WEBVTT 00:00:00.010 --> 00:00:00.770 Okay. 00:00:01.690 --> 00:00:05.330 Countdown. It's tough. It's hard. 00:00:06.410 --> 00:00:08.890 Final countdown. Do-do-do-do-do. 00:00:09.610 --> 00:00:10.930 Do-do-do-do-do. 00:00:11.150 --> 00:00:14.930 And then that song will be stuck now in your head for the next few weeks. 00:00:16.990 --> 00:00:24.310 Well, that's important. You need to have songs stuck in my head as much as possible, right? 00:00:24.790 --> 00:00:24.910 Yeah. 00:00:25.010 --> 00:00:27.890 Otherwise, the brains would just leak out all over the place. 00:00:28.830 --> 00:00:32.330 It does not have brains leaking out all over. No? 00:00:32.570 --> 00:00:42.350 No, no, no, no. I don't think it's a good idea to have the brains leaking all over the place. 00:00:42.870 --> 00:00:45.870 Ah, I guess. Shall we go? 00:00:46.170 --> 00:00:46.690 Yes. 00:00:47.290 --> 00:00:50.290 Here comes the thing thing. 00:01:10.190 --> 00:01:17.590 Welcome to Curmudgeon's Corner for Saturday, July 26th, 2025. 00:01:18.350 --> 00:01:22.890 It's 2.30 UTC as we're starting to record. I'm Sam Menter, Yvonne Bowes here. Hello, Yvonne. 00:01:23.550 --> 00:01:24.050 Hi. 00:01:24.970 --> 00:01:25.670 Hello. 00:01:26.250 --> 00:01:29.190 Hi. Are we doing okay? Everything good? 00:01:31.090 --> 00:01:35.790 It's getting better. It's doing okay. Yeah, it's been a week. 00:01:35.950 --> 00:01:38.230 It's been a week for me. It's been a week. 00:01:38.590 --> 00:01:40.350 You had stuff. 00:01:40.810 --> 00:01:41.990 I had stuff. 00:01:42.190 --> 00:01:45.950 And I have not heard updates on the stuff. 00:01:46.430 --> 00:01:47.230 You have not? 00:01:47.690 --> 00:01:48.250 No. 00:01:48.530 --> 00:01:55.070 Okay, well, I guess instead of doing media this week, I will do updates on my stuff. 00:01:55.070 --> 00:02:02.390 You shared your frustration. You shared your, I think it rose to a level of anger. 00:02:03.230 --> 00:02:13.330 You also did not appreciate me not agreeing completely with your assessment of the situation. 00:02:14.830 --> 00:02:19.090 So for those folks not on the Slack, I should explain what the hell you're talking about. 00:02:19.090 --> 00:02:20.270 Yes, you should. Yes. 00:02:20.270 --> 00:02:24.630 Well, there were two major events in my life this week that I will discuss. 00:02:25.110 --> 00:02:28.830 And I will do this instead of media this week. 00:02:29.550 --> 00:02:31.730 I know the media is going to fall behind. 00:02:32.010 --> 00:02:36.870 The media is going to, you know, if we had done media, I'll give you the preview 00:02:36.870 --> 00:02:38.790 for next week. There would have been two movies. 00:02:39.870 --> 00:02:46.510 The African Queen from 1951 and Jurassic Park 3 from 2001. 00:02:47.550 --> 00:02:53.670 Jurassic Park 3. I think I stopped I'm pretty sure I stopped at, 00:02:54.660 --> 00:02:58.540 And I don't even think I watched two entirely. 00:02:59.020 --> 00:03:04.120 I think that two was one of those movies that I watched pieces of. 00:03:04.500 --> 00:03:10.380 Back when linear TV was it, and I had all the movie channels, 00:03:10.500 --> 00:03:12.880 and the movie channels worked where they repeated these movies, 00:03:12.880 --> 00:03:16.400 you know, all the time at many hours of the day. 00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:22.780 So I'm sure that I flipped through and, like, watched pieces of Jurassic Park 2. 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:29.420 but I was they never grabbed me enough to say hey let me DVR this thing and 00:03:29.420 --> 00:03:35.920 watch the whole thing or something like that right well you know since I'm. 00:03:35.920 --> 00:03:39.640 Giving you a one week heads up you have time to watch both the African Queen 00:03:39.640 --> 00:03:43.780 and Jurassic Park 3 before next week but also if I'm. 00:03:43.780 --> 00:03:47.700 Saying that I have to say you have another assignment yes I have another assignment 00:03:47.700 --> 00:03:53.840 which is more critical which is to try to watch Superman The new one. The new one. 00:03:54.380 --> 00:03:59.820 I'm going to try to see how I get this done. Maybe it's playing in the Dominican Republic. 00:04:00.460 --> 00:04:04.900 Because I am going to be in the Dominican Republic almost the entire week. And I know that I have. 00:04:04.920 --> 00:04:11.900 Here's the thing. Yeah. It would be cool. Watch it in Spanish. Spanish dubbed super. 00:04:11.900 --> 00:04:15.740 I got to see if that's a lot of these movies now. 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:17.440 English with subtitles? 00:04:17.960 --> 00:04:18.520 Yes. 00:04:19.180 --> 00:04:19.460 Okay. 00:04:19.460 --> 00:04:22.460 Actually that's probably actually better but yeah 00:04:22.460 --> 00:04:25.720 you know so i don't know that 00:04:25.720 --> 00:04:29.220 may be dubbed i i you know look i've 00:04:29.220 --> 00:04:32.500 been to see movies like 00:04:32.500 --> 00:04:36.340 in foreign countries like i i still remember this this you know like in spain 00:04:36.340 --> 00:04:43.160 in spain it was very spain had very tough laws related language and movies they 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:46.700 basically almost everything in hollywood they had to be shown on a big screen 00:04:46.700 --> 00:04:51.020 It was very rare to be able to find any edition only with subtitles. They were all dubbed. 00:04:51.790 --> 00:04:57.230 at the movie theaters. I don't know if they've lightened on that, 00:04:57.410 --> 00:04:59.970 but it used to be very difficult. 00:05:00.270 --> 00:05:02.050 And there was a lot of like... 00:05:02.570 --> 00:05:06.290 They really promoted the local Spanish film industry, which they actually made 00:05:06.290 --> 00:05:08.010 a whole bunch of pretty decent films. 00:05:08.190 --> 00:05:11.670 But I don't know. I'm going to see. I don't know. 00:05:12.530 --> 00:05:16.530 It would be interesting if I go see it, then it's dubbed. That would be... 00:05:16.530 --> 00:05:18.730 I gotta admit, yeah, that would be something. 00:05:19.230 --> 00:05:21.370 I haven't watched a dubbed movie in a long time. 00:05:25.490 --> 00:05:31.570 Uh so i i i i back to the thing we said we weren't going to talk about the media 00:05:31.570 --> 00:05:36.090 this week right so oh i i did want to mention that the reason you have the assignment for superman, 00:05:36.810 --> 00:05:42.390 is our loyal listener pete who has hosted the show once wants to come on and 00:05:42.390 --> 00:05:44.750 talk to us about superman. 00:05:44.750 --> 00:05:45.570 I know so. 00:05:45.570 --> 00:05:50.410 But he wants he wants both of us to have seen it so the three of us and what happened is. 00:05:50.550 --> 00:05:54.930 Look, I was going to get this done. I was going to go see the movie, 00:05:54.970 --> 00:05:56.650 but I wound up getting sick. 00:05:56.850 --> 00:06:01.550 So I thought my wife was going to wait to go watch the movie, 00:06:01.570 --> 00:06:05.850 but as I slept, I didn't realize they went to the theater and watched the movie 00:06:05.850 --> 00:06:08.010 without me, which I understand. 00:06:08.210 --> 00:06:10.430 I was out. I was not well. 00:06:11.090 --> 00:06:13.610 I said, look, we're going to go to a movie. They said, look, 00:06:13.670 --> 00:06:14.450 we'll just go to the movies. 00:06:15.490 --> 00:06:20.210 I think she said, hey, you okay if we go do something? I'm like, Yeah, sure. I'm okay. 00:06:21.080 --> 00:06:23.960 Lie here okay so to the 00:06:23.960 --> 00:06:27.000 first of my two stories so first 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:30.840 of all you miss you have misidentified my emotions i 00:06:30.840 --> 00:06:38.180 never actually rose to the level of anger i very i i suppressed it well i complained 00:06:38.180 --> 00:06:45.020 to you guys on the slack you're upset but i was upset i was more sad than angry 00:06:45.020 --> 00:06:48.780 though i was sad and annoyed. 00:06:48.780 --> 00:06:51.220 I said maybe angry. I don't know. 00:06:51.460 --> 00:06:59.400 I was annoyed. I was annoyed and I was sad, but I never actually got angry. So what happened? 00:06:59.920 --> 00:07:04.080 The bottom line, and we can get into the details of what I did wrong, 00:07:04.220 --> 00:07:08.020 because part of why I wasn't angry, let me rephrase. 00:07:08.180 --> 00:07:16.220 I was angry at myself. I was not angry at others okay and this is because yes 00:07:16.220 --> 00:07:19.700 I was angry at myself I was sad I was, 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:24.400 annoyed but I was not angry at others and so, 00:07:25.460 --> 00:07:29.300 and to those listening who have no idea because they're not on the slack this 00:07:29.300 --> 00:07:32.920 is going to be very confusing up to this point but the bottom line if you remember 00:07:32.920 --> 00:07:36.440 a couple weeks ago it was like three weeks ago now maybe four almost it was 00:07:36.440 --> 00:07:42.920 three like three and a half it was july 5th i bought the damn car i bought a new car on july 5th. 00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:43.940 Well he had to. 00:07:43.940 --> 00:07:44.380 Okay the. 00:07:44.380 --> 00:07:46.100 Other car i think we did tell the story. 00:07:46.100 --> 00:07:49.860 Yes we oh yeah we spent a whole episode on it yeah your other. 00:07:49.860 --> 00:07:55.320 Car like died a spectacular well yeah it died a spectacular death yes. 00:07:55.320 --> 00:07:58.840 So anyway cars. 00:07:58.840 --> 00:08:06.920 For some reason have a tendency to do during his life he has a tendency to for a flare Therefore, 00:08:07.780 --> 00:08:14.220 the nowment of the vehicle is always, it happens in a very dramatic fashion. 00:08:14.340 --> 00:08:19.100 I haven't yet done one of the things where one goes flying off the cliff and 00:08:19.100 --> 00:08:20.540 then hits on the bottom and explodes. 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:24.160 I would like that one not to happen, you know. 00:08:24.460 --> 00:08:26.120 Well, I don't have to be in it. 00:08:26.880 --> 00:08:31.440 Fair. You can jump out. Yes. At the last, yeah. You know. Okay. 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:32.740 Jump out at the last minute. 00:08:33.100 --> 00:08:33.380 Yeah. 00:08:33.880 --> 00:08:40.480 Or, or, or. you know none of my none of my cars have had sunroofs but get one 00:08:40.480 --> 00:08:44.980 with a sunroof and then you know parachute out the top while it's going down the hill. 00:08:44.980 --> 00:08:49.940 I thought the saturn had a sunroof no no okay. 00:08:49.940 --> 00:08:54.780 Oh you know the corolla might have the one before the saturn. 00:08:54.780 --> 00:08:55.900 Yeah one of those two. 00:08:55.900 --> 00:08:59.440 I only had for a few months right. 00:08:59.440 --> 00:09:03.640 Because the corolla went out in a spectacular fashion as well. 00:09:03.780 --> 00:09:06.240 It was a multi-car collision that I was in the middle of. 00:09:06.560 --> 00:09:07.640 Yes. Yes. 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:11.440 Yes. Anyway, like the point of all this... 00:09:13.290 --> 00:09:19.890 The point of all this is my daughter was pulling out of our driveway and hit 00:09:19.890 --> 00:09:21.390 the corner of my brand new car. 00:09:21.890 --> 00:09:23.990 You know what? To be fair. Okay. 00:09:24.130 --> 00:09:25.550 To be full disclosure. Let's be 00:09:25.550 --> 00:09:28.370 fair because I will explain more of the scenario. But you go ahead first. 00:09:28.370 --> 00:09:31.270 You know, you talk about that. And, you know, oh, my God. You know, 00:09:31.350 --> 00:09:35.290 like it didn't happen. Look, my brother one time at our house. Okay. 00:09:36.170 --> 00:09:41.850 We had a. It was. It wasn't that old. It must have been maybe a year old, 00:09:42.030 --> 00:09:45.530 tops two years old Mercedes, okay? 00:09:45.730 --> 00:09:48.130 A very nice Mercedes that dad bought, okay? 00:09:48.410 --> 00:09:56.370 He came in thundering in his Isuzu Trooper SUV, which had very poor rear visibility. 00:09:56.430 --> 00:10:01.110 Because back then, these cars, obviously no rear camera, but the one thing is 00:10:01.110 --> 00:10:03.250 they kept mounting the spare tires in the back. 00:10:03.250 --> 00:10:10.070 You're mounting the spare tire in the back Limited rear visibility In a ridiculous 00:10:10.070 --> 00:10:12.650 way Okay My brother comes in, 00:10:12.770 --> 00:10:16.310 thunders into the house He had to drop something at my parents house The car 00:10:16.310 --> 00:10:22.090 was parked off to the side And when he went to back up He backed up real quick 00:10:22.090 --> 00:10:30.870 Not looking And completely broadsided The relative The pretty new Mercedes Okay, 00:10:31.010 --> 00:10:34.950 alright So he hit his car and he broadsided the car. 00:10:35.310 --> 00:10:38.290 Okay, all right. So we've had, I had 00:10:38.290 --> 00:10:47.150 my brother's son go visit his in-laws and they left the two-year-old inside 00:10:47.150 --> 00:10:53.470 this Mercedes and he popped the car out of gear on a hill and it went down a 00:10:53.470 --> 00:10:57.050 hill and hit a Porsche and a Corvette at the bottom of the hill. 00:10:57.170 --> 00:11:01.530 The kid was two years old and he managed to wreck three cars at once. 00:11:02.010 --> 00:11:10.710 So, precocious yes amy's hit in the scheme of things i thought i saw the video 00:11:10.710 --> 00:11:17.810 sam shared the video i saw what happened you know it was a tight fit it. 00:11:17.810 --> 00:11:18.530 Was a tight fit. 00:11:18.530 --> 00:11:22.770 It was a tight fit i and you know let. 00:11:22.770 --> 00:11:29.410 Me describe for a little bit the configuration here we we have what's called 00:11:29.410 --> 00:11:33.210 a flag lot for our house, which means there's a long driveway, 00:11:33.230 --> 00:11:37.150 and then it's sort of, well, long in the scheme of things. 00:11:37.230 --> 00:11:41.470 It is long. It is a relatively long driveway for most modern people. 00:11:41.470 --> 00:11:43.530 It's like what? You've been here. It's like 50 feet or something? 00:11:43.730 --> 00:11:47.310 Yeah. It's a long driveway. Yeah. It constitutes for... 00:11:47.790 --> 00:11:49.650 Yeah it's a long driveway i 00:11:49.650 --> 00:11:52.710 mean it's not like half a mile or something but yeah half a mile but it's. 00:11:52.710 --> 00:11:56.910 A long driveway you're not you know it's not you're not right off the street no you have. 00:11:56.910 --> 00:12:01.690 To know we are back from the street which it's sort of we are one of the houses 00:12:01.690 --> 00:12:06.510 that was sort of squeezed in on the last remaining space of the development 00:12:06.510 --> 00:12:10.590 after everything else was built so there's a little there's this driveway that 00:12:10.590 --> 00:12:13.530 goes behind the other houses to where we are Okay. 00:12:14.050 --> 00:12:25.670 And it's actually one of the reasons we liked this house is it wasn't directly on the street. Right. 00:12:26.150 --> 00:12:30.330 So anyway, long, long driveway and then it expands out. 00:12:30.510 --> 00:12:34.990 So we've got a two car garage there and then there's actually a space next to it. 00:12:35.170 --> 00:12:38.950 That's enough. Like if everything was clear and we didn't have anything going on, 00:12:39.050 --> 00:12:44.510 you could comfortably fit three cars there and you could could squeeze for it 00:12:44.510 --> 00:12:50.230 if there was nothing there okay nothing of course we've got plenty of crap there okay. 00:12:50.230 --> 00:12:51.790 There's junk all over the place i. 00:12:51.790 --> 00:12:52.270 Don't know. 00:12:52.270 --> 00:12:53.610 What it is well i say junk i mean. 00:12:53.610 --> 00:12:56.570 So let me look at the video right let me 00:12:56.570 --> 00:12:59.590 describe the specific judge that well i'm 00:12:59.590 --> 00:13:02.490 not even getting to the stuff that you see on the video first there's the 00:13:02.490 --> 00:13:06.050 other stuff that makes us park as tight as we do so first 00:13:06.050 --> 00:13:12.910 of all brandy has this old like what is it a 1985 riata or something like Via 00:13:12.910 --> 00:13:17.890 Criata That she's dragged It was her first car ever That she got as a teenager 00:13:17.890 --> 00:13:24.290 We're in our 50s now Okay She's dragged this car around Ever since Okay, 00:13:25.100 --> 00:13:28.800 It has not moved under its own power in over 15 years. 00:13:29.860 --> 00:13:32.720 Okay. Obviously, that car will not start, right? 00:13:33.280 --> 00:13:39.020 So the last time we tried to start it, it did. It just needs like a jump start. 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:43.040 Okay. And it'll go for a very short amount of time. 00:13:43.240 --> 00:13:47.440 It's got, there is a, it, it, I mean, look, it's been 15 years. 00:13:47.560 --> 00:13:50.380 It may have more problems now than it did last time we tried. Okay. 00:13:50.760 --> 00:13:54.120 It's not wine. It didn't improve with age. I got to guarantee you that. 00:13:54.280 --> 00:13:57.500 Right. So, like, it's just been sitting in our driveway for 15 years with a 00:13:57.500 --> 00:13:58.600 car cover over it, right? 00:13:58.880 --> 00:14:03.680 Now, but last time we tried to actually move it under its own power, 00:14:03.680 --> 00:14:08.440 I figured out why it was draining the battery almost instantly every time. 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:11.060 It had one of these old... 00:14:11.060 --> 00:14:11.780 Alarm systems? 00:14:12.120 --> 00:14:16.840 No. Do you remember the retractable radio antennas? 00:14:17.320 --> 00:14:20.020 Oh, yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah, the little motorized ones. 00:14:20.040 --> 00:14:20.900 That when you turn on... 00:14:20.900 --> 00:14:22.020 The motor was stuck? 00:14:22.160 --> 00:14:23.860 The motor was stuck. 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:29.040 Well, that's an easy fix, actually. You could just pop up, pull the fuse. 00:14:29.320 --> 00:14:33.060 Yeah, yeah, yeah. So anyway, what was happening was every time the car turned 00:14:33.060 --> 00:14:39.560 on, the stupid antenna would just go, and it would just stay, 00:14:39.720 --> 00:14:42.500 and it would completely drain the battery, no matter what else you did. 00:14:42.580 --> 00:14:44.440 Eventually, yeah, eventually it'll drain the battery. Sure. 00:14:44.600 --> 00:14:49.240 Because for whatever reason, it would keep trying to retract the damn thing 00:14:49.240 --> 00:14:50.620 after you turned off the car. 00:14:50.920 --> 00:14:53.260 Those things are prone to break. Yeah. Okay. 00:14:53.360 --> 00:14:57.860 So it would keep going. Anyway, so it hasn't moved under its own power in 15 years. 00:14:58.060 --> 00:15:02.280 The last time it came home, it was towed home. 00:15:02.580 --> 00:15:04.580 Okay? And... 00:15:05.160 --> 00:15:08.920 Because it had actually, it was a long story. Anyway, it doesn't matter. 00:15:09.060 --> 00:15:10.940 It was towed home the last time it came home. 00:15:12.060 --> 00:15:18.500 And the tow truck driver couldn't get it all that close to the edge of the driveway. 00:15:19.140 --> 00:15:25.200 So it's basically taking up a space and a half of what it should. 00:15:25.500 --> 00:15:29.460 There's like, between it and the edge of the driveway, there's like six feet. 00:15:29.740 --> 00:15:30.200 Okay. 00:15:30.740 --> 00:15:36.640 So like it could have been over further, which would make it far more comfortable 00:15:36.640 --> 00:15:39.360 for the other two cars that are there. 00:15:39.960 --> 00:15:45.080 Now we actually have three cars right now that are actually like moving. 00:15:45.500 --> 00:15:49.360 So it'd be nice if that thing wasn't there and we had three others. 00:15:49.360 --> 00:15:54.000 Now, there is a place we could have put that car that's further back next to 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:59.480 our house, but we filled that with a giant storage container because we've completely 00:15:59.480 --> 00:16:01.980 filled our both our garage and our house with junk. 00:16:02.680 --> 00:16:06.660 So we've got this storage container that we pay like a couple hundred dollars 00:16:06.660 --> 00:16:09.300 a month to have there. Plus, we have a full garage. 00:16:09.500 --> 00:16:13.820 Plus, we have a full house. So we couldn't put the car where the storage container is. 00:16:14.240 --> 00:16:19.140 So the red car was there. And I've been telling Brandy for the entire, 00:16:19.420 --> 00:16:24.720 like the last time it was put there was, I don't know, 10 years ago. 00:16:25.080 --> 00:16:29.040 No, no, not even. It was only six years or so. Like the last time it moved under 00:16:29.040 --> 00:16:32.140 its own power was 15 years, but I told you the story was complicated. 00:16:32.180 --> 00:16:36.120 It left and came back, not under its own power at one point. 00:16:36.460 --> 00:16:41.440 But anyway, the, I've been telling her ever since it was parked there, 00:16:41.440 --> 00:16:44.860 we should pop the sucker into neutral and, 00:16:45.710 --> 00:16:51.290 and push it out and back so that we can move it six feet over and make a lot 00:16:51.290 --> 00:16:54.150 more room for the other cars that would be that. 00:16:54.150 --> 00:16:55.890 Would be a great idea yeah. 00:16:55.890 --> 00:17:01.890 But but we've never done that we we've never done that in part because she's 00:17:01.890 --> 00:17:06.110 like you know if we're gonna do that she says something with riatas you can't 00:17:06.110 --> 00:17:09.830 just pop them into neutral i i don't know like she wanted to actually start 00:17:09.830 --> 00:17:14.090 the car again i don't know if she's right or not but she is probably nothing 00:17:14.090 --> 00:17:15.830 i may be even misremembering it. 00:17:16.230 --> 00:17:18.570 But anyway, there was always an excuse for why we weren't going to... 00:17:18.570 --> 00:17:20.170 It's a 1980s Riatta. 00:17:20.950 --> 00:17:23.470 Well, they only made the cars for three years. 00:17:24.310 --> 00:17:30.450 But they're not... Did I recall? They don't have one of these newfangled electronic lectures. 00:17:31.790 --> 00:17:36.990 Well, the Riatta's had a bunch of electronic crap that was ahead of their time. 00:17:37.010 --> 00:17:41.610 Yeah, yeah, yeah. But no, yes, it did. Especially on the dashboard. 00:17:42.090 --> 00:17:45.350 Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the transmission, as far as I remember, 00:17:45.490 --> 00:17:52.950 in the engine, they were pretty much normal, standard, substandard GM stuff of that era. You know, 00:17:54.970 --> 00:17:59.890 any transmissions, even from, you know, now you've got all these like cars with 00:17:59.890 --> 00:18:06.350 like push button transmissions and other stuff, okay, which are a standard modern thing right now. 00:18:06.350 --> 00:18:10.010 you know you get these things where you got buttons levers 00:18:10.010 --> 00:18:15.550 and whatever that are that send electronic signals but you know nobody not even 00:18:15.550 --> 00:18:20.790 mercedes like any of those they were you know they they were back then they 00:18:20.790 --> 00:18:24.950 were still just a little you know lever mechanically actuating something they 00:18:24.950 --> 00:18:26.970 they you know that wasn't right. 00:18:26.970 --> 00:18:29.390 Right so anyway bottom line there was. 00:18:29.390 --> 00:18:30.090 Always an excuse. 00:18:30.090 --> 00:18:34.850 For why we didn't move it over so so the remaining space in the driveway was 00:18:34.850 --> 00:18:39.490 less than it was anyway, but it's been that way almost the entire time we've lived here. 00:18:39.770 --> 00:18:44.090 And, and now at this point, by the way, this, the six feet that I mentioned 00:18:44.090 --> 00:18:48.910 that are there, we've of course filled that with crumb, you know, at the moment, you know, 00:18:50.090 --> 00:18:51.590 there's, there's like stuff that 00:18:51.590 --> 00:18:55.970 is destined for the dump, but hasn't gone there yet and stuff like that. 00:18:56.110 --> 00:19:00.830 And, you know, like we've got all kinds of old stuff that, you know, 00:19:01.750 --> 00:19:05.490 Randy and I are ready to get rid of, but we need to do it in a sneaky way because 00:19:05.490 --> 00:19:09.350 alex is going to get upset if we get rid of it there's there's stuff that nobody 00:19:09.350 --> 00:19:14.370 wants but is too bulky to like put in the the trash bin so we have to figure 00:19:14.370 --> 00:19:18.890 out the right way to get rid of it you know all this kind of crap right so and 00:19:18.890 --> 00:19:20.570 and of course that's been there forever too, 00:19:21.190 --> 00:19:25.270 you know so yvonne's making all kinds of faces i. 00:19:25.270 --> 00:19:30.070 I i would like to strap like the storage thing and whatever on top of a rocket 00:19:30.070 --> 00:19:33.570 and just launch it into the sun while you guys are sleeping and Then have you 00:19:33.570 --> 00:19:36.170 mad at me for a year or something, whatever. I don't care. 00:19:36.670 --> 00:19:40.630 You know, that's probably where the curmudgeon's corner tapes are. From college. 00:19:40.770 --> 00:19:40.850 Yeah. 00:19:41.620 --> 00:19:47.620 Okay. But, and see, here's the, that's the problem with all this stuff is it's 00:19:47.620 --> 00:19:52.900 75% trash, but the trash is all mixed in with the 25% that's not. 00:19:53.140 --> 00:19:57.520 And so you have to actually go through each item one by one to like, see what's going on. 00:19:58.160 --> 00:20:02.900 Anyway. Anyway, and I'm ready to get rid of 75% of it. But anyway, 00:20:03.040 --> 00:20:05.140 the point is, so there was constrained space for that. 00:20:05.380 --> 00:20:09.280 But it's been like that almost the entire time we've lived here. 00:20:09.420 --> 00:20:11.060 We've parked two cars there in the front. 00:20:12.360 --> 00:20:18.300 Usually, my wife parks in the spot that's closest to straight ahead from the 00:20:18.300 --> 00:20:22.000 driveway, and I park in the one that's closest to the house. 00:20:22.140 --> 00:20:28.420 The one that's closest to the house requires you to sort of shimmy to the right and around. 00:20:28.640 --> 00:20:34.040 because, you know, like I said, it's the narrow driveway and then it expands out. 00:20:34.280 --> 00:20:38.480 And when I say it expands out, there's like bushes and stuff. Okay. 00:20:38.720 --> 00:20:42.720 There's like, there's actually rocks at one point, but like for the, 00:20:42.780 --> 00:20:44.860 the rocks are further back. 00:20:45.240 --> 00:20:49.220 Mainly what you have to worry about is the bushes. I've only actually scraped 00:20:49.220 --> 00:20:54.100 a rock once, you know, but Yvonne's making more faces. 00:20:54.100 --> 00:20:57.500 anyway so what's happened 00:20:57.500 --> 00:21:01.280 though the last month or two is 00:21:01.280 --> 00:21:04.220 my my my wife was gone 00:21:04.220 --> 00:21:06.980 for a while like on various trips and i parked her car 00:21:06.980 --> 00:21:09.780 at the airport so the other two spaces were 00:21:09.780 --> 00:21:12.760 open my and when i was at work 00:21:12.760 --> 00:21:17.060 the both spaces were open my daughter has 00:21:17.060 --> 00:21:21.540 you know an old pontiac aztec and so 00:21:21.540 --> 00:21:24.700 she wanted she is preparing 00:21:24.700 --> 00:21:28.280 to go to the east coast to 00:21:28.280 --> 00:21:36.160 live at least a year with her her grandmother okay and so she wanted to load 00:21:36.160 --> 00:21:40.960 up the car with all her stuff yes she's driving cross-country in an ancient 00:21:40.960 --> 00:21:45.420 pontiac aztec too so you know there are all kinds of things that could go wrong there. 00:21:46.300 --> 00:21:52.420 That'll probably be a different story for a different day. More faces for me, Fawn. 00:21:53.960 --> 00:22:02.700 So anyway, she backed her car up to the garage so she could easily load her 00:22:02.700 --> 00:22:05.000 stuff into the back of the car from the garage. 00:22:05.700 --> 00:22:11.100 And so her car had basically been there for most of the last month. 00:22:11.320 --> 00:22:18.240 So when I got my new car, for the first few days, I did not park there at all 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:23.960 because I was like, that space is kind of tight between where she parked and the Riata. 00:22:24.920 --> 00:22:28.520 And I was like, yeah, so I parked on the street a lot. 00:22:28.800 --> 00:22:32.700 And then finally, I was like, I want to actually try charging my car at home. 00:22:32.900 --> 00:22:34.580 I want to park in the garage. 00:22:35.080 --> 00:22:40.200 Not in the garage. That would be impossible. It's full. But I want to park in 00:22:40.200 --> 00:22:41.620 the driveway in front of the garage. 00:22:42.280 --> 00:22:47.640 And so I actually tried going in. The first time I did it, I got in there, 00:22:47.660 --> 00:22:51.760 and then I was like, you know, that's a little too close to her. 00:22:52.300 --> 00:22:55.840 I'm not going to do that. So I backed out because I was, like, 00:22:55.900 --> 00:22:57.060 thinking it's a little tight. 00:22:57.740 --> 00:23:02.360 It's tight. And the second time, though, I was like, screw it. I'm going to try. 00:23:02.540 --> 00:23:06.660 Okay. So I got in there. I got as close to the Riata as I possibly could. 00:23:08.280 --> 00:23:14.420 And I also scooched forward as close as I could to the actual garage. 00:23:15.420 --> 00:23:18.280 And, you know, I was close enough to the Riata so that, like, 00:23:18.420 --> 00:23:22.060 I was squeezing out of the car door to get out, okay? 00:23:23.860 --> 00:23:27.840 And then I, you know, I got the charger going and I plugged it in and all this 00:23:27.840 --> 00:23:28.800 kind of stuff and it worked. 00:23:29.140 --> 00:23:32.320 And so I did this for several days in a row without incidents. 00:23:33.050 --> 00:23:36.810 Okay. And so I'm like, oh, okay, this is going well. It's, it's, 00:23:37.110 --> 00:23:40.270 it, it works. It's no problem in my head. 00:23:40.730 --> 00:23:46.150 She was leaving and coming back most days, but I don't think she actually was. 00:23:46.370 --> 00:23:47.550 She actually didn't, huh? 00:23:48.210 --> 00:23:52.770 No, I don't think she had, I think she'd been there the entire time had not moved. 00:23:53.010 --> 00:23:58.310 Cause also, oh, by the way, the way she'd backed in gave even less space than 00:23:58.310 --> 00:24:01.150 there sometimes otherwise would have been. Okay. 00:24:01.810 --> 00:24:06.090 Cause she wasn't like hugging up against the house or anything either. 00:24:06.310 --> 00:24:10.810 And when she had backed in, I hadn't been there. So like, anyway, 00:24:10.970 --> 00:24:14.410 but when, when I parked each time I sort of got out, I looked, 00:24:14.550 --> 00:24:18.190 I assessed the situation and I was like, God, there's room to get out. You can get out. 00:24:18.770 --> 00:24:21.650 The instant where this happened, two 00:24:21.650 --> 00:24:24.810 things were different than most 00:24:24.810 --> 00:24:29.550 of the other times one i wasn't always charging this time i was charging so 00:24:29.550 --> 00:24:33.610 you not only had my car you had the you got the cable sticking out yeah you 00:24:33.610 --> 00:24:38.690 have the cable sticking out and it was on the side towards her car and two and 00:24:38.690 --> 00:24:42.010 this was my fatal flaw above all else, 00:24:43.370 --> 00:24:48.310 i like i i was getting really excited the new car has the little like warning 00:24:48.310 --> 00:24:51.530 indicator on how close you are to what you're about to park in front of, 00:24:51.710 --> 00:24:55.370 and it sort of has a yellow and then a red. 00:24:55.510 --> 00:24:55.790 Red. 00:24:55.890 --> 00:25:01.650 Red when you're really close, yellow when you're like at a normal distance. I stopped at the yellow. 00:25:02.640 --> 00:25:09.480 with, instead of pushing all the way up to the red, that probably made six inches 00:25:09.480 --> 00:25:12.060 of difference, maybe a foot of difference. 00:25:12.340 --> 00:25:15.500 And that would have been all she would have needed to easily miss. 00:25:15.880 --> 00:25:16.280 Okay. 00:25:17.360 --> 00:25:20.440 And I was like, yellow is good enough. There's been no problem. 00:25:20.620 --> 00:25:24.000 I've been parking here for days now, you know, there's been a yellow. 00:25:24.200 --> 00:25:26.660 And then I got out, I looked, it looked fine. 00:25:26.900 --> 00:25:29.280 That looked like there was plenty of space. And also, of course, 00:25:29.360 --> 00:25:33.980 in my head, I'm thinking if she has any sort of problem, if it's too tight for 00:25:33.980 --> 00:25:35.920 her, she'll call me and I'll just move it. 00:25:36.540 --> 00:25:36.720 Right. 00:25:37.440 --> 00:25:41.240 You know, because I'm not thinking like... 00:25:41.240 --> 00:25:47.700 She might be overly confident or... Right. Not really gauge it. It was... 00:25:47.700 --> 00:25:50.620 It was very tight. Like I looked... 00:25:50.620 --> 00:25:53.880 I will say this. If it were me... 00:25:53.880 --> 00:26:00.200 Oh, I should add... Wait, let me add one more thing that I did not take into account. 00:26:00.900 --> 00:26:04.060 my wife moved a bunch of flower pots 00:26:04.060 --> 00:26:07.180 into the driveway on the 00:26:07.180 --> 00:26:10.260 more difficult on the other side that probably took another 00:26:10.260 --> 00:26:18.020 six inches off the available space on her left i was parked on her right there's 00:26:18.020 --> 00:26:24.040 another six inches taken away on the left and so anyway sorry sorry i'll tell 00:26:24.040 --> 00:26:27.420 the rest of the story say what you were going to say about your own all i. 00:26:27.420 --> 00:26:31.040 Was going to say is that i I've had these situations like my wife has been concerned 00:26:31.040 --> 00:26:34.640 about being too tight, getting it, the car into say our garage. 00:26:35.160 --> 00:26:38.940 So I know my wife, especially knowing it was a new car. 00:26:39.200 --> 00:26:40.920 She would have been like, immediately. 00:26:41.000 --> 00:26:44.740 I'm like, Oh shit, I'm not chancing this. I'm like, let me call up. 00:26:46.550 --> 00:26:51.770 you know, I'm going to guess that she was just a little bit more like, yeah, it's fine. 00:26:52.690 --> 00:26:58.410 Yeah, I feel confident that let alone, like, I've said on the curmudgeon's corner 00:26:58.410 --> 00:27:01.470 slack, well, first of all, I should have moved forward a couple inches, 00:27:01.750 --> 00:27:02.770 giving her a little bit more room. 00:27:03.110 --> 00:27:09.130 But I've said, you know, I was like, I'm confident I could have made it. 00:27:09.290 --> 00:27:15.650 Now, I might be full of shit, you know, but I was like, I'm confident I could have made it. 00:27:15.930 --> 00:27:24.230 But Honestly, I'm confident she would have made it if I had so much as said, 00:27:24.390 --> 00:27:28.530 be careful of my car when you leave. That's all it would have happened. 00:27:28.550 --> 00:27:31.850 She would have probably given it more thought. I think it's probably one of 00:27:31.850 --> 00:27:35.890 those things that, you know what? Different configuration, different car. 00:27:36.730 --> 00:27:40.250 She didn't. It just didn't. Like, I'll get out. It's fine. 00:27:41.110 --> 00:27:46.470 Yeah. Well, the thing is, what she said is she didn't realize the charger was 00:27:46.470 --> 00:27:49.030 there first, and that gave extra space. 00:27:49.450 --> 00:27:53.010 Like at first, so when she actually pulled that out. 00:27:53.970 --> 00:27:55.090 You know, about what I could understand. 00:27:56.170 --> 00:28:02.490 She pulled out, she hit the charger cable, and then at first she thought she'd 00:28:02.490 --> 00:28:04.230 only hit the charger cable, right? 00:28:04.350 --> 00:28:09.290 But if you look at the marks on the car, it's clear she hit the actual front bumper of the car too. 00:28:10.210 --> 00:28:13.170 But she thought what had happened is she'd hung 00:28:13.170 --> 00:28:16.290 up on the charger and it had bent and 00:28:16.290 --> 00:28:20.810 scraped against the rest of the car and you 00:28:20.810 --> 00:28:23.570 know of course you see like 00:28:23.570 --> 00:28:28.350 once she hit there's like some back and forth to try to get out of it you know 00:28:28.350 --> 00:28:33.770 if you look at and and the video wasn't at a great angle it's it's actually 00:28:33.770 --> 00:28:38.270 coincidental like the one video that would have had a good angle like the motion 00:28:38.270 --> 00:28:41.730 detection didn't actually start until after the impact, which made the video 00:28:41.730 --> 00:28:42.890 from that one kind of useless. 00:28:43.450 --> 00:28:47.690 The video from the other one was a camera that we normally have pointed at our 00:28:47.690 --> 00:28:52.230 porch, but we had had pointed at some other stuff for random reasons. 00:28:52.230 --> 00:28:56.050 We were watching some wildlife and stuff, you know, and so we, 00:28:56.270 --> 00:29:00.730 it was, it just happened to be randomly positioned in a way that it caught sort 00:29:00.730 --> 00:29:02.850 of the edge of her car while this was happening. 00:29:03.010 --> 00:29:06.650 So you can see what was happening, but the but 00:29:06.650 --> 00:29:09.550 anyway yeah so in the 00:29:09.550 --> 00:29:13.650 end it wasn't there are two first 00:29:13.650 --> 00:29:19.070 of all the charger itself the you know luck you know one of the important things 00:29:19.070 --> 00:29:25.030 that's a smart thing with these chargers and other things they are intentionally 00:29:25.030 --> 00:29:28.870 designed so like if you drive away while they're still plugged in, 00:29:29.150 --> 00:29:30.550 they'll, like, snap off. 00:29:30.690 --> 00:29:32.170 It snaps off. Yeah, okay. 00:29:32.830 --> 00:29:35.070 Right? You know, the end part. Well, actually, the car. 00:29:35.230 --> 00:29:40.130 And I guess, because the car is actually not supposed, you know, like, I can't, like, 00:29:41.010 --> 00:29:41.930 I can't. 00:29:42.050 --> 00:29:45.170 No, I know. It won't even start if it's plugged in. 00:29:45.390 --> 00:29:45.650 Correct. 00:29:45.670 --> 00:29:49.010 So let me further expound out. 00:29:49.410 --> 00:29:54.010 If someone hits the charger, like happened here, the tip is designed to break off. 00:29:54.130 --> 00:29:54.650 To break off. 00:29:54.790 --> 00:29:58.930 So that you don't, like, damage the entire charger assembly. 00:29:59.250 --> 00:29:59.690 Right. 00:29:59.690 --> 00:30:05.790 You know. So the tip was sort of, it wasn't completely broken off, but it was all loose. 00:30:06.270 --> 00:30:12.330 Okay. When I got to look at it. So the actual charge cable for the trickle charger 00:30:12.330 --> 00:30:15.130 was clearly, like, had damage. 00:30:15.450 --> 00:30:22.350 And then there were scrapes and bruises in the back right quadrant of the car. Okay? 00:30:22.670 --> 00:30:28.210 And, look, I've told people, you know, look, if this had happened to my Subaru, 00:30:28.450 --> 00:30:30.730 I wouldn't have even noticed. You know? 00:30:31.130 --> 00:30:32.950 You notice it because it's a brand new car. 00:30:33.190 --> 00:30:36.850 I notice it because it's a brand new car. Like, on a 15-year-old car, 00:30:37.050 --> 00:30:40.350 it's got all kinds of bumps and bruises, showing its history over the years. 00:30:40.590 --> 00:30:47.290 And at a certain point, you are like, you know, even more major damage than 00:30:47.290 --> 00:30:48.710 that. You're like, it's not worth fixing. 00:30:48.830 --> 00:30:55.870 Bottom line it now, okay? Is it damage? Because, listen, the bruises were minor, okay? I will say. 00:30:56.030 --> 00:30:56.190 Yes. 00:30:56.190 --> 00:31:02.690 I probably, I mean, it seemed. No damage to the charge port or any of that? 00:31:03.250 --> 00:31:07.610 Well, let me put it this way. I have not had it yet looked at professionally. 00:31:07.850 --> 00:31:08.910 The charge port works fine. 00:31:09.430 --> 00:31:12.270 Okay, so it works fine. So all you need is a new cable. 00:31:13.190 --> 00:31:16.710 Well, I hammered the cable back together, too. It works fine, too. 00:31:17.490 --> 00:31:19.690 Okay. You know... 00:31:20.530 --> 00:31:26.210 Well, and I say hammer, but what I actually mean is I hit it against something. 00:31:26.630 --> 00:31:27.110 Okay. 00:31:27.310 --> 00:31:31.470 And it's not back all the way. It's back almost all the way. 00:31:31.470 --> 00:31:32.650 I'm sorry. 00:31:33.890 --> 00:31:38.370 You know, in the interest of electrical safety. 00:31:38.370 --> 00:31:39.050 Not catching fire? 00:31:39.250 --> 00:31:43.850 Fire. Fucking get a new fucking cable. 00:31:45.070 --> 00:31:49.270 Well, I was thinking I might get another one anyway, just so I can have them in multiple locations. 00:31:50.710 --> 00:31:54.430 Okay, let's not use the cable that was damaged. Okay? 00:31:54.890 --> 00:31:58.670 You know, because the next thing, look, I actually met this guy. 00:31:58.810 --> 00:32:03.010 There's a story, if you look this up, on, you can search this on, 00:32:03.010 --> 00:32:08.750 on on in google there is a guy in north carolina many years ago whose house 00:32:08.750 --> 00:32:13.330 entire house went on fire because of an issue with a chevy bolt and the charging 00:32:13.330 --> 00:32:19.270 system okay and this is an issue that these don't happen as much as they have this is why they. 00:32:19.270 --> 00:32:23.290 Won't let them park chevy bolts in my parking garage at work there's. 00:32:23.290 --> 00:32:27.010 A right which that's still yeah but even though that's that's not an issue anymore 00:32:27.010 --> 00:32:32.670 yeah and this wasn't a bolt with a b it was the volt with the v yeah yeah I'm sorry, the hybrid. 00:32:33.290 --> 00:32:35.350 Well, well, bolt, bolt, bolt, fucking, you know. 00:32:35.730 --> 00:32:37.810 Bolt, bolt, whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:32:38.410 --> 00:32:44.910 And so he had one of these, and it caught, it burned down his entire house. 00:32:45.310 --> 00:32:47.930 It burned all his possessions, okay? 00:32:48.510 --> 00:32:54.790 This was in the news. GM actually, apparently the blame was somewhere in the 00:32:54.790 --> 00:32:58.270 middle of, like, they had one, they had put one of these, like, 00:32:58.350 --> 00:33:01.790 wall chargers that was made by Siemens, and there's something with the battery. 00:33:01.990 --> 00:33:04.250 Listen, they could not ascertain the final fall. 00:33:04.450 --> 00:33:11.250 Bottom line is the GM actually paid for, gave him a set of new cars because 00:33:11.250 --> 00:33:13.470 all his cars worked on Chris. 00:33:14.290 --> 00:33:17.790 And had to do a very large settlement to recover that. 00:33:17.870 --> 00:33:21.450 But it took a long, I mean, he told me it was just the worst experience of his 00:33:21.450 --> 00:33:25.430 life because literally he lost all his possessions. Ever. 00:33:25.510 --> 00:33:25.850 Right. Right. 00:33:26.680 --> 00:33:30.880 And the whole entire house went up in fire. 00:33:31.520 --> 00:33:34.420 And it was a very big, nice house that this guy had. 00:33:34.880 --> 00:33:38.240 And he fucking lost everything. He was just telling me how he was just... 00:33:38.240 --> 00:33:43.840 I had to go shop at Walmart for clothes and shit and stuff right away and stay 00:33:43.840 --> 00:33:48.500 at my relatives or whatever because I didn't have anything. 00:33:49.380 --> 00:33:53.860 So what you're saying is taking the little plastic piece that bent and just 00:33:53.860 --> 00:33:56.360 shoving it back into place probably isn't enough? 00:33:56.680 --> 00:33:59.120 No. Could you please? 00:33:59.460 --> 00:34:01.440 It's almost back in place, and it works. 00:34:01.980 --> 00:34:06.440 Please get a new cable. Please. Please. Please. Please. 00:34:06.540 --> 00:34:09.980 I'll take about it, Evon. So let me say, 00:34:10.940 --> 00:34:16.320 Brandy has the responsibility, because I said I would probably not be in the 00:34:16.320 --> 00:34:22.260 emotionally right place to do it, of determining exactly what we need to or 00:34:22.260 --> 00:34:24.280 don't need to do with regard. 00:34:24.280 --> 00:34:27.800 since this is a lease, like, do we have to fix stuff? 00:34:27.940 --> 00:34:31.860 No, didn't you get the wear and tear thing? 00:34:32.480 --> 00:34:36.400 Yeah, yeah. So that probably... That is the way that the wear and tear. 00:34:36.860 --> 00:34:39.840 You don't have to do anything. Anyway, she is figuring that out. 00:34:40.280 --> 00:34:44.440 She's talking to her people. Here's the bottom line. 00:34:44.640 --> 00:34:47.240 Here's the bottom line on my emotional state and everything else. 00:34:47.280 --> 00:34:55.980 I was really upset for like 24 to 48 hours, okay? But then a wave of peace came over me. 00:34:56.600 --> 00:34:56.900 Because? 00:34:57.700 --> 00:35:02.460 Because fundamentally, this released me from having to worry about it. 00:35:03.380 --> 00:35:06.920 Keep it again. Perfect. Now you already put some damage into it. 00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:07.900 So, my God, what the hell? 00:35:08.500 --> 00:35:13.020 Exactly. Like, for the first few weeks I had it, I was being super careful. 00:35:13.020 --> 00:35:16.860 I was thinking about it all the time. I was like, oh, my God. 00:35:16.860 --> 00:35:22.540 like this you know i touched the wall and there's a stain where my finger touched 00:35:22.540 --> 00:35:26.160 it i'm gonna have to figure out how to clean it now i'm like oh what the hell 00:35:26.160 --> 00:35:32.240 i don't care oh it's it's you know i i i perfection has. 00:35:32.240 --> 00:35:34.540 Been broken and so therefore now whatever. 00:35:34.540 --> 00:35:41.280 Exactly the perfection has been broken so now nothing matters you know now okay do you remember. 00:35:41.280 --> 00:35:42.140 That it's a lease. 00:35:42.140 --> 00:35:43.260 Okay so. 00:35:43.260 --> 00:35:45.540 You can't okay Okay, so you can't just treat it like shit. 00:35:45.560 --> 00:35:50.000 I was going to say, now the rats are welcome back in. 00:35:50.380 --> 00:35:52.020 Yeah, no, no, no. Okay. 00:35:52.160 --> 00:35:52.380 No? 00:35:52.600 --> 00:35:56.580 What I will say is that a scrape like that, somebody... And actually, 00:35:56.600 --> 00:36:00.400 I think it happened. It happened... No, it didn't happen at this hotel. 00:36:01.300 --> 00:36:05.140 We were at a hotel in my wife's SUV many years ago. 00:36:05.580 --> 00:36:10.800 And somebody scraped the bumper in the parking garage. 00:36:11.000 --> 00:36:13.940 I got to the car and I'm like, what the fuck? Somebody, you know, 00:36:14.000 --> 00:36:19.280 pulling out of the garage Went and scraped the bumper Now, I buffed it And, 00:36:20.200 --> 00:36:24.080 You could see that it had been damaged, but it wasn't a big deal. 00:36:24.160 --> 00:36:26.000 It wasn't a hole. It wasn't anything. It was just whatever. 00:36:26.720 --> 00:36:30.220 I returned the lease. As a matter of fact, when I returned the vehicle, 00:36:30.540 --> 00:36:34.240 now it was pretty much perfect in every other way except for that. 00:36:34.340 --> 00:36:36.260 And they just counted it as normal wear and tear. 00:36:36.620 --> 00:36:37.060 Yes. 00:36:37.680 --> 00:36:44.660 Yeah. There's one little spot where it looks like instead of just a scrape, 00:36:44.860 --> 00:36:49.100 there's like a piece of metal that's like chipped or bent or something. 00:36:49.100 --> 00:36:55.460 but like it's one little tiny spot for the most part it's a few little scrapes 00:36:55.460 --> 00:37:01.160 and you know i keep thinking you may remember there's a bit in cars 2 do you 00:37:01.160 --> 00:37:03.460 remember this from the movie cars 2. 00:37:04.140 --> 00:37:07.080 Which part i just recently saw it but no what. 00:37:07.080 --> 00:37:13.580 So the mater is put up is like in the plane he's been recruited by the spies 00:37:13.580 --> 00:37:20.300 yeah yeah yeah and they offer to fix his dents oh yeah that's And he says no, 00:37:20.300 --> 00:37:26.240 because the dents and scrapes are sort of his memories of a life well lived. 00:37:26.400 --> 00:37:27.120 Yes. Yes. 00:37:27.320 --> 00:37:31.740 And so I'm like, you know, that's maybe that's it's time for that attitude. 00:37:31.940 --> 00:37:37.300 I was thinking, like, maybe it would be a few months before I had that attitude about this car. 00:37:37.560 --> 00:37:42.300 But, you know, whatever, you know, it's it's time for the Mater attitude. 00:37:42.700 --> 00:37:46.560 It's it's it is now actually my car. 00:37:47.040 --> 00:37:47.360 All right. 00:37:47.360 --> 00:37:51.520 Like, this is distinct from every other one of these cars on the road now. 00:37:51.920 --> 00:37:58.300 Okay, look, okay. I understand about the, you know, we all are dense and bruises 00:37:58.300 --> 00:38:02.780 or whatever the marks, but it's not crazy I'm getting more stuff. Okay. 00:38:03.080 --> 00:38:03.460 All right. 00:38:04.300 --> 00:38:08.900 You don't need to be, you know, like a clockwork with every inch of it. 00:38:10.810 --> 00:38:14.070 Well, you know, I, you know, 00:38:16.130 --> 00:38:20.490 but at the same time, you know, look, I still look at it and I'm still a little 00:38:20.490 --> 00:38:23.190 annoyed, to be honest, like when I walk by it, 00:38:23.550 --> 00:38:29.670 but I'm trying very hard to, you know, for the most part, the wave of peace 00:38:29.670 --> 00:38:31.890 has indeed come over me. I've gotten over it. 00:38:32.030 --> 00:38:36.050 But even from the very beginning, right. I was like, it was an accident. 00:38:36.850 --> 00:38:40.970 It's not the worst thing in the world. I'm not going to get mad. 00:38:41.270 --> 00:38:46.410 You know, I'm sad. I'm upset, but I'm not going to get mad. I forgive her. 00:38:47.290 --> 00:38:52.910 I forgive me. Cause again, like there's so many things I could have done to avoid it as well. 00:38:53.270 --> 00:38:57.430 So listen, cars get dense. And that kind of dent is something that actually 00:38:57.430 --> 00:38:59.430 a debt repair guy could come over and fix. 00:38:59.430 --> 00:39:05.510 actually probably nobody would notice so i i as long as there's no other damage 00:39:05.510 --> 00:39:10.110 you just need a new cable and like yeah you can get a dent guy to go and like 00:39:10.110 --> 00:39:15.890 if you wanted to go to it they actually come on site they do it yeah. 00:39:15.890 --> 00:39:22.230 No i like i said i'm gonna let brandy take care of that entirely i have off outsourced that she. 00:39:22.230 --> 00:39:24.150 Will decide what if anything needs. 00:39:24.150 --> 00:39:24.570 To be done. 00:39:24.570 --> 00:39:28.270 All Right. So aside from your vehicle, you also this week had something. 00:39:29.010 --> 00:39:35.370 Second story. And there is more to this that I've not yet told on the curmudgeon's 00:39:35.370 --> 00:39:37.990 corner slack that looks bad for me. 00:39:38.730 --> 00:39:40.370 Oh, God. OK. 00:39:41.490 --> 00:39:45.870 Anyway, so Tuesday morning, I leave for work. 00:39:46.470 --> 00:39:54.430 I drive, you know, I drive to work as I am driving to work. I'm like, my legs are really cold. 00:39:55.210 --> 00:39:58.070 i get to work i i like 00:39:58.070 --> 00:40:00.730 i'm you know as i do when i 00:40:00.730 --> 00:40:04.710 get to work i i have an officially assigned seat but i never sit there so the 00:40:04.710 --> 00:40:08.330 first thing i do is go wander around look for a place to sit that i like want 00:40:08.330 --> 00:40:12.410 to sit and do my work because i find all the comfy places to sit but as i'm 00:40:12.410 --> 00:40:19.050 doing so i'm like i am freezing i am absolutely freezing and it's july. 00:40:19.050 --> 00:40:20.310 So it's not it's not. 00:40:20.310 --> 00:40:24.610 It's july There is air conditioning in the building, but I'm like, 00:40:24.690 --> 00:40:28.930 I'm pretty sure they have not set the air conditioning to like 55 or something. Okay. 00:40:30.190 --> 00:40:35.050 But I am absolutely freezing. And I realized pretty quickly, 00:40:35.050 --> 00:40:37.230 this feels like I have a fever. 00:40:37.410 --> 00:40:41.750 And I also like was just sort of starting to feel a little wobbly. 00:40:42.150 --> 00:40:44.050 So I'm like, this is not good. 00:40:44.630 --> 00:40:49.010 I was supposed to have a meeting with somebody in person coming up. 00:40:49.730 --> 00:40:52.970 The first thing I did was I messaged them and said, hey, look, 00:40:53.010 --> 00:40:55.470 I feel like I'm starting to get sick. 00:40:56.620 --> 00:40:59.940 I'm going to schedule this as a video conference instead, and I'm going to find 00:40:59.940 --> 00:41:03.200 some conference room to talk to you just so I don't expose you to whatever it is. 00:41:03.620 --> 00:41:05.720 But I still had half an hour till the meeting. 00:41:06.740 --> 00:41:11.520 But so I was going to wait till after the meeting, but I was like, no, I have time. 00:41:11.960 --> 00:41:15.640 There was a drugstore right across the way from my office. I went there. 00:41:15.820 --> 00:41:24.400 I bought a thermometer, a fever thermometer, and I bought a COVID test. So first thing I did. 00:41:25.060 --> 00:41:28.120 I mean, you suspected COVID already at that moment. 00:41:28.200 --> 00:41:32.120 Well, yeah, of course. Like, high fever. I also had a bit of a cough. 00:41:32.840 --> 00:41:38.180 But honestly, I'd been nursing a bit of a cough for like a month. Okay. 00:41:39.280 --> 00:41:42.720 But it was just a low grade. And, you know, you and I have talked about, 00:41:42.860 --> 00:41:44.060 like, I cough all the time. 00:41:44.540 --> 00:41:45.240 Yes, you do. 00:41:46.240 --> 00:41:48.420 There's always something going on. Allergies. 00:41:48.420 --> 00:41:51.760 You always have to cough. I mean, it's like, I don't. Yeah. 00:41:51.760 --> 00:41:55.680 And so, so like I, I pretty much dismissed the cough and wasn't paying attention 00:41:55.680 --> 00:41:59.640 to it, but I wasn't dismissing the fever because I felt like crap all of a sudden, 00:41:59.940 --> 00:42:03.740 like within the space of two hours, I went from feeling fine to feeling like 00:42:03.740 --> 00:42:06.200 I wanted, really, really wanted to lie down. 00:42:07.340 --> 00:42:12.480 Anyway, I got the new fever thermometer. I took my temperature 102 right away. 00:42:12.980 --> 00:42:17.420 Like, I think the first time I took it, it was 101.9 or something, 00:42:17.540 --> 00:42:20.480 but then I took it again, like five minutes later and it was 102.2. 00:42:21.300 --> 00:42:25.220 And so I'm like, crap. Then I took the COVID test. 00:42:25.900 --> 00:42:29.760 And I will mention at this point in the story, and I will come back to this later. 00:42:30.420 --> 00:42:35.640 Like, it wasn't, like, when I went to the store, they had a whole bunch of COVID tests on the shelf. 00:42:36.340 --> 00:42:40.020 But none of them were the brand that I usually used at home. 00:42:40.870 --> 00:42:43.550 So I was like, oh, what the hell? They're all different ones. 00:42:43.630 --> 00:42:44.830 I'll just get the cheapest one. 00:42:45.230 --> 00:42:48.990 And I got the cheapest one, which was like the Walgreens store brand or whatever. 00:42:50.110 --> 00:42:54.350 And so when I took the test, it was a little bit different. 00:42:54.610 --> 00:43:01.950 The ones that the government was sending out and stuff had a little cartridge, and you get the liquid, 00:43:01.970 --> 00:43:07.410 and you dip your swab in the liquid, and then you put three drops in the little 00:43:07.410 --> 00:43:09.710 hole, and then it comes out and whatever. 00:43:09.710 --> 00:43:15.330 and it has a nice little area that shows you your results and it's all clearly labeled and stuff. 00:43:15.770 --> 00:43:20.630 This one had the look, you know, you put the swab into the liquid, 00:43:20.630 --> 00:43:25.030 but then it just had a test strip that you just drop in the liquid. Okay. 00:43:25.810 --> 00:43:32.670 And the instructions on the box, I'm showing the camera for those of you who are watching video. 00:43:33.150 --> 00:43:39.270 This is the box of the test. The very last step is read your results and it's 00:43:39.270 --> 00:43:42.970 got a little thing and it's got an arrow pointing at a line. So I'm like, okay. 00:43:43.350 --> 00:43:46.850 So it's not like the other ones. It's just if the blue line shows up, you're positive. 00:43:47.670 --> 00:43:51.610 So great. The blue line showed up. I'm like, so I'm positive. 00:43:52.950 --> 00:43:58.790 So I then immediately, like I finished the meeting I had with the guy. 00:43:58.990 --> 00:44:02.470 Then I immediately went about like, you know, telling the people at work, 00:44:02.590 --> 00:44:06.550 you know, hey, I got COVID. I'm going home. 00:44:07.370 --> 00:44:11.730 you know i i sort of gave a last couple pieces of information of something i 00:44:11.730 --> 00:44:18.050 was active actively working on and i tried to remember everybody who i'd seen 00:44:18.050 --> 00:44:22.190 in person the previous day and all that kind of stuff to let them know hey maybe 00:44:22.190 --> 00:44:24.510 you should get tested all that kind of stuff i'm going home, 00:44:25.290 --> 00:44:28.170 i went home i did one more 00:44:28.170 --> 00:44:31.470 little thing for work and got yelled at by one of my co-workers for 00:44:31.470 --> 00:44:34.610 like why the hell are you working go lie down or whatever right i'm 00:44:34.610 --> 00:44:37.530 like don't don't worry i'm about to i just 00:44:37.530 --> 00:44:41.490 wanted to get that one last thing out because it was on my mind and 00:44:41.490 --> 00:44:47.730 then i i you know i was at the point like by the time i got home i was like 00:44:47.730 --> 00:44:52.250 i'm glad i didn't live any further from home and it wasn't rush hour when i 00:44:52.250 --> 00:44:57.110 was going home because like i did not want to be driving even that like half 00:44:57.110 --> 00:45:00.230 hour let alone the hour and a half it sometimes is at rush hour right, 00:45:00.750 --> 00:45:06.130 And so, you know, after that one email, I lay down, I went to sleep. 00:45:07.060 --> 00:45:10.420 Basically, I was out for 16 hours. 00:45:10.840 --> 00:45:11.280 Jesus. 00:45:11.760 --> 00:45:18.780 Okay. Now, it wasn't actually 16 hours. I was basically, I was in bed for almost all of the 16 hours. 00:45:19.020 --> 00:45:21.440 I woke up a few times. I went to 00:45:21.440 --> 00:45:25.440 the bathroom, but like just going to the bathroom and stuff, I was dizzy. 00:45:25.840 --> 00:45:30.000 I was like, by the time I got back to the bed from the bathroom, 00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:35.540 I was like wiped out just by the effort of like getting up, going to the bathroom and coming back. 00:45:36.000 --> 00:45:41.540 And so I basically went back each time, like a couple of times I was like, 00:45:41.660 --> 00:45:44.160 let me try to like do something a little bit more. 00:45:44.380 --> 00:45:49.500 Let me, I'm going to read or I'm going to do the, no, none of the times did it work at all. 00:45:50.160 --> 00:45:53.300 Basically every time I gave up and went back to sleep. 00:45:53.740 --> 00:45:59.060 And so the majority, not even the majority, almost all of that 16 hours, 00:45:59.200 --> 00:46:01.660 I was asleep, maybe two to three hours of it. 00:46:01.660 --> 00:46:08.340 I was in bed, but not asleep, but basically 16 hours in bed when that was finally 00:46:08.340 --> 00:46:12.380 over that, that was from like early Tuesday afternoon to Wednesday morning. 00:46:12.600 --> 00:46:15.640 When I finally woke up Wednesday morning though, the fever was gone. 00:46:15.920 --> 00:46:16.820 Well, there you go. 00:46:17.120 --> 00:46:21.240 And I was feeling better, better already. Now I was not feeling a hundred percent, 00:46:21.380 --> 00:46:22.760 but I was already feeling a lot better. 00:46:23.280 --> 00:46:26.500 And I was like, huh, this is interesting. 00:46:27.040 --> 00:46:31.100 Wednesday though. I was like, I'm not, I'm not even opening anything work related. 00:46:31.100 --> 00:46:38.500 I'm just doing my own stuff I took it easy I you know I brought my laptop to 00:46:38.500 --> 00:46:43.160 bed and I did a handful of things on my laptop at bed but I basically stayed 00:46:43.160 --> 00:46:44.640 isolated from the family and 00:46:44.640 --> 00:46:50.220 relaxed for Wednesday but by the end of Wednesday I was sort of like okay. 00:46:51.220 --> 00:46:56.460 It's kind of clear that this is getting better fast like every hour felt better 00:46:56.460 --> 00:47:02.260 than the hour before so I was like Thursday, I'll work from home a little, 00:47:02.400 --> 00:47:05.340 you know, a partial day. Friday, I'll work from home completely. 00:47:06.040 --> 00:47:13.120 As it is Thursday, I, I got up, I did my own stuff. I was sort of still, still no fever. 00:47:13.380 --> 00:47:18.800 Like Wednesday, I had no fever. Thursday, I had no fever, but I still felt kind of icky. 00:47:19.460 --> 00:47:23.620 But like Thursday, I actually got to my desk in my office at work and I did 00:47:23.620 --> 00:47:27.100 a bunch of stuff at my desk and I ate a little bit more. 00:47:27.660 --> 00:47:31.660 And, you know, I think one time Alex wanted some food. So I, 00:47:31.740 --> 00:47:34.680 I went to like a McDonald's drive-thru forum or something. 00:47:34.800 --> 00:47:37.940 I wore the mask so that I wouldn't infect anybody at the McDonald's, 00:47:38.020 --> 00:47:41.420 but you know, so I was a little bit more active Thursday. 00:47:41.820 --> 00:47:46.540 And theoretically I thought I'd do my own things Thursday morning and then work Thursday afternoon. 00:47:46.760 --> 00:47:50.180 In actuality, I didn't log into work till like three 34 o'clock. 00:47:50.300 --> 00:47:54.180 And I just checked in on, I just checked in and said, hey, I'm feeling better. 00:47:54.380 --> 00:47:58.460 I'll be working from home tomorrow, and I'll be in the office Monday. And then... 00:47:58.980 --> 00:48:03.760 Right around the time that I was going to message them that on Thursday, 00:48:04.460 --> 00:48:09.980 I'm like, you know, and by the way, oh, I forgot to mention the weekend before all this happened. 00:48:10.380 --> 00:48:15.140 My dad was in town. My stepmom was in town. My aunt was in town. 00:48:15.440 --> 00:48:17.460 And we all had dinner together. 00:48:17.820 --> 00:48:21.680 Oh, nice. With my mom as well. So, like. 00:48:21.760 --> 00:48:23.280 Did any of them get sick? 00:48:23.680 --> 00:48:29.080 So, wait. Let me just say. So we all, I think, I don't think any one of those 00:48:29.080 --> 00:48:30.940 people was under 80. Okay. 00:48:32.400 --> 00:48:38.200 Like, no, wait, maybe my aunt, I'm not sure how old she is. She's younger than 00:48:38.200 --> 00:48:40.000 my dad. My dad is the oldest sibling. 00:48:40.260 --> 00:48:46.120 So she might be, but you know, so anyway, so 70s and 80s, you know, 00:48:46.220 --> 00:48:48.380 and so I'm all like worried about this. 00:48:48.500 --> 00:48:50.680 I've, I've notified everybody I was in contact with, you know, 00:48:50.740 --> 00:48:54.040 be careful, take precautions. You might want to take a COVID test, 00:48:54.220 --> 00:48:55.080 all of that kind of stuff. 00:48:55.260 --> 00:48:57.580 They all said they were feeling fine so far. 00:48:58.140 --> 00:49:02.860 But anyway, when I was letting work, I know I'd be back because I had told myself 00:49:02.860 --> 00:49:06.600 I wouldn't, I would start working from home, but I wouldn't go back into the 00:49:06.600 --> 00:49:09.000 office till I actually had a negative COVID test. 00:49:09.840 --> 00:49:15.500 And so then, so I took another COVID test on Thursday afternoon, 00:49:15.500 --> 00:49:18.380 but this time I used one of the ones I had at home. 00:49:18.740 --> 00:49:20.520 That was the brand I'm familiar with. 00:49:20.760 --> 00:49:21.280 Uh-huh. 00:49:21.400 --> 00:49:23.000 And? Negative completely. 00:49:23.720 --> 00:49:23.860 Okay. 00:49:24.060 --> 00:49:29.200 And which immediately struck me as odd because the other times I've had COVID 00:49:29.200 --> 00:49:34.720 or known other people to have COVID, it's even after they stop having symptoms, 00:49:34.720 --> 00:49:38.540 it takes a while for the rapid COVID tests to actually show a negative result. 00:49:38.680 --> 00:49:38.860 Yeah. 00:49:39.460 --> 00:49:43.760 Okay. Not like two days later. So I'm like, wait a second. 00:49:44.080 --> 00:49:45.980 How long did you have COVID for then? 00:49:46.460 --> 00:49:51.260 Well, here's the thing. Or the test. Did you not read the jargon? 00:49:51.680 --> 00:49:55.860 Yeah, the directions on the box of the COVID test. 00:49:55.980 --> 00:50:00.620 We just have a little diagram that says wait for results with a little arrow pointing at a blue line. 00:50:01.000 --> 00:50:07.660 I had not opened the actual detailed instructions for the test, 00:50:07.800 --> 00:50:09.180 which I am now waving around. 00:50:10.320 --> 00:50:17.540 which showed that actually on this particular model, there is in fact both a 00:50:17.540 --> 00:50:21.960 control and treatment line, just like the fancier tests I'd used in the past. 00:50:22.880 --> 00:50:28.700 The box says nothing about that, but the detailed instructions say that for 00:50:28.700 --> 00:50:36.660 this particular COVID test, there is a second line that is pink that shows up if you're positive. 00:50:36.860 --> 00:50:39.260 So I was never COVID positive to begin with. 00:50:39.960 --> 00:50:41.660 So whatever I had was not COVID. 00:50:41.660 --> 00:50:43.740 Okay, so you were sick, but it wasn't COVID. 00:50:44.140 --> 00:50:44.620 Yes. 00:50:45.240 --> 00:50:46.660 Maybe in the flu. I mean. 00:50:47.280 --> 00:50:51.720 You had something a couple weeks ago. I did not have the digestive stuff you had. 00:50:51.940 --> 00:50:57.600 No, no, no. I had a cold virus, you know, thing. The digestive stuff happened 00:50:57.600 --> 00:50:59.380 to be coincidental. That was not. 00:50:59.620 --> 00:51:05.420 Oh, and I got the Paxlovid prescription and everything. Like, I started on Paxlovid. 00:51:05.800 --> 00:51:08.400 I have now stopped because it turns out it wasn't COVID. 00:51:08.400 --> 00:51:14.240 But okay so you had some other virus obviously i mean you i feel dumb. 00:51:14.240 --> 00:51:18.640 Because i sort of notified everybody i had covid but even if i didn't have covid 00:51:18.640 --> 00:51:21.300 i obviously had something they could have caught the. 00:51:21.300 --> 00:51:24.240 Something listen listen you what what you 00:51:24.240 --> 00:51:29.200 have the one thing is even if it wasn't covid what you had was bad i mean you 00:51:29.200 --> 00:51:34.040 had 102 fever that's not that's not a low fee that's not a little fever okay 00:51:34.040 --> 00:51:40.100 right so you know okay so it wasn't covet but obviously you did come down with 00:51:40.100 --> 00:51:43.380 something something you know. 00:51:43.380 --> 00:51:48.740 I don't know maybe maybe i was infected with something not contagious maybe 00:51:48.740 --> 00:51:53.100 i like maybe i stepped on a nail and have typhus or no not typhus. 00:51:53.100 --> 00:51:54.220 Tetanus tetanus or. 00:51:54.220 --> 00:51:56.460 Something maybe i have rabies, 00:51:57.410 --> 00:52:01.450 I did not pick up the bat like my mom did, but, you know, I don't know. 00:52:02.050 --> 00:52:04.150 Maybe something bit me while I was asleep. 00:52:04.950 --> 00:52:06.910 Maybe it's related to the car. Who knows? 00:52:07.650 --> 00:52:12.990 Yeah, I don't know. Maybe something internal broke and it'll become more obvious 00:52:12.990 --> 00:52:14.070 again later. I don't know. 00:52:14.430 --> 00:52:18.930 Anyway, but yeah, I mean, but also, mercifully, it was really short. 00:52:19.250 --> 00:52:24.670 I mean, like, I have a little bit of a sore throat still. I have a little bit of a cough. 00:52:24.870 --> 00:52:32.870 My head felt stuffy for a couple days. But the fever only lasted like 20 hours. It was less than a day. 00:52:33.910 --> 00:52:39.430 Well, it was, whatever it was, it was bad. Because, I mean, you spent 16 hours 00:52:39.430 --> 00:52:41.410 sleeping straight. That's bad. 00:52:41.870 --> 00:52:44.470 You must have been feeling really bad. 00:52:45.010 --> 00:52:47.070 So, okay, but you're feeling better? 00:52:47.510 --> 00:52:49.770 I'm feeling better. Like I said, I still have it. 00:52:49.770 --> 00:52:52.550 Nobody else got sick. 00:52:52.830 --> 00:52:55.930 At least nobody who's reported it back to me yet. 00:52:55.930 --> 00:52:57.410 And so this is good news. 00:52:57.970 --> 00:53:01.230 Yeah. So it's good news. I mean, I still have a scratchy throat. 00:53:01.690 --> 00:53:04.890 My voice may sound a little bit weird. I don't know. I don't know if you noticed, 00:53:04.970 --> 00:53:07.730 but I feel like my voice is a little weird right now. 00:53:07.890 --> 00:53:10.070 But, you know, but I'm basically feeling better. 00:53:10.330 --> 00:53:13.350 I still have a stuffy head. But also, you know, part of that, 00:53:13.690 --> 00:53:20.030 like because I was sick and not quite myself, I forgot to take my regular allergy meds, too. 00:53:20.570 --> 00:53:21.670 Well, that doesn't help. 00:53:22.210 --> 00:53:26.010 You know, so I need to go and take them and, you know. But anyway. Okay. 00:53:26.450 --> 00:53:30.430 Well, that's that. We, we've now spent a whole hour on me again. 00:53:31.430 --> 00:53:35.290 Let's just i'm not gonna talk about anything let's just take a break. 00:53:35.290 --> 00:53:40.170 And then we'll talk news we'll we'll take a break and then we'll talk news uh 00:53:40.170 --> 00:53:47.390 okay back after this the randomly chosen break this time is this one that originally 00:53:47.390 --> 00:53:50.870 debuted in 2021 here it is. 00:53:50.870 --> 00:53:54.770 You're supposed to say do do do do 00:53:54.770 --> 00:53:59.850 do alex emzela alex 00:53:59.850 --> 00:54:03.490 emzela is awesome its videos are fun and 00:54:03.490 --> 00:54:06.990 today once again we have one 00:54:06.990 --> 00:54:09.750 of our most loyal subscribers here to tell you 00:54:09.750 --> 00:54:12.650 how awesome alex emzela is i'd say 00:54:12.650 --> 00:54:15.910 on a rate from one to ten alex emzela is awesome 00:54:15.910 --> 00:54:19.510 at i don't know 37 82 00:54:19.510 --> 00:54:22.550 he's pretty radical his videos 00:54:22.550 --> 00:54:26.030 are phenomenal they're full of creativity and 00:54:26.030 --> 00:54:28.850 they're so funny and exciting to 00:54:28.850 --> 00:54:31.930 watch wow what happened to your voice then 00:54:31.930 --> 00:54:39.330 amy was that dad pretending to be you because the audio was distorted when it 00:54:39.330 --> 00:54:50.210 really wasn't because i told him to yes good job on remembering dad do do do okay. 00:54:50.210 --> 00:54:51.110 We 00:54:51.110 --> 00:54:58.390 Are we are back back back back back back back back back back okay i i i dominated. 00:54:58.390 --> 00:55:00.490 That first segment so you. 00:55:00.490 --> 00:55:02.130 You you get to pick here. 00:55:02.130 --> 00:55:07.010 Okay so let's talk about hold on um do. 00:55:07.010 --> 00:55:11.850 Leave inappropriate inappropriate interference. 00:55:11.850 --> 00:55:16.750 Uh you're something i've been staring at as recording the podcast and not looking 00:55:16.750 --> 00:55:19.810 very happy for quite a while what he's at the beginning of the show but anyway. 00:55:20.890 --> 00:55:24.570 Oh, also, I should mention, while we were talking about the car, 00:55:24.790 --> 00:55:30.010 my daughter came in gesticulating wildly about it. 00:55:30.330 --> 00:55:36.410 And I actually, like, muted my microphone while Yvonne was talking so I could 00:55:36.410 --> 00:55:37.830 hear her for a little bit. 00:55:38.130 --> 00:55:40.310 Now, Yvonne was still talking. 00:55:40.850 --> 00:55:45.710 As it turned out, she started to say, you were talking about the car and blah, 00:55:45.770 --> 00:55:47.650 blah, blah. I just, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 00:55:48.330 --> 00:55:51.150 And I don't even remember everything she said when she walked in. 00:55:51.270 --> 00:55:55.930 But I should, if I'd known that she was going to talk about that, 00:55:56.150 --> 00:56:00.370 I should have just left the mic on and let her tell her side of the story. Good point. 00:56:00.730 --> 00:56:05.130 But I didn't, and then she left. You know, she is preparing to leave, 00:56:05.170 --> 00:56:08.810 so I thought she was actually going to tell me that she was ready to drive away 00:56:08.810 --> 00:56:11.130 on her road trip to Pennsylvania. 00:56:12.390 --> 00:56:18.310 but no she was just like I guess excited and interested that we were talking 00:56:18.310 --> 00:56:23.450 about the instant where she hit my car and was maybe perhaps a little nervous 00:56:23.450 --> 00:56:25.990 about what I would say I hope I was fair to her. 00:56:25.990 --> 00:56:31.090 You were fair you were very fair you were very fair I think, 00:56:33.230 --> 00:56:33.750 so 00:56:33.750 --> 00:56:35.010 Anyway I dominated. 00:56:35.010 --> 00:56:37.470 The first half the rest is. 00:56:37.470 --> 00:56:38.750 All you let. 00:56:38.750 --> 00:56:46.770 Me ask you a question what you shared earlier this week the these um quotes 00:56:46.770 --> 00:56:53.530 from the hunter biden interview oh yes yes now i did not watch the full interview 00:56:53.530 --> 00:56:55.970 but i've watched a whole bunch of clips i. 00:56:55.970 --> 00:56:57.870 I also have only seen clips. 00:56:57.870 --> 00:57:00.650 Okay damn it so neither of us have 00:57:00.650 --> 00:57:03.550 seen the whole interview but i will say 00:57:03.550 --> 00:57:09.950 that from the clips that i watched hunter biden sounds basically if you if you 00:57:09.950 --> 00:57:17.470 had sat me in that chair and asked me about joe biden he basically sounded almost 00:57:17.470 --> 00:57:23.190 exactly like me if you would take if i if i read his words, 00:57:24.300 --> 00:57:31.680 If I took the transcript of what I heard of him saying and I read it in my voice, 00:57:31.840 --> 00:57:34.220 you would believe I authored that stuff. 00:57:34.220 --> 00:57:38.080 Okay, wait a second. We have to, at this point, insert, 00:57:38.400 --> 00:57:43.480 like, we're going to play the clip, the first clip I shared of Hunter Biden, 00:57:43.480 --> 00:57:50.280 because I think everybody here will instantly agree with what Yvonne just said. 00:57:51.300 --> 00:57:57.760 And enjoy this clip from Hunter Biden. I just have to find it real quick. 00:57:59.060 --> 00:58:03.480 Scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. It's a couple days ago now. Here we go. 00:58:13.480 --> 00:58:16.500 okay here it is we will 00:58:16.500 --> 00:58:20.160 go play this video in full again 00:58:20.160 --> 00:58:28.400 this is not the entire podcast he was on wait wait we need this is one minute 00:58:28.400 --> 00:58:33.640 and this is just under two minutes of of hunter biden out of what I think was 00:58:33.640 --> 00:58:37.100 like a one-hour podcast or something. I've seen a whole bunch of different clips of it. 00:58:38.060 --> 00:58:41.780 You've got this clip. You've got another clip where he's actually going on at 00:58:41.780 --> 00:58:46.180 length between the difference between regular cocaine and crack cocaine and 00:58:46.180 --> 00:58:50.140 how they feel different and how you make them different and all kinds of stuff like that. 00:58:50.320 --> 00:58:54.140 So he talks about that stuff too. Like this guy has a history. 00:58:54.320 --> 00:59:00.780 But anyway, here we go. This is the first clip I saw, and a lot of them have this feeling. 00:59:01.430 --> 00:59:05.250 We sit here and we talk about the one guy, the one guy, because there's a clear 00:59:05.250 --> 00:59:06.950 legal path to being able to get him back. 00:59:07.090 --> 00:59:09.810 What about all those other people? Am I not supposed to feel for someone? 00:59:09.970 --> 00:59:14.130 Am I going to be like all these Democrats say, you have to talk about and realize 00:59:14.130 --> 00:59:16.870 that people are really upset about illegal immigration. 00:59:17.350 --> 00:59:21.030 Fuck you. How do you think your hotel room gets cleaned? How do you think you 00:59:21.030 --> 00:59:24.830 got food on your fucking table? Who do you think washes your dishes? 00:59:25.150 --> 00:59:30.130 Who do you think does your fucking garden? Who do you think is here by the fucking 00:59:30.130 --> 00:59:37.170 sheer fucking just grit and will that they figured out a way to get here because 00:59:37.170 --> 00:59:40.350 they thought that they could give themselves and their family a better chance? 00:59:40.490 --> 00:59:45.430 And he's somehow convinced all of us that these people are the fucking criminals? 00:59:45.750 --> 00:59:51.290 White men in America are 45 more times likely to commit a fucking violent crime 00:59:51.290 --> 00:59:54.790 than an immigrant. And the media says, well, you got David Axelrod and, 00:59:54.790 --> 00:59:58.910 you know, Rahm fucking Emanuel was so fucking smart Rahm Emanuel. 00:59:59.030 --> 01:00:02.630 He said, we got to understand that these people are really mad and we got to 01:00:02.630 --> 01:00:03.670 appeal to these white voters. 01:00:03.950 --> 01:00:05.510 Well, the only people that fucking 01:00:05.510 --> 01:00:09.110 appealed to those fucking white voters was Joe Biden, 81 years old. 01:00:09.230 --> 01:00:13.750 And he got 81 million votes. And he did because not because he appeased their 01:00:13.750 --> 01:00:17.310 fucking Trumpian sense, but because he challenged it. 01:00:17.310 --> 01:00:22.090 And he said, you can be an 81-year-old Catholic from fucking Scranton that doesn't 01:00:22.090 --> 01:00:25.310 understand it, but still has empathy for transgender people and immigrants. 01:00:25.610 --> 01:00:29.170 Then nobody said, oh, Joe Biden's going to turn us into a socialist state, 01:00:29.210 --> 01:00:30.550 no matter how much they said it. 01:00:30.630 --> 01:00:35.310 But these guys think that we need to run away from all values in order for us to lead. 01:00:35.550 --> 01:00:39.190 I say, fuck you. How are we getting those people back from fucking El Salvador? 01:00:39.430 --> 01:00:43.850 Because I'll tell you what, if I became president in two years from now or four 01:00:43.850 --> 01:00:47.410 years from now or three years from now, I would pick up the phone and call the 01:00:47.410 --> 01:00:51.570 fucking president of El Salvador and say, you either fucking send them back 01:00:51.570 --> 01:00:52.870 or I'm going to fucking invade. 01:00:53.110 --> 01:00:56.210 It's a fucking crime what they're doing. 01:00:57.110 --> 01:01:00.910 Okay. That's one clip of a whole bunch of stuff. 01:01:01.370 --> 01:01:07.050 It sounded a lot like that. And, you know, it generated quite a little furor 01:01:07.050 --> 01:01:09.150 of people saying, I mean, what 01:01:09.150 --> 01:01:13.870 I posted on it is like, this is the kind of fucking energy we need. Yeah. 01:01:16.570 --> 01:01:22.230 Oh, by the way, I'll say one thing. One is, I will say this. 01:01:23.570 --> 01:01:24.730 Hunter cares about his death. 01:01:25.550 --> 01:01:25.650 Yeah. 01:01:26.710 --> 01:01:32.850 Okay? Hunter really cares about his death. And, you know, in trying to embarrass 01:01:32.850 --> 01:01:39.350 Joe, they actually reduced some messages that he left his son, 01:01:41.950 --> 01:01:45.990 where somehow it's supposed to be embarrassing because Joe is showing that he 01:01:45.990 --> 01:01:50.330 loves his son, even though he knows he's got a lot of flaws that he's got. 01:01:51.030 --> 01:01:55.850 You know, I mean, with applause and all, he loves them. 01:01:56.230 --> 01:01:59.850 So that's the first thing that came across to me. 01:02:00.170 --> 01:02:05.230 And the one thing is that, look, I'm not Joe Biden's son, but I'll tell you something. 01:02:05.890 --> 01:02:11.150 To me, Joe Biden is a person that I really appreciate very much. 01:02:11.910 --> 01:02:17.470 And he talked the same way that I got angry about people talking shit about him. 01:02:17.470 --> 01:02:23.290 There's another clip that was also talking about, you know, ripping George Clooney 01:02:23.290 --> 01:02:27.550 for the bullshit letter and all the shit that happened, like, whatever. 01:02:27.990 --> 01:02:31.490 And, you know, what Hunter said is basically exactly what I said. 01:02:31.810 --> 01:02:34.550 Yeah, so Joe was getting old? Uh-huh. 01:02:35.090 --> 01:02:40.950 And? The fuck is your point? He's still ten times more competent than the idiot 01:02:40.950 --> 01:02:43.890 that we just voted into there. 01:02:44.230 --> 01:02:46.170 That also has got anything to do with anything. 01:02:46.170 --> 01:02:51.150 He also talked as well about how much he loved Kamala, how good a job she did, 01:02:51.290 --> 01:02:57.190 and how she's like a member of the family, and they have all due respect for 01:02:57.190 --> 01:03:00.310 her, et cetera, et cetera, and that she was put in a bad position. 01:03:00.650 --> 01:03:05.410 And all of these people who went after Joe, I think he went after Nancy Pelosi, 01:03:05.450 --> 01:03:12.070 too, were like, you know, they undermined him, and then they undermined her. 01:03:12.550 --> 01:03:12.970 Yeah. 01:03:13.470 --> 01:03:13.950 You know. 01:03:14.390 --> 01:03:15.050 They all did. 01:03:15.050 --> 01:03:21.230 And he's like, because, you know, he's like, Nancy Pelosi and those folks, 01:03:21.330 --> 01:03:22.650 they didn't want Kamala Harris. 01:03:23.130 --> 01:03:23.570 No. 01:03:23.890 --> 01:03:26.990 They wanted anybody else. He's like, I don't know what they want. 01:03:27.050 --> 01:03:29.750 They want some crazy open convention bullshit. 01:03:30.010 --> 01:03:32.610 Right. But like, you know, they didn't want her. 01:03:33.090 --> 01:03:36.550 And they were not happy. And blah, blah, blah. And, you know, 01:03:37.150 --> 01:03:39.010 he said fuck quite a few more times. 01:03:39.890 --> 01:03:45.670 And the other thing was that the one thing that he said also was that one difference 01:03:45.670 --> 01:03:49.150 is the Republicans, they just, how they all fall in line to whatever the fuck. 01:03:50.110 --> 01:03:52.550 And that then, but then we did 01:03:52.550 --> 01:03:57.270 exactly what all these people were doing against, you know, Joe and Kamal. 01:03:57.970 --> 01:04:01.890 At a moment that we desperately needed people not to be doing that. 01:04:02.910 --> 01:04:07.430 Yeah. And the thing is, again, just with his reaction, though, 01:04:07.530 --> 01:04:10.130 his raw reaction, I mean, I joked under curmudgeon's corner slack, 01:04:10.730 --> 01:04:12.850 AOC hunter ticket for 2028. 01:04:13.510 --> 01:04:16.510 And look, it was a joke. You know, hunter has lots of baggage. 01:04:16.850 --> 01:04:18.910 But a lot of hunter has lots of baggage. 01:04:19.630 --> 01:04:24.310 A lot of baggage. However, you know, what I also said on the Slack, 01:04:24.450 --> 01:04:27.830 and I'm just going to read it right off the Slack since I brought that part 01:04:27.830 --> 01:04:33.370 of the Slack up anyway, was seriously, that kind of energy is what is needed, 01:04:33.690 --> 01:04:35.230 including the swearing sometimes. 01:04:35.770 --> 01:04:40.710 I'm getting more and more pissed off with the existing leadership and old guard folks. 01:04:40.870 --> 01:04:44.530 It is time for dozens of them to just get the hell out of the way. 01:04:44.530 --> 01:04:48.710 And no, it's not just the age, although that is part of it to be sure, 01:04:48.850 --> 01:04:53.870 but more than that, it's the energy and the attitude and the willingness to 01:04:53.870 --> 01:04:57.270 defend the right position, no matter what, 01:04:57.790 --> 01:05:02.230 without preemptively compromising on anything where the polls are wishy-washy. 01:05:02.450 --> 01:05:08.250 Have a fucking moral position and defend it and convince others you are right 01:05:08.250 --> 01:05:13.590 and the other side is wrong and fucking fight and be fucking angry. 01:05:13.590 --> 01:05:16.330 you know and this is what the 01:05:16.330 --> 01:05:19.470 base is hankering for this is what most democrats 01:05:19.470 --> 01:05:22.470 are hankering for and and the the the 01:05:22.470 --> 01:05:27.090 leadership is still sort of in the mode oh we're going to treat this as all 01:05:27.090 --> 01:05:32.030 normal politics we'll talk about the economy and we'll talk about like policy 01:05:32.030 --> 01:05:37.430 x and we we're still going to work with the republicans wherever we can and 01:05:37.430 --> 01:05:41.990 blah blah blah and that is so frustrating at this point. 01:05:42.110 --> 01:05:48.130 And look, I understand the motivations. And in some cases, as you know, 01:05:48.310 --> 01:05:52.630 maybe at the local level, maybe at the state level, in some cases that makes sense. 01:05:53.170 --> 01:05:58.470 You know, because not all of the locals things are as screwed up, 01:05:58.590 --> 01:06:02.650 but certainly at the national level no this 01:06:02.650 --> 01:06:12.550 is not your the world of politics from 50 years ago where you know the example 01:06:12.550 --> 01:06:17.270 people always bring up is ronald reagan and tip o'neill fight like hell and 01:06:17.270 --> 01:06:21.410 then go have drinks together right that is gone that's. 01:06:21.410 --> 01:06:22.230 Gone that's gone. 01:06:22.230 --> 01:06:25.250 And and and the where where you like 01:06:25.250 --> 01:06:28.630 find all of these things you can work together on and blah, blah, blah. 01:06:28.890 --> 01:06:37.690 No, the Republican side went scorched earth starting when Obama won. 01:06:38.420 --> 01:06:42.120 I mean, they were already heading in that direction with Newt Gingrich and the 01:06:42.120 --> 01:06:45.320 Clinton administration, but they went all in when Obama won. 01:06:48.040 --> 01:06:53.160 And you can't react to this by doing everything with, 01:06:53.340 --> 01:06:57.160 oh, well, we're going to be the grownups and we're going to follow the rules 01:06:57.160 --> 01:07:01.900 and we're going to do everything in the polite and civil way and we're going 01:07:01.900 --> 01:07:04.700 to go and we're going to shake their hands and blah, blah, blah. 01:07:05.280 --> 01:07:11.780 No, I'm sorry. The time for that is done. The time for that may come again at some point, 01:07:11.900 --> 01:07:17.960 but not while we have this Donald Trump-dominated Republican Party that has 01:07:17.960 --> 01:07:21.520 clearly got a massive authoritarian bent, 01:07:21.520 --> 01:07:27.180 is trying to take on all sorts of additional powers, has a Supreme Court behind them. 01:07:27.360 --> 01:07:33.320 So Supreme Court, Congress, the presidency, all moving in the direction of consolidating 01:07:33.320 --> 01:07:39.280 power and doing what I consider anyway to be damaged everywhere they go. 01:07:40.260 --> 01:07:46.000 This is not the time for that kind of like polite reconciliation and stuff. 01:07:46.300 --> 01:07:50.940 No, this is the time to realize it's a life and death battle and treat it like that. 01:07:51.420 --> 01:07:57.800 And at the very least, be showing that anger. And I realize some of it is performative only. 01:07:58.040 --> 01:08:01.620 And it's like, well, what good will being angry do? Well, you know, 01:08:01.920 --> 01:08:06.740 look, when you're in a situation where you don't have any of the levers of power, 01:08:07.040 --> 01:08:09.000 it's the demonstrative, 01:08:09.520 --> 01:08:14.740 performative stuff that gives people an idea of your character and what you 01:08:14.740 --> 01:08:16.480 want and what's important to you. 01:08:16.880 --> 01:08:21.260 And so if you just go along with like, well, you know, we're just going to lay 01:08:21.260 --> 01:08:24.260 back, let them hurt themselves until it's our turn again. 01:08:24.740 --> 01:08:27.420 If you act like that, you're not going to get another turn. 01:08:28.120 --> 01:08:32.680 No, I know And the one thing is that they haven't even learned From the fact 01:08:32.680 --> 01:08:38.340 that if you Go to what the Republicans did When they were not in power That got them back to power, 01:08:39.460 --> 01:08:45.740 It's block everything Exactly You don't work with They didn't work with Obama 01:08:45.740 --> 01:08:56.800 They tried to block Every single thing He tried to do Including all the way up to Even when he was. 01:08:56.800 --> 01:09:02.460 Explicitly enacting policies that had been recommended by the Republicans a couple years. 01:09:02.460 --> 01:09:05.780 Earlier. Right. They would go and vote against them right afterwards. 01:09:06.060 --> 01:09:11.420 I mean, remember, Obamacare was based on Romneycare from Massachusetts. 01:09:11.740 --> 01:09:13.100 It was a Republican plan. 01:09:13.900 --> 01:09:14.060 Right. 01:09:14.940 --> 01:09:17.700 Anyway. Yeah, so like, 01:09:18.700 --> 01:09:24.180 Seeing the Hunter Biden interview clips was honestly just refreshing. 01:09:24.560 --> 01:09:30.820 It's like, my God, like somebody who's willing to actually like say things and 01:09:30.820 --> 01:09:35.960 not be like parsing their words super carefully and blah, blah, blah. 01:09:36.440 --> 01:09:40.380 And look, he's not the only one. We've said good things about AOC before. 01:09:40.580 --> 01:09:44.520 We've said good things about Governor Walz before. There are a handful of others. 01:09:44.520 --> 01:09:49.660 You know, even what's his name from California is doing better than he was before 01:09:49.660 --> 01:09:52.260 on some of those things, although I still don't like him. 01:09:52.720 --> 01:09:55.720 But, you know, but the people, 01:09:56.000 --> 01:10:01.540 I don't know, this whole establishment guard that's still remnants of Clinton 01:10:01.540 --> 01:10:09.300 and Obama and Biden are just stuck in these old ways. And it's really frustrating. 01:10:09.300 --> 01:10:12.060 Yeah i know um well one 01:10:12.060 --> 01:10:17.300 other guy that has been doing that who flipped who flipped the script on this 01:10:17.300 --> 01:10:24.660 is also gotta remember news i said the guy in california wow okay i heard okay 01:10:24.660 --> 01:10:29.740 i heard it differently okay but all right so you said uh what's his name wall so i didn't hear okay i. 01:10:29.740 --> 01:10:30.900 I mentioned walls and. 01:10:30.900 --> 01:10:31.380 Then i mentioned. 01:10:31.380 --> 01:10:33.300 The guy in california whose name i can't remember. 01:10:33.300 --> 01:10:36.580 Who is He's doing better than he was before. Okay. 01:10:36.780 --> 01:10:44.060 I couldn't remember his name. Okay, Newsome. Newsome. 01:10:44.300 --> 01:10:44.540 Newsome. 01:10:44.600 --> 01:10:48.760 I'm bringing it in. All right. So anything else on that? Okay. 01:10:48.880 --> 01:10:51.220 All right. I picked that one. Now it's your turn. 01:10:51.560 --> 01:10:55.520 No, no, no, no. I did the whole first hour. The whole second hour is yours. 01:10:56.520 --> 01:10:58.420 It's all you for the rest of the show. 01:10:58.660 --> 01:11:02.740 All right. So let's talk about now. What about... Okay. Hey, 01:11:03.220 --> 01:11:06.280 Trump visited the Fed. Did you see these clips? 01:11:07.180 --> 01:11:11.840 Yes, I have seen a few clips. Well, I've seen mainly the one clip of him and 01:11:11.840 --> 01:11:17.320 Powell going back and forth and Powell correcting him on when a certain building 01:11:17.320 --> 01:11:19.660 was built and all that. That's what you're talking about, right? 01:11:19.920 --> 01:11:23.980 Well, that was one. I mean, it was just the whole thing. And actually, 01:11:24.000 --> 01:11:27.820 I did share a story about what's happened since he went over there. 01:11:27.820 --> 01:11:32.320 Because he went over there basically on this whole thing about inspecting the 01:11:32.320 --> 01:11:35.360 construction, blah, blah, blah, and the project and whatever, 01:11:35.520 --> 01:11:40.260 because they're saying it's just a scam, blah, blah, blah, because it's costing, 01:11:40.420 --> 01:11:41.600 I mean, it's an expensive project. 01:11:41.800 --> 01:11:44.960 It's costing two and a half billion dollars. It is well over budget, 01:11:45.320 --> 01:11:48.640 you know, the construction. But this stupid building is so old. 01:11:49.680 --> 01:11:52.620 It's 100 years old. It's a pain in my ass. 01:11:52.860 --> 01:11:56.320 You know, his money isn't even coming out of the federal budget because his 01:11:56.320 --> 01:11:59.900 money's coming out of the, you know, the money that the Federal Reserve makes. 01:12:00.400 --> 01:12:04.600 Period. Okay, yeah. We'll do this. So his money isn't even coming out of that. 01:12:04.760 --> 01:12:10.220 But the one thing that I saw was that apparently after the whole thing, 01:12:10.460 --> 01:12:15.120 all of a sudden, for whatever reason, I'm not sure what Powell said to him, 01:12:15.120 --> 01:12:19.820 But all of a sudden, he started saying all these flattering things about Powell. 01:12:20.800 --> 01:12:28.480 And it appears that what I read was that Powell went and started giving him 01:12:28.480 --> 01:12:30.020 compliments about the economy. 01:12:30.540 --> 01:12:34.900 Okay? And the thing is about Trump, we've seen historically, 01:12:35.520 --> 01:12:37.480 flattery gets you everywhere with it. 01:12:37.840 --> 01:12:38.440 Everywhere. 01:12:39.440 --> 01:12:44.360 It's just, you know, you just flatter him. And so, so apparently Powell, 01:12:44.600 --> 01:12:48.660 instead of being, he did correct them on the shit that he was reading wrong. 01:12:48.760 --> 01:12:52.840 The one, the one stat that he said is because, I mean, Trump even had apparently 01:12:52.840 --> 01:12:55.800 a sheet of paper that he pulled out in the middle of the conversation. 01:12:56.060 --> 01:13:00.640 We're talking about how much the refurbished cost that he's saying is 3.1 billion. 01:13:00.820 --> 01:13:05.880 Powell's like saying, no, it's not that. And he was including costs of construction 01:13:05.880 --> 01:13:09.360 of another building that I completed years ago. Okay. All right. 01:13:09.440 --> 01:13:10.260 That was like $600 billion. 01:13:10.260 --> 01:13:11.740 During Trump's first term. in infinity. 01:13:11.880 --> 01:13:14.680 Right, exactly. So it's like, no, 01:13:17.140 --> 01:13:22.560 that's not in you. But then apparently he started just lobbing some compliments 01:13:22.560 --> 01:13:27.900 at him or whatever, and then all of a sudden he's been talking good about Powell 01:13:27.900 --> 01:13:30.300 all of a sudden after the fucking visit. 01:13:30.740 --> 01:13:33.920 He started saying nice things about him. So, 01:13:36.040 --> 01:13:42.500 I don't know. And he said, no, and I think, look, The Federal Reserve has said 01:13:42.500 --> 01:13:46.800 that once, you know, it becomes clear what the hell is going on, 01:13:47.080 --> 01:13:50.060 that they planned on cutting rates at some point. 01:13:51.200 --> 01:13:57.240 But look, the tariff, it's all, it's really dependent on these fucking tariffs. 01:13:58.520 --> 01:14:04.280 This is the main driver that's causing any, you know, hell, the Fed probably 01:14:04.280 --> 01:14:08.100 would have cut rates already if it wasn't for the damn tariffs. 01:14:08.840 --> 01:14:14.820 That's just the reality. But the tariffs threw so much uncertainty into this. 01:14:15.060 --> 01:14:23.000 And by the way, data is starting to show how this inflation is just seeping into places. Okay. 01:14:23.760 --> 01:14:29.640 Well, GM went and said, yeah, because that's the way it is. 01:14:29.780 --> 01:14:33.600 GM basically said the last quarter, tariffs cost $1.1 billion. 01:14:34.840 --> 01:14:40.660 Stellantis, which, you know, owns Chrysler. They said it cost them $2 billion Okay, 01:14:41.870 --> 01:14:45.330 So the costs are mounting. And look, what? 01:14:45.510 --> 01:14:48.270 Does everybody think that the companies are going to become all of a sudden 01:14:48.270 --> 01:14:50.770 benevolent and, like, going to suck up all these losses? 01:14:51.090 --> 01:14:54.250 What do you think? You think they're not going to pass on these costs? 01:14:54.690 --> 01:14:59.170 I kept seeing this week also all these clips that people are sharing on TikTok 01:14:59.170 --> 01:15:02.870 and something, whatever, talking about how grocery prices are sore, 01:15:03.070 --> 01:15:08.250 how people are getting really hammered with grocery prices and talking about 01:15:08.250 --> 01:15:09.830 any supermarket, Walmart, 01:15:10.150 --> 01:15:15.110 people bitching about, Publix in Florida, which I guess that happens a lot. 01:15:15.450 --> 01:15:20.130 But they're talking about that. And that's one of the key data points that, 01:15:20.130 --> 01:15:23.270 you know, Powell and the Fed have to consider. 01:15:23.790 --> 01:15:31.210 I, look, I don't know. I've been hearing about a lot of people talking about grocery prices. 01:15:32.830 --> 01:15:37.770 I find it hard-pressed to find data to back that up. Okay, at this point. 01:15:38.150 --> 01:15:42.610 I even looked at our grocery expenses for the last, like, four years, 01:15:42.910 --> 01:15:44.770 they're kind of like around the same average. 01:15:44.970 --> 01:15:47.230 We do buy groceries and buy house. Okay. 01:15:47.710 --> 01:15:51.830 You know, and cook, you know, the kitchen, you know, I don't know if you're 01:15:51.830 --> 01:15:52.850 familiar with that process. 01:15:52.850 --> 01:15:58.370 But anyway, the other members of my family are, I would ditch the kitchen in a second. 01:15:58.770 --> 01:16:02.550 Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So just to try to clarify how that works anyway, 01:16:02.710 --> 01:16:09.610 you know, because I went and But I'm like, but listen, there are a lot of things 01:16:09.610 --> 01:16:11.870 that are showing pricing pressure. 01:16:12.250 --> 01:16:15.370 Parts costs, automakers are showing it. 01:16:16.550 --> 01:16:22.810 It's just seeping in all different places. But look, a lot of deals haven't been closed on this. 01:16:23.030 --> 01:16:29.530 We still don't have, as all the announcements that he did on tariff deals this 01:16:29.530 --> 01:16:32.890 week, Everybody on the other side of the table keeps saying, 01:16:33.730 --> 01:16:36.970 well, we really didn't sign that or promise whatever the heck it was, 01:16:36.970 --> 01:16:40.170 as more information came out on the Japan deal. 01:16:40.370 --> 01:16:45.110 I don't know if you saw that the Japanese were basically almost like denying 01:16:45.110 --> 01:16:51.850 half the shit that he said, as usual with every fucking announcement that he makes. 01:16:52.900 --> 01:16:58.580 So, we still got, listen, we still got this clock ticking on this. 01:16:58.720 --> 01:17:05.080 But, again, there are signs in a lot of different places. People are reporting this about groceries. 01:17:05.220 --> 01:17:08.460 I mean, I'll minimize it. Maybe it's just not stuff I bought. Okay? 01:17:08.960 --> 01:17:12.440 So, there's a lot of people complaining about grocery prices going up. 01:17:13.000 --> 01:17:19.960 I mean, it may be that the kind of shopping that I do is not impacted by it. 01:17:19.960 --> 01:17:24.900 but there certainly are a lot of people that are saying that maybe there are regional. 01:17:24.900 --> 01:17:26.040 Differences or something. 01:17:26.040 --> 01:17:30.000 Going on regional differences yeah yeah i can believe that too that they're 01:17:30.000 --> 01:17:33.960 regional differences yeah because a lot of produce and a whole bunch of other 01:17:33.960 --> 01:17:40.140 stuff is sourced far more locally than than than than than remotely so it could 01:17:40.140 --> 01:17:42.900 be that i you know it could be the chain i, 01:17:43.620 --> 01:17:45.280 buy the stuff, I don't know. 01:17:45.720 --> 01:17:54.340 But there are a lot of people that are being very vocal about their grocery price costs soaring. 01:17:55.160 --> 01:18:00.340 And, you know, this is the kind of shit that ate up Biden's administration. 01:18:00.780 --> 01:18:05.940 Yeah. People wouldn't pay attention to anything else but eggs. Eggs. 01:18:06.360 --> 01:18:06.920 Yeah. 01:18:07.990 --> 01:18:10.410 It's just going to the supermarket and it's costing you 20, 30, 01:18:10.570 --> 01:18:15.770 40% more. I mean, that really hits people hard. Very hard. 01:18:16.430 --> 01:18:24.790 So I'm just bringing up eggprices.org, national data, just to check eggs specifically. 01:18:25.930 --> 01:18:30.890 And yet we're still nowhere near where we were in like March. 01:18:31.170 --> 01:18:36.850 The high in the last year was at the beginning of March. End of February, 01:18:37.010 --> 01:18:42.590 beginning of March, it was up to $8.17 a dozen at its high. 01:18:43.010 --> 01:18:48.130 It had gotten down as low as $2.52 a dozen. 01:18:48.610 --> 01:18:49.070 Okay. 01:18:49.530 --> 01:18:56.430 And even on July 4th, it was $2.56 a gallon still. 01:18:57.250 --> 01:18:59.830 Not a gallon. You don't buy eggs in gallons. 01:19:00.750 --> 01:19:03.010 That would be interesting to buy the eggs in gallons. I mean, 01:19:03.090 --> 01:19:06.970 I guess you could just crack them all open, just, you know, put a gallon of eggs. 01:19:07.310 --> 01:19:16.150 Just in the last few weeks, since July 4th, it's gone from 2.56 to 3.37 in the last few weeks. 01:19:16.810 --> 01:19:20.150 You know, it's still, like I said, nowhere near where it was in March. 01:19:20.690 --> 01:19:25.230 But there is an upward swing in the last few weeks, and that's just eggs, obviously. 01:19:25.890 --> 01:19:26.730 Right, right, right, right. 01:19:28.010 --> 01:19:33.430 Well, wait, wait. they have a leader board and a lower board, 01:19:34.390 --> 01:19:40.010 you want to guess where in the country has the, wait, these aren't, 01:19:40.470 --> 01:19:44.450 yeah, those can't be current, those are the highest high prices, 01:19:44.770 --> 01:19:48.330 that's stupid okay, I'm not even going to bother with them, because that's like 01:19:48.330 --> 01:19:52.590 back in March what is the, let me just, yeah, no, no, no, it's not, 01:19:52.590 --> 01:19:56.730 it's not helpful damn it, okay, because it has like, 01:19:57.710 --> 01:20:01.950 California is the highest. Virginia is the lowest prices. No, 01:20:02.110 --> 01:20:03.990 South Dakota is the lowest prices of eggs. 01:20:04.470 --> 01:20:07.930 But these are clearly have to have been when the average was eight, 01:20:08.190 --> 01:20:10.590 not the current average. So whatever. 01:20:11.330 --> 01:20:14.470 Okay. So two more things that I'm going to talk about after this. 01:20:14.570 --> 01:20:20.670 Number one, I'm just going to briefly mention it's net approval and Epstein. Okay. All right. 01:20:20.810 --> 01:20:21.010 Okay. 01:20:21.510 --> 01:20:28.950 All right. So I recently checked and Trump's net approval is at the lowest of his administration. 01:20:29.210 --> 01:20:34.290 It had actually climbed back up a little bit, like for some reason after it 01:20:34.290 --> 01:20:37.450 had like collapsed like quickly at the beginning. 01:20:37.570 --> 01:20:44.210 And it climbed up a little bit. But then it's it is like taken a nosedive and 01:20:44.210 --> 01:20:48.630 it's a nosedive across every area, whether it's the economy, 01:20:48.630 --> 01:20:51.930 the immigration, whatever. 01:20:52.030 --> 01:20:54.870 Whatever subject you've got Trump is 01:20:54.870 --> 01:20:57.710 underwater Ratings wise across the 01:20:57.710 --> 01:21:00.770 board There was one group that was like Really like 01:21:00.770 --> 01:21:03.870 I mean That was 01:21:03.870 --> 01:21:10.530 really well it caught my eye You know young people There was approval Ratings 01:21:10.530 --> 01:21:16.130 like in February where it Showed like he had Like only like 22% disapproval 01:21:16.130 --> 01:21:21.330 Amongst young people back In February for some reason In the latest surveys. 01:21:22.830 --> 01:21:29.870 Disapproval amongst young people 70 something percent I mean it went from 22 01:21:29.870 --> 01:21:36.890 percent it's up 50 points his disapproval rating amongst young people okay it's 01:21:36.890 --> 01:21:42.690 just a bonkers you know swing but I'm still bonkers that, 01:21:43.910 --> 01:21:48.690 in February like he was only at 22 percent disapproval I'm like what the fuck 01:21:48.690 --> 01:21:53.510 are these people watching what are they how, you know, what are they, 01:21:53.630 --> 01:21:55.250 what are they consuming? 01:21:55.510 --> 01:21:59.250 What, you know, where are they getting their information from? Because holy shit. 01:21:59.550 --> 01:22:01.750 But yeah, the swing has been hard. 01:22:01.930 --> 01:22:07.910 One important thing to remember is just, and I mentioned this the other week, 01:22:08.110 --> 01:22:10.350 when we're talking about young people, 01:22:10.890 --> 01:22:16.230 you got to remember that a lot of them, his first term was before they were 01:22:16.230 --> 01:22:18.030 old enough to be paying attention to politics. 01:22:19.160 --> 01:22:22.060 Yeah, I keep forgetting that most people, unlike you and me, 01:22:22.360 --> 01:22:27.220 before 18, which we were like junkies for this shit, okay, even as teenagers, 01:22:27.220 --> 01:22:31.280 they have no fucking clue about what the fuck is going on. They couldn't care less. 01:22:31.680 --> 01:22:37.260 And I'm sure that in the first term, they knew nothing. 01:22:38.080 --> 01:22:44.920 Right. And yeah, we're talking, what, subtract eight years, someone who was 01:22:44.920 --> 01:22:47.820 18 and just barely old enough to vote was 10. 01:22:48.300 --> 01:22:48.760 Right. 01:22:48.760 --> 01:22:56.340 You know, you know, and OK, fine. A 20 year old was 12, but still, you know. 01:22:56.560 --> 01:22:59.120 Yeah. OK. Yeah. 01:22:59.980 --> 01:23:03.160 Now, that's the beginning of his term, not the end of his term. 01:23:03.360 --> 01:23:05.920 So you have to track less to remember the end of his term. 01:23:06.800 --> 01:23:11.120 Now, two things I will point out on the approval rating before we move on. 01:23:11.120 --> 01:23:19.040 one is i did find one chart that has the comparison to eight years ago to 2017 01:23:19.040 --> 01:23:26.380 he is almost exactly at the same net approval as he was eight years ago. 01:23:26.380 --> 01:23:33.860 Basically he is shitty the first term and he's just as shitty now it's not like he improved with age. 01:23:33.860 --> 01:23:42.260 Yeah at least as of yeah the chart i have the comparison only goes through July 01:23:42.260 --> 01:23:44.940 21st, but that's at The Economist. 01:23:45.520 --> 01:23:51.400 The other thing I'll note is Nate Silver's net approval graph actually has him 01:23:51.400 --> 01:23:55.820 bottoming out on July 22nd, and he's up a bit from there now. 01:23:56.140 --> 01:23:58.600 Oh, so he's up a bit. Well, that's the last time I checked. Yeah, 01:23:58.700 --> 01:24:01.580 to July 22nd. Oh, he climbed up a little bit? Okay. 01:24:02.040 --> 01:24:06.760 Yeah. On July 22nd, he hit a new all-time low, negative 10.3%. 01:24:06.760 --> 01:24:08.460 He's now back up to negative eight. 01:24:09.450 --> 01:24:12.610 What the fuck polls get? Some of these garbage polls. 01:24:12.810 --> 01:24:18.950 Listen, every time that these guys, these guys see that it hits that low number, 01:24:19.110 --> 01:24:24.930 Sam, all of a sudden they do this dump of like these garbage polls. Okay. 01:24:25.150 --> 01:24:27.130 All right. Just to try to prop up the number. 01:24:27.390 --> 01:24:33.630 It's all I have to do. All I have to say is let me remind you that last two 01:24:33.630 --> 01:24:38.490 election cycles for the general election, the polls that we slagged as the junk 01:24:38.490 --> 01:24:40.190 polls ended up getting it right. 01:24:40.190 --> 01:24:45.210 Here's but here here's here's the thing though the one guy that has been the 01:24:45.210 --> 01:24:50.050 most accurate that i kept thinking was crazy but data has shown has been the 01:24:50.050 --> 01:24:55.050 most accurate has been atlas intel yeah these guys i remember you. 01:24:55.050 --> 01:24:58.110 Spent quite a lot of time slagging on them yeah. 01:24:58.110 --> 01:25:01.830 And and i and and then they turned out to be absolutely right. 01:25:02.050 --> 01:25:07.390 And so I'm going to give them credit and I, you know, eat my words about that. 01:25:07.830 --> 01:25:11.470 They still have a negative 11%. Okay. 01:25:11.710 --> 01:25:16.530 And then all of a sudden you get Trafalgar, which, you know, at plus two, 01:25:17.290 --> 01:25:22.490 RMG Research at plus two, which came out like right after he hit that bottom, 01:25:22.890 --> 01:25:27.250 all of a sudden Trafalgar, who, by the way, has admitted directly that he puts 01:25:27.250 --> 01:25:29.610 his finger on the fucking polls. Okay. 01:25:30.410 --> 01:25:33.050 I mean, he said this himself as a plus two. 01:25:34.210 --> 01:25:37.390 So, so yeah, so that's, that's why the average like bumped up. 01:25:37.510 --> 01:25:40.930 You got a couple of those guys coming in and well, we gotta, 01:25:41.010 --> 01:25:45.770 you know, we gotta, we gotta tip the, you know, we gotta, we gotta put some pressure on this. 01:25:45.830 --> 01:25:48.310 This is not looking good. We don't, we don't like these numbers. 01:25:49.870 --> 01:25:51.850 Yes. Anyway. Yeah. 01:25:52.130 --> 01:25:52.470 So. 01:25:52.690 --> 01:25:55.170 Okay. Next. You said Epstein. 01:25:55.350 --> 01:25:57.170 We're going to close it. Yeah. We got to talk about Epstein. 01:25:57.490 --> 01:26:02.270 I mean, we haven't talked about Epstein. So, Sam, have we gotten the files? 01:26:05.310 --> 01:26:10.190 No, we have not gotten the files. We did get this little drawing. 01:26:10.390 --> 01:26:14.070 That was since last episode, wasn't it? The little drawing from the book. 01:26:14.510 --> 01:26:18.990 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, the entire Epstein thing. 01:26:19.530 --> 01:26:22.570 dating back to I think we actually did talk. 01:26:22.570 --> 01:26:24.290 About that last time. I don't know. 01:26:28.130 --> 01:26:34.530 But look, the entire Epstein thing, going back all the way to the 2000s. 01:26:34.990 --> 01:26:41.210 Oh, by the way, I did mention, you know, because he was able to get a plea deal in the 2000s. 01:26:41.410 --> 01:26:44.810 I hate calling it the odds. I don't want to call it that. 01:26:45.210 --> 01:26:47.930 The odds. The zeros? 01:26:47.930 --> 01:26:50.490 The zeros. 01:26:51.170 --> 01:26:52.070 The 20s. 01:26:54.030 --> 01:26:57.150 I don't know. Anyway, I don't like any of those terms. 01:26:57.770 --> 01:27:01.450 I don't know. Anyway, I'm good with the 20s. The 20s sound good, 01:27:01.550 --> 01:27:03.670 but of course the 20s, I keep thinking of the 1920s. 01:27:04.210 --> 01:27:05.450 Whereas it's now. 01:27:05.830 --> 01:27:10.270 It's now. Right. Okay, so look. 01:27:11.690 --> 01:27:20.750 The guys that started this entire conspiracy around Epstein and the client list 01:27:20.750 --> 01:27:24.250 and the pedophile ring and all of this other stuff or whatever. 01:27:24.530 --> 01:27:32.890 Well, I mean, Epstein is a documented pedophile that had a ring that basically trafficked people. 01:27:34.250 --> 01:27:37.350 He is one guy that got arrested for this. 01:27:38.130 --> 01:27:43.090 Of course, he died all of a sudden. And so we did talk about, 01:27:43.230 --> 01:27:45.930 I believe, about the missing minutes. 01:27:46.310 --> 01:27:48.290 Yes, we absolutely talked about that. 01:27:48.770 --> 01:27:53.390 We talked about the missing minutes. But now, okay, this week, 01:27:53.770 --> 01:27:59.690 you know, Trump has been trying to deflect attention from anything related to Epstein. 01:28:00.130 --> 01:28:05.330 Tulsi comes out and basically accuses Obama of treason this week. 01:28:05.330 --> 01:28:11.050 Which by the way, let me just say, like they've been going on about this study 01:28:11.050 --> 01:28:17.990 that showed there was no Russian interference in counting votes in the actual 01:28:17.990 --> 01:28:21.670 election machines and stuff like that and showing how, 01:28:21.830 --> 01:28:25.790 well, they knew this, but then they did all this with Russian interference, 01:28:25.990 --> 01:28:29.590 intentionally conflating these two entirely different things. 01:28:29.870 --> 01:28:34.450 We all knew that there was, There was an investigation at the very beginning 01:28:34.450 --> 01:28:39.470 about whether or not the actual mechanics of elections were interfered with, 01:28:39.510 --> 01:28:43.050 and the conclusion was no, and everybody agreed it was no, 01:28:43.210 --> 01:28:48.450 and all of the other investigations were not about that at all. 01:28:48.670 --> 01:28:51.370 They were about influence operations and things like that. 01:28:51.410 --> 01:28:52.430 Right, and nothing to deal with nothing. 01:28:52.490 --> 01:28:56.030 Two completely different things. Go ahead. Anyway, but of course Obama— Well. 01:28:56.050 --> 01:29:01.290 Tulsi has shown herself to be a very able tool for the Republicans, hasn't she? 01:29:02.230 --> 01:29:05.550 Well, also, this was Tulsi getting back in Trump's good graces. 01:29:05.850 --> 01:29:09.050 She had been sort of on the outs for some of the things she'd said on Iran. 01:29:09.690 --> 01:29:13.090 And so she needed something to make him happy, and apparently it worked. 01:29:13.950 --> 01:29:17.290 Yeah, apparently. You know, so that's, you know, so. But now, 01:29:17.390 --> 01:29:18.970 of course, you know, we've got the whole. 01:29:20.250 --> 01:29:25.610 This whole thing, to try to deflect attention from the Epstein files, 01:29:25.750 --> 01:29:28.410 which apparently, I guess we're never getting these, huh? 01:29:29.050 --> 01:29:33.130 I mean, I don't... And then, so... 01:29:35.190 --> 01:29:40.290 They offered immunity to... Listen, here's the problem. 01:29:40.530 --> 01:29:44.650 The problem is that the ones that really were harping on, this is a lie, 01:29:44.770 --> 01:29:47.970 this is a fraud, this is a conspiracy, to hide the deep state, 01:29:48.370 --> 01:29:49.870 theedophile ring, blah, blah, blah. 01:29:50.250 --> 01:29:54.350 We're the QAnon right-wing Republicans in MAGA. 01:29:54.610 --> 01:29:58.210 These are the guys that love this conspiracy, that believed it, 01:29:58.270 --> 01:30:01.410 and that pushed it. Okay? That was their thing. 01:30:02.030 --> 01:30:06.050 Now, their guys are in power, the guy that was supposed to bring down the deep 01:30:06.050 --> 01:30:07.370 state to do all the stuff. 01:30:07.670 --> 01:30:11.390 And lo and behold, by the way, he's not releasing a damn thing. 01:30:11.730 --> 01:30:15.490 Then you've got the drumbeat of news where you've got the Wall Street Journal 01:30:15.490 --> 01:30:19.830 going and reporting, Hey, number one, we know that he was in the files. 01:30:20.250 --> 01:30:23.230 he already got told in may that he was in the files 01:30:23.230 --> 01:30:26.250 okay and then their second story that they they 01:30:26.250 --> 01:30:29.050 released this week which i can't remember exactly but they but they had 01:30:29.050 --> 01:30:32.330 two stories that basically were you 01:30:32.330 --> 01:30:35.110 know torpedoing you know all the 01:30:35.110 --> 01:30:39.170 assertions that they were making to the point that trump is suing rupert murdoch 01:30:39.170 --> 01:30:44.710 over these stories okay which is hilarious one of the things but the drumbeat 01:30:44.710 --> 01:30:50.210 doesn't stop because they they keep trying to deflect you know shuck and chime 01:30:50.210 --> 01:30:52.630 on this thing but they don't release any of it. 01:30:52.630 --> 01:30:55.930 Well here's the thing like the 01:30:55.930 --> 01:30:59.090 rational thing to say here like because 01:30:59.090 --> 01:31:03.910 i was going to say they'll never they shouldn't actually probably release the 01:31:03.910 --> 01:31:11.470 files in their entirety because the whole doj thing right is if you've got evidence 01:31:11.470 --> 01:31:16.630 and material but it's not enough to actually charge somebody because you don't 01:31:16.630 --> 01:31:18.190 think you'd win a conviction, 01:31:18.670 --> 01:31:22.990 then that's supposed to stay secret because you don't have, somebody doesn't 01:31:22.990 --> 01:31:25.510 have the opportunity to defend themselves in court. 01:31:25.590 --> 01:31:30.170 So you're just slandering people with evidence that you yourself admit isn't 01:31:30.170 --> 01:31:32.090 enough to convict them, right? 01:31:32.090 --> 01:31:34.310 Yeah, but they promised to release everything, Sam. 01:31:34.490 --> 01:31:38.190 I know, I know, I know. But the other thing is, I know, but the other thing is. 01:31:38.910 --> 01:31:45.210 Listen, Pam Bondy sent out all these binders. Remember the damn binders? 01:31:45.210 --> 01:31:49.390 I remember the binders. But look, here's the thing. From Donald Trump's point of view, 01:31:50.110 --> 01:31:54.950 assuming there is, in fact, nothing in there that would convict him, 01:31:55.250 --> 01:32:00.090 the natural correct thing to do was, well, of course I'm in the files. 01:32:00.170 --> 01:32:01.930 I was his friend for 15 years. 01:32:02.110 --> 01:32:05.670 There's already public information of me and his address book and various things 01:32:05.670 --> 01:32:06.890 like that. We hung out together. 01:32:07.150 --> 01:32:11.230 I didn't know about his activities. And as soon as I found out about him, 01:32:11.290 --> 01:32:14.470 I dumped him. But of course I'm in the files. because he knew me. 01:32:15.410 --> 01:32:19.810 End of story. Well, not end of story, but the thing is, like, 01:32:19.950 --> 01:32:24.190 the key is, like, they're making a big deal out of he was in the files. 01:32:24.590 --> 01:32:27.470 We all knew that. We knew that for decades. 01:32:27.950 --> 01:32:30.610 You know, well, maybe not decades, but you know what I mean. 01:32:30.610 --> 01:32:31.630 Yeah, yeah, yeah. But listen. 01:32:32.330 --> 01:32:35.670 The question is, is he incriminated on anything? 01:32:35.810 --> 01:32:41.910 And the problem is his behavior is 100% like, oh, it's not that just there's 01:32:41.910 --> 01:32:43.710 something innocuous in his files. 01:32:44.430 --> 01:32:47.750 Like, if there's something innocuous in his files that just mentioned Donald 01:32:47.750 --> 01:32:51.330 Trump, then, of course, he could say something like what I said. 01:32:51.650 --> 01:32:54.110 But if what's in there looks bad, that's a whole other story. 01:32:54.110 --> 01:32:55.210 If all of this is so innocent. 01:32:55.450 --> 01:33:02.830 Then why the hell did somebody go and, like, interview Ghislaine Maxwell and give her immunity? 01:33:03.470 --> 01:33:09.070 And go and ask her questions for two fucking days! What the hell is going on? 01:33:09.330 --> 01:33:14.970 Yes. So here is what's going on right now. They gave some form of immunity, 01:33:15.150 --> 01:33:19.030 probably limited immunity for anything she mentions during her conversations, 01:33:19.030 --> 01:33:25.630 in order to talk about 100 specific people they wanted to ask about. 01:33:26.750 --> 01:33:32.770 Now, here's the thing. If there's no list, where exactly did this 100 people come from? 01:33:33.990 --> 01:33:37.470 Now, of course, they were saying there's no client list. 01:33:38.430 --> 01:33:42.070 This list could be something else or generated from anyway. But, 01:33:42.250 --> 01:33:48.610 you know, and and so the question like the the the speculation and I'm going 01:33:48.610 --> 01:33:50.070 to say there's no proof of any of this. 01:33:50.250 --> 01:33:56.130 This is all speculation. The speculation is they are offering Maxwell a deal 01:33:56.130 --> 01:34:00.210 in the hopes that she will incriminate a whole bunch of Democrats the way the 01:34:00.210 --> 01:34:02.070 conspiracy theory has always wanted, 01:34:02.090 --> 01:34:07.310 while not saying a damn thing about Trump, or even better, 01:34:07.810 --> 01:34:12.950 specifically saying Trump was never involved, or any other Republicans for that matter. 01:34:12.950 --> 01:34:18.670 so we can come out of here with a list of by the way okay okay wait but you. 01:34:18.670 --> 01:34:21.690 Understand that I heard that she's the man like a pardon. 01:34:22.630 --> 01:34:28.790 Well she her lawyer said they would be very interested in a pardon but so far 01:34:28.790 --> 01:34:32.590 she's only gotten some immunity now immunity is a lot like. 01:34:32.590 --> 01:34:34.330 Well no she's in jail. 01:34:34.330 --> 01:34:36.750 Listen I know she's already in jail she's been in. 01:34:36.750 --> 01:34:38.970 Jail for 20 fucking years Sam. 01:34:38.970 --> 01:34:41.630 I know listen listen Listen. 01:34:41.750 --> 01:34:45.190 If I'm in jail for 20 fucking years and I'm about to deal with people like in 01:34:45.190 --> 01:34:48.850 these situations, OK, the fuck am I getting for fucking immunity? 01:34:49.170 --> 01:34:55.830 Wait, because no, no, no, because I'm helping you. You want me to help you and I'm not getting shit? 01:34:56.250 --> 01:34:57.950 Well, because the other thing is presumably. 01:34:58.390 --> 01:35:00.190 Because you're not going to put me in jail for another 20 fucking years. 01:35:00.550 --> 01:35:07.110 Here's the thing with Maxwell, too. She repeatedly, over and over and over again, 01:35:07.430 --> 01:35:10.350 refused plea deals earlier. 01:35:10.470 --> 01:35:10.650 Right! 01:35:10.910 --> 01:35:16.870 Because she maintained her 100% innocence from beginning to end of this process. 01:35:17.090 --> 01:35:21.690 She was still maintaining her innocence right now, as far as I am aware. 01:35:22.230 --> 01:35:27.630 So then how the hell would she have any incriminating evidence if she's so fucking innocent? 01:35:27.890 --> 01:35:31.550 This is what I don't understand about this whole fucking thing. 01:35:32.680 --> 01:35:35.460 Yeah. Well, I mean, that's the question, obviously, right? Like, 01:35:35.540 --> 01:35:39.240 is she now admitting that she was actually involved in stuff or at the very 01:35:39.240 --> 01:35:43.960 least knew stuff that she could have told authorities? 01:35:44.260 --> 01:35:51.780 Now, depending on her situation, she might be able to claim that she knew stuff, 01:35:51.940 --> 01:35:55.760 but was not involved and was in danger of her own life. 01:35:55.760 --> 01:35:59.640 So she couldn't cooperate, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I don't know. 01:36:00.260 --> 01:36:04.900 It's all speculation at this point. And sort of the question is like, 01:36:05.060 --> 01:36:09.180 well, what's actually going on? What kind of deal are they offering her? 01:36:09.640 --> 01:36:16.440 Now, frankly, if Trump pardons her, what's the base really going to think about that? 01:36:17.180 --> 01:36:20.040 Now, if he pardons her. 01:36:20.300 --> 01:36:26.080 Then I mean, listen, I think the world's brain is going to explode. 01:36:26.080 --> 01:36:33.280 Well, here's the thing. Like, his base might be okay with that trade as long 01:36:33.280 --> 01:36:38.180 as it comes with serious implications for a whole bunch of prominent Democrats. 01:36:39.040 --> 01:36:44.460 Like, if the deal was, say, Bill Clinton was their fucking babies, 01:36:44.660 --> 01:36:50.520 and she provides a little bit of evidence that shows that, oh, 01:36:50.640 --> 01:36:54.460 yeah, maybe Bill Clinton was, maybe not babies, you know what I mean. 01:36:55.100 --> 01:36:59.760 then, you know, if she can deliver Bill Clinton's head on a platter, 01:37:00.480 --> 01:37:03.340 a lot of the base might be fine with that trade. 01:37:03.460 --> 01:37:09.400 Listen, if the files in any way, shape, or form had that in them already, 01:37:10.240 --> 01:37:15.140 what the f- You think that this wouldn't have already been given? 01:37:15.380 --> 01:37:17.320 This is my whole thing. 01:37:18.260 --> 01:37:23.740 If this was what was in there, they would already burned every fucking democrat 01:37:23.740 --> 01:37:26.160 in that list they would already burn him. 01:37:26.160 --> 01:37:29.900 Because they had a chance already in his first yes yeah 01:37:29.900 --> 01:37:32.820 and and if trump was 01:37:32.820 --> 01:37:38.180 in it the biden administration had a chance right now here's the thing and i 01:37:38.180 --> 01:37:42.640 said this last week and i said this last week before what i think is the the 01:37:42.640 --> 01:37:49.720 reality is the that all of this stuff probably has a lot of stuff that isn't 01:37:49.720 --> 01:37:52.460 That just isn't quite solid enough. 01:37:52.640 --> 01:37:55.980 It might look bad, but it's not solid enough to prove a damn thing. 01:37:56.700 --> 01:38:02.240 Now, her testimony might be something that pushed something over the edge where 01:38:02.240 --> 01:38:06.020 you take some fuzzy picture and she's like, yeah, that really was Bill Clinton. 01:38:07.220 --> 01:38:10.560 You know, I don't know. Now, here's the other thing. 01:38:11.320 --> 01:38:12.060 But here's the thing. 01:38:14.800 --> 01:38:19.000 Look, any deal that she makes right now is going to be so tainted so badly. 01:38:19.440 --> 01:38:23.440 Oh, yeah. From a legal point of view. The question is— From a legal point of view. 01:38:23.580 --> 01:38:27.860 I think at this point, like, if they had had stuff that could result in actual 01:38:27.860 --> 01:38:30.800 convictions, I agree with you completely. I think it would have. 01:38:30.800 --> 01:38:33.800 Been used by— But if they had stuff that was just going to have been an insinuation, 01:38:33.940 --> 01:38:35.480 why wouldn't they have used it already? 01:38:35.660 --> 01:38:39.540 That's my point. That's the thing. Well, the, the, yeah, I mean, 01:38:39.860 --> 01:38:42.460 the Democrats, here's the thing. 01:38:42.640 --> 01:38:49.480 In Trump's last term, there were still people in charge that thought that was wrong to do. 01:38:49.720 --> 01:38:50.100 Right now. 01:38:50.380 --> 01:38:52.980 No, I know. Yeah, no. Right now. 01:38:53.160 --> 01:38:56.800 What's stopping them right now? There's nothing stopping them right now. 01:38:56.980 --> 01:39:00.120 The only thing that must be stopping them is that there really is something 01:39:00.120 --> 01:39:01.120 about Trump in there, too. 01:39:01.780 --> 01:39:03.500 Yeah, that's it. 01:39:04.520 --> 01:39:06.660 And you know, people can... 01:39:07.400 --> 01:39:10.300 And there's no way to fucking like, you know... 01:39:10.300 --> 01:39:11.100 Disentangle it. 01:39:11.500 --> 01:39:11.940 Exactly. 01:39:12.460 --> 01:39:16.320 It was Trump and Clinton together with the underage girls. 01:39:16.720 --> 01:39:17.220 Right. 01:39:17.980 --> 01:39:24.200 It was a menage a trois, Trump-Clinton underage girl sandwich. 01:39:24.560 --> 01:39:25.420 There you go. 01:39:25.940 --> 01:39:27.260 That must be it. 01:39:28.280 --> 01:39:29.220 Oh, God. 01:39:29.900 --> 01:39:33.000 No, look, here's the thing too. like i 01:39:33.000 --> 01:39:36.560 keep seeing videos of online of 01:39:36.560 --> 01:39:39.400 sort of people talking 01:39:39.400 --> 01:39:42.980 about republicans being like well why do 01:39:42.980 --> 01:39:47.580 you why are you why are you democrats so hot on releasing it what if bill clinton's 01:39:47.580 --> 01:39:51.620 in it and of course all the democrats are like the same answer we give all the 01:39:51.620 --> 01:39:57.540 time if if any prominent democrats are in it and you can show that they were 01:39:57.540 --> 01:40:00.440 definitely involved nail them to the fucking wall. 01:40:00.700 --> 01:40:03.020 They deserve everything that's coming to them. 01:40:03.580 --> 01:40:06.180 You know, I'm sorry. 01:40:06.840 --> 01:40:11.640 No sacred cows. Like, you know, it doesn't matter who the Democrat is. 01:40:11.800 --> 01:40:16.540 If they were involved in Epstein's little playground with, you know, 01:40:16.860 --> 01:40:22.320 underage girls who were, well, even if they were completely voluntary, 01:40:22.580 --> 01:40:24.040 right? They're underage, they can't consent. 01:40:24.200 --> 01:40:26.920 But there's lots of evidence it wasn't completely voluntary. 01:40:27.200 --> 01:40:30.440 They were being, they were being drugged. They were being all kinds of stuff. 01:40:30.780 --> 01:40:33.260 This is a completely evil situation. 01:40:33.580 --> 01:40:34.040 Yeah. 01:40:34.280 --> 01:40:39.420 If there are any prominent Democrats in it, I don't care who they are or what their history is. 01:40:40.150 --> 01:40:40.730 Nail them. 01:40:40.790 --> 01:40:41.710 Nail them to the wall. 01:40:42.290 --> 01:40:42.730 Absolutely. 01:40:42.950 --> 01:40:48.390 All right, well, listen. I got to wrap it up. Okay. 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Sorry, guys. 01:43:08.530 --> 01:43:14.350 Anyway, but so, Yvonne, what is one highlight from the Curmudgeon's Corner Slack 01:43:14.350 --> 01:43:16.170 this week that we have not mentioned on the show? 01:43:17.020 --> 01:43:23.560 An American, okay, anti-woke dad who fled with family to Russia, sent to war zone. 01:43:23.860 --> 01:43:30.700 An American father who moved to Russia to avoid LGBTQ plus indoctrination for 01:43:30.700 --> 01:43:34.520 his kids is being sent to the front line in Ukraine despite being assured he 01:43:34.520 --> 01:43:35.880 would serve in a non-combat role. 01:43:36.320 --> 01:43:41.280 Derek Hoffman, 46, feels he's being thrown to the wolves and being told that 01:43:41.280 --> 01:43:44.420 his job in the military would be as a correspondent or as a welder, 01:43:44.600 --> 01:43:47.140 his wife Deanna said in a recorded interview. 01:43:47.400 --> 01:43:54.480 Sam, are we feeling sad for the anti-woke dad who decided to move to Russia 01:43:54.480 --> 01:44:00.000 and to join the military and is now being sent to the front line in Ukraine? 01:44:00.420 --> 01:44:02.000 Any tears you have for him? 01:44:02.560 --> 01:44:06.180 I have a hard time generating those tears. 01:44:06.420 --> 01:44:11.140 And the other thing is, this is not the first one of these stories I have read 01:44:11.140 --> 01:44:16.560 about people who've gone to Russia to escape the horrible United States, 01:44:17.100 --> 01:44:25.000 you know, woke mind virus and end up discovering that things are actually pretty bad for them there. 01:44:25.420 --> 01:44:30.080 Yeah, no shit, people, huh? So Russia kind of sucks? Film at 11. 01:44:30.480 --> 01:44:33.560 Let me tell you something. I went to Moscow. And let me tell you something. 01:44:33.900 --> 01:44:36.940 I realized very quickly, I don't want to fucking live here. 01:44:37.520 --> 01:44:43.220 I saw one a few weeks ago for somebody who did the exact same thing, but they weren't white. 01:44:43.720 --> 01:44:49.720 And then it talked about how, oh my God, it was so racist there. 01:44:50.060 --> 01:44:58.020 And they had such a horrible time because no one would treat them well because they weren't white. 01:44:58.420 --> 01:44:58.960 Right. 01:44:59.120 --> 01:45:00.420 You know, and... 01:45:00.420 --> 01:45:01.640 Like literally no one. 01:45:02.280 --> 01:45:05.940 They figured that stuff would be better there than here. I mean, 01:45:06.040 --> 01:45:07.760 I'm not saying it's great here, but... 01:45:08.640 --> 01:45:09.480 It's not like that. 01:45:10.600 --> 01:45:14.820 And, yeah, and there was another religious family that went there. 01:45:15.000 --> 01:45:19.880 I've mentioned to you how sometimes, you know, because we talk about racism 01:45:19.880 --> 01:45:23.420 openly and we got over here, that sometimes we're, you know, 01:45:23.500 --> 01:45:28.420 we're oblivious to how bad the racism is over and bad in other places. 01:45:28.600 --> 01:45:34.560 But even places that criticize the U.S. And, yeah, it is like that. Yes. In many places. 01:45:35.340 --> 01:45:38.020 Yeah. I mean, it varies highly based on where you're talking about. 01:45:38.020 --> 01:45:44.280 But, you know, as bad as some things sometimes seem here and as much as they 01:45:44.280 --> 01:45:46.140 seem to be getting worse recently, 01:45:46.480 --> 01:45:51.080 there are lots of places in the world that are a lot worse for racial minorities, 01:45:51.260 --> 01:45:52.400 for religious minorities, 01:45:52.840 --> 01:45:55.180 for LGBTQ people. LGBTQ people, yeah. 01:45:55.440 --> 01:45:59.460 You know, we're not perfect. We're not great. There are lots of things we could do better. 01:45:59.640 --> 01:46:03.900 And we are backsliding these last few years. But there are lots of places. 01:46:03.960 --> 01:46:09.100 There's a lot of places that is much worse. so anyway all right yeah. 01:46:09.100 --> 01:46:12.700 So you know yeah there 01:46:12.700 --> 01:46:17.280 there's so many stories of maga 01:46:17.280 --> 01:46:23.900 types that are getting the consequences of their choice and this guy who went 01:46:23.900 --> 01:46:31.020 to russia who's getting the consequences of his choice and you know does at 01:46:31.020 --> 01:46:33.560 some point there is the oh man, 01:46:33.740 --> 01:46:37.780 it's sad that they were stupid, but oh, come on. No. 01:46:38.120 --> 01:46:39.480 I mean, you know. 01:46:39.820 --> 01:46:45.800 You should have known better. I'm sorry. Now I have seen another flavor of this, 01:46:45.980 --> 01:46:54.580 of people who are actually actively apologizing for their previous support of MAGA and saying, 01:46:54.880 --> 01:46:57.140 you know, I'm sorry I was slow. 01:46:57.140 --> 01:47:04.020 i'm sorry i was stupid but i now i realize what a big mistake i've made and 01:47:04.020 --> 01:47:10.460 i'm gonna work to i don't know make up for it i don't know and i on one side 01:47:10.460 --> 01:47:15.500 i'm like too fucking late asshole but at the same time i'm like, 01:47:16.590 --> 01:47:22.870 At a certain point, once people admit they're a mistake and are actively working 01:47:22.870 --> 01:47:27.750 to do better, okay, now I can let you back into the fold. 01:47:28.030 --> 01:47:37.170 Yeah, you got to give them some—I mean, you need to receive them. 01:47:37.330 --> 01:47:40.530 I mean, you can't just reject those people that are openly admitting that they 01:47:40.530 --> 01:47:42.310 fucked up and they were wrong. 01:47:42.910 --> 01:47:46.650 As long as you are defending your previous choices, I'm sorry. 01:47:47.110 --> 01:47:48.110 No, I don't want. 01:47:48.450 --> 01:47:55.570 Yeah, fuck you. But if you are genuinely acknowledge that you screwed up and 01:47:55.570 --> 01:48:00.430 you did wrong and you're starting to understand why you did wrong and you're apologizing for it. 01:48:00.950 --> 01:48:04.110 I'm good with that. I'm, you know, yeah. 01:48:04.550 --> 01:48:09.190 Yeah. And they don't have to be like an AOC, like progressive either. 01:48:09.370 --> 01:48:14.230 No, they just have. They can actually still, I've always been fine with the 01:48:14.230 --> 01:48:15.950 never Trumpers, you know? 01:48:16.730 --> 01:48:22.950 Yeah. There is a such thing as a principled conservative who I disagree with 01:48:22.950 --> 01:48:27.530 on lots of stuff, but isn't evil. Right. 01:48:28.030 --> 01:48:28.530 Yeah. 01:48:28.590 --> 01:48:33.170 You know? So, I don't know. Okay, I think that's it, Mr. Bowe. 01:48:34.030 --> 01:48:35.310 It's time to hit the closing music. 01:48:36.350 --> 01:48:40.310 Thanks, everybody, for joining us. As usual, stay safe. 01:48:40.550 --> 01:48:49.170 have fun, not too much fun, you know, have a good whatever. There's no holiday. 01:48:49.430 --> 01:48:52.010 There's nothing special going on this week, I don't think, right? 01:48:52.410 --> 01:48:56.910 Not maybe here. Puerto Rico actually has a holiday on Friday and a holiday on Monday. 01:48:57.130 --> 01:49:00.290 Oh, well, there you go. Is that where you are now, Mr. Bo? 01:49:00.650 --> 01:49:02.230 No, I'm in Orlando. 01:49:02.570 --> 01:49:07.710 Oh, you're in Orlando. Okay. Yeah, I was wondering because you clearly weren't at home. 01:49:08.210 --> 01:49:08.990 Yeah, no. 01:49:09.370 --> 01:49:13.950 Okay. there must be some like special mickey mouse holiday yeah. 01:49:13.950 --> 01:49:17.770 That's it yeah no it's school is starting like soon so therefore. 01:49:17.770 --> 01:49:24.870 Back to disney yeah okay okay anyway have everyone have a good time have a safe 01:49:24.870 --> 01:49:31.710 time and we'll see you next time i said time a lot we'll see you again bye bye, 01:50:02.230 --> 01:50:04.630 Okay, that's it. Hitting stop. All right. 01:50:05.030 --> 01:50:05.210 All right. 01:50:05.450 --> 01:50:07.310 Have a good week, Mr. Bro. Bye. 01:50:07.530 --> 01:50:10.190 All right. Bye. Bye. It's a stop.