attack soon. That's so nice of you. 01:48:20.710 --> 01:48:20.990 Mr. Boyd. 01:48:20.990 --> 01:48:24.710 I've never really wished this upon anybody except this motherfucker. 01:48:25.270 --> 01:48:29.890 I really wish this guy ill health. And I hope I don't ever wish somebody else 01:48:29.890 --> 01:48:31.630 ill health again in my life. 01:48:32.670 --> 01:48:37.910 Well, and the question is, you know, does all of these trends, 01:48:38.470 --> 01:48:45.910 like, look, every time we've had things before that we think this is finally 01:48:45.910 --> 01:48:51.690 the turning point on XYZ, he bounces back and is back to normal a few weeks later. 01:48:52.590 --> 01:48:56.850 Whether it's health or scandal or whatever. 01:48:57.690 --> 01:49:04.670 But so far, this feels a little bit different because on the scandal-wise, 01:49:04.810 --> 01:49:09.450 for the very first time, it's his own base that's more upset than anybody else. 01:49:09.590 --> 01:49:14.410 It's not just the Democrats making noise. 01:49:14.770 --> 01:49:17.990 It's his own base that's upset about the scandal. 01:49:18.210 --> 01:49:23.090 And the health stuff just seems more pronounced than it has been in previous episodes. 01:49:23.330 --> 01:49:28.030 Well, recently I was looking at this and, you know, and I was reading an article 01:49:28.030 --> 01:49:34.970 that it talks about how we apparently don't age like slowly and gracefully. 01:49:35.270 --> 01:49:37.370 Okay? We age in bursts. 01:49:38.270 --> 01:49:38.490 Right. 01:49:38.830 --> 01:49:46.370 Okay? And, you know, and there is a burst that is Just about as in one of the 01:49:46.370 --> 01:49:50.730 articles I was reading that happens in the late 70s. Okay. 01:49:52.010 --> 01:49:53.490 It's just one of those things. 01:49:54.250 --> 01:49:59.330 Well, and so these things can be triggered either by an instant, 01:49:59.510 --> 01:50:03.010 like you have a fall and all of a sudden you get worse or by stress. 01:50:04.300 --> 01:50:08.580 So, you know, maybe the Epstein stuff is stressing him out and causing all of 01:50:08.580 --> 01:50:13.300 these other physical and mental things to deteriorate faster as well. Who knows? 01:50:13.500 --> 01:50:16.600 Well, he wanted to be president again. Of course. 01:50:16.900 --> 01:50:19.120 Well, he really just wanted to avoid jail. 01:50:19.680 --> 01:50:21.300 Fuck. Yeah. 01:50:21.600 --> 01:50:22.100 Which he did. 01:50:22.680 --> 01:50:24.500 He did. Motherfucker. 01:50:25.660 --> 01:50:26.180 So. 01:50:26.960 --> 01:50:27.480 Okay. 01:50:27.700 --> 01:50:30.360 Well. The only question I have about this. 01:50:30.840 --> 01:50:31.060 Yeah. 01:50:31.060 --> 01:50:36.500 Assume, assume he doesn't just drop dead of his illnesses or whatever, 01:50:36.500 --> 01:50:39.500 and he just continues to deteriorate. 01:50:39.980 --> 01:50:45.300 Are, you know, are, are, are, are his supporters going to pretend that this 01:50:45.300 --> 01:50:47.740 isn't happening for the next three years? 01:50:48.060 --> 01:50:51.820 They're probably going to say that it's a clone or something like that. 01:50:52.040 --> 01:50:54.220 I don't know. Some stupid thing. Who knows? 01:50:54.320 --> 01:50:58.880 I mean, like, you know, and there is a thing too. Like, I mean, 01:50:59.460 --> 01:51:02.860 you know, we sort of acknowledged that Joe Biden was getting older, 01:51:02.940 --> 01:51:06.240 but we said, look, but his staff around him can handle everything. 01:51:06.720 --> 01:51:12.380 And, you know, he's still making the important decisions and, you know, et cetera. 01:51:13.300 --> 01:51:20.920 And I feel like the difference to me is that I think Joe Biden was starting 01:51:20.920 --> 01:51:27.100 at a point where even on his worst days, he was better than Trump on his best day. 01:51:27.420 --> 01:51:32.060 Correct. He was, he was coherent. He had an overarching strategy. 01:51:32.340 --> 01:51:36.220 They knew what the fuck they were. You know, there was a strategy. 01:51:37.220 --> 01:51:42.200 One of the things about being a great executive, okay, which I think Joe Biden was, 01:51:42.880 --> 01:51:47.980 okay, is that you have this strategy and you don't need to be, 01:51:48.140 --> 01:51:53.600 you have the right team to whom it is delegated to execute. 01:51:53.600 --> 01:51:59.440 You don't have to do this day to day, but you're so consistent on it and you've 01:51:59.440 --> 01:52:02.920 already set it out and you're not changing your mind every two seconds. 01:52:03.100 --> 01:52:05.820 You have them set in the direction. your team knows what 01:52:05.820 --> 01:52:11.520 where the fuck they're pushing where they're going okay with trump man one day 01:52:11.520 --> 01:52:19.020 oh we're doing no no no farmers no hotel employees or restaurant employees you 01:52:19.020 --> 01:52:23.940 know immigration raid three days later yes yes yes arrest the ball bring them. 01:52:23.940 --> 01:52:26.540 All whatever like whatever oh today. 01:52:26.540 --> 01:52:28.360 No no tariffs on these guys. 01:52:28.360 --> 01:52:31.420 Yes tariffs tomorrow oh no no 01:52:31.420 --> 01:52:34.680 no this i mean every day no no absolutely you're 01:52:34.680 --> 01:52:38.200 100 right but add on top of that because for 01:52:38.200 --> 01:52:41.500 this second term his only criteria 01:52:41.500 --> 01:52:45.020 for who to staff his administration is loyalty 01:52:45.020 --> 01:52:48.020 you've also got a bunch of incompetence anyway 01:52:48.020 --> 01:52:51.200 yes yes so like you know 01:52:51.200 --> 01:52:54.780 if donald trump falls apart everything else 01:52:54.780 --> 01:52:57.600 falls apart too which you know in some 01:52:57.600 --> 01:53:01.440 cases may be good because it stops them from doing the evil things they were 01:53:01.440 --> 01:53:07.360 gonna do correct but you know now there there are a couple of exceptions of 01:53:07.360 --> 01:53:15.160 people who are evil and know what they're doing too you know yeah yeah um i'd put maybe uh, 01:53:16.000 --> 01:53:19.180 you know, Miller might be in this category. 01:53:19.820 --> 01:53:22.620 Like, you know, is an idiot. Right. 01:53:22.800 --> 01:53:27.340 I mean, he probably, you know, if no Trump is there, he'll probably spend the 01:53:27.340 --> 01:53:30.900 rest of his, you know, the rest of his time over there. 01:53:31.060 --> 01:53:34.680 Like, I don't know, doing YouTube videos and posting on Instagram. 01:53:35.180 --> 01:53:38.480 Right. And then, but I, you know, another one, 01:53:38.640 --> 01:53:42.560 which if something happens to Trump is important, jd vance 01:53:42.560 --> 01:53:49.540 i think he's actually like competent you know i think he wants to do a lot of 01:53:49.540 --> 01:53:54.360 horrible things but he's actually competent unlike donald trump so if we end 01:53:54.360 --> 01:53:59.260 up with a vance he's a grifter and so whatever he is a grifter he is absolutely you. 01:53:59.260 --> 01:54:00.480 Know what he is going to. 01:54:00.480 --> 01:54:05.400 Go he has the positions he has because he calculated those would get him ahead exactly he. 01:54:05.400 --> 01:54:07.140 Is going to go with the flow. 01:54:07.140 --> 01:54:09.220 Yes so. 01:54:09.220 --> 01:54:16.500 You know who the hell you know if a whole bunch of business people come to him 01:54:16.500 --> 01:54:20.700 and say hey fuck this immigration thing you're killing our business what the fuck are you doing. 01:54:20.700 --> 01:54:26.860 Oh i think if if vance became president tomorrow all this tariff shit would be gone the next oh the. 01:54:26.860 --> 01:54:28.200 Next day the. 01:54:28.200 --> 01:54:31.140 Tariffs are gone the next day i don't. 01:54:31.140 --> 01:54:35.900 You know So, yes, the only guy that wants tariffs that I can see in that administration 01:54:35.900 --> 01:54:38.360 are, like, Nutlick and Navarro. 01:54:38.840 --> 01:54:43.680 Ron Verro. That's it. Everybody else is like, fuck these tariffs. Get rid of them. 01:54:44.480 --> 01:54:48.080 Yeah. Now, Vance may double down on the immigration stuff, though. 01:54:48.260 --> 01:54:51.460 Who knows? Or he may change his mind entirely because he'd be like, 01:54:51.580 --> 01:54:55.500 oh, you know, actually, you know, my wife's an immigrant. Everything's cool. 01:54:55.500 --> 01:54:59.980 Or the farm workers, the thing. And I'm like, yeah, you know, 01:55:00.080 --> 01:55:02.120 we don't want to fuck the farms. 01:55:02.600 --> 01:55:02.960 Right. 01:55:03.480 --> 01:55:07.580 You know what I'm saying? Because you wind up with one of these guys who's like 01:55:07.580 --> 01:55:10.300 more pro business. They're going to be like, well, what are we doing? 01:55:10.300 --> 01:55:11.440 We're killing all these little companies. 01:55:11.440 --> 01:55:14.300 Well, here's another difference. If Vance becomes president, 01:55:14.600 --> 01:55:16.600 he's going to want to be president again. 01:55:17.060 --> 01:55:19.540 Right. And so he's going to want to do popular things. 01:55:19.720 --> 01:55:23.180 Exactly. And that immigration shit is very unpopular. 01:55:23.680 --> 01:55:27.640 Right. Whereas this time around, Donald Trump isn't caring one tiny bit. 01:55:27.740 --> 01:55:30.540 He doesn't give a shit. He just wants to plow ahead. 01:55:30.960 --> 01:55:37.340 I have the strange feeling also that other than Donald Trump liking him and 01:55:37.340 --> 01:55:42.280 using him because as his evil, like, you know, stormtrooper, Steve Miller. 01:55:42.660 --> 01:55:46.660 I have a feeling that nobody else really likes him because that's been his whole 01:55:46.660 --> 01:55:48.620 life where nobody has really liked him anyway. 01:55:48.860 --> 01:55:49.120 Steve Miller. 01:55:49.460 --> 01:55:53.620 Yeah, Steve Miller. so he's probably a guy that if JD Vance gets in there I'm 01:55:53.620 --> 01:55:58.000 like fuck this guy I mean I don't care maybe I agree with like 50% the shit 01:55:58.000 --> 01:56:03.240 he's doing I can't stand him you know get rid of this asshole mmhmm, 01:56:04.650 --> 01:56:06.430 You can go watch Elon Musk fuck his wife. 01:56:07.330 --> 01:56:09.390 Well, apparently they've broken up too now. 01:56:09.730 --> 01:56:10.130 Who? 01:56:10.370 --> 01:56:13.290 Miller's wife is now no longer with Elon. 01:56:13.670 --> 01:56:14.170 Aww. 01:56:15.210 --> 01:56:18.670 She took off all the SpaceX stuff off her social media. 01:56:19.410 --> 01:56:25.490 And a few other things. So apparently, like, aww. 01:56:26.010 --> 01:56:29.670 I feel so bad for her. 01:56:32.150 --> 01:56:33.910 What a shame. 01:56:34.650 --> 01:56:38.450 I think the important question is just, was she impregnated first? 01:56:38.990 --> 01:56:41.030 Right. Yeah. That's the question. 01:56:41.390 --> 01:56:43.550 How many children can she deliver for Elon? 01:56:43.810 --> 01:56:44.170 Correct. 01:56:44.730 --> 01:56:47.590 Because, you know, that's what matters, apparently. 01:56:48.490 --> 01:56:48.850 Huh. 01:56:49.130 --> 01:56:49.990 Are we done? 01:56:50.230 --> 01:56:50.910 Yeah, we're done. 01:56:51.370 --> 01:56:57.010 Okay. Everybody, curmudgeons-corner.com. You can find all our stuff. 01:56:57.250 --> 01:56:58.810 You can find our archives. 01:56:59.130 --> 01:57:03.030 You can find transcripts. 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So please, please contribute or ask 01:57:40.370 --> 01:57:42.650 and let's get you invited to Curmudgeon's Corner Slack. 01:57:43.050 --> 01:57:49.190 So Yvonne, what is a highlight from the Curmudgeon's Corner Slack that you would 01:57:49.190 --> 01:57:53.110 like to talk about that we have not otherwise mentioned so far on this show? 01:57:53.390 --> 01:57:56.490 Oh God, I'm trying to figure out which one. 01:57:57.010 --> 01:57:57.870 Oh, come on. 01:57:59.910 --> 01:58:03.490 Let's do the one obvious. All right. The one obvious one. Okay. 01:58:03.610 --> 01:58:06.190 So we shared this. It's been all over the place. 01:58:06.470 --> 01:58:10.210 I hear who shared it. I think it was Bob shared it first. 01:58:11.170 --> 01:58:15.890 I've been watching it for a while before Bob shared it. But like he was the one who brought it. 01:58:15.990 --> 01:58:23.210 So there is a CEO and his HRVP that were in a Coldplay concert. 01:58:23.590 --> 01:58:26.710 They were, I guess, in an embrace. 01:58:27.450 --> 01:58:31.090 So say that right apparently there and there. 01:58:31.090 --> 01:58:33.210 Was a camera that was like panning around. 01:58:33.210 --> 01:58:35.930 Well it's more than that 01:58:35.930 --> 01:58:38.750 let me describe it because they should have known better in a number of 01:58:38.750 --> 01:58:44.930 ways apparently it is a routine part of the Coldplay concert series that they're 01:58:44.930 --> 01:58:50.690 on that at a certain point in the show they find a couple in the audience they 01:58:50.690 --> 01:58:56.150 put the camera on them and then he does an impromptu song about the couple. 01:58:57.140 --> 01:58:57.460 Hot. 01:58:57.800 --> 01:59:03.920 Okay. So that is what normally happens. So the camera found these two and she 01:59:03.920 --> 01:59:06.600 was in front of him. He was hugging her. 01:59:06.800 --> 01:59:11.840 She was hugging him. They were in an embrace and the camera goes to them and 01:59:11.840 --> 01:59:15.680 they're looking all happy. And then they look up at the jumbotron or whatever 01:59:15.680 --> 01:59:18.140 and realize that they are on it. 01:59:18.420 --> 01:59:18.820 Right. 01:59:18.960 --> 01:59:23.980 And he immediately just drops to the ground out of frame. 01:59:24.400 --> 01:59:24.760 Yeah. 01:59:24.760 --> 01:59:29.700 And then she, well, first their eyes go wide when they realize what's happening. 01:59:30.000 --> 01:59:35.720 Then he drops to the ground and then she sort of turns around and hides her face. 01:59:35.860 --> 01:59:36.140 Yes. 01:59:36.760 --> 01:59:42.160 And then the Coldplay, like main singer, I forget his name, Chris something maybe. 01:59:42.380 --> 01:59:49.420 I don't know Coldplay. But he says, oh, oh, what's going on here? 01:59:49.420 --> 01:59:55.120 These two, they're either having an affair, or they're just very shy. 01:59:58.980 --> 02:00:04.220 And she's just hiding. He's gone. Who the hell knows where he's gone to. 02:00:04.480 --> 02:00:10.900 And of course, because they reacted this way, this instantly went viral. 02:00:11.820 --> 02:00:15.540 Yeah, I mean, what I said is that if they probably just played it cool, 02:00:15.720 --> 02:00:16.840 nobody would have, you know. 02:00:17.520 --> 02:00:22.220 Even if they were, yes. Even if they were co-workers that probably shouldn't 02:00:22.220 --> 02:00:24.020 have been hugging each other in public on camera. 02:00:24.020 --> 02:00:25.160 Nobody would have seen this anyway. 02:00:25.800 --> 02:00:29.660 Yeah, and I've seen a couple skits done on TikTok and such of, 02:00:29.800 --> 02:00:34.220 like, people showing how you could have played it off in a variety of different ways. 02:00:34.560 --> 02:00:38.800 Like, even if they started off in that hugging position, they could have immediately 02:00:38.800 --> 02:00:40.200 done, like, a little skit. 02:00:40.200 --> 02:00:44.920 or like, you know, there are a number of different ways they could have reacted 02:00:44.920 --> 02:00:50.720 that at the very least would not have attracted attention of the crowd and the 02:00:50.720 --> 02:00:52.700 people videoing it right at that moment. 02:00:52.760 --> 02:00:59.060 And quite possibly even could have convinced their spouses that it was innocent, 02:00:59.340 --> 02:01:01.120 depending on what they did. Okay. 02:01:01.480 --> 02:01:07.460 But as it was, because they acted so incredibly guilty, Instantly, 02:01:07.460 --> 02:01:09.620 this was being shared everywhere. 02:01:09.920 --> 02:01:12.620 He made the comment about they must be having an affair. 02:01:12.940 --> 02:01:15.280 And within a few hours... 02:01:16.190 --> 02:01:21.110 They were both identified because he was a CEO of the company and she was the 02:01:21.110 --> 02:01:25.510 chief people officer, the head of HR for the same company. 02:01:25.850 --> 02:01:30.670 A third person in the video was misidentified as another HR employee. 02:01:30.810 --> 02:01:31.890 Apparently, she was not. 02:01:33.270 --> 02:01:36.690 They identified her as some specific HR employee. 02:01:36.930 --> 02:01:38.730 This thing has been a mean factory. 02:01:38.930 --> 02:01:39.010 Though. 02:01:39.210 --> 02:01:44.830 The one thing about this, it's gone so viral because of the way they reacted. 02:01:44.830 --> 02:01:48.270 it's been like a bean factory it's just so crazy i 02:01:48.270 --> 02:01:51.130 mean there's been just so many of them there was one 02:01:51.130 --> 02:01:54.390 that was like coldplay what did uh tweeted 02:01:54.390 --> 02:01:57.750 i don't know it tweeted or blue sky or whatever starting with our next show 02:01:57.750 --> 02:02:01.710 we're introducing a camera free audience sections for people and their side 02:02:01.710 --> 02:02:07.250 pieces there is a picture of like epstein hugging galane maxwell with a caption 02:02:07.250 --> 02:02:11.590 telling my kids this was taken at a coldplay concert there is one i've seen. 02:02:11.590 --> 02:02:14.850 Another version of this with Donald and Epstein. 02:02:14.850 --> 02:02:19.550 Together. There's been that one. There's one that it's a play on the movie Airplane 02:02:19.550 --> 02:02:22.650 where they go, hey, Jim never does this at home. 02:02:22.770 --> 02:02:25.410 It says, Jim never listens to Coldplay at home. 02:02:25.670 --> 02:02:29.450 You know, which that was on the Airplane movie. That was like a comedy. 02:02:29.830 --> 02:02:34.650 There was like, listen, ESPN SportsCenter had two of their anchors hugging like 02:02:34.650 --> 02:02:39.090 that and they panned to them and they're all of a sudden freaking out and doing the thing. 02:02:39.250 --> 02:02:43.790 The Philadelphia fanatic was hugging another Philadelphia fanatic and did that 02:02:43.790 --> 02:02:46.630 during the kiss cam tonight at the fucking game. 02:02:47.050 --> 02:02:51.970 I mean, it's just this thing. It's like just take it. It's been so damn viral. Okay. 02:02:52.630 --> 02:02:58.430 It's like crazy. And all they had to do probably was just keep doing the song, 02:02:58.590 --> 02:03:00.490 whatever, ignore it. And that's it. 02:03:00.790 --> 02:03:04.690 No, they created themselves a massive mega viral. 02:03:04.970 --> 02:03:09.030 Just immediately move from the hug to like waving at the camera. And. 02:03:09.030 --> 02:03:12.190 Their board is investigating them right now. 02:03:12.190 --> 02:03:17.410 Oh they've both been put on leave they're being investigated they are clearly 02:03:17.410 --> 02:03:23.070 not going to be continuing in what they were doing before who knows i. 02:03:23.070 --> 02:03:26.230 Don't i'm not gonna say that but. 02:03:26.230 --> 02:03:33.090 Uh the wife the wife of the ceo immediately changed her name on social media 02:03:33.090 --> 02:03:38.310 to her maiden name asked for privacy and eventually privated the account well 02:03:38.310 --> 02:03:41.810 i have etc the other thing i I haven't heard about her husband yet. 02:03:41.950 --> 02:03:46.410 Her husband, they were both married, you know, so, you know, 02:03:46.610 --> 02:03:50.330 and, and look again, like if they hadn't looked so guilty, 02:03:51.130 --> 02:03:56.790 you know, is coworkers being, you know, having a fun moment at the game, 02:03:56.790 --> 02:03:59.870 but they instantly looked guilty. So it was like, 02:04:01.070 --> 02:04:04.010 You know, of course you're going to read into it. Like, yeah, 02:04:04.110 --> 02:04:07.070 if somebody says, oh, there's nothing going on. 02:04:07.230 --> 02:04:10.430 They were just hugging at the game. Nobody's going to believe them because if 02:04:10.430 --> 02:04:12.450 they were innocent, they wouldn't have reacted that way. 02:04:12.730 --> 02:04:17.770 Exactly. Okay. The other one that I don't want to be remiss is one where Sam 02:04:17.770 --> 02:04:24.250 shared a fucking TikTok of what year does someone have to be born in order to be considered old? 02:04:24.250 --> 02:04:33.110 these fucking teenagers all kept saying like 2001 2002 i'm like okay let me 02:04:33.110 --> 02:04:35.890 be clear go fuck yourselves all of you. 02:04:35.890 --> 02:04:38.550 Hey a couple of them. 02:04:38.550 --> 02:04:43.190 Got into the late 90s yeah yeah they got into the 90s i think i heard one go 02:04:43.190 --> 02:04:46.070 all the way to 90 basically saying that most of. 02:04:46.070 --> 02:04:49.030 Them were in fact after the year 2000. 02:04:49.030 --> 02:04:53.930 And they said that apparently when you turn 25 you're never doing anything anymore. 02:04:53.930 --> 02:04:57.530 You're just, like, getting ready to be old or die or something. 02:04:57.530 --> 02:04:59.990 I'm just like, give me a fucking break. 02:05:01.370 --> 02:05:06.210 Divorce insurance should exist because women grow and nurture babies while pushing 02:05:06.210 --> 02:05:10.290 their careers only to see their husband on the Jumbotron at a Coldplay concert. 02:05:11.050 --> 02:05:16.810 You know, financially, at least, his wife is going to make out just fine. 02:05:16.870 --> 02:05:20.330 Yeah, she's going to do great. She's going to be fine. I'm going to be a problem. 02:05:20.990 --> 02:05:22.670 Alright, we're done. There we go. 02:05:22.850 --> 02:05:26.850 Okay. Thanks, everybody. Don't get sick like Yvonne. 02:05:27.370 --> 02:05:32.410 And have a safe week. Don't do anything crazy. And we'll be back. 02:05:33.310 --> 02:05:38.850 What's the phrase? Unless the cricks rise. Okay, that's bad because there were bad floods last week. 02:05:38.990 --> 02:05:40.970 Yeah, no, no, no. 02:05:41.350 --> 02:05:46.010 There were bad floods in Texas that we didn't talk about. But we will be back 02:05:46.010 --> 02:05:48.290 unless something massively unexpected happens. 02:05:48.570 --> 02:05:53.570 So tune in next week. We'll see you next time. Goodbye. Bye. Bye. 02:06:22.950 --> 02:06:23.410 Thank you. 02:06:25.630 --> 02:06:30.250 Okay, here we go. It's time for the stop button. Very excited. 02:06:30.730 --> 02:06:33.010 Very exciting. Have a nice night, Yvonne. 02:06:33.490 --> 02:06:33.990 Good night. 02:06:34.610 --> 02:06:35.210 Good night. 02:06:35.470 --> 02:06:37.250 All right, let's see. Come on.